 My favorite moment of 2020 was when we met Chicken Butt, a man whose head is quite literally the butt of a chicken. Oh, a rooster, I guess, if you wanna get all technical and correct. Doesn't matter. Either way, the question then becomes, how does he poop? Does it come out of his head butt, or does it escape via the rooster head, potentially a rooster head butt? All of these questions and more will need answering in 2021. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review or source for everything one piece. And today we have a difficult yet highly enjoyable task of picking out our best moments of 2020. Not a year that I think we generally want to celebrate or remember because it's been quite awful in almost every area possible. However, there is at least one exception to that and that is the ever-sturdy one piece. Because despite the fact that longer production was significantly impacted by a certain pandemic, 2020 has been a pretty ridiculously stacked year for one piece. So much so that I usually make a top 10 list for this sort of traditional occasion. However, that simply does not work this time. And I do think it needs to be a top 15 because there are far too many moments worthy of recognition. Now for anime-only watches, I do need to say sorry, but this list is going to consist of events that have occurred in the manga, none of which have been animated yet. So I guess just be aware that this is basically a list of 15 massive spoilers for you. And just to recap, the chapters we received in 2020 consist of everything from chapter 967 entitled Roger's Adventure, all the way to chapter 999, the sake I brewed to drink with you. Chapter 1000 is not officially out and therefore not eligible. And before we do the other thing it is that we do, this is your final opportunity of 2020 to subscribe to the Grand Line Review in order to receive regular one-piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. And yeah, I suppose you could do it in 2021, but why procrastinate? Do it now and let's just end the year in style. Vibrant, red, glorious style. But let's head into this adventure that is 2020 with number 15, Onigashima Floats. A very recent event that comes to us courtesy of chapter 997, but this panel was quite literally breathtaking. I mean it. I stopped breathing when I saw this for the first time just out of pure shock because this situation is absurd in all of the best ways. This grand action accomplished so much giving us our urgent wanna calamity and raising the dramatic stakes as well as emphasizing the pure power of Mr. Kaido and what we're up against in the Sark. And after 20 plus years of high stakes drama this is another situation that we haven't been in before and I can do nothing but applaud Oda for continuing to find creative apocalyptic style scenarios. Moving along though in number 14 we have the Betrayal of Mr. Kanjuro. So this happened much earlier in the year and it might even be a distant memory now but this was a definite highlight for me this time in all of the worst possible ways though because it made me despise a character who I previously quite enjoyed. To be fair though in exchange for that it made Kanjuro infinitely more fascinating and there's a lot of great stuff to explore with him in retrospect now. Like the idea that he was drawing Pauli on purpose using his non-dominant hand as well as the fact that he is a stereotypical kabuki actor. So it makes all the sense in the world that he was the one pretending to be a vassal. Acting if you will. And also as far as we're aware Kanjuro died off-screen or off-stage which is a great insult to an actor to rob them of that dramatic culmination. But you know what Kanjuro? You are a dick so you can deal with it. To number 13 now we have caught a big fish because this will be the Return of Jinbei. Another one of those moments that feels like it happened a lifetime ago but one of the more monumentally important things to have happened in 2020. Although I will admit as I did in the chapter review it was a bit weird. Jinbei just sort of appeared out of nowhere in the exact right place at the exact right time which spawns questions ever so many questions. I guess all of which are irrelevant right now because I am just happy to have him back. And Jinbei has been a phenomenal addition to the Wanoak. And of course I very much look forward to seeing him in action next year. And in order to do that one of Jinbei's potential opponents makes up our number 12 which is going to be the introduction of the Tobiropo. I guess the members of the Tobiropo that we did not already know about which consists of all of the fun ones such as Ulti, Black Maria and Who's Who. I never expected to like these guys anywhere near as much as I do now because it's always a big risk to introduce this sort of glob of characters. For example, a glob of characters that I don't really like all that much would be the numbers because who cares about the numbers. But the Tobiropo very much each made their mark on me with my favorite of course being Ulti. And do please leave a comment in the comment section below which is for comments outlining who your favorite member of the Tobiropo is. Just be aware though that if it isn't Ulti you are wrong. And just as a bit of a sub moment here the revelation of all of their devil fruits was also nothing short of amazing especially Who's Who because he's a big old kitty cat. And just yeah, look for characters who we only met this year. They have no right whatsoever to be anywhere near as cool as they are which leads us conveniently into number 11. One might even say this was planned scripted perhaps but our 11th place finisher is the introduction of Yamato. Which was one of the nicest surprises for me this year and the very existence of Yamato is something that I don't think we'll even be able to fully appreciate until after one and possibly even into the final saga. Because what Yamato potentially represents is the answer to some of the greatest lingering mysteries in the series. You see Yamato has access to very special bits of paper holding the written accounts of Kozuki Odin arranged in a chronological order also known as a journal. But crazily enough there is every chance that Yamato knows just about everything that we want to know. The will of D, Laugh Tale, Road Ponyglyphs, Joy Boyd The Void Century, The Dawn of the World whatever Odin chose to log. It's all right here in this character who is also a startlingly strong contender to become a straw hat as well. So it's very difficult not to appreciate Yamato. To something of pure shock value now the number 10 greatest moment of the year would be the death of Orochi. And you probably can't hear this from my voice alone but I did put the word death in quotation marks because I'm still not so sure about this one myself but with what we have to work with we have one hell of a death scene. Kaido unceremoniously slicing Orochi's head off is the sort of visually depicted brutality that I don't generally expect from One Piece and there's a nice little detail in the panel where we see King in the background offering Kaido the use of his sword. Meaning that this whole thing was either set up well in advance or that King just knows Kaido well enough to know when his captain needs to slice a fool. Either way, if nothing else was accomplished with this I did enjoy seeing the Kaido King dynamic. Meanwhile in number nine we head to Bird Town or Bird Town heads to us because we have the arrival of Marco the Phoenix. Of all of the game changes on one and Marco is probably the most important and together with Iso he represents a whole different side of this Kozuki Oden inherited will equation. It did and does still bother me somewhat just how passive the wide-bid pirates were even after finding out about Oden's death. So I'm glad that they're being represented here by a figure who I suppose would still be the de facto leader. Also he was shown eating a pineapple this year which if I'm not mistaken is our second instance of cannibalism in One Piece. For number eight we can't go past one of my favorite quotes of the year which is when you're at sea you fight against pirates. This was the moment that very much kickstarted the year for me because the year actually began mid Oden flashback and so we were caught in quite a depressing state of affairs. However, the simultaneous arrival of Luffy Kid and Law is exactly what we needed to signal the beginning of a counter-attack as well as the beginning of a shift in tone to a more hopeful prospect. Plus I just love this series of three panels. I want a giant high quality version hanging on my wall somewhere and I've actually been telling myself that since March and I still haven't done it so maybe I should go and do that now or not because we do have a lot of gold left go through including that one time where Zoro annihilated Scratch Menopu. Chapter 997 it was, which was probably one of the best chapters of the year but Zoro getting annoyed at all their shenanigans going on around him and just deciding to slice open his second member of the worst generation was simply stunning. The composition, the texture, the shading, the timing everything is perfect but the chef's kiss comes directly afterwards where the antidote to the the ice demon thing just gets flung up in the air or like fufufufufu and Zoro just catches it without even looking because F-U Queen we're not playing your stupid games anymore. Meanwhile, number six is going to be a significantly more subtle event but it is the revelation of Kaido's devil fruit something which we got in right at the end of chapter 999 which immediately destroyed all accepted thought within the fan base of a dragon fruit or an ogre fruit all in one casual line because as it turns out Kaido is a fishy a pretty damn magical fish but still a fish nonetheless and as with most things in one piece it looks oh damn obvious in retrospect given that to even get into one we had to write up a waterfall filled with all sorts of koi which was a legend that the fish fish fruit is potentially based on and whilst we still don't have an official name for it with the model and everything it was still a landmark event nonetheless just as with each and every one of our top five moments which begins with the straw hats fully assembled and this might seem like a slightly underwhelming thing at first but seeing a shot of the entire crew ready for action is not something that has happened since a long ago in the days of Fishman Island last time these 10 characters were in a single panel ready to fight was one published in 2011 so it has been a very very long time filled with all sorts of crew absences but finally now in 2020 we have again our full crew and that simplistic magnificence is kind of it on a more somber note though we do have number four in which we need to travel back in time to visit the death of Kozuki Oden and I have to say this whole flashback was pretty damn lit and unfortunately so was the pot that Oden was standing in during his execution also something stupidly brilliant is juxtaposing this moment with Oden's introduction the man is introduced eating a pot of Oden on the burning corpse of a friend and his final moments involved him dying in a pot of Oden to save his friend so there's a nice bookend effect happening here but this instantly became one of the most memorable death scenes in one piece with Oden doing the impossible and lifting all of his vassals in order to save them from his fate and just the words my name is Oden and I was born to boil a so ingrained in my mind especially because the crowd finished the line after Kaito shot Oden it's so tragic but so damn good and this whole event very much strengthens and it forms our number three spot which is the vassals versus Kaito this conflict was pretty astounding with the vassals throwing epic surprises at us during every turn of combat and although it does look like they ultimately failed to bring Kaito down at the same time they did fair better than most people could have anticipated they yes it may have been a very one sided fair but I relished these moments of action and watching how goofy samurai figures step up in the world I now have a level of respect for each and every one of them that did not exist prior to this event especially Kinimal however there are still two moments that hit me harder one of which came from a very unexpected source being Nami and her declaration that Luffy would become the pirate king this is very much unlike anything else we've discussed so far which are fairly well shaking reveals or grand action pieces but this is a moment of the pure subtlety it's not Nami yelling at the top of her lungs that Luffy will become the king of the pirates instead she is tearfully embracing her captain's dream even though it likely means her imminent death at the hands of, well I guess the head of Ulty it was really touching and I think it's way up there on the list of the greatest pirate king declarations in the series of which there are a whole host of other amazing contenders but this one definitely stands on its own but this is some death to Nami that I've been craving ever since New Order began and definitely one of the best moments of the year but when we're talking about the best there is only one true contender there is only one moment that was universally adored and bound to be remembered as one of the landmark events of the entire series and that is of course Frankie Freedom Rider look when the funny robot smashed the other large mother in the face with the motorcycle the entire world just stood still in all seriousness though it's obviously he laughed probably quite anticlimactic because I imagine that just about everyone was expecting this but Roger landing on Laftail and discovering what our mysterious treasure is is simply a serious defining moment and immediately iconic panel that stands out within a sea of panels contained in 1,000 chapters of content something quite funny though is that he laughed is from chapter 967 which was the very first chapter to be published in 2020 and I believe that I titled that review chapter of the decade which is a very audacious claim but looking back on things it still absolutely was the chapter of the year there were definitely other amazing chapters but nothing stood up to what this initial offer and provided it was a superbly strong beginning to the year and it's how I'm going to be ending the year but what do you guys think? 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