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| They keep repeating scenes! That's not fair! They really want to end this episode at the start of Luffy's fight, fucking toei. Anyway, Katakuri's ability is like Luffy's but improved. Might not be electricity resistant but he can literally mold himself and shoot projectiles. And I think when Luffy was attacking him and he hits him but does no damage, it's because Katakuri knows where exactly the blows are gonna hit and he kinda dissolves that specific part so it looks like he's being hit even though he isn't. Damn! how is Luffy going to beat him and how is he going to come back? |
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| Well that was expected luffy acting like a captain for once .. this was a good episode |
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| Luffy the badass captain at the end was really cool! Just thinking about how extended his fight with Katakuri is probably gonna be, makes me sad ;_; |
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| Damn, it's finally time for the big fight! 20+ episodes is a long way to go though but I can't wait to see how Luffy will take down the formidable Katakuri! |
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| With the sacrifice of Pedro painting the color scheme orange with his explosion, and the soundtrack choice of ‘Aces Beginning’ to portray the sense of scale, the sadness, and the chaos of impending death, the artistic choices were already excellent and kept the momentum created from last episode perfectly. And in tone with that, we also started with the reaction of Pedro’s friends! Nami holding Carrot back actually reminded me of Tom taking the fall or his students and Kokoro warning them not to ruin his sacrifice, and Carrot especially showed a new side to herself! I have loved Carrot so far. She's very similar to Chopper, often playing the role of cutesy comic relief, innocent and fun loving but capable, she lacks the intelligence of Chopper, but she has all the courage he lacks or at the very least, no sense of fear. But here, this cute, feelgood character was grieving, she was angry, and sad, and regretful, crying that she wasn’t strong enough to keep her pledge to Pedro while being stomped on by the enemy. She had a sense of ambition already, she wanted to see the world, but this level of pain definitely humanized her for lack of a better word. Just like Roger passed onto Pedro the phrase ‘everyone will have their turn’, Pedro did so to Carrot as well. He was a mentor to her, taking her under his wing, supporting and training her. Further, realizing this I started to voice some thoughts “oh like Pekom-” before cutting off with a panicked shout “OH GOSH PEKOMS!!” In the moment of Pedro’s sacrifice, I only thought of the immediate players. I did not think of Pekoms who has now lost both of his big brothers, Zepo and Pedro, to the Big Mom pirates. Poor dude, he loves his mink brothers so much, and those two especially as seen from the flashback. After focusing on the emotional ramifications, Luffy, who had wanted to be strong enough so that none of his other friends had to die and thus failed again, saved Carrot and took on Katakuri. Up until this point I thought this episode was really excellent, a perfect continuation of last with meaningful character focus. But, I admit it slowed down here. Setting up all of the obstacles in Amade about to fire, Big Mom gnawing through the Sunny, Katakuri being grappled, and eventually Peros surviving was fine the first time, but after repeating this footage after the eyecatch, and then after obstruction, repeating this entire situation once more killed the sense of immediacy. It began to feel drudgingly slow rather than make it or break it, and, although we knew meta-contextually that the crew would likely blast off, by holding off that reality for so long it began to feel artificial. I admit however, it was probably worth it to see the fish out of water Jimbei listening to Franky’s tone dial robot voice and attempting to direct the Coup de Burst well probably having no idea of what to expect. That got some good laughs out of me, we love a moe fish dad. That said, the climax of the episode went straight back up to fantastic. Luffy’s face when he told the gang he’d be back later was already insane enough to get excited, and what ended up occurring did subvert my expectations in a super exciting way. To preface why: Going into this escape mission, I did expect the mirror to be used in getting the bad guys off the ship, but the way that I conceptualized it is as follows. Luffy will play a mind game to trick Katakuri’s future vision, he will then push him into the mirror, and then break it. This was probably naive of me, I should be expecting a fight between them and by not taking that into account I was not very meta. Regardless, when I realized that Luffy would be going with him, my expectations changed. I had realized that this felt inevitable in retrospect, this is a fun way to fit in a fight with the main character and a very cool villain, which will have only the victor return to the Sunny! In fact, the other characters cannot break the mirror because it needs to remain for Luffy’s sake, therefore there will be an inherent sense of anxiety, they don't know who will win and come through that mirror. If Luffy loses, Katakuri will be back! This seems like an organic way to create some intense content; Luffy could even temporarily lose and Katakuri could emerge as a fake out, yet Luffy completely baffled me like he used to in early One Piece. Within seconds he shattered the escape route himself causing me to shout in shock!!! No matter what, no one is getting back on the Sunny through the mirror, he’ll make it back to them later, somehow... A part of me wishes we cut down on the journey to the Sunny because the Sunny and the wedding have both been so gripping and having little downtime between them would make me lose my mind every single episode rather than becoming somewhat bored for a few. |
| THE LONG ANTICIPATED FIGHT HOLY FRICK. respect to Pedro, good to see jinbe on the ship, but HOW WILL LUFFY GO BACK NOW |
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| Brook is truly the MVP, he even used a rope and grabbed on to the Shark Submerge 3 ! And the tone dial was GREAT! the way how it gave instructions, and the intensity of escaping in such a dire situation! But i've been waiting this for a while ! Luffy vs Katakuri!! This is why I watch Whole Cake island ! This right here will be probably one of the biggest thing in One Piece history!! Also shout out to Kajo_Senpai69, hope you notice this post and get caught up to where I "used" to be in from before (i'm probably 10-120 episodes ahead by the time you reach here and see this comment). |
| August 6th 2023: Biggest upset ever, deception, selfishness, or scammed, manipulated. Heavy damage costs, and more. Days since: 15 Last updated: 8/21/2023 One Piece Episode 1041 & 1042 & 1047 & 1048 & 95.75%/1049 & 1053 were a mistake and Uta brought the salvation -AhriTheS3xyFox |
| It's gonna be awesome. Luffy looks so determined. It was such an intense episode. They barely got away from there. |
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| Fuck yeah I was waiting for this fight for a long time |
| They managed to escape but that was a dangerously close call, all things considered! It's a good thing that none of the Big Mom Pirates knew about their ship's most awesome feature. Luffy cutting off his route back to the Thousand Sunny makes me wonder about how he'll be able reunite with the rest of his crew once things are all done and over with. Willingly trapping himself deep in enemy territory and right in front of the strongest soldier one of the Emperors of the Sea has to offer... That's Luffy for you, alright! @AhriTheS3xyFox I've finally managed to update my posts so I can finally thank you for the shout-out~ I'll meet you in Wano in a month or two after some hardcore binging, hopefully! |
Kajo_Senpai69Dec 28, 2021 12:09 PM
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| Bruhh Perospero didn't die? WTF COUP DO BRUST!! SUPER!!! Omg i missed Franky voice so much. It's the scene from the OP song, Luffy vs Katakuri begin!! |
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| fianlly the duel of this arc is about to start and i can't wait |
| Man really upset Mr.lickdy lock didn’t die. Pedro still helped them escape. But it would have been nice to knock out that guy as well. The Katarcri and Luffy fight going to be so good. I don’t understand how his armament haki not hurting him. Guess Luffy going to have to find away. Maybe a 5th gear? One thing was nice to hear Franky again. As great as this arc is. I really miss Zoro, Robin, Usopp and Franky. |
| Watched #OnePiece Ep.838-850 So slow it feels like I've watched 4 episodes for more than 5 hours. Hearing Big Mom repeat ad nauseam the same words was too much. 1/5 I can't believe there will be a serious fight after all of that. I was happy it was going down another road for once. |
| Feeling conflicted right now. Last episode was so good, and while the escape was not likely to be simple after Pedro's sacrifice, it really felt like the episode pacing dropped the ball. So much messing around, the Coup De Burst suddenly taking an age to charge and no one paying attention to Big Mom suddenly getting right behind them and grabbing the ship. Also felt like such a gut punch that Peros managed to survive the explosion, even still being conscious. Just glad it wasn't a BS survival and that he mentioned that he'd applied candy armour, and even then he lost an arm. All the stalling though was clearly intended to ensure the episode ended where it did. Brulee screwed up and gave Luffy the opportunity he needed. Using the force of the Coup De Burst, he forced Katakuri back into the Mirroworld with himself and cut off the exit. Now the crew don't have to worry about Katakuri on the Sunny and Luffy can go completely wild. This fight better not disappoint as the comments here have been hyping it for a while now :P |
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