Is OPM still a parody? I remember at the point I dropped (Saitama was going to enter a tournament, or something like that) the manga had gotten pretty standard. Saitama still felt like a parody himself, but the manga in general felt like an usual shonen (so the thing it started parodying).
Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates
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Randomly, I wonder which Blackbeard pirate is heading to Egghead? I was thinking maybe Aokiji considering this relationship to the last Ohara incident, but I also notice that Laffitte seems to be missing. Heck, it could be both. Aokiji could be a part of all this, but it'd also be a good time to give Laffitte character development considering he's one of the first Blackbeard pirates we have seen.
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Well, as said last week, it's a shame we didn't get past Bakkins being a bum on MADS, and it's a shame we don't get any sign on what Neo MADS has been doing the past several weeks, but at least it's finally over. Although now we're stuck on fan requests again, which I rarely enjoy. Hopefully the next one can come soon, and it gives us a more clear update on all the questionable Wano fates. I expect all the beast pirates to have been captured, but we only really got confirmation on King and Queen. Drake might be the best character to lead it, so we can get updates on all parties and transition to him leaving Wano to return to Sword. Otherwise the obvious Yamato story I guess.
I wish York spoke more "valley girl" style. Anyway, nice to see a quick flashback rundown of how she did it. It's still rather annoying that Snake seems to have left Ussop, Franky, and Lilith behind when "Kill everyone" should mean she breaks them first. If being stoned is the same as being killed to her, then did she at least finish stoning Franky first? Hopefully, cause otherwise this is a bit sloppy for what could've been fun "exact words" loopholes.
It'll be interesting to see what Room was made off-limits for destruction. The basement where the hostages are? Bonney's room? Or maybe the Seraphim room itself, if there's some in-progress ones York doesn't want destroyed.
A blackbeard ship approaching should seal the fate of all those civilians/scientists fleeing the island. Sink the ship in their approach or capture them all, whichever way they're probably done for.
And then we get to the part of the chapter I don't care for. This is why I rarely care for Endgame power characters. I already didn't care about Shanks before, and now I'm starting to actively look forward to someone finally punching him in the face or making him bleed. At least Oda established Shanks does have his own fleet of allies, but thankfully they're just a huge amount of new world rejects that only get to stick around thanks to Shanks' name. If Shanks was a real Big Good, you'd think he'd help these guys retire or hang out in one of the Blues or the Grand Line as peace keeping pirates or something. Oh well, at least it won't be hard to not care about these guys.
Future sight rationality for his actions is bullshit warped logic in the first place. You want to make Shanks look cool? Use the future sight moment as knowledge for Shanks to have his elites counter the shots, and then have Shanks take him out when he's staring dumbfounded.
Nobody drowns in One Piece. Kidd and his crew will be fine and it was fine to "eliminate" them from contention and put them on a recovery period while the story enters it's final stage (now they can be casual supporting cast for Elbaf when we get there). But there definitely were better ways to do this without making Shanks and Dorry & Brogy just look like asses, unless that was the entire point in the first place (which I doubt). What a lame way to enter into a break week.
Now I'm just hoping to see the same for Law's crew and then see things keep getting worse for the strawhats to the point something similar could be said. With Snake on the loose, maybe we're looking at the near whole crew getting turned to stone soon. York doesn't seem the type to shy away from using hostages, so would even Luffy relent and surrender if there was no other way to stop York from breaking his crew?
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Hope the next cover story is Kidd and Killer trying to be bakers or something. Like Bellamy becoming a flag painter.
The story went to great lenghts to make Shanks be a good pirate. He is worried if his opponents are fully healed, he is famous for having a fleet that is week and needs hia help, etc. I think this need to show Shanks as a good person clashed with some expectations around here for a more morally gray character. So naturally everyone started listing his war crimes or something.
But I think that Shanks being a good guy is meant to be seen as a fact. It could lead to him being a secret villain (but I don't think so), being killed by the real villain (bb or imu) or... if things get interesting, defeated fairly by Luffy. I really liked that Luffy fully sees himself facing Shanks some day. He has no issues about that. Like Luffy x Garp, we liked both and knew both had their reasons, and that Luffy would never back down, not even for that character
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I wouldn't mind if Kid stayed down after this. I've never found him all that interesting.
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@Trueblade74 said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Anyone know how Death Note is so high despite the show being over for more than a decade?
Death Note had more than the original anime/manga. There have been a few stories after, though I don't remember if they're anime, manga, movie, or something else. Some details of the newer ones I remember include Near being grown up, a Death Note being sold, the Shinigami sort of making up rules on the fly about Death Note usage that they didn't like, and someone using the Death Note to help terminally ill patients die.
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Ooh, two pages on the official release thread before I'm even out of bed. That's how you know it's a spicy chapter.
Well. I don't think anyone really saw this coming. Not Kid getting annihilated, that was a foregone conclusion, but taking almost a full chapter to show it here and now. We're around two chapters into a new volume, so it's not a cliffhanger cutaway or a cold open. I think we're eventually going to see a small timeskip in the Egghead Arc, given that it's still daytime and the infamous Egghead Incident isn't slated until tomorrow, and that would be an ideal place for a big cutaway, but the story isn't at a point where we can just leave things overnight and assume we're not missing anything important. There's no real structural lead-in for this sequence, we just get it, out of nowhere. You can never be too sure what to expect with this series.
But we do still start out on Egghead, following up last chapter's York reveal. Oda fills in her taking control of the Seraphim and setting up the S-Snake deception. Personally, I'd rather have seen how the Frontier Dome sabotage was pulled off, I thought the stuff we're seeing here fell into place pretty easily after the reveal, but I do have to remember that the manga's core readerbase isn't overanalysing this story the way I am.
Although speaking of overanalysing, there's a continuity glitch in this scene - Building C is damaged at the top, which shouldn't happen until after Pythagoras is attacked by these hijacked Seraphim. Only building B should be hit at this point in the timeline. I do appreciate, however, that we're now close enough to see the damage to the entry ramp's tubing, which is something that makes sense to have happened in the first Seraphim attack, back when they were in Cipher Pol's hands.
We'll see if the volume release fixes building C, I guess, but these things sometimes slip through the cracks even then.
Interesting that York has a counterplay already in mind for the government turning on her. And that it still involves killing everyone. Plenty of us talked about the obvious flaws in her plan and the high chance of this happening last week, so I'm curious about her contingencies.
The lab assistants are very lucky they still have a ship to leave on. And now, I could be reaching here, but I think if you put the Egghead ship, the MADS ship, and the ship Franky made himself a cyborg on all side by side, it's definitely not unreasonable to take them as iterations on the same vessel. I'm struggling to find a match those prominent rows of large, close-together portholes on any other ship I could think to look up. I'd love to see the decks of either the MADS or Egghead ship to see if there's any overlap with the machines on Franky's one.
There's nothing earthshattering in this, if Franky got his original tech from abandoned MADS gear or if it was a random ship, but it'd be cool to have it confirmed one way or another. And another good reason to let Franky and Vegapunk talk more, damn it!
And finally, in the real wildcard development of the chapter, we see a Blackbeard Pirates ship bearing down on Egghead. Which basically turfs every assumption about what the Egghead Incident could be and how it'll play out. We don't even know who to expect to be on this ship - we know Blackbeard has multiple more or less identical ones, so it doesn't have to be the group that was fighting Law earlier. But imagine if it was, so soon after seeing the apparent end of Kid. But I could also see it only being a lesser Titanic Captain or non-Titanic officer like Kuzan to give us a taste and give Luffy the chance to throw down the gauntlet against Blackbeard in advance of the final battle. But if it does turn out to be the man himself, the hype has just gone up to eleven!
And curious to have him show up in the same chapter that we learn Shanks was keeping tabs on him and expecting an appearance at Wano. I guess in the past two years of being an Emperor alongside him Shanks got pretty used to Blackbeard's brand of opportunism. The question is, does he know Luffy is at Egghead, or is there something else he wants there?
For just some random spitballing, if we're doing Ohara parallels, is there a danger of the Blackbeard pirates firing on the evacuation ship for a shocking waste of human life that lets Blackbeard match Sakazuki in terms of evil? I can't see what he'd gain from doing that though. How about the question of where Blackbeard is keeping his prisoners? Pudding was still in the brig for the fight with Law, so which other recent conquests are riding along for this battle? Koby, maybe? Which would in turn bring Garp and his rescue mission toward Egghead. It's way too soon to get attached to any one possibility, but the ship's presence alone opens so many of them up.
And finally we see Shanks and Kid. I stand by what I said for chapter 1076 that the odds of this working out were never in his favour. But I expected to cut back to the result in the post-arc era of Egghead, not so soon and so onscreen. It's a great sequence with some incredible spread pages and tantalising details about Shanks and his organisation that leave hungry for more. It's a shame to see the Victoria Punk go at the end, she was a great design. But I'm a big fan of a detailed cross section, and the amount of effort Oda put into showing her interior as she's cut in two makes that last spread my favourite of the chapter.
I loved seeing the dynamic of Shank's crew and fleet. It creates a great contrast with Kaido's military mindset and Big Mom's twisted family that he just picks up people he likes, regardless of strength, and uses his title to protect them. Not to mention the parallel it makes with Luffy's own philosophies.
I could be overthinking things, but the chapter seems to be ambiguous about whether Shanks accepts Kid's Poneglyph rubbings or not. I mean, he probably does, but there's room to read into it. At a glance I thought they were handing him a stack of four, but given the amount of folding a sheet that large would take, it's probably only two. I don't recall if he was specifically offered a copy of Big Mom's or not, but it would make sense given his role in her defeat. Even the dialogue is deliberately ambiguous about how many rubbings he's really handing over.
Also I don't know if I think it's more fun to picture Shanks flying all the way from shore to the Victoria Punk in a single jump or to have him leapfrogging ship to ship across his fleet. Quite a journey however he did it.
Some parts of the fanbase seem to be reacting to this development like Shanks is being too cruel in his treatment of Kid and his crew. Like it's somehow out of character compared to the peacekeeper pirate we know he has a way of being at times. And to that, I honestly just say to reread chapter one. And refresh yourself on Kid's reputation. Whatever you think of Shanks's morals, he's absolutely consistent, and thinking outside the perspective of someone who got to enjoy his screen presence on Wano, I totally understand not taking any chances with Kid and his crew.
And you do have to wonder how many of the people who think Shanks or Dory and Brogy or whoever kicked Kid's crew while they were down by sinking them at the end have previously nitpicked the plot armour in past villains not finishing off Luffy when they had the chance, only to throw him in some prison or labour camp or so on. Did Shanks see in the news that Kaido annihilated Kid, Hawkins and Apoo's alliance only to taken out by a group with a still-alive Kid as a ringleader a month later?
They're sure as hell not dead though. The ocean hates Devil Fruit users, but it's spat them back ashore from further away than where Kid goes down here. Hell, Luffy and Big Mom getting thrown into the sea of Wano from atop the falls looked less survivable.
I also, just personally, think it's good to see Kid's attack on Elbaf come to a quick end. I really want to see an actual Wano arc, so if he'd had too much to do there I might've started feeling like he was stealing it from Luffy. As it is, we might have a washed up Kid in the supporting cast for Elbaf, but the place remain's Luffy's to explore.
This has been a killer chapter to go into a break from. I'm going to be turning these events over in my mind for the whole downtime, I'm sure, and expecting big things when we come back in two weeks.
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@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
We're around two chapters into a new volume
I'd say this is either the 3rd or 4th chapter of V. 107, depending on if V. 106 has 10 chapters (ending in 1075) or 11 (ending in 1076).
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
I think we're eventually going to see a small timeskip in the Egghead Arc
I feel this too, and likely to happen after round 1 with the Seraphim, when things look very grim.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Personally, I'd rather have seen how the Frontier Dome sabotage was pulled off
Í agree, because I feel cheated that York was shown during the sabotage, making her an unlikely culprit. I'd like to have some answers about that.
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I wonder if the thing York doesn’t want destroyed are more Rocks Pirates clones
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Very nice chapter also that negative list BS .
If you not seeing any SW or MCU near top you know that list wrong . -
and so the battle royal begins
elimination from what's left of the story, a lot of people don't like what they saw
but i ain't criticizing since Oda said he didn't plan for the supernovas, he added them as a spice for Sabaody as suggested from his editor at the time
still waiting for a showcase from red hair crew, not those weak allies.
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In Twitter, I've asked @sandman about York's words on "a place in the lab you (Seraphim) must not destroy", and he confirmed that in the original it's ambiguous if it's one place or more than one (plural).
Personally, I feel the Paw Room is the place, or one of the places.
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@Deicide nah man more rocks pirates clones is what I’m hoping for
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@Shiebs To each, its own.
Possible locations, IMO:
- Paw Room
- Weapons depot
- Seraphim rooms (especially rooms 5-7)
Plus DF Research lab (Underground), but that is already implied with the exemption to not kill the agents there.
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@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Personally, I'd rather have seen how the Frontier Dome sabotage was pulled off, I thought the stuff we're seeing here fell into place pretty easily after the reveal, but I do have to remember that the manga's core readerbase isn't overanalysing this story the way I am.
Based on how the opening scene of this chapter follows after the final scene of the last chapter with the reveal of York, I feel the intent of this scene isn't to reveal how York pulled off her plan but rather set up where she and S-Snake are going from here. So the parts about the Frontier Dome and the cameras might be getting saved for a future villain monologue or later developments. Especially given it was also set up that Atlas, Robin, Chopper, and possibly Brook are likely about to either discover her and her plans in the basement or stumble upon something else related to her plans.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Interesting that York has a counterplay already in mind for the government turning on her. And that it still involves killing everyone. Plenty of us talked about the obvious flaws in her plan and the high chance of this happening last week, so I'm curious about her contingencies.
I also found it interesting that the official translation didn't refer to the Cipher Pol agents in the basement as hostages. Which does make sense, since being a hostage implies that they were being held as collateral in exchange for becoming a Celestial Dragon; which by all accounts York should know wouldn't work. But it does suggest that York was keeping them all alive for different reasons, so we'll see how that plays out.
York's expression and dialogue in the first panel does also seem to indicate that she isn't terribly broken up by the CP0 agents being sent to kill her, which does help to make it feel like calling the Elders was more of a "eh, worth a shot" sort of move. But I still also stand by my thoughts that this might've been a smoother transition if we had a chapter or two to get a feel for what all the Vegapunks' arrangement and the status quo on Egghead was like beforehand.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
I loved seeing the dynamic of Shank's crew and fleet. It creates a great contrast with Kaido's military mindset and Big Mom's twisted family that he just picks up people he likes, regardless of strength, and uses his title to protect them. Not to mention the parallel it makes with Luffy's own philosophies.
I thought this part was also interesting in terms of how Shanks' fleet contrasts with Luffy's.
While neither Shanks or Luffy really put a person's physical strength as a strict prerequisite for friendship, and that's definitely apparent in their respective fleets there's a stark contrast between how that plays out between the two. While the Straw Hat Grand Fleet was founded on "we're Ride of Die for Luffy whether he likes it or not" and Luffy himself views his relationship with the SHGF as one of mutual aid, Shanks' fleet seems to be entirely reliant on the Red Hair Pirates for protection, and seem almost... complacent? For lack of a better word? Either way, it makes me wonder if the major difference between Luffy and Shanks' philosophies is that while they both inspire great loyalty and friendship, Luffy instills a much fiercer drive/determination in those who are drawn to him.
I think it's also interesting to think about how Kid's experience with Big Mom and Kaido might've played into the decisions he made with Shanks. When he was first introduced in Wano, he was very much of the mind that alliances and allies outside of his own inner circle were stupid given his own experience with Apoo and Hawkins. And by the time he leaves Wano, he clearly still thinks that given that he chastised his crew for mingling with the other crews. Which makes sense, given that he didn't really seem to grasp how the raid's success stemmed from both the mutual efforts of the alliance and Kaido's worldview being the direct cause for many of his subordinates either dying needlessly or straight-up defecting, or how that gathering all those allies was a big factor in Luffy being labeled the new Emperor. So when Shanks goes from 0 to 100, it makes sense that Kid's completely blindsided by it. Of course Kid thinks nothing about razing an Emperor's fleet and territory on top of his past reputation, since when do Emperors give a shit about their underlings? And such weak underlings to boot? His actions feel as true to his character a Shanks' actions in that regard.
If Kid does end up making a return, I won't be surprised if it also revolves around the idea of allies/friendship.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
I don't recall if he was specifically offered a copy of Big Mom's or not
I think Kid got the Big Mom poneglyph on his own when he made his own trip to Whole Cake. It's the Zou poneglyph that he would be missing.
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Uh, I just noticed we never learned Killer's new bounty after Wano.
Too late, I guess...
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@Deicide It will be updated when he reappears later.
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@last-exit-to-laughtale I like the contrast between Luffy and Shanks you've found here. There's a lot of surface similarities in how friendship-driven both their organisations are, but definitely some deeper contrasts. You have to wonder if the independence Luffy's fostered in his allies will come into play when the two groups inevitably come to blows.
I'll also be curious to see if any of the lessons about allies and restraint have finally stuck when Kid finds his way back into the story.
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When the Strawhats get to Elbaf, we find Kid having replaced Rockstar as the Red-Haired Pirates' errand boy.
His attitude has improved immensely.
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Clearly Shanks turns Kidd in to get that sweet bounty reward to pay off his massive bar tab to Makino.
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@Robby said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Clearly Shanks turns Kidd in to get that sweet bounty reward to pay off his massive bar tab to Makino.
MAKINO: Alright, that's...half of what you owe on the tab, not to mention the child support -
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This next week there is no chapter correct?
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This chapter was the confirmation that Shanks isn’t King from One Punch Man. Shanks has been living on King’s engine for most of the manga till this chapter, his first real attack.
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@blue-san yeah next week is a break week
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This whole pacifista control scheme sounds wierd. So if one of 6 vegaclones gives orders, none of the 5 vegaclones can change the order? Like I get it that vegapunk didn't expect his clones to betray him. Like you make a clone that represents greed and who would have guessed that the green clone would become greedy.
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@realtenchu said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
This chapter was the confirmation that Shanks isn’t King from One Punch Man. Shanks has been living on King’s engine for most of the manga till this chapter, his first real attack.
Don't you consider his Conqueror haki bursts as demonstrative enough ?
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@Cyan-D-Funk said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
We're seeing Shanks just utterly obliterate a single person who was already characterized as frequently biting off more than he can chew,
Incidentally a person he already waxed by removing his arm.
Kid wanted Shanks and got what he asked for.
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I hope it is not BB himself with a tied up Law appearing in the EggHead. That will be way too much melodramatic.
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@auem said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
I hope it is not BB himself with a tied up Law appearing in the EggHead. That will be way too much melodramatic.
The one thing that makes it likely that their battle isn't over is blackbeard having wierd body, like marco said, so law is the perfect guy to examine the body of BB and tell us why he can have 2 abilities, unlike 1 as everyone else.
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All that discussion in spoiler thread aside, just realized how lucky Shanks is that Kid pirates offered PG copies so swiftly and readily. Couple seconds more and those could have gotten destroyed.
"Somehow we recovered them on time."
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Robby
I don't think outlaws are eligible for winning bounty rewards of other outlaws
that makes the navy look dumb as shit handing cash to their enemies.
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@hideoushorrendous they can always lock em up and pay them in cigarettes.
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Thanks
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@Time-Control-Magician It wasn't even Shanks who did that apparently, it was one of Shanks' middle-managers.
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Plus Killer and the rest of the crew. Ending worldwide hunger in the proccess
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I'm sure the berries are based on the yen value
which is super low in value which means ending world hunger for a week.
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@Cyan-D-Funk said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
@Time-Control-Magician It wasn't even Shanks who did that apparently, it was one of Shanks' middle-managers.
That makes it even worse then.
He wanted Shanks to notice him and couldn’t get his attention then when he he did Shanks lowered him like a cheap coffin.
If I was dude I’d change my whole appearance and assume a new identity after such humiliation and embarrassment.
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@hideoushorrendous said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
Robby
I don't think outlaws are eligible for winning bounty rewards of other outlaws
that makes the navy look dumb as shit handing cash to their enemies.
You give them to a random civilian to turn in, pay the civilian for their trouble, then keep the rest.
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@Robby One Piece: where dads are either dead or dead-beats
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My favorite part of the chapter were the first few pages showing York interacting with the Seraphims. I really liked the reveal last chapter that York was the culprit. Oda did some nice misdirection by having her get stoned by S-Snake first, and that doublespread of her towering over Vegapunk actually made her look pretty intimidating and scary. Time will tell how much thought she actually put into her plan, but for now, I'm enjoying her as the villain of the story. Despite her airy personality, she really seems to be a completely selfish jerk, as she doesn't appear to give a crap (pun intended) about killing her fellow Punks to reach her goals.
I wasn't quite as interested in the cutaway this time. I agree that the constant cutaways to different places are hurting Egghead's pacing a bit, but I also think that for one, this effect will be much decreased when rereading things in volume format later on. Also, I think we should just accept that in the final saga, we will be shown what's happening in the rest of world concurrently with the current arc, and no longer inbetween arcs. I get why Oda is doing this and it feels useless to constantly complain about it every week...
As for the big debate about the morality of Shanks actions, I honestly couldn't care less about this topic. They are pirates, not saints, just deal with it
I felt like this was portrayed as a purposefully morally ambiguous situation - we like Shanks, but Kidd and Killer have been allies and mostly sympathetic characters (especiall Killer) in the last arc. While Kidd has never been portrayed as the most likable character in the story, he was also never exactly depicted as someone we are supposed to hate (and Oda is quite good at making us hate a character if he wants to). So I feel like we are meant to feel conflicted about this outcome. Oda made sure to depict Shanks as caring and honorable for the most part, but I don't believe we were necessarily meant to cheer either when Kidd's ship and crew got completely obliterated.This was very much framed as Kidd's personal Sabaody moment and I feel the next time we'll see him, he will be humbled quite a bit. Who knows, maybe Luffy will even be the one to inspire him to keep trying to achieve his dream. Elbaf might very well turn out to be the arc to give his character more depth, which many complained was missing in Wano.
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This reminds me. Where are the bounty hunters capable of taking out the high bounties...
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They're hanging out with Gin and Gaban on Sniper Island
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@Riddler said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:
While Kidd has never been portrayed as the most likable character in the story, he was also never exactly depicted as someone we are supposed to hate
He crucified civilians and got a high bounty for hurting people.
He's always been an unlikeable ass. Oda just dediced back on Sabondy that he liked the design and he'd be a good rival... not anticipating how much Law was going to take the fandom.
I'm not conflicted at all, I hope Kidd is dead. I wish he'd died against Big Mom or Kaidou to raise the stakes. But OP is OP so he's fine.
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I don't know if anyone was ever of the opinion that Kidd wasn't an ass.
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I always felt like Kid was a character that I could end up really liking once he got developed. So I am hoping this defeat will force him to reevaluate his life and he may have something interesting going for him the next time we meet him.
Who knows, maybe it was even on purpose that Oda had Kaido and Linlin continuously remarking how dangerous Law and his ability are (we even saw BM being scary of his P.Willie move) while never making a single comment on Kid.
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I really feel this was the end of the line for Kidd as a character in the story. Sure, he will survive, but I don't think he will be part of the narrative anymore.
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Kidd is cool. He hates everybody and everybody hates him. Except maybe Luffy.
I hope he gets to stay in the story, but I can't see how his "rival" role hasn't been exhausted