We made it folks!

Can't believe Hunter Biden's laptop contained all of One Piece

I agree, the joining is more likely postponed than not happening at all/

However, given that Jimbei's postponement contributed nothing positive to the story, I'm not happy about it happening it to Yamato.

There would be zero change to the story if Jimbei left with the crew at Whole Cake. Give him some "undercover" thing to do like most of the crew was, and there ya go. His excuse for taking so long after helping his ex-crew was literally just "Welp, we HAD to get shitfaced drunk together afterward".

It's weird with Oda, time, and finishing the series. He says he wants to wrap it up soon. We know he's usually not good to his word every time he says that. Though with other story beats leaning toward it ending, we think we are closer to the ending of the story.

And yet he spends how many MONTHS of just building up Yamato, only to leave them in Wano for now?

At this point in the story, it just doesn't feel justified unless Oda has something very important for Yamato to do, relatively soon, that will impact the story in a meaningful way.

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

"Luffy, remember what you said about Ace, you know the guy that ended up dead beacuse everybody who could help him waited till the last possible minute to try and save him.

I'm sorry, "the guy that ended up dead beacuse everybody who could help him waited"?

That's not what happened in the manga. At all. What manga are you reading?

The ONLY people who knew what was going on with Ace and hesitated was the Strawhats, because of Luffy's choice to let Ace live his own life. He didn't know the circumstances of his capture. And Luffy only knew -and refused to help him- because of the Vivrecard. Nobody else knew he was in danger until the World Government announced his public execution. And as soon as that happened, Whitebeard and 40 other New World Crews strolled into Marineford.

@electricmastro I can see that point. But to what degree, versus being in the Strawhats -if the ultimate path for Yamato IS joining the crew-.

Oda can write any reason in the wold for Yamato to play in eventually opening Wano's borders. And I'm sure whatever he has planned for Wano and Yamato will turn out great.

But the issue is he spent so much time building up to Yamato leaving Wano with Luffy. And making them a parallel to Oden who eventually joined Roger on his final voyage.

And yeah, he technically gets away with the "Yamato is Oden, Oden didn't instantly join Roger" etc.

But if Oda has genuine plans to both rap the series up in the next 5-7 years, and that includes Yamato joining at some point, I don't see it being done in a meaningful way that explains not having them join now.

In the same way I still don't see how Oda justified leaving Jimbei behind for half of the longest arc of the series with no justification in the story aspect.

@Ivotas Nobody is expecting PHD material.

Nobody is expecting these hypothetical conversations where you're convincing someone to start One Piece based on the developments of over a thousand chapters into the story either. Because that's not how people start One Piece.

Yeah, if you follow Inaki's Instagram you get the feeling he's just like that every day.

@Robby:

Folks, how would you feel if, when Jump makes this switch, AP makes a push to try and start enforcing "same day as japan" release schedules and better support the official release?

We've discussed this before, on staff and in public, and the logistics have always been a nightmare. The english release was weeks behind the japanese originally, and then when it caught up there was the fact that you have to pay to get it, and lots of our readers are around the world and don't have access to it.

We still can't do anything about the worldwide readers part, but if it's going legit and free there's no reason for us to not try now at least. The bootleg editions will still beat it by a day or two, and that's where the worldwide readers will probably still have to go, but I think the difference between Friday morning and Sunday evening really isn't that huge. If we as a community embraced the change, and as a whole stopped supporting the bootleg scanlation sites while also pushing up Jump's numbers to show them that yes, there is interest in this and that is the way to go, that would only be a positive thing.

Spoiler stuff could still stay in the spoiler section, and anyone that wants to go hunt down the bootlegs can…. but this is probably the best chance we'll ever have to push and endorse the official release and encourage the transition, and add at least a pretense of credibility to everything we do.

Would you guys be up for it if we really tried to make a push and enforce the idea? Or is this just a pipe dream and everyone is going to read the bootleg to get it 30 hours sooner anyway? Would all the traffic just die and go to a different site entirely if we enforced this?

Honest feedback here guys.

I think we should try and stick with the official schedule. I think the spoiler section can remain for those that want to discuss scans before the official release.

Honestly, I'm personally going to be done with looking at spoilers. I usually check spoilers because -for the most part- I'm busy on Fridays and Saturdays and like to take the time to read chapters. And when I DO read the chapters properly, it's the Viz release.

I think us on this forum should at least attempt to try and break this cycle by not posting about chapters until they officially come out.

I mean, you don't see a huge faction of movie fans openly discussing new movies online that have been released in another country a week early because there are shitty cam quality uploads of it. Most people say "Hey, it's a week and I can actually see the movie instead of seeing this bad quality film with people laughing and reacting in the background while this random logo flashes on the screen every few minutes".

The fact that scanlations are still preferred by so many with access to the official is because of

A. The cost of the official

and

B. Early release

Point A has just been solved.

Point B though is always going to remain as long as this cycle continues of giving incentive to sites to upload them early.

It's 3 days. Those that are in North America really don't have an excuse to read the scans outside of simply wanting to read it sooner. I've actually been debating back and forth with someone on Twitter who keeps insinuating that this is a waste because "Until they release chapters when the scans come out, nobody will wait". His argument boiled down to "Well even though it's a better quality version of the exact same product all around, I like to talk about One Piece with my friends when it comes out". But he just kept repeating "Well, they should release the online chapters on Fridays and release the physical in Japan on mondays".

He really thinks the smart business move to "get his business" is undercut people that pay the cheap amount for the weekly physical copy. You know to undercut the fact that people illegally are posting this product.

I do feel bad for those in countries where this isn't easily accessible though. That's one of the biggest challenges this industry needs to address if they want to fight online piracy. I know it's a tangled mess of licensing and copyright, but it just feels like a problem that gets continually ignored and it gives a direct reason to go to these scans, which in turn incentivize those that are releasing these chapters early, which gives people that HAVE a legal outlet the excuse to not use them and instead read the scans. And the cycle continues.

Scanlation sites are making ad rev from people on their site. People that have the option of the official release, or scanlations and choose the latter do it because the product they want is coming out earlier. And because of this, as long as it's getting their sites traction, the scanlation sites aren't going to do something like hold off on releasing until the mondays. Because any of them know that if they DID do that, the other sites won't and will just take readers from each other.

So the cycle needs to be broken. Again, not even of scans themselves, but the decade-and-a-half pattern of fans used to discussing chapters before they are actually released.

I'm really hoping SJ, Shueisha, and everyone else legally begins a bigger crackdown on those who are getting the chapters uploaded early.

Remember a few years back when they sent Cease and Desists to Mangastream and a few other sites? Shit changed. Mangastream shut down for a few months, but even when it returned they weren't keeping the entire back-catalog of their scanlations. They only have two or three chapters up at any given time.

What needs to happen right now with manga is what happened to fansubs with anime. Both fansubs and scanlations were a necessity at certain points for the majority of fans. However, with the advent of simulcasts, or even episodes being subbed in a day, it made the time and effort put into fansubs not worth it. But the legal outlets to watch these series aren't what killed most fansubs. What did it was that -even though fansubbed shows were available cheap and legally- it was far more convenient for websites to just rip the official subbed episodes and upload them to their own sites. Why have somebody who can translate and make the subtitles when you can just reupload the legal version!

If the gap between scanlations and the official gets any closer, I'm hoping that these sites/translators decide the time and effort of having their inferior product out a day or two earlier than the free superior version just isn't worth it. There has to be some point when they decide it's just easier to steal the official release and upload it for those who can't legally access it.

But the final nail in the coffin is always going to be stopping those in Japan who have access to the magazine early and scan them. I'd assume those people are both the easiest to prosecute(with them being in Japan and all) and the best way to stop this problem. No point in scanlations if that gap disappears. And that gap only exists because of these people.

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

@GuetaMinute

I literally said "I had no problems with this secret the way it was handled up until this chapter. It was just an oath between brothers that simply added another layer to the Pirate King thing."

Meaning yes, I do not only remember but I specifically address that part in my previous post. The oath was there but it never seemed to be more than another layer to the Pirate King thing. Shanks' words to Rayleigh strike me as the same. However in this very chapter it turns out you need to be "at least Pirate King" (Franky) and that Luffy will "maybe" (Luffy) be possible once he's Pirate King. Thus becoming Pirate King now is the minimum requirement for Luffy's dream, which is a completely different outlook on the situation as it has been before.

For decades we've been lead to believe that Luffy's dream is to become Pirate King. Every Strawhat has their clearly defined dream. Zoro wants to be the strongest swordsman, Nami wants her map etc. And Luffy wants to become Pirate King. That's even the thing they declared before entering the Grand Line. Luffy is constantly declaring this throughout his adventures, "kaizoku-ou ni ore wa naru" is pretty much an engrained statement in the collective pop culture memory of Japan even if people have never watched a single episode or read a single chapter of One Piece. People know what this means. If you frame your story like this, then you clearly are giving off the impression that Luffy's dream is to become Pirate King. It's not the audiences fault for coming to this conclusion. It's the author's framing of the entire dream thing. Every main character has a clearly defined goal the audience knows about. We were never lead to believe that we don't Luffy's true dream until this very chapter.

Let's imagine a conversation between two friends, one trying to convince the other to give One Piece a try:

Conversation 1

spoiler

Now picture the same conversation with the new info from chapter 1060:

Conversation 2

spoiler

I hope I was able to get the point across, that the introduction of this mystery happening much earlier is not my main problem. It's that it suddenly makes becoming Pirate King not the main goal anymore. It just became a means to an end. And that's not what it was for so long.

I'm sorry but this comparison of two conversations you wrote, where one is clearly just to validate opinion on this matter doesn't help your point. This isn't a real conversation that happens of someone trying to get someone into One Piece.

This is like complaining about Naruto not understanding politics while his dream was the ninja version of "mayor of New York City". And his not understanding the full scope of the position he dreamed was something pointed out very clearly, because HIS reasoning to become Hokage was 'I want to protect the village and for them to respect me", something he gained well before becoming Hokage.

Yeah, if I had a conversation to someone about getting into Naruto and went off about how he wants to be the strongest Ninja in the village, but actually there's more politics to it and by the end he earns what he wanted without the position, but actually grows to understand and encompass the reality of that position as a mature politician, it would probably make the series sound like shit.

"B: "So, it is not his dream but a requirement for his dream then?"
A: "Yes."

So what?

Nami's dream is "Map the world". We very clearly know that by the end of the main narrative , we will not have seen her going to every inch of the globe personally mapping it.

A requirement of Nami's dream is to reach Lodestar and Laughtale, places not mapped. Are you going to complain at the end of the series how we didn't see Nami mapping uncharted islands in South Blue?

They found Zoro

We made it folks!

Ah yes. a DDOS that lets all of twitter run perfectly fine, except the stream with Trump.

And some people genuinely believe he's a tech genius.

A thought i just had:

The problem revealed to the world is the oceans rising and risking to flood the world.

If only there was a character with an ability to transport huge amounts of matter into a pocket dimension-like space. Almost like sucking it up into a blackhole!

I think Blackbeard at some point will levy himself as a solution to the problem, offering to suck up seas worth of water into his darkness in exchange for power. Perhaps pivoting from his island being a WG recognized country, to fully opposing it and gaining other islands to leave the WG and join him. Propping him up as a full alternative to the WG for nations to join up with.

What a total piece of shit.

Kaiba calling Joey a good duelist caught me off guard, but I loved it!

Given I was recommended a YT video today titled "Why the X-men were never woke until now" , I can only imagine how these rumors being confirmed true are being received.

Reviving this as The Ones Who Live just concluded, seemingly ending the story for Rick Grimes.

It ended up Just like many, many other shows with a 6-8 episode run nowadays. Starting off incredibly, and fumbling at the last minute. Which is wild to say of TWD, a show which started with just a few episodes in a pretty universally loved first season, and suffered each season afterwards with bloat from seasons stretching plots thin over 16 episodes.

The series did so much incredibly well. It felt like a logical continuation of Rick, put him through hell and back, and explained his absence from the main series well, and fitting what was shown in the main series finale.

It did it's best to rationalize Michone's absence from her kids. An act that regardless of this series, still sticks out like a sore thumb for her character leaving the main show.

Honestly a great run of episodes except for the last speed running through a villain hyped up for over half a decade across several shows.

Plus the live action movies(except for maybe the first two) have continuously portrayed them as heat beams, instead of a concussive blast.

@JulieYBM said in American Politics: A Brand New Day:

Aaron Bushnell, an American Air Force service member, self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy yesterday. He burned alive shrieking 'Free Palestine'. I won't link the video, but the sound alone kept my up last night.

Yeah, I came across the uncensored video. It's something for sure.

Not to take away from his message, but the most significant thing from the video I've taken away was the one police officer doing nothing but keeping his gun on him as he burned. As the other people responding are frantically trying to put out the flames on the boy, as one responder screams AT the cop "I don't need guns, I need a fire extinguisher" the police officer just watches the man burn with his gun on him. Doing nothing but watch him suffer as others try to save him.

@Shiebs said in Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra:

https://screenrant.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-live-action-first-reactions-divided/

Oh come on, how does one make this article and not make a Great Divide joke!?