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A lot to think about this chap Going back to Zoan awakenings, there's a few options we can assume from Lucci's form. The flowing clouds/fire is the big question here. Before, I assumed that those clouds were part of the mythical nature of the Nika fruit, and also just part of Kaido and Yamato's mythical creature designs as well. However, if Oda is saying this is a feature of all Zoan awakenings, that opens a few cans of worms. Firstly, we have to assume that Kaido and Yamato were awakened the whole time. It just went without saying for them. Secondly, the Impel Down jailer beast forms are either retconned, or were in some other form where the smoke wasn't visible. I think this is more likely, perhaps when an awakened zoan user loses their sense of self entirely, they end up like that, which fits in to how they were described in the first place. My guess is that the cloud smoke form of awakening is a sort of lucid consciousness where the user's mind and the fruit's mind are in lockstep. This is probably where the word "awakening" really stems from, if the devil fruits are manifestations of "dreams", awakening is like having a lucid dream where you can do anything with that power. There's even more I wanna say but i'll wait for TCB to get some elaboration on the translation. But a quick crackpot theory if I'm totally wrong about the above: maybe the smoke clouds are exclusive to mythical zoan awakenings, and Lucci has the Forest God fruit or something
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Couldn't find the anime thread for OP (might be necro'd anyways) but for some reason I really dig the VA for Don Krieg from the 4kids dub despite the rest being the usual awful. Makes the dude sounds like a rock solid WWE wrestler promo-ing the mike and it blows that I can't any clips of him talking his poo poo in the restaurant after he stonewalls a cannon blast from the cooks.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 16:46 |
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Wow Oda seems to have learned some pacing lessons from Wano, this is moving super fast with essentially zero bloat. Not completely sold on the delivery or explanation of the devil fruit mystery. I like that it's some Berserk build-your-own-misery kind of metaphysical thing, but the delivery is just Vegapunk randomly mentioning it, and the explanation for the ocean-sinking drawback feels tacked on and makes no sense at all to me. It's not a bad explanation or anything I just wish it had been a different explanation and that it had had a bit more buildup I guess.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 16:54 |
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I’m pretty confident that a better translation will make it a little more coherent, because yeah the sea curse thing didn’t really make sense.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:07 |
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Vegapunk could also be wrong
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:10 |
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I feel confident that we will be getting a much more rounded explanation later on. We still don't know the why for any of this nor the history of the void century, so this is definitely being set up for later. Also, Vegapunk is clearly monologuing to himself as much as anything here, and doesn't really have time to lay out the history behind what he's seeing right now. Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Fruits are fulfillments of human fantasies/dreams. Dreams are, by definition, unnatural/unreasonable so Vegapunk speculates that the state of nature is fundamentally opposed to them and is how the sea curse works. Fruits are clearly supernatural and the AK is already very "unnatural" (highly technological) so I think this mostly fits, more stuff can still get added on ofc.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:32 |
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https://onepiecechapters.com/chapters/5559/one-piece-chapter-1069
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:37 |
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Faster than their recent output, but still not fast enough.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:46 |
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:47 |
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I love all the straw hats just going "what the gently caress what the gently caress what the gently caress" at all the revelations and fights big mood
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:52 |
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mabels big day posted:Why did we gaslight ourselves into believing the human human fruits awakening is a giant monster Potentially depressing theory - Chopper's fruit was originated by a giant/fishman/some other nonhuman who was being abused or discriminated against and wanted nothing more than to be human, ties up why Chopper thinks it's the human fruit but the awakened form is an out of control giant raging monster.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:57 |
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I love Luffy, I love Gear Fifth, I love One Piece
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 17:59 |
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Not a chapter spoiler, but I'm still marvelling that Dr Vegapunk has been built up for hundreds of chapters and absolutely did not disappoint.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:02 |
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Vegapunk definitely doesn't have the full story, or if he does he isn't telling it right now. I don't doubt him but there are more holes to be filled
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:03 |
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so there's officially two gods on the crew, Luffy and Usopp
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:04 |
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Oh my god there is going to be a Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Usopp
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:08 |
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Scholtz posted:Oh my god there is going to be a Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Usopp Oda please
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:10 |
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Mole Pistol is dope, that's the kind of poo poo I want with Gear Fifth along with the other cartoon antics.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:11 |
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The information reveals in this chapter
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:15 |
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Woah, the awakened Liar Liar Fruit is actually the mythical Zoan of Go D. Usopp!
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:15 |
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i love one piece so much
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:15 |
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What the gently caress Luffy
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I really, really like how Luffy being an emperor and Lucci being CP0 means them interacting, much less fighting, is a massive world-scale incident that has to be treaded super carefully... but Luffy gives 0 fucks about any of that, and Lucci only gave like half a gently caress for a couple minutes.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:18 |
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Poor Sentomaru did not sign up for any of this poo poo. Lol at Vegapunk guilt-tripping him.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:20 |
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So the D. is for "Desire" then, yes?
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:23 |
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What a great chap. This is such a perfect way to use CP0. Kaku and Stussy are basically ready to run away, and Lucci is only fighting because he's such a zealot. They're completely back-footed now, with no control over the seraphs and explicit orders not to engage. But Lucci is still a threat, because he's willing to just go full-power on any bystander at any time, even if he can't beat Luffy in a one-on-one fight. The big devil fruit revelation is really cool, I love that it's still weird and vague.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:31 |
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MorningMoon posted:I really, really like how Luffy being an emperor and Lucci being CP0 means them interacting, much less fighting, is a massive world-scale incident that has to be treaded super carefully... but Luffy gives 0 fucks about any of that, and Lucci only gave like half a gently caress for a couple minutes. The moment when war was inevitable
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:33 |
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I think zoan awakening happens as a result of the user and the animal/entity the fruit represents synchronizing their will or mind or whatever. This is why there is the concern of the zoan side completely taking over. Lucci is such a natural hunter/predator in the same fashion a real leopard is, he was able to awaken. He didn't care about the logical thing to do in this situation and run away because he's more in tune with the base instincts of the leopard fruit. Assuming Yamato was awakened the whole time too, his strong desire to protect wano probably made awakening the fruit of the guardian spirit of wano pretty easy to come naturally. Will we get awakened Kaku? I definitely hope so! Perhaps pretending that giraffes are cool is the exact thing real giraffes do and he is also awakened already too!
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 18:43 |
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This is the second time (that I can remember) where Luffy has to be reminded that the marines being around is not unusual. I love it.
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mabels big day posted:Will we get awakened Kaku? I definitely hope so! Perhaps pretending that giraffes are cool is the exact thing real giraffes do and he is also awakened already too! Kaku needs to beat his nose to the tune of Huey Lewis.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:44 |
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"As long as people's desires exist... Such a thing will never cease to be." So that's now, if I remember right, something said by Gold Roger, Blackbeard and Vegapunk.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:47 |
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Do we know for sure Kaido was awakened? his dragon form didnt seem too flashy compared to Momo
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:48 |
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hatty posted:Do we know for sure Kaido was awakened? his dragon form didnt seem too flashy compared to Momo His was blue and Momo's was pink
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 19:49 |
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hatty posted:Do we know for sure Kaido was awakened? his dragon form didnt seem too flashy compared to Momo Yes, Kaido was an Awakened Zoan. Why do I keep seeing people question this?
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:05 |
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Awakening is just extra fruit powers what is there to even discuss? I am confident that it is the least interesting concept in one piece.
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:06 |
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Delphisage posted:Yes, Kaido was an Awakened Zoan. Why do I keep seeing people question this? for the very obvious reason that it was never stated whether kaido was awakened or not
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:10 |
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Whitebeard hasn’t been confirmed to have awakened his fruit either, and nothing he did seems to match up with what we know now about Awakening
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:14 |
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So any vegapunk can show up and countermand the seraphim who are currently under cp0 control but cp0 will try to gank the vegapunks asap to resume control, I can see how this is gonna go and it will be good
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# ? Dec 8, 2022 20:22 |
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being an awakened Zoan just seems to make you stronger in every aspect, not much interesting about it I love that Lucci is clearly not a threat to current Luffy 1 on 1 but is still strong enough he can't be taken out easily and the fact they're fighting in what's basically a crowded city with tons of bystanders as well as multiple factions watching and participating makes it still an interesting conflict
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