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| Like if you think we need a big filler or arc cover story. |
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| Well looks like next week will end it.... But damn Rebecca, so much screen time, she has been shown as a competent fighter, but she has never done anything! Just got in everyone's way and been annoying as hell. |
"When everyone else is about to give up, the fighter who becomes the role model, is the true Leader."  |
| We all saw this coming, but it doesn't mean we have to like it (the drag out of time) Gyats did good :'), Tra-guy being great as always <3 tr1ckst3r said: BrookIsLife said: Doflamingo glasses is his source of power, if he take it off, he will lose all his power and become an ordinary blond man.Has it been explained why Doflamingo always wears glasses? Has he ever been seen without them? whether they say it or not, I'm just going to accept his glasses ate some devil's fruit they the one of energy or something and that's how Doffy can pull this bullshit off |
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| I just want this arc to end so we can move on to the next XD |
| Was dragged out a lot, and also predictable, but i still enjoyed it. |
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| lol it's finally been 10 minutes |
BrookIsLife said: Alvarito92 said: Like if you think we need a big filler or arc cover story. It would be nice if we got all the cover stories animated and fleshed out. The Caribou, Enel and Jinbe ones for example. Though it might spoil what colour Jinbe's (spoiler) is hehe true, lets just wait dressorosa to fisniish tough no episode next week :( |
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DiabloMask said: What's the name of the soundtrack at the end of the episode? if anyone knows please tell me. Its "Reborn!" :)) |
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thatvietnamese said: DiabloMask said: What's the name of the soundtrack at the end of the episode? if anyone knows please tell me. Its "Reborn!" :)) Thnx :) I appreciate it. |
| Fucking finally! |
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| The fact that Gyats didn't die after Doffy's attack makes me wonder how drained the guy is. |
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| Horrible episode, pacing and animation were shit as usual. I think I'll take a loooooooong One Piece break after this arc is over... |
| Luffy has finally shown up !! Also everyone putting their hope in him is kind of a lot of pressure but only an idiot won't feel that pressure. |
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| Well I'm back from my 3-week break of not watching this.. and well still nothing. That's fine I guess because I heard that the next episode is gonna be the climax of Luffy and Doflamingo's fight so this episode is nothing but to just hype people. And I sure am hyped! I just wish it's worth it. |
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| Longest 60 seconds ever... |
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| I called the 1 minute being an entire episode in the last discussion. Anyhow ... Gyats sure made it exciting to see Luffy come back after being knocked down, I got so excited seeing Luffy back on his feet (even after 3 months break of watching). Let's see if Luffy can hold true to the 1 blow though. |
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| Did ANYONE not see Luffy's appearance coming? Terrible episode |
| "The weak get washed away by the tides of fate...The strong drink it up."-Godot |
| Hard to realise this arc is just one day in One Piece. |
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| yay for Luffy's return |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| Yay luffy is back finally now finish doffy |
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| Bad Flamingo, no killing Sanji's waifu. |
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| Watch this episode at x2 speed. |
| I was actually angry about this episode. This ending is like almost definitely my least favorite stretch of One Piece to date. I heard the pacing in Dressrosa was awful but gosh. Not even that, it would almost definitely be fun in the manga because it would be faster, but I’d not even be interested narratively. I want Doflamingo to die. I want to move on. If the rest of the anime stayed like this, which I’m not sure if it does, I’d want to drop it. Obviously to stick with the manga that is. In fact, I downloaded a speed controller to double the speed this episode and it was still exhausting. I think Doflamingo’s power is just stupid. He had potential to be interesting but he makes unbreakable strings that only Luffy can break, he makes shadow clones of string, he controls populations with string while not even looking at them as they move with some level of precision; he may as well have brain washing powers. He can use logia type powers with his paramythia. He can use haki to be strong and defensive. I liked this when it was smarts which defeated him, amazing strategies with Law. It may have still been dumb but it was interesting. But, Law went down, and Luffy went super saiyan and the way he beat Doffy was by being stronger. The only reason he didn’t kill him on the spot was because he ran out of energy. This is like ridiculous levels of power scaling, I don’t care about the moves these dudes can do, I would rather have it be interesting on a conceptual level, or a narrative level and for me, it’s neither of those. Hell, Luffy got knocked out and, since we’ve known exactly how this ending will go for the last 10 episodes, despite the community pushing the birdcage, it feels like they’re just sitting back and waiting for him to save the day. It’s gone on far too long. It was vaguely interesting when I didn’t know how it would turn out excluding the fact that Luffy would save the day at the last second, but as soon as the pushing began and Gyats started to speak through the microphone, I literally said out loud how this would go. “Luffy won’t appear at first. People will start to worry. Doflamingo will start to laugh. Then Luffy will show up to cheers.” As suggested earlier, if this was fast, it could be cheesy, predictable, but still fun. With the pacing it took, it turned out to be an irritable slog. Violet was even saved by Luffy because it took Doffy a full minute to kill her! Thanks Gyats, but that’s the most boring and predictable way one could do that scene. Of course it had to be Luffy, everyone cheered him on, all anyone can do in this finale is wait for him, no one else could save her, and obviously Oda won’t kill Violet! Fujitora is relegated to a pusher, Sabo fights off screen, and Luffy gets cheered on by people I can’t help but not care about at this point. I suppose this also frustrates me because it’s the worst case of the formulaic Luffy-savior pattern yet. Him having to fight the big bad guy at the end and having a reason to be delayed to that point is fine, but this is just silly. 'My super saiyan mode makes me rest for exactly 10 minutes' is as contrived as the birdcage is. Alabasta’s conclusion was very similar to this so it makes for a good counterexample. We were made to care about the kingdom due to Cobra, Vivi, Chaka, Pell, Koza, Igaram and Toto. This can be compared to the cast characters we meet in Dressrosa which want to protect their country above all else. The conclusion is even eerily similar, there is a time limit which if not stopped, everyone will die and the cast works together to stop it. In Alabasta that was a time bomb, here it is an impending birdcage. Obviously, everyone won’t die and this is Luffy’s anime so he won’t either, the end result could be grasped like it can here. Yet, it was fast and enthralling, we had fights which elevated the cast like we hadn’t seen before, we had one of the most likable villains, we had Pell at least appear to sacrifice himself as one of the definitive blows on Crocodile’s plan, we had Tashigi with her resolve trampled forced to leave the final fight in Luffy’s hands, we had the betrayal of Crocodile and Robin, and we had the third cathartic and quick fight between Crocodile and Luffy while barely anyone even knew it was happening. You could argue this arc has all the equivalent moments, especially stuff like Usopp and Zoro’s big moments, but I can’t help but feel like when all the heart of the series is so drawn out, the uninspired nature of the arc ends up feeling like the most glaring aspect. There is no suspense, but the anime is acting like there is. |
| It was great to see Gyats rile everyone up and fill everyone in Dressrosa with hope for Luffy's incoming arrival! We're at the endgame now and I'm excited to see if Doflamingo will finally end up tasting defeat in the next episode! |
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| Holy shit... Those were the longest 10 seconds of my life. LMAO |
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| Most of the ep was constant frames pushing the barrier Finally Luffy is back just one more blow!!!! |
| Mad respect for Gyats!! LUCY! LUCY! LUCY!! I'm actually yelling with the civilians. Very intense until the last second. |
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| one thing i don't understand is why the smoll princess havent used her power on Lucy aka Luffy.That would give him enough time for the killing blow |
| Man I know nothing much happen this episode till the end. But Gyats was awesome! When Luffy becomes king of the pirates at the end. I need him to be Luffy and the straw hats hype man. I got so worried when Mingo attacked him. Favorite C tier character of this arc. I expect next episode will finally be the episode Mingo gets defeated. I think I’m ready to see it end. |
| That. Was. A. Very. Long. 60 seconds... |
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