2012-12-16, 16:32 | Link #723 |
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Frankie's hair is SUPER crazy in this arc. Loving it.
I think Luffy and Zoro were not taking their respected fights seriously at all, Momonga & Shuzo looked a bit worried near the end. This filler gets better and better it just has everything.
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2012-12-16, 21:54 | Link #724 | |
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If a random VA was defeated by a rookie, do you think its impact would be as great as Lucci being defeated? Why underestimate Rob Lucci and overestimate the vice admirals? There are so many VAs that the weaker ones can be very weak. Remember that VA level means that you are able to tango with any VA, which means that the lower bound is very low indeed. Smoker was easily VA level before the time skip despite being only a captain.
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2012-12-16, 22:50 | Link #725 | |
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What impact? The major impact the strawhats had that arc was the actual raid on EL and the proclamation of war on the WG. Yes, the defeat of the CP9 was acknowledged but it was a group thing rather than "Monkey D. Luffy defeated Rob Lucci". In my opinion I'm not really underestimating Lucci, rather I believe you are overestimating Lucci and even Smoker. Pre-timeskip Smoker had knowledge of Haki but no mastery over it...he was most certainly not VA level, he was a Logia user which in the first part of the GL was a huge thing making him seem much stronger than what he actually was. Smoker relied so much on his devil fruit power that a VA with Haki control would just bash his brains in. I agree that there might have been different levels within the VA rank but at best...at very best Lucci would have been nearly the same level as the weaker VAs. We're talking about guys that fought WB Division Captains and NW famous captains one-on-one and we've even seen them using little haki abilities during the war, imagine how much stronger they are with Haki. I have no doubt that Lucci, Smoker, most of the Supernovas and so on have reached VA levels during the timeskip, specially if they spend that time in the NW...but pre-timeskip I doubt they were at such levels. But well...that's my opinion at least. |
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2012-12-17, 00:18 | Link #726 | |
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Maybe you are right. Just read that there are 'only' 16 VAs in the entire naval organization. So maybe Lucci was not 'VA-level' before the time skip.
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2012-12-23, 06:44 | Link #728 |
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The battle against Neo Navy continues.
Luffy vs Shuzo. That was interesting to watch. The guy was crazy strong! Even Luffy had a serious problem with him. Luckily Lily stepped up and made things more interesting. At least they finally got the chance to taste Lily's dad's cooking ^^ And off they go towards new adventures!
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2012-12-23, 11:46 | Link #729 |
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Not surprised these fillers didn't last long, guess they couldn't out stretch the release of the movie.
Good all round episode. Shame lily is a filler character having her about all the time to create giant luffy would have been amazing. I'm hungry after seeing that volcano food *drools* Any idea if the next couple of episodes are filler or if we will go onto the next main story arc?
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2012-12-23, 13:08 | Link #730 |
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I'm gonna miss my Lily T_T I really liked her a lot despite being a filler character.
From the preview it looks like we're jumping right into the Punk Hazard Arc which is the next canon arc. Quite surprised they didn't make more filler to gain some distance (this filler was just for the movie like the previous one), especially considering that the next arc isn't even finished in the manga yet (though the end seems near). |
2012-12-23, 23:38 | Link #733 | |
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Lucci was way higher than captain level.
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2012-12-23, 23:50 | Link #734 |
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Can't believe Lily was only a filler character :/. Lily expanding in Luffy's stomach and turning him into a giant was a little dumb and unrealistic, only in a filler lol. Giant Luffy was cool though, what if he used Gear Third in giant form!? would be awesome
Shuzo's alpaca canon was awesome XD. But how does a canon eat a devil fruit?? And how does a sword (Spandam's) eat a devil fruit for that matter? |
2012-12-24, 01:31 | Link #735 |
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Well, when I saw giant Luffy (really filler material here, since no way Oda would do something so out of logic like that), I thought we were going to get a chance to see Luffy with boobies. Oh well, they missed that opportunity.
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2012-12-24, 12:36 | Link #736 | |
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As for Giant Luffy, that has to be the most disgusting thing we've seen in the whole series. Not just his appearance, but the fact the Lily was actually inside of him, wearing him like a full-body suit. Blech! |
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2012-12-27, 13:48 | Link #739 | |
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PS, just saw the first 7 minutes of the filler, totally pisses me off to see luffy defeated so easily, 100% rediculous and nonsense Last edited by Dutchlad; 2012-12-27 at 14:05. |
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2012-12-28, 13:43 | Link #740 | |
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