Dunno if everyone knew this already, but smiles were foreshadowed since 504
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Amazing ! So cool that he dropped the name back then while nobody had a idea what it was.
Dunno if everyone knew this already, but smiles were foreshadowed since 504
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Amazing ! So cool that he dropped the name back then while nobody had a idea what it was.
I enjoy Caesar's character overall because he feels like an artist that was pushed too far, He obviously doesn't see himself as evil, so it's different like previously mentioned than any said naruto character who has been building up hate for decades, he's just killin bitches cause he wants to kill. And he also ate the daughter's puppy before killing her mother in front of her.
So, let me get this right. Whatever Law wants to do with SAD, has nothing to do with Doflamingo producing "smiles", right? Since Law wants SAD, while it's Doflamingo who produces the smiles. So Laws intends on doing something else with it, right?
smile:- artifical zoan fruit?
And he also ate the daughter's puppy before killing her mother in front of her.
HE ate the puppy? Pffft, more like he carved it up and fed it to the daughter. Without her realizing it of course. He'll tell her later when she's old enough.
This chapter showed that hardening is not a visualisating of CoA. We knew that already, but some people still argued.
Uh, what?
Dunno if everyone knew this already, but smiles were foreshadowed since 504
See, I remembered this, but it's only thanks to you posting it again that I got the full implications of it. It takes on a whole new meaning, and maybe Oda wasn't planning everything to go down this way, but, then again, it's Oda, so I wouldn't doubt him if he said he was.
It would make it less of a contradiction that Doflamingo is all "Dreams are stupid, and people who follow them are even stupider Lollllll!" and at the same time, supports the "age of smiles", thats for sure.
Damn it, Caribou survived!
It's easy to say Brownbeard and Caesar were the highlights of the chapter.
Brownbeard went from being a joke character at the end of the war that everyone thought was going to go down real easy. And here he is, trying to stop Caesar and warn his subordinates about their REAL master! Oda did an amazing job with him. The guy has heart! He has tears and determination!
I'll take that over the "coolness" of Law anyday.
Caesar is probably my new favorite villain. Every scene's he been in, it's gold. He's a joker and prone to making stupid faces and picking his nose, but goddamn, he does all this messed up crap so casually and cheerfully! And he's always lying! Hahahahaha…..
Then bam, Luffy shows up and completely clocks Caesar. It's a little disappointing, because he may or may not be down for the count. And while I'm tempted to complain about the haki, it's the only way Luffy could hit him. Really, I'm just happy Oda had Luffy do it for Brownbeard and the children, not his "buddy" Law.
Speaking of, it's interesting to see Doflamingo's grand scheme is to produce mass zoan DF's. One of the Yonkou is involved too! Kaidou? Big Mam? Blackbeard?
....Whatever, I just loved BB and CC this chapter.
Wow. When I first saw Brownbeard and Caribou my first thought was 'meh', but both have rapidly climbed on my favourites list and I'm happy every time they appear. Oda's magic!
The army of beast-men is pretty cool too and can't wait to see more on that.
The biggest implication from this chapter involves Momonosuke and Crocodile. If when Momonosuke zoned out it was some kind of post-hypnotic suggestion or mind control from Dofla… then whichever of the Emporers has been building up an army of artificial zoans doesn't really have control of them, do they?
If it is Big Mam, the most likely from what we've seen so far, then there should be some really interesting twists with her feud with Luffy in store.
I'm wondering if Smiles have anything to do with the whole Awakened Zoan concept.
"I wanna draw a really, really, evil guy, and make him have the most evil faces."
-Oda's mind, 2010.
thanks Aohige for all your great work. I wonder if you have a reference for this, or it is just your idea about what Oda was thinking then. :-)
Dunno if everyone knew this already, but smiles were foreshadowed since 504
Wow, great find.
What can i say about this chapter? If the last one was pretty good, this one manages to surpass it. All the dialogues were neat, concluding with that great last page. Browbeard wins me more with each chapter he's in.
@Devil:
Wow, great find.
Not to be the bad guy here but pretty much everyone already knew that the moment the spoilers got translated.
realy a good chapter loved luffy punch the beast armey is a very good idiea oda teach kichi how to do beast wars
@No:
Not to be the bad guy here but pretty much everyone already knew that the moment the spoilers got translated.
Oh well, to be honest i'm often unable to tell this kind of things on my own. I think i should really try to improve my memory.
Someone has spotted it somwhere else… But did anyone mentioned the mistake in the very last panel... Luffy punched with his right hand but in the last he is using his left one
Man, what a chapter! It definitely makes up for the break last week…
So Sanji/Nami/Robin/Chopper all have the kids subdued, but I'm really wondering what will become of Mocha. Still, Oda needed to show us what else what going on. (Usopp, Brook, Franky, what's up with you guys?!)
The thing I really want to see next is the reunion between Kinemon and Momonosuke.
Yes. That will be a pay per view moment. Mocha is being treated by Chopper. I suppose it is possible that nothing special comes to happen with her, (and that would make the previous chapter really a superfluous one.)
Now Monet down and Ceasar down. It just remains Vergo. So the moment for Buffalo and Baby 5 joining the party should be pretty soon. I wonder if they will appear right in 66 gate.
After this I expect Brownbeard to actualy make it out of the priliminaries next year.
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Yes. That will be a pay per view moment. Mocha is being treated by Chopper. I suppose it is possible that nothing special comes to happen with her.
Now Monet down and Ceasar down. It just remain Vergo. So the moment for Buffalo and Baby 5 joining the party should be pretty soon. I wonder if they will appear right in 66 gate.
Or they could just arrive too late.
This is the one piece I love, there are so many details that you have to notice.
The two main ones are Kaido's island and The scene where Doflamingo talks to the human auction house guy about it being the age of smiles.
Oda really takes time to prepare his work!
well, probably the best chapter in a while.
I think Momonosuke's fruit is one of those smile fruits and probably CC lied his subordinates about that Vegapunk created it.
Chopper only likes female reindeer.. so maybe Bepo liking female bears means the SMILE merges the two personalities of man and beast and creates a permanent quasi-awakened zoan ? And since there are 100s they probably won't be as powerful as normal zoans.
Momo could have been a failed DF because he can only stay in animal form and retains his human mind..
Maybe bepo is a bear who ate the artificial human human fruit
Yeah the art was amazing this Chapter…harder, more defined lines, and less curvey body movements like Oda has been doing lately...loved it. Luffy's face <3
@Sir:
The two main ones are Kaido's island
.. Excuse me? Where? The island Caribou landed on?
Cool, now we know what Pekoms and Bepo are.
Alright, review time. Some things might have been mentioned already, but I'm just venting anyway!
So, it seems we will get to see more of Kaidos crew soon, or X Drake, who is most likely part of it anyway.
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! Wow, Oda really payed attention to the tree, 1:1 copy!
In any case it's the same island, so I'm getting my hopes up for some juicy dinosaur action! Or at least a juicy dinosaur silhouette.
As for the actual chapter, I'm glad that Brownbeard-sama finally gets some attention. I knew he would get his ass kicked (again), but damn, this was just cruel. Caesar could have disabled him with a snap of his finger, or even the whole crowd if he wanted to. But no, he decides to rob him of his ability to speak and sedates him instead - only to let him get shot by his dear companions. Just wow. I loved Caesars character since the very beginning and he kept getting better, but this puts him easily in my top 2 when it comes to villains. Simply amazing Oda, this will be hard to top in future arcs.
The only thing that irritated me a bit was that Caesar had to manually sedate him with an injection - I mean he has the Gas-Gas fruit, no? Nerve gas should be within his range?
But whatever! Luffy jumps in to save the day, intimidating the shit out of me. This is the second time where I would piss my pants if I were in the shoes of the villain. It's different from the breakout panel
! , but seeing Luffy this focused means always the same thing: someone will get his ass kicked, and not with a cartoonish Gomu Gomu no Ufo. It's basically confirmed now, Caesar won't leave the island in one piece.
On with more information about Devil Fruits, which will certainly keep us busy till the next week. I must admit it doesn't sit too well with me that Zoans can be crafted, but it also confirms that Devil fruits itself are a natural product. Arguments could have been made about Momonosuke's being the sole exception, but there is now a clear line drawn between man-made and the real thing. I just wonder why they chose to create Zoan fruits, which are arguably not the first choice when one thinks about gaining easy power through a DF.
My guess:
In any case I hope that there is a major drawback to the man-made devil fruits, something that clearly sets them apart from the real thing. Maybe the Demon Guards were the first example, more or less mindless soldiers with enormous strength - trapped in their hybrid form for all eternity. It would fit the image of the Emporor's army, at least all of them are in hybrid form.
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As to who the Yonkou is? Blackbeard and Shanks are out, the latter for obvious reasons and Blackbeard wouldn't sit well with me. He seems to be more of a "quality > quantity" type of guy. Which leaves Kaido and Big Mum…
Now Big Mum would make the most sense considering her "army of monsters", but I would much more prefer that her crew is referred to as monsters because of other reasons. I like the idea of a bunch of malformed misfits (mutants even?) who found their place under Big Mum's wing. But hey, maybe we will get a combination of both?
@Miss:
.. Excuse me? Where? The island Caribou landed on?
Yeah. Caribou landed on an island owned by Kaido(u); the island X. Drake went to.
Yeah the art was amazing this Chapter…harder, more defined lines, and less curvey body movements like Oda has been doing lately...loved it. Luffy's face <3
Agreed, nice art progress.
thanks Aohige for all your great work. I wonder if you have a reference for this, or it is just your idea about what Oda was thinking then. :-)
It was a joke.
But with Oda, even a made-up joke is believable lol
Zoans are my favorite ability type amongst the three.
Pretty awesome to see it get more involved in the plot.
So, it seems we will get to see more of Kaidos crew soon, or X Drake, who is most likely part of it anyway.
! http://s14.directupload.net/images/121120/unhqec48.jpg
! http://s1.directupload.net/images/121120/nriekx6w.jpgIn any case it's the same island, so I'm getting my hopes up for some juicy dinosaur action! Or at least a juicy dinosaur silhouette.
Interesting that they finished that mountain thingy. :D
Now we know what were the "Beasts of Big Mam" Pekoms was refering to.
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Also, Luffy likes to make statements with punches sometimes :
http://www.mangareader.net/103-2339-18/one-piece/chapter-232.html
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http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/689/19
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Also, Luffy likes to make statements with punches sometimes :
http://www.mangareader.net/103-2339-18/one-piece/chapter-232.html
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http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/689/19
Poor Momonosuke. He won't be able to come back to his human form.
For the first time I see a possibility of him and his father to join the strawhats. Nothing concrete, but now I can see it happening.
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Zoans underlings sure taste better :ninja:
Interesting that they finished that mountain thingy. :D
I'm an idiot. I wondered why they removed the iron buildings from the mountain, and why they would reinforce trees with metal scraps?
The whole place is artificial! Thank you.
Zoans underlings sure taste better
Oh god, now I want this to be the reason. So bad.
It has to be Big Mam. Didn't Tamago mention that they were low on funds (perhaps because they were buying SMILES in bulk from DD) and also, It explains the Big Mam cannibalism scene better. She could be giving artificial DFs to her food (for practical and culinary reasons) and just eating some when she gets hungry.
Though this makes DD's potential control over the artificial DFs even more interesting, as it may set him up as an ally in the BM arc instead of a villain. If his goal was wiping out BM anyway (maybe he saw what happened after Whitebeard's death and wants to follow Blackbeard's path into a yonkou seat. Or maybe he's just an agent of Chaos) I could see him winding up as a "mutual goals" ally to the SH like Croc was during ID
! http://i999.mangapanda.com/one-piece/689/one-piece-3711119.jpg
You should keep closer attention to details such as this.
I don't really see how this proves your point. I believe an explanation is in order
I don't really see how this proves your point. I believe an explanation is in order
Did you read what I wrote earlier? This proves that hardening is not just a visualisating of CoA, because if it was, it(hardening) wouldn't be in this panel, because hitting Logia shows CoA already.
Great chapter liked how Luffy calmly listen to ceaser and then BANG i dont think he got KO'd so we can expect more of Luffy's gonna kick your ass.The several hundred Zoan army could be Big Mom's IMO as tamago mentioned to her Kid sunk two of their ships and it was huge loss and to be honest we have been in need of money by buying smile's from Doflamingo? just my guess.Another one of the Yonkou to posses that army is likely to be Kaido.Blackbeard is hunting for powerful devilfruit users(maybe for his crew) so he wont be interested in man made Zoan fruit's.As for Shanks i would really like to know how does he operates in new world as a Yonkou or what business he does.
@The:
Yeah. Caribou landed on an island owned by Kaido(u); the island X. Drake went to.
They look nothing alike. Nothing.
@Miss:
They look nothing alike. Nothing.
I don't know if you are making some twisted joke, but it's obviously the same place.
@Miss:
They look nothing alike. Nothing.
Check Jabra's post I mean even the tree is the same and O think that their'only one striped mountain like that.
Nice chapter. I like how CC is such a manipulative bastard and props to him for barely dodging the Elephant Gun. Guy's tougher than I thought.
Though, the whole Brownbeard getting shot (sympathetic person getting wounded) and Luffy decking the big bad after a explanation and threat sure get used a lot by Oda.
@Sir:
Check Jabra's post I mean even the tree is the same and O think that their'only one striped mountain like that.
Oh.. Well, then. They are the same place. What do ya know.
I wonder if more than one type of Smile fruit can exist at once. It's possible that Smile fruits have the weakness of not being able to switch back to your human form like Momo. Also when you think about Vegapunk sticking DFs into objects it kind of makes sense that Zoans would be the easiest fruit to manufacture, just find an animal the want and i duno, still some SAD in it. However they do it animals are a lot easier than manipulating elements or odd things like ghost or operating rooms.
Not even going to assume which Yonku CC was refering to, Kaido and Big Mam could both easily fit. I guess we know now what The Age of Smiles means. Maybe he's trying to make fake DFs of all kinds.