No worries! I was concerned that I might have suggested otherwise. I try to make things as ambiguous as possible where applicable so it's good to learn where I might have messed up.
Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
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True, but it was up to now the most knowledgeable source on species, giving us long arms, longlegs, dwarves and minks before being introduced, and still the only mention of the fabled snakenecks. The point I was making is why do you discount the possibility of a lizard race, but not of a big head race/tribe, and the only reason that I could think of it was the catalog.This dude is the only talking croc, and the only animal who shouldn't be talking but is. There is the killer bunny who doesn't look minkish enough, but he wasn't in the water, so a DF is still an option.
Is he the only talking croc ? It seems to me the one from the forrest was much bigger but I’m lazy to check
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As of today I've been reading OP for 15 years. Neato.
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As of today I've been reading OP for 15 years. Neato.
I thought you first started reading One Piece right when the first chapter officially came out. Or at least that's what i remember hearing in one of the podcasts episodes.
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Nope! Not me, although I know some people who have been fans since the start.
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I thought you first started reading One Piece right when the first chapter officially came out. Or at least that's what i remember hearing in one of the podcasts episodes.
I think that's Sandman.
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Why do you know the exact date, Greg? :) Was a ray of light shining on you that day, so that you knew you had found something special^^
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So you got into it only 4 years after it's first run, that's quite the record actually. Considering that people rarely follow mangas from their beginnings, and the fact that it already took alot of time to get to the west, so it's not really your fault (except if you were in japan at that time).
Me i got into it in 2012, so in 13 years I'll be sure to remember to brag about reading it for 15 years aswell! :D
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Why do you know the exact date, Greg? :) Was a ray of light shining on you that day, so that you knew you had found something special^^
I was on a youth exchange trip to Japan and took pictures of everything. I also kept records of what we did and where we went each day. So I have pictures with the two gentlemen that gifted me the first three volumes and even a picture of me with the bag containing them in my hand. Photos are up on my Twitter.
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I was on a youth exchange trip to Japan and took pictures of everything. I also kept records of what we did and where we went each day. So I have pictures with the two gentlemen that gifted me the first three volumes and even a picture of me with the bag containing them in my hand. Photos are up on my Twitter.
Greg-San can I just have the twitter account handle already? Thanks in advance
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Greg-San can I just have the twitter account handle already? Thanks in advance
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But who doesn't love Disney?
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whats weird is that i already gave it to him in the oda interviews thread, seems like he will refuse to acknowledge it unless greg himself gives it to him.
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But who doesn't love Disney?
That one kindergarten teacher that got sued for millions because she was showing disney movies to her class? The Eisner era of disney was a bitch and I can imagine a lot of people hate disney because of it.
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But who doesn't love Disney?
Me. They may have good media, buy that's only because they strive to control the entertainment industry, and, with the entertainment industry comes good stuff.
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whats weird is that i already gave it to him in the oda interviews thread, seems like he will refuse to acknowledge it unless greg himself gives it to him.
Seriously you did? Pardon me but I didn't see it. I wouldn't have asked or maybe I didn't check it right away. Thanks then
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And latest column is here.Enjoy
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20 years of One Piece, wow. And I just into this series last year. Best series I've ever watched/read.
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Sort of.It's 20 years since Romance Dawn, the one-shot, not the start of OP.OP as a published series turned 19 on…..well.....several dates.7/15 The likely completion date for the issue of Jump it was released in (completed defined as printing complete and samples arriving at Shueisha)7/19 Unofficial release date in Kanto.7/22 Official release date throughout entire country.8/4 The 'Display Until' date on the Issue 34 1997 which has become the current official birthday of the series.#ItsComplicated
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So I'm a year early from the birthday? Man, I bought the cake and balloons and everything…
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I always thought Fujitora's DF allowed him to control how much the gravity of the earth affects a target, as opposed to Blackbeard who could only generate Gravitational forces emanating from his own body.
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Side gravity nulls that theory.
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So I'm a year early from the birthday? Man, I bought the cake and balloons and everything…
One Piece is worth being celebrated every day. ;)
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Latest Greg's column
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All these different "island" reveals gave me goosebumps. It was like if I was traveling through the story of One Piece.
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Love this thread!! Greg arigato for these wonderful gems!
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I was guessing like Greg that there were 2 devil fruits involved but it seems this chapter says the countrary and every clone is Brulee doing.
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How Greg described the island reveals is almost exactly how I reacted to Water Seven and the Gate of Justice at Enies Lobby.
Great column, Greg. Keep on doin whatcha do best!
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Last column up! https://one-piece.com/special/greg/20160824_0621
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"Place your bets on how many more openings we’ll get until something like this actually happens." truth was spoken.
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I don't know if I would say Perospero and Brulee are part longleg. They just seem to be tall, lanky dudes, like Brook.
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I don't know if I would say Perospero and Brulee are part longleg. They just seem to be tall, lanky dudes, like Brook.
I'll pose a question to you similar to how one of the editors once posed a question to me when I made a similar but different observation:
Where did Oda write that Brook doesn't have some longleg blood in him?
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Perhaps…Half Human and Half Longleg....hmmm...interesting.
Maybe Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu should be considered as well.
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Just like merfolk and minks seem to have atavism (thanks yu yu hakusho for that word, meaning genetic throwbacks) human being geneticaly the same species, and all the "species" of the OP world seem to be just breeds (dwarves confirmation pending, because they seem to be able to interbreed and produce viable offsprings) bigger people, taller people, mandrill faces, weird spheric body, are seemingly just controled by the gene neighbour to "curly hair".
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So what a mink and human relationship make? :ninja:
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So what a mink and human relationship make? :ninja:
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Huh. Does Magellan apply too?
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Maybe !
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Honestly, the whole idea of using half-breeds to explain away the non-standard body types feels cheap.
Like it's trying to make excuses for Oda art style or something.
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But is it an excuse when it actually is part of the main plot and the horrible thing that happened in the void century?
I mean, Luffy's a distant Skypeian and that's surely going to be a thing later.
Oda drawing guys with big upper bodies and tiny legs is an art style thing to show off strength. That's art style. Oda drawing super hourglassy women, that's art style.
Oda drawing in animal people, or fishmen, or double elbowed people, of having Chimney be 1/4 Mermaid, isn't art style, its deliberate part of world building… specially once he started saying that crossbreeding was a legit thing.
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Honestly, the whole idea of using half-breeds to explain away the non-standard body types feels cheap.
Like it's trying to make excuses for Oda art style or something.
That's the thing though, it's not an excuse, so much as a genuine reason.
It's not the only way he's set up reasons for his world being the way it is. He can have Jurassic islands and future islands as settings to tell any story he wants.
It allows him to write any story but there's also a reason for it.Same thing for his cast.
What's great is that he can also simply say, "Yup, these people are just big/hairy/horny/weird."
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Tbh oda draws so many really tall people with long legs nowadays, especially different scenes, that you can argue almost anyone abnormally tall is a long leg, like diamante and others, his characters have been drawn leaner and taller lately ex volume 81.
Now the mink thing I agree with although I dont think oda will frame them as some chernobylike monstrosities that turn into human beauty and the beast style at the end.
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Tbh oda draws so many really tall people with long legs nowadays, especially different scenes, that you can argue almost anyone abnormally tall is a long leg, like diamante and others, his characters have been drawn leaner and taller lately ex volume 81.
Tbh, that's my point.
As for why this is interesting in the case of Perospero and Brulee is the notion that they might be siblings.
All of this is under the assumption that Big Mom births children normally. As mentioned in the article, Big Mom has 84 children (herp derp to Moscato staying dead) but only 43 husbands which, unless she had some huge litters, shows that she probably had more than one child, at a separate time, with a given father. We don't know the order of birth of the children so even though Perospero is Mom's first son, technically he could have been born after Brulee, we simply don't know yet. If this pans out, the interesting point of note is that since Lola and Chiffon appear to be twins, it suggest Big Mom did away with Pound when she was done with him, but could very well have kept in good faith with, say, the father of Brulee and Perospero.
So what makes Big Mom turn on one of her husbands, like Pound? If she maintains relationships with other husbands, what do they need to do to stay in good standing?
The implications are far more interesting than I'm allowed to speculate on in an official outlet but from time to time my goal with the column is to give you the basic tools to work with in seeing a potentially bigger picture.
Aaaaaand sometimes I just like slipping in things that you otherwise would never have been able to see under normal circumstances like the Tanaka-like character who was all but completely cut from both Jump and the volume. https://one-piece.com/special/greg/20160824_0623?l=en
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Regarding long-legs, I think they have to be long legs in proportion to shorter, standard length arms. Brook has long legs and long arms, so he doesn't fit the bill.
Also, I think torsos factor in here. Both Tamago and Blue Gilly have rather modestly sized torsos. In which case they sharply contrast the length of their legs. Same goes with the arms which seem roughly half the length of the legs. At least in the manga–the anime tends to tone down this difference.
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Now Perospero could very well be longleg. It's just that the long coat hides the true length of her legs for the time being so it's hard to say for certain.
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Regarding long-legs, I think they have to be long legs in proportion to shorter, standard length arms. Brook has long legs and long arms, so he doesn't fit the bill.
Sure! Perfectly valid and I'm of that opinion myself.
My point is, which is to say the editor's point, is that there's a lot we simply assume when a story/reason could go any which way because Oda simply hasn't addressed it.