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

[Olorin]

OMG. That makes so much sense, finally.

This arc is suffering from what most Arcs in OP suffer from (except MF and the second part of SA), the weekly releases of 17 pages which translate into "slow pacing"

One Piece really should be read as a single story and not judged chapter by chapter, buy the volumes and read the arc, it's simple, we spent a month on the Tontattas and everyone started to lose it but once the arc is finished that part will take you about 8 minutes to read

 

[Anduril]

This arc is suffering from what most Arcs in OP suffer from (except MF and the second part of SA), the weekly releases of 17 pages which translate into "slow pacing"

One Piece really should be read as a single story and not judged chapter by chapter, buy the volumes and read the arc, it's simple, we spent a month on the Tontattas and everyone started to lose it but once the arc is finished that part will take you about 8 minutes to read

I have noticed this too, When I started to watch One piece anime, I enjoyed every moment of it. But when I caught up, I found parts which were less interesting some simply seemed stretched, but when you look back at the entire series, one piece has always been that way. Just because I was catching up I never noticed the slow and bad parts. My focus was on all the good parts, and it made much more sense when you view the entire picture rather than judge it chapter-wise.

 

[silmarill]

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

I don't understand it either. What was so special about Pika that everyone seemed to think he could push Zoro.
If u think about it , haki means "spirit" and when I think of Pika I think of someone who's spirit is weak. Beside his always running away instead of confronting he also was very insecure. He was ashamed of his voice. Someone that insecure with a low image of himself can't have good haki
Pika was actually nothing more than a big bully picking on people who can' defend themselves to hide his own troubled self

 

[bajram]

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

Pretty much every defeat of the executives ( bar dellinger and senor pink ) made me think that oda fu*ked up big time in this arc, if the seats on dressrosa would be treated with half the respect vergo got during PH then I would have no complain but instead we got this clown brigade for top executives, fighters supposed to be top fighters in the family yet all of them are some delusional and misunderstood idiots who cant even put up a fight against anyone with a name, I have yet to see one of them get a good hit on someone strong except diamante who shits his pants at one legged kyros even though he has been dominating him all the fight and thinks that some iron spikes are supposed to take down someone on the level of kyros attack which can be blocked by flowers... Really? Even kakus attack 400 chapters ago was more impressive considering he was raining down the rankyakus with his legs power but the iron spikes had nothing on them except gravity and the guy still thinks he would take out kyros with that, not to mention the last one who almost got fodderized by law.

Oda saw fit to make luffy almost die to hody but doesnt see fit to give zoro a challenge after like 200 chapters since the post ts, considering how the DD family has been played up for hundred of chapters, at the same time the most dangerous sichibukai who has been ruling the black market in NW for years and seems to be pretty much a mini yonko in NW as even aokiji saw them as a threat but the guy turns out to have clowns for his top fighters, I mean the climax in this arc is already pretty dead, there are apparently at least 2 people on this island who can wreck doffy and just want to stand aside and have faith in luffy, anyway if something happened they would take turns in raping doffy, and on top of it we have a mansherry who can cure all wounds, I mean really? A cut arm or a leg is laughable at this point but adding the poor and piss performance by his executives is the cherry on top, where is climax and tension here?

Then again these are the same idiots who thought they can take on anyone on dressrosa or even beat an admiral, with their level of power, clown is a fitting word for them cause the only thing u can do is laugh at their performance ...

 

[Kiiszame]

I don't understand why Oda's making Zoro to one shot all of his opponents. He's not even bruised.

Well so far one can argue than none of the characters besides well franky, ussopp, etc have been pushed to their limits.
This is arc i just to show how far the strawhats have come after two years of training.

 

[Hexuze]

Good for you, Caliburn, and other fans.
5/5. Regardless anything else, can't deny the fact Zoro takes the cake in the fight. So far, i'm only a bit disappointed that i couldn't see how powerful a fullbody CoA was supposed to be, either in Vergo vs Law or Pica vs Zoro.
I blame Doffy for hyping it up back in PH

I wonder when was the last time we saw Zoro's Santoryuu Ougi stance?



:mew:
Let me do the honor.

It seems we're not getting any Poneglyph in Dressrosa perhaps, since Oda shows us that in Jinbei's mini arc. Is it just me or is this the first time we can see each character carved on it obvious than before? I can do some kinda encryption from it.

Yeah, sure you can

 

[Listz]

We can look at it this way, that is, there will be more cunning and powerful opponent for Zoro in the future arcs, enough to bring him in a high-diff fight. Surely such moment will be epic.

The great achievement of him in this arc is how Zoro's actually planning an effective tactic in a battle, regardless the degree of success and, worth mentioning, he also manage to find the solution to compensate the impact of the attack. Not that he hasn't done that before, but in previous fights his sword technique has the most development rather than his brain and empathy.

Zoro is indeed struggled in confronting Pica. Struggle a lot in terms of strategy, and a little less in terms of physical strength. He has a higher potential to win from the start, but Pica's DF ability stalling his moment of victory.

Yeah, sure you can

Please have faith in me U_U
But since silmarill is threatening to sell me out to the higher-ups, I'll make it discreet :yeah:

 

[Venomous Cobra]

shit was epic I have to admit .10/10 chapter zoro cut through that shit like its nothing

 

[BazzBee]

5/5 Zoro >> ur fav