Chapter 776: The Colosseum Hero

Seafarer33

Surprinsingly, I enjoyed the chapter despite the many flashback panels. I might have prefered an outcome where Rebecca got to do something, but at least Diamante proved to be more than a fancy fruit user, we got to see some creativity in both his attacks and how Robin parried them, and the chapter as a whole perfectly fit the style and character of Kyros. Indomitable spirit and straightforward brutality have been his mark from the start, why should he begin to show intricate swordmanship now ?

Besides, there weren't so many complaints when Hajrudin finished Machvise with a single uppercut…

D.aelthasaar

In the spoiler thread I mentioned Kyros getting his legs back from Manshelly.
Roronoa Zacho said it will be replaced by Law because it's a single cut and that Manshelly will only give Law back his arm.
I couldn't reply back in that thread as it was closed.
Well, I disagree, because the best Law could do is replacing Kyros leg with someone else's leg…he would be handicapped anyway as he would have unpaired legs.
Vastly different than having both his own legs.

Also manshelly will have to rebuild half of Dressrosa.

For me the next one going down is Pica.
Trebol will be last as he's Dofla's most trusted boy.

Anyway, probably something big involving Burgess and/or CP0 and/or Fujitora will happen before Dofla is dealt with, and I think that's the reason why fights are closing quickly.
The true shitstorm has yet to come.

Galaxy 9000

@Kira89:

They are getting paid by ads, they don't ask money from fans who are reading a chapter. I haven't paid a single penny in al these years for reading a chapter on their website. But like i said, nobody is forcing you to read a chapter of mangapanda. I'm just grateful to them for translating the chapter, so that on a thursday morning I can enjoy my share of one piece.

This doesn't matter at all. They're still doing rushed, inaccurate, and awful scans in order to get the most clicks on their website in order to make money.

sabinis

@Darth:

Ah, vindication.

Anyways, as I suspected. You will excuse me for disliking this chapter, right?

Because I really, really, dislike this chapter.

We gotten used to you disliking stuff. At least I did.
So yea when almost nobody cares if you liked it or not you are excused

Chapter wasnt one of "amazing" chapters but its not like all beside fight concluded this week. Next week we will get(most likely) closure for Diamante and Kyros.

dennisbf

at first i was "whaaaaat?" and than mangapanda

RobZilla

@Darth:

Ah, vindication.

Anyways, as I suspected. You will excuse me for disliking this chapter, right?

Because I really, really, dislike this chapter.

Funnily enough, despite Dia being my favorite character introduced in this arc, I actually enjoyed this chapter quite a bit.

Thegreato

@RobZilla:

Funnily enough, despite Dia being my favorite character introduced in this arc, I actually enjoyed this chapter quite a bit.

Huh, that's funny. In the spoiler thread there were a ton of people clamoring that you'd hate it.

Razh

Yeah, the chapter was bad for me. Kyros' and Rebecca's feelings being spoonfed to us again, Diamante's awkward behaviour and facial expressions, Diamante's "fighting skills", the "fighting"…

On the plus side, the arc is going to be shorter if executives get beaten in single chapter each.

Faruway

And fluttery Steven Tyler is out, now're left with 'don't know who Pica is based of', snot bearded Ozzy Osborne and finally, evil smiling Michel Polnaref.

And for some weird reason, I gonna speculate we may get to see a quick short flashback of Diamante, as a teen being recruited by Doffy in the first page of the next chapter while Diamante fallen and say things like 'Doffy, I have failed you.' and went unconscious after being KO by Kyros' 'Trueno Bastard' technique. After that, scene change to Zoro vs Pica fight.

Tangaroa

Diamante has a great design but there seems to be absolutely nothing else to him. There's no shade to the character's motivations needing a flashback and even though he's got a fairly weird power it's being dealt with in a pedestrian even perfunctory manner. He got a cute set of expression shots, I'll give it that.

I know it's the featured chapter for Kyros, but "Rebecca throw away your sword"? Kyros, you are the worst.

Robin needing to save Rebecca from the iron ball attack?
Couldn't Rebecca the ultimate defensive fighter, the one who almost did something that saved her from a full-power Hekuba attack thus stealing Meadow's rightful place in the Colosseum final, DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY INVOLVED DEFENDING HERSELF?
Rebecca, you are the absolute worst.

I have no doubt there will be a part two to this fight but there looks no path to a satisfying pay off.

shanksa

Thanks im reading it right now

Monkey D. Destiny

Meh, This is so boring, the Tartarus arc from Fairy Tail was better than this.

Darth

@RobZilla:

Funnily enough, despite Dia being my favorite character introduced in this arc, I actually enjoyed this chapter quite a bit.

Diamante's part was actually enjoyable, though it is a shame that supposed best swordsman of Doflamingo's cew has a wooping one sword technique which is kinda uninspired overhead strike.

No, what I found cringe worthy was the entire conversation between Rebecca and Kyros.

Also, Sunflowers can't stop spike iron balls raining down with terminal velocity.

Galaxy 9000

@Darth:

Also, Sunflowers can't stop spike iron balls raining down with terminal velocity.

Let's not apply real world logic to a manga.

RobZilla

@Thegreato:

Huh, that's funny. In the spoiler thread there were a ton of people clamoring that you'd hate it.

Hmm.

By any chance where these statements made early in the thread when all info available amounted to "Diamante Loses"?

uniaka ikuzakas

If this arc is so long, wonder how long the arcs that yonkous go down are.

Dark-Abel

@Monkey:

Meh, This is so boring, the Tartarus arc from Fairy Tail was better than this.

Well the Tartarus arc included a SM scene with Erza, so what could beat that :ninja:

sabinis

@Razh:

Yeah, the chapter was bad for me. Kyros' and Rebecca's feelings being spoonfed to us again, Diamante's awkward behaviour and facial expressions, Diamante's "fighting skills", the "fighting"…

On the plus side, the arc is going to be shorter if executives get beaten in single chapter each.

Well seems like Diamante being a genious was more of a motivation and Mingo being cute for Diamante than anything else. Like Dias character was shallow(like Kyros said in this chapter that person like Diamante would never understand some things) so it was enough to call him a genious to get him fired up and going for what he was asked to do.

Like complimenting somebody rather stupid and observing that person overreact on it like its something totally crazy big deal.
Kyros and Beccas story was fed up to us many times but I will judge it when I will get to read all of Dressrosa in volumes- plenty of OP feels completely different when in volume than when checked weekly and Kyros story might be more enjoyable in one package so to say.

Length of this arc and number of plots kind of weakened most of then for weekly reading but in volumes it should be a blast.

Galaxy 9000

@Thegreato:

Huh, that's funny. In the spoiler thread there were a ton of people clamoring that you'd hate it.

A true fan of a character wouldn't judge a chapter solely based on what happens to that character. :happy:

Razh

@Monkey:

Meh, This is so boring, the Tartarus arc from Fairy Tail was better than this.

Made me lol.

In retrospect, I should have known Diamante will have to be turned into a retard in order to lose against a one legged man.

Also, Diamante shooting Kyros' leg… Did any of you think it was going to make a difference?

Maju

@Tangaroa:

Diamante has a great design but there seems to be absolutely nothing else to him. There's no shade to the character's motivations needing a flashback and even though he's got a fairly weird power it's being dealt with in a pedestrian even perfunctory manner. He got a cute set of expression shots, I'll give it that.

I know it's the featured chapter for Kyros, but "Rebecca throw away your sword"? Kyros, you are the worst.

Robin needing to save Rebecca from the iron ball attack?
Couldn't Rebecca the ultimate defensive fighter, the one who almost did something that saved her from a full-power Hekuba attack thus stealing Meadow's rightful place in the Colosseum final, DO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY INVOLVED DEFENDING HERSELF?
Rebecca, you are the absolute worst.

I have no doubt there will be a part two to this fight but there looks no path to a satisfying pay off.

like dodging rain?ò_ò

Mex

The chapter is good, I enjoyed it. Diamante really is a bastard and got slashed by a bastard. Rebecca is not hurting cause she is keeping a promise and his father has tought her and is telling her to not hurt, so I am fine with her being almost useless, it's her character and I like it. Diamante fighting style is awesome and dumb, I love it.
The only down side is the Panda Trolling (Luffy & LAw vs Doffy climax? Manga Panda Logo shot into air??? Random phrases….?!?!? RANDOM ORDER?!?!?)))
Really... Panda, worst trolls ever. I know they do the job but they do it this fast only to get tons of views... And they troll us too doing this, writing random stuff and placing their logo in troll mode... They didn't even bother to correct some phrases or the page order... Really? Were they high or something?
Is Diamante really down? Pika too got sliced once from an epic Zorocannon but he kept fighting, or running.
Saying this I only mean we have just seen him being slashed, this can or cannot mean he is down.
I think, I hope he's not. Ok his sword is broken but a matador usually has more than 1 sword.
Maybe the fight will last one more chapter or maybe it's just finished. (Still think/hope Diamante will die...)

Kisoto

So then, it'll be two more chapters at the least before we actually get to the climax? For Trebol and Pica to go down. And that's only if we don't get much more of Bellamy vs. Luffy, so it'll probably be three-four instead.

Domingo

@Darth:

Also, Sunflowers can't stop spike iron balls raining down with terminal velocity.

Sunflowers in OP are naturally imbued by Haki :ninja:

Tangaroa

@Maju:

like dodging rain?ò_ò

"No, Rebecca, cast aside that umbrella. DADDY SAYS."

sabinis

Too bad that fight didnt went into that direction

But who knows, maybe Laws fight did :ninja:

RobZilla

@Darth:

Diamante's part was actually enjoyable, though it is a shame that supposed best swordsman of Doflamingo's cew has a wooping one sword technique which is kinda uninspired overhead strike.

Well he seemed pretty proficient with his swordsmanship anyway, and showed a pretty versatile range of attacks even if they weren't swordbased.

That one attack also seemed to be a bit of a doozy as well.

@Darth:

No, what I found cringe worthy was the entire conversation between Rebecca and Kyros.

Meh, I thought it made sense.

Rebecca showed willingness to save her father and attack Diamante, not running away.

Kyros refused to let his daughter pick up a sword again after being forced to fight in an death arena for years.

It'd have been nice for Rebecca to do something physical but then we'd have had the whole "but Rebecca is a weakling lol power scaling" can of worms opened.

@Darth:

Also, Sunflowers can't stop spike iron balls raining down with terminal velocity.

Let's not get into real world physics.

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@Galaxy:

A true fan of a character wouldn't judge a chapter solely based on what happens to that character. :happy:

Amen to that, brah.

Darth

@Galaxy:

Let's not apply real world logic to a manga.

That doesn't work here.

A willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for reading a work such as this, but it should not defy common sense. If Oda drew a scene in which a thin sheet of paper stops a cut from experienced swordsman, you wouldn't go "Logic does not apply", you would go "This is stupid".

RandooTammm

Luffy VS Doflamingo fight… I can feel it. :wub:
Next chapter Pikachu will be defeated!

Razh

@Darth:

That doesn't work here.

A willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for reading a work such as this, but it should not defy common sense. If Oda drew a scene in which a thin sheet of paper stops a cut from experienced swordsman, you wouldn't go "Logic does not apply", you would go "This is stupid".

I'd have to agree, even if that leaf umbrella bothered me a lot less than some other stuff.

moud

@Darth:

That doesn't work here.

A willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for reading a work such as this, but it should not defy common sense. If Oda drew a scene in which a thin sheet of paper stops a cut from experienced swordsman, you wouldn't go "Logic does not apply", you would go "This is stupid".

chapter was bad in different ways , but you really cringe at the most minor things .. if we were to talk physics it wasn't really impossible it'd depend on the flowers/roots density and thickness and the spikes mass and altitude which we don't know any , drop it man

ramza85

@Murcielago:

Too quick for piece of shit like Diamante. I'd like him suffer much more )

One Piece(R21 verison)
The off panel action will be Kyros kicking Diamante up into the sky and stabbing him "thousand years of pain" style while rotating the blade..
Diamante will land back on the ground with the sword impaled in his ass that will hold up his body..
Then the final move of Kyros will be a straight punch that crush the skull inwards and turn Diamante face into a bloody mess.
The best part is that Diamante did not die but survive to live an antagonistic life full of pain and suffering.

Thebomer93

Diamanté couldn't have looked any more pathetic, in this arc if he tried. Most likely be Zoro owning the shit out of Pica next. Yiphee can hardly contain my excitement for that one.

sabinis

And Diamantes ability seems to be affecting also weight of objects - making them weight as much as paper or other material alike.

Otherwise he would not be able to run around with all those iron balls and his cape also would probably be slowing him down(I expected his cape to be taken off and him blitzing around- naive me).

Darth

@RobZilla:

Well he seemed pretty proficient with his swordsmanship anyway, and showed a pretty versatile range of attacks even if they weren't swordbased.

That one attack also seemed to be a bit of a doozy as well.

I found it slightly generic, to be honest. I was hoping for something more interesting.

@RobZilla:

Meh, I thought it made sense.

Rebecca showed willingness to save her father and attack Diamante, not running away.

Kyros refused to let his daughter pick up a sword again after being forced to fight in an death arena for years.

It'd have been nice for Rebecca to do something physical but then we'd have had the whole "but Rebecca is a weakling lol power scaling" can of worms opened.

But… that is not how it portrayed here.

Rebecca's actions are not portrayed as heroic, but rather as her making a grievous mistake.

Kyros motivation for telling her to lay down the sword are not for her safety, but upholding the ideals her mother stood for.

This is some pretty terrible things we are dealing here. Not to mention the dichotomy between the glorified pacifism message, and the fact that everything rests on violently beating people up. You cannot promote pacifism and vigilantism at the same time, dammit!

@RobZilla:

Let's not get into real world physics.

Then how about simple logic?

Faruway

@RandooTammm:

Luffy VS Doflamingo fight… I can feel it. :wub:
Next chapter Pikachu will be defeated!

Yup, can't wait for Zoro vs Pica fight. I also can't wait for the next episode of the anime because we will hear Pica's voice for the first time in the first few mins of the episode. It's gonna be hilarious.

Also, does anyone even know which music artiste did Oda took an inspiration in designing Pica's appearance? Because we know that Diamante is Steven Tyler, Trebol is Ozzy Osbourne, Vergo is likely one of the members of the Beatles (likely Ringo Starr) and Doflamingo is Michel Polnareff, although the formers has yet to be confirmed by Oda. All I can think is that Pica could be based off James Hetfield of Metallica (sans purple hair) but it is unlikely.

Darth

@moud:

chapter was bad in different ways , but you really cringe at the most minor things .. if we were to talk physics it wasn't really impossible it'd depend on the flowers/roots density and thickness and the spikes mass and altitude which we don't know any , drop it man

Shrugs I just found it really silly and contrived, when it could have been as easily resolved by Rebecca actually fending the balls off.

Which, you know, would make her look a little bit less useless.

But then again, that would ruin the message, wouldn't it?

Razh

@Thebomer93:

Diamanté couldn't have looked any more pathetic, in this arc if he tried. Most likely be Zoro owning the shit out of Pica next. Yiphee can hardly contain my excitement for that one.

Me too, buddy, me too. That fght has the potential to top even Zoro vs Hyouzou!

moud

@Darth:

Shrugs I just found it really silly and contrived, when it could have been as easily resolved by Rebecca actually fending the balls off.

Which, you know, would make her look a little bit less useless.

But then again, that would ruin the message, wouldn't it?

you're right it could've been handled better

Myu

These fights are one of the most underwhelming ones. Plus they are the first crew of someone who has CoC.

RobZilla

@Darth:

I found it slightly generic, to be honest. I was hoping for something more interesting.

Caltrops being shot out of the sky after confetti fireworks was pretty awesome though.

@Darth:

Rebecca's actions are not portrayed as heroic, but rather as her making a grievous mistake.

Are the two mutually exclusive?

@Darth:

Kyros motivation for telling her to lay down the sword are not for her safety, but upholding the ideals her mother stood for.

Yeah, she was forced to fight in the arena for years, trying to survive without compromising her mothers ideals.

Once again…the two aren't mutually exclusive.

@Darth:

This is some pretty terrible things we are dealing here. Not to mention the dichotomy between the glorified pacifism message, and the fact that everything rests on violently beating people up. You cannot promote pacifism and vigilantism at the same time, dammit!

You kinda can when the old vigilante is saying that he already has blood on his hands but the clean handed daughter should stay pure.

@Darth:

Then how about simple logic?

If we're going to pick apart stuff like this in One Piece, we're going to be here a long time.

ARTEMlS

@Galaxy:

Also, looks like Diamante is shooting the Mangapanda logo!

I see… So Diamante now definitely is beyond redemption!

Maju

@Darth:

I found it slightly generic, to be honest. I was hoping for something more interesting.

But… that is not how it portrayed here.

Rebecca's actions are not portrayed as heroic, but rather as her making a grievous mistake.

Kyros motivation for telling her to lay down the sword are not for her safety, but upholding the ideals her mother stood for.

This is some pretty terrible things we are dealing here. Not to mention the dichotomy between the glorified pacifism message, and the fact that everything rests on violently beating people up. You cannot promote pacifism and vigilantism at the same time, dammit!

Then how about simple logic?

I would agree with you if Rebecca WANTED to fight
if this was a story of a little girl wanting to be a fighter and her father being adamant in denying her access to "men's jobs",I would totally agree.
But it's not the case here..Rebecca never wanted to fight to begin with.The will of her mother has not been "imposed" on her,she totally agrees with her (shenever it's because she has been taught that since she was a child,or not,we don't know),she doesn't want to fight,she was forced to..and managed to fight without tossing aside her ideals,managing to survive without hurting anyone in the process.
is it really this terrible for her father step up and say "you don't need to fight anymore,daddy's here now"?

also,with the whole "pacifism while beating people thing"
kyros was never a pacifist,hell he probably doesn't even consider himself a "good person"..he his shouldering the "violence" to spare his daughter from it.He is not gloryfying pacifism,he has never been one..he just want his daughter to keep not doing what she doesn't want to do in the first place,fighting.

uniaka ikuzakas

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mario time

great chapter kyros is a beast next chapter hopefully robin will fight trebol god please make my wish come true and let her defeat him 1on 1 without any help

dmonddeath

Manga Stream ch. 776
http://readms.com/r/one_piece/776/2683/1

Kishido

Something I spotted… Kyros has the metal DF as Vergo!!!

kouch_lee

This page has probably the two best details about the chapter.

1- Aprehended gorilla and cocodrile. The gorilla looks like he feels guilty.

2- The half moon attack slices the dialogue bubbles in half-moon looking shapes. Neat.

BeariousJones

Is Diamante really defeated? Could there be another special attack? The predictive resolution of seeing Diamante defeated/unconscious and Kyros being talked out of killing him hasn't happened yet. It will probably be half to most of chapter 777 and then the transition to the next fight.

I wonder how many times in One Piece that a chapter ended with someone taking a seemingly critical blow but then next chapter that person is able to still fight.
Are there any recent examples?

Black Leg

Not a fan of the story around Rebecca, Kyros, Diamante and well anything to do with the royal family so I didn't care for this chapter.

What I really hated though is that we didn't get to see Franky blow up the Smile factory with his laser! That's what he said he would do right at the beginning of this arc and what I've been waiting to see for years! He better wake up and blow it to kingdom kumb because I ain't settling for him ordering a bunch of no name tontattas to do it.