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I know. It's all, "Oh, we found the mermaid and the treasure is gone! No, we didn't totally forget about Caribou for the entire arc and then suddenly realize that we had to address him! Look! Jinbe's joining!"

The whole thing seems like it was suddenly put together at the last minute.
Protip: Caribou attacked the mermaids only a few chapters ago, and this being mentioned shows that he abandoned them to get treasure instead. The fact that he was mentioned at all, means he wasn't forgotten. It isn't a long span enough chapters to say Caribou has been forgotten by any means, especially, as I said, he's mentioned to be doing something in this very chapter.
 
And then the Laughing Banana's and Angry Grimaces of the thread will be there to talk about how obviously people are orgasming again, how they're so blind by Oda and their fanboyism.

And so the cycle will continue.

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So, am I the head or am I the tail? :)

Reading [B]Gacha Gacha[/B] now. It's a relaxing romantic comedy manga peppered with delicious fan service all over the place. Pleasant looking art.

Also, [B]Hotel[/B]. A great one-shot manga about an AI left behind after mankind is annihilated to extinction.

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Protip: Caribou attacked the mermaids only a few chapters ago, and this being mentioned shows that he abandoned them to get treasure instead. The fact that he was mentioned at all, means he wasn't forgotten. It isn't a long span enough chapters to say Caribou has been forgotten by any means, especially, as I said, he's mentioned to be doing something in this very chapter.

Only a few chapters ago? It was frikkin months ago, and it's a footnote now. It makes no sense to devote this tiny amount of time when everything he did was given far more attention earlier in the arc.
 
Only a few chapters ago? It was frikkin months ago, and it's a footnote now. It makes no sense to devote this tiny amount of time when everything he did was given far more attention earlier in the arc.
Months but 28 chapters isn't really enough to be forgotten, or else Sasuke too is forgotten in the recent Naruto arc when he isn't. Both characters just haven't appeared cause it isn't their time and place to appear at the moment.

Also an interesting rumor floating around on the new crew member situation, but it's probably fake but still interesting:
how Shirahoshi becomes Next Nakama~

Shirahoshi is told by the Sea Kings and her own father she is responsible for getting Noah repaired. The only way to repair it is with the wood from the Tree Of Adam. Which is found at the end of the world (the black market doesn't have the large amount needed that it obtained from the war from long, long, ago). Luffy suggest he could take her. The idea is considered impossible. But the King suggest a way to fix her inability to travel with them by using the tamatebako. Something her mother used long ago. But it turns out Caribou stole it (along with all the rest of the treasure in Ryugo Palace).

how Jinbe does not~

Jinbe agrees to join but leaves the crew after Luffy destroys fishman island after completely disregarding Jinbe's suggestion and doing what he wants. Jinbe actually becomes Luffies enemy after the incident.

I can't say much more then that without ruining the surprise of why Luffy destroys the island
 
So, am I the head or am I the tail? :)

Reading Gacha Gacha now. It's a relaxing romantic comedy manga peppered with delicious fan service all over the place. Pleasant looking art.

Also, Hotel. A great one-shot manga about an AI left behind after mankind is annihilated to extinction.

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I read Hotel like 2 years ago and I had no idea this last picture was from the same manga.
 
The anti-Jinbe people are getting REALLY desperate judging by those rumors. That is Naruto levels of dumb.
Well we still haven't seen the island destroyed yet, so something fucked up has to happen anyway. Noah doesn't do it, Hody doesn't do it, so who does? It has to be Luffy.
 
Months but 28 chapters isn't really enough to be forgotten

i'd consider that a long ass time. it was right at the beginning of the arc and was looking to be set up as a plot thread... and then... absolutely nothing came of it.

the other thing is that they made a huge deal over how much mermaids are worth. does the treasure compare to that? why could he not have taken both?

like i mentioned, there were many things about this chapter that i hated. jimbe joining is the least surprising of it.
 
I'm assuming it is, and I think it eases expectations if we expect it rather than just brushing it off. As the manga says, Madam Shirley's predictions are never wrong.

Well, it's not like the prediction is that Luffy will literally destroy the island. It is most likely to be something completely dumb. :P
 
i'd consider that a long ass time. it was right at the beginning of the arc and was looking to be set up as a plot thread... and then... absolutely nothing came of it.

the other thing is that they made a huge deal over how much mermaids are worth. does the treasure compare to that? why could he not have taken both?

like i mentioned, there were many things about this chapter that i hated. jimbe joining is the least surprising of it.

Well assuming he took the treasures using his swamp ability, maybe he couldn't carry both mermaids and the treasures?
 
So, am I the head or am I the tail? :)

Reading Gacha Gacha now. It's a relaxing romantic comedy manga peppered with delicious fan service all over the place. Pleasant looking art.

Gacha Gacha was one of those manga I enjoyed to read yet couldn't place a finger on precisely why. It moves rapidly, development seems shallow, and there's a lot of facepalm inducing moments ... but ... damn it, it's fun, enjoyable, and just overall pleasant. The second half a bit less so, but I place more of that blame to the length of it compared to the first; some parts feel stretched out to pad the count, though I suppose that is just typical of the genre and I shouldn't complain too much about it.
 
I think Luffy will destroy the island but not until Noah is rebuilt.

Noah has to be the boat that all the civilization on Fisherman Island will ride to the surface while Luffy destroys Fisherman Island. Fisherman Island has to be destroyed for the bad history it contains and so the people can finally move on with their lives.

Well thats my theory...
 
Isuca

This is like reverse Inuyasha, but not as terrible (yet). Not amazing either, but it has a neat concept. Hasn't really found its identity yet though, but I'll keep reading to see if the mana naming thing gets fleshed out.
 
One Piece

I wonder if "the time of the promise" is the same reason why Robin met those people who were building the bridge for over 100 years.
 
Toriko 167:

Does anyone have a guess as to what Coco is up to? If the total difference in points is 450 and the remaining cards only add up to 310 how are Toriko and co supposed to win? I'm asking this question assuming Toriko and friends are going to follow the rules of the game and there isn't some secret rule we don't know about (I might be making a mistake doing this).
It's probably like what everyone said, that they'll just use the Joker cards + other big-miss cards to win. But I was thinking of another possibility.

Coco could be planning on winning by default by making Livebearer not finish. Giving him the alcohol could have something to do with this, since he's manipulating what Livebearer eats. The other Joker card too.
 
I'm assuming it is, and I think it eases expectations if we expect it rather than just brushing it off. As the manga says, Madam Shirley's predictions are never wrong.

Maybe it was not meant in a literal way. It was maybe meant as destruction of the hatred of fishmen have towards humans, therefor destroying the history of fishmen island.
 
Iris Zero vol 1

Seems like a cute but dramatic comedy. Of course the main character has to be the only one without super powered eyes, but whatever, not like this is an action manga (yet). I actually do like the concept of someone being shunned for NOT having a power. Only can remember something like that in Black Sigil.

Expecting some major mood whiplash here.
 
I really dislike AMG, but it's weird how it's from the same person who did You're Under Arrest, which is great fun...

It's hard to read that in one go, it's just one of those series that you aren't supposed to expect to go anywhere, I think. If you read it all at once, you're just waiting for a conclusion that will never come.
 
I still want to know what made Gol D. Roger so powerful that he was the Pirate King instead of Whitebeard. Dude had to been a beast!

I don't think it had anything to do with power but knowledge he was the only person to get to Raftel .
We also know he was willing to tell WB how get there but WB did not care about it .

About Caribou did people really think we would have 3 main villains this arc .
There was no way the SH were going to fight Caribou once Hody was still up and running plus they did not even fight Vander Decken which was a bigger part of the arc .

About that rumor the last part is what make think it's stupid but hey you never know.
 
I still want to know what made Gol D. Roger so powerful that he was the Pirate King instead of Whitebeard. Dude had to been a beast!

First of all, pirate king was a title that he gave himself after getting to raftel; since seemingly nobody had done it before (or at least in recorded history), it was a feat worthy of getting any title he wanted.

Whitebeard on the other hand, had no interest in such feats.
 
First of all, pirate king was a title that he gave himself after getting to raftel; since seemingly nobody had done it before (or at least in recorded history), it was a feat worthy of getting any title he wanted.

Whitebeard on the other hand, had no interest in such feats.

No, people simply started calling him that. Rayleigh outright says to the Strawhats in the Sabondy that Roger had no interest in such titles.
 
He still needs to have been a beast though. That's basic.

Yeah he was a beast most likely but him getting to Raftel is what made him the Pirate King.
Rayleigh said after he did that it was the people who start calling him Pirate King even thought he was dieing and names did not mean much .

WB could have gone Raftel but we found out he did not care about going .

People wanted to see Caribou but he was not going to play any part of this arc until it was over .
The last chapter made sense that while a War was going he took advantage of it and steal all the treasures.
Same for all the other stuff.
 
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Pretty funny chapter. Flan, Mukuro, and Verde kept me laughing, as well as Dino. Eliminating two teams completely in the next battle will be intense, unless Uni's prediction is wrong.
 
Fairy tail

Bwahahahaha. First Wendy hates the cow because she is jealous of Erza having boobs and than the training is over. Bwahahahhahaha. I can´t wait for the upcoming ass pull power up for Fairy Tail to beat the strongest guilds in Fiore. It was a very enjoyable chapter.
 
Fairy tail

Bwahahahaha. First Wendy hates the cow because she is jealous of Erza having boobs and than the training is over. Bwahahahhahaha. I can´t wait for the upcoming ass pull power up for Fairy Tail to beat the strongest guilds in Fiore. It was a very enjoyable chapter.

Is it really an asspull when Natsu just tries harder at this point? It's really not since he does it every single arc. It's just stupid.

He just thinks about his Nakama and gains all his MP back. I've never understood why so many translators believe the term "nakama" is somehow an untranslatable concept and has to remain untranslated. One Piece and Fairy Tail scanners are notorious for this, but they have this in almost every series in which the term is used.

BTW wtf was with that scene in the last chapter with Natsu trying to get into the women's bath area? I wasn't even aware he understood there was another gender, much less being interested in them
 
Fairy Tail
That was a awesome troll chapter i must say lol.

Is it really an asspull when Natsu just tries harder at this point?

It's really not since he does it every single arc. It's just stupid.

Yep i am with you on this one.
It's become the norm now that you expect it to happen every arc .
It not happening would be more of a shock .

HSD
It's still fun seeing ways he comes up with for fan service .
Also good chapter .
 
Sket Dance

Good stuff for a Christmas chapter. It was downplayed a little bit though, I expected things to be more serious, considering the issue here. 5 fucking months.

Anyway if we're not getting Switch next chapter then man, what the hell. I've been bracing myself for it for a while.

Kagami

Oooh, a changeup in the rules will be great right now. I approve.

Still stalemate, though.
 
He just thinks about his Nakama and gains all his MP back. I've never understood why so many translators believe the term "nakama" is somehow an untranslatable concept and has to remain untranslated. One Piece and Fairy Tail scanners are notorious for this, but they have this in almost every series in which the term is used.

Because 'comrade' obviously means that they're commies and we don't want that now, do we?
 
Gacha Gacha was one of those manga I enjoyed to read yet couldn't place a finger on precisely why.
I only remember Capsule and it being average. But like zero details. I might have to re-read but I remember not liking Secret. But that might have just been because they
character ditched for the sequel IIRC
.
This series has been going for 24 years and they aren't even really together.

idk, I still kinda like AMG
I liked the anime. Urd and Hild are best. But I won't read the manga that strings that shit out for infinity. Ad nauseum.
Iris Zero vol 1

Expecting some major mood whiplash here.
You are wise.
 
Is it really an asspull when Natsu just tries harder at this point? It's really not since he does it every single arc. It's just stupid.

He just thinks about his Nakama and gains all his MP back. I've never understood why so many translators believe the term "nakama" is somehow an untranslatable concept and has to remain untranslated. One Piece and Fairy Tail scanners are notorious for this, but they have this in almost every series in which the term is used.

BTW wtf was with that scene in the last chapter with Natsu trying to get into the women's bath area? I wasn't even aware he understood there was another gender, much less being interested in them

I agree with you on "nakama", I roll my eyes anytime I see it.

One Piece I can sorta understand why they keep it since it's become this "untouchable" translation in the community. To the point I am sure people would rage if a scan group decided to put in "comrade" or "friend". But any other series...yeah cut that crap out.
 
I only remember Capsule and it being average. But like zero details. I might have to re-read but I remember not liking Secret. But that might have just been because they
character ditched for the sequel IIRC
.

I liked the anime. Urd and Hild are best. But I won't read the manga that strings that shit out for infinity. Ad nauseum.

You are wise.

The episode with the Golden Nightingale killed me. There was just one sight gag that I laughed at for like a week or two.
 
The episode with the Golden Nightingale killed me. There was just one sight gag that I laughed at for like a week or two.
Yea, Troubadour's lol ending was classic (peace, I'm out!). It's a good thing that Urd takes that in stride cause she is so awesome. Dem potions and ceiling camping.
 
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I wonder what the deal with the mirror is. I got this feeling the mirror will make Matsukawa forget everything pertaining to it and her feeling for Harisugawa.
 
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