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I'm reading the Viz translation for the first time. It's too bad there is no full colour Viz scans. Seeing Zolo is rather annoying, as well as how watered down the language is. Fuck censorship.
 

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well, the translations in the full color version available in the web is all VIZ past a certain point, I think post Time-Skip.
 

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Ya well I'm not reading that part as I said lol.
 

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I would be pumped up for the series again if it had already ended and I could marathon all the remaining episodes or chapters. Having to wait 5 years is goddawful
 

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Zoro and Luffy fighting at Whisky Peak was fucking retarded. Too bad Zoro didn’t cut off his head.
 

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Yeah the reason was retarded as Luffy later on was willing to give Robin the benefit of the doubt with far more things going against her and even her flat out admitting it while here Zoro told Luffy he didn't do it and yet it didn't keep the retard from attacking him. I still enjoyed somewhat though because seeing a quick back and forth between both would be something in most fan's heads (I think that's even the reason Oda had them fighting tbh) and I kinda wished to see it to an end but eh. if you feel like it, watch the scene in the anime. The anime at that point in time was very decent and the pacing was very well handled unlike the current anime in which an entire chapter is spent to showcase that brief altercation between Luffy and Kaido.
 

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How did Robin blow up Igaram’s ship with no weaponry? You’d think she would need a cannon of some sort to cause such an explosion :ha

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Super Saiyan said:
I read through most of East Blue again.. it is sad that such a mediocre arc is far better than anything that part 2 has offered. The Arlong arc at least offered some tension that felt real, and key growth and moments for most of the Straw Hats. Going to read through the rest of part 1.
I wouldn't really cite it as a mediocre arc. It was indeed simplistic and repetitive in its structure, though at least made up for it with some solid character introductions and initial arcs along with varied locations, as well as each of the main villains offering something that helped make Luffy confronting them far more of an ideological battle to prepare him for the Grand Line with how most of them were people who's ambitions of going so far had been shattered. It's not fantastic, though I'd still say it's fairly solid (especially compared to most of the main overarching arcs to come after it).

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How did Robin blow up Igaram’s ship with no weaponry? You’d think she would need a cannon of some sort to cause such an explosion :ha
Could be she sprouted hands to turn the cannons inward on the ship. Hard to say if she was within enough range to pull it off at the time though, so it could indeed be Oda having not planned things through.

"B-but muh GODA plans everything!"
 

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Maybe the hippo she was riding is Pluton.
 

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I like that they finally introduced a blacksmith to the series. I like when they treat about weaponry being forged.
 

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It's weird how Doflamingo would like Luffy and Ace to escape when both are Ds.
 

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Why would he care about that? If anything he would want them to escape for that reason. He loves chaos.
 

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Why would he care about that? If anything he would want them to escape for that reason. He loves chaos.

We saw later on how unsettled he was at the idea of having D's alongside him, so much so Corazón knew Law had to run before Doflamingo knew he was a D. Law mentioning it to him in their fight was also enough to make Doffy lose his composure. He clearly fears the "D's are the enemies of the Gods" prophecy.
 

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ahill1 said:
Super Saiyan said:
Why would he care about that? If anything he would want them to escape for that reason. He loves chaos.

We saw later on how unsettled he was at the idea of having D's alongside him, so much so Corazón knew Law had to run before Doflamingo knew he was a D. Law mentioning it to him in their fight was also enough to make Doffy lose his composure. He clearly fears the "D's are the enemies of the Gods" prophecy.

The situations are different though. Doflamingo wasn't personally under threat by Luffy or Ace, so letting them go would be irrelevant to him.
 

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I'd like to say "Maybe Oda doesn't plan everything after all :troll" but SSJ2's right here. The only time Doflamingo shows any fear of D. was shock when Law revealed his heritage when fighting him, and Law was far more of a direct threat than those two were 2 years prior. That, and Corazon may have been assuming Doflamingo's motives based on their upbringing as Tenryuubito.
 

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Super Saiyan said:
ahill1 said:
Super Saiyan said:
Why would he care about that? If anything he would want them to escape for that reason. He loves chaos.

We saw later on how unsettled he was at the idea of having D's alongside him, so much so Corazón knew Law had to run before Doflamingo knew he was a D. Law mentioning it to him in their fight was also enough to make Doffy lose his composure. He clearly fears the "D's are the enemies of the Gods" prophecy.

The situations are different though. Doflamingo wasn't personally under threat by Luffy or Ace, so letting them go would be irrelevant to him.
They could potentially become, though. And by their personality, Doflamingo should know they are the types to fight against the Tenryuubitos' way of dealing with things and against unfairness in general. Also, when it was shown in the Dressrosa arc via a flashback that Doflamimgo saw Luffy was a D, he was seemingly bothered with it.
 

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Skypiea is worse than I remember, and I never thought highly of it. Enel is boring. His Commanders all lack depth and are very low IQ. The only interesting part so far is the history of Shandora and perhaps Noland's flashback when I get to it. Seeing Luffy fuck around in the stomach if the snake for several chapters was as dumb as it gets. Cant wait for this arc to end lol
 
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