totally popped. he's gonna be freaked out about breathing the same air as everyone else… that is, if he's still conscious.
last double page was so awesome it brought tears to my eyes.
next week will be... insane. i really have no idea which way it will go.
Posts made by captainjustin
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RE: Chapter 502 "The Tenryuubito's Incident" Discussion
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RE: Volume 50 Discussion Thread (Cover is up!)
why does the desire to not kill off your characters make you a "pussy"? by what standard are you making that value judgment??
actually, there's some really interesting literary discussion about the role of the author and the power of "killing" yr characters or making them do whatever you want. a silly movie that kind of dealt with this in a really surface way was "Stranger than Fiction".IMO, for OP, it just adds to the gravity of the flashbacks. you read something like Berserk and there is so much death that it becomes completely meaningless. 20 volumes in and its no longer shocking to see guts cut through 6 men and a horse, but it should be!! :)
oh, and i say brook's flag is total win.
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RE: Chapter 501 "The World's Starting to Churn" Discussion
yahoo!! thanks BF!!! i've been dying for this one. :)
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RE: Some Facts about the "11 Supernovas"
*X Drake
In the raw is a ディエス (Dies/Diez) above the X. These Katakana are for articulation of the word, so the X has to bes spoken Dias. What I found out is, that Diaz is hispanic for ten. The romans used an X as a symbol for a ten.umm… "hispanic" isn't a language. try "spanish" :getlost:
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RE: General Devil Fruit Discussion
if that was the case, everyone would be looking for the (was it the yomi yomi no mi?) so they could be revived in case they died!! it would be the neverending fruit!! which is just. plain. silly.
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RE: Chapter 499 "Sabaody Park" Discussion
it was worth the wait just to see luffy and brook and chopper recovering from the spinning ride.
jewelry saving zoro was pretty fly too.
thanks, bf!!! (patiently waiting for japanese version)
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RE: Chapter 498 "The 11 Supernova" Discussion
ha. i just thought of something funny and incredibly unlikely. maybe bonney is luffy's mother! considering how young shakky looks, i don't think it's IMPOSSIBLE that she could be old enough to be his mom… :P
then again, it would be tough to explain why she's still a rookie. still, i've been dying to know who his mom is for awhile so it's just occurred to me.
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RE: Chapter 498 "The 11 Supernova" Discussion
So by calling the rookies "supernovas," Oda's basically hinting to us that many of these folks are going to destroy themselves, and that when they do, they'll most likely take a few others down with them.
i thought about that too, but kind of disregarded the negative side because… luffy and zoro are in the group of 11! and i definitely don't want to see either of them "burn out". :)
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RE: Chapter 498 "The 11 Supernova" Discussion
actually, i just read the translation and it said he's a "sky island" native. so he's got to be!
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RE: Chapter 498 "The 11 Supernova" Discussion
does urouge have wings? could he be from skypiea? a long lost priest, perhaps? just a thought.
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RE: Chapter 498 "The 11 Supernova" Discussion
thx battle franky!
and now begins the wait… at least the chapter is awesome enough to deserve being stared at for 3 weeks. :Pi for one don't think that this is going to be a strawhat matchup. they might deal with one or two of the captains soon but i agree with whomever it was that said its more of a gauntlet situation. whatever happens, it's going to be badass.
trafalgar law=gin? somehow i don't see it. something about him doesn't remind me of gin. trafalgar law is my favorite of the supernovas. anyone else want to name their favorite?
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RE: Favorite OP Manga Pages
not all of them are in the EL arc.. i just wanted to warn people who were maybe only as far as the English Viz translation and it seemed the easiest way. would it be better to just have the links straight up? i wasn't sure what the correct etiquette was for that.
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RE: Favorite OP Manga Pages
Drum Island Arc.
W7 Arc.
EL Arc.
Post Thriller Bark Arc.
sorry for using links instead of the actual images… it was the quickest way for me to find the pages i wanted. thanks for the tips on how to post this, gorlom. :)
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RE: Sanji and "aura"?
Why is everybody trying to make concrete something that is abstract? Aura is not some glowy affect or steam or even fire. Aura is the supposed projection of one's life force. It's strength is determined by the emotional strength of the character.
So who has the most aura? 1. Luffy 2. Zoro 3. Sanji 4. Nami (only when angry). The rest of the crew I can't really rank, since their auras are not well detected.
i completely agree with your upper sentiment.
however, i find it a little ironic that you say it is an abstract idea and then you proceed to rank the strawhats in a very concrete manner.
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RE: Sanji and "aura"?
umm… isn't this thread supposed to be about sanji?
well, considering sanji's diable jambe is fire based and doesn't really make much sense, i think oda may have been explaining a little more of the "heat" within him that makes him able to withstand it. thus, if he's worked up and has heat pouring out of him (that last panel on the page posted) then the theory is that having a leg on fire is nothing for him.
at least, that's how i took the whole thing. (it's also undisputed comedy and dragon ball referencing)
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RE: Vegapunk Information
does anyone have any info on what's going on with the vegapunk site? the url has been down for a few days now…
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RE: Poorly Written?
hmm… i've read a lot of manga, and One Piece almost NEVER lets me down like almost every other series. that's why it's my favorite series. while other series often go up and down, with months of bad arcs, i have enjoyed almost every single chapter of one piece. so to say it is "poorly written" just doesn't gel with me. sure, i've had minor disappointments. i wanted the fights on enies lobby to be a bit more dramatic and less silly, but the robin scene more than made up for it. i also thought when she saw luffy again after the fights the scene could have been better than just "thanks".
but its really just a matter of taste. a lot of people have mentioned the usopp rejoining scene as a bad one, but i had tears running down my face almost as bad as luffy when i read it... so that's completely subjective.
and sure it's a shonen manga, and oda completely idolizes toriyama, so it will always be silly and have references to dragonball. you can't expect it to be as dark as something like berserk or as seriously written as an alan moore or frank miller.
but that's what is charming about one piece, and why i (and a lot of us) are pretty much obsessed with it.so yeah, i guess i'm saying i don't think it's poorly written at all.
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RE: Chapter 495 "Gaon Cannon" Discussion
of course! sea train tracks! d'oh!
it's ガオン. Ga-o-n. my guess is that it's japanese onomatopoeia for a lion's roar?
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RE: Chapter 495 "Gaon Cannon" Discussion
what a sweet chapter. every page had something golden. now if only it wasn't all in chinese, i'd stand a chance of understanding some of it.
cp9 can walk on water?
here's the question: how did caimie mess up those flying fish riders and the net when she rescued sanji? was she able to confuse the fish with her sonar voice? or… dare i say... can caimie actually fight?? i'm beginning to think she'll play a large part in the coming chapters. besides, oda seems to be enjoying drawing her gigantic boobs. :P
luffy's will is starting to be too much for animals! new world, here he comes.
and the gaon cannon? priceless. for everything else, there's mastercard.
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RE: Greatest manga author….
tezuka is the greatest, with toriyama in second.
but oda is still my favorite.
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RE: Chapter 493 "I know" Discussion
@Kaimei-Karasuhebi:
DUVAL = WAPOL (Same number of letters and all)
What did he ate?
D > Don krieg.
U > kUro.
V- Belllamy (the V could be a mistake for all that we know. The actual translation could be duBal)
A- Arlong (perhaps he only got the shark fangs)
L- wapoL.
That's why he's so big and such a mess
that would have some semblance of making sense if we had the official english spelling of "duval," but so far that is just what we've been calling him as english speaking fans. the real spelling of デュバル could have any number of english spellings with more or less letters than "duval," making the search for past characters' names in it even more farfetched.
i know that by merely responding to this i have failed. sigh. :wassat:
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RE: Chapter 493 "I know" Discussion
chinese and covered in jojo logos, but i can't complain!!! early chapter-yo!
:P
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RE: Chapter 492 "Iron Mask Duval" Discussion
I've thin it's a possibility that Duval is T-bone, look at the helmet a little variation but close to it, and he's around the same height
t bone was big, but he wasn't this big… :wassat:
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RE: Chapter 492 "Iron Mask Duval" Discussion
since duval's so huge, and clearly hasn't met the strawhats recently with his constant talk of wanting revenge his "whole life," i'm pretty sure that kills any of the theories of him being a villain from the past chapters.
really awesome chapter, tho. highlights: all of their new outfits for this arc, hachi's fear of meeting the strawhats again, the crew ready to abandon him, the flying fish riders clearly modeled after hell's angels, chopper's kyuun spark after usopp tells the new members about their past adventures at arlong park, evil zoro face, luffy's takoyaki eyes, and of course, the last panel!!
i love this arc! plus, CP9!!!!
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RE: Chapter 491 "Flying Fish Riders" Discussion
after taking a closer look at that very human hand of his, i think i have to say it can't be arlong (which is a shame because his broken nose was a good excuse to wear a big mask and an excuse to kidnap hachi). it's definitely not wapol, he's happy as CEO of his toy/steel industry. could be morgan, we haven't seen his other hand yet. anyone else would be kind of a lucky shot in the dark. duval looks like a big guy to me, though… and who would wear a leather jacket and some fluffy boa type thing?
i'm betting it's someone new, and the introduction of the character will provide some more insight into the past of one of the strawhats.
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RE: Chapter 491 "Flying Fish Riders" Discussion
yahoo! last minute check before bed is always a good idea when you get a new chapter SCANLATED by binktopia no less!! very nice. thanks BF!!
hilarious chapter… now let's commence with everyone's opinion on who Duval really is!! morgan? krieg? arlong?
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RE: Chapter 490 "Getting There Again" Discussion
Serious Question pertaining to this chapter:
Luffy's armband. He's still wearing it. I see three possibilities
- Permanent art change
- Plot point
- Will disappear soon
wadda think?
i'm glad someone else noticed this!!
i pick 2. it might just be luffy's outfit for the next arc (kind of like the big cargo shorts in enies lobby), but i bet it's going to protect him from something, somehow or will mean something to someone, somehow. :)
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RE: Chapter 488 "Song of Life" Discussion
i don't particularly care whether that's a 2, or a 3, or a 9 at the beginning of brooke's wanted poster. that number reflects who he was at the time, with that crew, before he became the skeleton.
and please, no more talk of wanted poster "inflation." that makes me want to puke. economics+onepiece="supreme nerdiness taking all the fun out of something"
so what i'm saying is that it's no indication of his strength, just to show how much time he spent as a rumba pirate, and how many adventures they had together.
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RE: Chapter 488 "Song of Life" Discussion
quartet… trio... duet... solo...
an amazing chapter. this is why i love one piece. it's more than fighting. not ashamed to say it brought tears to my eyes. yay for mugiwara brooke!
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RE: Chapter 487 "That Song" Discussion
poor brooke, burying all his nakama. i love how Oda gave him stitches where his skull is cracked.
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RE: Chapter 485 "Strawhat Crew Member: Pirate Hunter Zoro" Discussion
nice avatar BF!! "BASTARD FROM A BASKET!"
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RE: One Piece: Unlimited Cruise - Episode: 1 & 2 (PAL Releases Announced)
I always thought the Island exploring and sailing aspects of Zelda: Windwaker would go well in a One Piece game.
that's exactly what i was thinking of! a lot of people complained about the sailing aspect of windwaker, but it was what i loved about it! nice avatar, btw… just beat bellum yesterday!
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RE: One Piece: Unlimited Cruise - Episode: 1 & 2 (PAL Releases Announced)
Are we really supposed to think of Tom as Franky's father? Yeah, he raised him and taught him how to be a man, which definitely makes him Franky's father figure, but we don't really know Franky's biological father (and I always wondered what that guy in Franky's family meant when he said that Franky's father was a pirate… Tom or... ??)
Anyway, stoked to play UA next month. Can't wait to see screenshots of the new games--2 parts! I bet the first game will have a focus on W7 and the CP9 and the second game will be Thriller Bark oriented. All I want is to beat ass as a bony afro. That's all I want. Some Sunny controlling would be sweet too. Funny how almost all of the OP games give you none of the sense of sea exploration...
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RE: Chapter 480 "Counterattack" Discussion
nice avatar, BUTTERS!! did you make that yourself or is that Oda's design? i've been waiting for a franky jolly roger! either way, it's SUPAH!!
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RE: Chapter 476 "Nightmare Luffy" Discussion
words cannot express the level of wonder this chapter has evoked in my humbled brain. every single element was f-ing AWESOME.
can the Nightmare Luffy VS. Super Zombie Oz fight possible beat this? knowing oda sensei… yes. -
RE: Chapter 475 "The Pirates in the Forest" Discussion
i don't think nami took perona's clothes… that's just kinda weird. it's just another one of her awesome outfits... with more of a "thriller" theme. :)
oz didn't seem very affected by the thunder tempo... was that a result of being rubberized or the same as the super firebird thing (a vestige of being alive)? also, shouldn't moria have been shocked as well? :P are we to assume kuma is sitting in Oz too, just watching the battle?
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RE: Chapter 471 "MY FRIEND" Discussion
Robin's body on page 1 is horribly deformed! A classic "stick with breasts"! I don't like how Oda draws women.
/RANT
The spread is badass. You are not the only legend on this island, Odz! (well, SH are legend-in-making )
Absalom's defeat was rather anticlimatic but I love how Nami looked in a wedding dress with the climatact in hand. It's the first time she wasn't half-naked while defeating her opponent :ninja:
Perona being awake spells trouble for me. She won't get fooled a second time (hopefully).EDIT: The bandana! Bandana is back! And the nunchacks!!!
really, i think oda is one of the few mangakas that actually draws women sexy… i like the super thin waists and major curves!
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RE: Chapter 470 "Odz vs Strawhats" Discussion
@Lobster:
I seriously think thak Oda will pull something unexpected, like having Oz join the crew or something. BTW, how big is Oz compaired to a normal Giant? (not a west blue like Moria, I mean one like Broggy)
#1: if Odz joined the crew, where would he fit on their ship?
#2: since Odz is only moving because he has Luffy's shadow he would have to keep Luffy's shadow and that would mean Luffy would die as soon as the sun hit him, making this even more impossible.
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RE: Chapter 470 "Odz vs Strawhats" Discussion
here's my prediction (don't shoot me if it's already been said!):
Brooke is still ok, considering he's so light that a fall from that height doesn't do much to him (remember earlier in the arc?). he's going to get up and start playing a song that will have some huge effect on Odz, making him either easily defeated by everyone's combined salt, or otherwise occupied until Luffy defeats Moria. at least, this better happen… because I would love for Brooke to have an awesome moment like that.
amazing chapter, especially all those crazy Odz spreads.
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RE: Chapter 468 "Pirate Chopper vs. Mystery Man Hogback" Discussion
@Cyringohn:
Saying this now:
Anybody who's enough of a dumbass to want Cindry to join needs to eat their keyboard until little shards of plastic cut open their stomach and they perish from a horrible death.
hahah! yes! hear, hear. and the excuse of brooke's character design "being too out there" and cindry "would be easier…" that's just total lazy crap. isn't that what oda is making fun of in this whole story arc? lazy bastards?
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RE: Chapter 466 "Conclusion" Discussion
does anyone else think that zoro has actually beaten ryuuma? the flashback isn't totally complete, and we know that zoro has been knocked out of the building, but perhaps he just performed a powerful move (or did one as ryuuma did one). ryuuma looks ablaze, which is pretty bad ass, but that could be a result of whatever zoro just did to him.
i really don't think zoro can lose after making that vow after mihawk… i think oda is messing with us by showing it in the manner that he is. like a tarantino movie, i think we'll be surprised with how those five minutes actually played out.
or i could be in denial and zoro is just going to get up and then kick ryuuma's ass--i mean, he hasn't even put his bandana on yet...
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RE: Who Got the Biggest PWNAGE by Who?
Enel pretty much pwned everyone until Luffy came along.
And I gotta say, what recently happened between Usopp and Perona actually made me feel pretty sorry for the Ghost Princess, so I guess she was pwned pretty badly, too. And the only thing Absalom really accomplished against Sanji was a weak-ass stab in the back, so I count him as owned too. Actually, both of the Mysterious Three so far were pretty embarrassingly destroyed, so I wonder what's in store for Hogback and Moria?? :P
The worst Luffy ever got pwned would have to be tie between the first fight with Crocodile and Aokiji. He really could have died from either one, and it happened REALLY fast.
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RE: Chapter 464 "Sanji's Dream" Discussion
I love this chapter but I dislike one thing… Ok Sanji loves woman but he always was/is gentle to them... Like in Little Garden... Nami was half naked and he looked like a perv (but who won't look?) but he still was gentle and gave his jacket... but with this chapter Oda makes him look like a total pevert an nothing like a gentleman
that's crazy. we know that sanji has always liked seeing nami (or any beautiful woman) in as little clothes as possible. the idea of nami in a swimsuit, for instance, sends him into a tornado of love.
but when he took a sword in his back he set nami down JUST SO HE WOULDN'T GET HIS BLOOD ON HER PERFECT WHITE DRESS!!!! if that's not gentlemanly, i don't know what is.
@onigumo: how was the flower odor that chopper smelled explained?
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RE: Chapter 463: "Pirate Sanji Vs. Mysterious Absalom"
wow, what a sweet chapter! luffy fights moria (i love those little bat shadows) and sanji proves to be a terrible, menacing force when nami is concerned. "black leg" indeed. god i love sanji in a double breasted suit. a much more exciting chapter than i ever expected!
oh, and i agree with whomever said it first: that electrical blast of enel's is only going to give all those little guys energy! being bots and all…
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RE: Chapter 462 "Odz' Adventure" Discussion
Why is everyone ignoring the fact that the entire F'ing reason he protects his afro is because he said it's the only part of his former body remaining and it WONT grow back! So why would any other part of him grow back? That'd be a complete controdiction.
i don't know if anyone replied to this, but we've seen flashbacks with brooke's skull damaged, and when the SHs first met him, his skull looked fine. it's still unclear whether this is just a manga device of characters going from hurt to healed or if brooke undergoes a process that heals his bones. it could be an aspect of his resurrection DF.
the afro won't grow back because it survived the decaying process from that long period of time when he was separated from his body when he became a skeleton. it's the last remaining vestige of his former human self. -
RE: Chapter 462 "Odz' Adventure" Discussion
who knew the zombie generals would get decimated so quickly and easily, by Odz no less! i really ddin't see that one coming, although they haven't been salted, so it's probably not the end of 'em. odd name for the chapter, considering we didn't see Odz very much at all.
can't wait to see the script and see the interaction between usopp and perona.
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RE: Chapter 461 "Ghost Buster" Discussion
@Cyringohn:
This is actually Usopp's first step in development, really. That, and when he asked for forgiveness when the Strawhats were leaving Water 7.
i disagree. from very early on he has slowly been gaining character and development, think about when he beat chu the fishman all alone and said "even i can beat someone!" with tears in his eyes.
although i do agree that what happend in water 7 asking for forgiveness was a huge step for him, i disagree that it was his "first step." he's been making small steps all along. but i don't think he'll ever be a badass like zoro and sanji are. he wouldn't be usopp anymore, would he? i think that's what people are waiting for when they say he's had "no development." what i'm talking about is learning self-worth, courage, personal strength.
so if oda is giving usopp all this attention, don't you think something huge is coming in which usopp is going to have to step up? usopp vs. van auger? or usopp vs. yasopp? or at least as someone said recently, cementing his position as marksman.
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RE: Chapter 461 "Ghost Buster" Discussion
You weren't registered yet during the great Enies Lobby fiasco so I'm not sure, but is that sarcasm?
haha! no, i'm just one of the weirdos that considered enies lobby one of usopp's shining moments. i know it sounds insane considering he didn't get his own major fight, but i'm not joking in the slightest.