@RobZilla:

…and got gravity drilled into the ground.

…and immediately after, Fujitora was pushed back by some random slash.

@Miss:

I'm not a fan of the current opening, but I wish they'd hold off on a new one. At least until the end of the arc and the beginning of a new one.

My OCD demands one new opening per arc; two if it's an especially long arc. And this current one got tweaked around already, what else new would they even add? This arc is long, but not varied.. Still the same everybody vs. Doflamingo scenario.

Don't most anime typically get 2 openings/endings a season? They often change them regularly after around 12 episodes (or around 20+ episodes for long running anime).

From what I've seen, Toei gets pretty stingy with new openings and keeps them around for long periods of time or they'd simply never change the original at all so One Piece has never really gotten the same treatment other anime would typically get regarding the openings.

@senjuitama:

The Character models were all over the place in this episode too, was this really a 4 star animation director? Aren't the Animation directors supposed to correct the off model drawings?

No. Shingaki is a sub-par animator and an even worse artist.
I have no idea who decided to give him 4 stars when none of his episodes look good anymore. 2 or 3 stars is more like it.

Great news, I like wake up, but it's getting annoying.

I just hope that it won't be too happy-go-lucky.

The Shinigami still haven't left?

@Galaxy:

You and I are talking about two different things.

If Luffy is in a position where he can protect his friends, he won't allow them to be killed. This applies to situations like Akainu killing Ace, where Luffy was there, but unable to do a thing because he was too weak, and with Kuma/Kizaru/Sentomaru on Sabaody, where he couldn't protect them from being sent away.

So nobody is going to die as long as Luffy is protecting them. That was the point.

What you're describing are things that would obviously kill people if Oda wasn't scared to kill people, but that's not even close to Luffy's personal promise to protect his friends from harm's way.

So why include Luffy's "promise" as a reason as to why Jinbe wouldn't die?
Big Mom killing Jinbe when they meet up again wouldn't be included in the vow according to the logic you just used in this post.

He's mad because Doflamingo used Bellamy as a tool even though Bellamy idolized him. Not because he thinks he killed him.

Prove that.
Give me a scan of Luffy stating that this is the case after he finished the battle. until then, there's no reason to accept this.
You're completely ignoring the point of the entire confrontation.

Uh yeah, and yet he isn't dead anyway

This is completely irrelevant.

Luffy hasn't said a thing about thinking he's dead past punching him.

And yet Luffy kept reinforcing notion hat he would die if he attacked him during the fight.
If you're using this as your logic, why do you keep on insisting that Luffy doesn't think he his despite the fact that he didn't say otherwise?

And that punch definitely was not the same punch he used against the Pacifista. It's a replica of his attack on Jaya

A G2, Haki infused punch was exactly what was used against that pacifista.

Again, I'd say it depends if he's actually paying attention and not just filled with rage.

If he's panicked and not focused… I wouldn't expect him to realize it. Could also attribute it to his training in Observation Haki as well

Where was it stated that your emotional state affected your CoO?
He was filled with rage yet he could still apparently tell that Bellamy's still alive with his CoO according to your previous statement.

@Galaxy:

the timeskip was there as a measure to prevent it from ever happening again.

The Shinokuni, for example, would have killed them all if it weren't for Law and Brownbeard. Luffy was completely helpless.

Sugar and Trebol could have killed Usopp and he wouldn't have been able to do a thing about it.

I could go on.

And no he doesn't.

Luffy sure is livid at doflamingo for forcing him to safely knockout bellamy and for tricking bellamy into thinking he would care if bellamy got knocked out

The entire setup was that Bellamy's taken so much damage up until now, his HP is so low that anything hard enough to knock him out would kill him too yet Luffy hit him with with the same kind of punch he used to destroy a pacifista and still thinks that he's alive? Luffy went through all that for nothing?

He'd know if he was actually dead via Observation Haki.

And yet he's incapable of telling if Law is currently dead or not or that DD was a clone, twice?

@Galaxy:

Jinbe is not going to die.

It would serve no purpose in developing Luffy (or anybody, for that matter) and make his timeskip training to protect his friends meaningless..

Luffy says he'll never let his friends die all the time.
He said this in Enies Lobby and got a reality check afterwards.
This pretty much contradicts his words to Vivi on Sandy Island.

Luffy isn't so naive as to think that he can protect everyone's life. He doesn't really decide who dies either. That's on Oda. If this were written by a mangaka who has no qualms about killing off characters, everyone would have already been dead by now given the situations they've been in since the TS.

I'm also pretty sure this only extends to his crew members, which Jinbe is currently not.
He considers Bellamy a friend yet he assumes that he just killed him himself,

@maxterdexter:

I just remembered, Vivi had the Arabastan Bikini under the robes, and while it wasn't bad, it was not a cool look, but I didn't like a whole arc with Rebecca in the steel bikini.

I find it quite amusing how people are actually disturbed by Rebecca's outfit when there were dozens of male characters like King Riku who wear clothes styled similarly, and are wearing even less than she is.
These same people get offended at anything even remotely considered "sexist" not realising that this is actually sexism.
@CrazyMerlyn:

On the other hand, Bart just haves generic goal of helping Luffy in his journey, same as what can be said for the rest of the crew as well.

Can it really?
Did all of the Strawhats state that helping Luffy become the pirate King was a goal of theirs?

@superv:

some decent animation went into the Grizzly Magnum and the Pica vs Zoro set up, and i also liked how they made pica get his sword from the ground instead of how the manga made it appear out of nowhere. So i guess he can make other objects pass through stone now?

In the manga we saw Pica emerging from the rock presumably with the sword. We never saw his entire body leave the golem without it.