Tag Archives: One Piece

The Outstanding Villains of One Piece

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Merlin

After watching One Piece Film: Red, and my subsequent binge of the One Piece movies and specials, I found myself dwelling on the villains of this modern epic. Most of them are petty brutes and thugs with about as much depth as … Continue reading →

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Ranking My Favorite One Piece Movies and Specials

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Merlin

I recently watched and reviewed the latest – and quite possibly final – film in the One Piece franchise. Afterward, I took a moment to pause and reflect how One Piece really is a massive series to behold, with several hundred hours of … Continue reading →

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Sunday’s Wisdom #441: Life is Not a Dream

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Merlin

“Don’t wanna try Don’t wanna cry Wanna forget Just let me live inside a dreamland I wanna be free.” – From “New Genesis,” by Ado Translated to English by Brina Palencia This is the first song in the anime movie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Movies, Muse-ings, Sunday's Wisdom | Tagged One Piece, One Piece Film: Red | Leave a comment

One Piece: Red is Beautiful

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Merlin

Eiichiro Oda began his world famous manga epic in 1997. Twenty-five years, over one hundred volumes, over a thousand chapters, over a thousand anime episodes, a dozen specials, a few dozen games, and fifteen movies later, One Piece will go … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Movies, Tuesday Review | Tagged One Piece, One Piece Film: Red | 1 Comment

My Anime Dungeons and Dragons Party

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Merlin

So, there’s this trend going round a couple Facebook groups I belong to. The idea is to assemble a dream crew as a Dungeons & Dragons party. Some people have used characters from books, some from movies, some even from … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Anime-ted Living, Challenge Accepted, Discussion | Tagged A Certain Scientific Railgun, Akame ga Kill, By the Grace of the Gods, Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, InuYasha, Log NHorizon, Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Overlord, Record of Lodoss War, Seven Deadly Sins, Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy, Ushio and Tora | Leave a comment

Slimes, Slaves, and Sexy Maids: The New Wave of Tropes?

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Merlin

It’s no secret whatsoever: when something new and unusual gets any sort of success, it gets copycatted out the freaking wazoo. Hollywood’s scramble to imitate the Marvel Cinematic Universe is but one outstanding example of that. There’s also all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Anime-ted Living, Discussion | Tagged Black Summoner, By the Grace of the Gods, My Isekai Life, One Piece, Overlord, Redo of Healer, Rising of the Shield Hero, Skeleton Knight in Another World, Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World, So I’m a Spider So What, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Devil is a Part-Timer, The Duke of Death and His Maid, The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated, The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious | 4 Comments

Some REAL Quarantine Binge Material

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Merlin

A lot of us are staying home these days, for an extended period of time which has already dragged on for far too long, certainly longer than we were told it would when we went meekly into self-isolation, and which … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Picks, What's New | Tagged Critical Role, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, One Piece | 2 Comments

Anivengers Assemble!

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Merlin

Heh, just imagine this crew showing up together in Endgame! Awhile ago, I made a post about My Anime Justice League. The idea for assembling My Anime Avengers has been percolating ever since, but the timing never seemed quite right with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Anime-ted Living, Challenge Accepted, Discussion | Tagged Alita: Battle Angel, Astro Boy, Attack on Titan, Avengers, Bleach, Cyborg 009, Dragon Ball Super, Fairy Tail, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam Wing, Killing Bites, Log Horizon, Marvel Cinematic Universe, My Hero Academia, One Piece, One Punch Man, Princess Mononoke, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | 8 Comments

My Top Twelve Favorite Anime

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Merlin

In three days, I will hit my fifth blogging anniversary. Approximately one thousand, eight hundred, and twenty-two days ago (if my math is right), the second post I ever did on this humble blog of mine approached the idea of … Continue reading →

Posted in Anime and Cartoons, Countdowns, Top Picks | Tagged Angel Beats, Attack on Titan, Baccano, Digimon, Fairy Tail, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, InuYasha, One Piece, Outlaw Star, Rurouni Kenshin, Slayers, Trigun | 6 Comments

5 Happy Anime Moments

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Merlin

Let the good times roll! 😀 No story is entirely complete, I think, without adding a bit of happiness to it. Even if it’s a tragedy, it needs to be seasoned with happy moments. That is what makes us care, … Continue reading →

Posted in 30-Day Anime Pick 5 Challenge, Anime and Cartoons, Challenge Accepted | Tagged Fruits Basket, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Kids on the Slope, One Piece, Trigun | Leave a comment