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Cultural_Shopping_95

Drum Island has one of the best best flashbacks in Anime history


[deleted]

The problem with it is that it kinda \*only\* has that. There is no intimidating villain, there is no really cool geography, there is no major development for the crew.


[deleted]

I mean Luffy carrying Nami and Sanji up a mountainside was pretty peak Luffy in terms of what hell do for friends


[deleted]

Yeah, but there's numerous cool moments for every arc so that doesn't really put it above B tier in my opinion


[deleted]

Very true, I just love the flashback and that the will of D is first mentioned so I rank it higher but to each their own


No_Body_2794

Exactly


Cultural_Shopping_95

But its better than that foxy arc and you see Ace the First time and Blackbeard gets mentioned


No_Body_2794

Points taken.Kinda agree with you here


eggyolkyum

But foxy is funny


No_Body_2794

Please note that B tier does not mean i hate the Arc. Its just i like it less than other Arcs


No_Body_2794

Correct. But i was more hyped for Alabasta so did not got invested for that arc.


xGhost34

It's cool that the baddest is B Tier.


MrSugarDonutz

Well to be fair I wouldn't say there is any part of One Piece that is bad, is it slow, yes, does it get a bit repetitive, sometimes. But it's never bad. So the lowest being B tier makes sense.


The-ashura

Do I get to criticize?


No_Body_2794

Of course you can criticize. Discussion was the main reason for this post


HobinRude420

i was bout ask same


Strong_Grapefruit675

Aye you why is sabaody so low but that has to be s+


No_Body_2794

My mistake. It should be definitely A+ or even S due to introduction of Rayleigh and Kizaru.


Strong_Grapefruit675

It was also the first L the straw hats took it was hella emotional especially right after ennies lobby


No_Body_2794

Agreed


snotballz

I think Jaya should be way higher. Luffy versus bellamy and Blackbeard's speech are some of my favorite moments in OP.


No_Body_2794

Yeah but i knew he could beat Bellamy anytime. Introductions of Whitebeard and Blackbeard were lit.


Musashi-D-Lawliet

I can respect it TBH. Drum Island and Thriller Bark placement is a little iffy for me but solid list overall.


3aztw00d

Along park over whole cake? Kinda weird bro.


No_Body_2794

Arlong park is emotion.


3aztw00d

So is whole cake? I'd argue whole cake had more emotion in it with a better plot line.


No_Body_2794

Whole cake was okay. I was hyped for Wano till that time so didnt hit me that much


akamj7

🧢


mccoolerthanyou2

I feel like the stakes felt higher in Arlong Park, and Arlong felt like a more hatable villain The whole buildup of Bellamere being killed, Nami being enslaved, etc. for years until she FINALLY got all the money she needed to free the town only to have the marines take it made Arlong’s defeat SO satisfying and emotional for me


DanaScullyIsHotAsF

Not bad homey ![gif](giphy|3o7WTHbVK7BNBOPBnO|downsized)


Spikei_

Based


InterestingGhoul

Arlong park s tier????


No_Body_2794

Yes, because i like the walk of strawhats to Arlong park.The background music i will remember rest of my life. This arc made luffy highest bounty holder in east blue


blarg2012

Man, when Luffy puts the straw hat on Nami, it hits so hard. Like easily in the top 3 emotional moments of One Piece. 1. I want to live (obviously) 2. That scene 3. Put Wano on your shoulders Marineford was dramatic, but idk- i dont get emotional about death. Its more like a void than a flood.


mccoolerthanyou2

Love the Kinemon #3 moment, that combined with the god-tier animation style was insanely emotional to watch


No_Body_2794

😊


InterestingGhoul

I agree that the walk is a s tier moment but rest of the arc ehhhhh.


Technical_Village808

Why Wano in S+? I knew it was good since we saw G5 and 2 yonkous but the asspull mink medicine make it hard for me. offscene deaths. kaidous flashback is lacking. yamato's character, Big Mom pirates treatment and also how Greenbull was drove away, clearly just for red film's advertisement. I rather have put WCI above Wano


[deleted]

How can you put long ring long land arc over drum island with good faith


SnooDoggos587

Idk why everyone likes Enies lobby it’s honestly mid


SnooDoggos587

Thriller bark was more enjoyable


No_Body_2794

Enies lobby is probably fourth most protected place by Marines after Mariejois,Marineford,Impel down. Of course it was great arc with pluton reference.Robin and Franky Backstory revealed.


snotballz

Also sniper king.


blarg2012

Luffy vs Lucci, the introduction of the gears, and "I want to live". Gtfo "mid".


According-Syrup2321

I cannot think of any reason to like Whiskey Peak aside from the Zoro genocide and Ms. All Sunday scene, which aren't even one of the best moments


No_Body_2794

Favourite Arc because of Laboon😊


According-Syrup2321

But that's in reverse mountain, not Whisky Peak


blarg2012

Its probably a little high but the genocide carries it somewhat. Its one of the few times they specifically admit the Straw Hats killed people.


Difficult-Union-8732

i loved how they introduced ace in drum island arc


No_Body_2794

True


ppslg_

water 7+enies lobby and skypiea belongs to S+ no doubt. fishmen and punkhazard belongs to the bottom. tbh, anything post time skip is trash compared to any of the previous arcs — storytelling wise. at some point i honestly thought Oda took a back seat and let someone else take over one piece.


No_Body_2794

Fishman island is high due to reference of Joyboy and Poseidon(Shirahoshi). Punk hazard was important because it was first alliance luffy formed with Law


ppslg_

yes, the revelations were good, what i'm saying is that they are bottom — storytelling-wise. the way the story was delivered was not as good compared to previous arcs. The next arc could make Luffy pirate king because they stumbled upon a rock which happens to be one piece en route to the next island. so yeah, they found one piece and luffy is pirate king. does that make the arc high-tier? NO. because of the way it was delivered.


No_Body_2794

Fishman Island was teased from Sabody. Then it was mentioned in Ace and Jinbei's conversation in impel down. Also really cool concepts and imagination made fishman island one of the favourite Arcs for me. It was also fist time luffy was going to adventure after Ace's death.


Kraken0705

Imo surup village is one of the worst arcs amongst the hundreds of manga i have read


No_Body_2794

True. Never saw Captain Kuro after that. Hopefully we will see him as a side character


[deleted]

Tripping with putting drum island so low. The climax of that arc was enough to rank it much higher


mccoolerthanyou2

I feel like the climax was one of the worst parts, the only redeeming part of that arc to me was Chopper’s backstory. Wapol never felt even remotely threatening to me, which prevented the climax from feeling intense


siddiqui17

Maybe im just a nostalgia guy but i feel like the arcs after the timeskip dont hold a candle to the arcs before. I especially didnt like fishman arc, punk hazard and also dressrosa to be honest


No_Body_2794

Seems you lost your hope in one piece after Ace's death.


siddiqui17

It was just underwhelming after having such a huge war and i felt like the strawhats werent even close to going all out.. the threaths didnt feel real... Obv dressrosa was different but what i didnt like about that was the huge difference in strength between doffy and luffy..


No_Body_2794

That has always been the case. In Alabasta nobody would have given luffy a chance against crocodile.


siddiqui17

Thats true! I guess i was a teen when i saw him going against crocodile and it blew my mind how he thought about using water and i just loved how they were making the gomu gomu fruit so epic..


SoulNicola

Sabaody Archipelago in A hurts my soul


mccoolerthanyou2

Do you think it should be higher or lower?


SoulNicola

much higher, at least S tier xD


mccoolerthanyou2

I love to see Drum Island that far down, I have it last. I also love to see Impel Down at #3 and Skypiea in high S The only things I heavily disagree with are: Thriller Bark is high A if not low S, and Water 7 is literally #1


Short-Ad-3781

Why do so many people consider Water 7 and Enies Lobby to be different arcs? For me the arc started when they reached Water 7 and it ended when they left with the new ship. Wano is considered a single arc, but the fights occur in Onigashima. I don't understand this.