Day 27

[dethorats]

Colorspreads! I love 'em. I figure most fans love 'em and that, although it's hard to choose, I'm sure people prefer some to others. I know I do. And I feel like sharing. So here are some of my favorite Colorspreads, broken down largely by time frame.



My all-time favorite colorspread is this one:


I don't really have a good reason, just, it's so visually striking to me somehow. I actually have a poster-size version of this framed and hanging on the wall.

Of recent colorspreads, I like all of them as they've been very whimsical, but these two are really great. The first one, and the most recent one, is rather self-evident.



And this one just...feels so right somehow. It's also the current Sept/Oct picture for my 2010 calendar.



As for earlier works, I've always felt this one captured One Piece perfectly, plus it's just a really fun image.



This one, of the original four boys, is also just totally cute and fun.



Finally, I have always really liked Oda's original Colorspread. It's just so...pirate-y and fun.



What Colorspreads are your favorites?

Comments

[mirax.livejournal.com]

Hehe, a few years ago when I worked at Staples and we started offering custom calendars I made a One Piece color spread calendar too for myself and I just kept it up after the year was over, because it's all so pretty *__*

I don't know if I have a favorite but we do own Color Walks 1-3 and I just love going back through them. They're all so lovely. I like the ones better that are more whimsical nakama-ness and not necessarily the ones with the big animals. Which is why I can say that the most recent color spread with the Strawhat logo written on all of them is very sweet, but also a little sad (not pathetic sad, genuinely emotionally sad), because I think it shows a little Luffy's intense desire to keep his nakama safe, and together, and it reminds me of how heartbroken I was watching his reaction after Kuma sent them all away.

[dethorats]

Which is why I can say that the most recent color spread with the Strawhat logo written on all of them is very sweet, but also a little sad (not pathetic sad, genuinely emotionally sad), because I think it shows a little Luffy's intense desire to keep his nakama safe, and together, and it reminds me of how heartbroken I was watching his reaction after Kuma sent them all away.

Augh, YES! I agree with this entirely. How HARD it must have been for Luffy to agree to 2 more years of separation, especially when he needed his nakama so desperately. I understand the rationalization but inside, it must have ached to be apart from them.


I love that there are always (expensive sadly) Colorspread calendars offered every year that I can cut out and frame afterwards. Oda's art is nearly always so playful and hanging in the wall always makes any room more cheerful.

[monkfish17.livejournal.com]

I dunno if I have a favourite one. I LOVE The RoChoNa one cus of obvious reasons (and it looks like they tired him out. Wicked girls.)

I also liked the Ice Cream and Swimming ones. And that Robin reading book one is soooo cute also.

Oh! And the one where they are driving cars XD And the bird one.

Damn I love most of them so much XD

I also love how Robin and Nami's breasts look so much better in colour.

[dethorats]

XD I like all of them too, especially the ones with wacky stuff going on in the backgrounds and all of the various flying ones.

[serrende.livejournal.com]

Favourite colour spreads? Well, the ones you list are all really good. The mini-train has such a lovely composition and warm, vivid colours; the crew-love of the marker-Jolly Roger spread is great, esp. since Usopp's the artist (but I have to confess I find Nami's pose juuuust a little too obviously fanservicey, though that hasn't stopped me from using it as my current computer wallpaper). But the one with Robin reading the bedtime-story is just so super-lovely I can hardly stand it. ♥♥♥

Among many other older spreads I am also very fond of this one where they're all painting, for the fun and threatening paint spill; this winter-themed one because it feels so everyday-ish despite the animal guests; this swamp one because how can i resist a meditating lotus-Luffy?; this one for its elegant, storybook, old-Europe/gangster AU feel, the one with the great tree* which I think is the first one with Brook (they're walking on air! and Usopp has a baseball cap!), this one for daring perspective, the sketching of giant birds from life, and Robin's half-melancholy smile, The Winner Takes It All for its sense of wondrous and adventure and because it has Luffy and Usopp having fun together even though it was first posted in the midst of Water 7/Enies Lobby; on a similar note, the symbolism of Walk More Slowly for the chapter 439.

(Oh, and also this one for pretty patterns, groovy armour, Robin's elegant beauty (which looks almost otherworldly in this one pic), and Usopp's fierce look. ^_^)

Among other newer spreads than the ones you've already posted, I totally adore the First Meeting spread.

...I have issues with picking favourites, clearly. Sorry.

* These are starting to sound like old Friends episodes.

[dethorats]

...crap...let me start by apologizing if my chapter squee post in any way offended you. Oh god, now that I've read this comment, eeesh. If you haven't read the chapter squee, all to the better and this will just be confusing, but if you have, I'm sorry. Those statements about Nami, the slightly angry and defensive ones? NOT MEANT FOR YOU AT ALL. AT ALL. There was this really stupid 'asking to get raped' thread that I read on AP and it really really pissed me off. As well as some lame ass comments from people that were MAD at Oda for mocking his own tendency towards Nami fanservice with Usopp's comment. Anyway, now that I've read your comment here, I just wanted to clear that up, and if I did offend or upset you at all, my most sincere apologies.

Okay, um...feeling a little awkward now but moving on...

Walk More Slowly is one that ALMOST made it onto this list. I really love that one and the First Meeting spread so much! It was so hard to pick, honestly. I was bad and violated my own unspoked rules with the 'boys only' spread because I just adore it but if I had to pick more that didn't feature all of the crew (based on timing of course), the stylized samurai one of Luffy, Zoro, and Nami would be on here. That one is just crazy cool and I love the coloring on it.

I don't know how Oda decides which of his works get to be in Colorwalks. It would be way too hard for me to choose because I'd want them all.

[serrende.livejournal.com]

Nah, I hadn't read your post - I decided yesterday that I wouldn't look at the f-list until after I'd gotten to read the new chapter. I have read chapter 598 now, but not yet read your post.

Ghkk. The rampant Nami-hatred over at AP Forums is infuriating. I hate how so many of those posters seem to see Nami as nothing but a weakling who just brings sucky fanservice to the table, rather than finding her an awesome and (in my eyes) quite unique character who may - or may not
- be belittled by Oda's ever-increasing tendency to use her for eye-candy and constantly skimpify her clothing. Of course, it doesn't help that many vocal Nami fans who tend to show up at AP Forums often do sound as if they mostly like her for her body... -_-

[serrende.livejournal.com]

...I meant Walk More Slowly (correct link now).

(yes, you got me anyway; I'm just being anal. ;))