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One Piece |OT5| You can get through anything as long as you just SMILE
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Btw re:Skypiea
Fantastic intro, wonderful sense of adventure, TERRIBLE villains (well except Enel). As soon as they showed up just now I was like "oh yeah thats why I didnt like Skypiea" >_>
We'll see, ive been enjoying this rewatch and liking the arcs more than I remember (not watching for years helps I guess) so I might end up liking this more also but...dunno man.
Fantastic intro, wonderful sense of adventure, TERRIBLE villains (well except Enel). As soon as they showed up just now I was like "oh yeah thats why I didnt like Skypiea" >_>
We'll see, ive been enjoying this rewatch and liking the arcs more than I remember (not watching for years helps I guess) so I might end up liking this more also but...dunno man.
Skypeia is on the same tier as Thriller Bark for me. I need good antagonists and outside of the Big Bad, those arcs just didn't deliver. Same with Fishman Island. I can appreciate the thematic aspects of the arcs, and there's definitely fantastic moments from them, but they'll never stack up to Water 7/Enies Lobby, Alabasta or Whole Cake Island.
And that's how I justify liking the popular arcs more.
And that's how I justify liking the popular arcs more.
Thriller Bark is an arc that could and honestly should be top 5 (the fucking RPG cross attacks vs. Oars+Moria bits alone should do it but this is also an arc with Usopp v. Perona, Brook's flashback and THAT ENDING) but Hogback and Absalom make it so hard to go through early on. Skypiea absolutely should be higher regarded however. One of the best backstories in the series to date + world building (Skypiea is the longest con in the series, facts) + the genuine feelings of adventure involved + having a genuinely busted antagonist that early on but dealing with him in the ways that each Straw Hat and intertwined person did made for such a great time.
The moment they expanded on the system with Rayleigh before time skip was the moment I was looking extra wide eyed at things like Zoro vs. Mr. 1, the Six Kings Gun/Rokougan move Lucci used to almost end the match with Luffy, and Crocodile getting extra shook before the Water Luffy revelation (and even the climax with Storm casually parting through La Spada). Even little things like Blackbeard talking with Luffy and explicitly referencing Luffy's haki (back when translations used to call it his ambition/spirit no less lol) on Jaya should really have been bigger moments for folks. Observation was always super obvious and straightforward with pre-timeskip applications in Mantra and the Boa sisters.
Seeing Oda outright come and mostly say that the Zoro v. Mr. 1 stuff was not a bad thing to pay attention to all this time later in Wano definitely makes me super excited to see if more of the stuff mentioned above was also related.
The one bit of head canon I have that has yet to be shown as true or not was that maybe everyone at Marineford had been using Armament Haki/Hardening but Oda was pulling the HxH nen thing where inexperienced users couldn't see it/it looked invisible (and we as the audience going along with Luffy & the crew's p
The moment they expanded on the system with Rayleigh before time skip was the moment I was looking extra wide eyed at things like Zoro vs. Mr. 1, the Six Kings Gun/Rokougan move Lucci used to almost end the match with Luffy, and Crocodile getting extra shook before the Water Luffy revelation (and even the climax with Storm casually parting through La Spada). Even little things like Blackbeard talking with Luffy and explicitly referencing Luffy's haki (back when translations used to call it his ambition/spirit no less lol) on Jaya should really have been bigger moments for folks. Observation was always super obvious and straightforward with pre-timeskip applications in Mantra and the Boa sisters.
Seeing Oda outright come and mostly say that the Zoro v. Mr. 1 stuff was not a bad thing to pay attention to all this time later in Wano definitely makes me super excited to see if more of the stuff mentioned above was also related.
The one bit of head canon I have that has yet to be shown as true or not was that maybe everyone at Marineford had been using Armament Haki/Hardening but Oda was pulling the HxH nen thing where inexperienced users couldn't see it/it looked invisible (and we as the audience going along with Luffy & the crew's p
If only someone would make a Skypiea thread like they sad they would, to bad no one is going to make one.
I should've been done that tbh, now's as good a time as any I suppose
Yea it has me giddy knowing that Oda is actually taking the time to flesh out all the earlier uses of Haki, the biggest one so far being the exploding cuffs. No one would really blame for just basically leaving it alone, but he's going above and beyond here.
I think when all is said and done, his only real misstep will be not having thought of Hardening earlier.
Rokugan isn't haki. It's equivalent to a one inch punch, just moving so fast it's naked to the eye.
If Oda read this he'd take that as a challenge unfortunately
At least Weekly Manga Recap had a good reaction to Kiku's reveal.
*looks at Smoothie and Hiyori* He could be learning.
*looks at Smoothie and Hiyori* He could be learning.
She can smash those plates on my head if you know what I mean.
i dont even know what I mean.
Oda is 100% a leg man.
Legs take up like 60% of most of his female characters' bodies. lol
Psh come on man yea she sucks the life out of a room at times but I don't think it's that bad.
Holy shit lmfao
That's even better. Forcing them to grind max SP just to get the minimap?Lmfao
LEGENDS
Yeah I usually do for my PS4 titles honestly, unless I'm beyond hyped for them.
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