Dunno if I got the sequence right. Kaido bit his fist, Luffy pulled it out and then delivered his punch? Or was it a 3 chapter fist-to-mouth stalemate before Luffy finally overcame him?
Either way, hope it´s finally over. The resolution was uninspired, just a Doflamingo x King combination.
The end of the fight simply sucked.
I don't get the complaints about Luffy shrugging off Blast Breath when he already did that twice in Gear 4…
I might be wrong, but he didn´t look like a burned to a crisp caricature back then, next drawing it´s gone. That is what I meant, it´s a gag fight now, zero tension.
I am sorry for being too negative. I should stick to my own internet rule, that if you´ve got nothing positive to write, don´t write anything. I totally failed at this the last couple of chapters.
But wait, I liked the cover, especially Robin was super sexy.
Either way, I´m done for the day. I wish Momo turns into a human next chapter to show the middle finger to Luffy and tell him to get his act together and not threaten the lives of their friends and allies.
I'm having so much fun with this fight I don't want it ever to end. Both Bugs D. Monkey and Kaido are shining. No notes.
Come on, bro. They are both basically stuck in a Looney Tunes world where no attack has a meaning or effect a second later.
The beam burned him it instantly goes away, the other guy punches through his head and nothing happens.
Then he gets slammed with a bat and he bounces back off the ground.
I also enjoyed something like this years ago with Tom and Jerry and Road Runner etc. but this is One Piece ffs.
I understand it might be entertaining if you forget the story itself and everything that happened in the 1000+ chapters beforehand.
But this fight lost all sense of urgency.
Well, until this crazy-eyed Luffy guy (supposedly a "good guy") just created a mass murder situation by threatening tens of thousands of fighters in the castle with his next attack.
This is absolutely batshit crazy. In this very moment, Luffy is the villain!!!
Why doesn´t he simply pull Kaido away from the castle and punch him there?
I am seriously concerned about Oda, if he´s still sane and not doing cocaine or something (like other "larger than life" celebrities, recently the Depp/Bettany/Manson clique).
Didn´t one mangaka die to rupture of an aorta recently? I read that can be caused by doing hard drugs…
EDIT: If Oda is just having a blast going all out trolling, then well played. He got me good.
The drawing is correct. Just raise your arms upwards to the ceiling vertically, with the palms of your hands facing to your front, and imagine your hand is grabbing something in that position. That's Luffy's posture there but upside down while grabbing Kaido, like you can see in the picture below. You'll notice that, in that position, it's only the left hand which could show the thumb in that direction in the panels after the Thunder Bagua.
You linked a picture which showed the left arm being streched, I do not disagree there.
I was talking about this right hand grab earlier.
https://imgur.com/9x9dyD1
If this was the left hand, the thumb would´ve been on the other side.
It is wrong.
@Sibersk:
It looks to me like he's always holding on with his left, his knuckles are just facing outward
Second and third drawing after Thunder Bagua.
That is a right hand, if you have trouble visualizing, just grab your own chest/belly with your right hand from a higher position instead of from the side (naturally).
Oda has clearly drawn the thumb on the right side, which is the right had if you grab down from above like Luffy did.
Fifth picture as well, the one with only Kaido´s head and Luffy´s right arm.
When Luffy got TB´d, he is upside down and his LEFT arm is shown to be prolonged, but it´s actually the RIGHT hand that grabs Kaido.
In the cloud, we see Luffy still having his LEFT arm stretched when Kaido attacks him with cuts and a beam. Luffy is not letting go.
Last page, Luffy prepared a larger than life RIGHT fist to finish this, while still holding onto Kaido.
Does One Piece even have editors?
Fight turned to complete shit since Luffy´s awakening.
Just let it end, please.
Robin and Jimbei fights were amazing, 5 Supernova vs BM/Kaido on the rooftop was epic, this 31st Luffy vs Kaido comeback is so bad, I feel like Oda is purposely trolling.
Don´t care about crazy eyes anymore.
Chapter was saved by Jimbei, whose scene was the only one that made me go "wow".
Considering he doubled down on the freakshow, it´s either a cry for help cause he´s only surrounded by yes-saying underlings or a big FU to everyone just cause he knows he can do whatever he wants with his work.
If it´s the latter, I guess that´s pure freedom of art and I respect that.
But art is subjective and I felt no excitement while reading this chapter.
At least compared to last week I wasn´t completely caught off guard and angry.
Looking forward to chapters without G5 Luffy.
Good luck and have fun.
I don´t have an issue with the awakened power allowing him to bounce back the beam. It´s believable given what we knew about awakening affecting others.
I have a big problem with Luffy behaving as if on shrooms.
I can´t get over the fact that this guy I´ve adored for dunno how many years came back from the dead to turn into a crazy person who ROTFLMAO during an important fight when hundreds are being killed and burned alive a few meters below.
On the other side, we have a drunk.
High vs drunk.
Two of the loser types I stay away from IRL.
EDIT: Zero tension, nobody to root for.
So basically drop the Joy Boy mythical god incarnation WG evading …stuff, just keep gomu gomu awakening and the past two chapters are great.
Oh and Luffy doesn´t look cool in this form. He creeps me out, I can´t help it. Those crazy eyes...
Good fruit usage (grab, spin, slam, reflect beam), terrible antics.
What the hell did I just read? Is there some substance experimentation going on?
