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

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The ocean is a bit much though.

Given that we have not seen an awakened Logia I dunno what the limits might be, given what we have seen of Paramecia fruits being awakened a Logia might be absurd and it would be fitting that Buggy lucked into a way to get last Poneglyph..by having Crocodile be able to clear the way to it.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

One Piece is extremely niche in America. It is not a common thing here.

Maybe back in the 2010s and prior, but that's change dramatically. Luffy was at the Macy's Day Parade in THREE times consecutively, which isn't no small feat of recognition for them to utilize as a parade geared towards Americans. I've seen everything from fairground food vendors with fan art of Luffy eating their food to window decor of One Piece at book stores. Now there's a Popeye's promo of One Piece called a "Luffy Bento Bundle" in the past month. I would say it has most certainly caught on since the covid lockdowns, especially for younger generations who didn't have their perceptions skewed by 4kids.

4Kids 100% killed One Piece's chances of being huge in its prime in the 00s and it's only due to Viz not fucking up the English manga release and being all in on it regardless of how 4Kids murdered any chances of it becoming a popular as contemporaries like Bleach and Naruto, that it survived long enough in the US to basically finally having its big US breakthrough with the live action show and us getting the long waited US releases of the chapters where we FINALLY start getting answers to long-standing questions near simultaneously with the Japanese volumes

I think there's multiple reasons on top of it, but yes 4kids acting as the proposition value was indeed a reputation killer for many teens in 2004-07 on picking it up. I knew they edited (butchered) the hell out of it, but back then even the episode count for the subs at that stage of the anime was very daunting and by the time Funimation took over, I was in college and just too busy to shovel through it with how much was out there. I also think that there was a more interest in anime/manga that had an Eastern aesthetic for its exotic factor whether it was ninjas/samurais or martial arts with a more "serious" artstyle, which One Piece wasn't on its surface. At leasts thats how I saw from the opinions of contemporaries online or in school.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I think there's multiple reasons on top of it, but yes 4kids acting as the proposition value was indeed a reputation killer for many teens in 2004-07 on picking it up. I knew they edited (butchered) the hell out of it, but back then even the episode count for the subs at that stage of the anime was very daunting and by the time Funimation took over, I was in college and just too busy to shovel through it with how much was out there. I also think that there was a more interest in anime/manga that had an Eastern aesthetic for its exotic factor whether it was ninjas/samurais or martial arts with a more "serious" artstyle, which One Piece wasn't on its surface. At leasts thats how I saw from the opinions of contemporaries online or in school.

Toonami was also exiled to weekends only at that point so you couldn't watch five episodes a week like you could with, say, Naruto which had weekday slots.

 

[SlipNHonkMach2]

Toonami was also exiled to weekends only at that point so you couldn't watch five episodes a week like you could with, say, Naruto which had weekday slots.

The Funimation version also premiered with Skypiea rather than redubbing East Blue and Alabasta arcs at first, which I guess makes sense in theory since they did reruns of the 4kids version for years prior.

 

[Random Internet Person]

@SlipNHonkMach2 I’ve always wondered why it’s been NOW that there’s a push for One Piece in the west. I’ve just chalked it up to Netflix and the publisher mentioning how Oda is hyping up how the story is reaching its climax.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

re-read the chapter Imu's condition only got worse so I doubt he will stick around for Luffy as someone already stated here. Whatever happens next, we still have not gotten the backstories of BB and his crew, rest of revolutionaries besides Sabo, shanks crew, imu and void century, akainu's backstory assuming Oda will wrap up one piece after Elbaf.

i dont think we will get much backstories for blackbeards crew aside from maybe a tiny flashback like we got for some of doflamingos crew (senior pink is a good example) many dont really need a backstory.

so i think if anything we get backstories for laffitte and doc q as well as the obvious ones for kuzan (which we already got during the garp fight) and of course blackbeard himself.the rest are not really important unless they have some secret backstory we dont know of yet. the revolutionaries are getting nothing aside from dragon since the only other ones that really matter we know about already like koala and ivankov.

with shanks crew im not sure because shanks entire story could be its own thing if oda wanted it to be i think we saw a hint of that with the last movie. as far as crew members though yasopps story is part of usopps story and the rest are just cool guys like benn beckman. imu and the void century and the remaining admirals will get stories though without a doubt.

It is either that or his old home. The latter is a horrible option so Elbaf is more likely. A third place is also likely. Somewhere the WG wouldn't look or stumble upon.

my guess is the final poneglyph is at lodestar island or dragon has/had it but it was stolen by blackbeard. if whitebeard had it its most likely in his old home being protected by marco or marco himself is the only one who knows its location.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

my guess is the final poneglyph is at lodestar island or dragon has/had it but it was stolen by blackbeard. if whitebeard had it its most likely in his old home being protected by marco or marco himself is the only one who knows its location.

That reminds me didn't BB attack the RA at one point? I thought the reason we were told was to steal weapons but maybe that wasn't the real reason, especially considering the RA is still effectively sieging MG.

 

[Incecticyder]

my guess is the final poneglyph is at lodestar island or dragon has/had it but it was stolen by blackbeard. if whitebeard had it its most likely in his old home being protected by marco or marco himself is the only one who knows its location.

Could be. I think that it will be far better explored though. The island is known, unlike Laughtale.

That reminds me didn't BB attack the RA at one point? I thought the reason we were told was to steal weapons but maybe that wasn't the real reason, especially considering the RA is still effectively sieging MG.

I think they wanted whatever info they had. BB has an interest in archeology.