<meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link href="http://www.anime3000.com/file://localhost/Users/lanadmin/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"> <style> </style> One Piece Season 2: Volume 1<o:p></o:p> Review by: Joshua Valencia<o:p></o:p> Based on the manga by: Eichiro Oda<o:p></o:p> Distributor: FUNimation<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Fans can always count on One Piece being a fun, light-hearted romp of a pirate’s life on the high seas—if all of it isn’t filler.<o:p></o:p> Titled as “Second Voyage: Vol 1”, this One Piece DVD brings in two story arcs that can be described as a hit and miss. The first half of the DVD takes place during the Warship Island arc, a filler that takes place just before Monkey D. Luffy and his crew enter the Grand Line. The story focuses on a girl named Apis whom the crew found floating in the sea. Her goal was to return back to her home in order to help a dragon named Ryu return to the Dragon’s Nest.<o:p></o:p> It may not seem to be problematic for those who enjoy the show, but the filler arc is uninteresting thanks to the rather cliché storytelling of a “legendary dragon” and the many plot holes that arise much later in the One Piece main storyline. One plot hole includes pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro’s claim that he can cut through anything. In a later arc, a contradiction arises as he states he isn’t able to cut through steel.
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