Agreed, hence why I called it a pipe dream.
Posts made by labmate
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RE: Coloured printed version of one piece volume
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RE: Coloured printed version of one piece volume
I've been buying the volumes consistently for well over a decade at this point, mostly because I reread a lot and prefer to read from an actual book. Plus, I want to support the series officially if I can. And because I've spent over $1000 on this series, it frustrates me how inconsistent the translation has been over the years. I'm not commenting on anyone or anything in particular here--hell, if I really want to go into it, I'd vent my frustrations at the comically absurd "ayes" and "me hearties!" that get casually thrown around in the early days of the series' English publication. There are the Zolo's, too, of course, but suffice it to say, it's a head-to-wall kind of idiocy that I continue to purchase these volumes.
My personal desire, which I know is a pipe dream, would be a re release of One Piece after its conclusion. The re release would use the officially colored chapters and be fully re translated to fix errors, establish more consistency from beginning to end, and change things like the obvious Zolo's. I imagine they'd probably be compendium style, like they do with the re release of many series, so probably a 3-volumes-in-1 type deal like they already have for One Piece as a budget option. Single volumes in the US go for $10, so maybe they charge $25 per colored compendium. They'd be higher quality, after all, and be printed in color on better paper.
I say it's a pipe dream 'cause I seriously, seriously doubt they'll ever do a re translation, or fix the glaring errors for starters. I could definitely see the officially colored chapters being released in physical print, but not with my dream re translation. That said, even if the translation wasn't improved, I'd be foolish enough to spend another $1000 on this series if it meant reading physical books in color.
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RE: Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion
I love this kind of discussion. I'll respond in turn, but I understand if this isn't the proper thread to continue the conversation at any great length.
One Piece is my special interest, to use a proper term. It's what I think about when my brain isn't required for anything else, and even when it is, the One Piece obsession is still churning in the background. (I'm sure that isn't unique to a forum dedicated to One Piece, but it's very true for myself. ) I've been weekly for a real long time. And I love that different people can get different levels of enjoyment out of the same story, too. I couldn't care less if someone likes to read spoilers: go for it. Read it whatever way makes you happy. I don't enjoy my stories as much, though, when I get the details outside of the actual thing, hence my intense avoidance of spoilers. (The end matters far less to me than the means. I'm here for the journey, to say it the cheesy way. I care less about how One Piece ends than I do about the years of weekly enjoyment I've gotten out of it.) I don't use any social media, so those weekly spoilers for One Piece aren't really an issue for me, but I really go out of my way to avoid anything that isn't the manga itself.
I have no real interest in the One Piece films from the get go, but I make it a point to especially avoid them more in recent years knowing that they reveal pertinent information that has yet to drop in the story. I think Kuzan having an ice replacement leg was dropped first in a film like a decade ago, right? I haven't seen the film, but that's something I happened to find out by accident. And that piece of information was only revealed in the manga last week! That's crazy! And while this is certainly a less impactful example (I'm using it 'cause it's recent), I still wish I didn't know about that leg until chapter 1080. I think it would have been cool to learn it there. I'd say, Holy cow! We're still learning stuff regarding the aftermath of Kuzan and Sakazuki's fight! That's wild! That one ain't a big deal, but I know there's some BIG info in Film Red and I avoid that stuff like the plague.
This is where I probably differ from most people who like to know what they're getting into when starting a series or a book or a movie. I like to go into everything blind, like I said: no blurbs, no trailers, no nothing. But I consume a LOT of stories. Like, seriously a lot. I typically read about two books a week, watch one or two movies at home, and go to the theater to see two or three movies as well. That's on top of keeping up with new chapters of One Piece and Chainsaw Man (I've read other manga to completion, but those are the only two I keep up with now). The best way I can put it is that I intentionally "judge a book by its cover." I look at the title of a book or the poster for a movie and check out what I think might be good. It's not so much a quantity-over-quality as it is a desire to consume a ton of stories. And heck, I read and watch things that I HOPE are bad, too. I love consuming what I find to be bad stories just as much as I love the good ones. It can be a slog sometimes, but I love seeing a bad movie or reading a bad book. And I don't mean hilariously bad. I mean a thing that's genuinely terrible. I get a lot out of pulling things apart, writing my thoughts, critiquing them, etc. The good stories shine brighter when they're pitted against the awful ones. And I totally do have directors and writers that I love and will voraciously consume anything they put out there. A lot of my reading and watching comes in this form or from something that seems similar to those I already love. But that's enough out of me. :^)
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RE: Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion
It wasn't my intention to equate the Gear Fifth cover reveal to the potential Stella reveal--I was just using it as a recent example--nor was anything I said in relation to social media spoilers. I do hate that BS, but I fail to see the relevance in this situation.
But that's a very valid train of thought, Captain M. No, I'm not imagining a new volume-only reader being disappointed after seeing the Stella on the cover before his introduction (though it's certainly possible), but I'm also not trying to speak for volume-only readers in the slightest. My previous post is from the perspective of someone who's been reading weekly for a very long time, and nothing about my thought is necessarily meant to sound otherwise. This kind of thing irks ME, personally, because I fancy the idea that the book itself wouldn't spoil me in advance, whether I've already read the contents or not. I don't watch much anime in the first place, but when I do, I never watch the intros because I don't want an accidental spoiler. You could certainly argue that, in a way, those scenes in the intro aren't spoilers, and that instead, they're deliberate foreshadowing placed there by people who already know how the story goes who want to set up certain ideas or imagery for a newcomer to this story in a different or more thoughtful way. I can definitely see that. I'm just a very no-spoilers kind of person. I don't watch movie trailers, read synopses for books, look at any spoilers for One Piece, etc. I like the fresh experience 'cause I like to form my own opinions. So I'm not trying to say that my not-so-hot take is or should be how those few and far between volume-only readers see the situation: it's just my thoughts.
Just wanted to further elaborate on that, 'cause I do agree with puffing.cinema that the post seemed a little unprovoked. But I appreciate your thoughts, really! It's good conversation.
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RE: Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion
This cover's likely to feature Vegapunk and the satellites, as many have pointed out, and while I'm very excited to see it, this one is inherently kind of a bummer for me. The Stella's proper reveal is in Chapter 1066--the first chapter of Volume 106--meaning his design is going to be spoiled on the cover for any one who has yet to read the chapter. I know the number of volume-only-readers is low, but it always irks me when big reveals get spoiled on a volume cover. They did it with the Nika fruit awakening, which is still a wild choice to me, especially considering the fact that Gear Fifth Luffy appears on three back to back covers, and there was really no reason that Oda HAD to put it on the Volume 103 cover. I understand it a little more in the case of 106, since it's the first chapter of the volume and Oda's not going to want to compromise the imminent big Vegapunk color spread opportunity for a single chapter's lateness, but that just makes me wish that Volume 105 contained chapter 1066. It's a greedy desire, I know, since that would make Volume 105 an eleven chapter volume, but we've had plenty of those in the past, too.
But I'm expecting a really good cover. Now I sit back and wait for the details.
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
@JustaGuy Hey, thanks, I appreciate that. :^)
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
I've never actually watched a One Piece film, despite reading the series weekly for twelve or thirteen years at this point. They've just never been of great interest to me, despite the high quality animation of the recent pictures. But I might have to finally give one a try after all these years. Any recommendations on what film to start with? Or perhaps going chronologically is a good move?
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RE: Chapter 1,046: Raizo
Maybe I'm an odd one out for thinking about it like this, but I've speculated for a long time (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) that Momo's fruit isn't a failure at all. It's been highly speculated for a long time that Vegapunk likely has some ties to the Revolutionaries given his leniency with Kuma protecting the Sunny, so I don't think it's a stretch to consider that he might have lied to the World Government and told them it was a failure because he didn't want them to have that kind of power. I have no idea why, since if this is true we still have only a hazy guess at his motivations, but just a thought.
As of now, I don't think we've seen any actual differences between Kaido's and Momo's fruits. That's not to say there aren't any, and surely an artificial fruit has to come with its own inherent differences, but so far the abilities check out to be the same, right down to the flame clouds. And while we don't know what Kaido's awakening is–maybe he's already used it, but I doubt we've seen it yet--Momo could very well be able to use the same power. Or perhaps awakenings are linked more directly to spirits/souls/the essence of an idea or person (like the gomu gomu no mi with Joyboy and Nika in ways we have yet to understand); then the artificial fruit probably can't do that.
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RE: One Piece Magazine
Will the Boichi redraw be published online like (I think) his others were previously? I recall reading the Zoro/Mihawk one on the Shueisha site.
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RE: Volume 102 Predictions/Discussion
I’m not sure why people aren’t seeing King as having a dark complexion already, and all of the sudden have to up the shadows on the brown coloring as if to accuse Oda of making mistakes and being bad. If the cover very much turns out to have a greater risk of hurting people somehow, I’ll admit to that, but until then, I see no need to worryingly frustrate over it in one’s sleep at night.
Not sure what's going on with Zoro or his lighting, but the main point, at least how I understood it, in just talking about King himself, was that he was described as brown in the manga and I feel confident enough that that point has been gotten through even now, and even with the comparisons to everyone around him. I feel like in my opinion Oda did well to deliver on that, not as an attempt to demean other opinions, but just as a simple statement of my own. If I'm really not picking up anything there, then I guess I'm not meant to at this point and that we'll have to agree to disagree, and if there's anything about that I'm truly doing wrong in my observations, then I'm sure I'll find that out in my own time, but for now, that's just what I think in regards to this manga.
Captain M said it pretty well, but for me, it really is more of a set up of expectation crumbling. Oda boasts diversity in his cast of characters through different physical features–wings, gills, etc--more than the color of their skin. But to make specific note of King's complexion in the story and shade him in with a darker screen tone unlike we've seen with really any other character I can think of, only to end up coloring him with the same markers as most everyone else is quite a disappointment to me. This is a fictional world, and these are fictional characters who hail from fictional races, but why make specific note of it only to not deliver in that way? Heck, we have Fishmen with an endless range of skin colors but we can't have King with the darker complexion that he's specifically stated to have?
I can understand your differing opinion, and I don't think you're wrong--as you noted you might be--in your observations, but for myself and others it goes deeper than just the markers Oda chose to use. I won't get into it here, and we'll just agree to disagree like you said, but it's indicative of much greater problems, and to see stuff like this coming from my favorite thing is frustrating--similar to the way Oda portrays and uses trans characters, but again, that's a whole other can of worms.
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RE: Volume 102 Predictions/Discussion
As many have already said, it really is weird that Oda homogenized King so much after expressly noting his darker complexion. I don't know far to take my frustration, but it's like that interview where someone asked Tim Burton why there are no people of color in his movies, and he responded with "They just don't fit my aesthetic." Gotta love blatant racism with a poor excuse, though in his case it was definitely taken more out of context than he meant.
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RE: Chapter 1,041: Komurasaki
I'd find that rather bullshitting, since Kidd nd Law established using Awaekening without being used to it drains a lot of stamina, and Luffy is supposedly using his last remaining energy.
They said it drains a lot of stamina like three or four separate times, each one of those times Law (and maybe Kid, too, I don't remember) saying that this would be it for them and they've got to make it count. And each time we got a "Haha, just kidding, we've got another attack in us. One more, and then we're spent!" Rinse and repeat. I say this not to prove or disprove how Luffy's awakening may or may not drain him in a fight the first time he uses it, but it's just to say that Oda's going to write a fight however he feels it needs to be written in the moment. Whether a character should go down or be tired is less crucial than how Oda decides the fight should go.
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RE: Chapter 1,040: Wasted Words On Young Ears
To be honest… One Piece needs new translations. There’s a lot of nuance missing and I wish current translators could get with the times. So much of the character dialogue comes across as dated and lacks the spark/specificity of the Japanese script.
Nothing against Stephen, who is doing the best he can — and I’m certain that Shueisha’s influence prevents him from taking certain creative liberties.
I think this problem is particularly problematic when it comes to the anime. Watching Film Gold with subtitles and without gave two very different experiences.
This is one of my biggest gripes with my love for this series. I own all the One Piece volumes in English and I buy the new ones when they release. I love having the whole thing on the shelf, and I prefer to reread from the actual volumes than online–and I reread a lot, so it's great to have the collection. But the translation is so poor at times, especially the first twelve or so volumes, that it frustrates me that I even bought them in the first place. I'm hoping they do an official release of the color version of the volumes once the series is over, but it would also mean emptying my bank account, 'cause there's no way I wouldn't buy the series again to have it in color, and/or with a better translation.
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RE: Downtime!
I second, as previously mentioned. I'd happily give back if it meant more stability for the forum and less stress on admins. <3
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RE: Downtime!
I don't know how running a website works, and no doubt it takes a considerable deal of extra stress and effort to keep a site like this running with DMCA coming down on it. At the end of the day, I'm just grateful the forum is back, but I ultimately have to agree with the sentiment that some sort of change would probably be beneficial here. Hell, if a server change is in order, I'll throw a few bucks in AP's direction. I've used this site for a decade at this point and I'd be happy to give back if it would help
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RE: Volume 101 Predictions/Discussion
That full spread…wow, I might never be changing my background again.
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RE: Sanji & Yamato
The cases that lead people into getting hurt and persecuted worldwide for expressing their trans identities, from what I understood so far in regards to evidence and the like, don’t correlate with how Oda has presents his manga, and will surely will be dealt with accordingly in its own time, but I’m willing to be proven wrong on that though.
And how can trans people not feeling hurt not matter? If Oda is going as so far as to be accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes of trans people to the point that he adds to the problem and hurts them in the process, then how can that truly be something that doesn’t matter then? Won’t he have more consequences to face up to the more of a hurtful problem he’s adding onto?
I'm not sure I understand you correctly, so if my response is off base, do let me know.
I wasn't saying that it wouldn't matter how a trans person would react to this type of portrayal, only that the portrayal itself, I feel, is negative. Of course if a trans person read this and felt offended, then that's even worse.
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RE: Sanji & Yamato
Well again, I think that at the end of the day, it really just all comes down to either people getting hurt or people not getting hurt, regardless of Oda’s original intent as a manga artist and writer. The more people Oda is hurting, the more I’m sure even he can’t so much as ignore it and instead become aware to the point that he’ll be obligated to owe an apology and change his ways to anyone that got hurt because of how his manga played out like with the okamas. I really don’t think it ought to be much more complicated beyond that, and that one shouldn’t worry so much or feel guilty for enjoying the manga otherwise, until it indeed gets to the point that it very much becomes apparent that someone got hurt because of him, and puts into question just how much respect Oda really deserves depending on what he does.
With regard to the topic at hand, I don't think it's necessarily justifiable in the sense that you stated. Because people ARE getting hurt and persecuted worldwide for expressing their trans identities. What I meant to express in my previous post was that it doesn't really matter if a trans person doesn't specifically read One Piece and feel hurt or offended, because the story itself is perpetuating negative stereotypes of trans people. So any person that reads One Piece is putting that story in the back of their mind. It's the power of media, if I'm making any sense here. Media is sometimes blatant and sometimes subtle. Oda doesn't come out and deliberately say negative things about trans folk, but the story doesn't do a good job of positively representing them. I'm not sitting here thinking Oda is a transphobe, because I don't believe he is, I just mean to say that if you put it out there, you're adding to the problem.
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RE: Sanji & Yamato
And how the okamas are presumably based on Dr. Frank N. Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, particularly Ivankov, and is understood to be based more on cross-dressing and Transvestism than being transgender. Ivankov himself is portrayed as less villainous than Frank though, and I don’t think Oda intended Ivankov and the okama as a statement of such people being bad, but that said, I think he’d be willing to apologize to anyone he has hurt because of how he drew Ivankov and the okama, as well as Bentham.
I guess it just frustrates me in that sense. Rocky Horror is such an iconic movie, and seeing Oda pull from its tropes without really acknowledging that those tropes are offensive and toxic in the first place just sucks. It's not thinking through what you're doing before you present it to a global audience, and it hurts people. Plus, Bentham is a fan favorite (I think they were in the top 25 of the global poll). Hell, I love Bentham for who the character is at heart, especially because they had a turn around to being a close ally for Luffy. And Ivankov and the Newkama aren't villains, of course, but the whole thing just leaves a sour taste, and it really bums me out that Oda didn't consider how this further tarnishes different forms of trans representation in media.
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RE: Sanji & Yamato
Fair points to the above few posts. Kiku does identify as a trans woman, while it's unclear whether the inhabitants of Kamabaka do or don't. And Sanji was being chased and forced to do things, that's true. But like Zik said, that depiction is pretty disgusting in the first place. It's a perpetuation that a cross dresser or trans woman is inherently wicked or evil, etc. Though queer coding in that sense is a whole other can of worms.
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RE: Sanji & Yamato
Sanji is without a doubt a kind hearted and caring person, but can we just remember that his personal version of hell was an island inhabited solely by drag queens and trans women? You could probably try to make a case for him not being transphobic and that his "personal hell" is only a hell specifically because he's separated from his idea of a beautiful woman and not that the island is trans/in drag, but it feels pretty clear to me. Regardless, though, if and when Yamato and Sanji interact, as crewmates or not, I could see Sanji being accepting of Yamato for who he is, but perhaps with caveats like some have mentioned above.
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RE: Next Straw Hat Crewmates (Vol. 8 - Onigashima)
I don't know what thread to post this in, so I'm writing it off as 'Fan who still thinks Rebecca will join the crew,' just to say that this picture of Doja Cat is literally Rebecca:
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RE: Chapter 988: Sorry for the Wait
Weird mangaplus still has the chapter on the 30/08, me think it should have been corrected by now
Was just about to ask, 'cause I thought there was a break. So there is a break, right?
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RE: Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !
Crossing the Red Line is not that big of a deal. You just get up the damn thing and get a ship on the other side.
It takes a long time, but it's simple.
It's not that big of a deal? I could be forgetting an example or two, but the only instances I can really think of when it comes to climbing/crossing OVER the Red Line are:
A) The Tenryubito/nobles/marines/etc using those bubble gondolas for the Reverie
B) Germa 66 climbing with their snails
C) Fisher Tiger scaling the wall with his bare handsAnd Fisher Tiger was noted to be an exceptional case, yet it's the only example we have of someone who isn't in some way affiliated with the World Government crossing OVER the Red Line. Getting a ship once you're over is a whole other thing that, frankly, I don't know how you'd do either if you just land in the ocean. Plus, Krieg had his same wrecked galleon in the East Blue that he did on the Grand Line, so we know he didn't get a new ship.
I'm rambling at this point, but do correct me if we have any examples I'm forgetting. It would seem more likely to me for them to cross the Calm Belt than it would to even TRY to cross the Red line, ie a dummy strong pirate like Rayleigh swimming through (not saying someone like Kreig could do anything like this, just an example). Even if they somehow did it, all y'all are pirates and better hope you don't get seen by any world nobles (though I get the Red Line's real big and Mariejoa is the only settlement we know for sure to be on it).
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RE: Chapter 980: Fighting Music
Not sure if this was said already, and it's probably just a coincidence, but it almost seems like all of the hits Apoo is getting on Luffy and Zoro are spots that they were just attacking the other enemy fodder in. ie Luffy punching the bear smile on the right side of its face (and he kicked a guy in the head a few pages back) and gets hit on the right side of his face; Zoro getting slashed on the chest after slashing someone's chest a few pages back; the explosion on Luffy I don't see a clear one-to-one for, but it's just a thought, in the same way that people were considering whether Apoo has to say his victim's name to target them. Just throwing it out there.
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Yup, 767.
Barrels: Dorry!! / Ugh!! Where has that brat got to?!! // He’s never around when I really need him!! / He’s got more skills than anyone else, but he’s a damn coward!Pirate: …...!! Dorry!! Where are you going?! / Help me!! Can’t we do something about this cage?!
Drake's hobby is also astrophysics, so he's probably pretty smart, no?
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RE: Chapter 979: Family Problem
@Medical:
I don't know if there's a place to ask for requests but would someone be willing to edit Lil Pump's head onto Rob Lucci's body?
PM me the pics you want to use and we'll have this done lickety split.
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RE: Downtime!
Phew, we're back. That was quite a stretch. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I sure am grateful AP is back, and many thanks to Brennen and any one else who worked to get the site up and running and again. Much much love.
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RE: Volume 96 Predictions/Discussion
Roger wearing pink and Newgate wearing green…I'll be damned. Great coloring all around though, especially Oden. His official scheme is very fitting. I dig the orange background.
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RE: Chapter 972: I Am Oden, And I Was Born To Boil
The last page of the official says 973 drops on March first, but then Mangaplus (the site listing) says it drops on the eighth?
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RE: Oda´s tributes to another Mangas, mangakas, celebrities…
Teach being lifted up by his crew had me rolling. Thanks for posting, Redon.
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RE: Volume 95 Predictions/Discussion
Oda gave a flower and an animal representing each Worst Gen character :
Luffy : Sunflower + Monkey
Kid : Tulip + Bull I think, the first kanji's hard to read
Law : Dutchman's pipe cactus + Snowleopard
Teach : red spider lily + Hippo
Zoro : Wisteria (Fuji in japanese, the same word as in Fujitora) + Shark
Killer : Snowdrop + Weasel (probably because of the Yokai Kamaitachi)
Hawkins : Black Lily + Horse
Boney : Fuchsia + Deer
Capone : Rose and Koala
Urouge : Daisy and Elephant
Apoo : Poppy + Orangutan
Drake : Bellflower + Allosaurushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_radiata
All this talk about death, hell and tributes. A symbol of autumn in Japan, a season of symbolic death and rebirth. Plot so thick you could cut it with a knife. Let the theorycrafting commence!
Y'all getting antsy over the flower, but you glossed right over it. Teach's third fruit: hippo zone confirmed.
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RE: Chapter 966: Roger and Whitebeard
It's always a blessing to get an early chapter this time of year, but it also means we have a two week break instead of two one week breaks. Though I suppose the release of the official translation is a good mid point.
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RE: Chapter 966: Roger and Whitebeard
I hate Whitebeard caring about politics or putting Ace above his other crewmembers.
I agree. It's a weird argument to have, since we don't quite know yet why Whitebeard didn't do to Oden's aid in Wano, and it could be for a million reasons, but I think we'll learn in this flashback. But the idea that he valued one son over all the others is strange to his character, him being built as the endlessly loving and equal father to all his sons. Hopefully the reasoning in this flashback can put a bit more to rest on the matter. Some people make the argument that had it been a different son and not Ace on the scaffold, Whitebeard wouldn't have come, but I have to disagree. It feels clear to me that he would go to save any son from the scaffold, regardless of how he feels about Ace. Plus, the fact that he was Roger's son was really only know to Whitebeard, Garp, Sengoku, and Ace himself, so it's not like that was some big world-shaking reason to go or not to go to the rest of his crew or before he made the decision. And the World Government, the rest of which didn't know who Ace's father was, was on board with the idea of the public execution for the fact of luring the Whitebeard pirates into combat, and I'd imagine they saw no difference at that time between Ace or any other son of the crew.
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RE: Chapter 966: Roger and Whitebeard
@Johnny:
Is there a chapter this week?
- 22nd of dec: chapter 966
- 29th of dec: no chapter
- 5th of january: chapter 967
- 12th of january: no chapter
- 19th of january: chapter 968
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RE: Chapter 966: Roger and Whitebeard
I'll never get enough of One Piece, but I hope and pray the series is just left to rest in all its glory, unless Oda himself wanted to write more.
I really have no doubts that whatever the end of One Piece is will be phenomenal; Oda has proven to me at this point that he's going to complete this incredible story in a truly beautiful way. And however many years and chapters it takes to get there is fine by me; I'm not a fight-crazed reader, nor am I solely a world-building fanatic. I love every aspect of this series dearly, and I appreciate every chapter for what it brings to the table. If Oda ended One Piece tomorrow or in twenty years, I wouldn't bat an eye, so long as he wrapped up what he felt he needed to. My only concern is a rushed pacing. You can have a beautifully written ending, but it can still be rushed, and given the slight rush Oda's been putting on lately, it concerns me just a bit. All I could ask for as a reader is for Oda to complete this journey how he sees fit, and it would really be a shame to rush to the end now. I'm along for the ride no matter what, and whatever this beautiful man has in store will be, no doubt, one of the most powerful things ever put to page.
Low key, I'm not the kind of person who feels like they have to meet the people that they respect the most, but I just want to give Oda a hug some time before we're both gone, just to show him even a glimmer of how much I appreciate the time, dedication, and love he's put into this thing, and how much joy this thing has brought me.
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RE: Anime/Manga in the 2010s: Looking Back
That moment when your top list of anime and manga for a decade doesn't include One Piece :ninja:
…and you're on a One Piece forum.
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RE: Chapter 965: The Kurozumi Clan's Plot
Just one actually, since Hiyori is already born.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Roger live another two years after this? He take a year to complete the Grand Line and become Pirate King, disbands the crew, and then turns himself in after another year or so? I don't think he turned himself in so immediately after.
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RE: Oda´s tributes to another Mangas, mangakas, celebrities…
But public statues of Nami and Robin mean that gross perverts can grab their tits :^(
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RE: Chapter 964: Oden's Adventure
It'd be cool if there was a colourspread, where all the dead people from flashbacks have a drink and party together
(Belmere, Hiluluk, Noland, Kalgara, Tom, Yoki (if dead o_o), Roger, Fisher Tiger, Otohime, Corazon and Oden of course). I hope I didn't forget anyone important.
EDIT: Olvia and Saul fcs! I knew I forgot someone!Don't forget Clover, as underdeveloped as he was.
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RE: Chapter 962: Daimyo and Vassals
I forget who it was, but somebody last week called that it would be Kyuin instead of Lola giving the kisses. Big props for the hilarious prediction.
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RE: Chapter 962: Daimyo and Vassals
Yep. I just noticed it on reread. So obvious. I feel silly, haha. I interpreted Nekomamushi's ears as horns and thought we were getting the secret to horn folks.
No sweat, I didn't realize on first glance either, simply just by the hype. You would think that after reading nine hundred sixty two chapters of One Piece, I would lose the excitement over the stupid 'every-chapter-ends-with-an-unnecessary-cliffhanger' thing, but I never do.
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RE: Chapter 962: Daimyo and Vassals
Enjoy the Chapter! I'm excited to see who the hell that is on the beach at the end and whether it is a new race. I'm sure it's been discussed to death in the spoiler thread already.
Aren't the wash-ups Neko and Inu?
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RE: Pokémon ORAS and Spinoffs: We Go!
Sun & Moon has garnered… mixed reception. They changed the artstyle pretty significantly and more or less shifted the structure to a slice-of-life format wherein Ash is in school which honestly even 144 episodes later I think was a weird idea and one that they didn't really do much with… But honestly, Sun & Moon is one heck of a fun show. The characters are incredibly likable, Ash's entire team has so much personality (of course, any team that has a Rowlet that swallowed an Everstone is an instant win for me, being that that's my favorite Pokémon) and if you can look past how much more "goofy" the artstyle is, it has enabled the show to be easily the most animated that Pokémon has ever been. Like, just looking at the posters you might think "Why does Ash look so dumb?!" but if you look at it in motion…
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/36952
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/39283
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/53925
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/74737
Just a few random examples… Oh and by the way, Brock and Misty come back. I mean they're only in the show for 4 episodes (42, 43, 102 and 103) but they're there.…But if I have managed to convince you to give it a try with that I must also say: It is so much better in Japanese than it is in English. The dubbers have, since XY, had this nasty tendency of removing almost all of the original soundtrack and from what I've heard, the stuff they replace it with is just… pretty much elevator music.
Hey, why does Ash look so d–
He actually doesn't look as dumb as I braced myself for, so that's at least a plus. And no doubt, the animation is actually really lovely from what I see in those clips. I just got so turned off starting in Gen five when they for some reason made Ash TEN AGAIN. I mean, I know it's just so they can use their figure head for as many years as they want, but he has to be at least fifteen after exploring four other regions. That probably sounds like a silly reason to stop watching, but I couldn't get behind making the main character who had little, yes, but some amount of growth as a person with his companions just be reduced to what they were when they started. It was as if all the journeys I, as a viewer, experienced through the eyes of Ash and co. were eradicated and he was a creepy and idiotic clean slate, which not only made no sense, but felt like a weird betrayal to my literal decade of viewership.
But maybe my heart has mended, and perhaps, time permitting, I'll try this new series, if for nothing more than decent animation. Thanks for your input, friend.
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RE: Pokémon ORAS and Spinoffs: We Go!
Important PSA of importantness: The Sun & Moon anime just concluded the absolute best goddamn battle ever. It starts in episode 141 and ends in episode 144. Go watch it. (Well, 144 isn't available with subs just yet… But give it a few hours.)
What is the Pokemon anime like now? I haven't watched since gen five, and even then it wasn't all that great. Loved gens one through four, but once Brock was gone for good, I couldn't really engage any more.