 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece and today we are, rather unfortunately, not going to be reviewing a manga chapter because Weekly Shonen Jump is on break, but my review senses are a-tingling nonetheless, so today we're going to do something weird, something very weird and review are the One Piece reviewers. Now why am I doing this? Well, I can't say I have any good reason other than I thought it might be fun because I was researching One Piece YouTubers for a video I did on spoilers and thumbnails and titles and I realized that there are a ton of people out there, an unfathomable amount really, who are giving this YouTube business a real go and so I want to say that this video is going to be focusing on reviewing specifically small channels because the big guys have enough exposure as it is and I also thought that since I'm anticipating a lot of facecam stuff that I would get into the spirit of things and what we are going to do is play the role of a One Piece fan who is keenly searching for a new chapter review and in this case that's going to be chapter 976, which incidentally there may be spoilers for Act 3 of Wano given that we are actively seeking out chapter reviews so there is your spoiler warning if you do not wish to proceed but otherwise I am super keen to see what these up-and-coming YouTubers have to offer and links to their channels will be in the description below if you're keen on checking them out. So let us begin. Sierra the Goat! Alright you had me until you said fan translation look I can't really blame you I mean IU Scans is my review material for such a huge part of this channel's life and it does help you get your review out there faster which is one of the very few competitive advantages that newer channels can easily get but still I'll tell you what I do like about this though which you may not initially or in fact ever pick up on but the shot is actually framed quite nicely specifically in regards to the background so if you're an aspiring YouTuber and you don't have a treasure trope of wee bar artifacts like say but if you don't have said wee bar artifacts to put in your background then this is the way to do it because whether it's intentional or not Sierra the goat is making use of the golden ratio I love it so basically one third of the background is the texture blinds and two thirds are the white wall not the most interesting background in the world but that is pretty much the best possible thing you could have done with it especially by using the corner of the room because this point here creates depth of image so Sierra the goat I am going to rate your channel as a super solid golden ratios out of three Dante de gaula excellent foreign language youtubers and it looks like we've hit a bit of a gold mine of personality with Dante here oh my god your shot changed it changed again what is this filter madness oh he's on his side this guy is too good to be true look I have no idea what Dante is saying but I love how he's saying it this guy has some pretty solid personality hiding behind those shades and the way he just continuously changes up the shot is uh oh it's it's definitely unique is that his whatsapp number in like the top left hand corner oh why would you do that oh that's just inviting trouble but look overall this guy isn't doing too badly at all he's confident quirky that is a recipe for success on youtube so we will be giving Dante five troll whatsapp calls out of five Eric price oh hello there Eric my name is Eric um so if you guys have been a long time followers of this channel of course I highly doubt a lot of you guys are uh you guys would know that mostly this channel has been dedicated to uh my parkour and uh wait a minute stop stop let's stop the video parkour you say man I would love to do parkour I'm just so unbelievably lazy whoa but back to the one piece review here's a cool thing once again intentionally I'm not just like Sierra the goat Eric has a golden ratio background we're roughly two-thirds of it are taken up by the straw hat jolly roger and to further third are the bounty posters on the sides so even though it's a more or less flat surface it does still have some visual flair our dress Rosa depends on how you say it I put way too many roles in the art but I like saying it I mean I guess that's canon now and you cannot pronounce it without holding a glass of wine which is awkward because I don't have one what I would say is that you have a nice disclaimer there about only drinking if you are of age which but if your channel does take off and you feature alcohol consumption in your videos then that can become something of a problem for youtube because it's not necessarily family friendly something else I'll say is that the room you're recording in is very much not ideal the walls look incredibly echoey and there's this very like noticeable hum during the end portion of the video which I don't know if that's like a fan or air conditioning but whatever it is it's there so basically if you have the time and or inclination I would suggest finding a new recording spot ideally with some sort of carpet flooring and also minimizing the echoes off the wall and maybe even looking into some post-production techniques to help that as well as maybe buying a couple of cheap softboxes to give you some more depth filled lighting but otherwise Eric you are going to score a perfect seven parkours out of seven gobb all right so cool here's our first review channel that like me does not make use of facecams but is instead using still images and gobb is chosen mainly to take clips from the anime which is a solid idea and it's something that I would do a lot more of if I felt safe doing it the issue is that using short clips in theory it absolutely comes under the banner of fair use especially for review or critical analysis based content however Japan to be quite frank doesn't care they happen to have their own set of standards and I would be super paranoid about using actual anime clips because they have a much larger chance of being detected by copyright bots what's worse though and you probably won't hear this because I'll have edited it out is that you use music from one piece which is great it creates a nice cohesive effect but using copyright music is almost certainly a death sentence for a channel you should avoid it at all costs because you will get flagged at some stage 100 guaranteed but something that I think God really has going for him is that his audio is probably the best we've heard so far it's not too echoey it's not peaking and it's consistently clear for all intents and purposes it is perfectly fine for youtube and the other thing I'll say at this point is be very cognizant of your vocabulary this is something that I am often very very guilty of using the same word over and over again because I just have it in my mind but try to identify where that is because otherwise something like the following happens monologue he said was mad the whole way he got introduced was mad I could say and it's mad to becoming one of the supernovas a cohort of rookie pirates although it adds the figure of blackbeard to their cohort but another cohort of the worst generation cohort of giants cohort of straw hats so yeah just try and be aware of when you're using the same words a bit too often I'm very guilty of that and it annoys me to no end but otherwise good stuff gobb we'll give you a sturdy three out of three to a copyright strikes for this one do you see the vincenzi how is everybody doing the people who watch my silly videos which are just now only one piece reactions because they don't really have time or will to do anything else nor do you need time to do anything else to seal one piece is of course the ultimate priority in life so I'm glad you have yourself sorted out so there's quite a lot that's being done well here right off the bat for a facecam video the shot is actually framed quite nicely in this really funky bedroom which has this beautiful like cove of depth at the back and the architecture of the walls very friendly for the eyes to casually travel across because you do need to remember when you're doing some static facecam stuff that people's eyes are going to want to wander so if you give them something to look at then that sustains their engagement at least that's what almost 10 years of working in theater design has taught me and something else to take note of is that you seal is not flatly lit there is very clearly a dominant light source coming from this direction but look at the effect it has on her face it gives it a hint of depth which once again just makes a person that much more interesting to look at than a flatly lit image so there's a lot of aesthetic merit here but I will say that just as with most people the sound here is very echoey which tells me that you are probably speaking into a flat wall and a quick fix to sort of help you out without investing too much money would be to just put a pillow in front of the wall you're speaking into so that the sound gets more absorbed and doesn't bounce violently back at you but you're still vincenzi we are going to award you with a perfect 10 out of 10 arbitrary grand line review logos mage welcome back to mage I'm Sean I'm Chris this is one piece chapter 976 on a friday on a friday you say okay that's sneaky thank you guys for reading some scans here all right okay stop here's something we should talk about so these guys are obviously the first double act we've seen revealing one piece here today and having another voice in your content brings a lot of benefits with it means that you don't always have to be on and you've got someone to bounce off it can be great however for that to work one of you always does need to be on because if you both take a step back then it results in situations like this and just to be clear I'm not making fun of these guys it's just that sort of inevitable moment of awkward that is going to happen early on in reviewing careers in fact it still happens to me and the only reason why you're not seeing it is because I edit them out and I also thought that since I'm anticipating a lot of facecam stuff that I would get into the spirit of things and we are going to play the role however on the other hand these guys sound Australian so it's hard for me to give them anything less than a total score of a perfect five lambingtons out of five veto night all right cool another guy not using a facecam okay so good things about veto night the audio is clear and crisp I think it could be much better with a little processing but whatever it's a great starting point now the music in the background is very recognizable it's a definite like distorted genres theme from part five of jojo and once again I will caution you unless you've rearranged this song for yourself just don't use it it's not worth the risk even though it is a beautiful track even when distorted actually here's something I don't like though one of the biggest problems I think newer reviewers have is that they just retell the chapter and that's fine there's a lot of people out there who want that sort of thing but that is a recap not a review and veto night does break it up and offer his thoughts on each event which is nice it's leagues ahead of many but the trickiest thing here is that you also go through all the pages and essentially the entire chapter which I have noticed is the official translations are good on you for that but this is incredibly risky because I think there is a sound legal argument that could be made that this video is just reproducing the manga chapter which is rather unfortunately theft and distribution I'm not saying don't use manga panels to illustrate your points I use them in my videos although I do tend to flip them because I'm super paranoid about unfair copyright claims but this video takes things to a whole different level and if this channel does grow and gain traction then you are probably going to be facing some big problems in the future so I would recommend that you find a different visual format because your audio is great your thoughts are also great but those visuals are probably going to get you in trouble oh and also just please add recap to the title like one piece chapter 976 review and recap because that is what you're doing but otherwise this channel score is a perfect five genres out of five c stone sage um I'll start from the start oh wow those of you that know why I'm dressed like this for the people that don't that's fantastic but um yeah so as expected kind of one was really lucky it was nothing to do you can't just launch right into the review we have things to talk about here I mean the review itself almost doesn't really matter this makeup is oh my god it's phenomenal the one thing I will say is that I really wish chin base face was framed slightly higher and inhabiting a better space because my eyes naturally want to rest in the middle of the frame and they keep getting dragged back down to here I mean I do get why she's done it though it's to get that top knot in the frame which to be fair sells the entire cosplay an incredible amount so yeah you know what screw my framing desires whatever the top knot is worth it the audio for this is also pretty incredible chin base voice is loud and clear but not peaking sounds meaty and fleshed out as opposed to really like hollow and tinny once again there's some nice depth by having the camera pointing at the corner of the room I kind of wish that wasn't the center but once again whatever and you know it's just so fascinating to watch chin base speaking in English with an English accent no less I am completely mesmerized absolutely brilliant job here an easy 10 whale sharks out of 10 Wolf Nara ladies and gentlemen this is absolutely how you start a video no generic amv no custom intro you know hello and welcome to the grand line review garbage just cold open absolutely that up and then smash straight into your content with that said I cannot stress this enough do not smoke or drink in your videos YouTube does not like it and it will hurt you significantly in getting your content out there in fact I'm pretty sure that just including clips of this guy is going to make this video very difficult to monetize but at the same time I just have to include him because look at Wolf Nara this is an act of raw passion like no thought for production quality or anything it's just a guy going you know what I want to talk about some one piece and then doing it so good on him so Wolf Nara you are going to achieve a score of 4.2 weed emojis out of five and look I don't think that we're going to be able to top Wolf Nara now or ever so let's end this exploration here now what did we learn today if you are going to be on facecam then take some time to craft your background and when in doubt just adhere to the rule of thirds it will work every single time try not to record in echoey rooms and please do look into some quick guides for post-processing audio it's very easy and the quality of your content will skyrocket infinitely and also as funny as I did find it please do not drink or smoke on camera don't use copyright music either and don't reproduce an entire chapter of manga on screen all of those are big youtube red flags that will come back to bite you if you do want to grow your channel which I'm assuming all of you do except for maybe Wolf Nara because he's just chilling and having a good time but most importantly well done everyone for anyone out there who has never tried to produce a video like these it is not easy it is not easy at all the time that can go into some of the stuff we've seen here today is absolutely insane and if you think that reviewing a weekly chapter of manga is easy then I do suggest you give it a go yourself because that is far from the case so yeah that was fun but what do you guys think if you'd like to see more reviews of reviewers for whatever reason and please let me know in the comments below or even join my discord server and also please do subscribe to the channel for more one-piece shenanigans uploaded straight into your youtube feeds but for now this has been the groundline review and I'll see you next time