LonelyGreyWolf
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Lol, this is of course incorrect, but it's situational, and posting scans like above should be fine. You can't just photoshop or crop a watermark away, or post a scan from Famitsu just because there isn't a watermark on it.
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One Piece Manga |OT| ZEHAHAHAHA! The Name of this Age is Blackbeard!
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Lol, this is of course incorrect, but it's situational, and posting scans like above should be fine. You can't just photoshop or crop a watermark away, or post a scan from Famitsu just because there isn't a watermark on it.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
The digitally colored manga is better than both the manga and the anime! It's the perfect fusion between both.
Cloud Strife
Member
Looks good, but I wish the backgrounds had some color or substance in the panels without anything drawn. Don't like the blank white backgrounds there.
It's jarring to me, anyway.
It's jarring to me, anyway.
Yeah even like just a slight change in color behind the different characters in those close-up frames of their faces would be good. Preferably a little bit of texture, too.
But damn it looks really good besides that. D:
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
The occasional white backgrounds are one of the things that bug me about the color volumes. It's this mix of full color and just "color elements on white" that makes scenes start to feel anemic. When it's all black and white there's no dissonance, a white background doesn't really seem any different, cause everything's white. It's just a way to emphasize the foreground.
A lot of the color pages really do look fantastic, but like that one up there with Akainu's lava punch is an example of a page that bugs me with its white bits. Feels kinda unfinished, feels like they're coloring something that wasn't built for color. Which, well, they are.
Now if every page looked as good as the actual Oda-colored color spreads we'd be in business. But as-is it's kinda so-so for me.
A lot of the color pages really do look fantastic, but like that one up there with Akainu's lava punch is an example of a page that bugs me with its white bits. Feels kinda unfinished, feels like they're coloring something that wasn't built for color. Which, well, they are.
Now if every page looked as good as the actual Oda-colored color spreads we'd be in business. But as-is it's kinda so-so for me.
I wouldn't call that a fair comparison, since even black or white, a cover page has way more detail to it than most panels of the story. It's got extra detail so as to sell more.
Did an update of the Arc Chapter Counts. How long each arc lasts in the manga.
Dressrosa: 102
Skypiea: 66
Alabasta: 63
Enies Lobby: 56
Water 7: 53
Fishman Island: 51
Thriller Bark: 48
Punk Hazard: 46
Marineford: 31
Baratie: 27
Arlong Park: 27
Drum Island: 25
Impel Down: 25
Sabaody Archipelago: 24
Syrup Village: 20
Jaya: 19
Long Ring Long Land: 19
Post-War: 17
Little Garden: 15
Orange Town: 14
Post-Enies Lobby: 11
Amazon Lily: 11
Whiskey Peak: 9
Romance Dawn: 7
Loguetown: 5
Reverse Mountain: 5
Return to Sabaody: 5
Zou is currently at 8 chapters.
Dressrosa: 102
Skypiea: 66
Alabasta: 63
Enies Lobby: 56
Water 7: 53
Fishman Island: 51
Thriller Bark: 48
Punk Hazard: 46
Marineford: 31
Baratie: 27
Arlong Park: 27
Drum Island: 25
Impel Down: 25
Sabaody Archipelago: 24
Syrup Village: 20
Jaya: 19
Long Ring Long Land: 19
Post-War: 17
Little Garden: 15
Orange Town: 14
Post-Enies Lobby: 11
Amazon Lily: 11
Whiskey Peak: 9
Romance Dawn: 7
Loguetown: 5
Reverse Mountain: 5
Return to Sabaody: 5
Zou is currently at 8 chapters.
igordennis
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People talk about how everyone complained as well reading Skypiea and Enies Lobby weekly but look at this, dressrosa almost doubled them. And its a continuation of the 46 chapter long Punk Hazard.
They did complain.
People complained that Skypiea ran too long, and Enies Lobby suffered ending fatigue. Keep in mind this was when Oda didn't take mandated breaks for his health.
Dressrosa was an overlong arc that felt slower due to all the breaks. Read in one sitting, it's a lot better.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I'm already imagining how long the final arc will be.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Water 7 and Enies Lobby put together are longer, though. And those arcs are tied at the hip.
Omnistalgic
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3/4 of dressrosa
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Sigh man after psx...i think i need a gaf break. Guys...dont change in here plz!! I even appreciate veelk like 100% more now. Live long one piece brethren may we all find the all blue
Cloud Strife
Member
Take care dude.
I like to combine them, but it feels different because of the location change. Dresrossa is technically part of Punk Hazard and Zou but I think arcs are restricted to one location whereas Sagas are thematic (the pirate alliance saga). You could add Aokiji's scene to the Water7 saga because it sets up the whole thing about Robin and ends with him too.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
The main thing differentiating Water 7 and Enies Lobby is that the villains introduced in W7 leave and go to Enies Lobby, and that arc is really just the Straw Hats chasing them down. It's not like Jaya -> Skypiea or the islands they went to before Arabasta, where it was part of the same overarching story but told its own vignettes. W7 and EL are telling the same story, both on a micro and macro level.
Omnistalgic
Member
Lol you're on here too! Hey man, I just gave up on GAF gaming for a while, I'm just gonna start subscribing to threads. OP and SF GAF are consistently great.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
One Piece Manga |OT| Consistently great
Now that puts things into perspective. And that was "just" Don Flamingo - I wonder how he'll handle Kaidou and his captains.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Speaking of chapter counts, even though I love long arcs, I honestly wouldn't mind having like three or four East Blue-length arcs in one row. That pacing would be nice. It's harder to do because there are way more characters now than back then, but still I think it's very much plausible with slightly different story-telling. Could be interesting to have a complete change of pace for a while.
More Fun To Compute
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I still think of Dressrosa as two arcs. Dressrosa Arena and Bird Cage. The location didn't change but a big reset button was pushed on the arc.
Omnistalgic
Member
lol..niceOne Piece Manga |OT| Consistently great
I kind of see as this too.
All the toys returning to normal and Kyros decapitating Doflamingo felt like an arc ending, in the same way as the train fights at the end of Water 7.
Same here, i think it's like the CP9 arc, but everything was in the same island ( well the Arena part was in Green Bit too but Luffy wasn't there ).
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Heyyyy lol didn't kno you was in one piec too
Was just thinking about this today:
I'm pretty pessimistic about this new arc. Things are already getting chaotic.
I honestly think Oda has lost the magic. His storytelling isn't as good as the old days anymore. The pacing is all weird and everything is too chaotic. Dressrosa and the fishman islands were bad... Dude needs to chill and get a new editor.
On the other hand, I'm really liking the character designs in this arc so far. I had expected the cat to be thinner, and this design surprised me.
I'm pretty pessimistic about this new arc. Things are already getting chaotic.
I honestly think Oda has lost the magic. His storytelling isn't as good as the old days anymore. The pacing is all weird and everything is too chaotic. Dressrosa and the fishman islands were bad... Dude needs to chill and get a new editor.
On the other hand, I'm really liking the character designs in this arc so far. I had expected the cat to be thinner, and this design surprised me.
Cloud Strife
Member
I think the real sense of wonder is going to be recaptured towards the end of the series, but I sort of agree.
Other than that issue, I don't think Oda has lost much of anything. Zou (Zunisha) is insanely creative and the minks more so. What do you mean by chaotic?
Omnistalgic
Member
yeah, man, One Piece is my favorite manga besides Naruto (before timeskip) and Gundam. I also got into Hunter x Hunter, but the chimera arc got too weird and dark for me.
Omnistalgic
Member
yeah, I don't think he's lost anything, but it would be nice if main issues would come back into focus.
Some stuff can stay a mystery until the end like Luffy's Mom, or him finally meeting his father. But where Devil Fruits come from, or something close to an origin story, the void century, the weapons, Will of D versus the "Gods", and just wtf happened with each crew mate in there 2 years separated.
I hope this arc characters have serious battles and we just focus on Strawhats for a bit. Neither Luffy nor Zoro has had a Enies Lobby caliber fight yet. Luffy has these weird exhaustion limits on his power, but he basically has been beating people up since the time skip.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
You see...i knew you were one of the good one's!! Sorry that insightful thread you made turned to shit as well tho. But aye nice nd quiet here one piece rulez
I disagree. I thought Dressrosa was a great arc, and this Zou arc has the most promising start of any arc since the timeskip began.
I also think the pacing for this arc has been pretty good so far, with the exception of Oda teasing Sanji reveals and never delivering
The Chimera Ant arc is a Shonen treasure
Sibersk Esto
Banned
The scale of these chapter have been insane. The pages are so dense.
idk we haven't really seen Jack go all out
the dukes definitely seem real strong though
true, I am probably jumping the gun, but the minks did say the were winning till gas attack.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I don't think Luffy would have much trouble with Jack. Luffy spent two years exclusively training on huge animals, he is prepared for this.
i want to see the full extent of Luffy's abilities
I need to know how strong he really is now.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
With Gear 4 Luffy is probably as strong as he was with Nightmare Luffy and that made Oars into a joke. Of course, Jack could use armament Haki. That might be troublesome.
Jack got fucked by the marines already, remember? He went to go rescue Mingo after his trip to Zou.
it was a ship to ship fight though. fujitora probably launched a meteor at his ship and sunk him and his crew. that doesn't mean he is down for good. he could have been saved by someone on his crew and they were later picked up by someone on kaido's crew. what if another one of the 3 calamities picked him up and brings him to zou? would make things interesting.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Fighting on ships over the water doesn't seem like the most advantageous situation for someone who can turn into a massive animal.
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