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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Part of me wonders why the Gorosei don't just take out any potential threats on their own like Big Mom and Kaido teaming up to take over the world. But I guess their strength wouldn't be enough to take them down, while Big Mom/Kaido couldn't actually kill them thus leading to a stalemate, rendering the whole thing pointless. I guess it's better for them to maintain the status quo unless they're forced to wipe out the world and start over again. Teriyaki Koinku posted:My guess is that, at the time, Shanks was as interested in maintaining the status quo just as much as the Gorosei are, except now he's decided to slam the "Find the One Piece" button to force a change in the world now that Luffy has achieved his Nika form which he, presumably, was betting on all this time.
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There was also an implication that Doflamingo had dirt on the WG that he used to help maintain the stalemate that was important for his own plan
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Boar elder had a decent face when luffy baseballed the bombs back at the elders
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Cat Machine posted:Jimbei waited till Zoro had Lucci at 1HP then went for the killsteal my agenda says lucci still had at least 50% hp left
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TGG posted:Kaku is awesome.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:My guess is that, at the time, Shanks was as interested in maintaining the status quo just as much as the Gorosei are, except now he's decided to slam the "Find the One Piece" button to force a change in the world now that Luffy has achieved his Nika form which he, presumably, was betting on all this time. No one knows who Shanks spoke about. It’s a great abuse of reader and fan knowledge leading to assumptions. I find myself starting to agree that there are two Shanks in that if Garland is the moon, then there should be two parts of it. There’s the part of the moon we always see and the dark side of the moon no one sees. Which was why it was shocking to the Gorosei that he came. That meeting of Shanks and the Gorosei really sticks out as a self-fulfilling prophecy as well. Is it a throw away scene or not? Why are we so focused on this out of no where? It felt like we shouldn’t be seeing the scene at all, even the Gorosei are taken aback much like the reader. But we continually don’t notice Oda hiding everything in plain sight. If Shanks spoke about Luffy then there’s the light side of the moon. If Shanks talked bout Blackbeard, the dark side. Or vice versa given that the light will concern itself with the dark, etc. It just feels like Davy back. There’s something going on that is important but we are too busy being on a cruise we don’t notice and we forget to look back.
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I think it's plausible Shanks was just trying to convince the gorosei to take Blackbeard seriously as a threat, like he did with Whitebeard. The Pirate Emperors are effectively recognised as controlling independent nations that the WG doesn't mess with, so it seems possible he'd be allowed to parlay (as long as it doesn't become public
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I figured Shanks was talking about Buggy as that "certain pirate" and that's what got him recognized as an Emperor after all the Cross Guild poo poo started up.
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The CP9 cover arc had the entire team work odd jobs to pay for Lucci's medical bills for no apparent self-benefit, so of course he feels some sort of camaraderie. He also seems to respect Kaku the most out of the team.
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PuttyKnife posted:
he just really wanted to share his theories about Gin and Axe Hand Morgann
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hatty posted:he just really wanted to share his theories about Gin and Axe Hand Morgann That is big news for sure if true.
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Me personally I’d never trust pigeon guy
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ive always assumed the conversation was about blackbeard because i really like the idea that despite carrying old legacies consciously or otherwise, luffy and blackbeard represent unprecedented events in history, like they've each got the potential to accomplish feats their forebears believed in but failed at instead of literally just being joyboy and rocks going through exact motions. so shanks talking about blackbeard to the gorosei in the terms he does and to be willing to do so in the first place is exciting to me. i don't think shanks is on that 4d chess poo poo to such a convoluted degree as to be talking about luffy because it doesn't really gel with his character to me and in any other interpretation of it being luffy i don't think a shanks heel turn really fits the spirit of the story
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it being about buggy would be great though
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but like blackbeard scarring shanks and the weight shanks puts behind his warning to whitebeard have always made blackbeard feel like a really cool chaotic element for the world
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BASEBALLER LUFFY I'm still thinking about him
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i hope someone in the story gets really indignant about gear five's cartoon logic lol
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Violen posted:i hope someone in the story gets really indignant about gear five's cartoon logic lol And then Luffy makes them into the soyjak and him into the chad
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I don't think that's really Gear 5's vibe
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the only thing I don't like about Gear 5 is that we won't get any more Gear 4 forms
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If you think about it, they’re all forms of gear one
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there doesn't seem to be any way for luffy to make the elders stop being so immortal. but you know who does specialize in nullifying defenses? that's right,
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Mug crew reporting in let's see the arm
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Ol’ baby arm Luffy
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Jerusalem posted:Oda REALLY paying tribute to Toriyama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KX3eyxonwY
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best part of this chapter was the pig god gorosei being so confused and pissed off that dorry and broggy were there. “what quirk of destiny ties you together?! do you have any idea who that man is?!” lol the guy who ate the nika fruit shows up out of nowhere right when you try to have vegapunk killed. and then when you personally go to kill both of them the long lost giant warrior pirates captains show up???? do they even know each other?!?!?!?
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it looks like the boar's tusks can turn into blades, and the spider's legs can turn into whips, and the horse's head can turn into a man holding a sword
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scary ghost dog posted:best part of this chapter was the pig god gorosei being so confused and pissed off that dorry and broggy were there. “what quirk of destiny ties you together?! do you have any idea who that man is?!” lol the guy who ate the nika fruit shows up out of nowhere right when you try to have vegapunk killed. and then when you personally go to kill both of them the long lost giant warrior pirates captains show up???? do they even know each other?!?!?!? lol
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So now we’re somehow at a point where an Emperor of the sea who’s very existence should be diametrically opposed to the world government can walk into its highest seat of power unannounced and that doesn’t implicate that person’s allegiance at all, regardless of the reason?
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scary ghost dog posted:best part of this chapter was the pig god gorosei being so confused and pissed off that dorry and broggy were there. “what quirk of destiny ties you together?! do you have any idea who that man is?!” lol the guy who ate the nika fruit shows up out of nowhere right when you try to have vegapunk killed. and then when you personally go to kill both of them the long lost giant warrior pirates captains show up???? do they even know each other?!?!?!? The actual best part is "Do you know who he is!?" "Yeah he's our buddy!" 
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Electric Phantasm posted:The actual best part is The second best part is that "He's our friend" confused the Gorosei as much or more as them showing up out of nowhere. Jiro posted:I really hope he's joking about figuring out what the One Piece actually is.............. Personally I'm a fan of the idea that the ONE PIECE is just all the knowledge of the real history of the world, which Luffy will ignore. However there's a cardboard box in the corner with some shiny bits in it that Luffy will insist is the actual One Piece. Oda is just trying to figure out what to put in the box, and whether to have it be actually valuable like in Skypiea or have it all be Burger King Crowns and gold foil wrapped chocolate coins. Nami: Oh my god, this changes everything Luffy: [chocolate all over his face] I know! How did nobody know that gold was so delicious!?
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Imho the One Piece is going to be literally that; one piece of scarred, beaten up gold coin…from before the Void Century. There’s gonna be a horde of pirate booty too, but either because it looks rad as hell or because the Voice of All Things calls him to it, Luffy’s big find is gonna be one piece of ancient gold.
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i figure that even though the one piece obviously isn't conventional treasure, there will still also be conventional treasure on laugh tale. a historical record, a weapon, a person, whatever. it'd be disappointing without some bling.
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I don't think it'll be something like a trivial piece of treasure, didn't oda say it'd be something of substance when he denounced the "friends we made along the way" theory?
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