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With all this in mind, one of the reactions you don't want from your opponent when you are hitting them is a smile, regardless of the source or reason for the smile.

He's grinning while letting them wail on him. They're going to get trounced.
The analogy I've always used is it's like facing Emerald Weapon before Sephiroth in FF7.

Oda's going to have to either...

Doesn't surgery often involve cutting people open with sharp objects?

It's meant to have that oppressive feeling, this is still 5 hotshot pirates vs 2 grizzled veterans.

From what I can tell, Kid and Killer have the least chance of damaging him. Maybe they'll go...

Incredible chapter. The amount of times I've re-read it is insane. Another 10/10 for me, and my standards for those are a lot higher now that we're past 1000.

If you would've told me the 3...

Meant to drop a quick congratulations in here on us getting to 1000 and it delivering.
Kanpai!

I'm trying to avoid them at all costs now. I've just decided we're in too important of a stage of the story from here on out.
It's reaaaaally difficult, I discuss OP on many forums and have to...

Man. It is just a f*cking excellent time to be a fan of One Piece, in both forms. I'm fully of the opinion both are in their "second golden age". Both have had their ups and downs, but things have...

The break really hasn't been hitting me at all for this one. Chapters like these feel like they're worth 20-30 normal chapters, as rare as chapters like these are. I would've been fine even with a 3...

Finally I found it. A good translation of Gaimon's chapter.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080622124958/http://www.mangascreener.com/stephen/onepiece/op-v03c022.txt

So I'll make my guess,
"I'm...

Chapter was everything I hoped for and more, I'm not gonna lie I was not composed at all when reading this. I actually did mostly predict this chapter... lol. So that's another big reveal I've gotten...

I'll always be a broken record for this but I want an Emerald City arc (I know it's likely just a Wizard of Oz reference). Also, relevant to this countdown, Wano's in what COULD be its final climax,...

Mainly here for Koido. The Ace inclusion was nice, more nice that it ended quickly.
The final 2 pages are amazing, yeah, and quite a big twist. Less than 1% got Kaido's fruit right.
There were a...

Over at Reddit an excited fan drew his own color spread in anticipation of Chapter 1000, was really neat to see, very cool to see the huge number of people hyped over there....

What Arsene said was a question, not a demand, so all's well.

I've been wanting Fujitora to show up, he fits right in with Wano's theme as compared to the other admirals. I actually think you may have solved how Onigashima gets down safely. o_o
IF Fujitora...

I've personally always thought it's pretty arbitrary, all characters are forced to say their lines by the author.

I've always wondered what unforced exposition looks like. As natural as possible right?
"It is I, New Character. Greetings! (Uh no don't say anything about where you're from, they'd think it's...

Gotta go into work (as always urgh), but I do need to comment on a chapter like this.
Not the absolute best of what Oda can produce, but for entertainment value and expansion on high-end Zoan...

I would agree if it was just a random chapter between 1 and 999, I used a random number generator and it gave me 834 for example.

At the end of the day, it will be what it will be. If there's...

Dang, being disappointed before the chapter even releases, that's some next level stuff. Your disappointment Haki is applaudable sir.

Could you imagine? That would be crazy funny. The cynical/toxic people out there would have a field day and who could blame 'em.

"The Legend Begins" ---> "The Legend Never Ends".
Thank you Oda, you're just the best. I was hoping so hard 1000 would parallel 100. ;_;7
It's almost impossible for the actual content to be as...

I getcha, technicalities are cool. All that matters to me is that at the end of the day, they got injured. Though in this case I'm only talking about Nami.
Though I was never really in the "You know...

Off topic: Are any "Oda doesn't hurt beautiful women" people still out there? Anywhere?? I saw a decent number back in the day so I'm just curious, with recent developments.

On topic: It would...

Yeah this sounds good. Maybe the best way is to end with a spread or 2 of the Straw Hats? My personal preference would be intermission, cutting back to the Straw Hats. Oda's got his work cut out for...

Sucks that the forum went down on such an awesome chapter.

Sanji's moment was very eh for me. If I was Oda here, I would not at all have had 2 random mooks be able to make Sanji bleed. But that's...

Law's fruit would honestly be so tricky and such a pain to write. Its title is "The Ultimate Devil Fruit", I think Doflamingo or Law said somewhere in the 760s or 770s. So it has to be crazy...

Jabra: I am indeed weird!

ArmamentHero: Ha, I was trying to be as nice as possible. I come from a different time in APForums, my join date is deceptive. People were a lot more ruthless than I was...

I'll give him no benefit of the doubt. :P
All that bluster and rage about Kaido being weak and then Kiku loses an arm and the Scabbards get clubbed and now just... crickets and tumbleweeds.
It's...