Hi! We need more of us! And yes, I was the one that left the review. ^^;
I'm one of those weird rabid seiyuu fans-- so the reason I started watching Gintama back then was because of the cast list. I remember reading a couple of chapters of the Gintama manga, but the anime left me with a larger impact. Because like you've said, though the story is good, it being beautifully animated is what really won me over. (And Sugita is the PERFECT Gintoki.)
As for One Piece, it's the other way around for me. One Piece is also my Ultimate Favorite Manga OF ALL TIME (YAY! OUR TASTES ARE THE SAME, LOL), but the anime less so. True, I enjoy the seiyuu cast, but the manga is on a whole different level. Nothing can compare, which leaves the anime much more lacking in comparison. The animation is also pretty low quality and the manga art is so much better.
But yes! One Piece is on a completely different level from the rest of all JUMP series in history, seriously. It's the only series I've religiously kept up with since the first chapter. Odacchi's storytelling skills is epic, a work of genius-- I think I've read the manga front to current chapter at least 20 times over the years. I can't believe I've been loving this series for 10+ years. It's never happened to me before!
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Date: 2011-06-07 10:04 pm (UTC)I'm one of those weird rabid seiyuu fans-- so the reason I started watching Gintama back then was because of the cast list. I remember reading a couple of chapters of the Gintama manga, but the anime left me with a larger impact. Because like you've said, though the story is good, it being beautifully animated is what really won me over. (And Sugita is the PERFECT Gintoki.)
As for One Piece, it's the other way around for me. One Piece is also my Ultimate Favorite Manga OF ALL TIME (YAY! OUR TASTES ARE THE SAME, LOL), but the anime less so. True, I enjoy the seiyuu cast, but the manga is on a whole different level. Nothing can compare, which leaves the anime much more lacking in comparison. The animation is also pretty low quality and the manga art is so much better.
But yes! One Piece is on a completely different level from the rest of all JUMP series in history, seriously. It's the only series I've religiously kept up with since the first chapter. Odacchi's storytelling skills is epic, a work of genius-- I think I've read the manga front to current chapter at least 20 times over the years. I can't believe I've been loving this series for 10+ years. It's never happened to me before!