i guess i've already read about half of those..
i remember seeing this a while ago, and i'd only read/owned one back then.
Posts made by Ao Kiji
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RE: Sucker Punch
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RE: Sucker Punch
@THE:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html
Roll down.sea got banned??
and i guess i've already read about half of these..
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RE: One Piece x Toriko collaboration Manga
much more entertaining than the other cross epoch with dragon ball.
luffy's charisma made it light, but a nice diversion. toriko still looks dull and generic to me.
sorry, toriko fans. =\Luffy's profile on the first page looks unexpectedly mature.
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RE: Xenoblade Chronicles
xenogears is the 2nd best rpg i've played, following closely after final fantasy VI.
xenosaga is one of the worst first-gen ps2 titles i played, and i turned it off after about an hour or two.ambivalent about this, but i'll be hopefully if the first glimpses look promising..
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RE: News: Newspaper: Funimation Sales Down More Than Half Since 2004
isn't this sort of old news, or par for the course?
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RE: Sucker Punch
@JERK:
The Dark Knight Returns has never been adapted for film.
which is why i'm not turned off yet. i meant that the film versions just give me the impression i won't like his writing at all, so i just avoid his original works. they're like reverse advertisements, because i was interested in checking out his stuff before i saw 300.
just throwing these out here since the conversation has become how to make a good or bad comic film:
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RE: Sucker Punch
Heh. I'm not even saying it's this good movie that people are shitting on, but the most annoying thing ever is when you're watching or discussing a movie and someone won't stop going on about the source material and how everything is either changed (ALWAYS) for the worse or lazily just copied and pasted.
I don't walk up to people talking about apples with some line about how I like the taste of oranges.
And on topic, I'm sure this movie sucks.
if it helps, i've never read 300 and i didn't like that one, either.
frank miller film adaptations have pretty much made me disinterested in his entire oeuvre
aside from maybe the dark knight returns.also, i'm wasn't knocking watchmen as a film in the first place; i was knocking snyder as a director. i agree that watchmen is a perfectly okay movie as long as you have never read the original book.
Is the graphic novel that good? I'm thinking of checking it out.
it's definitely worth checking out as it's satisfying on a lot of different levels. you'll probably enjoy it if you enjoy reading comics at all, regardless of personal taste or comic book fandom immersion.
i don't agree that it's the best of all time or anything, but definitely well-written, smart, and entertaining.
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RE: Sucker Punch
This is a movie about badass sexy hot chicks fighting and superb visuals. Its just one of the countless latest movies which have no real plot like the Expendables, Scott Pilgrim, Machete, Ninja Assasin…etc.
People should have specific expectations for specific movies when they go to the theaters.
From Sucker Punch..you can expect this...
[qimg]http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/sucker-punch-baby-doll-poster.jpg[/qimg]lol 'there are other dumb movies guys! how come you no like this dumb movie, too?!!?'
i've only seen scott pilgrim from that list, so i can only defend that one by saying there was a (messy)plot, and a lot of heart and originality. sucker punch is giving off a shallow 'kill bill impersonation' vibe–but once again, i haven't seen it, dude. maybe you're right, and it's awesome.
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RE: Sucker Punch
@RobbyBevard:
I hate it when movies take source material thats already perfect and then deviate horrendously, thus leaving out what is often the best part of the book, the main theme, message, ending, or a moment that demanded to be on screen. I don't understand how anyone can stomach the Haryr Potter movies when they're misisng the only thing the books really had going for them, the world building and the charm. Or like when Jurassic Park left out the river ride or the scene in the hatchery.
If I'm getting a movie of a beloved book, I want that book up on screen, not something just taking its name and screwing it all up.
Considering the fact that recreating the comic was the only good thing Watchmen had going for it, and it sucked whenever it deviated, I'd say the BEST part of the entire film experience was looking forward to scenes you knew well and wondering how they'd be interpreted and pulled off and with sound and motion, and is pretty much all it had going for it.. (The same applies to the Sin City movie, really.)
And then he goes and injects Hallelujah into a an overlong sex scene, makes the murder of the redundantly obvious and lacking in subtlety, makes the regular humans into super beings, and misses the entire point of the story.
The fact that he screwed up so badly when he had perfect storyboards from THE MOST HIGHLY ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL OF ALL TIME written by ALAN the god of American and British comics MOORE to begin with speaks volumes about Synder's talent, or lack thereof.
my issue is that that form of fidelity, even at its best, either creates a strong reverence for the source material among already existing fans, or only comes close to the level of quality from the comic. the best comics, in my opinion, are taking advantage of the medium itself–that doesn't transfer if you adapt it directly into a film, because it's being swapped over to a completely new medium.
i think the director MUST respect and enjoy and have reverence for the source material for it to be good, but they have to realize they need to make it into a movie, not a moving comic book on screen. if you've read the original lord of the rings, jackson altered tons of aspects of the series that were prominent in the novels (read: songs play a massive part in the story, as well as lineage and each character's personal backstory), but the themes and spirit of the novels are completely in tact with those things taken out for the movies.
the original hellboy movie, i felt, was great--and it seems totally in the vein of everything from the comic, despite the swapping of liz's ethnicity. a LOT is lifted directly from the comic, the characters all feel true to their comic counterparts, the themes and style feel the same, but things are changed to make it flow naturally as a film. it would NOT have worked as well had it been a strict adaptation.
when the director gets it right, it feels exactly the same as it did reading the comic, even if some of the details and events are completely new. the only chance a director has at possibly IMPROVING upon the source material is when they understand the balance between adapting things for the film medium and keeping what's already there from the comic.
no one enjoys the harry potter movies, but there are definitely a few adaptations that i've seen improve upon a novel, and it's never when they try to copy every detail directly. as a movie fan and a fan of the comic, i didn't enjoy it at all. it's supposed to be a good comic made into a good film. i get why you'd enjoy that aspect, but what you're describing is only enjoyable in that fanboy 'oh, now i get to see rorschach do my favorite thing from the comic!' sort of way. i actually wanted a good movie, not my favorite scenes read back to me by someone who didn't seem to totally understand them.
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RE: Sucker Punch
@JERK:
It changed the fucking ending.
my girlfriend complained about this, and, eh, that really wasn't why i hated that fucking movie; it was because he kept 85-90% of EVERYTHING IDENTICAL to the comic: every line, every scene, etc. he tweaked night owl's costumes and maybe a few more tiny details, but if you read the comic, IT RUINED THE ENTIRE FILM EXPERIENCE. does anyone enjoy mindless staring at something they've probably re-read in anticipation right before the movie? seeing every scene you remember vividly, with the only difference being that it's moving??
maybe if you have zero fucking imagination and need lines read to you in order to hear character voices, or things moving to imagine the sensation of motion, but not me.
what kind of comic book movie fucks over fans of the original material like that? I ALREADY HAVE THE BOOK. if i am a fan, i enjoyed this shit enough to remember it. now you're just blandly rehashing every damn scene, and then saving the only real change for a horribly chosen left turn at the very end?
snyder is horrible at adapting everything sans visuals, it seems.
he has no voice or opinion to express with his films, which is usually what makes a good director. i haven't seen suck punch, so maybe it's not as bad as everyone is saying, but i'll i've seen is snyder marginalize other people's creativity into 'pretty' visuals and get ridiculous amounts of praise for it. -
RE: Trying to convert my friend to One Piece
How make someone who don't see Anime, watch One Piece?
1.show them the manga instead.
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RE: Episode 160, "The Return" (Chris Sabat)
this is weird to say, but it was great hearing ed narrating the manga recap after so long. i actually thought sabat's comments about the characters were surprisingly incisive for someone who doesn't keep track of the series.
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RE: Episode 160, "The Return" (Chris Sabat)
i missed this part of the mini-marathon–thanks so much for recording the episode tonight, guys.
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RE: One piece indonesian dub
this may be a question that's been answered somewhere else, but i haven't heard the explanation yet. is it just a business choice made by funimation, or are they showing commitment to their own site and simulcast or what?
it seems weird since they put it up on hulu a few days after it debuts on their site, anyway. why not slap it up legally on cruncyroll, considering that site probably gets more traffic and attention from anime fans overall? i may be mistaken, but it seems like the second best place to get it out there to people besides having it on tv.
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RE: Save Symbionic Titan
wtf? it's canceled? my dvr was set to record it and i was wondering why i got a goddamn johnny test episode instead!
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RE: Best Generation of Rock
@JERK:
This is bullshit.
I mean I'm not going to act like I can say anything about rock, because I can't yet.But hip-hop wise I sure as shit can.
Things have golden ages. Adhering to some faux politically correct "it's always the same :)" is nonsense. If it can apply to nations it can sure as fuck apply to art.
I'm not some idiot who scoffs at modern stuff. In fact I had a good ol' time in 2010 hip-hop wise, and still think we're living a charmed current existence compared to the late 90's. I even kinda like Lil Wayne and Niki Minaj and all the current mainstream big wigs. WAY better than 50 Cent and P Diddy.But today pales in comparison to 88-96.
this is fine and i agree, but, once again, this applies exclusively to what's most popular in that musical genre. did underground hip-hop's quality change much from decade to decade? i doubt it. i'm just saying that if you're looking at everything coming out under such broad banners as 'hip-hop' or 'rock', you're going to find plenty of artist doing quality stuff regardless of timing.
it's popular trends that usually end up being good or bad when you look back on them. music doesn't have a whole lot to do with 'political correctness' and i wasn't making that statement to 'play it safe' or whatever you're saying, either. i'm saying you're probably talking about trends, not the genres themselves; the genres themselves just experience popular trends that may or may not suck. 50 cent and sean combs were big fads in their respective decades, not the musical representatives of it , imho.
Scenes that drive hundreds to compete and go for the gold at the opening moments of an exciting new something have an advantage over a time when disparate groups occasionally rise to the occasion unbound by any momentum.
It's common sense.it creates a spark, yeah, but the amount of people trying to grasp hold of some swaying artistic momentum doesn't immediately equate 'quality'; just because lots of people are trying to push the envelope or grasp hold of this new trend opened up by someone(s) doesn't mean tons of amazing art is the result–especially when it's a musician who's tapped into a style that's inimitable.
and sometimes 'no one else is trying this' IS the momentum for an artist to break out and do amazing stuff.
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RE: The Music Genre You HATE
On a related note, another good source of really JAPANESE rock music that actually has its own flavor is Shutoku Mukai projects (Number Girl, Zazen Boys) because he has a really keen interest in Buddhist imagery, chants (almost like a buddhist monk rap), repeated motifs, "Oriental" pentatonic scales, etc. These get more pronounced in his later material (Zazen Boys) but sadly despite him/his music being really well known (he's like a Thurston Moore I guess) it's so unique in Japanese music that there isn't much of a "culture" surrounding his stuff. Either nobody tries and/or nobody can come close so he's kind of a monolith. Good stuff though.
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CQ_zAuxaDRc&feature=relatedi gotta say, just like the other thread, these genres are too broad for my taste–most of my favorite musical genres aren't even listed in the poll..
also, and this isn't even personal, but can you PLEASE stop arguing with every single person who says they dislike hip-hop, zephos? some people can listen to every single hip-hop song in existence and, overall, it still won't be their thing. i listen to some underground and mainstream stuff, and, while i do like some of it a lot, i wouldn't consider myself a huge fan of the genre itself.i totally agree with what Bucephalus said, though. you can't completely hate ANY genre if you've explored it enough.
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RE: The Music Genre You HATE
probably metal.
i'm sure there's good metal, but either i haven't heard it or the genre just isn't my thing. i do love black sabbeth, but i can't tell if that's 'metal' or not. maybe i just hate 'death metal' specifically?i don't think there is a strong sense of division among music genres except when it comes to country and hip-hop, and i think that's largely in part to those genres being associated with the incredibly large subcultures of 'ghetto hood' and 'redneck hillbilly'.
music, at its best, is something that resonates with the listener on a very personal level, so it makes sense that people are so defensive and impassioned about it. it's similar to religion in that way: people who're really into a specific group/band/singer/etc. feel that that genre/artist represents what they stand for as an individual person.
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RE: Best Generation of Rock
music quality stays pretty damn consistent from generation to generation; it's people's taste during each generation that's either good or shitty.
so, then, is this thread about personal taste, or popular rock music from generation to generation?
because i love my bloody valentine and the pixies(very late-80s/early-90s), but i also hate the shitty rock bands that were incredibly popular during that period (read:nirvana). -
RE: The production of the ONE PIECE chapter
I don't get why Japanese TV is just so cartoony. I don't know Japanese, so watching much of that would have been pointless for me.
well, this seems to be a program aimed at kids to begin with..
When that room is first revealed that had all the Jump images and manga panels on the wall, the token girl on the team goes "It's a Dream World!" And I was like "Really?… It's just a wall full of manga images... I could go to Kinkos one afternoon and have the same thing on my wall"
i think she meant it in the sense that it's the place where all those series are created.
I personaly think that Oda as now reached a point,where he can do whatever he wants and he doesnt give a f*** about,what those editors say…(imo)
if oda were that stubborn and narrow-minded, one piece wouldn't be what it is.
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RE: The production of the ONE PIECE chapter
the second half of the video seems to be a behind-the-scenes at LEVEL 5, which begs the question: how come level 5 hasn't tried their hand at a one piece game yet??!
marippe is really cool, geeking out about every tiny thing like a total nerdy little girl.
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RE: The production of the ONE PIECE chapter
i can't believe that's his desktop during an interview, either.
japan is so 'different'..anyway, production stuff is always interesting!
thanks for sharing it.
EDIT:
i watched 2 seconds and was like, 'is that marippe (mari yaguchi)?!'
then she laughed, and i was like, 'that's definitely yagguchan.'+full-on fanboy drooling mode. she's still adorable to me, as along as she's not singing horrific opening themes.pretty sure she's a big one piece fan from what i've seen of her in variety shows and stuff.
LULZ, BLEACH completely covered up by some other series and more or less ignored, while one piece has its own WALL of stuff!super-editor hittori looks like such a cool dude.
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RE: Last week's shonen jump posted free online?
Read the article. It's not the next issue, we've already read the chapter that came out in issue 15.
ah, didn't pick up on all the dates until i reread it.
i guess it's just last week's issue–since jump was released, but couldn't make it out to all the places in japan that it usually does. -
RE: Eiichiro Oda: " I want ranks among the mangaka"
according to greg, he was taking a subtle pot-shot at either kubo or togashi– so i support!
even though i enjoy HXH, those guys are clearly lazy slack-asses.
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Last week's shonen jump posted free online?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-23/shonen-jump-posts-quake-delayed-issue-online
so it looks like last week's issue will be distributed free online due to difficulties getting it out this week. reactions? yay?
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
i had a tough time falling asleep right after it ended, too, despite having been around for almost all of it. i guess your second wind kicks in or something..
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
on a personal note, you have WAY TOO MUCH energy, al! xD
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
i meant the split second where gaara (or was it jiraiya?)shouted jesus was a ninja, and then jason threatened to cut their feed since they were organizing the thing, lol. it was silly, nerdy debating, but right when they seemed to be about to genuinely argue over the topic..everyone was united under the banner of PURE BLEACH HATRED.
i got scared when the debate started because i had been worried how well naruto, bleach, and one piece fans could get along without a divisive argument about which series is better breaking out. although i agree with them wholeheartedly, one piece fans are known for taking swipes at bleach and naruto. jesuotaku let out some audible 'bleach fangirl cringing' when zach mentioned bleach's crappy story.
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
@Sniper:
I'm sad now…I set my alarm for 7:10 so I could watch the Ninjas vs. Pirates part...and I woke up, but...I thought, "it's just a podcast...and I'm tired''...Now, I regret my decision of going back to sleep...
they actually did it, albeit very briefly.
the conversation started to get heated until they both agreed SHINIGAMIS SUCK, and started ragging on bleach together.i really want an animated .gif of steve dancing with the vanderdeckken hat on now..
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
@Badass:
Al- Ah. I see. Well all you guys do deserve some rest.
I don't think they did.
lol! i had a feeling they were completely out of it by the end and forgot to!
totally understandable and get some well-deserved rest, guys.i imagine all of them are passed out on the basement floor using that japanese flag and chopper plush as a makeshift pillow and blanket by now..
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
did they announce their guest for next week at the end?
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
I can't get Ustream to load…neither on the podcast site or the official ustream site. Any suggestions?
my best suggestion would be to try to watch the embedded video on facebook. if not facebook, embed the video somewhere and watch the tinier version via the embed video?
you can't be involved in chat that way, but the video seems to stream much easier that way.
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
my comp sucks, but my connection is pretty good, and it was working okay for me.
the chat lags sometimes, but it only froze when i started opening a bunch of other tabs.make sure you keep everything else closed, i guess?
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RE: New Opening 14 Discussion
If you dropped something it's going to take more than just a new pop song to get you interested again. And even then you could just You tube that shit.
Also,corner cutting tricks aside, every episode has new animation.who says someone doesn't stumble across the intro on youtube, see new characters, islands, techniques, etc., and get re-interested in the series? some people don't ditch a series because they hate it; someone people just drift away because they have lives outside of anime and manga series.
not saying a new opening is a game-changer, but it definitely gets hyped enough to make a few people stumble across it who aren't in the die hard fanbase. sometimes, i stumble across a new intro for a series i dropped, see a bunch of interesting stuff in it, and, out of curiosity, watch an episode or two to see how the characters and interesting things from the intro are used in the actual show.
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RE: New Opening 14 Discussion
By that logic George Lucas should have let the press know ahead of time Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers father. Some things are more important than cheap publicity, especially when you honestly don't need it.
if star wars was a popular book series, most people would already be aware of it.
it's more like harry potter showing the events of the novel in the trailers to amp up fans who already know what's going to happen, but are just excited to see how it plays out in live-action.
This response just confuses me, first you disregard the fact that Toei's timing with Hikari E was a bone headed move because apparently every japanese citizen is required by law to read the One Piece manga.
they're not required, but most japanese fans DO read the manga.
once again, it's like the harry potter series; no one considers the harry potter movies to be the MAIN SERIES or gets upset if the film trailers spoil events for fans who aren't caught up with the current novel.it seems like in japan, if you get spoiled by an anime opening, it's your own fault for not having caught up to the current events of one piece. the anime is NOT the main series; it's the manga.
In regards to what Ao Kiji said about Robin bringing in viewers, I really highly doubt that. Out of all the members of Baroque Works that mattered , Robin had little to no screen time. A character lurking in the shadows of (at that point) more personable villains like Bon Clay and Crocodile isn't going to bring in new viewers.
if you were up-to-date with the manga by the time hikari e debuted in the anime, you've read way beyond the robin from the baroque works arc..
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RE: New Opening 14 Discussion
@No:
As a person whom Toei spoilt on Robin's joining , I beg to differ.
considering the japanese follow the manga more than the anime, and once something 'new' pops up in the manga, it generates a lot of enthusiasm among the fanbase, i have a feeling it's not that they're intentionally spoiling it, but that they're trying to take advantage of the 'new thing' and draw in a larger crowd, maybe manga fans, to the anime version.
example: when gear 2nd appeared in the anime, and luffy doing gear 2nd was immediately in the opening; or when luffy vs. usopp happened and it was in the opening, too. if a new crew member joins, it goes in the opening as soon as it happens, because they're trying to capitalize while the fanbase is still excited about it.
i honestly wouldn't be surprised if we saw a timeskip opening, because it's such a big deal for the manga. if we're getting filler, i doubt it'll happen, though.
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RE: New Opening 14 Discussion
@HiroVoid:
The Apis filler didn't really bother me. The Little East Blue Arc on the other hand….
And yes! Do flashbacks or whatever, but animate those cover arcs!
apis didn't bother me much, either, and the fillers are generally okay when marathoned. it's easy to see how anime-only fans would be frustrated watching them week after week, waiting to return to the main storyline.
not a fan of soul'd out, but an m-flo one piece opening would immediately be the best opening one piece has ever had:
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RE: New Opening 14 Discussion
"Queen of Hip Hop"?
I don't think Hip Hop fits One Piece, especially the Goa Arc, which was pretty dark. But yeah, Toei used Kaze wo Sagashite for Impel Down, they don't give a damn if it fits or not.
it says 'hip-pop', not hip-hop.
and for the record, the generic bubblegum, over-produced j-pop they usually use for openings doesn't fit the tone of the series at all, either. i'm really hoping they learned their lesson with opening 12 and it's the start of fitting openings, like the current one, from here on out.
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RE: 24 Hour Podcast Fundraiser: Anime Fans Give Back to Japan
really great idea, and i hope it can help out the people enduring the devastation there right now in some small way.
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RE: Best AMV I have ever seen
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this song is just so fitting for THAT moment.
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
Zoro owns Hodi without pills.
And then Hodi uses pills and fight Luffy.
I think the monster trio is going to fight Van der Beeken, Hodi and Caribou.
i think it'll be pretty anticlimactic if a major villain is defeated twice in one arc.
it's more likely zoro will own him until he uses the pills, then either zoro'll get owned or they'll fight more evenly until something interrupts. -
RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
I'm not disagreeing that zoro is overall weaker and less of a fighter without all of his swords, what am trying to saying is that zoro can launch attacks with 1 sword or 2 as long as he using a techinque which requires the use of that many amount of swords.
Example Zoro's lion song is done with 1 sword, i wouldn't call it weaker than his other 2 or 3 sword techniques….
Some techniques require 1 sword and they are just as powerful as his other 3 swords techniques.
Yes zoro's is overall weaker with less swords due to less options while in combat, but it does not decrease his damage out put with a single attack, Just his technique changes.
Ever heard this before.
"do not fear the man who knows 1000 kicks but fear the man who knows one kick and has done it 1000 times"
yeah, i agree totally.
i am going to assume the one he used in this chapter was a weaker technique, though, or just comic book logic, because if it's as strong as his three sword techniques, it should have split the fishmen in half or the shockwave should have rippled through and hit hodi anyway.
..maybe hodi specifically grabbed a touch-as-hell fishmen to shield himself with?
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
No…
We have seen zoro finish off his opponents with 1 sword.. it would not decrease his Power... in some cases it makes him stronger.
But having less swords would decrease his techniques and Battle Choices, moves etc..
So he will have less options when fighting. he will not be able to do moves which require 3 swords.
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And Like Mihawk said to Zoro in their first encounter.
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Zoro's not a stupid person who's going to use his all to hunt for a rabbit.
Hodi's the one with a handicap in my opinion.
Hodi's should hate his own destiny, which made zoro his opponent.
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strength and technique are the combination of what makes a fighter strong.
zoro uses three-sword-style=he's only at his best when fighting with three swords at once.i agree with what you're saying about him holding back, but i think him using 'one-sword-style' is an example of him holding back, holding back by using a single sword instead of whipping a three-sword technique at him.
i wonder why Zoro has to be so far handicapped but neither sanji or luffy suffer such handicaps in the majority of their fights
probably because it emphasizes how tough and manly he is to fight with gaping wounds, bleeding to death.
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
Given the Japanese theme of Zoro's village, Kuina was most likely cremated.
'zoro's former sensei's students examine kuina's ashes to make sure they exists after encountering a photo of tashigi in the newspaper.'
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
And if it was, Lucas has Kishimoto level sexual issues with the whole Leia-Luke-Han triangle
i was going to point that out, too..
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
also, i mean, tashigi is clumsy and overly polite.
kuina was a brash, dexterous tomboy–they're not really alike at all except for their appearance and their passions being centered around swords.oda drew all women alike back then. maybe tashigi is supposed to look very close to kuina, but not EXACTLY like her?
There are some real idiots in this forum kuina and tashiga are not the same person what would it take for you to realise this what for oda to come to your house and scream it in your face.
that's rude, man. some pretty ridiculous stuff happens in one piece..that theory is slightly less ridiculous than franky joining back when he was first introduced. but at this point, it seems so obvious that even if oda had been planning it, he probably ditched the idea long ago.
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RE: Chapter 617: "The Shocking Incident at Coral Hill" Discussion
We never saw Pell caught in the explosion, we just saw the explosion.
Presumably he got high into the sky and threw the bomb seconds before it went off. So he just got hit by the impact and shockwave, rather than the full central force of the blast.
that's definitely a good enough explanation.
personally, i think people, myself included, only have problems with it due to it marginalizing his supposed sacrifice, not the believability of it.and i mean, we aren't shown kuina falling down the stairs or whatever, either, which i think is the entire basis for that 'kuina is really tashigi' theory. oda's writing style has created a pretty cynical attitude toward characters being killed off.
It is pretty obvious Oda is lying about Kuina and Tashigi's connection. It is a mistake for a writer to reveal the plot twists before people see it.
i assumed that kuina and tashigi were one and the same right up until oda denied it outright. reading the SBS and knowing oda's attitude, i honestly think he would have turned his response into a joke to avoid answering the question if that were the case. i don't think oda would ever lie to fans explicitly, even if they predicted a huge plot twist.
don't remember the wording exactly, but i think he just said something like, 'no, they just look a lot alike.' i take it back, someone post the SBS, please, lol