Posts made by AvanMilton

@boiga:

Actually, pipboy has the right of it there. If luffy had to decide between the destruction of a nation to which he has no ties or the death of a nakama's dream… I could very easily see him choosing the dream.

He didn't fight buggy because buggy attacked first. He fought buggy because the dog's food store burnt down and the old mayor was willing to sacrifice himself for the pride of the town.

He fought croc because of the nami's map making room. He fought kuro because usopp was willing to sacrifice himself in obscurity is the boss and realizeto save a town that hated him. He fought in drum island to show chopper had nakama. He attacked the WG because they threatened his nakama. Enel he fought to mainly to show acornhead that jaya did exist.

Luffy doesn't make himself out as a hero that fights bad guys because they do bad things. He doesn't even search out fights with difficult enemies for training purpose (think how he avoided messing with smoker).

His motivation for fighting comes about when he meets someone whose noble dream has been desecrated, and he will fight whoever it takes to make that dream come to light.

In retrospect... that is a little psycho...

Lets see, enemies and reason why Luffy powed then
Alvida - Kinda protecting Coby, he only attacked after Coby faced her.
Moochi (the animal trainer) - The dog
Buggy - the Mayor
Kuro - Ussop, later his pirate pride
Krieg - His pride as a future pirate king, found a way to skip working in Baratie
Arlong - the motherf@&@!# hurt my navigator, he found a way to help (understand) her
Smoke - he never had a reason to stay and fight, even more when he found the his attacks where useless.
Zoro - he hurted the guys that gave him food (pride??)
Red Giant - defending himself
Mister 3 - messing with the giants battle (pride)
Vapol - Defending himself (at ship), attacking his friends (while climbing the montain), defending a pirate pride (while in the caste)
Smoke - again, same reason
Crocodile - just because Vivi was willing to do everything, including killing herseft for the sake of her country, Luffy didn't wanted that, so he went do kill crocodile himself.
The guy in Jaya (tottally forgot name) - he stole the gold
Enel - he JUST was in the way for the bell, he was kinda pissed about his fried nakama as well.
Foxy - game = protect his nakama
Lucci - find what is wrong with Robin
Blueno - rescue Robin
Lucci - rescue Robin

With that said, he is no psico, he most of the times is fighting for someone else, sometimes he fight for his own beliefs or defending himself.

And yes, i really think Garp is trying to capture Luffy, maybe not with killing intent but he isn't using all his weapons against him, to give him a chance. Like a father who hit his son hard but not enought to actually hurt him, just to show to the children who is the boss and that whatever stuff the kid did, it was fucking wrong.

We have the thin darkish paper, without colors (everything is gray).
We usually had a book quality paper.

BTW Helter, i'm sorry but I'm pretty sure I've read some raws writen with the KamiSama Kanji, like when he introduced himself to Robin, when he zapped that girl in front of Wiper, when Luffy mentioned him too.

@Raphael:

Quoted for truth.
I only pity people whose only contact with this series were by this dubs.

The wrost example I could imagine is in the scene in Rurouni Kenshin when he was fighting that other hitoukiri (sp) that kidnapped Kaoru and hipnotised her.
The original version: Kendo no saya to, Niddou Battou Jutsu. (actually something like: Sword and (dunno, the part where the sword is keeped;bainha in portuguese), double battou tecnique).
In portuguese: You tricked me Battousai!!!!???!?!

Money, money and money, thats what moves the world i think.
I thought that they where using the same paper.
If they're using low quality paper at least they should use good translations.

I don't mind the extras except for SBS with actually has some info.

For Christ sake, just have one editor or one of his sons to browse here once in a while.

For situations like this is that I cry in Rurouni Kenshin anime dub or One Piece dub, and I hope Naruto/Bleach NEVER come here.

@Mmod:

I just stopped buying it after they changed to this actual horrible paper, so I don`t know how it is going nowadays. But, if I take as a comparision parameter the Dragon Ball tank editions of Dragon Ball, I have to say they much better translated, and feel much more natural and fluid than before. But unfortunantely, it misses several of extras of the originals… including the covers :ninja:

About it, i think it's the same paper as the origina version.
It was a long time since I had a original JUMP so i can't confirm this.

@Elfu:

so… there is a way to dislike manga?:pouty:

That's not it, consider this:
Get 2 translator, same skills, one like manga, one couldn't care less.
Guess who will actually do more reseach about different names or fan base.
Same stuff with the editors, i don't think that cutting a chapter in the half is actually the act of a manga lover than someone that just wanna lower the costs.
IMHO, wanna sell cheap? sell the full tako (2 vol at the same time) get COLOR (damn), release it every 2 months, and put tons of adds into it (kids magazines, conventions, fansites, other manga).

@Kuroneko:

Conrad releases is not all that bad, but true they are getting so bad. They cut off the Usopp's Pirate Galleries since volume 21, they change the chapters' title for other with no sense and recently they removed the introduction and upcoming pages.

I'm not sure, but I think the releases were much better when Sydney and Cassius were the editors.

Again, for what I can remember, Sydney and Cassius actualy liked the manga, same with DBZ and Saint Seya, I guess Conrad doesn't take that as important.

The only thing that I really find insane about translations at all, (anime and manga) is that I'm pretty sure the company NEVER hire just one random guy that actually likes the series, so much mistakes could be solved.
A gormet translation a italian menu should do a better job than some (good) translator that doesn't even know what a fundue is.

I tought the fruit was something about the bones, meaning that he can move the people bones, not mind controling stuff.

Jesus, most important than this is that Bon Kurei is still alive.
AND if Sanji in Arabasta arc had the power, immagine now, or Luffy.
Another point, it is necessary more than a Hummer+1/2 to break tekkai

btw its miles/second or meters/second?

@Fire Fist:

Well, that and Bon Kurei/Karoo running vertically.

Not much of gravity here, their feet were (sry sp) holding/grapping the wall. Check the holes they did while clibing

The only time i can remember that the gravity got fuc… messed, was in the Luffy vs Crocodile underground fight in anime.
Man those rocks taked about a minute to fall

@Refii:

Anyway the point in all this is simple: Bruce Lee could kick CP9's butt.

While tied in a chair
Assuming that you can tie him in the first place

Poster pictures most likely are taken without consence of the person, Luffy i think was a exception because he is smiling and posing for the pictures (even without knowing that it was for WG).
My bet:
Sanji, Nami, etc, will be just like Zoro, a random pose just after he done something awesome with is Zoro removing headband, Sanji tossing/lighting a cigar (lolipop :P), Nami resting (relief), Chopper yelling (I am a pirate!, whatever), Franky smiling and blinking 1 eye.

First, the world is fairly large, with islands that dont have a trace of WG, Little Garden, Long Ring, (maybe Whiskey Peak, Drum and the Jaya).

Second, a ship while sailing is virtually untrackeble (sp?? - impossible tracking), while being in open sea really isn't a calm option, with changing currents, natural disasters, etc, the SH pirates can still find some tranquility there.

I just dont think Franky has the same love to animals as Ace Ventura :-o
But now that u said, he really looks like more ace then popeye

Horray, ty BF.
Chibi!

@kabrumbs:

Maybe is just that and those scars are not so important, but I also though that was a "too simple" explanation. And the fact that it is a manga, it turns out tham random stuff are unusual, not the other way around. We always have manga like explanations for big stuff, but this can be not big…

I would add to your theories something like a Tatoo of WG that Lucci tried to remove.... (a little bit like Nami...)

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Thank you.
I'm just not a fan of the it's a manga explanation.

How can random explosions shotting and everything mark lucci back the SAME way as WG flag?

@sabret00the:

/me wonders if you read the chapter and it's explaination?

Yep, but i didnt buy that explanation

If Lucci scars are really like WG simbol, what do you guys think?
I mean, it nearly impossible for some one to do scars like those, in the same way as the WG flag.

1 - self made - maybe for showing his commitment to WG
2 - some one made
2.1 - in a fight - the weapon should have the same design as the WG flag, with makes it more plausible that it was done by a WG member, one of the elders maybe.
2.2 - not fighting - same as 1, some one made the scars to remember Lucci that his commitment if for WG.

Franky and ccompany will have to follow the SH, because they're now hunted by the marines, they can either join W7 Galley-la as a disguise, or just follow the SH.
W7 and Galley-la has no trouble again't WG, they never interfered in Spandam's plans or WG ones, and Iceburg is too much important to be killed or arrested. As for Paulie and the others Galley-la that went to EL, they're in the same situation as Franky family

I don think so, i thought the captain does appears in Buggys flashback, the scene that Buggy ate the fake fruit.
Buggy said he met, not the he was in his crew.
What about the ship in the flashback, too small for Whitebeard, and the nurses?

@Narguilo:

I mean she could beat someone a little stronger than her, but not someone who will play in another league like withebeard should be :)

Use someone's strenght, agains himself, someone punches you, you can use the same movement to dislocate his arm, but with Robin, she could make him fall/trip (sp), dislocate and breack his arm, all at the same time. Considering that she can see the puch of course.
But check this out, how many oponents can fight, or walk with a couple hands holding his feet? or hands closing his eyes, I bet Robin can win many fight as long she has the stamina for it.
BTW she wont be of any help against Luffy, even if she can hold him, she won't do any damage to stop him.

She doesn't need to be strong, submission tecniques almost don't require strenght, they need for you to press the right point, move the right articulation, joint (sp).
Come on, any girl can go to a self defense class and learn how to break/dislocate someones arm, imagine that if the same girl can multiply her strenght and apply more clunches (sp) in the same time.

can rubber has a gaseous form???!! like water and nitrogen?

@rizu:

sorry….my point is...why franky said "i'm supa THIS WEEK!!"?...why this week? this explains clearly that franky has upgrade himself this week..

What about if he is saying that he´s just in the mood?
And the week part is that he is fighting a lot these days (Luffy, Galley, CP9)?

What do u think?

First, Fukurou never said Tekkai.
Second, they said that it doesn't measure the POWER, they measure something like battle skills.
Battle skill for me is defense + offense, so we each CP9 hitted Fukurou, he measured "how that attack was effective" minus "how it could be countered", so when Kaku used his elbow, he wasn't using all his strenght, for god's sake, the guy uses swords, but even without swords he got a high number, with means he is a better (maybe more experienced) fighter then blueno, and not that Blueno is stronger than him. For Lucchi, the bastart live for fight, he doesn't care about politics or anything else, he is a psico, futhermore he is stronger and faster than any other CP9 yet.
Using Defense+Offense = i think Nami, Chopper and Nami are way too underpowered, Chopper isn't expecienced mostly raw power, Nami need a good enviroment do work, Sogeking can fight but he can't receive too much dammage (well he can but he get's really injured, like Luffy defeating him almost one shot), they probably have very low douku-whatever, but it doesn't mean they can't win using strategies, of distractions.
For all I know, Fukurou was lying, he said that he could move faster than the eye can follow, all all he did was to hide behind a corner.