-Cover Story, fuck yes.
-Ah, another rational explanation for something that could have been supernatural and unexplained, on one hand, I like it, on the other, I kinda wanted a real ghost D:
-Holy crap, is Van Deckem the one responsible for all of those weapons at the door in the last chapter?
-All because he wants to marry her ;_;, such a gentleman.
-Another psycho, this arc is getting better and better.
-Love his design.
-Laugh sucks, though.
-Luffy fending an Axe that big? Pretty cool.
-And once again, Luffy makes friends amongst VIP's
-Alright, so they really are arresting the SH's D: I thought you were better than this, Neptune.
-Mato-Mato sounds overpowered as hell.
-Meh, I'm pretty pissed off about yet another hot Female, and this one has another personality made for fapping.
-D'aw, Luffy is such a cool guy to hang around with :3
-Usopp, you looking a little too baddass there.
-And HERE'S ZORO.
-Two psychos in one group, awesome.
-Heh, I like the whole small details about cultures by Oda, another example being the gloves made so that the Fishmen can give handshakes to the Merman.
Overall, good chapter, build build build, the Arc is being built, awesome.
@andre:
Looks as if Vander Decken is misunderstood. He's trying to use his DF to show his love to the princess but of course it just comes across as his attempts to murder her. He doesn't seem like that big of a bad guy yet then. But who knows??
edit" Well besides the whole, if she won't love me I'll murder her vibe.
I have been noticing you're trying real hard to see the New Fishmen Pirates and Van Deckem as characters that won't be the villains of this arc.
Face it, Neptune is a good guy.
@Aaronrules380:
This chapter was just plain epic: Vander decken is a fishman with a DF, Luffy befriends the mermaid princess, Usopp is badass, Zoro is badass, Brook's badass face
Like has been speculated in the spoiler discussion, he probably needs to touch someone to be able to target them with his fruit. Hence why he shakes hands with Hodi Jones he started to take off his glove to do so.
Wait, what? I thought he put the glove on so he could handshake Jimbei with his weird hands.
@Haki1234:
Now we can be 100% sure that a fishman can eat a devil fruit. All that is left to know is whether he can still swim or breath under water
Wasn't Van Deckem at water level when he was first introduced?
@kouch_lee:
There was a bubble coat on VDD ship. I don't think no-one noticed that with the small pics. Now it's clear. Oh, and the line where he blames King Neptune on his intro makes his alliance with Hodi a little more clear?
Ah, didn't notice the bubble.
Damn, a Mermen that can't be in Water? And what's up with such a big part of the Fishmen Island being out of water, anyways? You'd think they'd have a city in the middle of the water… :S
@Pacer:
i used bad examples. the guy in CP9 who could move his hair however he wanted. (i'm bad with names fyi). the string guy who can manipulate string, as if he had infinite storage in his cloths. Pearl, at the beginning of one piece who was able to stand his own fire. Again, the fortune telling, the attack the two giants used against the goldfish, and other examples i do not remember. My point is in a fictional world, you cannot be sure of anything.
But the curse was named, and it had a name just like all the other DF's, it is fairly obvious this is a DF, you're looking for a surprise where it obviously isn't happening.
@BingBang:
its me or i find van der beecken the new next mugiwara? He have all:
-He's a fishman
-He have an axe
-He have a curse so a dream (destroy his evil fruit powers and touch the water)
-He have a unique style
-He's the boss of a pirate ship.
NO!
@Aru:
Yeah, would be awesome… King of Snipers vs Vander Decken, the guy who can target anything.
As for the chapter - I loved the princess part. I think there is a small possibility for her to join the crew. We have a clear dream for her. Only thing she lacks is some nice fighting power and we're good to go with this prediction.
NO!
@I:
I agree with whoever said that the Ministers of the left and right are corrupt–I'm beginning to think they may in fact be behind the shadow that is over the whole island, mentioned by Caimi back at her place. The fact that the guards cannot get close to the pricess due to the 5 minute rule, the "convenience " of a mistake in the guards' scheduling right when they were expecting to be hosting some of the most imfamous pirates around for a banquet (and he knew about it right at the moment she started screaming, no saying they would investigate), the fact that Seahorse minister shows up to see what is going on, and doesn't confront her highness about the voice he thinks he heard, that they are in charge of caring for the King's where-abouts at all times, as well. All too convenient to me.
Interesting idea, don't think much of it, but now won't be surprised if you end up right.
@Del:
Right now everyone is enemy of the SH except for the Mermaid princess! This gives us a lot of possibilities for who will fight who. I think the most interesting way would be something like this:
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But just like happens in every arc, Oda will totally suprise me, I hope.
Luffy VS Neptune?
No, just no
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Guys, I think you are over analyzing somethings:
-Neptune isn't the Villain, Hodi and Deckem are, its really that simple
-The glove was so that Deckem could shake Hodi's hand, it'd be pretty hard to shake his hand with those fins.