One Piece Movie 07: Karakuri-jou no Mecha Kyohei

It was your typical filler movie but one thing that really bothered me was the emphasis on nami's "assets". Seriously, every time she moved anywhere,even if it was a slight move, there was the 'jiggle'.

One Piece Movie 7: Karakurijou no Mecha Kyohei Review


Story (5/10) Average
More Specifically (5.50/10) Average+

The story for the 7th movie is weirdly average it started off weird and random and the for entire movie it was just the Star Hat Crew messing around on this Island trying to figure out if there is a treasure that exist on this Island. It's really empty when it comes to substance and it is what it is and it is average it had a couple cool scenes and I'll some credit to them and talk about them later but yeah it's an average movie story but this is is ... indeed a little less on the substance when it comes it.


Art and Animation (7/10) Good

The art style and animation was good, still not movie quality because as far as my research tells me these movie were still coming out annually so as far as seeing something we have never seen before it's still not quite present. The coolest thing animation wise was at the very end of the movie when Luffy did that spinning kick move cutting through the mechanical device on top of the turtle, but other than that everything was was just good and reasonable. Oh and another thing why was there so much focus on Nami's breast in the movie? I decided to count how many times the animators went out of their way to make her tits jiggle just for the sake of jiggling and capped at 12 times. Yeah it's nice but it was indeed random because yeah we do see it in the actual anime but honestly it's rare. The most we get are just camera angles of her body (which they did in this movie also) but man like I said it felt like it was borderline Fairy Tail level and it's also weird they did it for Nami anytime she moved but not once for Robin who's body is basically identical to hers. No clue I guess the animators had a thing for Nami this time around.


Sound (7/10) Good

Sound was good nothing amazing nothing horrible.


Characters (7/10) Good

The Straw Hat Crew was present for majority of the movie doing their thing nothing too entertaining this time around just same old crew (I'm ready for Franky and Brook honestly).


Enjoyment (6/10) Fine

My enjoyment for the movie was fair. It didn't feel like the movie really go anywhere. Honestly it just felt unnecessary nothing except the ending felt like it was worth keeping my eyes open because I was indeed dozing off by the time the movie reached the hour mark.


Overall (6/10) Fine
More Specifically (6.50/10) Fine+

I thought with this movie having some sort of "Mech" theme going on that I would see something rather cool (like Franky cool) but nothing really worth it in this movie honestly the Straw Hat Crew destroy them with ease and even though the movie should have been over in a flash since the enemies could give them a decent challenge with dragged on for and hour and a half can't give this one a 7 but I do think this movie is around the 6 status.

Maybe it's because I watched the previous movie so recently and it was a really good one... But I just really wasn't feeling this one.

It, like, set a new standard for movie plots that just drop you into the middle of things, which I've never been a fan of. And a lot of the rest of it just fell flat. It went in for a lot of jokes that weren't particularly funny. I'm not sure how to describe it other than it felt like the writers took a few of each character's basic, wacky personality traits and cranked them up to eleven. Nami was ... particularly rough in this regard. Even apart from the fact that someone on the animation team was apparently really into the Nami fanservice... This movie had to break some sort of record for the number of times she smacks around her own crew mates. And it's not like that never happens in the show, when they're being particularly rowdy, but it was really over the top here. And that pretty much sums up the portrayal of all the characters in this movie. Like the writers were given bullet point notes on who they all were but maybe weren't super familiar with them themselves.

And the story itself was just really basic and kind of dumb. The villains were too obvious and just about impossible to take seriously. The mecha island promised in the title should have allowed for a really cool setting, but the mecha creations weren't even what really shined in that aspect. I felt nothing for anyone over the whole course of the movie. It's actually got a pretty decent score on here, so there must be fans who liked it. I'd say this one is pretty skippable, though.