One Piece

I hope Nika-like Punch is as awesome as it was in the manga.

I still want to see Bonney use Nika-like Punch again now that she knows Nika is real, too. Honestly, the dream is a Luffy-Bonney combo attack, but I don't know if that's asking for too much.

Speaking of punches, I've always hoped that when they get to the moment where Kuma punches Saturn, they'll animate it in the style of Luffy punching Charloss.

Stupid Microsoft Store and your stupidly specific compatibilities. I would love to give you money to be able to watch these dub episodes now, but no, you obviously don't want it enough.

I thought O.O.C. Is Serious Business couldnt have examples that astounded me at this point in the game but these did.

• At one point in the Alabasta arc, Vivi says three words to Crocodile: "I'll Kill You!". Mind you, this is coming from a young princess who is such a Nice Girl that she can't stand the idea of a single person dying in a war.
• When Luffy points out the very harsh, but necessary truth that it's naïve to hope that all people involved in a war will survive, Nami gets angry at Luffy for being so blunt and not considering Vivi's feelings. It's extremely telling that Sanji is the one to tell Nami to shut up and not cut off Luffy. Usually, he would never show agreement with his male crewmates if he can please his female crewmates instead, but in this situation, he apparently agreed with Luffy so much that he was willing to let it slide or thought that Vivi needed to hear it.
• When Robin encounters Tashigi's squad of Marines in Alabasta, one of the Marines mentions how Robin destroyed six ships as a young girl, which is why she got a 79 million berry bounty at the age of eight. Robin, who'd been rather stoic up to this point, then becomes furious, since it later turns out that the entire story behind her bounty was nothing but a lie told to justify hunting down the only survivor of Ohara. In reality, the destroyed ships were a combination of Saul destroying some ships trying to save Robin, and Akainu sinking a ship full of civilians.

WHOOPS DOUBLE POST

Edited by AegisP on Apr 11th 2024 at 3:49:03 AM

Catching up on One Piece episodes. I forgot how much I was laughing my butt off at Kaku, and its still just as funny the second time.

One thing I really liked about Enies Lobby is those scenes of CP 9 just hanging out - first in Spandam's office before the Water 7 group arrived, and then the whole team while Kaku and Kalifa were eating their Devil Fruits. With the exception of Lucci, their interactions and comedy really do have Straw Hat vibes. We see a touch of that here - Kaku is just as excited as the Straw Hats were by all the future stuff. And the hologram monster!

Oh man, 1100 was so good. I can't get enough of the bit where Lucci goes "This is gonna be fun" , only to get a shocked face as the music cuts out and we see Luffy flying at him. I love it.

I like the implication from Luffy's pose that he was maybe gonna go into Second Gear before Lucci asked him about his poster. "Oh, you want to get cooked like that, Pigeon Guy?" (Yes, I know Luffy's also done that pose before returning to Fifth Gear in the anime. But I think in this case its more of the Enies Lobby callback. Least, it feels that way to me).

I was worried that the anime might do like the anime sometimes does and make Lucci more of a match, but no, not really. The few hits he does get in clearly have little to no effect, and they are FEW.

I do have a nitpick that there's an added line where Jimbei says "So that's.. The Warrior of Liberation." I mean, unless the anime wants to suggest that in this moment, Jimbei has realized that Luffy is the Nika that Who's-Who told him about, that shouldn't be a term he's applying to Luffy yet.

But that's minor. The animation in this episode was gorgeous, parts of this fight were another example of what I'd say is movie quality animation. So anime team, take your break weeks filled by recaps if it keeps giving us beautiful episodes like this.

Edited by diddyknux on Apr 12th 2024 at 5:17:51 AM

Pffffffft. Kaido going "mommy" in the English dub is incredible.

You aren't the one who spoiled that for me, but it was spoiled for me, and I wish it hadn't been. I'd have lost it.

So, when does the break end?

Next week new chapter will be up.

And before it does, here's the current version of my ridiculous tier list:

If you want to take on the ridiculous task of reading this stupid thing, Control+F (Find in page) is your friend.

Seeing Awakened Lucci in the anime, I wonder if people will chill out on the whole "Zoro shouldn't have this much trouble with Lucci" thing? Of course, I know a lot of manga readers won't even give the anime the time of day. But, I do think this episode did a good job of portraying "Its not that Lucci isn't strong. Obviously he is. He just has the misfortune of fighting a Luffy whose at his peak and has just come off fighting the guy LITERALLY called "King of the Beasts", who threw practically everything a Zoan type CAN throw at him."

All this to say, I absolutely buy the possibility that Lucci is at least as strong as King. If not stronger, not having the benefit of the Puzzle Boss aspect King does. And that fighting Zoro is within his skill/strength level.

Edited by diddyknux on Apr 13th 2024 at 3:38:53 AM

The last chapter re-contextualized a lot of the Zoro vs Lucci fight. Basically, the entire time while fighting Zoro, Lucci was wiretapping and listening in on the conversations everyone else was having, and he was deliberately dragging out the fight to keep Zoro there so the Straw Hats couldn't escape Kizaru and the Elders without abandoning him.

Lucci's goal in the fight was never to kill Zoro, while Zoro's goal, as we saw with him using King of Hell right from the start, was to beat Lucci ASAP. Lucci's stall strategy actually worked even better than expected because it tired Zoro out, since King of Hell uses so much Haki that maintaining it for too long is life-threatening. Lucci may be an assassin, but here, he was playing the role of spy.

Every instance of "Medicine for curing stupidity/losers":

Oh hey, One Piece Odyssey is coming to Nintendo Switch. Honestly wasn't sure why it didn't in the first place, it didn't look that intensive from what I saw of it.

And with exclusive... Well, they call it "City of Water" costume set, but Sanji and Usopp are the only one that's actually from Water 7. The rest are Enies Lobby outfits. (Except for Robin, who already had hers available in an outfit pack from the other console's release. That outfit pack is also included)

https://twitter.com/onepiece_games/status/1779886155338530985

Edited by diddyknux on Apr 15th 2024 at 1:22:54 PM

It's good to know that Chopper has a human-like lifespan.

So Bad End Chopper is like, a cult leader?

Part of one, at least.

Bad End Chopper's appearance also leans more towards his animal side. Also note the "Poison" shirt. Bad End Chopper has gone from healing people with medicine to hurting people with poison.

Bad End Chopper reminds me of Caesar Clown. Funnily enough, Chopper, Franky, and Sanji are the only "Bad End" Straw Hats who are outright supervillains.

Catching up on the english dub episodes on Crunchyroll streaming before the big Gear 5 debut batch drops. I'm so glad Justin Briner finally got to have a major named roll, he's had bit parts several times in the past, but he's so fun as adult Momonosuke. And I'm endlessly amused by the fact that Luffy's actress, who elsewhere plays a Momo, is here bullying a Momo.

Goddamn, some people don't appreciate how good Colleen Clinkenbeard is at screaming. Luffy and Yamato's combo attack against Kaido is STILL one of the hypest moments of the entire fight for me. Actual combo attacks with characters are kind of rare (even if it was kind of an accident, they just happened to launch their attacks at the same time). I still want a Luffy and Robin Third Gear + Mille Fleur combo attack. Or even better now, Fifth Gear + Demonio.

Fun fact: because Bonney and Kid's Devil Fruits were named recently, there's only one unnamed Devil Fruit in the series: Lafitte's. Lafitte is also the only Titanic Captain whose Devil Fruit is unnamed, we know the Devil Fruits of every significant member of Blackbeard's crew except for him. His was also the only Devil Fruit was saw used pre-timeskip (except for Wolf, but his size wasn't even known to be caused by a Devil Fruit until recently).

Wait, nevermind we also don't know Urouge's Devil Fruit (if the thing where he grows big and buff is actually a Devil Fruit).

Also Onigumo and Dalmation, but their Devil Fruits seem obvious.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 16th 2024 at 2:00:14 AM

We also don't know some Devil fruits of some Whitebeard Pirates or members of the fleet, like Blamenco who has a literal Hammerspace in his chin, Rakuyo's living mace (if it's the effect of a devil fruit) or Epoida's ability to turn into a caterpillar

Correction, I just checked and Blamenco's devil fruit was revealed

Edited by fishysaur on Apr 16th 2024 at 8:05:27 PM

Seeing you here makes me smile. Molto bene.

I was wondering guys, what is your favorite flashback in One Piece?

Mine are the Hiruluk flashback which just about beats any other flashback ever so it wont be ranked, it has its own place.

Kuma's is definitely the best one ever after that, followed by Law's, and while I know it is a hell of his own making, Señor Pink's. Rebecca's touched me because her mom tried to get her food and I was hungry at the moment, I felt guilty for what she went through.

Mine is Hiruluk's along with Oden's, Otohime and Tiger's and Noland and Calgara's

Kuma's is also a close fifth, I guess