One Piece Color Walk 2 Review

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Today a product review hits the bloggoshpere (o be quiet about spelling) and the product in question is One Piece Color Walk 2. Which was released in America at the beginning of last year. Before getting to my specific thoughts on it the basic info of what it contains will come first, just in case you don't really know what a color walk is. I think that this is the only one to be released in English by the way, but I could be wrong. So in this Color Walk there are mainly color spreads and some panels in color from the manga dating primarily between chapters 100 and 175. which starts in Arlong park and ends during the Arabasta arc. All of the big color spreads have a little comment from Oda following them, for instance "I want to eat hot dogs cut to look like octopuses too... I wonder what the people of the past used that giant telescope to-I want to eat hot dogs!" yes, that is an actual quote, very Oda. And at the very end there are some "Selections from Mr. Oda's Planning sketches" just non-One Piece stuff, and an interview between Oda and a old time manga artist. While I'm certainly not the most qualified person to give an opinion I feel like it wouldn't be much of a review if I didn't. So the thing to keep in mind with this is not to expect it to be something it isn't. This is through and through a collectors item. The back says that it is $20(american) which isn't particularly cheap. But if you are a big fan and the type of person who wants to have collector type stuff, then I would say that this is going to be a really good buy. The book is not made out of cheap paper, it isn't going to get bent and/or ripped easily so as long as you are not straight up abusing it, it should stay in very good condition for a very long time. And with the not cheap paper, it just sorta feels good to hold in your hands, and all of the big color spreads are definitely cool. But on the other hand, it isn't like you can put any of them up on your wall or anything, and you can so easily gain access to the color spreads that it isn't that big a deal to really have it in a book unless you are a collector. So in short, it is a very well made book that is undeniably cool. But if you are not a big One Piece fan you would probably do better to just google image the color spreads and make them your background or something.

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