One Piece Chapter 746: Stars
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Why so serious?
Personal reasons.
My bad.. couldn't help it. No, but seriously if you think the Marines are all powerful and they can do what they want that they don't need to take orders from their higher ups then be disappointed due to not meeting your expectations after it was always hinted that it was the opposite, then I don't think the problem is with them or the story.
Fujitora IS the higher ups and that's the problem. He was never explicitly ordered that he can't go after Doflamingo no matter what. He just got the info of him not resigning from Shichibukai.
From military rules of engament, Fujitora is the highest ranking officer on the scene and has no way of contacting anyone higher. He should have ability to make his own decisions and judgement in the face of current situation.
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I'm actually glad Fujitora isn't going after Doflamingo. It presents the marines (once again) as an ineffective organisation shackled by the world government. It also sets up a meeting with Sabo
There's still a lot of powerful individuals unaccounted for on the Island. Burgess, Kanjuro, Cavendish, Chinjao, CP0. I'm curious what's become of them
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F**k yeah, a walrus.
…er anyway, the stakes have been raised this chapter. Doflamingo makes a chilling speech to the citizens of Dressrosa, how they can't escape, and the chaos begins to escalate. Fujitora listens in silence.
But then! Doflamingo gives incentive to go after his 12 most hated foes....Luffy, Zoro, Robin, Sabo, Rebecca, Kyros, Viola, Riku, Franky, Kinemon, Law, and Usopp! Oh my god, that page with all of their stars was just too awesome, I'm sorry. Usopp getting the most falls in line with his new celebrity status (pfft his reaction), and it kinda makes sense....I mean, his efforts stopped Sugar and turned everyone back!
I am scratching my head a little on how quick Dofla got wind of those 12's statuses.....how did he know Sabo was there? Diamante told him?
And money is a good motivator for the greedy and selfish, but the tournament fighters....c'mon, they were turned into toys, they'd be morons of most of them adopted this plan. Am curious to see how Cavendish, Barty, Chinjao, Boo, and Sai all factor into this. And where the hell is Bellamy????
Franky disappears and Rebecca learns the identity of the soldier. Awww. But now Luffy is pumped up and ready to go. What's gonna happen?
Personally I'm dying to see more of Fujitora. Love that guy.
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@Flipper:
Fujitora is allied with Doflamingo. Fujitora said himself "no matter what comes to the surface of this country, i am just a blind man and see nothing".
Fujitora objected to Bastille because Doflamingo is to be left alone.
Again, THAT WAS A DUMB REASON.
Imagine if Smoker and Tashigi were completely impassive towards Crocodile on Alabasta, because they had previously mentioned following the "Warlords are above the law in certain climates" rule
"oooooh Crocodile, I would totally arrest you, but I promised not to since this is a desert island. Instead I will go capture Luffy".
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I'm actually glad Fujitora isn't going after Doflamingo. It presents the marines (once again) as an ineffective organisation shackled by the world government.
This has nothing to do with shackles. Currently, no one is breathing down Fujis neck courtesy of the communications blackout. This is all on him being a moron.
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sanji. now. one panel. at least. please!
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….yeah, I'm still allured to the idea of Fujitora arresting Doflamingo, not so much Luffy pounding his face in. Give it time.
But he's gotta do something against Doflamingo....naturally Dofla's "status" makes things tricky, but it's a judgement call. I mean, the latter isn't trying to hide anything anymore.
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@The:
This has nothing to do with shackles. Currently, no one is breathing down Fujis neck courtesy of the communications blackout. This is all on him being a moron.
All of the admirals seen so far are morons (except Aokij)i.
I was under the impression that Fuji's hands were tied as long as Doflamingo remained a shichibukai?
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….yeah, I'm still allured to the idea of Fujitora arresting Doflamingo, not so much Luffy pounding his face in. Give it time.
I cannot even begin to say how much I would love that.
Plus, better foreshadowed and build-up then the eventual clash between Flamingo and Luffy… just sayin.
But he's gotta do something against Doflamingo….naturally Dofla's "status" makes things tricky, but it's a judgement call. I mean, the latter isn't trying to hide anything anymore.
Agreed on that… let us hope.
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@The:
Again, THAT WAS A DUMB REASON.
Imagine if Smoker and Tashigi were completely impassive towards Crocodile on Alabasta, because they had previously mentioned following the "Warlords are above the law in certain climates" rule
"oooooh Crocodile, I would totally arrest you, but I promised not to since this is a desert island. Instead I will go capture Luffy"..
Whatever comes up to the surface. He sees nothing. Says it in the lines tbh.
Doflamingo knows when he takes things too far. If he knew Fujitora will go against him why not list him in the bounties?
Once those "heads" will be caught, the game is over. Everyone is at peace. Issho is done. That's how Doflamingo and Fuji sees it.
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Really looking forward to Mingo vs Luffy encounter. Luffy is royally pissed off. He fights at his best when he's pissed like this.
Poor Law trying to reason with Luffy.
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sanji. now. one panel. at least. please!
I second that.
It seems he will be shown next time in all out fight with Pekoms for example(and make turtle soup out of him). With Odas timing when we will get some one on one fights set and ongoing on Dressrosa we will get to see Sanji in some awesome action. Its been like half a year without showing him so as Sanji is my favourite strawhat I am dying same as you to see him.
And to people that write there is CP0 on the island- there is no CP0 on Dressrosa, they were hinted/shown to be sailing away on ship.
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Pirates can't collect bounties on other pirates, so it doesn't matter that Doflamingo is offering only 300,000,000 for Luffy and Law. People can now stop pointing out that the reward is less than their actual bounties…..
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I'm really more and more under the impression that Oda is implementing string theory in One Piece. I mean the way Doflamingo can apparently create clones and even TV screens with his strings heavily supports that. If that's the case though, he can pretty much create anything, because the foundation of all matter are tiny strings according to that theory in theoretical physics.
Again, he didn't create a monitor from strings, it's just a video den-den mushi, we have seen them plentyof times now.
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Excellent chapter. The Bartolomeo comedy was gold and the star reveals were really good. Usopp really can't catch any break during this arc, haha.
I think a good reason for Fujitora going after Luffy and Law rather than Doflamingo is because their heads are easier to take in than Doffy's is. His goal is to prevent as many people from being harmed as possible rather than solely taking out the baddies, and from where it stands at the moment Doflamingo has the upper hand.
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@The:
Again, THAT WAS A DUMB REASON.
Imagine if Smoker and Tashigi were completely impassive towards Crocodile on Alabasta, because they had previously mentioned following the "Warlords are above the law in certain climates" rule
"oooooh Crocodile, I would totally arrest you, but I promised not to since this is a desert island. Instead I will go capture Luffy".
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Smoker left to go find evidence. The decision to arrest Croc came after they saw a BW ship filled with rain powder. Issho doesn't have any evidence against Mingo. As a police officer, you can't make arrest based on feelings or intuition. You need tangible evidence.
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@Flipper:
Whatever comes up to the surface. He sees nothing. Says it in the lines tbh.
Doflamingo knows when he takes things too far. If he knew Fujitora will go against him why not list him in the bounties?
Once those "heads" will be caught, the game is over. Everyone is at peace. Issho is done. That's how Doflamingo and Fuji sees it.
it's impossible that it would go that way.
the only way doflamingo will be at peace is if everyone dies -
Fuji cant touch Dofla..why? He's a CELESTIAL DRAGON/WORLD NOBLE!!
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It strikes me that Fujitora's actions are all meant to convey the weaknesses of his 'blind justice' philosophy. In one instance he is prepared to let Luffy and pals go back at the Casino and then on Greenbit he'd have let Law and the SH's go had Law referred to them as 'subordinates'. He knew Law would be lying but still gave that 'out' anyway, as long as the rules are followed.
Fuji's justice is blind, formal justice that is almost criminal in its slow application and insistence on rules as opposed to the spirit of justice. Saving the citizens by arresting Dofla would be the actions of someone like Aokiji (after much prodding). Going after the SHs first before dealing with Doflamingo is cosistent with Fujitora's theme
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I cannot even begin to say how much I would love that.
Plus, better foreshadowed and build-up then the eventual clash between Flamingo and Luffy… just sayin.
Mm, yes and no. Fujitora has been definitely shown to be less absolute justice and more pragmatic, plus the scene of him speaking about the status of the Warlords and their abolishment…..but Luffy has been getting more and more reasons to go against Doflamingo then just "because Law told me to". Mainly towards the end of Punk Hazard, and all the stuff he's seen in the tournament/palace (Rebecca, Kyros, reflecting on how things are similar to Grey Terminal, etc.)
All of the admirals seen so far are morons (except Aokij)i.
Akainu too?
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The way I see it. Whatever Dofla is trying to do is none of Fujitora's concern, the admiral will try to protect as many citizens as possible, but he will stay blind to Mingo's action. Thats how I understand this page:
He isn't after the stars, because he doesn't care about Dofla's business, he is just following their initial plan: stopping Law and Luffy's alliance while protecting the citizen, but as he said in this page, he won't try to stop Doflamingo.
I hope Oda will clarify this in the next chapters, but so far, that's the only explanation I have regarding Fujitora's action.
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Excellent chapter. The Bartolomeo comedy was gold and the star reveals were really good. Usopp really can't catch any break during this arc, haha.
I think a good reason for Fujitora going after Luffy and Law rather than Doflamingo is because their heads are easier to take in than Doffy's is. His goal is to prevent as many people from being harmed as possible rather than solely taking out the baddies, and from where it stands at the moment Doflamingo has the upper hand.
the problem is,it's incredible stupid to think that dofla will let everyone live even if all the 12 star heads fall.
i can understand the citiziens following him because it's an act of desperation…it's not like they have a chance anyway,it's either hope that dofla will maintain his word and get 12 people running around the city or go against doflamingo himself,his family and his 4000 subordinates,all in a easily defendable castle protected by a shapeshifting stone golem who can literally can just make the palace itself walk away.
same goes for the ex-toys,since they are for the most part pirates who have no problem killing people while also getting paid for it,especially given the alternative.
fujitora though,he doesn't have any excuse,he is at least at the ame level of doflamingo,if not stronger,and thanks to his power all the subordnates are no threat to him..and he lalso has some subordinates of his own....hell he can even fly there--- Update From New Post Merge ---
Fuji cant touch Dofla..why? He's a CELESTIAL DRAGON/WORLD NOBLE!!
he said himself that he is not
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Akainu too?
especially akainu
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I still don't understand how Doflamingo thinks no one will ever know he's practically single-handedly orchestrated a genocide. Especially when a freaking admiral is watching it all happen, using his own powers to restrain some of his men that have been afflicted by Flamingo-boy's strings. Fujitora's slowness I sort of understand because there must be some pretty heavy internal turmoil going on inside his head due to his promise and his orders as a marine (I refer all of you to the page posted a couple of posts above), but sooner or later he'll turn against Doflamingo.
And the man still thinks this will be okay. Unless he's got some ridiculous goodwill in the upper ranks of the World Government or Tenryuubito, he's toast. And that, without any signs of panic or barking mad psychopathy from the man, makes this whole plot dumb.
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Fujitora's decision didn't come as surprise at all, his main goal is to abolish the Shishibukai and by ordering his mans to capture the Strawhats his also getting King Riku before anyone else can kill the king who will play one or the most important role on the Reviere also Sabo is on DressRosa and we don't know how the Marines feel about him, so Fuji might go Straight for Sabo while his soldiers deals with the others.
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It strikes me that Fujitora's actions are all meant to convey the weaknesses of his 'blind justice' philosophy. In one instance he is prepared to let Luffy and pals go back at the Casino and then on Greenbit he'd have let Law and the SH's go had Law referred to them as 'subordinates'. He knew Law would be lying but still gave that 'out' anyway, as long as the rules are followed.
Fuji's justice is blind, formal justice that is almost criminal in its slow application and insistence on rules as opposed to the spirit of justice. Saving the citizens by arresting Dofla would be the actions of someone like Aokiji (after much prodding). Going after the SHs first before dealing with Doflamingo is cosistent with Fujitora's themeInteresting interpretation on Fuji's justice. I really hope we see more of his internal thoughts…..I mean, for a new Admiral, this is a pretty chaotic situation to deal with.
And the man still thinks this will be okay. Unless he's got some ridiculous goodwill in the upper ranks of the World Government or Tenryuubito, he's toast.
As we've seen, Doflamingo's plans can and have failed before. When you have an Admiral on the island and a bunch of people after your head, you can't really leave the situation "gracefully" (how ironic given his flamingo theme). The consequences are gonna hit him hard.
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I still don't understand how Doflamingo thinks no one will ever know he's practically single-handedly orchestrated a genocide. Especially when a freaking admiral is watching it all happen, using his own powers to restrain some of his men that have been afflicted by Flamingo-boy's strings. Fujitora's slowness I sort of understand because there must be some pretty heavy internal turmoil going on inside his head due to his promise and his orders as a marine (I refer all of you to the page posted a couple of posts above), but sooner or later he'll turn against Doflamingo.
And the man still thinks this will be okay. Unless he's got some ridiculous goodwill in the upper ranks of the World Government or Tenryuubito, he's toast. And that, without any signs of panic or barking mad psychopathy from the man, makes this whole plot dumb.
He managed to fool the entire world into thinking he'd resigned a Shichibukai and had access to cP0 to help him do so, we really don't know the limit of Doffy's clout yet.
Even at that, this is all really to get rid of Luffy and Law and stop the destruction of the SAD Factory. Not angering Kaido is still Doffy's number one priority.
_"_Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" - Auron
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Even at that, this is all really to get rid of Luffy and Law and stop the destruction of the SAD Factory. Not angering Kaido is still Doffy's number one priority.
Yeah, but this is basically a situation where North Korea is cautious about angering China by nuking only South Korean cities that the Chinese don't like. Without realizing that the US and the UN won't be very pleased with the entire situation.
I am not at all convinced that he's got so much clout he can just sweep a genocide, whether complete or not, under the rug. Unless you're saying that Akainu's new Marines and Gorousei's WG would not care, but I'm not quite sure that that would be the case either.
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this will be the Official theme of doflamingo's game
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I highly disagree.
Aokiji is a moron as well.
LOL I was waiting to see how you will answer this, and this is the best answer you could come up with. I'm still laughing while writhing this.
And to everyone thinking Fuji can't touch Dofla becous he is a world noble: You are wrong! DD is not a Celectial dragon anymore.
Nani?
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Cavendish/Hakuba saved Franky, look at the scene….
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Smoke everywhere, tons of people lying on the ground defeated, and Franky disappears in a split second….Hakuba is the only on fast enough to pull something like that off...
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Smoker left to go find evidence. The decision to arrest Croc came after they saw a BW ship filled with rain powder. Issho doesn't have any evidence against Mingo. As a police officer, you can't make arrest based on feelings or intuition. You need tangible evidence.
What about all them Marines and WG workers turned into toys and forced to work in the factory. Once Issho knows about him been an underworld broker, Surely that would be enough evidence to bring him down.
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And to everyone thinking Fuji can't touch Dofla becous he is a world noble: You are wrong! DD is not a Celectial dragon anymore.
I think the problem is that we haven't really seen correspondence from the Marine side of things (even worse now that the communication has been halted), so we don't know how Akainu and his lot have declared the situation. Is Doflamingo still a Warlord and/or Celestial Dragon? Am I just bad at reading chapters? What's the call?
Naturally I would also assume if communication was still active, there would be some debate on what to declare it. And not just Dofla's status, but if Luffy and Law are still priority.
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…the consequences are gonna hit him hard.
The only consequence we've seen Doflamingo be actively afraid of is being slaughtered by Kaido.
He was perfectly willing to give up his Shichibukai title previously, depending on what assignments he was given and such.
If he manages to make it out of this with his head, then I'm pretty sure Doffy will mark that as a win, regardless.
_"_Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" - Auron
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The only consequence we've seen Doflamingo be actively afraid of is being slaughtered by Kaido.
He was perfectly willing to give up his Shichibukai title previously, depending on what assignments he was given and such.
If he manages to make it out of this with his head, then I'm pretty sure Doffy will mark that as a win, regardless.
Haha good point, but we're definitely gonna see a sneak peek at Kaidou when this is all over. What's his course of action.
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Yeah, but this is basically a situation where North Korea is cautious about angering China by nuking only South Korean cities that the Chinese don't like. Without realizing that the US and the UN won't be very pleased with the entire situation.
I am not at all convinced that he's got so much clout he can just sweep a genocide, whether complete or not, under the rug. Unless you're saying that Akainu's new Marines and Gorousei's WG would not care, but I'm not quite sure that that would be the case either.
I don't think he'd be able to sweep it under the rug, but certainly be given some kind of differential treatment given his status.
Like, I said to MetaMario, the only thing Doflamingo seems genuinely scared of is being murdered by Kaido. As long as that doesn't happen, he seems like he'd be willing to take the rest as it comes.
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Great chapter! "God Ussop" having a 500 million beri bounty on his head is hilarious. Didn't Oda mention in a SBS if "God Enel" had a bounty it would also be 500 million?
I am confused though with Law when he mentioned keeping Flamingo alive so Kaidou can kick his ass later. Wouldn't Kaidou want to go after the SH/Law alliance eventually since they will be the ones responsible for cutting off Kaidou's supply of smilies?
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Haha good point, but we're definitely gonna see a sneak peek at Kaidou when this is all over. What's his course of action.
Yeah, man.
I'm thinking we'll see Drake deliver Caribou to him at the end of this arc, as well as news of Doflamingo's fall.
Then we finally get to see the man/creature we've been waiting for since Thriller Bark.
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You know, putting the highest bounty on Usopp for hurting Sugar just confirms that Dofy cares as much about his crew as much as Luffy does. He cares for them in his own, sick little way, sure, but he cares for them like his family, which adds a layer of depth to his character.
Dont think so. It is more of a sign that Doffy knows that the ex-toys are most likely pretty loyal to the guy that saved them. So he knows that they need more convincing. Furthermore Usopp fucked up his nice kingdom.
I dont think this is an indicator that Doffy did this for Sugar. Most likely Diamante and Trebol reported back to him off Screen that lots of people were going after the factory because of Usopp Kami Sama ;) -
Ahh bliss, coming home after a long exam to a newly released chapter! Enjoyed it very much, Barto is incredible. I laughed so hard at the panel of him being a huge fanboy!
Really looking forward to the ensuing chaos, can't wait to see some great fights. I'm also wondering what will Burgess role in all this be as I really want to see him in more action.
Oh I see Darth is here spreading the noble word of the Marines yet again, some things never change.
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Akainu too?
He completely ignored the threat posed by Blackbeard and Doflamingo. He didn't see the WG's "mistake" coming
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MangaPanda had the number of stars mixed up through the chapter, didn't they?
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You didn't really add much to what I just said and answered your own question.
I had a question?
Anyways, I am just saying Fujitora has to be stupid to not realize Doflamingo is the one behind the civilian attacks if you take into account everything Doffy said in this chapter. The fact he was not around 10 years ago just means he possibly will not relate this to the Riku's incident like the citizens did.
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i know it was part of a gag, but can't say I'm not a little disappointed with the reaction of the former toys
really?? some of you people were toys for TEN years. you did not have a body. you were stuck in your head due to one man: Doflamingo. Now, you are turning your back on the one person who gave you a chance, and for what?? money?? who the FUCK would care about money after ten years stuck as a fucking slave?? would that seriously have that much value to you still that you'd go so far as to kill the one person who risked his life to save you??
ehh.. whateverand I feel like we've yet to see the totality of Fujitora's plan, so I'll refrain judgment. However, I don't understand why he couldn't just put a gravity field on all of Dressrosa like he did those soldiers.
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Oh I see Darth is here spreading the noble word of the Marines yet again, some things never change.
Has Fujitora has been portrayed thus far as anything but moraly sound man? No? Then bloody hell, he should act like it.
Or are you arguing he was evil all along?
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LOL I was waiting to see how you will answer this, and this is the best answer you could come up with. I'm still laughing while writhing this.
Not the best one, no.
Altough considering number of times Admirals are handed idiot ball…
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It was obvious Fujitora was not going against Mingo, http://www.batoto.net/read/_/219819/one-piece_ch735_by_powermanga/18
He said "no matter what happen to this country I'm still a blind person" which means that he is going to be by Dofla's side no matter what, so why people are angry because he is going against the muguiwara?
It is fine that he is going after Luffy from my POV. But i think it doesnt fit with his character putting civilians first and so on. One could argue that Fuji thinks taking down LAW,Revos number 2 guy plus several officers, and the Strawhats plus Riku family and Kyros will be faster. But it makes him look idiotic. He gives the royal family to slaughter to Doflamingo? What logic is that? What does he think how it goes on from there? 2: If he had done his homework he should how strong some of those 12 people plus associates are. He can take down everybody in the Dofla Family except the 10 main guys with one stroke or haki or something. For me, he goes against his character and acts short sighted. His first misstep from POV.
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Mam people turned on fuji quick i mean what did you expect him to instantly kill dofla and end the arch come on. But hes clearly got something in order he already met the straw hats and seemed to think they werent so bad. he in the end will prob be the one to allow them to escape this arch. I mean he definitely knows some marine fodder isn't gonna capture them. This way he can save face obeying orders blindly and eventually actually help. Is not something like I'd stop you strawhats but i cant see you escaping cause these blind eyes cannot see to be expected? Also what happened to Cp0?
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DAMN good chapter. He's an awesome villain, but I can't wait for Luffy to knock Doflamingo's dick in the dirt.
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Brilliant chapter. The comedy was spread out really well, the highlight was Usopp's 500m Bounty, before that page I was thinking he could play some sort of covert role after recovering, but it was hilarious to see him being put in the forefront of it all. I thought it was particularly a solid move on Oda's part because it showed just how vengeful Doflamingo is. Above everyone else he wants to get back at the person who took out Sugar, regardless of his fighting ability or how that it was pure luck.
Fujitora still hasn't shown us what he plans to do about the state of the country. He appears to be righteous and with a unique sense of Justice. He wants to abolish the Shichibukai system but is a Marine Admiral - he is duty bound. I expect him to not let Doflamingo get away with things, but Mingo has a lot of pull in the world. What will he do about Sabo? He's probably worth more to the WG than anyone else on the island, especially now that he has the Mera Mera no Mi (something he isn't aware of at this moment). Looking forward to his decision.
I don't think Mingo intends for anyone to leave the Bird Cage, not the marines, not the citizens, only himself and his staff. Why let the Marines go when they'll report back that he enslaved a nation, including marines?
I'm not sure I like the setup at the moment, it's going to be exciting and enlightening, but Fujitora has got to do something monumental, I don't want to see him being taken out but it's clear that Luffy has to be the one to take Mingo out.
Sabo vs Fuji possibly? Not sure another rescue arc would be welcome, and it might be too early to see Sabo take out an Admiral.
Fujitora falls into a trap? I think it'll have to be something Kairoseki based but what sort of trap works on an Admiral? Pica using the stone to move Kairoseki perhaps?
