One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

At this point, I think every filler arc is going to be essential to the endgame lore. Never change, Oda. Never change.
Oda is good at least making random characters contribute in some way down the road even if they don't pop up after the arc they were in is over. Not expecting Foxy or any other character to stop Imu or anything but he will at least be doing something.
 
Silliest Character, Saddest Backstory Award lol
More like “Hardest Boiled “ Award.

Imagine going to someone who knows nothing if One Piece and trying to convince him that this fucking guy has one of the more tragic, sympathetic backstories of any antagonist:
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Imagine going to someone who knows nothing if One Piece and trying to convince him that this fucking guy has one of the more tragic, sympathetic backstories of any antagonist:
It is one of the things I highlight when I try to get people into it.

"See this guy? This outfit makes complete sense in context."
 
More like “Hardest Boiled “ Award.

Imagine going to someone who knows nothing if One Piece and trying to convince him that this fucking guy has one of the more tragic, sympathetic backstories of any antagonist:
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At a certain point, I think One Piece will be like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in that all the structure and core points is so unreal and insane that a casual will just nope out. Fortunately, Netflix isn’t at that point yet.
 
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At a certain point, I think One Piece will be like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in that all the structure and core points is so unreal and insane that a casual will just nope out. Fortunately, Netflix isn’t at that point yet.
JJBA doesn't even attempt to make sense most of the time, One Piece at least TRIES.
 
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At a certain point, I think One Piece will be like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in that all the structure and core points is so unreal and insane that a casual will just nope out. Fortunately, Netflix isn’t at that point yet.
Hell people get off put by what we just talked about. The fact that filler arcs have some bearing on the plot going forward.
 
Did anyone point out that Big Mom was on Rocks' crew around the time Blackbeard would've been born? Food for thought.
blackbeard being big moms true first child would sure be something. it would also make me wonder if he got whitebeards fruit the same way big mom got mother caramels.
After that Backstory he is no longer Silly.

Dressing like a Baby because it made your Dead/Coma'd wife smile is unironically one of the most badass things in fiction.
doffys crew was such a mix of actual tragic characters and actual evil people when you think about it. like you have guys like diamante who have no problem just killing whoever then you get people like law and corazon and baby 5 and senior pink who all just seem to have gotten stuck with doffy for various reasons. its like doflamingo just stopped picking up hardend criminals at some point and decided to start taking in kids who just kinda hung out with everyone for the hell of it. or in the case of baby 5 were just fucked in the head from the start.
 
Every break week is pain. Non-one piece fans will never understand this agony.
With things like this, I honestly expected Oda to edge us even harder; if next week's chapter is God Valley, or at least build up (recruiting Linlin and Kaido) to it, I'm surprised it wasn't a "BREAK (till) NEXT YEAR" ordeal.

I expect that when Blackbeard sneaks and roflstomps Shanks for good, though.
 
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