One Piece

Who did what now?

Its just too stupid, Im not linking to that. Also if you are looking for the quote, dont use war criminals, he used a much more terrible analogy.

...you really can't tell me who said this, and what it was?

Gen Urobuchi.

Welp! I know I don't want to go on with this conversation...in this thread.

Warn the Madoka thread of my arrival. Warn them all while you can.

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Anyway, where do you think the rest of the Whole Cake Island part of the crew is?

I cant believe we have a trope for Vagueness Is Coming .THAT'S AMAZING.

Look up Yoko Taro on You Tube some time. Specifically, look up the Nier Auotomata T-shirt ad.

You know there's no hope you'd outdo Uromoron, at the "LOOK AT HOW EDGY I AM!"

Just imagine Urobutcher writing One Piece. A spiral of even more pain and misery.

There's no one better than Oda at that...

...lol!

BTW, here's the Yoko Taro vid I mentioned earlier.

Yoko Taro is the guy wearing the mask.

I'm posting this since someone commented earlier that they didn't know enough about Yoko Taro to compare him to Urobutcher. I figured seeing this would help.

NIER AUTOMATA TSHIRT!

No idea, they coud be in the Bakura district, but I think that in that mini-arc (arc-ception) they would probably meet with only Law. I get the feeling we won't be seeing the others for a while, because it seems that Oda is really taking his time to develop Wano (Skypiea-level of taking time), which is understandable, since it's based off Japan so he's giving it special care (not that I mind it, and so far I'm enjoying Zoro and Luffy's crazy adventure)

Edited by fishysaur on Aug 18th 2018 at 2:01:59 AM

We don't think we know enough about how this arc is going to go down to guess where Nami and the others are.

My question would be more why Oda felt like just having Luffy and Zoro for this part, whatever it is.

I get the impression Zoro will be a key player in this arc, so Oda's probably taking the time right now to establish what Zoro's particular, personal investment in this storyline will be. That, and also he's a massively popular character who has been absent for the last twoish years, so there's the "pleasing the fans" standpoint. Everybody else can wait.

So that Japan can have an adaptation of Dumb and Dumber

Edited by fishysaur on Aug 19th 2018 at 1:37:22 AM

Hey, since Luffy is probably going to need to get stronger to defeat Kaido, do you think he might awaken his devil fruit in this arc? Speaking of, in your opinion, how can someone awaken a devil fruit?

Well, it's been a while since Luffy and Zoro have been together, so I guess Oda just got nostalgic

If Luffy doesn't actively awaken his devil fruit in this arc, at the very least I expect this is where we'll find out what it means to awaken.

As for how to awaken a devil fruit, the term gives the impression that he power comes through some sort of mental block being lifted, rather than overcoming a physical limit. My guess is that someone in-the-know will try to get Luffy to awaken via a meditative technique, but that'll fail and Luffy will instead awaken while he's "in the zone" in combat.

I wonder if Rayleigh knows anything about Awakening. Not having a power himself he couldn't teach Luffy about it, but it still seems like the kind of thing that should be mentioned to him.

Edited by LSBK on Aug 19th 2018 at 4:23:40 AM

Well if he does indeed know, the Watsonian explanation would probably be some sort of "you weren't ready" thing, or that it was something that Luffy needed to learn on his own. The Doylist explanation would be that Oda didn't think about it yet.

Awekend devil fruits date back to impel down, as every Jailer Beast has an awekened devil fruit. So Oda had already them in mind, I'm in fact surprised Raylegh didn't explain it to Luffy (although it could end up like the super-developed Observation Haki, where a flashback revealed Raylegh did actually trained him about it), unless, as said, Raylegh really doesn't know how to train him in that since he himself doesn't have one. That or devil fruit awakening isn't something that can be trained for.

Still, yes, I guess in this arc we should at the very least learn how someone awaken his own devil fruit, likely through an ally. Maybe Oda could make an old eastern master-stereotype (a Paimei Expy or something) who will train Luffy and explain him how awakening works, however, there's the fact that Wano's inhabitants don't even know what devil fruits are (for them is magic), unless it's someone who has traveled outside the country (maybe in Gol D Roger's ship, so, along with the awakening explanation, we get more Roger's story)

P.s. I've came up with this as I was writing

P.p.s. Or maybe you mean he didn't come up with how the awakening happens, in that case, yeah, it could be

Edited by fishysaur on Aug 19th 2018 at 2:43:17 AM

Going into this arc, I thought for sure the role of "awakening mentor" would go to Marco, but since Marco won't be joining them, I guess not.

Okay while watching Opening 20 because I found out the anime is at Luffy trapping himself in the mirror world against Kata I actually noticed the lyrics for once & Goddamn is it a romantic song.

"My heart throbs at the thought of you, Limitless power surges"

"As long as you wish we'll brandish our unchanging bond"

"The joy of letting our true feelings fly at each other"

"At the broad, blue end of the world There is a place that I want to go with you"

"Your voice that hasn't reached me yet crushes my helpless heart"

"I'm wanting you so I'll keep believing in the morning when the light comes"

"Close your eyes & listen carefully (anything that involves closing your eyes sounds erotic really)"

"We will be forever"

Seriously that is some of the most romantic shit I've heard recently, & I'm getting fucking starry-eyed here. I feel like majorly shipping Sanji & Luffy now.

Edited by slimcoder on Aug 19th 2018 at 3:04:57 AM

There's no greater love than a chef and his most satisfied customer.