Sunday, January 30, 2011

Moving on to Shabondy Archipelago

I finished the Thriller Bark arc relatively recently, and I have to say I was quite impressed with it. I really liked the zombie darkness (If you could really call it dark with all the humor in this show lol) that was brought into the series because of it. Luffy (the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, also a rubber man because of his gomu gomu fruit) was able to defeat the main bad guy of Thiller Bark (Gecko Moria who had power over shadows) by infusing himself with the power of a hundred stray shadows and turning into Nightmare Luffy who was a super charged and hulkish version of Luffy who was already very strong. It was a close fight that saw Luffy as the winner who passed out in exhaustion right after winning. Some other very exciting things happened before the crew moved on, but it would take a lot of explaining. For now I will talk about the other crew mates that I have not yet. First off there is Zoro, a hysterically strong swords man who uses the santoryu style (three sword style, one in either hand and one in his mouth), Zoro is by far my favorite character because of his sheer blood lust and badassitude yet despite it he is a buffoon who gets lost almost every ten seconds and tries to give others directions haha. The next character is Sanji a chivalrous super chef who is known as "Black Leg Sanji" because of his immensely powerful kicks that he unleashes on enemies, Sanji is also a notorious chain smoker and is almost always smoking a cigarette. Sanji is funny because of his lack of care for his male counter parts but his utter lust and whipped nature for the female pirates of the crew. Sanji and Zoro always get into fights about silly things adding to the comedy of the show. Robin is the only other female Straw Hat Pirate besides Nami. Robin is a cool headed girl who loves archeology and one day hopes to uncover the details of the missing years in the worlds history. Robin uses a Devil Fruit power that allows her to sprout appendages anywhere, her most common tactic is to sprout arms out of an opponents back and then uses them to grab their neck and arms then bending them backwards and essentially breaking their back. One of the newest members of the crew is Franky a perverted cyborg (dont ask why there are cyborgs in a pirate world because I have no idea haha and also he is considered a perv because he only wears a open button up t-shirt and a speedo with no pants)  who runs on cola and is the shipbuilder of the crew. Franky is pretty cool because of his craftiness and the fact that he uses cola in every function of the inventions and attacks that he can use. The newest edition to the crew is Brook, a sword cane wielding skeleton with an afro lol. Brook is a skeleton because of the life life fruit that he ate, the fruit allowed him to have his soul returned to his body after dieing, but because of how long it took him to find his body which had been lost at sea he was a skeleton by the time his soul returned to it. He has an afro still because his roots were very strong apparently lol. And here is a picture of the Straw Hat pirates:

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Thriller Bark!

So as of late I have been watching a lot of a  shōnen  anime called One Piece. In general One Piece has some good action and some incredibly funny jokes and gags in it. The current arc (season basically) that I am in revolves around the Straw Hat crew (this show is about pirates!) being forced into landing on this creepy island called Thriller Bark, which turns out to be a massive ship that is the largest in the world. The island is inhabited by zombies and mutants so you can guess that the main characters all freak out at one point, especially Usopp (the sniper that uses a sling shot and is also a massive liar/coward), Nami (a female thief who is money obsessed), and Chopper (the crews doctor who turns out to be a deer that ate the human human fruit giving him the ability to speak and function like a human deer hybrid). At the point that I am in, the group was split into two groups while being pursued by some funny looking zombies, and in one of the group 3 of the crew mates have been abducted and somehow been turned into odd zombies. I would go into more detail, but it would take up so much space to talk about it, lets just say that it is really funny and if you like anime then it is worth watching. 

Monday, January 17, 2011

This is a test!

This blog looks pretty bland with no posts on it yet, so I figured I would go ahead and test this out. I do not really have anything anime related to talk about yet though so this will have to do.