The Next Shichibukai?

[Fox666]

Arlong? Doesn't make sense for me, he is already imprisoned.

If Moria is not sutiable anymore for the title, Arlong who don't have 1/10 of Moria strength would never be a Shichibukai...

 

[zerocooldx]

Arlong? Doesn't make sense for me, he is already imprisoned.

If Moria is not sutiable anymore for the title, Arlong who don't have 1/10 of Moria strength would never be a Shichibukai...

I think that Arlong becoming a Shichibukai is actually very likely. He may not necessarily replace Moria but i think he will end up being one eventually. Also if Hachi could escape from the same prison then its very likely that Arlong could escape from it as well. But i think that Arlong could be waiting for something before he makes his move. Also Jimbei did imply that he and Luffy would have some unfinished business and i believe that whatever that business is that it will certainly involve Arlong. And when it comes to strength in OP the bad guys get just as strong, if not stronger, as the good guys do over time. Oda keeps "important" characters around because he will call upon then again to play large roles. He did this with Crocodile and i can definitely see the same thing happening with Arlong.

 

[kkck]

Arlong is far to weak to be a shichibukai. Luffy from the begining of the manga is FAR weaker than luffy now without gears. Fuck, arlong could be 100 times stronger and he still would not cut it. On another note, I thought hachi simply was never caught rather than escaping from prison.

 

[Fox666]

I think that Arlong becoming a Shichibukai is actually very likely. He may not necessarily replace Moria but i think he will end up being one eventually. Also if Hachi could escape from the same prison then its very likely that Arlong could escape from it as well. But i think that Arlong could be waiting for something before he makes his move. Also Jimbei did imply that he and Luffy would have some unfinished business and i believe that whatever that business is that it will certainly involve Arlong. And when it comes to strength in OP the bad guys get just as strong, if not stronger, as the good guys do over time. Oda keeps "important" characters around because he will call upon then again to play large roles. He did this with Crocodile and i can definitely see the same thing happening with Arlong.

It may be very rare for a prisoner espace from marine battleship transport. Arlong chances are not higher than anyone... Whatever Jinbei business are, I guess we will see it with Hachi. He is there, and is a former crewmate from Jinbei.

Well, if Arlong can become so strong, I suppose every villain them could become a Shichibukai, no...? But I doubt he could, all villains that were defeated back them and we saw again (Jango, Fullbody, Buggy, etc) are ridiculous weak for current level. Maybe Hemeppo is an exception, but you got my point.

Crocodile was very strong. Luffy was beaten 2 times, and knocked down Crocodile in the last round, being poisoned to death. So there is a difference, Luffy defeated him by lucky indeed. Even with Gear, he probably still won't have a easy fight with Crocodile, with good chances of loosing.

 

[bittman]

So I was just thinking:

We've got this new development where Moria is apparantly "too weak" for the Shichibukai title.

...and I don't like it...

Now let me set my record straight: I like Moria. He's a bad guy that's bad, but also has a past which has most likely led to this. And though I'm a little annoyed that Moria going bye bye will say bye bye to some potentially good flashbacks or development of a character that isn't fan-gasm'ed over, Moria's death is not my dislike of this development.

APARANTLY: Killing off your forces is a good idea.

So if you want to get rid of someone, doing it in a war = good idea. Can blame it on anything. Nothing wrong there.

But we have 4 remaining Shichibukai. They are now the Yonbukai, and four pirates aren't exactly as scary as 7. Now we can guess that obviously the Gorousei will fill these spots again with some new pirates.

But I don't know about you, but the last time they filled it, it obviously ended up as such a good decision right? (Breaks sarcasm metre with blackbeard reference).

Better steps would be something like:
Step 1) Fill empty spots
Step 2) THEN strengthen weaker spots
Step 3) ????
Step 4) PROFIT

STEP ONE PEOPLE! And even then, Step 2 would be better by pitting a candadite against an existing member. Because then you almost only have favourable situations:
BEST OUTCOME - Moria wins, displays maintainance of strength
BEST OUTCOME - Candadite wins, strengthens Shichibukai
BEST OUTCOME - they kill each other. Two less pirate groups to worry about
BAD OUTCOME - Moria defects...send a feathered smily boy to hunt him down

Anyway, point is this seems like another "great tactical move" by the marine/WG side. Between Sengoku's "strategy", weakening your own Moria-rating and failing to account for the movements of 47 or so ships, I can't help but feel brains were only produced in certain parts of the world, or that Oda's "awesome tactical decisions" really aren't. If anything, tactics in One Piece have just been a bumbling string of failures.

Let me put my arguement in a perspective you should all understand:

You have 6 pokemon, 2 fainted, 2 are fine, 1 is asleep and 1 is 10 levels weaker. You decide to have the weaker one do self-destruct on a ghost type because at least it looks like it went down fighting.

Am I the only one confused?

 

[kkck]

Well, the number if shichibukai is limited at most so perhaps keeping a position occupied for no good reason is not a good idea. In general the shichibukai were shown to at least be strong enough to take all of the strawhats on their own easily. Moria clearly did not have that level. He would certainly win in a one on one fight against any strawhat IMHO but the lot of them would certainly defeat him. Most likely a man of moria's caliber is easy to find.

 

[undertoe]

I could actually see Buggy making the cut... He may be weak, but is there any reason for the WG to be aware of that? He must seem pretty strong to them right now, having escaped from ID, inspiring tons of prisoners to follow him devoutly, and surviving the WB war.

 

[THM Nindo]

I think the Shichibukai are done for...
They are over...

I mean... there are only two real shichibukai left... Mihawk and DoFlamingo...
(Kuma is a robot and Hancock is not really a shichibukai...)

And from what we saw, Mihawk is friend with Shanks (or at least, not enemies) and DoFlamingo is taking order from higher-ups.

IMO, the Shichibukai will be dissolved soon, or at least, there won't be 7 members anymore.
In any case, they don't really need them with the army of Pacificators now... (I hate those shitty robots!)

 

[Duc :D]

if shichibukai don't disband and search for new member I will definitely go for Brownbeard.. this guy seems strong, ugly and infamous in the New World..

however, i think Shichis, as they exist now disband anyways.

 

[THM Nindo]

if shichibukai don't disband and search for new member I will definitely go for Brownbeard.. this guy seems strong, ugly and infamous in the New World..

however, i think Shichis, as they exist now disband anyways.

I really think Brownbeard is a nobody and that we might never see him again...

It was just to show that many pirates were just waiting for Whitebeard to die to attack the islands that he was protecting...

At best, Luffy and his crew will arrive on that island in the New World and will free the island by beating the crap out of Brownbeard...

That's how insignificant this guy is... IMO...

 

[Uriel]

LOL to the Pokemon comparison xD

And I thought the same, although We don't know the real reasons to do that. Maybe they already have in mind some people and they need an empty spot (?)

 

[St Michael]

With Kuma not being an human anymore , Hancock potentially revoked and Jinbei defecting , I don't think that the GM is in need of an empty spot among the shichibukai

 

[kkck]

I think the Shichibukai are done for...
They are over...

I mean... there are only two real shichibukai left... Mihawk and DoFlamingo...
(Kuma is a robot and Hancock is not really a shichibukai...)

And from what we saw, Mihawk is friend with Shanks (or at least, not enemies) and DoFlamingo is taking order from higher-ups.

IMO, the Shichibukai will be dissolved soon, or at least, there won't be 7 members anymore.
In any case, they don't really need them with the army of Pacificators now... (I hate those shitty robots!)

How is hancock not really a shichibukai?

 

[chess4]

the shichibukai will find replacement, im sure. they cant afford not 2. maybe enel actually does come back. im sure we will get some new shichibukai in the future

 

[Uriel]

With Kuma not being an human anymore , Hancock potentially revoked and Jinbei defecting , I don't think that the GM is in need of an empty spot among the shichibukai

Why Kuma not being human anymore means an empty slot? Sorry, maybe I did not got you well. And Hancock wont revoke yet. She enjoys the tittle and She will need it.

 

[St Michael]

Mmmh , I think that the GM considers Kuma more as a PX than as a Shichibukai with his current state.

At least that's how I understood the lil speech of Dofla back then.

 

[RezzieThaRapper]

Except for his extended fight "in the anime" Kidd hasn't really shown any kind of weakness...

He's cruel I know that's how he got his bounty

I think he can hold his own against ANY non-logia(and Kuma) fighter in one piece

He may even have "Haki" or another ability to hurt Logia... he's to be Luffy's future competition anyways... He'll have to be on Luffy's future level, which I'm pretty sure will be uber strong...

He has the attitude of great pirate to me... but I don't know what animal could represent him, lol

 

[Truefan21]

i think they next warlords will be former NW pirates the supernovas are way too weak

 

[Dasbones]

I don't think any freelance pirate is going to become a Schichibukai anytime soon, after the maniford battle the government's power has weakened considerably, as well as their fear factor towards the pirates. As I'm sure somebody stated already; The Pacifistas are the government's way of replacing the disobedient and unpredictable Shichibukai (whats left of it anyway). The balance of power isn't so balanced anymore; The Yonkou are missing a certain aged badass, the Schichibukai have been dwindled down to four members (with Hancock teetering on losing her title), many, many marines (along with a few pacifistas) were lost in the war, Impel down and Ines Lobby are in ruins (there's goes a powerful branch of the world government). Worst of all; Blackbeard and his merry band of scary bastards managed to piss off all of them.

With the imminent pirate surge that's about to hit the grand line, and one of the biggest wars ever literally just stopping; It's hard to imagine the WG going back to business as usual.


Also, the reason Moria was killed off so abruptly... well ask yourself this; IF the WG was to suddenly 'Let him go', where would you put him? Impel Down just got crapped on and they are in no way shape or form ready to start it back up, and you can't just let a guy with that high of a bounty and potential danger to run free... that's just silly

Besides he got his ass handed to him... like three times in the war, while Doflamingo, Mihawk, and Hancock barely had scratches on them. However long ago when he became a Shichibukai, he was in his prime. As of lately... he's let himself go. Killing him and getting good PR about it seems pretty logical to me.

 

[Jorge D. Dragon]

After this chapter it is really possible that Buggy will be offered a Shichibukai position. In fact it would be hilarious, but it would be interesting to see him gaining this title. How he will react and how he will defend his title against other pirates from the Grand Line who will try to challenge him.
Also I would like to see StrawHats reaction if he gains this title.