User blog comment:Shishio san/The Zero Squad/@comment-893798-20121114091437

It's just that...each of the 13 captains and their accompanying subordinates were all very visually distinct, bizarre and memorable in some fashion, the Zero Squad looks like a bunch of stock mook characters I've seen from a whole bunch of other non-memorable anime and whom I can name, to boot. The fact that Shinji and even Mayuri find them unpleasant only reinforces my worry

About the One Piece comment...I don't quite know. One Piece prides itself on the bizarre and many of them come out awesome, but here...it's just me really, but I'm not feeling it with these five.

I know, it's quite ridiculous I'm making two comments about first appearances, but after seeing the Vandereich, I was expecting... something