I kinda hope he does hold true to the thought of a mecha manga (however short it is). That would be awesome.
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I kinda hope he does hold true to the thought of a mecha manga (however short it is). That would be awesome.
Yeah but its gotta be a super classic type giant robot stuff…Like giant robots vs Huge monsters and stuff like that...He would toatally need to include his own version of Jet Jaguar.
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I kinda hope he does hold true to the thought of a mecha manga (however short it is). That would be awesome.
Pretty sure that was early on when he started One Piece, and he's basically stated he'll only do one-shots after One Piece. He's basically using One Piece for his catch-all manga for drawing all the things he wanted to. So….expect a lot of his mecha ideas to go into Franky. There's a reason he has Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp freaking out every time he does something now.
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I wonder, do anyone think that the remnants of the Baroque Works at the new Spider Café will have any relevence at some time? I hope so anyway.
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They all achieved their little dreams (no big ones, ambition…that stuff) with Miss Goldenweek's power, so i don't think they do care about what happens to the world.
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I have a question/something I've been wondering about that's somehow related to One Piece.
In Japan, is it normal to get married very early in a relationship, or is marriage used as an euphemism/metaphor for regular love? Because One Piece characters constantly talk about being married to each other (Lola, Hancock, Decken, Alvida, Absalom, Keimi etc.) as soon as they fall in love, while there's almost no mention of simply being girlfriend and boyfriend. I know that in the western world (at least in Denmark), almost everybody in a relationship waits a few years before the man proposes to the woman.
But a character like Hancock just goes "I love him, let's get married". The normal thing would be "I love him, he loves me, and he hugged me, he apparently wants to be my boyfriend". Anyone knowledgeable in Japanese culture able to help me out with this? -
They all achieved their little dreams (no big ones, ambition…that stuff) with Miss Goldenweek's power, so i don't think they do care about what happens to the world.
I wonder if that'll last forever though. They can't live in their little fake dreamworld forever. They aren't completely incompetent when it comes to battle, so maybe they'll do something remotely important in the future.
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I have a question/something I've been wondering about that's somehow related to One Piece.
In Japan, is it normal to get married very early in a relationship, or is marriage used as an euphemism/metaphor for regular love? Because One Piece characters constantly talk about being married to each other (Lola, Hancock, Decken, Alvida, Absalom, Keimi etc.) as soon as they fall in love, while there's almost no mention of simply being girlfriend and boyfriend. I know that in the western world (at least in Denmark), almost everybody in a relationship waits a few years before the man proposes to the woman.
But a character like Hancock just goes "I love him, let's get married". The normal thing would be "I love him, he loves me, and he hugged me, he apparently wants to be my boyfriend". Anyone knowledgeable in Japanese culture able to help me out with this?It's a joke driven partially by the nature of Shonen manga themselves and partially by the need to move the story along. Those characters were all temp or short term characsters (regardless of whether they come back later in the story). No time to make their "love" take time–and the joke played into who they were as characters. Love takes just as long in Japan as everywhere else I'm afraid.
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I wonder if that'll last forever though. They can't live in their little fake dreamworld forever. They aren't completely incompetent when it comes to battle, so maybe they'll do something remotely important in the future.
That might happen if an "order" or anything of that sort comes from the outside, other than that they'll all live happily and have children.
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I have a question/something I've been wondering about that's somehow related to One Piece.
[hide]In Japan, is it normal to get married very early in a relationship, or is marriage used as an euphemism/metaphor for regular love? Because One Piece characters constantly talk about being married to each other (Lola, Hancock, Decken, Alvida, Absalom, Keimi etc.) as soon as they fall in love, while there's almost no mention of simply being girlfriend and boyfriend. I know that in the western world (at least in Denmark), almost everybody in a relationship waits a few years before the man proposes to the woman.
But a character like Hancock just goes "I love him, let's get married". The normal thing would be "I love him, he loves me, and he hugged me, he apparently wants to be my boyfriend". Anyone knowledgeable in Japanese culture able to help me out with this?[/hide]Isn't marriage the result/representation of true love ? Or what it was supposed to be at least ?
For the exception of Absalom (pervert who will marry the first beautiful woman) and Lola (ugly and without a chance) and…Keimi ?, all the others fell in love, pure innocent love, and want to concretise this love by marriage.But of course here in the manga it's only comedy, no need to go this far.
And for Japan, no there's no difference between all the cultures, why ? Because every one the people in the current civilizations are wary and won't mary at first sight like how it used to be a long time ago (aside of searching for the one with qualities that meet your standards...etc). Even we arabs who were supposed to marry at first and then build a couple by knowing each other gradually can't do that right know.
No trust nowadays, sadly.
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That might happen if an "order" or anything of that sort comes from the outside, other than that they'll all live happily and have children.
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Isn't marriage the result/representation of true love ? Or what it was supposed to be at least ?
For the exception of Absalom (pervert who will marry the first beautiful woman) and Lola (ugly and without a chance) and…Keimi ?, all the others fell in love, pure innocent love, and want to concretise this love by marriage.If you're in doubt about Keimi, I refer to the scene where Shakky simply asks her "Are you Hachi's girlfriend?" and she blushingly answers "No, I'm not ready to become Hachi's wife as of yet".
Well, I think you easily might be right, but I guess I thought more in the lines of that one can easily have true pure love without being married.
(By the way, Alvida's love isn't exactly innocent - at least I see some masochistic implications :P)
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Oh, i completely forgot about Keimi's answer.
And hey, they're also possessive, so you know marriage will keep Luffy from any other woman…
For alvida, she's the kind that wants a stong manly man as husband, the one who defeats her since she was "strong". Not so masochistic if you ask me.
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I have a question/something I've been wondering about that's somehow related to One Piece.
In Japan, is it normal to get married very early in a relationship, or is marriage used as an euphemism/metaphor for regular love? Because One Piece characters constantly talk about being married to each other (Lola, Hancock, Decken, Alvida, Absalom, Keimi etc.) as soon as they fall in love, while there's almost no mention of simply being girlfriend and boyfriend. I know that in the western world (at least in Denmark), almost everybody in a relationship waits a few years before the man proposes to the woman.
But a character like Hancock just goes "I love him, let's get married". The normal thing would be "I love him, he loves me, and he hugged me, he apparently wants to be my boyfriend". Anyone knowledgeable in Japanese culture able to help me out with this?Nope. But I believe Japan is following the trend more nowadays.
At one time, Japanese marriages were strictly arranged marriages. If a guy likes a girl, he'd better have his parents approval and arrange for a big family-to-family conference to discuss the marriage proposal, and all the financial, status, and reputation politics involved with arranged marriages. (Unless the families are poor/uneducated/lower class)
Nowadays, Japan has become somewhat "Westernized", with parents being somewhat more lenient about marriages.
I've studied Japanese culture as a class long ago, and could have gotten some things wrong. Please correct me if so (posters close to Japan).
However, Shonen and Shojo manga will depict marriage as "love on first sight = destined to marry". I think it's because it's Japan's fantasy to have a marriage based on love.
@Mr.:
Why is that anyways? Why would Oda make Caribou, Akainu, and Aokiji logias but make Mr. 3 and Magellan paramecias?
Notice that all logias are materials or energies formed from climate and geology.
Mr. 3 is wax. It is natural, but it's produced by plants and animals, and not by climate and geology.
Poisons can be formed by climate and geology, but most poisons are produced by living things. I guess Oda arbitrarily made poison paramecia for that fact.
One can argue that electricity and light are also made by living things, but electricity and light are overwhelmingly made by the earth, sky, and sun.
Edit: Nature, as a concept, is different in Asia than the "Western world". Biological nature is different than environmental nature, which is known as "The Great Nature". Great Nature was once respected to be Divine in cause and control, and human sorcerors who attempt to claim mastery over it were stigmatized as either heretics or fools. Once industialized nations barged through the gates of China, Japan, and Korea, this belief collapsed (and thus caused Chinese industrialists to not give a fuck about the environment). However, mythology and folklore still maintain nature a Divine.
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^Really good explanation. I've been struggling in past discussions trying to convey the difference between "natural" and "natural", if you see what I mean, but that seems exactly right. To add on to it a little bit, I recall Oda saying in an SBS that Logia gives you control over the "forces of nature"… if you look at all the Logia fruits, it somehow "feels" right to call them just that. Magma, fire, ice, lightning, light, darkness... I could call all of them that. But something like poison? Even if it's maybe -technically- not that much different, it just doesn't... "feel" right for it to fall under the same banner, a force of nature. Maybe Oda's being a bit arbitrary occasionally, but I definitely feel that he's made all the right decisions so far with Logia being the "nature system" and based on real-life "forces of nature".
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I have a question/something I've been wondering about that's somehow related to One Piece.
In Japan, is it normal to get married very early in a relationship, or is marriage used as an euphemism/metaphor for regular love? Because One Piece characters constantly talk about being married to each other (Lola, Hancock, Decken, Alvida, Absalom, Keimi etc.) as soon as they fall in love, while there's almost no mention of simply being girlfriend and boyfriend. I know that in the western world (at least in Denmark), almost everybody in a relationship waits a few years before the man proposes to the woman.
But a character like Hancock just goes "I love him, let's get married". The normal thing would be "I love him, he loves me, and he hugged me, he apparently wants to be my boyfriend". Anyone knowledgeable in Japanese culture able to help me out with this?isn't that true in a way in the West too? We have plenty of famous stories such as the Little mermaid and Cinderella that implies marriage after only knowing each other for a day or even less.
In Japan it is somewhat important to marry earlier though, since Japan is very patriarchal and women are expected to marry before age 25 or so, when they start being considered… well I don't remember the term but essentially it is "unsold and unfresh fruits/vegetables"
Keimi at least knew Hatchan a while though, so idk if she really counts. And they did hug - and in public - which is very uncommon even among close family members in Japan. My college's Japanese teacher told me that her mother only ever hugged her once.
Oda uses it mainly as a comedic thing though, and in Hancock's case probably spoofing shojo manga.
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Notice that all logias are materials or energies formed from climate and geology.
Mr. 3 is wax. It is natural, but it's produced by plants and animals, and not by climate and geology.
Poisons can be formed by climate and geology, but most poisons are produced by living things. I guess Oda arbitrarily made poison paramecia for that fact.
One can argue that electricity and light are also made by living things, but electricity and light are overwhelmingly made by the earth, sky, and sun.
Edit: Nature, as a concept, is different in Asia than the "Western world". Biological nature is different than environmental nature, which is known as "The Great Nature". Great Nature was once respected to be Divine in cause and control, and human sorcerors who attempt to claim mastery over it were stigmatized as either heretics or fools. Once industialized nations barged through the gates of China, Japan, and Korea, this belief collapsed (and thus caused Chinese industrialists to not give a fuck about the environment). However, mythology and folklore still maintain nature a Divine.
Or to put things simply poison, wax, and rubber are organic substances. You wouldn't have these compounds without plants or animals. Magellan's main poison attacks the nerves like some animals. Not just a random pollutant.
Logias actually make up the environment or are byproducts from other elements(Smoke&Mud).
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@I:
It's a joke driven partially by the nature of Shonen manga themselves and partially by the need to move the story along. Those characters were all temp or short term characsters (regardless of whether they come back later in the story). No time to make their "love" take time–and the joke played into who they were as characters. Love takes just as long in Japan as everywhere else I'm afraid.
Plus, Hancock wasn't exactly well-versed in the art of dating, marriage, and romance. That's why she constantly mistook certain acts as marriage.
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Notice that all logias are materials or energies formed from climate and geology.
Mr. 3 is wax. It is natural, but it's produced by plants and animals, and not by climate and geology.
Poisons can be formed by climate and geology, but most poisons are produced by living things. I guess Oda arbitrarily made poison paramecia for that fact.
One can argue that electricity and light are also made by living things, but electricity and light are overwhelmingly made by the earth, sky, and sun.
Edit: Nature, as a concept, is different in Asia than the "Western world". Biological nature is different than environmental nature, which is known as "The Great Nature". Great Nature was once respected to be Divine in cause and control, and human sorcerors who attempt to claim mastery over it were stigmatized as either heretics or fools. Once industialized nations barged through the gates of China, Japan, and Korea, this belief collapsed (and thus caused Chinese industrialists to not give a fuck about the environment). However, mythology and folklore still maintain nature a Divine.
So Dragon is a Guaranteed wind logia, and Cannot be a paramecia since Wind is probably the most naturalistic element.
Wind logia possibilities seem limitless.
Dragon must be insanely Strong.
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Does anyone else wonder why Arlong felt the need to bleed the surrounding villages of their money over a long period of time rather than just taking all that they had right away? I mean, it's not like any more money was coming into the island or anything right? Why charge them monthly when you can easily overpower them and rob em blind. Always bothered me a bit.
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does the department of finances only make you pay taxes once in a lifetime?
No, they don't, they reason is that money is always coming and going. People make their salary on a more or less monthly bases. So it is only logical to get taxes once every certain amount of time, in Arlongs case: monthly.
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So Dragon is a Guaranteed wind logia, and Cannot be a paramecia since Wind is probably the most naturalistic element.
Wind logia possibilities seem limitless.
Dragon must be insanely Strong.
I dont think Dragon is wind logia, I think he is a weather paramecia as he sent a lightning bolt to save luffy at Loguetown
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I dont think Dragon is wind logia, I think he is a weather paramecia as he sent a lightning bolt to save luffy at Loguetown
if you are able to manipulate wind than you can bring down lightning bolts as well
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does the department of finances only make you pay taxes once in a lifetime?
No, they don't, they reason is that money is always coming and going. People make their salary on a more or less monthly bases. So it is only logical to get taxes once every certain amount of time, in Arlongs case: monthly.
supplies and money will be refreshed every time he comes to steal the peoples moneyI think he meant that if the island wasn't in touch with the outer world, how the people could have make more money. If the employers and the workers live in the same island and don't import or export their products, then the amount of money won't increase. If merchants went to island, wouldn't people have tried to escape to their ships?
But I can't remember if anything was said about this in the story.
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@mdmartin101:
…........go on
Off-topic, I know, but I just have to point out that your avatar made that post unintentionally hilarious.
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Off-topic, I know, but I just have to point out that your avatar made that post unintentionally hilarious.
Why thank you sir.
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if you are able to manipulate wind than you can bring down lightning bolts as well
How is that? I just looked up how lightning is formed and cant see how being a wind logia could create lightning
Here is a quote: 'lightning is created in thunderstorms when liquid and ice particles above the freezing level collide and build up large electrical fields' and then discharge
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It could just be that the lightning really was luck. Yes, I know it seems like too much of a coincidence, but… meh, I just don't feel that we need yet another guy who fights with lightning, there's already Nami & Enel. A Wind Logia would be so much cooler.
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How is that? I just looked up how lightning is formed and cant see how being a wind logia could create lightning
Here is a quote: 'lightning is created in thunderstorms when liquid and ice particles above the freezing level collide and build up large electrical fields' and then discharge
The particles collide because air currents make them move.
And I don't like the idea of the wind logia. How would you draw a body made of wind? I think that Smoker's fruit is close enough to the wind logia. But time will tell.
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a storm logia for dragon should perhaps explain the lightning.
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I suppose he could but Oda will have had to done research on lightning and I imagine weather df is much simpler than trying to explain to the public how he created lightning as a wind logia. I'd like to think he was a wind logia cause that would make him more powerful having a logia but I still think it's just a weather df
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Well for 1 reason Dragon's Devil fruit most likely is a wind than a storm is because the entire chapter at logue town.
Also whenever dragon makes an appearance Wind is mentioned.
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If you can gather storm clouds in one area, lighting can most definitely strike at that location of storm clouds gathered.
You can cause Tsunamis, like the quake fruit, because waves are caused by wind.
Tornado's , Hurricanes, Typhoons, Whirlpools, sand storms, Avalanche, Mud Slides, Floods, Lighting Storms.
That's what a person capable of controlling wind can do, and more.
But i was just trying to make a point by saying its a wind logia cause of this post. Though i think its a paramecia.
Notice that all logias are materials or energies formed from climate and geology.
Mr. 3 is wax. It is natural, but it's produced by plants and animals, and not by climate and geology.
Poisons can be formed by climate and geology, but most poisons are produced by living things. I guess Oda arbitrarily made poison paramecia for that fact.
One can argue that electricity and light are also made by living things, but electricity and light are overwhelmingly made by the earth, sky, and sun.
Edit: Nature, as a concept, is different in Asia than the "Western world". Biological nature is different than environmental nature, which is known as "The Great Nature". Great Nature was once respected to be Divine in cause and control, and human sorcerors who attempt to claim mastery over it were stigmatized as either heretics or fools. Once industialized nations barged through the gates of China, Japan, and Korea, this belief collapsed (and thus caused Chinese industrialists to not give a fuck about the environment). However, mythology and folklore still maintain nature a Divine.
Whats more Naturalistic than Wind or Storms?!
Oda can decide to call it Storm paramecia or Storm logia which i doubt.
i just got a hunch it will be called a wind devil fruit, whether its a Logia or paramecia Oda can go any direction he wants.
Though i hope its logia, But most likely its NOT.
I believe its more like Whitebeards Quake Fruit which is a paramecia due to Both fruits being natural disasters.
Truthfully Though Dragons fruit should be the most powerful and the one that's capable of Destroying the Entire world.
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does the department of finances only make you pay taxes once in a lifetime?
No, they don't, they reason is that money is always coming and going. People make their salary on a more or less monthly bases. So it is only logical to get taxes once every certain amount of time, in Arlongs case: monthly.
supplies and money will be refreshed every time he comes to steal the peoples moneyExactly, and it was a lot easier to bribe Nezumi in monthly installments.
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Didn't know where to ask this, but should I skip the Ice Hunter arc?
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Didn't know where to ask this, but should I skip the Ice Hunter arc?
IMO, yes. Don Achino is a joke of a boss.
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Didn't know where to ask this, but should I skip the Ice Hunter arc?
It's not G8 level but it isn't too bad - although the twins were a bit much.
But if you're not in a rush to catch up go for it - if you just want the real stuff then by all means - it drags a bit though.
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I'd probably agree with Cymelion. It wasn't as up to par with the G8 Arc's ingenuity, but it's worth watching if you're not trying to speed through the series, as Cymelion said.
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ok so the newest chapter tell us that mermaid/fishman can have any kind of babies, small, large, mermaid, fishman, shark, goldfish, or whatnot.
so. can a really small mermaid (a doctor fish mermaid for instance) give birth to giant mermaid/fishman like shirahoshi??
well…it won't be a problem if they fertilize externally, but then that doesn't explain how human and mermaid can have children.
also they're sorta naked on their bottom half.... shouldn't we censor that or something? assuming that their genitals are in their bottom half...where is it anyway???
i woudn't have been surprised if Otohime died from labour pain...
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Otohime only died ten years ago, Shirahoshi is clearly older than that.
It seems that the giant thing doesn't have anything to do with the fish species. Coelcanths aren't that big and yet King Neptune is huge. I figure that's more close to regular genetics than the whole fish and appearance thing.
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I wonder if Shirahoshi's mom is gigantic too. If not, then that must have been one tough delivery.
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That's how she died.
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I wonder if Shirahoshi's mom is gigantic too. If not, then that must have been one tough delivery.
Don't female fish lay eggs, which are then externally fertilized by the male? Is it different for mermen?
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@Mr.:
Don't female fish lay eggs, which are then externally fertilized by the male? Is it different for mermen?
If that is the case then - females would have little need for the predominant mammary glands they all have. Just saying :ninja:
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@Mr.:
Don't female fish lay eggs, which are then externally fertilized by the male? Is it different for mermen?
It depends on the fish. Most fish do breed this way, but livebearers for ex breed in a similar way to mammals.
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It was said in Volume 10 SBS that Fishmen give birth like mammals do so one would believe this applies to Merfolk as well.
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Just because the Princess is big now doesn't mean she was born huge.
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I still wonder about that guy in the davy back fight who was half a giant and half a fishman… Especially, i'd like to see his parents. :ninja:
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I heard enel is supposed to be a homage to eminem, is this true and if so how???
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I heard enel is supposed to be a homage to eminem, is this true and if so how???
Translated from german OP-wiki:
According to Oda, the US-rapper Eminem played a role in the characterdesign of Enel (Enel looks a lot like Eminem). Eminem is one of Oda favorit musicans. -
Someone understand the way Garp behaved after Ace was killed?
Seriously all the time he ave a fuck to do something about it and after Akainu killed Ace he get mad?
What was he hoping for? That WB would rescue him? He was even blocking Marco to getting near to him
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Someone understand the way Garp behaved after Ace was killed?
Seriously all the time he ave a fuck to do something about it and after Akainu killed Ace he get mad?
What was he hoping for? That WB would rescue him? He was even blocking Marco to getting near to him
We know he's probably one of most devoted Marines to ACTUAL Justice, and while it was killing him inside, he knew he couldn't save him. Sengoku was standing right there, He didn't have a key, and if he did get Ace free during the war, would there have been enough time for Ace to actually get away?
Early on in the war Whitebeard was simply commanding everyone what to do, and they hadn't reached the plaza. Then he began to fight Akainu after getting stabbed, and everyone advanced to the plaza. The only one who actually got to the execution platform was Marco, and even if Garp let him go then, Sengoku would have attacked Garp, while Kizaru shot down Marco, and Ace would have been targeted by Akainu and Aokiji.
Also while bringing this up anyone else think Kizaru could have absolutely won this war by himself? He is crazy accurate with his laser's. He shot the key out of Luffy's hand instead of simply killing him right there. He could have destroyed the Pirates.