If your best-loved Japanimation character remains the Totoro next door, chances are this new chapter in the One Piece Film super-saga – the first film in the series came out in 2000 – will leave your head spinning.
I’m a newcomer to the world of One Piece myself, but barring befuddlement, this film rocks the classic, convoluted, and insanely colorful world of traditional action-comedy anime. To date, there’s been a baker’s dozen of feature films based on Eiichiro Oda’s hugely popular manga series, so if you feel like you’ve stepped into the middle of a universe with pre-existing characters, backstories, and impenetrable motivations, you have.
