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    • A sample story of Fable Round

      20 years ago, an western sea empire of Toring Empire has collapsed with it's 7 powerful generals found themselves under the wings of the terrorists group known as the Alagesia who begun it's quest in overthrowing the Republic.

      12 years ago an instructor of the Full Circle Academy Onpa along with her students escaped the massacre with the shroom. The mastermind of the massacre Sarkin, one of the seven generals gave chase to the brightwoods where Onpa and her students reaches the gate that leads to Cearth threw the shroom into the portal.

      A young boy living on the island known as New Sun, just 70 miles east from the imperial city of Jorvik. He found the shroom and showed it to his imperial Admiral grandfather. He told him he shouldn't eat it but the boy named Yincoln E. Redwood ate it much to the grandfather's chargin. So he warned him not to display his powers. But later Yincoln saw a man getting beaten up by group of thugs. Feeling the sense of wanting to help, he transformed into an behemoth/humanoid and used his shockwave to push back the thugs. This frieghts them away but Yincoln collapsed. Suddenly chatters of what happen shook the island and Jorvik was notified of the incident and sent the imperial agents to investigate.

      Knowing Yincoln will be killed, his grandfather tucked him in the barrel and threw him through the portal of Va, landing on the ocean. Due to sea stress the barrel broke and Yincoln drifted to an isle where he was found by a man named Gaius and his son Pierre.

      Yincoln has no memory at what has happened or how he ended up on Va but rather then want to go back home, he decided to stay on Va, feeling that he is meant to be there and that he has strong connection to it. One day Yincoln found a guardian bracelet, he tried it on and it claps around his wrist, shocking him.

      Then 2 years passed.

      Gaius is a trader who travels around the isle with his shop at Eirewood, Yincoln would hear tales of adventures from travellers and pirates. At Eirewood he noticed many pirate ships docked, with a strong sense of adventure he snucked into one of these ships, hoping he would go on a seafaring adventure.

      However only 40 miles west of Eirewood he was discovered and brought to a captian named Yorke Rogers the blue hat along with his daughter Amy Wintoniensis. At first Yorke wants to just dump Yincoln on some random island but Yincoln transformed to defend himself. Before anything would happen, Onpa herself happened to be on the ship seeing Yincoln with the power of the shroom she sent to Cearth two years back. Then the ship got attack by enemy pirates, kidnapping Amy. Yorke and his crew followed them to Lantern Island where a battle took place. Yincoln attempted to join the fight but is not strong and got his face slashed by a pirate captain. Onpa killed the pirate captain, winning the battle and saving Amy. Yincoln then got his wound got sown by Onpa. Eventually the Yorke pirates headed back to Eirewood where Yincoln reunited with Gaius and Pierre.

      Onpa and Yorke were best friends and has chose to sail with him to take a break from her instructor duties. Onpa begun to tell Yincoln of her adventures as an instructor and a part time Pirate. She also handed him a book called "Adventures of the Rubber Boy". He and Pierre even developed relationship with Amy and Yorke. Onpa also taught him about the guardian bracelet. Guardians are archetypically people who is assigned to defend both Cearth and Va but in truth they are essentially adventurers from Cearth who has the bracelet as a proof of who they are with special duties. However they has free wills meaning they can come out as criminals. While they have "special duties", there is no rules at being guardians and can do whatever they want. The value freedom. However by Va standards, they are branded outlaws.

      This inspired Yincoln to become an outlaw because just being a pirate is not enough. but he knew he has to wait until he is of age before he can officially begin his journey.

      He dreamed to be an outlaw king to write a book about it, being inspired by the book about a rubber boy. In the era like this, being an outlaw means being free and following your dreams while helping those in need.

      He sought to find people who would journey with him and sail/fly/travel around the world to find the lost continent to seek out a treasure called the mark of Fable Round.

      The Alagesia sought the power Yincoln has and tried to recruit him but Yincoln refused.

      Along the journey, Yincoln and his crews deal with rouge guardians and a world torn apart by 2 major fraction groups and a threat from Cearth.

      posted in Creativity Forum
      joekido the Second
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    • RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)

      I remembered something. 18 years ago on this forum, no one had any idea that there'll be a live action. Tell someone back in 2005-2010 AP about the live action, they will be like "Hell no!"

      But then the live action came out and it was a massive success. Quite funny isn't it?

      posted in Live-Action
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)

      @Gizmo said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):

      No sure if they’ll skip Whiskey Peak or Laboon’s story. Depends on how the show runners feel about the fight given it’s become more controversial as of late, but I think Luffy vs Zoro is iconic, so dunno if they’ll skip over that aspect. Heroes fighting each other is a staple in this type of work that I dunno if it’s be skipped. Same with Zoro fighting 100 bounty members, it’s a lot of fun. If they do it right, can see it be shortened to one episode with Laboon like they did with the Romance Dawn episode.

      If there were skips, I was thinking more Little Garden being skipped or skimmed a lot given it’s less popular and iconic than the other parts of Alabasta.

      I hope Chopper’s story would get the proper runtime it deserves, but given it’s not cohesive to the Baroque Works story I could see it just being reimagined/shortened, it’s just such a good story.

      Alabasta can be shortened/reimagined but depends on how it’s done. They can cut a lot of the desert trekking and the fights can be shortened, but I would hope Yuba is kept.

      Dunno how Smoker will fit in. Honestly I feel like Smoker’s story would just be a retread of Koby/Garp’s storyline in season 1 so dunno if that’ll be reimagined/redone. Part of the reason why their story bugged me.

      How controversial are the fights?

      posted in Live-Action
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    • RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced

      @Barkworm said in One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced:

      My investment in this show has developed from 'Not interested at all' to 'OH MY GOD, I'M SO HYPED' within the last six weeks.

      Nice. Couldn't help but to say back in 2005, an idea of a One Piece Live Action would garner a lot of negative backlash. Essentially the idea would be horrible or not work and if you suggested it they will look down on you.

      Already I was eager for the Live Action for two years and was excited to see how people would say about it and One Piece Fandom covering it up. It would be so much fun.

      Now today is Wednesday so I look forward to midnight later.

      posted in Live-Action
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Random News Article Discussion II

      I wonder what's next? The sun?

      posted in World News
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    • RE: Random News Article Discussion II

      https://www.businessinsider.com/oceangate-cofounder-send-humans-live-venus-atmosphere-2050-titan-sohnlein-2023-7

      posted in World News
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Thoughts on a U.S. directed live action One Piece Movie

      Sorry to bump this up, I was looking through my post history to find one of my posts and find this ancient thread and due to what we are getting today with the live action series, this certainly was happening, except it is not a rumored movie. This thread is pretty outdated with people bickering about it back in 2009, thinking it won't work.

      But now we see what is being done with the live action version, translating the manga to live action, making changes, making some things realistic, improving and fixing it, phasing out scenes and characters, making it actually good while keeping the spirit of the manga alive.. Now this thread can be fun to read what people in 2009 with a 2023 perspective.

      I hope the first season is a success so we can get more seasons and see what changes will occur.

      posted in General One Piece
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: How much time do you think is left before One Piece ends?

      It might take until Oda is closing on to his 60s

      posted in Manga
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!

      @ea77 said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:

      @joekido-the-Second No, they were destroying the island anyway. Sabo was a bojnus, or so they thought

      I think you misquoted me because I literally said they destroyed the island for other reasons and also Sabo was not even on the island to begin with and could not confirm that.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!

      @Johnny-B-Decent said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:

      @joekido-the-Second Because they know Sabo saw IM on the Empty Throne.

      So they decided to destroy the entire island just to kill one person who is not even confirmed to be on that island and the Elder Stars has the attitude of "Meh whatever" instead of going crazy. They could've just cut off the transmission instead.

      However they decided to destroy the island just to say it never exist to begin with just to kill one person? They should use the Buster Call for that. I think there is more to this then what we thought.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!

      Can we soon get information on why the World Government/Im decidedly destroyed Lulusia?

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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      joekido the Second
    • What if Laugh Tale.

      Is a post apocalypse island filled with vegetation overgrown buildings, cracked road pavement, debris laying around, broken robots, and and car wrecks?

      Since the Great Kingdom is supposed to be a city that is similar to the one found in Egghead and it makes since for Laugh Tale to hold the Great Kingdom. Plus when we see a close up of Laugh Tale it was clear that the cliffs is some kind of a fortifications.

      Just think of something you would find in Horizon Dawn Zero, Days Gone, Metro series, Dying Light, Last of Us and Fallout.

      posted in Manga
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    • RE: Jump Festa 2023

      @Robby said in Jump Festa 2023:

      @joekido-the-Second said in Jump Festa 2023:

      @All-Fiction 2027 seems too soon, maybe be beyon6 that like 2030's.

      As long as Elbaf isn't a 2-3 year monstrosity in and of itself, wrapping by 2027 is pretty doable.

      We're gettign Vegapunk right now and all signs point to this being a super short arc. All that's left on the checklist are Elbaf, Laugh Tale, Final War (which includes the Blackbeards and three ancient weapons.) Stuff like the revolutionaries will obviously be tied into the final war and doesn't need its own arc. And meeting Shanks will probably be relatively short.

      A year for Elbaf (2023) and a year for Laugh Tale (including Joyboy flashback, 2024) would still leave 3 years for the final war. The BB 1 on 1's should take about a year if all 10 SH's get a two chapter fight which leaves two year for all the other stuff. Marineford and Wano have prepped us for what those kind of conflicts should look like.

      Or Oda could go full Naruto final war with it and that final arc stretches for like 6 years by itself but I don't think anyone actually wants that, Wano was exhausting enough.

      Well we will have to wait and see.

      posted in Manga
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    • RE: Jump Festa 2023

      @All-Fiction 2027 seems too soon, maybe be beyon6 that like 2030's.

      posted in Manga
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Chapter 1064: Egghead Labophase

      Kuzan becomes a pirate while Jango becomes a marine. Such coincidence.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.

      I forgot to point out that while I had this idea since my early 20's and how it kept changing to much, on September 13th 2021 I just had a heart surgery and no motivation. However as I get old and how unpredictable death is I have came to the point that it is time to fulfill my dreams that was supposed to start in the late 90's.

      At this point I'm in the progress of writing a story testaments. Here are some samples:
      4,000 years ago, two major orders called the Amaki Dragons and the Fable Round appeared. The Amaki Dragons were a militaristic order that believes in chaos and control of the world. The Amaki Dragons came from the D tribe. The Fable Round order while militaristic believes in helping people in need, they believe in freedom and peace. They came from the E tribe. They would butt heads for centuries.

      • 1900 years ago invaders from space attacked Va. They heavily occupied the eastern hemisphere but lightly with the west. They built scientific bunkers and do strange experiments on people that result them manipulating their dark cognition and brought their persona to consume their bodies, turning them into monsters. They even created a mutagens that gives a person abilities to augmente their bodies, giving them superpowers. The invaders allowed the Va government to function on their own and allowed the population to go on with their daily lives but the world is split up into provinces ruled by governors that every governments or kingdoms within every province are to answer to.

      • 100 years ago Ventius and his crews disappeared. They discovered they are too soon to do anything what they found in the phantom continent that they used the Fable Round mechanic to regenerate themselves to be reborn in different peoples bodies on Vearth. They however were forerunners of the outlaw age that will be stirred up 75 years later.

      • 40 years before the story, an empire called the Goring rose up and amass alliance of pirates, rotten Guardians, beast raiders, marauders, sky pirates, phantom thieves, and bandits at the eastern hemisphere to challenge  the Republic. The empire appointed 7 generals to expend there influence but William E. Oldwood of the powerful Wood families took down many of them. He got support from Ganz E. Redwood of the Navy and Tang E. Goldwood of the legionary. A powerful outlaw called Arsene E. Whitewood made a pact with the the Goring empire and became influential to the empire that William, Ganz and Tang took him down, severely shattering the empire and the Republic army taking down the alliance. The emperor of Goring died of an heart attack and his son took over and shrank down the empire to stay at the south east sea and made peace with the empire.

      • 7 generals of the old empire would not accept the new administration that they cause an series of power vacuum, gathering loyalists of the old empire and outlaws. Seven generals bended togather to take down the new empire.

      • 25 years ago William and his crews decided to travel around the world, making new alliances with other outlaws along the way and discovered the phantom continent and found the mark of the Fable Round and cracked it's mystery. He alone went up to the old Numberian space colony and faced the unknown. He came back all wounded saying he was too ill to win. He gave himself up to Tang and the Republic decided to burn him while hanging on a cross with niles. He however preached past 15 years about the concept of Fable Round, the treasure they created, the truth of world, the lost continent and the space colony. He even stated that Republic is not the real threat but something bigger is coming to put both worlds; Va and Vearth in danger. This scared the Republic that they burned him on the cross as a stern warning to the world to not find the truth.

      However it's still rough drafted and will take some times not to make it a One Piece carbon copy. I remembered back in 2015 I tried to start writing a story but could not continue but I still have notebook with that draft.

      I have already created some main characters. The woman in my profile pic is one of these characters.

      posted in Creativity Forum
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    • RE: Next Straw Hat Crewmates (Vol. 10 - Egghead)

      "Sigh" I still want Yamato...he or she is cooler and I be like "tectectectec.... I wanna see her body!!!!"

      posted in Manga
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    • RE: Truth behind Grand Line - Theory (Spoiler until ch.1061)

      Mmmmm I don't know but that does not mean it's wrong. People has wild guess and you can see all these guess on YouTube or screen rant. They say a hint of the Void Century will be revealed the next chapter and we never saw that.

      Making wild guesses can be fun but we can't hold on to say it's true. In my experience I had wild guesses and they are always wrong. For example I guessed that Fishman Island is in the middle of the ocean instead of under the Red Line or Kuma being a stereotypical priest and having his own island or entering the New World at chapter 1,000 or Wano is about fighting species of Dragons and boom, 490 released and blew me emotionally.

      Heck I wild guess Brook being a new race but forgot about the usual tropes Oda likes to pull; always putting creativity on Devil Fruits and likes to make things look like there are demons only for Oda to turn the table. Oh look! A ghost!.....oh wait it's a Devil Fruit thing. Oh look! Centaurs! Oh wait it's a result of Law's Devil Fruit.... Oh look living toys.....Oh wait a Devil Fruit trick. That was why I was not shocked by about the centaurs and toys being a Devil Fruit trick.

      Ever since 490, I no longer make wild guesses.

      However I encourage you to keep making theories for they could be right and I'm not saying no one should make theories. My point is we must be careful not to think they are true and see with low expectations to aviod any disappointments.

      Your theories are fun to read however let's sit back and see how it should go with low expectations.

      Wow, I speak different then I speak 17 years ago. I remembered seeing topics similar to this and acting all rude. Anyway let's proceed.

      posted in Manga
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    • RE: Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.

      @Kitsune-Inferno I I'm going to twist things up to make it my style. I've already started but it is bound to be changed around and make it different instead of copy paste. My goal is to take pieces, and twist it up. For example Luffy has Nika Nika no mi instead of Gomu Gomu fruit, I'm not gonna take that. I would learn what is bad about One Piece and aviod that. So it's gonna take time before before I can finally move it away from looking like One Piece and have it's own identity.

      A book called Inheritance cycle made that kind of mistake. Christopher just rips the whole sceens from any books, LOTR and Star Wars without twisting it up. The books has fans but it was not much well known like One Piece.

      The ideas I just provided is a like rough draft ideas that will take time not to look like I'm copy paste it.

      I just need to practice.

      Remember Oda loves Dragon Ball and we see elements in it. One Piece took other ideas from other stories or a certain ideas from another animes similar to this but Oda twisted all of this up to make it his own. Hack the story of One Piece is not original.

      So yes what I provide was like I'm throwing One Piece in there but like I said it's only a rough draft that is bound to change.

      But thanks for the advice.

      posted in Creativity Forum
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    • RE: Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.

      @andre said in Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.:

      @joekido-the-Second

      Do you plan to make a comic book/manga, write a book, submit it as a cartoon, etc?

      Something like a manga but Oda's drawing skill is much higher then mine. I wish someone can help me with that.

      posted in Creativity Forum
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    • RE: Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.

      @andre said in Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.:

      Quick question for you!! What medium of storytelling do you intend to tell this story with??

      Can you elaborate that?

      posted in Creativity Forum
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    • Creating a story that is similar to One Piece.

      Ever since I was in my late teens and early 20's I have always wanted to create a world building story. I remembered playing Final Fantasy 9 and always tried to imagine what would it be like if I extended it much longer then it already was.

      However I had a hard time trying to take pieces and twist it to my own ideas. Then in 2004 One Piece caught my full attention since 1999 and for long was always inspired by this series. For years However I tried to create a franchise that would be similar to One Piece but I kept having problems coming up with my own ideas and not take a big chuck of One Piece as if I'm about to plagiarize it instead of using some ideas from that series and twist it to my own ideas while it may sound similar but I don't wish to carbon copy One Piece.

      Oda loves Dragon Ball to death, Dragon Ball however was literally found all over One Piece but Oda manage to twist these ideas up. Star Wars however was stories that has already been told to death many times yet it was popular.

      Now I'm 41 and still struggling to creating such ideas. Then I decided this: A story of a young boy found a device that transported him to a world that looks just like One Piece but has more landmass with a cluster of valleys where Red Line would be. The world is called Via, an heavily diverse world of different race, architectures, geography and culture. It is a world located in the Grand Universe inside one single galaxy called Grenda.

      The boy learns that he is a Grand Guardian, group of freedom loving people to arrived to explore and fulfill destiny of their own. The Grand Guardians however are not all good guys, these people are humans with free will who can do whatever they wish. There is no limits, no getting fired from it, it's all about freedom and how you chose your path in your own desires.

      Grand Guardians are known to have avaters they can summon or transform into, similar to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. However there are Guardians who are Incarnation of certain people from Via or any other planets in the Grenda galaxy.

      This young boy however is from Vearth, a planet outside of the Grand Universe. Vearth is similar to our earth but all countries are fictional with different but similar history and no people that existed on Earth are not found on Vearth. However like the Blues outside the Grand Line that is supposed to be a normal place, Vearth is like that.

      The Grand Universe is suppose to be a purely a fictional universe that is not supposed to exist but somehow came alive. The Grand Universe was created by the imagination, inspiration, dreams and desires of people on Vearth.

      A young boy by the name of Yincoln E. Redwood finds out he is an Incarnation of a notorious owtlaw who can be seen as a pirate or a bandit or a marauder or other groups like that. His name is Vantius E. Bluewell.

      He ends up loving Via and made friends, however like with Luffy he strove to be a notorious outlaw who will surpass pirates, bandits, marauders and terrorists (They called themselves rebels).

      Like with Luffy he thought being a notorious outlaw was all about fun, just showing how simple minded he is. Like how Luffy wants to be a pirate king, Yincoln wants to be an outlaw king but unlike Luffy he does not say "I want to be Outlaw King!" Over and over again and does not care if someone else says the same thing but he is motivated to go out in the world.

      He learns that Vantius' lost 13 crews is wandering the Vearth being Incarnated in 13 different and goes back to reunite with them which takes a long time to do so but he can't fulfill his goals alone nor does he wants to be alone.

      Yincoln was a lonely boy much like Luffy, growing up with parents mysteriously gone, going to one relatives to another. But being a Incarnation of an Outlaw King sets him forward to explore Via.

      The story premise is very similar to One Piece. Since long ago in the early 90's treasure hunting stories was my least favorite but while the story may look like a treasure hunt thing but it would eventually come to a point that it is deeper then finding a treasure at end of the line. In fact instead of looking for an lost island, they are looking for a larger landmass called the Grand Valley that disappeared long ago and the Republic attempting to keep it hidden forever.

      The story however is known to explore regions or islands while the characters would make a stop to Vearth before coming back. Like how Oda like to pick inspiration, this is exactly what I would do, designing characters that is similar to characters from real life or media. Vearth represents realities we are in while the Grand Universe is a place where you'll like to go to take a break from reality.

      This story is heavily inspired by One Piece and other stories such as Dragon Ball, Lord's of the Rings, Star Wars, Persona 5, Xenoblade Chronicles, Adventure Time, Final Fantasy 9, Boxcar Children, Digimon, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and many others with varies of genres but is to target age 10 to 25 years olds.
      I strove to finally tell the story already.

      posted in Creativity Forum
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      @Zanze I believe Uranus was the national treasure Doflamingo was talking about.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      @otakufan said in Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream:

      @joekido-the-Second said in Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream:

      @otakufan Lulusia is located in the Paradise

      This chapter claims it's in the New World - admittedly might just be a mistake that will be corrected in the final volume release, but I'm operating under the assumption that this is correct for the moment.

      Well it was close to Peach Island where Dragon is so if it's in the New World, shouldn't Sanji be the first to go there?

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      @otakufan Lulusia is located in the Paradise

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      I still have a question. If that was indeed Uranus, it would be over 800 years so I gotta wonder why the 20 kingdoms did not bother to blow Laugh Tale up since the World Government was hellbent in keeping the kingdom out of existence and not be heard or seen about anymore, banning research on Poneglyphs. Since the Pirate age begun, they could've sent that thing to the end of the Grand Line and find Laugh Tale from the skies unless Laugh Tale is surrounded by a wild phenomenon keeping the island from being visible.

      Since Lodestar was untouched for 800 years, it could be the location of the Great Kingdom, but if the Great Kingdom was located at Laugh Tale then I wonder how did both islands became inaccessible?

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      Since Uranus was over 800 years could have blown Laugh Tale up back then but it didn't. Since it can fly, they don't bother to send it to the end of the Grand Line find and destroy it.

      So if Laugh Tale and Lodestar was easy to reach back then, what happened that cause the area around Lodestar and Laugh Tale to be inaccessible?

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1060: Luffy's Dream

      I so believe that shadow is Uranus. Why was the World Government was so hellbent about getting Pluton when they have that weapon? They could use it to blow up pirates or some islands such as Ohara, Whole Cake Island, Pirate Island, Amazon Lily or whatever.

      I believe however it's a national treasure Doflamingo was talking about.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • My short story.

      This is a kind of a short story that connects with a larger story I wanted to write. This is a fictional letter that is written by two different people in two different universe. One from Digimon Adventure 02 and one is original made by me. This is a comparison thing. I posted this on my newsfeed but it only got a small reaction and no comments. I however decided to post it here in Arlong Park as well. Here is the story.

      Here is a creepy E-Mail from some possessed wierdo from Digimon Adventure 02 sent to young Ken Ichijoji whose brother just died.

      "I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. It must have been hard to take, but don't worry. Your brother is in a better place than this world. He is finally at rest. But when his soul became free, yours became trapped. You will now bare the burden of both his destiny and your own. Now that your parents have lost their hopes for their "perfect child". You will be expected to carry out the dreams that Sam can no longer fulfill. This world will become unbearable for you, the pressure to succeed will be too great. But let me tell you about another world that is much more appropriate... a world where your soul can finally be free, where you answer to no one but yourself."

      This is however what Kimberly Madison would write to Irina Sakamoto after her sister just died while being possessed:

      "Hi sweetie, first off I bid you condolence for the death of your sister. It must be really traumatic to lose someone close to you, it's such a bummer. That is the price of living here, death claims everyone in it's way every day with no end to it. But worry not though, she is finally free from this disgusting world forever, she can rest happy without suffering anymore, she is now in a much better place where she'll never be satisfied with this world again. So, while Lana is free, you are still trapped in a world of pain, a slave to suffering. Now you have to carry her and your destiny, you have to carry such burden and it sucks to do that. While your parents expects a "perfect child" out of Lana, you would have great pain to succeed where she could not. This world is too mean and cruel for you, this world will only destroy you, your precious life and your reputation, you will be pressured to succeed but fail because the world is such a jerk. The world turns it's ugly backs to you and don't give a shit about you. But I have a solution appropriate for you, there is a world in the Grand Universe located in the galaxy of Grenda, a world in the center of the galaxy called Va. Go there to find your destiny, go there where your soul can finally be free, go there where you will answer to no one but yourself, go there and you can succeed in punishing this world for the wrong it did to you. Someone there however will help you achive that. I promise you, it would be much better then staying here. Ciao sweetie."

      Which is creepier and had style?

      I asked a question and nobody on my account would answer it. So I have to find a story group to get more attention and decided to post it here.

      posted in Writings
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    • RE: Welcome Back! (2022 Edition)

      I'm back, hello everyone hello.

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: The Arlong Park Anniversary thread!

      @Md-Martin:

      I'm hitting my 15 year anniversary next month. Jesus, it does NOT feel like 15 years have passed.

      Though technically I lurked for like 2 years before joining.

      CosmicDebris was the one who told me to join AP on the old One Piece forum on Tv.com, that replaced TV Tome back in like '05

      And I broke the forum rules by joining at the ripe old age of 11. Muhahahahaha!

      I remembered joining Arlong Park forums from TV.com as well. I was a lurker for a short time. And you joined at 11? You sly fox.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: The Arlong Park Anniversary thread!

      Been here since October 2004, 24 years old at that point. Almost 20 years here. Saw so many people come and go.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day

      @fdsfgfs:

      Can someone who's in favor of progressive dems and voteocracy give me like, a projected series of events that leads to healthcare, debt forgiveness, tax reevaluation (income, inheritance, cap gains, etc), education reform, or anything else?

      Like, we all vote BernieBot 2028 and his resurrected robosocialist self implements Fullcomunism… except we have 70% of the country that's opposed to the name of his ideals, and 40+% that will literally die, literally die murdering others to stop it from happening...

      I don't see it. If you have a path forward, let me know, but I'm beyond disillusioned. I'm outtie.

      I swear, Bernie is really annoying when it comes to him announcing his campaign only to back off. If he does one in 2024, someone better tase him.

      posted in World News
      joekido the Second
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    • RE: "One Piece Odyssey" trademark registered by Shueisha and Bandai Namco

      Will definitely get this game once it comes out.

      posted in General One Piece
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    • RE: One Piece is back on Toonami again

      So how was the ratings of this? Was it high?

      posted in FUNimation Media Discussion
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    • RE: Chapter 1,043: Let's Face Death Together!!!

      @Johnny:

      Personally, I'm spoiler jonesing really bad. XD

      Really? That reminds me, if this was 2005 I would even be asking when will the spoiler come out. Now I just had to be patient while resisting the urge to moan and post a demanding post asking with rude words on when is this coming out.

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      @Buggy:

      When the cliffhanger is this massive…has there ever been someone trying to get earlier spoilers? Like leakers going out of their way n more risky

      Yes. Last I remembered is when Garp made a shocking announcement on who Luffy's father is.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1,043: Let's Face Death Together!!!

      @sandman:

      Oda's statements below make sense now. Looking forward to Wano's "surprising" ending confirmed by Toei staff.:wub:

      Oda: Pay attention to Luffy. (2021)
      Next time Nika appears, he'll show his face. (2021)
      Audience won't be satisfied if Luffy beats Kaido with just a strong punch. (2016)
      Skypiea party is his 3rd favorite in the series, where the same SFX was used as "drums of liberation"😄(2020)

      ! [qimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNvRwmjVsAEbtA2.jpg[/qimg]

      Yep, this stuff has been foreshadowed many times. Despite this however many people are still upset.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1,043: Let's Face Death Together!!!

      @auem:

      Luffy has already been pretty much set as 'fated to be born' at particular juncture of time( what Oden and Roger heard), so this 'fate' of eating the fruit shouldn't weigh much now if Oda make JoyBoy and GG fruit mutually inclusive.

      Personally I believe Oda won't go for literal reincarnation route( damn him if he does that) and Zunisha ,while being specific, was also generic i.e JoyBoy is a title held by different people with particular set of powers throughout the history and last JoyBoy appeared 800 years ago.Perhaps holding GG fruit is a precondition.

      We have yet to know what the fruit the Five Elders were talking so the Gomu Gomu is speculation. It could be Kaido's.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: Chapter 1,043: Let's Face Death Together!!!

      @Deicide:

      I don't like Luffy's power being connected to Joyboy.
      I don't like Luffy's power being reworked into something else.
      I don't like the entire identity of the protagonist changing after 25 years of serialization.
      I don't like that the current enemy may be defeated because of "fate" and a last-minute powerup.

      I have to disagree with you here, hate it all you wish but this has been in works since chapter one, it's not like Oda dragged it suddenly out of his ass. He kept it quiet and dropped hints of it throughout the series. The minute Oda showed Roger starting a Pirate age, we pen 12 years later to Luffy already wanting to become a pirate king, ate the fruit and waited 10 years to set out. The series literally rubbed Luffy on us. Look at how he recruited talented crews, how he was great at judging people, how he helped people before entering the Grand Line.

      When Luffy survived the execution attampt, Smoker was shocked and stated that it was like some force is keeping him alive. He almost got caught but got saved by his father. Afterwards Luffy always gets away from being caught or killed by a stroke of luck.

      Woop Slap even question if this was fate, the narration before Dragon was revealed stated that the whole story begun long ago. It was clear that the series was going to end with a war, Oda even stated that in 1999.

      Whiteboard announced that One Piece is real and someone is going to carry the burden. We pan to Luffy while this was happening.

      Then we get Joyboy, and it has been hinted that he is going to play a role, a connection between them was bound to happen. Either Luffy is an reincarnation or Joyboy was his ancestor.

      It may sound stupid but One Piece was meant to be an old fashioned story found in many fantasies such as fate, destiny, prophecies and chosen one, it has been what One Piece been all about.

      Decidede, welcome to the reality of this series.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Theories That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread v.2

      When I first started reading One Piece back in 2004, I've always thought the series would end with Luffy finding the One Piece in a deep dark cave in Laugh Tale (then spelled "Raftle") with his crewmembers minus Franky, Jinbei and Brook behind him watching and the supposedly ending right there. Then came new developments throughout the series such as the reveal of the Ancient Kingdom, an upcoming war, Luffy getting his scar, Joyboy, 3 new crewmembers joining and how Gold D. Roger found One Piece. Roger appears to find One Piece outside or maybe inside a building instead of a deep dark
      cave. Now I ended up seeing Luffy in his Joyboy mode standing in front of it like Roger and the war going on around them. Geez, such a wild ride here.

      posted in Manga
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    • RE: Chapter 1,043: Let's Face Death Together!!!
      • So Luffy becomes Joyboy while being knocked out and never transformed into him before, I wonder why this peculiar moment.
      • Meanwhile it was obvious that Luffy was going to be Joyboy rereincarnation. Back in Louge Town, Smoker was shocked when Luffy survived Buggy's
        execution attampt and remarked that it was like some great force is making sure he stays alive and throughout the series Luffy keeps being lucky enough to survive getting caught or killed. It was even obvious at chapter one that destiny and fate along with something big is going to happen. Heck even Woop Slap was aware of this.
      • What we see in this chapter brings the entire series to sum up in a sentence: This series is all about finishing the work Joy Boy has left behind and someone is bound to finish his work.
      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
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    • RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day

      @Satsuki:

      Today in "Donald Trump is a failure", it turns out his beautiful border wall has been sawed through THREE THOUSAND TIMES so far:
      https://secondnexus.com/trump-border-wall-sawed-through?fbclid=IwAR1BWqcHwEHYgdp6WZK18vjAjDM1pyZYwuyJeJAFPugk_R45nrLy2gseQ_8

      Not much of a wall to begin with, but now it's really just a doggy door.

      I remembered the whole "glorious wall" BS turns out to be so typically cheap. Good riddance. This is why you never listen to people who says big but did so little.

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      @pariston_hill:

      They saved the mail
      https://apwu.org/news/postal-service-reform-act-passes-senate-will-become-law

      Just imagine what could had happened if Trump still in office.

      posted in World News
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    • RE: Random News Article Discussion II

      If monkeys die from getting a brain chip then maybe it's not a good idea to give them to humans.

      posted in World News
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: European Politics Thread

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10513527/Putin-step-Russian-tanks-artillery-seen-moving-Ukraine-attack-positions.html?ito=social-facebook

      So Putin backing off now? Is it time for him to retire already?

      posted in World News
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      joekido the Second
    • RE: Chapter 1,040: Wasted Words On Young Ears

      The Whole story of One Piece is about what Joy Boy did 900-800 years ago and the legacy he left behind that was to be done by Luffy.

      posted in Past Chapter Discussions
      joekido the Second
      joekido the Second
    • RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced

      Oh, Cowboy Bebop is getting pounded by mixed reviews; largely which is negative. Will One Piece get this treatment?

      posted in Live-Action
      joekido the Second
      joekido the Second
    • RE: American Politics: A Brand New Day

      Most people on my Facebook friend list liked the fact that Rittenhouse was found innocent. I chose however to just say he should've been punished but I decided to say "meh" to this. I would wait and see what will happen to Rittenhouse if he decides to lay low and learn his lesson or mess things up again. I believe like with George Zimmerman he will lay low and stay out of trouble.

      posted in World News
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