>>33228
You into disfiguring scars?

>>33229
Chicks dig scars.

And since I saw Balalaika, so do I.

USOPP AND BUGGY

Who will be the one true Pirate Christ.

>that feeling when all you want is for the manga to be about Buggy vs. Usopp and their absurd luck/charisma stats

Yet I know it will never happen, it hurts...

8000 FOLLOWERS CONFIRMED

USOPP 4 SHICHIBUKAI

It's not a twist if you lie to the viewers.
It's not dramatic if there's no build up to make the reader care
It's not dramatic if you just undo it

Sabo looks like a fanart or a protagonist of one of Oda's one shots.

>Oh, Ace was really popular. I better bring him back...
>Luffy had ANOTHER brother, he was just um, dead, so Luffy never mentioned him. But he's back now and he's got the MeraMera!

This whole character to the core is a thorn in my eye and I doubt I'll ever be not salty about it.

It really bugs me that they put the real mera mera in the barrel if they never intended to give it away.

Sabo said that the normal weapons are being constructed somewhere else. Maybe it's on that Kaido affiliated island shown during Caribou's tedious adventure? If it is, it's pretty funny that he actually ended up helping Luffy and Sabo on both of their missions on accident.

>>33235
Particularly seeing as how fake/imitation devil fruit was a whole big thing, I'm really surprised that was the actual fire fruit.

I don't get why people just jump into devil fruit powers. Do they just hate swimming and taking baths?

>>33238
Most characters find the powers way more useful and fun than swimming, and baths are still a possibility. It's totally worth being a hammer if you can turn yourself into a gigantic fire cannon.

WOW GOLLY I DIDN'T KNOW COBY WAS IN THIS TOURNAMENT.

(Seriously Sabo, wtf is wrong with your face.)

Kuros wasting Buffalo was pretty rad, I gotta say. Also, I wish, wish, wish Oda would stop shitting on rebeccah and having men protect her.

>Usopp actually leading an army
YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

>>33241
Yeah, Sabo explicitly having to save her because she was a woman was pretty awful. Female warriors have absolutely no credibility in One Piece.
And Robin still isn't going to get a major battle it seems?

>>33239
I suppose. I just, I love swimming way too much to ever consider one, no matter how cool.

Does no one else find it weird how Sabo just snatches up this fruit without so much as consulting Luffy or giving a shit about anyone else involved and eats it? He was already ridiculously OP before having a fruit power, and now he has one of the strongest ones in the series.. Why? It renders the entire point of Luffy joining the tournament moot now. And I don't know if I'm expected to cheer Sabo on for doing this, especially since he just showed up out of the blue, acted like a complete asshole, and we still know nothing about him other than HE'S SABO! Woohoo!~

Not one of Oda's finest moments if you ask me. And the whole Doflamingo-still-alive thing is so predictable and boring that it's almost laughable. I fully expect this "birdcage" to be a cage full or irate man-eating flamingos.

http://readms.com/r/one_piece/744/2337/1
Better translation link.

>>33229
Yes. That's why I'm all about circumcisions. Hubba hubba.

>>33245
Maybe he asked him while they were having that heart to heart?

>>33245

I though that Luffy running out of the colosseum crying about how the mera mera is in good hands meant that Sabo probably asked him for it and Luffy was ok with it.

Also I can't believe that I'm able to spell colosseum without looking it up now. Thanks, oda.

*thought

>>33245
>Does no one else find it weird how Sabo just snatches up this fruit without so much as consulting Luffy or giving a shit about anyone else involved and eats it?
>It renders the entire point of Luffy joining the tournament moot now.
Luffy didn't know Sabo was still alive, so being the only one of the three left meant, by Luffy's logic, he should rightfully take the fruit from whomever is trying to shill it and get rid of it or have one of his own crew have it. He later finds out Sabo's alive, they probably talk about it for a few seconds, Luffy pulls out and Sabo is now Lucy. Oda will probably bring it up in a later chapter that they talked about it.

Where's the problem?

>>33234
>Luffy had ANOTHER brother, he was just um, dead, so Luffy never mentioned him.
Luffy never brought up Ace until he showed up in Alabasta. What makes you think he'd bring up Sabo to the crew, even after his introduction during Luffy's flashback, when Luffy thinks Sabo's dead?

>>33245
You're kind of retarded then Jim, since we know they talked when Luffy gave Sabo his disguise and had him pretend to be Lucy.

And Luffy was shown willing to give Ace's fruit to others before now, just as long as it was someone he trusted.

Still I can't say I'm exactly hyped about Sabo becoming the new Fire-Fist.

>>33249
The problem is we need these "off-panel" talks that you're betting on for things to fit and make sense. As it stands right now, no, Luffy never told Sabo he could have the fruit, because we haven't seen it. It is most likely what Luffy would want, but we didn't get that. We didn't get anything. It's all incredibly rushed and anti-climactic as fuck as it stands right now.

Of course I knew Sabo would end up winning, but I never thought he'd do so by Goku punching literally everything away, eating the fruit right there and becoming an overpowered Gary Stu all in less than one full chapter. You need good progression and pay offs when you've built the most hyped and cluttered arc One Piece has ever seen. This is not that. At all.

>>33250
Link me the page where that happens. Link me the page where Sabo states his intentions about eating the fruit.

Furthermore, go fuck your grandmother.

>>33251

>Gary Stu

>>33252
>>33251
>>Gary Stu
>>Furthermore, go fuck your grandmother.
You're really going all out in the shitposting.

Read Chapter 731 again
Its pretty clear

>>33254
I don't think you know what shitposting is. One of those words you keep hearing and want to repeat to sound cool.
Or "proof" for that matter.

Jim even for you this is impressively shitty work.

You know guys, if you're not enjoying the writing you could always just stop reading.

Are you guys saying Sabo ISN'T a Mary Sue? really?

>>33259
Being powerful in one piece doesn't make you a mary sue.

>>33259
I'm saying that anyone who uses the term "Mary Sue" unironically has lost all credibility as a critic.

>>33260
But beating up all the big names like Diamante and Jesus without effort kind of does

>>33261
well that's just like your issue, bro

>>33262
He didn't beat them though? Even at the end with his biggest attack he only stunned them and destroyed the ring.
They were able to get up after and were still in a fight-ready state as they watched him run away.

People get get stunned all the time without losing.
Hell powerful fighters lose quite alot in One Piece too.

>>33259
The irony being this Sabo is the textbook definition of a Mary Sue. Young, handsome, unbelievably strong, comes out of nowhere at the last minute to save everybody, wins effortlessly.
These idiots will just argue and fight about anything to be a contrarian. Like this >>33261 individual.

>>33264
There's nothing unbelievable about his strength, He's followed a similar path to his brother Luffy. There's no reason he can't also have become strong in all those years.

>>33264

Sabo is a powerful member of a powerful faction whose mission is tangentially related to the current plotline.

Over the course of his mission he rescues one (1) of the strawhats's allies (Rebecca) and one (1) of his own allies (Hack) is rescued by the strawhats. He convinces Luffy to give up on one (1) of his side goals. This is the only effect Sabo has on the plot.

Sabo has been hinted to be alive still since episode 501 of the anime. Never stated to be Sabo, but since Dragon met him in Goa Kingdom it seemed likely that Dragon saved him after he was attacked.

Ivankov acts as if Dragon has someone injured with him. More than likely this means that Sabo has been with the Revolutionaries for about 12 years. Which I'd say is a good long while to get powerful when you're in an organization like the Revolutionaries.

>>33267

>>33267
>>33268
Get this shit out of my face. I was saying Sabo was alive ever since that chapter first came out and everybody laughed. I've known this since before it was popular, back when you'd get kicked out of bars just for saying he was still alive. I was there.
And don't pretend like all of you were on this bandwagon all along. You kids have some fucking nerve I swear to jesus.

>>33266
None of this is helping your cause; just goes to proof how much of a gyp he is. I never said he was an unbelievable character or anything. I realize it's perfectly normal for him to be that strong, I'm just against how he was re-introduced and more recent events...

What if we've been wrong about Doflamingo's powers all along? What if he's not a Paramecia who can wield string but a Logia who is literally MADE of string?

>>33269
Calm down, son. Stop taking shit so personally. It's just a manga, no need to get defensive about it.

>>33269
You've got a pretty huge victim complex going.

>>33270
Urgh that would be awful.

Plus ripping off JJBA.

>>33269
>I realize it's perfectly normal for him to be that strong, I'm just against how he was re-introduced and more recent events...
So then your argument about him being "textbook Mary Sue" was made even knowing that he's not actually unusually powerful or special within the context of the story being told?

This thread is exactly why I just use /op/ to find out when the good scans are up.

"Bird cage" speculations? Buggy/Usopp comparisons? Discussion of how Sabo grew up to be a pipe-wielding kung-fu Victorian gentleman under the employ of Mr. Rage Against the Machine? Any genuine input is swept away by a bunch of asinine namecalling and bitching.

Fuck.

>>33275
>Discussion of how Sabo grew up to be a pipe-wielding kung-fu Victorian gentleman under the employ of Mr. Rage Against the Machine?

WHOSE NOW LITERALLY ON FIRE!!!

>>33243
>>33241

Rebecca's pretty exhausted from a full day of fighting and the ring just spontaneously exploded beneath her feet.

We also needed to have someone for Sabo to talk to one everybody landed so we could have that reveal moment. So it was more a matter of artistic convenience from my perspective.

But yes, I get what you guys are saying.

>>33275
I think the Bird Cage is either...

A)A huge container filled with mass produced Zoans.

B)A massive island dome.

C)A device that summons a giant Robin Williams and a giant Nathan Lane.

jesus you guys have been busy, 47 posts already

I was hoping Sabo would have more than just the "eye scar" which apparently is handed out like a badge nowadays but whatever

Also it's nice to see Pica again.I thought he was gonna just gonna be Zoro's main fight alone but it's cool to see that his ability is being used beyond that one fight

>>33279
This whole plot has gone crazy, and it's so exciting to think of how everything's going to fall apart for the heroes.

>>33275
then leave :3

>>33278
>C)A device that summons a giant Robin Williams and a giant Nathan Lane.
In any other series, this would be the "Third option is a joke answer" bit, but with Oda writing, there's at least a 20% chance this is actually the case.

I thought Sabo was still gonna be clean cut

Instead we got Fire Coby

>>33285
You'll live.

>>33278
All those options sound awesome and plausible. I'm going with a big cage made of string that slowly constricts on Dressrosa, sclicing anyone who knows of Doflamingos secret. The ultimate silencing technique, and forces the strawhats into another battle against time, a la Smiley.

>>33285
Sucks don't it?

>>33287
>another battle against time
Yeah let's not do that. We've already had that like four times as arc climaxes. The cage thing is probably just something having to do with his powers and why his severed head is talking.

>on break weeks

ahaaa, jim gettin fuckin' punkd. That he's been tolerated this long astounds me. He's been a shitposting thorn in every thread's side since he took the name. Probably started ironically (which is still shitposting) and by now has become his true way.

>>33291
You gonna be okay, sugar?

I'm just glad the mods deleted that cumshot. Hope he got banned in the process.

Yeah I hope so too

>>33290
didn't we JUST have a break?

They're too scared Oda is gonna explode, so now they're giving him mandatory (and quite random) breaks more often than before. The anime is more close now to the manga than ever before in its history.

Actually yeah Oda is getting mandatory breaks every 3 chapters. I think there's also gonna be some golden week weirdness pretty soon so savor whatever chapters come out in the next month.

Is Oda really killing himself that much through his work habits?

>>33299

Probably. He only gets like 3 hours of sleep a day and smokes like a chimney.

I really hope he doesn't have cancer or something. :/ *knocks on wood*

>>33299
One Piece is only a fraction of the problem. The guy's reckless with his life and already had to go to the hospital a while back because of it. He doesn't care about himself.

probably cause his daughters hate OP

>>33301
what? why? lets beat them up!

>>33302
Because they prefer Pretty Cure.

>>33303
>why do you girls waste your time with that, my series has huge tits, gigga niggas and decapitations!
>god damn it they ran away crying again

>>33304

Yeah. I always found it odd how he said he wanted to make a series that his daughter would like more than Pretty Cure, yet he's only gotten worse at dealing with female characters.

>>33305
It's precisely because of them that he's gotten worse. He figures "hey, I don't have to try and make cute, realistic girls anymore."

Oda's not changing anything to appeal to anyone but his inner child. One Piece is a Boy's Romance. Has been since it's Dawn, and will be at its Dusk.

>>33309
You're a fool if you actually believe that.

>>33309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9USIR_1xt4

>>33310
Jombles, please stop.

>>33309
>Romance Dusk
Final Chapter name. Calling it now.

>>33310
I won't waste the time defending the idea to forum worms. Please stop talking to me.

>>33314
If you can't back up your claims then don't make 'em in the first place.

>>33310
What do you believe it is then?

>>33316
He does pander to certain elements. It'd be ridiculous and nonsensical if he didn't. Everything from the Supernova to the big tits is pandering.

One Piece's continued existence is pandering to One Piece fans.

Also, a week from now, the supernovas will have been a part of the OP world for over 6 years. That's about 5 years too many to still be salty over a comic for babies. Just deal with it and move on, seriously.

A comic for babies? Say to my face, sucker, see what happens

>>33319
I would seriously pay money to see this.

Jim, I want video of you taking challengers and will spend my hard-earned paycheck to facilitate that. There is no more juvenile comeback than "say it to my face" behind the internet's anonymous walls and, for once in my life, I want some shitposters to actually throw down.

...and it is now apparent that my nostalgia for /v/ is why this place is so homey. God. Damn. It.

>>33320
Remember when Uwe Boll said that and offered to box anyone who thought he sucked, then Seanbaby called him on it and he pussed out because Seanbaby's actually a decent boxer?

Good times.

>>33320
We hate each other, mostly jimb4nuklehead, but we all love One Piece.
Except jimb4numskull, who seems to only enjoy being a pariah.

read.powermanga.org/read/one_piece/en/0/744/page/1

>>33269
>I've known this since before it was popular.

Holy shit.

>>33269
>I've known this since before it was popular.

Holy shit.

Please to understand humor, sarcasm, and general hyperbolic merriment. Thanks be to you.

>>33377
>I'm just pretending to be despicable guise! ;^;

>>33389
Stop bumping this shit, idiot.

Hahaha are you serious? Yeah man if you guys keep bumping this it'll take 2 months for this to fall off the front page instead of 6 weeks.

>>33391
Stop shitposting, idiot.

>>33390
Put your name back on jim

>>33391
Yeah, whoa! We're drowning out the super active threads doods, we better stop!