@Alfiere:

Speaking of Zunesha and major drops, I wonder if new islands are born every time it takes a shit.

And if yes, do people live there?

…Maybe that's what Laugh Tale is? That is what Roger find so funny about it, that it's giant Arale poop island? That's why he called it One Piece? And it's also Zunesha's crime?
Someone sbs this pls.

16chars of made my day

@wolfwood:

Fellow AP:ers have assured me that OP has not changed at all so that can't be it.

mhmm your (slightly ironic) comment made me think a little bit:

usually in every arc before we got huge lore dumps and flashbacks or explanations of the islands problems (drum/alabasta) before luffy finishes the villian off.
in wano we got that with oden/yamato flashback as well BUT the rest, well in fact a huge lore dump, is still missing. but the fights are already resolved.

that‘s what feels off. at least now i realise that more and more. oda did not want to give us those important aspects of wano story arc yet, for what ever reason. maybe we would cheer on luffy in a different way then?
(btw i still cheered for luffy and i am happy for him that he is on par with a yonko. it’s a milestone! how else could luffy face shanks?)

now i am more interested if oda indeed changed his storytelling here or if we are just not done yet

(uhm well orochi as a villian; that concluded…but it was not luffy or a strawhat who finished the job)

@Greg:

It actually felt like reading another series.

i do get some weird vibes like that as well

could that be due to an influence of his current editors?

it's the double of 4 (the number of "death", and we all know kaido wants to die, but will never be able to. unless he splits himself :ninja:)

what a great episode that was, well done ~ i was waiting for this ofc since chapter 1000 like a ton of people

so great, i'm happy that i could see that :wub:

(little hiccup without the clear similarity of the shanks-hat-scene but well)

@Robby:

Katakuri DID say that… just not as explicitly. Doflamingo did too.

Oda put that clue there but he obscured it SO much it didn't register as an actual mystery or clue. Like I get he was trying to hide the surprise and that's his prerogative, but it would be nice if we could with hindsight go "oh, it was obvious! We just didn't know to look!" rather than "Well, I guess he sort of did it there... kind of."

tbh it always sticked out for me, displaying a possible awakening theme. (not like a zoan form ofc, but it was suspicious)
i thought it was rayleigh related tho

@MarcelloF:

Jamie Lee Curtis would like to play Kureha
https://twitter.com/OP_Netflix_Fan/status/1508452881866780672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1508452881866780672%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

lol wut that's crazy she knows one piece? wow, get her in

do we know that there is a "real" gomu gomu no mi? (we don't know right? that's my point)

for me it sounds like they just gave that fruit its proper description name: "the rubber fruit"
and thus they "erased" the name nika from the history/devilfruit books

[another possibility: they just keep the paramecia fruit locked away for eternity]

@Riddler:

I feel like there should have been an option such as "Don't care for the rebranding of Luffy's devil fruit, but love everything else about it". I didn't need a new name for the fruit, but it being called "the most ridiculous power" and Luffy using it to do all kind of crazy Looney Tunes antics is just too perfect and fits the whole series so well.

ye, i would sign up for that option as well
hence i'm just here for the ride

as i've stated often enough: it is oda's story in the end and luffy is still rubber.
he clearly has some plans set up for the DFs in general and with the nika fruit.
so it's wutever for me right now. i like the awakening.

but i hope he finishes the fight well. kaido deserves that. that's my small concern rn.

@Syphin:

[…]
And at its core, One Piece has always been a story about liberation i.e. breaking down borders; whether those borders represent physical borders, sovereign imposed ones or emotional borders that characters unconsciously develop to "protect" themselves.

so who is gonna free everyone from those borders behind hate or dislike towards the development?

luffy is.

(p.s.: ofc everyone is entitled to have their own opinion)

@blue-san:

Wow I must say I am quite shocked that nothing has come out yet. Impressive

it … is … itching ~~ yaho~~