This is my first time posting here, so please give me a little slack.
I just wanted to warn you all that it looks like this arc might be going on for a while longer, even though the cp9 fights are almost completed.
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Franky: But if you think about it, our number
Is equivalent to the number of the marine ships that’s out there
Franky: Even if we can depart, it’ll be extremely hard to get around this place
Doesn't this insinuate that each mugiwara will be taking out a BC ship? Luffy's already destroyed his after all. There are 7 strawhats (including franky) on the escape ship. However, I doubt that sanji or chopper would be of much help in a ship to ship fight. The two "weaklings" you all put at the bottom of your strength meters, Nami and Ussop, ought to be able to take up the slack in a long distance battle though.
Also :
Lucci: RANKYAKU
Lucci: GAICHO (something bird)
Is that referring to the pigeon? I mean, that rankyaku did kind of look more like a dove than any sort of raptor.
An in regards to Lucci's new "impact dial" type move: There is evidence that it does work in the same way as the dial. On page twelve lucci blocks a pistol and the translation states:
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Absorbs
then, a page or two later, lucci unleashes the LOKUOUGAN. This isn't a punch at all. Lucci places his two fists against luffy's abdomen and THEN unleashes the built up energy to do luffy some serious pain. Wouldn't it make sense that an advanced 6 form body manipulator would be able to combine tekkai and kamie to absorb an attack and then unleash the built up power in the Lokuougan?
Really, when you start studying the details of lucci's moves, they're pretty amazing. The time he jumped back to reduce the power of a blow, he was using tekkai, geppou, and kamie all in one.
After that, he used literally lightening fast kamie/ geppou to bounce off the walls and add inertia to the shigan in a really impressive sequence. But having luffy just block it with an Open Palm! Man! Then lucci absorbs one pistol on the arm, taking no damage, not even being pushed back an inch, only to have luffy launch him across the room with another jet pistol from the hand that had been blocking the shigan!
Honestly, I don't understand the whiners on this forum complaining about this fight. How many actual inherently different techniques did luffy's other big arc enemies have? 1? 2? Lucci's flawlessly mixing every combination of the six power rokushiki. There's give and take in every single attack and defence. Unlike the odd giraffe transformations, spectral wolves, demonic auras and flaming body parts of the other fights this arc, all the moves here are explained, more or less, logically by the 6 form fighting style that has been built up for the last hundred chapters or so. Pay attention and it's really amazing.
So please. Stop comparing it to the slap fights of dbz or complaining about the length. Look closely at what's actually going on in this fight cause I doubt there'll be another one as intense as this for another one or two hundred chapters.
That said, nice to meet you all.
boiga