The perspective is wild so we have a lot of space visually, instead of close shots of the charaters being in our face. Very straight and sharp panels, clean lines, symmetry, no dialoge. These are so easy and calming to look at, aren’t they? A lot of wild shots and basically “empty” spaces can give the reader the impression of the time frozen or flowing slowly. It’s really brilliant, and when the two techniques are used together like this, you get one party totally overwhelming the other.Īnd the shock we feel is mirrored on the next pages too. But Luffy is not just suddnely there, throwing a punch, he has ALREADY thrown it by the time we even see him. We didn’t even see him move and it’s deliberate - we did see Bellamy jump at him while shouting, and therefore one kind of saw that in slow-mo. Never did Luffy have so a overhwelming, humiliating victory over anyone.
It’s even much larger than the other panels, it’s a full double page. We have pages and pages of stuffed, chaotic panels with Bellamy jumping, everyone screaming, huge sound effects so we can barely see what’s even going on anymore, then we turn page and BAMM. You don’t even have to read it, that not the point at all. Look, this format here can’t even come close to properly replicate the impression of reading this online, so leaf through thess few pages HERE. Okay, so he finally answeres, coolly, ingoring the shit he said, the crowd’s screaming, Bellamy’s really approaching now and
He’s just standing there, waiting, not even bothering trying to verbally deal with him. There is so much going on on these pages, we feel suffocated by them, but it’s for a purpose - we have only one steady point visally, and it’s Luffy. I didn’t edit the text out for these because that’d beat the whole point, as it should be seen in it in its hideous tedious glory.Īll of these are really stuffed and chaotic panels, even their outline is slant, dynamic for pages, which is EXTREMELY rare for One Piece, even during fights.īellamy’s jumping around, he’s shouting nonsense, the crowd is also shouting nonsense. Uh, so much freaking talk, can’t this guy just shut up already? We only see Luffy’s back, but we know that he’s not impressed. It shows Bellamy jumping around so fast that we can’t even see him(!!), he’s at 50 places at the same time, and on a really large area - the top of the farthest tower is at least 30 meters from Luffy, and he’s jumping around them like lightning. The third one is this cool larger picture. It’s a great tool for a writer to use “NPC” commentary. On the second panel here, we get some outside commentary - we know that the townspeople think he’s the shit, and some of them are just starting to suspect that Luffy really is the 100 million guy. We hate him more than Crocodile, the biggest villian so far.
We know that he’s leagues weaker then Luffy and we very much want Luffy to destroy him. Then Luffy is told that they stole a firend’s gold, and goes back to Mocktown.īellamy starts jumping around. So we know the story, Luffy and Zoro let themselves to be beaten up by and humiliated in front of the whole bar by that asshole with the smallest dick energy in the whole manga so far. Let’s take a look at in whole because it’s just goddamn incrediable. It’s only one panel from the fight, but you already get a feel of how it probably went and will go.īut if it’s full fights and panels/page compositions, then a prime example of that is that Bellamy fight. The way Zoro is inked dark, rising from the dead, making Mr. It’s not just that they generally look damn good, but even the way the panels are positioned and shaped is an art in itself. Let’s talk about the fight scenes and impact panels first, since One Piece is a shounen after all, and there is a good amount of ass-whooping going on.