Recent content by Johnny B. Decent

Oh, the Shanks/Tiger thing definitely a retcon, and a very poor one at that. But no, I can't say Imu and the HK are a retcon for one simple detail. There was never a first among equals with the Gorosei. Think about it like this. If all five are equal in power and rank, then who's the one who...

Didn't the 4GNW see some ridiculous casualty rate of like 50,000 combined in the first day? Not even the worst meat grinder of WW1 saw anything as absurd.

After getting motivation for the task from Vivi, Luffy leads the good guy alliance to Mariejois, where he eventually defeats Imu. But Blackbeard, nominally an ally to Imu, sails to the battle, annihilating his erstwhile allies with Pluton and finishes off Imu, with the good guys temporarily...

I was thinking also maybe cadet branches and/or bastards.

While still on the subject of them, I do hope there is an actual explanation of how the Holy Knights are actually chosen for the role instead of allowing them be a usual worthless parasite like the rest of them. Are children who look slightly less inbred then the usual brought forth to the...

It does make you wonder though, what's left to power up? Luffy has unlocked Advanced powers of all three forms of Haki *and* Awakened his DF. By all accounts, there's really nothing else to get a power-up for.

Not necessarily. Jarul knows it's tied to whatever happened to Harald, so for a person from a backwards, superstitious nation to be wary of a strange rune is pretty logical.

I keep saying it, but literally, all they have to do is destroy the summoning Pentagram at August Castle and Imu will be forced back to Mariejois.

Even if the concept of the Holy Knights were first mentioned after Marineford, it really wouldn't have mattered, though. Sure, maybe we could have had a silhouetted figure or two at Dressrosa, but the main focus for nearly 10 years IRL was Kaido and Big Mom. But the overall thing is, it's only...

Would seem a bit odd for a family from a land with an Egyptian theme to have their sword be a German design.

But we had to know those nameless mooks surely had officers, no? And that idea does have a flaw. Killingham made all his monsters from the fears of the kids, but he put them to sleep first. So, if he had the chance to knock them all out...why not just kill them then? Perhaps the God's Blades...

Well, we did see armored soldiers at Mariejois wayyyyy back at Jaya when the Gorosei were first introduced and again guarding the Roswald Family at Sabaody. So, the idea of them having guards and soldier did seem granted. Now, as for them sucking, well...shouldn't they? I kind of consider them...

The fight where the bad guy does a magic Deus Ex Machina to fix everything he caused? With a utterly ridiculous power-set that all is granted by a single pair of eyes, none of them based in actually being related to eyesight like the origin concept of the Dojutsu was.

Perhaps, but would you be personally satisfied if the concept was introduced but then not followed up for so long?

That said, I feel like Xebec really should have been a separate mini-arc from Elbaf. Loki's flashback should have been more focused in himself and Harald. And a 20 chapter flashback really kind of drew the momentum to a screeching halt. What I think would have been best was we have Blackbeard...