Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
I bet a lot of that chapter will be a flashback to Zoro learning whatever the hell we're about to see from Mihawk.
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I bet a lot of that chapter will be a flashback to Zoro learning whatever the hell we're about to see from Mihawk.
MrSaturn99
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I can see this happening; then again, I've been wanting to see more scenes/context from the two-year period for a while.
Will Zoro having his left eye gone ever be explained, is what I want to know....I really really really hope that it isn't some "eye power".
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Oda going to go Bleach with Zoro's eye? Nothing wrong with it he just chooses to handicap himself lol.
Or he has Mihawks left eye! Sharingan!
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I'd hate for that to happen, though I do hope we eventually find out....
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Pros:
Pica didn't get defeated in a chapter. Zoro's going to do something nuts.
Cons:
It looks like Robin vs Trebol isn't happening.
Dammit Oda
Pica didn't get defeated in a chapter. Zoro's going to do something nuts.
Cons:
It looks like Robin vs Trebol isn't happening.
Dammit OdaNHarmonic.
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Why? Diamante actually used his devil fruit in really interesting ways in that fight. Here? Pica blends with the castle/buildings and tries to stomp/wreck people. And we've been seeing this boring fight since like 20+ chapters and it's finally ending soon.
Pros:
Pica didn't get defeated in a chapter. Zoro's going to do something nuts.
Cons:
It looks like Robin vs Trebol isn't happening.
Who is going to fight trebol then? We don't have the other half of the straw hat crew to do their usual roles, so Sanji fight this arc.
Maybe they think big giant battles are more interesting.
Eye hacks? Zoro is going to finish pica with susanoo.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Zoro's eye was likely slashed and is currently dead.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I kind of hope Zoro's eye is gone. A hidden eye powerup is as cliche as it can get.
It might be Law if he isn't currently incapacitated.
It might be Law if he isn't currently incapacitated.
Johnlenham
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Kind of looked like he gained a whitebeard moustache in the last panel lol
No one's left to fight Donfla is Luffy doesn't, Law got curbstomped in the worst way. Besides, the last few chapters featuring Luffy seemed to be setting him up for a fight with Donfla.
Welfare
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What if he fights both? Would really show how much he's progressed in two years.
BassForever
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So we're finally going to see Zoro be serious in a fight post time skip, wonder if it'll just be a OHKO
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Naw Pica will go down next chapter.
Consider what we've seen from Zoro so far in prior arcs post-timeskip, Pica's going down in one hit.
Jigolo
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Yeah. "serious fight", lol
Omnistalgic
Member
I always thought that Zoro can still see out of his other eye, just that it was injured and it pains him greatly to see out of it. So he will only open it in life/death situations.
Cliche or not, I think it would be pretty cool for his eye to be something more than just "dead". That's pretty boring IMO, unless the backstory to why he lost his eye is somehow related to Luffy or the team in some way.
Cliche or not, I think it would be pretty cool for his eye to be something more than just "dead". That's pretty boring IMO, unless the backstory to why he lost his eye is somehow related to Luffy or the team in some way.
Would be kinda impossible for his eye to be lost in anything involving the rest of the crew, during the 2 year skip the crew never met each other ever. Zoro's eye was already damaged when they got back to Sabaody, so it has to be something involving Mihawk.
I cannot abide that much power creep.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I think Pica might be baiting Zoro into a trap.
The way he just stated he was going to attack Riku and just walked away with his back turned is fishy.
The way he just stated he was going to attack Riku and just walked away with his back turned is fishy.
Johnlenham
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Wouldnt surprise me if he is fine under it, but uses it to make himself "better" like goku and his weighted training gear. I mean he uses 3 swords "because" rather than one/two
Eye is most likely a straightforward injury. At most, I could see Oda pulling a gag where he just randomly opens his eye during one fight and says something like "Eh, wasn't really injured, I'm just training my depth perception!" or something ridiculous and nonsensical like that.
99.9% sure it's just an eye injury though.
99.9% sure it's just an eye injury though.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
The thing about that eye is that losing depth perception and awareness of a full half of what's in front of you is no fucking joke. That's an ENORMOUS handicap. The fact that he can function perfectly fine with it shut means either A) it's just a comic and Oda isn't thinking about it that hard, or B) he's using observation haki to compensate pretty much 24/7, ala Daredevil. Kinda halfway to Issho, in fact.
And now that I say that, I wonder if Mihawk purposely ruined his eye to force him to learn haki better.
And now that I say that, I wonder if Mihawk purposely ruined his eye to force him to learn haki better.
I can imagine this happening when Zorro finally fights Mihawk. Dude will be all "The guy who wounded you must be very powerful, tell me his name," and Zorro will say "Nah, I was just giving myself a handicap to keep it interesting," or he won't have realized his eye was close the whole time.
TheRealTalker
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I just hope that after this arc is over we could see some new things (like landscaped, weather, animals) from the new world that separates it from the other oceans
since..... like I stated in the Bleach thread.... other then character/organizations interacting Oda has dumbed down on the geographical world building
since..... like I stated in the Bleach thread.... other then character/organizations interacting Oda has dumbed down on the geographical world building
Has he though? Fishman Island was a giant underwater city made out of coral inside of a giant bubble next to a giant ship with chains made for sea kings. Then they learn that the New World requires a new log pose with all sorts of crazy new rules. After shooting through an underwater tornado they find a school of giant whales and enter into the new world to find an ocean of fire and lightning. The first island they see, Punk Hazard, is an island half on fire and half frozen in ice with dragons and human/animal hybrids. After leaving Punk Hazard, they travel through a forest on the sea and on a sideways wave. When they reach Dressrosa, they find that it's surrounded by giant rocky cliffs, full of Gaudi inspired architecture, and has a giant, iconic castle along with a gigantic Colosseum.
Aside from all that, we've also seen glimpses of an island made out of candy, an island constantly being struck by lightning, and an island with invisible land.
Oda has definitely dumbed down some things lately, but I'd say geographical world building is the last thing I'd call out.
TheRealTalker
Banned
a majority of that is man made though
as in Punk Hazard isn't a climate thing but instead some ruins from a battle between two marines
and the others are nice and what not but we've seen most of that stuff with the other seas
we need something new and fresh something threatening.... something that shows how the geographical level of the new world is only meant for the tough of the tough
I dunno, nearly every time they've been on the water in the new world, it's been anything but normal.
I think the new world is feared more for the territory wars between the world's toughest pirates than its geography, but I'm really not worried about Oda's ability to do crazy nature. It'll show up.
I think the new world is feared more for the territory wars between the world's toughest pirates than its geography, but I'm really not worried about Oda's ability to do crazy nature. It'll show up.
TheRealTalker
Banned
I guess it may seem someone unique
but I've re-read OP several times to compare.... Plus I've read HXH before it went back on hiatus plus the current Toriko's world building
and I just feel lukewarm about it
but I've re-read OP several times to compare.... Plus I've read HXH before it went back on hiatus plus the current Toriko's world building
and I just feel lukewarm about it
There were looooooong gaps between natural deformities in the old days. You just didn't notice because you could read it all at once. Now that it's week to week, nothing seems recent.
Maybe I just don't understand what you're asking for. Can you give some examples?
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Zoro letting himself lose an eye is pretty plausible. I mean, this is the same guy who tried to cut off both of his legs in Little Garden. lol
I think I sort of understand what the magic of One Piece is sorta missing, like everything is connected obviously so stuff from even chapter 1 impacts things in chapter ???. Oda does a good job there but now you obviously know chapter 1 is going to effect chapter ??? where as before you went "Woah".
After the Whitebeard War is seems every single island involves the Navy or the Wold Govt. Where as before even when the Straw Hat Crew ends up meeting up with other Navy/World Govt it felt like they had control.
East blue saga had them buildup to gather basic crew members leading into the grand line. With the culmination is when they went over reverse mountain. Then the beginning Alabasta Saga was literally just a chance happening it could've never happened, them meeting chopper was a chance and random happening. Like it all flowed well with chance happenings kinda like how Luffy was just blind to everything we saw things from Luffy's perspective.
The locales also changed from standard seafare of East Blue to Winter islands of drum to the desert of Alabasta, then what made the different locale changes even better is that they weren't mentioned like crazy afterwards. Now it just feels like we heard of Sabaody, Impel Down, Marineford, and Fishman Island for 3-4 years over and over no matter where Luffy was then once we left Fishman Island all we here about is more Navy stories.
Now we know alittle too much I think which ruins it, like Logias were great you had to think about what would be the complete anti of their element. Now though it's just "HAKI" and it solves mostly everything. We also have like a vauge idea what "One Piece" itself will be, I think Oda will have to throw a curveball to make a very good ending.
After the Whitebeard War is seems every single island involves the Navy or the Wold Govt. Where as before even when the Straw Hat Crew ends up meeting up with other Navy/World Govt it felt like they had control.
East blue saga had them buildup to gather basic crew members leading into the grand line. With the culmination is when they went over reverse mountain. Then the beginning Alabasta Saga was literally just a chance happening it could've never happened, them meeting chopper was a chance and random happening. Like it all flowed well with chance happenings kinda like how Luffy was just blind to everything we saw things from Luffy's perspective.
The locales also changed from standard seafare of East Blue to Winter islands of drum to the desert of Alabasta, then what made the different locale changes even better is that they weren't mentioned like crazy afterwards. Now it just feels like we heard of Sabaody, Impel Down, Marineford, and Fishman Island for 3-4 years over and over no matter where Luffy was then once we left Fishman Island all we here about is more Navy stories.
Now we know alittle too much I think which ruins it, like Logias were great you had to think about what would be the complete anti of their element. Now though it's just "HAKI" and it solves mostly everything. We also have like a vauge idea what "One Piece" itself will be, I think Oda will have to throw a curveball to make a very good ending.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Sorry for the late reply
Okay so what I mean is world phenomenon like how in our planet we have natural wonders...
Northern Lights, or other natural beauty of awe!
Plus I also mean is new exciting weather.... Something that shows how tough the new world is compared to the other lands.... Something that shows that sailing it won't be as easy.
Other then the compass acting differently there aren't any really unique ones....... I just feel that on a world building level the new world is more lackluster
I could be wrong though seeing as we've haven't ventured through most of it so who knows we might get something as exciting as the things we see in Toriko's Gourmet world
Because right now the only unknown I am looking forward to other them answers to characters or ancient weapons is that Sea that Sanji is looking for...
We need a sense of mystery or a long term destination/goal to look forward to that we can somehow use to get a picture of things
we need a map to show not everything per say but showing some sort of image of what to expect..... or see stuff that is overly imaginative that will blow us away
I am just roughly trying to get out what I mean....... since it is somewhat hard to say.... but
I haven't seen yet.... at least for me (other then a few hints on some big characters) that makes me say "Wow this is the NEW WORLD"
NHarmonic.
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I don't know, those tiny bits with the supernova post timeskip got me pretty excited about the possibilities of the New World; And the time when they finally get out of the bottom of the sea and land in this surface of flames, a burning sea along with the whales... That was incredible and really, really NEW WORLD-ish for me.
Maybe we just went to "Arabasta" too soon in this second half, and we needed more little islands/ more exploration?
( Even though i love Dressrosa as an arc, it's been such a great ride).
TheRealTalker
Banned
I guess other series put my OP new world expectation up a notch
:/
Plus the pacing too I guess...... hence why I love some of those OP movies since they show us some big guns and wrap it up in a compact amount of time rather then stretch things out
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Plus the pacing too I guess...... hence why I love some of those OP movies since they show us some big guns and wrap it up in a compact amount of time rather then stretch things out
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Even though it's been four years since the time skip, we've barely even dipped our toes into the New World.
The longer arcs and more character-focused side stories have gotten a bigger focus mostly due to the larger cast and big players coming to the forefront.
I don't doubt that Oda has a lot of interesting stuff in store for the New World, but we just have to wait a little longer.
The longer arcs and more character-focused side stories have gotten a bigger focus mostly due to the larger cast and big players coming to the forefront.
I don't doubt that Oda has a lot of interesting stuff in store for the New World, but we just have to wait a little longer.
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