Posts made by VL7

@NuFiasco:

You just said it's getting harder to control, so it being an easy scapecoat like you said is contradicting your original opinion. With this post, You're living by "what ifs" which isn't really…I dunno...Fair?

I don't know, when a manga character tells you how dangerous it is to use some power, do you take their word for it, or do you actually wanna see it happen. Did you believe the Kaio-ken could kill Goku? Do you think the gears will ever cripple Luffy?
Expected negative consequences should occasionally arise. Otherwise, what was the point of worrying about them in the first place? If Guts uses the armour a dozen times and both he and everyone else always come out of it alive and relatively uninjured, then it obviously isn't as dangerous as we were led to believe.

@Thousand:

Your problem is you're way too fixated on the worst-case scenario being the only way to justify the armor. I didn't like it much my first either. I would have liked somehow Guts to be able to beat the Godhand with pure muscle and strategy. But that's not only wholly unrealistic but completely dumb given these guys can manipulate dimensional rifts with their finger-tips! With that said, Miura has been handling the power-up pretty well. Every time Guts puts on the thing, it's always a big deal wrought with tension and dismay. Everytime he puts it on, he comes out worse physically, mentally and spiritually. The beast inside him grows stronger and hungers inside him even more. And now we find out that it's getting even harder to control. It's extremely apparent, the curse of the armor is a real and legitimate threat. Every time Guts uses it, while he isn't outright massacring allies he is drawing closer and closer to the edge of doing that. It's intentional by Miura and has been hinted at for quite a bit. If it were not for a clever trump card that he set up way in advance, Miura would have written himself into a corner with it because the situation keeps deteriorating to the next level. You can not like it but the way the author has been executing it makes it anything but a cheap power up.

Yes, yes, its getting harder to control, Guts is getting weaker both physically and mentally, he's getting closer and closer to turning his companions into shark bait, fair enough.
But think about it this way, what if he keeps using the armour every time a big eldritch abomination tries to eat them, and every time that happens he "almost" kills somebody or he "almost" bleeds out or Schierke "almost" can't bring him back. Wouldn't that be cheap?
I'm willing to admit that we aren't there yet and that things might change, using the armour might cost him dearly or he might give it up to prevent worse from happening. But the use of the armour already happened too often for my taste.

@Thousand:

No consequences? Didn't you see how 3 chapters ago, the power of the armor was getting stronger to the point where Shierke can no longer call Guts back and if it hadn't been a full moon, he would have killed Caska?

Sigh…but he didn't kill her.
A writer can tell me how a characters big power abuse could have had a negative consequence if the sun had been blue and pink frogs boogeyed through the forest while chipmunks smoked weed all he wants. Until the armor either kills someone Guts cares about or rips his brain apart it will keep being a cheap power-up.

The problem with the armor is that it has become a "get out of trouble free card". Yes, we are told that it takes a giant toll on Guts body and that Guts could unwillingly kill a companion while using it. But he hasn't been shown to be any less effective than before, so the damage the armor does obviously isn't crippling his fighting ability yet, and he hasn't killed anyone he didn't want dead yet.
We are told that this could happen, but if he keeps using the armor on a regular basis without any tangible consequences it will start to seem cheap. And I'm talking about consequences that are more than "losing taste and certain colours"

@Malintex_Terek:

I'm still waiting for that "online equivalent" of a thermonuclear holocaust.

Its probably just a bluff.

He voiced a reasonable personal opinion about the artwork and explained why he dislikes an aspect of it. People need to stop jumping up screaming "OMG, he insulted something I like, how dare he!" everytime someone criticizes something.

On the topic of songs that would fit One Piece, I always thought someone needs to make an Alabasta amv to this Modern Lovers song:
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@JERK:

As we've discovered in this thread this isn't actually the case!

Also I made the point that liking music doesn't make that music fit One Piece. I listen to largely hip-hop, very very few of which would fit One Piece.

They're still using music they like, excuses about tempo and fitting lyrics be damned. And in their ignorance they also have a limited supply of songs and genre to choose from. Or did I miss someone using a song they dislike just because it fits in with scenes?
And while you like hip-hop, you probably don't dislike the genres that you think fit One Piece and do consider them good music?

@JERK:

Do you seriously think I would be greatly challenged in arguing why buttrock sucks lol.

No, I actually agree that it sucks, and you'd probably do a good job arguing it. But saying "stop enjoying this, enjoy this instead" is still a dogmatic attitude. I get it, you don't want to crawl through mountain of shit just to find something worth seeing, but thats how entertainment is, internet user generated entertainment even more so.

@JERK:

The last people to see the revolution are the lazy.
We will bury you.

I think I'll shoot myself if AMV ever get considered to be artistically significant, so you can bury my corpse.

EDIT: Actually, I don't have a problem with your proposition in general, trying to raise the lowest common denominator of a culture is a fairly good idea. I just think AMV's don't deserve that kind of attention. They're cheap fun, some of them are better cheap fun than others, thats it.

It makes sense that people who make AMV's usually prefer to use music they listen to and like. And yes, most of it sucks, but most of anything on the internet sucks. If you try to create a dogma of what music is good and should or shouldn't be used, you open up a completly different can of worms, mostly because music in general has alot to do with personal taste.
Besides, I don't believe AMV culture in general is salvageable, its not really art, and it won't be run through a quality filter by time like books, music, movies…which means it will always remain a mirror of the present AMV crowd and their taste, so its pretty pointless to argue with them about it.

@GEPPETTOSMONSTER:

You got a point there, I would agree with Isidro but Farnese? When the hell has she done anything? My memory on this series is bad but I don't recall her doing anything major besides helping casca out.

That is about to change dramatically, as you can see in the latest chapter. But thats really beside the point. My point was that compared to those two in Guts' group, Caska would be a major help. Hell, she'd probably be on par with Serpico as far as battle prowess goes, minus the strategic genius thing. Though it may take some time for her to regain some muscle mass.

@GEPPETTOSMONSTER:

My biggest concern is, could she hold her own against fantasy creatures and Apostles, I only ask this because when she was fighting Wylad she almost got raped, while during the eclipse she hold her own for a little bit than got over powered easily. My point is; is casca going to be a great help for them or is she just going to be the damsel in distress for guts?

Isidro and Farnese…

@Silence:

Not really, considering that it's highly possible that she doesn't want to get it back.

By returning her to normal, Guts is forcing her to bear the burden of what happened. …And it's a pretty damn big burden. Guts trying to bring her to her senses may turn out to be a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

Yeah, I'm sure Caska likes being a drooling spaz. In fact, Guts should selflessly leave her in the state she is now, let her happily live out the rest of her life counting bugs and having her ass wiped by strangers. Maybe build her a nice cottage somewhere close to the sea, buy her a little pet bunny so she won't be lonely. Perhaps after a while she'll start to like Guts enough and they can have cute retard sex.

If Arlong makes the first move, Nami is a shish kebab, no question. That being said, Arlong would never take Nami seriously enough at the start of their battle to go for a one hit K.O., and Nami would never be stupid enough to face Arlong head on. She'd use sneaky attacks, hide alot and slowly beat him down to a large electrified piece of ash.

Alright, another Guts and Schierke tag team battle, this is gonna be so awesome. Time for Guts to slice up Cthulhu.

You're missing the point, guns in One Piece are nerfed, because One Piece is a shounen, and heavily melee combat based. Thats why a punch and sword slash will always be more effective then any gun shot. Or are you telling me that we'll ever see an Admiral/Shichibukai/Yonkou go down to a gunshot wound?

And Whitebeard didn't get taken out by bullets, he was taken out by the hundreds of slashes and bullets, and cannonballs….well you all read that page.

@Stylishman:

haki infused bullets, seastone bullets could maybe work as well.. he would OBVIOUSLY know Kizaru was a logia user and therefore would OBVIOUSLY know he could do something in that situation. and Kizaru wouldn't have even payed attention to him if that gun of his was that useless.

if you could infuse arrows with haki (already seen) then it's likely that you could infuse bullets with haki in a similar way

Give me one example in the manga where anyone strong got taken out by a gun. The only one I can think of is Hatchan, and he isn't exactly high tier. Beckman threatened Kizaru and then did…absolutely nothing. Van Auger vs. Ace, pathetically inneffective. And its not just Logias or even Devil Fruit users for that matter. Anyone strong either dodges or shrugs off a bullet. All the marines might as well have pea shooters for all the good their guns do.

@looking_at_you:

so just shoot them with sea stone bullets

You're kidding right? In One Piece a gun, or any kind of ranged weapon is completly useless and ineffective against anyone that matters, sniping will never, ever work. Beckman looked ridiculously pityful when he pointed a gun at Kizaru and told him not to move. What the hell was he planning to do?

@Desperado:

Why do I have the feeling that Miura continuously writes himself into a corner and Guts is saved either by the Skull Knight or by his son?

The Moonlight boy appeared in a full moon night the last time we saw him. It is a full moon again. Him appearing is perfectly reasonable and in line with what we know and I actually expected it ever since we saw Guts starring into the moon from the ship and asking himself where his son might be now.

@Don:

Thats were the term "Lolita" comes from.
Sure the subculture has nearly nothing to do with the book(as long as pedophil-sex isn`t a part of it) but thats were it all started.
Dressing like a doll or little innocent girl is what society made now out of it, but the roots are still coming from this.

Example:
–Also our relgion is not that anymore what it`s used to be back in time, but still the roots are certain--

I know, but the point is that you can't use one in connection with the other anymore. The term is from the book, but like with many other things, the japanese took the term and stripped it of its original meaning. Its "attractive and sexually active prepubescent girl" vs "girl who dresses like a victorian doll". Perona is the latter.

@kouch_lee:

! http://read.mangashare.com/Berserk/chapter-238/page019.html

Sooooo. . .

I'm sure a lot of people will have theorized about this particular scene, but…

! Guts's and Casca's son was used for Griffith body, and also, his soul was still intact, as when Griffith subconsciously reacted to save Casca at the Hill of Swords. So, if all the "living essence" of their son was used for Griffith's rebirth, this kid cannot be a reborn child of Guts and Casca. Also, how much time has passed since the Albion Eclipse? Because this child looks quite grown up.So he SHOULDN'T be their son. . .but this whole scene is just screaming "family".

Well, let's see how things unravel, but if he goes back to the "plot" right now, this is really unexpected.

EDIT: If the image doesn't show, it's this scene:

! http://read.mangashare.com/Berserk/chapter-238/page019.html

Or maybe the moonlight boy actually uses Griffith's body as a kind of vessel, his powers being augumented by the full moon, so that he can take control of the body and shape it into himself for one night and go after his parents.

@Don:

I would say Oda made Perona like a "Lolita"(what she definitely is)
and when we look it up
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_%28Roman%29
we get that a "Lolita" is supposed to be 12.

Ermm, Lolita, the character from the book, has nothing to do with the gothic lolita fashion subculture thing.

Come on everybody, lets take out our rulers and measure One Piece's dick. WTF

No, it wouldn't have made it more impactful. It'd just make Guts slowly turn into a complete monster that has nothing left but his quest for revenge, and eventually that'd be the only thing that defines him.
And no, sex, gore and blood isn't a point of the manga, its a part of it. There's a difference.

@SGRaaize:

A shame the girl didn't die too after being raped, that'd be the coolest thing ever

Yes, "KILL, BLOOD, GORE, kILL, RAPE, DIE"" SO AWESOME!!"

@StrawHatRican:

I've never heard of such a rule.

But we can sure dig up the answer if it exists.

When we first see the God Hand(volume 2 or so), it is implied that a sacrifice can neither sacrifice nor be sacrificed more than once.

If you're asking about why Trolls born from human females aren't some kind of half-human hybrid(can't really tell, your english is terrible), I always assumed it was because they aren't actually conceived, but rather the act of a troll raping a woman inplants some kind of parasites inside their womb, that eventually grow and burst out.

I really want to see the fight against Roshine animated. Especially the part after she skewers Guts .

Berserk resumes in the 23. October issue of Young animal:
http://twitter.com/berserk_project

@Malintex_Terek:

I disagree, Retribution accomplished a lot. It was a whole lot better at capturing post-Eclipse Guts, the first volume or so didn't, because it's fairly clear Miura wasn't sure where to go with the series and by the time he finished Golden Age he had completely different character. There are things volume 1 Guts does that contradict his character in the rest of the series, which doesn't happen in Retribution.

Well, it could be argued that Guts in the first Volumes was on the verge of a mental breakdown. The memory of the Eclipse was still fresh and he spent all the time since he left Godo's place in complete solitude, fighting for his life every night. Seriously, the various spirits that harassed him during the night were the only company he had, and all of them were actively trying to make him loose it.
Anyone would start to crack under these conditions and start acting weird and out of character. Who knows what would've happened with Guts if Puck hadn't come along to play the morality pet/companion/first aid kit.
So its more a case of Guts' personality getting broken to pieces by the eclipse and by all the mind screw that came after. But with Puck's help his mental state started to heal, albeit very slowly, and thats why he is now more similiar to his pre-eclipse self.

If it had been any other SN captured by Blackbeard and going through the same scenes, no one would think of them as a future SH. But look, its the pirate Gwen Stefani, she totally needs to join.

She really is hot though.

@cooldud_21:

I would be really interested in knowing the fetish Jimbei, Sabo and Bentham (among many others) cater to.

The man with the power to take the form of any person, male or female, face and body? You're kidding right:happy:

@Sammsy:

The basic rule of thumb is that if a person who is not a strawhat is in the current chapter, then they are a prime suspect to being a new crewmate

Especially if they have boobs and a sexy outfit. Catering to a somehow widely spread fetish also helps(I'm looking at you Perona)

The message could be:

"Let us avoid Sabaody Archipelago(hence sailing a ring around something, just as they should go around SA, instead of meeting there) and meeting where one part of the grandline ends, and the new world begins, the red line(hence saying goodbye to the old, and praying for the new with the bells)."

Its a stretch though…and doesn't explain Nami's reaction, or why they couldn't have just moved the vivre card to where they wanted them to meet.

The message can't be in the tatoo, because they had no way of making sure it would appear in the newspaper in a legible form(as a matter of fact it didn't). They couldn't have known what angle the photographs in the newspaper would have been shot from.

For this message to be understood by every Strawhat, it would need to be something unambigious, but all the theories I have seen could have been understood in alternative ways and make just as much sense. I fear this will end up being some convoluted plan, that shouldn't have logically made sense to the crew. I hope I'm wrong though.

Nice job breaking it Franky.

@Jacko:

are you blind?
Spain had far better chances and they did it against 5-8 defenders.
Yeah a really good play from switzerland:
21 commited fouls, 4 yellow card, 37:67 possession, 8:24 shots and only 57% right passes.

For an real football fan "well strategically played" means they fail.
This was nothing glorious or something to be proud of. It was just another day were football fans lose.

Yes, of course, cause there is only one type of a "real football fan", and there are specific standards those fans need to live up to

I for one appreciate watching teams play smart defensive football.

@$abZ:

I think the characters/ personalities of the nobles are meant to be less distinct, to make them all appear the same. If we were talking about an individual, like a Shichibukai, then we're going to see something unique. These nobles are just stuck up residents who have no spark about them. Oda intends it that way and they're not really going to be prominant villians as individuals or a small group, but as a way of describing corrupt citizens of the OP world.

Oda has so many characters to worry about; these nobles are just there to make a point about corruption. He doesn't need to give them a distinct trait. He's probably using the Tenryuubito to represent them, as they do have extreme sinister traits, down to them being a smaller group so Oda can work on them better.

I personally don't think its a big deal that the nobles have dry personalities.

The problem with that is that it makes them unrealistic, it reads like badly written propaganda. They are going out of their way to appear evil for no reason whatsover(other than making it clear to the audience that they are evil).
I don't know, maybe inbreeding has left them with a special case of tourrette's syndrome that causes them to make every evil thought that crosses their brain reality. Thats the only way I can explain why Sabo's parents are actively trying to make Sabo hate them as much as possible, or why all the nobles always go with the most morally abhorent action that will make any mentally healthy person cringe in disgust. "We like burning down poor people" twirls moustache

This was such a horrbile chapter, very painful to read. Those nobles aren't even on the level of disney villians, they're things without any personality whatsover. It's what a 6 year old would come up with if someone asked him what bad people were like. This is simply lazy writing.

@wintergt:

I would be funny if Luffy is actually still in the barrel from chapter 2, delirious from hunger and thirst, making up an outrageous story about him being so awesome that everyone loves him, being able to beat super strong people all over the grand line, having the king's haki that impresses the most powerfull people in the world.. I mean seriously, who would believe that sort of crap? So in the final chapter of OP, Luffy is rescued by a fisherman, he gets beaten up by a total fodder pirate (who steals his strawhat) and goes home to write a manga.

That'd be epic, but without the meta crap of him writing a manga…

@Hinscher:

Well i don't think anyone ever wants a story to end, movie to end, book to end or whatever it is. well unless it sucks, but if it is good then you want it to continue for forever.

No you don't. Its important that a story eventually ends.

Next chapter will be the start of a new arc and probably cut back to Guts, so I guess its time for elfhelm.

gah, another "scenery porn" chapter -_-

I like dunking sesame buns into tomato soup n_n

@Luffyshirou:

There is one difference between DBZ and one piece. In one piece things are more realistic. However in DBZ where the heck does all the BEAM energy come from!!?? You can easily destroy planets??? That's what i don't like about DBZ. Other than that it's a good fighting anime.

To be fair, One Piece is starting to slowly move into that direction as well. Its not quite there yet, but…

manga spoiler

! Whitebeard apparently has the power to destroy the world with his earthquake fruit so…lets just say a fight between him and Blackbeard could have an interestingly high damage potential

@WolfClawStudios:

NOO people, this is an audio debate we're holding, with NO CONCLUSION. You don't have to decide which one is better, that's not the point of this.

Please get back to me.

Out of curiosity, how would the audio debate look in practice and how would it be organized so it doesn't just become a cluster fuck of opinions.

Poppy seed bagels!

Looks like someone mummified a poor little monkey:sad:

@Demon:

That's so dumb.

People are trying to deseat the Straw Hats. Not because other characters are genuinely more popular, but Just because they ARE the Straw Hats.

This is a popularity contest in the end, people should vote for who is ACTUALLY more popular, not "lol, Straw Hats should lose, a derp"

That logic is flawed: people who don't want the Straw Hats to win obviously don't like them all that much and therefore prefer their opponents most of the time, so they still vote for whom they like better, which means it works out.

I like Buggy's clothes n_n