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E-Mercenary said:
I'm still hoping for Gecko's stitching to split open. Originally I thought it would lead to his final transformation.. but maybe he is really defeated and it will split open to let all the shadows out. And then he'll shrink into a super deformed Gecko like when Luffy recovers from Gear 3.

it seems like spoilers are necessary to talk in this thread. do we need to do spoiler tags all the time?
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that would be quite cool, but he is already clearly defeated...its kuma taking stage now
 
i havent really been keeping up with the new movie info, but upon seeing the preview in 336 and wondering WTF at the crew, i checked wiki, which said

"The movie is a retelling of the Drum Island arc with new music and animation. Vivi has been removed from the plot while both Nico Robin and Franky, who joined the crew after the Drum Island arc, have been added. The movie also has the Straw Hat's new ship, the Thousand Sunny. It has been stated that Oda will be creating a new character for this movie, Wapol's older brother, Masul."

wtf
 
atomsk said:
i havent really been keeping up with the new movie info, but upon seeing the preview in 336 and wondering WTF at the crew, i checked wiki, which said

"The movie is a retelling of the Drum Island arc with new music and animation. Vivi has been removed from the plot while both Nico Robin and Franky, who joined the crew after the Drum Island arc, have been added. The movie also has the Straw Hat's new ship, the Thousand Sunny. It has been stated that Oda will be creating a new character for this movie, Wapol's older brother, Masul."

wtf
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It's a reimagining of the Drum Island arc. Instead of continually making crappy original movies, they are making crappy remakes. I want the guys from movie 6 back
 
grandjedi6 said:
It's a reimagining of the Drum Island arc. Instead of continually making crappy original movies, they are making crappy remakes. I want the guys from movie 6 back
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Wait, did the movie that was going to cover Alabasta come out and it was terrible?
 
Bebpo said:
Wait, did the movie that was going to cover Alabasta come out and it was terrible?
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The Alabasta movie came out last March for Japan and this month for the US. The movie ended up being worse than the anime version by alot since they had to remove so much stuff. No Smoker, no Mr. Prince, all the fights only showed the finishing moves, ect.
 
grandjedi6 said:
The Alabasta movie came out last March for Japan and this month for the US. The movie ended up being worse than the anime version by alot since they had to remove so much stuff. No Smoker, no Mr. Prince, all the fights only showed the finishing moves, ect.
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Yeah, I just went and read the wiki summary. Sounds like they made everything PG and took out a lot of good characters. Lame. Movies are supposed to allow more violence than TV shows, not the opposite :(

No impaling of Luffy = MOVIE FAILS HARD
 
Holy shit at the whole Thriller Bark arc. That came together so well, even better than CP-9.
And it's still not over... How they're going to get out of what just happened in 484, I have no idea
 
I hope Brooke joins the crew. Though I am a little worried he's a swordsman because that's suppose to be Zoro's thing. Hopefully he has other abilities that'll differentiate him enough from Zoro.
 
Doublethink said:
I hope Brooke joins the crew. Though I am a little worried he's a swordsman because that's suppose to be Zoro's thing. Hopefully he has other abilities that'll differentiate him enough from Zoro.
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He's a very good musician, I believe a violinist. So that solves Luffy's want for a musician after so long lol.
 
I meant combat wise. Every member of the Strawhats fight differently, but if Brook joins, he and Zoro might end up doing similar things.
 
Brook is cool, but they are going to go seperate ways considering Brook has to go meet Lagoon and that's on the other side of the Grand Line
 
Doublethink said:
Luffy declared that he was going to make Brook one of them, so I'm guessing that Brook will join.
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Yeah, I go along with this line of thinking. Luffy says what he means and gets what he wants.

Plus Brooke rules, so I'd be happy. I never liked Franky much, he was ok but ehh the rest of the cast feels better and more likable.
 
Doublethink said:
I meant combat wise. Every member of the Strawhats fight differently, but if Brook joins, he and Zoro might end up doing similar things.
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Zoro is a strong swordsmen. Brook is a fast fencer. The two are actually very different and Oda could easily expand on it.

Yoboman said:
Brook is cool, but they are going to go seperate ways considering Brook has to go meet Lagoon and that's on the other side of the Grand Line
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Brook is joining the crew, there is no doubt about it. Brooke has passed every "requirement" to be a strawhat: He is a musician which Luffy wants, he has had a flashback scene, he has a dream that can be achieved traveling with Luffy and Luffy asked him to join. And there is no worry about Brook meeting Laboon since Luffy himself promised to go back to Laboon. So by traveling with Luffy, Brook will be working towards his goal
 
Bebpo said:
Yeah, I go along with this line of thinking. Luffy says what he means and gets what he wants.

Plus Brooke rules, so I'd be happy. I never liked Franky much, he was ok but ehh the rest of the cast feels better and more likable.
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Franky is the best character in the show, but I don't think he's found his groove within the crew yet.
 
Firestorm said:
Thriller Bark is over? So does that mean the anime shouldn't see an overload of filler? I don't read the manga.
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Thriller Bark is mostly over, there is just one more thing to be completed. From the way the first Thriller Bark episode went I think they might be dragging it out like Skypeia (1 chapter = 1 episode), which is better than what they did to Enies Lobby
 
grandjedi6 said:
Thriller Bark is mostly over, there is just one more thing to be completed. From the way the first Thriller Bark episode went I think they might be dragging it out like Skypeia (1 chapter = 1 episode), which is better than what they did to Enies Lobby
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But Skypeia was so shitty =(
Although that might be more because of the content rather than because of the stretching out.
 
Firestorm said:
But Skypeia was so shitty =(
Although that might be more because of the content rather than because of the stretching out.
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Even in the manga Skypeia started out slowly and dragged on. However, Thriller Bark is filled with win and is one of the best One Piece arcs period. Plus there are plenty of points that the anime can add to with out making it stupid or overstretched.
 
grandjedi6 said:
Even in the manga Skypeia started out slowly and dragged on. However, Thriller Bark is filled with win and is one of the best One Piece arcs period. Plus there are plenty of points that the anime can add to with out making it stupid or overstretched.
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I think I'm one of the few people who really liked Skypeia. It was paced too slowly, sure. But once the battle royal started...holy shit. Was just non-stop action between tons of badass characters with tons of awesome fights and then the final end Luffy fights against Eneru were OMG amazing. The conclusion with the bell was amazing too. I <3 Skypiea arc.
 
You're not the only one. I also really liked Skypia. The only parts that have dragged on for me was the Don Krieg arc and the awful Davy Back fight.
 
As I was reading the manga I was hoping they wouldn't drag out this arc too much. Skypeia was really the low point of the series, I didn't read how it went in the manga but it didn't feel like it should've gone for the 50+ episodes it did in the Anime. It also felt completely out of place and pointless in the grand scheme of things and I wish that Oda had never bothered with it.

Hopefully Thriller Bark is kept tightly paced
 
Yoboman said:
As I was reading the manga I was hoping they wouldn't drag out this arc too much. Skypeia was really the low point of the series, I didn't read how it went in the manga but it didn't feel like it should've gone for the 50+ episodes it did in the Anime. It also felt completely out of place and pointless in the grand scheme of things and I wish that Oda had never bothered with it.

Hopefully Thriller Bark is kept tightly paced
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That's one thing that really bothered me as well. It just seemed like one really long filler arc =(
 
Doublethink said:
Luffy declared that he was going to make Brook one of them, so I'm guessing that Brook will join.
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absolutely...actually you can tell just from the first meeting... he really sticks out, hes just as crazy as all the other OP crew
 
Doublethink said:
You're not the only one. I also really liked Skypia. The only parts that have dragged on for me was the Don Krieg arc and the awful Davy Back fight.
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Yeah, we're on the same page. The Davy Back fight was terrible and the only part of the manga I've disliked since page 1. Don Krieg was solid I thought because Sanji is awesome, his backstory was awesome, and the Luffy vs. Krieg fight was pretty violent and intense. Plus Mihawk fight right after :)
 
Bebpo said:
Yeah, we're on the same page. The Davy Back fight was terrible and the only part of the manga I've disliked since page 1. Don Krieg was solid I thought because Sanji is awesome, his backstory was awesome, and the Luffy vs. Krieg fight was pretty violent and intense. Plus Mihawk fight right after :)
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What? The Davy Back Arc was canon? I always thought it was filler :lol

Don Krieg was awesome
 
Yeah, Sanji's arc was where the series got good. Anime sucked for the first 20 or so episodes. Half of Davy back was filler, other half wasn't. But the entire thing sucked. I think it was Fights 1, 2, and 6 that were canon.
 
Yoboman said:
What? The Davy Back Arc was canon? I always thought it was filler :lol

Don Krieg was awesome
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To be specific, the Davy Back Fight arc was canon but the anime added a bunch of extra events to prolong it. The canon events that Firestorm is mentioning was The boat race, Groggy Fight and Luffy's final fight. While the Davy Back Fight seemed pointless and stupid, it did serve its purpose: to have a quick funny-only arc before the overly serious Water 7
 
Yoboman said:
It also solidified the importance of afros in One Piece canon
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Also, is it just me or does Nami look different now? Actually when I look back at the manga chapters, she seems to have changed there too. Did Oda change Nami's character design slightly?
 
Nami developed bigger boobs. :lol :lol

Also about Brook...
So according to an interview done with the author; he had the plans for a skeleton musician back when he created Laboon. He just wasn't able to introduce him as early as he wanted.
If that is really true then it's without a doubt Brook should join, and everything will be BEAUTIFUU.
 
Firestorm said:
But Skypeia was so shitty =(
Although that might be more because of the content rather than because of the stretching out.
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Skypeia is actually one of my favourite of all arcs still for some reason. Just because I think it had so many things. Being in a strange unknown place, strawhats on holiday!, and what seemed at the time as great build up to some great character development. Plus it just felt so adventurous. Also slightly spooky with the whole mystery of merry.
 
Man, Brook looks awesome in that picture. I really need to get off my lazy ass and get myself caught up with the manga.
I stopped reading at the chapter where Sanji crashed the wedding.
So has the arc remained awesome, or gotten even better?
 
crowphoenix said:
Man, Brook looks awesome in that picture. I really need to get off my lazy ass and get myself caught up with the manga.
I stopped reading at the chapter where Sanji crashed the wedding.
So has the arc remained awesome, or gotten even better?
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That was the same point I stopped reading too, don't even know why. Anyway yeah it does get better after that. Particularly to the later end in my opinion anyway.
 
Kave_Man said:
Nami developed bigger boobs. :lol :lol
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But Nami always develops bigger breasts :lol :lol

I think they feminized her by giving her a slender face.

crowphoenix said:
Man, Brook looks awesome in that picture. I really need to get off my lazy ass and get myself caught up with the manga.
I stopped reading at the chapter where Sanji crashed the wedding.
So has the arc remained awesome, or gotten even better?
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That was the one bad part of the arc. After that everything was ace. Seriously one of the best One Piece arcs
 
grandjedi6 said:
But Nami always develops bigger breasts :lol :lol

I think they feminized her by giving her a slender face.



That was the one bad part of the arc. After that everything was ace. Seriously one of the best One Piece arcs
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Great to hear, especially since I was enjoying the arc. Looks like this weekend, I'll be trying to figure out where exactly I was and get caught up.

Nolan. said:
That was the same point I stopped reading too, don't even know why. Anyway yeah it does get better after that. Particularly to the later end in my opinion anyway.
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Ei, I really wish I knew why I stopped right there. I just did and haven't felt like hunting through the chapters to figure out where I was, even though I'm dying to know what happened.
 
grandjedi6 said:
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Also, is it just me or does Nami look different now? Actually when I look back at the manga chapters, she seems to have changed there too. Did Oda change Nami's character design slightly?
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Yeah he changed her slightly, as with Robin. Maybe just his way of drawing females. Face is slightly rounder, chin isn't pointy anymore but mainly it's that the foreheads aren't as huge and eyes are closer together now.

This is more in line with how he used to draw actually. He went through a phase where he was drawing them really ugly IMO
 
Yoboman said:
Yeah he changed her slightly, as with Robin. Maybe just his way of drawing females. Face is slightly rounder, chin isn't pointy anymore but mainly it's that the foreheads aren't as huge and eyes are closer together now.

This is more in line with how he used to draw actually. He went through a phase where he was drawing them really ugly IMO
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nami looks better in the manga than she does in the anime at the moment
 
Not sure if it was mentioned but did anyone catch the spoilers that were released?

Seems they survived and Zoro is looking bloody
 
http://www.onepieceofficial.com/

One Piece season set coming to DVD in May. Funi will supposedly be releasing a press release soon with details. Will they be starting at the beginning, or with Skypiea? Or will they be doing both? The 4kids/Viz DVDs have disappeared, which is leading some to believe that Funi may have gotten the DVD rights for the beginning of the series.

They also launched the Alabasta movie website. I know it's not a good movie, but I'm dying to see OP in theaters. Only problem is the closest theater that'll be showing it is 2 hours across the state. =/
 
Snaku said:
http://www.onepieceofficial.com/

One Piece season set coming to DVD in May. Funi will supposedly be releasing a press release soon with details. Will they be starting at the beginning, or with Skypiea? Or will they be doing both? The 4kids/Viz DVDs have disappeared, which is leading some to believe that Funi may have gotten the DVD rights for the beginning of the series.

They also launched the Alabasta movie website. I know it's not a good movie, but I'm dying to see OP in theaters. Only problem is the closest theater that'll be showing it is 2 hours across the state. =/
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I can't see how it won't be Skypiea. They haven't done any script or voice work on anything else
 
There are so many OP episodes now, that I dont know where to begin. Do you guys think that they will release some kind of 100-episode boxset(S) on blu-ray?

I personally think that if I would get into such a long series I would want the best production values from the get-go!
 
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