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[One Piece] A wild trip on the Grand Line
Jragghen
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There once was a man named Gold Roger, who was King of the Pirates. He had fame, power, and wealth beyond your wildest dreams. Before they hung him from the gallows, these were the final words he said: "My fortune is yours for the taking, but you have to find it first. I left everything I own in One Piece." Ever since, pirates from all over the World set sail for the Grand Line, searching for One Piece, the treasure that would make their dreams come true.
Yes, I just got that song stuck in your head
This is the thread about One Piece, one of the longest-running and most widely acclaimed anime/manga series that has ever been produced.
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(borrowed with some devil fruit alterations from Xenogear of Bore and King Riptor's Ops)
What is One Piece?
One Piece is a manga written by a madman named Oda. He ate the Oda-Oda fruit and can write to a distance of no more than 250 Odaodas, which is still pretty impressive considering your average writer can't handle more than 5 or 6. It's about:
Pirates -
Foolishly inspired by the death of Gold Roger pirates have taken to the sea in search of their dreams .
One Piece follows that damned Straw hat and his crew . A group of men and women intent on their dreams and adventure.
Monkey D. Luffy - Captain, Idiot, Rubberman. When the tough gets going he punches them. He's going to be the king of the Pirates. He uses his rubber powers to achieve attacks and states of being that would kill normal people. Luffy has more attack forms than any Anime hero ever. His true power is his ability to make up shit on the fly.
Post Time skip
Luffy hasn't changed much. He can now enter all gears at will with no draw back. He has mastered Armor Haki and is slowly gaining control of the kings Haki( he doesn't have it down precisely yet) he used prediction Haki a few times but he seems to ignore it in heated fights.
Rorona Zoro - A man who uses three swords. One goes in his mouth. He is destined to get lost where ever he goes. Second Mate and on track to be the greatest Swordsman in the world.
Post Time Skip
Zoro has traded an Eye for being FUCKING AWESOME. He has demonstrated knowledge of Haki.
Nami - Master thief, Scrooge McDuck, and Navigator of awesomeness. Her Dream is to map the world. Events in her past make her stingy with money. This is all for the best since the Strawhats would be destitute without her. Her Climatact allows her to simulate Weather effects and is great at parties
Post Time Skip
Boobs. Uh I mean Nami is now a Weather Witch. Her upgraded abilities make her far more formidable.
Usopp - King of lies and commander of 1 billion men. Crack Sniper. His dream is to be a pirate and meet his father on the sea
Post Time Skip
Captian Usopp is still a crack sniper. Now though he's mastered Pop greens -predatory plants that grow extremely fast and have a seemingly endless variety of effects. His ability to plan a strategy has increased as has his ability to concoct massive lies on the spot.
Sanji - Lover of food. Wants to be lover of women. Any woman. Under 40 of course. Master chef with the black leg of death. He wishes to see the All blue a sea containing every fish in the world. His true dream was crushed by the hateful monstrosity Absalom.
Post Time Skip
Sanji has seen things man.
SERIOUS THINGS . IT'S NOT FUNNY
He has learned to fly and gained a debilitating conditon in his training. Also he may be Satan. He has mastered the 99 secret okama recipes that make you manly and maintain youthful skin.
SERIOUS THINGS . IT'S NOT FUNNY
He has learned to fly and gained a debilitating conditon in his training. Also he may be Satan. He has mastered the 99 secret okama recipes that make you manly and maintain youthful skin.
Tony-Tony Chopper - A man-reindeer. He's a doctor and mascot of the crew. Also their emergency rations. His dream is to cure any illness. Chopper has the coolest Dad ever. He uses his rumble ball to call forth 6 transformations!
Post Time Skip
Well now he uses it to become a monster. Chopper has evolved his forms and can transform at will. His rumble Ball now allows him to turn into his Monster Point form at will and remain in full control. He cannot move for about an hour after use though
Nico Robin - She can sprout her body parts anywhere and she's an archaeologist. She hates giant robots of coolness. Her dream is kind of spoileriffc. Rest assured it is a tear jerker.
Post time Skip
Robin has upgraded into a Sexy older lady.
Oh she can make giant versions of her body parts and clone herself too.
She still hates giant Robots .
Oh she can make giant versions of her body parts and clone herself too.
She still hates giant Robots .
Franky - SUPER ! Cola Powered Cyborg. Shipwright. Man we all aspire to be. His dream also ruins a cool moment so it won't be here.
Post Time Skip
Franky has radically retructured his body. He also commands the Ultimate force of a GIANT COMBINING ROBOT.
So what if he's all the weapons ?
So what if he's all the weapons ?
Brook - Musician, Gentleman, King of soul. Brook is all of these things. He can hardly keep his talents straight in his brain. Oh he doesn't have a brain because he's a skeleton Yohoho! Brooks Dream is to return to a special friend.
Post Time Skip
Brook has Become Shaman King. His oversoul abilities allow him to make music into powerful damaging spells. He can leech soul energy from emotions and become a shaman king mod soul. His two years touring the world as a pop star were really intensive training. He still hasn't seen any panties.
Marines - They uphold "Justice" when the price isn't right Kuhahahaha. The cops to the pirates robbers. At least they look good doing it. Pretty even split between people just trying to uphold the peace (and get their ass kicked by pirates) and giant douche bags working for the giant assholes who run the World Government (and usually kick the pirates' ass)
Dreams
People have them(mainly fools). If you're a bad guy, Luffy crushes your dream. It's a fate worse than death.
Adventure
Pirates and adventure is like peanut butter and jelly.
How to go about watching/reading One Piece
The manga is released in the US by Viz. They do an okay job. Before this year started they were at the end of Alabasta, but now they are releasing six or seven volumes a month every month for the entire year. This should put them only about a year behind when 2011 comes around, not bad considering right now they are close to seven or eight years behind! Translation is inconsistent between volumes though. Primarily because they had multiple teams of translators working on each story arc. It's little things but it can be annoying . Also if you like the song Bink's Sake be aware of oncoming rage.
Funimation releases new episodes every Saturday on their site at ( ideally ) 9pm. Hulu has quite a backlog of old and recent episodes and gets newer episodes two weeks later.
NEW STUNNING INFORMATION
http://www.vizmanga.com/sj-weekly
Because the medium of the magazine is dying Viz has gone digital with Shonen Jump. For roughly 29 dollars a year you will now be able to get Manga the same day it releases in Japan.
Oh snap.
More details will be up next week but Viz is promising more titles in addition to 1:1 releases with Japan
This includes One Piece of course. Favorites like Toriko and zombies like Bleach and Naruto will also be included. So I mean 30 bucks for Toriko ,One Piece and various other titles is sweet.
You also get Yugioh cards even though Yugioh isn't even on the Alpha site. Fun fact sell these online and you'll pay for your sub twice over.
See if you vote with your wallet people listen. This happened way faster than I expected. Thanks, Obama
Please do not link to or mention manga scan sites or provide links to downloading episodes. I cannot stress this enough. Suffice to say asking is not a good idea either. You will be infracted or banned. Piracy of the nautical variety is okay though.
(Also, Just a quick disclaimer: Anime/manga threads require permission from the mods around these parts. One Piece has approval, but please don't stray off into random discussion of other series beyond comparison purposes.)
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They it got to the titular gladiator prisoners.
There aren't quite enough
Crew talk
Or a surprise entry via Bartolomeowhatever his name is.
I actually hope Bart's in. I want more fanboy squealing.
Repostin' dis from the last thread.
As for new points, I wonder if every single arc from here to series completion people will speculate about new crew members.
Last arc? Series over? Who's the next crew member (for the obvious spin off sequel)!
But lets be honest. It's REALLY fun to speculate who would fit on the strawhats, because Oda is so damn good at making lots of fun characters
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Has Sogeking appeared again since Marineford?
This will determine whether I ever take up watching the series again.
It seems par for the course for One Piece.
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No it doesnt
Oh and its been confirmed in the volume 71 sbs that Sanji knows prediction haki and onky the monster trio use it
Also, I didn't think it was possible to have as tragic a back story as Nami and Robin, but whelp, here we are.
"I don't get hungry." All the
As I read the chapter I initially thought she might join the crew, in light of this much back story being provided via flashback, but I think she's just going to be reinstated as Queen or something else equally boring and we'll never here from her until the last arc.
Still, this chapter alone has massively increased how much I am liking this arc.
He was trying to be funny.
Waiting for the tie-in to a legendary weapon
They have three!
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Heart-wrenching!