One Piece Chapter 745: Birdcage

[Flipper Pride]

@vagabond87:

I second that.
It was not even exchange yet between Luffy and Mingo. One punch to Luffys face will simply make one that lands soon enough on Doflamingos face all more satisfying. That punch was kind of wake up call for Luffy that if he fights Mingo again he must give his all from the start.

Beside that one cut that Law gave Doflamingo, Joker is almost like Cell of this manga when it comes to fighting. If Luffy will fing method to counter attack from Mingo that trapped Sanji and even Jozu then we are up for an awesome raw fight between Luffy and Mingo at end. I would say that maybe its possible to get yourself free from that string trap by CoA + Gear Third on body, so it would make strings loose enough after getting back to small body size to escape Mingos immobilizing.

Dont jump into conclusions so fast Flipper Pride, sure chap was exciting in ways but compare that fight to Sanji vs Mingo for example. It might give you better perspective on this one:happy:

Luffy got slashed from the back.. It wasn't just a punch. He nearly killed him on two occasions.

Itslike a boxing match with rounds. Just because your opponent got the point for round 1 it doesn't mean you have completely lost. You don't need to be KO'ed to lose.

[Darth]

@wolfwood:

Nah he's far too nice of a person to be into that ideology.

At most he'll beat his ass and take him to prison

Sigh… you are correct. Where is Akainu when you need him?

Still. With the birdcage in place, and Doflamingo downright telling everyone that he will rule with terror, and one of the ways to end that is to kill him, as well as revealing his location... this might be a trap, or he is just psychopath. Anyway, Fuji should go after him.

[Flipper Pride]

@wolfwood:

Nah he's far too nice of a person to be into that ideology.

At most he'll beat his ass and take him to prison

After seeing this. I don't think Fujitora is going to have a good time with Doflamingo.

[biceps2point0]

@Maju:

punk hazard,the chains of the other devil fruit users were made of seastone and he cut them with his power,since ha doesn't cut using strenght,so it doens't matter how hard something is for him

can you link the page ?

[vagabond87]

@Darth:

And they will die horribly.

This guy turned them into slaves. And now they are going to work for him? I call that plot-induced stupidity.

!

yea right dying horrible death from some characters out of flashback that are not Whitebeard or Ace

Besides those guys seem to be greedy idiots and not even a big danger to anyone.. If Hakuba takes over Cavendish then this means trouble but Dagama, Abdullah and Jet are shits.

[TiAn]

Time for MEADOWS to shine!

On a serious note, why the den den mushi doesnt work with the birdcage on? How does they work?

[Maju]

@biceps2point0:

can you link the page ?

!

[DarkHamster]

I'm surprised he thinks fuji would just allow this to happen? I think he's already been characterized to really want to protect the citizens over getting the criminal and that he hates the shichibukai…..so DD is playing a dangerous game.

He still doesn't know about Sabo and the revolutionaries yet.

@Maju:

just realized,doflamingo is an idiot.
he let out law of the palace too ,the only guy able to cut seastone in the entire island

the more you analyze it, the stupider his plan seems, unless he has an ace up his sleeve. I think now my opinion is that he truly is underestimating the SHs even with all this shit that went down.

[RobZilla]

@Flipper:

You're taking the word "lose" a bit extreme. Let me change it for you. Luffy would not be able to damage Doflamingo, and Doflamingo is the one on top of him with the upperhand.

Luffy certainly didnt win. They weren't portrayed as equals. Luffy got kicked out. He lost. Regardless of whether he is injured or not.

I mean, he nearly beheaded Luffy as well.

He landed one punch and then made Pika throw them all out of the palace.

No one was portrayed as winning or losing that fight, not even close.

[Piitan]

@Rusty:

So, what's the prize?

Uhm… Freedom? And life.

[skorpion]

its the chains he cut. not the seastone cuffs.

[Kisoto]

Really hope that the fact that Usopp is the reason all the toys are free will play into this mess, at least for those who were at the factory (though no trusting that Dagama). XP

[Flipper Pride]

@RobZilla:

He landed one punch and then made Pika throw them all out of the palace.

No one was portrayed as winning or losing that fight, not even close.

So Im the only one imaging that Luffy got slashed behind the back. Luffy almost getting beheaded?

Round 1 Doflamingo, better than Luffy.

[biceps2point0]

@Maju:

! http://i34.mangapanda.com/one-piece/677/one-piece-3518985.jpg

He mentions how he left normal chains here and there in the lab so he could swap them. So he swaps the kairoseki chains for normal chains and cuts them.

[vagabond87]

@Flipper:

You're taking the word "lose" a bit extreme. Let me change it for you. Luffy would not be able to damage Doflamingo, and Doflamingo is the one on top of him with the upperhand.

Luffy certainly didnt win. They weren't portrayed as equals. Luffy got kicked out. He lost. Regardless of whether he is injured or not.

I mean, he nearly beheaded Luffy as well.

Nope nope nope nope.

And Luffy nearly smashed his face with Jet Gattling- both didnt happened in the end.
Also when beside Lucci Luffy did fought with somebody close to being his equal? He takes on bigger names all the time and for most of One Piece he wins with them thanks to his combat powers along with his incredible will.
It might be same here. We might get a draw between Luffy and Mingo in their latter fight. Its really to early to judge how it will go as Luffy will work on Mingo. Luffys fruit and fighting style is pretty straightfoward compared to Mingos tricks.
Wait till they will be both using Raw power, and raw fighting. This says only that if not for the clone Mingos next move would be probably trying to capture Luffy in same trap Sanji and Jozu had fallen victims so to say and we dont know now how it would go. Luffy didnt even used CoA hardening on his fists, he gave more second time he fought Cesar Crown than he gave now- he cursed Monets snow wall with CoA hardened jet gattling. You really take too much measure from this one short fight that Luffy had this chap.

@Flipper:

So Im the only one imaging that Luffy got slashed behind the back. Luffy almost getting beheaded?

Round 1 Doflamingo, better than Luffy.

Doflamingo + his clone landed a combo attack on Luffy. Not wounding him seriously. Also Luffy managed with his natural speed to save Kyros from getting beheaded- all without gear second.
Luffy didnt gotten close to being beheaded as he didnt even look bothered much by slash to his back as he was shown for some panels later.
It wasnt even same attack that Sanji gotten- Sanji was hit with 5 colored threads and thats presumably Slash from Mingo with CoA added- Luffy gotten one from puppet from strings that 99.99% cant use haki.

[RobZilla]

@Flipper:

So Im the only one imaging that Luffy got slashed behind the back. Luffy almost getting beheaded?

Round 1 Doflamingo, better than Luffy.

He took a hit from a completely unexpected second Doflamingo, and got punched.

…then he got right back up lol

Luffy didn't nearly get beheaded, Kyros did.

If anything, Luffy looked pretty spectacular when he saved Kyros from decapitation in a split second.

[apologized]

Birdcage = no witness
is this SAW Movies hahaha (Kill Game)?

[wolfwood]

Now that i think about it, swarming purple guy with his own men and civilians might actually be the best way to get at somebody like that who values their lives above all else. He can't, or atleast wont, go hard on people like that, potentially leaving him open to parasite induced stabby stabby by his second in command.

[Maju]

@Piitan:

Uhm… Freedom? And life.

maybe a couple of smiles too

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@skorpion:

its the chains he cut. not the seastone cuffs.

there were no cuffs,they were seized with seastone chains
and even if there were cuffs,he would have needed to cut them too to free robin,luffy and smoker

[DarkHamster]

@skorpion:

its the chains he cut. not the seastone cuffs.

the chains are what's made of seastone…...i think he even said the reason why he still had his powers was that he swapped the seastone chains out.

[RobZilla]

@wolfwood:

Now that i think about it, swarming purple guy with his own men and civilians might actually be the best way to get at somebody like that who values their lives above all else. He can't, or atleast wont, go hard on people like that, potentially leaving him open to parasite induced stabby stabby by his second in command.

I love this phrase.

[Myu]

I'm now waiting a mass gravity from Fujitora. Maybe an island-wise one similiar to what was done to Law in order to protect civlians or a very powerful one to the place where the palace is. I just hope we won't have to wait another two months for him to finally realize he has to act.

And communications getting blocked opens up new possibilities to how the Arc might end. I would worry if I were Akainu considering how Aokiji made Smoker urge him not to underestimate Doflamingo.

Same goes for Blackbeard. He is an idiot but it's totally possible for him to rush Dressrosa.

Leftovers of WB Pirates are welcome too. Them getting to know Sabo is a part which needed to happen in the story in my point of view. And now that he ate Ace's fruit they have good enough reasons to work for Dragon. As a crew they do not have a purpose at this point.

[Flipper Pride]

@vagabond87:

Nope nope nope nope.

And Luffy nearly smashed his face with Jet Gattling- both didnt happened in the end.
Also when beside Lucci Luffy did fought with somebody close to being his equal? He takes on bigger names all the time and for most of One Piece he wins with them thanks to his combat powers along with his incredible will.
It might be same here. We might get a draw between Luffy and Mingo in their latter fight. Its really to early to judge how it will go as Luffy will work on Mingo. Luffys fruit and fighting style is pretty straightfoward compared to Mingos tricks.
Wait till they will be both using Raw power, and raw fighting. This says only that if not for the clone Mingos next move would be probably trying to capture Luffy in same trap Sanji and Jozu had fallen victims so to say and we dont know now how it would go. Luffy didnt even used CoA hardening on his fists, he gave more second time he fought Cesar Crown than he gave now- he cursed Monets snow wall with CoA hardened jet gattling. You really take too much measure from this one short fight that Luffy had this chap.

The Jet gattling was good pre time skip if i say so myself. Post time skip Luffy jet gattling was blocked so easily it was as if Doflamingo smiled.

[skorpion]

@DarkHamster:

the chains are what's made of seastone…...i think he even said the reason why he still had his powers was that he swapped the seastone chains out.

i dont think so. i think the chains are regular iron and the handcuffs themselvs are seastone.

[kouch_lee]

The truth is, if you're able to set aside your gripes with the situation (Fujitora can negate the whole thing on his own, many gladiators, the fighters that are worth mentioning, won't buy into the ploy, etc. . .) and just buy the whole scenario, it is a really exciting set up. As some people have said, this is almost like a reset button and the whole arc starts all over again. Of course, I don't think that's the case, otherwise we'd be in for a 90 chapters long arc (not that I'd be the one to complain), but it does give Dofla and his croonies some space to breathe and the chaos created with the massive Parasite might tie the marines hands for a while trying to protect the citizens, which should be their number 1 priority (we know it IS Fuji's number 1 priority since chapter 705).

Now, I'm willing to forgive the outrageous off-paneling of all the fights till now if, with this set up we have right now, Oda starts delivering the goods and giving us our much needed fighting time in all its glory. It seems Dofla and his 3 strongest fighters are so far unscathed, and there's also Gladius, Dellinger and Machvise in top condition. Baby 5 and Jora already had a fight, so they probably won't be getting a second, Pink got injured against Franky but seems to be able to still go at it, and the chapter seems to imply that Kinemon faced Lao G, though I guess if his disguise worked that time again then Lao G might also be unscathed.

Also, this chapter proved that, at the very least, Doflamingo and Pica are extremely strong and resourceful, so the token Luffy and Zoro fights might be interesting after all (that is, if Zoro DOES get Pica, considering he always gets the second strongest foe and Pica has been delivering on that regard, unless Oda wants to keep the Law wanking going on and let's him take on Pica instead of Zoro).

So, the situation is ripe for goodness, even Robin could get a 1 on 1 fight now seeing as she's not injured at all, now the million dollar question is. . .how will Oda execute the arc's climax? Will he take his time, show us the fights in all their glore, Alabasta style? Will he off-panel most of them except for Luffy vs. Dofla? Will he make most of the fights much shorter than usual so he can fit them all in? Honestly, I'm a bit skeptical seeing the pattern we've been following lately, but, even if short, this little fight we saw this chapter proved once again that Oda knows how to draw a good fight if he wants to, so that gave me a bit of hope that we might, indeed, be in for a treat.

[warchild05]

I love Pica so much it hurts. :'(

[Maju]

@biceps2point0:

He mentions how he left normal chains here and there in the lab so he could swap them. So he swaps the kairoseki chains for normal chains and cuts them.

only law's chains were swapped.The other were real,nobody knew law's plan,so they would have immediately pointed out that he chains were not made of seastone and freed themselves.
also,the whole "smoker,now i must decide what to do with you" from law wouldn't make sense,since smoker could have freed himself pretty easely if those were normal chains.

[RamistaR]

Did Luffy lost the key ?

[Flipper Pride]

@RobZilla:

He took a hit from a completely unexpected second Doflamingo, and got punched.

…then he got right back up lol

Luffy didn't nearly get beheaded, Kyros did.

If anything, Luffy looked pretty spectacular when he saved Kyros from decapitation in a split second.

Yea i liked the split second save.

But you can't help the fact that Doflamingo had 2 finisher moves used with the potential to completely decapitate Luffy.

Luffys opponents lose because they underestimate him. Luffy didnt go all out, DD was underestimated Luffy lost.

You're misunderstanding my meaning of lost.

I did say Doflamingo would have the upper hand and i was clearly correct.

Doesn't matter if it was an unexpected Doflamingo. If that's his fighting style, you gotta put up with it. There aren't any rules. It still counts.

P.s Luffy knew there were two..

[Maju]

@skorpion:

i dont think so. i think the chains are regular iron and the handcuffs themselvs are seastone.

even if that was the case,if law isn't able to cut seastone,how they freed luffy robin and smoker from said "cuffs"?
they wouldn't be chained anymore,but they would still have the cuffs on them.

[vagabond87]

@Flipper:

The Jet gattling was good pre time skip if i say so myself. Post time skip Luffy jet gattling was blocked so easily it was as if Doflamingo smiled.

When Luffy gets really serious and wants somebody to get a lot of damage- he uses Red Hawk or Hawk Rifle moves or Gear Third with CoA hardening.
Chinjao blocked presumably without almost any serious damage Luffys hawk rifle, so it will take A LOT to damage Doflamingo. Luffy was just starting out his fight from full gear second and he looked quite alike Sanji minues getting trapped and nearly killed.
You didnt expected Mingo to get all scarred after jet gattling even without CoA hardening I hope. As I said, look more into it. Luffy might be on par with Mingo in next fight, just wait and see.

We will see if Law will warn Luffy about some of Mingos tricks so with that knowledge it should be far closer battle as Luffy now is quite a beast in terms of speed and overal firepower.

[Flipper Pride]

Going to bed. Ill read replies in morning.

[LazySketcher]

@Light:

Nice chapter. Doflamingo is such a beast! Tough two things really bother me here. :getlost:

First of all, a string puppet? A freaking string puppet?

Well at least he couldn't turn himself into strings. That would've just been overpowered.

And if Robin knew Sabo, why did she never bother to mention Luffy his other brother was alive? Somehow I think her L&L ain't gonna benefit from this.

Sabo more than likely never knew Ace and Luffy thought he was dead all these years. They were never there on the day he got attacked. So to him A and L still thought Sabo was just doing his own thing out at sea all this time.

Still doesn't excuse that fact that Robin still could have mentioned Sabo regardless of all that since he is the brother of her captain after all, unless Sabo simply wanted Luffy and himself to reunite in person rather than through word of mouth which seems to be the most likely scenario.

[Juvar]

I'll just post an impression-post, disregarding all that has been said before because I feel like it.

• loving the colour spread. Oda always outdoes himself on these. It looks like Brook is asking Robin for bikinis or something in the background, which is hilarious.
• things made of seastone become more common, I don't know how I feel about that.
• so Robin definitely knew about Sabo and has met him before. I still think she should have told Luffy. But maybe she didn't know about their connection after all.
• Luffy going all-out from the start should be awesome.
• I suppose blackening Haki-use is really how Oda shows it from now one, and everyone seems to use it.
• "Luffyland"
• Pica conveniently throwing everyone out in order to have a new start for the fight?…
• that bird cage ability is amazing. Although it's probably easy to get through with Sabo's ability or basically anyone with some power. Plus, Fujitora is still on the island. Now that Doffy's scheme has been revealed thanks to Usopp, it's unlikely he won't take action against him somehow.
• weird that the Marines can't even send transmissions through the cage. And now he's also CONTROLLING several people at once? Damn, Doffy is dangerous.
• Pica's ability too seems overpowered now, and awfully convenient. But the setting for Doflamingo's killing game is set, and I like it a lot.

Over already? Felt short somehow! :( Anyways, I like the development a lot. Although there is no real threat coming from the commoners, I suspect that a lot of the tournament-goers and pirates are willing to attack Luffy and his crew again after this announcement. This will be really interesting.

[SpeedoCentaur]

@shanksa:

Ussop's follower will no longer follow him.
they will fight for there lives too bad

Nah, I think Usopp will be one of the people that needs to be hunted (considering it's his fault Dofla needed to use the bird cage in the first place) and Usopp's loyal followers will all protect him in his injured state.

[Maju]

@RamistaR:

Did Luffy lost the key ?

we don't know,he was trying to use it and then pica made his move,from that moment onward we really don't know were the key is.

[Luca]

OK i just realized, fujitora will mass gravity most of the fodder, leaving the big names, that takes fujitora out of the picture

[Darth]

@wolfwood:

Now that i think about it, swarming purple guy with his own men and civilians might actually be the best way to get at somebody like that who values their lives above all else. He can't, or atleast wont, go hard on people like that, potentially leaving him open to parasite induced stabby stabby by his second in command.

I wonder…

He is admiral level swordsman, with good CoO and hearing.

Maybe he will cut the strings off Doffy's puppets... so to speak.

[Rosebullet Teacher]

I love how Doflamingo basically says "Well fuckit you know im bad now so, kid gloves off" he needed that! His puppeteer schtick is definitely him but at this moment you go into mob boss mode, end the smiles and force everyone to die fighting. I was getting a lil pissed with diplomatic Doffy

[vagabond87]

@Darth:

I wonder…

He is admiral level swordsman, with good CoO and hearing.

Maybe he will cut the strings off Doffy's puppets... so to speak.

I would love to see everyone getting shocked as Fujitora relases CoC blast through most of island and Doflamingos parasite stops working on KOed by it people.

[DarkHamster]

@skorpion:

i dont think so. i think the chains are regular iron and the handcuffs themselvs are seastone.

Ummm it explicitly said "kairoseki chains" in the chapter (677 or something) And it shows Law cutting luffy. Regardless, luffy got free somehow even if he had cuffs, somehow had to cut those and Law was the only free at the time to cut the cuffs (if indeed the cuffs were seastone)…..

edit: chapter 675, shows that they weren't wearing cuffs, they had chains wrapped around their hands as well.

[Rosebullet Teacher]

@ZoroXTashigi:

Chinjao … this is best time to show his drill head attack.

This would be great, if Chinjaos legendary head broke kairoseki but maybe with a twist that it makes his head flat again and he curses Luffys grandchildren

[Kishido]

I ask myself it half decent swordsman can't simply cut through the strings… And if not... I'm sure Sabo will burn the cage down

[MetaMario]

neat colorspread!

Basically, this technique is what Deathpiea was to Enel - Doflamingo's last stand, and everyone in the vicinity is aware of it. He traps the entire island in a "birdcage" of string, pretty cool if I may say so. To top things off, Pica uses his DF to move the palace and the factory upward. Smart thinking, evading Zoro really paid off (not that would be hard lol)

Luffy scuffles a little with Doflamingo, who does not play around. He hakis up and delivers a strong punch to our rubber hero. Yep, he's gonna be really tough to beat! The panel where Luffy ducks with Kyros to dodge Doflamingo's kick…..I honestly thought that was my favorite scene.

Robin and Usopp join up with Koala, Sabo, and Hack, and Zoro is as lost as ever. (come on Oda, where the hell are Sanji and the others) Maybe we're gonna get some actual fights?

Doflamingo's control is definitely falling apart, though. I know he thinks he can salvage this situation, but when the entire island wants to kill you and you have a gravity-based Admiral still around.....reality is gonna hit Dofla like a ton of bricks. And it will be glorious.

[kevo_koma]

@kouch_lee:

I guess people already pointed out the many issues with this plan. I would've prefered if it stayed just as the cage + massive parasite. The Battle Royale/The Raid/The Dark Knight/etc. . . scenario doesn't work since we know people right now want to see Doflamingo dead above all else. Oda will still make people fall for it (this chapter we saw guys like Dagama and Jeet & Abdullah interested in what Dofla was saying, as little sense it makes), but as of now their grudge should me much much bigger than any economical profit they might be promised, plus trusting Dofla should be an issue in itself. . .

On the other hand, he's been trying to make some kind of comment in many situations throughout the arc that the masses are an unpredictable force, that people are inherently greedy, etc. . . so maybe he plans on playing with that for a while. That's good and everything, it just doesn't (or shouldn't) work after everything Dofla has done and after everyone on the island has one and only thought in mind, to kill Doflamingo.

Well, at least the very short fight was pretty sweet, and Pica is one overpowered motherfucker. He's shapeshifting the whole freaking island to his will. That's hard-fucking-core.

Riight, because its really impossible for Pirates and thieves to choose money over a grudge? Plus the fact that the fruit was real kind of makes Doflamingo trustworthy when it comes to his deals. So for me it makes perfect sense that a lot of people will participate albeit so that they can stab in the back once they get their money.

[DarkHamster]

@Kishido:

I ask myself it half decent swordsman can't simply cut through the strings… And if not... I'm sure Sabo will burn the cage down

even if no one can cut them, law can. His power is haxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (not as much as DD's apparently).

[warchild05]

Can we conclude now that Pica is a Logia? His control over his "element" is massive!

Or everyone already agreed he's a Logia???

[MetaMario]

seriously, though.

Fujitora isn't gonna let any of this slide.

[zachri]

Ho-ly sh-eyat

[Fraco]

@senjuitama:

I'm confused at Zoro's location, is he up there with doffy and pica now?

he was on the king's plateau, so he should've remained down while the palace went up. if not something else should've happened offscreen