I wonder if perhaps the inclusion of the other supanovas getting into fights represents that there will be a brief period where the story will shift focus onto their crews… Thus essentially creating a short "time skip" for the SH in which to get stronger.

Of course I don't mean a solid time skip a la Naruto, what I mean is more, maybe 3 or 4 months (in OP time) will pass while we read about Kid and Uroge and etc, during this time the SH are training, I say this because I can't see either a full time skip or a training montage fitting in with one piece's story style.

@600_Followers:

Yeah, there is a soundtrack, and it's actually been out for quite a while now. =]

Excellent! To the CD store I go ~!

thanks

whoa, this was easily the best one piece movie. It didn't feel at all crammed in the way tv show-movies usually do, I think the longer running time really helped in terms of pacing. The story had all of the great one piece elements we all love, and the music was effing sensational.

A few criticisms though:
=Neither Nami nor Robin got in any form of decent fighting, and both were stuck in damsel in distress mode, this tends to irritate me especially since Robin is supposed to be in the stronger part of the crew.
=Short fights, I know time is an issue in movies, but they could have cut back on other things .
=Stupid villains, this is probably my pet hate in one piece, villains that switch from being morons to being evil geniuses. I don't mind in the case of weaker villains like Buggy and so forth, but when the big bad of the movie keeps switching, I think it takes away from his evil. Also I found Dr indigos footsteps annoying, and I'm unsure of the purpose? Maybe it's the type of thing 10 year old boys find funny or something

On a side note - does anyone know if there is or will be an OST available for this movie?
I want the music so much!

The problem with Vivi rejoining is that she can't actually do anything..

lets look at the weaker characters on the ship.
-Usopp, works as the sniper and also provides comic relief.
-Nami, works as the navigator and also provides fan service.
-Chopper, works as the doctor and also provides comic relief and mascot ability.

Although these characters are weaker than the rest they still provide other elements essential to both the fictional ship and the success of the manga.
Vivi seems to have a lot of fans but she is still a weak character and she doesn't bring any new abilities or features to the crew.

On top of which consider what it took the SH to get to Sabaody, how the hell is Vivi going to make it there?

I think the final villain is likely to be someone unknown as of yet, but I do agree that shanks will play some role in the final battle(s). One Piece I believe is going to be one of two things:
a. Litterally one piece of gold, i.e gold rogers treasure was never that great it was his actions that made him the pirate kings
b. A message of some kind implying that the tresure is the memories of the adventures they had to get to raftel.

I think the series will conclude with the crew still together sailing on another adventure of some kind. Because apart from the impracticality of everyone returning to their hometowns I can't see why they would feel such a huge desire to do so over staying with their crewmates.

dvds

! chrno crusade series
twelve kingdoms series
wolf's rain series
Evangelion series
Full metal panic - Fumoffu series
Full metal alchemist series
Scrapped princess series
One piece movie 8
Spirited away movie
Paprika movie
Argentosoma series
Boogiepop phantom series
Bubblegum crisis tokyo 2040 series
Howl's MOving castle movie
Pretear series
Fate Stay night series
Cowboy Bebop movie
Naruto movie 4
Grave of the Fireflies movie
Princess Mononoke movie
The cat Returns movie
Lunar Legend Tsukihime series
Ghost in the shell movie 2
Tales from Earthsea movie
Real bout high series
Pokemon season 1
My hime volume 1
Sailor moon dub volme 12 +13
Bleach volume 1
Inu Yasha Volume 1
Zelda animted series (does this count? lol)

Manga

! completed
Fruits Basket
chobits
tokyo mew mew
Eerie queerie
Magical X miracle
Cardcaptor Sakura (both)
Angelic Layer
Chrno Crusade
Absolute Boyfriend
Pretear
Her Majesty's Dog
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Scrapped Princess
Wish
! ongoing
Ouran HIgh school host club
One piece
Tsubasa Resevoir chronicle
XXXHOLiC
Fairy Tail
Loveless
Vampire Knight
Trinity Blood
D.grey Man
Evangelion
Full Metal Alchemist
! one volume only
Sword of the dark ones
Please teacher
World Embryo
love for Venus
RahXhephon
Bleach
! Light Novels
Scrapped princess
Boogiepop Phantom
Twelve Kingdoms
Full Metal Alchemist

Games

! pokemon snap
pokemon ranch
pokemon silver
pokemon yellow
pokemon pearl
pokemon stadium
pokemon battle revolution

Merchandise

! plushies
Mokona Modoki - XXXHOLic
Kon - Bleach
Link - Zelda
Snorlax - pokemon
pikachu - pokemon
Turtwig - pokemon
! figurines
Urahara Kisuke - bleach
Edward Elric - Full Metal Alchemist
Mew - pokemon
! Bags
pokemon backpack
Pikachu handbag
My Neighbor Totoro Bag
Fruits Basket tote
(home made) one piece bag
! CDs Wolf's Rain 1
Wolf's Rain 2
Cowboy Bebop (almost all)
Ghost in the shell
! phone dangles /keychains
pokemon - munchlax, bidoof, mewoth, turtwig + more I cbf to list
Zelda - link and minnish
Bleach - kon, Histsugaya
one piece - chopper X 2
D.grey man - Lenalee, Allen
Naruto - Sakura
Tsubasa - Fai
other
Kon Cosplay Cap
One Piece Flag
One piece Flag symbol Necklace
pokemon pencilcase
pokemon themed Guess who Game
notebooks - pokemon, one piece and bleach
posters - bleach, Samurai Champloo, trigun, Cardcaptor Sakura, One piece
pokemon folder
Bleach Folder
pokemon clock
Naruto Headband
One piece sweatband

Totally yes, I can barely swim anyway so no real loss

@Kun0:

Sorry for asking this question, but in this thread everybody who posts seems to have/look OP in awesome quality. Could someone send a link or something to me? I always look it on Youtube, but the qualitiy…well... xD

Sorry for offtopic...

I'd say most download the episode rather than streaming it. Subbing groups can be found here http://apforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=43

I think chopper would make an awsome dad because of his transforming powers
brain point - adorable animal to play with the kids
walking point -to pull heavy loads and/or children
heavy point -to be the strong manly type of father
Jumping point - who needs a trampoline then?
Guard point - a cuddly ball to play with
horn point - as shown in alabaster: to make an awsome slingshot
arm point - uuhhh to beat other dads at arm wrestling?
and monster point - when the kids do something really really bad lol

he's the really the multipurpose father. Plus the doctor thing which I guess is a plus

@brennen.exe:

Couldn't the exact opposite be said and hold equal weight? "Those of you who like 'friend' or 'comrade' will just say it in your head and realize to yourself what was said". Not to mention there is a manga (without, you know, voice actors) that it would be inconsistent with were it fully translated and the manga wasn't. Unless you are suggesting that those who like "Nakama" suck it up and either watch the anime to hear it or say it in their head at every single use of the word "friend", "crew mate", "comrade", etc. Except that wouldn't work because not every usage of those words would be "Nakama", right?

Well no, the opposite doesn't hold the same weight, because new viewers to the series, or viewers who have always seen the word translated will be confused at the appearance of a random japanese word halfway through a sentence, also I argue that those who want nakama can hear it, those who want friend can read it, thus serving everyone's needs.

I think if you're not paying enough attention to the episode to hear when they say nakama (which you always can because it's almost always done dramatically) I have to wonder why you're bothering to watch the series at all? If you're not paying attention to the sound then you may as well just stick to manga, which then solves the entire problem!