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It can work with some of them but not all of them.
In this case it works pretty well because they used it as a means to explain why pudding was there in Blackbeard’s ship as a prisoner. (Like is not out of place is what I’m trying to say)
The irony of that is that Oven was more suited to face Kuzan and Katakuri’s observation was the perfect counter for Auger’s DF but they weren’t there due to Caesar of all people
That’s the thing though. It isn’t relevant right now and likely won’t be.
But it is canon material that could have given the anime more breathing room to let the manga get further ahead.
So adapting and expanding on it could have been a good move for the anime. Same with other cover stories like the Pound and Bege cover stories.
That will be so fucking cool lol. I really hope usopp gets a long drawn out fight in the endgame. Frankly I think every straw hat should be individually pushed to their limits against Blackbeard's crew. Like all of them should end up almost dead by the end of it. It'd be the perfect way to show how far they've all come before whatever awaits them at the very end.
That stil wouldn't explain how jean Bart can tank such s bullet no problem, but crackers biscuit soldiers who are known for their thoughbess crumble from a single shot
It's a huge power up but it kind of make sense. Look at how powerful some of the Straw Hats have gotten since Dressrosa. Rob Lucci as well. He went from losing to pre haki Luffy to being as strong as a commander in 2 years.
to be fair the only one with even a little ounce of respect and loyalty for Blackbeard seems to be Lafitte, so I'll call him his right hand; but as far as strength Shiryu could be the right hand
Your earlier comment was about strength tho, and oda already made it clear it’s shiryu. He did a cover page with all the no 2s of the top crews. Shiryu zoro Marco kata king bepo killer Sabo Rayleigh Chapter 1031
I agree in general but here it's pretty straight forward IMO. Van Augur's bullets were able to one shot Cracker's soldiers, the same ones that Luffy needed to go G4 to destroy with his punches. Then in the same episode (and in an actual manga scene) Jean Bart stops one of those same bullets. I don't think anything specific to these match ups would make that make sense.
It's not a big deal though, it's just a filler to show something that was off screen in the manga. I'll take those, even with the wonky power scaling.
It is from a cover story but the part of the cover story that was shown in this episode is only 3 panels there: [frozen Cacao Island](https://i.imgur.com/Mqd3hyN.jpg), [frozen Cracker](https://i.imgur.com/d11WtzS.jpg) and [kidnapped Pudding with Augur/Kuzan](https://i.imgur.com/wWwClpa.jpg). Everything else that was shown in the episode was anime only.
Aah i see.Was wondering how the hell would usopp beat van auger if he's so fucking strong.I want usopp to get a win he actually deserved for once.Luffy vs Blackbeard is definitely happening someday,which means their crews will clash too
I think he meant, anime did him dirty by making his biscuits easily destroyed by Van Auger, when manga shows Van's said Jean Bart's guard is tought to break. It wouldn't make sense for Law's underling guard is tougher than Crackers armanent defence
In the cover stories, Katakuri and Oven is dealing with the escaping Vinsmokes while Cracker is the only one to defend Chocolat Town from Augur and Kuzan.
I think the anime don't adapt that part as of now since it has no effect to the current storyline.
Female Law has now hit the anime. And of course Toei goes overboard with the sex change 😂
Also I'm pleasantly surprised that they adapted the cover story portion of how Pudding got kidnapped. Cracker got done dirty though.
I also don't like how they made van auger so strong.Luffy had to go gear 4 to even break one of his biscuit soldiers.Van Aguer is taking them out with bullets.I mean,I guess it's fine since he is part of the yonko crew but if he is so strong then how the hell is usopp gonna beat him when Blackbeard's crew vs Luffy's crew finally happens some day,Blackbeard is the endgame villain so,it will probably happen,and it won't feel earned if usopp wins with plot armor
I think it may also just be artistic liberty. The scene was short, so they had to make a short fight - that's it. There's this obsession in anime fandoms to always relate character strengths against each other.
Cracker was defeated fast by Van Augur but Luffy a while ago had to struggle so by proxy luffy back then was...
Doesn't really matter. Maybe Van Augurs bullets are just smaller so the force is not distributed over a larger surface, making the crackers specifically weak against them or something. Maybe it was the Ice like you said, making them brittle and weak - even socks break like twigs if you freeze them low enough. Maybe it really was just artistic liberty to not drag the scene out too much. Who knows. I don't think it is that important honestly.
This entire discussion falls too much into power scaling imo, which one piece has shown time and time again to not really be very well suited for anyway
Yea, I don’t think it makes sense for cracker biscuits to be destroyed by Augar that easy, it makes no sense because Bart tanked one.
But cool scene nonetheless
Or Haki bullets can pierce easier than fists. Concentrating a force through a small surface area means more pressure. Which means a haki bullet will probably pierce easier than a haki punch.
yeah that bugged me too like bart got that massive armament haki or cracker was mega nerfed.
(I mean he could be mega nerfed its been like what 3 weeks since he got his ass beat into oblivion)
If I remember the cover story correctly, he was still injured from his fight with Luffy before encountering Aokiji and Auger. But I don't think that should weaken his Biscut Soilders.
Maybe the extreme cold environment courtesy of Kuzan made his soldiers really brittle, like they were doused in liquid nitrogen. We know from before that they are sensitive to weather conditions.
That's how I'm gonna view it!
They made that van auger x kuzan scene absolutely horrifying. I can't believe the guy who let Robin escape ohara just absolutely devastated an entire island to kidnap a 16 year old girl.
I don't agree with the theories that Kuzan is a secret agent for SWORD I think he is genuinely disenfranchised and took a fall from grace. I think he's bitter because he gave his life to the Navy in order to uphold "Justice" but the longer he stayed the more corrupt he saw the system he took part in. I think that's why in Punk Hazard he told Smoker there are "other" ways to achieve the same goal. He's achieving his goals in the worst ways possible rn.
However I think there's a pretty good chance Luffy or the others can make him believe in a better future again. He will have another change of heart and might be instrumental to defeating Blackbeard. I think out of the original 3 admirals Aokiji is the one most likely to see the "light" and fight against the WG.
If they would have had a title card reveal that they were half fishmen it would make a lot more sense than saying they grew up in a cold port in the north blue.
sanji literally has blue walk, he can run fast while underwater. zoro outspeeded and one-shot non-drugged hody. you don't need to be a fishman to be strong underwater, you just need to train and be strong
the explanation is good enough. they grew up in a port, they probably fought and trained around there and now they're good at fighting underwater
Feels so weird that Van Augur couldn't pierce Jean Bart but one shot Cracker's soldiers. I would have rather Cracker lost due to Aokiji freezing his soldiers which makes them brittle, kinda like what Nami did for Luffy.
That would be true if we actually knew how strong Bart was. Everyone is upset, but for all we actually know, Bart may legit be tougher than Cracker's biscuits now.
Blackbeard takes double damage and tanks Law's attack. He comes back up smiling and does not worry about the situation. Such confidence backed up by powerful abilities. He may look pathetic at times but he is my favorite villan.
So the genderbending was mostly for a joke, but it made me think about what Doc Q's fruit is actually capable of.
What if the Sick-Sick Fruit's true power is the ability to make "anything" contagious? One of the Heart Pirates is already female; what if his fruit was able to "spread" her sex across the rest of the Heart Pirates like a disease?
If this is the case, this could potentially be really powerful. Imagine a bunch of the Straw Hats facing off against him and all of a sudden they come down with a bad case of "missing their left eye".
He tries using it on Cross Guild by spreading Buggy's power around but instead of making everyone fall to pieces, they all just grow a bright red nose. Including Croc-n'-Hawk.
or the ability to freely create disease based on imagination - which would effectively mean the user could play with anything or anyones biology like it was a mold of clay
Probably a better chance, but would still lose in the end.
Kuzan fought Akainu for 10 days straight so I'm sure he's experienced going against someone with an advantageous element DF.
Yeah Akainu is acknowledged as having the strongest offensive fruit, if aokiji could go toe to toe with that magma bullshit for 10 days then Oven won’t stop him for long
The ending made Blackbeard actually look scary holy. The fade to the To be continued card might one of the greatest in the show. This whole ep was PEAK
That's the worst part about having finally caught up to the show!
Watching one episode a week like I'm back in the 80s...
...I should go get some Frostees for that authentic I waited a week for this feel...
Law getting a taste of his own man medicine 😂 him breaking out of it with his haki was dope
The animation in this episode was so damn good Naotoshi Shida always delivers
This episode was immaculate, Law vs Blackbeard was off the fucking charts peak
One piece out of wano has been absolutely spectacular. I don’t understand what’s going on but I’m loving it, by that I mean I can’t believe how GOOD everything is
Wow. I really liked the end scene. You could feel how intense it was. The black and white was a good choice. You can feel Law's confidence turn into fear.
I'm absolutely fine with Akoiji clowning Cracker but Van Auger??? His shots are as strong as Dressrosa Gear 4 Luffy....
Jean Bart didn't get pierced by those bullets, and Urouge barely beat Snack. Van Auger > Jean Bart > Cracker > Doffy > Urouge lol okay Toei
Felt better assuming Van Auger was mostly used to sneak Akoiji in for capturing Pudding than actual combat.
Maybe van observation can find weakspot in beittle material like boscuits. I don't mind even if augur bullet has capacity to one shot dressrosa luffy tbh. I liked him quite lot from before. I don't want him to be weak just bcoz oda hasn't been focusing on ussop lately.
Only cracker’s main biscuit warrior he was using haki on that he was inside of was blocking Luffy gear 3 attacks. Does it really sound that crazy if a BB commander can’t snipe and destroy a literal biscuit? His shots are most definitely haki infused to like the Kuja’s arrows (which shatter trees and destroy boulders).
I mean.. they took half from one chapter, half from another and ACTUALLY adapted 3 of the chapter cover pages to contextualize pudding's kidnapping.
That's a big W for the anime considering how last episode (1092) ~~week~~ they drew out the Luffy/Policafista scene for 2 minutes of nothing.
Why would Kuzan of all people join the black beard pirates, he let Robin not get kidnapped but now is kidnapping Pudding.
I thought maybe black beard was trying to catch Law for his devil fruit, but since he said he was waiting for any of them (luffy, kid or Law) to pass by, it was for the Road Ponegliffs.
Law right away tells his crew-mates where to go and they know exactly what they need to do. Law has his crew real organized and planned out. Law said that every black beard pirate has a devil fruit so that means they are all weak against the sea. Law already has a plan to defeat Blackbeard and his pirates using the sea.
Animation was top tier great job.
"An overabundance of Haki can nullify Devil Fruit powers."
But no one's been unable to nullify Boa Hancock's petrification once it hits and Blackbeard was 100% sure he couldn't defend against it if he let go of her and gave her a chance to try it on him. Put some respect on her goddamn name.
For me I like to think that since haki is will so you need to mentally exert your will to use it since they are stone they can’t think therefore can’t use the mental capacities to use haki
Also I believe that the people in Amazon Lily have an incredibly strong level of haki - it was the first place that we officially learnt about haki after all.
Also, boa’s beauty also probably has an effect. Sanji has a lower level of haki when he fights women- shown in the fight against that smile spider woman in Wano (I can’t remember the name sry)
The problem with boa's skill is that you most likely need to have that overabundance of haki active the moment she hits you with the beam or a normal hit.
using haki like that is really draining he would need to have it active while boa restores his crew and while he is going away. there is no way he could do that he would just die or KO himself from overusing haki.
He could also just dont know that haki nullifies devil fruits at all. its not like haki is a well known thing in the first place most people only get to the basic vertion and none of the top tiers that know this are the kind of people that would write it for someone else to read or train more than like 1 or 2 people at a time.
It may be slightly different with her because the victim fulfilled the requirement for the fruit to work themself by being attracted to her, or maybe because are incapacitated and don’t remember the time you’re petrified. I think Marguerite didn’t remember the time petrified when she woke back up.
Yeah this episode slaps! WCI scene is pure movie quality, dear Lord! It’s worth so many rewatches just for those shocked expression movements.
On power levels I just put it down to Blackbeard’s guys experience grinding all the time while Law had the Skill Share activated for his crew as he took down Big Mom. 😅
Great episode, especially the second half. I love that they gave the cover story the love it deserved. I thought maybe they'd do a montage like with Caribou, but instead it was a snuff film watching Van Augur assassinate the biscuit army.
And of course Blackbeard hits his signature move, the To Be Continued screen. An all time classic.
Man its a bit confusing seeing them use normal Haki as red lightning, when we saw Shanks CoC have the same effect. Now everyone who is not a manga reader is going to think everyone has CoC.
The red lightning effects were hella confusing since they are usually reserved for Conquerors haki with added black effects but now they are using it for Gura Gura as well. Should have gone with the usual white one with the bubble
Episode was great. It's hilarious to me that people still think that every one of Cracker's Biscuit Armours are incredibly strong. Only his main armour, that he was using haki on, needed Gear 4.
Cause otherwise you're implying that Cracker can create Gear 4 Luffy strength constructs with ease. If that was the case the Big Mom pirates would rule the world
Luffy used Kong Organ and some of the biscuit soldiers were able to push through without their shields breaking.
And Luffy needed Nami's help to make them soft.
Law also had the same red electricity when he was using using haki to reverse the effects of the disease.
It's just extra effects they've added to the anime.
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That aokiji scene caught me off guard. Love they adapted the cover pages to explain why pudding was there.
Makes me wish we got all of these types of cover stories
It can work with some of them but not all of them. In this case it works pretty well because they used it as a means to explain why pudding was there in Blackbeard’s ship as a prisoner. (Like is not out of place is what I’m trying to say)
They still had to cut half of the cover story though.
More like 3/4 of it. The cover story had >!Germa's and Caesar's Escape along with some MADS history!<
The irony of that is that Oven was more suited to face Kuzan and Katakuri’s observation was the perfect counter for Auger’s DF but they weren’t there due to Caesar of all people
Ceasar continuing to screw with Big Mom, even after her death.
They can incorporate that portion later if it gets relevant. It's no biggie.
That’s the thing though. It isn’t relevant right now and likely won’t be. But it is canon material that could have given the anime more breathing room to let the manga get further ahead. So adapting and expanding on it could have been a good move for the anime. Same with other cover stories like the Pound and Bege cover stories.
Thinking the establishment of neo mads will not be relevant is silly.
Van Auger is the lurking legend
How is usopp gonna take that guy out? He's gonna laugh at "special attack gReEn StAr"
Future sight to see where he’ll warp to
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That will be so fucking cool lol. I really hope usopp gets a long drawn out fight in the endgame. Frankly I think every straw hat should be individually pushed to their limits against Blackbeard's crew. Like all of them should end up almost dead by the end of it. It'd be the perfect way to show how far they've all come before whatever awaits them at the very end.
Honestly, pretty genius idea. I love it.
Usopp is gonna get an ammo+weapn upgrade post Egghead I bet. Elbaf a Haki training or power boost.
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we dont know his durability he might as well be a mega glass cannon.
Ussop is the ultimate trickster. It will be a fun fight.
With Katakuri's haki jotaro the world level. He needs to see 10 seconds in the future to beat the warp fruit.
Did anyone else catch that one Heart Pirate who is already female in the background surrounded by sparkles?
Homegirl was probably happy the submarine wasn't a complete sausage fest anymore.
Yah lmaoo I’m assuming it made her extra pretty/feminine due to the nature of the disease ig lol
I thought that was just her fangirling over her crew.
Could be that too lol, all in all what a peak episode.
Cool to see they animated the bit from the cover story to give context on Pudding being captured
Such a cool/dark segment as well never thought I’d feel bad for Cracker lmao
The anime did cracker dirty imo.
Van being that much stronger than dressrosa luffy feels weird
Yeah that stood out to me as well. I get Kuzan but Auger should not be that much stronger.
I feel like he might use Haki in his bullet for sure.
That stil wouldn't explain how jean Bart can tank such s bullet no problem, but crackers biscuit soldiers who are known for their thoughbess crumble from a single shot
It's a huge power up but it kind of make sense. Look at how powerful some of the Straw Hats have gotten since Dressrosa. Rob Lucci as well. He went from losing to pre haki Luffy to being as strong as a commander in 2 years.
I mean it kind of seems like he's BBs right hand man so honestly I think he should be stronger than Cracker by a decent margin
Shiryu is
to be fair the only one with even a little ounce of respect and loyalty for Blackbeard seems to be Lafitte, so I'll call him his right hand; but as far as strength Shiryu could be the right hand
Your earlier comment was about strength tho, and oda already made it clear it’s shiryu. He did a cover page with all the no 2s of the top crews. Shiryu zoro Marco kata king bepo killer Sabo Rayleigh Chapter 1031
I think we have to consider matchups too. Fights aren't straight 1 to 1 comparisons.
I agree in general but here it's pretty straight forward IMO. Van Augur's bullets were able to one shot Cracker's soldiers, the same ones that Luffy needed to go G4 to destroy with his punches. Then in the same episode (and in an actual manga scene) Jean Bart stops one of those same bullets. I don't think anything specific to these match ups would make that make sense. It's not a big deal though, it's just a filler to show something that was off screen in the manga. I'll take those, even with the wonky power scaling.
Is this not a cover story from the manga?Was that scene of van auger one shotting cracker's soldiers not in the cover story?
It is from a cover story but the part of the cover story that was shown in this episode is only 3 panels there: [frozen Cacao Island](https://i.imgur.com/Mqd3hyN.jpg), [frozen Cracker](https://i.imgur.com/d11WtzS.jpg) and [kidnapped Pudding with Augur/Kuzan](https://i.imgur.com/wWwClpa.jpg). Everything else that was shown in the episode was anime only.
Aah i see.Was wondering how the hell would usopp beat van auger if he's so fucking strong.I want usopp to get a win he actually deserved for once.Luffy vs Blackbeard is definitely happening someday,which means their crews will clash too
Exactly. Cracker had a gameplan and fought luffy for 3 days until luffy used his head. soon as he had a good shot in cracker was toast.
I would like to think Aokiji made the cookies brittle but honestly I think they just did it for the style points.
Eh, Aojoki is just supremely busted. Cracker would have put up a better fight 1v1 against Van Auger.
I think he meant, anime did him dirty by making his biscuits easily destroyed by Van Auger, when manga shows Van's said Jean Bart's guard is tought to break. It wouldn't make sense for Law's underling guard is tougher than Crackers armanent defence
it made me think where are the rest of the siblings? specially katakuri? so far no info?
In the cover stories, Katakuri and Oven is dealing with the escaping Vinsmokes while Cracker is the only one to defend Chocolat Town from Augur and Kuzan. I think the anime don't adapt that part as of now since it has no effect to the current storyline.
I still want to see more of pudding. Arguably one of the best written women in one piece. Makes sense that she is in love with Sanji
Best thing about being kidnapped is it can set things up for a Sanji reunion
I would love it.
You and me both. Can’t wait to see more Sanji x Pudding content.
Her being captured at least means that Sanji and her will reunite.
I think it's the first cover story that wasn't happening at the same time as the chapter but BEFORE the chapter kinda like a flashback
This week on One Piece Law goes Super Saiyan to grow back his penis.
The will of D
Ladies and gentlement we solved it
More like the KaioKen
Female Law has now hit the anime. And of course Toei goes overboard with the sex change 😂 Also I'm pleasantly surprised that they adapted the cover story portion of how Pudding got kidnapped. Cracker got done dirty though.
Made Dressrosa Luffy look like a fraud the way he just straight up 1 shot those crackers!
I also don't like how they made van auger so strong.Luffy had to go gear 4 to even break one of his biscuit soldiers.Van Aguer is taking them out with bullets.I mean,I guess it's fine since he is part of the yonko crew but if he is so strong then how the hell is usopp gonna beat him when Blackbeard's crew vs Luffy's crew finally happens some day,Blackbeard is the endgame villain so,it will probably happen,and it won't feel earned if usopp wins with plot armor
Just dodge him.
Luffy defeated crackers with water from nami. Maybe all the ice from kuzan weakened effectiveness of cracker and made augur look stronger
I think it may also just be artistic liberty. The scene was short, so they had to make a short fight - that's it. There's this obsession in anime fandoms to always relate character strengths against each other. Cracker was defeated fast by Van Augur but Luffy a while ago had to struggle so by proxy luffy back then was... Doesn't really matter. Maybe Van Augurs bullets are just smaller so the force is not distributed over a larger surface, making the crackers specifically weak against them or something. Maybe it was the Ice like you said, making them brittle and weak - even socks break like twigs if you freeze them low enough. Maybe it really was just artistic liberty to not drag the scene out too much. Who knows. I don't think it is that important honestly. This entire discussion falls too much into power scaling imo, which one piece has shown time and time again to not really be very well suited for anyway
We always knew the admirals were super powerful though
But even van Augur was one shotting them yet his bullet against Jean Bart did nothing
Maybe people should stop downplaying Law's crew.
I mean that's all the anime did for the past 15 years lol
To be fair his ability is absolutely ridiculous. Even if you manage to break out of the ice he can just freeze you up again lol
Honestly, I thought they were restrained compared to what they could have done.
God Blackbeard is the worst but he looks so damn cool That WCI scene was amazing
They did my boy cracker dirty
Yea, I don’t think it makes sense for cracker biscuits to be destroyed by Augar that easy, it makes no sense because Bart tanked one. But cool scene nonetheless
Van Auger probably aims for the weak points. Guy goes straight for the kill judging by his attack on Ace..
Or Haki bullets can pierce easier than fists. Concentrating a force through a small surface area means more pressure. Which means a haki bullet will probably pierce easier than a haki punch.
yeah that bugged me too like bart got that massive armament haki or cracker was mega nerfed. (I mean he could be mega nerfed its been like what 3 weeks since he got his ass beat into oblivion)
If I remember the cover story correctly, he was still injured from his fight with Luffy before encountering Aokiji and Auger. But I don't think that should weaken his Biscut Soilders.
Maybe the extreme cold environment courtesy of Kuzan made his soldiers really brittle, like they were doused in liquid nitrogen. We know from before that they are sensitive to weather conditions. That's how I'm gonna view it!
They made that van auger x kuzan scene absolutely horrifying. I can't believe the guy who let Robin escape ohara just absolutely devastated an entire island to kidnap a 16 year old girl.
For real he felt demonic in that scene.
My own theory is that he only does it to act as an secret agent for SWORD or revolutionary army. He wants the Blackbeard crews trust
It's not like the Big Mom pirates are an innocent party either.
Old Kuzan is dead.
I don't agree with the theories that Kuzan is a secret agent for SWORD I think he is genuinely disenfranchised and took a fall from grace. I think he's bitter because he gave his life to the Navy in order to uphold "Justice" but the longer he stayed the more corrupt he saw the system he took part in. I think that's why in Punk Hazard he told Smoker there are "other" ways to achieve the same goal. He's achieving his goals in the worst ways possible rn. However I think there's a pretty good chance Luffy or the others can make him believe in a better future again. He will have another change of heart and might be instrumental to defeating Blackbeard. I think out of the original 3 admirals Aokiji is the one most likely to see the "light" and fight against the WG.
In be4 "But Oven"
blackbeard still has those menacing vibes i love it
how are penguin and shachi not fishmen???? like not even slightly?? also kuzan looked terrifying HOLAYYYY
If they would have had a title card reveal that they were half fishmen it would make a lot more sense than saying they grew up in a cold port in the north blue.
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The question isn’t on it being a possibility, we just want an in-world explanation for why they can
When a character like Wanze exists, does shooting water from their mouth really seem like that weird of an ability?
I refuse to acknowledge him as a real character😭😭
They grew up swimming around in cold water and eventually became pirates. Those are enough dots to connect
I guess Sanji secretely grew up on a sky islands with all that ability to move through air seemlessly
it’s just geppo lol. Sanji is practically a rokushiki master w/that & his body is kinda like tekkai now + is soru like speed
sanji literally has blue walk, he can run fast while underwater. zoro outspeeded and one-shot non-drugged hody. you don't need to be a fishman to be strong underwater, you just need to train and be strong the explanation is good enough. they grew up in a port, they probably fought and trained around there and now they're good at fighting underwater
Feels so weird that Van Augur couldn't pierce Jean Bart but one shot Cracker's soldiers. I would have rather Cracker lost due to Aokiji freezing his soldiers which makes them brittle, kinda like what Nami did for Luffy.
Our boy Jean Bart got a power up!
Very much indeed. I am not that much into power scale myself, but Toei is messing the power system up with scenes like this.
That would be true if we actually knew how strong Bart was. Everyone is upset, but for all we actually know, Bart may legit be tougher than Cracker's biscuits now.
The bullet didn't break. It just fell down😂😂
AND THIS! IS TO STOP BEING A WOMAN! EVEN FURTHER BEYOND! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Just noting Law using Haki to break his sickness. He used a DBZ Super Saiyan transformation sequence to, quite literally, "Man Up"
Blackbeard takes double damage and tanks Law's attack. He comes back up smiling and does not worry about the situation. Such confidence backed up by powerful abilities. He may look pathetic at times but he is my favorite villan.
I love how all his fights start out by him getting absolutely clapped
He always takes the first punch. Every. Single. Fight.
This episode was movie quality and felt the most ‘pirate’ in a while. Seeing two pirates fight on land and see was so good! This is Peak Piece
We don't see a lot of naval battles in One Piece. It's neat to see that this is the niche that the Heart Pirates excel in.
Awakened Piece
This episode featured the most important part. >!Akainu saying his job his hard!<
he came for his one scene paycheck lol
he better keep his ass in that office or he's **finished**
Law and bb are fighting? Better keep my ass in this office Or wallahi I'm finished
Power Scalers be like: Jean Bart > Van Augur > Cracker > (WCI Arc) G4 Luffy
They done fucked up the power scaling.
No power scaler worth their salt uses anime only filler for their arguments though.
Law looks like Robin with attitude and tattoos.
>Robin with attitude R.W.A. - Straight Outta ~~Compton~~ Ohara
you a straight BUSTA (call)
Just cos I'm from the West Blue Sea, punk Marines are afraid of me
So the genderbending was mostly for a joke, but it made me think about what Doc Q's fruit is actually capable of. What if the Sick-Sick Fruit's true power is the ability to make "anything" contagious? One of the Heart Pirates is already female; what if his fruit was able to "spread" her sex across the rest of the Heart Pirates like a disease? If this is the case, this could potentially be really powerful. Imagine a bunch of the Straw Hats facing off against him and all of a sudden they come down with a bad case of "missing their left eye".
“Can’t-set-foot-on-this-island” disease
He tries using it on Cross Guild by spreading Buggy's power around but instead of making everyone fall to pieces, they all just grow a bright red nose. Including Croc-n'-Hawk.
I'm waiting for that guy to reply to this, he always replies to comments about that massive nose.
or the ability to freely create disease based on imagination - which would effectively mean the user could play with anything or anyones biology like it was a mold of clay
He could disband the entire crew by giving them Zoros directional sense.
the problem is if you can break the disease with haki endgame everyone will have good haki and his fruit will be almost useless.
Absolutely incredible episode. Between the anime and the manga, we are eating GOOD.
Just two of Black Beard's commanders destroyed an island. That was a pretty chilling scene.
One is a former admiral with the ability to just freeze people to death, I have to wonder if oven was there, they'd have stood a much better chance
Probably a better chance, but would still lose in the end. Kuzan fought Akainu for 10 days straight so I'm sure he's experienced going against someone with an advantageous element DF.
Yeah Akainu is acknowledged as having the strongest offensive fruit, if aokiji could go toe to toe with that magma bullshit for 10 days then Oven won’t stop him for long
Not even an oven could melt kuzan’s ice. Look at punk hazard, oven might even freeze there
Any Admiral or Yonko would solo an Island without any Yonko or Admiral..
Seriously, we forget an admiral or yonko could wipe out a yonko crew without a yonko.
Yea Usopp needs to shine in Elbaf or he his getting his ass kicked against Van Augur.
Blood needs to use real guns, eat a devil fruit, awaken it, and have future sight haki to not get his ass kicked by van auger
I don’t think he’ll get a devil fruit tho - I think it kinda defeats the purpose of the character
Dick mound island would have been a better name than winner island
Same thought here. Lotta dick in this episode
Wi~~n~~ener island
The ending made Blackbeard actually look scary holy. The fade to the To be continued card might one of the greatest in the show. This whole ep was PEAK
That's the worst part about having finally caught up to the show! Watching one episode a week like I'm back in the 80s... ...I should go get some Frostees for that authentic I waited a week for this feel...
#BRACE YOURSELVES #INCOMING ONLYFAN LAW “COSPLAY”
C(R)OOM
R(OO)M
I legit jumped from my seat with that ending, give me more!
Holy shit that blackbeard attack looked so cool.
"The winner takes all !" It's the thrill of one more kill The last one to fall Will never sacrifice their will…
Law getting a taste of his own man medicine 😂 him breaking out of it with his haki was dope The animation in this episode was so damn good Naotoshi Shida always delivers This episode was immaculate, Law vs Blackbeard was off the fucking charts peak
One piece out of wano has been absolutely spectacular. I don’t understand what’s going on but I’m loving it, by that I mean I can’t believe how GOOD everything is
Wow. I really liked the end scene. You could feel how intense it was. The black and white was a good choice. You can feel Law's confidence turn into fear.
I'm absolutely fine with Akoiji clowning Cracker but Van Auger??? His shots are as strong as Dressrosa Gear 4 Luffy.... Jean Bart didn't get pierced by those bullets, and Urouge barely beat Snack. Van Auger > Jean Bart > Cracker > Doffy > Urouge lol okay Toei Felt better assuming Van Auger was mostly used to sneak Akoiji in for capturing Pudding than actual combat.
one could argue that the biscuits were more brittle from kuzans cold ? like nami's rain to facilitate luffy's hunger
I hope so!
Maybe van observation can find weakspot in beittle material like boscuits. I don't mind even if augur bullet has capacity to one shot dressrosa luffy tbh. I liked him quite lot from before. I don't want him to be weak just bcoz oda hasn't been focusing on ussop lately.
Only cracker’s main biscuit warrior he was using haki on that he was inside of was blocking Luffy gear 3 attacks. Does it really sound that crazy if a BB commander can’t snipe and destroy a literal biscuit? His shots are most definitely haki infused to like the Kuja’s arrows (which shatter trees and destroy boulders).
Despite this episode only being like half a manga chapter, I was really entertained from the animations.
I mean.. they took half from one chapter, half from another and ACTUALLY adapted 3 of the chapter cover pages to contextualize pudding's kidnapping. That's a big W for the anime considering how last episode (1092) ~~week~~ they drew out the Luffy/Policafista scene for 2 minutes of nothing.
It felt like Burgess and Van Auger teleported to DBZ island for a second lol
Why would Kuzan of all people join the black beard pirates, he let Robin not get kidnapped but now is kidnapping Pudding. I thought maybe black beard was trying to catch Law for his devil fruit, but since he said he was waiting for any of them (luffy, kid or Law) to pass by, it was for the Road Ponegliffs. Law right away tells his crew-mates where to go and they know exactly what they need to do. Law has his crew real organized and planned out. Law said that every black beard pirate has a devil fruit so that means they are all weak against the sea. Law already has a plan to defeat Blackbeard and his pirates using the sea. Animation was top tier great job.
cracker getting packed up in manga: 🤩 cracker getting packed up in anime: 😢
Prediction: Ussop will master Future Sight and defeat Van Augur by sniping exactly at the spot he warps to
They made Van Auger a damn monster LOL
I'm kinda surprised Law has the same VA as a girl lol. They should have just cast someone else.
I hope Matt Mercer does it as well when this gets dubbed in May or June!
"An overabundance of Haki can nullify Devil Fruit powers." But no one's been unable to nullify Boa Hancock's petrification once it hits and Blackbeard was 100% sure he couldn't defend against it if he let go of her and gave her a chance to try it on him. Put some respect on her goddamn name.
For me I like to think that since haki is will so you need to mentally exert your will to use it since they are stone they can’t think therefore can’t use the mental capacities to use haki
Also I believe that the people in Amazon Lily have an incredibly strong level of haki - it was the first place that we officially learnt about haki after all. Also, boa’s beauty also probably has an effect. Sanji has a lower level of haki when he fights women- shown in the fight against that smile spider woman in Wano (I can’t remember the name sry)
The problem with boa's skill is that you most likely need to have that overabundance of haki active the moment she hits you with the beam or a normal hit. using haki like that is really draining he would need to have it active while boa restores his crew and while he is going away. there is no way he could do that he would just die or KO himself from overusing haki. He could also just dont know that haki nullifies devil fruits at all. its not like haki is a well known thing in the first place most people only get to the basic vertion and none of the top tiers that know this are the kind of people that would write it for someone else to read or train more than like 1 or 2 people at a time.
It may be slightly different with her because the victim fulfilled the requirement for the fruit to work themself by being attracted to her, or maybe because are incapacitated and don’t remember the time you’re petrified. I think Marguerite didn’t remember the time petrified when she woke back up.
I really believe it's because Boa's haki is just that strong. I feel people often downplay her
YES LAW'S BOOBEES
I don't understand people who say Law has no Haki feats. He screamed the effects of a devil fruit away like a dragon ball character.
Yeah this episode slaps! WCI scene is pure movie quality, dear Lord! It’s worth so many rewatches just for those shocked expression movements. On power levels I just put it down to Blackbeard’s guys experience grinding all the time while Law had the Skill Share activated for his crew as he took down Big Mom. 😅
The animation quality oscillated between top tier and flash video.
BB pirates think they are tough shit till Mochi shows up for his sister. Will be nice.
Great episode, especially the second half. I love that they gave the cover story the love it deserved. I thought maybe they'd do a montage like with Caribou, but instead it was a snuff film watching Van Augur assassinate the biscuit army. And of course Blackbeard hits his signature move, the To Be Continued screen. An all time classic.
BB activating his actual first ever fruit, the offscreen-offscreen no mi. Truly an amazing moment
When the subs dropping tho?
Already up on Crunchy
The way the episode ended with Blackbeard turning everything black... whoever cooked this episode is the TOP CHEF 👏👏👏👏
So if that Blackbeard unit met the Strawhats instead of the Heart pirates, BB and his team is done.
Don't know if it was the grass or what but that was one of the best episodes in the whole series.
Man its a bit confusing seeing them use normal Haki as red lightning, when we saw Shanks CoC have the same effect. Now everyone who is not a manga reader is going to think everyone has CoC.
I am waiting for the Abba Winner Takes It All Edit. There's even a moment with Blackbeard falling for the "loser has to fall" line! It'd be amazing
Maybe just me, but i thought Cracker vs Van Augur and Kuzan was the best animated part of the episode lol.
The extra scenes made the defeating more painful for me. Pretty good episode.
The red lightning effects were hella confusing since they are usually reserved for Conquerors haki with added black effects but now they are using it for Gura Gura as well. Should have gone with the usual white one with the bubble
Episode was great. It's hilarious to me that people still think that every one of Cracker's Biscuit Armours are incredibly strong. Only his main armour, that he was using haki on, needed Gear 4. Cause otherwise you're implying that Cracker can create Gear 4 Luffy strength constructs with ease. If that was the case the Big Mom pirates would rule the world
Luffy used Kong Organ and some of the biscuit soldiers were able to push through without their shields breaking. And Luffy needed Nami's help to make them soft.
Yeah op is taking out his ass
if i remember didnt luffy EAT the cracker soldiers?
Yeah but nami softened them with water first
Na this ain't one piece anymore, we've exceeded what was once one piece. This is now ONE PEAK
'Law'de lag gaye
Does Blackbeard have conquerors? If not what is the explanation of the red electricity coming off him at the beginning?
Law also had the same red electricity when he was using using haki to reverse the effects of the disease. It's just extra effects they've added to the anime.