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Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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There's about a 0.01% this live action show makes it long enough to get to Wano but imagine some of those Beast Pirates in horrifyingly lifelike CG

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Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Funky Valentine posted:

It would be weird for Luffy to be Dragon's son but for Dragon not to be Garp's son seeing as Luffy is the spitting image of young Garp if he was less ripped (Garp and Dragon do have a very passing resemblance though, mostly in the brow.)

There's a theory that Dragon isn't actually Garp's son but his son-in-law and just took his wife's family name. The main hints are that Garp himself has never referred to Dragon as his son, only describing Luffy as "The Son of my Kid" in a way that kinda deliberately makes it unclear which parent he's talking about. Other people have said it but it's always in a "Wait if Luffy is Garp's grandson and Dragon's son then that must mean...." kinda way. Also there's that time Luffy saw a picture of Dragon for the first time and his first reaction was to point out how they don't look anything alike.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Caidin posted:

Every time I reread Impel Down I have to pause for a minute to wonder where that guy loving came from. How did he even know Ivankov was there, or that level 5.5 existed? Was this a long term revenge scheme or just a one in a million opportunity for revenge? Was he already a prisoner or just the one fucker breaking into the place who actually managed a low profile?

I mean the guy who created level 5.5 is also a high ranking Revolutionary who Ivankov presumably knows

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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MonsterEnvy posted:

This is a cute thing someone made relating to the new chapter



Can you imagine if all these "Draw ____ as a child" doodles were some kinda super long-con foreshadowing

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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It feels like we're gonna need a flashback to this Rocky Port Incident considering every time we hear about it, it gets more important. At first we only knew it as something that happened that made Koby famous as a marine. Later we find out Law was involved in some way. Now we find out that Blackbeard was also involved and it somehow led to him taking control of that pirate party island with the big skull mountain that's his home base now. Also, incidentally, Blackbeard mentions it helped him dethrone someone named 'Ochoku" who apparently was a member of the Rocks Pirates???

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Jerusalem posted:

I know she has a (at least one) set of arms constantly doing that back on the Sunny, even while she's having adventures with the others/doing her archeology stuff.

At this point for all we know the real Robin has been on the Sunny the whole time and she just always has clones everywhere

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Doctor Syrup posted:

The SWORD Rear Admiral is totally Corazon.

I don't know how but I recognized that guy: He appears in Bege's cover story attacking Bege's crew at some point while they're looking for Chiffon/Lola in Dressrosa

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Terper posted:

Yeah but they also ~visit places from their memories~, you can tell by the trailer that it's not them being there the first time, they remember everything

e: people are speculating by some imagery in the trailer that other potential memories will be Enies Lobby and Skypiea

It's been a staple for every One Piece game for the past like, 20 years that the story has to involve a person or a monster or magic relic or some combination of the three that makes memories real so they can justify having all the characters in one place and at this point it's kind of amusing that they can never come up with anything else besides that.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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You know we're in the darkest hours of the pre-chapter lull when the thread devolves into Power Level Discourse

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Aside from multiple people in the story describing it as cartoon like?

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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The paneling in this chapter was really interesting, feels like Oda's trying to condense more action into each page. Probably the smart thing to do if he wants to get to the ending reasonably soon.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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I mean the Government having an issue with Kobra was set up for a while before. We learned that his ancestors were the only royal family that didn't want to become Celestial Dragons that the Dragons still hold a grudge against them to this day about, we saw Im looking at a picture of Vivi, and Kobra went to their headquarters openly declaring he was gonna ask them about the ancient weapons/ponyglyphs. It seems pretty obvious that they'd want him gone and the fact that the Revolutionaries happened to attack while he was there kinda kills two birds in one stone. Get rid of a guy they already hate and whose asking too many questions while framing the Revolutionaries for murdering one of the few Good Kings.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Lpzie posted:

This might be the first time we see Haki doing this? I've always imagined, from what we've been told, it could prevent an effect but didn't consider it could be used to shake off an effect. Just never crossed my mind. This is probably where a lot of us in this thread are coming from. Has a lot of implications now that we know it works like this though, especially with the darkness fruit.

I wanna say the first hint of this was when Doflamingo declared that Law's powers wouldn't work on Vergo because his Haki was too strong, and then it did cause they presumably just massively underestimated how strong Law was. It was first shown, I believe, at Wano when Law wasn't able to teleport Kaido or Big Mom around or slice them up like he could to random mooks.

Semi-related but I feel like a lot of people look at Haki like it's some Unbeatable Magic Power and act like it's a plot hole when one character is able to beat another character, like people who keep declaring it's a plot hole that Shanks lost his arm to some random sea monster in East Blue. I think the whole point of Haki is that it's a part of a person's mind/body and thus is subject to things like Exhaustion, Surprise, etc. Several of Luffy's big fights have had moments where his Haki fails him cause he's too wounded/exhausted to keep it up. Whitebeard probably had some pretty Godlike Haki but by the time he died he was an old man in bad health who'd already been stabbed numerous times, had his torso filled with magma and half his face burned off, so given that it's probably not surprising that Blackbeard's crew were able to finish him off by just shooting him a bunch.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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I Am Fowl posted:

I can't recall; do we know if Brook was always a puns guy or did he just spent decades telling bone puns to imaginary crewmates as a way to not go insane?

Trying to imagine a fleshy Brook that doesn't make skeleton puns and I can't

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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I wanna say this is the first time a character (two in fact) have appeared in the cover story and the actual chapter it's attached to at the same time

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Desumaytah posted:

Non-spoiler:

The horny western comics guy is Greg Land. BSS was my subforum of choice here in the mid-aughts.

I remember some fracas about how he basically just traced porn screenshots for panels sometimes. And you can get your own drat sources for that one.

Spoiler: One Piece rules.

Didn't he also do that famous panel where Iron Man's helmet is making a weird wrinkly grimace cause he traced over a meme picture of an old man?

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Delphisage posted:

Why did this guy not get fired? I get that comics companies are understaffed, but COME ON.

If I remember the story correctly there was once a Marvel editor who got around a company policy about staff members not being allowed to also write comics for them by inventing a fictional Japanese person with the most stereotypical 90's Japanese Name you'd expect a middle age white man at the time to come up with (it was something like Akira Kowasaki or some poo poo) and ghostwriting under that name for years. When he was caught doing this he was punished by...being promoted to Editor in Chief. Which he still is to this day.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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The thread hasn't devolved into an unending Power Level argument so it's not that bad of one yet

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Violen posted:

bellamy was cool because of his maturation and growth and i love his line about not laughing at luffy anymore. he deserved better than doflamingo and i hope hes found inner peace and fulfillment learning crafts from a stern old biddy until he comes back to bounce poo poo apart in the final arc.

oda is really good at bringing back old villains and giving them a new perspective without betraying who they were. crocodiles role in the summit war owned a lot, especially his outburst at whitebeard.

This is why I get so annoyed at people who endlessly complain about the fact that Luffy never kills the bad guys. It's more interesting to me seeing how characters evolve after losing to Luffy than just having a massive bodycount for the sake of a bodycount.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Delphisage posted:

Why are we reincorporating the kid Warlord designs for some of the new Pacifistas, anyway? They've clearly got adult models of Seraphim, as seen with that Kumabot Aegis Zero is dragging along.

To be fair Kuma is huge so that could still be the kid version of him

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Spanish Matlock posted:

Buggy saved the world from anyone with drive and ambition getting the chop-chop fruit and becoming an absolute monster.

Same for Foxy whose power is basically unstoppable and he mostly just uses it to cheat at boat races

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Tampa Bae posted:

Are Nami, Zoro, and Jinbei the only three crewmates that have even met Buggy? I don't recall anyone else even being around him

It'd be amusing if Zoro meets the Buggy clone and isn't as confused as Mihawk was in Marineford because he already knows what his fruit does

Sanji was there when Buggy tried to kill Luffy at Loguetown but otherwise that's it I think.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Plutonis posted:

Speaking of Drake did Oda ever say whether his pirate crew actually knew whether he was an undercover marine or not?

I don't think Drake's crew ever appeared again after Saboady

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Teriyaki Koinku posted:

Does anyone know when the chapter Dr. Vegapunk first gets name-dropped was originally released? It just blows my mind how like it's taken a decade or two, but the reveal is finally here.

Koby was the first person to mention Vegapunk by name, in the chapter after Enies Lobby where he tells Luffy how the Marines are able to get through the Calm Belt

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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To be fair Dragon also never bothered telling anyone he had a son even after that son had become a world-famous pirate who'd gone to war with the world government. He's kind of an aloof rear end in a top hat who keeps secrets from everyone, including people who are close to him.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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To me it's starting to look like Egghead is gonna be the short arc that segues into the bigger one. The Punk Hazard before the Dressrosa, etc etc

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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I'm still mad that Zoro seeing the Grim Reaper didn't end up being a Brook joke, biggest wasted opportunity of the whole Wano arc

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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anime was right posted:

since its break week heres something fun to ponder:
the people of skypeia, who very likely descended from the moon, had not heard of or seen rubber. however, ancient shandians believed in a sun god before they were knocked up into the sky.

devil fruits, and nika, are likely of a terrestrial origin. or are at least an invention that happened after people landed on the planet.

The weirdest part of this to me is that the Shandians had never heard of rubber before but they DID know about Devil Fruits, cause Wiper wore seastone-lined cloud skates specifically for fighting devil fruit users and immediately recognized Enel had one when he started using lightning powers

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Honestly I'm sad we've never seen the gag where putting different drinks in Franky's fridge completely changes his personality since that first time

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Silver2195 posted:

A Luffy who didn't even have Gear 2 yet managed to hit Enel. Current Sanji, who is overwhelmingly fast even compared to Queen, shouldn't have much trouble.

To be fair Luffy's made of rubber so obviously he can hit Enel without needing haki

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Ah, I was talking about physically touching Enel not whether or not he can dodge them.

Also part of me wants to see an AU of One Piece where Haki isn't a thing so Luffy kept having to find things that let him punch logia fruit users. Like Luffy punching Kizaru with a mirror strapped to his fist or something.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

Oh wait nevermind Buffalo wasn't even there.



Nah Buffalo was shown on the page where the Marines arrested all the Doflamingo crew. As far as we know Baby 5's the only member of the crew that got away.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Luffy acting like he was slowing down cause he thought Hancock was shooting him with the same beam that Foxy had

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Cloks posted:

The word "Pacifist" on the Mad's ship probably has some relationship to Pacifistas, right?

Since the text describes the organization as "Charitable Research Lab for Peace" I'm guessing MADS was trying to disguise their obvious mad science poo poo and that failed miserably

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Scary Thought: If they can clone any paramecia fruit from the Doflamingo Crew, that means the Government has Sugar's powers now

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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CodfishCartographer posted:

This is the only place online I've found where you never have to worry about people INSISTING that Yamato is a woman. That vivre card really did irreparable damage to any and all discourse, though I suppose these idiots would find some other excuse anyways.

It's especially wild that Oda going out of his way to show it still doesn't matter cause apparently the vivre card is the word of God even above the author himself.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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CodfishCartographer posted:

I've never understood the "well <character> can't join the crew, what would their position be?" argument. Like, it doesn't matter, Luffy would make up a position for them if they were a good friend, what matters is bringing your nakama along on this adventure.

Luffy offered a spot on his crew to the guy stuck in a treasure chest who didn't have anything to offer the crew whatsoever, and offered Brook the position the instant they met and before he was revealed as a musician entirely cause Luffy saw "cool skeleton" and that was all he needed to know.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Egghead Arc is already a solid 8/10 but we can fit a perfect 10 if we get Seraphim Buggy whose super strong and a serious of wacky circumstances causes people to think it's the real thing and Buggy gets all the credit for whatever it does

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Was thinking about that one silhouette we saw of Vegapunk back at Punk Hazard and how unlike many silhouettes in the series it's completely accurate:

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Drakkel
May 6, 2007

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Desumaytah posted:

I bet Scopper's super strong, but Sanji makes better food, and in Luffy's eyes, that's all that matters, and that's why Sanji's one of the wings of the Pirate King.

Wait, who was Kaido's cook?

Who's Shanks'?

Apparently Lucky Roux is the chef for Shank's crew

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