What's your favorite and least-favorite arc in the anime?

scaragh

@The:

Marineford and Fishmen Island are complete abominations in the anime.

I didn't go to film school, but I'm sure in them they have courses where they teach people that, in order to make a good movie/video media, you have to avoid doing EVERY SINGLE THING Toei did in those arcs. You can show those arcs there and tell the students to avoid doing that, and whatever movie they'll make will be good.

Little example:

Let's say Luffy is face to face with, let's say villain A. The manga panel they'll adapt would be Luffy saying "I'm gonna kill you", and villain A answering "oh really". Here's how the anime will do it.

FIrst you start the episode with a 5 minutes recap. Then, you'll put the camera a hundred kilometers away from where Luffy is, and we'll have random dudes talking about shit no one cares about. Then there will be a scrolling to where Luffy is. With super cheap animation of course. Then, by the 9 minutes mark, we'll reach Luffy's spot.
Then, the camera will zoom on every single character present on the scene, especially the fodder and nameless people, all making dumb "extatic faces". Then we'll zoom on Luffy's face, then on his mouth, then the VA will speak as slowly as possible "I…aaaaammmm...goooooonnnnnaaa...killlll...youuuuuuu". The boom, zoom on everyone's shocked faces, and then half episode break.

Back from the break, there'll be a recap of the whole first half of the episode, then again "I'm...gonna...kill...youuuu", then once again, the crowd. My God Toei loves crowds. 5 minutes of dialogue like: "OMG, did he just say he's gonna kill him?"..."He did, he totally did."..."By killing, you mean the action of taking someone else's life?"..."Wow, Monkey D. Luffy, the son of Dragon, and grandson of Garp the hero, the man from east blue, who came through reverse mountain and foiled Crocodile's plans and went against CP9...that man said he's gonna kill Villain A, the son of villain B and brother to villain C. Damn!"..."I hear he went to Skypiea too"..."Yeah, they sell some good dials there"..."I need to buy some dials to redecorate my living room"... etc etc.

Then zoom on villain A's face, and him making "ngkkgkgggkkkghhgghgkkkkk" noises for 2 minutes, then, flashback to every single time since episode 1 where Luffy said "I'm gonna kill you" to someone.
And to end the episode, a little echo through villain A's mind. "I'm gonna kill you...nna kill you...ill you...ouuuuuu..." And boom, episode ends.

How to make a 20 minutes episode out of less than a manga panel, by Toei animation.

I swear to God, I am barely exaggerating.
Someone should teach Toei about a certain something called "show don't tell".

Drum, G8 and Water 7 were enjoyable in anime though.

That is the most accurate thing I've seen in my whole life. I'm watching through Marineford for the first time, which I've avoided so long for this very reason. Also, I never even read through all of Fishman Island, let alone watched it, because of the horrible things I hear about it (I'll get to it….eventually).

Favorite arc is definitely Enies Lobby, followed very closely by the Sabaody and Arlong arcs. Punk Hazard looks to be good, too

warismydestiny

I dont get why Thriller Bark gets so much hate its one of my favorite arcs. It had everything that makes One Piece great it had funny moments throughout the whole arc, it had sad and heartwrenching moments (Brooks Backstory) it also had imo what was just not the most epic moment in One Piece but the most epic moment in all anime ever(Zoros Sacrifice). I also just love the theme of the arc I really like the concept and idea the of the straw hats getting there shadows stolen and having to face zombies that have the shadow of there friends in them.We also got to see Nami in the shower :wub:. I guess that people didnt like Thriller Bark because they had to watch it week by week I had the luxury of being able to marathon the whole arc It probably felt drawn out a bit if you had to wait a week after watching one episode.

My Top 5 Arcs
1.Marineford
2.Enies Lobby
3.Thriller Bark
4.Punk Hazard
5.Alabasta

Least favorite is Fishman Island

Jaydens1

Least favorite small arc : Captain Kuro
Least favorite big arc : Fishman Island

SwiftJaws

I loved the Louge Town arc the most. There's something about the mood of that arc that really captured my attention.

The Alabasta Arc would come second though, there were too many funny moments to count.

NZW

Favourite arc - Thriller Park: From the Cerebus with a fox head to Luffy pushing a zombie back into the ground, Oda's randomness was taken to the max in this arc. Just what I liked The fight against Oz was also pretty cool.

Least favourite arc - Kuro: Even though they introduced Ussop and the Going Merry, this ark felt like filler to me. The villain was generic and the plot was a little too much like the Boy who cried wolf (I know that was probably Oda's intention). At least Chopper's Rudolf entrance had a slight twist to it.

Cloud Piece

My favourite arc, anime-wise, is a tie in between Water 7 and Skypiea. Water 7 is beautiful in both manga and anime, well paced and all. Skypiea did get dragged out in the manga but in the anime it was nicely paced. G8 and some of Enies Lobby was nice.

Least… hard, but for me it was the start of Thriller Bark. And middle, I suppose. It was just... so badly paced. (I think Punk Hazard might take over, from what we've seen so far.). Not going to include Fishman island because I skipped most of it in the anime.

Toei needs to take a break and sort out their pacing for a while. Not a long break, just a month or three weeks, and sort it out because right now each episode is feeling like a Bleach chapter. Though not as bad.

Ashura_KingFisher

@The:

Marineford and Fishmen Island are complete abominations in the anime.

I didn't go to film school, but I'm sure in them they have courses where they teach people that, in order to make a good movie/video media, you have to avoid doing EVERY SINGLE THING Toei did in those arcs. You can show those arcs there and tell the students to avoid doing that, and whatever movie they'll make will be good.

Little example:

Let's say Luffy is face to face with, let's say villain A. The manga panel they'll adapt would be Luffy saying "I'm gonna kill you", and villain A answering "oh really". Here's how the anime will do it.

FIrst you start the episode with a 5 minutes recap. Then, you'll put the camera a hundred kilometers away from where Luffy is, and we'll have random dudes talking about shit no one cares about. Then there will be a scrolling to where Luffy is. With super cheap animation of course. Then, by the 9 minutes mark, we'll reach Luffy's spot.
Then, the camera will zoom on every single character present on the scene, especially the fodder and nameless people, all making dumb "extatic faces". Then we'll zoom on Luffy's face, then on his mouth, then the VA will speak as slowly as possible "I…aaaaammmm...goooooonnnnnaaa...killlll...youuuuuuu". The boom, zoom on everyone's shocked faces, and then half episode break.

Back from the break, there'll be a recap of the whole first half of the episode, then again "I'm...gonna...kill...youuuu", then once again, the crowd. My God Toei loves crowds. 5 minutes of dialogue like: "OMG, did he just say he's gonna kill him?"..."He did, he totally did."..."By killing, you mean the action of taking someone else's life?"..."Wow, Monkey D. Luffy, the son of Dragon, and grandson of Garp the hero, the man from east blue, who came through reverse mountain and foiled Crocodile's plans and went against CP9...that man said he's gonna kill Villain A, the son of villain B and brother to villain C. Damn!"..."I hear he went to Skypiea too"..."Yeah, they sell some good dials there"..."I need to buy some dials to redecorate my living room"... etc etc.

Then zoom on villain A's face, and him making "ngkkgkgggkkkghhgghgkkkkk" noises for 2 minutes, then, flashback to every single time since episode 1 where Luffy said "I'm gonna kill you" to someone.
And to end the episode, a little echo through villain A's mind. "I'm gonna kill you...nna kill you...ill you...ouuuuuu..." And boom, episode ends.

How to make a 20 minutes episode out of less than a manga panel, by Toei animation.

I swear to God, I am barely exaggerating.
Someone should teach Toei about a certain something called "show don't tell".

Drum, G8 and Water 7 were enjoyable in anime though.

They lack budget, that's why.

Anyway my fav will always be W7/EL, especially the episode where Luffy went gear 2 against Blueno. It's an extremely rare case ini OP anime history where fights actually got fully animated with amazing quality.

Skypiea could have been my least if it's not for its fucking awesome flashback. Probably the only arc that I actually cared about the flashback more than anything else in the arc.

my actual least fav would be FI… I haven't finished the whole thing, but seen some fight scenes and most them were terribly animated.( oh that GOD awful tatsumaki and underwhelming sky walk)

elitsu

Favorite: Impel Down, Saboady

Least favorite: Fishman Island and Marineford. Marineford was awesome in the Manga, but they completely ruined it in the Anime imo >.> waaay too much Buggy.

Skykin

@elitsu:

Favorite: Impel Down, Saboady

Least favorite: Fishman Island and Marineford. Marineford was awesome in the Manga, but they completely ruined it in the Anime imo >.> waaay too much Buggy.

You can never have too much Buggy.

elitsu

@Skykin:

You can never have too much Buggy.

I was trying to tell myself that too because I loved him in ID…but it seemed like he was more the center of attention than the war itself lol especially in the ep where Ace died, I couldn't even cry over it because half the ep was only Buggy and that completely ruined the whole mood >_>

Davis-Lightheart

Water 7 would have to vie for my favorite. It combines so many emotions into one arc and just culminates it to a grand finish. Such a shame Enies Lobby dragged on so much.

Since I haven't watched Marineford in full, I suppose I would have to choose Kuro's arc, just because it's pretty boring.

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Ripcat

Ha ha not even, if it wasn't for the buggy arc i wouldn't even be watching One Piece.

ShadowOfTheSword

Here is a list of arcs from best to worst for me.

1. Impel Down. We got to see so much in this arc. Prior to it, I never thought I'd see Buggy and Crocodile in the same arc, but when I did, it was just sheer awesomeness.
2. Sabaody. Introducing the Supernovas was a plus. Introducing Kizaru and Rayleigh, also a plus. Scaring me with the deaths of the crew members, not a plus.
3. Marineford. I know it had even more than Impel Down, what with Shichibukai and Supernovas, Admirals and Yonko, etc, but I was totally unprepared for Ace dying.
4. Little Garden. I'm not sure what I like about this one so much, just that I really like it.
5. Amazon Lily. Arguably one of the funniest arcs, due to Hancock.
6. Enies Lobby. Doesn't everyone love this arc?
7. Water 7 at number 7. I put this one in number seven just for the humor of Water 7 being Number 7.
8. Thriller Bark. I liked Brook and Perona, and Moriah had cool powers, but otherwise, I wasn't a big fan of this one.
9. Fishman Island. Too boring. Only really good thing about it was introducing Big Mom and her crew. I look forward to seeing more of Pekoms and the three eyed girl. I've grown rather fond of those two.
10. Everything else.

skully

Favorite (no ranking):
Skypia: Enel (or Eneru, not sure about his english name) is one of my favorite villians and the whole K.O. battle was quite exciting.
Jaya: The introdaction of Blackbeard with a brawl about cherrypies was amazing and Luffy beating Bellamy with one punch was great, too.
Sabaody: Rayleigh, Supernovae, an amusement park, Sanjis wanted poster and more use of haki are only a few reasons why I like this arc. Ussops buttlanding on Rosward was the cream on the top of the cake.
Enies Lobby: From Merrys "death" to Robins past it has been a very sad arc, but I liked how the SH moved on stronger than before.
East Blue (Buggy arc): One Piece got me since the first episode I watched (7 I think), so the first episodes are still one of my favorite ones.

Least favorite:
Impel Down: I liked the start and seeing all those guys from the past arcs again, but this arc took far too long to finish. Plus, I really hate Saldeath for some reason.
Alabasta: I saw this arc a long time ago first, when I still watchend only the anime and it took some while until they dubbed the next arc, so that arc lasted like forever for me. I actually like it now, just the walking around the desert for 10 episodes part bores me.
Fishman island: Maybe my expectations were too high, but the endless flashback and the lame villians bored me so much, I was relieved when the arc was over. Big Mom was the only highlight.
Davy Back Fight: The anime screwed up the whole tournament by adding more and more fillers. I could have screamed, when they did a second Foxy-filler after Thriller Park.

ZoroandVegetafan

Least Favorite right now is Warship Island mostly for how boring it is but my favorite is a tie between Arlong Park and Alabasta

xredx

Does anyone know what episode in one piece where Nami said she loves Foxy the silver fox then says no. Foxy gets happy then depressed, happy then depressed?!?!

Someone help me.

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GreenRabbit

my favorite is defenitly skypia, i really enjoyed how the strawhats accually managed to do what they did, even though they were very weak back at episode 180 or so, and they beat enel and his 4 priests, and it all looked, that it was realistic, and luffy didnt just come up with something incredibly overpowered to beat the antagonists (unlike eniess lobby and gear second), so it felt realistic how each of the battles were won, and it was so funny and sad, the part were we were showed how helpless the Shandians were was very sad.
the worst arc was defenitly fishman island, i know many would disagree, but i hated it how my favorite character litteraly went to the brink of death because of a damn nosebleed :(, and i also thought it was too long, it took 50 episodes, which is almost the same as the entire hunter x hunter series (2003).

0ldman

Favorite: Marineford
Least Favorite:Long Ring Long Land Arc

poque

@xredx:

Does anyone know what episode in one piece where Nami said she loves Foxy the silver fox then says no. Foxy gets happy then depressed, happy then depressed?!?!

Someone help me.

I think it's episode 214 IIRC

Asten

Impel Down arc is my favourite which is narrated in one piece. Rita is my least favourite character in animes

helsinkirocks

Favorite:

By far and away Marineford. Everything about it was done so well, the deaths catch you offguard. It's got a lot of emotion, action, and plot development. Just such a great arc.

Least Favorite:

Fishman Island. I don't have much to say. Boring villains. Boring story. The whole thing is generally pretty uninteresting. The only redeeming qualities were the Arlong Flashbacks, and a little bit more of the history learned. Not to mention, it introduced (in my opinion) the worst character in anything ever: Caribou. I really hate this guy. He's so boring, so terrible. I don't know why he has a 30+ part cover story. I mean oh man. I almost skipped Fishman Island about halfway through, and I never had that desire with any other arc.

samael63

favorite :

skypiea : the war really amaze me and the shandian looks really cool. +____+

sabaody (for the story) : its simply opened a whole new level on the series, the ability of an admiral, wg's real weapon, and the supernovas. and strawhat beaten easily.

w7 and enies lobby : really a full expectation from the watcher for the strawhat crew against the WG. and the fights too. :#

least favorite :

for bad animation (mostly because they make it way too slow) : sabaody, marine ford, and gyojin island too I think,

for story : little garden, gyojin, amazon lily,

Lutzinho

Well, the Davy Back fight was annoying as hell and one of my favorite arcs in the manga (the war) wasn't really that good in the anime. So I'd say that my favorite arc was the Water Seven/Enies Lobby combo. This was just brilliant in the manga as well as in the anime. The mystery around Robin, Luffy vs Ussop, some of the foreman being part of CP9 (which I didn't expect), the great fights and the burning of the going Merry at the end of the arc I absolutely love it.

Diamond Jozu

Well for me it was the Thriller Bark arc. I don't even know why I just remember at the time not being really into it, never seen moria as a threat plus his laugh bothered me. The whole arc felt very filler'ish to me, I mean it wasn't terrible but it felt like a lot of work just so Brook could have an excuse to be a part of the Straw Hats. The only highlight (besides Brook) was Super Zombie Luffy…oh and Zoro getting his newest Katana Shusui.

P.S. The war for Ace is my fav arc….I don't even think I need to explain my choice, it was just epic.

Arcadia080

I'll draw my line for One Piece enjoyment at everything up to where Luffy says farewell to the women on Amazon Lilly. (The first time he leaves before Impel Down.) Everything after that is simply not enjoyable. It's more like something you have to do as a fan of One Piece. The weekly grind if you will. Not somthing I do anymore because I enjoy it but because it's something I've always done. It's become an old stale loveless relationship.
Manga however I'm still following with gusto and anticipation. Still flame in that marriage.

RKTGX95

Favorite: Marineford, because of, well, marinford!

Least Favorite: Marineford (shocker eh?).

Marincefrod plot wise is such a great arc that for now it can't be anything bu the best (we'll see how the arc after PH continues maybe it gonna give MF a run for its money) but all of the problems with the anime episodes of this arc are hard to ignore. So Marineford to me is both the best and the worst of the anime, which is funny because to me One Piece in general is a journey where you need to enjoy the good and the bad, even the best and the worst.

All other arcs i love almost equally, only the warship filler arc dragged a bit and plot holes emerged (though i overall enjoyed it when i first watched it and i can understand that they didn't mean to make plot holes like that. It's not like they could have known what happens in Alabasta with Zoro. That said i won't be re-watching this arc). Additionally Fishmen Island was slightly annoying to me. My main gist with this one is that it was the first real full arc i watched weekly (i caught up at around first third of Marineford and the plot of it just saved it from the downfalls for me at the time) and the drag was noticeable but i think that if I'd watch it continuously this arc wouldn't be as annoying. Secondly, my dislike of this arc came after i switch to the manga and discovered the contradicting plot of Hody to the source. Maybe Toei wanted to send a slightly different message but sometimes it is best to not fix what isn't broke.

on a side note, i wish Toei would take a filler brake sometime soon and do the spirit of Movie 6 into a filler. i.e. do like a detective Luffy style plot (that isn't the main plot or a filler tom the main plot) but instead of comedy gold they'd do something dark and a slightly different direction like Movie 6.

Spicy Chicken

In the anime I really liked the Davy Back fight arc. It was just fun and a nice change of pace. Plus everything was HD all of a sudden. Next to that I also liked Water 7. The manga was cool but the anime really brought that city to life.

Hmm… as for least favorite in the anime... I feel like Impel Down had so many unnecessary scenes. Like when the Zoan guard people came out for the first time, all the marines literally stared awkwardly at them for like 3 minutes and then said "was that a koala?" stuff like that is just so pointless and not funny, but I understand it's just to fill time to give the anime more buffer room I guess. But after that arc I stopped watching the anime because it just continued.

No Maam

Worst is Little East Blue.

How come you folks only rag on cannon arcs when it clearly says "in the anime" in the title ?

Why Little East Blue is so bad:

1. It features yet another annoying kid as an "important" character, even when they have even less to contribute then Apis, meaning they're just there
2. It has incredibly lame antagonists, especialy Colt. Also the pirate crew gets beaten by villagers throwing rocks the size of a larger egg at them lightly.
3. Though hyped up as a tie in to Strong World, the whole "connection" is "this bug that will never be mentioned in the movie and which won't matter to our plan either way, ran off to a place that will never be mentioned or refferenced in the movie in any way, please go retrieve it, pirate crew who will not show up or even be mentioned in the movie in any way"
4. Rather then coming up with a unique island and characters, at least on the level of their previous OCs, they just do unremarkable "parodies" of characters from East Blue. Also those annoying kids in the Nami "fanclub" that just feel like they're from a different series entirely.

Also I will admitt to have a bit of fondness for the Goat Island arc, seeing as it's a typical example of "no combat, minor level threat" arc the anime used to do and which I sorta miss. I just wouldn't mind seeing the anime do another arc with the SH's just going to a place, and there being kind of a bad guy but not being a big deal, and dealing with everything in like four episodes.

Especialy since the anime can't do fights that well, and when it does do fights now, it's usualy pretty bad.

Ice Hunter was a bit of a turning point, because while most of the antagonists were taken our rather quickly, the fight with the Don was the first time a fight in a filler went beyond the confines of one episode.

Little East Blue was horrid, with Colt being utterly useless and the moment he started to do an attack that actualy looked to have some oomph behind it, he instantly ran out of bullets and was defeated. Largo was kinda underwhelming, and also, realy, a net is what catches Luffy, Zoro and Sanji (I think ?).

Z Side Arc Thing Shuzo had a little bit of bite to him, but was kinda annoying, and the fight wasn't that great, even if it did end with a pleasing WTF moment.

I'd like the anime to do one of those where they don't have to spend time animating fights but the again that means I'm also wishing for Alabasta-level animation and well, that's not gonna happen.

I admitt further that a small part of the reason I want the movies to go back to the "normal" style they had before Strong World and the remakes, is so we don't have any more "tie ins" that don't tie in to shit.

Spicy Chicken

@No:

How come you folks only rag on cannon arcs when it clearly says "in the anime" in the title ?

Well personally, I don't usually watch fillers haha. I thought the G-8 arc was pretty well down though.

RKTGX95

@No:

Worst is Little East Blue.

How come you folks only rag on cannon arcs when it clearly says "in the anime" in the title ?

! Why Little East Blue is so bad:
! 1. It features yet another annoying kid as an "important" character, even when they have even less to contribute then Apis, meaning they're just there
2. It has incredibly lame antagonists, especialy Colt. Also the pirate crew gets beaten by villagers throwing rocks the size of a larger egg at them lightly.
3. Though hyped up as a tie in to Strong World, the whole "connection" is "this bug that will never be mentioned in the movie and which won't matter to our plan either way, ran off to a place that will never be mentioned or refferenced in the movie in any way, please go retrieve it, pirate crew who will not show up or even be mentioned in the movie in any way"
4. Rather then coming up with a unique island and characters, at least on the level of their previous OCs, they just do unremarkable "parodies" of characters from East Blue. Also those annoying kids in the Nami "fanclub" that just feel like they're from a different series entirely.
! Also I will admitt to have a bit of fondness for the Goat Island arc, seeing as it's a typical example of "no combat, minor level threat" arc the anime used to do and which I sorta miss. I just wouldn't mind seeing the anime do another arc with the SH's just going to a place, and there being kind of a bad guy but not being a big deal, and dealing with everything in like four episodes.
! Especialy since the anime can't do fights that well, and when it does do fights now, it's usualy pretty bad.
! Ice Hunter was a bit of a turning point, because while most of the antagonists were taken our rather quickly, the fight with the Don was the first time a fight in a filler went beyond the confines of one episode.
! Little East Blue was horrid, with Colt being utterly useless and the moment he started to do an attack that actualy looked to have some oomph behind it, he instantly ran out of bullets and was defeated. Largo was kinda underwhelming, and also, realy, a net is what catches Luffy, Zoro and Sanji (I think ?).
! Z Side Arc Thing Shuzo had a little bit of bite to him, but was kinda annoying, and the fight wasn't that great, even if it did end with a pleasing WTF moment.
! I'd like the anime to do one of those where they don't have to spend time animating fights but the again that means I'm also wishing for Alabasta-level animation and well, that's not gonna happen.
! I admitt further that a small part of the reason I want the movies to go back to the "normal" style they had before Strong World and the remakes, is so we don't have any more "tie ins" that don't tie in to shit .

Maybe it was just me but i didn't find Little East Blue Horrid. Sure, i won't bat an eye for skipping it but i suspect the East Blue recap part of it grew on me in 5 minutes and if not judging it too critically it was kinda entertaining. I agree that you it is an unnecessary at all for the movie. Also Z's Ambition arc was to me a nice thing to do , maybe because the little back story got me a bit hooked or the expectation for that AMAZING Chef or what not. (Z's Ambition is better than Little East Blue though).
All the other fillers (except warship arc) are for me almost as equal to Canon mini arcs and they were always entertaining for me. whether if it's the excellent G-8 (which starts to feel like the standard for filler arcs in general), rainbow myst which was decent-ish to the hilarious premise/ending of Ice Hunter. How could you not like the climax of the fear of being called stupid by luffy? (Just can't!)

I'd like to add to your proposition: Why no one talks about the filler arcs that aren't a part of the plot at all? (Chopper-Man, Detective Luffy, The whole OP shorts, and hopefully more in the future)

No Maam

@RKTGX95:

Maybe it was just me but i didn't find Little East Blue Horrid. Sure, i won't bat an eye for skipping it but i suspect the East Blue recap part of it grew on me in 5 minutes and if not judging it too critically it was kinda entertaining. I agree that you it is an unnecessary at all for the movie. Also Z's Ambition arc was to me a nice thing to do , maybe because the little back story got me a bit hooked or the expectation for that AMAZING Chef or what not. (Z's Ambition is better than Little East Blue though).
All the other fillers (except warship arc) are for me almost as equal to Canon mini arcs and they were always entertaining for me. whether if it's the excellent G-8 (which starts to feel like the standard for filler arcs in general), rainbow myst which was decent-ish to the hilarious premise/ending of Ice Hunter. How could you not like the climax of the fear of being called stupid by luffy? (Just can't!)

I'd like to add to your proposition: Why no one talks about the filler arcs that aren't a part of the plot at all? (Chopper-Man, Detective Luffy, The whole OP shorts, and hopefully more in the future)

I like the Warship arc, it's kinda surreal in how goofy the supposed "villain" is and the fights with Eric get surprisingly bloody. Also the dragons look cool.

Apis is kinda useless but she's less annyoing then Yoko. Or less painfully "I have no business even being here" useless then Jiro.

RKTGX95

@No:

I like the Warship arc, it's kinda surreal in how goofy the supposed "villain" is and the fights with Eric get surprisingly bloody. Also the dragons look cool.

Apis is kinda useless but she's less annyoing then Yoko. Or less painfully "I have no business even being here" useless then Jiro.

Don't get me wrong, on my first watch of it I was entertained by it and it was fun. But it dragged for me a bit (especially because i was very eager to get into the GL) and the problems of this arc were piling up with time so in retrospective it is my least favorite filler arc. Plus Eric felt a bit too similar to Capt Kuro's ability. the dragon did look good but didn't care for the main dragon and the Apis relationship.

No Maam

@RKTGX95:

Don't get me wrong, on my first watch of it I was entertained by it and it was fun. But it dragged for me a bit (especially because i was very eager to get into the GL) and the problems of this arc were piling up with time so in retrospective it is my least favorite filler arc. Plus Eric felt a bit too similar to Capt Kuro's ability. the dragon did look good but didn't care for the main dragon and the Apis relationship.

I'll always remember the arc for the only time the late Junpei Takiguchi worked on the series.

The arc did drag a bit I'll give you that. Also including Eric into the bit where they get into the GL was kind of a dumb move.

RKTGX95

@No:

I'll always remember the arc for the only time the late Junpei Takiguchi worked on the series.

The arc did drag a bit I'll give you that. Also including Eric into the bit where they get into the GL was kind of a dumb move.

Damn, this series can be too long for some people. (this actor, then Somker's first VA, then Sengoku's). It's not fare sometimes.

It was like oh snap here's Eric, lets toss the bastard to death on the reverse mountain, everything as usual 10 seconds later.

No Maam

@RKTGX95:

Damn, this series can be too long for some people. (this actor, then Somker's first VA, then Sengoku's). It's not fare sometimes.

It was like oh snap here's Eric, lets toss the bastard to death on the reverse mountain, everything as usual 10 seconds later.

Granted he voiced Nelson Royale aka the "incredibly goofy" villain, but still. Universally recognisable voice, and a damn fine record.

Alijdis

My favorite arcs:
water 7/enies lobby: I think this arc had great villains and showed how insane the WG can be.
Little Garden: Mr. 3
Impel down: a lot of cool characters reappeared and Magellan was such a badass.

My least favorite arc:
Fishman island: The villains were soooo boring in this arc imo, but I have to say I really liked the Arlong flashbacks.

Red Hawk

Most Favorite:
East Blue- the gathering of the nakama was awesome
Impel Down/Marineford- this arc was probably my favorite since it was touching yet amazing
CP9/Enies Lobby/Water 7- this arc was beautifully done an the fights were awesome

Least Favorite:
Fishman Island- this arc was long, bland, and monotonous
Punk Hazard- this is taking a long time and it doesn't seem interesting
Baroque Works- this arc was average but I wouldn't put it as one of my favorite:getlost:

Lil Kis

So far my favorite arc is Arlong Arc and then Alabastra arc so far and 3rd Skypeia arc

I have seen only the first 205 episodes of One Piece so far. Have not seen any of season 4 or 5 yet from funimation

Dynneekx

Favorite - CP9
Least - Unless we're including filler, Fishman Island. Dragged on FOREVER, and the only highlight was the Fisher Tiger flashback (which, admittedly, I thought was one of the best flashbacks in the series). But including filler arcs, it'd definitely be Rainbow "Kill Me Now" Mist. Ugh.

Ra Tilt

My favorite would have to be Water 7 through Enies Lobby, and yes that's including the fillers.

Worst would have to be Impel down. It was just Mr. 3 and Buggy all over the place and it was the first time I got bored with One Piece. I have yet to even watch the
Whitebeard war because I hated Impel down so much. I started watching it again sometime after the reunion of the Straw hats had been aired and pretty much all of the Fishman arc was animated.

Edit: I hated Davy Backfight so much that I forgot it existed for a second! I was just waiting to get through this arc to say that I had watched it. There were some genuinely funny parts relating the various Straw hat members, but other than that I just found all the other pirates to be annoying as hell. It was like I was watching a completely different show.

Optard

my favorite ties between Alabastia, Water 7, and marineford those arcs were just plain epic.

my worst would probably be fishman island.

do i hate it? hell no (may help that ive gone through it 3 times- once in the manga weekly, then the anime, weekly, then a marathon through the anime), in fact going through the whole arc in a marathon seemed a LOT better than watching an episode a week. why is it my least fav? because Toei kinda screwed the pooch on it. Fishman Island offers so much to the story as an arc hence why i love it in the manga. it concluded nami's character arc, it introduced the new powers of the strawhats, it had to deal with a tough subject like racism and discrimination, it gave us a LOT of foreshadowing to whats going to happen in the end (Noa will be useful) and luffy befriended a fuckng ancient weapon… as well as started a war with a yonku, and to top it off, he pretty much became the whitebeard of Fishman island. in the manga it is really a great arc if you get past it's pacing.....

all of that is in the manga... the anime was rather poorly executed, from 2 red-hawks, to hody ODing TWICE, to him being on par with luffy, to him giving zoro trouble, to rather crappy animation at times, to a horrendous pacing..... in the manga the arc was great. in the anime "shudders"

as for bad manga arcs... lol what bad manga arcs?

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@Ra:

My favorite would have to be Water 7 through Enies Lobby, and yes that's including the fillers.

Worst would have to be Impel down. It was just Mr. 3 and Buggy all over the place and it was the first time I got bored with One Piece. I have yet to even watch the
Whitebeard war because I hated Impel down so much. I started watching it again sometime after the reunion of the Straw hats had been aired and pretty much all of the Fishman arc was animated.

Edit: I hated Davy Backfight so much that I forgot it existed for a second! I was just waiting to get through this arc to say that I had watched it. There were some genuinely funny parts relating the various Straw hat members, but other than that I just found all the other pirates to be annoying as hell. It was like I was watching a completely different show.

how the hell could you hate impel down? it was friggin beautiful. and luffy vs magellan, minotaur and breaking out of prision with the big dogs whats not to love?

davy back wasnt that bad. espically in the manga where it was a great mini arc.

ShinigamiKing

Favorite: Skypeia

Least Favorite: Davy Back Fight (Anime at least) or Ennies Lobby (I didn't read it in the manga, only the anime)

White Beard

Favorite: Water 7 to Enies Lobby so many feels and action.
Least: Fish Island. The only part I thought was cool about it was seeing the newer powers of Luffy ( Haoshoku Haki "Conquering King" under his own control , Red Hawk etc), otherwise a long and annoying arc.

nonato

Well, I'll make a list of top favorite and least favorite so you may have an idea of what I like and dislike.
Favorite: 1. Sabaody - best arc of the series in my opinion. Way too much revelations in this arc and oh yeah did I mention ehm.. sorry…KUMA?
2. Impel Down - Another arc with a few revelations, epic fight scenes and the Blackbeard crew.
3. Water 7/Enies Lobby - Self-explanatory :ninja:

Least Favorite:
1. Fishman-fucking-Island - This was so bad it even made me to temporarily drop the manga. In my opinion guys, don't kill me.
2. Return to Sabaody/ Punk Hazard - REALLY slow pacing and the animation just randomly dropped compared to Impel Down or Sabaody.
3. Marineford - Same as number two, but I liked this one a little better.

So the anime just got really bad after Impel Down for me personally. Return to Sabaody, Punk Hazard and Marineford was VERY good in the manga, but the incredibly slow pacing in the anime killed it for me.

Calchexas

Even though Marineford is my favorite arc overall, Thriller Bark was by far my favorite anime arc. The animation remained consistently good, the art was beautiful, most of the best moments were executed brilliantly, and it felt way more alive than in the manga (even though they were dead…haha SKULLLLLL JOKE!)

Least favorite in the manga was Laboon because it killed the pacing, but for the anime it definitely has to be Little East Blue. Mariachi pirates should never be able to lay a finger on the Strawhats, much less catch them in a net.

cpuguy18

Favorite arc in the anime: Water 7/Enies Lobby

Least Favorite arc in the anime: Punk Hazard they dragged the living hell out of that arc and it features some of the worst animation i have ever seen in my life.

White Beard

@cpuguy18:

Least Favorite arc in the anime: Punk Hazard they dragged the living hell out of that arc and it features some of the worst animation i have ever seen in my life.

Agreed. My new least favorite is definitely punk hazard. Unnecessarily longer than it needed to be