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Yeah, I thought it was pretty good as well. Starting with the Ashura and Inu fight and ending with King & Queen's scene book-ended the episode nicely. The padding looks natural and like it actually happened in the manga. Love that Shamisen music that begins and ends the acts, best piece of Wano...

That was mostly to show Blackbeard's effect on the world. The Strawhats sail down the Grand Line and solve problems and save people, get rid of bad actors, restore islands back to peaceful civilizations. In Pedro's words, the Strawhats are the Dawn of the world. Blackbeard is an agent of chaos...

Sheepshead's Vivre Card did say he tamed the power of SMILE, and maybe that's what got him promoted to Headliner status. But it could just as easily be made up nonsense. The fact that random Wolfhead guy can transform back and forth does seem to indicate Oda made a deliberate decision to not...

That was great. I felt the original chapter should have been entirely out of Wano, because events after Emperor Blackbeard's reveal like King and Queen just got completely overshadowed. Oda should have filled the remainder of the chapter with scenes from that completely off paneled fight, but...

You have to keep in mind the story context. The "Former Sweet Commander" info box was a mark of shame given to Snack as he lost his position recently because of Urouge. His first line of dialogue is about the Worst Generation. Giving it to Perospero or maybe even Compote would put them in the...

Where are these talented haki fighters hiding then? Roger's crew, Garp, Mihawk and the Shanks crew are the exceptions. There are thousands and thousands of pirates out there who have no DF but all this free time to work on their haki skills. Instead we see: - Every Emperor except Shanks has a...

You missed a very obvious parallel to Baratie Arc, even though Oda ends the arc by having Zeff serve his enemies, pirates who could have just destroyed his restaurant like Don Krieg the next day. Oda intentionally avoided giving Sanji drawn out fights even though there was plenty of...

I've given this some thought. The real oddity is not Oven and Daifuku's bounties, but rather Pekoms and Tamago. You can easily write off Perospero as having been an early Sweet Commander but got demoted or simply quit, putting him around the same place where Snack is right now. After all...

I'm not so sure about these descriptions. I believe Sengoku's real ability is gigantification. His "shockwave attack" is not just Whitebeard's power slapped on to a Zoan, but Sengoku's advanced armament projection enhanced by his giant and enlightened Buddha body. I'm sure his obsevation haki...

I doubt Oda would tease a new Luffy finisher like Great Monkey King just like that. That looks like a simply one hand technique. Luffy probably developed a brand new move set involving advanced armament. That'll be nice to see. Gear 4 always looked like the Shinto god Fujin with those steam...

That's remarkable quality considering this had to follow up the sakuga showcase they poured months into, not to mention the big event next episode entails. I really expected a big dip for this inbetweener. The lows of Wano are so far nowhere close to the lows of WCI and Dressrosa, powerscaling...

Nothing to worry about here. I don't think the fans want to go back to Wano THAT badly. The post above tracks sales for the week of 12/23 to 12/29. But Volume 95's release date is 12/28, so there's only 2 days of sales and not an entire Week 1. Volume 95 should definitely match or surpass the...

I was very tempted but I'm glad I passed on the poor quality scans. This is definitely up there in terms of my all time favorite chapters of the series, the whole thing is pretty much adventuring to the tune of Binks' Sake. The romance, the manliness, the adventure, the friends we met along the...

Preview of a 2020 music video featuring anime One Piece x Arashi If you pause here and there, Jinbe is part of the Strawhat crew! Oda finally approved, just not in time for Stampede. It aesthetically pleases me how Brook, post-TS Franky and Jinbe all look around the same height here. The...

That would be a very huge deal. Roger said they were the first people to reach Lodestar Island, and this was after the God Valley incident meaning not even Rocks and Whitebeard got there. It must be an incredible feat in itself for anyone else to get there without the Pirate King's crew. You...

Always thought it was pretty interesting that Sanji fights all sorts of opponents like Luffy. Oda will match up Zoro with swordsman or weapons user for reasons related to his dream but who was the last kick-based enemy for Sanji? Mr. 2? Vergo, Doflamingo have varied fighting styles. Jabra, Page...

Big Mom or her army weren't actually defeated though. Not even close. She lost two commanders and Morgans credited those to Luffy, which is fair since Capone was not involved in those fights. All Morgans and Stussy saw was that Capone turned into a castle and got beat up. At least Sanji...

I think you're freaking out a bit much here. Some early scans did have Lodestar, not Loadstar. Lodestar is an actual word in the dictionary. It's a star used as a navigational reference like the North Star. It could reference the fact that all pirate navigators eventually end up on this...

For Shanks, it's probably related to the reason Roger gave him the straw hat. It happened at such an early age that people don't even remember Roger wearing a straw hat when they look at Luffy. For Buggy, I assume he was just born blessed as usual. Buggy getting picked up was just a case of the...

I'm more curious about how they hold Oden in place long enough for him to boil. He took 3 days of hanging on to a chain at sea while he was bitten, slammed, frozen, etc, probably even boiled in hot sea water. 1) They hold someone hostage, Oden makes the sacrifice. 2) Oden is honor bound. Like...