I wish there were more One-Piece-level mangas, then a week without One Piece would feel less empty. :sad:
There are better ones, it’s just that they have even more breaks than OP. HxH, and Berserk are the example. I’m still waiting for news on HxH.
@Zik:
If OP is off at least I can entertain myself lol'ing Narutards and Bleach fanatics in other forum
Sounds like fun /facepalm.
There are better ones, it’s just that they have even more breaks than OP. HxH, and Berserk are the example. I’m still waiting for news on HxH.
I can agree with Berserk, but HxH, in my opinion is really overrated.
Oddly enough one more week without One Piece seems larger to me than any more months without Berserk or HxH…
And "better" is an opinion actually
There are better ones, it’s just that they have even more breaks than OP. HxH, and Berserk are the example. I’m still waiting for news on HxH.
HxH and Berserk are definately not better than One Piece. Even though HxH may be pretty nice (even though I liked it more before the ants showed up) and Berserk definately had it's awesome times and is really well-drawn, but it really sucks imo since that oriental uber-monster-guy showed up. The last 6 months of Berserk had about as much story progression as 1-2 weeks of One Piece, sadly. And the friggin' protagonists didn't do anything for like 50 chapters…
Anyways there are few theories on WB ability so I want to take a shot at it.
Besides the obvious paramecia part, I'm thinking his ability is limited to his hands.
I'm seeing his air punch as drum sticks hitting drums and generating vibrations (in his case tsunami), which would explain why islands far away are suffering earthquakes. Hits cause cracks (which I suspect might just be thunder) and are strong enough to scatter giant axes, which makes my think this is ability based on both the strength of the user (multiplying the damage) and the fruit part.
Good conjecture, but I don't think it works like that. His fruit is the Goro Goro, which is a Japanese onomatopoeia for rumbling earth. Thus, he probably is able to "Quake" (vibrate) his body, which in turns causes the air, sea and land around him to vibrate as well. His vibration is so great that it can be felt elsewhere in the world. I agree that his strength plays a part in the fruit, but that's the same with any fruit. Crocodile explained this over 300 chapters ago.
Like Aikanus I think he also needs some sort of charging, which would explain the difference between tsunami hit and the axe scattering. The further he draws his power the stronger it is and thus also explains the strength based part.
Akainu's probably needed charging because of the nature of his fruit. Being Volcano or Lava based, he was building pressure up to create an "eruption" (as he called the move). Although Ace had to do the same thing when he did his signature move, the "Fire Fist", so it may be different for Logias.
Pretty good rude awakening for Coby, not as severe as Luffy's from a little while back but enough for how short it was.
Hopefully he learns from it with working even harder to become an Admiral and won't run off anymore.
One thing for sure is that One Piece is addictive. I am thinking on the volume they need to print a warning like the kind that exists on cigarette packaging. I pray for Oda's health all the time. I can't imagine what we are going to do if something happens to him.
Am I reading this thread right? People not liking Berserk and HXH? Blasphemy!
I also wish there were more quality manga in SJ to tide me over. I haven't read the others besides OP though so some of them might be pretty good.
@Kairouseki:
Am I reading this thread right? People not liking Berserk and HXH? Blasphemy!
I also wish there were more quality manga in SJ to tide me over. I haven't read the others besides OP though so some of them might be pretty good.
This is why we have Seinen manga.
So does this mean the same thing as far as spoilers go?With the ridiculous wait we had last time?
HunterxHunter's one of the better mangas I think… the earlier work's definitely a more cruel equivalent of One Piece, but the later ones (starting with the ants) really showed that the author's not spending as much effort as before.
I used to like HunterxHunter slightly more just because people died (seemed more realistic), and the characters killed off were handled better than any other manga I've seen. But now definitely One Piece is up there as numero uno.
I can stand a break, I just hate finding out after I was gearing up for spoilers. Damn I can stand waiting for Berserk, I can stand waiting for Gantz, but OP is my crack, I needs it! Ah well guess I'll just have to hold myself off with Narutarded and Blech. Damn.
And honestly Berserk imo is probably a little better than OP (fantastic art) but I'm sure if Oda was going 6 months per chapter he'd be atleast as good as Miura, but the two series are hardly comparable, totally different in fact. I also don't get as addicted to Berserk as I do OP.
I for one love the Ants arc. Especially the recent 4 or 5 chapters where
! they attack the castle and it shows it from different points of view. The way it's narrated is awesome too.
The quality of the drawing's way down though, and I think that ants are cheap one-day-toss characters. It's a quick bypass for character development.
The ant king popped outta nowhere. The whole ant arc popped outta nowhere. Now all of a sudden, the world's strongest forces are coming together to fight them like some ultimate boss. It's poor character development.
I think the author's just getting lazy and trying to end things as quickly as possible. With the whole nen-stuff, the author made way for a HUGE story full of exciting fighting scenarios that could've lasted for arcs and arcs. But now, in just one arc, everything's being thrown in and it just feels really really rushed.
I have seen a few poorly drawn pages in the last 10 chapters or so that I read but for the most part it's still drawn pretty well. And how did the Ant King pop out of nowhere?
! From the start of the arc it was said that the one ant lady was trying to give birth to him.
Yeah, my manga reading this week will consist of Sasuke the beast possibly pulling a deus ex machina out of his ass er… eyeballs, as well as Bleach and it's incredibly slow pacing in which half the chapter will be about Stark and his wolves.
The quality of the drawing's way down though,
It's fairly bad in the original Jump runs circa 2004-2006, but the re-draws/clean up for the tankos are considerably better.
Ah that I didn't know. My bad.
I only read the weekly Jump version.
@Kairouseki:
I have seen a few poorly drawn pages in the last 10 chapters or so that I read but for the most part it's still drawn pretty well. And how did the Ant King pop out of nowhere?
! From the start of the arc it was said that the one ant lady was trying to give birth to him.
What I meant was that these super powerhouses popped outta nowhere. In like a couple of months, world-class super-ant-soldiers are bred who match the world's strongest. And you saw how Netero trained for all those years, and now he's (apparently) matched by a newborn ant that looks like a remake of Cell.
And Kairouseki, no need for spoiler signs ^_~ these last few chapters have been out for like a year.
So.. another break?
If Strong World doesn't redefine the way that I see movies… I will... I!!!... I'll keep reading One Piece as if it didn't..
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Hmm I'm still holding out feeble hope for a spoiler this week, it's just odd that the break wasn't mentioned in the chapter. Also it's odd that it seems as if MH discovered this before someone here did 0.o
I used spoiler tags because I'm sure a lot of people haven't read it :happy: . Well, I guess we disagree then, I didn't feel like they appeared out of nowhere.
Yeah I have a friend who thinks it was well planned as well, and I've done quite a bit of arguing against him already, so let's just agree to disagree (besides, this is a One Piece chapter thread)
I wonder if Mihawk will try to get a progress report of where Zoro is strength wise by asking Luffy?
If you guys want good weekly shonen jump manga, then read Toriko or Beezlebub. The former is about a glutton who fights other foodies and robots as well. The latter is about the baby prince of hell being "adopted" by the meanest, thoughest delinquent around.
Both feature punches, but Toriko usually punches people in the gut, while Beezelbub features face punches.
They are both SO GOOD you guys.
I wonder if Mihawk will try to get a progress report of where Zoro is strength wise by asking Luffy?
Nah, Luffy will always say "he will become the strongest". You can't get anything useful outta him 
Mihawk will definitely smile when he sees Luffy though 
he's quite interested in their little crew.
Nah, Luffy will always say "he will become the strongest". You can't get anything useful outta him
Mihawk will definitely smile when he sees Luffy though
You forgot to add swordman in there. The strongest title will belong to the future pirate king.
Nah, Luffy will always say "he will become the strongest". You can't get anything useful outta him
Mihawk will definitely smile when he sees Luffy though
I could see Luffy saying something about Zoro being as strong or nearly as strong as he is (referring to Luffy) then Luffy could say use me in this battle to judge Zoro, it would never happen this way but it'd be cool.
The quality of the drawing's way down though, and I think that ants are cheap one-day-toss characters. It's a quick bypass for character development.
The ant king popped outta nowhere. The whole ant arc popped outta nowhere. Now all of a sudden, the world's strongest forces are coming together to fight them like some ultimate boss. It's poor character development.
I think the author's just getting lazy and trying to end things as quickly as possible. With the whole nen-stuff, the author made way for a HUGE story full of exciting fighting scenarios that could've lasted for arcs and arcs. But now, in just one arc, everything's being thrown in and it just feels really really rushed.
The president is the only one worthy of being call strong. One of those guy got intimidate by Gon, I know he the main character and all but he still a kid!!! Maybe Gon dad will show up XD.
I could see Luffy saying something about Zoro being as strong or nearly as strong as he is (referring to Luffy) then Luffy could say use me in this battle to judge Zoro, it would never happen this way but it'd be cool.
It'd be cool but it'd be dumber than usual for Luffy. He knows he's not the best fit for swordsman in a battle.
In the outside chance he fought Mihawk he'd die or maybe finally get his arm cut off like those fake spoilers were saying lol
Here are my five cents about these breaks especially this one.
Oda is an author of an awsome manga, that much is true, we can also see he is really doing his best as it comes to delivering to his fans what we want and expect of him, however…
When you are in business you have some obligations. So when Oda doesnt deliver his weekly manga because he personally takes a break, he hasnt met his obligations he has as mangaka towards the community which reads manga.
Lets say post office: do they take a break?
Does electric company takes a break and powers off?
Or does your local kiosk take a break?
Well yeah they can...just as Oda can...but there is a trick:
1. When any of the above take a "break" for whatever reason, they will do one of the bellow:
a) they will let you know in upfront (for instance we ll be doing repair works on the XXX and so your electricity will be off for a little while...
b) Or it will be really urgent, in which case they wont have time to tell you upfront, but they will later on appologize for the inconviniance...
Now yes, there are times when none of the above happens, but when it does, it takes away from the credebility as quality of the said person/company
So my point?
Point is, Oda can take a break yeah, sure why not if he has the right reasons, but in that case, I expect him to tell upfront.
He may choose not to and that is fine, he is entitled to that, HxH does it, Bersererk does it and others, but that for me adds a minus to the entire manga.
So people who come here saying this sucks etc and are then snowed under by the "statements" such as, be greateful Oda usually even gets us a manga every week and alike, be greatful my backside...
They just expressed thier opinions on the matter and they are right in it...
It does suck and it aint right the way it was done.
So chill out on offensives, people are just expressign their opinions and as long as they are not offenisve thats what they are supposed and have the right to do on this forum.
Here thats my opinion by the way
@Zik:
It'd be cool but it'd be dumber than usual for Luffy. He knows he's not the best fit for swordsman in a battle.
In the outside chance he fought Mihawk he'd die or maybe finally get his arm cut off like those fake spoilers were saying lol
Lol you misunderstood me, I'm not suggesting Luffy fighting Mihawk, I mean that Luffy would suggest that Mihawk observes the level at which Luffy fights others in the war and guage Zoro that way since it's been said that Zoro is roughly equal to Luffy, maybe slightly weaker. Luffy suggesting to fight Mihawk would be suicide and sorta stepping on the toes of Zoro's dream in the .00000000001 chance that he does win.
Lol you misunderstood me, I'm not suggesting Luffy fighting Mihawk, I mean that Luffy would suggest that Mihawk observes the level at which Luffy fights others in the war and guage Zoro that way since it's been said that Zoro is roughly equal to Luffy, maybe slightly weaker. Luffy suggesting to fight Mihawk would be suicide and sorta stepping on the toes of Zoro's dream in the .00000000001 chance that he does win.
There are way too many zero!!! if that was true then most of the new world pirate can kick Luffy ass easily. I think it somewhere around .00001, he is a supernova of the pirate world. He got his ass kick by a lot of strong people so he bound to get a little little bit stronger.
Let Oda take a break, and all you be grateful his work hasn't worked him to death! One Piece isn't a nessesity like water, mail, and power, we will be just fine without it for a week.
Folks who read One Piece… Just better people. ¯\(ツ)/¯ 
Okay, who wants to start a betting pool for the next breaks? I say that Oda will be taking a break every three weeks from here on in (meaning we'll get two chapters and then another break).
Place yer bets!
Breaks are nice, thanks to them we will have another 10+ years of One Piece !
Hopefully I'll see the end before I die.
There are way too many zero!!! if that was true then most of the new world pirate can kick Luffy ass easily. I think it somewhere around .00001, he is a supernova of the pirate world. He got his ass kick by a lot of strong people so he bound to get a little little bit stronger.
Yeah just take that little bit of hyperbole just to mean a snowball's chance in hell, of course I have no real way of calculating his odds. I just know that they're near nonexistent.
I don't mind a break at all. It's his manga, he probably just doesn't have the time right now and I respect that. Great cliffhanger.
Yeah just take that little bit of hyperbole just to mean a snowball's chance in hell, of course I have no real way of calculating his odds. I just know that they're near nonexistent.
There is no such thing as nonexistent!!! it just a matter of time XD. What I mean is way way down the line. @Taco:
I don't mind a break at all. It's his manga, he probably just doesn't have the time right now and I respect that. Great cliffhanger.
I don't think Oda will take that kind of break but he does dessert one every now and then.
Tsuru with the laundry DF?
The next female DF user will have the power to make sandwiches without a kitchen.
I'm pretty sure some girl's going to get a sewing or knitting DF down the line.
Mihawk is a jobless bum who never shows up to meetings and spends all his time one-shotting low-tier pirates on his dumb raft and getting roped into happy hour with Shanks. He's not a master swordsman, he's a griefer in an MMORPG. He goes around looking for lowbies to kill and logs off the minute he finds a real challenge.
lol
There is no such thing as nonexistent!!! it just a matter of time XD. What I mean is way way down the line.
I don't think Oda will take that kind of break but he does dessert one every now and then.
I said near nonexistent, and they are. Wouldn't you agree? Also I don't see Luffy ever actually fighting Mihawk.
So.. another break?
If Strong World doesn't redefine the way that I see movies… I will... I!!!... I'll keep reading One Piece as if it didn't..
Yes, Strong World will effectively ruin all other anime movies.
Especially with Chuck Norris dubbing Gold Lion.
@Steven:
Especially with Chuck Norris dubbing Gold Lion.
Don't go there, cause then Luffy would have to die. And if the writers were to decide that Luffy beats Gold Lion, then Chuck would roundhouse kick Oda and we'd lose our beloved manga.
Boh-ho, no chapters this week. What'cha we gonna do?
I guess having to draw much efforts in the war, he appears to take a 3/4 chapters before he takes a break again.
I can't wait one week for the next chapter! Gonna freeze myself so remember to wake me up in one week Butters!
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@joekido:
Boh-ho, no chapters this week. What'cha we gonna do?
I guess having to draw much efforts in the war, he appears to take a 3/4 chapters before he takes a break again.
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