@1PceXperience:
I'm a late 2012er. I've been lurking at APForums since 2008. I've been watching One Piece since 2005. Why must you discriminate against are forum ages?
Lo irónico~
If you even bothered to fully read my post, then you would understand that I am NOT discriminating against "forum ages". I am discriminating against idiots. It just happens that there is a noticeable correlation.
@Panda:
Look, I know what it's like to miss things, I really do. I am probably one of the least observant readers of One Piece out there. Before coming to the forums to this thread, my first thoughts upon reading the chapter about the blind man's identity ran along the lines of:
"He seems like a swordsman type, I bet he's one of the missing samurai! Oh, but wait, then why didn't Kinemon have a reaction shown? Oh well, I'm stumped then".
I don't recognize famous Japanese actors. I don't even recognize when the art-style of a characters design swerves towards the realistic, evidently.
But the thing is, the thread explains those things to me. It's why I love reading it. People say 'He is the admiral, period', and I wonder what exactly it is I missed, just like you. But then I keep reading, and I see that it is explained: 'He is designed after this famous Japanese actor, this is something that is only and always done for admirals'.
It is, in fact, explained over and over and over, since people evidently don't bother to read and so it consistently comes up, which of course gets frustrating for those doing the explaining.
It's not as though why people say he is clearly the new admiral is some sort of secret. Nobody is saying 'Oh, you can't see why he's clearly the new admiral? You poor inferior One Piece reader, fufufu'. No, people are saying 'You can see why he's clearly the new admiral? Pick any furring page of this thread and read it, it's come up and been explained a billion times by now, we're sick of it'.
Thank you for being the voice of reason