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

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Incecticyder said:
I think the king was planning to sell giant kids to the WG and Loki killed him to stop him.
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i bet the king was promised peace as long as he made sure the giants stopped being warriors and he provided the WG with giant children most likely to use as slaves or for experiments involving devil fruit. (like how all the kids caesar experimented on at punk hazard turned giant. maybe being giant is a requirement for something devil fruit related?)
 
Incecticyder said:
Him covering up for Carmel might be why she was not suspected despite kids, in such an isolated and close-knit community, disappearing only for the Marines to acquire a "Giant Squad".
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There's also the factor that, while Elbaf might be their homeland, Giants can be found in other places, which helps in obfuscating their origins. Our crispest boy, Saul, is from the East Blue if I'm not mistaken, and Morley is also from one of the Blue Seas (though I can't remember which one right now).
 
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Tetragrammaton said:
i bet the king was promised peace as long as he made sure the giants stopped being warriors and he provided the WG with giant children most likely to use as slaves or for experiments involving devil fruit. (like how all the kids caesar experimented on at punk hazard turned giant. maybe being giant is a requirement for something devil fruit related?)
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King Harald probably wanted peace so as to make sure no one recognised the Giants in the Giant Squad. "Hey, didn't those guys get kidnapped as kids? How did they all end up as Marines? Something smells fishy..."

Gentlebastard said:
There's also the factor that, while Elbaf might be their homeland, Giants can be found in other places, which helps in obfuscating their origins. Our crispiest boy, Saul, is from the East Blue if I'm not mistaken, and Morley is also from one of the Blue Seas (though I can't remember which one right now).
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True.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Attack on Titan may be the greatest story ever told, but no one will ever know because its told in the most retarded way possible.
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It sure ain’t the Odyssey, or the Iliad, but One Piece…is?

I’ve heard the worldbuilding is on par with JRR Tolkien (even though Oda hasn’t created an entire language for his world), but to say One Piece is a modern day equivalent of one of the most enduring narratives known to man and one of the most significant works to civilization as a whole…I’m not sure if I’d go that far, even if there’s some truth to Oda not getting much of his dues due to being a manga artist.

Oda has certainly earned all of the platitudes he’s earned and the admiration is truly justified, but holy shit, can it lead to some hyperbole.


Incecticyder said:
I think he just might reach the 3rd place in our lifetime. I think that the way things are going, the madman might pull it off. I can hope.
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I have no doubt that the end of One Piece will be made to be a big deal in Japan at least. I really wonder what the final number will end up being, because reaching a billion would be insane. And I think the number could have been higher if 4Kids didn’t halt the momentum in the US and possibly other countries.

Who knows, maybe Netflix will boost sales a bit (keywords “a bit” because I’m not too sure if Netflix will have Live Action One Piece adapt beyond Alabasta. At least not without some MAJOR planning).
 
Random Internet Person said:
I have no doubt that the end of One Piece will be made to be a big deal in Japan at least. I really wonder what the final number will end up being, because reaching a billion would be insane. And I think the number could have been higher if 4Kids didn’t halt the momentum in the US and possibly other countries.
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Honestly I think it all depends on how he sticks the landing.

If we get a good ending that is satisfying? It will rocket the sales.
 
Random Internet Person said:
I’ve heard the worldbuilding is on par with JRR Tolkien (even though Oda hasn’t created an entire language for his world), but to say One Piece is a modern day equivalent of one of the most enduring narratives known to man and one of the most significant works to civilization as a whole…I’m not sure if I’d go that far, even if there’s some truth to Oda not getting much of his dues due to being a manga artist.
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It reminds me of how fans of The Simpsons like to compare their show to Shakesphear or Mark Twain. It's simply deracinated popular culture worship. People want to make their favourtite media their identity and thus will elevate it to a much higher status that it needs to be. It is exaggerbated with their globalistsic mindset as they will forget that the old Greek canon is specifically western. As much as I read and watch One Piece, I can recognize that it is culturally Japanese and that when one strips it down, it is basically justg your typical universalist normie messaging.
 
Random Internet Person said:
It sure ain’t the Odyssey, or the Iliad, but One Piece…is?

I’ve heard the worldbuilding is on par with JRR Tolkien (even though Oda hasn’t created an entire language for his world), but to say One Piece is a modern day equivalent of one of the most enduring narratives known to man and one of the most significant works to civilization as a whole…I’m not sure if I’d go that far, even if there’s some truth to Oda not getting much of his dues due to being a manga artist.

Oda has certainly earned all of the platitudes he’s earned and the admiration is truly justified, but holy shit, can it lead to some hyperbole.
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retartedconspiratard said:
It reminds me of how fans of The Simpsons like to compare their show to Shakesphear or Mark Twain. It's simply deracinated popular culture worship. People want to make their favourtite media their identity and thus will elevate it to a much higher status that it needs to be. It is exaggerbated with their globalistsic mindset as they will forget that the old Greek canon is specifically western. As much as I read and watch One Piece, I can recognize that it is culturally Japanese and that when one strips it down, it is basically justg your typical universalist normie messaging.
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I think we should wait and see the impact One Piece and Japan as a whole will have on the cultural landscape. Even Shakespeare and Homer were not the titans the are now until much later. They were just authors, not legends yet.

Random Internet Person said:
I have no doubt that the end of One Piece will be made to be a big deal in Japan at least. I really wonder what the final number will end up being, because reaching a billion would be insane. And I think the number could have been higher if 4Kids didn’t halt the momentum in the US and possibly other countries.

Who knows, maybe Netflix will boost sales a bit (keywords “a bit” because I’m not too sure if Netflix will have Live Action One Piece adapt beyond Alabasta. At least not without some MAJOR planning).
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There is the new anime too. One Piece is becoming a far bigger franchise in far shorter time than others. It took far longer for others to reach this status.
 
Rudy Coleman said:
did they find the one piece yet?
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No, they haven't. And they probably won't for a long time.
Incecticyder said:
There is the new anime too.
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True, but it looks like it may only cover East Blue, where the live-action series currently is. And we also have the remaster of Fishman Island, and maybe more remasters on the horizon. Honestly, between Oda announcing "The Final Saga" and Netflix announcing One Piece would get the live-action treatment, you can tell the promotion of One Piece is going into overdrive. I don't think One Piece has made this much noise in the US since Funimation started doing the dubbing of the anime. It's like they're making up for all the years where 4Kids shit the bed.
 
Random Internet Person said:
No, they haven't. And they probably won't for a long time.

True, but it looks like it may only cover East Blue, where the live-action series currently is. And we also have the remaster of Fishman Island, and maybe more remasters on the horizon. Honestly, between Oda announcing "The Final Saga" and Netflix announcing One Piece would get the live-action treatment, you can tell the promotion of One Piece is going into overdrive. I don't think One Piece has made this much noise in the US since Funimation started doing the dubbing of the anime. It's like they're making up for all the years where 4Kids shit the bed.
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I mean, 0P is going to be making sales for a while. It is a phenomenon. The manga, the anime, the movies, the LA, the novels, the merch, they will keep the IP in people's minds.
 
Random Internet Person said:
It's like they're making up for all the years where 4Kids shit the bed.
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4Kids never had it for very long. And they advertised it and put it on sensible channels and time slots. Which was why a lot of the changes happened.

Simple fact is Funi has never given a shit about advertising. There’s a reason this all changed when Netflix, a company that does care and knows what they are doung, got involved.

I will absolutely hold that while 4Kids did it no favors, Funi never helped.

And honestly if they’d just been given the go ahead to do a proper dub 4Kids I feel would have handled everything better.
 
Chapter 1141 has leaked in sandscript - presenting Prince Loki standing in full glory
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Edit: I hope that Loki teams up with Varg to kill Euronymous (Shanks).
 
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Is Yamato going to like..rebuild the Animal Kingdom Pirates but without the (More)Psycho Retards?
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Hard to say. I think this whole cover story is just another episode of doing the Oden LARP.


ShitLurker said:
I still trust Luffy's take on this. Harald is the one I think reeks.
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And his take is to go by hunch and the idea that if anything bad happens, just beat Loki down. I can only think of Goku, but without some justification because of Saiyan heritage.
 
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