A lot of you are setting yourselves up for disappointment by predicting all these match ups. There won’t be as many one on one fights as you think, and it is doubtful that all the straw hats get a focused one on one match. The focused one on ones of Alabasta and Enies Lobby can be safely said to be outliers at this point.
I think this will end up with similar quality to Arrow/Flash, Supernatural, and other cheesy CW shows or maybe some of SyFy channel's more ambitious stuff, like the Magicians or even The Expanse. I also expect it to diverge greatly from the plot and style of the manga. No 22 foot tall CGI Moriah.(tho Grodd on The Flash didn't look too bad, so maybe we will get some weird CGI characters afterall)
In a perfect world, we will get some Kung Fu Hustle style and vibes going. I always thought that movie had the closest vibes to One Piece without going the 200 million dollar budget route.
@sandman, was the theater full? Do you think this film will match or exceed Film Z's box office receipts?
The fandom is overblowing this. We were never going to get a good live action adaptation no matter the budget, studio or director for multiple reasons, so may as well be happy that Oda made some easy cash. This movie being bad will have no negative effect on the franchise.
Aren't News Coos just the delivey birds? They deliver wanted posters too. I don't recall the newspaper they deliver being officially called "The News Coo". For all we know the main newspaper we have seen characters reading up until now has been the WE Times and we are just now hearing the name.
True explosions are a joke in One Piece (Alabasta, etc), but I always took for granted they can't be broken in order for the Void Century not to be lost if WG find them. While writing this post I just asked myself how Roger could have written on a poneglyph (meaning it's destructible) but after rereading the chapter I have no clue.
Roger wrote on the gold surrounding the poneglyph, not directly on it.
I think people are taking the "year of sanji" too literally. It doesn't mean the whole year will focus on him or even that the arc will revolve around him. We are just going to learn his history and he will get some time to shine since he was absent for a while. Otherwise it will be business as usual.
Law's hax let him bind himself in regular chains. I'm talking about the chains on Smoker/Luffy/Robin which were clearly seastone as they were complaining about feeling drained.
Law didn't switch those with regular chains, immediately after he freed himself he just directly cut them.
! http://i34.mangapanda.com/one-piece/677/one-piece-3518985.jpg
There would be no point in replacing seastone chains with regular chains anyway and leaving the group restrained, he could just replace the seastone with some damn snow.
In chapter 681 there is a small flashback that shows him cutting the chains in a Room.
No.
(Does that question really need to be spoilered?)
That's too bad.
Well, I wasn't sure if people even knew/wanted to know that character was in the film. Better safe than sorry 
Does the visual effect of
! Quicksilver's speed look as cool as it did in Days of Future Past?
Still, what i wonder is: Why join the Yonko race? Yorki was a fun loving, partying kind of pirate. So is Shanks. Why does he go around marking territories? Why butt into the power balance when he doesn't seem to care about these shenanigans?
Probably the same reason he protected Luffy and his hometown from the mountain bandits. He probably traveled around adventuring sharing drinks with folks, made lots of friends and became the de facto "emperor" and protector of all the places his friends live.
And if he took territory from someone else, it was probably a similar situation to how Luffy keeps liberating island even though that's not his starting goal. Luffy became friends with Vivi, and through her, he ended up being the savior to Alabasta. Also, I can definitely see Shanks claiming a territory because they make great booze lol.
How do you jump backward and side to side real quickly like that? My guy is super slow.
Caught up. The small hype burst I got from the goosebump inducing villain invasion has gone down quite a bit. Actually, that very arc itself hyped me and dehyped me all in one.
With the almost unanimous praise, I thought I was the only one that felt this way. I thought this series had a really strong start, but that invasion arc was anticlimactic, and I've been getting more and more bored with every chapter since.
Anyone got an HQ version of that color spread?
LOL I feel stupid. When I heard the title "Jurassic World", I thought the movie was going to be about a planet overrun by dinosaurs, kind of like Planet of the Apes…This just seems like more of the same. Just a bigger, fancier park and a bigger, fancier dinosaur threat.
I'm totally regretting playing the Alpha and Beta so extensively now. Playing the same stuff for a third time is incredibly tedious. I don't even really want to play anymore…
So Jake is like a Xenomorph or something? I wonder if that alien thing leaving through a portal after its mission accomplished laugh will come into play later. That alien kinda looked like something that belonged in the Citadel. Perhaps both Finn's dad and Jake's alien "parent" will merge into a single plotline later.
This is probably a stupid question…But is there any easy way to run this game on Mac OS X?
With all due respect to their creators and fans, these indie/puzzle games that they keep offering to the PS4 owners are worthless to me. How long until PS4 PS+ subscribers get full retail games? Years? If so, after I'm done with Destiny and go back to my usual single player ways, I may as well save my money. I wish PS4 could just emulate PS3 games. I'd much rather play Crysis 3 than Fez.
Now that this thread is finally open I can ask this question:
I was rereading the Golden Age arc (fantastic arc but not as good as first time reading it), and I was really confused about the end with the eclipse. I know Griffith's motivations for raping Casca then are often debated and stuff like "to get back at Guts", "To reassert power over Guts", or "to prove himself to the Godhand" are what people often say. But just before the eclipse, this page: http://www.mangareader.net/96-1132-178/berserk/chapter-12.html and the pages following it, Griffith is all nice and fluffy and essentially saying that his dream, which is what he likely did the entire eclipse for, doesn't matter to him because of Guts. He expresses how important Guts is to him.
Then, he kills all of Guts' friends, rapes Casca in front of him, tries to kill Guts and goes back to focusing on his dream of being all powerful.
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Can anyone explain?
I don't think he was saying that his dream didn't matter anymore. I think he was saying that being with Guts was the only thing that took his mind off his great ambition and just allowed him to simply enjoy their comradery, if only for that moment. And I think betraying Guts and killing all his friends was part of the ritual. It wouldn't have worked if he hated all those people. In order to gain that great power, he had to be willing to sacrifice all his friends. Though it has been years since I fully read that arc, so I could be wrong.
I put in one of my codes into the playstation store, and it took it, but then crashed before it could start downloading. Does that mean that code is gone now?
Anyone else having trouble accessing the beta? First Bungie's site was having trouble, and now that I finally got my codes, Playstation's network is messing up.
That's fan art from Ponio.
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I just want to address the lack of adventure/exploring issue. I've seen this brought up around the forum a lot now, and I've got to say, I think it is some kind of fantasy that One Piece used to be all about exploring and adventure. Even Skypiea, the arc that everyone talks about like the Straw Hats went around finding treasure and discovering amazing things for 50 chapters, has like a total of 2 chapters where the Straw Hats are just walking through the jungle not encountering main plot stuff. IMO, the only pure adventure chapter to exist in One Piece that has nothing to do with any other plot threads is the chapter where Luffy and Nami find Gaimon's island of weird animals.
It's been a while since I read the arc, but I don't recall Alabasta being much better than Fishman Island at exploring cultures and what not. Didn't they only go to Yuba because they "had to take out a strong guy"(Crocodile). And Yuba was completely deserted except for one dude. No culture to be found. And I don't recall any of Alabasta's other cities being especially fleshed out compared to what we have seen on Dressrosa so far. The rest was just them traveling through the desert trying to get to Crocodile. If read weekly, I'm sure all that traveling would have felt just like everyone trying to get to Doflamingo now. Not very adventurous at all.
I actually much prefer the scenery and world building details of Fishman Island compared to Alabasta, even if we definitely did get to see less of it. Besides Rain Base, much of Alabasta was just generic desert architecture. To say that Fishman Island with it's bubbly coral construction, fish-buses, fishman district slums, and the amazingly beautiful Ryugu Palace is soulless is crazy to me.
As for wanting things to slow down and not have anything to do with Yonkou or other conflict; I think you are out of luck there. Believe it or not, One Piece should be in wrap up mode. The final bad guys need to get taken out and Luffy needs to take steps to achieve his goals. I think we should take Law's words to heart when he said that as soon as his plan to fuck with Kaidou gets under way, nothing will be able to slow it down. I'm afraid there won't be any time for adventure in the rest of the series. It's plot time.
Again, I don't think One Piece was ever really about adventure, even if it seems to advertise itself as such through Luffy's outlook on piracy. It has always been about going to an island to beat a bad guy. Any awesome world building we got was a product of that.
I think a lot of fans are seeing past arcs with nostalgia goggles and creating this mythical idea of what One Piece is, but never really was at all.
I'm reading this manga called 'Again!!'. It's about a loner boy who goes back in time and joins his high school cheer squad. I think it started off slow, but it has really grown on me with good characters and comedy. Plus I really like the art.
The part about Robin being turned into a toy and then right back a few chapters later that I think was a wasted opportunity was the fact that Robin could have done some amazing spying/info gathering seeing as how she was both forgotten by everyone and didn't get put under contract by Sugar. Her sneaking around finding some cool info about Dressrosa's past that was also connected to the Void Century would have made up for her likely not getting a one-on-one fight this arc.
The RPG element really got me addicted. It's cool that they extended the Alpha. I hope it lasts through tomorrow too.
I took a break from Watch Dogs to try this Destiny Alpha. I haven't experienced any of the MMO qualities yet, so it seems like a pretty standard FPS so far. I'm going to play again later and hopefully I will run into some other players.
What is the purpose of the online free roam in this game? As far as I can tell, you can't kill other players, and the only thing to do is cause havoc. Plus, it seems like the police AI is drastically dumbed down because it is a lot easier to get away from them in the online free roam than it is in the single player missions.
This game looks cool. Will I need to play the first two games to understand what is going on in this one?
@Rogues':
Why would Gang members call the police to their own hideouts (which are probably full of illegal activity/goods)? Unless the cops they call are corrupt and won't arrest them all the moment they get there.
A citizen called the cops on me for shooting one of the gang members, and when the cops showed up, they had a huge shootout with the gang. I tried to take advantage of the situation and sneak over to the target I had to knock out, but I ended up getting caught in the crossfire.
–-----------
Thanks for the Season Pass advice everyone 
The game has grown on me a bit. I've gotten better at driving and other stuff, so there is less frustration. I'm really in to taking on gang hideouts. A couple of them are actually kind of challenging. If you screw up and they call for back-up, and the cops get called on you, things can get pretty chaotic.
Question for you veteran gamers out there: I'm pretty clueless on DLC. I never bought DLC for a single game for my XBox 360, and I just got a PS4(my first Sony console ever). Are these "Season Pass" things worth it? Should I buy the Watch Dogs season pass? The way I understand things, if you buy the season pass, you get any and all DLC content they release in the future, and that's great if they release a bunch of cool DLC, but what's stopping them from releasing like one dinky extra mission that isn't worth the $20?
I got this game too. I don't like it so far. None of the controls are coming natural to me, and I especially dislike the driving mechanics. Though I suspect they purposely made the driving shitty so that you basically have to rely on your hacking to escape, and can't just outdrive the cops.
I'm not that far in though, so hopefully the story will get more engaging, and I will get used to the controls so I can immerse myself more in the game.
I wonder if that Blue Nitro to the right of the big one is the one that killed Ichiryuu?
Guess I'm the odd one out again this week. I'm glad the Joa/Blue Nitro stuff got focus. It was a bit cryptic for how many pages it got though.
LOL lots of adventure lovers are gonna be put off by this chapter.
I'm playing Watch Dogs. I don't really like it so far.
Well, I think you might be in store for a long, disappointing ride.
The thing that's gotten the most hype about Gourmet World is the hazardous environment. Were you expecting something different than what we are currently seeing? It's pretty much like we are seeing some of the craziest stuff from the Human World taken to the nth degree. This cave maze, for instance, is very reminiscent of the maze leading to the subterranean breeding ground of the Puffer Whales.
Isn't this the sort of thing what we've been told to expect of Gourmet World by actual characters in the story?
No, I won't be disappointed. Just mildly bored. Lots of crazy environments/animals is completely within my expectations of what we will see in the Gourmet World. What I didn't expect was that the appeal of seeing ever wackier animals/environments would wear off on me. It's like "Oh, another giant killer jackalope, yawn". It's not impressive to me anymore and stopped being so after the Four Beast limbs merged into a boring blob.
But in between the endless showcase of animals/environments that everyone else seems to love, there should be some cool cooking moments for Komatsu, some crazy fights with the Bishokukai/NEO, and some intriguing plot stuff about the Eclipse/GOD/Acacia, which everyone else seems to hate. That's enough to make the 3 minutes of reading per week worth it for me.
I'm the opposite. I've become jaded of the crazy environmental hazards and the most intriguing thing about this chapter was what Joa was up to. No matter how stupid the NEO/Eclipse/Bishokukai/Blue Nitro plot stuff from the Cooking Fest got, from now on, it will always be more interesting to me than wacky animal/environment fanservice and adventure for adventure's sake.
Loved this series. I wasn't really into the final mass animal swarm battle, but thematically, I think it ended well.
I just wish Kodansha USA would release this series a little faster. I just got volume 9 two days ago, and volume 14 probably won't be released until the end of 2016…
I have absolutely no problem with the poison clones. My only issue was that the chapter was boring. I'm starting to get really envious of seemingly everyone else that is experiencing "Toriko getting back to its adventure roots". I'm not feeling it at all, and haven't enjoyed a single chapter since 269.
I would think that things post Jedi Purge would be even more somber and dark. Not that I'm looking for "somber and dark" or anything. If I'm being honest with myself, I'm probably just looking for a sequel to The Clone Wars, which is probably setting myself up for disappointment.
Law knows what is coming, but Law doesn't really knows how strong Luffy is and that's why he doesn't want to put Luffy in a tight position.
Exactly. He was trying to get him to save himself, but nobody listens when you say "leave me, save yourself", so Law desperately tried to trick him into thinking their friendship/alliance was over. But this is Luffy we are talking about, so obviously that wasn't going to work either, but Law had to try something.
I think Law was just trying to get Luffy to get out of there fast. And rightfully so, seeing as Luffy didn't even get to finish unlocking his cuffs, and Law seems to know what is coming in regard to this "birdcage".
The crazy animals and wacky evironments used to be the main appeal of Toriko to me, but this chapter and a few previous, I just kind of felt numb to it. Any chapter that is almost purely a showcase for ridiculous environments and creatures isn't going ot work on me anymore. And while the Cooking Fest arc was extremely flawed on many levels, I liked it overall, if only for the story progression.
Going back to the full course menu creating adventures doesn't immediately pique my interest the way all the shenanigans from the Cooking Fest did, however questionable they may be. I realize that Acacia's full course subplots will probably tie into Neo, the Bishokukai, the Eclipse, and other mysteries in one way or another, but as of now, you can count me in with the few that are bored.
It doesn't really help that I am pretty indifferent towards Toriko and the other 3 Kings, and am much more interested in the antagonist groups(if only for character designs and intrigue). So with the appeal of the wacky evironments/animals worn off, and not being invested in the characters, these inbetween chapters aren't going to do much for me. So I can only hope that the "Air" subplot is as entertaining as the Gourmet Casino, and wait until more endgame plot heavy stuff is addressed. But it looks like I'm in the minority on that front
I think the first list only counts CDs, DVDs, manga, and novels. That leaves out video game sales, box office receipts, and other miscellaneous merchandise(which One Piece has a ton of, seeing as it has its own store). With that, I'd be willing to bet One Piece still has the edge as a complete franchise.
The art style of the new Scooby reminds me of something, but I can't place it.
Cow & Chicken, maybe?
I think One Piece is already on Hulu Plus. Then again, perhaps more people subscribe to Netlfix than Hulu Plus. But Crunchyroll is starting to add the early episodes 20 at a time, and Crunchyroll is free. I watch Crunchyroll on my Roku, but I think it also has an app for XBOX1, PS4, and probably most other smart tv devices.
No, it's more like this:
1- Old Man recognizes fighting style.
2- Old Man manages to connect the fighting style to a Gladiator of the past.
3- Old Man doesn't know the name of this Gladiator of the past, even though this Gladiator of the past was a member of the Royal Family and eventually became King?
I think Riku was imitating Kyros' fighting style(Rebecca does too), so the gladiator of the past that he can't remember is Kyros and he can't remember because he was turned into a toy.
Robin should take this opportunity where nobody knows who she is and everyone thinks she is just another obedient toy, to sneak around and do some spying. Perhaps even digging up some dirt on the Void Century, seeing as how Dressrosa is a very old kingdom connected to the very beginnings of the World Government.