Roger looks weird wearing a green shirt with a red coat.
Volume 96 Predictions/Discussion
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No matter the colors, Luffy ruins it. That's 2 fumbled covers in a row
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Been looking at the covers and found it interesting that Kinemon hasn't appeard in any of the Wano covers yet. Tama has been in 2, and so has Hyogoro.
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From my understanding, the biggest points towards the end of a volume have a say in what the covers may be. Kinemon has been the leader, but not the focal point or focus of each narrative. He's been in the background a lot. I can't wait for the great Orochi to be on a cover
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No matter the colors, Luffy ruins it. That's 2 fumbled covers in a row
What are you talking about?
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Why? Do you have any reasoning or it's just "I don't like them".
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Why? Do you have any reasoning or it's just "I don't like them".
The positioning of the bounties. Those bounties should be the center of attention if they are involved at all. Neither th SH Samurai or the bounties disgust me. I just feel that if the bounties are involved, they should be the focus of the cover.
Luffy shouldn't be on the cover for 96 at all. That is just trash. It is about Oden and his impact on 2 important figures.
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How would the bounties be the center of the cover? That just wouldn't work unless nothing else is added.
Luffy appears by the end of the volume and is probably the "joyboy" Oden was waiting for. Also, maybe you didn't realize it but Luffy has appeared in every volume cover except the villain ones. That probably won't change.
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How would the bounties be the center of the cover? That just wouldn't work unless nothing else is added.
Luffy appears by the end of the volume and is probably the "joyboy" Oden was waiting for. Also, maybe you didn't realize it but Luffy has appeared in every volume cover except the villain ones. That probably won't change.
There's ways to incorporate the bounties and make them the focus the cover, instead of backdrops. The bounties don't have to be in the same format as they are on that cover.
I'm aware of the Joyboy thing and Luffy rarely missing covers. That doesn't mean I should like it. The whole flashback is about Oden seeing the world before making Wano fit to contribute. He learns about the history and is willing to sacrifice himself because he's okay w/ leaving everything to his Samurai and Joyboy. Putting everyone in the background belittles that journey to me. If anything, Luffy being in the background or not at all is less tacky.
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There's ways to incorporate the bounties and make them the focus the cover, instead of backdrops. The bounties don't have to be in the same format as they are on that cover.
I'm aware of the Joyboy thing and Luffy rarely missing covers. That doesn't mean I should like it. The whole flashback is about Oden seeing the world before making Wano fit to contribute. He learns about the history and is willing to sacrifice himself because he's okay w/ leaving everything to his Samurai and Joyboy. Putting everyone in the background belittles that journey to me. If anything, Luffy being in the background or not at all is less tacky.
Tell me how. I'd like to know.
I didn't say you should like it. I asked you for your reasoning and you gave it to me. Thank you but I don't think it belittles anything and it's quite fitting as they are in the past and Luffy is in the future.
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Tell me how. I'd like to know.
I didn't say you should like it. I asked you for your reasoning and you gave it to me. Thank you but I don't think it belittles anything and it's quite fitting as they are in the past and Luffy is in the future.
The actual bounties not being a background fixture. Posters that are front and center. They can even be held by their characters. Something creative to match the magnitude of the reveal. Not in back of Chopper and Luffy playing samurai
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Only time Luffy misses a cover is when it's a villain spread
Baroque Works, CP9, Doflamingo Pirates, Big Mom Pirates
and we'll probably get one for Kaido and his crew sometime in the near future
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I really wanted to see Oden's colors. I'm highly disappointed.
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The actual bounties not being a background fixture. Posters that are front and center. They can even be held by their characters. Something creative to match the magnitude of the reveal. Not in back of Chopper and Luffy playing samurai
I don't see how they can't be a background fixture and not be small. Better for them to be big in the background. Their characters holding them would be lame. I get your point though but I just dont a have problem with Oda drawing Luffy, Chopper, and Brook playing samurai front and center in the cover. They look great.
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–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Title: "I am Oden, I Was Born to Boil"
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Roger wearing pink and Newgate wearing green…I'll be damned. Great coloring all around though, especially Oden. His official scheme is very fitting. I dig the orange background.
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Enma is purple.
So the TV shit wirh Emma being golden was wrong
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Oda's colour choices are as bold and garish as ever, even moreso than the already over-the-top fan colouring I thought nailed his style pretty well. The pink genuinely does work on Roger, but I'm not sold on the green for Whitebeard. Rayleigh looks sharp in the black there. Kinda wish Oda had chosen a more neutral tone for the background to let the rest pop though. The orange at the top is a bit too bright. Looking forward to the digital version without the map overlay to declutter it a little.
Interesting point here: Enma's hilt is pink on the cover here, but black in the Arashi colour spread (and music video).
I don't think it's all that significant to the story (it's not common, but Oda has flip flopped on colours a couple of times in the past) but I look forward to this thing being used in black blade theories from now until whenever we get a proper explanation for that.
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It has been brought to my attention that the purple Enma is also in the Hungry Days spread.
I think it's safe to say that pink/purple is its intended and permanent colouring, and the Arashi spread is the outlier. Given how far in advance the promo must have been planned to have a full anime music video the designs used for the Arashi costumes were probably done even further in advance than the usual colour spread. Black hilt is a probably an early development thing that slipped through in the collab process.
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I will never get Oda's obsession with yellow/orange (is it a japanese thing? Nakaba is similar). Pretty much everyone is looking worse in colors than in b&w there imo… the kids are the only ones I find ok (Buggy and Teach because blue and orange fit together and Shanks because he was spared).
I actually think the pink shirt is looking pretty good on Roger, too bad the colors of everything else he is wearing.
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So the colors were not fake?
Looks really terrible, I'm sorry. Unnecessary clownish combinations, it hurts the eye.
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Whitebeard's colour would be easier on the eye if Oda had kept the original colour for the inside of his coat.
Liked Oden's colours, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by Jozu's and the background together.
All in all, not the greatest - composition is the usual overload of characters Oda likes to pick, and the colour - while wild - aren't easy on the beholder.
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Roger, Whitebeard and Oden's clothing color schemes look awful. Like "hyperactive preschooler scribbling in a coloring book using RoseArt crayons" bad.
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Love all that orange
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They seem less in the background than the other versions. Still trash
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Coloring is straight garbage. It's like Oda doesn't even care and just slaps random colors becuase he wants it to be colorful.
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terrible colors. gold roger is a mess with yellow, orange, red and pink
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I don't think I'll mind Oden's and Whitebeard's color scheme when they're not on this cover. Orange & Purple and Green & Yellow go fairly well together in my opinion. The problem lies in them being placed alongside a random mishmash of wardrobe colors that don't go well together on the eyes, as well as Roger, whose disregard for casual fashion taste seems fitting.
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Roger is flashy just like Buggy. I'm sure he had a large wardrobe and changed the colors he wore pretty often.
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Volumes 1 - 96 all in one place, if you're into that kind of thing:
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Volumes 1 - 96 all in one place, if you're into that kind of thing:
https://i.redd.it/zsz64wy79mo41.jpg
(open image in new tab to see it properly)Just noticed that the cover with Big Mom and her Family is the only cover without Luffy.
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Just noticed that the cover with Big Mom and her Family is the only cover without Luffy.
? Volume 21 (Boroque Works), 42 (CP-9) and 77 (Doflamingo Pirates) also dont have Luffy on the cover.
I honestly expect similar covers for Kaido, Blackbeard, possibly Shanks, Vegapunk/SSG/Science Division (if they are actual villains), Admirals/Marines, CP-0, Im/Gorosei/WG.
Thats still like 6-8 antagonist groups but who knows how much Oda pits against the strawhats anyway. Its clear the BM cover was used prematurely, but perhaps on purpose if her crew fights a ton in Wano.
Definitely, in the least, Kaido, Blackbeard and Akainu's forces. If Luffy fights Akainu, i fully expect the rest of his crew to take on higher up Marines/Admirals. The rest depends on if Oda uses them as antagonist groups (Shanks/Vegapunk) or if Luffy and crew directly fight them (Im/Gorosei and CP-0)
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looking at the old covers, i think the pre timeskip ones are the best color-wise.
now oda puts too many colors in one cover and they don't match either -
Volumes 1 - 96 all in one place, if you're into that kind of thing:
https://i.redd.it/zsz64wy79mo41.jpg
(open image in new tab to see it properly)Amazing! Thanks for doing this! I must of spent half an hour looking through all of them in order.
Have you always had so that you could view them properly with a new tab?
Folks who read One Piece… Just better people. ¯\(ツ)/¯
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I never thought about where the boxset art came from. Are these all color spreads?
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It's not surprise to me to realize that most of my favorite covers tend to be the ones that have a more coherent sense of composition like Vols. 32, 37, 58, 68, 88, 89 etc. as opposed to the ones that are basically just mishmashed character collages.
I wonder if we'll ever learn the story behind why Vol. 6 never had a proper cover?
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You know I actually pictured Orange and Purple for Oden. Although I expected his attire to be Purple and the accoutrements to be Orange.
My favorite volume cover is the Little Garden one with Luffy, Vivi, and Mr. 3. It's like a 70's movie poster, I love it.
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Amazing! Thanks for doing this! I must of spent half an hour looking through all of them in order.
Have you always had so that you could view them properly with a new tab?
Pretty sure. That, or there's a link in my sig to the same thing (when I remember to update it anyway)
I never thought about where the boxset art came from. Are these all color spreads?
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First one is - from chapter 147. The second and third ones were Jump Covers, later used as the interior title pages for volumes 35 and 48.
It's not surprise to me to realize that most of my favorite covers tend to be the ones that have a more coherent sense of composition like Vols. 32, 37, 58, 68, 88, 89 etc. as opposed to the ones that are basically just mishmashed character collages.
I wonder if we'll ever learn the story behind why Vol. 6 never had a proper cover?
That one, and volume 11 as well is just an old Jump cover reused. 3 and 7 (and to a lesser extent 12) aren't as irrelevant, but they still don't depict the story inside the volume the same way later ones started to. I'd love to see what Oda would come up with if he ever decided to redraw those old covers with his current sensibilities.
Those are some good favourite cover pics btw.
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I love your compilation, Captain M!
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Looks really terrible, I'm sorry. Unnecessary clownish combinations, it hurts the eye.
Lol like most hair colors in Wano. I know what Oda inteded for the hair colors but they still suck.
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So, any SBS translation of this volume?
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So, any SBS translation of this volume?
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Digital cover in HQ:
Removing the map overlay from the back is such a small change but it really does make a difference for the cluttered feeling. Having the proper cropping and colour levels/contrast fully adjusted for monitor viewing (which the first reveal usually lacks) is also very nice.
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I suppose that when the evil vs heroes covers come up, only the very much significant people are going to make it into it, there's just waaaay to many to include them all in two covers only
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I suppose that when the evil vs heroes covers come up, only the very much significant people are going to make it into it, there's just waaaay to many to include them all in two covers only
I have a pet theory that Oda might break his pattern and give us a three-part set. One for the villains, one for samurai and other members of the alliance and a final one for the Strawhats and probably Kid and Law too, all with similar layouts. Big Mom's crew will probably be de-emphasised because they got their cover ten volumes back. It'd be really great if they could go 98 - 99 - 100, using that triumphant Straw Hat cover to mark the entry into triple digits. Either way I'm really looking forward to what Oda does for these ones, but I think we've got at least one more volume to go before he starts pulling them out.
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I was checking your sign these days and realized unlike the other "villain only" covers, the Big Mom Pirates cover was not mirrored by a SH cover. I mean, sure, we got a SH+allies cover after it, but it seemed like a regular one, it was not referencing the villain cover that came before it. Maybe instead of having a hero counterpart, the BMP cover will get a Beasts Pirates counterpart?
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There's been a lot of talk about the color schemes on this cover but the more I look at it the more I like it. It struck me weird at first too but in the end I think it works very well thematically.
After East Blue, Oda started to play little by little with the characters outfits to make them ressonate a bit more with the story. The straw-hats got some sort of vacation outfits when they got to Skypea, a tropical island away from the rest of the world, then they got darker shades during CP9 and Thriller Bark, to match the more serious events in the former and the spooky locale in the latter.
So all of these bright colors really give me the vibe of the Dream Age, during Oden's flashback we saw the good moments those pirates had and their freedom. It looked like the Lost Boys of Neverland, from Peter Pan. they just partied, found cool stuff and fought pirates and no one got really hurt. Whitebeard has a pearl necklace in his hat, that's just bling cause everything is going good.I'd guess that when we get to a more serious flashback about them, like the God valley Incident or some such, Oda will pick not only different colors to match the ambiance but also different accessories and details to play with.
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I was checking your sign these days and realized unlike the other "villain only" covers, the Big Mom Pirates cover was not mirrored by a SH cover. I mean, sure, we got a SH+allies cover after it, but it seemed like a regular one, it was not referencing the villain cover that came before it. Maybe instead of having a hero counterpart, the BMP cover will get a Beasts Pirates counterpart?
It probably wasn't a mirror because they didn't actually fight them. I figure we might see the actual mirror cover when it happens. If it's now in Wano, then maybe it'll end up being a set of three with the Beast Pirates (or even 4 if the alliance gets split in two like someone suggested)
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One Piece #97 is shifted. It was due out on July 3 but will finally be released on August 4.
