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Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Senor Pink for next cover arc please.

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Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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I had no idea how much I missed this pace of storytelling.

Edit: I wanna see the world's reactions to those new bounties now.

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Simoom posted:

I guess he's gettin' broken out by whoever the heck that was anyways, to show up at the very end, with Crocodile and Moriah probably doing the same

Whoever is there has to get through Sengoku, Fujitora and Otsuru.

Especially Fujitora, who could literally make the drat ship fly if he wanted to. Or drop a meteor on the enemy ship.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Should have had the Going Luffy-senpai to the side in the third pic.

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Blockhouse posted:

I think the issue is less Law being legit and more that he's an entirely straight-faced Standard Shonen Cool Guy character who has eaten up a lot of panel time the last two arcs and it feels a bit like its directly pandering to the audience

But all the straight-faced Shonen Cool Guy stuff is generally played for laughs with him being jerked around by the Straw Hats' insanity.

Aside from his fight scenes, which are legit pretty cool.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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The second half was meh but holy poo poo that dragon. It was beautiful.

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I just realized that Usopp's face on the bounty poster means everyone in his home village now knows it's him and not Sogeking.

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DayDog and Nightcat are pretty cool dudes.

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Adlai Stevenson posted:

When Blackbeard's crew was immediately wiped out by Magellan, weren't they all, "Well it was a pleasure serving with you boys, shame how it ended" until the former warden what's his face showed up? I think they take the idea of fate seriously overall.

No, not in the manga anyways. It might have been because they were too busy screaming in agony instead but there was no sentiment being expressed of 'it has been an honour' or anything like that.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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I think part of the difficulty in straight up dismissing stuff that occurred during the arc as not being meaningful is that Oda is Oda; the armada is the obvious one, but there's a ton of other stuff he might have showed here to use at a later date.

Reading it weekly was still draggy though.

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He also made it so that it stopped raining in Alabasta, so much so that it instantly started raining as soon as he got knocked unconscious.

I thought that was because he was shooting some kind of weird powder into the air with a ship's cannons and it stopped because Tashigi impounded the ship in the meantime while Luffy was punching Croc.

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Jul 8, 2010

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Vinsmoke is a funny name.

Vinsmoke vinsmoke vinsmoke

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Caidin posted:

I'm still trying to decide if I think Kidd can manage it. The supernovas have been fairly demonstrated to be a bunch of hotshots and all, but I'd kinda like it if we actually got to see some presence from the last Emperor here besides a newspaper saying he got chumped. Kaido and Big Mom have been had toes for the strawhats to step on and goons running amuck all over the place, and Blackbeard is probably going to take a poo poo on Dragon soon. I can't actually remember if Shanks or a dude working for him has even been on a page since the timeskip.

There is no way Blackbeard is beating Dragon before we even get to see what Dragon's actual powerset is. All the laws of shounen storytelling forbid it.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Been doing a bit of rereading and man it is kinda surprising how Caesar is now basically comic relief when he was such a vile little poo poo during the Punk Hazard arc.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Lucci had the Rokuougan attack that could hurt Luffy's rubber body so that may have been a junior application of Haki.

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Strong World is kinda weird because it featured a villain considered a big shot in the New World right about the time the manga was emphasizing that the Straw Hats were simply not anywhere near ready for the New World.

On a somewhat related note: How is Film Z or whatever it's called?

Pureauthor fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Feb 1, 2016

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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He got punked by Law too though.

(won't count Vergo cuz he threw that fight)

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Holy crap. Holy crap

Luffy is actually using tactics. Like sneaking in and stuff.

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Jul 8, 2010

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Space-Bird posted:

There's no way Doffy is drowned, is there?


If Tsuru and Sengoku are dead...I can't....... It was their last day until retirement! I want to see those old farts again. :( :( :(

'Downed', not 'drowned'. His status as a weapons dealer for the underworld is gone so Kaidou loses SMILE and whatever else he was buying from Joker on the side.

Also Jack was driven off from the escort. He didn't succeed in freeing or killing Doflamingo.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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I wonder if they'll show anything of their meeting with Kaidou

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Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Guys, Luffy still needs to chat 1-on-1 with Shanks re: the Straw Hat. Something heart-felt from Shanks acknowledging how far Luffy's come and that he should hold on to the Straw Hat a bit longer until he finds the One Piece and becomes Pirate King and succeeds Roger, etc.

Anything else is just crazy talk.

Yes, this will definitely happen.

As Shanks lies on the ground dying of fatal wounds.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Spoilers are up for 816, just FYI.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Minkmen: total bros.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Usopp vs Luffy is still a top-tier fight.

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I think it only counts against swordsmen or something like that.

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Captain Invictus posted:

Are you rereading it using the color chapters?

What's this about colour chapters?

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Cowboy Hat Luffy still just tucks his straw hat behind him. :allears:

Franky's 'formal' wear is great, too.

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Jul 8, 2010

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I wish One Piece movies had less of the 'This is such a totally awesome and badass and TOUGHEST VILLAIN EVER' thing and had more focus on the Straw Hats being goofy and having fun with each other.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Zou is easily the best New World arc so far.

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That said I think Jack has the highest ratio for Appearances-to-Closeup-of-Angry-Glaring-Eye.

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Jul 8, 2010

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You'd think they'd try tossing 'em to the ocean floor instead.

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I kinda wonder how most of the Supernovas fared for the two year time skip given the New World should really have put them through the wringer.

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dazoner posted:

Kidd, Scratchman and Hawkins seem to be fine
Law became a Shichibukai
Marlon Brando works for Big Mam
Drake works for Kaido
Luffy is killing it
Urouge seems to be fine.

The only one we don't really know about is Bonney

I meant more of 'What sort of poo poo did they run into that forced them to git gud the same way the Strawhats had to.'

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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This is what happens when Oda doesn't feel a need to pad stuff for chapter count.

Zou is the best bloody arc and no one gonna tell me otherwise.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Is it just me or has Luffy been demonstrating more genuine empathy of late?

Also, I hope we get a flashback to Lord Oden and how he died.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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Law's flashback involved child refugees of a war getting massacred.

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Lpzie posted:

You don't need 4 of them. Three is enough. Start at one of the islands, and sail to the other. If that fails to find the island, do it again from the second island to the third. If that also fails, go from the third to the first. If this island is a traditional landmass above the water, congratulations, you should have found it by now.

We have no idea how far away the points are. They could be scattered all across the 4 blues for all we know and it's only the point they intersect that shows the location of Raftel.

Pureauthor
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Also we saw early on that Roger's crew considered sacrificing the ability to swim to be a dumb idea.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

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I wanna see the Wano dudes get a good fight.

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Jul 8, 2010

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Even in a chapter entirely dedicated to the Samurai, the Minks are still the best characters.

"You're just a big softie, aren't you... *sniff*

"SHUT UP."

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