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oddium posted:when koala showed up again half the thread went aw yeah koala cool dang neat and the other half didn't have any idea who she was
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Begemot posted:The pirate captain that Nami befriended on Thriller Bark. Her shadow was put into a warthog and ruined Absalom's plan to marry Nami, then Nami met the real Lola on a ship lost in the Florian Triangle. Lola also helped Luffy become Nightmare Luffy to fight Oars. At the end off the arc Lola gave Nami a vivre card and mentioned that her mom was a big deal. Well everyone assumed it was Big Mom but that would be too easy of a reveal (Like Tobi being Obito)
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Aug 5, 2016 17:19
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Kild posted:Well everyone assumed it was Big Mom but that would be too easy of a reveal (Like Tobi being Obito) Right, Weevil and his mom weren't introduced for years. But they do have similar designs (particularly the hair) to Lola and other members of Big Mom's Big Family. But Weevil's mom looked older than Big Mom so I think there might be some other connection there. I'd go grab the pages for comparison but I'm on my phone.
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Aug 5, 2016 17:57
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I remembered lola
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Rangpur posted:Well I mean anyone who would forget Koala is just a jerk rear end but Lola was oh my God how many years ago was Thriller Bark? It helps for me that Thriller Bark is my favorite arc.
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Aug 5, 2016 18:22
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God I can't wait for Weevil to show up again, what a weird fuckin character
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MrAristocrates posted:God I can't wait for Weevil to show up again, what a weird fuckin character See I have no idea why people are so hyped up about Weevil. He is featured in like 1 chapter what seems like years ago and no one has any idea what his deal is. Only that he is strong enough to apparently mop the floor with some of WB's crews.
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Aug 5, 2016 18:47
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MrAristocrates posted:what a weird fuckin character
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Crazyeyes posted:See I have no idea why people are so hyped up about Weevil. He is featured in like 1 chapter what seems like years ago and no one has any idea what his deal is. Only that he is strong enough to apparently mop the floor with some of WB's crews. It's because he's loving weird and there are a lot of places the story could take him.
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Aug 5, 2016 18:50
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TheWyrmDude posted:It helps for me that Thriller Bark is my favorite arc. it has the best joke in OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i25e7UKSnMs
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Aug 5, 2016 19:21
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That, Usopp's, "I'm always negative!" and Perona's response, Big Emperor, Do Skeletons Poop? and  make it a tough arc to beat for me.
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Aug 5, 2016 19:44
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Thriller Bark is fantastic but suffers in people's memories because it follows on the heels of Water 7/Enies Lobby and is followed by the rollercoaster of Saobondy-Kuja-Impel Down-Marineford. Either one of those is most people's favorite arc (I'm a Water 7 man myself).
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Aug 5, 2016 20:28
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Weevil is probably one of the strongest people in the series and I'm incredibly hype for whatever he ends up doing. He was introduced so late that Oda almost has to have massive plans for him. Kizaru, one of the Admirals, the strongest force of military might the Marines have, bold-facedly said they can't stop Weevil from doing whatever he wants so they had better just let him keep killing entire towns. Think about that.
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TheWyrmDude posted:That, Usopp's, "I'm always negative!" and Perona's response, Big Emperor, Do Skeletons Poop? and Bisse fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Aug 5, 2016 22:32
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Advice posted:Weevil is probably one of the strongest people in the series and I'm incredibly hype for whatever he ends up doing. He was introduced so late that Oda almost has to have massive plans for him. I don't think that's quite what Kizaru said.
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Aug 5, 2016 22:36
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Bisse posted:My problem with thriller bark (having watched anime only of it, I hear manga is much better wrt an actual spooky horror feel) is that it's basically a disjoint bunch of very amazing moments padded with dull filler in between. Most other arcs are much better with some sort of red thread. It's a bit slow to get going in the manga, but once it hits its stride it's pretty consistently great through to the end. It doesn't feel spooky, honestly, it's just as goofy as the rest of the arcs, but the artwork still has that Halloween theme to it. A lot of that is simply because Luffy is so unaffected by the spookiness (hence the gag of pushing the zombie back into the grave), so the only really spookiness is when Usopp, Nami, and Chopper are freaking out when they first arrive.
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Bisse posted:My problem with thriller bark (having watched anime only of it, I hear manga is much better wrt an actual spooky horror feel) is that it's basically a disjoint bunch of very amazing moments padded with dull filler in between. Most other arcs are much better with some sort of red thread. Thriller Bark anime is when the non-flashback filler padding (which is way worse because it's not as skipable) starts getting very obvious and it only gets worse from there. I might have watched one or two episodes of Impel Down after that but I gave up watching at Thriller Bark for a reason.
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Bisse posted:My problem with thriller bark (having watched anime only of it, I hear manga is much better wrt an actual spooky horror feel) is that it's basically a disjoint bunch of very amazing moments padded with dull filler in between. Most other arcs are much better with some sort of red thread. read the manga ffs
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Aug 5, 2016 22:53
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Weevil wobbles, but he doesn't fall down!
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Aug 5, 2016 22:55
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Anime Thriller Bark is better than the manga for once
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Bisse posted:My problem with thriller bark (having watched anime only of it, I hear manga is much better wrt an actual spooky horror feel) is that it's basically a disjoint bunch of very amazing moments padded with dull filler in between. Most other arcs are much better with some sort of red thread. This is basically true of the manga too. It's a bunch of boring running around where very little happens until SOMETHING HAPPENS and usually the Something Happens moments are pretty good, but then they're running around and getting lost some more before anything else happens. Thriller Bark has some of the best moments in the series, but its also possibly the arc where the least things happen at all. (Not counting the early East Blue arcs, which were all like 10 chapters long at most) Or at least, it WAS the least-happening arc. I think Fishman Island had even less going on, that arc was not good at all outside of its incredibly good Fisher Tiger flashback.
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i think the adventure portions of the manga are pretty much for the purpose of the setting of each island, setting the tone, and instilling some wonder. they're disjointed but i feel they're pretty purposeful to the mangas charm as a whole and one of the key elements that separates one piece from its lesser kin. most of the arcs are super memorable oftentimes because of the settings themselves and i think thats important to a good creative work. oda could probably do a better job of tying stuff in. usually he just uses it to put the characters into the right place for the arc to finally take shape.
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Come to think of it, isn't it kind of inconsistent that people call her "Pudding"? Purin is her name, so going by precedent (Bartholomew Kuma, Miss Bakkin), it doesn't make sense to use Pudding instead of Purin.
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Sir Ilpalazzo posted:Come to think of it, isn't it kind of inconsistent that people call her "Pudding"? Purin is her name, so going by precedent (Bartholomew Kuma, Miss Bakkin), it doesn't make sense to use Pudding instead of Purin. Purin is Pudding in Japanese, It's a loan word that got garbled a bit. I think it kinda makes sense to keep it Pudding. hell astro course fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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Aug 6, 2016 00:19
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He's saying that there's precedent to keep Japanese words in Japanese when they're part of names. I prefer calling her Pudding though so I'll keep doing that
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MrAristocrates posted:He's saying that there's precedent to keep Japanese words in Japanese when they're part of names. I prefer calling her Pudding though so I'll keep doing that Yeah, Purin is just one of those weird loan words. I remember getting some old port of Final Fantasy 4, and they had translated "Pink Pudding" as "Pink Princess" because they thought Purin was an abbreviated form of Princess I guess, but given everyone seems to have food/dessert names, it makes sense to me to tweak it a bit and make the meaning clear.
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Aug 6, 2016 00:25
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One Piece names tend to have a theme, but how they're applied is based more on what sounds good than consistency. Remember Baroque Works? The women had code names based on dates, but while Vivi was just called Miss Wednesday (a singular day), there was Miss Merrychristmas (25th Dec) and Miss Doublefinger (1st Jan). Changing languages for Pudding despite precedent wouldn't be surprising in the least.
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Begemot posted:The pirate captain that Nami befriended on Thriller Bark. Her shadow was put into a warthog and ruined Absalom's plan to marry Nami, then Nami met the real Lola on a ship lost in the Florian Triangle. Lola also helped Luffy become Nightmare Luffy to fight Oars. At the end off the arc Lola gave Nami a vivre card and mentioned that her mom was a big deal. So is there a connection between Big Mom and Whitebeard? I've always wondered this with respect to Jewelry Bonney. She is clearly somehow tied to Big Mom, but also has some sort of connection to Whitebeard as shown after the war.
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gnome7 posted:This is basically true of the manga too. It's a bunch of boring running around where very little happens until SOMETHING HAPPENS and usually the Something Happens moments are pretty good, but then they're running around and getting lost some more before anything else happens. You forget Vander Decken throwing an increasingly improbable assortment of things at people.
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kohon posted:So is there a connection between Big Mom and Whitebeard? I've always wondered this with respect to Jewelry Bonney. She is clearly somehow tied to Big Mom, but also has some sort of connection to Whitebeard as shown after the war. There's probably a pretty good chance there is. Maybe something like Big Mom wanting to marry Whitebeard in order to combine their families and have a huge person for a husband? Perhaps Miss Bakkin is Big Mom's sister and had a fling with Whitebeard resulting in Edward Weevil? There's a lot of possibilities out there, I'm sure Oda will fit them all together like puzzle pieces eventually.
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Crazyeyes posted:See I have no idea why people are so hyped up about Weevil. He is featured in like 1 chapter what seems like years ago and no one has any idea what his deal is. Only that he is strong enough to apparently mop the floor with some of WB's crews. His appearance was so brief that if people here didn't keep mentioning him, I wouldn't know who he was.
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he appeared like 20 chapters ago during zou... how can you forget already Chapter 802, we're on 835.
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Aug 6, 2016 19:31
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Kild posted:he appeared like 20 chapters ago during zou... how can you forget already lol thats like over 6 months ago
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Aug 6, 2016 20:20
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6 months ago, ancient One Piece. *remembers obscure reference from 18 years ago that suddenly becomes relevant*
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QuantaStarFire posted:6 months ago, ancient One Piece. Hey guys, I've been running chapter 1 through the analyzer again and I think I have some diagrams that can finally put to rest whether Lucky Roux is, in fact, the fastest character in One Piece.
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Aug 6, 2016 20:37
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QuantaStarFire posted:6 months ago, ancient One Piece. look man i want gin to come back too...
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Advice posted:Hey guys, I've been running chapter 1 through the analyzer again and I think I have some diagrams that can finally put to rest whether Lucky Roux is, in fact, the fastest character in One Piece. he is.
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Advice posted:Hey guys, I've been running chapter 1 through the analyzer again and I think I have some diagrams that can finally put to rest whether Lucky Roux is, in fact, the fastest character in One Piece. he's
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anime was right posted:lol thats like over 6 months ago I bet you forgot who Raizou was too.
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I am resisting the urge to re-read any of One Piece beyond the omnibuses, despite not being able to remember anything at all between where I currently am (two-thirds through Thriller Bark) and the end of Punk Hazard. It's nice; it's like rediscovering everything all over again.
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