Anime and manga fans have always compared Luffy, Ichigo, and Naruto, the protagonists of “The Big Three”: One Piece, Bleach, and Naruto. While these comparisons primarily focus on the strengths and abilities of the characters, there are other aspects that fans need to consider while trying to prove which character is the better protagonist.
Luffy in One Piece (Credits: Toei Animation)
Although the stories of Ichigo and Naruto have ended in their respective series, Luffy still has a few years left. One Piece has just entered the final saga, and it gives Luffy a chance to prove that he is a better protagonist than Ichigo and Naruto. And there is one aspect of the narrative that could help him gain the title.
This aspect involves Luffy writing his own legacy. Unlike Ichigo and Naruto, Luffy does not follow in the footsteps of his father, and that’s what makes him unique.
Luffy in One Piece (Credits: Toei Animation)
Although the stories of Ichigo and Naruto have ended in their respective series, Luffy still has a few years left. One Piece has just entered the final saga, and it gives Luffy a chance to prove that he is a better protagonist than Ichigo and Naruto. And there is one aspect of the narrative that could help him gain the title.
This aspect involves Luffy writing his own legacy. Unlike Ichigo and Naruto, Luffy does not follow in the footsteps of his father, and that’s what makes him unique.
- 5/3/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
A recent chapter of the Egghead Island arc in One Piece has created a lot of stir among the One Piece fans. The chapter majorly focused on the much-awaited fight between Admiral Kizaru and the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates, Sanji. The fight certainly lived up to its expectations and was quite entertaining.
One Piece – Egghead Arc
However, one panel of chapter 1107 which featured the Sanji vs. Kizaru fight, has shocked One Piece fans. The panel showed Sanji not only stopping one of Kizaru’s laser attacks but also splitting it into pieces. This has come as a shock to One Piece fans because something like this has never been done before in the series.
By creating this panel Eiichiro Oda has broken a cardinal rule of One Piece because stopping laser attacks much less splitting it into pieces is deemed impossible in One Piece.
Sanji Stops Kizaru’s...
One Piece – Egghead Arc
However, one panel of chapter 1107 which featured the Sanji vs. Kizaru fight, has shocked One Piece fans. The panel showed Sanji not only stopping one of Kizaru’s laser attacks but also splitting it into pieces. This has come as a shock to One Piece fans because something like this has never been done before in the series.
By creating this panel Eiichiro Oda has broken a cardinal rule of One Piece because stopping laser attacks much less splitting it into pieces is deemed impossible in One Piece.
Sanji Stops Kizaru’s...
- 3/22/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
The Gorosei have reached the Egghead Island and are trying to stop Dr. Vegapunk’s video to go live. Monkey D. Luffy, along with Dorry and Broggy, are fighting them. All of them have unleashed their true Devil Fruit form, and the fans were shocked to see their monstrous strengths. Currently, the Gorosei are trying to lay down everyone and everything on the Egghead Island.
Even though they are taking such drastic steps to keep the world order intact, the fans have become more curious about a certain past incident. During the Reverie arc, Red-Haired Shanks was seen to have a secret meeting with the Five Elders at Mariejois and mentioned talking about a certain pirate. Shanks has always been protective of Monkey D. Luffy. So, it raised several questions after the Elders came for Luffy’s head.
Shanks Might Be Wary About Blackbeard Red-Haired Shanks
In One Piece chapter...
Even though they are taking such drastic steps to keep the world order intact, the fans have become more curious about a certain past incident. During the Reverie arc, Red-Haired Shanks was seen to have a secret meeting with the Five Elders at Mariejois and mentioned talking about a certain pirate. Shanks has always been protective of Monkey D. Luffy. So, it raised several questions after the Elders came for Luffy’s head.
Shanks Might Be Wary About Blackbeard Red-Haired Shanks
In One Piece chapter...
- 3/21/2024
- by Priyanko Chakraborty
- FandomWire
Fans of One Piece are on the edges of their seats with the fully realized, exciting, and complex plot that the Egghead Island arc has developed into. Surprisingly, the excitement is now fragmented, since manga creator and artist Eiichiro Oda announced a three-week sabbatical from both writing and drawing the work.
Given that Oda often takes short breaks or only takes them under extreme circumstances, the sheer notion of his choosing to take such a lengthy vacation alarmed the supporters. However, this might as well be different. After Weekly Shonen Jump’s issue number 17’s 1111th episode was published, fans had to wait almost four weeks for the next chapter.
Could the reason behind the hiatus be related to Eiichiro Oda’s health? Mihawk Fighting Luffy
Although the statement did not explain Oda’s vacation, it did stimulate conjecture and guesswork from the audience. Following conjecture about Oda’s possible health troubles,...
Given that Oda often takes short breaks or only takes them under extreme circumstances, the sheer notion of his choosing to take such a lengthy vacation alarmed the supporters. However, this might as well be different. After Weekly Shonen Jump’s issue number 17’s 1111th episode was published, fans had to wait almost four weeks for the next chapter.
Could the reason behind the hiatus be related to Eiichiro Oda’s health? Mihawk Fighting Luffy
Although the statement did not explain Oda’s vacation, it did stimulate conjecture and guesswork from the audience. Following conjecture about Oda’s possible health troubles,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Archak
- FandomWire
Above: 2-panel poster for Remorques aka Stormy Waters (Jean Grémillon, France, 1941). Poster by Henri Monnier.
I’ve posted a couple of gorgeous posters for the films of Jean Grémillon in other contexts, but now that the unsung auteur is getting his due with a month-long retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image, I thought it was time to look at his entire oeuvre in posters. Grémillon has been written about often and eloquently in these pages by David Cairns, and the Notebook has just published the first part of a translation of a terrific 1978 article on the director, so I feel there’s little I can add in the way of exegesis. But I have managed to gather posters for thirteen of his feature films which I present in chronological order from 1928 to 1953. My favorite, beyond that stunning Daïnah la métisse which I’ve written about before, is the...
I’ve posted a couple of gorgeous posters for the films of Jean Grémillon in other contexts, but now that the unsung auteur is getting his due with a month-long retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image, I thought it was time to look at his entire oeuvre in posters. Grémillon has been written about often and eloquently in these pages by David Cairns, and the Notebook has just published the first part of a translation of a terrific 1978 article on the director, so I feel there’s little I can add in the way of exegesis. But I have managed to gather posters for thirteen of his feature films which I present in chronological order from 1928 to 1953. My favorite, beyond that stunning Daïnah la métisse which I’ve written about before, is the...
- 11/23/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
- 3/29/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
French actor known for her role as the cantankerous widow in Tatie Danielle, the 1990 film directed by Étienne Chatiliez
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
- 7/22/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Shanks (1974) Direction: William Castle Cast: Marcel Marceau, Tsilla Chelton, Philippe Clay, Cindy Eilbacher, Larry Bishop, Don Calfa Screenplay: Ranald Graham Oscar Movies Schlock-master William Castle's Shanks, a little-known curiosity piece, is the story (written by Ranald Graham) of Malcolm Shanks, a deaf-mute puppeteer who leaves his abusive family to go to work for the creator of a device that brings the dead back to life. Shortly after sharing his secrets with the puppeteer, the scientist dies. Since pantomimist Marcel Marceau stars as both the deaf-mute and the scientist, Shanks offers precious little dialogue. In fact, long stretches of the film have no speech at all. And with title cards to connect the scenes, Shanks plays almost like a silent movie. It's really too bad it wasn't filmed in black and white. In this dream-like fantasy, Shanks continues the resuscitation process on the scientist himself. But instead of a complete resurrection,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
By Lee Pfeiffer
Tomorrow, Turner Classic Movies (North America) offers an eclectic line-up of intriguing movies as well as flat-out classics. Beginning in the wee small hours of the morning, TCM presents two films I confess I've never heard of: Shanks, a 1974 movie starring Marcel Marceau (!) as a puppeteer who raises the dead and Mr. Sardonicus, with the wonderful Oskar Homolka as a man who forces a doctor to try to cure him from bearing a perpetual grin on his face. During the day, TCM presents some real gems: Humphrey Bogart's last movie The Harder They Fall and a line-up of back-to-back terrific Westerns: Alavarez Kelly with William Holden and Richard Widmark, Will Penny with Charlton Heston, True Grit with John Wayne and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country. If these don't have you glued to your seat, the evening wraps up with Cagney in White Heat followed...
Tomorrow, Turner Classic Movies (North America) offers an eclectic line-up of intriguing movies as well as flat-out classics. Beginning in the wee small hours of the morning, TCM presents two films I confess I've never heard of: Shanks, a 1974 movie starring Marcel Marceau (!) as a puppeteer who raises the dead and Mr. Sardonicus, with the wonderful Oskar Homolka as a man who forces a doctor to try to cure him from bearing a perpetual grin on his face. During the day, TCM presents some real gems: Humphrey Bogart's last movie The Harder They Fall and a line-up of back-to-back terrific Westerns: Alavarez Kelly with William Holden and Richard Widmark, Will Penny with Charlton Heston, True Grit with John Wayne and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country. If these don't have you glued to your seat, the evening wraps up with Cagney in White Heat followed...
- 3/12/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $80.95) includes eight pictures produced and directed by master showman Castle. In Part One of this lengthy DVD review, I dissected four of them—13 Ghosts, Homicidal and the two best, The Tingler and Mr. Sardonicus. Believe you me, it was a ghastly business! As Sardonicus would say, “I have known a ghoul—a disgusting creature that opens graves and feeds on corpses.” Like a DVD reviewer. See here.
In this epic conclusion, I am fitted out with a Strait-jacket (about time!) and also chronicle Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls and The Old Dark House, the three Castle entries new to DVD (which lack the short, individual “making of” documentaries accompanying the other five). Only two of these eight flicks were shot in color (Girls, House); theatrical trailers are included with all of the movies. And that’s all you need to know as we continue—in amazing Screamarama,...
In this epic conclusion, I am fitted out with a Strait-jacket (about time!) and also chronicle Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls and The Old Dark House, the three Castle entries new to DVD (which lack the short, individual “making of” documentaries accompanying the other five). Only two of these eight flicks were shot in color (Girls, House); theatrical trailers are included with all of the movies. And that’s all you need to know as we continue—in amazing Screamarama,...
- 10/21/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
William Castle is a hero around the Dread Central offices. The man was a true showman in every sense of the word and knew how to deliver laughs, chills, and lunacy like no other! Come this October fans will be getting a box set to scream about courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment -- The William Castle Film Collection!
From the Press Release
The master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks will be remembered on October 20 when the William Castle Film Collection debuts from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The set features eight of the legendary producer/director’s most notable films, including The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Homicidal (1961), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and Strait-Jacket (1964). Also included in the collection are Zotz! (1962), The Old Dark House (1963), and 13 Frightened Girls (1963), each making their DVD debuts. The extensive bonus materials include original theatrical openings, alternate sequences, vintage footage,...
From the Press Release
The master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks will be remembered on October 20 when the William Castle Film Collection debuts from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The set features eight of the legendary producer/director’s most notable films, including The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Homicidal (1961), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and Strait-Jacket (1964). Also included in the collection are Zotz! (1962), The Old Dark House (1963), and 13 Frightened Girls (1963), each making their DVD debuts. The extensive bonus materials include original theatrical openings, alternate sequences, vintage footage,...
- 8/17/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Today we've got not one, but two reviews of the new killer-kiddie film Orphan. The film, which opens wide Today has been controversial, and now we've got two differing opinions courtesy of Fangoria's West Coast contributor Pat Jankiewicz (currently in San Diego at Comic-Con) and Fangoria Magazine managing editor Michael Gingold (currently in Montreal at Fantasia).
Pat says:
A little Russian girl comes to live with a well-to-do family that is reeling from a personal tragedy in Dark Castle's Orphan. While that is the simple premise, it doesn't indicate what a first-rate horror movie Orphan is. Orphan is scary and fun, with a truly nasty sense of humor. Like last summer's The Strangers, it shows how many nervous laughs and creepy scares can be wrung out of a well-traveled premise if a new spin is added.
Orphan is a back to basics 'killer kid' horror movie with a first-rate 'family in jeopardy' set-up.
Pat says:
A little Russian girl comes to live with a well-to-do family that is reeling from a personal tragedy in Dark Castle's Orphan. While that is the simple premise, it doesn't indicate what a first-rate horror movie Orphan is. Orphan is scary and fun, with a truly nasty sense of humor. Like last summer's The Strangers, it shows how many nervous laughs and creepy scares can be wrung out of a well-traveled premise if a new spin is added.
Orphan is a back to basics 'killer kid' horror movie with a first-rate 'family in jeopardy' set-up.
- 7/24/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz & Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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