Lots of people have already mentioned this metaphor, but it's really sad to see so many people following what is essentially a dollar attached to a string when it comes to LBGTQ pairings in shonens.
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RE: My Hero Academia II - A true Hero
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RE: Chapter 1090: Kizaru
Catching up with this thread has been baffling. I distinctly remember people pointing out how weird it was that Jinbe barely reacted to learning that Vegapunk had made a Lunarian Child Soldier Clone out of himself and also how people were saying that "there's no time to confront VP right now, Lucci needs to be stopped by Nika so everyone can escape to the Labophase, ethics will surely come up later".
And now suddenly there wasn't any time for that? Jinbe just laughs at a mini Hancock being enslaved to the original's feelings when his captain did what he did to free all those slaves? Nami and Chopper don't care about child soldiers? Ludicrous.
I guess if Thriller Bark was happening now Chopper would be mostly fine with Hogback disgracing so many corpses? That's actually way less problematic than what Vegapunk has done with the Seraphim.
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RE: Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon
Gonna throw it out here before the next chapters throw new curveballs: Imu is definitely a kid.
1.) If he has been alive since the Void Century via the Ope Ope's Eternal Youth Operation, like most people theorize, what better way to show a person that hasn't aged than a kid?
2.) Adding to this, the Sugar parallel where she stopped growing after gaining her powers that are related to erasing people's identity and memories (Void Century). Also, her outfit with the distinct golden crown is something to consider.
3.) A kid ruling over a council of geezers is the kind of striking contrast that I would expect from Oda and that, presented in a certain way, might even make them look like his babysitters (lmao)
4.) If Imu is going to be fully revealed now, in the next 2-3 chapters, I was pondering why didn't Oda do it before, in 1060 with the Lulusia stuff? What needed to happen in the last 25 chapters before Imu's appearance could be revealed?
The answer is the Seraphims: the religious parallels that also feed into Devil Fruits, Lili (Lilith?), Adam and Eve tree, Guardians of Eden, being programmed to be literal slaves of the Gorosei (and by extension Imu), and most importantly, the heavy emphasis on them being kids, which would link them more to Cherubims. But what if the Cherub is already represented by Imu?
5.) The possible parallels with Akira (without spoiling anything huge about Akira):
Oda has referenced having read Akira as a young kid a few times (like when talking about the pronouns the characters use) so I wouldn't be surprised if he was influenced by it in some way.
6.) Almost forgot: Luffy's secret dream being something that is deemed childish even for other kids. Roger was chastised by Whitebeard for the same reason. Imu would be the warped accomplishment of a kid with the same dream.
Let's see how this develops over the next few chapters, but at this point I would need heavy convincing on an alternative to this.
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RE: Chapter 1124: Close Friend
Yeah, Zoro's callousness doesn't get better with Stephen's translation. Congrats to all Zoro fans who just want him to be the edgiest of all edges.
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
@Robby said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:
@crlsdc said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:
Do you guys think we'll ever know something about the 7 times Kaido had been defeated (mentioned in his introduction, chapter 795)?
That was covered in what passes for a flashback he got. He "lost" on purpose so they'd put him on their ships and then he'd eat all their food.
We can assume maybe he lost a few times to some tagteam style Garp, Sengoku, Roger, Shanks types but mostly the flashback writes it off as intentional losing.
I think you're confusing two different things.
In his intro, the narrator says "[...] he had tasted defeat as a pirate on seven occasions... and been caught by the marines or enemy ships no less than 18 times!!"
Later, the narrator also states "ultimately, he sank nine different prison vessels".
His intro makes a clear difference between being defeated or being captured. And in the instances where he was indeed captured on purpose so as to have a free all-you-can-eat buffet (like 1049 shows), he ended up escaping again and sinking those ships.
So I do think the 7 defeats are actually against high-ranking marines or pirates in the past, even though the flashback doesn't mention or show any of them.
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RE: Chapter 1074: Mark III
@Deicide I think we are made to fill the gaps and assume that Mark 2 might be the Shiro Kuma (PX-Z) from Film Z, considering its unique designs and the fact that all Pacifistas should have come from Vegapunk in one way or the other. Maybe it won't even get clarified precisely because it involves dealing with non-canon material, or maybe it will come at some point like Blueno and Kalifa being CP0 agents as per Film Red.
On a separate note, as for who tipped Morgans all my money is on Caribou, even if it's unrelated to who's messing things up in Egghead right now.
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RE: Volume 109 Predictions/Discussion
@King-Cannon said in Volume 109 Predictions/Discussion:
I'm also assuming Hanafuda was the owner of the fabled T. rex fruit, at least going by his epithet.
Ooooor he had an average reptile Zoan and he collected Ancient Zoans so that nobody would have a cooler reptile than him.
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RE: Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon
@electricmastro said in Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon:
@FolhaS said in Chapter 1084: The Attempted Murder of a Celestial Dragon:
People are relating to Yamato's way of being. Using male pronouns but not hiding his more feminine looks. Being confortable in both the mens bath and the girls colour spread.
Yamatos development as a character as never once been presented as something related to his/their gender yet people keep trying to sell the idea that once Yamato drops the Oden moniker he'll also drop the male pronouns.
At this point, I think it really just depends if Yamato has any personal desire to still be a woman despite what was outwardly said about sons and being Oden and all that.
If Yamato admits to abandoning any and all desire to be a woman even after gaining freedom, then I’ll accept that.
Chapter 1054:
- Aramaki: "Who are you?"
- Kawamatsu: "Sir Yamato...!!"
- Yamato. "I'm Yamato!! The son of Kaido!!!"
- Aramaki: "Son of Kaido?!"
Go ahead. Accept it.
Stop beating around the bush and accept it.
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RE: Chapter 1091: Sentomaru
If Kizaru gets defeated by Luffy without help and multiple rounds, then I don't expect a short clash, but a fully drawn-out battle.
Which also means that Kizaru will probably get tossed off the chessboard. I can't see Oda keeping him just to have Zoro/Sanji/Kid/Law defeat him AGAIN in the Final War (same reason I'm reluctant to Zoro vs Lucci happening now).
So better start speculating about what Zodiac animal the next Orange Admiral will represent...
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RE: Official Egghead Thread
@Shiebs I think we should wait until we definitely know if we're in Elbaf first lol
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RE: Chapter 1127: Adventure in the Land of Mystery
So, does anyone know if the official OP account has tweeted out any inconsistencies that might be corrected in the volume? Some of the more recent ones that I remember off the top off my head:
- S-Bear having black hair instead of white hair in his first appearance
- Atlas being presented as both Vegapunk 05 and Vegapunk 06 in the same chapter
- Umit Cargo Shipping being a Maritime company instead of a Navy company (this one is from 1126 if I recall)
For each of these, they issued a tweet explaining the mistake. Have they done anything for this chapter's inconsistencies, like the Gear 3/Gear 4 attack, the mismatchs in the outfits, etc?
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RE: UNDEAD UNLUCK
The suits got scared about 2 moneymakers ending so close to each other so they're giving my man Tozuka the "you need to end this ASAP" notice. Sigh...
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RE: Jujutsu Kaisen
Uuuuuuh so what is the consensus on JJK Shippuden being a thing
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RE: Chapter 1126: Settling the Score
@Deicide said in Chapter 1126: Settling the Score:
@Shiebs said in Chapter 1126: Settling the Score:
Maybe they’ll use puddings powers to verify wether Caribou is telling the truth
I don’t think they know of Pudding’s powers. Her 3rd eye was revealed in the tea party, but her powers were never used publicly.
Blackbeard knows about Lunarians and Minks having Sulong, so I wouldn't be surprised if he knows about what the Three Eyes can do.
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RE: UNDEAD UNLUCK
Tozuka has made such a great job with Fuuko than even with Andy coming back I'm not even slightly worried about her stopping being relevant.
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RE: Chapter 1124: Close Friend
Yeah, Zoro's callousness doesn't get better with Stephen's translation. Congrats to all Zoro fans who just want him to be the edgiest of all edges.
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RE: Dandadan
This Saint-Germain guy is definitely the main villain, right?
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RE: Official Egghead Thread
@King-Cannon said in Official Egghead Thread:
@access-timeco said in Official Egghead Thread:
Nah, there is definitely a gag about him not getting a proper bounty, it's just very poorly executed.
If you look at Dressrosa, every character who was part of the action (Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji and Robin) got proper raises while the ones who didn't get part of the action got a standard 50 million raise. Despite getting his own 1x1 against and officer, Franky came out with the same 50 million standard raise as Nami and Brook - and based on the bounty picture, that was because the Marine thought the Franky Shogun was Franky (and he didn't appear in this arc).
Then in Wano, again, every SH who got a fight got a proper raise (Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Robin and Jinbe) while every SH who didn't got a standard 300 million raise (Nami, Usopp and Brook). And again, despite having his own 1x1 against an officer Franky came out with the 300 million standard raise - this time the Franky Shogun fought, but this time the Marine thought he was the ship.
Now that I think about it, this probably means in the next big arc he will weaponize the Sunny...
Having an own 1x1 does not mean much. Nami was more or less credited with taking down Ulti (since CP0 was monitoring everything without context), but that didn't warrant a special raise. And it's not like Franky or the Shogun weren't clear for everybody to see.
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Jinbe and Robin all have special things about them that warrant their increases besides fighting prowess. Like Oda said once, it's very difficult to gauge an individual pirate's strength, so they have to take in account other data like influence and recognition. Franky is not a former Warlord like Jinbe, or a scholar like Robin, or a Vinsmoke like Sanji, or a Worst Gen like Zoro. He's just the crew's shipwright for now.
I mean, the WG knows that Franky is one of Tom's disciples, the man that built the Pirate King's ship, and also the guardian of Pluton's blueprints. I'd say that's far more notable than being a Supernova. He's not your average shipwright by any means.
I think the gag explanation is much more plausible and I hadn't even realized that he was the odd one out in Dressrosa as well. Nice catch @access-timeco