One Piece: The Curse of the Sacred Sword

Obviously if you are watching this movie you have seen the series, and have in all likelihood seen the first 4 movies, so I will save the talk about having to be a fan to see this first. So I will just jump into it section by section. Story: Not bad. One piece has had some pretty terrible storylines in the past, and so this movie was easily forgiven by having a passable story, and one that focuses on one of my favorite characters Zoro. I didn't love it, I didnt hate it, so it gets a 5. Art: Very One Piece style.I really don't want to talk about the art because one piece is one piece in its style of art, love it or hate it. It gets and 8 from me. Sound: Good. Nothing much to say about this. Not as good as the series or Movie 4 or 2, but still good. Characters: Main Character = Zoro = +. I wish Luffy had a little bit more of a role, because it felt like he wasn't even needed in the entire movie, yet he was still the "main character". No one else really seemed to matter in this movie except for Zoro. I felt like they included all the other characters because otherwise it wouldn't be One Piece. Really disappointing on how they used everyone. Enjoyment: Made me laugh at times. I watch One Piece to laugh, and get me really excited when someone is pissed off. Surprisingly no one got that pissed off in this movie. I thought I would have enjoyed it more because of this fact, but I didn't so now I appreciate it more when someone does get really angry. Other than that it had its usual jokes that put a smile on my face. Overall: I still enjoyed it, would never watch it again, and if I could have gone back in time to tell myself to just go ahead and skip it, I would have. Your not missing much if you decide to skip this movie.

2/10 - thank god the original isnt like this. 1. the story is cliche - and not just a bit but way way way too lame. the thing about one piece is that it manage to give ordinary cliche settings a big twist, which is why i love the anime - but this totally failed to happen here. most lines are expected; plot extremely predictable. i was hoping they might turn the whole demon-sword concept into something interesting, but that's so not happening here. 2. characterization was off - personal opinion here, but sanji and zoro's characters are wrong (what did you do to myfavourite character!!!). it doesnt mean if the right line is said the correct feeling for the character can be achieved. this one felt totally off, plus some lines are actually quite awkward. seems more like a doujin work rather than being the original. on closer look, nami's characterization is not up to standard too. the entire team dynamics seemed to lacking in fact. the only people i felt were satisfactorily portrayed were usopp and luffy. 3. pacing is bad - most of the first parts seemed rushed. like everyone's trying to speak as fast as they can so that it's within the timing or sth. then a few scenes at the end were long drawn and a complete waste of time. - there wasnt enough time to create suspense, or feel the story develop. 4. voice acting/ voice actors - which obaaaasan has a voice so obviously young (and speaks so fast no less)??? then there were also part where i dont know if it's just that the voice acting sucked or that the pace was just too fast such that lines carried no emotions at all. one piece story aims to tell people to dare to dream and gives people hope - this story has just left me in despair. o.o

One Piece Movie 5: Norowareta Seiken Review Story (5/10) Average The story in the 5th One Piece movie is average but also generic at the same time. Why because it's basically your typical "I'm your comrade from the past now back out of nowhere and I'm evil now" story. And I'm not hating on it because it was forced or I've seen it done before because I have seen it done many many times before and I did like it in the past, I like The Bleach Diamond Dust when it did it there and that's plot is basically the same as this. I felt once againthe execution fell short and I think majority of the issue is pacing. They are given an hour and a half to do this and I think they realize that the substance/plot they have for this movie has to be stretched if they want to make this last as long as they have. With Luffy and Ussop running around for who knows how long in the cave, to having the remaining straw hat crew just sit in with the movie characters basically doing nothing for majority of the movie until Luffy and Ussop get back, to letting Luffy have two fights with the movie villain instead of feeling entertaining and like some sort of story progression is taking place it all felt like fluff kind of like what the anime does to stretch out certain scenes because they need to make this certain amount of content fit the amount of time they have in this episode. So if there's anything that killed it for me in this movie it's definitely pacing. Art and Animation (7/10) Good More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+ This one does look a bit better than all of the previous films but not enough to give it too much of a compliment. The colors used did fell like it did bring out a more saturated feel and it made certain scenes look more lively but once the setting got dark or night time those colors aren't needed anymore and it looks just like the previous movie. Sound (7/10) Good Sound is good nothing in particular to talk about Characters (8/10) Very Good I was going to give this section a 7 because like some of the previous movies the Straw Hat Crew wasn't utilized and a lot of characters hit the back burner for majority of the movie and they usually let the movie MC or movie villain or villains have more spotlight. But not really in this one as the movie antagonist does indeed get more spotlight than majority of the crew yes but at least they didn't end this movie the way they ended the 3rd movie (the Chopper one) where basically you can tell other than Luffy himself you can tell that (just like chopper was in movie 3) Zoro has majority of the spotlight and he is a focused character in this movie. In the 3rd movie I wanted Chopper to have the final blow to the villain in that movie because I felt he deserved it but that didn't happen it he lost and Luffy saved the day. Even though Luffy saved the day technically in this one for plot convinces of finding the Orbs and bringing them back even though he had no clue he knew that were that significantly important at least they didn't let Zoro loose the final battle against the movie Villain and let Luffy obtain the final blow at least they let Zoro have that and for that I will give this movie a little more credit in the category than i did the 3rd movie. Enjoyment (5/10) Mediocre Just looking at the poster for this film it got me a little hyped to start watching it because it looked (and was) Zoro focused and I'm currently Team Zoro right now. And I was indeed enjoying myself for like the first 10 minutes but after watching Zoro go rogue and then pacing issues kicked it it went from an 8 to a 7 to a 6 to a 5. Pacing killed it.. Overall (6/10) Fine More Specifically (6.55/10) Fine+ The movie was fine but far from recommendation quality it was one of those movies were I couldn't even finish it in one sitting, the pacing was too slow for me I tried to skip ahead a couple of minutes because I was either getting pissed at the movie for taking so long to progress a certain scene or I was straight dozing off again and didn't care what was actually happening. As a Zoro fan right now I'm disappointed I got my hopes up a bit too much for this one. Like I said earlier I'm glad Zoro got the final blow but even that wasn't enough for me to think the overall was even a 7/10.

I agree with one reviewer that it does seem to be a movie with one piece characters written into it. With that being said, I thought it was a good movie! You had some memorable characters, Saga & Maya, & Esp the Old Lady she was great. You get met with a few inconsistencies (as per usual) for the canon. The ones that I noticed include them saying they came there to find the treasure. You can't just head to islands unless you get an eternal pose, so saying they came there for the treasure doesn't make any sense. They did this in the thirdmovie as well, they even had a map in that one lol. Also, at one point when they are first talking about it I believe Nami says that the Cursed Holy Sword, or Sacred Sword? is the greatest treasure of the Grand Line... I thought that was the One Piece? lol One other would be when they are discussing Saga's backstory, how after the explosion he miraculously survived but his arm wasn't usable, so he "wandered into the grand line to this island" like, how? That must have been pretty hard right? Idk I guess at this point the Grand Line isn't as hard to get to as we thought at first. Some things I loved though where the fight between Sanji & Zoro, like damn that was intense! And the bit with Luffy & Usopp in the caves. Also when Sanji is fighting one of the goons and he goes. "My steel armor can't be borrken by your foot" and Sanji kicks him on top of the head and says "Then maybe your head and your face need armor too" That was great XD The fact that this movie seemed to be centered around Zoro, with him even beating the antogonist, but still not having as much screen time as the others I thought was interesting. Also we did see more of his backstory though! If it's canon anyways? I enjoyed more than I think I should have if that makes sense. Definitely a fun movie all in all.