I've got to go with the man who cracked the sky on this one. Though it was a worthy effort by everyones favorite Okama… Goodbye Mr. 2... live without regret.
Posts made by Dark-King
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RE: FINAL BATTLE: Bon Kurei vs Whitebeard
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RE: Absent From JUMP for One Month
@Al!naJames:
Don't worry, I have enough of ero-fantasies with her to cover up all.
And her name is Catarina.I belive I miseed something, but can anybody tell me what the hell is this? :wassat:
[qimg]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7862/wtfnm.jpg[/qimg]UPD: Ah, ok, I found my answer
Without reading a word of Japanese…. could it have been a message about Oda's baby? I don't remember if he had a boy or a girl.
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RE: Filler match: Greatest Villain
Perfect poll. Thanks for drudging up childhood memories.
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RE: Usopp vs. Robin
This one looks like another dead heat. I hope to see Usopp Vs. Whitebeard in the finale.
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RE: Next Grand Line Update: Baroque Works
Pandaman is up to date.
http://www.thegrandline.com/pandaman.html
Just curious. Not to be emo about this but does anyone even care about that particular page? I never get any feedback whatsoever regarding it. Not that I expect everyone to say, "WOAH AWESOME! PANDAMAN FOR THE 300TH TIME!", I just literally get no responses regarding it.
The work you are doing here is quintessential to the advancement of Humankind everywhere. Please know it is greatly appreciated and I admire you for providing it to all of us.
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RE: Moria vs. Shanks
Give your vote to the head member of the OG Insane Clown Posse!
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RE: Arlong Park rereads One Piece in 4 weeks
I will participate in this. Oh at least die trying!
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RE: Bon Kurei vs. Crocodile
Need I say it… it's an Okama World out there.
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RE: One Piece 59 Sells 1.85 Million to Set 1st-Week Record
A mangaka makes about 10% of the retail value of the tankoubon volumes (not base cost, the actual SRP), so for major shounen manga we're talking about 40yen per volume printed. (Printed, not sold. In general they get paid by the volume printed, not volume sold)
One Piece is published every 3 months, so 4 volumes a year.
And currently they are printing over 3 million copies per volume.3 million x 40 yen x 4 = 480 million yen (5 million USD)
He also gets paid per page he draws from the magazine publisher, but they're chicken scraps compared to the volume sales.
Hardly worth mentioning for a manga artist of his caliber.However, in most cases the total loyalties generated from anime franchise and the fame it brings is much higher than the manga income, so Oda's income should be well over double that.
This is the reason why getting animated is HUGE for a manga artist. Once you get a hit anime, you hit the jackpot.Huh, I did not know that's the way it breaks down for them.
Good to know that there are still some parts of the world where an artist is appreciated for his/her craft and truly rewarded justly. The Justice being Oda's expanding pocket book.
A great series deserves great rewards for his work and efforts.
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RE: Dragon vs Enel
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Courtesy of ultimateclima
Marvelous! Unfortunately, that god didn't pull out El Thor! for the win.
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RE: Buggy vs. Rayleigh
Ooo, tough call. Both are great characters for entirely different reasons.
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RE: One Piece 59 Sells 1.85 Million to Set 1st-Week Record
At this point, I'm seriously wondering who's richer: Oda or Oprah? :ninja:
Also didn't expect to see another record broken so soon
Both of their wealth pales in comparison to Wapol, naturally.
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
Being behind by five volumes is a lot better than being behind by thirty-five.
The only point that really needs to be made on this subject right now.
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RE: Zoro vs Hancock: Episode II
This should only end one way….
skin the snake.
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RE: Kung Fu Dugongs vs. Rayleigh
"… and the Dark-King was covered in blood of his fallen prey. His robes and blade, with the dark red stain of seal flesh and terrible agony. In addition, his weathered face wears a familiar smile that remains 'silver', forever."
The Dark King wins.
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RE: Post yer first weekly chapter you started following with
This is the Exact chapter I caught up to One Piece and was reading week to week:
Chapter 377 - Decisive Battle of Eneis Lobbies.
http://view.thespectrum.net/series/one-piece-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+39&page=163 -
RE: Gun Fall vs Jewelry Bonney
Whoa… this is going to be an interesting race!
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RE: Volume 59 prediction thread
Hmmm… looks like I guessed the players (minus Shanks and Ace), and got the cover color AND title wrong. I could have sworn Oda would have given us a black cover to represent the seriousness of the volume... Especially since they spill the beans about Ace with the volume title!
Cover looks good though. Blackbeard standing in front of Whitebeard is a great touch and the two brothers back to back is appropriate too.
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RE: Going Merry vs Dorry & Brogy
I would love to see this confrontation. A tiny ship versus Two Giants! My money is on the ship.
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RE: Ivankov vs Brook
Oh, this is going to be EPiC level comedy
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RE: Voice Actor Norio Imamura Arrested for Indecent Pictures
LET 'EM GO!!! If they don't… he'll just form an Okama paradise in prison. Then the Japanese Government will REALLY have trouble on their hands!
But seriously... I hope they can get this matter solved... I can't imagine he'll serve much jail time over this. It's really quite silly.
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RE: Filler Match - Just Die Already
So many people (and series) here need to just DIE… Shinji's been LONG dead in my opinion. It's pathetic that they keep trying to resurrect his corpse to make that monkey dance.
He was lame the first time I watched that series... he's equally lame 13 years later!
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
Some cool info my podcast friends and I got from a friend at VIZ at Anime Expo:
- They want to do the Logbooks but there are some issues
- Eiichiro Oda doesn't like to travel so it might be harder to get him as a guest at a con here
- Certain arcs sell more than others.
Also at the VIZ panel it was said the speed-up has done extremely well.
I wonder what "Issues" they have with the logbooks? The amount of reediting previous scenes of One Piece with the English text, I wonder.
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RE: Doflamingo vs Nico Robin
This one sure is a toughnnn. For Strong World Robin alone, I might have to go with hernnn.
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RE: Kuma vs. Laboon
Ooooooo… Sorry Laboon.... You have to go with "The Tryant" on this one.
Kuma for President!
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RE: Sadi-Chan vs. Killer
If you're a straight male. You must vote for Sadi for this one.
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RE: Chapter 590: Little Bro
I hope I have a headstone HALF as pimp as Whitebeard's or Ace's. Come to think of it the Rumba Pirates had a really cool headstone.
Leave it to Oda to even make being dead cool.
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
Well if they did databooks here onward, yeah, that makes perfect sense. I would love to see that and think Viz should and probably will. But to go back and do Databook Yellow, let alone Red and Blue… doesn't seem to make sense now. Viz lost that opportunity before and doing the speed up.
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RE: Olvia vs. Rayleigh
Nico Oliva should not have made it this far…. Dark King all the way!
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
Sadly I think the databooks are a lost cause at this point. I'd more than settle for Color Walks. Especially since we speed thru so many great colorspreads that we only get in black and white in English.
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RE: Q vs. Jesus
Aw man…. I don't think I can vote on this one. Just out of good conscience... I love them both equally.
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RE: Urouge vs. Lucky Roo
We've got a real horse race going here!
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RE: Aphelandra vs. Augur
Hmmmm… tough one. Though I do like my large Miss with the rack that can stop the future Pirate King..... I happen to be pro-Blackbeard's crew all the way on this one.
Van Auger it is!
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RE: Your first One Piece Experience
End of college in 04. A friend of mine showed me the anime fight between Chopper and Chessmarimo. It took me a year but I remember that and started collecting the Viz volumes and reading them. Once I got to Zoro's defeat from Mihawk I couldn't wait any more and I had to know what happens next, so I went online and found the scanslations on the MSN one Piece list site.
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RE: Carue vs. Dorry & Broggy
Dorry And Broggy.
Artist: Bryan Newton
Hey! hahah! My pictures!! I'm honored, but…
Et tu Dorry & Broggy! My own creations used against me!I voted for THE duck!!
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RE: Arlong vs. Hatchan
Arlong was the ultimate in cutthroat villian.
The bastard shot a mother in the head, right in front of her two daughters!! That's COLD!
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RE: Volume 58 Thread
Someone earlier in the thread claimed Hancock's breasts would be ugly in real life due to the size, as a defender of the breasts I simply cannot allow such words to go unchallenged. Here's a few pics of gravure (swimsuit) model Erina Yamaguchi. Her breasts are 111cm and a J-cup, exactly the same as Hancock's.
http://tinypic.com/r/2v0efix/6
http://tinypic.com/r/2625y6e/6
http://tinypic.com/r/ezj3g5/6DING! DING! DING! I think we have a Winner!!
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RE: Inazuma vs. Zoro
Sorry Inazuma… but Zoro swore that he'd never lose again!!! And he won't.
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RE: Zeff vs San Juan Wolf
Oh come on!! San Juan is literally the biggest thing EVER!
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
That's not exactly a good thing. I too may've bought all of naruto until i read the sasuke/itachi fight. I have to thank scanlations for showing me it was a terrible series before I bought more. If Viz seriously thinks it's best to stop them from finding out a series like naruto is bad and make them pay to find out, that's just evil.
That said, this still won't change anything. We're still going to get our scans every week :P
Didn't say it was "good" or "evil"… that's just business. It's also the risk we all take in investing in long running, creative series. It's either money or time or both.
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RE: New official Viz media topic V2.
@Badass:
Can I ask how "personally" you know Viz.
About a two years ago I worked with one of the former producer for Viz manga at a one of the studios I worked for. She saw I had tons of manga merchandise, specifically some One Piece stuff… and she clued me in that they would often watch popular anime/manga forums and would even choose to allow for a fair degree of piracy, because for them it's free "focus grouping".
You can easy find out want series will be profitable by tapping in to an automatic and growing fanbase in the North American market. Like when they picked up Death Note or Bleach and put a lot of time and work behind it, it's not a gamble for them... and big series like that would make up loses they'd make from liscensing less popular series.