[Discussion] How long did Doflamingo had Jozu trapped?

[Punk Hazard]

On NB there seems to be some dispute over how long Doflamingo had Jozu trapped on NB. Some say a few seconds, while I personally think it's been a while. Why?

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The panels of the guys saying "Go Strawhat"/"To the execution platform!" and Luffy replying "YEAH" both times are almost identical, so it shows that the moment Luffy encountered Mihawk is around the same time Doflamingo asked Crocodile to join him.

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In both of these pages, we can see the two frozen tsunamis, and we can see the cut tsunami by Mihawk on our POV's left. The cut tsunami in these pages very strongly resemble the tsunami we see in the page where Crocodile responded to Doflamingo's request to join.

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If we look in the background to the left of Crocodile, we can see the cut tsunami.

We see that the beginning of Mihawk and Luffy's confrontation happens more or less around the same time Doflamingo first takes control of Jozu, and then we see the tsunami Mihawk cut during his confrontation with Luffy during a panel where Doflamingo still has Jozu under control.

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Add that into the fact that the end of Doflamingo's control on Jozu is marked by Crocodile blowing them away with Sables, which then picks up Buggy in a second or two, and then Luffy grabs him from it shortly afterwards, which is still during Mihawk's relentless attack, it can be concluded that Doflamingo kept Jozu under control for more or less the same amount of time Luffy and Mihawk were confronting each other, give or take a few seconds as the Sables traveled, as the end of both confrontations are marked by the Sables. While this is still a relatively short amount of time, it's still longer than most people were giving Doffy credit for.

 

[TRE MERCER]

It's honestly hard to tell. Because Naruto chapters 646-653 took place all in under 15mins seeing that's how long it would take the God tree to bloom.

 

[bajram]

Thats not how a manga works, marineford wasnt that long on one piece timeline, it was something like 6-7 hours while in manga it was 30 chapters the same in this case, it could have been 10 minutes or it cold have been 2 minutes, u never know.

 

[TRE MERCER]

Thats not how a manga works, marineford wasnt that long on one piece timeline, it was something like 6-7 hours while in manga it was 30 chapters the same in this case, it could have been 10 minutes or it cold have been 2 minutes, u never know.

Marineford was not even that long it was 4hours at the most.

 

[bajram]

Marineford was not even that long it was 4hours at the most.

Maybe, anyway my point stands I think.

 

[Mugiwara kun]

can't say. Hard to judge. You could be right mate

 

[Punk Hazard]

Maybe, anyway my point stands I think.

Yeah, which is why I said it was a relatively short amount of time, as in, proportion to real life and to the manga itself. Even though it's not really a lot of time in our world, the characters can do quite a bit in that time. Even Luffy vs Lucci wasn't longer than an hour really.