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| Somehow I don't trust the two grateful idiots riding with Luffy on top of Moocy the Bull. Yadda, yadda, less talking Sabo and more fighting! |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| New openning, i really prefered the other, but this is not bad, Sabo is on fire! (no one laugthing?;), Bastile was too ez, let´s see is fujitora can makes Sabo get in trouble, Fujitora doesn´t give me the same feelings as the other almirants, it seems beatable.... |
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| Man i love this new opening theme. Dayum that mera mera power is so epic. |
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| Awesome Episode and a great OP I could listen to like forever Stop clicking on the replay button already! >w< Whenever Sabo Memorizes the time with his brothers, I get so touchy in the heart. I always get watery in my eyes when it happens, I'm not crying! :'3 |
"No matter what painful things happens, even when it looks like you'll lose... when no one else in the world believes in you... when you don't even believe in yourself... I will believe in you!" |
| Definitely like the new OP OP And Sabo x Ace's power is pretty badass too |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| ZAYUM, Sabo's bloodlust be epiccccccccc |
| I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere down the line Sabo dies as well and Luffy inherits the mera mera fruit. |
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| The Sabo determination to protect Luffy!!! |
| Firstly, I had gotten into the habit of skipping the last opening, I didn’t think it was that great and I didn’t like hearing Blackbeard and Luffy yell at each other every opening. However, this new opening is one of my favorites already. The song and visuals are both touching and so frantic and fun, I especially dug the Sabo and Ace moment or Senor Pink and Franky’s slobberknocker and Luffy and Law versus Doflamingo was brilliant. I can’t see myself ever skipping this one, it’s everything I look for in an opening. The intro was pretty short as the meat of the episode was Sabo’s showcasing but I’ll start with the less important stuff first. It was some of the same old jokes, Abdullah and Jeet for the 3rd time being told to leave and saying no, the contestants fighting each other, but it had some good moments. As much as I initially thought Lao G doing the “G” thing was another played out joke, one of the underlings saying “no matter how much he says “G” we’re no match for them” got a good chuckle out of me. Also, for Abdullah and Jeet, I both like how Luffy gets this tendency of hanging around awful people like Caribou, Caesar or these guys but these guys are especially endearing to me because as dirty and horrendous as they are, they have a sense of gratitude. They aren’t, as far as we know, after money, they aren’t trying to assassinate Luffy, they look up to Usopp and Luffy. If true, it gives them a layer of depth to say those scum have a somewhat endearing side to them. Now the Sabo content. I cried really hard at this scene because, as epic as it was, I felt the meat of the scene was the tangible love Sabo has for Luffy and Ace. Not unlike when he told Rebecca that Luffy would become the king of the pirates, here he started by proudly announcing that this was for his brotherly duty to keep Luffy safe. Then he followed this up by declaring himself a “flare-flare human”. In two brief lines Sabo had boldly repped both Luffy and Ace. Later he goes on to confirm that Luffy is his brother and Ace was as well, proceeding to tell Fujitora that his position does not matter, if Luffy is in trouble no matter where he is, he will be by his side. For this to precede a horrific flashback of Sabo breaking down to the news of Ace gives this a sad reality. We can extrapolate that before Ace died, Sabo did not hold this mentality, for he was in a revolutionary base as the news came out and he did not drop everything to save him. The "living freely with no regrets" mentality that Ace and Luffy picked up with Sabo’s apparent death seems to have been a reality Sabo too has grown from with the late Ace. As sad and as cool as this sequence was, Sabo’s love and pride of his brothers was the thing that hit me immensely. I have to say it again, I cannot be mad at Sabo for not being there for Ace, he’s already been hurt so much by it, he’s most definitely the person most mad at himself. Thinking of his line: “I thought he was going to hit me” still makes me tear up. What a wonderful character already! To touch on him beating down the navy is another story. He used his dragon claw which feels like a triple entendre to me, the claws that emulate a literal mythical dragon, that can shatter the skulls of the bigoted celestial dragons, also the claw that he most likely learned under the revolutionary Monkey D. Dragon. It made for a super cool sequence of Sabo flying around like a monster, crushing the weapons of his foes with his bare hands, with bullets flying through him. However, once Bastille chose to confront Sabo things got weird. Sabo dodged some of the shark cleaver’s huge blows, which I should add, on top of him trying to stop his men from fighting an unwinnable battle, left an impression on me, but it was not enough for Sabo. His tiny hand relative to the huge blade stopped it and crushed it, which was all well and good, but at that point Sabo got psycho. His eyes went from black pupils to white circles and he pressed his claws into the mask of Bastille while telling him he would crush his skull like an egg. He laughed and smiled as Bastille screamed. That was sadistic pleasure if I’ve ever seen it which may hint at a deeper side to this lowkey and passionate brother. Fujitora did adorably send a meteor down and yet again made me wonder if he acted first to save Bastille and thought about the ramifications after like he suggested or if it was more of an act, and then he proceeded to hilariously tell Sabo that he caused a lot of havoc, but what this means is Sabo is now fighting the navy admiral Fujitora for his brother’s sake with no more interruptions. I suspect this will go on for awhile in the background and to give Sabo’s first struggle of a fight to, presumably, one of the strongest people in the One Piece world lets us know just how scary he is. |
| A new opening at last is like a breath of fresh air and it's pretty damn catchy too. The stuff depicted in the visuals are far from the best but I love that part where the Straw Hats individually show off their moves in the chorus. Sabo continues to amaze me with how adept he is in fighting despite his very limited experience in using the Flame Flame Fruit. Bastille didn't even have a chance and it looks like Fujitora's gonna have a hell of a time just trying to get through him! |
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| The bond that goes beyond even death. What a beautiful bond those three have. :') |
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| New op is nice I liked the previous one more Got to see a glimpse of Sabo's reaction to Ace's Death |
| How is the old man Admiral even summoning meteors from the sky in the first place is he a devil fruit eater and I hope that they tell us more about why Sabo couldn’t come and save Ace |
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| i'd rather watch endless 8 with my balls in a washing machine than this slow ass garbage nothing of any consequence has happened for 50 fucking episodes i'd rather put my dick in a blender filled with tabasco. this is easly 10000000000000000000000000000000x worse than any shonen ever created and people should be literally pushed out on the streets homeless for this absolute fucking dumpster fire. some of you said this arc was "epic". i guess in one sense that's true. |
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| HIKEN NO SABO!! How many times we need to see the Sake scene? YES now my question is what material did Sabo pipe made of? How the pipe wasn't burnt out? LMAO |
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| This far into the New World and there are still Navy soldiers who don't seem to recognise a Logia Devil Fruit when it's right in front of their faces? On top of that, the discipline is still dogshit. Ordered by a Vice-Admiral to stand down and they still all attack. Insubordination charges for the lot of them if they survive. Was it this arc or a previous one where the was a Nay rep that said they couldn't leave it to the Strawhats to take down the big boss because they wouldn't care for collateral damage? Biggest hypocrites in the show doing the classic "pot, kettle, black". Just how many buildings did that Vice-Admiral cleave up with no regard for civilian safety? Followed by Fujitora bringing down a damn meteorite in the middle of a densely populated area! Of course civilians got hurt from that stunt! There is nothing Luffy could possibly do to out match the collateral damage the Navy has already caused. |
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| Man Sabo is sooo cool. Gosh it’s so sad we never got Sabo, Ace, and Luffy together as adults. And I didn’t think how devastated it must of been for him to see what played out at Marineford. Both with Ace death and everything Luffy went through. Really need some Sabo flashbacks. |
| Sabo is such a badass he wanted to get mowed down and blown up just to test out his power "I uh... brought down a meteor... real sorry" Lol |
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