I'm Finally Reading One Piece

I'm Finally Reading One Piece
After years of it being recommended to me, I finally folded and started reading the One Piece manga. In today's video, I share my thoughts and impressions on it as of chapter 112.
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[@Drakno2]

Luffy grows in the upcoming saga through his interactions with a certain princess and learns how to be a better leader from her, we also get the first hints about his backstory when he's fighting a certain cigar smoker with a hook in the culmination of that saga that you should keep an eye out for. Can't say much without spoiling stuff but Luffy does grow over time, especially if you keep an eye out for when he encounters situations similar to ones he's faced before and you can tell how he grew from the previous events. Also Usopp is amazing, you just don't realize it yet

[@ashster_sunshine]

Oooo I see I can tell how much you love this story just by how much effort you're putting to not be specific with spoilers. I'm excited to see how all the characters evolve over time!

[@DeadMan03]

Luffy never had Serious conversation? Yah your gonna regret that after reading a specific conversation

[@ashster_sunshine]

Well, we'll see it when I get there

[@DeadMan03]

@@ashster_sunshine yah what chapter are you at rn?

[@MAT-wn5fr]

Why you hinting? 😂

[@emperorluffy6001]

Luffy is the best character. He grows on you even more over time.

[@w1-w2-w3]

Luffy is the best of the best. He doesn't care about the bad side of other people as long as they are willing to change. We welcome everyone unlike other people. If some man want to say them as a woman, he will accept it. same for some transman too. The best thing about Luffy is he can see what his people truly want. That's why he got the best friends like Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Chopper, and everyone. Most of the MC don't know their friends desire. It is the most annoying things to see. On the other hands, Luffy truly knows what his friends want and nothing can change his mind about his friends. Luffy also know what he can do and he can't. That's why he need his friends to do the things he can't. Luffy is the best friend I wish to have in real life. He will trust you and he will protect you. Nothing can change his mind and goal. And also It will be so much fun to hang out with him.

[@madscientist14]

Your friends were right, you still haven't seen anything. Everything is connected. Dialogue that seemed unimportant at the time will be brought back again. You will reread this story someday and be flabbergasted about the details that were always there. Also if you didn't know the last island they visited before going to the grandline is called Loguetown. This is a reference to the words prologue and epilogue. The town called the beginning and the end of the pirate king. Where Roger was born and died. But this also means the East Blue saga(first 100 chapters) was only a prologue(The beginning of the pirate king's story- Luffy). So yes, the story has only begun. Think of this story like an Epic. Just like: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Le Morde d'Arthur, Mahabharata, Beowulf, or Journey to the West. It's a long story with Epic proportions. I believe that when this story ends. It will still be talked about centuries from now.

[@marco19878]

Luffy is not relatable. He's not supposed to be. Being larger than life is his whole thing. Luffy is *inspiring*

[@lucyfer-pk9ey]

luffy is smart in a dumb way with a bit of sheer luck. he can understand how people feel but will not understand shit about simple explanation of a scientific thing. like the calm belt for him it's just a weird magic sea we can't cross by boat. but on the other side he understand the feeling of laboon to not want to give up on the one he love and trust, and that the only way to stop him from killing himself trying to destroy the red line is to give something else to wait for, but since he is still a dumbass who do not think things through he do the first thing he think of, he cannot replace his friend but he can be a rival, and showing laboon how strong he is will make him believe that he will succeed in going all the way back to him. and then he drew the flag on him because he wanted to mark their friendship for the fun of it, but by luck it make it so that laboon would not dare hurt his head anymore since he would want to protect this memento in the case something happen to him on the grand line.

[@ashster_sunshine]

Luffy's brand of dumbassary is a surprisingly unique take on a very common trope. Your comment helped me understand it better. Thanks! 👍

[@Omegateck16]

Some of your issues with the series so far will definitely be fixed later.

[@sapphirestone7236]

Great video! On the topic of understanding and getting into luffys head, its intentionally difficult, the author intentionallt never gives luffy any thought bubbles because luffy is a man of action so that reflects his character as he is rarely ever thinking of things when he could do or say it straight outward, so when youre thinking about luffy keep that in mind. Awesome video though, i look forward to seeing how you feel about later one piece stories

[@ashster_sunshine]

Oh really?! I didn't even notice the thought bubble thing. That's super interesting! I'll keep that in mind going forward. I'm glad you enjoyed the vid! Thanks!!

[@Nastyn1nja808]

7:43 the only thing going on in Luffys Head is "Meat Meat Meat Pirate King Meat" from Oda lol

[@Aviertje]

All the other commenters already said what I wanted to say, so I shouldn't even bother with commenting. So instead, let me say that it is OKAY to have a different favorite than the main character. One of the strengths in One Piece is that everyone goes rabid over different individuals, and half the time they aren't even one of the protagonists! The East Blue section that you finished here is what fans refer to as the prologue of the story. If you look at it in terms of relative length and the function it serves, you'll eventually come to realize that the parts you saw were akin to a meaningless early-game tutorial that helps to set up the world with some fun newbie quests attached. They were awesome.. but above all, those arcs just served the purpose of a) gathering a crew of protagonists, and b) introducing you to the general mindset and weirdness of the One Piece world with its devil fruits, non-binary approach to good/evil, and how it likes to do things in as silly a way as possible. In regards to the crew members, just know that they will develop throughout the story. Sometimes in big ways where they become the star of an arc, and sometimes in far subtler ways, but the things you have seen up to now is just the most bare core essentials of what makes them decide to set out to sea under the banner of an idiotic captain. They have their own dreams as much as they are helping each other accomplish those dreams; it is just that Luffy's is the most ridiculous dream of them all. Once you reach the point where the author decides to start reaping the many little worldbuilding seeds he's sown over these hundreds of chapters, you'll start finding that the story transforms into so much more than the sum of its parts. Right now, you've just seen simple stories that stand on their own merits, but you can literally see the mangaka grow as a storyteller and learn how to weave the most complicated and batshit insane world you could possibly get lost in. If it were a novel, people would not hesitate for a moment to name him along the fantasy greats like Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling and so on. But because it is manga with different types of standards and expectations, and produced on a weekly release schedule to boot with far different aims and constraints than a novel which gets so much more editing, it never had the refinement nor benefit of being able to ignore the need of weekly cliffhangers, so instead it just fails to have peers that can reach its standard of longterm worldbuilding and storytelling which makes it hard to explain to people unfamiliar with it just how much they might enjoy it despite being a medium they've never touched before. Enjoy your journey, and remember: there is no shame in crying! We all do it!

[@Biancaxlai]

Great video! Great observations and great points on the story thus far. All your questions and uncertainty about Luffy will be answered in due time, so just keep and open mind and an eye out for it when it happens. The way I would describe Luffy as a character and as our protagonist is, yes he is an enigma, and he's a great friend and he's our Captain. With a lot of stories, the "protagonist" is often the character we know the most about, we hear their inner thoughts and we follow alongside them through their decision-making and thought process, that's why they're often the most relatable and self-insert type of character for the readers; we understand them the most on an internal level. What makes Luffy different though, is we barely know anything about him beyond what we can see from an outsider's perspective. What he says and what he does is all the info we get. We're more like Coby in this situation, some random guy pops out of a barrel with no resources, no crew, or any sailing knowledge, and declares he will become King of the Pirates. You'd find that he's not even a very talkative character, instead he'd be standing on the sidelines as a conversation unfolds and next thing you know he's already taking action, which makes for a very interesting and bold choice for a protagonist role. As a reader/watcher, Luffy is not our self-insert character, he is hard to relate but we put our trust in him nonetheless, he is the character that leads us onto this big adventure; our Captain of the ship, and we are a part of his crew.

[@ashster_sunshine]

A lotta people in the comments have talked about the same things you have, but I really really like how you explained it! Thanks for enjoying the video and and even more special thanks for this comment! We'll see how I feel as we go on, but this definitely opened my eyes a bit on the intent behind Luffy's character! :D

[@golden_zebra]

Luffy isn't relatable on first impressions, like how successful people, extroverted people, and emotionally stable people usually are to the common person.... until you know more about them and until you know what made them who they are. So stay tuned 😂

[@golden_zebra]

I don't think Luffy was supposed to be relatable this early on. And I think because you don't know him that well because he has no thought bubbles (or rarely ever) and the rest of the crew had more of a solid backstory. The only thing you know about him was his interaction with Shanks... and that's about it, nothing before and nothing between that and when he went out to sea. Isn't that curious, yeah?. Don't worry, you have 1000 more chapters to go.

[@Synes-vj8xd]

I think you're expecting Luffy to be something he's not. I mean yeah protagonists are the person we'd be following but what's unique about him is that we're following him but we actually don't know what he's thinking so you can never relate to him like how we usually envision protagonist are. There's not a single inner monologue or a thought bubble that comes out from him so expecting him to be relatable would never happen. It's understandable to want/like relatable characters though so do you. I'm just gonna say it here, he will never be relatable, only his actions. Honestly as much as people clown Luffy to be simple, he's actually one of the things people get wrong especially outside looking in. It's like a radar if a person actually read One Piece or not lol. Most of the time they just stick Naruto personality on him because that's the closest anime associated with OP that they've watch. Anyways, enjoy the journey! (⁠*⁠˘⁠︶⁠˘⁠*⁠)⁠.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡

[@Nastyn1nja808]

10:03 Luffy dont need to hear Namis past he SAW who she is already and He already Decided.

[@ashster_sunshine]

I got the idea. It's cool, I just kinda expected Luffy to be more, idk-- aware of things in general. He's kind of a different protagonist from what you'd expect

[@Aberyyyy]

One of Us One of Us One of Us One of Us

[@DeadMan03]

I mean sure the anime has bad pacing but at least it has sound and va and the ost is very good

[@ashster_sunshine]

I can listen to that separately. It took me 4 years to get through Hunter X Hunter. Imma not commit to a long anime like this lol

[@DeadMan03]

@@ashster_sunshine I mean it took like 40 episode to finish arlong park while the manga finish at like 95 chapter I say the pacing is not that bad tbh and tho you can listen to the ost separately I meant like ost that compliment the story while you watch it like emotional ost and honestly you can get towards 500 episode in like 4 month or so

[@DeadMan03]

@@ashster_sunshine by the way fun fact L from death note has the same VA as ussop

[@callmyname_sa.1746]

You may think luffy is dumb character for now but trust me he matures as the story progresses . Through this journey he becomes the MAN worthy to be called King of the pirates

[@callmyname_sa.1746]

Let me tell you characters like zoro, who are strong, cool , don't talk much, and has badass powers are my favourites BUT it changes, trust me Now luffy is my most favorite anime character of all time Luffy is just 17 yo force of nature, embodiment of freedom and has 1 dream and he wants to help other people complete their dreams too He didn't hear Nami's story and he will not do it in future either he excepts people for who they are and not for what they were this also serves as a good plot point .

[@migueldELLO]

It starts slow, but man, does it take off and becomes better the more you read it. I wouldn't mind an update as you read through the sagas/arcs.

[@fishblasting89]

You want to see luffy's bond with the crew? brace yourself, it might hurt your soul in a way you didn't expect.

[@KirbySonicTeam]

Cool vid bro. One piece is a ton of fun. You definitely grasped luffys “idea” persona well. Though I think the best thing that grounds him for me is still his backstory. Whenever luffy acts the way he does it’s good to compare him to the brash kid who wasn’t strong enough to back up his words, and thus allowed someone he cared about to lose an arm. Now he’s someone strong enough to take on the world. The strength that matches his spirit.

[@MAT-wn5fr]

No one likes the fan service 😂

[@Nastyn1nja808]

4:19 Oda is Really Good at Payoff

[@Axalion71]

Enjoyed your perspective. As for Luffy, definitely still more to come. I think the understanding of Luffy comes much sooner in the anime since they fill out those character relationships you were talking about. Good luck, and I hope you continue to have fun and enjoy!

[@Eiichiro_Oda_Real]

Told you.

[@bladox971]

Nice

[@Nastyn1nja808]

0:16 Peeps :one piece is too long! same Peeps: i watched all of Naruto, Bleach, HxH, Dexter, Supernatrual, Etc etc lol

[@ashster_sunshine]

It took me 3 years to get through Hunter X Hunger 😅

[@jayko2853]

W nakama

[@Nastyn1nja808]

6:26 you see soon Luffy is Often The COOLEST even though hes silly most of the time. ki da Rurouni Kenshin lol

[@ashster_sunshine]

I already think he's really cool. Excited to see what comes next!

[@notraghav_69]

just remember ""one piece is not just a pirate story""

[@ashster_sunshine]

Sure... I'll keep that in mind XD

[@LinhTran_323]

The way u described luffy is one of the reason i like him. Like u never know what’s in his mind and it’s always fun to try to figure it out, like a fun mysterious puzzle. I would say that give him time, cuz oda did a great job embodied the soul of the story in him

[@batmankaler]

Luffy doesn’t wanted to hear the story of nami’s past was not to make nami feel good she wasn’t even present at that same place to begin with but because he doesn’t need a sad Past or any reason to help his crewmates. If youre nakama he’d help you. End of story. Yes hes stupid and dumb but He’s super emotional intelligent when comes to understanding ppl’s feelings and emotions when in need. This is literally seen throughout the series. So he picks things which others can’t. Every crewmember is literally given ample time or even proper dedicated arcs where luffy “bonded” with them, get to know them and this is the reason they’re asked to joined the SHs. The goal of One piece is simply said from Chapter 1. Finding one piece and Luffy to become pirate king and in pursuit of that he needs to gather at least 10 crew members. And those crew members in return have their own own dreams to fulfil. In conquering that there they fight govt, Pirates, Solve different mysteries go on different islands which are marked by the log pose. Simple yet complicated when you paint in picture how big one piece world is.

[@ashster_sunshine]

Ohyeah, I do understand what they were going for with Luffy deciding not to hear Nami's story. It's interesting for sure, just again-- not the direction I was expecting for the character, and one that's just maybe a little bit exaggerated. I'm enjoying everyone's development so far, but remember, I'm still early on, there's still a lot I haven't seen. Keep that in mind. Just simply from the point I'm at, I'd have liked to see Luffy actively show that he listens to what the crew is saying, rather than having like-- half of his conversations end in punchlines. I'm sure he IS listening, it's just more-- subtle than I'd like, I guess. I like Luffy! It's just that-- so far-- his characterization has felt the least grounded of the crew for me, that's all. Guess I just gotta wait and see for more

[@batmankaler]

@@ashster_sunshine I hope you fuk with him lol cus Luffy is the soul of one piece. He is the main force one piece story works lol. About grounded lol he himself has told he’s selfish and stupid. But thats why author makes it good balance and it hits homes when hes serious and not fooling around anymore. Maybe read down a lil more and you’d get different perspective on him lol

[@Wolfy-pq7qr]

Love the intro music. I think its pokemon sun/moon but i cant think what its called

[@ashster_sunshine]

Yeah, it's the Hau'oli City day theme :)

[@morganmorgym]

Luffy is my favorite character, because I find him to be the most interesting. He's so simple-minded and over-the-top that you would think you know him, but he's always surprising me. I find him to be the most mysterious, and even with Oda deliberately not writing inner thoughts for Luffy (the MC at that), you can tell that this is the exact intention for Luffy's character. He represents this freedom "to be" and "to do" that I wish I had. He truly is a symbol. Welcome to the One Piece. Do continue sharing your perspective. I enjoyed hearing about it.

[@ACC861]

New sub here! Lemme get back to this video after my work!

[@ashster_sunshine]

Thanks for the sub!

[@callmyname_sa.1746]

11:03 you know what is going inside his head tho 👀 You see Luffy unlike any other character ,don't have a thinking box, he never thinks his actions speaks what's he's thinking