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It's going to be really cool when Zoro and Mihawk fight even though they have no special powers and are just really goddamn strong. Edit: Also, Zoro fights are really good because he is a bloody mess by the end of them and it owns.
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The Zoro/Hachi fight is also really cool, less for the fight itself and more for Zoro fighting through the pain to even stand. He's usually at a disadvantage in his fights but that's the one he's at his weakest, and it's even better when Arlong beats him later and then freaks out upon seeing the wound because someone who can fight with that gash across his chest can't possibly be real.
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Sep 29, 2015 14:36
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Blackbeard presents way more of an ideological foil to Luffy than Akainu does and a far more interesting one than "marine vs pirate". Blackbeard's also basically the guy who gets the last laugh at Marineford and the only one who really walks away from it with a victory. I can't see him being beaten before Akainu. Though Luffy will probably take the both of them out eventually anyway.
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Apr 17, 2016 13:35
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tsob posted:Sengoku literally said that it was Shanks and companies win for interrupting them and getting Whitebeard's body. I disagree on the interesting too part as above, but that seems like pointless argument given that I doubt we'll change each other's minds. Oh yeah, Shanks pretty much gets a win too. Gets in stops the war and gets out with none of his crew getting hurt. But he doesn't really gain anything from it either. Like he saves a lot of people and enables Whitebeard and Ace to have a proper burial but the Red Hair Pirates are in about the same situation they were before. Blackbeard however uses the war as a cover to grab like 5 or so new crew members and then also steal Whitebeard's devil fruit as well. He's definitely the guy who won biggest i'd have to say.
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Apr 17, 2016 13:43
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tsob posted:He didn't use the war to grab those crewmates though - he used his position as a Warlord. That the war was happening at roughly the same time was essentially coincidence. Whitebeard beat Blackbeard easily. So did Sengoku. He refused to fight Shanks and a few days later he literally ran away instead of fighting Akainu despite having his entire crew there and knowing what he was doing. Akainu was such a massive obstacle he didn't mind his crew knowing he'd rather run than fight him, since they presumably understood why. Yeah. Blackbeard got beaten into a crying mess by the man he betrayed and only survived thanks to the guy being old as hell and covered in wounds, and he still needed his crew to get the job done for him. But I don't know how you can call Marineford anything but a victory for Blackbeard. He comes in kills Whitebeard and steals his fruit for himself, greatly adding to his strength. The Marines? They lost terribly. Suffered huge casualties and only managed to reignite a new pirate age. The Whitebeard Pirates? They probably had it worst. They utterly failed in their objective of saving Ace, lost their captain, and were unable to avenge either of them. The Red Hair Pirates do a lot better. They stop the war without firing a shot and get out with no casualties. But they basically just break even. They lose nothing but don't really gain anything either. Marineford ends with Marshall D Teach proclaiming that this is his era, and he subsequently becomes one of the 4 emperors and crushes the remnants of his old crew in a war. Sure he got wrecked, and wrecked hard but his star's been rising ever since and while even after the timeskip I doubt he's the strongest enemy in the world he's still growing stronger and increasing his position. Just like he's been doing ever since he entered into the series. The fact that he's not the strongest in the world but has been shown slowly gaining power and notoriety just makes me think it more likely he's the "final boss" persay. Moreso than Akainu at least, who's only just a step behind him.
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Apr 17, 2016 14:03
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Captain Invictus posted:And be even more flashy and useless than he is right now He's not that flashy.
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Apr 18, 2016 06:20
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Sengoku's goat is very cute.
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Apr 19, 2016 07:37
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Vivi is about as close to being a strawhat as you can be without actually being a strawhat. Even moreso than Barto and the rest of the Stawhat armada. Jinbe is in sort of a similar position I guess. Except he's got a promise to meet up with them and he'll probably do so sooner or later.
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Apr 19, 2016 13:25
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Chapter's up. This reveal about how fishmen who've eaten devil fruit are affect by water is super cool, and I like it a lot. Kind of removes a big disadvantage from them but at the same time they could just have to wait and starve to death at the bottom of the ocean. Which is pretty messed up. Interesting stuff with Kidd as well. It was revealed a few chapters ago Apoo was working with Kaidou now right? Hawkins is probably around with them somewhere as well then, so Kaidou might have 4 of the supernovas involved with him since Drake's probably gonna be a part of this as well. So that's pretty interesting. I'm interested to see where all this is going. Because man, there's a lot of different hooks being dropped everywhere and all of them are cool.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:40
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Niddhogg posted:What's the name "killer" have to do with it? It's a family of assassins. Still not good evidence though.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:58
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Blackbeard rules. Like, more than anybody else in the series he's probably accomplished the most since it began and had the least setbacks. But every time we've actually seen him get a fight or enact his plans he always only succeeds by the skin of his teeth. Just barely managing to tough out his opponents attacks, backstabbing enemies he can't beat in a straight fight, running away from fights he knows he can't win, having his whole crew gang up on a wounded man, or just plain getting lucky. He barely manages to get away with it every time. So he really does come off a big deal despite being a no-name at the beginning of the series, and despite having trouble with his plans every time he's appeared. It does feel like he wasn't quite at the same level as the stronger of the 7 Warlords, or the Yonkou, or the Admirals at the start of the series but he still managed to claw his way up the pyramid anyway. And after all that it makes perfect sense for him to have become one of the strongest and most dangerous pirate's of the era following the time skip. I think he's just had a really cool and well-done set up.
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Apr 24, 2016 02:14
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Gyges posted:Also I forgot Garp was about to murder the gently caress out of Akainu before Sengoku stopped him. How did you forget that? It was such a good scene.  I hope he shows up again soon. Garp's cool.
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Apr 24, 2016 02:50
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lowercase16 posted:I want to object to everyone saying that Blackbeard must be tough because he was a candidate to be a division commander. I read that scene entirely differently. It read to me like a young superstar getting promoted but having to get the blessing of the old guy who's been with the company for a long time. The old guy can't really object without risking his position and the young guy probably doesn't really care who got hired first, but they both have to have this conversation to be polite. A very Japanese situation. Scarring Shanks is a drat impressive accomplishment even if you had to be dirty to do it. He's one of the 4 Emperors and he ended a war with a few words. Sure, it was probably earlier in his career but still, you've got to be one tough sonuva bitch to cause a permanent scar on someone of Shanks' level.
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Apr 24, 2016 07:50
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Boogaleeboo posted:Or, you know, a rando fish that basically anyone around could take out now. Hey man, that fish was King of the Coast. Give him some respect. But ok, good point. Shanks never had to warn anyone to not underestimate that fish though. So Blackbeard's likely on a different level.
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Apr 24, 2016 08:03
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:The origins of the Gomu-Gomu no Mi will probably be revealed when the Straw Hats finally meet up with Shanks and Ussop or Robin ask about it, cue flashback. I don't think Kidd is the type to listen to another's orders at all, even if he was threatened with death or something. He'll probably just stay in that cell for a bit before causing some havoc for Kaidou somewhere down the line and maybe escaping on his own.
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Apr 24, 2016 11:10
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The Oz fight has a lot of really cool team attacks from all the Strawhats and it owned. I wonder if we'll ever see anything like it again.
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Apr 27, 2016 04:07
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Waffleman_ posted:Also whose loving bright idea was it to let Luffy cook? Luffy's.
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Apr 28, 2016 02:39
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tsob posted:I'd say the same if you think Luffy would need or accept his crew's help in defeating an arc boss, or if you think he'd consider himself deserving of the status of Captain or Pirate King if he needed that help. He's had situational help with some arc bosses, like Nami driving him to Enel and the Rolling Pirates giving him shadows to fight Moria, but it's always temporary help and he always does the meat of the fight on his own. He does so because that's his role in the crew and he needs to be strong enough to do so to be able to fulfill his dream. If he's not strong enough to defeat Kaidou, why should he be the Pirate King? If there was a personal stake then sure, but I doubt Luffy really gives a poo poo if people help him take out a dude. Especially because I really don't think Luffy considers defeating Kaidou or Big Mum to be like a necessary step to become pirate King or anything. Maybe he'd want to fight solo against Big Mum because it's to get a crew member back and that's a fairly personal feud, but even though he needs a poneglyph from her I don't think Luffy views the situation as 'before he can become pirate King he must defeat the 4 warlords'. With Kaidou he'd probably worry about it even less. He wants to beat Kaidou to help out a friend because Momonosuke and Law both want his help in taking him out. It'll probably get more personal when the arc really starts but as of now I doubt he think he has the be the one to beat Kaidou, and that he has to do it alone. Like, against Doflamingo he wasn't against Law helping him out when the fight first began, events just happened that led to it becoming one-on-one. Of course, he might face them by himself anyway because it's a shonen and it'll prove Luffy has reached the level of one of the strongest people in the world. But I don't really see the reason for it being that he has to win by himself to achieve his dream.
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Ryaomon posted:would be cool if we could get through one page without people theorizing new lovely ways for gin or jinbe to be brought back even though they suck rear end Jinbe is cool.
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Apr 30, 2016 08:10
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TheKingofSprings posted:Big Mam wasn't actually making people into food, just robbing people blind, yeah? She's been shown eating people before and they were singing about jam made of human blood. I'd say her making people into food is fairly likely.
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May 27, 2016 00:46
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Manatee Cannon posted:it's insane how physically different helmeppo and coby are from their first appearance Puberty is a magical thing.
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Jun 7, 2016 02:22
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Manatee Cannon posted:smoker hasn't been a threat since like the first time they met him He kicked Luffy's rear end at Marineford for a moment. Then Hancock interrupted. Not really a great threat post-timeskip though.
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Jun 9, 2016 02:23
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In Thriller Bark Nami gave some treasure to a friend. Like not even just "not stealing" from them, but literally giving away money. Nami's come a long way.
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Big Mum: Jinbe, you leaving would bring great shame to my crew, cost me a valuable resource, and leave a huge void in my organization. Jinbe: Well, sure.  Jinbe's hardcore.
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Whoever it is there will probably be a humorous question about them in the next sbs.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:17
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Green Intern posted:I like Shanks' pants. He's wearing his best to whoever's wedding he's at.
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Sep 1, 2016 13:04
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Jose posted:Roger had an uncurable disease. Luffy using the fruit like he does is killing him. Choppers dream is to cure an uncurable illness or something I don't think the side effects of Gear 2nd are an illness.
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Sep 2, 2016 11:08
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Kureha should definitely be Mercy. Or Ana.
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Sep 26, 2016 13:32
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:I don't even know where you're getting that cause the pictures I've seen say nothing about a duel. Well, I saw an image of Sanji kicking Luffy. And also Luffy saying he won't fight Sanji. So that's potentially mistakable as a duel I suppose. If you squint real hard.
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anime was right posted:but did you notice: Oda does it again.
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Oct 28, 2016 00:05
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All this is showing me is that by the end of the arc Pudding is totally going to join the Strawhats.
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Big Mum is going to try to use her powers and take Brook's life force and it will accomplish absolutely nothing. It's gonna be great. 
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legg benedict.
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Brook is soooo goddamn cool. He is SO COOL!!!!!!!! Also Jinbe. Jinbe is also cool. Not as cool as Brook but still pretty cool. mabels big day posted:I know you guys are probably talking about the new chapter, but I'm near the end of the Fishman Island arc and this is probably my favorite arc so far. I like it a bunch as well. The flashback is extremely good, and I really liked the theme of inherited hatred.
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Really the more interesting thing is why Reiji didn't say a single thing that entire conversation. She's up to something.
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Brook is just so cool.
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Lord_Magmar posted:Garp to me seems like someone who, much like Luffy, looks for the best in people beyond necessary reason. It's just where Luffy is often right about his friends and allies Garp might not be. So Garp would look at Akainu and see someone struggling with keeping the world safe and sometimes taking the wrong decisions, whereas from our perspective he's a monster. It's also sort of telling that a lot of Garp's generation remain Marines out of a sense of loyalty to their past and Sengoku as far as I can tell, who presumably at least tried to be a fair and just leader. I don't think Garp thinks Akainu is a good person, and probably doesn't like him at all. Especially after Marineford, where he almost tried to kill him after what he did to Ace.
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key party favors posted:I wonder how Oda is going to resolve Luffy/Sanji.. Like... we all feel bad for Sanji's situation, because the narrative has been strongly leaning on him.. but holy crap.. it sucks for Luffy too... It's kind of unfair to just rely on Luffy's heart of gold and wave off Sanji utterly beating the crap out of him.... I wonder what will happen with that... I mean, I know it's Luffy but...it's tough not to feel bad for him right now. He's going to resolve it by Sanji giving Luffy a delicious lunch.
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Getting involved with the untrustworthy Mafia don who kills pirate captains for little reason and is about to betray the person he's been working under for around 2 years sounds like a great plan!
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Milk is a powerful elixir.
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