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One Piece - Chapter 760 [manga]
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2014-09-10, 12:43 | Link #6 |
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Doffy: I was cast out of Heaven... it was a wonderful place; Slaves as far as the eye could see
Sorry Mingo, having a little trouble sympathizing with ya. Two things I'm annoyed with though in this chapter. First there are the dressrosa citizens. After multiple chapters about how they were going to capture Riku and hand him over to doflamingo, they just all of a sudden let him go and choose to follow him. Just feels like an annoying red herring; a way to create some false tension for King Riku's group as the citizens came closer and closer. At the very least i would have liked it if someone made some kind of grand speech to make them realize what they were doing was stupid (like the former toys)... that would have atleast maintained consistency. The second was Fujitora... on the one hand, i feel like I understand what he's saying; the marines can't be heroes in dressrosa and that's why he's placing his bet on strawhat to sort everything out. I'm fine with that; if that's how he feels then it explains why he didn't try to stop Mingo himself; he knew it wouldn't do any good in the long run, so no point trying. What bugs me is how he tried to actively stop Luffy; that goes against his bet. He could have made is bet by simply ignoring Luffy and just having his forces focus on keeping the locals under control so they didn't kill eachother while bird cage was in effect. Again, like above, it feels like a way to create some false tension as we were led to believe that Fujitora was gonna be an obstacle... really, he and Sabo had no reason to fight it out here.
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2014-09-10, 13:18 | Link #7 |
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So Doflamingo is a self-entitled jerk. From all the hints we've been given, I was expecting something... deeper, so to speak? But then, this entire chapter felt weird, especially with the citizens and Fujitora doing a complete 180, as slayerx said above.
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2014-09-10, 15:59 | Link #9 | |
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Sorry, sorry! I would've made the thread myself earlier, but I thought the chapter would be out tomorrow! My bad, indeed!
Anyways..... so basically Dofla's story is that he's bitter about losing his prestige as a world noble..... okay. So it's pretty much safe to say that he IS a world-class asshole through and through, then. Well, I guess this pretty much confirms that he's the Dio Brando of OP, lol. Quote:
My take on this is that Fujitora had to make a convincing "act" so both Doflamingo and the Dressrosans alike would be convinced that the marines are indeed doing their job. Basically, Fuji is technically on Luffy's side, but he also understands that the marines would lose face if they openly assisted pirates. If you really think about it, it's yet another strong parallel to the Alabasta arc (which ALSO had marines helping the Straw-Hats and their royal friends settle a major conflict that was caused by a shichibukai), but in this case Fuji seems to be more subtle in his assistance.... I guess. |
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2014-09-11, 03:39 | Link #12 | |
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At least it makes more sense than the citizens. From a reader's perspective though, it just seems like the author wanted to get rid of a few story threads, to concentrate on the more important fights. |
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2014-09-11, 06:29 | Link #13 |
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hmm, i wonder why Dofla real family labeled as an traitor by other mariejois, and he call his father as a stupid father. i assume Dofla father isn't a bad person like his son, maybe he can't accept a rule of Mariejois since he see it would make the other people suffer (we know all the Celestial Dragon is cruel person, so i guess their rule is related to slavery, high taxes to commoner, force a family to give their daughter to become their sex slave) and Dofla father oppose this, so their family is labeled as a traitor
this is just a prediction
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2014-09-11, 16:47 | Link #17 |
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Wonder what causes Dofla's dad to abandon his world noble status. The mentioning about "living like a real human" stuff seems to show that Dofla's dad was a good man but then again, why didn't he abandon his status earlier?
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2014-09-12, 03:36 | Link #20 | |
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