Anime & Manga One Piece Spoilers - The Waiting Room

[Julius]

Imu felt Dorry and Broggy's powers and said "they equal and kings" and made them much stronger and immortal

Guess who's gonna fight them @MonsterZoro

 

[Rumble]

One piece is Luffys story. What the one piece is to him, is what the one piece is to the narrative, a means to an end. Not an end in and of itself.

Blackbeard is very much a big part of Luffy's individual story, by design.

Oda hasn't finished building him up yet.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Blackbeard is very much a big part of Luffy's individual story, by design.

Oda hasn't finished building him up yet.

He is. He’ll be Luffys final penultimate villain, being the final boss before getting the one piece.

But he’s not going beyond that.

 

[Kurozumi Wiwi]

Imu’s CoC blast ain’t even as strong as JB/Shanks

Who cares?
Imu is a magic merchant

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Imu’s CoC blast ain’t even as strong as JB/Shanks

Doesn’t need to when Imu would just turn their crews into his own forces.

 

[Rumble]

He is. He’ll be Luffys final penultimate villain, being the final boss before getting the one piece.

But he’s not going beyond that.

There is a less than 0% chance Oda has and continues to put in work to develop Blackbeard so he can become the penultimate villain of the story.

It's not happening. It is so CLEAR Blackbeard is the final villain, I legit can't believe it's even a discussion.

 

[EmperorKinyagi]

Who cares?
Imu is a magic merchant

Doesn’t need to when Imu would just turn their crews into his own forces.

Imu would be too busy twerking

 

[𝒜𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓁𝒶]

Demon dorry and broggy rivals > sanji and zoro

 

[Sir Yasheen]

There is a less than 0% chance Oda has and continues to put in work to develop Blackbeard so he can become the penultimate villain of the story.

It's not happening. It is so CLEAR Blackbeard is the final villain, I legit can't believe it's even a discussion.

Oda has developed buggy and is still actively developing him too. And he was around well before BB, what about him?

 

[Rumble]

Oda has developed buggy and is still actively developing him too. And he was around well before BB, what about him?

Buggy serves a completely different purpose in this story.

Blackbeard, the man who has schemed, betrayed and murdered his way to the top, is Luffy's principal rival for the One Piece. That is partly why he and Shanks are linked, and why he will likely kill Shanks.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Buggy serves a completely different purpose in this story.

Blackbeard, the man who has schemed, betrayed and murdered his way to the top, is Luffy's principal rival for the One Piece. That is partly why he and Shanks and linked and why he will likely kill Shanks.

Buggy is Luffys principal rival. The man who entered the new world and paradise at the same time. Who received their devil fruit powers at the same time. Grew in infamy at the same time. And became yonko at the same time.

 

[EmperorKinyagi]

So it’s more or less confirmed that the Gorosei forms are Imu granted powers

 

[Rumble]

Buggy is Luffys principal rival. The man who entered the new world and paradise at the same time. Who received their devil fruit powers at the same time. Grew in infamy at the same time. And became yonko at the same time.

I don't see the point in this detour into disingenuous comparisons, it feels like a more pointed conceding the point than just moving on.

 

[mly90]

It begins....
the next failed agenda.

Relax you don't have to be so threatened by everything

 

[Sir Yasheen]

I don't see the point in this detour into disingenuous comparisons, it feels like a more pointed conceding the point than just moving on.

No it’s that you’re reading into Blackbeard too much. Oda develops characters for the sake of developing them. The fact is Blackbeards narrative ends at the one piece, but Luffys narrative goes beyond it.

The one piece won’t be the end of the manga, Luffy will defeat Imu after it

 

[Doggo]

Relax you don't have to be so threatened by everything

Imu's enemies are the D.
Sry.

 

[Rumble]

No it’s that you’re reading into Blackbeard too much. Oda develops characters for the sake of developing them. The fact is Blackbeards narrative ends at the one piece, but Luffys narrative goes beyond it.

The one piece won’t be the end of the manga, Luffy will defeat Imu after it

Pointing out extremely obvious facets of Blackbeard is not reading too much into anything. Blackbeard is collecting powers. He's chasing the One Piece. He wants - according to his own subordinates - the world itself.

Oda revealed another figure failed to challenge for control of the world in the past, a figure that rivalled Roger and counted Emperors among his subordinates - to whom Blackbeard is also connected.

Reading into things too much is how you arrive on ideas like Sabo leaving the Revolutionaries to join the Strawhats. I consider your take on Blackbeard a similar misreading.

We're not going to learn the secrets of Blackbeard's past so he can not be the final big bad, and don't think for a second Oda doesn't know what he has achieved with Blackbeard as a writer.

 

[yj]

Also imu named attack before dragon. The hype is real for dragon

 

[stouls]

You never bring a knife to a gun fight they said

Imu : I bring both

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Pointing out extremely obvious facets of Blackbeard is not reading too into anything too much. Blackbeard is collecting powers. He's chasing the One Piece. He wants - according to his own subordinates - the world itself.

Oda revealed another figure failed to challenge for control of the world in the past, a figure that rivalled Roger and counted Emperor among his subordinates - to whom Blackbeard is also connected.

Reading into things too much is how you arrive on ideas like Sabo leaving the Revolutionaries to join the Strawhats. I consider your take on Blackbeard a similar misreading.

We're not going to learn the secrets of Blackbeard's past so he can not be the final big bad, and don't think for a second Oda doesn't know what he has achieved with Blackbeard as a writer.

It’s not reading into, it’s just taking the manga at face value. Sabo was shown as this generations oden and wants to write a book of his adventures like odens journal.

Logically, that means Sabo will ultimately join the SHP like Oden the Roger pirates.

Blackbeard was told specifically he’s not the one to shoulder the 800 years of history connected to being a D which we know are the enemies of Imu. So Blackbeard won’t outlast Imu.