Hangout One Piece Mega Convo Thread

[electricmastro]

You'd think he'd ask her not to go around calling herself THE kozuki oden like a lunatic.

I get the feeling Yamato will be more sure about what she wants to do with her identity as her journey progresses and meets more people. The main reasons she took on Oden's name was to give people hope and get freedom.

Well now that the people have Momo as their new hope and has freedom, I wouldn't think she'd have more motivation to keep taking on Oden's identity. So I think this journey will play a deciding role for her as to whether she'll be more motivated to be Oden or be herself more.

 

[kkck]

I get the feeling Yamato will be more sure about what she wants to do with her identity as her journey progresses and meets more people. The main reasons she took on Oden's name was to give people hope and get freedom.

Well now that the people have Momo as their new hope and has freedom, I wouldn't think she'd have more motivation to keep taking on Oden's identity. So I think this journey will play a deciding role for her as to whether she'll be more motivated to be Oden or be herself more.

No she didn't. she took that identity as a kid because she thought, wrongly, that oden was awesome. Then she went to spend most of her life imprisoned in onigashima without anyone ever knowing who she was or interacting with essentially no people outside of kaido's crew. At no point giving hope to people she never interacted with was a factor. She'll probably continue to pretend she is oden because nothing has changed regarding that. no one has ever called her out on the fact that she is not oden and never will be.

 

[electricmastro]

no one has ever called her out on the fact that she is not oden and never will be.

Kaido called her out, but he's a villain anyway, and people like Momo are pretty tolerant to an extent.

I get the feeling that many of the Wano citizens will have something to say the more she interacts with them though, especially since many are understandably angry with Kaido.

They'd prob only see Yamato as Kaido's child and not Oden, since there's only one Oden, and he boiled himself to death as a grand sacrifice to the people.

 

[Hannibal Psyche]

Got curious about Black blades after seeing the Road to Laughtale Vol.2 which states only Haki is not enough to acquire a Black blade, at least it suggests it isn't.

With that said, I read Chapter 1023 which seemingly gives some explanation.
Zoro vs. King, Zoro said King wasn't a Swordsman.
King said he isn't, and he defined what a Swordsman is... a Swordsman is someone who sticks to a traditional style and form in battle in the TCB, whereas the Viz translation for King, he states he's willing to use anything to win a battle including biting his opponent.
In other words, a Swordsman is someone who will literally only rely on a Sword to win a fight, nothing else but Sword techniques.

I'd imagine Whitebeard and Roger weren't Swordsmen in the sense they utilise other methods to win battles, they're willing to win battles even without a Sword.

Black blades can probably only be developed be true Swordsmen, and I guess just like Enma was able to acknowledge Zoro and Oden, Swords can acknowledge true swordsmen which is part of the requirement to get a black blade.
Gyukimaru also said Ryuman's black blade was forged through many battles.

Adding everything up together, it seems a Black blade is formed by a Swordsman (someone who only relies on a Sword to win and is dedicated to Swordsmanship alone) through many battles. I guess you acquire a Black blade, which requires Swordsmanship during battles, extremely powerful Haki and acknowledgement from the Sword after many battles.

 

[RaisinRisin]

DawnDusk on Youtube recently pointed out that "One Piece World Collectible Figure - Elbaf" is being sold in November, which reportedly should be a good indicator that's the timeframe by which an Elbaf arc will start.

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[electricmastro]

Makes me wonder what other figures they could sell while Elbaf is going on.

 

[HereNThere]

DawnDusk on Youtube recently pointed out that "One Piece World Collectible Figure - Elbaf" is being sold in November, which reportedly should be a good indicator that's the timeframe by which an Elbaf arc will start.

Probably earlier than that (barring any mini arcs). We're nearing the end of Egghead and should be at the climax of the arc at this point and we should be winding down pretty soon.

Given that those figures take some time to produce and the audience would need to be familiar with whomever / whatever is being portrayed, I imagine we'll be fairly acquainted with the island by that point.

 

[electricmastro]

Probably earlier than that (barring any mini arcs). We're nearing the end of Egghead and should be at the climax of the arc at this point and we should be winding down pretty soon.

Given that those figures take some time to produce and the audience would need to be familiar with whomever / whatever is being portrayed, I imagine we'll be fairly acquainted with the island by that point.

I reckon Luffy should be leaving with Bonney and the others by this Summer, yeah.

 

[RaisinRisin]

Probably earlier than that (barring any mini arcs). We're nearing the end of Egghead and should be at the climax of the arc at this point and we should be winding down pretty soon.

Given that those figures take some time to produce and the audience would need to be familiar with whomever / whatever is being portrayed, I imagine we'll be fairly acquainted with the island by that point.

That's what I was thinking as well.

(We're familiar enough with Dorry Brogy, Kashii and Oimo, but only having generic Elbaf accessories/surroundings would surely be too disappointing.)

 

[Fox666]

Oars died 500 years ago, and Little Oars Jr. is 70, doesn't that mean Little Oars Senior lived 430 years?

 

[kkck]

Oars died 500 years ago, and Little Oars Jr. is 70, doesn't that mean Little Oars Senior lived 430 years?

Welp, at least 430 unless ancient giant pregnancies last a few decades.

 

[electricmastro]

Speaking of which, are you guys willing to believe that Oars and Numbers are related to Oni?

 

[FetherMan]

"Mother Flame"

- Nuclear powered weapon design from pressurized water and drawing oxygen to it's reactor core and generates, an electrical charge to itself from the top(sky) to itself(reactor core). This is a "magnetic" based-connection that creates a beam that can dissolve any matter in between itself and the drawing source (sky). The "flame" is a condensed/constant source of steam/heat that acts as a coolant contained in a pressured containment unit (PCU) and the usage is similar, but not the exact same as the "Hydrogen Bomb" or "Nuclear Warhead". However, the weapon itself works on the ultimate principle of overall mass destruction.

 

[Fox666]

 

[DeadlyBeast]

One Piece Taking Over Las Vegas Dome in June

 

[Lord Rayleigh]

One Piece Taking Over Las Vegas Dome in June

Looks like Madame Shirley’s prophecy in her crystal ball!

 

[DeadlyBeast]

Looks like Madame Shirley’s prophecy in her crystal ball!

Haha it really does minus the burning background. I think this pic is artistic liberty since we don't know which ones they will use but to have something that size in Vegas for a week is pretty amazing. OP really has made it and now everyone in Vegas will have to see it. Maybe someday it will have a live Vegas show and be first anime to do that too.

 

[HereNThere]

One Piece Taking Over Las Vegas Dome in June

It'll look good...

From a distance...

 

[The Prince of Darkness]

You guys think strawHats' Bounties will go up after this arc too?
If yes, how much will it increase for everyone?

 

[HereNThere]

You guys think strawHats' Bounties will go up after this arc too?
If yes, how much will it increase for everyone?

Good question. I'm not totally sure. The WG is going to have a lot of crap on their plate after this, so increasing bounties may be the last thing on their mind. At the same time, in order to keep some semblance of order or normalcy, they may go ahead and boost them for the hell of it to keep up appearances. If not them, then I imagine the Marines may take it upon themselves to keep that going.

The amount will be hard to determine, but expect the usual suspects (Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Robin) to get the higher increases compared to their peers.