One Piece: Season One, Third Voyage Review

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(More customer reviews)Kudos to Funimation for releasing the uncut series of One Piece DVDs! Gone are the crappy voices and lollipops from the US TV release. If you want to go authentic, by all means the Japanese audio track is great. But the English dub is done really well, too. This is just anime done right.
I've already read the manga series in Shonen Jump, so I knew what to expect, but the performances in this Third Voyage DVD set are just amazing. Sanji is way cooler than I had given him credit for. And during some of the Nami backstory sequences I even cried a bit. ^_^
There are some very emotionally powerful moments in this series, and the animation, story, and voice acting dos a fantastic job drawing it out. I'm so glad that this has been right for the English speaking anime viewing audience, and eagerly look forward to the next volume.
BTW, in terms of extra features, Funimation includes the marathon mode that I believe they started with Dragonball Z. Basically, if you pick this mode it skips playing the intro, ending, previews, and last episode recaps, essentially streaming all the episodes together into one big show. It's a cool feature, but I really enjoy the intro and ending songs, so I generally watch the normal mode. Also included are textless intros and endings (so you can fully view the animation without text blocking the view).

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Battle on the high seas!
Luffy’s encounter with the scallywag pirate commander Don Krieg reaches an explosive climax, and master chef Sanji joins the Straw Hats with dreams of exotic seafood spurring him onward. As the gang sets sail, they soon encounter underwater oddities that won’t end up on a plate without a devil of a scuffle. Ferocious on land and downright deadly in the water, fishman Arlong is a ruthless money-grubber if ever there was one. His cruel betrayal of Nami prompts a spirited attack by Luffy, but the fishy pirate quickly has the rubber-man headed for Davy Jones’ Locker!

Third Voyage contains episodes 27-39.Stills fromOne Piece (Click for larger image)

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One Piece - Season 1, First Voyage (Uncut) Review

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(More customer reviews)Can't wait to buy this! :) thank u funimation!
Some things i'd like to point out about One Piece:
1. Its really good! veeeeeeeeerrrrryy good :D funny, original, deep meaningful storylines, very cool and likable characters.... thats a brief description but i could honestly write pages on how good it is :)
2. It starts off just ok... but it gets better and better as it goes along... just like a snowball rolling down a mountain that eventually becomes an avalanche! i'm not kidding! i wasn't that into it at the start.. just watching it cos i heard it was good.. finally around episode 40ish (nami's story) i thought.. hey this is quite good! then the aribasta arc (around episode 90-125ish).. i was like wow! and it just gets better and better! and i'm not just saying that.. it really does! :)
3. Dont worry about watching the One Piece movies. they aren't written by Eiichiro Oda (the super cool guy that writes/draws One Piece manga), they're basically almost like filler episodes that dont really progress the main story. you can watch them once you've seen the anime episodes and dont have anything to do.. but dont watch them first! it might put you off and make you think One Piece is not great. I love One Piece.. and i dont even really watch the movies. I saw some reviews on amazon for the One Piece movie Desert Princess (forgot the exact title).. and some first time viewers got really put off by it.. which is a huge shame. the reason that movie is bad is they tried to condense 30+ anime episodes into a movie length feature... you lose so much emotional impact that way. just ignore the movies and maybe watch them after you've seen the series. you dont even really need to watch the movies.
4. if you are put off by the unusual way that its drawn.. dont worry.. you'll get so used to it.. and soon you couldn't imagine it drawn any other way! :)
5. Dont be put off by the length of the series. Trust me, once you're into it.. you'll wish that there was more episodes! :)
Well i hope this has helped you decide to give One Piece a try.. post a comment if u started watching the series and liked it! I hope you dont decide to quit your job in a few months and become a pirate! yohoho! hehe (i know i want to! :P)

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The epic sets sail...! It is the era of adventure, as countless souls are lured along the Grand Line in pursuit of dreams far greater than any they’ve ever dared to imagine. Wealth, fame, power… It’s all available for the taking to the lucky soul that can find it: The legendary One Piece. Among those on the high seas is a youth on a quest to be king of them all – Luffy, the Straw Hat Pirate! But first he must find a ship, a crew and some supplies. Determined to recruit those at first unwilling to his cause, the young captain remains undaunted…Uncut, unedited, and featuring an all new FUNimation dub!

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