I guess that I started around June or July of 2003 when OP was in the middle of the Skypiea Arc. Jesus, that was such a long time ago…
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RE: Your duration as a One Piece fan
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RE: 609: ''Luffy Frozen?! The Terrifying Snow Woman Monet''
An okay chapter. The pacing was a little too slow; the title of the episode made no-sense whatsoever; the Monet v Luffy fight was silly; the drugged out children are kinda annoying to no end. However, the Vergo v Law fight was surprisingly good for a one-side fight, and Smoker's entry was bad ass. Interestingly, does anyone else get the impression that Monet and Vergo seem way stronger than their manga counterparts? I mean, in the manga you know that Law lost the fight, but the anime made it seem like he got raped [raw and bloody] with a [hard as steel] bamboo stick.
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RE: 604: ''Aim for Building R! The Great Assault of the Pirate Alliance!''
Below average episode… Shinokuni was well animated with good music and sound (the air rushing violently, from the high pressure release and osmosis); properly the only good thing in the episode... The artists seem to be on strike because the characters seem to be half-assed and linear-art quality, without tone. Man, Gum-Gum Ufo made Luffy looked like the Tasmanian devil lol.
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RE: What arc did you NOT like?
Davy Back Fight Arc – worst OP arc ever, but even then, it was tolerable. It didn't add anything to the story in the manga and was far worse in the anime. The only high point of the arc, though brief, is Roronoa and Sanji putting their huge differences aside to take down a common foe_…_
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RE: General 'Haki' Discussion
Haki exists, but fuc* it, there is more to One Piece than that. Haki exists as a natural equalizer in battle, to overcome the concepts of unnatural strength and devil fruits in One Piece. So not everything such be linked back to it, gosh.
Though there is no way to determine whether or not haki was used by Akainu to kill Ace, it is blantantly obviously that Akainu knew that his ability would hurt Ace, especially if Ace lowered his defence. It points to him not needing haki at all because Akainu knew Ace's weakness – his self-sacrifice for the people associated with him, whether it be foolishly defending Roger's name, or fighting to protect his adopted brothers, or blinding fighting to protect Whitebeard's name. The moment Akainu went after Luffy, it was game over; Ace didn't even defend. Once Akainu fire overcame Ace's natural defence, it was like he wasn't Logia at all; yes, it would seem that Ace's fire prevent him from dying immediately, but it was still like a normal human being burned by fire.
Likewise, Luffy's attack does the same thing to Enel. Once the punch hit him, it was like he lost all control of his powers, and his natural defence became nil for a short time after the contact.
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RE: 482: ''The Power that Burns Even Fire - Akainu's Fierce Assault''
There is no way I can suppose Naruto-like or Bleach-like fillers in One Piece. Losing a few minutes out each episode to something like Bugle's antics is far better than filler that does not add to character design and characteristics.
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RE: Would You Watch One Piece on TV from the Beginning?
In truth, I would definitely watch it, as long as it's not the farce it was when it was in America awhile back. It would need to be as close to the original content as possible, without adding useless jokes and weird names for attacks.
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RE: Different languages discussion
I don't believe you. There's no way you're really fluent in all of these languages.
I speak German, English and French. I tried to learn Spanish once but I stopped because I didn't have the time. I still wanna learn it as well as Italian and Swahili (since I'm half Kenyan).
I’m sorry, why can’t I be fluent in all these languages. I grew up knowing Jamaican Patois, British English and Italian. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, a doctor or an engineer as a child. So, I would read what I thought was Egyptian from books at the local library. Believe me, there was not that many computers in Jamaican back then. Later, I found that it was Amharic, an Ethiopian language, instead of Epyptian. But, whatever
When my mom and I moved to the United States, I got introduced to German and American English in high school. During my junior year, I met my girlfriend, who is a native of Kenya. Swahili is easy to learn, especially if you know British English and Italian, because you pronounce the words like they’re English words. Needless to say, she taught me Kiswahili.
Twi is a language that I’m very illiterate in. I can speak it fluent, but I can’t really read or write much of it. Most of my neighbors were Ghanaians, so I would pick up words here and there, and then I would ask what they meant. You know, experiment in it. When I graduated from high school at 16, going to 17 few days afterwards, I didn’t really want to go to college yet, especially since my girlfriend was just starting her senior year.
Anyway, my mom was forcing me to go, but I had other plans. So, while at college, I decided to get the basic college classes out of the way while going overseas. Using the school’s foreign exchange program, I went to Brazil for 2 semesters with my friends. Through Rosetta stone, and talking to people as well as the need to eat proper food, I learned Portuguese quickly. My Italian knowledge helped a lot. There is a lot of Portuguese words in Swahili too, so I didn’t have to relearn those loan words
Anyway, I came back home for summer and worked at a Korean Menswear store. Most of our customers tend to be Hispanic and Black people. I learned bits and pieces of Korean from the boss and I learned basic Spanish this way from the customers. This is my 4th summer working there, so even though I’m not quite proficient, I can understand most of what generally goes on in a Korean and a Spanish conversation.
Anyway, I now study engineering alongside my girlfriend. About 30% of the students speak Hindi, 3% speaks Korean and around 20% speak some form of Chinese: from Mandarin, Xing to Cantonese. In other words, for most people there, English is there second or third language. To graduate from school, you need community service hours, so they came up with a simplified Chinese no-credit class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. China is taking over; I took the class for giggles, and now I can speak and read simplified Chinese, but I’m still struggle to form the more advantage ‘strokes’ and characters.
I don’t really like Hindi much, just the music. But with people talking in it half the time, you must pick up words, here and there. So, anyway, my academic advisor is also the advisor of the sign language club at my school. They teach American and Japanese sign language there. After 2 semesters, I became really proficient at American Sign Language.
I go to an international engineering university, bro. You have to know English to join the school. Most people speak many languages there, especially the military kids and foreign exchange kids, so it’s only natural to get a chance to use all of these languages too. The name of the University is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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RE: Different languages discussion
I never had any problems with languages and sciences growing up. The languages that
I'm fluent in are English, Italian, Portuguese, Swahili, Twi, German, American Sign
Language, and simplified Chinese. I'm currently learning Korean, Hindi, Amharic and
Spanish.There is no push and pull when it comes to Languages, because they all seem to have 'advantages' and 'disadvantages.' For instance, even though German is a much harder language to learn than Italian in terms of writing and reading structure, it took much longer for others to understand what I was saying in Italian. That's because my Jamaican accent made the gentle Italian tones and intonations sounded rougher, and thus like other words and or dialects.
Yes, I do speak Jamaican Patois, but it's not really recognized as a language in the world, so I don't count it as a known language. I mean, you could understand what I'm saying in Patois if I speak retardly slow, you know British English and I remove all idioms, which is nearly impossible, from what I'm saying.
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RE: Chapter 594: "Message" Discussion
Oda has a twisted sense of humor. If you read the first pages with the five elderly stars,
you can see the implication; to become a 'Warlord of the Sea', Blackbeard needed to take down Luffy. Likewise, if Luffy takes
down Blackbeard and his crew, then he will be considered a youkou.What is with that doctor sucking on that fish bone? Anyway, I'm not really interested
in Coby right now. He's 200 chapters too early to be important at this stage.Franky says "forsooth" and Robin says "Roger"? Are these just bad translations? I doubt
Franky would say that, and is Robin interfering the bells in regards to Gol D. Roger? If so,
then the clue to understanding the bells is in the conversation that Releigh had with the Strawhat crew….