One Piece Movie 07: Karakuri-jou no Mecha Kyohei

After watching the movie I must say that one thing sets it apart from the previous ones and that's Nami's breasts. They were bouncing around and jiggling, making it very hard to concentrate on reading the subtitles XD
Combined with a great animation, it was quite an enjoyable experience.

The story was okay, nothing special. If you liked the previous movies you'll like this one too.

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.

This is the seventh One Piece movie, theoretically taking place around the Water 7 arc. It is the first movie that is not dedicated to a crew member, despite the fact it is heavy on machinery and could have easily been about Franky. He was still not officially part of the crew at the time and the unbearably slow anime wasn’t helping. As a result the movie is about nothing in specific. Without a character to focus on it has no real theme or message. And no, being a filler story is not an excuse.

The plot is about a treasure they are looking for, and ... there’s this song that hints its place, and there’s also this king with weird contraptions and… that’s all of it. How does any of that connect to the show or the crew or the themes? I mean, sure, it’s the first film featuring Luffy’s new Gear powers, but that is just what he can do at that moment in the story. It doesn’t mean anything for the character, the same way Super Saiyan 3 didn’t mean anything for Goku in any movie. You just tolerate 70 minutes of boredom until the protagonist gains a new super ability to beat the big boss. It’s not like there was no other way to beat him with all the stuff he has managed to break or deflect in all the previous episodes and movies. Did he really need superhuman strength to beat a mook robot? Thus not even this fan service moment is important.

The only other point of notice is Nami’s boobs. They kept getting bigger with each passing season and now they bounce so much they have a life of their own. That is how you are supposed to be distracted from the boring plot. Distasteful! A completely boring movie I do not recommend to anyone.