One Piece: Season 5, Voyage One

Continuing from where season four left off, the Straw Hats, Franky Family and Galley La shipwrights regroup and begin their rescue mission of Robin and Franky and their apparently hopeless attack on CP9. Once again this set follows the group fight an onslaught of mostly generic nameless marines in order to open the gates of Enies Loby. While many of the marine groups have unique quirks, they just aren't memorable at all compared to previous villains or even the marine groups in the last Voyage. Oddly, we see more of the group fighting the generic marines than we do of the much more creatively unique one-scene characters introduced here, with most of the fights being repetitive scenes of the Straw Hats sending masses of marines flying with (apparently) no real challenge. The most unique villain introduced here is the bizarre chief justice Baskerville, but he doesn't get any proper fight scenes this Voyage. The only noteworthy fight is the battle with the giants Kashi and Oimo, which includes a nice callback to a previous storyline and manages to get a few good laughs in, as well as being an appropriately impossible obstacle to face for the supposedly inpenatarable Enies Lobby. These fights verge on tedious because of the pacing of these episodes, which are padded out by up to six minutes of recaps. It's not that the sequences themselves are slowly paced, but you essentially don't get as much new material as you would expect for 12 episodes, with most episodes revolving around (and padding out) just one key moment. It doesn't help that these DVDs don't include a chapter at the end of the recaps!The action picks up on when Luffy challenges Blueno at the opening of disc two and introduces Luffy's new fighting style: second gear. This fight begins to deliver what we've all been waiting for as the confrontation with CP9 becomes significantly less one sided, and Luffy's second gear adds an exciting new element to his fighting that seems plausible but unexpected given his well-established abilities. Of course, this also whets the appetite for the even more surprising and action-packed fights that the arc has to offer in later sets. This Voyage also introduces a new trio of CP9 members, but only their funny quirks are introduces and CP9 spends most of this set talking rather then fighting. The Voyage concludes the first episode of Robin's flashback, but as the first of four episodes this is essentially all set up, with the real story tantalisingly kicking in just as the final episode reaches its cliffhanger.The audio and video are the same as the previous season, offering the equally excellent English and Japanese versions in 5.1 and stereo respectively along with English subtitles for the Japanese version. Extras include some chatty (and mostly off-topic) US commentaries on episode 265 with Mike McFarland (ADR director), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Luffy), Alexis Tipton (Fukuro) and Phil Parsons (Jabra) and on episode 275 with Mike McFarland, Eric Vale (Sanji) and Brina Palencia (Chopper). The 'On The Boat' interviews are slightly funnier this time, featuring Patrick Seitz (Franky) [14:34] and Sonny Strait Strait (Usopp) [14:19]. And Finally there is the usual textless opening and closing (with the original logo), Marathon Play to skip the intervening credits, and trailers for other FUNimation DVDs.While this Voyage mostly includes generic and forgettable fights, and is almost entirely set-up for the more exciting later episodes of the arc, thanks to the Luffy vs Blueno fight there is enough in this voyage to make it enjoyable and exciting on the whole, and the last few episodes really build up the hype for the upcoming voyages.

Hey Folks,Another great voyage put by Mike and the entire staff. The dvd starts us off after the CP9 defeat and the funeral of the Going Merry. The straw hat crew remains in Water 7 planning and re-grouping for their next adventure. We see several special guest throughout the dvd. One gives us a much needed glimpse into Luffy's background. The other one foreshadows a upcoming event that might have everlasting repercussions. There are a few fillers episodes but very entertaining and insightful. If you are following or/but haven't seen it this dvd will continue the one piece tradition. If you have seen it before the dvd just takes you on a similar journey the original did. I loved the voices and there a looking how the studio records the voices. Hopefully the reviews haven't spoiled once for you. Go out and pick up a copy today. Please continue to support One Piece here and the hard and authentic work they put into it. Thank youSincerely, (just another huge fan) Elizar Garrett

The Enies Lobby Arc is finally getting dubbed and Funimation shows why it's one of the best companies to dub anime. The episodes go from the start of the invasion to the first part of Robin's backstory. All of the voices are done great for the most part (only one I didn't like was Oimo). The lines are not exactly the same as the Japanese version, but they don't detract from the plot and they can even make it funnier at times. The only thing that I didn't like was that the subtitles were for the Japanese audio only and there weren't any for the English version along with dubbing unnecessary parts like a sweepstakes that was only available in Japan. All in all, this is a great dub that is glorious to see in HD and should be watched by anyone who calls themselves a fan of One Piece.

its finally here' the it took over 100 episodes to be done..Its been a long time coming the straw hats got robin back after a long battle CP9 And the World Goverment. they also Got 2 new crew mates cyborg franky and the thousand sunny oh and usop's backWE learn who luffys father and grand father are thats the good stuff. now for negitves the voice acting, funamation has problemswith voicing big guys they just don't sound convincing white beard suposed to be this great power of the of sea he sounds like pushover they also changed some of the jokes they didnt need to the subs were funny and the changed them. the commetarys are bad. they could do one on the episode were luffys father is reveled but no . mike mcfarlin doesn't let the cast talk about future episode, story arcs . The pacing is off from what is normally is. production just wasnt as good as been in the past maybe they were tired of one piece they can do better

Ok the straw hats have gotten a lot tougher through the alabasta and skipiea arcs. This arc Enies lobby will take the fights even further. Luffy mastered his basic devil fruit powers in alabasta. He goes to much higher gears letteraly in this one. The other straw hats do as well. From here on out it will be direct manga story. All action and story progression. In my opinion best arc of them all. After this arc goes right into the thriller bark arc. This is amust buy for one piece fans and newcomers don't miss your chance!!!!!!

This volume of One Piece marks an impacting chapter in the life of the Straw Hat crew. A new ship is commissioned for them and new information is revealed that will surprise not only Luffy and crew but the viewer as well (that is, for those who have not read the manga yet at this point of the arc). This is definitely a great volume with minimal filler. Pick up One Piece: Season Five Voyage Five and follow Luffy and the Straw Hat crew to the New World!

very happy with the item with n problem at all

This box set continues to cover the Water Severn/Enes Lobby Arc and follows the manga. Worth the watch.As for delivery: Fantastic

2 words... MONSTER CHOPPER! This was sweet to see dubbed in English. Keep it coming funimation :) Very happy with this purchase.

Franky joins the crew!!! FINALLY! Loved it! Great dubbing as always. Thanks funimation, defiantly gonna pick up the next voyage!

All aboard! Get ready for a plate of awesome when you pop these discs into the DVD player. Very happy with this item!