>>22665
Before it happened, I could have entirely seen it playing out like that.

For the record, I still expect Smoker to become the Straw Hats' friend and/or ally at some point. Maybe not a crewmate, but I can see him being "nakama" in the same sense as Vivi or Bon Clay.

>>22667

I'm going to die before people start listening when I tell then Bon Clay was just a friend, aren't I?

>>22669
Nakama means friend/ally/comrade. I didn't mean he was a strawhat. But he was a temporary "party member" who, if they were to meet again, Luffy would go to bat for under normal circumstances.

>>19243
> Luffy's gonna be part of the destruction that destroys Fishman Island. He's gonna trigger Shirahoshi's mad Sea King bringan skillz.

At least I got half of it right! Even if the first half was the complete opposite of what happened!

>Also, Luffy's gonna maybe try to pull a Whitebeard and claim protection, which will introduce us to Big Mam...

Looks like it's just a need for feasts with candy that'll introduce us to Big Mam.

Also, looks like Hodi's hatred wasn't destroyed at all. But it's fitting that he became an old man. After all, that is the old way of thinking, you know?

New speculation: Nami and Chopper are the keys to placating any ill will that Big Mam might have. The Nami thing is more of an informed inference, but Chopper is the cotton-candy lover after all!

>>22673
I'm personally glad Hodi's hatred wasn't destroyed. Fucker deserves no redemption for killing Otohime.

>>22674
In a way, Oda has left me stumped on this one.

Hody is one of (if not the only) character we've seen in One Piece from the ages of 5 to about 85. We were shown a lot of his background and origins, yet none of it inspired sympathy. He wasn't born a monster, he was made one; a product of his surroundings. True, he could have "turned the other cheek" about a lot of things, but he was only doing what everyone -- including his only hero/paternal figures -- taught him. This arc's theme is generations and the impact on children. These little fish kids in the plaza get their eyes and ears covered, but no one covered Hody's.

I'm not trying to inspire any sympathy for the character (I myself have little to none), but I'm disappointed Oda didn't do more with him. He had the possibilities of being one of One Piece's greatest villains, instead he ended up in a jail cell breaking his wrists for comic relief.

>>22675
I think the point is that Hody was never really a character to begin with, he adopted the ideals of others as his own and decided to polarize his entire life around them despite lacking personal experience to validate said beliefs and ideals.

As far was parallels to our society go, it was fairly well written.

>>22672

Nakama means, in most One Piece contexts, "crewmember" or "one of us." Luffy never called Bon Clay his nakama. That's why everything they do for each other is so touching: They're just friends, but they go all out for each other as if they were nakama. As long as we're doing the SRPG analogy thing, Bon Clay is like a non-controllable NPC ally. Except that instead of being cannon fodder or a liability, he bails your ass out in a spectacular way that you wouldn't expect from an NPC. People that play Fire Emblem: the Radiant Dawn chapter 3-13 archer.

Oh shit I'm supposed to be speculating aren't I. I speculate that the FI arc won't be over before the year ends, which will make some people sad.

>>22686

Hell yes, it's the new year and they're still at fishman island. That makes my thread 4 predictions 100% right. Time to bail until thread 5.

I just want to point out that I totally fucking called it that Jinbe was going to have some shit to settle with Big Mam and that Luffy was going to inadvertently start something that would free him up to join.

I couldn't only find the scene in question in french so bear with that.

luffy funny alabasta part1

So... Played up for comedy or evidence that the Logia guard isn't at all passive.

Oh hey, I hadn't noticed the new speculation thread. Here are a few general thoughts/predictions/speculation

-Big Mom is going to send an attack Fishman Island as retaliation for the bomb that was in the treasure.
-The Multiple Log poses is a neat idea, and I wonder if it's going to maybe open up a little bit of backtracking for the Strawhats. Maybe one log pose points to the side or even in the opposite direction.
-We're definitely seeing Shirahoshi and when we do Jimbei will be acting as her bodyguard. He won't become Luffy's nakama because he needs to protect Shirahoshi on whatever journey she's destined to make.
-Big Mom is going to be the Baroque Works of the New World; the first big hurdle for out heroes to face in a new sea. That means we could get a few more arcs in before we really get Luffy facing off with her. Little Garden and Drum Island happened in between the Strawhats taking Vivi with them, so maybe we'll get two or three smaller arcs in between now and then.
-Finally, I think it's entirely possible that once Luffy defeats Big Mom, he'll take her place as a Yokou. It'll give him equal ground with Blackbeard, who he's gunning to get revenge on. It'll also make him equals with Shanks, which will be appropriate for when they have their destined meeting.

>>23424
You have to train to shift between tangible and intangible purely on reflex.

>>23424
>>23438
Or just Luffy accidentally invoking his haki because he was so excited. It wouldn't be the first time he did it without realizing it.

This is more of a hope than a speculation. I hope Oda introduces a character named Nyokki. Gnocchi. Because it would be really cute. And that's about all.

Kid's gonna get decimated by Big Mom before Luffy gets to her.

>>23500
Good. I hope he dies.

>>23501
Not that I wish the same fate befall Kidd, but I never liked his powers from what I've seen. Just doesn't feel like they should be able to land solid blows when they're composed of many small parts, but I'm not too concerned over that in the end because it is a mass of metal really.

As for predictions, Scratchman Apoo fucks up everybody's shit and finds One Piece, it's hard not to see it coming after we're introduced to him and his sick beats. My logic is flawless.

>>23500
She's gonna rip a tenth of him off?

>>23502
It would be the On-Air pirate to do that...I kinda want him to get rollerskates.

>>22665
I completely lost it at "Bouf Bouf, I'm a giraffe!"

People being turned into robots scares me like nothing else. So I sort of want the Vegapunk Arc to take that and throw it into hyperdrive. Like, an entire city that's made of fake people that run on a one month long pattern of 'social activity' at the day, because that's all the time it takes before the whole crew is gathered up and pulped of humanity. Like, during the day's it a regular town, but at night the whole thing turns into a half-factory half-hunt down the organics program.

Really, just go fucking nightmare fuel with the whole idea, I want to be shitting bricks by the end of the Vegapunk Arc.

>>23673
And yes, they already sort of did that with Thriller Bark, but that was obviously fucked up from the start, and it didn't go far enough.

>>23673
Based on what little we know so far, I'd guess Vegapunk really isn't a threatening individual at all. I imagine some old ditzy man who's most likely lonely and being backed up against a corner by the WG.

Then again, I was convinced Big Mom was gonna turn out to be a jolly yet greedy motherly figure who would ultimately turn ally.. I'm still holding out hope. Oda just threw a lot of smoke and thunder her way to make her seem scary.

>>23678
She just ate someone for holding back food on her.

>>23678
The World Government depend entirely on Vegapunk, but it seems more like he doesn't give a shit about the sides than it does that he's backed up against the wall. The World Government give him funding, he gets to do his incredible experiments.

Although yeah, Big Mam's pretty obviously an enemy. She's fun, but she's a baaaaad mammajamma.

Vegapunk confirmed for Leonard de Quirm?

>>23679
Shut up you don't know who she ate! Or what! See what I mean? That's what Oda WANTS you to think. I'm on to him.

Have we had anything lighthouse-themed?

Something should be lighthouse-themed.

>>23683

Crocus had a lighthouse

http://raftelforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=380

Didn't know where else to post these. Corrections from volume 65. Link is early translations of the SBS in volume 65.

Zoro was about to use his sharingan.

>>23920

Forgot pic.

>>23921

I'm terrible at this.

Usually I post stuff like this in the general thread, often in an excited manner! After I make them a bit more presentable with high quality image manipulation (via mspaint...), of course.

Mini Shirley! The cutest retcon.

Also, someone asked about those fishpeople that talk with their shirts that I talked about a while ago. Neat!

>>23924
Why is there a difference?

>>23929
Presumably Oda forgot that Shirley would be younger too that many years back.

>>23936
She's still a kid. Seems he just underestimated quite how young she was the first time around.

I was watching some pirate show the other day and when they got to the Anne Bonny section I just couldn't help but grin the whole time. We know Oda likes to base a lot of his characters on real life pirates whether it be in name (Whitebeard), or personalities (Blackbeard, Kuma). The more I heard about her life, the more it began to sound like some of the popular theories about Bonney flying around online.

Bonny was the rich daughter of a governor who basically got bored of her life and decided to run away to become a pirate in secrecy. For a lot of years she sailed around the Caribbean, becoming quite famous and successful until eventually her crew was captured. They were all jailed and killed except for her, who's ultimate whereabouts have never been known; there are no records of what happened to her after being captured by 18th century Akainu. The most popular and likely explanation to date is that her wealthy and influential father pulled some strings to smuggle her back to him against her will.

Some of you may have already known all this, but this is officially the theory I'm clinging to. That or she's one of Big Mom's daughters. I'm not ruling anything out. We just have to wait and see how it would affect the Strawhats.. if at all.

>>23972
I thought Bonnie was one of the pirates who infamously "pled her belly" (a euphemism for revealing she was pregnant to escape the noose). Or was that the woman who posed as a man until she got caught?

>>23973
Close. You're getting her muddled up with Mary Read, the other famous female pirate she hung out with.

Anne Bonney hooked up with Calico Jack, joined him to pillage the high seas, got caught after a good run, successfully plead her pregnancy and got off scott free, as far as we know.
Mary Read dressed up as man, got abducted by pirates, decided it was a pretty good gig, joined Calico Jack, pillaged the high seas, got caught, successfully plead her pregnancy but died of a fever after her childbirth.

Also, there was an amusing mix-up where Anne was totally into Mary-dressed-as-a-dude before she revealed herself as a woman.

http://theonepieceguide.com/guide/

Anyone following this? It hasn't been updated in sometime, likely due to the fuckton of mysteries and bullshit Oda happily heaps on our plates weekly.

I thought this tidbit was interesting, but it may just be a coincidence. (pic related)

Only ten more chapters until we hit 666
And the current arc takes place on a hellish fire island

Think Oda will play with this?

>>24056
Well, you know the 'Eclipse' from Berserk...?

>>24058
Oda-esque monster hordes that eat marines?

Are we on Okama Island again?

>>24058
Turns out Devil Fruits are essentially like the Brand of Sacrifice and the power is the universe's way of giving you a fighting chance to get away from the sea, but should you sink all the way to the bottom, even deeper than Fishman island, the Devil's will claim you.

Franky already has an artifical steel arm that fires cannon shots, though he isn't a swordsman...

>>24061
Just waiting for Black Beard to unveil his dream kastle.

>>24061
Considering Zoro's disregard for limbs I'd say it's only a matter of time before he loses and arm.

The eye is gone already.

>>24064
Imagine the horror that is Zoro in the Berserker suit.

>>24067
wielding three dragonslayers

>>24064
>people furiously arguing with each other because they thought Zoro was missing an arm in the first timeskip colorspread, and it even made it on to his page on the OP wiki for a little bit

>>24068

And laying waste to EVERYTHING.

Ussop actually has 'fear of new island disease'. Like all of his lies,it comes true. A doctor will diagnose Ussop with it and tell him that the fear usually kills most of the diseased if they leave the safety of their home. The doc thus tells Ussop that to have done this for so long despite the affliction and to continue doing so, he must be a brave warrior of the sea.

>>24155

And then Usopp dies.

>>24157

:(

Vegapunk is Chopper FROM THE FUTURE
We don't see his face now because he's in monster form all the time, and that's why his hands look so wierd.
His crew died and so he built a time machine to go 500 years into the future, steal all these blueprints, and then head back, just to help Luffy... or kill him for something... whatever.
So then Chopper's all 'you can't be me you are human.' and Vegapunk-Chopper's all 'I had plastic surgery!' And so Chopper punches Vegapunk causing a time paradox and then Chopper is replaced by Jinbei.

>>24301
>replaced by Jinbe
I was humoring you and going along until that part.

>>24301
I'm in hysterics right now, hahaha!

The Harpy girl will join the crew.

Don't know her name or personal beef, but if the pattern holds up she's going to be the tenth crewmate. Ninth is coming later.

>>24413
The Harpy girl is post-op Lafitte.

Ivankov did it.

No need to thank me.

What pattern?
She hasn't shown anything suggesting that she follows a pattern.
As much as I'd like to add another chick(ba dum pish) to the Straw Hat's ensemble, there's really no need for it and certainly no pattern to it.

Besides, as is now she kind of just seems like a random goon under some higher power, all of the other Strawhats have had fairly unique reveals displayed in front of Luffy, and I honestly don't think we'll see that at all here.

Also, just a minor and mostly coincidental thing I've noticed, all of the Strawhats have a singular letter to the beginning of each of their names. Like, there's no two people in the crew who have names that both start with "S" for example, they're all fairly unique from each other.

The idea that names being a pattern is sort of asinine, but it's just a neat little co-ink-y-dink that might be fun for some who like to make predictions and all.

>>24413
She's boarding now right next to Perona, Caribou, Shirahoshi and Jinbe.

>>24415
The pattern I made in my head about the crew.

Short version: Four crewmates from every sea, East Blue, Grand Line, New World. There are patterns as to what type of individuals show up when and how that should reasonably carry over into this ocean too. Luffy said ten or so, that could also mean more than ten.

Order: Brawler fighter, with more broad aspirations that can't really pinned down as to when they're MET, (Zoro, Chopper) , girl that is part of the bad guys in one part, gets more useful after secondary arc about leaving and coming back (Nami, Robin), technological dude with an affinity for ships and upgrades whose specific goals involve finishing the journey,(Usopp, Franky) and pervert guy who plays a role on the ship Luffy wanted from the beginning. (Sanji, Brook)

There's also the element of the temp crewmate who joins before the first crewmate is established, and leaves before the second one joins. (Coby, Vivi). Caribou's the most likely to fill that role, but it could also be that one samurai they're carting pieces around with. If Caribou's got that back on the ship somehow, (and yes, we never saw it, fine, he isn't totally out of the picture until we've got a confirmation of still on Fishman Island.) then that's who the New World's temp crewmate is. I'm not saying I do or don't want Caribou to be that role, I'm just saying that he could be the one that fills it.

NOTE THAT I AM NOT PUSHING THIS AS SOMETHING THAT I WANT OR WHATEVER, I'M JUST SAYING THAT THIS MIGHT BE HOW IT'S GOING TO PLAY OUT. PATTERNS N' SHIT.

>>24427
And yes now the pattern only fits with the Harpy girl insofar that she's watching for some ulterior group.

Whatever. I've been wrong about shit before.

>>24428

Trying Too Hard: the Theory
Love how you shoehorned in Zoro=Chopper, though.

>>24427
>Caribou's the most likely to be the next Vivi.
Well, this just went from dumb to full blown crazy.

Have we seen any 3-dimensional world globes in the series?

Because if not, I'm pretty sure Nami's World Map is going to end up resembling this model.

>>24815

We have. One Piece world is not Earth. It only has one continent, which bisects the planet, and a bunch of weird satellites.

>>24816
I hope deep in my heart we one day will see One Piece in space.

Who says Ener has to come down? What if the Strawhats went up?

>>24817
How? They ain't exactly that advanced. Not mention how to breathe.

>>24818

They can use balloons, which are a 100% canon and legit mode of space transportation. They breathe by breathing, since space has air.

>>24819
Ballons, air in space...really

>>24820
Yes

>>24820
>>24821
really.

>>24417
you forgot bonney

Does Enel even need air? For that matter, the space pirates?

>>24817
Why would they need to? All their ambitions is on the One Piece world.

>>24818
It's simple.

>>24826
Despite Vegapunk, they still don't even have cars...do they?

>>24828
They have Flintstones automation.

Animals that go roughly as fast as cars plus island world structure defeat the purpose.

>>24828
Kinda tough to say, since we haven't really seen many places where cars would be a thing someone would consider worth the investment. The biggest islands they've been on were Alabasta and Skypeia, and neither of those were environments well suited to car travel. Most of the other islands have basically been city-states, and not super large ones either, so travel by car wouldn't really be worth the effort of getting the cars or car parts shipped there.

But they've got trains and cyborgs and lasers. I'd say they could have cars if they wanted to, and might even have them on the Continent itself.

It would be pretty weird if there were no cars despite the fact that the strawhats own both a tank and a motorcycle.

>>24825
Because duh, it's space?

What, are astronauts suddenly not cool now?

I would think the Celestial Dragons wouldn't find it inconvenient or expensive, since you know, they ride on slaves.

>>24825
>yfw All Blue is on the moon.

>>24837
Now you'll have to explain how the damn fish get from one to the other.

>>24839

Balloons.

>>24840
*Facepalm* I keep forgetting the title of this thread.

The series will end with Chopper finally creating a Panacea powerful enough to return the years Luffy lost due to his use of strenuous techniques (as well as the toll of his various injuries), Luffy taking a few of his crew mates to find 'The Fountain of Youth' to cure said ailment (much like at the end of a certain pirate trilogy sans the fourth installment), or finally succumb to it all, his dreams accomplished, his friends by his side, and with a smile on his face.

>>24843
I like the first, good use for its discovery.

Man, why does everyone kill Luffy off in their predictions? You can have an adventure series with a happy ending! I'd rather have the ending of Skies of Arcadia than all this 2deep4u stuff. Where there is treasure, there will be pirates, and as long as there are dreamers there will be new stories and adventures. You know, stuff like that.

>>24846
Its the whole "following in Gol D. Roger's footsteps" thing.

>>24847

Wouldn't it be pretty dumb for a guy whose sole (serious) motivation is his search for freedom to end his story by following another person? And didn't Rayleigh tell them that he hopes that the Strawhats would actually do something instead of being, like, just sorta impotently pissed then disbanding, when they were talking about the True History? I dunno, it just seems like a "Surpass the previous generation" story instead of a "Follow the previous generation" story to me.

>>24847
Roger's footsteps were one last great hurrah, with his death starting before the journey even began. Luffy may be following some of Roger's footsteps, but a) he's following Roger's rise to greatness, not the endtimes and b) he's also forging his own path. Which everyone is expected to do in this comic, traditions and history have been bucked aside for the present many times over. Hell, Skypeia was all about it.

>>24846
>>24847
>>24848
It's also, and I've said this before, because Luffy's all about adventure and freedom, and there's really no apotheosis for him that doesn't involve Passing Into Legend. Settling down with a family or becoming an Authority Figure akin to Whitebeard (or more, if they really do end up toppling the World Government before this is over) is not at all something that would make him happy.

At the end of the series, he's really only got two options: go out free, protecting the people he loves, or giving up everything and Walking (or rather, Sailing) the Earth like Simon at the end of Gurren Lagann. And Walking the Earth / Sailing the Earth only works if his friends are with him--if the others all settle down and finish their stories, I'm pretty sure he's not going to be happy sailing the world alone.

That's the thing though--Luffy dying at the end of the series is potentially a Good End, as long as he goes out a free man, with a smile on his face, and especially if doing so saves everyone else. And I imagine if he does, he'll become an even bigger legend than Gold Roger in the process.

>>24850

Yeah but who says that One Piece (the story) has to show all of Luffy's life? Or even most of his life? Or even spell out what happens to everyone! Hell, it could end with all of the strawhats except Nami done with whatever it is they need do to accomplish their current(<-important word here) dreams, then one of them goes "Ok so now what do we do" and Luffy goes "Whatever we want!" Then the last page is Nami's now complete world map with little textless snapshots of adventures the crew had on various islands all over the world. Happy and simple can be nice too.

>>24851
I feel like the last chapter of One Piece should be a one-off story where Luffy hands off his hat to another kid before they sail off for their next big adventure. Alternatively, the Animal House ending, where they ruin the parade and then we find out what happens when they all grow up via captions over the ensuing chaos.

>>24850
>>24848
Also, every time he uses Gear Second his life lessens with each use, and Ivankov's treatments took away about a tenth of his all ready reduced life span. And as we all now, unlike villains (ex. Pain) the consequences of such strain always bite the heroes in the ass (pic related).

So hopefully Oda will find a way to address (and perhaps remedy) that, be it a macguffin or a cure ala Chopper. Otherwise, much like the former Pirate King, I can't see Luffy living very long after accomplishing his dream.

>>24853
Keep in mind that it's been said in the SBS that the average lifespan in One Piece land in 140, with super-strong people like Dr. Kureha living even longer. Luffy could still live to be somewhat elderly by our standards.

>>24853

Yeah but it doesn't actually matter. A meteor could destroy the planet and kill everyone (it goes through the moon) after Luffy dies, but that doesn't mean we need to see it.

>>24856

I dunno. It'd be kinda a bittersweet epilogue to see all of the Strawhats around Luffy's grave. Especially if they play the thing totally cheerful and straight beforehand.

Like, we see an elder Ussop, Zorro, Sanji, Nami, Franky, Robin, Chopper (maybe Brook) etc at their homes as they wave goodbye to their friends and family, saying they're going off to see Luffy.

Then they all go to Raftel, meet each other, make some idle talk, maybe have old Sanji comment on how well Nami/Robin have kept their beauty. Then they all just walk out over to Luffy's grave and and give him a moment of silence.

... I think it'd be kind of neat to see.

>>24859
It doesn't feel like we're even talking about the same series here.

>>24859

>bittersweet

Booo! Unambiguously happy ending team represent.

>>24860

Again IDK. I just think OP's greatest strength is that it can be happy and kind of sad at the same time. It's by no means a dark, depressing or grim story but it certainly has moments.

Really I guess for me? It's just the feeling that Luffy will have a happy ending if he becomes the Pirate King. As long as he does that? He could be dead the next day and you could never really say he didn't live a full or happy life.

>>24843
Alternatively, we have another timeskip, where after two generations of abject felons, Garp finally gets the marine successor he's wanted for quite some time via Luffy's kid.

Said grandchild is seen on the smoldering remains of his ship alongside his/her own crew of winded, eccentric officers yelling at a departing pirate besssel that (s)he'll catch him someday. The ship it turns out, has a very familiar Jolly Roger, with Monkey D. Luffy himself perched on its stern giving a hearty wave as he tells his offspring that (s)he should eat more and that his/her mother is fine and isn't on deck to greet him herself because she has a small cold.

It seems that even the implication of serious main character romance is enough to send me into a frothing rage.
Pity.

>>24867
One Piece is one of the few series in which I don't care about any of the shippings. Sanji being himself is basically all I care about.

>>24869
Amen to that. One day, Oda will throw Sanji a bone...that isn't stuffed in an okama's underoos.

>>24872
Wasn't letting him see the Mermaid Home sort of throwing Sanji a bone?

>>24873

I think it's more "will there ever be a woman who shares his affection".

Which does make me wonder... have we actually seen any like... legit COUPLES in one-piece? As in. Two people, who talk to each other, and are most obviously in love?

>>24888
Aside from already married couples like Neptune and Otohime? I think the closest we've got is Usopp and Kaya, which still doesn't quite count as canon.

>>24888

Well Margarita (Cindry's shadow) and her master are sort of implied in an extremely obtuse way. First, Cindry says that they were going to get together and she tested his love by breaking his plates, and he dumped her. Then, when she gets her shadow back she breaks a plate and apologizes because she knows that he hates it. Instead of getting angry he tells her he doesn't give a shit anymore and announces a have a party to celebrate her getting her shadow back.

Seems legit to me.

>>24867
>>24869
>implying the Sunny isn't a massive orgy boat during the off panel ocean travel Oda skips past

>>24888
Well there's Usopp and Kaya.
And of course there's Mr. Three and Ms. Golden Week

>>24898

Eh, I always saw Galdino and Golden week more as father and daughter.

So...how many times have we been right?

>>24900
I called Whitebeard's death scene.

>>24897
For cereals, man. A boat full of young adults in peak physical condition? They're probably having meaningless sex all over the place.

>>24902
NO SEX IN ONE PIECE!

All children are created through happy FRIENDSHIP magic hand-holding rituals.

Alternativly you have to chase down and have sex with ADVENTURE! itself, it's why all the crew are in love with only it and not other people.

>>24900
I called Luffy's Red Hawk Fist, and his other vulcanized rubber powers through Busoshoku Haki.

>>24902

Vulcanization was proven right through the old "if it doesn't turn out the first time, keep trying for like 4 years" method.

I remember "Luffy will fail to save Ace" and "Whitebeard will die," but I can't recall people saying both at once.

Trafalgar Law is the shichibukai was pretty much a sweep, with only some Buggy supporters and non-serious random guesses in opposition.

Punk Hazard was an old Vegapunk base, and the site of Aokiji vs Akainu (though I don't think anyone guessed both at once).

I think somebody called the ES turning the new fishman pirates into old men, and a lot of Luffy leading Shirahoshi to talk to the sea kings.

>ES turning the new fishman pirates into old men

That was me, from pretty much the start.

>>24908
>buhh wuhh you didn't do it right
Still counts.

>>24904
o ok

>>24908
Not gonna claim to be the only one to call it, but I nailed his death (and proclamation about the One Piece) triggering another pirate boom. It's probably the only thing I've ever really gotten right in these threads. Not that getting it right is the point, but it is pretty nice.

So anyone think Smoker or Law are gonna have anything new to show off? Hell are we even gonna get to see them throw down? I can't really remember Oda having a fight take place off screen, but I could see this one happening that way.

>>24913

Most of the non-SH fights in Sabaody were resolved offscreen. I only remembered because one of them was Pacifista vs Kidd and Law.

Pacifistas might actually be a weakness of Law. They can fire lasers at him from outside his room.

>>24938
If he can also modify lasers that enter his "room", then possibly not. He would have to be quick enough though.

>>24938

Or Usopp, Nami, and Robin.

They can all attach from pretty far away.

>>24988
Robin could even create full duplicates and fight him with that while she stands off at a safe distance, well hidden. That'd be a really neat battle.

Despite how sensible and deeeeeeeelicious a dark skinned Vivi would've been, Oda wanted to avoid the unfortunate implications of her being helped/rescued by a relatively white protagonist from the machinations of a pseudo-European (ie Italian mobster-esque) villain.

>>25160
I really doubt that, he's Japanese, they don't seem to understand racism of that sort most of the time.
And I'm not just talking about the big-ol' lips they slap on the negro's.

>>25160

I'm sure that the only reason Vivi isn't brown is because everyone (but fishmen) is the exact same color in the manga when Oda colors them. Everyone. The same color. When writing, Oda not only doesn't give a shit about real life racial implications, he doesn't even give a shit about the existence of real life races in the first place. People from (but not really) Brazil, Japan, Russia, and Africa have the exact same skin tone.

>>25168

I've never really thought or cared about human racial differences in One Piece. Probably because it doesn't matter.

>>25168
Oda doesn't really use tones, so different skin colors are kind of difficult to do.

>>25190
say that to the long arm tribe, bro

>>25168
That's pretty common in other manga, too. Even though Araki's characters don't even have set color schemes, he had native americans the same color as caucasians. And Magi's we-all-live-in-the-desert-but-yet-we're-all-pale-as-lilies.

I just assume they pick one copic marker for skin and stuck to it.

>>25199

>I just assume they pick one copic marker for skin and stuck to it.

This is literally exactly what they do.

>>25192

those filthy long-arms are nothing but thieves and liars, they are by no means humans.

>>25208
looks like someone didn't learn the moral of the fishman island arc. I guess Oda was too SUBTLE

>>25209
the moral of the story is JINBEI4BRINGINGSEXYBACK~

>>25209

The moral of fishman island is that "A monster created by the internet's hatred, lacking any firsthand experience, with absolutely no real substance" is the most hilariously apropos description of tumblr social justice kiddies I have ever heard. "A completely empty enemy" indeed, haha.

Man, I wish I could find that image again.

Here's a prediction:

Toward the very end of the series, we'll have two flashbacks - one for Roger, and one for the Ancient Kingdom.

>>25160

But Luffy's Brazillian by Oda's own account.

How is it racist that a Brazillian man rescues/assist an Arab woman from an Italian guy?

>>26017

Because he looks white.

People're gonna judge by what they see.

>>26018
No they're not.

>>26022

>>26023
You're right. Everyone thinks everything is racist and everyone should be a healthy, neutral gray color to avoid this. We don't want another major incident like when all those people protested Oda for being racist and almost shut down the whole series.

>>26024

Considering we had a fiasco where one character in a moderately popular cartoon show was called out for being ableist because she had googly eyes and a slightly slurred speech?

You'd be amazed what fanbases can pull out of their ass so they can feel like they're a special member of the social justice brigade.

>>26025

Correction. You had an incident where blah blah whatever.

For the most part, I am happy with the OP fanbase's capacity to purge undesirables. Hell, even if they suddenly invaded in droves it wouldn't affect OP in the slightest because Oda is happily sitting a continent and language barrier away from that nonsense. Yay!