One Piece - Collection Two

One piece is a great series this set shows the adventure fresh from baratie and reveals namis backstory! what adventures await them in the grandline? Episodes: Disc One 27.Cool headed, cold hearted demon!-Pirate fleet chief commander ghin! 28.I won't die! Fierce battle, luffy vs. krieg! 29.The conclusion of the deadly battle!-A spear of blind determination! 30.Set sail!-The seafaring cook sets off with luffy! 31.The worst man in the eastern seas!-Fishman pirate arlong! 32.Witch of cocoas village!-Arlong's female leader! 33.Usopp dead?!-when is luffy going to make landfall?! Disc Two 34.Everyone's gathered!-usopp speaks the truth about nami! 35.untold past!-Female warrior bellemere! 36.Survive! Mother belle mare and nami's bond. 37.Luffy rises!-Result of the broken promise! 38.Luffy in big trouble!-Fishmen vs. the luffy pirates! 39.Luffy submerged!-Zoro vs. hatchan the octopus! Disc Three 40.Proud warriors!-sanji and usopp's fierce battles! 41.Luffy at full power!-nami's determination and straw hat! 42.Explosion!-fishman arlong's fierce assault from the sea! 43.End of the fishman empire!-nami's my friend! 44.setting out with a smile!-farewell, hometown cocoas village! (with commentary) 45.bounty! Straw hat luffy becomes known to the world! 46.chase straw hat!-little buggy's big adventure! Disc Four 47.the wait is over!-the return of captain buggy! 48.the town of the beginning and the end!-landfall at logue town! 49.kitetsu III and yubashiri!-zoro's new swords and the woman sergeant major! 50.usopp vs. daddy the parent!-showdown at high! 51.frery cooking battle!-sanji vs. the beautiful chef! 52.buggy's revenge!-the man who smiles on the execution platform! 53.the legend has started!-head for the grand line!

This is most definitely a great investment for any One Piece fan that wants to start a collection of the series! It includes both the original Japanese audio with subtitles by Funimation, as well as the English Funimation job (on which, as a fan of the original Japanese version and manga, Funimation did an absolutely amazing job on compared to most dubbing jobs.) If you're a One Piece fan and appreciate the Funimation dubbing job, this is your buy! It includes a commentary by the staff, voice actors, writers, directors etc. on two of the episodes, which are not only amusing but give you a good idea of what goes into dubbing One Piece as well as they do. The quality is fantastic. After watching the whole of the One Piece series online I can only say that the beautiful quality of this DVD blew me away the moment I set it up. The casing is compact, glossy, and definitely ideal for a complete collection. I can honestly say that I'd pay three times as much as I paid for this knowing it's as great as it is. The only down side is the subtitles. They don't match the English voices, rather just use the Japanese translation and often times the words at the bottom of the screen are horribly different from what they're actually hearing. Quite annoying if you're hard of hearing or watching with someone who is (which I will be) but only a minor set back. Otherwise this product is amazing... its arrival in my mailbox made my night!

I've been a fan of One Piece for a few years now and had looked into supporting the series by buying DVD's before. They were very expensive and with so many episodes in this series you would have had to buy many sets. The collections are really the best deal available for getting this series. Not only is it a good deal but this set contains the Arlong arc, one of the best fights early on, IMO. The DVD's are fairly bare bones containing two episodes with commentary and a few trailers, hardly "extras". That being said the episodes are fairly high quality for being 10 years old. The marathon feature is great but can trick you into watching more episodes than you may want to or even think you have watched, not necessarily a bad thing. The only negative about the marathon feature is that while they remove the opening and ending songs they do not remove the recaps at the beginning of the episodes, slightly disappointing. Overall a great set at a great price, if you have been a fan of this series or just interested in it pick this set up, you will not be disappointed.

A little bit from my review of season 1: "Don't let quirky animation style fool you... This is truly a treasure in entertainment. Great humor, amazing stories, spectacular character development... You will laugh, you will definitely cry, but above all, you will enjoy the journey and will find yourself caring for these characters and their aspirations." A lot happens in this season... And again I am not going to talk about it. Needless to say, the fights get more serious, the stakes are higher, the drama... well, let's just say that Nami is carrying a very, very heavy burden that leads to one of the most emotional stories I have ever read or seen, ever. Anyway, season 2 improves over the first season by making the strawhats test their resolve, making us cheer for them a lot more... Some episodes are slower paced but never dull or unimportant, all around great second season.

This pick’s up where the first dvd ended with the last episode of the Baratie arc and ends with with the straw hats heading toward reverse mountain. the majority of the dvd is centered around nami’s past and how the fishman Arlong and his crew came and invaded her village, threatening all of the villagers lives and killing her mother Bell-mère. Forcing her to work for him on the token promise that if she can collect a hundred million belly she can buy back her village’s freedom, we also learn where her love of money comes from. The last dvd in this collection covers the lougetown arc ending with the straw hats heading towards the grand line/reverse mountain. Final thoughts it’s wonderful dvd and whether your an old or new fan of one piece this is definitely a dvd you’ll want to get.so what are you waiting for! P.S. ignore the LEGO in one of the pictures

The straw hat crew is back. Now luffy is looking for a chef for his crew. He comes across a master chef named Sanji. But sanji has something stopping him from joining luffy crew. A promise from the master chef, who has trained from a boy. Luffy must now battle the sinister don krieg to help out his new friend sanji. Can luffy handle the betrayal by nami the navigator. Luffy sets off to help nami out by defeating feared pirate Arlong and realize why nami left. Luffy and zoro get in brawl with some marines that land them on the most wanted list. Now the crew head for logue town, the final resting place of gold roger, the king of all pirates. So come abroad and set sail with the straw hat crew to see how they get themselves out of one mess an into a bigger one. Collection Two Disc BreakDown Disc One 27.Cool headed, cold hearted demon!-Pirate fleet chief commander ghin! 28.I won't die! Fierce battle, luffy vs. krieg! 29.The conclusion of the deadly battle!-A spear of blind determination! 30.Set sail!-The seafaring cook sets off with luffy! 31.The worst man in the eastern seas!-Fishman pirate arlong! 32.Witch of cocoas village!-Arlong's female leader! 33.Usopp dead?!-when is luffy going to make landfall?! Disc Two 34.Everyone's gathered!-usopp speaks the truth about nami! 35.untold past!-Female warrior bellemere! 36.Survive! Mother belle mare and nami's bond. 37.Luffy rises!-Result of the broken promise! 38.Luffy in big trouble!-Fishmen vs. the luffy pirates! 39.Luffy submerged!-Zoro vs. hatchan the octopus! Disc Three 40.Proud warriors!-sanji and usopp's fierce battles! 41.Luffy at full power!-nami's determination and straw hat! 42.Explosion!-fishman arlong's fierce assault from the sea! 43.End of the fishman empire!-nami's my friend! 44.setting out with a smile!-farewell, hometown cocoas village! (with commentary) 45.bounty! Straw hat luffy becomes known to the world! 46.chase straw hat!-little buggy's big adventure! Disc Four 47.the wait is over!-the return of captain buggy! 48.the town of the beginning and the end!-landfall at logue town! 49.kitetsu III and yubashiri!-zoro's new swords and the woman sergeant major! 50.usopp vs. daddy the parent!-showdown at high! 51.frery cooking battle!-sanji vs. the beautiful chef! 52.buggy's revenge!-the man who smiles on the execution platform! 53.the legend has started!-head for the grand line! Coming Soon One Piece Collection Three Review

Good product, son enjoyed

To use an uncommon saying, this is where One Piece grows the beard (the opposite of jumping the shark). This set contains what is arguably One Pieces first great arc: Arlong Park. Here, we learn Nami's backstory, and boy is it a good one! If you're prone to tears, you'll want to have some tissues handy. Of course, there is also plenty of fighting and comedy, too. The Funimation voice cast is great, especially Luci Christian as Nami, and does more enough to wash out the bad taste left by the 4Kids dub. As a child of the '80s, I do admit to being tickled by the mild swearing. Nothing truly bad or offensive but enough to merit a TV-14 apparently. While the art style is different from most anime, I have to say it looks great when used in hand-drawn cels. It gives everything a bright, friendly, and enthusiastic atmosphere (not unlike the Straw Hats themselves). If you're a fan of fantasy and adventure (or pirates), you can't go wrong here.