While I was in Chicago this weekend, I went to the movies with a friend to see the One Piece movie in theaters. One Piece is my favorite anime of all time so of course I had to go see it! The movie was confusing at first and I was wondering why Oda decided to do a One Piece musical movie, but then everything started to make sense. There was drama, betrayal, plot twists, psychological thriller moments, new and old character introductions, and awesome fight scenes! The story goes the Straw Hat Pirates go to the island of Elegia to attend a concert by Uta, who is a really famous singer doing her first live concert. It's revealed that Luffy knows Uta because she's Shanks' daughter and she was there when Shanks was in Luffy's hometown. One day, Shanks returned without her, claiming she had left to pursue a career as a singer. As they are reuniting, pirate crews then attempt to kidnap Uta, but she easily subdues them by conjuring whatever she wants through song. Afterwards, Uta tells Luffy that he should stop being a pirate, as she is going to make this concert last forever and create a world with only happiness and peace. When the Straw Hats resist the idea, Uta attacks and traps all of them except Luffy, who is rescued by Trafalgar Law and Bartolomeo. It is revealed through the World Government's informants that Uta posseses the Sing-Sing Fruit, which allows her to send people into a dream world known as the Sing-Sing World by singing to them. They and everyone else who watched the concert are trapped in this world, whose reality is completely controlled by Uta. The Sing-Sing World ceases to exist whenever Uta falls asleep; however, Uta has been consuming a drug called wake-shrooms that keeps her awake at all hours and drastically shortens her lifespan. If Uta were to die, everyone in the Sing-Sing World would be trapped there forever. In the real world, the Marine fleet arrives at Elegia to find the concertgoers all sleeping. Because of the mushrooms, Uta has mere hours left to live and that if she dies, 70% of the world's population would be trapped in the Sing-Sing World. Robin discovers that there is a way to make the worlds converge by summoning Tot Musica, a demonic entity whose existence spans both worlds. If Tot Musica is attacked simultaneously in both worlds, those in the Sing-Sing World will return to reality. Shanks and his crew arrive and fight to stop Uta and the Tot Musica in the real world while Luffy and his crew and allies fight Uta and the Tot Musica in the Sing-Sing World. The Tot Musica is defeated and Uta sings a song to bring everyone back from the Sing-Sing World. I'm not even going to lie, I shed a few tears at the end. The songs, sung by Ado, were sang beautifully, the animation was so crisp, and plot was very well-written. 10/10 would recommend because I know I will be going back to the movie theaters to see it again! I will share my favorite song from the movie with you all!
I definitely recognized a few of the words from the song lyrics and dialogues within the movie. But what stuck out to me was that I was able to recognize the time and hours by listening because when they were counting down Uta's death by the hour and the minutes. I like how this movie came out as we were just starting to learn about hours and minutes because I was able to decipher its difference between counting time, numbers, people, hours, and minutes and their correct approximation markers/particles.
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