Posts made by phyrros

@RobbyBevard:

Mangastream fixed the bounty mistranslation HOURS ago, and its STILL causing problems? Oii

Its just because it wasn't the first time. Dunno why but it bugs me..

one thing bugs me though.. this is the third (?) time that a hundred million are translated as one billion… Caribous bounty ain't 2 billion is 200 million.

@owldad:

Joy boy is someone that have a relation with Noah, and will teach shirahoshi how to control Sea King..

Ich the arc noah is indeed centuries old, it could be as well a remainder of the lost century.. would be sorta hilarious if the arc is indeed the "one piece" (of chunk) and luffy destroys it.

@loledinmypants:

I knew from the spoilers that at least one person would recommend Shirahoshi for the sea kings. Response: Bluegories chopped up sea kings to feed ID prisoners. Pre-timeskip fodder > a sea king.

As it was already mentioned: Sea Kings are useless on land, but (and that was my main reason): The ability to control Sea Kings allows you to pass Calm Belt without Seastonetech & they would seem helpful in a battle against a whole fleet (e.g. like rogers battle with shiki).

ed: and it would be a fitting message - Otohimes daughter on a adventure with humans .. why do you think this chapters title is uninhertited will?

after this chapter shirahoshi became a good candidate. With her ability to control sea kings she could be a valuable asset..

@KiShiDo:

Well if Jinbei's crew will appear and all… his chances will decrease but I won't doubt Aohige's words.

Problem is... We don't havy any other character in this arc with even teh slightest chances besides him

Actually, if Jinbe is possible, we could also count Hatchan&Keimi&Pappug in. Altough i would bet my money on jinbe..

@ItalianAce:

the source tell that 1.000.000.000 is a billion…it says it's the most common meaning....

1.000.000.000.000 = 1 billion is rarely used..as always the source says....Source here it's esplained better…
So it's really possible that next luffy bounty is 1 billion =1.000.000.000 or near like 900 milion

just to get it straight: a billion = 10^12 is common in europe (except UK) and derives from the first usages of the word.

shortscale (means: 1 billion = 10^9) is most common in english speaking countries, and therefore more or less a "standard" altough its imho false.

@MDL:

i'm hoping for the new crewmate to be a student from the fishman karate dojo.
Ideally, the guy would be above newbie level, but not master level.

imho he should be at least master level to join the SH Crew. Right now every Strawhat is far beyond mere master level…

@Panda:

That's a fair point, but I take it as more a matter of Haki in general, especially CoC, going hand in hand with having strong willpower and charisma. So my interpretation is, it's not so much a matter of the Haki itself attracting people, but rather the innate personality qualities that go along with it, if that makes sense. Put in other words, I definitely agree that there is a correlation between having Conqueror's Haki and being a natural leader of sorts, but I don't necessarily think there is any direct causation linking them.

But then: How do you train your Conqueror's Haki? If CoC Haki is just the "fighting expression" of your willpower (in a cliche sense: the colour of your aura), CoC could be trained by "sharpening (~"the direction of..") your appearance, and one common exercise for this is taming wild animals b/c it is pretty difficult to tame a animal without frightening it…

anyway, there is no real need to explain CoC haki to the last bit...

@ArSoNiSt:

1. Yes the DFs are much, much more random than the powers in Naruto (Still not sure how do the powers in Naruto and Bleach make the DFs any less random)

Which is imho one of the best concepts oda could have tought of… From the beginning OP was following a "anything goes" concept - a perfect adventure for kids. Ships falling from the sky, funny&mythical creatures and unique fighting abilities.
In OP there is no straight definition of strength or power - fights are decided by a combination of strenght, creativity, willpower & coincidence - just like in in a perfect real world. Because of that there is nothing like a useless ability, only an ability which isn't brought into the right context.

My overall problem with Oda is that he has a storyline, just like Bleach and Naruto do, but the support for said story line are weak, juts like Naruto has a good storyline, but Kishimoto underutilises the potential of several plot elements in the story, and Kubo just can't stick to his own damn rules for more than two chapters.

well, again: While Naruto could have had a decent story, it still would have been just-another-battle-manga. It's like everyone in Naruto strives to be the best, or at least bring peace to the world (with the exception of shikamaru..). In OP most of the characters have childlike dreams in a pure&naive sense of adventure. Human beings tossed in a incredibly funny world - OP reminds me of HuckFinn or, to a lesser degree, of the older pynchon tales…

@pandabear:

Although all that said, I'm in full agreement about the taming not having anything to do with Haki. I see that sort of talk tossed around a good bit, and am always at something of a loss trying to figure out where it comes from. As far as I can tell, Conqueror's Haki has only ever been used for one purpose, and that's knocking out / stunning opponents of relatively weak will.

It was mentioned that the conquerors haki lies dormant in most of the worlds leaders. Imho it could as well be something like the ability to attract/suppress other people…

btw.: pls. pardon my english.

bugs me that i can't remember anyone of shanks crew having a df…

i would rather bet on something rather simple - e.g. a hindrance like the lightning island we have seen. Nami is supposed to have learned a whole lot about the weather phenomena on the grand line and if raftel is an island it is imho supposed to be hidden or at least uninhabited.

Nami could grant access, and Robin would provide translation - to a technology like absolute weather control.

Conquering the grand line could also mean "have visited every island on the (second half of the) grand line"

@KidCorpse:

The Supernova with the highest chance of now being a Shichibukai, in my opinion, is Law.

If it wasn't for his knowledge about Luffy and hancock..

and we shouldn't forget the already ridiculous growth of the SH - they are still rookies which is somewhat a hint that the story till now was shorter than a year and now compare the Alvida Luffy to todays Luffy. The SHs always trained en route and therefore i would rather like to see a power jump like in between the W7/EL Arc than a power jump like in Naruto or DB - they've already (while Luffy was fighting the world) learned a heap of new techniques, now give them another week or month and they will be ready to roll…

@loledinmypants:

That actually wouldn't be so bad since then they'd fly and have that distinction from Chopper. But how many DF was it said granted flight and how many have we seen so far? 3, Robin's not counted, right? Lafitte, Marco, and Pell

Shiki? At least filler chap Strong World 0 lets us assume that he is still alive…

@MmmBug:

Darn it, now you have me interested to search about this. -.- =]

my pleasure.

darn, I'd love to see this war as a end of the 'old' era. Whitebeard & Sengoku killing each other, Akainu taking over Sengokus position, thus playing his role as supreme enemy…

@MmmBug:

Shiryuu was probably given the antidote for Magellan's poison, just like the Vice-warden gets it all the time.

http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/536/02/
Magellans DF seems to be producing serveral different poisons, while there are only antidote for the single poisons but not for the mix of them (?!)

Magellan took down all of BB's crew, it would have been easy to get Shiryuu who wouldn't even be ready for it.

At least of Shiryuu i would have expected to know about Magellans powers and if he would be on the same level Magellan would have had to go all out, means: fighting with all of his poisons, which brings us back to the the question why Shiryu is so lively…

Just because Magellan works for the world government doesn't make him a marine.

my bad, just somehow i was sure that the Marines run Impel Down…

@Ivotas:

Which most probably is because of the fact that he isn't a Marine.

huh? really?

And if Shiryu is really equally strong as him then Teach has found himself one hell of a new crewmate!

Ack. But it is somehow hard to believe.. It's pretty hard to believe that Shiryu was arrested by Magellan considering he looked pretty alive and Magellans victims just tend to die …

@Admiral:

Man, you guys need to realize how epic Blackbeard is going to be after this madness. The whole world will be changed forever when they see it.

Just this made me realize why i love One Piece. Blackbeard is going to be one of the strongest (if not the strongest) persons in the world, yet was he taken down within a flash by Magellan who doesn't seem to be considered as one of the Marines strongest fighter (or he would be in Mariejoe..)

@Master:

If you look up the origin of the word soccer, you'll find it was invented by the English.

As far as i know soccer has his roots in a abbreviation of association (football) and described no more than football played by the FA rules of 1863 - which where indeed the first offical football rules. Imho soccer stands rather for the FA than for the game which totally qualifies my assumption :p

And anyway, Italy doesn't call it football either, yet no one gives them crap for it.

IIrc calcio is a (more or less) literal translation of football…

@Arei:

It's soccer, dammit XD

come on, there is american football, aussie rules football, rugby & football. Soccer is a term made up for the U.S. americans (and only for them ;) )

but as your stated your hang to irresponsible driving (tutut btw…) you will simply love this guy:
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/07/31/4887_ntnews.html

talk about stereotypes ^^

@dirt:

In sixth grade (figure out what that is for your country yourself), a co-worker of mine had moved to the states from a Catholic boarding school in Lebanon, and was shocked to find himself doing basic math and such when he had been doing more advanced classes and even chemistry.

What were you guys learning during the equivalent of US 6th grade?

Thats not what we where talking about ;)
The US school system works perfectly fine for "gifted" childs and for those who where lucky enough to enlist to a good school - these kids get a top notch education (far better than in almost all european countries) und still:
The prejudice is not about the amount of knowledge its about the lack of awareness of the foundation of this knowledge. This ain't help you getting a job and you won't ever be able to buy it (and most europeans aren't even able to comprehend this root) but it is something beautiful…

Few years ago i bought a chinese chest - a truly amazing piece of furniture made at the end of the 19th century - and had to discover 4 small magnets in a cheap plastic framework (for approx. 40 ct a piece) which kept the doors in position.
Whoever did this must have though that the spoiled europeans would rather accept the magnets of a distorted door, in short: He took me for a spoiled kid unable to comprehend the meaning of history, and this is the one thing i miss in modern education.

We are producing millions of students who fit best in certain fields of businesses but are lacking the ability to learn 'useless' but beautiful knowledge. You ain't reading Cicero because you have to, you read him to understand who you are…

aww, please pardon my meager english, its been a while...

Forgot one: Neither the German nor the Swiss or the Austrian are able to learn english to the extend of a fluent useage of the language.

@wolfwood:

The Swedes are the kings of queer, you should see how metrosexual our capital is.

Not that its something im proud of, but i cant deny it.

Sweden is so prude that the swedish males go all the way to denmark to visit their whores ^^

@wolfwood:

Germans have no sense of humor, atleast not one that any other nation can appreciate.

Just drop the second part of the sentence. Germans have no sense of humor is perfectly fine.
Italians are traitors, brits are queer, scots never learned how to pronounce, and us. americans behave like any kind of newly-rich teenager/young adult - no culture, no humility.

Everything except the first is just prejudice

@Usopp:

yeah, the guy thanks to whom Hugo Boss could grow to become one of the world's top clothing brands.

then why didn't you just said "hörr hötlöör"?

@Usopp:

close. think smaller stache.

aww, you mean this unsuccessful painter who went to bavaria cause he wasn't even accepted to the worlds second worst army?

@Usopp:

Maybe, but at least Austria can boast about being the birthplace of the most iconic and well-known politician ever.

Imperator Francis Joseph I.?

@Usopp:

Leiden is kind of one of the worst universities in the Netherlands, and it's known for the slacking off-attitude of the students. I have a part-time study there (criminology, I didn't have a location choice for that study) and I pass the exams without ever actually going there. My fulltime studies are in Rotterdam and they're much harder (and more rewarding of course).

Still in the top100 of several university rankings (compared with austria: the "best" university is found somewhere around place 150)…

@AL: Someone is just lacking practice in English…..

/sry for doublepost... edit function isn't working properly

@Refii:

Question for people from Holland:
A friend told me, you have very good universities for 900 euro a year, how true is this?
He also said average standard wage is over 1000 euro a month..

I go to a private university in Greece for my MBA, where my degree will be from France and I pay 6000 a year.

If I decided to study for one more additional degree while working, I'd like to know my options.

the universities of Utrecht & Leiden are quite well known, but as always it depends on your field of interest.

prices could be found here:
http://www.nuffic.nl/international-students/dutch-higher-education/search-international-study-programmes

@wolfwood:

Austrian nonce Josef Fritzl is writing a new book.

People are doubting though whether it will be a best cellar

^^ yeah - good one. A pity that you aren't allowed to tell cellar jokes in front of kids.

@AL: I almost forgot that Italy is missing this one vital part of a developed country: affordable flats.

@Usopp:

Things changed since his assasination. And now with the crisis and all politicians are desperate for votes, even though the real solution to their problems would be to just not make retarded decisions that piss off the people. They can't do that for some reason, so they have to come up with lies to gain some support.

but this guy came up with what - 14%? of the votes? And this only with a really retarded muslim bashing….

@AL:
What a pity, had a free room in my cellar. heya, prejudice!

@Bobjr:

I thought they were all vikings, and wore spiked hats and pillaged other towns.

Or was that sweden?

sweden, norway & denmark.
Austria, hmm, if you wanna understand us you must remember 2 things:

1. Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube.
   Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi diva Venus.

2. Back in our days the House of Habsburg ruled more or less half of the known world, and now.. Austria is essentially just a left over..

@dirt:

I didn't know Austrians were pirates.

we were & are tremendous thieves and pirates, though we lost our access to the sea lately ^^

@wolfwood:

I would lob an insult your way, but i cant for the life of me figure out what to call an Italian.

arrr, just ask him if he is still living at home….

@Usopp D. Teach:
How come that the dutch society changed so much over the last 10 years?
How come that a hilarious like Pim Fortuyn could be so successful? (not really him, he was already dead when his party won the votes)..

a homo right-wing.

@WiggyDee:

Wow free uni, I and all of england envy you. Yes you… specifically you.

Watch out, your wish may come true.

/me is from Austria, bloody cold in the winter thats why i pity the immigrants from africa or the middle east… Hard to describe the social situation - there's this ambivalence between the multicultural heritage and the xenophobic nature of this society.

loosing my language, again :/

The D.-Day prelude

@Fiasco.:

And I called you Dr. Phil, no hard feelings?

actually i'm far worse ^^

@Fiasco.:

Oh and I used to have the 2-dimensional video game, yeah it's lame but back then it was the greatest thing ever!!!!!!

This is exactly the moment when you realize you have gotten old ^^

and yeah, my previous reply was sorta sarcastic - just because is dislike your argumentation i don't wish you to get just another ordinary life..

[never meant to say naruto was good or anything near that its just that as boring as naruto can get, it won't reach the sheer boredom of functional analysis :/]

@LosKnoggos:

I think its kinda both combined with pizza, dbz and breasts.

buddy, there ain't so much to say about pizza. Italians eat it with thin crust, Americans tend to their bigger is better rule, while the italians use mozzarella, the french tend to emmentaler or gruyère…. and thats it.

those ninethousand!!!! dbz jokes were already old when the internet was empty and when i literally spend half of my parents income on asciiporn and breasts..
..breasts should be discussed in the real life....

and @fiasco: got it... but still: there is hope that you will meet a girl, marry her be happy, have a nice job and forget about the fact that you ever flamed a manga series based on the fact that you dislike the creator, a person whom you've never met...

anyway, cheers ;)

Just for confirmation:
Is there any sensible explanation for all this naruto bashing or is this thread justs Arlong Parks kindergarten?

bloody, frikkin' beautiful. Mr 2 for Nakama…

@onemoment:

It's not because of Magellan is it? Because I would have thought most people could see that was, to put it in one phrase, a false defeat.

Really? I mean its safe to assume that BB ist stronger than that but remember the usefulness of the doru doru fruit against Magellan - you never know how a fruit will work out against another in a fight. Sure, even in OP fights are mostly won because of power and/or technique but there is also this funny "pure luck" factor of the devil fruits (like, luffys DF in the fight against Enel) so there is even the possibility of BB getting totally owned by Magellan.

BB fruit makes it hard to find a fitting place in the tier scale: His fruit is for sure the best (and single?) "counter fruit" what makes him strong against DF users but to determine his real strength we will have to wait for a fight against a non fruit user…

Iceburg will make W7 float on water AND Iceburg made Sunny happy.
vote with a don, vote Iceburg.

@MagneticMonkey:

Why is being a pirate a crime? I you just have a ship and a pirate flag claim to be a pirate and they will imprison you. Is that normal? I don't think so. You are guilty when you go against laws every citizen has voted. And if it has been proved that you are guilty there is no need to torture you.

I just picked up this part to point out two examples of the real world.
The first one would be the pirate scene just offcoast (North.-)East Africa: For 15 years no one cared shit (except the insurance companies) 'bout 5-10 ransacked/kidnapped ships a year. They just paid 10 to 100 thousand dollars and where off safe. Situation changed after the rise of fees. Thing is: There is really no "national" law outside the 12/24 miles zone.
Second point would be the existence of something like Guantanamo Bay where civilians (NOT POW cause soldiers would have different rights) would have been kept whithout accusation & tortured for a time up to iirc 6 yrs) for being terrorists.

In OP pirates are the modern worlds "islamic terrorists". You don't actually have to be one to be chared of being one. And, in practice, you lose most of you human rights.

fucked up? yeah, but still only a few stand up against it.

as i've got a bloody difficult exam tomorrow i would stick with enel. mantra ftw.

@threedayslater:

I know there's a few of you out there waiting to divvy out your pity votes!

no pity votes. Just think about what Usopp is and what he did. He left the Strawhats, he punched Luffy and he ist mr. negative.
Do you really think that he would be thankful if you vote for him?

Double N. -1

Luffy/Ace 9
Robin/jyabura 6

@Al!naJames:

VOTE SENGOKU!!!

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/257/9/7/Flash___Admirale_drivers_by_Gegege_no.swf

UNTIL THEY RUN OVER YOU!

godamn epic. quoted for awesomeness