so i finished the Skypiea arc recently.
and hoo boy I understand why no one talks about this and why I had no idea this all happened. While the idea of the crew going into a sky island filled with angel people and a mysterious golden city is pretty fun and exciting, the whole arc was just kind of........... Okay
Especially following the Alabasta and Baroque Works stuff its just like, kind of that but worse. The vassals dont really get enough screentime before the fights to be fun and the fights with the vassals arent as compelling as the previous fights in the series.
One Piece has a lot of fun worldbuilding and powers but wow I just do not care about dials. The whole idea of "press a button and a thing happens" is just so boring and most of the time they're not even used in any interesting ways. Just "haha i touched you with my kills-you dial, i win"
Eneru (or Enel I guess depending on where u read it) is probably the highlight of the whole arc. He's really charismatic and has a sort of kefka "fuck everyone i got mine" vibe thats fun to watch. Plus his whole brutally strong devil fruit powers that take out the straw hats instantly is REALLY fun to juxtapose against how his powers just do Not effect Luffy. His "Kingdom Come" attack was also really cool. My issue with Eneru is that he's kind of just a less fun Crocodile and his fight goes on..... way too long oh my god.
All that said, however. The final ringing of the bell of shandora was pretty fuckin' cool. Leading up to that, as soon as Luffy's hand gets stuck in a big golden ball you kind of know where it's going. When he rings the bell, though, and theres like 6 pages of it just going CLAANG it feels really powerful and emotional.
7.5/10 arc
Idk if the foxy and long long stuff is counted as a full arc?
but I am just now starting on the Water 7 stuff and I'm excited because I've heard this is like the best part of the series so! lets go
