…and got gravity drilled into the ground.
…and immediately after, Fujitora was pushed back by some random slash.
…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.
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,
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.
Don't you guys ever get tired of doing the same old thing on every chapter discussion thread?
It simply turns into a Darth vs everyone thread and it's always about the same thing. No one is ever going to change anyone else's thoughts on the matter, so why continue to do this in this fashion?
At least have an actual discussion rather than shouting opinions at each other as if all of them are factual.
Darth does bring some well thought out criticisms to the table.
There's really no point in constantly complaining about him.
Ah had forgotten that. It would be interesting to see him in an actual sword fight however, as that instance was rather short, and since Doffy claimed he has good swordsmanship. Right now his fruit just outshines whatever else he can do.
Law was fending off Doflamingo with pure swordsmanship the entire fight. He used his DF here and there, but he's mostly been fighting using sword skill.
I can't think of anything either, although I'd be perfectly happy without a Gear Fourth being introduced.
Luffy already has Second for overwhelming speed and Third for overwhelming power.
He now also has outstanding control of both after training over the timeskip.
Add that to his proficiency with haki and his natural battle instincts, and he should have more than enough tools to defeat any opponent.
Although I'm not head over heels for a Gear Fouth, Luffy's current moveset won't suffice. He won't make it through the New World using the same skillset he's been using since Enies Lobby with Haki on the side.
His Gear Second and Third have both been countered already, separately, at the very least.
I mean, yeah, it has some pretty gruesome stuff in it, but I've seen worse.
I've read plenty of Shonen with gore just as bad like Naruto, Bleach, Toriko, Dragon ball, Deadman Wonderland, Shingeki no kyojin, and JJBA(pre-seinen) just to name a few.
Unless it's Berserk or Gantz level, I don't consider it much.
@Kaizou:
I don't think censorship will be needed for this series because it isn't as violent as HxH.
HxH isn't that violent either.
@Mr.:
The return of Law's trademark bird.
I wonder how many bullets Doflamingo has pumped into Law's body over the course of this arc. Now it's more clear why Doflamingo thinks he killed him after using him for target practice so much.
It does sort of look like Law's still clinging to life and whispered something to Luffy as he leaned over him.
Law didn't whisper anything. That was a flashback bubble.
@Mr.:
So far my best guess they used chapters up to the Sabo vs Fujitora clash. Maybe not even that far, just up until birdcage was erected. They can't be that close to the manga since they naturally needed some time get the game through post-production & manufacturing. Active development almost certainly ended by the end of last year to focus on polishing and late beta testing.
Good way to check is to see when the Doflamingo's birdcage was first revealed in the first revealing trailer and when the first episode he used it came out. The anime episode it happed in was only 5 episodes ago (roughly 7 weeks ago)
Because was an admiral. Kizaru also has a rather limited moveset to work off of, as does Garp,
They used moves from chapters past birdcage. I recall Doflamingo and Law having new attacks from their current fight.
@Al!naJames:
Please stop it. There's no excuse for not giving characters different skintones on coloured images. There's just none.
Why do you even care if he does or not? Who are you to decide what "excuse" there is? You're not an artist, nor are you a manga-ka. You would never understand. Giving each and every character their own unique palette and having to keep it up on every color spread would be a pain.
Most of the characters ethnicities are ambiguous, similar to most other manga, so giving them the same skin tone wouldn't affect anything,
Even rebecca and Viola are taller than Luffy, Luffy is the shortest except from Kinemon son.
Rebecca and Viola wear high heels.
Imagine if the wikia was written based on the anime.
It'd still be better than the Dragon ball wikia a.k.a. "The Funimation dub" wikia.
Yeah, but he must also have had a goal before setting out. He had made a big name for himself, but what was he trying to accomplish? That will probably never be answered though, so no use in worrying about it.
Ace never wanted to be the pirate king.
In chapter 585, Ace stated that he wanted to be a pirate so he could be famous and use that as proof that he was alive. He wanted to prove those who rejected him wrong and to let everyone know his name.
By Oda you mean? Because as I see them in the colorspreads, the hue variation of their skintones compared to, say, luffy, is hardly noticeable. Moria is an exception indeed but I think it was hinted he´s not actually human? (snakeneck theory going around some years ago IIRC) and Cindry is a zombie.
Moriah was confirmed to be human by Oda IIRC.
You're right about the hue variations being minimal, but it's quite obvious that Oda intended for these characters to be darker than what we're shown. My guess is that it's pretty difficult to shade in all of these characters so using the same colors for the majority of them is less time consuming.
Yeah, but that's more of an Oda issue than a colour manga specific one. Caribou I think is the only exception besides Miss Monday. It's disappointing, but I suppose you'd explain it as a cultural gap. Japan's not the most socially aware of nations and sometimes it shows in all the worst ways in their media.
It´s not about it contradicting Oda´s colour choices. We want to know if the color choices are decided by Oda OR Shueisha. And yeah, they are undeniable better than the anime colors, however, I prefer that the anime actually gives the characters different skintones here and there, unlike the manga where every single non fishman character has the same skincolor (the only exception that comes to mind is Miss Monday)
Mr 5, Wiper, Kamakiri, Braham, Jabra, Blueno, Cindry, Moriah, Hannibal, Dragon, and Law all had skin tones colored differently from the norm.
Some are less obvious than others.
@Galaxy:
Anime/colored manga really don't count though.
They aren't always the same when Oda colors it.
That's true, but I don't recall a ton cases where they're very different.
There are lot of times where the anime revealed the color schemes of characters first and Oda reused them in the manga.
I don't know if they asked Oda for their color schemes or if Oda just decided to use theirs. They could have been completely different, but they're the exact same.
I recall Sugar, Trebol and Dellinger having different color schemes from early appearances and then having them quickly changed to their current schemes before their official introductions.
They were probably corrected by someone.
I do recall Giolla and Diamante having different color schemes in the Digital comics so you do have a point.
huh, never expected blue hair for Gladius. Maybe it's supposed to make him look less like a super saiyan.
Gladius's color scheme was revealed a long time ago.
This is the scariest anime adaptation in years.
Whatever studio decides to pick it up is going to need a LOT of skin, because the fans will absolutely RAGE if the quality is even slightly compromised.
Ugh, I wish I could read the source article, since it has ONE and Murata's comments but the image quality is too low.
I agree.
I'm going to be pissed if it's not up to par.
When I imagined this series in anime format, I had very high expectations and standards already set.
I would guess that Doflamingo cut off his leg this time and Law is too tired to move or do anything like stopping the bleeding..
So Law is there defeated on the ground bleeding to death.He wont be finished off offscreen but he is at death doorstep more than Bellamy, thats for sure.
Seems like we will get quite dramatic ending to Dressrosa and person that Koala is afraid has to be Burgess or Hakuba.
If its Hakuba then he will deal with Trebol, if its Burgess then somebody still has to deal with Trebol.I would like if Burgess gets to Luffy vs Doflamingo at its later stage and asks Doflamingo if they can make a deal or something with him giving him Devil Fruits etc for helping him with Luffy, then Doflamingo is like "Mkay(I will kill you later)" and we get to see Sabo going at it with Burgess, pushing him to retreat after making A LOT of effort.
Why would Koala be afraid of Hakuba?
Mangapanda sucks, what's new?
@Farsighted:
It looks like We're going to wait till the next update to find out how badly Law looks if Dolflamingo is confidently calling him dead at the moment.
I'm predicting that We'll add a gunshot wound, hella blood loss and missing limb to things that the people in One Piece can survive .
Overall, the chapter was alright .
Law must look really bad if Oda didn't want us to see him this chapter.
I was a bit skeptical when it was announced that Pica would be voiced by a male, but man was that hilarious.
This is why Zoro is one of my favorite characters.
I like how he use nicely thought out strategies.
He isn't as dumb as you'd think.
@Cymelion:
So what was Law's shocking past revealed?
It was in the title page but I didn't see anything or did I miss it?
It's just mangapanda being mangapanda.
Damn… this chapter made me miss the great comedy One Piece used to have. Where's that all gone? It's all brawl, drama and destruction.
Wat? Most of the battles on Dressrosa have had tons of comedy. Where was this attitude when Sugar was KO'd?
You also do realise they're having a war right?
Characters rarely shine other than from their arbitrary quirks
This isn't true.
Nami and Robin feel like they have no personality
That's impossible for various reasons.
Zoro is always serious, never laughs.
He isn't, and for what reason should he constantly laugh?
he's hardly about being a pervert anymore
But being a "man".
He's no longer an underdog, he just fights on par with people now
Have we been reading the same series?
it feels so far away from the great stuff that went on earlier in the series. :[[/quote] Because everything is being over exaggerated by you lot.
Best scene of the chapter to me was the flashbacks of Diamante being a total asshole at the very beginning.
But Bellamy makes up more power of the family than Diamante? Are you feeling alright, Violet? I think Gatz made a better announcer.
I'm quite sure she meant that they're the last 4 standing.
Robin vs Trebol and sexism arguments are now seeping into other threads that have absolutely nothing to do with them.
There seriously needs to be a Robin vs Trebol discussion thread opened so threads like these won't continue to be disolved into utter garbage by tumblr sjw's.
What was up with the drinking scene? Lol.
but that is still a long ways away from proving that he can (by use of his fruit) attach one piece of matter to another, rather than merely being able to switch one piece of matter with another.
He attached that marine battleship to an iceburg in PH.
The question is if he could do that to things that weren't separated by his powers.
We have Law attaching animal parts to guys to give them legs so that can work. But we also have two other guys, one can stitch back the arm and the other one can heal it.
Or Law might side to let it stay like that. As a way to pay Rocinante back for sacrificing his life for him, then an arm is sacrifice enough to honor him.
I don't understand why people seriously think Leo can help with severed limbs. It's not like his power will do anything for it. It's basically like tape. It wouldn't actually be connected to his body.
I seriously doubt that Mansherry's powers could regrow Law's severed arm.
Her ultimate ability can restore things.
I don't know if she'd use it on Law though.
Since it was mentioned, it has to be used a some point.
SBS vs Canon? I don't think so.
no pun intended! [qimg]http://img.bato.to/comics/2013/08/03/o/read51fc572c2b9f7/img000014.png[/qimg]
That doesn't prove anything.
I swear Robin fans are becoming insufferable.
I can't wait till Tebol is defeated to put this garbage discussion to rest. @Sereques:
I hope the top executives are not one chapter one shot. I don't think we will get new pairings anymore. Law will take on Trebol, he hasn't defeat anyone in this arc.
Pica and Diamante have already been injured. No matter what happens, it's not possible for them to be one-shotted.
Woah, is One Piece going on break after the next episode, then the episode after that?
Is something special happening?
Was it stated that the smiles were all imperfect? Wasn't just Momo's one?
@Law:
Precisely. // Being man-made, there are certain risks associated with these fruit… /
That's all Law said.
One can only wonder how Doflamingo made all those effects and got all those pictures for the bounties.
@Kisoto:
He's been getting hit really hard with the ugly stick in these past episodes…
Yeah, it kinda irks me. No one besides Shida, Ishizuka and Nakatani have managed to draw Law correctly without his hat on. It seriously can't be that hard, right?
This isn't a very compelling argument.
I wasn't making an argument?
I was making an opinionated statement.
There are dozens of reasons why this manga isn't good, but I don't have to write a book about why that's the case every time I say it. It's not any different from you saying this is the best arc in the series when you didn't list every little detail you could find on why that's true.
Diamante is relevant in dealing with the Riku family story. We still don't know what Pica have planned and I guess I can say the same for Trebol since he isn't doing anything.
Kyros already said that his anger with Diamante had already reached its peak. That signals that he's ready to end it.
I've already attested to the probability of Pica receiving more than one chapter.
Trebol isn't doing anything.
Unless it says in the story we are going to Wano next island.
No one said it was next?
After Water7 the goal was Fishman Islan, but we ended up in Thriller Bark, Saobondy, Impel Down, and then had the war
This example is completely nonsensical for obvious reasons. I almost burst out in laughter from the mere fact that you even thought to mention this.
We finally have a villainous organization who gets shit done for a change. Easily the best arc in Bleach after Soul Society.
This arc is awful.
How is that ludicrous to expect one of the executives to put up more of a fight? It's reasonable to imagine a top tier villain in an arc getting more screen time since they are more important to the plot. Going by that logic I now wholeheartedly believe the fight with Doflamingo will only be a chapter long.
Diamante, trebol, and Pica are not "top tier villains". They also personally have nothing to do with the plot. Your expexpectations don't affect anything. The fact that we've had the same trend with all of the executives is the only thing that matters.
How can you say they are already at Zou when no one but Oda knows. We may end up stepping back time wise once the arc ends and see how the Sunny/Big Mom conflict unfolds in real time. Half of the main cast has been missing over a year now and you expect them to not be showcased?
I said they most likely are. We don't need a full on flashback of them when they can give all of the details on the events that occurred exposition style.
I refuse to base my judgement on where the story is going based on the release dates of a figure set. That is ludicrous in and of itself.
Why do you think your opinion is the be-all end-all ? It doesn't matter what you personally believe. I shouldn't have to reiterate that.
Monkey King you're on my ignore list so don't bother replying to me since I can't see what you say.
You have no way of knowing the fights will get one chapter each.
We do have a way of knowing. The Executives have been steadily defeated in one chapter for six straight chapters in a row. You can't argue that they'll get more chapters since that's based on absolutely nothing. Stop coming up with these ludicrous reasons as to why the arc should be unnecessarily stalled.
I think we will get a few chapters
Key phrase - You think
Sanji and co. are most likely already at Zou.
You think several chapters should be dedicated to things that could be covered in a small amount of time.
And there is no evidence to support your claim that Zou was meant to be a short arc.
Besides what Sandman posted? That's overwhelming evidence that supports me while your argument is driven by what you think.
Not to mention the world building
You're making everything sound longer than they should be.
We have the end of Dressrosa, the group on the Sunny, and Zou to get through before Wano. I can't see all that being over by the time October rolls around
There are only 3-4 fights left in Dressrosa and we're done. The fights with the executives are only going to be one chapter (Zoro vs Pica could potentially get 2). The only big plot line left is the destruction of the factory, and that won't take long.
The group on the Sunny and Zou will be handled together and Zou is not going to be long. It was not meant to be. We have more than enough time for this.
Plus we have breaks and curve balls in the plot to factor in. I don't think Wano is happening until next year.
One break every 3-4 chapters isn't going to hinder the plot to that great of an extent.
Chapter 66 spoilers.
! Historia didn't inject the serum
Confronts Rod about Frieda never using the coordinate
Injects Rod
Slaps Eren
Levi squad comes and save Historia and Eren from the colossal Rod
Eren decides to fight, drinks the strongest titan serum and shifts at the end of the chapter.You go, girl.
I'm still iffy on Historia.
She keeps switching sides.