One Piece

Kind of a shame, I enjoyed the knuckles lol, rare weapon.

Yeah the knuckles surprised me. Not a weapon I expected to see. The fire-wheel weapon is pretty dope too though.

Eh, the knuckles were nice, but they didn't make me chuckle.

Get out

It takes a lot of brass to make a knuckle joke.

Dang, you beat me to the punch.

I want to highlight this exchange that happened and was lost in the Sanji argument, because I also noticed it when reading the chapter. When Black Maria asks Robin how she got inside (presumably talking about how she got past the web traps), Robin responds with "I can bloom anywhere." That either means that the Robin currently fighting Black Maria is a clone Robin, and the real Robin is somewhat close by to be in range of sprouting arms to fight her or, more notably, Robin can teleport.

If she has the ability to sprout a clone-Robin and then swap her real body with the clone-Robin, that essentially means that she can teleport, in the same way that Moria can swap places with his shadow.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Feb 28th 2021 at 8:33:03 AM

That's amazing, if right.

Of course, even if it's a clone, it doesn't mean Robin isn't in danger — the weakness of the bloom-bloom fruit is damage is transmitted to all of Robin's body parts, so she'll still be hurt if the clone gets hurt.

We've also seen that she has good enough reaction time to dissipate a clone the instant before an attack hits them.

The logical conclusion of Robin's power is to make an army of herself.

I don't know if I agree with that. An army of herself also greatly ups the risk of getting hurt, which has the chance to incapacitate the whole army at once if she's not careful. Next chapter's fight should still be a good one, at least.

Totally different note — talking about Superheroes earlier reminded me how badly I want a One Piece/X-Men crossover — or rather, how much I want Nami to meet Storm, a woman with even greater weather control powers with a history as a master thief who constantly gets everyone to fall for her (under Clarmont's pen, at least) and was worshipped as a goddess. She'd totally work as an Always Someone Better for Nami.

Edited by drac0blade on Feb 28th 2021 at 8:08:49 AM

I think the logical conclusion of "full-body clones + giant limbs" is GIANT WOMAN.

Hana Hana Gattling. Hana Hana Kong Gun.

Hana Hana DEATH BY SNU SNU

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 28th 2021 at 10:12:49 AM

Now that I can get behind. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out Robin's the one who learns Awakening — her Devil Fruit seems best suited for it, and then we'd have buildings turn into giant women.

What I want to see is Robin's fight with Black Maria end with her combining her clone powers with her giant limb powers to create an Oars-height Giant Robin who proceeds to stomp on Black Maria like a proportionally normal-sized spider and crush her. Then she goes on to defeat one or two of the remaining Numbers with her Giant Robin form in an awesome Kaiju battle.

Post-battle, there will be a group shot with General Franky and Monster Chopper looking tiny next to Giant Robin.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Feb 28th 2021 at 9:13:49 AM

I almost have to wonder if Moria's clone-swap gave her that idea in the first place.

Another banger of an AMV from Gia Secondo, this one about Doflamingo:

Oooh I was waiting for it since I saw the announcement yesterday. So Gia Secando knows the Avenged Sevenfold as well? Now I expect him, in the future, doing an AMV about Im with the song "Hail to the king"

Wow those lyrics were scarily spot on. I like how the perspective shifted from Law to Doffy halfway through.

So I just reread Oden's journey with Roger and and I wonder what kind of theories are out there regarding Rogers' talk with Shanks after the former returned (at the beginning of Chapter 968) from Laugh Tale. It is stated that Shanks asked Roger several questions and then began to cry, but what could their conversation have been about? Rogers' impending death doesn't seem to have been a secret, since Crocus talked openly about it in front of Oden.

Il Re made a video where he makes a nice hipothesy about that scene:

• Back in volume 5, in front of his dying mother, Usopp lies that beyond the sea there's a medicine that can cure any illness (a lie that still has to become true) and, later Kureha mentions something similar, saying that only a medicine that can cure anything can solve Hiruluk's uncurable disease (kinda supporting Usopp's lie). So it's possible Shanks asked Roger if he found such miraculous but Roger replied they didn't and that he will soon die (although Roger survives an additional year than what Crocus predicted)

• Additional Idea: In volume 16: Hiruluk says that he was cured in the west, where he found those miracolous cherry trees. West to Drum there's the New World, and Roger and Newgate had a final exchange in a land full of cherry trees, which might be the same place where Hiruluk healed, so Roger might stretched his lifespan. Il Re says this one is a huge stretch but he find it very poetic therefore he likes it (naturally, he's the first one to be okay if the hipotesis is not true).

When I look up One Piece quotes, I see a bunch of familiar ones, but then I see a quote from Nami saying "Life is like a pencil that will surely run out, but will leave the beautiful writing of life." Good quote, but when the fuck did Nami say this? I don't remember her saying something like this at all, I can't find footage of the scene where she says this, and everyone citing it as a great Nami quote doesn't mention where it's from.

Brand new official One Piece world map! The Red Line still has the huge peninsula sticking out, which we've seen a couple of other times in looks at the World Map in the manga.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Mar 6th 2021 at 3:46:28 AM

Ya gotta give credit to One Piece, it has great world-building.

Like a lotta shonen can be too focused on constant fight after fight over adventuring or plot so the overall world can end up feeling pretty small.

One Piece though managed to create a pretty out there and detailed setting though granted it did have over 20 years to accomplish that.

The fact that the Red Line is canonically jagged and has peninsulas makes me think it's not man-made, as is the common theory, but it's actually naturally-forming rock that just happens to be 10,000 meters tall, red, and indestructible. It also means that the anime depicts it wrong all the time, because it's constantly drawn in the anime as just a plain, giant red wall.