One Piece Film: Strong World

Upon hearing news that islands in East Blue are being destroyed, Monkey D. Luffy and his crew go to investigate. On their way, however, an outlandish pirate ship appears out of the sky, helmed by the infamous pirate Shiki "the Golden Lion"—a man who ate the Float-Float Fruit and the first ever prisoner to escape from Impel Down. In his quest to defeat the World Government, Shiki kidnaps Nami to be his own navigator and sends the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates to his floating islands as hostages, leaving her in a dilemma. Separated in a land under Shiki's absolute control, Luffy and his crew must survive the mystifying terrain in order to bring back their navigator and friend.

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Monkey D., Luffy Main

Tanaka, Mayumi Japanese

Roronoa, Zoro Main

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Sanji Main

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Nico, Robin Main

Yamaguchi, Yuriko Japanese

Tony Tony, Chopper Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Nami Main

Okamura, Akemi Japanese

Usopp Main

Yamaguchi, Kappei Japanese

Brook Main

Cho Japanese

Franky Main

Yao, Kazuki Japanese

Shiki Main

Takenaka, Naoto Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Sakai, Munehisa Director, Storyboard

Duclos, Didier Script

Shida, Naotoshi Storyboard, Key Animation

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Mar 22, 2024

XOArama

Recommended

This feels like the start of the new standard for a lot of anime movies. Good setup, good inclusion of the main cast, a good villain, and a big fight to cap it all off. Animation is solid, and you can notice the extra movie budget being used in some of the fights. Even if this is filler, it's worth the watch for some of the outfits the cast gets in this; absolutely dripping.

The plot was alright, handling the usual blueprint and featuring some decent side characters for the movie. Bringing in a villain unused in the original canon was nice and was a good ... way to retain the tie to the main series. While the final fight isn't an insane spectacle, it's a really cool moment.

All in all, it's on the higher end of the OP movies so far, and I believe they maintain this quality from here on out.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 6, 2021

FreyaSpanberger

Mixed Feelings

This review contains slight spoilers for this movie.

As I'm not very used to writing reviews this will definitely not be particularly well written, however I really wanted to share my thoughts.

I did not like this movie, but i'll still start of with the positives:
The animation is quite good (Especially for one piece) it isn't anything special in terms of anime movie standards but compared to the abysmal animation the anime has it comes off as incredible.
I really liked the designs of everything, the floating islands and animals especially. I also liked the designs of Shiki, his two henchmen and the feathered villagers. all the NEW ... characters personalities where suitable and they felt like One Piece characters
I like the origin of where namis arm band thing came from, and from my recollection of the manga that was never touched on

Now as for the bad:
First of all, as i previously stated the NEW characters are all pretty fun (aside from the fact that Shiki is extremely weak compared to how he is portrayed in the rest of the series) However the straw hats don't make any sense whatsoever. This movie takes place after Enies Lobby yet Nami makes the exact same decisions as Robin did back then, however for robin it made sense for nami it doesn't. Nami learned to trust her crewmates back in Arlongpark which was kind of the point of the Arlongpark arc. She was also one of the crewmates Robin needed to trust during the Enies Lobby arc. The point that I'm trying to get across is that Nami (like the other straw hats) should know to trust in Luffy and trust in the crew, yet in this movie she does not.
Another problem about this movie is the plot and how it just feels like it was copy and pasted from the manga (Especially Arlongpark and Enies Lobby/Water 7) except they removed most of the good parts as in the Fights, the drama and the characters and only left in the humor (There's not that much) and the general structure.

In general I think this is a good MOVIE however that is only if you seperate it from the rest of the One Piece series, but as i absolutely LOVE the manga series and have read and re read it multiple times i simply can't evaluate this movie as a separate thing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 15, 2023

RegiGiygas

Not Recommended

Among the pool of contemporary manga, One Piece is a series that demonstrates without rival an insurmountable level of worldbuilding and creativity within the medium. This rich universe and One Piece’s undefeated ability to churn up slews of profits via merchandise and manga sales, leads One Piece to lend it’s likeness not only to a subpar anime adaptation but various disjointed animated film outings. One Piece: Strong World can be remembered simply as another strikeout, despite Oda Eiichiro’s coaching behind the scenes.

Even at its most criticized arcs, the writing of Oda Eiichiro in One Piece never truly missteps. There is a level of detail in ... every single arc where elements introduced or shown early on will all come to blossom fully in the finale of said arc or even further along in the series. This attention to detail is not present in Strong World. Rather, the writing is so lackluster that it can be presumed that Oda did not produce any sort of screenplay for this film, but rather drafted out a film concept and initial draft, that was then entirely adapted by the film’s other credited writer: Uesaka Hirohiko (the usual One Piece anime story series composition and filler script writer from 2004-2016). As with the majority of One Piece films up to this point, the viewer finds themselves confronted with the usual suspects of half assed writing. Cheap flashbacks to the main storyline that create inorganic tension, dull gags, failure to utilize the abilities of the Strawhats in meaningful ways, only a single memorable original antagonist, all layered together in a symphony of predictability. Perhaps these gripes could be overlooked if this film was backed by gorgeous animation, and yet save for specific moments of fast paced action, Strong World is swimming in mediocre animation.

Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island was the film that showcased the potential of One Piece when stylized in a different artstyle. This is almost certainly due to Kato Hiroshi (The End of Evangelion, Interstella 5555) involvement as art director. Unfortunately for subsequent films, Baron Omatsuri set a precedent high enough that it becomes almost painfully obvious how much the animation in Strong World ends up as a poor simulation of Oda’s incredible artstyle, rather than spreading its wings into its own world. For something with the budget of a full length film, it’s almost awkward how many shots there are that seem so mechanical and ‘non animated.’ Even when fanservice rears its polarizing head, Strong World’s attempts at sneaking ass or cleavage into shots feel completely stilted and lifeless compared to Oda’s natural ability to depict the titillating albeit unrealistic bodies of his female characters. The truest praise that can be sung for One Piece: Strong World is that there are indeed tight moments of fast paced animation, the character designs for this film are magnificent (Robin’s look is a 10), and there are a few very funny shots of animations sprinkled throughout. Unfortunately, even hippie Brook smoking a joint could not save this movie.

So once again we come up short. Strong World remains another example that whether through adaptation of the manga’s story or through original story, it’s safe to assume that for the time being there aren’t currently writers or directors with both the interest or the chops to bring One Piece to life through animation. You can skip the most of the movies. Read the manga.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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