One Piece Movie 9: Episode Chopper Plus

Okay, this OP movie really made me curious. Because eversince its first performance, all I heard are compliments. That’s why I feel really exited when I finally get ahold of this movie.

The story started with the appearance of a word ‘if’. I was chuckled when I saw that. It’s as if the animators already warned OP fans to not complain later on since this movie was an ‘if’ story. Then we saw many wanted posters and prologs to explain the situation in One Piece world, a very good start for nonregular OP watchers.

The story, as explained in the title, was about Chopper recruitment/ retell of Drum arc, but without Vivi as in the original story. Instead, we have Robin, Franky, and Thousand Sunny in it. But unlike movie 8 (the retell of Arabasta arc), this time, they managed to made a great story and somehow managed to fit in all those characters without, we watchers, felt akward. For example, Robin obviously played Vivi’s part, but you’ll saw her as Robin herself without out-of-characterness. And when you saw Franky or Sunny or Wapol’s brother, you won’t saw them as something that shouldn’t be there.

About the pace, this movie had good pace. I mean, you didn’t feel rushed when watching it. Eventhough I still felt that some scene was skipped, but remember, this is an ‘if’ story XD

The animation used what we called Movie 6’s style. Personally I didn’t like it. It looked like the characters were ‘messy’, but it was good in term of consistency and the combination with the 3D backgrounds graphics. Looked at the snow, forests, and of course the ‘sakura’. It was totally awesome!! Beautifull!! Plus the sounds and BGMs were perfect. Notice the sound made when the characters stepped on the snow. Perfect!!

Still I’m a bit dissapointed to see that Robin didn’t get as much fight as Zoro and Franky. Yeah, I know that she played Vivi, but if they could made the extra characters feels all right, they should be able to add extra fight for her isn’t it?? -_- But, that’s, of course, just a personal complain XD

Overall, I would say that this movie was a success, especially when you compared it with Movie 8. But, personally I still prefer a ‘new story’ kind of movie instead a ‘remake with extra story’ kind of movie, and I prefer Movie 7’s art style (exclude the ‘boing-boing’ effect of course), so my favourite OP movie untill now is still Movie 7 followed by Movie 5.

Now I can’t wait to see Movie 10, since it will have ‘new story’ and from I saw from the trailer, it will be awesome ^_^