Chapter 929: Shogun of Wano, Kurozumi Orochi

BattleFranky69

You'll eat your words when it's revealed that they all know Geppo

Well and with the more we're learning about dinos, most of them had feathers so who knows whether some of them were able to get a little hangtime in the air? Of course Oda's going with the more Jurassic Park versions of them with more reptilian and less avian features. Also I don't know if it's just the mangastream translation but they're calling them Dragon-Dragon Fruit users rather than making dinos a specific category which bugs the crap out of me because usually you only see people who push for biblical creationism calling dinosaurs dragons. Although I'll admit it's pretty cool that Page One is a Spinosaurus, one of which killed a T-Rex in Jurassic Park 3. A little disappointing that X Drake is only an Allosaurus, the smaller and less threatening cousin of the T-Rex. Makes me wonder if any of Kaido's crew has that elsewhere.

And was that supposedly amazingly gorgeous geisha NOT really being anything that special a surprise to anyone? Oda's got a somewhat limited scope of female visages and for her to be anything beyond Hancock or the Straw Hat ladies was a long shot. Orochi didn't seem to have any puppet accoutrements around him so I'm thinking he does have some kind of Orochi DF, and not a SMILE one or he'd probably look more deformed.

I can't figure out why Oda had Franky go on that ridiculous quest we'd see in a Saturday morning cartoon from my childhood. Unless each and every one of those characters he bumped into is going to play some significant role later on, that was a serious waste of time. Granted, it allowed the chapter to end with that cool double page spread but that didn't HAVE to be the final panels to end on. Also, was Hawkins always riding what looks like a Kirin? I was hoping Chopper would adopt a new form, Kirin Point, so I hope that doesn't mean it'll be less likely now that we've seen one.

uniaka ikuzakas

Still don't get why the geppou users don't teach everyone else to do it too. Sanji could teach the crew, marines could teach well everyone, BM pirates could teach the full crew and allies.

blue-san

Cool I ll remove myself from this aristocratic chapter threads from now on and live in the peasant lands of spoilers… Be warry though peasants do revolt...

El-Matematico

@BellisarioFaith:

With this new change in policy, and the fact that the VIZ chapters can now be read online for free without a subscription (at least in some regions; I'm not sure whether or not it's available everywhere), I want to hear what you guys think: for those who've been reading my chapter comparisons for the past few years, do you think those are still necessary/do you still want them? I'm happy to keep doing them if y'allz think they'll still be helpful and will enjoy reading them, but if you think that being able to now read the VIZ versions directly yourselves renders the comparisons moot, then it may be redundant for me to bother with it, haha.

It's not available everywhere, I'd appretiate if you keep doing the comparisons.

Logia

@arkur:

Press control-0 to reset the zoom on your browser (or try control +/- to adjust the zoom). They appear because each of the images is composed of all those little squares as an anti-piracy measure against scraping. If you want to zoom, use the clickable +/- buttons instead.

Been using default zoom, had to mess with Firefox's layout.css.devPixelsPerPx months/years back because of an update of making the default browser size too zoomed in. Ctrl +/- anywhere keeps showing those squares. I've been using the clickable +/- buttons in the first place and they still had the squares. :x

andre

I like Orochi's design. He just looks like a straight bastard. The type of guy who's an idiot, but just smart and lucky enough to usually come out on top. Also the type who can fight, but is mostly cowardly.

fakescorpion

@uniaka:

Still don't get why the geppou users don't teach everyone else to do it too. Sanji could teach the crew, marines could teach well everyone, BM pirates could teach the full crew and allies.

Because everyone have to pick and choose their arsenal. Is it worth it to use ten years to learn geppou or train DF/haki/sword fighting/fishman karate etc. more? geppou is a fighting style that took time to learn, just like the other hundred different fighting styles in OP. Asking why Sanji could not teach the crew geppou is no different from asking why Zoro could not teach the crew sword fighting.

uniaka ikuzakas

I don't think you need that long to learn it. Looks like it was the very first thing Sanji learns in the time skip, as in less then 2 years. Luffy also learned another rokushiki technique way faster, soru.

And the difference betwen geppou and swordmanship is that swordmanship is not something anyone needs all the time, like geppou that can be useful in any scenario. Also that geppou is not fighting style like swormanship, it just allows you to fly. You can be both swordman and use geppou at the same time, it doesn't replace existing fighting style.

fakescorpion

I thought it’s obvious enough the reason Sanji and Luffy learned those faster than average is a combination of talent and their basic ability allowing them certain shortcuts. Luffy’s DF pumped his blood faster, allowing him into G2 and a shortcut to soru. Sanji’s basic leg strength gave him a natural affinity towards geppou.

Neither situation apply to the rest of the crew, meaning that they would have to start from the beginning. Remember how most CP agents began their training when very young? So I don’t think an average of 10 years is an exaggeration at all, that is how long it would take ppl like Nami, Ussop etc. to learn since they had to start from nothing.

MajinArekkusu

Legit confused Komurasaki in one panel with Robin and thought she already infiltrated Orochis chambers, lmao.

gyuukarubi

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gyuukarubi

@MajinArekkusu:

Legit confused Komurasaki in one panel with Robin and thought she already infiltrated Orochis chambers, lmao.

She did. You can see Robin in the panel above Komurasaki’s initial appearance in 929. Orochi invited her several chapters back.

MajinArekkusu

@gyuukarubi:

She did. You can see Robin in the panel above Komurasaki’s initial appearance in 929. Orochi invited her several chapters back.

Oh shit, you are right. I didn't focus on both panels too much and thought it was just komurasaki. xD

flandrian15

@wolfwood:

You peasants may use the servants entrance links in the spoilers thread.

Here is where i would insert the America fuck yeah song

This is where I'd insert pretty much any tweet by Trump, followed by the Jackie Chan "Why" meme…

Not from 'MURICA by the way and can read the chapter just fine.

wolfwood

@uniaka:

Still don't get why the geppou users don't teach everyone else to do it too. Sanji could teach the crew, marines could teach well everyone, BM pirates could teach the full crew and allies.

If Usopp starts air walking and slingshotting peeps i'm done for.

@flandrian15:

This is where I'd insert pretty much any tweet by Trump, followed by the Jackie Chan "Why" meme…

Not from 'MURICA by the way and can read the chapter just fine.

Don't infringe on the American birthright by trickery.

You should await your local release in 2025.

flandrian15

@wolfwood:

If Usopp starts air walking and slingshotting peeps i'm done for.

Don't infringe on the American birthright by trickery.

You should await your local release in 2025.

Ah but that is exactly the point good sir, I don't… All is completely legit.

Jabra

@uniaka:

I don't think you need that long to learn it. Looks like it was the very first thing Sanji learns in the time skip, as in less then 2 years.

It's incredibly hard, even if you have the legstrength. Sanji picking it up without a tutor was his big timeskip hype moment after all.

Just look at Doflamingo, someone who has arguably even stronger legs than Sanji and all the funds and connections one can think of. He can't use Geppou. Why wouldn't he want to learn it if it were easy? Because it's not something you can pick up in a short time, even if you are top tier. Unless you have a natural gift like Sanji (or Coby). And since he has a mediocre substitute ability anyway (attaching strings to clouds) he probably didn't bother.

Of course the real reason why most people don't learn it is because flight is the most dangerous ability to have around if you want to write a good story, since all kind of convenient obstacles are no longer obstacles when your main cast can float and fly.

.access timeco.

The whole thing about rokushiki is training your body to a point you get a superhuman body and can flex it and use your muscles in impossible ways, like hardening your muscles so much they can wall bullets or having so much leg strength you can literally kick air to propel yourself up. It is not the kind of thing you can simply teach someone without the proper training.

Sanji learning geppo makes sense because leg strength is pretty much all of his fighting style. Luffy learning soru makes sense because the Gomu Gomu in general works similarly to how soru is performed and Gear 2nd pumped up the speed to make it doable back then (it was more a matter of Luffy thinking "oh, right, I can use my new power up this way too"). They don't go around pulling any rokushiki form, just those that already matched their abilities/bodies.

tl;dr the thing with rokushiki is less about learning those techniques and more about having a body that can use those.

@sandman:

As Akagami and Maju pointed out, Tobi Roppo (飛六_胞) in OP is probably based on Kabuki.
Tobi Roppo(飛六方) in Kabuki literally means "Flying Six Ways". Actually there is a ”Happo” (発泡_) Japanese liquor called “Flying Six”(とび六/飛六).
I guess Tobi Roppo might be based on both Kabuki and Japanese liquor. FYI, there is Japanese liquor called Kaido (海童). Kaido’s henchman Scotch might be based on Scotch whisky.
Oda loves Japanese liquor according to Viz interview in 2016.
[hide]https://i.imgur.com/nYb0bJU.jpg
[/hide]The titles of Lead Performers (大看板) and Headliners (真打ち) are based on Rakugo, known as a form of Japanese verbal entertainment.
Oda loves Rakugo so much that he kept talking for a long time in an interview with Toshio Suzuki, Studio Ghibli producer.

To sum it up, Wano arc is a combination of
[Japanese culture] Kabuki, Rakugo, Sumo, (Japanese) liquor etc
[Animals[ Beast Pirates, Mink Tribe
[Trump card games] Sheepshead, Gin Rummy etc

By the way, Straw Hats in Ninja outfits are drawn in the color spread. Ninja is one of the protagonists Oda wanted to draw before he started OP.
Before his debut, Oda wanted to draw pirates, ninjas or witch/wizards according to ONE PIECE Magazine 3.

God, I love this post.

BellisarioFaith

Thanks for your replies, guys. Seems like there's still enough interest (and enough people who live in regions without VIZ access) for me to keep doing these. I may not be able to every time, since sometimes life just gets really busy (like with the previous two chapters; sorry about that), but I'll try to do so as often as possible. Now that the chapters are released on Sundays instead of Mondays, I'm hoping that'll make things easier. Let's get to it! There are a whole bunch of these this time.

In general, as I've mentioned in previous comparisons and other readers have pointed out, the official translation from VIZ is, somewhat oddly, keeping quite a few terms untranslated here in the Wano arc in places where the scanlations translate them. In addition to the ones mentioned in previous chapters (examples such as keeping "tsujigiri" instead of "street-killer"/"murderer", "oiran" instead of "courtesan" (while occasionally mentioning that she's a courtesan, but using "oiran" in general convo), and "Akazaya Nine" instead of "Nine Red Scabbards"), this one also leaves in "Rakuda" for "Camel" and "Tobi Roppo" for the group of six strongest Headliners (see below for the details).
In VIZ, just like Mangastream, Franky answers Minatomo scolding him with "Yes, boss!" However, what Minatomo says before this makes Franky's response sound kinda hilariously defiant, even though it probably wasn't meant that way: "So you think the oiran bein' a real babe is a valid excuse for comin' to work late, Franosuke?!" "Yes, boss!"
In MS, Minatomo responds to Franky saying how beautiful Komurasaki was with "I don't give a hoot!", whereas in Jaimini's Box and VIZ, he does agree with that. Afterwards, in MS, he says that there's still the matter of his "own word and honor", in JB he states that "We've got a reputation to uphold", and in VIZ, he says he still needs Franky "to respect that I'm the boss". Also, the other workers who attack Franky refer to Minatomo as their "leader" in MS and "master" in JB, but as "the foreman" in VIZ.
MS has Franky respond to Kobei's question of if he knows Kisegawa with "Why would we?!", which makes it sound like there's someone with him while he's running on these errands. This is not the case with JB and VIZ, which say "Of course not!"/"Why would I know her?!" Then, where the scanlations translate the name to "Camel" and have Franky do a double-take with "Camel? The animal?!", the official leaves it as the characters calling him "Rakuda", and Franky's double-take instead being "Doesn't Rakuda mean 'camel'?!"
When showing the location of Kin'emon and the Minks, MS and VIZ just say "Kuri an Abandoned Village" and "Ruins in Kuri" respectively. JB says "Kuri–in a certain abandoned village", implying the village may be significant in some way.
Tonoyasu's intro box calls him a "taiko drum carrier" in MS, a "sweet talker" in JB, and a "sycophant" in VIZ. Yasu also has a penchant for rhyming on a dime in the official version, such as "out of the blue" with "he'll lead me true", "broke as a joke", "my pluck and my luck", and "stout and tall" with "one and all".
The scanlations don't say what kind of gambling Zoro was engaging in (unless the word used for gambling specifies it), but in the official translation, Yasu mentioned he won with dice. Also, in the original Japanese, Zoro misnames Yasu as "Kasu", a word which, as both scanlations explain in a TN, means "trash" or "scum". The official keeps the spirit of the joke by having Zoro misname him "Assu".
In MS, Yasu calls Leftover Town "a little Hamlet", whereas JB and VIZ state that Leftover Town is called "Ebisu", as in, that's its official name. Then, on the next page, MS has Orochi asking CP-0 if they're sure they aren't after opening the borders, while JB and VIZ have him basically say the opposite: that they don't want the borders opened up, either, do they?
When Orochi notes that he's the one in a position of power now that CP-0 has to directly negotiate with him, the scanlations have them reply that, with that in mind, this is "a pretty pickle"/"quite the conundrum". In the official version, their reply is more specific, implying that Orochi has already told them what he wanted: "But your majesty…we simply can't fulfill this request!" Then MS has Orochi say that battleships were fine last time and he wants Vegapunk this time, but JB and VIZ instead have him say that he wants battleships this time but he must have Vegapunk next time.
When the doors to Orochi's room are opened, he says "Not a care in the world! Not a care at all!" in MS, says "Formalities won't be necessary" twice in JB, and goes with "Now this is more like it! Much more like it, indeed!" in VIZ. When seeing the geishas, he repeats "without a care in the world" in MS and "formalities won't be necessary" in JB, while in VIZ, he says "I find this all very agreeable!"
In the official translation, he makes a pun when saying he doesn't want the chicken: "I am not in a fowl mood tonight!"; in JB, the sake is said to be brewed by "Touji" (implying that's someone's name) while MS and VIZ just refer to him as "the master brewer"; and the fish that Orochi loves is said to be "mackerel" in MS, "salmon" in JB, and "pike" in VIZ.
Orochi in MS says he's been wanting to "meet" Komurasaki, implying they've never met before; in JB, he says he's "missed" her, implying they have; VIZ could be interpreted either way, but leans more towards the latter, where he says he's "waited to see" her.
In MS, the group of six strongest Headliners are called the "Flying Fighters"; in JB, they're called the "Flying Six", with the TN explanation that their Japanese name is the "Tobi Roppo", which is also a type of exit in Kabuki plays; VIZ leaves the term as "Tobi Roppo".
Hawkins's words to Drake after saying he's there in search of a particular man (most likely Law) are also a little different in each version: "I thought you have something you hunt that's more important to you than this mission, eh, Drake?" in MS; in JB, he says "You might be in for more than this mission entails, Drake"; and in VIZ, it's "This should be more than worth the reward of the mission alone, Drake."

BattleFranky69

@.access:

The whole thing about rokushiki is training your body to a point you get a superhuman body and can flex it and use your muscles in impossible ways, like hardening your muscles so much they can wall bullets or having so much leg strength you can literally kick air to propel yourself up. It is not the kind of thing you can simply teach someone without the proper training.

While I agree for the most part, it can't be said that that's completely true because he was able to use it while inside Nami's body when Law had everyone switched around in Punk Hazard. So a lot of it is actually understanding the mechanics of it, more than having a body honed and tuned for that; I'm reminded of when Luffy correctly identified how Blueno's Soru worked, having noticed they had to pump their feet rapidly multiple times in order to build up their speed before taking off. Geppou probably has a similar but more complicated technique behind it that Sanji figured out and could use even in a body that did not possess great strength. So when you consider that few people in the world are all that smart, it's no surprise that Rokushiki techniques aren't more widespread, especially Geppou.

Sanji learning geppo makes sense because leg strength is pretty much all of his fighting style. Luffy learning soru makes sense because the Gomu Gomu in general works similarly to how soru is performed and Gear 2nd pumped up the speed to make it doable back then (it was more a matter of Luffy thinking "oh, right, I can use my new power up this way too"). They don't go around pulling any rokushiki form, just those that already matched their abilities/bodies.

This, too, makes perfect sense, but it's galling that Sanji hasn't also adapted both Rankyaku and Soru into his repertoire from the leg-based Rokushiki techniques. He's one of the few Straw Hats without any long-range combat capability, so having a Diable Jambe themed Rankyaku would be perfect for him and set itself apart from the standard wind blades, perhaps replaced with flaming meteorites. If we're not going to see the fruits of Sanji's training like the 99 recipes he supposedly learned from the Newkama masters, he could at least show us more Rokushiki proficiency. Hopefully soon, especially now with a real serious battle impending.

CongoJack

Tbh, I don't have any clue anymore as to which thread I should look at to get to read any discussion about anything - at first one scanlated page comes out, there is pages of nothing more than educated guesses on that, then the scanlation comes out, but no one links it as easily accessible as it was done during the last 12 years, at least not to my stupid a** -, I don't have any idea where to go to get my chapter link to JB or whatever site is the hotness atm, so I browsed those sites for myself the last week without coming here; and I stupidly found myself clicking the chapter thread again right now when in fact it's about the chapter that came out through scanlations a while ago, so I read that discussion about that already, but I guess I'm gonna read the same things multiple times now in anticipation of any new knowledge shared in the newer thread - which is basically akin to leaving me to switch between two threads if I don't follow their progress hourly.

Just some feedback from a dude that visited your site week after week for 12 years now ( started here when Lucci got KO'd - around chapter 328 or something, can't remember ), but is seriously considering just bookmarking JB at the moment as he is too stupid and lazy to follow the discussions and the exact release date of every page scan/whole chapter scan/VIZscan ( which I do not even get in my country, which makes the whole 'new thread policy' even more cumbersome to me personally as the starting of the new thread does not amount to anything I can experience whatsoever ) as they come out and give new impulses to said discussions. Should it turn out that I'm in the minority and this feedback is not of use to anyone, I'm deeply sorry to have wasted your time.

When was that or that post made? Was that post in the spoiler thread made with the whole chapter out as scanlation already or just the one page? Is there air? You don't know!

Kdom

@CongoJack:

Tbh, I don't have any clue anymore as to which thread I should look at to get to read any discussion about anything - at first one scanlated page comes out, there is pages of nothing more than educated guesses on that, then the scanlation comes out, but no one links it as easily accessible as it was done during the last 12 years, at least not to my stupid a** -, I don't have any idea where to go to get my chapter link to JB or whatever site is the hotness atm, so I browsed those sites for myself the last week without coming here; and I stupidly found myself clicking the chapter thread again right now when in fact it's about the chapter that came out through scanlations a while ago, so I read that discussion about that already, but I guess I'm gonna read the same things multiple times now in anticipation of any new knowledge shared in the newer thread - which is basically akin to leaving me to switch between two threads if I don't follow their progress hourly.

Just some feedback from a dude that visited your site week after week for 12 years now ( started here when Lucci got KO'd - around chapter 328 or something, can't remember ), but is seriously considering just bookmarking JB at the moment as he is too stupid and lazy to follow the discussions and the exact release date of every page scan/whole chapter scan/VIZscan ( which I do not even get in my country, which makes the whole 'new thread policy' even more cumbersome to me personally as the starting of the new thread does not amount to anything I can experience whatsoever ) as they come out and give new impulses to said discussions. Should it turn out that I'm in the minority and this feedback is not of use to anyone, I'm deeply sorry to have wasted your time.

When was that or that post made? Was that post in the spoiler thread made with the whole chapter out as scanlation already or just the one page? Is there air? You don't know!

once the schedule is back to normal, things will be easier. but yeah globally, accessing to the chapter via the direct site should be the normal thing to do.
Everything would be simpler if there was a single thread

John.Rambo

Well “content not available in your country”. Ten years coming to the forum to read One Piece. Fun times.
How do you guys solved this issue?

uniaka ikuzakas

Law switching the personalities of sanji, franky, usopp with page one, drake, hawkins then sanji and co infiltrating kaidou pirates like that would be more fun then straight up fight.

Candide

@John.Rambo:

Well “content not available in your country”. Ten years coming to the forum to read One Piece. Fun times.
How do you guys solved this issue?

You can use a VPN Client. I am using “Secure VPN” - it is free, with ads and probably tracking, but I use it only to visit viz website via browser and turn it off afterwards. Some people said, you can use it once on your mobile devices to install the viz app and would not need it ever again. I didn‘t try though.

Dohs

ごめんなさい!
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gg no re.

There should be links to chapter for all people, also those outside of US or wherever you can access VIZ.
https://jaiminisbox.com/reader/read/one-piece-2/en/0/929/page/1

Chrior

That's what the spoiler thread is for… If people happened to read the top thread in the manga section, they could clear all their doubts about what this forum is trying to do. Although it was pretty obvious this was going to happen either way...

Captain M

Do people not realise that they can talk about the chapter here if they only read scans? Scanlations aren't fully confined to the spoiler board, they're only restricted until the official release is out. It's not a matter of excluding people who can't read the official release, it's about giving those who can the opportunity to do so without being spoiled. No one's gonna interrogate you over if you really read Viz's version before you post in the main thread here…

(as I understand the new rules anyway)

MajinArekkusu

Scanlation comes out, discuss it freely in the spoiler thread. Viz chapter comes out discussion moves to official chapter thread. WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THAT TO UNDERSTAND?

KageKageKing

Some people just like their things in one place.

kevo_koma

@uniaka:

Law switching the personalities of sanji, franky, usopp with page one, drake, hawkins then sanji and co infiltrating kaidou pirates like that would be more fun then straight up fight.

That power will never appear in the story again.

Its waay to overpowered and it could end all conflicts instantly.

Oh Kaidou giving you trouble, just switch his soul with a snail and boom, problem solved.

Kdom

@MajinArekkusu:

Scanlation comes out, discuss it freely in the spoiler thread. Viz chapter comes out discussion moves to official chapter thread. WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THAT TO UNDERSTAND?

There would be no questions if the link to Viz chapter was not made. That's also a simple solution to avoid people feeling rejected

wolfwood

@John.Rambo:

Well “content not available in your country”. Ten years coming to the forum to read One Piece. Fun times.
How do you guys solved this issue?

The French solution is always elegant

–- Update From New Post Merge ---

@Captain:

Do people not realise that they can talk about the chapter here if they only read scans? Scanlations aren't fully confined to the spoiler board, they're only restricted until the official release is out. It's not a matter of excluding people who can't read the official release, it's about giving those who can the opportunity to do so without being spoiled. No one's gonna interrogate you over if you really read Viz's version before you post in the main thread here…

(as I understand the new rules anyway)

Classic case of the haves rebuking the have nots for voicing their displeasure about their lot in life.

redon

One Piece Staff Instagram account posted how Oda created this week Color Spread in his iPad Pro!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsaeGmaBzZn/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

BattleFranky69

@kevo_koma:

That power will never appear in the story again.

Its waay to overpowered and it could end all conflicts instantly.

Oh Kaidou giving you trouble, just switch his soul with a snail and boom, problem solved.

It's hard to gauge the limit of who is vulnerable to it. Smoker, a Vice-Admiral rank Marine, was easily overcome by it, as well as someone of Sanji's tier. While it's safe to say Law easily overcame even Vergo's massive Haki defense, it's not clear whether the body-swapping would also work as easily on someone of Vergo's level, and Vergo easily trumped Sanji. So there's no real way to tell who would be vulnerable to Law's tricky ability, but we know it goes pretty damn high. My guess would be anyone as powerful as, say, Zoro wouldn't be affected by it if they resisted it. But at this point it would likely be used only for comedic effect anyway.

kevo_koma

@BattleFranky69:

It's hard to gauge the limit of who is vulnerable to it. Smoker, a Vice-Admiral rank Marine, was easily overcome by it, as well as someone of Sanji's tier. While it's safe to say Law easily overcame even Vergo's massive Haki defense, it's not clear whether the body-swapping would also work as easily on someone of Vergo's level, and Vergo easily trumped Sanji. So there's no real way to tell who would be vulnerable to Law's tricky ability, but we know it goes pretty damn high. My guess would be anyone as powerful as, say, Zoro wouldn't be affected by it if they resisted it. But at this point it would likely be used only for comedic effect anyway.

Like you said it was primarily used for Comedy and if I remember correctly, never affected the outcome of the story in any way.

There's a reason it was never used in Dressrosa.

Law could have easily dismantled the entire Doflamingo family on his own. Without actually swapping the Members but using it to infiltrate the family.

Its just waay to overpowered.

Darkestsith6

@KageKageKing:

Some people just like their things in one place.

Just think about scantalations as extended spoilers with inaccurate translations. The discussion stays there until the official Viz drop, which still trigger the official thread.

In a normal week, it'll just be Thursday spoilers, Fri scans, and Sunday official viz release. So spoiler thread from Thursday to Sunday instead of Thursday to Friday

funebre

@BellisarioFaith:

Thanks for your replies, guys. [ … ]

16 chars of thank you!

MajinArekkusu

@Kdom:

There would be no questions if the link to Viz chapter was not made. That's also a simple solution to avoid people feeling rejected

Feeling rejected coming to the conclusion that if the viz chapter is out, that means scanlations are also already out and they can easily check the usual jaimini and mangastream scansites etc., where they have been reading chapters for weeks, months or years?

@redon:

One Piece Staff Instagram account posted how Oda created this week Color Spread in his iPad Pro!!!

Oh wow, I didn‘t realize it was fully digital. Thought he colored it traditionally like always.

Look at him utilizing digital art to ease the drawing process, nice. Also cool that it‘s an ipad pro, maybe he is chilling in a comfy chair with it instead of hunching over his desk.

redon

@MajinArekkusu:

Oh wow, I didn‘t realize it was fully digital. Thought he colored it traditionally like always.

Look at him utilizing digital art to ease the drawing process, nice. Also cool that it‘s an ipad pro, maybe he is chilling in a comfy chair with it instead of hunching over his desk.

I think Oda colored it with Copic as always. We've seen a B/W version of the Color Spread in Oda's desk in Honmadekka! TV program today.

Kdom

@MajinArekkusu:

Feeling rejected coming to the conclusion that if the viz chapter is out, that means scanlations are also already out and they can easily check the usual jaimini and mangastream scansites etc., where they have been reading chapters for weeks, months or years?

Your argument is invalid given the number of "content not available in your country” posts

@wolfwood:

[qimg]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2cmrQ_7Jsyk/WI3-MDX-RpI/AAAAAAAAEtw/lTnRn4DVtoQNG6J1vUFpvCVQUHkrirZ7wCLcB/s1600/Les%2BMis1.gif[/qimg]

The French solution is always elegant

Your out of date, yellow is the colour in fashion

Kaido King of the Beasts

There's no need to be short tempered regarding the chapter. Yes, it would be great if people read the announcement at the top of the section, which would hopefully get them to where they need to go, but I know from experience that people don't tend to be able to navigate well on sites they don't frequent.

Perhaps this issue is exacerbated by the timing of the scans compared to the chapter, but what's going on now doesn't really make me confident that this current system is sustainable.

wolfwood

@Kdom:

Your out of date, yellow is the colour in fashion

Yeah but i appreciate the low hanging fruit.

Like making it a yellow vest references needs way more set up.

And that kind of set up is the antithesis of good shit posting

BattleFranky69

@kevo_koma:

Like you said it was primarily used for Comedy and if I remember correctly, never affected the outcome of the story in any way.

There's a reason it was never used in Dressrosa.

Law could have easily dismantled the entire Doflamingo family on his own. Without actually swapping the Members but using it to infiltrate the family.

Its just waay to overpowered.

Well there's a limit to his energy expenditure, he's stated this before, though again, it's vague as to what the max capacity he has for it and how much any specific action costs, or how proportional the cost will be for using simultaneous effects. Law's got a ton of tattoos, so it would be cool if there was some kind of tally mark system of tattoos on his arm or something to indicate these kinds of things. Otherwise it gets into Dragonball Z territory where everyone's always got some kind of reserve energy they pull out of their ass. In any case, if he was saving his A game for Doflamingo (with that Gamma Knife move) then it stands to reason he wouldn't have wasted any taking on the DD family and waiting to attack the man himself (for all the good it did). Is it a good excuse? Not really, but Law's is indeed overpowered, and Oda could mitigate this a little by giving us some idea of its limits and whatnot, but he's not doing it. Luckily it's hardly being used in Wano either, though he doesn't really have a good reason why not, especially now that Hawkins is well aware of Law's presence and keeping it on the down-low isn't really an option. I suppose it is a good idea to save it for emergencies but if he could use it to PREVENT emergencies from happening, that would probably be a better use of it. Maybe he just figured out he can't control any of the Straw Hats and they're going to cause trouble no matter what, and has accepted that. I really hope that in the end, when Luffy's stupidity somehow solves all their problems, Law just starts laughing his head off finally.

MajinArekkusu

@Kdom:

Your argument is invalid given the number of "content not available in your country” posts

So, people too stupid to check regular scan sites themselves, instead of relying on links here?

wolfwood

@MajinArekkusu:

So, people too stupid to check regular scan sites themselves, instead of relying on links here?

I see the french theme continues with a let them eat cake moment

Kdom

@MajinArekkusu:

So, people too stupid to check regular scan sites themselves, instead of relying on links here?

And maybe you should learn what respect is.
Everyone has is own habits and the fact that nobody reads the regulation is common knowledge.. If anything the real culprits are those who post the links at the begining of the threads.

Buggy D. Clown

@redon:

One Piece Staff Instagram account posted how Oda created this week Color Spread in his iPad Pro!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsaeGmaBzZn/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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Wowww, I guess control Z feature must be handy. I always assumed he hand drew everything lol

BingBang

when is the 930 spoiler coming normally?

Boicote

I am sorry I am not much of a complainer but this new " lets always wait for viz to release the chapter thing" was okay until I realized that opening the link on first page it says I cant see because the content is not available in my location, I am brazilian. That just sounds a discrimination to me.