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. As you see, even though MP might make mistranslations for a few things it doesn't necessarily mean they are any worse translations wise, since MS is generally considered to come out with liberal translations. Bold is your opinion, many others are of the opinion that MP is just as credible, if not more credible then MS.
Do you even read this manga, or do you like to appeal to ignorance in hopes that I go along with it? When he launched magma into the ice, he turned the previously present Ice into a of magma sea [
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]. I seriously also suggest you learn to comprehend manga. Manga is read from right to left. Here's the scan that I already provided you [
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]. The magma melted it instantly and the magma that melted the ice started raining down on the people on the bottom left panel. In case you are still failing to read, here's a page later of it raining down some more [
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]. You can see on the top left panel that there is no reduction in amount of magma. Here's the size of the massive mountain sized ice block [
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] which was many times the size of his great eruption. And you arguing that Magma is semi-molten rock like in real life just helps my point, because every time ice has made contact with magma in Marineford the magma was still in molten form, it never transitioned back to a boulder.
1. You can deny it all you want, it won't change what is portrayed, and that is lower crew number=stronger.
2. Fair enough, it's speculative for me to say he ate it. So I'll agree that it was a bad point. But yes, Jozu is 3rd division commander and Thatch is 4th, so he'd logically be weaker.
3. Entirely subjective when we look at this from a large perspective concerning all chapters.