Phew, with all the complaining going on with the Wano ending I'd almost think all these people believe this is the end of One Piece and we're not going to get any more chapters after this.
Where's Marco? Who cares, we'll find out. Do people forget we got absolutely ZERO information about where...
Yep. I'm really buying into the inverse theory more and more, nowadays. So far the NW has been an inverse of each paired arc in the pre-TS (alabasta vs dressrosa, Arlong Park vs Fishman Island, etc...). Now with this, we had a wild inverse of Thriller Bark. Instead of getting a second villain...
This isn't entirely true. There's conflicting information out there that the third act "must" end in tragedy. Some sources say it must simply be a "dramatic" end. 🤷‍♂️
But honestly, even that is besides the point. I really think that most people just don't believe Oda has it in him to do some...
This really feels like all the same arguments that were thrown out into the void when Oda introduced haki. For a good amount of time, people were saying wild stuff like the Whitebeard commanders didn't have Haki or Mihawk didn't have haki all because we never saw it in action at Marineford...
ok so very much a "gtfo out of here Big Mom" ending. This is a defeat, and shameful for Big Mom. But it is absolutely not a true defeat. This isa strategic victory, not absolute and I am so totally here for it. I don't understand why people are so mad about BM being thrown off/tossed. At the end...
Meh, this is head canon the community has made up to try to connect the act structure with Japanese kabuki 5-act plays. It seems reasonable to assume Oda will do this, as everything from the art, villains and historical allegories of Wano are essentially a love letter to Japanese culture...
No doubt. I feel like the pinnacle reference fights are always Ennies Lobby. If we actually look back at those fights, Jabra v Sanji lasted 2 whole chapters, with the following third revealing Jabra's defeat in the first pages.
Even Zoro vs Kaku was only like 2.5 fully dedicated chapters in a...
Seriously. He was straight up going to murder Chopper and Brook. The BM pirates would have murdered every last one of them or worse. Pedro had to kill himself to get everyone to escape and it does not matter that the SH's started it. That's the game and they all signed up for it! The grudges...
This is specifically why I don't like Jack so much. Dude is straight up a beast. No doubt (but pun definitely intended). The problem is, he's boastful trash in the sense that he doesn't back up any of his crap. He didn't just "go up agains the strongest marines", he got so rolled by said marines...
I do really like the idea of Oda utilizing Momo's transformation to introduce more VC concepts/Wano lore, but I just can't get past how shook Shinobu looks. I feel like making Momo look like an ancestor is a longer play that won't have much purpose immediately, whereas making him look like Oden...
Totally agree. The dude knows his job and is going for it. I also love his villainous "pirates gotta pirate" mentality. That's kind of why I don't understand all the debate of "why it matters whether Pedro killed himself vs. Pero killing him." It's a distinction w/o meaning.
Pirates are going...
Got to love Chopper, the perennial MVP. Here he is, in the middle of a full on pirate war, and he just casually reverse engineers a bio-weapon and now starts healing up one of their top 3 fighters to bring back some of their military strength.
What a freaking clutch crew member.
I am honestly loving this new development. It fits so well with Big Mom's character. She has a specific moral code and damned if she cares whether any of us can possibly fathom it. The earth-shaking pivots she makes completely match up to my expectations of an Emperor as one who can do literally...
I want this so badly but I know it isn't going to happen. Really Hiyori makes the most sense to me, tied together w/ a boring orochi survival subplot. Another likely theory that I like is the idea that its Hawkins creeping about and reading everybody's odds to finally decide where he should...