[Predictions] One Piece Manga Chapter 778 Discussion and 779 Predictions

[Kiiszame]

Zoro just wrecked Pica. For all the hype surrounding the executives they all went down pretty easily I think.
Both Pica and Diamante were cowards.

Next week the main event!

 

[Listz]

If that's true I should inform the authorities to bring some magma fist justice upon you.

You traitor
I shall Santoryu Ougi: Ichidai Sanzen, Daisen Sekai you before you could inform them

 

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Coverpage!!!!

I don't understand the Zoro hype, he was the source of similar destruction and carnage back on Fishman Island (which is backed by the fact he used similar techniques WITH his bandana on as well - showing he was serious too) . The hype and Zoro wank is unbelievable.

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We could already guess how powerful his

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Considering the latter is underwater and six slashes rather than one, it's clear that Zoro had already demonstrated his full power, you guys seriously need to realize he's no stronger than he was before

He's no stronger than he was before!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFS guys

 

[Punk Hazard]

10/10 chapter holy crap.

Lol at anyone who thinks Zoro is weaker than Law or Luffy, this guy is clearly their equal. Not to mention his feats almost parallel Laws this chapter.

This guy should be helping in the Doflamingo fight.

Nah he's still weaker

 

[bajram]

Another ****ed up executive, im not sure if its bad writing or are the executives just too shit, either way the chapter itself was good but as a whole Oda ****ed up the DD family big time, the best villain pirate crew by far who had even an flashback out of all villains but at the same time they're executing were poor, probably the poorest from all villains. I mean why would u have zoro beat the shit out of anyone since FI till now without breaking a sweat, this arc is a major turning point on the manga but still he keeps stomping anyone on his way, I mean really? DD has been controlling the NW black market for years and is probably one of the most famous pirate crew if not the most famous out of the yonkos and yet his strongest man right now at the island cant get even a hit on zoro? Oda should stop di*k riding zoro at this point, slowly its becoming the itachi of OP, at this point I just hope the writer doesnt **** up the yonkos the same way he did with the DD family.

Why would u **** up this fight who had so much potential, why cant this fight be a challenge for both fighters and at the same time to have interesting interactions between abilities but instead Oda's thinking that huge scale and badass faces and lines can replace actual tension and consistency, this fight just went to Naruto level of ****ery.

4/5 chapter.

 

[Punk Hazard]

LOL at all these people saying Zoro didn't break a sweat when he had to spend like 15 chapters fighting Pica before he was able to land the defeating blow.

 

[Bogard]

LOL at all these people saying Zoro didn't break a sweat when he had to spend like 15 chapters fighting Pica before he was able to land the defeating blow.

He did break a sweat but not because Pica was a match for him

 

[Punk Hazard]

He did break a sweat but not because Pica was a match for him

I can't even begin to care. Was it easy for Zoro to defeat Pica? Nope. Doesn't matter it wasn't because Pica was on his level of ability.

 

[Bogard]

I can't even begin to care. Was it easy for Zoro to defeat Pica? Nope. Doesn't matter it wasn't because Pica was on his level of ability.

What i mean is that the difficulty of the fight was mid, but as a fighter Pica has never been a threat. It's just the understanding of Pica's devil fruit(it took him a while to understand) that raised the difficulty higher than it should have been

 

[Punk Hazard]

What i mean is that the difficulty of the fight was mid, but as a fighter Pica has never been a threat. It's just the understanding of Pica's devil fruit(it took him a while to understand) that raised the difficulty higher than it should have been

Uhm, no, the difficulty of the fight is exactly what it should have been. The ability made the fight harder than it COULD have been. This would be like me saying Akainu's Devil Fruit and Haki would make a fight with Luffy harder than it should be because if you remove them, Luffy can defeat him much more easily.

All it was was a high diff fight because Zoro had to flex his brain muscles more than his muscle muscles this time around. This will happen from time to time, you will find opponents where even if their strength or speed or whatever isn't a match for their opponent, they have something that will make the fight trickier. Same thing happened with Crocodile vs Luffy, Enel vs Luffy, even Usopp vs Luffy. It amazes me that people still can't accept this kind of fight for what it is and need to make some kind ¨Well you see, if it wasn't for this, this would have happened¨ excuse towards it.

 

[bajram]

Every major pre-skip fight zoro had was a new challenge to him and was pretty beaten up in each fight and every enemy put up a good fight against him making tension grow each time zoro struggled instead here we got pica who throughout the arc we never even had a panel with pica landing a single hit on zoro, picas been on run the whole arc hiding his body and getting slashed all the times until he decided to stall zoro and instead go for riku, tells how much of a fighter he was, and do u actually equal number of chapter to difficulty? the fight we got here was nothing short of crappy fight with an crappy ending, its pretty bad to say this but Oda's been writing inconsistent shit in this arc, as I said big scales and badass faces and lines dont equal tension, anyone who has read OP for a long time knows that this fight isnt a trait of OP and it has never been.

 

[Punk Hazard]

Every major pre-skip fight zoro had was a new challenge to him and was pretty beaten up in each fight and every enemy put up a good fight against him making tension grow each time zoro struggled instead here we got pica who throughout the arc we never even had a panel with pica landing a single hit on zoro, picas been on run the whole arc hiding his body and getting slashed all the times until he decided to stall zoro and instead go for riku, tells how much of a fighter he was, and do u actually equal number of chapter to difficulty? the fight we got here was nothing short of crappy fight with an crappy ending, its pretty bad to say this but Oda's been writing inconsistent shit in this arc, as I said big scales and badass faces and lines dont equal tension, anyone who has read OP for a long time knows that this fight isnt a trait of OP and it has never been.

Sorry the fight didn't tickle your nipples the exact way you wanted it. But, the struggle in this fight was simply different than the kind we've seen Zoro be in before. Pica was a struggle to his mental power, and he overcame it as Zoro always does with his physical challenges.

This is simply Oda saying that Zoro's merit isn't just in his muscles, but he also has something to offer to the table mentally, not to mention the speed and Haki feats he just got. Sorry that that's not what you wanna see, but that sounds like some sour grapes you're gonna have to just go ahead and deal with swallowing.

 

[bajram]

Sorry the fight didn't tickle your nipples the exact way you wanted it. But, the struggle in this fight was simply different than the kind we've seen Zoro be in before. Pica was a struggle to his mental power, and he overcame it as Zoro always does with his physical challenges.

This is simply Oda saying that Zoro's merit isn't just in his muscles, but he also has something to offer to the table mentally, not to mention the speed and Haki feats he just got. Sorry that that's not what you wanna see, but that sounds like some sour grapes you're gonna have to just go ahead and deal with swallowing.

The excuse u just gave sounded like " I'll eat any and all shit Oda serves me" , sounds pretty accurate, dont u think?

 

[Punk Hazard]

The excuse u just gave sounded like " I'll eat any and all shit Oda serves me" , sounds pretty accurate, dont u think?

Nope, I just know the difference between ¨Bad¨ and ¨Not my cup of tea.¨

 

[Angelic.]

i knew jinbei would come across a poneglyph. i wanna know what it says! a short blurb on the cover wont do

cool fight zoro. now wheres sanjis?

 

[Punk Hazard]

Oh man I just thought of something, do you think the anime is gonna do a good job of this, or is it possible they would extend it to make Pica look less weak?

 

[Hexuze]

Oh man I just thought of something, do you think the anime is gonna do a good job of this, or is it possible they would extend it to make Pica look less weak?

At this point, I just care if the animation/art is good because I'll trust that One Pace will fix the issue of the pacing. To answer your question, they probably will have to extend the fight like add a lot of clashes or have Zoro slice him up even more. The budget of the episode should be pretty high seeing how they have to animate the fight itself and Elizabello's king punch.

 

[Anduril]

Look at all the haters gathering around a bonfire, trying to scrape up a little of their ego that's fallen all over the place after this chapter

Edit: You know the final form of this hate? You start questioning the writer's abilities just because your power scaling went wack.

 

[Olorin]

What makes people think that Oda fu??ed up? Have you read the past 777 of OP, do you really think Oda can't draw a good fight for Zoro? I mean it couldn't possibly be that the first non-fodder opponent in the NW just wasn't a match for Zoro right? It couldn't possibly be that Oda has stronger opponents planned for Zoro, and guess what, it makes sense, in part 1 the first serious opponent for Zoro was (bar Mihawk) Daz Bones, the last the Pacifista and the gap between them is a loooooooooooooooooooooooo...ooooooooooooot smaller than the power gap between the no-name Pica and Mihawk, so how exactly was Zoro supposed to become the strongest swordsman at the end of part 2 if he can't even deal with Pica after 2 years of training with Mihawk? Pretty much The only enemies left that will be challenging are the top of OPV, Yonko and their right and left hands, the few strongest remaining Sichibukai, CP 0 and the Marines/WG

I'm not saying you have to like it, I'm simply saying that anyone who read 777 chapters of OP should have learned to expect stuff like this OP had a lot of short fights, Oda can bring a challenge and a threat when he needs to, he simply decided that someone like Pica isn't worthy of it, after 777 chapters do you still not have enough faith in Oda to write a good story (despite fangasming over all his forshadowing and references)? It's a story consisting of 76 volumes, not a 2 chapter story

 

[Anduril]

What makes people think that Oda fu??ed up? Have you read the past 777 of OP, do you really think Oda can't draw a good fight for Zoro? I mean it couldn't possibly be that the first non-fodder opponent in the NW just wasn't a match for Zoro right? It couldn't possibly be that Oda has stronger opponents planned for Zoro, and guess what, it makes sense, in part 1 the first serious opponent for Zoro was (bar Mihawk) Daz Bones, the last the Pacifista and the gap between them is a loooooooooooooooooooooooo...ooooooooooooot smaller than the power gap between the no-name Pica and Mihawk, so how exactly was Zoro supposed to become the strongest swordsman at the end of part 2 if he can't even deal with Pica after 2 years of training with Mihawk? Pretty much The only enemies left that will be challenging are the top of OPV, Yonko and their right and left hands, the few strongest remaining Sichibukai, CP 0 and the Marines/WG

I'm not saying you have to like it, I'm simply saying that anyone who read 777 chapters of OP should have learned to expect stuff like this OP had a lot of short fights, Oda can bring a challenge and a threat when he needs to, he simply decided that someone like Pica isn't worthy of it, after 777 chapters do you still not have enough faith in Oda to write a good story (despite fangasming over all his forshadowing and references)? It's a story consisting of 76 volumes, not a 2 chapter story

OMG. That makes so much sense, finally.