30 Day One Piece Challenge

30 Day One Piece Challenge:

This is just for fun since anyone who reads this blog knows I enjoy One Piece, so here we go:

 • Day 1: Favorite Mugiwara pirate: Luffy

 

• Day 2: Favourite flashback scene: Toms Workers Flashback

• Day 3: Favourite villain/ess: Sir Crocodile

• Day 4: Favourite arc and why: Marineford Arc

• Day 5: Favourite island: Fishman Island

• Day 6: Favourite female character: Nami

• Day 7: Favourite male character: Zoro

• Day 8: Most moving/inspirational/emotional scene: Luffy losing everyone at Sabaody Archipelago

• Day 9: Favourite new character (of wherever you’re currently up to): Bartolomeo

• Day 10: Worst arc and why: The Oceans Dream Arc: it's the most clip show of the filler arcs...

• Day 11: Favourite pirate flag: Baroque Works flag

• Day 12: Favourite running joke or gag: Lost Zoro / Sanji Zoro spats

• Day 13: Favourite Supernova: X Drake

• Day 14: Favourite character interactions: The Strawhats always crack me up

• Day 15: Favourite Marine: Smoker

• Day 16: Most hated character and why: The Celestial Dragons: they BUY people; it's so wrong

• Day 17: Favourite Shichibukai: Doflamingo

• Day 17: Most epic/exciting scene: Luffy punching a Celestial Dragon (so epic)

• Day 18: Favorite Pirate that isn’t a Mugiwara: Shanks

• Day 19: Favorite Cipher Pol member: Kaku

• Day 20: Favourite fight scene: Law vs. Smoker

• Day 21: Favourite Luffy fight: That one on one fight with Magellan

• Day 22: Favourite race and/or creature: Specifically, Shirahoshi the Mermaid and Megalo the Shark

• Day 23: Island or place you’d most like to visit and why: Water 7 via the Puffin Tom: it just seems so lively with the people, food, festivals, and shopping~

• Day 24: Cutest/Sexiest female character:  It's Cutest/Sexiest when Boa protects Luffy

• Day 25: Cutest/Sexiest male character: It's Cutest/Sexiest when Paulie blushes

• Day 26: Favourite Filler and Movie: G8 Arc and Strong World

• Day 27: Favourite thing about the One Piece universe: Everyone in it~

• Day 28: What got you in to One Piece?: Read the first chapter in the English version Shonen Jump way back when, and I've been enjoying the adventure ever since <3

• Day 29: Favourite song or theme music:  Brook playing Bink's Sake

• Day 30: Funniest moment: TOO MANY sooo.....

Figuarts Zero: Film Z Monkey D. Luffy: Battle Clothes Version

I've pushed around some other shoots and reviews just so I could put this one up as soon as possible.  This is my long awaited Luffy: Film Z Battle Clothes Version!  I really wanted a Luffy for my collection (He is the main character after all), but I missed out on the earlier versions of him.  I was really pleased to see this one coming out, since I like this outfit on him.  His box is really small compared to earlier Figuart Zero's (7x4x3 inches) so he was nice and easy to ship:

It's a nice, tight little box with a stunning flame/gradient/gold film Z design.  It's always easier to ship smaller ones, but that also means he doesn't comes with any accessories that tend to make the other boxes larger. I really enjoyed getting this one.

 The base is worth noting here: They decided to go with a red base to fall in line with the rest of the films color scheme.  At first I wasn't sure how I would like this change (being so used to the black bases) but in person it's really quite wonderful.  It's a bright neon red (still transparent) with the Film Z logo and gold lettering (Still with the Name and "Dead or Alive" theme).  It really pops and looks great on my shelf, and honestly Luffy should have an awesome base, being the Captain anyway : )

He looks really good!  The sculpt and paint are just wonderful on this guy.  It's nice to finally have a Luffy to go with the rest of my Cast and a pretty BadAss one at that.  His pegs were probably some of the hardest for me to fit though (Doflamingo's pegs come to mind as well). So basically I will never get him off of this base just like Doflamingo, but thats OK considering I want to display him with it anyway.

The detailing on his pants and sash look great.  I love how you can even see his toenails on the feet, the whole sculpt is well done.

 

He is pretty powerful looking all around, and I really enjoy the swoop of his vest and sash. Basically i recommend this version to anyone looking for a Luffy figure, or is really into Luffy figures in General!

 

This is very much a true too character figure.  It captures the confidence in Luffy with his smirk and mimics his usual show of power with him grabbing his arm in anticipation of a battle. 

I've said before that certain characters look better either in 2d or 3d and Luffy always had more appeal to me in his 2d form.  This is one of the first Figuarts Zero's that I feel physically captures Luffy, with his face and hair and lean but muscular body. Sailing Again Luffy was pretty darn close, but I never had the chance to get him (and really I don't need too, now with this version).

 As much as I enjoy this version of Luffy, I'm not sure if I will pick up anymore from the Film Z line.  I just wanted a Bad Ass Luffy and this one met my expectations.  The other Film Z characters do look great, but I don't know them well enough to pick them up, since I'm the kind of collector that wants figures of the characters I like.  This Luffy came with a neat insert of the other Film Z versions that I think look pretty cool, so I thought I'd share:

Otherwise, that's all for now!  More posts about figures and collectables in the future, I have a lot of catching up to do after the holidays.