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Nah but you're right. That sounds too much like good character development, considering in real life no one is so perfectly one dimensional that even explaining (though not justifying) their evil actions would be something acceptable. Get that shit out of here.

 

Oda's skill at writing and drawing complete chaos is showing.

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Big Mom can't drain a soul of someone that's not afraid of her? That's a ... pretty weird weakness.

 

It really is. It actually makes her weak considering most One piece characters are fearless.

Also, why sin't Kaidou constantly confronting Big Mom if he wants to die. Her power could easily kill him, no?

 

I dunno. Big Mom's pretty scary. Seems pretty reliable.

Also, god damn but Jinbe's a fucking boss.

 

God, I love One Piece. It's just so good.

People will complain about mediocre chapters or the occasional slow arc and whine, but at the end of the day Oda just writes good story. This whole arc has been pretty amazing.

 

The slow parts are also usually very plot relevant foreshadowing, too.

 

I have seen variations of this comment around the internet, can you tell me how you would make it more powerful but not utterly broken? We have seen her do it to her son at the start of the arc and he was told not to show fear or he'd be dead, so we knew it was there for a while too.

She has Zeus, Prometheus and an industructible body. And we know she has conquerers Haki and we can assume she has armament and observation haki too. So it isn't like she is not op without a potential hax like that.

Edit: This chapter had me grinning from ear to ear start to finish.

 

So, I'm wondering about dogtooth(sp?). The guy we were told could see 5 seconds into the future. But then in the latest chapter we also learned he's a logia type.


?????

 

My Hero Academia, a pretty good Shonen that's based on Superheroes. The author, from what I recall, idolizes Oda like Oda idolizes Toriyama for Dragonball.



Something cute for ya from Oda's SBS -

 

On that side note, My hero Academia is quickly becoming one of my favorites. The manga is amazing and the quality of the anime is pretty high. I'd definitely recommend it.

For one piece, loved the new chapter. Jinbei is a like always, and I have a feeling that Ceaser is going to end up betraying them somehow.

 

I am boggling as to what the fuck this Lamp Lamp/Billow Billow Fruit does, but that Djinn is badass looking as fuck. Also, the thing with Pudding is still being played up a bit.

 

So am I the only one who really, really doesn't fucking care about Big Mom's backstory?

Especially with how suddenly it popped up in the middle of the action. This kinda jarring shoehorn gets roasted in (fan)fiction and storytelling in general.

Plus, y'know, fuck Big Mom. One of the worst characters Oda's made by far, her and her crew by extension. So boring.

 

Have to agree, after Whitebeard back then and Kaido's intro Big Mom just feels cartoonish in the worst possible way.

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I get the feeling Oda uses Big Mom as a quick and easy way to have Luffy make the biggest possible impact in the New World without disrupting his plans for later. News around the world-style, new bounties and reactions from other major characters.

Kaido (and I believe Kidd) has some kind of beef with Shanks and is majorly involved with the stuff, that started in Dressrosa and currently concerns Wano and the rest of the Strawhats.

Black Beard shapes up to be one of the end bosses for quite a long time now.

Shanks is an ally.

The remnants of the Whitebeard pirates and associates are also allies and are currently hunted by that strange guy.

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Then there are still the WG, the Revolutionaries and whatever else I forgot.

Kinda explains why not the whole crew is there and why those Underworld figures are there to spread the news.

That said, best thing so far is the addition of Jinbe to the crew.

 

Have to agree One Piece after the time skip and especially this arc is really not doing it for me.

Big Mom is just a massive Baby who can only think of food, throws annyoing temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way and has awful character design, her and her massive crew of uninteresting characters are just annoying I liked the fairy tail theme but by now I can't stand them.

Really tired of Oda throwing ten million characters a second at us with a annoying quirk who I don't give a shit about.

Sanji's family sucks the only mildly interesting of the bunch is his sister but I could do without the ridiculous abuse level.

Also annyoed by Oda's flashbacks in the middle of a conflict it just destroys the flow of the story.

Hope this arc is not taking that long anymore because the setup for future arc looks very promising with things vaguely wraping up for the finale arcs.

 

Eh, I'm loving the current arc. Really enjoyed the continuation of the flashback in today's chapter.

 

I got to disagree, I've been loving everything since the Zou arc. The pace has been excellent. This entire arc I've enjoyed the contrast between the fake sweetness facade and how dark and terrifying everything about Big Mom actually is.

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I mean this most recent chapter had implied cannibalism and child slavery.

Dressrosa was good it just dragged on for too long for being a weekly manga. Some characters were introduced and then not seen for 2 years while still being part of the same arc.

And I agree with you about there being too many characters, but every arc for the last 20 or so years has had a million characters. Not surprised its not changing now.

 

Oda drew some fanfiction.

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I wasn't ready.