A wise man once said "quote you're opponent's arguments, so that you can refute them." The man was one of my high-school English teachers, but even though I mostly played graphpaper Connect 4 in his class, I will never forget his words.
Things that Vivi would bring to the crew:
A female willing to go on adventures without bribery or the promise of vaguely sexual-sounding "thrills."

I can't pronounce ammonite correctly. Thanks pokemon.

Taking a break to find a way to move my tabs to the bottom of the screen. I keep losing brilliant interpretive paragraphs because I try to go to a new tab and click a bookmark.

>>6152
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

http://4browser.com/firefox-extensions/appearance-extensions/autosavetext/
Seems like the autosavetext extension isn't on the Firefox addon site anymore =(

>>6153
Here we go
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6984

>>6154

Thanks for the second thing, if it works it will have pretty much solved the problem. As for the first, well, by the time I saw it I had already found a way to do this.

Anyway, back to the main event. Check out how I don't save the pages until I actually want to post them, by the way.

Apparently this is one of the books that the Oharans saved. I think I read it in an SBS, though I also though I read a bunch of nonsense that isn't true in an SBS, so who knows.

Did scanlators not realize that Elbaf is fable backwards? Well, they also didn't realize that "Adventure" was spelled with an "e" in the last chapter title, so meh.

Pretty cool how apparently the Brogy goes berserk when attacked, it fits his viking theme.

For some reason I can remember who Oimo and Kashi are but always get Dorry and Brogy mixed up. Expect confusion!

When I started rereading this section, my mind accidentally slipped into western comics mode for this page. I couldn't stop laughing about it for some reason.

That is my cool story for tonight.

>>5797

Bogart is Garp's personal assistant, as I recall. His rank is never stated but it's got to be at least Captain equivalent, probably higher.

If it wasn't obvious enough, he's designed after the Man himself.

The first two Islands on this path are a Shichibukai deathtrap and a prehistoric deathtrap you couldn't leave for a year. In the second you had a chance of being bitten by a bug which would kill you within 5 days unless you had an expert on diseases carriers by extinct insects. Ok.

I don't remember much about the kestia, so I went to the OPwiki. Above the kestia bit there were two links related to the tigers living in Little Garden. The giant tiger one links to the wikipedia page for a "Canadian discount store in Canada and the United States" called Giant Tiger Stores Limited. Wow.

>>6159

Oh man that list of things I'm supposed to keep an eye out for has gotten so large it has officially looped into nonexistence. By the way, I decided to see if he really does follow Garp around, so I checked volume 0 and he's there too on page 5. After a certain point "personal assistant" becomes a bit suspect, and I think +22 years following a guy around when you're <50 completely blasts past it. Unless Bogart isn't a name...

but a code name.

Anyway Where's Waldo time.

Guys this is totally foreshadowing Usopp's newly found obesity.

Usopp vs. San Juan you heard it here first.

Ohhhhhhh, the glasses rim is partly a sideways black three. I didn't notice that, or looked for any other threes on him for some reason

Nothing I say can add anything of merit to this image.

Ms. Goldenweek is actually not that short during this arc. During the Baroque Works coverstory she looks moe like a kid for some reason.

I don't even use the word moe ironically. This is a disgrace, and an outrage.

Hey, did you know that Mr. 3 can make giant swords made of wax? His wax is as hard as steel/iron/whatever, which essentially means that he can make giant swords capable of piercing all the way through a giant's hands with little to no effort. Magellan would be around that thickness, I think.

More Vivi contribution:
Zoro-level crazy girl. Damn, I didn't remember Vivi being this non-shitty. This whole experience is blowing my mind.

The fact that Mr.3 apparently forgot his entire offensive skill set during the Magellan fight makes me angry and confused. It also makes me realize that Magellan fits the Blackbeard pirates theme naming better than Shiryu. Huh.

What could possibly be in that bubble that can be translated as "Luffy steps off the sign." I'm sorry, but that is the most unsound of all unsound effects I have seen.

What is a question mark even..!

LuffyxMs.Goldenweek otp.

So apparently in the One Piece world flintlocks do fire a single shot and revolvers are new technology (where new technology is defined as "the average technological level which is considered advanced outside the Grandline"), which makes Blackbeard and other guys that use what look like single-fire guns seem like colossal chumps. I think I'll look at Blackbeard's guns more closely.

Candle champion Luffy was the biggest disappointment since that one time I though someone was going to make a reference to something but didn't.

I think it lasted something like half a chapter and allowed Luffy to get in a grand total of 1 hit. I would pretty much give anything (with an effective combined monetary and emotional value less than or equal to five dollars) to see it expanded into a ten minute fight with good animation.

See she's even given up on her previous life of crime and helped Luffy. There is no doubt in my mind that her change of heart was a result of seeing Luffy's ruggedly handsome shirtless back.

What is it with Usopp and crotch-bumping with female enemies? By which I mean, why doesn't Usopp crotch-bump with female enemies more? I think he missed out on Califa and Porche, though I don't remember much about Davy Back.

I never noticed that Candle Champion had a title-type belt, kind of like the one that Jesus Burgess wears.

Well, that's it for today.
Up to 126, 12 chapters done. Tomorrow might be a longer marathon. Or, there might not me one at all! It is a mystery.

>>6169
Scared witless and still recovering from a nightmarish prison stay (hell, the Marines probably didn't even treat him for the beating Hina doled out), I'm fairly certain Mr. 3 was willing to let everyone else do the fighting. When you're a cowardly planner who fights with candles, you tend to allow guys like Crocodile and Luffy the vanguard. It's also worth pointing out that the superheated portions of the prison would melt his wax. As for Shiryuu... his name is supposedly based on the Japanese name (Tei Shiryu) of Zheng Zhilong / Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, a famed Chinese pirate. Apparently.

>>6172
Oda explained the flintlock/revolver thing in an early SBS and it's pretty much exactly what you just pieced together. Makes Vegapunk seem even more absurd, when you think about it...

>>6172
Why does it make them look like chumps? That's the standard for gun tech in the verse. Don't be stupid.

Back on the air for the first week of no breaks (no planned breaks, at least).

That's some extremely focused clothing damage on Nami there. Maybe she removed her shirt so her bra wouldn't catch on fire too, I guess.

>>6234

Teach was a member of the strongest pirate crew in the world, later one of the seven pirates with the closest connection to the world government (and as such in the best position to ask for favors), and has a crewmember with outstanding movement and infiltration abilities, yet did not think to obtain improved weapons from any source at any time. Theses weapons would have been extremely useful to him, by the way, as he used what could possibly be his shitty flintlocks against WHITEBEARD.

So yeah, any top tier not using the best available weapons is pretty much a chump (or unnecessarily handicapping themselves, which Blackbeard isn't know to do).

UsoppxMr.5 otp

Fire resistance haki from Zoro.

Maybe one of the Zoro one-on-ones doesn't end with Zoro finishing his attack while his enemy suffers the damage behind him in a dramatic fashion.

Bandanna for Mr.5? Well, I guess he was crippled by that leg chopping and being on fire.

Instinct haki, which is also mantra.
No Carue, don't eat Ms.Goldenweek! She and Luffy totally have to get together. Its gonna happen.

That whole "Carue ate Ms.Goldenweek" thing couldn't possible have been legitimate speculation. It's impossible.

Maybe the best way to make facefaults work is to draw the scene without them, then add them in at the end.

I remember when nobody died in One Piece despite clearly dying. Gun fun: despite revolvers being a big deal, Ms.Friday has a pair of machine guns strapped to her back. Ok.

I wonder if anyone wrote pages about how Croc's powers were acceleration of time back in the day despite the fact that he's clearly drying the flower. Strangely, the root of crocodile's power is drying things, so the less imaginative speculators were actually right.

Despite doesn't look like a word anymore to me.

Here Sanji is wearing that serpent-like mark on his hoodie. Since I don't think Sanji is connected to the revolutionaries, this might simply be the logo of a popular brand like Doskoi Panda. Or maybe its a generic anti-WG symbol?

Ha, I forgot that Luffy liked the same type of crackers as his grandpa.

At first I assumed it was Sanji that asked Nami to take off her clothes, but then I remembered that Sanji wasn't even there at the time, so it had to be Usopp. Way to be a bad influence.

I honestly wonder how the Doskoi Panda company chooses which products to make.

Have mushroom-based abilities ever shown up later in the manga, because I don't remember any. I hope this doesn't become a loophole for more powers later (see, I have two abilities because I ate a devil fruit and devil shroom).

Its prettyt sad when you can compare different instances of being eaten by giant sea creatures.

Comical crying faces: Why are they so cute?

It would have been much better if flying slashes were introduced here instead of with Morgan. Then again, I think this might be the first named usage, so I guess that evens it out a little.

I am almost completely sure that the snake they are talking about is the Red Line, whose name has been confusing to me. Perhaps the entire thing really is a shade of red. I think some places in the real world look like this, but I am not interested in nature enough to find out.

Prettyt isn't a word, so apparently I am losing the ability to see the color red anyway.

Where did the little girl come from? Was there some sort of village on this island, despite the fact that it is being attacked by giant pirates and dangerous carnivores are constantly on the prowl? If so, what happened to it? Did they all get eaten? Or did the giant pirates happen to have a little human girl traveling with them for some reason?

Why is this bothering me so much?

Minus the bar Zoro is training with a total of 515kg. I have never hear of 103kg weights before, do they actually exist? It seems like a really random number to me.

Mistranslation time!
Sunday Island : Sandy Island.
This is the island that the entire Alabasta arc takes place on.

Some of Bon Clay's crewmembers show up again later, in particular that guy at the bottom left of the page with the wing hair.

The travel distance directly from Little Garden to Alabasta is apparently more than a week. However, the travel distances between the other islands might be longer, so fans of long journey times shouldn't feel too bad.

Nami doesn't seem to care too much about rebellions normally, as seen when she talked about the coup d'etat in Vila with little interest, so this news probably only mattered to her once Vivi was traveling with them. That means that this newspaper is (flimsy) proof that at least 3 days passed between Whiskey Peak and Little Garden (since they seem to have arrived and left the same day).

Half of the entire military force defecting really shows how bad the situation in Alabasta is. The fact that the standing army is at least 600,000 soldiers strong also shows how big the Kingdom is. I doubt any of the places the strawhats have visited besides Water 7 even had a million citizens total.

Oh wow, "South" is pretty much the most worthless directional command you can give. Pointing a random direction and saying "lets go that way" is pretty much the equivalent command, except that your crew won't spend a few seconds talking about it and wandering around confused before doing anything.

So, this would be day 2 of the infection. I think that they arrive at Drum later this day, but I also remember Kureha treating Nami after 3 days of infection, so there must have been a day there somewhere.

Its likely that Jango was out for a day, so this boat is probably the one that Usopp was going to use to sail away on his own. What happened to this boat anyway?

Wapol ran away with the Drum military, and I don't think there were any other ships here. What a tiny Island Drum must be, then.

Now that I think about it, isn't it a bad idea for the King of a World Government aligned country to pose as a pirate, even with a submersible ship?

I guess that bottom part is where the Drum military lives, which makes lessens my last statement.