Finally, some progress.
Yes. It was while he was freaking out about becoming a monster.Originally Posted by neflight86
Finally, some progress.
Yes. It was while he was freaking out about becoming a monster.
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Big Mom and Kaido are the only serious threats left now.
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Fuck you, TBC!
That was the worst one in a while.
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Hiyori smarter than 99% of the characters in the series...
Looks like we're finally at the main event. Only Kaido remains.
I forgot just how much characters in One Piece tend to let themselves go (see Gekko Moria). I presume Big Mom was older than Kaido, then, when he joined the "Rox"? Now I understand how she got pregnant the first dozen times. By the time the looks were gone, she had the power.
Hiyori didn't come off as vengeful so far, so the double fake out was surprising. I was expecting 'this' Komurasaki to be a government agent or the like.
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Not how I expected that fight to end. Twice now Kaido's gotten interference in pivotal battles. As I see it, the disappointed look in his eyes is that he didn't get to act out the survival of the fittest again, and I don't think he can take it.
Yeah, that expression is really something. Just...complete despair.
That CP0 guy is probably SUPER fucked.
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Oh yeah! Next week shit's poppin' off!
Hell yeah he was! And he knew it too.
Aww yeah, drums of liberation. What a hypey beat.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
At least CP0 took it like a man... dark justice forever!
What machinations are conspireing this time? We've heard Joyboy before, is this an implication that Luffy is a reincarnated 'chosen one'? Strangely enough, 1000 episodes in and he's not been anything special other than a "d".
Thankfully they didn't stretch the Luffy resurrection for weeks of filler. I'm sure some kids cried when he lost.
I wish there was more of an impetus for him to take on a new form. I don't much care for it when the only requirement to getting your next powerup is getting killed.
It's the classic shounen comeback story. It gets the people goin'
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
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FIFTH GEAR!
So...the "Rubber" Fruit was actually the "Jim Carey's The Mask" Fruit the whole time?
It's weird that Nika is a "Sun God". His powers don't seem very sun-based. Shoulda been the Loki Fruit.
The WG response here feels like a huge plothole. They consider the Gomu Gomu Fruit a huge threat, and have known for years that Luffy had it, but they've barely given a shit about him till recently.
If it's so important why wouldn't they have put a huge bounty on him and send Cipher Pol to hunt him down as soon as he emerged in East Blue?
I was getting pissed off at the animation. Not because it was Loony Toonsie(which, unlike in Naruto vs. Pain, actually makes sense here), but because I couldn't follow what was happening.
Maybe if they spent 5 less minutes on Luffy bouncing and laughing, they would not have had to condense the fight animations so much. I dunno. The Gear 5 reveal was so hype, a studio could completely butcher the pacing and still get an overwhelmingly positive response. Is it even possible to have a worse time to wrap up the Hiyori/Orochi story?
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
I agree with all of these complaints.
In a meager defense of the WG, apparently there is no way to extract the powers of a devil fruit from the living unless they enlist a person with the D. name? Nika apparently wasn't a concern unless the fruit awakened in the first place, and Straw hat hadn't so it wasn't a concern until his fight with Kaido pushed him.
That said, I also hate the whole 'renaming' of the gum-gum fruit for a power up, even if Oda tried to shoehorn in a foreshadow. Oh well, gear fifth is here so that is indeed hype. I did completely forget that Luffy hadn't awakened his fruit yet, though. I wonder if all fruits are, eventually, people when awakened? Just another mystery we can ponder on the way to the retirement home.
Not sure what a D. has to do with it. They've already shown that when someone with a Devil Fruit dies, a nearby piece of fruit transforms into that Devil Fruit. Which I assume isn't common knowledge, but one assumes that the WG knows that.
And even if you couldn't take the fruit from him, why wouldn't you go out of your way to capture him immediately? As soon as Luffy had his first wanted poster, an entire fleet should have been after him to throw him in Impel Down. Instead of dicking around until he was too powerful to stop.
Afaik, the renaming was part of the WG's attempt at downplaying the fruit, since if they can't have it, at least they can make it seem like a pointless power to seek.
Both Katakuri and Doflamingo awakened paramecia-type devil fruits. The main commonality is the ability to manipulate the surrounding environment into a material resembling their powers. Kinda like how Luffy can turn the rocky terrain into rubber, they were turning theirs into mochi and string. The plot twist of Luffy's fruit being a human-human ancient deity type fruit, however, makes his more comparable to Sengoku's Buddha fruit.
Also, for DarthEnderX:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/co..._pacing_audio/
An actually well-edited fix of the episode.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
A bit better.
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