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Oda is taking a month-long sabbatical to meditate on the questions of the Big Hat.
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The anime might be good this month you never know
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Jun 6, 2023 03:56
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hatty posted:The anime might be good this month you never know Isn't there a good chance that the anime will get to the Nika fruit reveal in this month? Unless, they stopped to do recap episodes, I guess
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Jun 6, 2023 04:13
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davidHalestorm posted:Isn't there a good chance that the anime will get to the Nika fruit reveal in this month? Unless, they stopped to do recap episodes, I guess The Gorosei literally started talking about it towards the end of the most recent episode
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Jun 6, 2023 04:17
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I think Big Mom bites it next episode based on the title
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Jun 6, 2023 04:22
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hatty posted:I think Big Mom bites it next episode based on the title I forget but doesn’t that not happen until Gear 5 is introduced (and as of now Zunesha just appeared in front of the marines)?
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Jun 6, 2023 04:37
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Time for a month of fanart posts.
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Jun 6, 2023 05:00
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Larryb posted:I forget but doesn’t that not happen until Gear 5 is introduced (and as of now Zunesha just appeared in front of the marines)? Nah Big Mom takes a lava bath in ch. 1040 and Gear 5 is 1044. I’m not sure which chapter the Anime is on exactly though
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Jun 6, 2023 05:09
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He's finding a retcon that laboon is the actual one piece and his ambergris is the "one" devil fruit
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Jun 6, 2023 06:24
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https://twitter.com/eiichiro_staff/status/1665946757942099968?s=21&t=UUsUXHU9ZEL5HLNqmdPryQ Apparently he’s taking a break for eye surgery
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Jun 6, 2023 06:35
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https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1665951861877391361 english
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Jun 6, 2023 07:00
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ODA: Now I'm seeing double - 24 cigarette packs!
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Jun 6, 2023 07:10
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Oda next month:
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Jun 6, 2023 07:12
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hatty posted:The anime might be good this month you never know Anime directors hearing this news and realizing they're going to have to slow their adaptation rate to 4 pages per episode
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Jun 6, 2023 07:12
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papasyhotcakes posted:Think of it as preparing yourself for the final leg of the story. That way when Gin shows up in the final chapter you will remember who he is. If goddamn Wapol can come back and be important, Gin should be allowed to come back
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Jun 6, 2023 07:22
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Larryb posted:Off the subject I’ll admit, Kaido’s drunken battle with Luffy in the latest anime episode was both well animated and pretty funny besides (also Zunesha has arrived meaning we’re very close to the anime debut of Gear 5) Looking back at this part of the story, Kaido really wasn't much of a character at all was he? For a Big Time Emperor he had startlingly little effect on the overall ecology of the world and the tears at the seams are really starting to show. We heard the stories about how brutal he was, but we as the audience never saw enough of it displayed outside of Wano. Actually I don't think we ever saw him exercise his force outside of Wano, aside from the micro-flashbacks of his and then crashing into an island from the sky that one time before chumping a bunch of Named Characters off screen that were written on-the-fly about a decade ago. Kaido didn't interact with the overarching plot enough and basically boiled down to an isolated threat divorced from the full scope of the saga. I honestly expect Oda to just use him as 'guy who Rocks kept in check to show how REALLY strong he was' and since he's loving dead that's all we're ever gonna get. He was an excellent tour of force but an extremely disappointing character in general, feels like one of Oda's true missteps in his writing ability. White Light fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 07:42
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Trying count on my fingers the number of characters that impacted the "overall plot" and becoming increasingly worried about it.
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Jun 6, 2023 07:46
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Frantically chewing a pencil as I try to think whether Crocodile has impacted the grand plot of One Piece. E: Anyway Kaidou was lame but I think that had little to do with him "impact on the overaching story of One Piece" or lack thereof. SyntheticPolygon fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 07:49
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Kaido went to Wano and sat on his rear end to wait for Joyboy to kick his rear end.
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Jun 6, 2023 08:02
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Frantically chewing a pencil as I try to think whether Crocodile has impacted the grand plot of One Piece. Nah Kild posted:Kaido went to Wano and sat on his rear end to wait for Joyboy to kick his rear end. Pretty much!
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Jun 6, 2023 08:09
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Kild posted:Kaido went to Wano and sat on his rear end to wait for Joyboy to kick his rear end. Kaido believed super hard in Joyboy, he also knew he couldn't be Joyboy, so he decided he would be the mountain Joyboy has to conquer. Then nobody lived up to that mountain until Luffy.
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Jun 6, 2023 09:14
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The only characters who matter to the main plot of one piece are luffy, shanks, blackbeard, and buggy.
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Jun 6, 2023 10:18
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There is definitely a case of "show, don't tell" going on with Kaidou, likely due to the story taking place over decades and his design not being finalized yet, but if you take the manga at it's word: -He tried to crash the Marineford war but was stopped by Shanks -He was directly funding a massive criminal underworld to develop Devil Fruits, whose reach goes all the way back to Jaya and Bellamy -That underworld was responsible for overthrowing entire kingdoms and taking over government labs/personnel/equipment, also had spies in pretty high government positions -His stated goal of "Be, or get defeated by Joyboy" had him on a path of literally storming the world island by island until he took over everything or died, and was only barely stopped by the alliance I'd say he had more of an effect on the world than any arc villians besides Big Mom, Doffy, and maybe CP9.
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Jun 6, 2023 13:42
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mfers can awaken the latent godhood in the main character and people will still claim they were irrelevant to the story...
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Jun 6, 2023 13:47
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Please don’t go blond Oda
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Jun 6, 2023 13:55
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LanceKing2200 posted:-His stated goal of "Be, or get defeated by Joyboy" had him on a path of literally storming the world island by island until he took over everything or died, and was only barely stopped by the alliance
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Jun 6, 2023 14:43
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Judging by the extremely objective scale of who I enjoyed seeing on the page more, Big Mom> Kaidou
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Jun 6, 2023 14:45
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I can't wait for Oda to sketch out the rest of One Piece with his new eye lasers.
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Jun 6, 2023 14:46
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Kaido took over an entire kingdom and had an army of hosed up chimera guys who dressed like Fist of the North Star goons, he might be lame in some ways relative to his peers but that is kind of an accomplishment. …though not as much of one as Moria getting his giant rear end island boat up there. Can’t wait for Moria to have his whole Uncle Iroh arc in jail.
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Jun 6, 2023 15:06
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No Wave posted:island by island? When was he going to stop parking his butt on wano?
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Jun 6, 2023 15:17
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But is Kaido more of a Hakiman or a Clubman? are Clubman under the same classification as Swordsmen and thus weaker than Midhawk?
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Jun 6, 2023 15:23
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MorningMoon posted:But is Kaido more of a Hakiman or a Clubman? are Clubman under the same classification as Swordsmen and thus weaker than Midhawk? I think he's a Hakiman. I was thinking about this the other day because Big Mom uses a sword and would most likely kick Mihawks butt so shouldn't she or Shanks be the strongest swordsman? But I think the idea of being a "swordsman" is that you're actually using skill and technique to fight rather than just smashing everything with haki.* *but really Mihawk and Zoro also kind of just do this lol
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Jun 6, 2023 15:44
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Nephthys posted:I think he's a Hakiman. I was thinking about this the other day because Big Mom uses a sword and would most likely kick Mihawks butt so shouldn't she or Shanks be the strongest swordsman? But I think the idea of being a "swordsman" is that you're actually using skill and technique to fight rather than just smashing everything with haki.* Mihawk considers Shanks minus his dominant hand to no longer be a worthy rival. Assuming he cannot fight Emperors in a 1 on 1 Greates Swordsman challenge seems, ill-advised. Remember that Emperor status is about territory, not strictly combat prowess, and Mihawk holds zero territory regardless of his personal strength. He also isn't interested in fighting the Emperors and their Forces, but he clearly is somewhere on their level. The Marines were scared of Mihawk going solo the most, also the Mihawk Seraphim is clearly putting in a lot of work.
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Jun 6, 2023 16:07
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Nephthys posted:I was thinking about this the other day because Big Mom uses a sword and would most likely kick Mihawks butt mihawk was making GBS threads out sword beams that made diamond jozu have to deflect away from the moby dick mihawk would beat big mom because he actually practices every day to keep the wss title while the latter is another frieza sitting on their rear end eating all day and throwing childish fits thats why law and kidd kept landing free hits to pierce her impenetrable skin BoosterDuck fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 16:24
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I know they talked about Big Mom's invincibility being due to Haki during the assassination attempt on Whole Cake Island, but do they ever say the same for Kaido? I assumed he was just some invincible freak of nature given that neither he nor the marines could work out how to kill him
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Jun 6, 2023 16:35
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Lord_Magmar posted:Mihawk considers Shanks minus his dominant hand to no longer be a worthy rival. Assuming he cannot fight Emperors in a 1 on 1 Greates Swordsman challenge seems, ill-advised. Remember that Emperor status is about territory, not strictly combat prowess, and Mihawk holds zero territory regardless of his personal strength. He also isn't interested in fighting the Emperors and their Forces, but he clearly is somewhere on their level. The Marines were scared of Mihawk going solo the most, also the Mihawk Seraphim is clearly putting in a lot of work. Mihawk also recently indicated that the idea of fighting Shanks, Blackbeard or Luffy is absurd. It's entirely possible that Mihawk doesn't want to fight Shanks because losing one arm diminishes his technique/skill, not that Shanks couldn't still beat him just through haki, speed and strength. Just like how Luffy or Garp could grab a sword and pound his face in with the pommel but wouldn't have defeated him as a swordsman. It's possible that Mihawk is on par with Yonko's like Big Mom, Kaido, BB, Shanks and Luffy but he hasn't done anything that shows it so far imo. Nephthys fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 16:35
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He hasn't but the sole purpose of the character is to be The World's Strongest Swordsman and Zoro's final challenge. I do think it's a storytelling failure that we haven't seen him actually demonstrate his abilities much but it wouldn't make any narrative sense if he's secretly weaker than foes Zoro has already defeated
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Jun 6, 2023 16:50
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Mihawk just considers dueling Shanks who has lost his dominant arm to be unfair. But Shanks has by Oda’s words grown stronger since his arm loss. Also I don’t think Mihawk considered a fighting them individually to be frightening, he just considered taking all three of them and their forces on someone else’s behalf to be dumb.
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Jun 6, 2023 16:51
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I know they talked about Big Mom's invincibility being due to Haki during the assassination attempt on Whole Cake Island, but do they ever say the same for Kaido? I assumed he was just some invincible freak of nature given that neither he nor the marines could work out how to kill him Kaido is just an impossible stamina and physical freak between Zoan Fruit and Oni species. The Dragon Zoan might make him exceptionally invulnerable because of mythical dragon scale stuff though. Also Crocodile and Mihawk collectively make up the muscle for Buggy the Clowns emperor position, they do kind of have to be able to partially talk the talk and walk the walk. Mihawk genuinely just doesn't seem interested in anything but pure swordplay/dueling, so his angle could just as much be fighting 3 armies is a boring pain than anything else. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Nephthys posted:Mihawk also recently indicated that the idea of fighting Shanks, Blackbeard or Luffy is absurd. It's entirely possible that Mihawk doesn't want to fight Shanks because losing one arm diminishes his technique/skill, not that Shanks couldn't still beat him just through haki, speed and strength. Just like how Luffy or Garp could grab a sword and pound his face in with the pommel but wouldn't have defeated him as a swordsman. It's one thing to go 1 v 1 with a yonko in a duel. It's another to start a fight with a yonko plus all of their subordinates. Not just their own crew/commanders and the armadas but also aligned nations and everything else, like it's a lot. Even Shanks who has a notoriously weak armada, has a very powerful crew and is allies with the giants and potentially other strong nations as well. So starting a fight with three different major military organizations all at once is going to be a hassle to put it lightly. And someone like Milhawk probably just doesn't want to bother with that. It doesn't mean that individually he's weaker than the yonko themselves.
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