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Welcome to the club everyone! That would be an insane ability. It reminds me of back when I read through Terraformars (excellent for seeing how far animal powers can go in manga) and came across this beautiful mantis shrimp: Your punch is so fast yet heavy that the shock wave generated can...

Welcome to the Zoan Club! A corner to discuss and appreciate the most overlooked and underappreciated Devil Fruit class in the series. What is a Zoan? Zoan is one of the three Devil Fruit classes in One Piece. The term is likely derived from Zoanthropy, a term referring to the...

Just like Punk Hazard became an island of permanent fire and ice, I suspect Judicial Island gained eternal daylight due to a former awakened Pika Pika user working for the WG. In combat, sunlight becomes become so intense and so bright that nobody except the Pika Pika user can use their eyes...

It's already been foreshadowed. Luffy has a good technique to block an Emperor's attack, even a wide range fire blast, and protect the people counting on him standing behind. Kaido vs the mountain, but this time Luffy could be there to protect everyone. He was allowed to fail here so the...

The Five Elders are the oldest unnamed significant characters in the series, and they are pretty much alone in this regard. Im-sama only entered the story recently and that may already be a name. Everyone else got theirs long ago. Background characters get them in databooks. Yet the Five Elders...

Law's ability and it's not even close. Mobility - Law teleports everywhere, even multiple times in mid-air. Shambles switches him with a substitute. Law could give himself a set of wings just to fly around like Monet. He could modify his legs like the centaurs of Punk Hazard and move around far...

Nice episode. Quality art all around, I liked the new traditional Wano OST I heard, and making it basically all Komurasaki felt very focused and impactful. Let's get the bad out of the way. I'm quite annoyed with how they handled Caribou's cover story. This is Oda writing a filler episode for...

Pretty enjoyable chapter. That was the longest action sequence I've seen in a flashback, which is not saying much but just fine for a legendary hour of war. I'll wait for the finale before finally looking back at the entire flashback. I love this side of Kaido. He's not sitting back. He's not...

Doflamingo wanted Fujitora on his side in Dressrosa, and he's not even a pirate but a stinking marine. Fujitora basically remains a neutral the entire arc, he wasn't actively undermining Doflamingo as distracting Sabo and chasing Law was helping Doffy but pushing the Birdcage and arresting his...

Good thoughts. My only qualm is that the story wants us to believe Oden is "The Foolish Lord", not that the 5 Daimyos are all foolish lords. Oden is rightfully criticized for twerking it for 5 years and letting Orochi get away with stealing the throne and creating a country flooded with...

When people talk about what happened to Wano during the 5 years Oden came back and made a deal with Orochi/Kaido, it's important to note the other Daimyo never had a response to the Wano of this period. Oden was made to act like a buffoon, the other Daimyo were not. The truth is, we don't know...

Blind virus requires too many factors to work: 1. Every single Mink has to be targeted individually 2. The Beast Pirates crew needs a sniper way better than Usopp. Maybe like 10 Usopps to hit every Mink. 3. They have to be targeted at once so the rest of the tribe doesn't disappear into hiding...

Whitebeard is more like a symbolic presence in the back of Fisher Tiger's mind. Perfectly exemplified by Whitebeard putting his flag on the island but have no actual residence or subordinates on the island. Fisher Tiger lacks a physical connection to him. He may have wanted to meet him one day...

Doctor Chooper curing Sanji's blindness would actually be a great medical feat for the little guy. It would have to happen sometime after the fight. I don't see Sanji and Chopper double teaming Queen, or Queen giving Chopper any time to develop something mid-battle. A 2v2 fight like Usopp and...

Just remembered this interesting line. Oden was a fool all the way back in Zou. I thought it was a generic insult back at the time, but more likely Oda already had the basic idea of what he was planning to do with Oden's life back then. That's when we learned he was crucial to Roger's crew...

Oda has a made it pretty clear that Wano is dominated by swordsman. They worship a Sword God. There is also some notable ninja, sumo like Ushimaru, and whatever the Beast Pirate occupants bring to the table. Page One and Drake seem to be Zoan brawlers. The Headliners do everything. Kaido and his...

I would think about defining characteristics that are missing in the Strawhat crew and maybe build a character out of that. Things like the character's abilities, their appearance or racial traits, any remaining roles in a pirate ship, or missing character archetypes in the group dynamic...

Pretty entertaining chapter. Good thing I read the French version.. I love this old Korozumi grandma and grandpa, such a refreshing pair of villains. Old people are not really too capable or threatening in the series as antagonists, at best they get thrown to the curb like Chinjao as has-beens...

Nice transitional chapter. Lamentable to know we won't be seeing the Roger Pirates again for quite a while, but then again they could show up by the end of the year for a Rocks flashback. At this point in the story, the events of the past and present are becoming intimately bound. Roger says...

I guess you thought Apoo was one of the guys sitting around Orochi's banquet? Two characters looking similar doesn't really us anything about how they're related. Oda has to fill up his settings with dozens of nameless spectators and fodder, he's bound to reuse faces. The anime for a very long...