This film surprised me, I love One Piece but past Strong World its movies have been kinda mediocre. Formula just turned into “Powerful asshole and cronies shows up, crew gets beaten, they come back swinging with all their fancy attacks + Fanservice”. With recent movies just throwing as many characters at screen as possible. I didn’t the hype around Uta, thought she was just a generic waifu idol who would be the Vivi of film i.e someone with important significance who needs to protect by Luffy and co. Very glad to be proved wrong and can’t explain without spoilers.
The reveal of Uta putting the whole world to sleep with her singing so they’d be happy before killing herself was beautifully hardcore and I loved it, even her villain songs were great and more fun than her early happy go lucky songs. She instantly became a interesting character and while sad I am satisfied they didn’t chicken out and spare Uta. Her broken personality reminded me of Pudding but I think handled better, One Piece has a habit of not letting hot girls be truly evil but given her backstory and connection with Luffy and Shanks as well as her actions this works well. Even the small things like Sanji recognising the Wakeshroom, knowing Uta is dying, and telling Luffy to not let her be alone hurts so much. Awesome to see Shanks fight and make Admirals quake, even if there was some Like You Would Really Do IT with Shanks destroying Elegia. I knew they wouldn’t let Uta be his biological daughter, seemingly only those without a libido can truly reach the top in this franchise.
My biggest criticisms are the climax being a big CG monster again, Tot Musica only exists for the characters to be beat something up since Uta is too sympathetic to get Black Maria-ed. And the SHs again get little here beyond small moments, (Stampede at least had a good Usopp subplot). Uta’s Lotus-Eater Machine was a good excuse for the crew to see their lost loved ones. But regardless, good film.
She’s goddamn Jigglypuff
This film surprised me, I love One Piece but past Strong World its movies have been kinda mediocre. Formula just turned into “Powerful asshole and cronies shows up, crew gets beaten, they come back swinging with all their fancy attacks + Fanservice”. With recent movies just throwing as many characters at screen as possible. I didn’t the hype around Uta, thought she was just a generic waifu idol who would be the Vivi of film i.e someone with important significance who needs to protect by Luffy and co. Very glad to be proved wrong and can’t explain without spoilers.
The reveal of Uta putting the whole world to sleep with her singing so they’d be happy before killing herself was beautifully hardcore and I loved it, even her villain songs were great and more fun than her early happy go lucky songs. She instantly became a interesting character and while sad I am satisfied they didn’t chicken out and spare Uta. Her broken personality reminded me of Pudding but I think handled better, One Piece has a habit of not letting hot girls be truly evil but given her backstory and connection with Luffy and Shanks as well as her actions this works well. Even the small things like Sanji recognising the Wakeshroom, knowing Uta is dying, and telling Luffy to not let her be alone hurts so much. Awesome to see Shanks fight and make Admirals quake, even if there was some Like You Would Really Do IT with Shanks destroying Elegia. I knew they wouldn’t let Uta be his biological daughter, seemingly only those without a libido can truly reach the top in this franchise. My biggest criticisms are the climax being a big CG monster again, Tot Musica only exists for the characters to be beat something up since Uta is too sympathetic to get Black Maria-ed. And the SHs again get little here beyond small moments, (Stampede at least had a good Usopp subplot). Uta’s Lotus-Eater Machine was a good excuse for the crew to see their lost loved ones. But regardless, good film.