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Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Meme Emulator posted:

We still don’t know what’s happened to Amazon Lilly. Maybe Coby caught her (hahahaha yea right)

I actually fully expect Coby to have succeeded there. The dude has a habit of getting way stronger off-panel. I'm not discounting the possibility of Hancock falling for him the same way she did for Luffy, either.

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Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Counterpoint: Coby's hot.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Ohhh. I think I get it.

Luffy's got the creativity fruit.

Blackbeard has the plagiarism fruit.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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notwithyourheart posted:

try telling that to wapol after he's eaten him

Mihawk just parries a guy into eating his own entire self.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Oh my God that post finally got me to connect the dots from the name Punk Hazard to the name Vegapunk. I'm fukken pissed at myself.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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So we're definitely in the arc where Kizaru gets punched in the face. Those hologram gloves are crying out for narrative purpose. Is Kizaru a Vegapunk? I dunno. Is Luffy gonna deck him with the Nintendo power glove? Ya.

The Strawhats are finally gonna beat an admiral.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Law's gonna fukken die.

Burgess is the Hulk now.

Van Auger's power has some terrifying implications. Can he just send you anywhere? Does he need to see the place he's sending you to? Does he need to touch you like Kuma's Paw-paw fruit? That Usopp fight's gonna be insane.


One Piece is good.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Haki vs fruits:

He had a pretty rad fruit, but Kaido said that fruits just lose vs haki. Kaido also extremely lost.

We're in Vegapunk land baybee.

This is the devil fruit arc.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Like, I wouldn't be surprised if the mere existence of devil fruits was, in itself, one of the superweapons.

Do we know how common DFs were before the new age? Maybe the reason that Dragon's bounty is so high is because he Johnny Appleseed-ed that poo poo across the whole world.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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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.

Desumaytah fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Oct 22, 2022

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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I am willing to believe anything bad but funny about that dude. So, probably, yeah.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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We may now get Franky vs Bonney because of that stupid thing, so it's all been worth it.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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My social security number is Baby 5. Like, just a really little 5 in tiny font.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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I now want even more Buggy, immediately.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Was just about to post this.

It's legitimately a perfect piece of cover art for the whole drat series.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Chapter spec:

Vegapunk's multiple-self stuff and Blackbeard's weird body are connected.

Usopp's lies coming true is going to be one hell of a thing if Oda follows through on this one. Whoo boy.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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MonsterEnvy posted:

He appearntly would be officer rank. Around the level of the Tobbi Roppo.

gently caress yeah current Sanji'd body Enel.

That was originally a joke but then I realized that, I mean, yeah. He probably would.

New World, motherfuckers.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Yeah, I feel like S-Kuma is going to be the real threat, here. Oda's gone out of his way to introduce the seraphim as A Big Deal and vanilla Kuma was already a terrifying powerhouse who hasn't even been shown breaking a sweat in a proper fight. This seraph poo poo's gonna be wild.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Luffy's loving expression is killing me. It's perfect.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Buggy's gonna use conquerors haki at least once before this series wraps up. I believe. I need.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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We gonna get another Enel-Face?

We've had Enel, Perona, and Sugar, so far, so that's the rule of three, but...I want more.

Enel-Face Akainu, please.

Comedy option: Enel returns from space and the final Enel-face is just him again.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Ah, yes. Crew roles. The thing that always made sense since way back, where the role of first mate/guy who is captain when the captain isn't there was given to the man who is dumber than everyone else in the world at everything that isn't how to swing swords (whom I love).

As for this arc, which rules, I feel like CP-0, the seraphim, and an admiral all gathered here at once is a setup for that other, even more horrifying space laser nuke thing we saw earlier to be used again, to show that Im doesn't have to give a gently caress about even their biggest guns when they can just delete countries whenever.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Okay I know the face but I want both "Nothing happened." And Enelface at the same time now.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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It's the Lord of the Coast and he's been training off-screen and he's now coming for revenge/Shanks' other arm.

Also he's a cyborg now because Vegapunk.

My actual guess is it's either the robot we just saw or, like an above poster said, a not-dead Saul. Give me the guy who disappears people for the govt vs the guy disappeared by the govt! Give me Jaguar vs Leopard! Give me the big-boy catfight! It'd tie really well into Robin stuff for those two to face off.

Desumaytah fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Dec 29, 2022

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Garp is going to do exactly what Whitebeard did: Kick the utter poo poo out of Blackbeard and then die. Though I assume we're gonna get some cool Xebec stuff when the worm turns in that particular fight.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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A guy I thought was named Bronze Yohn Royce, because it works well with the names Gol. D. Roger and Silvers Rayleigh, but that's a different forgettable guy from ASOIAF.

So he's the copper guy from this series whose name isn't as good as a guy from an unrelated series.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Crosspeice posted:

He's the third strongest of the Roger pirates, so the Jinbe of our crew.

Third strongest Strawhat is Zoro. After Yamato.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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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'?

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Ace was such a tremendous idiot that he was the first person in One Piece to die on-panel, outside of a flashback.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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I choose to believe that counts as a flashback.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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New theory:

Gol. D. Roger is either Rox's son or brother or some other close relation.

Because Gol. D. Rox would be an all-time comedy brick joke name.

We have Kuma, Beppo...who is the third bear? Who has the porridge that is just right?

Desumaytah fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jan 3, 2023

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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More than one story can reference the bear story.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Blackbeard got the Bluto fruit.

Bullies the poo poo out of Popeye but falls down his own rear end when Popeye eats some Sanji au-gratin and aims every grievance from the story right back at him.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Crazyeyes posted:

:golfclap:


Think Garp about to die.

I'm gonna think this, too, until the second he straight up eats Blackbeard and becomes the main villain.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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SyntheticPolygon posted:

I think that adds tension frankly.

It does because it posits the question of whether Perona is dating Mihawk or Zoro.

It's Mihawk.

It's both.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Look, it's fine for things to have just three acts. That's like, the modern interpretation of how many acts a stage play should have, as well as most contemporary stories. Shakespeare, Zeami? Those guys were great, but we have smartphones feeding us doomscroll novels by the hour and the planet's dyin' Cloud. You gotta keep the thousand-plus chapter manga tight.

Wano was a 3-act arc and it's fine. Good, even.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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mabels big day posted:

Official chapter is out. Interesting that Zoro remarks that S-Hawk has *more* humanity in his eyes than regular Mihawk

Was that not how people were reading it?

Mihawk's a drat monster. S-Hawk is built different, but he ain't there, yet. Gotta learn that deadness.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Lilith and Stella loving rule. Stella's head and tongue are a masterclass in character design.

Shaka, Atlas, and York are rad.

Pythagoras and Edison are fine. They're robots. Whatever.

Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Shaka is the traitor and Franky's gonna fight him because he's the most likely of the Strawhats to do a 90's surfer dude "SHAKA, BRAH" thing at the end of the fight.

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Desumaytah
Apr 23, 2005

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Lord_Magmar posted:

Law should definitely be Blossom (smarts), Luffy Bubbles (joy and the laughter) and Kidd Buttercup (toughest/violent fighter) though. They need to be rotate one to the left in this image basically.

Counterpoint: Blossom is the leader. Therefore Luffy.

Law and Kidd can fight for the scraps.

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