So: How fucking boss is it that Smoker, having met Luffy all of three times, knows that he's such a lunatic that he'd beeline directly towards the most dangerous of all possible islands?

>>23869
Smoker smells like piss and is most likely a virgin.

>>23870
Incorrect, he smells like cigars and justice took his virginity.

>>23869
It only takes meeting Luffy once to know that, really.

>>23872
Dumb as a sack of hammers, thrill seeker, bull stubborn and bold as frenchmen with a 40.

Yup, you are right.

>>23869
Maybe because the first time he saw Luffy he was the lunatic who was laughing about being executed, the second time he saw him he was the lunatic who thought he could take down a shichibukai, and the third time he saw him he was the lunatic taking on all of Marineford?

As far as pattern recognition goes, Luffy's not that hard.

>>23874
When you put it that way....yeah, it doesn't take a Master Profiler to think "Would Straw Hat really do something so pointlessly dangero--what am I saying, of course he would."

Keep in mind, Smoker is also hellbent on catching Luffy, so he'd be keeping tabs on him throughout the marines' intel. Meeting him three times would really just solidify character observations at this point.

Funnily enough, this chapter actually contradicts the last East Blue filler arc of the anime. There was a dragon and a little girl and Nami kills a guy named Eric at the end. It was kind of stupid.

pic related

>>23877

Weren't they bizarrely specific that the Millenium Dragons or what the fuck ever they were called were not actually dragons, just something that looks like a dragon?

Anyway that filler sucked shit so I don't much care.

>>23877
I'm glad Oda does not give two shits about filler.

I dont get it. What's the story behind the cover page? I don't remember any lolis with galley-la.

>>23880

In one of the previous cover arcs, they showed Iceberg interviewing a shitload of women for the position Kalifa vacated. There was a lineup right out the door. And this little girl was one of them.

>>23879
Actually, he does. Every filler Toei pitches has to go through him, and he personally oversees that none of the material clashes with his. If they had dragons, or something that looked like dragons in filler, Oda is aware and okay with it. Hell, he sometimes designs some of the filler characters himself.

>>23883
You're talking bullshit. The only involvement he ever had with the anime was designing a single filler character. Earlier fillers were riddled with continuity mistakes up the bum. It's just that they're more careful now.

>>23883
>>23884
Well, we at least know they consult him about devil fruit powers.

http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_37

>R: Odacchi! I have a question. Do you come up with the Devil Fruit Powers that are original to the Anime show? Let me know.

O: Basically, all that happens is that the anime's scriptwriters come up with powers that they want to use in the story, and I say "Yeah, that sounds good," or "No, sorry, I want to use that one in the future." That's all.

>>23879
>>23883
>>23884
I thought it was more that Oda didn't care about filler, and then Toei started doing crappy filler that actively went against his canon, so he started making them bring stuff to him for approval.

>>23886

Nope. Oda actively doesn't give a shit besides devil fruits. Maybe what confused you is that as time went on Oda got more and more involved with the MOVIES, and started doing character designs and scenarios for them. Eventually he took (read: was shoehorned into) direct control for Strong World.

>>23851

Little Garden 2: Dragon Boogaloo

Hopefully Nami gets cancer this time.

>>23851

Little Garden 2: Dragon Boogaloo

Hopefully Nami gets cancer this time.

>>23894
Do...I want to know why you want Nami to get cancer?

>>23891
>(read: was shoehorned into)
He seems to have done it with a lot of gusto for someone who was "forced" into it..

>>23898

Well why not? Even I've been forced into ridiculous situations that ended up being a lot of fun. At the very least it allowed Oda to get paid to draw a shitload of weird animals, which I'm pretty sure is the Oda equivalent of being paid to eat delicious dinners. At the same time, it was obviously extremely stressful, but he managed to hide it pretty well all things considered. Remember that during that period of time OP went on break every three weeks, and that when it was over he went on a month long Hawaiian vacation.

Oh man it's like Thriller Bark all over again.

>>23905
How so?

>>23908

>Mysterious island
>HOLY SHIT AN AWESOME CREATURE
>Hey wanna be my nakama?
>lol no
>pleeeeeeaaasseee?
>*sigh* ok.

>>23909
GIANTTALKINGDRAGON4NAKAMAXDLOL

>>23910
I like the idea of Luffy offering out of nowhere (but possibly being turned down without the dragon even thinking about it) just because it's totally in character for him to do so. He loves the idea of a bear being on a pirate crew, and it was his decision to tame the Krakken--like he WOULDN'T want a dragon on his crew.

The dragon can't join the crew because he's to big to fit through the doorways.

>>23914
Nonsense. Jinbe proved he wasn't a useless fat lard by contorting his neck to help Lumpy. Dragon is 10th nakama.

Dragon can't be the 10th because its not a girl

That loli was eight years olr when she applied for the secretary position.

>>23918
Out of curiosity, how do you know? All it's said is "who are you".

>>23918
There will never be another female Strawhat. Sorry.

>>23927
Joke's on you, dragon is female. Look at the rings around its eyes, the wrinkles are accentuated to look like eyelashes.

So I guess this is going to focus even more on that old one-shot, Monsters I think it was called? That samurai body from Thriller Bark was the MC who killed the dragon from what I remember.

Damn it. What is this reminding me of?
Getting weird nostalgia vibes from this.

>>23940
Maybe...

>>23940
It reminds ME of something Ninja Turtle related. One of those games from the Super Nintendo had .. something like that. I dunno, childhood memories.

>>23943
>It reminds ME of something Ninja Turtle related.
I think that's it.

>>23945
Or maybe it was the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers one for the NES.. Really though, take all this with a grain of salt.

>>23940

>>23943
Toxic Crusaders?

>>23940

The gate at first reminded me of the place that X Drake was shown to be at before the timeskip. But that theory quickly died after it turned out to be a marine base.

Whatever it is, it's 90's in nature.

>>23947
Oda's tapping into our collective, innermost subtle subconscious. The man is a God.

>>23940
Necromunda.

Pretty sure that Smoker and Luffy will meet on Punk Hazard.

After all, where there's smoke there's fire.

>>23963

you bring a light?

>>23970
No, I don't think Kizaru will tag along.