

Additionally since there isn’t a main enemy, or an evil bad guy to speak of, not many fights take place and as a result it is just a constant search for the treasure. For starters, the whole process of attempting to find the treasure is achieved through puzzles, riddles and traps, something which is actually quite interesting to start with, but then after a while it starts to get repetitive and then ultimately a bit dull. While this isn’t uncommon for pirates it’s the way that it has been done which makes it a bit of a dreary, but interesting, experience for the viewer. Let’s start at the beginning of the set One Piece Movie 7: Mega Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle is easily the weakest movie of this entire collection as it sees the straw hats attempt to uncover a lost treasure on Mecha Island.

Is this a bad thing? Not exactly as while they may be re-caps of past events they have been re-animated, re-recorded and re-told to offer a brand new One Piece experience, which isn’t something that happens often. One Piece: Movie Collection 3 should really be known as the “One Piece What If Movie Collection” especially seeing as two out of the three movies are nothing but re-caps or what if scenarios of past events within the One Piece storyline. With no doctors nearby and Nami’s fever becoming increasingly worse who can the Straw Hats turn too?

One Piece Movie 9: Episode of Chopper + The Miracle Winter Cherry Blossom – Nami has fallen ill and without a doctor on board the ship the Straw Hats seem to be out of luck fortunately for them an island is nearby, however upon docking they soon discover that Wapol, the current proclaimed king of the island, has banished all of the doctors from the island. Can Vivi and her friends stop an entire war? And how can Luffy fight Crocodile, when Crocodile can turn into sand? Luffy, his Straw Hat pirates, and Princess Vivi race to the island, where the strongest warriors of Baroque Works wait to stop them.

One Piece Movie 8: Episode of Alabasta: The Pirates and the Princess of the Desert – The island kingdom of Alabasta is about to erupt in civil war – a war engineered by Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and his criminal organization Baroque Works. But it is not any ordinary treasure! For what they seek is the legendary Golden Crown. One Piece Movie 7: Mega Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle – The Straw Hats visit an island known as Mecha Island and once again, they are on the hunt for treasure. This week we are treated to two One Piece DVD releases via Manga Entertainment UK, as we already covered One Piece – Collection 8 earlier in the week, but today we are going to take a look at the subtitled-only (excluding Movie 8) DVD release of One Piece – Movie Collection 3 so what exactly were our thoughts on this release? Find out below!
