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No Wave posted:I think it's not a safe bet that there even will be an Elbaf arc. It won't be safe for the straw hats to be anywhere soon. There's going to be an Elbaf arc, and an All Blue arc 
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Wider speculation, not neccessarily dependent on this arc: If Blackbeard's main fruit is a logia that can shut down other Devil Fruits and Shop-Vac the landscape, that has the drawback of absorbing, not ignoring damage, and the fruit he gained from Whitebeard is the most destructive fruit in the series (Oda's said that Akainu's fruit is the most offensively powerful, but the Gura Gura is the most destructive to the world at-large). Which fruit is best for defenseIT'SBARTOLOMEO. IT'S BARTO. OH GOD BLACKBEARD'S GONNA KILL MY DUDE AND GET THE BARRIER FRUIT.
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The whole thing about Saul being alive from a little while back is what makes me think we’re likely going to at least visit Elbaf for a time en route to the final arc As for the All Blue, I personally subscribe to the theory that it technically doesn’t exist but will be created when the barriers between the oceans are broken down (the only contradiction with that is that I believe Sanji mentioned having seen some proof hinting at the All Blue’s existence in his story back on the Baratie)
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Larryb posted:The whole thing about Saul being alive from a little while back is what makes me think we’re likely going to at least visit Elbaf for a time en route to the final arc all blue probably did exist but the WG put the red line in the way im betting
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No Wave posted:I think it's not a safe bet that there even will be an Elbaf arc. It won't be safe for the straw hats to be anywhere soon. anime was right posted:all blue probably did exist but the WG put the red line in the way im betting
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Do we get a chapter next week or are we on a break? Is it too soon to tell? Yes chapter next week. No break. 
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Jan 26, 2024 00:20
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The crew also need to see whatever is at Lodestar Island
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JuniperCake posted:Having it be some giants from elbaf does make sense. I mean one of the crews in the Grand Fleet is literally a bunch of giants who might have sailed to Elbaf in order to get a suitable ship or more people for their crew...
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i'm not sure if they actually have a reason to go to elbaf, but they want to go there which is reason enough. before laugh tale there's still the final road poneglyph, the rest of the elders, vivi, the revolutionaries, imu, the other emperors, etc. i expect some of those dangling plot threads to appear on elbaf even though absolutely none of them are supposed to be on the island. even shanks had planned to leave elbaf by now.
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The reason is that Saul is there and Robin wants to see him Also going to Elbaf has been one of Usopp's main goals since Alabasta
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DeadBonesBrook posted:The crew also need to see whatever is at Lodestar Island They can skip it, although I hope that it is mentioned what exactly made it so difficult to get there that only Roger could do it. Catviper said that lodestar had information about the poneglyphs and of a secret last island, which is what spurred Roger into another run of the Grand Line. The Straw Hats already have that info, they havent needed to go there since Alabasta really. e: Saul isnt from Elbaf!
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not sure if they actually have a reason to go to elbaf, but they want to go there which is reason enough. before laugh tale there's still the final road poneglyph, the rest of the elders, vivi, the revolutionaries, imu, the other emperors, etc. i expect some of those dangling plot threads to appear on elbaf even though absolutely none of them are supposed to be on the island. even shanks had planned to leave elbaf by now. luffy wants to go to elbaf. they will go to elbaf.
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Also like I can easily see Elbaf just being kind of a breather arc like Zou, spend maybe six months, get a bit of a lore dump, get into a fight, then push on
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Waffleman_ posted:Also like I can easily see Elbaf just being kind of a breather arc like Zou, spend maybe six months, get a bit of a lore dump, get into a fight, then push on We literally said this about egghead and here we are 50+ chapters later
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Elbaf will be the Usopp arc
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Just a quick, 20 minute adventure.
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In and out, it'll be fine
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Rohan Kishibe posted:Just a quick, 20 minute adventure. Waffleman_ posted:In and out, it'll be fine — Me when I started the Saobody arc
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not sure if they actually have a reason to go to elbaf, but they want to go there which is reason enough. before laugh tale there's still the final road poneglyph, the rest of the elders, vivi, the revolutionaries, imu, the other emperors, etc. i expect some of those dangling plot threads to appear on elbaf even though absolutely none of them are supposed to be on the island. even shanks had planned to leave elbaf by now. they want to go there and they need a destination after escaping from egghead and it's the next island over, so that's all reason enough yeah. i fully expect them to learn about the last road poneglyph there somehow, and potentially even finally reunite with shanks since we know he's around at the moment. it doesn't really seem too difficult to make a lot of the other dangling plot threads be relevant on elbaf and maybe one more island at most before laugh tale. for instance, morgans could go there in search of the straw hats after the egghead incident because he wants more scoops from their exploits, which gets vivi involved, it doesn't seem hard to have morgans show up almost wherever in search of BIG NEWS. idk why anyone would doubt that it's the next arc after it was explicitly stated as the next destination, maybe people are just traumatised after yamato didn't join the crew lih fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Garp rescue arc detour from elbaf
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I dunno if the strawhats can make it to Elbaf or save anybody, they’re up against an admiral and it turns out this elder guy is a monster too. Plus there’s a buster call on the way. It’s not looking good for our protagonists, I can’t see how they’re going to get out of this mess.
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Yeah tbh beginning to have doubts about Luffy's ability to become the Pirate King with these odds stacked against him.
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Dream's over, pack it in.
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Note: Luffy died on his way back to Foosha Village
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Perhaps a 3 hour tour.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I dunno if the strawhats can make it to Elbaf or save anybody, they’re up against an admiral and it turns out this elder guy is a monster too. Plus there’s a buster call on the way. It’s not looking good for our protagonists, I can’t see how they’re going to get out of this mess. Tbh at this point a Buster Call kinda feels anemic beyond conveying how loving over this situation Saturn is, like oh no, the navy are gonna use normal weapons, and there’s…one Admiral and an awakened demon zoan. Like I feel like a not-busy Zoro could just gently caress up that entire collective fleet of warships at this point.
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Even if many of the Straw Hats would be hard to directly kill with conventional weapons it's still going to be A Problem if the island they're on is physically destroyed by a Buster Call.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I dunno if the strawhats can make it to Elbaf or save anybody, they’re up against an admiral and it turns out this elder guy is a monster too. Plus there’s a buster call on the way. It’s not looking good for our protagonists, I can’t see how they’re going to get out of this mess. yeah it's time for kuma to send everyone on a trip to their own individual training arcs again. even each of the vegapunks gets their own training arc this time. then they will finally be smart enough to defeat saturn
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Ah, what's the worst that could happen if they fall in the ocean? They can swim, they're pirates! ...I'm being informed that a solid chunk of the crew cannot swim.
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Last Celebration posted:Tbh at this point a Buster Call kinda feels anemic beyond conveying how loving over this situation Saturn is, like oh no, the navy are gonna use normal weapons, and there’s…one Admiral and an awakened demon zoan. Like I feel like a not-busy Zoro could just gently caress up that entire collective fleet of warships at this point. last arc’s conflict ended with all of the straw hats and their allies struggling to avoid burning to death in a mostly regular building fire and were just barely saved by raizo and jimbe. im pretty sure conventional weaponry is just as deadly to the straw hats as abstracted devil fruit punches
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Why has no one simply tried to shoot Zoro. Are they stupid.
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This makes me wonder how they choose which islands get bustered and which get sky lasered. Because this seems more of a sky laser situation
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I'm fully on board with wanting the mystery saviors of that civilian ship to be the Grand Fleet who then also cut a hole through the navy's blockade so the crew can sail out of there. Just really want a sequence where the WG gets reminded what it means to gently caress with an Emperor
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Professor Wayne posted:This makes me wonder how they choose which islands get bustered and which get sky lasered. Because this seems more of a sky laser situation The sky laser thing seems to be a new development, since they need whatever power source Vegapunk created to make it function. If Imu wanted something gone and had the power to do so at will, without having to rely on a Buster Call, they likely would have done it already. Also, given how close they are right now to securing said power source, if they completely destroy Egghead, that means whatever is happening on the island right now is so dangerous to them that they're willing to wait around for another unknown length of time for some other genius in the future to eventually invent something to power their sky laser battery.
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Funky Valentine posted:Why has no one simply tried to shoot Zoro. Are they stupid. The Franky Family tried to shoot Zoro, making them the smartest enemies to date.
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Funky Valentine posted:Why has no one simply tried to shoot Zoro. Are they stupid. Isn't one of the CP9 techniques literally just shooting someone with finger guns? What I'm getting at here is that Lucci is indeed stupid.
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