@Mugiwara-San:
Luffy one shotted V.A in the Marineford.Don't take as granted that Vice Admirals are equal in strength.Not everyone are in Momonga and Smoker level.
Luffy didn't one-shot no vice admiral. And someone said that unnamed giant Luffy defeated was a captain; that we don't know either.
In fact, Luffy was destroyed by 2 vice-admirals during the war (Momonga and Dalmatian), although he was already quite pummeled and extremely tired by that time, so the actual merit is more of a 50-50.
@Sakonosolo:
This chapter was really confusing. So it looked like Zoro was the one that jumped off the building and landed but the bubbles made it seem like someone else was talking about Zoro.
The Zoro situation was weird in one aspect: He tripped? He was judo-thrown by the fairy (highly unlikely)? I think it was his own impulse and kinetic energy that prevented a "stop" on time, so he fell from the building.
But, as for the dialogue, he didn't talk except for the first bubble. It was all the fairy/ies talking. We haven't seen these fairies cause: a- he/she/they is/are super small, or b-invisible, also highly unlikely seeing how Zoro definitely "saw" something on the last panel.
@Sakonosolo:
And also the whole Bartolomeo and Capman parts. So it looked like Capman originally beat up/killed Bartolomeo but then at the end it showed Capman lying beat up/dead. Could anyone help me figure out what was going on with those?
Easy: Capman (nickname that HQ vice-admiral Maynar is using as an undercover gladiator) kicked the shit outta "Ganbia the Missionary", who was a crew member of Bartolomeo/Bartholomeo/Barto Romeo. He left his beaten body on the garbage dump.
By the end of the chapter, though, Karma is a bitch and Maynard is left half beaten on the same place (or a very similar looking place) by non other than Bartolomeo/Bartholomeo/Barto Romeo.
Hope that helped!
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As for the chapter, well, that was awesome stuff through and through. I think it was .acces timeco. that said he didn't want the chapter to ever end. I couldn't agree more. I just devoured the damned thing, and it left me soooo hungry for more, that I can't hate the incoming Golden Week enough.
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These kind of jump-around chapter always bring quite a lot of division of opionions around here, and I can see why, but I usually enjoy them, a lot. And this chapter was simply addictive like all hell.
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I specially loved the Law/Robin/Caesar (I love this fucker!)/Usopp bit. The setting was beautiful, the exposition great, the prospect of adventure was really exciting (fighting fish that can destroy an iron bridge? count me in!) and CP-0 looked menacing. Also, Law made the second comment in 5 chapters about how weirdly calm everything is, considering their king just resigned. Something HUGE will happen.
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Robin is so fucking classy. And Law trying to act all smug while looking so utterly ridiculous it's damn hilarious. Usopp keeps sporting awesome hats.
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Fairies everywhere. Cause there're fairies on the Sunny. Betting on it.
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Zoro and Sanji parts could've been skippable, maybe, but that was good stuff too, specially Sanji's part.
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Poor Kinemon. Guy can't take a break. They did see too easily through his disguise, though that might be the joke here. Who the fuck sports a top-knot while going undercover?
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Fujitora is cool. Waiting to see where this is going. There is something I don't get though: why is he sending the 3 battleships to Green Bit if he just received a report about the many dangerous fighters gathered at the Colosseum, Burgess inclusive? That part irks me a bit.
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And the whole CP-0 stuff. I liked it. Why not? And comparing it to the Yammi fiasco in Bleach is stupid. Why, you ask? Well, let's just say that fucking Yami had a HUGE number 10 in his shoulder that, when he powered up, turned into a 0, thus leading into the legendary quote "Who ever said the Espada went from 1 to 10?" Well, maybe that HUGE fucking number "10" you just had on your shoulder seconds ago, you fucking imbecile?
We knew nothing about a possible CP-0, so there's no "bullshit!" here. Out of nowhere? Yeah. But that's it. Also, CP-9 might still be the most dangerous CP agency considering, well, that they are fucking ASSASSINS.
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In fact, this is way more similar to the "Biotope 0" in Toriko than the Espada situation. There was no build-up to it, suddenly appeared, and that's it. Or the Outside Continent or Dark Continent or New World in HxH (although some people did find some vague and obscure could be foreshadowing to it; otherwise, it felt unnanounced and out of left field to me).
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Not the biggest fan of Oda's trend of just throwing away really neat character designs. Man must have like a gazillion of those, and he must feel like he can spare a few hundred unique and interesting designs just cause he can. Still, one shoting (and off panneling) a vice admiral is serious business, as much as vice admirals might have been quite pushed around lately (reminder: Vergo went toe to toe with Sanji and broke his fibula, just so you know). They are strong, there's no deying it. So Barto wathever is definitely hyped in my book, and I can't wait to see both his design and what he's made of.
TL;DR. Very happy where things are now and even happier about what direction things'll go. Cause right now, with the massive ammount of players in the fray (Oda is going bonkers here, in a good sense), I just don't know what to expect. Seriously excited and seriously impatient for what's to come.
Bravo.