Finished the Drum arc in OP. It was so good *_*

Well sort of.

I was 5 when 2000 came about.

I don't exactly count as a 90's kid.

I remember the VHS cleaners you used to get that did fuck all hahaha.

Uhhh...

ONE PIECE!

So glad that Isi is reading it.

Now we just have to get the rest of the thread to do so.

I know OP is a relatively quick read, but I still get the Naruto and Bleah feel from it.

I did too before I started reading it. I can safely say it's superior. As Geth told me beforehand it stays true to its themes.

This is why I'll never say OP is overrated or underrated.

But it's probably the most misunderstood shounen out there.

Go away you Monster.

First Yang and then this.

It's like your raison d'être is to break my heart :-(

P.S

Srsly tho OP does that stuff too.

But OP does shounen right.

Whereas Bleach has the collective creativity of a stack of wooden planks.

At least from what I've been told.

Me? Break your heart?

Why would I want to do something like this???

For me where Bleach and Naruto suffer is a lack of direction. Geth described Naruto as betraying its themes (which I'd agree with more or less) and Bleach has just been wandering blind for ages now. What sets OP apart is that it has a theme it follows throughout the whole story and it knows where it's going instead of having the whole "we'll just make it up as we go along and wing it"

It's not like the author gets halfway into it and just realizes he has no clue what he's doing and struggles to figure it out chapter to chapter.

Course I'm still relatively early on in it so take what I say with a grain of salt. I've talked to a few people who I trust on it though and it seems like the quality remains fairly consistent throughout it even if some arcs are bound to be better then others.

That's my take on it. I'd like to write more serious posts on it but my brain isn't fully working lately so I'll wait until I can properly form thoughts.