So for those who don't know, One Piece movie 6 is directed by Mamoru Hosoda who would go onto make stuff like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and The Boy and the Beast after this. Because of that, the movie has a very distinct look to it that feels very Hosoda.
The movie is fucking gorgeous. Backgrounds are all really nicely detailed, and movement looks fantastic in this style.
The movie feels very light in the beginning even by One Piece standards. This setup doesn't feel super high stakes, but this allows the crew to interact with one another which is always a strong point for One Piece and it leads to some really funny moments. Then as the film goes on it starts taking a turn. It doesn't appear too crazy at first aside from fights between the crew feeling a bit more real then usual, but then it gets real fucking dark.
The film starts playing with the theme of loss. At first it seems to be just on the level of possibly losing friendships, but as it goes on it's clear that it also means loss in the context of death. The villain of the film, Baron Omatsuri, is shown to have lost quite a bit before the events of the film started and this leads him to wanting to inflict the same pain on others. This causes Luffy to experience grief in a way we haven't ever really seen before. (This was years before the Whitebeard war)
If you're a fan of the series and if you can find a way to watch the damn thing, I would recommend it. It does some pretty crazy things with the property that hadn't and still haven't been really done before. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, and I've seen people say that this movie isn't really what they come to One Piece for, but I think it is 100% worth checking out.
The movie is fucking gorgeous. Backgrounds are all really nicely detailed, and movement looks fantastic in this style.
The movie feels very light in the beginning even by One Piece standards. This setup doesn't feel super high stakes, but this allows the crew to interact with one another which is always a strong point for One Piece and it leads to some really funny moments. Then as the film goes on it starts taking a turn. It doesn't appear too crazy at first aside from fights between the crew feeling a bit more real then usual, but then it gets real fucking dark.
The film starts playing with the theme of loss. At first it seems to be just on the level of possibly losing friendships, but as it goes on it's clear that it also means loss in the context of death. The villain of the film, Baron Omatsuri, is shown to have lost quite a bit before the events of the film started and this leads him to wanting to inflict the same pain on others. This causes Luffy to experience grief in a way we haven't ever really seen before. (This was years before the Whitebeard war)
If you're a fan of the series and if you can find a way to watch the damn thing, I would recommend it. It does some pretty crazy things with the property that hadn't and still haven't been really done before. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, and I've seen people say that this movie isn't really what they come to One Piece for, but I think it is 100% worth checking out.
