Recent content by KilgoreTully

Totally. Going with the themes of the story, where having dreams and goals and hope characterize the "good" side of humanity, a character who is portrayed as gleefully sadistic and potentially already living past his natural life isn't "human" per Oda's ideal definition. Killing Sommers wouldn't...

That rabbit has the Mihawk mustache, so yeah, it's prolly something about that. But my initial thought was that those are Imu eyes and it could be a reference to learning a bit about his time limit. Buuuut...given the Nerona Mihawk theory, why not both!? Right, like, Zoro opens the Mihawk eye...

All the speculation about Oda's health and lifestyle is so weird. It's very much a thing in Japanese culture for celebrities to be extremely private. Look at Shohei Ohtani, the most famous man in Japan, and how he didn't even announce his wife's name when he tweeted, "Oh btw I got married." Oda...

Not a weakness if you're a tank/kite and spamming "taunt" to pull aggro.

I'm thinking Luffy's next power-up is going to have something to do with the lore of mythical zoans. Something like the fruits actually contain the soul of a god, and beyond just awakening the powers one can do a "second awakening" and bring out the actual memories and consciousness of the god...

You seem to have already decided he's saying the chapter is mid bc you are misreading the post. I read it as: "You might want to skip the spoilers—not just because it's really good, which it is—but because it's better than just being a good chapter and does something special with Brook's story...

I've always been especially fascinated with the devil fruit lore, and seeing Ragnir's Ratatoskr card clicks a few things into place, for me. We know zoan fruits have a will of their own and awakened zoans run the risk of being taken over by their fruit. So there's a spirit/soul thing going on...

Well, we've only seen Imu's "thralls" be taken out, whether it was a sorta domi reversi'ed Rocks or a Depths Covenant Harald. Both seem to be an "influence" thing, versus the complete-and-present-take-over "avatar" that seems to be the case of an Abyssal Covenant. We have yet to see someone with...

The longest flashback in series history is over. We've seen two of the strongest, if not the two strongest, antagonists (yes, yes, they weren't in their right minds, but, narratively, absolutely antagonists) beaten by the two strongest attacks we've seen. This begs the question: how does the...

Hey man, you okay? It's been a little while, so I'm sorry we've lost contact. I kinda, um, followed an NYC hookup to Tel Aviv, mid-pandemic, as a goy, and had a kid so have been a little occupied with a toddler and having significant moral doubts about where my life has led me. Which is to say...

I wouldn't worry about the immortality thing. There's going to be a way to defeat them, and even if it's something narratively absurd like Elbaph just happening to grow the "un-immortalizing flower", each holy knight will still play like a Zelda boss where the "secret" to almost every fight is...

The story has been leaning a lot into lineage, and some of the original 19 families had to give Joy Boy a fight. Plus we don't really know how many World Nobles there are. The prominent families that apparently vie for five elder spots have been doing so for hundreds of years, possibly staying...

Whaaaat is everyone actually arguing about? I mean, please don't actually answer, I just skimmed a couple pages and it seems everyone is in general agreement that A. Japan has a globe-leading life expectancy and B. a significant number of the busiest mangaka have died short of this. Past that...

Okay so while I totally agree that the giants' extended lifespans are going to give us some good void century info, this...uh...isn't how generations work... Subsequent generations overlap. Human parents tend to have kids between 20–40 out of a [roughly] 80 year life expectancy (and that's...

The different measures of "equal" have to be addressed, here. Are we talking raw strength, power tier rankings, living up to pirately ideals, or narratively? Clearly the impulse is to make this a tier ranking issue. That's fine, but not my cup of tea. It's the same as debating things like...