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One Piece Manga |OT3| Anything You Can Gum I Can Gum Better
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It's ok. Def a step-up from the Alabasta movie at least. That one was terrible.
Drum Island movie felt more like an actual movie since the Drum Island arc was already pretty short as-is.
#1
Luffy stabing himself in his second panel must be the most rad and at the same time ridiculous introduction of a main character ever lol
This is never going to be fixed, right?
Never pay attention to that monkey there... an early version of the monkey of that bald guy later?
Shanks is a glorious troll lol.
I remember my jaw dropping the first time I read the panel of him losing his arm. Damn. Can't wait to see him playing shogi against Mihawk in the epiologue
Again?! Give this man some assistants!
Shanks has a small cut in one of his legs... Mihawk?
#2
Damn this Iron Mace Alvida gurl is some badass, this is the kind of female character I like, looks like this manga will have plenty
This pirate hunter guy they are foreshadowing will be a major villain
Jokes aside, I love how the characterization established 800 chapters ago is still relevant, Luffy has a dream, get in the way and he is going to kick your ass, works great in my book!
We are going to get some panels of Coby vs Aldiva in the future imo. Hope she does some training, gets a new mace or something. Luffy telling Coby he is an idiot is so endearing (like everything that Luffy does really)
#3
Zoro is such a badass, I forgot that Luffy wanted to recruit him even before meeting him.
And he eats the cookies not because he is hungry but for the sake of the little girl! That's my boy.
As an early villain, Helmeppo feels so unconventional, I like him too.
#4
Morgan is quite simple but I kinda like him anyways, a nobody that got addicted to power. I would rather have him with the original hair tbf, I want weirdos. His shocked faces are fun, adds a lot to the cartoonish feel.
Lol zoro is shocked hearing Luffy say that he wants to be pirate king
#5
What a beautiful friendship and rivalry between Zoro and Kuina, it would be a pity if something were to happen to it *menacing stairs*.
I like Kuina having a mundane death even though she is a good fighter.
"So famous that even heaven will hear of my great name"...what feat would make this literally real?
"Are you the offspring of the devil?" Hmmm
#6
How in the hell he speaks with a sword in his mounth? Dirtbag Morgan done by Luffy and later zoro, nice teamup
#7
Luffy: If you have something to protect, then take up the sword
#8
Zoro: "Now I can't find my way home" this is gold haha. Those pirates are dumb to fell for that trick. A thief that only steal from pirates? I am perplexed
vol2&3 later
Luffy stabing himself in his second panel must be the most rad and at the same time ridiculous introduction of a main character ever lol
This is never going to be fixed, right?
Never pay attention to that monkey there... an early version of the monkey of that bald guy later?
Shanks is a glorious troll lol.
I remember my jaw dropping the first time I read the panel of him losing his arm. Damn. Can't wait to see him playing shogi against Mihawk in the epiologue
Again?! Give this man some assistants!
Shanks has a small cut in one of his legs... Mihawk?
#2
Damn this Iron Mace Alvida gurl is some badass, this is the kind of female character I like, looks like this manga will have plenty
This pirate hunter guy they are foreshadowing will be a major villain
Jokes aside, I love how the characterization established 800 chapters ago is still relevant, Luffy has a dream, get in the way and he is going to kick your ass, works great in my book!
We are going to get some panels of Coby vs Aldiva in the future imo. Hope she does some training, gets a new mace or something. Luffy telling Coby he is an idiot is so endearing (like everything that Luffy does really)
#3
Zoro is such a badass, I forgot that Luffy wanted to recruit him even before meeting him.
And he eats the cookies not because he is hungry but for the sake of the little girl! That's my boy.
As an early villain, Helmeppo feels so unconventional, I like him too.
#4
Morgan is quite simple but I kinda like him anyways, a nobody that got addicted to power. I would rather have him with the original hair tbf, I want weirdos. His shocked faces are fun, adds a lot to the cartoonish feel.
Lol zoro is shocked hearing Luffy say that he wants to be pirate king
#5
What a beautiful friendship and rivalry between Zoro and Kuina, it would be a pity if something were to happen to it *menacing stairs*.
I like Kuina having a mundane death even though she is a good fighter.
"So famous that even heaven will hear of my great name"...what feat would make this literally real?
"Are you the offspring of the devil?" Hmmm
#6
How in the hell he speaks with a sword in his mounth? Dirtbag Morgan done by Luffy and later zoro, nice teamup
#7
Luffy: If you have something to protect, then take up the sword
#8
Zoro: "Now I can't find my way home" this is gold haha. Those pirates are dumb to fell for that trick. A thief that only steal from pirates? I am perplexed
vol2&3 later
Damn that burn.
DriftingSpirit
Member
I agree though. Chopper doesn't really have any medical feats. Just basic stuff.
Furries don't deserve rights
So does Sanji apparently (actually he deserved to die that was his own fault)
DriftingSpirit
Member
I mean, that was cool but I guess I want him to do something big. Like a medical discovery or something. Put Chopper on the medical map.
Now I want a edgy spinoff where Chopper secretly plans on killing Law for his fruit
Yeah Chopper medical skills are displayed mostly like "bandages everywhere".
I don't see how he could become a medical legend if the SW never take serious damage(someone being dismembered or an incurable disease in series like this).
Also why he doesn't bug Sanji about smoking or Zoro about his alcoholism? What a shitty doctor.
I don't see how he could become a medical legend if the SW never take serious damage(someone being dismembered or an incurable disease in series like this).
Also why he doesn't bug Sanji about smoking or Zoro about his alcoholism? What a shitty doctor.
Law is supposed to be The Doctor of Death, we barely seen him put it to use unless i'm wrong except when he treated Luffy
I do wonder what the government has done with those hearts did Akainu cook them and eat it, sounds like something he would do (not really)
or they did make them honorary warlords
I do wonder what the government has done with those hearts did Akainu cook them and eat it, sounds like something he would do (not really)
or they did make them honorary warlords
I suppose the government uses them as free mercenaries/spies.
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.
Yeah, I remember this. I kinda wanted them all to look like privateers (since that's what they're based on). Fluffy hats, swords, lots of pizzazz.I do love how the warlords look early in the anime when the guys had no idea and the only reference was Mihawk
I remember when Kuma and Doffy showed up post-Arabasta at that little Marine HQ scene. It was like DON - SHICHIBUKAI - HUGE BOUNTY! So cool. And we only just recently got to see Doffy's story... I love this series.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
One Pace just completed Impel Down and are working on Syrup Village now.
Sir Ilpalazzo
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I do love how the warlords look early in the anime when the guys had no idea and the only reference was Mihawk
This same image appears in the manga too, doesn't it?
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Shokugeki no soma season 3 announced!!!
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Nope, One Piece was first published on July 22.
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.
Yesterday was the 22nd though?
Were in June, not July.
Majukun
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indeed it does
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
For as much as Oda knows what he's doing in advance, sometimes he has no idea.
He's thought of particular story beats well in advance, but we don't have proof that that's the case with character designs, except for all of the Straw Hats except Robin and Chopper.
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.
Oh, durrrr lol
Actually I'd say that's a fairly good representation of Kaido w/o his moustach. The pirate hat is wtf though.
For as much as Oda knows what he's doing in advance, sometimes he has no idea.
Kaido was def planned of some sorts, though. He was namedropped a couple of chapters later by Geckoh Moria, lol. It was probably his design that wasn't finalized at the time.
I'm really curious what was Oda's vision of Kaido in the early stages of the series. Hope we see it someday.
I've mentioned this before, but I honestly believe Oda literally makes shit up as he goes along. In most anime/manga, there's some kind of straight-forward, logical progression, but OP doesn't seem to follow that format. For example, when I first started watching the anime, I initially thought that the 7 Warlords were going to be the main antagonists of the series. Then we get introduced to the higher levels of the marines (vice admirals/admirals and such), then we get the 4 Emperors. We can debate who among them are the strongest, but Luffy and crew don't go on to defeat the 7 Warlords, one at a time, before they take on the admirals, or the Emperors or whatever like you would probably expect. One day they'll fight a Warlord, another day an admiral, another Yonko, and then they'll go back to a Warlord, etc. Hell, Oda introduced and killed the guy who was supposed to be the strongest man in the world, while we still have more than half (maybe even more!) of the series to get through!
Now, I'm not saying the way Oda has been doing things is bad or anything, since he does succeed on the most important rule of making a good manga: keeping things interesting. But it is a fairly unique style of story writing.
Now, I'm not saying the way Oda has been doing things is bad or anything, since he does succeed on the most important rule of making a good manga: keeping things interesting. But it is a fairly unique style of story writing.
That's not his mindset according to Ray's post a few weeks ago:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=239277105&postcount=2069
Honestly I dunno how anyone can say this with all the foreshadowing the man does, where even the Gear reveals manage to coincide with one another, or even the cover stories being something you may need to pay attention to. Ultimately, it's just on you for making the assumption that we'd fight them one by one imo. The only thing we know for certain is that Luffy is gonna find One Piece one day, and to a lesser extent, the crewmates will (probably) all achieve their dreams. At the very least, Zoro will achieve his.
Other than that, everything is fair game in terms of how Oda gets us to those points. If anything, the way he does things is far more effective, rather than the whole cliche where the next enemy the crew faces is stronger than the next, and so on. Like you said, we met Mihawk very early on, and turns out the dude is likely the strongest Warlord, giving Zoro a very high bar to clear. Or fighting Enel who is actually pretty damn strong, but has a hilarious disadvantage against Luffy. We saw Doffy years ago, but it's only recently that Luffy fought and defeated him, despite encountering much stronger threats earlier on. Even then, when ya think about it, the Navy/Warlords don't really have anything to do with One Piece. It's not like Luffy needs to beat all of them in order to find it. You could sort of argue that for his rivals in both the Supernova and Yonkou, since they want it themselves, but by the time we actually see them, it becomes obvious that the story could go whatever direction it wants at that point. It's only recently that it has been made clear that Luffy more or less does need to interact with the Yonkou, due to their Poneglyphs, if he hopes to make it to Raftel. And even then, one of the 4 Poneglyphs are lost, so things won't be straightforward there either.
At any rate, it all fits into the whole theme about freedom, where despite Oda's insistence on being consistent with the story, he feels free to direct the readers wherever the hell he damn well pleases, further aided by the fact that the OP universe is weird as fuck.
I guess I wasn't really clear what I meant by "making shit up as he goes along". Yes, it's true that Oda seems to consider the long game, and has a lot of stuff in there that deals with foreshadowing and such. But I guess what I meant was that for example, Oda might have some idea in his mind, like say, he wants Luffy to meet up with his childhood friend, Sabo, at one point in the future. Then at some point, Oda might think to himself "hey, not only will I introduce him, but I'll make him a critical part of some larger group. Oh, I know! What about the Revolutionary Army??!", and boom, it's done.
In other words, Oda might have a certain destination in his mind, but along the way, the events leading up to that destination can fluctuate wildly. In that sense, I think it's totally possible one can play the long game, while still making shit up as they go along. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
In that sense, yes there's a degree of improvisation in the details of an arc. We know that stuff like Shanks losing his arm was a last minute decision, and we know the worst generation pirates were whipped up in three hours.
Comic books are a unique medium in that the creative process sort of begins and ends from installment to installment. You can plan something out and at the last minute decide that something doesn't work or can be improved.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
I like how you can see Nami on the cover but she is nowhere for the first few chapters
Shueisha will sell reprints of Weekly Shonen Jump which had first issue of One Piece and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, both in the same pack for 900 Yen on 12th August.
Lol if it wasn't obvious by Big Mom's backstory that Oda took some inspiration from The Promised Neverland. I'm willing to bet the Mother Carmel storyline was something he came out of the blue cause it really wasn't foreshadowed like many other things were. It was just introduced, and then a couple of chapters later it was revealed in it's entirety.
Though I do think there's more to the story than what was shown. We still don't know to what extent Mother Carmel had influence in the world (did she raise characters like Sakazuki?), we still don't know what the hell Big Mom actually i, and why in the hell was Loki willing to marry Lola and make Elbaf a part of Big Mom's crew after what she did? There's so much mysteries there.
I'm willing to be Loki is going to be the antagonist of the Elbaf arc and is going to be a twisted fuck if you go soley by Norse mythology.
Says "You can do it Ema!" (in the big red letters)
then next to it "Posuka-chan is weird!"
Well like I said if Norse mythology is anything to go by...Loki is going to be a dick.
I dont understand the first point, have people been complaining? Is this Arc going to escalate even further? Like the fight with Kaido started and he threw Zoro to Whole Cake Island type?
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Damn, that's cool just as a piece of history. Jojo is celebrating it's 30th anniversary this year so that explains the reprint.
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