@Xskart:
you should shut up Urouge :/ man where are these freaks of nature coming from? My youngster pls leave us alone ;) and dont spam here. This is my first and final warning Urouge.
I will learn from your shining example.
@I:
yes yes, of course I agree. Just that sometimes the issue being examined seems so insignificant, that the attempt seems a bit… labored. But do carry on dear, if makes things easier for you.
Perhaps, but that's how I've been conditioned from long before I touched One Piece.
What was that? Can you rephrase, I'm afraid I'm not following you…
The word "physics" by itself has been known to cause headaches. You have to take math and drill it through your temple, then spread the pain around in order to apply it to everything that happens ever. The universe is nothing more than a series of equations (that might be wrong) which are made out of symbols that you can't read without an understanding of a couple different thousand year old dead languages. Why? Because deal with it. Really, though, they just ran out of actual letters pretty early on. L = magnetic inductance, for example, because why the fuck not.
I say all of this because it has absolute importance in determining the rotational and translational velocity of a flying axe in a comic book. Building the necessary equation will be necessary in order for Luffy to defeat VDD. Fortunately, he's good at math. :hrmm:
(sigh) I have to switch back to seriousness to answer this part. I felt like the arrows moved as they did to highten then sense of impending doom we, the audience, felt when watching Hatchi's failed attempt to evade them, which fed nicely into our growing interest in (and for some, perhaps fear for) Shira's safety. Again, almost assuredly a decison based on the storyline than anything else, though it serves to highlight Oda's intelligence/basic knowledge of the world that we are able to impose some of those hard and fast rules from real life onto this manga, IMHO. (It is nice that you can completely dispose of the affects of water on the arrows' movement in your argument though. Oda is all generous, all Hail!)
Yeah, the arrows being tossed in the air was a good panel, but we got the same sort of delay when he tossed the knife at Hachi a little earlier, or when he tossed the axe at the beginning, or or or.
I said it before, but I view the comic book logic in this case in the same mold as video game logic for the same concept. Toss something in the air, give it a second to find/lock on to its target, and off it goes at full speed to chase the target until it hits something. The concept is simple, popular, and makes sense based on everything we've seen. It could be viewed as convenient that I just write off the affects of water, but in a world that's totally underwater it's necessary for Oda to do that in order to help justify VD as a threat (pun intended).
Yes, I can certainly see how this would be irrefutable. It is undeniable that Luffy is the answer to all questions to which 42 does not apply. (but how incredibly unchivalrous of you to outdo my "proof" with a truly irrefutable argument)
You've gotten confused about something along the way. 42 ALWAYS applies.
Sorta proves the "distance = greater speed" part of my "theory," doesn't it? Perhaps it would just be a regular ball going down an incline, rather than a snowball rolling down a hill…
Even still it will hit a speed cap (like terminal velocity) relatively quickly. It makes sense to me that stuff just keeps going the same speed forever until it hits something, and the target gets too tired to keep running away before long.
The thing is, once the target is locked in and the objects begin to fly toward it, I don't see anything that would imply an increase in speed anywhere in any of the instances. This is a simple Occam's Razor case for me, I suppose.
