Last Two Nakamates (vol. 5)
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Perona fans will argue that since Oda pointed out that Zoro arrived first, Zoro must have gotten some help. And that this help is Perona.
The problem is Zoro arriving first. If he had been last or one before last then all this Perona talk would have been extinguished right away.
Zoro arrived first, Zoro must have gotten some help. And that this help is Perona.–-- it is not true??
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On a different note, I bet we will catch a glimpse of the next nakama within twenty chapters. Who knows, maybe jinbei has an apprentice. A user a fishman karate, and a permanent helmsman would be a fine addition to the crew. Again the whole apprentice thing is just speculation at the moment, though Jinbei could have a student that he has trained for the past two years to be able to aid the strawhats. It may be within fishman cultural standards to do something like that to repay a debt, though we will have to wait until at least next week to know more. I also doubt anyone will even notice this post because of all the perona speculation because she appeared in this chapter along with all the other strawhat helpers besides the revolutionaries. Its not like mihawk could have showed up, he can't say "I am beautiful" and not lose his shichibukai title.
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To put it simply, Perona is a terrible character and would contribute nothing to the Straw Hats. …...
So Zoro is not Straw Hats??
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So Zoro is not Straw Hats??
You think Zoro do nothing But Sleeping ?
Wong, He is the one who Keep The Guard at Night. thats why he sleep on the Day. -
On the battlefield there are not women, men, those of one persuasion or the other, there are not those with points to make, final words to still be said, there are not excuses to make of your affiliations. No. There is only one thing. You are only one thing.
You are the defeated.
I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
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On a different note, I bet we will catch a glimpse of the next nakama within twenty chapters. Who knows, maybe jinbei has an apprentice. A user a fishman karate, and a permanent helmsman would be a fine addition to the crew. Again the whole apprentice thing is just speculation at the moment, though Jinbei could have a student that he has trained for the past two years to be able to aid the strawhats. It may be within fishman cultural standards to do something like that to repay a debt, though we will have to wait until at least next week to know more. I also doubt anyone will even notice this post because of all the perona speculation because she appeared in this chapter along with all the other strawhat helpers besides the revolutionaries. Its not like mihawk could have showed up, he can't say "I am beautiful" and not lose his shichibukai title.
from some other op forum(different language ,but I still print screen and save it)
after translate it into English–-they(P fans) not only happy to see her,but also point out From Chapter 602 plus the last three chapters–- people can see that Heracles, Haredas, Hancock, New okamas, Big Bird from Torino Kingdom----their appearance and outfit almost remain unchange.unlike someone--Perona (which is a fact)
so it is an evidence for her to join
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I have no doubt,more funny show will come
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You think Zoro do nothing But Sleeping ?
Wong, He is the one who Keep The Guard at Night. thats why he sleep on the Day.someone take zoro back to Sabaody Archipelago, and yet "…..contribute nothing to the Straw Hats"?
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Why is Perona's character still lacking depth.
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Yeah, nobody cares Jerk.
Anyway, this is possibly the stupidest thread I've seen in a long while, at this point in time. I myself am 100% certain that Perona will not join, but the arguments I'm seeing being used to support or refute her potential addition to the crew are just so ridiculously silly.
People, if you're going to argue for or against Perona, try to use reasonable arguments and stop clutching at straws, either way you think it will go.
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@Vagrant:
DEFEATED
This is all there is.
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@JERK:
This is all there is.
Dude, you actually gave me a laugh… I must be so tired.
Edit: This discussion has gone places. It will only continue to stretch out, be cut down by watchful mods, and return again full force... with what doesn't matter in the least.
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@Vagrant:
People, if you're going to argue for or against Perona, try to use reasonable arguments and stop clutching at straws, either way you think it will go.
Everyone can enter a huge thread with a lot of junk and good posts only to claim that what was written there against a speculation is absolutely horrible and dumb. Address the good and the bad points. Only then you will have credibility.
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So, who's buying drinks?
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If Mr Oda intend to arrange a fishman or Merfolk to join SH, better to be a male
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someone take zoro back to Sabaody Archipelago, and yet "…..contribute nothing to the Straw Hats"?
Well Luffy was taken back to SA too, and He can do nothing either, Just a Trouble-maker.
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@Cyan:
So, who's buying drinks?
Everyone drive down (or up?) to Savannah GA. Meet me on River Street and we hit up a big pub.
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Shouldn't this topic get closed?
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The conditions were that I would be IP BANNED from this site if Perona was not on the ship when the crew decided to sail away from Fishman Island…
Therefore, if she's on the ship, the Death Pact fails.
Of course, I requested for Zephos to not be IP BANNED if she ended up being on the ship as they depart.
well, Mr ASShole & Liar,things are going pretty…..
where are you?
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Well Luffy was taken back to SA too, and He can do nothing either, Just a Trouble-maker.
can you mark anyone who take SH member(especially the one has no sense of direction) back to SA to reunion as contribute nothing to the Straw Hats ?
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Perona is a very interesting character, for many reasons, but the most interesting one is her official introduction that is something different compared to many others: INTRODUCTION.
Some things to note within this panel:
- She is shown on the Thousand Sunny, the future of Franky's dream and basically the official 'home' of the Straw Hat Crew.
- She is shown NEXT to Zoro's leg, which is the opposite of Chopper.
- She is within the "positive" crew atmosphere of the Happy-Go-Lucky sense.
The reason why this is severely important is because of the literal interpretation that we could gather from this, such as:
- Foreshadowing of her being on the ship.
- Foreshadowing of her being NEXT to Zoro sometime in the future.
- Foreshadowing of her being with the group.
Of course, this doesn't mean she will be important yet, just means that it is something Oda may be doing for a reason… We'll find out later though.
However, this is not the only thing can be inferred from the panel, there's more:
- Her being pictured, and placed, near or across Chopper provides a characterization that suggests she's similar to Chopper, yet very different… A terrific compare and contrast mechanism. The obvious thing is that Chopper and her seem to have many similarities, based upon characterization, and most of them are specific and unique. Furthermore, she's very different than him, both in appearance and even in personality. Even though they seem similar, they're miles (kilometers) apart... And they are. Her enormous like of cute things and various other scary-themed things create a difference between her and Chopper, furthermore, her exterior characterization is more mature than her interior characterization which happens to be child-like, however, for Chopper, it is the direct opposite. Oda may be performing a comparison between the two, one happens to hover about Zoro's leg on one side and the other on the other leg… Perona's beside his left, meanwhile, Choppers holds onto the right firmly.
- Then, after observing the entire scene concerning all the other characters, her position is far right, meanwhile, many of the others are completely across… For instance, her opposite is Robin, the all-too-serious one, and she's surrounded by the likes of Zoro, Chopper, and Usopp. Meanwhile, Luffy divides the picture at the center, where Nami, Sanji, and Robin complete the other side of the picture. Surprisingly, we can sort of notice the characterization involved there, The more serious characters would be towards the left, and the less serious, more childlike-type characters should be pictured on the far right... Regardless, the problem in this placement is basically involving the man in the middle, Zoro... Even though he is considered to be extremely serious, what reason is he in that position? Might be a foreshadowing of future events, such as; Chopper and Perona being guided by their "older brother" figure and being told things from him, perhaps? It's really a mystery as to why Oda decided to place the things that way...
Of course, this is just interpretation of the design and we could continue doing this, but technically speaking, it doesn't lead to any conclusion… It merely attempts to create justification of some possible future interpretations of characterization involving Perona...
After that, the next time Perona appears on-panel is this page: PERONA.
She comes in as Brook is about to play his musical instrument, which may infer something as a "metaphor" or whatever, but personally I have no real explanation on why a ghost appearing in the middle of a situation like that would mean anything… Regardless, this may infer some future interaction that Perona surely loves songs and wishes to hear them, but the thing that happens here is basically that she's met every single character from the SH crew at this very moment.
After that, we are told how it works… A barrel, floating cask, is left out to float about in the vast ocean, where it holds a hidden flashing bullet that acts as a signal to locate travelers, and this "ghost" is flying about tracking the moments of that object that triggers the signal. Of course, the whole tracking feat is impressive because of the range and distance involved, concerning that it must have been a great distance since the time they were traveling after that barrel had been opened was pretty much past the storm and further into the Florian Triangle... Personally, the storms are vast in size, so it seemed to be, and the distance about was pretty large concerning Thriller Bark and the Thousand Sunny. This implies that the ghost had to have a skill and swiftness to be able to manage its way across the whole sea section… Otherwise, it probably wouldn't have made it there. Another thing that the ghost was responsible for was to gather information concerning the target's identity and what they had done. Of course, the ghost had to be able to do quite a number of things before the Thousand Sunny was captured by the Thriller Bark flagship. It is unknown whether or not the ghost had to signal a direction for the vessel to travel just to meet the Thousand Sunny, but the idea seems to be there... It may have been a signal that allowed the Thriller Bark ship to find the location, exact, of the target's ship. Considering this, the ship was technically tracked and invaded by a ghost that would supply the group with enough information to perform the duty that the ghost was supposed to perform... Meaning, the ghost had a terrific skill that allowed it to capture this target.
Regardless, the ghost completely had incredible experience at the task that it had to perform, even though it seemed far too easy for the ghost. There are multiple possibilities concerning the ghost, and it seems to be that the ghost actually did a lot of other additional things too, for instance, the ghost may have searched the whole ship before it popped up in the middle of Brook's conversation.
Then, after Brook leaves and such, we are shown another interesting PANEL that could infer foreshadowing for the future once again… It's something to ponder over, because of the singular hint that Luffy wants to capture that ghost (and tame it when you read Steven's Translation of the manga...) and keep them. This can refer to future events which translate that Luffy will "tame" Perona and HAVE her as his nakama, which is basically befriend her in the future. Does it mean much at the current moment? No. It's very insignificant, and so on... At first glance, it's totally unimportant.
Here's why: REUNION… The ghost isn't favored anymore and it seems like Perona's not as important as she used to be prior to this panel. Luffy is shown to NOT hold the same interest as he had been shown in the introduction of this arc. So, this cancels the idea that the ghost is that important, but it brings up some other thing too… The idea that Luffy STILL wants that ghost, or that he wants to MEET it again. Which is somewhat -negative- towards that ghost, but the meeting situation is just prolonging that Perona is able to come in contact with Luffy again.
Of course, prior to that, Oda spent the time to show reactions from Luffy, such as it "dancing and multiplying" and having Luffy's character consider that action very cool and such. Then, the repetition of him "catching and keeping [him]" was also done… Which is fairly suggestive towards a future "catch and keep" event, maybe? It does build the interaction between Luffy and the ghost, furthermore, it does build some sort of future bond that could happen, which is a good thing. Another interesting thing is that the ghost isn't "solid" and cannot be harmed by intangible things either, like "fire" and such... It allows the duty to be easily completed by the ghost, the duty the ghost is asked to perform. Nonetheless, the ghost is shown to have an impressive resume at what job/ duty the ghost must do on the island, however, the ghost isn't that impressive yet.
Then, after Oda makes her character interaction less forthcoming, Oda has Sanji discuss and describe that the ghosts are more mysterious and special/ different than the other active creates with numbers running around, in other words, she's a unique individual among many, similar creatures. A good thing since many of the nakama are considered "one-of-a-kind" or "unique" in some way or form...
After that, she's shown a physical appearance and nothing special about it... If you feel the need to compare it with Strawhat Characters appearances, then please do so here: Perona's Appearance…
- Luffy: Villager Boy Appearance, Monkey D. Luffy, Cooking Servant,
- Zoro: First Appearance
- Nami: First Appearance, Cheif of Staff
- Usopp: Village Youngster
- Sanji: Assistant Head Chef,
- Vivi: Mystery Woman
- Robin: Vice President
- Chopper: Dearest Reindeer
- Franky: Franky
- Brook: Gentleman Skeleton
Regardless, there's nothing to go on since they aren't all the same anyway. We could easily skip the details, and I didn't include all of the introductions, however, you can observe and try to find a similarity between them, even though I doubt that there is one…
Then, Oda uses her to raid the ship of everything that was placed inside it... SHIP RAID. The reason isn't all that important, all it shows is how the Thriller Bark group survives deep in their solitude and such, just shows their daily lifestyle that they live through. It seems to be that Perona is just carrying supplies from the targets and moving them towards storage, which just seems to suggest that this has been going on for ten years and such, it's NOT really important though. At least, it's not currently important… Furthermore, she also had a lot of time and information concerning various things involving that "Ghost Network" prior to this. If you click the research link (in the Author's Notes section), you'll get a picture of Perona's duties on the island, for her stay there... Personally, she's been in charge of doing stocking and intelligence work. Sort of like an inventory expert and intelligence expert in recon work, officially, she seems to control the ship's every detail and knows a lot of the going-ons on the ship. Obviously, she's more than able to manage things and such.
Aside from that, she's shown to have a great grasp of knowledge concerning politics, such as pirates defeating Shichibukai and such. Even though she's able to know this, she's not completely obsessed with it. For instance, she was very casual with her response towards that event, like she didn't really take it as a big deal that Luffy defeated Crocodile. Nonetheless, she's able to gather information from things that were covered up, whether that has to do with Moria's position, or her own ability, is unknown. However, the fact is that she's well informed, or seems to be informed in some sense. Moving on...
Seemingly, when I read this manga around the Thriller Bark arc, I usually don't seem to take much interest in Perona (because she is removed from the plot line around the end...), but there is a few segments that seem to be fairly important: SEGMENT ONE holds an impressive fact, Perona shows experience in real-life situations. In other words, she has an understanding that no matter how harsh life is, people try to move forward regardless of that sort of life. So, I assume and believe that this shows some foreshadowing that Perona has basically experienced something harsh in her past, which explains why she's trudging along still, even though she's basically like she is… I'll explain this later, because of the future situation where she is shown in an unfavorable predicament. For now, just note this situation with some sense. This will be repeated once again on a future chapter as well where Perona seemingly reflects upon Usopp's way of life.
But, it's pretty much just characterization at the core, nothing more... However, even though it is just characterization, it can be vastly important because of the potential that it brings to the plot, which is what leads to many characters joining in the first place... If her importance exists in some dreadful experience of the past, then she's exceptionally skilled at providing future storytelling.
Another interesting note is how Oda used Perona in her fight with Usopp... Not only could Oda have Perona use her strongest attacks against Usopp, she could have even took the initiative to actually kill the guy. ATTACK ONE and ATTACK TWO, both could have been used to defeat Usopp earlier in her fight, however, Oda chose to show characterization for Perona instead. The first thing he did was show that she's a little child that is fearful of certain situations, situations that have basically NEVER happened before: for instance, when she is shocked, she falls on her rear and comments upon it, the situation that shocked her. This has happened a few times, and she has fallen aback during those times. Anyhow, it shows that Perona is a human being that has fears and certain things hidden away. Does this matter? Yes. We all remember how Robin walked and talked without any worry at all, right? Then we met Admiral Ao Kiji (Kuzan) and that all changed when she apparently did the future things and showed trauma towards some past that she hid from others. This situation is basically something I think of when I am shown Perona. There is no reason for Oda to basically show so much detail within Perona's characterization unless he wishes to explain in the future, he has to show why she is so careless in her fight and he has to explain this in the future. When she fights Usopp, she is basically looking down on the man the whole fight, until he starts to show some actual ability. This is confusing from Perona's point of view, not only is she first and foremost shown as a character which is extremely responsible, she is also shown to have a serious side… However, Oda ignores all that he has done, and shows Perona as a bashful character that enjoys wasting her time fighting a character that could have been defeated long ago. Remember, she has a time limit and a strict assignment that she volunteered to do on her own accord. Her respect is on the line, and everything, but she's basically shown to PLAY around with Usopp the whole fight and takes it easy on him. Oda writes her fight as a joke. The first thing he does is show that Perona is basically afraid and fearful. Oda has her run, rather than use her special, on account of some -unexplained- fear of some unprecedented phenomena, Usopp being immune to her Horo Horo no Mi's Negative Ghost. Then, after Oda isolates her into a situation with Usopp and forces her to have a one-on-one with Usopp, she is shown basically to not be fearful and have confidence now… Which is something drastic. However, he shows her in a completely different situation and he shows her in complete dominance against Usopp. Half-way through the fight, he has her basically summon Mini-Holo and shows that Perona can hurt Usopp in a bizarre way. Even though he kept this a secret because otherwise Usopp would have lost and such, it does show that Perona has an innate ability to defeat Usopp completely, yet she stalled that ability greatly. Eventually, after a lot of panels and such, Oda starts the counterattack. Usopp transforms into Sogeking and defeats Kumacy, then he runs. Perona is shown plenty of characterization here, however, the interesting thing is that she's surprised by the change in Usopp's demeanor, but she never uses her stronger attack to avenge the fallen comrade of hers. This shows that she was merely enraged, but she's not acting upon it. Once again, this is Oda basically limiting Perona's ability so that Usopp could win. Then, after some more fighting, Usopp finds her body. Even though Oda could have basically used Perona to get serious at the very start, like she's supposed to have gotten, he doesn't. He leaves her to just stand and watch … Then, after the first attack, Oda has Perona use an even stronger attack-- WHICH could have defeated Usopp LONG LONG LONG ago… Why now? Of course, the answer is to have Usopp win, on account of Perona being able to take out the rest of the Strawhats once Usopp is down. Then, Oda changes the tide and shows more characterization which consists of Perona being a victim and introduces fears for her. Last time an enemy had any fears at all, can you name it? I can't. So, we are introduced numerous characterization for her character, even though she passes out around the end after the fake mallet pops. She is currently removed from the plot line once again, she's basically DONE here. Unconscious as any character would be after they are defeated, reference the Skypiea Arc for examples of how unconscious characters end up being removed from the plot line until they eventually wake up at the very end of the arc and such. Perona is bound to basically come back in the far far far future, so we assume…
So, we waited, and waited-- suddenly, our wait is over: RETURN!! Surprise, surprise! Perona's back!! Yes, however, this was all too sudden.
Then, after some interesting moments, she's conscious: CONSCIOUS PERONA. It is also sudden, and it shows and addresses her hate for cockroaches, as well as several other things. It continues with the characterization, but for what good? Oda keeps bringing her back and expressing human qualities in a character that seems to remain minor and unimportant, for what reason? I assume that she may have a future that's worth something, which is acceptable. So, he introduces something for Perona to do: fill up their ship with supplies. In the process he also leaves some situations for Perona to believe… Hogback may be dead, she heard that he was crushed by Oars. Absolam was last known to be around the General Zombies, but she heard that they were all crushed by Oars, which may mean that Oars also did in Absolam who has last told to her of being near them. This leaves her with two things: Oars is looking for a girl, and the Strawhat Crew is looking for Moria. Perona assumes that Oars is taking out everyone and everything, like he rampaged away before and is trying to take over the ship (Probably So…) and the Straw Hat Crew is after Moria. She's basically stuck; Moria is being chased after by both Oars and Strawhat Crew… Which could baffle her completely. Instinctively, Oda has her rely on her natural instincts and run for her safety. 10 years of history is tossed out the window and Perona's characterization is instantly altered. So, the idea is that Oda is basically using all of this to stock up the ship with supplies. However, for what reason? There could be an introduction of the Strawhat Crew having to escape very quickly, or something like that… Maybe that's why. Regardless, the whole thing stresses that Perona hasn't DONE anything at all, she has basically failed at all her tasks that she is supposed to be doing for Thriller Bark, which is interesting due to her having 10 years of experience in this act, yet this one group manages to make her life completely strange and confusing when all the things she knows basically start to disappear.
So, let's recap about what Perona has done in the manga up to this point:
- Found and located the targets that triggered the flashing bullet.
- Leads the Thriller Bark ship towards the target.
- Scouts out information about the targets, however, she misses out on some "information" due to the uncertainty and lack of information involving the Strawhat Crew.
- Five years ago, she was asleep and missed Brook.
- Collected all the inventory from the SH crew's ship.
- Failed to capture and restrain all of the Straw Hats after stating that she would do so.
- Was defeated by an opponent that she held the edge over, thank Plot Armor for that…
- And, lastly, she is now being sent to stock up the enemy's ship…
Of course, this doesn't do much of anything, now does it? She's basically done only a few things, I've used "bold" to exemplify the ones that she managed to do… Fascinating isn't it, she's helped the SH crew more than the Thriller Bark organization that she has worked for...
After another deeper description of her characterization, by revealing various excerpts concerning her past... He basically does a general hint that says "Perona wasn't always there" concerning Thriller Bark history. Not only does he change things by showing that Hogback is the newest (and most current recruit), and that her entire characterization is very flawed... I.e. her dream country couldn't have been what she joined Moria for since he did not HAVE Hogback in his group prior to getting Perona, as well as showing that Perona's reason to actually join Moria isn't completely known. Oda plays it off and leaves it a mystery, even though he rarely ever did that. With other side characters, he showed how certain characters did something with each other every time. He showed how groups were formed in one form or another, however, with Perona he doesn't even state it in any way. Depending on the translation, you can assume Perona joins for "fun" or you can assume that she never says anything about how she joined– Steven has a translation saying that she didn't join for "fun" and makes no comment on how she joined. ATTACK USAGE is also revealed, which shows that Perona can summon the Mini-Hollow without having to basically use Astral Projection Form. It also shows that she could have easily defeated Usopp. In addition, Oda also takes the time to have her provide a nickname for Usopp, which is interesting enough. Without any need to do so, Oda keeps building her character and introducing brand new characterization for no real reason. After all, we all don't expect her character to do anything… She's just a henchman to Moria, so we think. But, with each waning moment, she is continually shown that she's important to the plot. Why? We don't know that yet. Anyhow, after all of this characterization, and such, Oda basically shows her character vanishing completely. Meaning, he wasted a lot of panels just having her character there, and when she vanished, he did this: KUMA. Take note of the panel where Kuma wrote something down in his Bible that he carries, and the thing that we assume he wrote down is where she wished to go on a vacation… Or so we assume. Now, what does this mean anyway? Who knows.
In order to better understand her affiliation to Moria, we must actually try and understand for what reason she joined... The first thing we know is that she never officially seems to hint any sort of reason for joining Moria, we also don't know the location. All we seem to know is that she has joined Moria before he visited Hogback's location (unknown) and that must have been after Moria's former crew was completely annihilated, due to what knowledge we later hold concerning Moria's defeat to Kaidou. According to Perona, and Oda's story telling, the whole entire "I want a dream country full of zombies!!" comment could not have been a motive. Reason being that unless some other character existed that could create zombies for her, there was really no possible way to have her make zombies and create "cutesy" ones for that matter. She's without any official motive that explains why she even joined this man. So, the known information is that Moria seemed to know a good deal of information about Hogback's exceptional talent and offered to bring back Hogback's love, and that did happen. However, before that was able to be done, it seems that Perona's zombie faction was created "first" because of them being numbered lower than the later models… Meaning, before Cindry-chan existed, logically speaking, it seems to be that Hogback had over 400 zombies to practice with, Perona's factions. Since Perona controls the Wild Zombies and Surprise Zombies, which are number 0 through 399, it means that maybe the order was ascending towards a higher number... So, this may suggest that Perona had a hasty child-like desire to hold a massive group of people to obey her command, and in this respect Hogback came and created that for her... Maybe, she brought this upon herself... Maybe not. The thing is that she's the one which should have had zombies before Absolam's forces were finished, which may mean that she had more power, early on, than the others. Nonetheless, she was young and such. It is completely unknown what the information concerning her past and such may exist, however, it still is there to be judged though.
However, there's plenty of things that have been done within this whole arc:
- Perona's characterization was built.
- Perona's devil fruit is shown with very minor details and never completely explained.
- Perona's role towards the plot is officially nonexistent, nor is she shown to be important.
- Perona's character is outrageously downplayed in this whole arc.
- Perona is basically shown as a character that has a lot of structure, but no detailed explanation shown.
- Perona is NO LONGER connected to Moria or Thriller Bark. Perona is 100% isolated from all of her known relationships.
The important things concern what she offered to the future, in terms of plot… The first is that she stocked up all the supplies and more for the Straw Hat Crew. The second is that she's basically shown to have been involved with all, but two characters, in-person: Robin and Brook. She has basically been used as a character without any meaning at all, she failed at her duties at Thriller Bark:
- She didn't gather enough information on the Strawhat Crew.
- She didn't raid their ship.
- She didn't perform her duties that she basically said she would.
- She didn't even do anything at all the whole arc.
In truth, she's a complete FAILURE.
Perona ultimately had enormous potential, but she failed incredibly… As Gold Roger (the member) and alexmedvenc put it best: Perona FAILS**!_!**_
I often question why on earth Oda had done all of this characterization just to lead towards her being so worthless in every sense known towards PLOT!! My only thought about this is that all of this has been an act of irony, or something just as harsh. Regardless, I officially STOPPED thinking about Perona for a very long time because I was blinded by the minor hints that Oda showed. I thought that this is the end of her character, and if she is shown again, we'll just get a cover arc or something concerning a conclusion, which, to me, isn't even needed as long as we are told that Kuma's powers basically end up granting her wish.
Perona's character seems to end right there… So, I had thought!!
Here's some things that Oda keeps using to continue showing that Perona is forgotten, but not gone from the plot:
- Nami wears a clothing that seems to be related to Perona.
- Moria actually expands upon his past, showing that Perona joining him was after Kaidou… [due to events and stuff…]
- Perona is remembered when Kuma arrives, which may be foreshadowing of something…
- Perona is 'left behind' and 'cannot be found' by her former organization, meaning, she's no longer connected to them… She's disappeared seemingly.
- Perona's will and existence is shown by her considerable generosity of giving the crew supplies as well as treasure (which is debatable if it belongs to Perona or Moria).
- Perona is indirectly described as kind once again.
- Nami's outfits are suspicious as they show certain qualities of Gothic Lolita-type styles…
- Sanji is shown being able to cook Thriller Bark styled food…
- Nami and Robin are shown shopping for clothes, which may stress that Perona left her belongings on that ship, especially clothes.
- The ship is left on the SA.
- Each crew member has a vivre card to return to where Rayleigh is, and Rayleigh promises to be at the ship, on SA, three days from the time he gave them the vivre cards.
- Kuma reappears and basically is shown sending them off… Of course, Oda foreshadows her future comeback (YEAH!!) when he shows her prior to Zoro, and such.
- All the SH crew members are sent flying for three days.
- They are eventually shown in places…
- Perona is then RE-INTRODUCED!!
Technically speaking, Oda could be using enormous amounts of foreshadowing and hinting to express why Perona is important, or he is just mindlessly, thoughtlessly just doing 'coincidences' that seem to be related to her.
Of course, none of this is that impressive at the moment… She's only BA~CK!!
This is the cause, our cause… Why is Perona back anyway? She has no real reason to come back in the first place... So, we have defined our entire cause, therefore, we can move on towards the effect that it would bring towards the plot...
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La' Chaim!!!
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Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
Why
Why would you do that
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Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
Why
Why would you do that
You're not familiar with AGOG are you?
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Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
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Why would you do that
16 Characters of Hysteria.
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peaks into thread and lifts glass of Dr. Pepper into the air
La' Chaim!!!
Ad vita.
@Aldrich:Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
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Why would you do that
Welcome to the nakamate thread.
@JERK:TEI93dhP1Js&showinfo=0
Well done.
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Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
Why
Why would you do that
Tip of the iceberg, man. I envy you for being able to stay away from the train wreck.
@JERK:
Everyone drive down (or up?) to Savannah GA. Meet me on River Street and we hit up a big pub.
Got any victory song requests for the radio? The victory needs to be celebrated.
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Tsukishima, I thank you in advance for your bet.
Zephos, I thank you for your bravery in taking down one of the most retarded theories in One Piece fandom.
Now let's drink and be merry.
(I should warn you, I'm an angry drunk)
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Holy shit did someone seriously write that amount of text about PERONA
Why
Why would you do that
Forget about Perona, I think that must have been the longest post PERIOD ever made on this forum. Wordcount says 4949 words -.- wonder how many days that took…
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AGOG used to make posts like that regularly, that one might be slightly longer, but that post is, unfortunately, not unusual.
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idk why people are that mad it was bound to happen, obviously if she appears as a spirit and doesn't appear again when the marines are there perona fans are going to come back, it's obviously not going to happen but it will still be stated that it could, actually despite not liking her character i kind of want her to join just to see what AGOG would do, he obviously wouldn't keep quiet
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I love AGOG.
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@JERK:
TEI93dhP1Js&showinfo=0
You've been saving that video just to use for this occasion haven't you?
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Perona looks like the spawn of Rock Lee and has as much depth as Tilestone.
What's the appeal.
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Perona looks like the spawn of Rock Lee and has as much depth as Tilestone.
What's the appeal.
Less then Tilestone actually.
The appeal is tits. That's pretty much what's behind her arguments.
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Less then Tilestone actually.
The appeal is tits. That's pretty much what's behind her arguments.
We have two attractive female's if we get a third female human next, I hope it is Sweetpea or kokkoro(we do need a grandmother figure) Though I personally hope Jinbei has an apprentice that he entrusts to the strawhats, really where else are they going to get someone strong enough pre NW, surely not perona, its not like Mihawk trained her in the ways of the sword, and Robin was way more effective at fodder control two years ago than perona is now.
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Finally to fishman island, oh I hope they get a fishman or fishwoman to join to straw hat pirates. It been a two year since they recruit somebody I think finally about time.
But I hope it not Jimbei or else they change the name from monster trio be a Monster Quartet. -
Finally to fishman island, oh I hope they get a fishman or fishwoman to join to straw hat pirates. It been a two year since they recruit somebody I think finally about time.
But I hope it not Jimbei or else they change the name from monster trio be a Monster Quartet.HATCHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is all
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HATCHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is all
Two swordsmen in the crew is enough.
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HATCHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is all
nah they need another woman on the crew so I vote for a fishwoman*, also Hachan is going to get with Keimi and you wouldn't want to break them up would you :sad:.
- we haven't seen one of those and because then she would be more likely to be a top tier fighter, it would be good to have top tier fighter be female.
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@Ferno:
Horororororororo!!
runs
GET BACK HERE!!!!!
you can't just drop a bomb like that and leave
@Fezzik:Two swordsmen in the crew is enough.
two words fishman karate
nah they need another woman on the crew so I vote for a fishwoman*, also Hachan is going to get with Keimi and you wouldn't want to break them up would you :sad:.
- we haven't seen one of those and because then she would be more likely to be a top tier fighter, it would be good to have top tier fighter be female.
…....... But I like hatchan >:'(
but fine.... he can stay with camie, I'll give Oda permission
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HATCHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that is all
Personally, Hatchan annoys the hell out of me.
That is all.
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Hatchan has gone under a lot of development. He is a good character.
I'll be happy to see him accompany the SHs to Fishman Island and nothing more.
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I knew they were headed to Fishman Island. YES NEW NAKAMA TIME!
Seriously we have been teased about the Idea of fishman Island since east blue
now we can actually see it OMG I'm so pumped for next weeks issue.
Can't wait to see how the story unfold.Is it me or did Usopp is still kind of the
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You've been saving that video just to use for this occasion haven't you?
hahaha, you got me.
My favorite Shakespeare monologue to begin with, but it was also perfect for the occasion.
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Sadly this thread will be festering until we meet new characters…and then we'll all start dissecting them apart until all of them turn out to be nothing but more idle hype and we keep going. And soon as we know it, we'll be at Raftel and that will be series.
Oh and BTW: Sanji was jokingly counting in his dreams all the cute girls, not literally counting how many were on the ship. Thus the three were imaginary beauties, not a literal count.
(Female minkman for SH)