 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. And today it's time for more mild controversy because I am back with a whole host of unpopular One Piece opinions from you wonderful Grand Fleet members. Some of which I agree with and some of which I think you're absolutely insane, but that's the beauty of unpopular opinions. And if you're wondering how you can become part of videos like this and all you need to do is subscribe to the Grand Line Review, which will result in regular One Piece content being uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. But more importantly, it will also keep you up to date with our community section and maybe one day you too could be famous like McDurpalds here, who says, Ace isn't actually an interesting character. He's only really relevant because of Marineford. Shots fired by McDurpalds there. Although I do agree, weirdly enough, Ace only became super interesting after his death with the flashback and everything and he's a very poor guy. And also just an important FYI, before we hop into things, today is going to be a sponsored video, the proceeds of which are going to continue to pay for closed captions here at the Grand Line Review and guess who our sponsor is? Hello and welcome to the Raid Shadow Legends ad, your source for legends performing Raids presumably in the shadows. It's a free to play mobile RPG that has nothing to do with One Piece, except that it does because look, here they are quite clearly on a pirate ship sailing through the Grand Line. It's canon now. And who were they, you ask? 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When I was on the river a couple of weeks ago, there was actually a big discussion about this and what it kind of boils down to was whether or not you actually like the Big Mom character. If you do then her comedic usage isn't too bothersome, but if you don't and you want her to be something she's not, well then you're just going to be perpetually disappointed. And I really do think that what Wana was doing is just highlighting the incredible flaws of Big Mom that have always been present. And when I say flaws, I mean character flaws, which to me makes her a very interesting figure. You know, without her crew for like of a better term to babysit her, Big Mom is capable of being outwitted and outplayed with relative ease, yet there is still nothing powerful enough to bring her down. And I find that quite terrifying. But I know that this opinion is unpopular because we also got a whole host of other responses like, Big Mom is easily the most disappointing, Yonko. She makes them seem like a joke, which I find very interesting. Apparently both sides of the Big Mom argument believe that they hold the minority opinion. And we can go back and forth like this for a while. So we will. Big Mom being used for comedic effect doesn't affect her value nor depreciate how much of a threat she is. But I do need to be completely honest. I included this comment out of sheer Australian nepotism because I know Joy Girl and she provided me with this delicious birthday cake, which also ties in very nicely to the Big Mom discussion because I am now craving cake. Not sure if unpopular, but I missed the quirky fighters from pre-times skip. The normal humans without devil fruit powers are a different race from a strange island, but are still weird. Using hypnosis, ramen noodles, skypeer dials, things like that. And I think the new world still does have its fairly quirky fighters, although I do take your point about prominent characters, generally being devil fruit users nowadays. And yeah, there's not a lot of opportunity for figures like onesie to appear anymore. Especially not during the Gionko saga, although I think Dressrosa did a fairly good job of having quirky fighters. There were a whole ton of the Don Quixote family who weren't fruit users and still just super weird, like Dellinger and Lao Ji. They're definitely the minority though. In conclusion, I also miss weird powers and I really don't enjoy that everything seems to be so boxed in with either devil fruits or haki in the modern era. Unpopular opinion. Teach is way smarter than everyone thinks. Yeah, Blackbeard is a pretty sinister mofo. I mean, he looks in acts like an idiot and it's hard to explain verbally, but there is such a distinct difference between his idiocy and say Luffy's idiocy. Where Luffy seems genuinely foolish, Blackbeard to me has always felt like a bit of an act. Although to be fair, the two are still quite similar because Blackbeard is also the kind of guy who likes to take the opportunity to enjoy and revel in life in addition to accomplishing his goals. But there's no way he's gotten this far without being at least somewhat intelligent or at least having whatever the one piece what equivalent of a cute street smarts is. I think Thriller Bark is actually a really good arc with hilarious comedy, epics, scenes and an amazing backstory with Brooke. The reason it gets so much negativity is because it follows any slobby. And that's fair enough. I would also add that in addition to any slobby, Thriller Bark also came directly before somebody arcabellago. You know, the arc that introduced the supernovas and new admirals, Silver's Ray Lee and saw the complete defeat of the straw hats. So Thriller Bark is very unfortunately sandwiched by these absurdly iconic arcs in one piece and yeah, I do feel kind of bad for it. Thriller Bark is more along the lines of what a classic one piece adventure is and I think it is flat out one of the funniest arcs in the series. Perhaps if it had a less polarizing antagonist that probably would have made all the difference but instead we got Gekko Moria, a man whose very existence is also an unpopular opinion. Some anime filler arcs make the world of one piece feel more alive rather than just a conventional straight line from island to island. Hmm, yes, unpopular opinion detected. I obviously disagree but most people know my opinion of the anime and I guess it's hard to argue with the very basic idea that filler does provide stuff and people and stuff and people make the world feel much larger because now there would be more stuff and people in it. A lot of the times it's more when it comes down to contradicting the world itself when it becomes a problem like introducing living dragons during Worship Island arc and then having everyone be surprised that gas but dragons exist when they get to punk hazard. To me that just makes the world feel clunky and inconsistent. Still, I will take anime filler arcs over filler embedded in canon material any day of the week so go ahead and expand the world I guess. Maybe eventually we'll find another G8. The one piece is not real and very unpopular opinion in reality and we're very dare say this is the popular opinion of the denizens of the one piece world. Even after Whitebeard claimed on live television that it existed, I think most people are still very much convinced that it's a legend. Although remember most of the world's citizens apparently don't even know for a fact that devil fruits exist. So their minds have a long, long way to go before accepting the one piece. Unpopular opinion. Dia's Drake, Stretch Manapu and Hawkins are all sellouts. Interesting. I have to assume that this commenter is an anime only watcher and is going off the idea that all three bent the need to Kaido and without giving away any spoilers I just think you definitely need to read the manga. You're right in perhaps one case. The other two though well just once again read the manga. There are certain circumstances that conflict with this whole sellout narrative. Unpopular opinion. Hawkins is top 25 strongest characters in one piece and is also stronger than Hancock. Wow, I feel like this came out of nowhere. I don't even know how to begin to scale that. He definitely means Hawkins, right? As in Basil Hawkins, not like Hawkeye, me Hawk. And what does a fight between Hawkins and Hancock even look like? One sits there shooting Merrimero beams and the other sits there playing with his deck. So actually with that in mind I suppose Hancock probably wins. And as for this whole top 25 business that's actually a pretty fun claim. I think saying things like top five and top 10 strongest characters is pretty boring because they're quite obvious and mostly inarguable choices. But what happens when you get to say number 23 then things get pretty exciting because all of the big guys have been assigned already. But I am going to try and confirm this as an unpopular opinion though because if I were to ever make a list of the top five strongest characters in one piece I have a very strong preemptive feeling that Hawkins will not be present. Top 50 maybe but the lower end of that top 50. Zoro is the most useless member. The only thing he contributes is strength. He doesn't even have another role other than swordsman. He always gets lost which causes trouble. Most of the other crewmates have a role other than fighting and do not cause as much trouble as Zoro. He's still my favorite though. Lol. I don't know about this one. I think Luffy causes far more trouble than Zoro. But there is both some agreeance and disagreements from me here. I don't know if either of those terms are actual words but I use them. I see Zoro's role is more than just a guy who fights things although I will admit that that's mostly the work that gets assigned to him which to be fair he's very good at. But as for general utility, yeah he's less useful than crew members with more technically based skills. But as I've said in a couple of videos now there are some very key moments in the series where Zoro has been essential from a non combative perspective. And that is basically to act as a vice captain if and when Luffy falters. Because Luffy isn't perfect and from time to time that will happen. At which point the slack is picked up by Zoro. Luffy leads the crew from the front and Zoro leads the crew from behind which also helps him to get not so lost because he has people to follow. Pedro's death was somewhat unnecessary. The fact that no one died in the present made Ace's death hard hitting. Now Oda is increasing the death toll in present one piece and if it's as unnecessary in quotation marks for reasons I assume the user is quoting themselves from using the word unnecessary earlier, whatever. And if it's as unnecessary as Pedro's I'd rather no one die. All right, a few different thoughts here. Firstly, I think Pedro's death was very, very necessary. If the straw hat strolled on into the territory of an emperor with just a handful of people and escaped entirely unharmed and that probably would have been the biggest load of BS in one piece history. There needed to be a sense of consequence for their actions and Pedro was a pretty perfect vehicle for that. The biggest thing he does though is he serves carrot because weirdly enough you know who would have been a completely pointless character if Pedro didn't die. Well, that would be carrot. Without Pedro, she would have just been a cute bunny thing along for a gratuitous ride but instead we got to feel some serious emotion. And as someone who is definitely in the camp that Oda needs to let more characters stay dead and to me Pedro serves a very rare purpose. Not like that pesky pound who ended up being alive. Yeah, that's right. Spoilers for something inconsequential that the anime will never animate. Unpopular opinion. I don't really like the arc that Sanji is introduced in. I am shocked and appalled. I'd also love to know why. For most people, Beratie seems to be that first massive step up for one piece because it has something for everyone really. Zoro fans get to see Zoro versus Mihawk. Sanji fans get to see Sanji in action, his backstory enjoying the crew. And that's everyone right. In this world, there are only two kinds of people. Those of team green and those of team yellow. But I've even heard a shocking amount of people say the Beratie is their favorite arc in all of one piece which is a bit of a stretch for me but I can see it because it has a grand total of like zero flaws. There's nothing I dislike about Beratie so I am genuinely curious as to why you don't. The reverie arc is damaging to Wano. I care too much about everything that isn't fighting Kaido. And yeah, welcome to one piece I guess. Funnily enough, you could probably make the same argument about a lot of arcs. Like for example, Ace versus Blackbeard is ruining Thriller Bark because I care about that cool event more than I do zombies. Or Kaido versus the Kid Alliance is ruining Hawkeye Kylind because all I care about is Kaido. And then reverie is ruining Wano because I am fickle and I don't care about Kaido anymore. I care about Sabo, Admirals and such. So I get where you're coming from. But it has this really masterful way of actually making you care about events that are happening outside of our main characters which is so, so rare for a Shonen Manga. So it is only natural to crave that deliberately denied experience and information. Luffy will die really soon due to gears and injections. So at first I thought this user might be commenting on Luffy's well-documented drug addiction but then I realized that they were referring to Ivankov. I want to say you're not wrong though. I don't like the chances of Luffy being alive by the end of one piece because he has a whole grand fleet of death flags surrounding him. A whole 30 minute episode only takes up about five to 10 minutes in the actual one piece universe. Very unpopular opinion here because a whole episode arguably takes up far less in universe time. In fact, there are certain cases where entire episodes have progressed maybe two minutes of in world time, sometimes less. And no, I do not count flashbacks and recap in that time allocation. To be fair though, the Manga is pretty similar especially in Wano. There are big time jumps and then there are times when we focus on specific events in my new detail. Low-gear users are always naked. They just make themselves look like they wear clothes. Oh, this doesn't belong here. Surely this is not an unpopular opinion at all. Either way, we aren't going to top it. So this seems like a great place to end with that thought forever burned into my mind. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your YouTube feeds. But for now, this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time.