#the giant mechanical soldier of karakuri castle

[zoroshonkingbazonkadonkas]

bro was fully in his element and he still came over to respond

[ayzscream]

[biscuitboba]

Saving luffy from drowning is like second nature to zoro and i will never be normal about it even though i've seen sooo many times

[luffysfakebeard]

Luffy really will just roll with anything

[diableasura]

Now that i've watched every one piece movie that isn't a retelling of an anime arc or straw hat chase i'm gonna go ahead and indulge in the very human tendency of ranking them in order from best to worst (SPOILERS!!!!):

One Piece: Strong World. Maybe it's because this was the first movie i watched and my first experience with one piece in animation but strong world has remained my favorite since day one (though the second place is very very close i must say). The straw hats are all great and have their little moment to shine the plot is solid and they do a great job with nami, out of the four straw hats with a movie more focused on them she's by far the one that gets the best treatment. Strong world is in the perfect position of being a pre time skip movie, so it's not dragged down by the expanding cast of post time skip, but also since it was the tenth anniversary movie they put in more effort than with the previous movies and it shows. Also sanjis cowboy outfit instantly makes it top tier.

One Piece: Film Gold. I'm... kind of obsessed with this movie?? Seeing the straw hats in a heist really scratched an itch i didn't know i had but my god does it feel good. The designs really excelled here the crew looks gorgeous throughout the entire movie and tesoro's island is so interesting and fits very well in the one piece world. Tesoro is also my favorite villain of any movie, i've seen people say he's the perfect blend between crocodile and doffy and that's so true lmao. Loved having zoro as the damsell in distress, inject that shit straight into my veins i love it when the strong character is the one in need of rescue. Everyone was very cool during the heist but i remember really enjoying franky and luffy's dynamic cause lbr we're kinda starved of it in the manga so it was nice to see them interact so much here. Overall amazing movie and the only one i've rewatched out of all of them.

Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island. This movie has become a cult classic amongst the fandom and with good reason. It breaks away from the loud spectacle of the other movies and is quieter and more unsettling and so far the only example of actual psychological horror in the lore. I've talked about this before but that final scene with the straw hats cheering luffy on even while they're being consumed by the baron and luffy struggling to the brink of death to save them changed me... I love seeing this family love each other so much!!

Clockwork Island Adventure. I know, I know what's the second movie doing so high up... but it was just so good!! It's very short but that's just a benefit to the plot and i love the gimmick of each straw hat being captured one by one till it's just luffy remaining and the one who has to free them (can you tell i love the movies where the straw hats are kidnapped and the others have to rescue them?? that's my drug). Sanji's fight in this movie kicks ass too, the animation is gorgeous.

One Piece: Film Red. This might seem like a sin, to have this movie so far down the list cause i've seen its pretty unanimously tied up with baron omatsuri as the best movie but to be honest i feel like that's just recency bias. The movie is still a spectacle and the songs slap and yes one of them was in the top 5 of my spotify wrapped this year lol. Uta is a good antagonist but i was never that hooked by her shared past with shanks and luffy, mainly because it's so aggressively impossible for it to be canon, it almost broke my suspension of disbelief. Zosan sleeping side by side was pleasing to my monkey brain and it almost made up for including st charlos in the movie seriously what the fuck was he doing there-

One piece: Stampede. The start of this movie is amazing cause they come up with the perfect competition to have all of these pirate crews on the same place but it quickly devolves into a "how many characters can we fit in" contest and the plot quickly turns into "lets all beat up the villain", which is fine! I did like seeing so many characters, at one point half way through the movie crocodile just appears out of nowhere lmao but hey i'm not complaining i love crocodile. Usopp is the straw hat who's focused on the most in the movie and i feel conflicted with what they did with him cause it just felt like they were making him go through his water 7 arc all over again by having his inferiority complex flaring up. And usopps arc was amazing in water 7 but reviving it for this movie felt a bit weird and repetitive. Despite this though i was very happy seeing him getting the focus, usopp is a painfully underrated character so having him on the spotlight is always welcome.

Dead End Adventure. This movie is a lot of fun. There's a bar fight, a secret pirate race and sanji being his sneaky self and helping out luffy during the final fight. Whats not to love?

One Piece: Film Z. Much like Stampede, i really enjoyed the start of this movie cause the monster trio get to briefly fight the big baddie together, but the plot kinda loses some steam for me after that. Also they tried to make the admirals sympathetic cause the villain is a retired admiral who was once their mentor but i really really really dont care about the marines at all so that was a bit awkward. The straw hats look stunning in this movie, i love that in the movies they give them a million different outfits and the ones from this one absolutely slayed.

Choppers Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals. Another fun movie where all the straw hats get a moment be cool. There's a kid on this island who i found completely insufferable but i can forgive this movie cause this is also where zosan have that famous scene where they praise the other to their defeated oponent, which made my monkey brain happy.

One Piece: The Movie. This movie's biggest misstep is that sanji isn't in it, but even with this critical flaw it was still quite enjoyable. Zoro is very funny on his own but add luffy into the mix and their dynamic was hilarious. Usopp as always was great. The villain is small potatoes tbh but not really the important part of the movie, which focuses more on the relationship between the kid they meet and his gramps. The final message was surprisingly very sweet. Also sanji appears briefly in the end credits to appease me.

Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle. This movie is a-okay. The villains are a complete joke and it takes the crew less than five minutes to deal with them. The crew dynamics carry all of my enjoyment with this one.

The Cursed Holy Sword. Yeah... this movie commited the unforgivable sin of having zoro as the main focus and yet managing to do absolutely nothing interesting with him. Even if they did shamelessly create kuina 2.0 with saga, they could've delved into how zoro would react when two different duties (his promise to saga and his position as the crew swordsman) clash against each other... but instead we see no conflict with zoro, even though we all know this situation would be conflicting for him. They just make him scowl throughout the whole runtime and thats just not who Zoro is... Luffy and usopp are a lot of fun though.

TL; DR my ranking is:

Strong World

Gold

Baron Omatsuri

Clockword Island

Red

Stampede

Dead End

Z

Choppers Kingdom

One Piece: The Movie

Karakuri Castle

Cursed Holy Sword

Conclusion: the one piece brainrot is no joke.

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does not include the alabasta and drum island ones bc lets be honest i had to cut some movies out to fit it into the poll options and those ones are basically just manga adaptations (also no straw hat chase because. no)

[moonpaw]

Could I kindly ask what order you should watch the movies alongside the series? (i.e. in between which arcs are they?)

One Piece: The Movie (after syrup village)

One Piece Clockwork Island (after arlong park, but before entering the grand line)

One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Animals (after recruiting chopper)

One Piece The Movie: Dead End Adventure (anytime between alabasta-foxy)

One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword (anytime between alabasta-foxy)

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (after skypiea, before water 7)

One Piece: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle (after skypiea, before water 7)

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta (alabasta arc made into a movie.... dont watch this unless ur interested i guess? its not great)

One Piece: Episode of Chopper (drum island into a movie BUT it's an au. a straight up au. interesting though! watch after water 7)

One Piece: Strong World (after thriller bark, before sabaody)

One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase! (dont watch this)

One Piece: Episode of Nami (Arlong park remastered in movie form, watch whenever after arlong park if you wanna see it)

One Piece Film: Z (directly after fishman island)

Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island (after fishman island)

One Piece 3D2Y (i've never watched this tbh? title should be obvious when though)

One Piece Film: Gold (fishman-wci)

One Piece: Stampede (i havent watched this, sometime after dressrosa though, i believe? i dont think wci characters are there)

One Piece Film: Red (this one is weird! it's after wci due to a title luffy is given but luffy uses a huge spoiler from wano at the very end so...use your own judgement i suppose)

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[abysscronica]

What do you think of the one piece movies?

Oh boi, that's a loaded question. 😭 I will reply honestly but please remember this is my personal opinion, whatever you like it's all legit!

In general, I don't particularly care for the OP movies too much. I did see them, almost all, even enjoy some or part of them, but I'm grateful that they're non-canon. I don't hate them and I'm always happy when a new one is announced (more OP content!), but that's about it. Same goes for the special/OVAs, although they kinda stopped with those. I will only go through the movies in this post.

Movie 1 (One Piece: the Movie) and 2 (Clockwork Island Adventure) are basically like filler arcs in the early days of the anime. They are not bad, nor good. I haven't seen them in a long while but I remember being pretty neutral towards them.

Movie 3 (Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals) and 5 (The Cursed Holy Sword) actually SUCK. They suck so much I could hardly get to the end. The Chopper one is just a total bore with a super predictable plot, while the Zoro one is actually painful. Zoro and the crew are totally OOC, and the poorly-thought magic lore introduced in the movie just doesn't fit with the OP universe.

You'll noticed I skipped movie 4 (Dead End Adventure). And that's because this one I like. It's also like a filler arc, but it fits perfectly in the plot (love the quick reference to Navarone), it flows well, it's dynamic and engaging, and the original characters are actually good. Shout out to Shuraiya Bascùd, whose design is basically Ace in a different color palette, but has a complex personality.

Movie 6 (Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island) is a unique One Piece product, quite distant from what we're used to, and therefore I consider it a must-see. Not really for the plot, which doesn't make much sense, but for the art and the direction. In fact, it was directed by Hosoda, a very notable anime movie director (Wolf Children, The Girl who Leapt through Time, Summer Wars, Digimon...).

Movie 7 (The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle)... I remember absolutely nothing of this movie except Nami's bouncing boobs.

Movie 8 (Episode of Alabasta) and 9 (Episode of Chopper plus) are revised re-tellings of the Alabasta and Drum saga. They aren't bad, especially Chopper's, some dramatic sequences are very touching. They made a great use of the soundtrack, or lacking thereof.

I will place Movie 11 (One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase) here because it doesn't fit with the remaining ones. This may as well be a special: it's only 30 minutes long, most of the Strawhats barely appear, it doesn't feature a villain-based adventure, and it's in a graphic format never used again. Take it as a slice-of-life episode, and it's enjoyable.

Movie 10 (Strong World) is a turning point, because this is when OP movies became "films", Oda started to get involved, some original canon elements were dropped in, and there were theatrical releases. The difference in quality (at least plot-wise) is immediately clear. Strong World is the last movie set before the timeskip (excluding movie 11), and it may well be my favorite.

Movie 12 (Z) is probably close second. The villain is a great character, and I LOVED the inclusion of Aokiji and Kizaru, how different they were, the implications they brought to the plot.

Movie 13 (Gold) is okay. Enjoyable. Once again, good villain, nice setting, good animation.

Movie 14 (Stampede) has a special place in my heart because it included the Kid Pirates, and Kid & Killer have a few scenes. Buuuut if I have to be honest, the plot is quite weak and, if you take off the (scarce) screen time of my beloved, it's a little boring.

And finally! The most recent, movie 15, Red. I haven't had the chance to watch it yet because it didn't get a theatrical release where I live, so I'm waiting for the DVD to be out. What I can say is that I've watched reviews from my two favorite OP youtubers (Tekking101 and Sawyer7mage), and they were not particularly impressed with it. My best friend also watched it and found it incredibly boring, so my hopes aren't really too high. I think they went waaaay too hard on the marketing for this one, they pushed Shanks and Uta SO MUCH. (Also it doesn't help that I'm one of the very few people that don't really care about Shanks, huh). I heard the songs and they were amazing, Ado is a masterclass singer. I read about the plot and I do think some details are quite interesting, like Uta's whole psychology and possibly the ending (?). I guess I'll have to update my opinion when I actually watch the movie.

That's all for now. Feel free to ask for more details if you want.

[all-blue-recipes]

// One Piece Film 7 - The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle //

[ayzscream]

[biscuitboba]

Randomly thinking about karakuri castle again and i just love how zoro is so done with luffy's bs *sighing*, but of course he's still going to save his captain's a$$ (another moment of zoro saving his captain's butt in karakuri castle, here)

And luffy asking for his first mate's help while lowkey whining?? (He is the cutest indeed i love him so muchhh)

This is literally zoro and luffy throughout karakuri castle i think:

Another two examples, this one:

And this:

Like yes, his captain can be pretty handful at times.. he is a force of nature, a careless and overenthusiast ball of energy. Even zoro once called luffy a high maintenance captain, but he is also very fond of his captain... No one's making him smile and proud as much as luffy (he is whipped and already in too deep imho)

His captain is pretty 'troublesome', and a little bit of an idiot (they are both idiots) but that's his idiot! And he wouldn't change that for the world. No matter how much he grunts or complains (directly to his captain) about his captain's crazy antics

See the fond smile of a whipped man.

At the end of the day, he loves his captain veryy muchh, that no matter how many times he gets annoyed by his captain's shenanigans, his deep affection for his captain will always outweigh his annoyance (the same principle applies to most of the other strawhats and their dynamics with luffy too!)

[luffysfakebeard]

your good looks terrified her, Zoro

[cienie-isengardu]

[diableasura]

I watched one piece movie 7 (karakuri castle) and honestly the first half hour or so of this movie made me wonder if it was gonna surpass strong world as my favorite. Just watching the very first scene is probably worth it cause it absolutely nails the straw hat dynamics. The crew interactions is what made me love that first half hour so much tbh, everyone feels so in character and funny.

The story looses a bit of its focus after they land on the island though, and the finale feels a bit rushed but i was never bored with it. Also this movies antagonists are probably the weakest the crew has ever faced lol the monster trio deal with them in less than five minutes.

TL; DR i like this movie and the highlight was the straw hat interactions, still think strong world is the peak of pre-ts movies, though.

[moonpaw]

Genuine question for you as my go-to source for One Piece-related things. Have you seen all the movies AND. What would you rate them on a scale of 1-10 asking for a friend (the friend is me) 👀

of course of course

I've watched most of the movies!! (though some of the last watches were a decade ago lmao)

One Piece: The Movie: movie 1!! I havent watched this in a while, it's a very early movie before sanji joins but i vaguely remember there being a few zoro and luffy moments, and it's pretty short (i dont remember enough to rate it LOL)

One Piece Clockwork Island: Fun movie! also pretty short too, 7/10

One Piece The Movie: Dead End Adventure: REALLY fun watch, i'd recommend it, 10/10

One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword: zoro focused movie, i don't remember much about it other than it wasn't.. all that great? been a very long time though

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island: REALLY GOOD. my favorite one piece movie out of them all 10/10 i love the artstyle and animation used here

One Piece: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle: i remember absolutely nothing about this movie lol

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: this is just alabasta condensed badly 0/10

One Piece: Episode of Chopper: au version of drum island (in that the straw hats recruit chopper after the timeskip) havent watched it yet, but it seems pretty interesting?

One Piece: Strong World: fun movie :] last movie before the timeskip happens and it's really nami-centered 9/10

One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase! don't watch this

One Piece: Episode of Nami: arlong park remastered in movie form, i haven't watched it yet

One Piece Film: Z: pretty good but has a super bullshit weapon thing that isn't canon in the slightest and doesnt really make sense for it to be there, really cool opening though and features EVERY SINGLE marine introduced up until this point 8/10

Episode of Luffy: fun watch but also kinda boring in some places fddf 6/10

One Piece 3D2Y: i havent watched this, do not look into this until you're at the timeskip

One Piece Film: Gold: i havent watched this yet (planning to really soon!) but i heard its really good :]

One Piece: Stampede: this isnt a movie, it's a battle royale LOL

One Piece Film: Red: you've seen this one! 10/10

i also made a post on when a movie happens, timeline wise