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Big time, Luffy once punched a slaver in the face as hard as he could and he's caused not one but two prison riots, the first time after breaking into prison
I recommend watching the anime but skipping the filler
Also worker uprisings occur and they're led by a man who looks a lot like Che Guevara. The revolutionary army has a steampunk anarchist design to them.
The vast majority of the show is not filler at all. Like less than 5% probably lol.
It does however suffer from pacing issues after a certain point. "Filler scenes" in canon material.
I will say its a great read, it doesnt suffer the same pacing issues when you binge it (though week to week, 4 years for an arc to end is extremely brutal lol)
But hey nothing is for everyone!
:this: also @ExtinctionEntity I really recommend looking up something called one piece kai. It's an edit that skips the filter.
Some dude on reddit edited up to the end of the first part before the timeskip. It'll last you a while at least.
Seek out One Pace as well, as it has everything after the timeskip. And much before it.
Second this. Got my gf into one piece by using this to cut through some of the more boring/slow parts in the beginning
It certainly does but guess they subtle, I really recommend this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD5ZRhOd0ig&t=111s may not make much sense but as you can see it very good.
i thought Deku's deal was NOT giving his 100% or every bone in his body will spontaneously break, i haven't watched MHA that much
I barely watched MHA tbh didn't really like it since not super into caper stuff.
I mean it starts off as a thinly veiled metaphor for worker-ruler exploitation, then it just literally becomes the pursuit for working-class revolution, then it ends suddenly and disappointingly.
darling and the franxx is like this too. it literally seems to be building towards a proletarian revolution led by a self-depropagandizing vanguard when it suddenly reverses course and the ruling class voluntarily fucks off because of a deus ex, leaving the proles to reclaim the earth while others end the struggle on their behalf. it very much seems like Trigger got pressured to not run the original ending to the story because it was a thinly veiled call for revolution. they also seem to have sorted the problem internally because Promare just openly says that climate change - a human created problem exacerbated because mutual annihilation is the only path available to the bourgeoisie - can only be resolved by revolution. (fwiw, Promare is what Don't Look Up wanted to be but couldn't because it was written by liberals).
completely uncritical support for Studio Trigger. Kill La Kill - a show about the need for left unity between anarchists and Marxists in order to fight fascism and the bourgeoisie - and Promare are pinnacle examples of media that quietly teach theory while masquerading as pure entertainment.
Kill La Kill - a show about the need for left unity between anarchists and Marxists in order to fight fascism and the bourgeoisie
I must have missed that part.
They tried to stuff like 80 chapters of the manga into the last five episodes of the anime, like the last ten minutes of the last episode is a jumbled summary of an entire arc of the story.
Truly bizzare decision since every other anime is perfectly fine with stopping in the middle of a story when they run out of seasons and just telling you to read the manga to see how it ends.
Are those last 80 chapters of manga actually good and satisfying? Or compressed for a reason? 'cause I still feel I want pay off for my investment in this story.
The manga is way better than Season 2, which is disappointing becuase Season 1 was pretty faithful to the first two arcs. The last half of the manga really pays off all the pain and suffering from the first half and extends those themes, instead of everything just being fine like the anime.
I've seen a bit of it but never finished it tbh so I'll take your word for it.
If you ever do stay away from the second season of the anime. Still mad about it :angery:
I remember watching it and thinking it was an extremely pointed message about how inhuman not being a vegan was but then they ate sausages so that was a bit weird.
Ya know, I'm tight with a number of anime-loving leftists and they all say One Piece is trash.
I kinda wanna watch it because pirate fiction is my jam but I'm also kinda scared of getting bullied by megaweebs.
Lol they just being dumbass contrarians. One piece isnt the largest comic/manga material in the world for no reason.
Its worldbuilding alone is so intense and gigantic with so many moving parts it is actually fucking wild.
It is a fantastically large world to immerse yourself into if you need to do so. It has helped out me and my friends so much that 4 of us have one piece tattoos. I have 2, including my entire upper right arm. Obviously i am biased towards the media, as i quite like it a lot. But if you want fun pirate nonsense in a vastly detailed and gigantic moving world, it is the one to watch. Though i really recommend reading it, as the pacing is WAY WAY better.
Enjoy what you like and either skip the filler if you can or just read the manga. One piece is good and while it does have some yikes things within the context of it the shows good.
