- Broken Base: The movie's tone split the fanbase between those who appreciate something different from the usual One Piece fare, and those that loathe it for the same. The animation style also polarized opinions.
- There's also the debate that if everyone was acting out-of character during their squabbles. Some argue that the Straw hats would never blame each other like this in a time of crisis, others argue they would and have, and some others take a third option and say Lily is able to amplify the emotions around her.
- Complete Monster: Lily Carnation is a terrifying creature that lives on an isolated island, who has struck a deal with Baron Omatsuri to keep his "crew" alive forever in exchange for providing Lily with regular entertainment and food. Over the years, Lily and Omatsuri have engineered the shipwrecks of hundreds of crews, all of them devoured by Lily after being put through twisted "games", and their dead likenesses are then used by Lily as puppets to further populate Omatsuri's "crew". Lily gets sadistic joy from its actions, and after failing to consume an entire family including small children, it devours and takes on the forms of Luffy's friends in a twisted mockery while trying to kill him.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Luffy suffers a Heroic BSoD when he watches helplessly as all of his crewmates are eaten by Lily. This takes place a while before in the canon series Luffy helplessly watches as all his crewmates are sent away by Kuma. He could have become spiteful like the Baron, who had once ALSO lost his crew due to a storm.
- Moral Event Horizon: Baron Omatsuri had every right to grieve about his lost crew, even to spend his life in mourning. But not to make sure other crews suffer like him, nor to feed people to Lily to have the illusions of his friends back.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- To a degree, thanks to the movie ending almost as soon as Luffy's crew reunites with him. A big part of the villain's plan is to turn the Straw Hats against each other. This would be a great opportunity to make the characters realize that while they might tick each other off, there's a reason they travel together, and they can always count on each other. Instead, they're eaten, Luffy fights the bad guy, and they're spat out. There's no reconciliation, no reaffirmation of trust, the personality conflicts that drove the movie just disappear.
- Additionally, there's nothing that explains how Baron Omatsuri came across Lily in the first place, nor is there any significant hint of whether or not the Baron was being controlled by Lily to satiate her hunger or if he purposely joined with her to help fill in the hole of despair in his heart.note
- Unfortunate Character Design: Brief's Hitler-esque mustache has led to him becoming the butt of many jokes among the fandom.
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