Greg any reason you didn’t talk about the Oni stuff in your newest blog ?
Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
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What you see in the start of the arc isn't a different Fujiyama.
That's Fujiyama.
This is an island and they get from place to place rather quickly.
Yes, Fujiyama is that big. Even in real Japan you can see Fuji from an absolutely absurd distance.
I'd tell you it can be glimpsed all the way from Shiga but I don't think that would mean anything to someone not up on JP geography.
The Anime clearly depicted it as a mountain near the Kuri beach, so they simply made a mistake.
So then it becomes clear that they also made a mistake when the Daimyos gathered at the capital (chapter 965). In the Anime the blue haired Daimyo is clearly not Ushimaru, implying he already had passed away. Well, we now know he met Yamato, and the Vivre Card confirmed he fought Kaido 20 years ago.
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It would have been amazing if we had battles placed in different places throughout Wano, give us some spectacular scenery to go with the fights, alas that’s not what Oda wanted
Greg you said we may get multiple more members of the Straw Hat Pirates, would that mean Black Beard Pirates might get more members?
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Anyone see Greg's newest column?! Sanji and the alien theories! Finally out in the open! Anytime I brought it up it was because of this theory of his from a while back. As time went on during Whole Cake, details about Judge and Germa fit the alien theory way too well.
But Greg what do you think is going on with Sanji now? Please oh please tell me he won't have the Germa kids enhanced exoskeletons! Tell me it's all ploy by Oda to get our expectations all twisted.
I hope Vegapunk, Judge, or Queen give some clear closure on what's going on with Sanji.
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I more and more hope it is Judge's experiments finally bearing fruit.
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Greg how long do you think until we get a Kaido flashback?
And if you believe that Yamato is joining the crew, Do you believe he will he get another flashback that shows his dream, tragic past and mentor figure or do the flashbacks we already have fulfill that role
Also do you know what species Gecko Moria is?
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Greg how long do you think until we get a Kaido flashback?
And if you believe that Yamato is joining the crew, Do you believe he will he get another flashback that shows his dream, tragic past and mentor figure or do the flashbacks we already have fulfill that role
I'm not Greg but the place to put any such flashback would be after King and Queen are dealt with and plopping a flashback in won't slow down the battle momentum or drama for any of the sub fights or rest of the arc… but still be at a time where it can add some depth and layers to the final battle and give it some more emotional punch when its done. It's most notably how Oda handled it for Drum and Skypeia. Other cases like Baratie, Arlong, Enies Lobby, Fishman Island, Dresserossa, he did it before the big fights started happening. Doing it after is pretty rare, I think Brook is the only time that's really happened and that wasn't actually connected at all to the current situation so it made sense to hold it. . And I guess maybe Luffy's second childhood.
So if there's going to be one, it'll be soon, but not for at least a few more chapter yet. I'd kind of figured Luffy arriving back on the roof would be that moment but he got back earlier than I expected and we're sending Yamato off take out some bombs and give the rest of the still standing crew something to do, so that probably has to be setup and done in a way that we can get a proper audience of spectators..
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If it happens that way, it'll probably be in January.
I can see it as Luffy and Kaido get the focus and exchange some words. Kaido says something about humans, Joyboy, or Yamato's intentions and then we go in to the past.
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@Zik:
If it happens that way, it'll probably be in January.
I can see it as Luffy and Kaido get the focus and exchange some words. Kaido says something about humans, Joyboy, or Yamato's intentions and then we go in to the past.
This would make a lot of sense, especially since history tells us the final round of Luffy-Kaido will be with an audience. It has been amusing to see all the benchmarks for normal flashback timings come and go… I suspect it's because Kaido will be sympathetic in some way, which would undermine the current tension if it was revealed too soon.
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After observing some Twitter discussions, I want to hear your opinion on this.
Regarding the never ending (and annoying) discussion in the western fanbase when exactly Wano will end, a small detail that finally might put it to rest.
There are two words in Japanese for "act", 幕 maku and 段 dan. 段 dan is usually used for jidaimono plays (usually 5 acts, the popular play Kanadehon Chūshingura even has 11), while 幕 is used for sewamono plays with 3 acts. Besides the traditional theatre, modernized genres like Super Kabuki use maku as well: Super Kabuki II: One Piece for instance had 3 幕 with the climax being in the last act.
And guess what Wano's act are called: 幕 maku.
This detail could lay this entire annoying discussion to a rest (FINALLY), unless Oda wants to fool the (Japanese) audience (truth to be told, Wano thematically is much much closer to jidaimono).
Sorry to bring this up again, it is the last time, but I think this is an interesting detail.
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LOL Never cared and after a while the 5 act talk seemed will to still believe in or hope for (no different than the idiotic the raid will fail theory).
But by the time I got to there are two words in Japanese I was like nah, no, nope. You're not going to get these ppl to give up on this with multiple same word translations and word definitions lol
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From what I've heard (somebody who read the Japanese wikipedia) kabukis can have any number of acts between 1 and 9. So I'm not expecting anything from this act number thing anymore.
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Oda did a unique act structure thing, and then suddenly a lot of people read a single wikipedia article and became experts on kabuki theater, and then based theories around that new expertise for like a year.
It's a bit silly.
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Can someone tell me where this image is from, it looks like it's from the Usopp Gallery Pirates but I don't know which volume.
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Back when ppl thought Ace was biologically related to the Monkey clan.
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Can someone tell me where this image is from, it looks like it's from the Usopp Gallery Pirates but I don't know which volume.
https://i.imgur.com/f7Rz8bj.jpegThat's definitely the UGP background, it should be in one of them. But if we assume the earliest it could have appeared was when Garp and Dragon were established as Luffy's family in volume 45, that's a lot of volumes to check, so you might have to do that yourself…
...is what I was going to say, but I halfheartedly opened a couple at random and was lucky enough to find it on page 212 of volume 47.
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That's definitely the UGP background, it should be in one of them. But if we assume the earliest it could have appeared was when Garp and Dragon were established as Luffy's family in volume 45, that's a lot of volumes to check, so you might have to do that yourself…
...is what I was going to say, but I halfheartedly opened a couple at random and was lucky enough to find it on page 212 of volume 47.
Awesome! Thank you for finding the source.
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It still annoys em that the English printings took out all the awesome fanart and put in complete crap by 5 year olds in the US… and then eventually just stopped doing it entirely and left in blank pages.
It's almost certainly a permissions issue and would be more headache and hassle than it's worth to print the japanese reader's art, but still. They keep the SBS title headers so I'm not sure what the issue is.
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It's especially weird when Oda eventually points out that some fans like Hori started their own series, but I guess it's a copyright issue. Gotta get permission from those Japanese kids from 20 years ago.
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Do you guys think there is a reason behind Oda having Sir Crocodile and Doflamingo face off two (or was it three?) different times at Marine Ford? Do you think he was foreshadowing some sort of event in the future or was it just a random face off he did at Marineford
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Do you guys think there is a reason behind Oda having Sir Crocodile and Doflamingo face off two (or was it three?) different times at Marine Ford? Do you think he was foreshadowing some sort of event in the future or was it just a random face off he did at Marineford
Crocodile and Doffy mirror each other in what they accomplished in the One Piece world, i.e (Take over a nation, subjugate it's people, be the first major antagonist/test for Luffy on each half of the Grand Line.)
The difference between them was that Doffy was successful in his initial takeover and Crocodile wasn't. I think Oda wanted to physically connect the characters so that the readers could link the two together in the story before he fleshed out Doffy in the New World.Crocodile is still in the New World reading newspapers, honestly at this point I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being neutral/joining the final war as an Ally, because Oda let him back into the New World for a reason.
He doesn't really respect Blackbeard as far as I remember, and he's not a threat to Luffy at all. I remember being excited just because he was another plot thread to keep track of his movements. Maybe he'll continue his Whitebeard grudge with Edward Weevil or something lol. -
Do you guys think there is a reason behind Oda having Sir Crocodile and Doflamingo face off two (or was it three?) different times at Marine Ford? Do you think he was foreshadowing some sort of event in the future or was it just a random face off he did at Marineford
They used to date.
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Crocodile was cheating on Dragon with Doflamingo?
That is obviously the true reason why Dragon wants to take down CDs :ninja:
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@statu:
That is obviously the true reason why Dragon wants to take down CDs :ninja:
Can't argue with that. Doffy has clearly the face of someone who steals both your bf and gf.
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Yeah, I wasn't joking. That was a legit observation.
It doesn't even matter if you buy into femme croc theories or not.
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@statu:
That is obviously the true reason why Dragon wants to take down CDs :ninja:
Nah, Doffy was Crocodile's rebound after Dragon.
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If this was Bleach Doffy would definitely turn out to be Luffy's mom.
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https://one-piece.com/special/greg/detail/20211027_1257.html?l=en
New column's out. One part stuck out to me, when Greg talks about Killer and his relationship with Kid, he writes this:
"(…) these two have probably been through some tough spots before; not the least of which was facing Sakazuki together at some point during the time-skip."
Soo…is this some confirmation? Speculation? Something that was already known?
Cause the Kid Pirates facing Sakazuki at some point during the timeskip is news to me. Like, it makes sense (Killer has a nasty burn injury after all), but I sure as hell didn't know that's what went on.
Edit: Or maybe he meant Shanks?
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Good catch there. Interestingly, the google translated version of the Japanese column doesn't seem to have that bit at all. I tried running a search for both Shanks' and Sakazuki's names on the raw text as well and found nothing.
Would definitely love some clarification, even if it is just a typo.
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Sakazuki going after some of the supernova after moving the marine headquarters to the New World side makes sense. Especially after pirates like Bonney and Kid.
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Re: Sakazuki
Entirely my bad. I totally neglected to put a qualifier in there. Admittedly, I've also head-canon'd it pretty hard but still I intended to put a 'their possible confrontation with…' etc.It's not in the JP version because sometimes I do try to get a bit more cheeky with English articles in terms of inference or mentioning copyrighted material but I didn't intend to make that a statement.
Still....I have head-canon'd it for myself pretty hard so I should reprimand my subconscious. I mean...dude's arm is shorn off and Killer (who would risk life and limb to save his partner) just coincidentally has burn marks all over him? In the end, it's One Piece and ANYTHING could have happened. They might not even be related events. But still.....^o^
My apologies for the confusion.
Unrelated....
A poster postulated that informing the OP team about 'furries' turned them off or that Oda's 'former creeper editor' who likes Carrot weirded him out and that's why he doesn't focus on minks.
1. If anything they were fascinated and wanted to know more. I made a thread on that a while back detailing the whole story of how bringing up furries became a scripted moment.
2. That 'creeper editor' is still a much-trusted editor on One Piece. One Piece has four editors, three of them dealing with different aspects of the series.
Oda doesn't focus on minks because....they're not the Strawhats and this isn't Dressrosa. There's also the very real fact that Onigashima isn't done and besides that, he's currently juggling....what? Gotta be at least 70-100 named characters in one location?
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Re: Sakazuki
Entirely my bad. I totally neglected to put a qualifier in there. Admittedly, I've also head-canon'd it pretty hard but still I intended to put a 'their possible confrontation with…' etc.It's not in the JP version because sometimes I do try to get a bit more cheeky with English articles in terms of inference or mentioning copyrighted material but I didn't intend to make that a statement.
Still....I have head-canon'd it for myself pretty hard so I should reprimand my subconscious. I mean...dude's arm is shorn off and Killer (who would risk life and limb to save his partner) just coincidentally has burn marks all over him? In the end, it's One Piece and ANYTHING could have happened. They might not even be related events. But still.....^o^
My apologies for the confusion.
The burn scars I get, and it might be a neat connection if he helped get Bonney out of the tight spot she was last seen in entering the timeskip, but as for the arm…
I don't see what reason he'd have to lie about it here.
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Allegedly 170 chapters left and we are still in Wano's climax with 4 big fights and many unresolved plotlines. People shouldn't take the 5 years plan that seriously, the pacing and offscreening are already destructive enough.
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Re: Sakazuki
Entirely my bad. I totally neglected to put a qualifier in there. Admittedly, I've also head-canon'd it pretty hard but still I intended to put a 'their possible confrontation with…' etc.It's not in the JP version because sometimes I do try to get a bit more cheeky with English articles in terms of inference or mentioning copyrighted material but I didn't intend to make that a statement.
Still....I have head-canon'd it for myself pretty hard so I should reprimand my subconscious. I mean...dude's arm is shorn off and Killer (who would risk life and limb to save his partner) just coincidentally has burn marks all over him? In the end, it's One Piece and ANYTHING could have happened. They might not even be related events. But still.....^o^
My apologies for the confusion.
0 needs for apologies. I should've guessed it was a head-cannon thingie. And it makes sense! In fact, there should be more clashes between high ranking marines and dangerous pirates, and the Kid pirates are amongst the (supposedly) more dangerous.
But good to know I didn't miss a piece of official canon information, since those now can appear in a myriad different media - the magazine, the manga, the vivre cards, sbs… - and I don't discard just entirely missing something.
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I have nothing to add. I'm just posting after Greg's last post for some reason.
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Re: Sakazuki
Entirely my bad. I totally neglected to put a qualifier in there. Admittedly, I've also head-canon'd it pretty hard but still I intended to put a 'their possible confrontation with…' etc.It's not in the JP version because sometimes I do try to get a bit more cheeky with English articles in terms of inference or mentioning copyrighted material but I didn't intend to make that a statement.
Still....I have head-canon'd it for myself pretty hard so I should reprimand my subconscious. I mean...dude's arm is shorn off and Killer (who would risk life and limb to save his partner) just coincidentally has burn marks all over him? In the end, it's One Piece and ANYTHING could have happened. They might not even be related events. But still.....^o^
My apologies for the confusion.
Unrelated....
A poster postulated that informing the OP team about 'furries' turned them off or that Oda's 'former creeper editor' who likes Carrot weirded him out and that's why he doesn't focus on minks.
1. If anything they were fascinated and wanted to know more. I made a thread on that a while back detailing the whole story of how bringing up furries became a scripted moment.
2. That 'creeper editor' is still a much-trusted editor on One Piece. One Piece has four editors, three of them dealing with different aspects of the series.
Oda doesn't focus on minks because....they're not the Strawhats and this isn't Dressrosa. There's also the very real fact that Onigashima isn't done and besides that, he's currently juggling....what? Gotta be at least 70-100 named characters in one location?
I never got the impression Oda's storytelling choices would be so easily swayed or impacted by those types of things. And I agree that there's still plenty of time remaining in this arc for Oda to give the minks or one Mink in particular a larger role. Or maybe it's going to be in a future story arc.
Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, Jimbei, Carrot, Vivi, Smoker
"ONE PIECE, IT EXISTS" - The Great Pirate Edward Newgate
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I don't see what reason he'd have to lie about it here.
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Who says he's lying?
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Greg do you think the Marines are really going to invade Wano? What will happen to that huge party Luffy said they’d have after they defeated Kaido?
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As with the many, many, many details of this series, a single sentence fails to encompass the entire story. Oda weaponizes exposition against readers so that they feel like they know everything when all they really know is a single sentence about what might be a far more complex scenario. This isn't foot-in-the-ground cake theory, but it's entirely possible that the scenario Kid briefly
mentioned was far more complicated than what he presented in a short time.Part of that technique may be the so-called Goda aspect of galaxy brain Oda.
The other is, him being intentionally ambiguous so he can flesh out a much more surprising and complex explanation/scenario later.
As for Marines invading Wano, since the festival is on-going, they're like toave time before shit gets REAL crazy after the victory.
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One thing that surprised me was Kidd telling he was finally fighting a Younkou while facing BM in the last chapter.Yet it was 'implied' that Kaidou defeated and captured him.
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Kidd said the arm was taken in a battle against the Red Hair Pirates, but hey who knows… maybe Gin showed up in the middle, hungry and looking for a snack. Bet Kidd's arm had a bunch of valuable nutrients, maybe too much cholesterol and saturated fats, but in hunger we might just eat insects, am I right
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Kidd said the arm was taken in a battle against the Red Hair Pirates, but hey who knows… maybe Gin showed up in the middle, hungry and looking for a snack. Bet Kidd's arm had a bunch of valuable nutrients, maybe too much cholesterol and saturated fats, but in hunger we might just eat insects, am I right
This is head canon now.
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As with the many, many, many details of this series, a single sentence fails to encompass the entire story. Oda weaponizes exposition against readers so that they feel like they know everything when all they really know is a single sentence about what might be a far more complex scenario. This isn't foot-in-the-ground cake theory, but it's entirely possible that the scenario Kid briefly
mentioned was far more complicated than what he presented in a short time.Thanks for clarifying. I'm still going to fall in the skeptic camp for this particular theory, but we'll just have to wait and see where it goes.
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I don't know, anyone who made contact with Akainu's furious magma fist of righteous justice either just evaporated on the spot or suffered fatal injuries. So unless you have a doctor available with godlike powers or an Admiral-level ice logia, I don't see how anyone else could get away with just burn marks. Especially someone like Killer.
Like, either you block that red gloop or say goodbye to half of your face, legs or innards. There doesn't seem to be a middleground here.
I don't know, maybe we will get some more Ace-wank during the fire festival, with Killer and Kidd reminiscing about their encounter.
"Faffaffa, I fought Ace and that's why my body looks like this, but I still respect him a lot because who doesn't right? faffaffafa"
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I don't know, anyone who made contact with Akainu's furious magma fist of righteous justice either just evaporated on the spot or suffered fatal injuries. So unless you have a doctor available with godlike powers or an Admiral-level ice logia, I don't see how anyone else could get away with just burn marks. Especially someone like Killer.
Pretty sure Curiel is fine.
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16 characters of Fake anime news:ninja:
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Pretty sure Curiel is fine.
I remain unconvinced unless you show me a direct hit!
