One piece: Omatsuri danshaku to himitsu no shima

This is the best one piece movie i've watched, i absolutely love the art direction and the character designs, they dont stray too far from the series and in my opinion actually improve them, the movie starts out as every other one piece adventure, the straw hats make jokes and play around but around 50 minutes in the movie starts to take a turn to a much darker plot, sometimes even kinda scary, the story is not the most innovative one but it is still great 9/10

I really struggle to categorize and review this film. It's a very specific, and intense film from start to finish, clearly a well crafted and directed work.

The issue I have is that, to me, it doesn't come across as "One Piece" story (itself a shonen style story). It's a terrifying and gripping narrative, where the Straw Hat crew are the players, detectives, and ultimately victims to the antagonist's machinations, which makes for an interesting experience. However the stakes and the imagery used to reveal what's occurring are perhaps to intense. The 3rd party characters also own large chunks of narrative, which in turn also reduce the Straw Hats down to nothing more than being "at risk" to drive Luffy into the protagonist role.

This movie in special gave me chills for the first time that I watched but, in general at his one piece movie has this factor that non of other one piece movies have, and it is the wow factor that correlates very well with the plot that they show during the film, and another aspect that is very well used in the film is the suspense that connects with the darkness of the film always from the beginning and the fact of the animation adds a lot to it in the way you see the story develop in the film because it adds much to how the character feels in certain situations such as happiness, sadness and despair.

Let me just start by saying I am not a fan of One Piece. A lot of people love it, but I can't get into it even after I've tried a few times, it's gone on way too long and I find a lot of aspects of it personally pretty off-putting and stereotypical. But I have a strange relationship with it; although I'm not a fan, I can understand why so many other people are and kind of wonder sometimes why I'm not.

I was referred to this movie by a YouTube video about One Piece's appeal and figured I'd try it out even if I don't like the series, and I've gotta say, I actually liked it.

The first half still had some of the aforementioned off-putting aspects, like the stupidity of Luffy, the over-the-top quarrel between Sanji and Zoro, and some of it still having plenty of Shonen cliches and slapstick comedy. But over time, it changed drastically. It changed from the carefree insanity of the anime series to a more somber tone. Little by little, I found myself actually getting intrigued, and the plot actually felt pretty interesting and I liked the difference in storytelling from the manga where it actually let it's audience think as opposed to just having the plot laid bare before them.

A lot of One Piece fans may have found the sudden change to a dark tone to be out of place, and while I kind of agree with that, I also enjoyed it. As I've said, the general tone of One Piece really turned me off, but this movie actually had a tone that kept me intrigued, especially in the second half. And some of the new characters were actually pretty interesting and the main characters got different characterizations as time went on. The villain himself might've been a little over the top, but honestly, the conflict he created was fun to watch.

There were some parts I still didn't like though, like the villain himself who had motivation for his actions, but it didn't completely make sense. And for the second half, Luffy (the character I found most annoying) had screen time dominance. I think this could've been a little better if it wasn't a property of One Piece, but an original movie instead.

That aside, though, the animation is gorgeous. The characters got some slight redesigns that look pretty cool, the movement is very fluid, especially in fight scenes, and there's few if any still shots or stiff movements that are common in tv anime. Also, it seems to have a similar animation style at times to Studio Ghibli. So it's pretty much a combination of Studio Ghibli and a really high budget anime.

All in all, it's not a perfect movie by any means, I think it would've been better if it was an original property or something rather than a spin-off of One Piece, especially considering director Mamoru Hosoda's talent in the field of animation. But still, I think it was interesting, if One Piece in general took a similar style of tone, I might like it better. The first half might've still been a little off-putting to me, but the second half was awesome.

Though there are some of the worst and best anime and animated films. One piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, keeps you hooked till the end. The script is gripping and entertainingly humorous. The comedy scenes is ribtickingly funny and I had a good laugh this Thursday. Director Mamoru Hosoda should be applauded for choosing a film and keep us engaged and entertained till the end, along with the writer Masahiro Ito's hardwork should be appreciated for adapting the manga and providing us with clean comedy, terryfing and powerful climax. Masahiro Goto's editing and Tomokazu Shiratori's cinematography is the main highlight of the film, and the music, along with BGM are Kohei Tanaka are somewhat praiseworthy. The film is enjoyable with families and kids, and it is not a dark anime also.

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island is a superb enjoyable masala entertainer with good writing and engaging story with LOL comedy. If you want to enjoy One Piece movie other than 1000 episodes. Watch this movie and enjoy this swashbuckling fantasy masala entertainer.