One Piece Thread: Gear 2nd!

i was just about ask bout this http://mangastream.com/read/one_piece/13749530/23

Naw, I doubt Zoro has senses that strong to sense Sanji coming, especially since girl tried to kill his team mates three times in front of him during that exchange when he had chances. If Robin and Nami are quick enough to get hit in on her, Zoro could have ended her in a second, even Monet spoke on that being the case.

It is is either Zoro won’t cut a woman or the almost unthinkable… maybe Zoro doesn’t actually know how to consciously channel his haki into attacks and didn’t want to show it.

I don’t know how I feel about Avril Lavigne making a song for One Piece. On one hand, its cool. On the other, I’m reminded of an unspeakable dub…

This chapter had a few unexpected surprises.

Monet is absolutely ruthless! She mentioned before that she’s going along with things so Doflamingo will let her live, but she has shown off a monstrous side here. She seems to have no problem with drugging those kids or taking softball-sized bites out of people’s shoulders (yikes). I certainly didn’t expect Tashigi to join in, much less be capable of doing THAT.

Also, Sanji has been hilariously dickish the last few chapters. Then again, when you’ve spent the past few years trapped on an island with a bunch of hairy cross-dressers and NO WOMEN, I guess you’re pretty entitled to be a huge douche, now and then.

I’m pretty surprised at the idea of using Avril Lavigne to do the theme music for the next OP movie, but whatever. I’m pretty indifferent to her, save for that damn catchy-ass ā€˜Girlfriend’ song (which was also popular in Japan).

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Dude, that’s a low-blow.

Yeah, but whenever wapol ate something/somebody, he gained some kind of ability or enhancement. Monet looks like a predator.

Monet is a frigid bitch. It had to be said. That dude isn’t regaining that chunk of his frostbitten shoulder.

Zoro beat that he-bitch bounty hunter on Whiskey Peak years ago, so I don’t think being a woman has anything to do with this. I think it’s fact that she’s a female swordsman that’s psychologically hindering him somewhat. Next to Mihawk, that’s the only other rival he’s never beaten.

I think that Zoro actually can’t control haki. That’s why he can’t fight her. Tashigi instinctively knew that she had to help Zoro because of that. Also when Tashigi attacked Monet she was surprised by the haki attack.

(Sigh. Alerts system, why must you insist on being irksome?)

Ha! I should have figured that what people would be talking the most about would be why Zoro seems to be holding back, especially since Luffy confirmed that Zoro had haki about a dozen chapters ago. I suppose I just kind of got distracted by Monet eating someone’s shoulder and generally making monster faces all chapter all of a sudden. Seriously, what the fuck? I was still getting over the surprise that she was actually a Logia instead of a Paramecia and then she starts pulling shit like…

Yuki Yuki No Mi apparently doesn’t play apparently. Or rather it does because Monet seems to be at the very least sadistic and sociopathic, if not psychopathic given the sudden cannibalistic mood-swings and the ā€œinterestā€ in the children.

I find it even funnier considering that a lot of people were (and probably still are) clamoring for her to be the new Strawhat. Hahaha. Fat (harpy) chance.

P.S. Yes, Momonosuke’s speech pattern is hilarious. Nice to see Kinemon didn’t accidentally brutalize his own son.

P.P.S. Caesar seems to be a manpulative bastard at literally every turn. I can see why Oda chose the last name.

P.P.P.S. What the fuck at the Avril Lavigne thing? I didn’t think the union of her and Nickelback would create a blackhole of suck that quickly.

This is the impression that I got as well, especially since Nami’s heat shot didn’t really affect her for that long. Then again, Nami only hit her wing…

Not possible under any logic. Especially after facing Monet down while mentioning the others to run because she is a Logia.

Training with Mihawk for 2 years, learning Haki would definitely be fundamental, esp. for a New World First Mate. Heck, Sanji knows it.

Come to think of it, Zoro has also defeated Tashigi before in swordsmanship, but also did so effortlessly, without harming her. Hm…

So Zoro was able to ā€˜sense’ her with haki, but can’t use it on his swords yet…real suprising considering training iwht Mi-hawk. Right now Mi-hawl is looking as good a mentor as J-man was to Naruto…

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I don’t know why people saying he can’t use haki on his swords when all he’s doing is blocking with them. Would a haki infused block even do anything or be noticeable?

And why wouldn’t a swordsman trained under the best and also the 1st mate not know how to use Color of Armaments at this stage, especially when The Cook can use Armaments? In fact, Zoro was the first Mugiwara to visibly use Haki in his attacks. Asura anyone?

Now what is more logical is that her Haki is stronger, allowing her to bypass his Armaments (like how Marco and Vista couldn’t hurt Akainu even though they used Haki). I highly doubt that is the case though. The psychological theory is my best guess IMO.

The more I see of Monet the more I like her.

I think it’s like WS said; Zoro has trouble with the ladies.

perona turned zoro into a bitch

Being the first mate means NOTHING. The cooking using it has no bearings either…especially when he’s in the top 3 as a fighter. Everyone knows that he knows haki to some degree, but that doesn’t mean he has Luffy or Smoker level mastery of it.

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Yeah, I have to agree. Zoro may know about ā€˜Haki’ but despite being as strong as he is, it doesn’t mean he has enough control over it to use it properly against a Logia. This is a guy that can’t even find his way out of the correct door in a straight hall with only two doors and as they said while introducing it, some people gravitate toward different types instead of mastering all of them like Luffy. Could be despite his nature, Zoro is more color of observation.

Which character said ā€œUnless its Luffy, Zoro, or Sanji, if you see Caesar, run.ā€ Those three can definitely hit a logia now.

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zoro? observation? naaaah.

Think it was Luffy himself who said only he Zoro and Sanji could use Haki.