Wohooo!
I can't believe you actually got it up and running again. I thought this time it would be it for sure! Thanks for the effort and Bellisario for fixing my login issues!
Everything runs super smooth so far, even though I will miss Purple Ubiq and his animated Blackbeard Pirates Avatar.
@Daz said in Welcome Back! (2022 Edition):
Aaaaand I'm back!
There we go, welcome back!
Now, to try and restrain myself so that I won't spend too much time on pent-up critical analysis.
Please don't! In fact you should post even more, now that we have these useful upvote buttons. Now I can just upvote your stuff and call it a day instead of being grumpy myself!
@Ivotas said in Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream:
Why is everybody sold on the idea of Im being a guy? Is it something in the Japanese original that makes this clear? Would have change my take as I don't know what it is but something strikes me as this character actually being a queen rather than a king.
Same.
Mainly because Im's room looks like the literal description of Sanji's / Oda's fantasy of the women's room on the Sunny - "The secret (flower) garden" (Chapter 699).
Maybe this is just a japanese trope, but it's a description that stuck with me for being kind of random.
But on the other hand, people who simply assume that the most powerful / influential entity on the planet is male are hardly to blame for it, given Oda's track record.
@realtenchu said in Chapter 1059: The Matter Involving Captain Koby:
Blackbeard said he’s been waiting for Boa’s power, I imagine for himself. The question here is, is this really that third fruit that everyone has speculated that Blackbeard is gonna get OR Blackbeard can get unlimited fruit powers?. If it’s the latter then Blackbeard has been really slow on bulking up and why the heck wouldn’t he go for Kaido’s and big mom?. He knew there was gonna be battle in wano.
I believe the boring answer is that Blackbeard only wanted Hancock's power because it was convenient for the story.
Oda wants to end this series, so the pieces for the final arc had to start moving - by any means. Characters need an incentive to participate in this upcoming mega war after all, or at the very least be organically woven back into the main story (so it doesn't feel completely random when they show up eventually).
Last chapter we learned how Buggy, Mihawk & Crocodile will be involved, now it was Hancock's and Coby's turn.
Caesar's fruit is truly ridiculous. And it makes so much sense as well.
The way I see it:
Clever solution, even if I really dislike the inevitable Vinsmoke redemption arc.
@Daz said in Welcome Back! (2022 Edition):
Aaaaand I'm back!
There we go, welcome back!
Now, to try and restrain myself so that I won't spend too much time on pent-up critical analysis.
Please don't! In fact you should post even more, now that we have these useful upvote buttons. Now I can just upvote your stuff and call it a day instead of being grumpy myself!
Love those emojs!
We still need a peach for explicit wolfwood posts, though.
Wohooo!
I can't believe you actually got it up and running again. I thought this time it would be it for sure! Thanks for the effort and Bellisario for fixing my login issues!
Everything runs super smooth so far, even though I will miss Purple Ubiq and his animated Blackbeard Pirates Avatar.
They did Bang dirty, that's the only thing that really annoys me in the redraw. I thought they could still redeem him later on so I didn't say anything, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
I thought he was dead at the end of that fight.
The wikia also treats him as dead, but I just reread the fight and it's not clear at all. Given that he fully regenerated his body once already I assume he could have done it again?
I would accept it, just no multiverse shenanigans please.
I'm not saying one should watch the anime over the manga, but just for those who are unsure: The anime has triple A production quality, on a level comparable to One Punch Man or Attack on Titan (early seasons). Even if you end up disliking the series, time is never wasted on something looking this good.
Wouldn't that be why is there a vault in the first place ?
! I guess that can work, but I never questioned why there is a legendary treasure vault. Just like I didn't question why Hilling can heal people, or what those drinks are that keep her energy up, or why magic in general exists, or a clan made of shadow blob creatures, Giants and Orcs, three-headed snakes, a speaking mirror or monkey paw wish-granting devils…
! The author created a world that is extremely basic, with designs & tropes so common that they don't require an explanation. It's a standard fantasy world with elements that have been used hundreds of times already. On the upside this allows the writer to use this familiarity against me, my expectations are constantly subverted in various ways and that's kinda fun (and imo the main appeal of the setting). But I also have no reason to ask myself questions such as "why is there a legendary vault?".
! Mind that this is no criticism, I just find it curious that the author doesn't milk the "what's in the box?" trope a bit longer. Like, show us the reformed Ouken and the now retarded (?) Desha, but not every content of the vault and what caused the former winners to die/disappear/become weird.
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