The One Piece HORROR Movie… (Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island Analysis and Breakdown)

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13:27 That’s so uncanny bro😭 The way they just turn to plants, no animation or anything

The single most scary part of this movie is the implications. We are never told what the hell that flower is, but it's strong enough to make a whole island, hundreds of thinking and capable people. It's not a Devil Fruit, it's not some Vagapunk creation. It's a complete abomination, but, it's seemingly a natural plant. The idea that there could be MORE of these things, or WORSE, just in nature in this world freaks me out.

What surprises me most is that Luffy actually just straight up killed this guy. Oda, said somewhere that the reason he doesn't kill people is because he wants them to stay alive to watch their dreams fail, as Luffy becomes the pirate king and unmakes everything they built. That means even Luffy felt that this man wasn't even worth it, that it was better to kill him and remove someone like him from the world more then it was to show him how wrong he was.

i watch this when i was a kid and traumatize by how uncomfortable and how the villain almost archive his goal, while the one prevented that wasnt even luffy but some random guy. it's almost like my first exposure of cosmic horror.

One bit of context thats vital to understand why this movie turned out the way it did is that Hosoda (who most people might recognize as the director of the Digimon movie), not only directed one of the best One Piece side stories with this film, but he also used it as an opportunity to not-so-subtly vent his frustrations about working with Studio Ghibli. The way the story goes is that Hosoda was originally tapped to be the director of Howl's Moving Castle, but there were two problems with this. One was that most if not all the veteran Ghibli staff was busy working on Spirited Away, which meant that the responsibilty of putting together a team fell on Hosoda. The second one was that at the time he was still a newcomer into the industry, having had a few episodes of One Piece and Digimon under his belt (and the movie of course) so he was still fairly inexperienced. When asking Ghibli higher ups for guidance they were reportedly very dismissive, basically going "oh just do what Miyazaki does lol". Compounding this was the fact that both Hosoda and Miyazaki had very different visions over what Howl's should be. Reportedly Hosoda wanted to stick to a much closer adaptation of the book it was based on, while Miyazaki wanted to make more sweeping changes that reflected his own thematic interests. This continued up until the point where Hosoda either left the project or was removed from it. And i mean, this movie kind of speaks for itself. Baron Omatsuri is about a resentful old man living alone in an island, luring in crews of young, able-bodied pirates with the promise of fun and games only to end up feeding them to his gross plant monster, which also lets him create illusions of people he knew. The same people who, at the end of the movie, outright tell him he wasted his life romaticizing the past instead of building a new future for himself

baron omatsuri and the secret island goes into a second timeline where they all went to water 7 and saved robin but couldn't recruit franky and a replacement for thriller park it goes in this story. baron is what brook could've been.

23:38 actually in that scene, Luffy didn't know how Kuma's power worked yet and legitimately thought they all just died

What's more terrifying is that lily is not a devil fruit but an unknown entity. Wish that oda really expanded upon this and would have made the one piece world even bigger than ever. Heck, the one piece would have had it's very own dark continent.

If I were Luffy, at the end, I would NOT smile, I wouldn't be happy at all. Yeah, everyone's alright, but I would be permanently traumatized, I would have PTSD. Whenever I get invited to another island, I burn the invitation.

The moral of this story is"misery loves company" and the Baron is the embodiment of this saying

the baron is just brook if he never got over his crew

The music is also pretty unsettling. When Baron tells Robin about the Lily Carnation on the top of the mountain and the music just flares with this sense of alien dread, it's unnaturally chilling. I think what makes it so unsettling is that it doesn't sound like something that belongs in One Piece because it genuinely sounds like something from a horror movie. And of course there are the scare cords when Lily turns into its true form as that grotesque flesh sculpture made of corpses.

yet baron omatsuri and the secret island becomes more scary as when you watch the original series and then watch the movie, then you should know, sanji will let zoro eat despite having arguments with him but in this movie, he acts completely different and the crew in general feels soulless even before the movie starts, as they all have done things that they won't do in the original series. not to mention luffy is the only one to remember this event, luffy was the normal one in this movie, as chopper wasn't awkward and shy and nami was more bitcher to the crew and ussop in this movie was actually a coward compared to a cowering warrior.

The nature of the flower thing is in its name: the “flower of reincarnation”, or “lily carnation”. Prior to making this movie, Hosoda (the animation director) did work for Ghibli. According to the rumors, he finished an entire storyboard (supposedly “Howl’s Moving Castle”), and Miyazaki just threw the whole thing in the trash. Angered, Hosoda accepted the next piece of work that came his way from Toei (he’d done work for Toei before on the Digimon movies) and left Ghibli behind. One of the characters in the Baron Omatsuri movie was supposedly a dig at Miyazaki, but I don’t remember who. Candidates include the Baron himself, the pirate papa or the Little Mustache Pirate guy.

I watched the movie a couple months back under the pretense of “oh, it’s a horror movie.” But then I was absolutely floored with how good at is at not only giving a horror aspect to one piece, but also making it kind of gut wrenching to see all of the crew members get picked off, and horrifying to see all of the locals of the island turn back into plants in eerie fashion with the haunting noise in the background. It was great how they managed to create new characters in Chobohige and the family of pirates and give them all character arcs in the short run time. Amazing movie

Love how this movie parallels the sabaody punch and the walk on kaido and big mom in onigashima.

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Absolute Cinema to watch. Would recommend for non-One Piece viewers to watch even if you're not into the series. Movies are fun and enjoyable.

thanks for talking about the movie dude.