Official Wano Thread

last-exit-to-laughtale

Fair enough. There's no reason to not think he didn't get the swords from his master. I personally never thought much about them and took them for generic weapons.

Another thing to remember is that it's possible that the 2 swords we see in the Kozaburo flashback might not be the same ones that broke in the Baratie. He'd told Mihawk he'd broken multiple swords in his lifetime - including the two during their duel - not that those swords were the only ones he'd ever broken.

Ivotas

@last-exit-to-laughtale said in Official Wano Thread:

@Ivotas said in Official Wano Thread:

Fair enough. There's no reason to not think he didn't get the swords from his master. I personally never thought much about them and took them for generic weapons.

Another thing to remember is that it's possible that the 2 swords we see in the Kozaburo flashback might not be the same ones that broke in the Baratie. He'd told Mihawk he'd broken multiple swords in his lifetime - including the two during their duel - not that those swords were the only ones he'd ever broken.

Oh right. He did say that. I guess those are not Kozaburo's then.

Cockycent

I can't even properly rank the laughs from this arc. People are forced to laugh, it's messed up.

Finally watched OP laughs on Crunchyroll and I think Moria's crew might slightly beat Doffy's crew for best laughs for villains.

electricmastro

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electricmastro

Really interested to see if Law does get away with the Poneglyph info, because that would mean Blackbeard would have to resort to going to Wano soon.

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danie

Can we get an official Egghead thread? Although it looks like the new arc won't be entirely focused on Egghead...

danie

@electricmastro I just thought that maybe Blackbeard would just get the poneglyph copy from Zou and then go to Wano for the other one, but I then I remembered Pluton is in Wano... If Blackbeard goes to Wano, it should be for that! He will have to encounter Caribou first...

electricmastro

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

Can we get an official Egghead thread? Although it looks like the new arc won't be entirely focused on Egghead...

I get the feeling Oda got fed up saving non-main island scenes for in between arcs and is showing Blackbeard confronting Law now even though they’re not at Egghead. lol

electricmastro

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

@electricmastro I just thought that maybe Blackbeard would just get the poneglyph copy from Zou and then go to Wano for the other one, but I then I remembered Pluton is in Wano... If Blackbeard goes to Wano, it should be for that! He will have to encounter Caribou first...

Yeah, regardless if Law gets away with the poneglyph info or not, there’s also the matter if Blackbeard is interested enough to go to Wano for Pluton, in addition to Kaido and Big Mom’s fruits.

danie

@electricmastro said in Official Wano Thread:

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

Can we get an official Egghead thread? Although it looks like the new arc won't be entirely focused on Egghead...

I get the feeling Oda got fed up saving non-main island scenes for in between arcs and is showing Blackbeard confronting Law now even though they’re not at Egghead. lol

Maybe. Or we are in the final saga and Oda wants to end the story soon, so he can no longer confine an arc to a single setting.

electricmastro

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

@electricmastro said in Official Wano Thread:

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

Can we get an official Egghead thread? Although it looks like the new arc won't be entirely focused on Egghead...

I get the feeling Oda got fed up saving non-main island scenes for in between arcs and is showing Blackbeard confronting Law now even though they’re not at Egghead. lol

Maybe. Or we are in the final saga and Oda wants to end the story soon, so he can no longer confine an arc to a single setting.

Yeah, One Piece might end by July 2025 after all, so maybe we could see Wano again before 2022 ends for all we know. lol

danie

@electricmastro I don't think so. The earliest I can see One Piece ending is in July of 2027! For the 30th anniversary.

electricmastro

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

@electricmastro I don't think so. The earliest I can see One Piece ending is in July of 2027! For the 30th anniversary.

Ah, but Oda mentioned the idea of 3 years in a July 2022 interview, and this is endgame, so how can one not think this? lol

Ivotas

@electricmastro said in Official Wano Thread:

@danie said in Official Wano Thread:

@electricmastro I don't think so. The earliest I can see One Piece ending is in July of 2027! For the 30th anniversary.

Ah, but Oda mentioned the idea of 3 years in a July 2022 interview, and this is endgame, so how can one not think this? lol

Because so far he has failed to be right every single time when he gave an estimate about the series ending. Or to put it differently, he has flawless track record of being wrong in his estimates. With that in mind the question should rather be how can anyone still take them seriously?

Also shouldn't this thread be unstickied?

danie

@electricmastro Because ending it on the 30th anniversary (if possible) would be too good to pass up from a marketing perspective. It's just two more years from the "goal" of ending it in 2025.

Cockycent

Oda is a hack for not naming the legend that is the CP0 guy that interrupted Luffy vs Kaido.

Secondly, I liked looking at Luffy stretch different parts of Kaido as Nika Man.

electricmastro

Starting to realize just how many seeds Oda was planting to be revisited for later:

-Kaido getting less than a chapter for his backstory even though Doflamingo got multiple chapter devoted to his

-Zoro not visiting Ryuma's grave even though he said he would

-Momo wanting to surpass Oden

-Sanji's transformation into a Germa cyborg from his switched eyebrows

-Kiku not being shown mourning over her brother Izou dying even though them reuniting after years was a big deal

-Big Mom's status and if any of her children like Katakuri will try to avenge her

-Oden's will to prepare Wano for Joy Boy's return

-Carrot being nominated to be Zou ruler even though she never talked about getting such a position

Sure Oda was mainly focusing on Momo as Wano is pretty much his arc, and has planted seeds before, but this might be the most polarizing seed planting he has ever ended an arc on.

Kdom

What an optimistic guy you are

Scabbard Avenger

It really feels good how the toxicity during Wano has been drastically reduced for now. Egghead is restful. Not that it is perfect (Ohara books LOL, Saul), but less of a mess than the country of the cringe Samurai.

Ivotas

You know with this Official Wano Thread I've wondered why there's not an Official Egghead Thread yet? It's a ~~terrible~~ short arc yes, but it has already enough going on for discussion going on that span the entire arc rather than being chapter specific.

Scabbard Avenger

@Ivotas said in Official Wano Thread:

You know with this Official Wano Thread I've wondered why there's not an Official Egghead Thread yet? It's a ~~terrible~~ short arc yes, but it has already enough going on for discussion going on that span the entire arc rather than being chapter specific.

What aspects do you think are terrible if I might ask? The Ohara books being ignored for instance deeply insulted my intelligence, I almost refuse to believe Oda had planned it that way back then.

Cockycent

I wouldn't call it terrible, but it feels uneventful outside of VP being the worst. His character is so odd and entertaining. He's carrying the arc.

Ivotas

@Scabbard-Avenger said in Official Wano Thread:

@Ivotas said in Official Wano Thread:

You know with this Official Wano Thread I've wondered why there's not an Official Egghead Thread yet? It's a ~~terrible~~ short arc yes, but it has already enough going on for discussion going on that span the entire arc rather than being chapter specific.

What aspects do you think are terrible if I might ask? The Ohara books being ignored for instance deeply insulted my intelligence, I almost refuse to believe Oda had planned it that way back then.

You might ask but I don't feel like talking about it. If you check the last batch of chapters discussions you'll notice that I stayed out almost completely. I just feel a bit fatigued at being pissed off at something new every week that I just don't want to waste my energy on those things. Especially if it would lead to discussions where I would have to focus on these things more.

Don't get me wrong, I usually like having a constructive discussion with different takes. But at this point the entire situation of being disappointed with the series is what I just don't want to focus my time on too much. So I hope you don't mind if I don't really provide an explenation to your question.

electricmastro

@Scabbard-Avenger said in Official Wano Thread:

It really feels good how the toxicity during Wano has been drastically reduced for now. Egghead is restful. Not that it is perfect (Ohara books LOL, Saul), but less of a mess than the country of the cringe Samurai.

I think it didn't help that Oda had to push things aside to give spotlight to Momo, as Wano, at least Act 3, is pretty much Momo's arc. I don't think he's a particularly interesting character to be around, but I'm happy for him in rising up to be the shogun he wants to be.

I figure that any time Oda wants to return there would feel more welcome as we could take the time to focus on lore more like Joy Boy's return, instead of having to shift to 50+ viewpoints while fighting against a bully like Kaido. Oda could expand more on any heritage Zoro has from there for example.

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@electricmastro
Oda didn't have to give Momo a spotlight, he chose to. And it would not be a problema if he had managed to make Momo an interesting character. We were all excited to see his growth and development, we just didn't like the way it happened.

(One exception for me: I think I might be the only person who liked the scene in which Momo bites Kaidou, both in dragon form. Luffy saying "After this, is there anything in this world you are afraid of?" was so awesome! And it was so weird that after that everyone was waiting for Momo to finally attack Kaidou or give him the final blow, as if that had not just happened??)

electricmastro

@Chams-0 said in Official Wano Thread:

@electricmastro
Oda didn't have to give Momo a spotlight, he chose to. And it would not be a problema if he had managed to make Momo an interesting character. We were all excited to see his growth and development, we just didn't like the way it happened.

(One exception for me: I think I might be the only person who liked the scene in which Momo bites Kaidou, both in dragon form. Luffy saying "After this, is there anything in this world you are afraid of?" was so awesome! And it was so weird that after that everyone was waiting for Momo to finally attack Kaidou or give him the final blow, as if that had not just happened??)

Seeing as how Momo becoming the shogun is the direct aftermath of Kaido getting his ass kicked and even had Luffy’s presumed 10th person stay for a time due to his failure with the Admiral, it can be easy to see why Oda treated it as big of a deal as it was. I agree he’s not a particularly exciting or interesting individual to be around, and that his relationship with Luffy mostly amounted to being yelled at and coached, but clearly Oda isn’t done with him yet even after all these years. For now, we’ll have to see how fast he learns his stuff after in wanting to surpass Oden.

andre

I posted this in the latest chapter thread and people seemed to get a kick out of it. Wano is over, but I hope this video might leave a smile on some faces when thinking back on it:

electricmastro

@andre said in Official Wano Thread:

I posted this in the latest chapter thread and people seemed to get a kick out of it. Wano is over, but I hope this video might leave a smile on some faces when thinking back on it:

It feels like more of a pause right now, because of Pluton and Tama’s discrimination of course, but that’s funny too. lol

Nidhoeggr

@andre said in Official Wano Thread:

I posted this in the latest chapter thread and people seemed to get a kick out of it. Wano is over, but I hope this video might leave a smile on some faces when thinking back on it:

Donald's opinion on Wano is pretty solid, ngl.

andre

Another video has released and it's Sanji vs Zoro. Also pretty funny.