One Piece Thread: Gear 3rd!

Undefeated against Usopp??

Still counts.

Hiatus means multiple weeks or is just the usual week break?

Regular break.

So Wano is the arc thatā€™s supposed to be more epic than Marineford right?

Thanks, yeah it is supposed to be but they appear to treating it like a regular arc in terms of build up. One will assume the climax will be the epic portion.

Chapter 917: https://readms.net/r/one_piece/917/5340/1

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Iā€™m confused by lady speedā€¦

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Iā€™m just afraid of ever googling her name with safesearch off in the futureā€¦

Luffy and Zoro speedblitzing was cool, I canā€™t wait to see that animated, although I get the feeling the anime is going to draw out this short conflict for several episodes.

I donā€™t see how Miss Centaur can see 350 degrees when she clearly has stereoscopic vision, but I guess Oda didnā€™t want to make her fugly.

Luffyā€™s is definitely showing a different kind of presence than before. Weā€™ve seen him strong and self-assured, but now he seems totally in another stratosphere. I think only a Calamity and the big man himself can give him trouble at this point. Luffy vs Jack the Drought would be interesting, especially since there would be motive. It will probably take a lot more than King Kong Gun or two to defeat such a monster though.

@Raz0r Seeing how the smartest contemporary minds in OP still canā€™t recreate Devil Fruits properly, or build world-ending machines like Pluton and Uranus without lost blueprints, and have shown nothing on the level of Enelā€™s ancient moon kingdom technology (even Mariejoa is still using slave-powered machines), itā€™s safe to say that the world is playing catch-up and at most just reinventing the wheel. As for Kaidoā€™s bestial predilections, I guess weā€™ll just have to wait and seeā€¦

Centaurs and horse people are a turnoffā€¦ it freaks me out when you combine human and horse features, which is why I have still yet to watch BoJack Horseman. I do wonder if Zoro or Samurai tall lady will have to fight her. If Luffy is going to be stomping on Holdem and Hawkins has his own problems does that mean we see a weird Zoro duel with Speed as they try to runaway with the food?

so when speed smiles she looks like this???

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New chapter yā€™all!: https://readms.net/r/one_piece/918/5351/1

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That scene where the mother was about to off her starving child, brutal stuffā€¦

Someone in the comments mentioned that maybe O-Tamaā€™s ability might be able to control Zoans which is a cool concept but I think any creature with sufficiently strong ā€œhakiā€ can overcome such parlor tricks. Secondly, the Gifters are clearly the result of faulty science hence why theyā€™re in a permanent hybrid state, with animals often acting independently of their users like Holdem. I think Caesar just captured a bunch of wild or stray animals and through some botched and lazy process converted them into faux-Devil Fruits. I canā€™t wait to see how the exact process is explained though.

Luffy further cementing his proto-Yonko status by essentially claiming territory and ousting a leader in one felt swoop. But how will he fare against Jack? I think nowā€™s the point where Luffy will be truly tested. Jack was capable of fighting nonstop for several days and didnā€™t even incur any visible injuries facing the Minks, Luffy can effortlessly dodge Jack all day but heā€™ll need some successive King Kong Gun assaults to make Jack even wince based on what I saw on Zou.

Oh and the short skirmish between Hawkins and Law was interesting, they have similar introverted calm personalities so I knew they wouldnā€™t go all in, but itā€™s cool that Hawkins can even transfer DF effects on to other folks while in Lawā€™s Room.

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Damn Luffy that ainā€™t no way to treat a lady.

I agree with WS that scene with the family was brutal, I sometimes wonder if Oda forgets this is meant for younger readers.

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wellā€¦

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WATCHOUUT!!!

https://readms.net/r/one_piece/919/5377/1

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Sam-ur-ai Jaā€¦ Kinemon?

I always felt One Piece might have some time travel/warping elements near the end of the series, but I only surmised it would be more about gaining the power to fix the past rather than actually traveling into the future physically.

Lord Odenā€™s wife not only foresaw 9 ā€œsamuraiā€ opening up Wano but was likely the key to how Raizo, Kinemon and Momonosuke managed to make it end up 20 years in the future. If thatā€™s the case itā€™s most likely no casual feat even if its related to DF-powers, some significant sacrifice must have been made.

And the gangā€™s all here!

O-Kiku confirmed as strong was cool, but I wonder to what extent. And Luffyā€™s reaction to Zoro being ā€œlostā€ while riding on the lion-dog was hilarious, but I think thatā€™s a misdirect, Zoro intentionally left. I think he might be visiting the grave a certain famed samuraiā€¦

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I need a photoshopped image of Kinemon as Doc Brown and Momonosuke as MArty McFly

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Iā€™m sure it will be enjoyable, but Iā€™m not sure an arc about taking on a yonko needs to be as convoluted as this is building up to be.

But this arc will have the first full blown defeat of an Emperor so you got to go for broke.

So who are the 15 destined samurai going to be?

why 15, they talk about 9

Youre right its 9. My badā€¦
Well is Jinbei still with the SH? That would make them officially 10.

So Oda is building up somethingā€¦ I just donā€™t know what it is.