Woah Ghost/Steel! Never thought they'd go for such a great typing. If that thing has half decent stats and a usable move pool then I expect to see it on a lot of teams (including my own).

Normally I prefer my pokemon to be based on living things and not objects but I really like this one, I especially like how it unsheathes itself from it's scabbard. I wonder if that'll be a form change linked to an ability or just a nice visual touch.

Went to Glastonbury (It was magical) so I've been listening to a wide variety of music since in an attempt to recreate that wondrous experience on my ipod. There's been everything from The Rolling Stones to Public Enemy to Hypnotic Brass Ensemble but I've mostly been loving Haim

Just saw Man of Steel. I hated it.

@RobbyBevard:

So yeah, that WILL get annoying fast. Okay, from here on out, just assume anyone in this thread has read to the end of book five.

We can deal with tags when book 6 comes.

What are the rules on the released chapters of Winds of Winter? None of the ones I'm familar with have enormous implications to the story as far as I'm aware but for courtesy would it be preferred if any discussion of them were kept in spoiler tags?

ps very happy that this thread exists

Not strictly on topic but I thought I'd let you guys know that I just came second in my University's Pokemon tournament using an Empoleon called Camel. I feel like this is a victory for the One Piece Community as a whole.

Some fantastic campaigns from mpz777 have persuaded me to vote for the Don! not that I needed much persuading…

I really hope Tom Nook and Animal crossing in general get some love in the new releases.

Great to see some of my favoured series' doing so well!

So Magi's in second depite not getting an individual volume in the top ten…I guess people must be picking up all the older volumes to catch up with it, I've only just picked it up and I absolutely love it.

@Katzztar:

We only know what the public (both citizens and marines) says about Barto, they got Luffy wrong saying he's a monster, and misunderstood some occasions (thinks of Water 7 where CP9 frames SHs for the attempted assassination of Iceburg, or how other pirates and marines mistook Luffy's ringing the Ox Bell as an act of war or claiming its his age when Luffy was actually sending a message to his namaka)
Like I said though its too early to say one way or the other. Barto could be a misunderstood brat like Luffy or a mass murdering jackass like Kidd. We need more exposure of the real deal, not just what the rumors of the public say.

I will admit that I am assuming he used a smaller one previously as the audience commented he was turning attacks against the attacker when comparing Hack & Bellamy's attacks on Barto. We don't see a huge square with Hack like we did with the King Punch, that is where its possible that he used a smaller one, closer to his body size. But re-looking at ch 708 as Hack's attack, we don't see the shield at all, just the 'special effects' shown when the attack fails. (I mistook the inner circle as a shield) So the shield could be any size there.
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I really have to disagree here, where as Luffy does have a bad reputation these are all based on innuendo and rumour where as with Bartolomeo we've seen in these few short chapters that for the most part he's a nasty piece of work. Look at his first appearance;

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He's behind something called the "skewered pirate barbeque broadcast" suggesting that he not only burnt pirates alive but that he also broadcast this to the world, this doesnt suggest someone who's misunderstood this suggests someone who is just as described a nutter. More importantly, the fact that it was broadcast suggests that it can't be something that the press/WG can distort to fit a particular narrative (like the incidents reported in the paper). After being booed he throws a stink bomb into the crowd yet another thing a particularly nasty person would do.

Bartolomeo's reputation for the most part seems to be based off real world events that people have seen with their own eyes eg. the skewered pirate barbeque broadcast. From what we've seen of him I think he's for the most part what they say.

Does this mean I need to read all of Magi by 5.52pm…

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