One Piece Film Z
Tags: revenge, fantasy, action

Plot synopsis:
"Black Arm" Zephyr (黒腕のゼファー, Kokuwan no Zefā), a former naval admiral and leader of the Neo Marines which also includes his henchmen Ain (アイン) and Binz (ビンズ, Binzu), commences an assault on the navy on Firs Island, a volcanic island and one of the End Points. While there, Zephyr steals the Dyna Stones and fights Kizaru before he starts an eruption to defeat the Admiral only to be sent flying into the ocean. While having a cherry blossom party, the Straw Hat Pirates discovers and heals Zephyr. When Zephyr learns that Monkey D. Luffy is a pirate, he fights Luffy, Roronoa Zoro and Sanji. Having discovered Zephyr's location with a Vivre Card, Ain and Binz join the ex-Admiral to fight them. Ain uses her Devil Fruit powers to de-age Nami, Tony Tony Chopper, Brook and Nico Robin, while Binz uses his Devil Fruit powers to trap Franky, Usopp and Brook with vines. Realizing that Luffy is the grandson of Monkey D. Garp, Zephyr attempts to kill them, but the Straw Hats are forced to flee. At Marine Headquarters, the navy discovers Zephyr's whereabouts and decide to recover the Dyna Stones.
Landing on Dock Island, Franky repairs the Thousand Sunny, which has been damaged by Zephyr. They meet Mobston (モブストン, Mobusuton), whose granddaughter reveals that pirates who come to this island say that they have been attacked by Zephyr. Mobston, angered by Zephyr destroying their pirates' dreams, decides to give the Straw Hats his strongest equipment. While there, the Straw Hats gather information on Zephyr's location from the navy and meet up with Kuzan, who reveals that has left the navy after being defeated by Akainu on Punk Hazard. Using the Sea Train, the Straw Hats enter Secon Island just as the volcano erupts. They confront Zephyr, Ain and Binz, only to be easily defeated once again. Meanwhile, Garp reveals to Coby and Helmeppo that Zephyr once believed in the navy's justice and became an Admiral after serving as a soldier in the navy. When Zephyr's wife and son were killed by a pirate who resented him, Zephyr became an instructor. One day, most of Zephyr's recruits were killed and Zephyr lost his arm after being attacked by a pirate with Devil Fruit powers. Zephyr acquired a weapon developed by the navy's scientist to defeat Devil Fruit users and organized a strike unit. However, when the pirate who attacked him was chosen to serve as a Warlord, Zephyr left the Navy, organizing the Neo Marines as a result.
Back on Dock Island, Kuzan reveals that Zephyr is targeting the three volcanic islands known as End Points. If all three islands erupt in a short period of time of each other, it would result in a giant eruption covering the world's oceans and killing everyone in them. The Straw Hats confront the Neo Marines on the third End Point and are victorious. Kizaru and the navy confront Zephyr and the Straw Hats but the ex-Admiral allows the Neo Marines, Kuzan and the Straw Hats to escape the island. As Zephyr fights to his death and Ain and Binz mourn their loss, the Straw Hats return to Dock Island, giving their gear and weapons back to Mobston, before going their separate ways.

Review: Awesomeest animated movie ever with out-of-this-world action.
This had better be in the Japanese Oscar award and win the title of 'best animated Japanese film'.
This I heard became the most popular movie with a lot of tickets sold so go to the theater and watch it the experience is even better.
The characters shine- all of the strawhats- luffy, usopp, nami, franky, brook, chopper, sanji, zoro and robin.
All I have to say is go watch it for yourself.This review will be broken down into four parts: Music, Animation, Characters and Story.Music: If you watched the trailers, you know that two tracks of Avril Lavigne would be played in the movie but you won't hear that until the credit rolls.
It was different while at the same time maintaining that One Piece feel we all love; high tension to melancholy themes that played throughout different scenes.Animation: There was a lot of CGI just like Strong World.
The action scenes were animated far better than anything I've ever seen in previous One Piece movies or the anime.
The angles and camera movements following every scene was done fluidly.Characters: The title of the movie is quite self-explanatory.
The movie focused on Z, at times even more than the Straw Hat gang.
Character Z, also known as Zephyr had such deep story to him and if you love backstories of various characters in One Piece, you'll definitely love Z's.
As for our lovable characters, the Straw Hats each got their turns to shine in this movie, however the stronger and prominent fighters such as the Monster Trio(Luffy, Zoro and Sanji) had their own individual opponent to fight.
Nami and Robin at times were used for fan-service until the climactic battle at the end.
Brook didn't do a lot in terms of getting into battles, but he had his comedic moments just like Chopper.Story: This movie as an entirety was built around the Marine lore and back story.
The story had lots of explanation regarding the principle themes of the Marines and some characters were basically used strictly just for the sole purpose of providing exposition.
With Film Z, I feel that he understood what it took to make a movie that retains the breathtaking aura of One Piece series, and he delivered it.I'd be surprised if this movie doesn't win major awards in Japan, it surely deserves the Best Animated Japanese Film Awards.
This is the first one piece movie that will take your breath away until the end.
Originally, this movie has 2 million copies and yet weren't enough for us ONE PIECE fans.
Luffy shows great fighting ability here as he just always shown in the series.
But the thing is, the movie has done with great camera tricks as if you were watching 3D animations and that's the difference.
Non the less, this film is a hell kind of epic.This also shows and would make you think that the monster trio were in par with admirals for their monstrous strength shown as the movies get into its epic battle.
While every now and then you'll find a diamond in the rough or a true gem, most of the time the movies feel forced, rushed, or unfaithful to the original material and the quality tends to suffer as a consequence.
If a manga is popular enough, you can almost be sure there'll be an animated or live action movie of it.
Or threeSo I went to the theater with a pretty skeptical mind; I'd been somewhat burned with the one of previous movies, One Piece Film: Strong World.
I was skeptical, but at the same time, I hoped that the movie would be good.
What I got was something I totally was not expecting.Overall, One Piece Film: Z was immensely satisfying.
It wasn't a prefect movie, but as Shonen Jump anime films go, it was the best one I've ever seen.
While most other movies have a tendency to buckle under the limitations of being a stand-alone movie, (i.e. they have to end exactly how they started) Z seemed to make the most such limitations and genuinely feels like it is part of the main series.
Full size Personally, I feel what they had was good enough that they could have taken what was a single dense stand-alone movie and made it into a two- part masterpiece to further develop other characters and satisfying tie everything up.
I think every fan of One Piece, even just anime should watch this movie.
At times the animation makes it look lie you're in a 3D movie and the drawings are incredibly precise and beautiful.
At times I'm not a big fan of anime movies, but I think Oda and his crew really manages to pull it off every time!
Compared to 'One Piece Film: Strong World'.
I really like this former movie 'Strong World', in which the writer of One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, created the plot, character, and finally did as executive producer to check the detail of the whole story.I was looking forward to see this movie 'One Piece Film Z', because I heard he was involved with the production too.
But it turned out that he just seemed to design the characters in movie.I'm really disappointed that the story provided a feeling of strangeness, and the characters such like the opposing soldiers, Ain or Binz, never appear in the original story.
And the member of the Straw Hats in this movie, who the hell they are?
I don't think they are same people in the TV Animation, I mean, they don't think ,act, and battle like this movie.Well, If you think this movie is anything other than the TV Animation, it will be great, exciting, and entertaining one!.
It was like we found the One Piece treasure right here, and it was this amazing film.
I mean seriously while I wish it didn't have soo much action, and that the final fight between Z and Luffy had more to it the film still won with its overall heart and still outclassed One Piece: Strong World in every regard.
The action is really bad, the animation sucks a lot and the characters are just as bad as in the show.
The story makes no sense i will not reveal any spoilers so i'm not going to talk in depth about it but lets just say it has a lot of plot holes and the actions that the characters do make no sense.
I watch a lot of anime my name is Oddur Sigþór Hilmarsson and i live in Iceland i love anime and this is the worst movie based on an anime that i have seen i did not even like the showThis movie is just a mess, almost as bad as the show but it does not sink that low.
One Piece, written by Eiichiro Oda, is the best selling manga of all time, selling over 345 million copies worldwide.
In honor of starting the second half of One Piece, Oda agreed to work on and produce a brand new One Piece movie, titled One Piece Film: Z.
Luffy's crew is comprised of Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky and Brook.
One Piece Film: Z is about a former Marine named Zephyr (who goes by the alias Z), commander of the Neo Marines, who steals powerful weapons called Dyna Stones from the Marines, and tries to use them to destroy the world.
Now it's personal as the Straw Hat pirates go after Z to avenge their loss and to restore the age of some of their crew members.The visual cinematography in this film is quite the sight to behold.
From the big set pieces, like an exploding volcano, to simple things like making sure that the characters never go off model, this film is really quite nice to look at.
A great example of this is whenever characters fight each other in this movie, whenever their attacks collide, they have a visual accent to them, and the accent changes colors and never repeats its shape.
At the end of the film the characters all put on battle gear to go and face Z (pronounced Zed in the English dub and Zetto in the Japanese version).
The dominant color for each of the character's battle armor is red, which symbolizes anger and passion, which is exactly what the Straw Hat pirates were feeling when they went to attack Z.
Visual frames that are dominated by warm colors can feel enclosed, connote richness, suggest anger (red), eroticism, high emotional arousal, physical warmth and degeneracy." (7) This quite helps to show that the creators of this movie knew what they were doing and purposefully choose to outfit the characters in a color that would accurately represent their emotions towards the upcoming fight they were about to face.The creators of the movie used music to highlight the wonderful animation in One Piece Film: Z.
This is a hauntingly beautiful song that is played at key parts in the movie and can be considered the film's theme song.
A film composer knows this best, so composer Bernard Herrman's statement, "I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters.
This quote really drives home how a piece of music can really lift a scene in a movie from OK to exceptional.
Besides having great vocal pieces in this movie, the film also makes great use out of its background sounds, like how the use a power guitar rift right before Z attacks Luffy, or the incredible theme called Zeal that plays during the opening credits scene.
The magic that Oda brings to the manga shines through here, and there aren't many bad things I have to say about this film.
If I had to say one bad thing, it would probably be whenever there's fan service in this movie it comes off as obvious, distracting and unnecessary, however, there isn't that much of it in the film, so it doesn't take away from the film too much.
If you like what you see with One Piece Film: Z, then I suggest that you give the series a try, even thought the series is long, both it and this film are excellent.
One Piece Film: Z easily comes with my highest recommendation; it's a great movie, so give it a watch if you have 108 minutes to spare..
Overall great movie.
I do know why this movie gets a lot of hate.
Second if you never seen one piece this movie will not make any sense.
That being said if you are like me and have seen every episode and every Sunday morning you look forward to the new episode this movie is excellent.
Sure the straw hats could of stayed out of the movie but I guess they cant have a one piece movie without them, even though id be fine if they did in a future movie.
(The history of Monkey D Garp would be an example) This movie builds around the Marines and gives us a good view of them.
I LOVE ONE PIECE what else there is too new movie if you can still aired in Indonesia exciting times ya.
Oh yes episode one piece please be accelerated Dunk makeI've been watching movies from one piece strong world really pull ya say the same curious z movie one piece movie to make one piece cartoon remains a passion for creating an interesting episode episodeMain character who aspires to be a pirate king after Shank redhead stopover on the island of his birth, Fusha, his straw hat given to him so that one day he must return it if it met again.
not that the story itself is bad, its just that i felt that the plot doesn't even involve the straw hats!
they didn't even bother saving the world, the only thing they cared about was the **** hat so i think even if you remove them from this movie, it would still end the same way.
compared to the previous film, Strong World, of course the battle scenes were done better this time because of the 5 years difference in technology.
if we can somehow remake the scenes from Strong World today then it would turn out a hundred times better than this!
i don't think the movie is all that bad.
This film is about Z, a character who we officially not allowed to 'know' yet, I think that's the reason why it lacks of many things to make a good movie.
The skills of animators in this movie is really great, in combination with the fan-service (which is very obvious and used a lot) I would rate it 7/10.
However, if it's about rating this movie(which must have a good plot and convey it well), I can't bring myself to rate higher.
I thought the anime title was "Z", not "One Piece".
Luffy, the unlikely leader of his band of pirates called "Straw Hats" on his pirate ship called "Sunny." His crew is composed of swordsman Roronoa Zoro, sleazy chef Sanji, weird sniper Usopp, sexy voluptuous navigator Nami, sultry archaeologist Nico Robin and the other odd characters including a muscle bound cyborg named Franky, a skeleton named Brook and their pet-like doctor named Chopper.
Luffy, Robin, Brook and Chopper have special powers derived from eating Devil Fruits.In this adventure, Z, a giant of a man with a mechanical arm, sets off an explosion with Dyna Balls to destroy the so-called First End Point.
Luffy and his crew gets involved when they rescue Z from the sea, and when he found out they were pirates, Z's henchman Bin puts magic spells on some of the Straw Hats.
Also after Z are the real Marines, from which Z rose from the ranks and once led as admiral, until tragedies made him turn to his dark side.The beginning of this film was quite difficult to get through for someone who did not know anything about this franchise as there were so many characters I had to get familiar with.
My kids who watch a lot of anime (not this one though) were quite antsy after the first hour and could not wait to go home.
On the other hand, I got more and more interested during the second hour to see how everything would turn out at the end.
This film made me interested to read up more about this anime.
Now I know what One Piece is and who the Straw Hats were.
Overall this movie is not bad at all.
Come to think of it, this movie was really more about Z than the Straw Hats.
Looking forward to another film more about Luffy and the Straw Hats next time.
This is after all already the tenth One Piece full length film..
Plot is OK but it doesn't feel like one piece..
It is good enough to spend some time but it is definitely not a good movie.The strong point of the film was the animations.
It felt a lot less like one piece and too much like naruto (the running) or dbz (the gear second).The plot is OK but way too dramatic to be plausible.
It was so off it completely got me out of the movie.In the end, even though it is about One Piece and it had a very good story line, they screwed up by overdoing everything.
First, what makes One Piece a good series?
Basically, all the characters has a heart and a good backstory to it, and it makes you rooting for them.
This film has the opposite, the villain's motivation is bad, and his backstory is trying too hard to be complex.
You want Luffy kicking-ass with some black, strong arms, you got it.
I don't know if you'll have to be a fan and understand the series well enough to understand this, but for a not-so- big fan like me, going as simply just a moviegoer, this film has too many nonsensical random stuff that just baffle me.All and all, this film doesn't have what One Piece need for even the basics, and it deserve a 4 stars..
Best One Piece Film.
This movie was by far the best One Piece movie so far (in my opinion) I have seen it many times already and it never get's boring.
I also Love how the Admirals were in this movie (Especially Aokiji since he is my favorite of the three)The thing that I loved most about this movie besides its incredible bad guy (Who has an incredible backstory by the way) was the fight scenes.
I'm talking about the One's at the end, I absolutely love how well they were done, especially during the scene where Sanji is fighting Bins.I only hope that Film Gold turns out to be as good or even better than this oneI highly suggest giving it a watch.
Sidekicks of Z get one appearance to seem strong, then one to get defeated and let heroes show off their moves.Fact that movie tries to appeal to fans by showing off well known parts of Strawhat crew characters makes next sin even worse.
Don't get me started on how nobody is even trying to stop Z or even help people.Too much stuff was thrown in just for looks, not enough attention was paid to making an actual movie..
Let me stress that I liked the movie, but I feel some points worth mentioning about it.First while Z is a good villain.
it seems like he and his two side kicks did everything and could have done it with one ship.Third, it seems like Z was never seriously considering to destroy the third endpoint as he could have done that when he arrived but he choose to wait for luffy and then after a rather inconclusive fight simply gives up and fights the navy to death.Fourth, it was off course completely nonsense for anyone who doesn't know one piece at least well.