i will number this maybe its easyer.....the top 10 best things about this anime with 10 as not so great and 1 great
10. The art style, yes a big issue for allot of people who considerd this anime and didnt watch it because of the art style....but if you remember it well this is a review about the 10 GOOD things so that means the art style isnt a bad thing. actually its refreshing and suprisingly good. It shouldnt be anything difrent , if it would have it would be one piece as we know it....maybe its difficult to get into it because it isnt high end drawings but still it makes it unique and thats why its still good when its bad.
9. Pirates....it isnt my fav subject around on this world actually beside pirates of the carab i never liked things about pirates....whats with the old ships, the crappy heads and the drinking all the time anyway? but this made the pirate genre so difrent so new that after watching this serie you will love them....maybe because its not really traditional pirates....its more like a comination between fantasy and the good old pirate work....and still you will see allot of big characters in the pirate world that you will remember of from stories like disney.
8. the world....yes this is something that comes right after the subject pirates....because its unique in its own way and still something that shouldnt have been used to begin with...a whole world made out of water and island.....you would think it would be boring because even after a few of episodes from pokemon when they where traveling around islands it got boring....but this wont.....you will notice sometimes they stick around on an island for tons of eps and still you wont be bored....the world has allot of favriations but but still not that much that you will get lost....great design of the world ^^
7. villain....yes, they are awesome, they are scary....but not too scary, they are funny but not that much that you wont take them sirious anymore and even if you take them sirious and you are scared of them they still will make you laugh at some point.....sometimes they are all fun sometimes they are all sirous but most of the time they are an combination of both and they have awesome attacks, unique abilities and last but not least some weird way of always returning and never actually die.....its up too you if thats a good or bad thing.
6. npc's....yes i shouldnt call them no playable caracters but you feel for the crew of the luffys ship but you never actually feel compasion about the people surounding them....only a few times but that s because they are longer in the storie then a few eps....anyway, the people who help the strawhead crew are great they give that little bit of extra to make the story going on even when it gots boring.....
5. the ship.....i wont go on about this for too much but at some point you will even care about the ship where our heroes sail on....
4. the music....yes its a big deal, maybe not from the start but the anime has about over 400 episodes now and still allot of the sounds are still being used from episode 1.....this makes it special because after about 100 eps you will remember them you will sing them in your head and you will c rave for the ost to have....even the opening and ending songs are great, various, and original....
3. humor....yes, comedy is a big deal in this anime....even at times you dont expect it its there and you want it to be there....be affraid, because your tummy will hurt when you watch a few eps in a row ^^
2. the crew....the strawhead crew is one of those things that makes this show go how it goes.....they have allot of histroy and backgrounds, they are unique and original designd and they have their own flaws but also their own powers....they are difrent then all the other caracters in this anime and thats why its a good choice they are almost in every episode ^^
1. the story.....yes this is I think the best thing about this anime.....the story, not only will you not expect an anime drawn this simple have a very deep story at some points, also you wont expect to actually tear and cry because of it....you want to watch all those 400+ eps because you WANT to know how it goes further.....you will be on a story rush 24/7....even the fillers are great, funny and deep enough to watch them....and to be honest i think if a story is great about an anime its already worth watching even all the other things dont work for you....
Thats why i recomend dont hold back because of the art style or the weird sence of humor sometimes and keep watching .....after 30/50 eps you will be hooked and smack yourself on the head blaiming yourself you didnt watch it to begin with ^^
