Top 5: One Piece's Epic Moments

Konbanwa Mina-san~
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One Piece

One Piece is one of my favorites because it's the Anime that made me addicted to Anime/Manga. One Piece is actually the first manga that I read. It was also my first summer in London that I got addicted to Anime/Manga, so I got interested in One Piece because many people recommended me to start watching anime or reading manga, so I downloaded all the episodes of the Anime of One Piece. I watched it the whole summer all 600+ episodes and then I got addicted to it. After I finished watching One Piece and get into the latest episode, I started to read the Manga which led me to do drawings, which I never thought of doing because I used to be so bad at drawing. So now, I'm gonna talk about the great and epic moments in One Piece that was Amazing and Interesting things that happened and also the twists that Eiichiro Oda added.

5. Luffy Challenges Big Mom

My #5 is when Luffy challenges Big Mom in the Fishman Island. Big Mom is one of the 4 Yonkos (Emperors). They're the 4 pirates who rules the New World so everyone is afraid of them. To protect Fishman Island, the King made a deal with Big Mom to replace Whitebeard's flag because he died due to the war to save one of his crew members, Portgas D. Ace. Due to Whitebeard's death, chaos invades Fishman Island because Whitebeard used his flag to protect the island, thus the King of Fishman Island had no choice but to make a deal with Big Mom: for 10 Tons of Sweets that she likes, Big Mom will put her flag on Fishman Island. After the Mugiwara Pirates saved the Fishman Island, it was also the time the 10 tons of sweet had to be delivered to Big Mom. The machines to make the candies were all destroyed, so the other candies that have been made before the destruction were given to the Mugiwaras to celebrate saving the Fishman Island, but the Big Mom Pirates needed the candy for the Big Mom's tea party. So as soon as Luffy heard that Big Mom is going to destroy the Fishman Island if there are no sweets to pay Big Mom, he bravely answered the phone and gave his name and told his dream about being the Pirate King. It was just awesome. It's always badass when he does something like this, fearlessly challenging an opponent stronger than him. Luffy then ended the conversation by saying that he's going to make Fishman Island his. It always gives me goosebumps when Luffy just says something so straightforwardly without hesitating or anything else.

4. Luffy Faces The Three Admirals

#4 is when Luffy faces the Three Admirals of the Marines. The Three Admirals are amongst the most powerful characters, so I considered this to be part of the epic moments because it's not normal for a pirate to just go start a war with the  Admirals,  because they would just die instantly. Luffy only survived this battle because of his friends and nakamas. For example, he allied with Boa Hancock, a Shichibukai (7 Warlords Of The Sea), and Jimbei, a former Shichibukai and also a friend of Ace. Luffy also allied with Whitebeard, who is also one of the Yonko and considered as the Most Powerful Pirate after the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger because he was the only one who could fight with him on par. Whitebeard decided to help Luffy because Ace is one of Whitebeard's crew commander and also Luffy's brother. Both of them loved Portgas D. Ace and he was important for both of them. Whitebeard thought that Ace was important because Ace is the only son of the Pirate King. So Whitebeard didn't want the Marine to touch Ace and that was what Luffy also wanted: not to let the Marine touch his brother. Luffy's and Whitebeard's main objective was to save Ace, however, in order to save Ace they had to face the powerful Three Admirals that always found a way to stop pirates due to their strong and powerful Devil's fruit powers. The Three fearsome admirals were  first faced by Luffy. Luffy's is just awesome because as you can see on the video, he was transported by Jimbei with his awesome Fishman Karate to go over the wall! However, Luffy didn't show any fear to the Three Admirals because he wasn't worried about fighting the Admirals, he was worried about how he would have saved Ace.

3. Zoro's Sacrifice

My #3 is when Zoro sacrifices to save Luffy when he was in a state near to death. Bartholomew Kuma who is also one of the Shichibukai, and also a formerly a Revolutionary with Luffy's father; Monkey D. Dragon, was also at the Thriller Bark after the Mugiwara Pirates finished battling with Moria, who is also one of the Shichibukai.  He showed up after the battle and after they gained their shadows back.Bartholomew suddenly throws dangerous attacks on them. All of them perished because they were no match for Bartholomew, they just had a fight with another Shichibukai so they didn't have enough strength to fight another powerful opponent. They were all taken down, but when Bartholomew tried to grab Luffy, Zoro suddenly attacked Bartholomew to protect his friend. This was the time when Zoro proved that he was a true nakama of Luffy by because trying persuading Kuma to kill him instead of killing his captain, Luffy. He also said that his head wasn't worth much yet, but he would eventually become the world's greatest swordsman and that if he couldn't even save his Captain's dream, then Zoro's dream would have been nothing but just talk. Instead of killing Zoro, Bartholomew removed all the pains and fatigue that Luffy had been through with the fight with Moria and made it into a big paw bubble as can see on the video. Bartholomew said that Zoro didn't have enough strength and life to absorb all the pain and the fatigue and sufferings from Luffy  would lead to Zoro's death. However, when Sanji wondered about how strange it was for Luffy to regain his strength and why was Zoro missing, he decided to look for Zoro. Finding Zoro standing with all the blood all over his body and still alive, this was why I considered this as one of the most epic moments in One Piece because Zoro was so badass, he withstood the pain and didn't tell anyone about what had happen.

2. Death of Whitebeard and Fire Fist Ace

#2 is are the deaths of Whitebeard and Ace. I put it in this top 5 because I really never thought that 2 badass characters were going to die at the same time. It gave me goosebumps when Ace died, and almost cried because he sacrificed himself to save Luffy. Akainu one of the Admirals was raging because he was freed by Crocodile, a former Shichibukai who fought with Luffy once and got his ass kicked in Alabasta. Luffy and Ace were fighting back to back against the Marine soldiers,then when Whitebeard announces that he will stay in Marineford, Whitebeard asked one last question to Ace. He asked if he was a good father to him and Ace answered 'Of Course'. After, when Luffy and Ace tried to escape with the Whitebeard Pirates, Akainu tried to provoke Ace by insulting Whitebeard as a failure. So Ace stopped running and went back to fight with Akainu. But Ace's fire was no match against Akainu's magma which burned Ace's arm. Then Akainu tried to kill Luffy who is defenseless, but instead of Luffy dying, Ace sacrificed by getting in between Luffy and Akainu and took the hit from Akainu. The thing that gave me goosebumps and that also made me cry was when you see Luffy's face when after Ace died and sacrificed himself to save his brother in front of him. Also when he said with his last words,

" Old man, everyone!! And you.. Luffy. Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life, even though I have the blood of a demon within me... You guys still loved me! Thank you so much!!"

Although  Whitebeard cried when he saw Ace died, Whitebeard himself was severely injured. Like when one of his crew members, Squard sneakily attacked him with a large katana. But Whitebeard forgived him and hugged him and told him that he's a fool and he still loves him but Whitebeard found out later that Akainu was the reason why Squard attacked Whitebeard. After Whitebeard saw Akainu killing Ace, he attacked Akainu immediately, damaging the admiral severely. When Whitebeard attacked Akainu the Marineford HQ also had been destroyed and because of this they saw that the Blackbeard Pirates were watching the whole fight hiding in the shadows. Blackbeard then greet Whitebeard by saying that he has come to see his death. Whitebeard then tried to attack Blackbeard but he dodged. Whitebeard then attacked him again, then choke him and Blackbeard asked him if he would kill his own son but Whitebeard already said before, that he doesn't consider Blackbeard as his son anymore because he killed Thatch, one of his crew commander, so Whitebeard just ignored him and just sent another attack to him making injuring him severely. Then Blackbeard commanded his crew to attack Whitebeard, after Blackbeard's pirates ran out of bullets, Whitebeard was still standing. He tells Blackbeard that he was not the one who Roger waited for, he then tells Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral who has a more powerful rank than the Admirals, that even through the bloodline of Roger, there will be some people that will inherit his will and died shouting that 'One Piece' exists making Sengoku angry. After saying farewell to his crew and allies, he died standing. Which also gave me goosebumps because he died strongly protecting his crews and still died standing up. He's a badass character and one of the saddest deaths that I saw on all the mangas that I read. 

1. "Red-Haired" Pirate Shanks stops the War.

#1 is one of my favorite characters in One Piece, Shanks, the captain of the Red-Haired Pirates. He is one of my favorite characters because he is one of the strongest and the one who influenced Luffy and made him a pirate. He also sacrificed his own arm to save Luffy from a sea monster. Shanks is also one of the Yonko, just like Whitebeard. Shanks came after Coby shouted, Coby is one of the characters that Luffy had been friends with, and is now part of the marine just like he always wished. Coby shouted in front of Akainu, telling  everyone to stop fighting because he knew that the marines have families waiting for them, and that both sides are only wasting lives. After he told everything to stop everyone, Akainu then told him that he wasted seconds and that the Marines didn't need someone like him and then Akainu got ready to attack Coby. Before Akainu could attack Coby, Shanks just appeared from nowhere and defended Coby from Akainu's strike. Heroically, he said to Coby that the seconds he wasted were the seconds of courage that changed the fate of the world. He then picked up the straw-hat that he gave to that Luffy dropped during the battle and said that he came to end the war. When he came it was awesome because everyone was shocked and even Akainu was shocked because another one of the Yonko was in Marineford, even Garp, who hated him so much because he was the one that influenced his grandson to become a pirate instead of becoming a marine. He then called Buggy, which was one of his old mates when they were with Roger, the pirate king, to give the straw-hat to Luffy, and in return he would give him a treasure map, because he knew that Buggy loves treasures so much, so he quickly went to Law's submarine to give the hat. He is one of the baddest characters in One Piece because he threatened the marines by saying that if anyone wants to continue fighting, even the Blackbeard pirates, then himself and his crew will fight, but Blackbeard postponed the battle with Whitebeard because he was not yet prepared for fighting Whitebeard. When everybody stopped he said that he would take care of the body of the deceased, Ace and Whitebeard, for their funeral, because he was close to those two. So this is the reason I put it in the #1 spot because he was badass and threatened the whole Marines that his crew would fight against those who continue to fight.

Thanks for reading Mina-san! There still are a lot of Epic Moments from One Piece, but I think these are the best 5 as you just read. If you haven't read the manga or watched the anime, then you should because I know that you would enjoy it too.

Arigatou~