One Piece Mega Convo Thread

[ukimix]

Now, look who's replacing Bartolomeo on the secondary cover below...

The major threat of all seas....

 

[NEMO]

Now, look who's replacing Bartolomeo on the secondary cover below...

Lol, imagine if that's the true thing that links Barto with Luffy lool

 

[Sproumfch]

Oi ! Who is da friggin Panda on the cover? xD

 

[NEMO]

Oi ! Who is da friggin Panda on the cover? xD

It's Pandaman. It's a joke character Oda uses. He draws him hidden among a group of people to test our perception I think lol.

 

[KingOfNight]

It's Pandaman. It's a joke character Oda uses. He draws him hidden among a group of people to test our perception I think lol.

I've looked at this cover several times before reading your post, and every time I saw the panda, I thought of it as Bepo >_>

 

[NEMO]

I've looked at this cover several times before reading your post, and every time I saw the panda, I thought of it as Bepo >_>

Yeah, they do resemble each other;

 

[ukimix]

Here a good site to browse about Pandaman, with many of his appearances in the manga: http://www.thegrandline.com/pandaman.html

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Redon posted HQ cover of Vol 71

Shueisha
One Piece #71 SHQ:



Scan: redon

 

[goldb]

Looking at the HQ cover, I'm lost trying to figure out who that is behind Luffy; in the background panel between him and Franky.

 

[k-dom]

It seems like this fodder guy in the top right.

 

[ukimix]

Hi there. We are starting the collective reading of Vagrant Soldier Ares next August 5th. If you are interested here the details:

Spoiler: Invitation to the collective reading of Vagrant Soldier Ares

Collective Reading of VAGRANT SOLDIER ARES by Ryu Keum Cheo

Hi there,

Do you want to read with us this interesting and already complete manwha? Here we will begin a collective reading of it in next August 7th. So, if you're interested let us know and join the reading and the discussion. Next, you'll find some introductory reviews of this manhwa and, since it's important to get an agreement about schedule and other stuffs, some notes on the rules we could adopt in the reading.

Reviews:

Spoiler: Zellogan's review

Review written by Zellogan and edited by Weixiaobao here in MH

Title: Ares
Genres: Epic, adventure
Author: RYU Geum Chel
Artist: RYU Geum Chel
Start Date: 2001
End Date: 2007
Number of chapters at review: 109
Number of chapters read by reviewer: 109

Category Ratings: (1-10 scale)

Art: 8.5
It's a manhwa, the art is already a little different because of that. The design and the overall style is atypical. It's clean, not overcharged by details, it's easy to figure out what's going out during a fight. It's dynamic and fluid. We can also clearly see the different emotions on characters face. I join an image: the three heroes: baroona, ares and mickael (from left to right).
img149.imageshack.us/img149/3664/aresv02c10001002za5.jpg

Plot: 8
It's an epic manhwa. So, there is war, betrayal, dramatic twists, ... It's kind of a light "berserk". The story is about three abnormaly talented boys who can easily destroy 30 soldiers by themselves. Each of them have an intersting past. Even if it's a shounen, death is very present and everyone can die at every moment. The story becomes darker and darker volume after volume.

Characters: 8
The story is about three characters. But the main character is an odd young boy named Ares. He's incredibly skilled and look carefree even if he have a dramatic past. He's the kind of guy who attract others around him. He enjoy fighting (even killing) but he is not emotionless. He look frail and no one can expect him to be this strong. He doesn't seem very reliable either. He is not dumb or smart.

Michael is the second of the three talented young boys. Michael is much more secret and don't talk a lot. He is very proud and he is probably one of the smartest guy in the manhwa. Michael have a dark side and is emotionless most of the time.

The third character Baroona is less important than the two first ones. But it's possible that he becomes more important later.

There are a lot of secondary characters in the manga.

Themes: 7
Everything turns around war, friendship, betrayal, revenge, ... It's about what you expect from an epic manhwa

Originality: 6
The originality comes from the design. The story is not original but it's still very well done. Originality could have been a 10 if there wasn't a manga called "BERSERK".

Overall: 9
One of my favorite manga/manhwa and it's almost unknown (probably because it's Korean). It's problably one of the top5 manhwa ever done. In my personal "top 10 best manga ever", i have two manhwa: shin angyo onshi and ares.

If you like berserk or claymore, if you like epic mangas with war, you need to read this one.

Spoiler: Wiki's note

Short note from wiki:

Vagrant Soldier Ares (떠돌이 용병 아레스) is a Korean manhwa written and drawn by Ryu Kum-chel. The story centers around young swordsman Ares and takes place in a world similar to Ancient Rome.
The manhwa is noted for fluid, dynamic action and subtle anachronism. For example, Ares wears shoes in the style of classic Adidas.

Where to read:

Batoto, mangahere, mangareader, etc...




Rules for the collective reading

Initial schedule:​

• Discussion about the rules of the collective reading: from July 29th to August 5th.
• Reading to begin in August 7th.

Initial proposal for the rules:​

Ares has 207 chapter of 20-30 pages each, divided in 26 volumes of 9 chapters more or less. So here some possible schedules:

• fast pace: 2 volumes per week (like 20 chapters per week)
• medium pace: a volume per week (like 10 chapters per week)
• slow pace: half volume per week (like 4 to 5 chapters per week)

My initial vote would go to the medium pace. It would be a good initial pace to know if the comic is good for everyone or not. After two weeks we could agree on increasing or decreasing the pace (or even aborting the reading if we want to).

We could begin the reading of each new group of chapters on Wednesday and post our impressions, reviews, or simple notes about the respective volume in the respective week.

There it is. Everybody is very welcome to join! :-)

the thread for the collective reading is located here. If you want to participate post your intention there as well as your ideas about the pace and other rules.

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Color spread HQ, thanks to Redon from Pirateking

 

[takneeque]

has blackbeard's (or any other crewmate's) bounty known in the manga?thanks.i am not sure if this is the appropriate thread.

 

[Schabrak]

No, he had none as a member of Whitebeards crew nor was one revealed since his announcement as a Yonkou, which makes a bounty irrelevant anyway.

 

[Asarii]

Over in the Japanese fandom, people ironically (or perhaps even seriously) stan for Urouge, and they are called "Urougist". I don't know why, but they even made a wiki fan site for him: http://www39.atwiki.jp/urouge/pages/1.html

It has things like every line he has ever spoken, interpretation of those lines, head canon, image gallery, memes relating to Urouge, etc. I have to say that Urougists are ONE PIECE's most dedicated fans tbh.

 

[raDar]

I don't know if this (g)old video has anything to do with the "Urougist" but...

Seriously, I would take that unwavering smile any day.

 

[Googlez_kun]

I'm loving it. This is just way random and I can't help but appreciate it.

 

[mattiaildivino]

has blackbeard's (or any other crewmate's) bounty known in the manga?thanks.i am not sure if this is the appropriate thread.

but emperors' subordinates do have a bounty,and most likely the emperors possess bounties too,although noone can keep up with them nonetheless. and in the exhibition in which ace's bounty was revealed, there were BB's crewmates bounties as well,although their values couldn't be viewed...

 

[ukimix]

Is it me, or mangarule's blog is down?

 

[Schabrak]

It's online again, so it was either a DDoS attack or is that simple counter hate from their side?^^

http://i3.minus.com/i1zW97KG0i0v3.png

 

[BetaRuler]

Man... that orouge video creeped me out... I... I think I need to get some therapy now... *and was never seen again*

 

[Zehahaha]

Spoiler

I don't know if this (g)old video has anything to do with the "Urougist" but...

Seriously, I would take that unwavering smile any day.

Oh god, mah balls