I was really looking forward to a Shanks movie and when One Piece Red was announce I was really excited to watch it! Unfortunately it was really disappointing and did not live up to the hype in any way.
I want to make one thing clear, I have nothing against the musical approach of this movie, the songs are actually really good! My main issues are how much an already weak story was rushed just so they can include as many one piece characters as possible and, because of the inclusion of all those characters, the mess that happened later in the movie where they tried to show off every single attack of all those characters.
Uta the "daughter" of Shanks causes an incident to a music nation and in order to protect her feelings Shanks takes the blame, abandons her there which causes here to hate him and pirates in general. She feels so much anger and hate towards them and pirates in general that she creates a virtual world with her powers to kidnap and keep safe thousands of people. We only find out towards the end that she already knew what really happened from a video snail which doesn't makes sense at all considering how much hate she felt towards the Shanks pirates during the whole movie....
Shanks appeared everywhere in the trailers but I guess it was a classic marketing scam to get you to think it's a movie about shanks since he only appeared towards the end and boy what a disappointment... Seeing his face all blooded after ordinary people in the audience punched him was a shock of disbelief. Then during his fight scene you don't feel like he is as strong as he is being hyped to be in the manga. Only his haki moment shows that he is on a different level.
This movie also masters a trend that has started with the previous two movies and after only a few minutes in, there are fights happening all over the place... The future-sight master, fifth emperor Luffy is casually taken out by two buckets of salt water thrown at him by ordinary people which makes me wonder why they didn't try this on Kaido and finish the Wano arc after a few chapters.
Meanwhile Luffy apparently forgets how to use Haki until the last few minutes of the movie but god Ussop casually uses future-sight. During the last attack something different is happening with Luffy (Manga readers you know what I mean) which shouldn't be possible according to the explanation in the manga unless certain parameters where met.
The navy is simply there for decoration... They used all their power against whitebeard, but for Shanks, 30 ships and 2 admirals should do. I guess the 3rd admiral, the CP0 and the rest 70 ships were too busy for a world class threat.
The rest was just plain old copy/paste moments/character quotes from the anime, such as the Kizaru - Beckman situation or Fujitora's exact same quotes etc. Etc. Which are simply boring and bring nothing to the table. The animation apart from a few moments felt subpar and there were many times I thought to myself that there are anime episodes with much better animation overall...
Watch this movie if you have nothing else to watch, but I simply cannot recommend it. This is a very generous 4 for the soundtrack and some visuals I liked but I cannot rate it more than that. One Piece has standards, especially when it comes to captivating stories, it's not about mindless brawls and this movie misses the point entirely.
I want to make one thing clear, I have nothing against the musical approach of this movie, the songs are actually really good! My main issues are how much an already weak story was rushed just so they can include as many one piece characters as possible and, because of the inclusion of all those characters, the mess that happened later in the movie where they tried to show off every single attack of all those characters.
Uta the "daughter" of Shanks causes an incident to a music nation and in order to protect her feelings Shanks takes the blame, abandons her there which causes here to hate him and pirates in general. She feels so much anger and hate towards them and pirates in general that she creates a virtual world with her powers to kidnap and keep safe thousands of people. We only find out towards the end that she already knew what really happened from a video snail which doesn't makes sense at all considering how much hate she felt towards the Shanks pirates during the whole movie....
Shanks appeared everywhere in the trailers but I guess it was a classic marketing scam to get you to think it's a movie about shanks since he only appeared towards the end and boy what a disappointment... Seeing his face all blooded after ordinary people in the audience punched him was a shock of disbelief. Then during his fight scene you don't feel like he is as strong as he is being hyped to be in the manga. Only his haki moment shows that he is on a different level.
This movie also masters a trend that has started with the previous two movies and after only a few minutes in, there are fights happening all over the place... The future-sight master, fifth emperor Luffy is casually taken out by two buckets of salt water thrown at him by ordinary people which makes me wonder why they didn't try this on Kaido and finish the Wano arc after a few chapters.
Meanwhile Luffy apparently forgets how to use Haki until the last few minutes of the movie but god Ussop casually uses future-sight. During the last attack something different is happening with Luffy (Manga readers you know what I mean) which shouldn't be possible according to the explanation in the manga unless certain parameters where met.
The navy is simply there for decoration... They used all their power against whitebeard, but for Shanks, 30 ships and 2 admirals should do. I guess the 3rd admiral, the CP0 and the rest 70 ships were too busy for a world class threat.
The rest was just plain old copy/paste moments/character quotes from the anime, such as the Kizaru - Beckman situation or Fujitora's exact same quotes etc. Etc. Which are simply boring and bring nothing to the table. The animation apart from a few moments felt subpar and there were many times I thought to myself that there are anime episodes with much better animation overall...
Watch this movie if you have nothing else to watch, but I simply cannot recommend it. This is a very generous 4 for the soundtrack and some visuals I liked but I cannot rate it more than that. One Piece has standards, especially when it comes to captivating stories, it's not about mindless brawls and this movie misses the point entirely.