/a/ - Animu & Mango

Who could this mysterious hero be?

The Katakuri fight had a good ending, in the end, I'm glad it wasn't Luffy whooping ass like he has been most of the timeskip. He only survived this fight because of Katakuri's honour and his freakish stamina letting him get back up. He was totally outskilled.

>>800470

The double KO was about the best outcome we could expect. Katakuri dropping Luffy, but Luffy getting taken away by Nazoms would have been fine, but Katakuri's last line is pretty damned great and really does give his character all the depth he needs to be one of the best villains in the series. At the end of it, all, Luffy is fucking wrecked and can barely move, let alone fight. So, I'm hoping these next few chapters are all about Sanji and some of the other side characters getting a chance to shine before the Germa shows up and saves the day.

I like how Oda basically confirmed Linlin will be a returning villain later on

>>800468

Being an extreme tsundere around oblivious shonen protagonists is always suffering.

Is Oda still having that consistency problem where he mortally wounds his characters and then says they're okay in the span of 3-4 chapters? I don't mind if he doesn't want to kill anyone but for the love of everything that is holy stop giving them mortal wounds if you don't plan to kill them.

>>800517

That could be said for every battle shounen ever.

>gut wound?

<put some bandages on it

>basket ball sized hole in the torso?

<whatever, I don't need no spine to keep standing

>>800517

Luffy's been doing that shit for the entire series, though. Zoro took enough pain from Kuma to kill a lesser man, but he lived. The basic rule is that nothing kills anyone unless there's a funeral scene or it's a flashback.. and even that is subject to exceptions Fucking Sabo surviving a canon barrage in a rowboat.

But after all of this, I think Luffy might be side-lined for the next arc. Chopper will have to fix him up, to actually remind the audience that he's the ship's doctor. Sanji will have to cook Luffy the most amazing meaty meal ever, to help him recover. Everyone else will go on wild adventures in Wano where they'll get their chance to shine while we get humorous cut aways to Luffy being a pest while Nami, Chopper, and Brook try to keep him from reopening his wounds.

>>800529

It's pretty much a given Luffy is gonna die at the end of the series but I don't really care about him being immortal until the plot demands it. It's the side-characters and enemies getting the 'but they're okay now' treatment that bothers me the most.

>>800535

When they introduced Luffy's Gears, they straight up said that using that technique would shorten his lifespan... and then he went on to use it constantly, for every single fight, in increasingly more severe ways. Either Oda mispoke or they translated it wrong, or by the time they start approaching Raftel, Luffy is going to start showing signs that he knows he's dying, like Roger did.

>>800537

Or Law is going to do the eternal youth surgery to Luffy.

>>800551

Or... maybe he already did the surgery when Luffy was rescued after Ash's death?

>>800537

>or by the time they start approaching Raftel, Luffy is going to start showing signs that he knows he's dying, like Roger did.

This would be the most interesting way to do things.

After seeing a shitty youtube theory video I began to feel sympathy for Linlin.

What if Big Mom is just a retarded addicted womachild needing help?

>>800552

>the true power of the gomu gomu no mi is that is keeps the eater alive eternally, because it keeps all their vital organs springy and thus healthy, allowing them to bounce back from any non-lethal injury or illness

>>800557

Well, Luffy can basically heal any illness and disease by eating, so maybe here is something related to that?

>>800537

Luffy's pretty generous in spending his lifespan.

Remember his hormone therapy that would shorten his life by 10 years?

Luffy's gonna die an early death.

>>800552

Shouldn't Law be dead then? That surgery is supposed to take the life of the Op-Op Fruit's user as compensation.

>>800565

Completely forgot about that. So, we've got life burning Gear powers, hormone therapy from Ivankov that saved him from the deadliest poison in the world, surgery by Law to save him from being punched in the chest by Akainu... I guess you could also could the time he was nearly frozen to death by Aokiji. Now getting beaten nearly to death by a stronger opponent.

The life of the Pirate King ain't easy.

>>800570

Oh, I thought Law dying after doing the surgery was Don Flamingo saying he was going to kill him anyway but he would grant him any desire besides that.

>>800537

>>800571

Gear powers had negative side effects only at the beginning, I don't remember where I read it but I think it's confirmed now that Luffy is used to them so after time skip they don't have any side effects.

After all, he used to shrink when he used gear third in the past but he is almoat always in gear second now and uses third very casually. Even in Gear fourth his only problem is running out of haki.

I think this is also an important point, other than gear fourth variants what more things can Luffy do next? I think gear fourth and haki is all he developed in time skip and since he conquered all the capabilities of his fruit he will awaken it and develop from there next.

>>800618

I bet you anything he awakens it against Kaidou.

>Inb4 Wano's Sakura trees are the one mentioned by Hiluluk's story and thus end up in some sort of development for Chopper.

Who am I kidding, Chopper is doomed to be the manga's pet and comic relief.

>>800625

>>800628

It's a shame too, because of all the timeskip powerups, Chopper's was just his monster form, which is boring, and a couple more transformation points... But all he does these days is use shitty, ugly Kungfu Point for everything. He's supposed to be the goddamned Doctor and he's not even the one fixing up his crewmates.

>>800619

I’ll be happy if we get a return of Zoro’s Nine Sword Style. It is a land of samurai so Oda would be remiss if he didn’t spotlight the Resident swordsmen, I.e. Zoro and Law.

>>800497

It was a great bit of respect

>>800645

Who knows, maybe Carrot might teach Chopper how to do that moon transformation, if it's specifically not a mink tribe thing. I mean, he's animal enough for it, right?

>>800694

I actually thought the same thing. Luffy must really be fucked up.

>>800711

>Chopper starts flying around in Kung Fu point and zapping people

>>800694

His observation haki has gotten so powerful he can see through such elaborate disguises.

>>800694

What if Luffy is only pretending to be retarded the whole time and it's becoming harder to keep the masquerade going when he's at his limit?

>>800775

No.

Stop justifying asspulling in manga. Even though this one is one of the fan favorites just dont give in to bullshit like this.

He should of lost this fight. He should of gotten destroyed but he got plot armored to ever living fuck. Its getting tot he point where luffy has hit a wall and unless they want to time skip again they will need to do something drastic and smart in order to make it to where luffy is actually worth a shit. He hit the curve's cliff. He could barely beat a yonko's number 2. They are now saying that he will have to come back to fight her again. Halfway point my ass. Luffy is just pulling out all sorts of special moves like a child would. "Oh yea well ill just....USE AN EVEN BETTER GEAR THAT I HAVENT EVER SHOWN BEFORE". Yea thats asspull to the extreme. Luffy has zero skill while the ones who actually do are left to rot. I dont even like usopp. I fucking hate him but I would prefer if he actually was one of the more major fighters because he could be doing a lot of neat things but he gets relegated to being a faggot.

I hate to say it but this manga is sputtering. Its still readable and it keeps things interesting but as far as main characters are concerned its just sloppy.

>>800779

I know it's been a while because, well, the series has been running for over 20 years, but Luffy has never been as stupid as the gag panels would make you assume. He's stubborn and impulsive, but he's not a retard.

It seems like Luffy could've ended this fight sooner and was letting it drag on to train his observation haki. Snake Man is something future sight can't easily counter. I was kind of hoping there'd be an extra factor of flustering Katakuri, but if that was ever the plan then it definitely changed. The fight was a more noble duel by the end.

Still weird to think Katakuri is meant to be late forties, he aged ridiculously well.

>>800884

Gear 5th better be pants-on-head retarded in the looks departement, or I'll fly over there and slap Oda's shit.

>>800887

He turns into a noodle, and becomes the balloon animals, for Gear 5th.

>>800884

>Boundman it's clearly physically weaker.

What do you mean? Only Boundman did manage to match Kaku Mochi fists clashing. Snakeman couldn't.

>>801151

That's what I said.

>Comparing the impact of IT vs. Boundman

>IT'S clearly physically weaker.

>>801154

My bad, totally speedread that vs.

>>800884

>>800887

Luffy can still sharpen his Haki a bit further and his rubber body probably still has a few more gimmicks in it, beyond inflating really big and punching fast from a distance. The next big step is obviously going to be awakening, which we can only assume is going to involve Luffy turning everything around him into rubber and bouncing around at light speed, Bellamy-style. I can't really imagine what else he might do with awakening, but Oda might surprise us.

>>801159

I would love to see a throwback page to the Bellamy fight but with Luffy in Bellamy's place.

Would be pretty funny if he got hit in the head same way he hit Bellamy too.

>>801183

He's gotten Bellamy twice now. Is Bellamy gonna get him back?

Prediction for Wano: Sanji gets new swords and we finally learn if he's lost an eye or CONCEALING HIS TRUE POWER.

>>801233

>Sanji

Zoro. I do this every time!

Sanji will get new cooking utensils.

>>801233

I think he's gonna go with concealing true power. It's the Chuni thing to do. And Zoro's a Chuni magnet.

>>801233

I'm hoping he's actually missing that eye. Would have prefered and eyepatch to make him extra piratey, but unless Oda has a really good explanation, Zoro better not be concealing a magical "hawkeye" under there, or some shit.

>>801415

>TAKAGAN!

>>801415

The one thing that really bugs me about the timeskip is how the characters aren't ever shown explaining to each other what the fuck they were up to. I guess we've got to assume they did during downtime, but still.

>>801731

They're all stoic about it. The only one who'd want to brag about it is Usopp and he hasn't much to brag for.

> So I was stranded on this island with all this delicious food

> I binged until I became a lardass

> Then I did a lot of exercise to lose weight and ended up gaining minor muscles

> I also pocketed many seeds, all of them with wacky powers, most of them useless.

Zoro basically did the same thing he does everytime he has free time, train. The only difference was he had a good teacher to guide him. Talking about how he groveled to Mihawk is probably too embarrassing for him anyways.

Sanji won't want to talk about it. He spent two years being chased by trannies and then even doned the dressing code for a moment.

Nami and Chopper had uninteresting adventures without anything to hsow tfor it.

Robin just spent some times with the Revolutionaries.

I could not care less about Franky.

And no one is tactless enough to ask Luffy, to avoid touching the subject of Marineford and Ace's death.

>>801795

Do you think Zoro had to polish m'Hawks "blade"?

>>801798

> swordsmen

> letting someone else touch their blades

If you're going to shitpost at least try.

>>800625

>Who am I kidding, Chopper is doomed to be the manga's pet and comic relief.

I've always figured that the reason Chopper's bounty was so low was because someone with a lot of power and influence in the World Government was manipulating it.

>>801795

Frank studied Vegapunk's old research if I recall correctly. I badly want to know what the fuck he learned besides how to build mechs and make himself big as fuck.

Otherwise, I think the main reason that they haven't had the chance to just sit down and talk is because they keep doing shit.

>Hey we're finally back together after 2 years like we promised!

>Oh shit Pacifistas and Navy!

>Oh shit fishman island!

>Oh shit Hordy Jones!

>Oh shit Luffy just picked a fight with a Yonkou!

>Oh shit New World weather!

>Oh Shit that island is on fire!

And so on all the way up until this point, where we're still dealing with "Oh shit Sanji just left the crew"

>>801798

Fucking HxHfags

Am I the only one who thinks Pudding's crying face is cute?

>>801899

They have been hit with an onslaught of shit. Do we have a time-scale for how long they've been in the new world for?

>>802193

It's hard to say, without reskimming several hundred chapters and counting all periods of sleep and directly stated changes in time. Like, we know that Luffy and Katakuri have been fighting for several hours and that they've been in Totland for a few days, but it's unclear how long it took for them to get from Fishman island to Punk Hazard, and then from Punk Hazard to Dressrosa and Zou. Supposedly, the world of One Piece is meant to be much larger than Earth, but sometimes it seems like the distance between these major islands, whose distance spans half the globe, feels like they are crossed in only a few days. For reference crossing the ocean on Earth, in Columbus's era, took 2 months just to go from Europe to America (over 4000 miles)

>>800535

I think that's the point, remember at Sabaody when Luffy yelled at Ussop for asking Rayleigh about One Piece? As dumb as Luffy is he probably understands that he might not even live to see Raftel, he just wants to have gone on the journey of his lifetime.

>>801798

No, that’s what Perona was there for.

>>802200

We could probably take into account superior tech and navigational skills too, plus they generally know exactly where they're going so those factors can cut down travel time quite a bit. I wonder if Oda has ever been asked or addressed this in the SBS. I know I wouldn't want to answer something like that because it could very easily introduce too many annoying questions.

Then we've got assholes like Blackbeard who can cross huge distances in a matter of days. It'd be a real headache trying to give measurements.

>>802426

Oda is notorious for dodging questions about exact measurements. He’ll usually play the “How far can Luffy stretch?” “About ten abobos, divided by the square root of ishkabibble.” Game.

>>802640

> no break next week

>read this as break next week

>panic

Fucking Oda breaks man.

>>802714

There are always repercussions for upsetting the balance between Yonko/Warlord/Marine. Just look how much Whitebeard’s death destabilized the world. You take out Big Mom and you invite people like Blackbeard and Kaidou to move right on in. But then again, I don’t doubt that if Akainu thought he could get away with it he would shit absolute justice all over Tottoland. But the Marines aren’t at 100%, Fujitora has effectively been banished so the only admirals on call are Kizaru and Ryokyogu and if Marineford is anything to go by you need all three admirals plus the fleet admiral to square off against a Yonko.

>>802714

The entire stealth section was handled masterfully by Brook.

Has anyone even noticed he plundered the fucking poneglyph right under everyone's nose? EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NO NOSE YOHOHOHO

>>802720

> if Marineford is anything to go by you need all three admirals plus the fleet admiral to square off against a Yonko.

Marineford was one sided, no important marine fighter was knocked out and all adimirals besides Akainu were in near perfect condition.

Ryokyogu + the top vice adimirals should be enough to beat current Tottoland.

There's also the CP0, while they aren't under direct marine command it was indicated that they are close to a yonkou fleet in power (Blackbeard did run away from them).

The WG can theoretically order the CP0 to remove BIg Mom, and they would likely succeed.

>>802889

It's been a hell of a ride.

>>800498

How?

>>800825

Well he is half fishman, his triplet brothers look pretty old.

>>802714

Still betting that blackbeard sweeps in at the end and kills big mom as he said she's the only one he thinks can beat him.

That would leave katakuri free to do his own thing.

>>803288

>Well he is half fishman

Is he?

>>803288

>Still betting that blackbeard sweeps in at the end and kills big mom as he said she's the only one he thinks can beat him.

There's no way Blackbeard is not going to end up with some sort of Hell power that backfires on him. The guy hates pain and knows Big Mom would one shot him because he's terrified of death. He's got his login of darkness and paramecia of earthquakes, the anon that suggested he gain the ancient zoan of Cerberus had a great idea there.

>Triple headed

>Hellfire

>A power that lets him open the gates of Hell and unleash whatever's inside

>If you go through the gates and they close, you're robbed of your fruit power and trapped there

>Blackbeard is defeated by sending him through the gates and forcing them shut

>Gets robbed of his power and dragged into Hell by all the people he wronged

>>803288

Fishman hasn't been confirmed, has it? I'd believe it, but doesn't that mean his brothers must have different fathers? Then again, that's not impossible.

>>803290

He's not, he's a triplet and his brothers look normal. They used to call him an eel because of his fucked teeth but that's just bullying. If the father of Big mom's 3rd child was a fishman that'd be pretty fucking weird.

Big mom's first few kids except Daifuku all have eyes similar to Streussen, so maybe he's the father.

>>803300

If he were a fishman he'd probably have gone into that berserker state too.

>>802899

>CP0

Crap, I forgot about them.

Lucci is part of that now, right?

>>803446

This is confusing as fuck.

>>803446

What's the point crossing the grand line then? Where the fuck is the new world?

>>803499

I think that's only in the Gold movie, which isn't canon.

I wish Tesoro was canon.

>>803535

New world is the Grand Line on the opposite side of the Red Line, bordered by the North and West Blue oceans... How do you not understand how this works by now?

>>803535

I've got to assume it's unofficial, or at least not something Oda cares about. Otherwise yeah, how the fuck does it work.

>>803552

My bad. After making that post and looking at the picture some more, I started to make sense of it. Thanks for providing further clarification, anon.

The other half of the world is the most mysterious part like you said. Also remembered that the WG has such control thanks to their machine-powered seastone coated ships.

>>803736

Was lobster dude trying to give himself a blow job or why does he have glass shards in his back?

Something that doesnt make sense is that big mom wants diversity and all the races to live in whole cake island but why then was katakuri and pudding bullied for their appearance? even big mom thinks pudding is creepy

>>803778

I think the implication has always been that Big Mom is a massive hypocrite. It’s established that she doesn’t like giants. At least two of her children had to put up with bullying because of their appearance. I’ve heard a theory that because there is no racial bias in Totland that people singled out Katakuri and Pudding because they had easily identifiable characteristics, and just used that as a basis to make fun of them. Not to mention that she funnels money to a shady scientist so he can run human experiments to make her dream a reality, regardless of what lengths are gone too. Remember, she wasn’t angry about Caesar’s methods, only that he wasn’t delivering what she wanted.

>>802714

>Aside from her, everything else she has is basically destroyed. Her three strongest commanders have all been defeated, her fleet has been destroyed, one of her most powerful weapons crafted from her own soul has been stolen, her Poneglyph has been pirated, her Mother Caramel portrait has been destroyed, her entire fleet is in shambles, her alliance with Germa has instead turned into open war, several of her allies (Pekoms, Jimbe, Bege) and their associated crews have defected technically along with three of her daughters, her entire information network collapsed, virtually her entire army has been defeated and the best they can hope for at this point is that she herself will only pass out from bliss when she eats the cake

Big Mom Pirates confirmed for suicide watch

>>803778

She doesn't care about diversity in the way you think. She's just trying to emulate Mother Carmel's diverse orphanage from what she remembers but she doesn't understand the meaning behind it, and Carmel was running an orphanage with kids of all races only to sell them to slavery and get rich anyways.

There's no meaning behind it, she doesn't give a fuck about racism. The only reason is "This is how Mother Carmel would've liked it"

Is Big Mom's character a criticism of SJW culture in the west?

>>803884

I don't think so, she's just a stupid asshole and her behaviour happens to align with a lot of stupid assholes in the west.

Actually, has anyone updated the musician comparison chart? Curious to know if she's got any similarities to anyone. Looking forward to seeing her final, starved form.

>>803884

Oda doesn't work that way. In fact, he probably knew exactly what Big Mom's deal would be 20 years ago when he planned out the whole story.

>>803884

Yes, I've said it before. She most definitely is a criticism of modern feminists. He probably directly created her as a response to feminists complaining all his women were weak and gorgeous. He's surprisingly shrewd. Probably dated some crazy girls after coming into money.

Big Mom and Baby 5 are both suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder. BPD is brought on in early childhood as a result of an episode of abandonment from an authority figure, usually a parent. As a result they stop emotionally developing at that age. They grow up to have the intelligence of an adult, but the emotional mastery of a toddler, prone to violent moodswings and outbursts, binging, and promiscuity. Not every Borderline is an SJW, but a shocking number of SJWs are borderlines.

Baby 5's personality problems stem from her mother taking her to a top of a mountain, telling her she's worthless and abandoning her there. Subsequently Baby 5 does anyone anyone asks her to and will marry any man who expresses the slightest interest in her.

Big Mom was abandoned on an island by her parents. She obliviously ate her entire adopted family (who were also just using her) and grew up believing they simply abandoned her too. She's obsessed with diversity, but like any SJW has no idea why. No real argument for why it's good. She just asserts she needs to have children with every race on Earth, that she wants a giant multicultural family for the ultimate endgoal of having a fucking tea party with them. She has unnaturally colored hair and she is the epitome of binging and excess. She doesn't actually care about any of the men she sleeps with, she doesn't care about any of her children, she doesn't care about how hideously ugly or misshapen her children may end up as a result of her reckless miscegenation. Her power is literally to feed on and drain people's souls, and concealing the dark nature of what she's doing, she stuffs their souls into inanimate objects which temporarily take on features like Disney cartooons, even singing macabre dance numbers with her. If you've ever spoken to a tumblr girl with BPD, they're all obsessed with Disney and Ghibli.

Before you suggest I'm reading too much into this, don't forget Japan was allied with Germany, and before his editors made him change it Whitebeard's symbol was a swastika, and other perhaps than Shanks he's been portrayed by far as the most benevolent of the Yonko. You could carry the analogy even further. Germa 66 are scientists obsessed with eugenics who dress like a combination of sentai characters and Nazis. We've been given endless reason to hate them and explicitly shown their evil actions and that Sanji's brothers have no positive emotions. Yet right now they're swooping in to kick Big Mom's army's ass. I'm not on board with the aut-right, but could the message be that when faced with an evil such as what Big Mom represents, even Germa 66 aren't that bad?

>>803941

Great post. I don't know if Oda consciously intended it or it was just some instinctual muse, but he hit the nail on the head just the same.

>>803941

>Probably dated some crazy girls after coming into money.

he married one

>Whitebeard's symbol was a swastika

The NSDAP didn't invent the swastika, this has been a symbol in eastern cultures for literal millennia.

Great post besides this.

>>803974

Do we know anything about Oda's wife? Oda is the one who came onto her when he couldnt resist her dressed as Nami and she is cute

>>803917

He didn't plan every plot point and character in a 1000+ chapter story before starting it. He probably had a vague idea of the 4 Kings his Sun Wukong inspired character would fight, but he didn't have their designs or back stories set in stone.

>>803917

>>804362

everything we've seen before what we knew what we know now about kaido and big mom tells me that oda didnt really plan big mom and kaido. the silhouette of kaido is completely different from the reveal and even when luffy was talking to big mom over the phone her appearance was completely different from what it is now

>>803552

>It hasn't been made clear yet how one re-enters the other half of the world from the opposite side of Reverse Mountain, though certain pirates like Shanks apparently do it every so often.

You can argue that much like the Marines utilize Sea stone coatings to the underside of their ships to traverse the Calm Belts, given the fact that even a guy like Don Krieg could eke his way through the CB back to the East Blue, a Yonko crew can easily traverse the calm belt from the North/West Blue to enter the New World and vice verse. From there you can just take reverse mountain back to the top and ride it back down to the Grand Line again.

>>804366

He has changed designs many times before like this too.

The initial silhouette of Moria looked nothing like the real thing, and the whole of the Shichibukai were just generic placeholders when we first heard of them.

>>804735

Oda literally made up and designed all the supernovas just before the chapter they were introduced in Sabaody, he talks about it somewhere.

Shichibukai also weren't supposed to be as important as they were, he had an idea of how the story would go and the ending and thought it would take 5 years but as the world expanded we're at 20 years with estimated %70 of the story done.

The latest chapter is out!

Sanji's family are ridiculously overpowered. Could Sanji beat any of them?

>>804746

Germa 66 ain't nothing to fuck with, it seems. The chapter title was kinda misleading. For now.

>>804766

Lying kike there is no break announcement on the chapter

holy shit Germa are insane, I'm convinced they could give any Yonkou a good whooping if they went all out

>>804746

We knew they were genetically engineered, but them turning out to be cyborgs, and really dangerous ones at that, is a huge surprise. The Germa Kingdom is insane.

So are they doing this because they now care about Sanji, could it have been a last wish of Judge "Protect your brother~!" or is this purely to humiliate Big Mom for betraying them?

>>804943

They owe Sanji for saving them, and they want revenge against Big Mom.

>>804797

>he doesn't know

>>804943

I think they are doing it under Daddy Germa's orders. Sanji's brothers don't have emotions. They are monsters in every sense of the words. Abominations of science. His sister seems like she's alright, but she's a different case. Now Judge, on the other hand, was betrayed by Big Mom, made to face his biggest mistake as a Father and leader, whom he dehumanized worse than his monster children, and had his future aspirations crushed. The Germa don't feel emotions or a need for revenge, I'd imagine. They laughed when they realized they were put in a situation where they were just going to die.

Likely under Judge's order, now that he knows Big Mom wants to kill him, they were told to go wild. Big Mom's family wants to kill them anyways and steal their tech, so now he has to fight his way out, and while he's at it, he may as well spite her by letting his son and their friends get out alive which is rubbing salt in Big Mom's wounds. In some way, he could be doing this as a favor to Sanji for saving his life even when he could have let them die. As for the Germa siblings, they probably weren't lying when they say they just want to fuck some shit up. Being the best at kicking ass is likely the only thing that gives them an emotional reaction resembling happiness.

>>804949

Good assessment, there's also Judge's eyebrows which we have yet to see. I suspect that they're normal and the swirls are a trait from Sanji's mother.

Also, wasn't the cyborg nature of the Germa's from the womb? I recall a chapter where it stated how Sanji's metal skin hadn't developed. I was kind of hoping it'd reveal that he did still benefit from it, but that'd devalue his whole character if he didn't earn his strength.

>>804992

Sanji has a half-assed partial metal skin on just his legs and thats how he doesn't burn himself to shit with Diable Jambe

>>804992

I'm trying to find the chapter, but I recall one of the brothers getting kicked in the face and it resulting in metal-like denting that was "healed" through tools and machinery.

>>804993

Is your dad an assistant of Oda?

>>803290

>>803295

I'm assuming big mom doesn't even fuck the men she makes kids with she just steals parts of their souls and does some fuckery to create them, makes more sense than her shitting out a billion kids waiting 9 months in between each set.

>>805323

The fuck is your problem faggot?

>>804746

At least he beat Yonji. And he could've beaten Judge if he hadn't used his clones as meat shields.

Latest chapter up on Jaimini.

MOTHERFUCKING WADATSUMI OUTTA NOWHERE!!

>>806741

This chapter had a scene that kind of puts that to bed. Judge -in the midst of protecting the Thousand Sunny- starts yelling at Luffy that he can't believe he'd really go through all this just to save Sanji. He starts naming everything he perceives as weak about Sanji. "He dragged you back out of being over emotional! The Germa experiments failed to activate on him! He's just an oversentimental cook!" and Luffy responds "Yeah, thanks for your help, see ya! 8D" and on the next page says "I don't get it, why was he naming all your good traits that I like about you Sanji?" They're not weaknesses, a robot could never be a good chef, you need emotion to cook well. Sanji isn't a robot. Loved Jimbe's reaction too.

All the theories that Sanji is going to get a robotic upgrade from Germa kind of miss the entire point of their interaction. That would completely go against the point of them not being his family and him rejecting Germa entirely. "You guys are evil monsters and I don't consider you my family!! ...Thanks for the robo suit."?

Other things of note though.

-Stussy and Morgans escaped. Now this makes me think this is all going to get out and we'll have new bounties for the crew soon, but Stussy is WG so she might still kill Morgans to prevent him from reporting this. Still who knows, maybe Chopper's bounty will increase to... 200!

-Bege just left the cake and ran. He said his ship had been destroyed, I'm guessing he just took the rest of the crew into his body. I noticed Chiffon was standing there doing the "I believe in this cake!" thing the same way Lola did. My curiosity here is if Bege left some kind of trap or if he decided it's not worth it to try and kill BM anymore.

-Apparently it turns out hard candy is not a sufficient treatment for a wound, and Perospero is dying of blood loss. Pekoms fate isn't updated, Daifuku increases the power of his genie by rubbing his tummy, Smoothie continues to be useless (If she loses a fight this arc that's all four sweet commanders taken down) on top of everything else we got two pages of reaction shots on the islands and it looks like all the citizens want to leave Whole Cake Island.

-Oh, and the Giant's chef. Am I the only one that got serious Toriyama vibes from his design? He looked like he walked straight out of Dragon Quest.

>>806821

>Apparently it turns out hard candy is not a sufficient treatment for a wound, and Perospero is dying of blood loss

Made me laugh, the guy looked like a deranged Willy Wonka and now he's damn well cooked himself. Classic.

The Judge scene was great. Really sealed up the whole family conflict. Sanji and the Germas aren't going to have a happy family moment, the best he's got is Reiju, Luffy's response was perfect too.

I really liked Luffy trying to lie about being bored of waiting around for them. Doesn't want them to worry at all. This was a wholesome chapter.

>>806741

> the one about Kaidou being a piece of the Red Line or some shit.

What?

>>806830

I too would like more information.

>you will never be bullied by Smoothie's lucious thighs

It's an existential kind of dread.

>>806821

>giant chef straight outta DQ

I don't see it, honestly. His face just screams Oda, to me.

On a slightly related note, I wonder where he gets fresh and gigantic produce from. Can't imagine him julienning 200lbs of normal-sized carrots for a meal.

>>806741

She literally has more kids than she has years alive and didn't start having them until she was like 30.

I don't think anyone expected the wadatsumi and the interaction between judge and luffy was funny as fuck.

Sanji cucked again.

Daifuku seems practically unbeatable by nearly everyone apart from logias.

>>806821

>They're not weaknesses, a robot could never be a good chef, you need emotion to cook well. Sanji isn't a robot. Loved Jimbe's reaction too.

Nobody said anything about wanting Sanji to become a robot, just for the possibility that he could unlock some latent modified power while retaining his emotions like Reiju. Also, Sanji overall seems to have been nerfed in his escape. Before he was so fast Oven could barely see him, yet when escaping from BM's crew, he could barely survive, got shot in the arm and one of the sons can even use skywalk/moonwalk better than him, and all the while he was struggling to carry Luffy despite that he's proven to still have his monstrous strength just several chapters ago.

I really want to know what Big Mom's reaction to eating the cake, is.

>>806913

>we never get to see it

>end of next chapter reveals that everything was just a flashback and the crew is busy with Kaidou

>still no Wano

>>806803

The Fishman pirates have been absolutely Mr. Prince-tier of background usefulness this whole arc.

>>806987

Sanji having trouble escaping can be attributed to a ton of shit too. He's barely slept, he's been fighting and cooking all day, the sheer volume of opponents heaving shit his way is absurd, there's been a ton of emotional duress and he's either just finished smashing Pudding's pussy or just had his memories of her wiped (maybe both) which could leave you feeling off balance too.

>>807003

I just hope they get Pekoms out of there. He's getting totally fucked this arc.

>>806987

>And don't forget, there's like a 90% chance Sanji fucked 16 year old psychopoon Pudding. Remember their last panel together? She took away his cigarette, and leaned in close and asked him to do something for her. This right after they were discussing being married. There are only two things this could have meant. Either she asked him to quit smoking, or they fucked.

At most they kissed. You really think Sanji would start fucking a woman when Luffy might pop out of the mirror at any moment? That was only 20 minutes before the time limit, too. It would be pathetic to start alleyfucking for like 15 minutes like some stray mutts. You're letting your fanboyism cloud your judgement.

>>806987

Or like, she kissed him and then wiped his memories.

>>807045

>>807046

Sanji was off his game because he had intense blue balls and couldn't remember why.

>>806858

The shield, attire and poster definitely scream DQ. The face, hands and lack of leg day scream Oda, but overall, it makes me wish Enix was still its own separate thing so they could start a new series of rpg games spunoff from DQ that instead use Oda's style instead of Toriyama's.

>>806987

>-"Omg! They can skywalk?! That was supposed to be Sanji's technique!"

Nobody said that. Its the fact that someone else can use it just as well as him, or at the very least that Sanji couldn't at least use his strength to prove that his skywalk is superior simply because of his tremendous leg power and speed. Sanji and Chopper have both been forced to under perform this arc in terms of combat and the only combat-related shining moment for Sanji was when he was able to kick Oven easily and go unnoticed. And I ain't dissing Sanji. He is honestly my preferred character. What I can't stand is Zorofags constantly trying to undermine Sanji simply because "he isn't as strong as Zoro! Fuck off with your sexist curly brow erocook!" Why Oda chose to not give Sanji or Chopper a proper one-on-one fight with high ranking BM pirates (a simple short one that at least gets settled off-panel) is beyond me, I mean at least the Bobbin one would've been enough if Bobbin hadn't turned out to be so unimpressive. Just kicking away one Charlotte kid during the escape with Luffy would've been enough as well. That's all I ask. Nothing more. Then have him get shot up and beaten up for all I care. Also where do you keep hearing these "same complains"? There's hardly anyone else here but a handful of anons. Is it those faggots from the One Piece Podcasts or the ones from the forums spreading this shit around? Those retards are not worth shit. They were quick to disown and even threaten to defame Oda as a pedophile when they thought Pudding was younger than Flampe. Even the faggots at the One Piece Wiki were quick to judge Oda simply because "I know Japan has pedos, but I expected better from Oda-sensei! I don't even want to call him Oda-sama anymore! Yuck!" Just goes to show westerners are a shameless and disloyal bunch. Even the thought of her being 16 disgusts these modern faggots, despite Rebecca and Shirahoshi being the same age and them having no problem fapping to the likes of them. Bloody hypocrites.

>He's not getting Germa 66 armor

Nobody said that either. Germa's strengths primarily come from genetic modifications. I.e enhanced strength, durability and the elemental abilities that Reiju, Ichiji and Niji posses, in other words for Sanji to unlock some sort of latent genetic ability of the germa, not a costume. I honestly felt Sanji was gonna unlock some form of moderate pyrokinesis to maybe set things around him on fire after his cig burst into flames in Bege's dining hall the first time he got captured. But Sanji getting something silly like Germa hover boots would completely undermine all the effort he went through to master sky walk, so if anything I really hope Franky doesn't make a suit for him. Unless of course you're implying that the Germa's powers primarily come from their suits, then I seriously hope that's the case as well. Knowing that someone like Ichiji can pull off something like his firey Sparking Red shit since youth while Sanji had to suffer and struggle to achieve his flaming techniques is a real blow. Maybe all of this would've been easier to bare if Sanji had fought his brothers on the Germa fleet arena, but then we'd just be dragging on the arc with more needless fights. So there really is no winning.

>>806987

>On top of that he had like six HUGE moments. He fought Luffy. He defeated one of his siblings. He had that badass scene where he saved all their asses. He one-hit curbstomped Bobbin'. He dodged bullets at the wedding and made Pudding fall in love with him. He disowned Germa. He cooked the most delicious cake ever. Delicious enough to put anyone who tastes it into a coma. He lifted the giant thing with one leg.

The Luffy fight was pretty one sided. It was a very emotional and heart-wrenching scene that truly moved anyone who loves Sanji, but it wasn't a true "combat-highlighting" moment. Yonji, yes. But it was short and bitter sweet in that he didn't at least have the chance to fight another person in this arc in a serious one-on-one fight, as the battle between him and Judge was an unfair one. I mean, in all instances, Sanji comes out looking like the better and mature man, but overall it didn't help to show off his full combat potential, the closest instance to that being his fight with Luffy which was again, one-sided. The badass scene was a showcase of his coolness, but not battle prowess. Bobbin was honestly not that impressive. The rest are all valid moments of coolness and great for his character, but again not an example of a solid and true one-on-one fight to showcase his combat skills that would befit a character who at the start of the series was known as one of the "Monster Trio".

cont.

But the main and true question that matters most is, can we really say that kissing Sanji is all that Pudding did? Could she have truly done more with him? We know that Oda has the potential to imply sexual escapades, as he did with Doflaming and Viola. And if so, what are the chances that she edited out his memories of her?

>>807007

This. Precise and to the point.

>>807008

He might've also lost his cutesy eyes...

>>807046

Most likely. But this might create a huge plot hole in his memories. One of the main focuses of this arc was an arranged marriage, so did Pudding just cut off all her moments from his memory, or replace them, I wonder. Would be amusing if Sanji's memories of Pudding were replaced with one of the uglier Charlotte sisters. He'd definitely have no regrets then while avoiding any potential holes in his memories.

>>807068

Something I've noticed in the MHA threads is that there's an anon that references people making complaints and raging about stuff, but the threads are normally pretty placid or having focused discussions that sometimes critique the manga. It's gotta be that they're going to other places to discuss the series and seeing dumb shit there then coming back to complain. I never understand what they're talking about.

I'm surprised there hasn't been some acknowledgement that Sanji is about on par with his siblings. Although I reckon that's something that doesn't really need saying considering he's capable of crazy shit already, but alongside that, I don't think Sanji needs to be absurdly strong and constantly get scenes showing that. He's always excelled at being more multi-skilled than Zoro and Luffy, he's able to perform in subterfuge, cooking, fighting, diplomacy and leadership roles. He's part of the Monster Trio, but it's become more and more clear that obscene strength isn't what makes him such a great character.

>>806987

I stick by what one anon said last thread, Oda is retreading ground. At least copying some of the story beats from previous arcs. Just like Dressrosa was Alabasta again, WCI was Enie’s Lobby again.

Seriously,

>A member of the Strawhats leaves the crew against their will, taken by a shadowy organization.

>Luffy and his remaining nakama rush off to rescue him.

>over the course of the arc, a crew member fights Luffy in a dramatic scene, Luffy meets an ally that will go on to become a new crew member Sun Pirates running interference pretty much confirms Jinbe joining, Luffy reveals a new powerup while fighting an opponent lauded for their strength, the Strawhats make their escape on a badly damaged ship.

>>807128

Jinbei was confirmed before when he said he is ready to join the crew

>>807214

What was that like 400 chapters back now after Marineford?

>>807479

Magellan and Reiju OTP.

>>807479

>Waiting until 2020 to try and shame Japan

The Olympics Committee is already demanding they ban smoking in restaurants. For the poor tourists of course.

>>807509

Just a single thrust, don't even care if it melts off after that.

>>807586

smoking makes the place smell and non smoking customers have to smell that so thats not really a problem. some restaurants have smoking and non smoking areas for a reason

>>807586

>naming possibly the one good thing to come out of them as an example of them fucking things up

Smoking indoors is disgusting, just go to an open area to do it. I honestly don't understand why the japanese, a people who are always trying to avoid bothering anyone else at all costs, still smoke inside restaurants.

Sageru for offtopic.

>>807652

he may be immune to the effect of the poison but the toxins are gonna give him food poisoning. Reiju's body was probably altered for that not to be a problem while Magellan is just a normal guy

So far WCI has been one of the biggest and greatest arcs, I can't imagine how Wano will turn out. In WCI we had half of straw hats, Bege, Germa, Sun pirates, a few minks and Ceasar. Wano will have the entire crew, Law, Kidd, Apoo, Hawkins, X-Drake, the Samurai and some others that I can't remember. It might easily beat Dressrosa in length and have even more named characters than Marineford. I wonder how Oda will handle it.

>>807652

Magellan gets diarrhea because he eats deadly poisoned food just because he can and it wrecks his stomach. Reijuu is some poisonous butterfly Zoan and I guess can digest the poison well.

>>807773

Wano is going to answer so many questions. Probably added stuff to Zoro's backstory. I'm really anxious to see what happened exactly with Marco and with all of those Supernova. Also I read a spoiler that Jack and Jimbe are going to have an underwater battle against eachother, apparently one of Oda's editors said it.

My predictions:

-Franky makes robo limbs for Dogstorm and Catviper.

-New swords and possibly an eye reveal for Zoro. I'm hoping we get an even more badass version of the Whiskey Peak arc.

-Hawkins used his voodoo doll ability to bail, potentially abandoning his crew and the alliance. Kidd will probably ally with Luffy and Law disgusted with Apoo and Hawkins, and probably since he's in a cell his crew is probably mostly dead.

-Carrot's probably going to join as crew stowaway.

-Someone is going to attack the Reverie. Either Blackbeard or CP0.

>>807506

>Magellan

>Not superior Caesar Clown

Filthy, Dumb, Paramecia scum.

>>807892

I like CC but you can't eat gas dipshit.

>>807780

They will fuck up it somehow anyway like they have done at each New World arc so far. Starting from Fishmen island which had that retarded bloodtransfer 2deep4u symbolism scene while having D-class losers as villains the cast has been forced to act like retards constantly for the sake of the plot.

Dressrossa's bird cage was probably worsr case of this: why didn't Zoro just cut the the strings? But no, acting in-character when it would be smart thing to do is big no-no, that would ruin the artificial tension.

>>807780

>Also I read a spoiler that Jack and Jimbe are going to have an underwater battle against eachother, apparently one of Oda's editors said it.

Sauce? It sounds badass, but I find it a bit unlikely since, even though Jack may be a fishman/half-fishman, water still leaves him immobilized. Unless of course he uses bubbly coral. In which case I hope he does.

>-Franky makes robo limbs for Dogstorm and Catviper.

>dubnames

Still I honestly hope Inuarashi gets a machine gun leg. Would be badass. But what would be fitting for Nekomamushi? Machine gun arm or robot arm with large blade claws?

>eye reveal for Zoro

We've already seen his eye several times. He probably just keeps it closed due to the scar. Would be neat if he reveals that he keeps it closed as to not go overboard with his attacks rather than some overdone eyeball power shit.

>-Carrot's probably going to join as crew stowaway.

I think its likely that she may join the crew after Tottoland or stick with them without being a stowaway now that Pedro is gone. Without him, there's no one to drag her back to Zou by force.

>Reverie attack

Blackbeard is a likely pick, but the surviving Revolutionaries might do it just to show that they're not out of the game yet and take advantage of their presumably defeated status to stage a sneak attack of some kind.

>Kidd's crew might be dead

That's a shame since I liked the fire breather's design. I really hope Apoo allies with the Straw Hats.

>>807925

Dressrosa suffered from character bloat and Oda needing a phoenix feather up his ass every other week.

Fishman Island was less about the fighting and more about the politics of it all. It's not the strongest arc, but I don't see it as an indicator of things to come given that Whole Cake Island has blown the fuck out of a ton of arcs. Hopefully we see the trend continue. I'm actually expecting Wano will focus on Zoro and the crew for a while before we reintroduce Luffy to the plot. Maybe even the reverie will take up the same run.

>>807935

Killer at least should still be alive. Maybe the crew or whatever remains of it is hiding out.

As for Jack, that guy's a bizarre motherfucker. Really curious to find out what he is.

>>807939

I don't doubt Killer is alive. He's probably planning Kidd's escape. But if the other crew members are alive (or if their ship is still in tact) that'd be great (still bummed that Bege's cool ship got destroyed). As for Jack, my vote is still on half-fishman like Dellinger who was able to hide his dorsal fin, true eye color and teeth. Jack may have his fin hidden to and his mask covered up his teeth.

>>807936

see >>807128

Reason why WCI arc seems good to you is because it's pretty much copypasted Enies Lobby with new colors to hopefully distract people from realizing it. By copying legitimately great arc Oda might be able to fool some, but it doesn't change the fact that One Piece reached its climax at Whitebeard arc and it has been going steadily downhill since then. Perhaps that downfall reverses for a moment or two at times when something good is going, but the overall trend of freefalling still continues.

>>807925

>>807936

I honestly preferred Fishman Island to Dressrosa and Punk Hazard. The politics and villainous factions were underwhelming I guess, but the lore and Jinbe expansion was welcomed, however I still hate the fact that they never showed the Fishman Karate Dojo (the pride of Fishman Island). On a less important complaint, I was kinda disappointed that Wadatsumi wasn't an actual Umibozu, since I was hoping Umibozus would be the fishman equivalent of giants, but that's just a minor non-important thing. Dressrosa just felt like it dragged on needlessly with too much filler content and threats that felt off. I honestly prefer Totto Land to those three arcs, but after having endured Luffy vs Katakuri, I wish part of the first half of this arc hadn't been Luffy vs Cracker and instead other character fights that didn't take up the main focus, but that's just shonen for you.

>>807950

I honestly did get some Enies Lobby vibes early on when the arc started, but its a bit different enough I guess, however Dressrosa to me felt like a legitimate copypaste of the Baroque Works Saga. Even the villains or their powers were just re-imagined versions of the members of Baroque Works with similar or upgraded versions of their powers. Mr. 5 and Gladius, Miss Valentine and Machvise, Miss Golden Week and Jora, Mr. 1 and Baby 5, Robin and Viola, etc etc. The least similar were Mr. 4 and Senor Pink who were more like opposites (soft-headed digger vs hard-boiled swimmer) which I actually kind of appreciated.

>>807957

He knows about Katakuri, when Brulee announced that it was heard on all the islands through the den den mushi. I don't think every citizen heard it, but definitely all of BM's army, and Morgan was sitting by one portion of it listening in on their conversations.

He doesn't seem concerned with what happens with BM and the cake. Maybe he has another source on the island and thinks the scoop he has is big enough already.

>>808303

She and katakuri probably have the same dad.

>>809054

Again?

>>809080

Gotta be a fake out.

>>809174

Gonna spoiler for now: Gotta be a fakeout. The Sunny was a huge part of Franky's character. We haven't seen the Pirate Emperor since Fishman island, but those mechs, those vehicles, the weapons in the sunny, the Coup de Burst, etc, are things that I don't think Oda would destroy when Franky isn't even around.

>>809181

Agreed. Without seeing everything, I reckon they're escaping underwater.

>>809181

Yep. The ship is a character too, and if it's gonna die, we're gonna see it go down fighting.

It's out on Jaimini.

It's absolutely a fake out. No way this isn't suspense building for next week.

We've got plenty of good motivation to defeat Big Mom now. Looking forward to them clashing with full crews next time. Looks like Germa is fucked though.

>>809279

>suspense building

>for next week

Anon, I...

>people actually thought a bunch of kids would be able to slip past a fucking emperor of the sea feared across the entire planet

You people are naive.

>>809329

It being a fakeout doesn't mean they are just going to sail into the sunset unscathed a big fucking player is coming to bail them out, they cannot possibly make it out on their own after all this

This chapter was insane in more ways than one, just so well put together with great scenes.

It's good seeing big moms crew isn't a pushover when it get's it's shit sorted.

>>809333

>unscathed

They haven't though. Their shit has been thoroughly wrecked already. The Big Mom pirates have also gotten their shit wrecked pretty hard. It feels like there isn't really a set number of ships that they have, in fact. Despite the Germa wrecking shit and Carrot disabling a few dozen ships, they still have hundreds, which just strikes me as weird. Likewise, Oven fucking everything up is messed up when he just got a hole blown through his chest and now he's walking around with a bad mood and some singe marks... and then Big Mom's personal huge as fuck ship shows up out of nowhere and lands a shot that nukes the whole ship. This makes the Big Mom pirates less of an enemy and more of a force of nature, and that's really starting to rub me the wrong way now.

>>809301

My bad, I meant next chapter.

>people already forgot the Sunny has submarine capabilities

>>809336

>This makes the Big Mom pirates less of an enemy and more of a force of nature, and that's really starting to rub me the wrong way now.

Isn't that the entire point of the Yonkou?

>>809382

>Doesn't explain why she has several hundred ships

Her territory is huge and loves to take in subordinates why wouldn't she have a huge army?

>>809388

Because the nature of the Grand Line and the New World in particular would seem to interfere with having hundreds and hundreds of ships and also crews all capable of navigating and surviving the most dangerous seas in the world.

Oven really carrying the team this arc for the Big Mom pirates.

Even though this is definitely a fake out I can't wait to see them turn this chapter into a musical number like they did with her introduction. Though I won't get to see it for a couple years because of One Pace's release schedule.

>>809382

>Doesn't explain why she has several hundred ships, when even White Beard only had a couple dozen at most

She married several pirates and married several of her kids with powerful people. She actively pursued a big "family", it makes sense for her to be the big fleet Yonkou. If anything it would be weird if her fleet was small or just a little bigger than we're used to seeing.

>>809473

singing ship**

>>809473

That singing ship shows up out of nowhere every fucking time. It's terrifying.

>>809395

Oven just nuked a huge chunk of ocean. He was far more effective than Dogtooth.

>>809473

The singing came from a bunch of trees that were living inside of BM's mouth. She loved the cake so much, that her entire being broke out into song. The singing ship just erased the strawhats, but they more than likely switched ships. Then again, loosing Sunny would have been a big deal to them. The Germa were also wiped out pretty quickly. Someone will probably appear out of nowhere and whisk them all away to safety.

>>809539

From what I saw, it's more the direction has improved than the actual animation quality.

>>809536

>a bunch of trees that were living inside of BM's mouth

What

>>809536

Well, Oda isn’t stupid enough to kill the main character along with the two biggest market draw characters (Nami & Chopper). The Sun Pirates got fried and it looks like Judge is going to be fighting Snack which we probably won’t get to see.

>>809562

I was confused if that was real or a transition or something. She packed on the weight almost immediately. At least we know that to defeat her you have to starve her. Guess we'll keep Sanji away from the rematch.

>>809536

I'm still chuckling at the idiots that were writing Oven off as some filler villain or an Akainu ripoff.

The man is a Yonkou Commander, there is no way he's a pushover in any shape.

>>809502

It was reported to be on it's way 12 or 13 chapters ago. BM just didn't need it since she could travel with Perospero and/or Zeus.

>Jaimini changed their page to look like Niggerstream

Top wew.

After rereading the chapter a couple times, I think Big Mom might be dying. Her seeing all the dead children (that she ate) and entering into a bizarre cartoony delusion, and singing creepy gibberish.. I don't know if Oda would go that far, but it could easily be the last thoughts of an insane woman as her brain finally fries out and dies.

>>810064

I was expecting him to sound slightly more unhinged, like a chain-smoking biker, but I feel the tone fits for his character.

>>810064

Are those hard subs, that I spy with my little eye?

>>810078

That's gonna be his tone for when he stops giving a fuck and rips his face-cloth off later

So, after seeing the last chapter I was thinking...

What if Pudding just manipulated the memory of EVERYONE?

>>810270

Then she would have to touch everyone and cut out whatever really happened.

Besides she can't make new memories, just replace them with some she took from someone else.

>>810270

>>810271

If it's possible to awaken any Devil Fruit then imagine how ludicrous she'd be. AoE memory manipulation that gives her full read, write and delete permission.

>>810302

Just imagine how ludicrous awakened Buggy would be. He'd turn into Gangster Gastino.

>>810302

Just imagine Sugar with an awakened fruit.

Anything she looks at can become a toy and will be forgotten by everyone else. Unless Busoushoku can save you somewhat from it, or not every awakened fruit has to have some AoE capability, it'd be way too strong.

>>810413

Crocodile and Mr 1 are here to save the day.

Or the giant crew have arrived.

>>810413

NAMI STILL HAS ZEUS

>>810483

A faggot cloud isn't going to stop a ship from exploding, no matter how fat it becomes from charging up

>>810533

Carrot hasn’t been too obnoxious, I wouldn’t want her as a main Strawhat. If she created a crew of Minks that joined the Grand Fleet, I wouldn’t mind. Wano is already going to be a clusterfuck between The Strawhats, Law, The Samurai, the other members of the Worst Generation, and the incoming stragglers from Whole Cake. Carrot can stick around for that arc but then I’d rather she just go back to Zou.

>>810607

It's two days late for an April's fools joke.

>>810678

Yeah, but it came out on the 1st, but no one mentioned it here then, so I figured better late than never. I chuckled at it.

The cover is A crudely shopped edit of Luffy and Katakuri *dabbing*...

>>810607

>Pe D. Ro

Heh

>>810064

>pink tattoos

>pink hair

I'm not even surprised since he is Big Mom's son after all, but it looks ass ugly and considerably lessens his design.

>>810581

I'm impartial to her joining, but gut instinct tells me Oda has something planned with her.

>>809329

>break next week at the most important part

>Jump announces Wano is coming, making this cliffhanger even worse

Fuck why?

>>809539

It hasn't, but the fucker directing it seems to be trying to do his best to polish this turd, and I commend him for that. Maybe the slight improvement could be due to DBS ending too?

>>810815

>>break next week at the most important part

>>Jump announces Wano is coming, making this cliffhanger even worse

>Fuck why?

Simple. Suspense. It's all part of advertising. It helps drive up the discussion and therefor the popularity of One Piece. The more people want something, the bigger your eventual payoff will be.

>>810064

I was enjoying this on googletube until I accidentally saw the comics. Nothing but "Is that a mother fucking JoJo reference?" in every post. Fucking modern jojofags are a disgrace to the old and are basically the weeaboo version of bronies.

>>810832

She won't need it anymore once she gets Monet's fruit.

>>810865

I don't understand why people think Nami would get it. Her updated climatact is more than enough to put her on par with stronger characters, and with Zeus (assuming he obeys) will only make her all the more dangerous. Not to mention a snow fruit would not compliment her "modern witch" theme. I'm still bugged that she had no issue with Usopp taking out the "magic wand" from her clima tact nor that it didn't seem to have any negative effects upon being removed from her weapon. You'd think something like that is what allows the more magical aspects of the device, like how Nami can seemingly control clouds with her mind without even holding her clima tact, like when she was showering. Or the whole eggs thing. I really hope the magic wand is referenced later on as an important missing piece that Nami needed. And yeah I agree that Sulong form was kind of unneeded for Carrot. I don't really mind the moon aspect, but I know what you mean. I also feel that Carrot's sulong scene would've been a good chance for Chopper to show off his skills.

>>810881

I honestly feel like the Minks were poorly developed in those departments, especially the Sulong form, the squads, their monarchy and their homeland. I honestly would've preferred it if they were less like fishmen in terms of biology with Zou being bigger and having enough room for separate tribes to exist while still allowing crossbreeding but having each one posses a unique cultural gimmick based around the stereotypes of the animals they derive from and a greater cultural divide between carnivores and herbivores (and having a strength difference based on diet would be fitting since that's what he does with zoans), but that's just me. Overall, I would settle for just the squads and sulongs having been done better.

Pretty much the same thoughts on Nami. I just want to see Chopper do some serious doctoring again rather than just simple bandage shit, or at least have him discover some rare medical ingredients now and then. As for combat, I just wish he didn't use kung fu point so often and I really wish he'd show us what his other forms look like after the timeskip. He hasn't used arm point and jump point yet, although I think I recall him saying he lost those forms for some reason, can't be too sure, but I think he used arm point during some anime filler. I'll look it up.

>>810919

Those are similar ideas I had for a furfaggotry series of short stories, although no cross breeding or hybrids. (Unless it's a real life hybrid.) Furry-esque concepts always get fucked up unless the series features it as a core part of it.

Also didn't Chopper use arm point during the big fight on Fishman Island?

Yet another to add to the list of arcs/ideas that could've been done better

>>810919

Also another thing about Minks I should've mentioned. I believe Oda stated that Minks are born as a random animal, so I have a hard time imagining tribes based on one type or species. Basically a horse Mink and a dog Mink could have a bear Mink child.

Pedro looks similar to Carrot hairstyle-wise but that might not mean anything.

>>810881

Jinbe sailed the Sunny through a tidal wave, he showed his skills right there. Though it's been irrelevant since.

I hadn't thought too hard about minks, but they're really just humans with a super form and some animal benefits rather than actual animal people.

>>810815

>could be due to DBS ending too?

Unlikely, they started Kitarou and created a special department for DB.

This makes it highly likely that they create a new DB series in 1.5-2.5 years.

OP is kinda screwed, because DB makes much more money and it's revenue is constantly growing.

Then there's Precure which is directly owned by Toei.

What Toei does with the OP IP is a disgrace, but sadly I don't think the production quality will improve.

>>810992

>created a special department for DB.

>This makes it highly likely that they create a new DB series in 1.5-2.5 years.

>a new DB every 2 years

Please no. Toei has become no better than the west. Fuck. OP deserves better than this.

>>810992

One Piece needs the JoJo treatment and restart the series, adapting it panel for panel. Or adapt each arc into a movie. Even if that movie would be 6 hours long.

>>811200

This. One Piece getting redone by a studio like Bones (I suggest Bones only because MHA is doing so well) would be excellent.

>>811265

One Piece's first special was actually done by IG.

But Toei ended up getting the main series a year later.

>>811310

If IG had gotten it back then they probably would've ended after 70 episodes and given it a shitty anime original ending.

>>808825

Strangely enough, Oda says she's Galette's twin sister. And Katakuri, Daifuku and Oven are triplets yet only Katakuri has the fangs. Also, is it just me or are the Charlotte childrens' designs becoming duller? Originally they all appeared unique and part of a unique race, but no majority of them are just regular-looking humans with no sign of a unique race or deformity/mutation.

>>811406

A lot of kids would probably be a result of naval grabbing marriages, Big Mom loves to fuck apparently.

>>811406

There are only so many races, and she doesn't have access to all of them.

>Jinbe leaves the crew again

Damn you Oda. Stop with this bullshit... Oh well, at least this means Carrot will join.

>>813582

I bet she's a size queen.

The spoilers are some BS. Of all the outcomes I didn't expect we'd get cockteased for yet another arc with Jimbe. And it's kind of sad the Fishmen are getting destroyed. That was their ship that was wrecked. I guess of all the crews to lose their ship they can handle it best.

>>813585

If the pics I've seen are true, then this is some serious bullshit. At this rate they will have already explored more than half the grand line without needing a helmsman. The arc had a lot of flaws half way in, but I was at least expecting Jinbe to finally join. Instead its just another freaking teaser. And the worst part is that Big Mom is perfectly fine and angrier than ever and on her way to kill them. So the cake did nothing. Sanji deserved to shine this arc but ever since the Germa flashback ended, Oda has been giving him a shitty treatment. Some cool moments here and there but the cake was his shining achievement. I was hoping it would knock her out. Instead its done nothing. But I really hope all of this is wrong.

>>813588

Don’t worry, Oda has everything planned out. Surely he hasn’t painted himself into a corner and will need to resort to an asspull on the level of his friend Kishimoto to get out of this. He just had to put some last minute shit in there, he couldn’t have the resolution be “Luffy defeats Katakuri, the Cake puts Big Mom down for the count, Germa and Sun Pirates run interference while Luffy and Co escape. I’ve accepted the fact that we’re never going to see Zoro, Ussop, Robin, or Franky ever again.

BIG NEWS

Oven is bullshit.

>>813582

Calling dibs on her right now. I'm sick with love.

>>813691

Chuckled/10.

>>813588

> And the worst part is that Big Mom is perfectly fine and angrier than ever and on her way to kill them. So the cake did nothing. Sanji deserved to shine this arc but ever since the Germa flashback ended, Oda has been giving him a shitty treatment.

Truer dubs were never posted. We knew the asspull was coming, but for all of this to essentially amount to absolutely nothing with Jinbe not even joining the crew and Big Mom not actually defeated in any way is just... really unsatisfying.

>YOU MUST JOIN MY CREW JINBE

<Hoho, all in good time

>JINBE! ARE YOU READY NOW?

<Of course! Let me finish my business here and we shall be off

<Whoops, looks like I'll be leaving now

>SEE YOU IN MY CREW IN WANO, JINBE

<See you, Luffy!

>JINBE YOU SURVIVED! I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON MY CREW FINALLY!

<As am I, now let us defeat Kaido!

<Whoops I got punched over the horizon

>SEE YOU AT THE REVERIE JINBE

FOUR ARCS LATER

>I CAN'T BELIEVE JINBE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO HELP US GET TO RAFTEL!

<No Luffy! I still live!

>JINBE!! FINALLY THE CREW IS ALL TOGETHER, LET'S GO GET ONE PIECE!

<Oh no, I've been sent to Hell by Blackbeard's final form!

>SEE YOU IN ONE PIECE SUPER, JINBE!!

>>813691

>Stays behind. Again.

Damn it Jinbe. Oh well, at least Morgans managed to save this chapter... Also fuck Oven. Might as well make the stupid fuck a sweets commander.

>>813765

I was really enjoying this arc up until the last few chapters. An ending can either make or brake a story, and the ending to this arc really broke it for me. It just makes the whole thing feel like needless filler. Like they might as well have not split up on Zou. Nothing was gained other than getting back something they previously had. I just hope this isn't really the end to this arc and there's still a few more chapters left in Totto Land...

>>813804

A lot of stuff was developed and it did make the crew stronger in some ways, but man.. this ending better fucking shape up in the next chapter or two, otherwise it's going to turn this whole arc, which really was quite an amazing ride on par with some of the best arcs in the series, turn into one giant cake fart.

>>813965

A twin brother?

>>814020

If she joins

>>814034

That's a mistranslation. I heard it was that souls cannot be added to other humans, they can still be given back to their host, you just can't prolong someone's life through it.

It's truly mindblowing how this arc went from fucking amazing to the worst dud in 900 chapters, all in the span of a single chapter.

>>814580

All it takes is how you wrap it up. Its like reading a really great book only to reach the end and find out its really fucking stupid or has the worst (or no) decent closure with nothing they did ever really mattering whatsoever. Which is why the thought of OP's ending worries me more and more since Marineford. The thought of having spent more than a decade invested in a story only to find out that the ending is just one big "FUCK YOU" would be heart crushing. The only thing that gives me hope is that Oda said that he had the ending already written and planned out since the manga started, so its likely going to be adventurous at very least and the only changes it can possibly have is the addition of a few new characters he hadn't planned on. Like the Blackbeard and the Admirals.

>>814580

What bothers me is how the Sunny turned out to be saved. Everything else is peanuts and I feel the arc still could've turned out fine. Jinbe leaving? Understandable, I've accepted that. Germa getting fucked? That was Big Mom's plan anyway. Pekoms Su-Long retardation? I never liked Su-Long form. Pedro dying? It needed to happen so Carrot can join. Wadatsumi saving the Sunny? Okay. What about Oven? Why switch the ships and just not save both? What about the fact there's no coating on it? It's such a shit-tier asspull. And realistic speaking, pulling the Sunny underwater for a second with coating will fill it and it wouldn't be able to float.

>>814875

>It needed to happen so Carrot can join.

Probably the only good thing that might come from this arc with the way things are going, that and maybe Nami getting Zeus I guess. But as you said, everything seems so stupid. Big Mom's plan made no sense. Why did she want to betray Germa? She never had to betray someone before to get them to marry into her family and have them work alongside her, yet the Germa were the exception? And worst part is that she wanted their tech, but what good is that shit to her and her family if only the Germa are smart enough to use it? What would stop the Germa Kingdom from self-destructing or the clones from disobeying her? And I could probably deal with this Sunny asspull with Wadatsumi if not for the fact that everyone in the Charlotte Family saw the switcheroo. Best thing to have done was to escape and have the Big Mom Pirates think they were dead, because otherwise, what's going to stop them from killing their friends and families in revenge and sending their heads to them in boxes? They know about Zeff, so they definitely know about Dadan, Makino and Woopslap for Luffy, Yosaku, Johnny and the Dojo for Zoro, everyone on Nami's fucking island, Kaya, the list goes on. What's to stop them from fucking over the completely defenseless East Blue in revenge now that they know that the Straw Hats got away? And if you were just gonna drag the Sunny underwater, why switch it with Fisher's ship? Are we to expect that they actually thought that the BM pirates wouldn't notice a giant fishman plucking a ship underwater and replacing it with a completely different one? With Wadatsumi, I could understand since he's not that bright, but that shit was cooked up by Aladdin of all people. And as you said, no fucking coating. This all feels like some ridiculous asspull for Oda to shock people with the thought of the Sunny being destroyed. It would've actually been worth something if he had skipped to the Reverie and given us several chapters without knowing the truth to increase tension, buildup and sales, and thus make this asspull not feel so underwhelming. But that apparently could not be the case. And that's the note Sanji leaves Pudding on? No proper apologies? No hint that the horrible things she said before were just her lying to herself? Her whole damn excuse for being evil is that she was bullied, yet she had no sympathy for Sanji despite being raised in a similar situation. Hell, Hancock was a bitch too but she at least had a far crueler upbringing as a slave in the cruelest place on the planet.

>>814976

The Germa thing gets even dumber. Why did she go to such lengths for their tech when she also had these magic bullets that let random mooks completely trash the Germa elite in a second?

>Nothing good happened this arc!

Yeah, it was total shit. Nothing good happened. All these Big Mom family characters weren't neat. The entire Katakuri fight, learning more about Bege and him becoming one of the more interesting Supernovas, the massive overhaul of Sanji's backstory, him dodging bullets, kicking a yonko and flying through the air lifting a giant cake with one leg, the Sulong reveal, all the new Underworld characters particularly Morgans and Stussy, all the fight scenes with Germa, Pound going out like a boss, Pedro alluh ackbaring twice, his hilarious fight with Tomago, Big Mom's horrifically fucked up backstory, bursting out of the wedding cake, stealing Zeus and the poneglyph rubbings, Sanji and Luffy's interaction, that terrifying scene where Luffy fought Big Mom's ENTIRE army alone, the couple dozen new hotties that were introduced this arc, Barto burning Shanks flag, and like a million other things.

All are totally undone by Jimbe saving his former crew, the Sunny *not* being destroyed when Franky isn't even there, and a minor character in his 20's not dying from being aged 40 years.

We got a couple of fickle fucking faggots ITT.

>>815024

Great build up, potentially shit pay off. All those cool things, especially the ones that will have lasting and recurring ramifications for the story, are indeed good.. The problem, however, is that we had 75+ chapters of build up with a clear outcome being worked towards: Retrieve Sanji (Enies Lobby style), fight a ton of powerful dudes, beat Big Mom with the power of cooking, leave with a crew member. We got half of those and the ones we go were inevitabilities. One Piece has lots of fights and Sanji was never going to leave permanently. This means the other shit we were promised is all we have left... and we didn't get it. Jinbe's inclusion was forced and awkward, even though he did save the day, and Big Mom was built up too much, only for her to end the arc seemingly more crazy, unphased, and still out to kill the Strawhats in spite of everything that happened.

The arc isn't quite over yet, but unless we get some fucking closure, this arc will have a big ol' fucking blotch on it that ruins and otherwise amazing ride. The finale for these things are super important, and it's why so many of One Piece's most memorable moments come from the endings of the arcs. Leaving Alabasta, Luffy and Enel's fight, The Strawhats getting separated at Shaobody, Ace fucking dying, Luffy using Boundman to beat the everloving shit out of a villain who had been built up for decades. So what do we have here? The Strawhats ran away, and some tertiary characters might die fighting for Jinbe.

>>815147

> The Strawhats ran away, and some tertiary characters might die fighting for Jinbe.

Jinbe said it himself earlier in the arc: "Yonko will be Yonko." They did a massive amount of damage to Big Mom's kingdom. She herself may be fine but her entire army is wrecked, she's not the only one with access to her poneglyph anymore, she was humiliated world-wide, her citizens have lost faith in her protection, Bobbin is seriously dead, several of her allied characters and crews defected, her reputation is wrecked, her surveillance network was destroyed, several of her islands are destroyed, Smoothie is the only one of her commanders not rendered unconscious by a Supernova (yet) and a piece of her own soul was stolen literally right out from under her.

Sanji's food was never going to knock her out, because that's not what his food does. We've seen what food does to Luffy, it stands to reason it would do the same thing to Big Mom. And this case it was a giant cake made by Sanji, of course it healed her. We learned a lot about her weaknesses though, and by the time they meet again Luffy is going to be able to beat her.

What I'm more interested in is the fact that all the other supernovas aside from Urogue and Bonney are going to be in this next arc with Kaido. I wonder if Shanks will get an arc.

>>815024

>All these Big Mom family characters weren't neat.

What was the point of getting to know so many of them when in fact only a handful of them ever did anything of note? They feel like Bleach characters in terms of how deceitfully most of them were presented, as though they were gonna be important to the plot. Smoothie was a pretty huge disappointment for the most part.

So what's going to happen to every single Strawhat's friend and relative? They are now leaving behind a completely pissed off Linlin, who is known for being a complete psycho and all about murdering family of whoever even annoys her.

What the fuck could the sorry saps on Paradise do if a Yonkou decided to show up to fuck them up?

>>815168

>Bobbin is seriously dead

[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]

This arc has been a hell of a ride. If it's really ending with the crew barely surviving and next to none of the major enemies defeated then this'll be a first for the series, won't it? Every other arc ended with a major triumph if not total victory. Now here we are with everyone getting their shit pushed in and a barely scraped out victory. We've really gotta look at all the subtle victories of the arc to really appreciate all the things accomplished, because I don't think we're getting a big feast and dicksucking contest at the end of this brutal battle the Strawhats have gone through.

Worst part about all this is Zoro coming back. Nothing but fightfags all around once he returns to the stage. And Oda saying Wano will be "bigger than Marineford" in terms of "epic" battles, makes me worried its gonna be another bunch of poorly depicted war battles with panels being nothing but cluttered messes of characters (which the anime will once again suck at portraying decently).

>>815422

Didn't Marineford end with utter defeat, as well as Sabaody? Hardly seems like a first. However, this will definitely be far worse for them if (as some anons have said) it turns out that all their friends and family in East Blue are in danger. Would make for some interesting filler. But chances are Big Mom will go after Fishman Island first, hence Luffy needing to go back there and doing something that will result in Shirley's prediction coming true. Also about Nami getting Zeus, if he does stay with the crew, will that make him a member? I'd like to see what those wikitards do with that.

>>815554

I didn't consider Marineford or Sabaody, thanks for pointing them out. I suppose the difference would be that Marineford was Luffy's personal failure and even then, he was strong enough to accomplish everything he set out to do, but Ace went and got himself killed because he wouldn't get his stupid ass into gear and just leave. There's a lot of strong people present, but most of the major incidents were outside of Luffy's control or focus e.g. Everything that happened to Whitebeard and his fleet.

Sabaody had them get bodied by Kuma and a few high ranking marines, it seems different to me because here they're facing a force unlike anything they've seen before. It's not just a couple strong guys or one powerful leader. Basically every person they've encountered has been a wall and forced them to fight with everything they've got or flee at the realisation that there's no way to push back. Sabaody was a quick defeat at the hands of a guy with one of the most broken fruits in the series. Whole Cake has been a harsh grinding of the entire crew where every victory pales in comparison to their overarching defeat. I wonder if Luffy will ever want his crew broken up again given how chaotic this shit was, it seems like even the full crew would've been hammered and needs more training to stand a chance. Not to say I'm not enjoying this desperate struggle, Whole Cake is still standing as one of my favourite arcs. It's setting up the total chaos that the next few arcs will surely be.

I recall a suggestion that the Strawhats will find a way to escape the territory with Big Mom in pursuit all the way to Wano. I reckon it'd be cool to do this, but with the entire Big Mom fleet on their ass. So they'll get to Wano with a day's grace and have to just keep fighting until they reach Zoro and Co by which point it'll be Wano, Kaido, Big Mom and whatever members of the Strawhat Fleet decide to show up.

Actually, what if the giant crew show up and aid the escape?

What was that about the arc being a flop at the end again?

>>816300

Praying for Jinbe and all to escape.

Man, two shit chapters in a row.

>>816359

At least Brulee was a cute.