Day 27

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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

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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.

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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.