I feel like most people come at me with akainu hate cause of my profile and I just feel like I need to defend my self cause my mama didn't raise no *****. No I'm playing lmaoI love how you can go in any One Piece thread and you are highly likely to find people arguing over one or all of the following, irrespective of relevance:
How pivotal Nami was in Luffy beating Cracker
Zoro or Sanji comparisons
Whether Whitebeard was stronger than Akainu
Whether Sanji is a little puss or not.
It only takes between 5-10 posts and the fun begins
[Discussion] Oda revealed it will take another 1-2 years to enter Wano arc
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We still have the Reverie, Revolutionaries, Weevil, and rounding up the Whitebeard pirates to go through before we get to Wano.
One of the best worldbuilding arcs in the series? Yeah, I'd sure as shit hope so.
WB couldn't finish off the Blackbeard Pirates, who all admitted inferiority to Akainu. No, he wasn't killing Akainu then.
He wouldn't have to kill him, another quake down that crack and Akainu would be on a one way trip to the bottom of the ocean.
Also the Blackbeard pirates never admitted inferiority to Akainu. I reckon everybody would try to avoid a fight with an admiral if they had the option. There was nothing at stake right then.
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Akainu was able to avoid falling into the ocean at the bottom of the crack and tunnel his way into the ground. He definitely had the wherewithall to counter an attack WB could have sent down into that crack.
After Auger warned him Akainu was on the ship, Blackbeard explicitly says "I'm not ready to take on a guy like that," and told his crew they needed to run. The fact that Blackbeard decided to run with his crew available to help him is an admission that he and his crew, together, could not defeat Akainu.
"Nothing at stake" except the battleship they desperately needed to set sail.
I don't know what translation you've been reading but that is wrong. His words are "I'd rather avoid that guy for now". That doesn't imply he is weaker. Besides Blackbeard had a crew but Akainu also came with a crew so it's not like they could gang on him.
Also a ship is not something you want to fight an admiral level fighter for, because it doesn't matter who you are in a fight of that proportion someone always gets severely hurt or worse.
Seeing how they still had means to escape it would be stupid to fight an admiral to trade in a ship. Not worth it.
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Nope. He said "I'm not ready for that" after Ogre points out Akainu solely and specifically.
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The presence of other Marines with Akainu is irrelevant when Ogre specifically said Akainu, and Teach said he wasn't ready.
They had the means to escape, but this was critical to their adventure. It was absolutely worth fighting an Admiral for if you had the ability to. Teach simply did not.
You're all basing this off a bad translation.
Also you don't fight an admiral over a ship. If it was critical to their adventure how on earth did he escape and become a yonkou ? Apparently not that critical.
Just roll up to a shipyard and steal one there, or any random pirate crew. But no one in their right mind would fight an admiral, just to take his ship.
Also if he had the ability to makes no sense. Akainu is so high up the ladder that even if you have the ability to fight him you still will get hurt in the process.
Aokiji had the ability to fight him and he lost a leg. Pretty steep price for a ship.
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Both these translations support my claim. So there is nothing in his speech that proves if he is weaker at that point in time. He just doesn't want to tango an admiral to get a ship.
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This is the official translation from Viz lmfao
Just because they did it later doesn't mean it wasn't something critical to do. The fact that they chose to leave shows that, to them, the risk was greater than the reward. This doesn't emphasize how small the reward was, it emphasizes how much stronger Akainu was.
They didn't need just any ship, they needed a massive one. Which is why they started the dealings in the first place for a battleship. There aren't many ships that do what they needed due to the bigass giant dude.
Blackbeard didn't run because "he'd get hurt" though. He ran because he KNEW he and his crew would lose, and Akainu was singled out as the reason why. Plain and simple.
For the thing most critical for Blackbeard to actually be a pirate? Nah, not really.
Well I'm not going to argue any further if you think it's reasonable to lose a limb for a ship. Every random pirate and their mother have a ship in One Piece but somehow you want to take the one with an admiral on it. I guess that makes sense ?
Also Sanjuan Wolf also wouldn't have fit on that battleship Akainu was sailing anyway. Besides that thing wasn't critical for him to be a pirate because even without that ship he became a yonkou just fine, so he DID just take another ship like it was no big deal. He didn't stopped being a pirate in fact he somehow achieved the greatest goal you can reach as a pirate (except for PK), even without that critical ship.
And third your translation really is wrong, check my previous post.
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I want to see Dragon and Luffy have some father and son bonding. Then you have the old man, Garp and Sabo. Ahh, family.
I want to see some badass action, some good development, plot twists, and all that jazz during Reverie. That's the only thing that'll keep my mind off this.
I want to see some badass action, some good development, plot twists, and all that jazz during Reverie. That's the only thing that'll keep my mind off this.
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This is the same series where Shanks lost an arm and went on to become an Emperor and one of the top characters in the series. Jozu lost an arm and was still recognized as part of an immense pirate force. Aokiji lost his leg vs Akainu and is doing fine rn. Shiki lost his legs and replaced them by just shoving swords in the place without missing a beat and was fine with losing his legs. It's not as big a deal as you're trying to make it out to be.
Of course you wouldn't understand if you continue to downplay the importance of the specific kind of ship they were looking for.
Just because Blackbeard was able to get a ship later doesn't downplay the importance of him needing a ship at the moment though.
LMAOOOO BOIII
You claim the translation you posted is the Viz but that's a fan translation uploaded to MangaReader. Even the sub that you posted are fandom-done. The scan I posted is the actual, official Viz scan.
All those characters you named lost limbs when the was more at stake then a boat
A boat is a boat, I'm sure there are other big ones out there to steal
It wasn't really important at the moment either because he escaped in the moment, that still must've been a good boat.
Still doesn't take away from the fact that multiple sites and Toei translated it that way.
Anyways I'm done, no arguing to a guy that your life or that of your crew might be more critical to your journey as a pirate than your boat.
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I wish I could rep you on every single thing you've said. Hell I've even learned a few things from your posts lmao
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I can't imagine Oda gonna spend a year or more on Vivi in an arc of her own if that's what's gonna happen. I can imagine she had learned Haki and this Reverie is gonna involve some battle for her. Quite a development for a princess. The imagination for Reverie arc is vast. Anything possible. If Oda really plan to build up Vivi's character.