To clarify about the Law thing.... It totally makes sense that he would be *able* to reattach his arm with his devil fruit. I DO think that it makes sense within the world, but my issue isn't that it doesn't make sense, just that things are regularly reversed which takes away the impact. I used this as an example, but I didn't mean for it to be a rant about this thing alone, just more using it as an example in something that I don't love that comes up a lot
You can't trust Oda that much on risk scenes. He gives false risk or "fake death" in every arc. Here is a list of some of them: Kaya's butler - brutally sliced up by Kuro. he's okay later. Igaram - Explosion in whiskey peak. he comes back later unscathed. Robin probably saved him. Dorry - face exploded by baroque works agent. he survived. Pell - center of nuclear blast, survives with just crutches. awful. All of the people fried by eneru that just kind of walked it off. Conis dad - sacrifices himself to save daughter, blasted directly with lightning, survives inexplicably Bellamy - seemingly killed by doflamingo, confirmed alive much later in the story. Franky family - entire franky family declared dead by marines. turns out they were just wrong. Bon clay - stays behind to save luffy, Magellan is clearly about to kill him before it cuts away. inexplicably survives Vander decken - impaled by hody jones with a trident. i don't even remember how he survived this honestly. probably some BS. Sabo - headshot by world noble and left to drown. his survival was at the very least hinted at Law - arm sliced off, beaten, and filled with bullets. stated to be dead by doflamingo, only to survive and quickly recover Doflamingo - decapitated by Kyros, only for it to be a string copy. gecko moria - doflamingo attacks moria during marineford with heavy hinting that he has intent to kill, especially his line (paraphrasing) "I'll tell them you died a warrior's death..." However, doflamingo later states that moria escaped. Gas victims - the poison gas is explained to freeze people in place so that they cannot escape and are forced to breathe the gas and die. many marine soldiers are stuck like this left to suffocate in the poison gas. after they get rid of the gas, they just break the soldiers out of their casings and they are fine. Brownbeard - shot point blank in the face by a shotgun-wielding gigantic yeti Even if someone really die (Ace) he immediately presents us with a "replacement" (Sabo) literally few chapters after.
Don’t worry, this is a critique shared by even the most hardcore One Piece fans. We’ve all been trained not to believe a character is dead, which definitely lessens the impact when their death does occur, because nobody believes them.
There’s one thing that is lost in translation that adds to Sabo’s memory recovery. “Sakazuki” is the name of the ritual they did as kids with the sake cups, and it is also the real name of Admiral Akainu, the lava man (aka-inu meaning red dog, just his code name). So Sakazuki (the ritual, and the admirals name) mentioned alongside ace and luffy in the newspaper is what made it come back. I still agree that it’s a bit too convenient but just thought I’d give a lil extra insight that only makes sense in the original language!
An thats probably why Luffy don't drink. The first time he lost sabo, the second time is when Sakazuki (that bonded luffy,sabo, and ace) took the life of ace from him.
Hello from Japan. I think your understanding of One Piece is great, even though it is a manga with a lot of very wordplay and Japanese specific wording. So here's something I'd like to write about the author, Oda. Please forgive me if my English is a bit strange. Luffy is Oda's ideal child, so I don't think Merphy-san's expression about Luffy is wrong. However, when I see him speaking in the media, the manga that depicted Oda when he was a rookie manga artist, the feelings of his editor at the time towards Oda, and the battles between them and the publisher before the serialization, there are times when my image of Oda and Luffy overlap. I can't explain in words the feeling I get from being Japanese and having Japanese as my mother tongue, but I feel that Oda has a very cheerful personality, but at the root of his heart, he is very dry and realistic, and has a kind of cool humanity. I often feel that he has a very bird's eye view of the world and even the manga he draws. On the other hand, there is also an unusual amount of passion, hard work, and compassion for others. In fact, Oda has said that he doesn't put his own ideology into his work, that he just uses whatever he can to make his manga more interesting. Among Japanese fans, Oda is famous for his wide range of friendships and his interest in all things. There is no other manga artist like him. He takes all of them and sort of uses them in his manga. I think that is why he is able to draw so many characters in a consistent way without contradiction. On the other hand, he has also donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his hometown where there was a disaster, without announcing it (I'll spare you the explanation, but it was announced later due to the trouble) Japan has a lot of disasters, so the amount of undisclosed donations is probably much higher. I think this aspect of Oda's work is reflected in Luffy, making him a mysterious character with a childlike and mature side. I don't think Luffy is inherently a very likable character. He does stupid things, he annoys other people, and he's selfish in many ways. He is not portrayed in a way that would make him popular in terms of appearance, and he has lost many battles. But Luffy is number one in the popularity polls in Japan and around the world. I think it's a tremendous technique of Oda's that the readers don't lose faith in the characters even when they expose their pathetic parts or act stupidly repeatedly and it's Oda's magic that he can make even seemingly negative flaws into lovable characters.
Do you prefer a protagonist that always win?? It just only showed that Luffy and the others are like us, Being a human. We are not perfect as I do, you, him/her or the others. And that, what fall in love the characters.
Some of it I was already getting from manga and its tone but thank you for insight and I'll try to read it all gain in Japanese after I have learned it( yes I am learning Nihongo, very much rich language). So all in all thanks for bringing this to me.
I legit almost cried when Fujitora says that he wished he didn't blinded himself so that he could se how Luffy looked... It's just so awesome how Luffy's kindness makes almost everyone support him and his dream, even if they are directly opposed to him
Same here, it's such a powerful moment. I also think it's really cool that Oda wrote it so a big part of Luffy is how much other people tend to like him, and he actually is that likeable!
That short speech from Fujitora is one of my favorite moments in all of One Piece. Every time I hear it or read it, I can’t help but get tears in my eyes. ;(
Oda explains luffy not killing villians by saying that defeating them and taking away their dream is way harsher than killing them in a way. especially when looked at from luffy's point of view I would say
@@jammersanimovieblog but the straw hats are pirates. They don't do what is seen as the best for the "greater good". Rather they do what they want to do. If they want to spare the villain they will.
Just want to add on to this: If you look at certain scenes like the one in Logue Town where Luffy almost died, he doesn't regret the decisions he made leading to the moment. Instead, he's smiling because he's content that he at least is going out trying to achieve his dream. Letting someone live while crushing any hope of achieving their dream is what Luffy does to others because it's what he himself fears.
@@jammersanimovieblog it depends on the story, yes there should be a few more deaths but specific for the policy its about the pain of living with your ideals crushed, and that's definitely worse than death.
Realizing that Baby 5's name is just her being the 5th kid too many and she was never actually given a name by her mother is what really made me love her as a character
No, that's not true. During the Law flashback there is a scene in which Baby 5 reveal her real name to both Law and Buffalo. We never get to know this "real name" but it is hinted at, and the leading theory is that Baby 5 is just a code name. Oda planed for the Doflamingo family to all be an extension of Kaidos crew, hence why they all have card- or cardgame related names, like Doffy himself being the Joker card. But I do love the 5th kid theory as it fits to the backstory of the character, no fact to back it up tho.
I love Robin's deep bond with Luffy and how much she admires him. One of the ways Oda shows this is how Robin (despite being extremely smart and mature) will call people by the nicknames Luffy gives them. There's a lot of understated depth in Robin and her love for Luffy and I love that.
i always see robin-luffy relationship as that of an encouraging mum and her tireless kid, lol. just her going along with him, constantly smiling and always being entertained by his antics-i love it, it's really heartwarming and wholesome.
100% agreed about Law's arm. Such a powerful, dramatic and consequential moment immediately wiped away by the fairy dust of magical fruits. This sort of thing happens a lot with fake out deaths as well. If you're gonna do it, then do it. Many of us are actually at the point where we see something like this happens in One Piece, and instead of feeling the drama of the moment, all that occurs is the realisation that whatever we're reading is almost certainly going to be magically fixed and the moment rendered meaningless in a couple of chapters.
Your take on Robin is low-key really refreshing, there are too many folks blowing their gaskets cause for so long she's been playing a supporting role that for some reason they feel she *shouldn't* be. That she should be front and center with the other straw hats when that isn't really what she wants to do or what she's about.
Yes. I was disappointed before as well but her works at Wano made me realize that Robin prefer the "work-in-the-shadow" methods. She is intellectual and she wouldn't rush in front if someone else (The Big 3) would volunteer to do so. She trusts them that they will do the job and she will offer what she can do best.
Yeah, people mostly complain because, pre timeskip, Oda was generally pretty good about giving all the Strawhats a fight every arc. As the cast has grown, a lot of the crew just doesn't get to show off their skills as much, and Robin's powers are one of the hardest to write fights for. Either Oda needs to make her opponent immune to her usual jointlocks, she insta-wins, or the opponent is just too high above her weight class and she loses.
Yeah, helps it's a woman giving this take because for some reason ppl like to use Robin as an example of "sexist writing" or badly written female characters in shonen manga. Which I have some pet peeve with the idea of a badly written female character in general, at least what it seems that ppl make it mean, but that's another beast.
Luffy's specialty is seeing through the self-deception people use to deny what they actually want. Like with Nami saying she was ok with going along with Arlong, Coby not standing up to Alvida, Ace deciding he shouldn't live, Rebecca convincing herself to stay away from Kyros, and many more examples that are yet to come, and that are even more amazing.
You're almost reaching modern One Piece, Merphy. What a journey, huh? Its visible that Oda tried some new things in Dressrosa, hopefully they will pay out. Love the reactions!
@@paperbackwriter1111 That's the point hahahaha, demon slayer, for example, has only 205 chapters. One Piece can get out of hand sometimes, but the capacity to produce so much consistent art is absurd.
Bellamy also said that if he's going to die for the "idiotic" goal that he is following, it might as well be in the hands of the other person that he fully respects, Luffy. That one hit hard
Another parallel between Alabasta and Dressrosa: They way Luffy defeated both Croc and Doffy is mirrored. With Crocoboy, he sent him flying, through the floor, out of the shadows for everyone to see. With Mingo, he punched him into the floor, from the heights from which he puppeteered the entire island as a god
@@MonkeyDIvan You're right, he *could* have ended it in any number of ways but he chose to mirror the ending of Alabasta. That's not something he did on accident.
@@MonkeyDIvan Oh come on.. this is everything but farfetched. Crocodile working from the underground and Mingo trying to be a god. You clearly underestimate the way Oda writes this story. You can find this kind of stuff everywhere in OP.
@@MonkeyDIvan nope. Oda implements a lot of symbolism, and this was the case for crocodile and Doflamingo. Their arcs have extremely similar themes, a princess in Despair, a King whose completely broken and unable to do anything etc. However the difference in their position is that Crocodile pulled and acted through the shadows, whereas Doflamingo just sat atop of Dressrosa as a God. Luffy Pulled Doflamingo down and beat him into the ground. Whereas in Alabasta, Luffy beat the shit out of crocodile and punched him through the ground in the middle of the war, for all to see who the true perpetrator was. The parallel is obvious here.
@@lordhughmungus You're reaching too far. I'm not even trying to sound mean or condescending since One Piece is my favourite series ever, but just try and imagine any other scenario and see for yourself how you can literally apply symbolism to whatever you feel like.
Sabo’s memory loss was a sticking point for a lot of us, but it makes a lot more sense in its original translation. We don’t get this as English readers, but having the paper mention Ace, Luffy, and admiral Sakazuki at once is significant. The admiral’s name literally translates (or can be translated as) an exchange of cups in brotherhood, just like the three sake cups Ace, Luffy and Sabo drink to solidify their brotherhood. It’s not just the names, but the events that make it all click into place. Just some of those nuances we just don’t seem to get here in the west.
Yes, I just came to comment on that, I hope she reads it, it is a shame how much is lost in terms of double meanings and cultural meanings in translations
Also, even if Robin knew Sabo because he is well known, that doesn't mean she would know he has a connection to luffy. And luffy wouldn't know him because he's ignorant of much of the world news.
Fujitora's speech about wanting to see Luffy's face is genuinely one of my favourite moments in One Piece as a whole. It's so sincere, from a place of wisdom and respect from the admiral. So good.
@@Name-jw4sj ok....That's like...just your opinion man. Let us seemingly mentally lacking folks that actually liked or loved the arc live in peace. You and the rest your enlightened kind just leave us be.
Robin's ability to be a background/side character in the story is a testament to her character development honestly. For the most part she's just happy to be around them, going along with or enjoying watching their shenanigans as you say. She still has her own dreams of course, and still has her moments, but I think the decision is the right one, even if her fans want to see more of her all the time. When it's about the poneglyphs/void century she always takes focus again. It's her dream. Her role.
This is why Robin is my favorite Strawhat. She said her real dream was to uncover the world history, and she only became an assassin to stay alive. She's so powerful yet once she found a crew that she could trust, she only uses violence when necessary, and for the most part she's content with just being a historian. Top tier character development.
In case someone hasn't clarified yet - Crocus (the guy with Laboon) wasn't on Brook's crew, he was on Roger's. He met Brook before he joined Roger which makes it interesting considering he swore to be with Laboon only to join Roger, leave Laboon alone for a few years, and then eventually come back. Rayleigh mentions this back in Sabaody arc
he joined roger with the intent to look for brook's crew though, iirc. several years have prolly passed by that point, and my guess, while specifically looking for someone or some crew would be difficult in grandline, his main objective was to just gather info and hearsay to make sure whether or not the crew is still kicking in the sea. so it wasnt really like he bailed on laboon for adventure thrills.
@@mophead_xu yeah youre right i overlooked that when writing this comment. i still find it interesting that he just kinda let laboon be alone for that long though. i dont doubt crocus, im sure he found a way to make sure laboon was safe while he was gone, but it just makes me all the more curious
50:46 There is a One Piece novel call "One Piece Novel Heroines" talk about 5 characters during timeskip Nami, Robin, Vivi, Perona, Hancock. It explain why Robin doesn't tell Luffy about Sabo. Sabo is the one who brought Robin to Sabaody, but decided not to meet Luffy and ask Robin to hide the matter. Here summary about Robin Novel Chapter : Robin has a meal with the Revolutionary Army before her arrival at the Sabaody Archipelago. The meal is a recipe from the Yukali Kingdom. The kingdom had existed during the World Government's establishment and was under its rule, but after being destroyed by another great country, the only surviving record of it was the recipe. It takes the group 2 weeks to sail from Baltigo to the Sabaody Archipelago. After arriving to Sabaody, Robin thinks that Sabo will ask her about Luffy. However, he decides to leave and not to meet his brother yet, asking her to take care of Luffy for him.
Luffy actually said that G4 was something he created in the 2 yrs time skip, but I do understand what you're saying with the 10 min thing, it was pain when we read it week to week.
It was certainly a long arc to read week to week. I will say that the chapter panel ending with just a "4" was still the most hyped I'd ever been reading One Piece.
What weirds me out about the 10 minute recharge is the manga says he can’t use haki in those 10 minutes which is weird because wouldn’t it make more sense if he can’t move his body for 10 min since it specifically affects it similar to early gear 3 (like characters like vergo or pika could coat there whole bodies in haki and they don’t experience any recoil)
Well the 10.min thing is kinda the same as gear 3rd.. In Enies Lobby (I think the scene where he went G3 offscreen first with chimney. He said oww im small exactly as long as Ive been in G3 form. So Luffy knowing the downside of his power is rather logical, he trained with G4 for over a half year since he showed Rayleigh the form befor he left (and created King Kong Gun afterwards) thus knowing it's 10 minutes makes sense. Counting By the second is kinda dumb, but feel like the announcer counting down was more added for suspense and comedic relief then actually a plot device, hence Doffy not reacting to it. But it kinda backfired...
52:00 the memory recovery moment only makes real sense when you know japanese. Sabo read in the newspaper the name of the person that killed Ace. It was Admiral sakazuki . Sakazuki is also the word for cups. He had to piece the name ace with the sakazuki (the 3 cups the brothers drank) for his memory to come back at that moment.
29:48 - Luffy doesn’t see the world from an innocent perspective at all. He sees it as it is. Remember when he flat out told Vivi that human collateral is a reality of war? Also, the reason why Luffy doesn’t care about backstories is because he prefers to judge people in the present by their current actions. Luffy might be an idiot but he’s not really “child-like”, innocent, naive and pure. Edit: In fact Luffy is among some of the most selfish shonen protagonists, something Nami alluded to when she got his 3D2Y message. But somehow this image of Luffy as this pure childlike, innocent, wholesome boy persists. He’s a pirate. He can fight dirty. He steals. And has cause countless of human collateral damages.
He also has amazing judgement of character when he helps nami, but is the one sleeping, and he cares about nami now seeing through her. He is forgiving if people change and stop being abusive, mostly.
I always saw Bellamy’s unwillingness to betray Doflamingo as the flip side of what Luffy showed him on Jaya. On Jaya, Luffy was rewarded and portrayed positively for chasing a foolish, ridiculous dream. Bellamy was punished and portrayed negatively for having shallow beliefs and a unwillingness to believe in dreams. Here, Bellamy is acting much as Luffy did in Jaya. He’s continuing to pursue a dream, serving Doflamingo, that is foolish and ridiculous. However, it’s obvious how misguided this dream is. And yet, he refuses to abandon it because of what he learned from Luffy on Jaya. That foolish and ridiculous dreams are worth pursing. Yet in this context, we see the clear flaws in that idea. Bellamy as a character has always been deeply tied to the theme of dreams, and as dreams are one of the central themes of all of One Piece, it’s always made him a fascinating character.
The arc we are currently in is longer, but I think a key difference in making it (at least for me) a much better weekly experience is that it takes place over a longer period of time and features many different locations... Dressrosa takes place almost entirely in just one day mostly in the same place so it got tiring way faster... the current arc has actually been a really fun read weekly
Dressrosa could have been so much easier to read week to week if the final act had just taken place at night. Wouldn't even need to change anything else. Could easily stretch all the events of Dressrosa over 12 hours
I feel like the pica fight shows the main issue of the arc. You know that Zoro is not really being pushed by this bad guy we are just spinning things around so zoro doesn't crush the other bad guys while we see the grand fleet fights.
I honestly disagree. The last year of this arc has been extremely overblown and unconcise. Couple that with the fact that nearly every conflict is snuffed out in the same manner Law losing his arm was meaningless and you have an arc that fea really messy
Fun thing about Sabo recovering his memory: the name of "magma guy" is Sakazuki. The Sakazuki is the ritual of exchanging cups of sake, so Sabo reading Luffy, Ace and Sakazuki altogether would trigger that especific memory
That was wild.. I'll buy that trigger.. But i do get merphy.. Also, i hope this could get to merphy.. Sabo was in Loguetown with Dragon when Luffy was about to be executed by Buggy.. And Sabo just stand there with the crowd.. The story is based on Luffy's perspective in general, so him believing that Sabo is dead before the start of the story could be justified.. There's no need to introduce a character that was believed to have died from long ago by the person we follow right? Still, i do get merphy..
3 things to consider about Sabo's amnesia: 1. It did came back over 2 years before Dressrosa, when he read the article about Sabo's death 2. In that article he read 3 important things: Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Luffy, and Sakazuki. Sakazuki means cup, and it's also the name of the Yakuza ritual through which, by sharing a cup of sake, you swear allegiance as equals (siblings) or master/subordinate (parent/child), so the ritual that made Sabo, Ace and Luffy into brothers (or the one the Grand Fleet shared with everyone but Luffy at the end of this arc) 3. I don't know if you've ever found out of the death of someone you used to know through the news, and I wish you never will. It hits way different than seeing someone you know/used to know on the news for a different reason. I've experienced both, and while with the latter you kinda think "oh, how nice, I wonder how they're doing, will give them a call", with the former you just get into a shock state, and start wondering how and why before starting griefing and remembering everything you ever shared with that person. And it's even more so when it was a violent death (also experienced both violent and non-violent). I know this is not something most people cannot relate to, or even imagine, and upon first reading it even myself did not catch it, as the episode of learning through the news of a childhood friend having been killed in one of the most brutal ways I can even imagine had not yet occurred. Upon re-reading it, though, after that had happened, it hit me on an entirely different level, to the point that I wondered if Oda himself went through that. Came to the conclusion he hasn't, because it is a bit flat, but an episode like that certainly does jog your memory in the most painful way
Garp: "I heard you met up with your dad in Loguetown." Luffy: "I have a dad?" "Dragon, What why are you all freaking out..?" "Whats a Revolutionary Army?" I've always just assumed Luffy gave zero fucks for anything going on that wasn't directly happening around him that it made perfect sense he would never have heard the name of any of Dragons people. The circle of people that knew about the three brothers even being connected is quite small and consists mostly of a single group of mt bandits. Not sure if either of the boys or Dadan would have even brought it up with Garp, he doesn't seem like the type you confide troubles in.
Yes, I always thought about that issue like this, too. Luffy just doesn't care about newspaper articles and bounty posters of others and stuff. Also I never was quite sure if the marines even had a proper photo of Sabo. Like, I always headcanoned the revolutionaries to often do more like spy stuff and pull strings in the background etc. (I'm not up to date, so if there were new canon informations out there I don't know about, I apologize), and seeing as they didn't even have a photo of Sanji for a long time, I could see that the marines just didn't have that much concrete infos about the members of the revolutionary army to put out there. Which then would explain why Ace also didn't know about him (if he even read that much newspapers... I assume more than Luffy, seeing as he was a commander plus searching for Luffys bounty posters, but I also don't see him as someone who paid that much attention on stuff like that). I remember, back then, my friend and I were just so relieved about the reveal with the amnesia that we just didn't care that much about it being a little bit too convenient for the plot 😂😅 because since the moment of Sabo's return, we were like: We want to like you, but we can't do that fully until you give us a really good reason why you let your brothers think you were dead and why you weren't at Marineford (or trying to get there)...
That was most certainly not Luffy's first time using Gear 4. He was obviously training it during the 2 year time skip with Raleigh, since we have a flashback panel of them talking about it.
I love when Merphy says "if you're still here" Of course we're still here! We love your view on One Piece! It adds so much to our favorite story! We're your Grand Fleet whether you like it or not :)
The moment where Kyros finally gets to cry is one of those things that really stuck with me. From the moment cruel irony took away his ability to feel or be remembered by his daughter and continiueing on through all the horrifying pain and happy moments with his daughter he was never able to get an outlet for his emotions. And when he finally gets to cry it's in relief, because after all those years of hardship there is actually a bright future ahead of him. It felt really good after watching all the things the poor man went through.
@@cmk5498 nope. He met the Rumbar Pirates (Brook's old crew) at Reverse Mountain when they came thru to find their fame and fortune in the Grand Line and eventually left baby Laboon with him
he was originally from brooks crew and when brooks crew got lost he joined roger on his last journey with the goal of trying to find the rumbar pirates in mine
@@taimoordanish3802 no. He was at Reverse Mountain. Brook's crew needed to repair their ship after coming down the mountain and Crocus allowed them to stay at his place. They met Laboon while repairing the ship. Then the Rumbar Pirates left Laboon with Crocus hoping to return after they made their fortune.
I kinda figured that you wouldnt like Law not losing his arm. When I brought that up to my brother he said that it was showed in Sabaody and Punk Hazard that his powers can dismember and reattach body parts, so it shouldnt be a surprise that he can do it to himself.
oh yeah it totally makes sense for his powers, I guess it's just convenient that the one character this happens to is the one character it wouldn't really effect on a big level
"It's suffocating me". When I read that I simply said "I know Luffy, I know it is". I've known him for a bit over a decade and I know Doffy is absolutely revolting to him. I really feel like Luffy as a character is flawless. He is just so goddamned fleshed out. What he does always makes sense.
I feel like the “losing and arm immediately followed by the reversal of that decision” is a consequence of weekly publishing. Not defending it, but when you have to hook your readers every week into coming back, having characters seemingly go through something major is a great way to do it. I feels like Oda had an idea of what he wanted to do but the editor said “shit needs to happen in chapter 973 or else the readers will be bored” so he puts something he’ll reverse as soon as possible in
I think it makes sense that luffy hasn't heard of Sabo. He didn't even know he had a father, he isn't aware of what the revolutionaries are so why would he know dragon's right hand. I'm sure people around luffy and ace knew about Sabo, but they didn't bring it up because they didn't know they were brothers. Luffy never speaks of himself and it's probably the same with ace.
@@shameryda exactly, but as we know luffy doesn't care about his crew's past and it's the same for most members. If they don't want to talk about it, no one will ask them. What matters isn't where they come from, but where they are now.
Also I don't think it was ever confirmed when Sabo actually became the Chief of Staff. Plus, most of the stuff he gets involved in is covert, and is probably classified by the government, which contributes to his bounty being fairly low for his power level.
So something that you might miss reading the manga alone: Oda insinuated in a little Q&A session called SBS that Violet and Doffy had a steamy romantic relationship and he couldn't really get into it because of the target age group of this manga (open to being fact checked on this) which is quite interesting for Violet character-wise Also I hope Merphy picked up on that subtle thing Oda does where the devil fruits match the personality of the villains in most cases... Crocodile was sand that sucked out the moisture and to an extent the life of out of Alabaster and left the place a desert Enel was lightning because of his god-complex Moriah because he's a shadow of the man he once was Akainu was an all-consuming fire (magma) And Doffy is the puppet master that manipulates and controls everyone from the shadows...so the string string fruit
@@wiikoolaid9768" Hm, she was dashing against the enemy. There is a deep secret setting I can't tell you about though. I informed the supervisor about it, but since it is a pretty adult part of the story it remains hidden in the shonen manga which One Piece is. To all adults, please try to imagine yourselves. Dressrosa is truly a passionate country!!" SBS Vol 83 p. 118
I love how Merphy simply gets Robin and Bellamy; people usually disregard him as a character, and complain about Robin's sporadic fight scenes while forgetting that she is not really a fighter type. I kind of agree with her view on Sabo's convenient amnesia, but I really liked him from the start and I also love him as an adult, so I can easily let go of my disapproval on how he came back. Also, the scene when Zoro is resorted to ask Orlombus to throw him because Sanji who usually does it isn't there: precious! I really love these two!
Merphy didn't say Robin was not a fighter. Her ambition is gaining the knowledge of the world and for that she even goes her separate ways from the crew. And that merphy wants to see more Robin in front in the future.
I really like to think that Dressrosa shows us as the reader what the fate of Alabasta could be like if Crocodile had taken over successfully. Doflamingo is such an amazing villain, and all of his speeches before this arc really hit different on rewatch / reread Also Luffy created Gear 4th during the 2 year timeskip and it went through an evolution to fight the animals on the island, so he’s gotten a good handle on the strengths and weaknesses! That’s why it looks so weird, it’s built to fight off literally every type of animal - it’s been through a lot of evolution
His Marineford speech is already one of the best in the series but after learning his backstory it means even more and makes it so much better since he was that kid that he talked about the kid who experienced a life of pleasure, peace, and comfort and also life of persecution and fear he's experienced it all.
I think something lost in the whole "Rebecca not fighting" thing is that both growing up, and even in the Colosseum is that she really doesn't like fighting and doesn't want to hurt others (going so far as to develope a non lethal sword style). Kyros isn't just defending the purity of his daughter, he's also most likely trying to stop her from an action that has haunted him his whole life. (Remember his first kills he justified to king riku)
I also love the way Luffy usually has to look up at the bad guys; who see themselves as above all others. (shown physically in the baddy's stature and location) Luffy always fights, crawls, and drags himself and those around him to their level. Then he literally knocks them down a peg from their "high horse" at the final moment of the fight. There's a lot of using the environment and elevation as a story telling device and it's spectacular.
For Bellamy, he knew at that moment that he followed the wrong person but for him he wanted to become like Luffy to pour himself in what he believed in, even if that person he believed in betrayed his loyalty, because without it he would be left with nothing, so his determination is the only thing left and he wanted to to pit it against Luffy as a manner of respect for Luffy's own determination towards his dreams.
"Don't try to find a reason for somebody's love" didn't hit me as hard as Hiriluk's speech or other great moments in One Piece, but now it has become one of my favorites.
Oh also I disagree that Luffy has a "innocent" outlook on the world. I think one of the best examples of this is Enies lobby arc. We all love the moment where Luffy tells Ussop to "burn down the world govt flag" but right before his order HE TELLS ROBIN "I KNOW YOUR ENEMY VERY WELL" which is him seemingly refencing the Sabo situation!
Disagree with the disagree. Even though he showed the intelligence to identify the enemy which is after his nakama and display that and that he would still support his nakama, he isn't bothered in the least about why she is being chased, what information such an institution is suppressing or matters pertaining to the world at large. Later shown when he doesn't make anything of the racial issues while still willing to support fishmen
When he tells Robin "I know your enemy very well", what he says in Japanese is implying that he understands who her enemy is now (the world government) so nah I don't think it's related to Sabo
I spent a lot of time thinking that the 5 elders were inmortal. Nowadays I think they have been living more time than normal lives thanks to the powers of fruits like Bonney's. SPOILER ALERT My bet is that Imu was granted with immortality.
I kinda get what you mean with Law but it isn't nearly as bad as it was with Pell. He did show the ability to detattch and reattach body parts of others as he pleases back in Sabaody. So him controlling his limb kinda makes sense plus Leo fixing it works on level. That strings took his arm off and stitching fixed it. Yes, Luffy's true fruit of training is Gear 4 and Haki.
I let the Pell thing slide because Oda was actually going to kill him off, but the chapter was released shortly after 9/11 and they considered it in bad taste to kill off a character by suicide bomb at the time. Every other fake out death has been telegraphed as a fake out though, so it never came as a surprise. When Oda really kills a character, it's pretty clear when they're actually dead.
@@alexrosario423 I don't think this is a direct one to one as everyone's playing up. Dying and losing an arm are different stakes. Rarely in fiction does it mean anything. Even in manga, either they reattach it next chapter, regrow it, or by the end of the arc it is fixed or they get a new power up via a bionic arm. This happens everywhere from manga to Star Wars. Emotionally marrying yourself to the position of loss of a single limb as high stakes and then getting mad that it wasn't high stakes even by the story's own internal logic is just silly.
Yeah......the thing is it's true that Oda sometimes create fake tensions and I sometimes hate it but in this case when I was watching I never thought Law is going to lose it, being an exceptional doctor with the ope ope (literally OP) nomi.
Kyros going off to the distance to cry by himself still gets me after all this time, I can feel in my flesh all his pain and suffering being lifted all of the sudden by some random people that were just passing by. I can't even begin to imagine what it'd be like living under war for a decade!! Just amazing storytelling
I couldn't stop laughing when I heard "He's a Pokemon... he's a caterpie" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My stomach hurts!🤣🤣 PS: I must say!! No one understands Luffy as much as you do!!
My rationalization for the time limit thing is that luffy actually WASN'T being super precise with this time limit, and Gatz just misunderstood. But when Gatz started hyping everyone up and counting down Luffy also got excited enough that he forced himself to get back up at the end of the countdown even though he wasn't completely ready yet. That also explains why Luffy spent a little longer getting beat up before transforming again. It was still pretty silly though...
you gotta love how EVERYONE was sure the gladiators would be just random one off foes in the tournament, only to turn out to ALL be strawhat crew members (albeit not part of the MAIN crew)
Luffy's perspective of the world isn't innocent. It's the opposite of naive. He's Hyper realistic. To the point that he finds value in being light-hearted and viewing things simply.
More like hyper simplistic. He simply does whatever he wants, and it just so happens he's a good person. This is said a lot, but a good example is declaring war on the govt but because they're corrupt, but only because he wanted Robin back.
Part of the impact of Law losing his arm is really in the weekly read. Waiting a week for the next chapter lets you sit with the impact of it. Reading in volume form, it comes and goes so fast and is less impactful or meaningful
unironically, bellamy is one of the most hopeful case of a person groomed into an incredibly abusive relationship then getting out of it. the fact that he went as far and low as he did, but still have the strength to pick himself back up afterwards, _and,_ like you said, not just continuing the cycle by following the next person able to fill in the position of his previous abuser, is what makes his case really hopeful.
I just want to leave a comment here saying how much I appreciate Merphy's style of criticism of the series. I've agreed with the majority of criticisms she's had once she really started delving into One Piece, and they truly feel like criticisms made by someone who loves the series and wants to see it get even better. I enjoyed TotallyNotMark's series on One Piece, and have watched several of Daniel Greene's reviews, and while I enjoy their content creation and perspectives, I think their criticisms are often made in bad faith. I don't think there's anything wrong with someone who isn't a huge fan of something criticizing it, but the things that they tend to criticize are often either nitpicky or personal issues they have with the material (at least TNM is very honest about this and states on multiple occasions that the problems he has with the series are personal). A lot of what they felt was badly-paced or not well written was mostly a result of them speeding through the series and glancing over details, not understanding character traits and how those impact certain decisions, and other such things. They often make comments or assumptions that are blatantly wrong because of how fast and how analytically they read the series. Murphy, on the other hand, has just as discerning of an eye as the other reviewers, and is even going through the series almost as fast. Yet it's extremely clear that Murphy loves One Piece, and on a deep level understands and is affected by its themes and characters. Because of this, she reads in much more detail and appreciates much more of what Oda does to make One Piece truly an epic. Likewise, her critiques come from a place of true desire for certain elements of One Piece to be better, and feel much more sincere (and are much more justified). I really don't mind critique and rants, but when a large portion of the entire review is dedicated to something that isn't even true, or something that has been misunderstood because of lack of close reading and understanding, it really becomes hard to watch, at least to me. Murphy's criticisms are much easier for me to stomach because they are things that are usually informed by actual facts and consistent information. These days it's so hard to get that sort of sincere and accurate criticism because so many One Piece youtubers and reviewers are heavily biased for or against the series, making it either pandering or needless slandering.
@@PatsDynasty I mean, she said she loves mermaids and everything water and praised how wonderfully Oda handled the mature topic of racism. So, you can say she has a bias but at the end of the day, it's all opinions. It's hard to argue that an arc is objectively better. If you don't vibe with it then that's just how it is.
Luffy coats himself in Haki as opposed to use it sparingly. If you look closely, Doflamingo only coats the tip of the strings with Haki, not the whole thread, while Luffy constantly coats 2/3rd of his body in Haki in G4.
Another great review Merphy! Dressrosa was one of my least favorite parts at first. This series really suffers from Week-to-Week reading. Upon rereading... This arc is so good, so fun!
While I agree about Law's arm and how Oda often doesn't stick with some of the things he does , but not letting it stew is a problem only while binging since Oda writes the story week to week ( he obviously plans the overall story of an arc/saga ahead but a huge chunk of the story he comes up with the week the chapter is finished ) ; to the people who were reading weekly at the time it took like 3 months untill Law got his arm reattached
@@clydu91 the format is meant to be read weekly not binged, that's how shonen manga works, it's not being written with binge reading in mind, so the pacing is going to be vastly different than say a graphic novel
@@Ytinasniiable Well it's true and wrong, manga authors and their editors take into account both weekly reading and volume reading (tankobon) to build their stories.
Robin has an overlooked moment in this arc where she declares her faith in Luffy, that scene is specially awesome in the anime when the put overtaken while she gives the speech
I guarantee you that if Law had not re-attached his arm, 90 percent of the fandom would have complained why didn't Law do it calling it a plothole as we know that he has the power to attach limbs. Literally no winning for Oda in either case. I'm just glad that he gets to write the story he wants, not how we want him to write.
There's lots of winning for oda. He could just not remove the arm or find a reason why it can't be reattached like it being completely destroyed or something. Also that last part is such a dumb way to counter bad parts of his writing.
When his arm was severed, it was easily hinted that he would reattach his arm back, with the help of Leo. Since Leo's character was introduced early in Dressrosa with his stitch devil fruit power. Still impactful scene but nothing much to feel disappointed or anything. Law pretty much wasn't affected during the battle anyway. He can do surgery on himself and remove the bullets, what's a severed arm gonna mean for him. Lol.
@@GoldenMechaTiger Did Law re-attaching the arm makes sense in the story? yes. Did him losing an arm adds to how menacing and threatening Doflamingo is as an antagonist? yes. Did him re-attaching an arm fundamentally breaks the rules established by Oda already in the story? no. The whole point about Law losing an arm was not about him getting nerfed but to show how terrifying of a villian Doflamingo is. And that scene 100 percent served that purpose. There are a lot of things Oda can be criticized about but to call that specific sequence bad writing is not one of them. That is why I said Oda can't win either way. At the end of the day opinions are subjective and you can interpret the sequence however you want to interpret it though so its fine. I'm not fighting over a fictional scenario with someone in a youtube comment section. Have a good day ahead!
Why would doffy believe the announcer? The annoucner distracted doffy, that is why he did it mainly. It also ties back together to the colloseum, and all the buildup with lucy that never was resolved. Luffy knows that his limit is 10 Minutes because he used gear 4th coultless times, he trained to be able to do it . We even get a flashback about it.
@@GioHimonPro nope, while doffy is controling luffy near the ending of their fight, we get rayleigh commenting on luffys time limit in gear 4 and what he will do once Gear 4th fails him
Yeah the time limit thing better be precise. He trained on the island with the right hand of the king. If Rayleigh couldn't spot luffys weaknesses and the time it took to Luffy to recover then he'd be a shitty sensei
Kyros fighting 1v1 is better as he was the original champion of the colosseum and then Diamante took over. This fight proved who the real champion is even though it was not kyros' main intention.
Long time watcher, first time commenting: One thing I REALLY love about this arc, and this ending specifically, is how it essentially finishes off the last of the “Bad Warlords” at the SAME TIME Luffy’s Grand Fleet establishes a sort of Pirate Warlords for him! It’s such an interesting parallel, and I’m very curious to see if we get more development of the Grand Fleet members as we go.
Hearing the excitement in your voice as you hit the highs of the series is awesome. I love when people also geek out on the crew embracing their roles. Chopper wanting to be the crew's monster, Franky becoming Luffy's enforcer upon hearing about the Mera Mera fruit and subsequently being the one man army seiging the factory. It's not confirmed, but is a popular headcanon backed by a lot of small interactions and how often Oda pairs the two on cover pages, but Franky and Robin are a couple which plays into them being functionally team dad and mom.
The best part about Korazon being "hearts" place in Doflamingo's desk is that it works on two levels: On one side, Doflamingo misses "hearts" place, because he killed his brother, who was once there. So he quite literally killed his own heart. On the other hand, Doffy was ready to give that place to Law - specifically because he thought they were so similar. Which basically means, that the only person who he can have in his heart is actually himself. That, my friends, is amazing character/thematic work, I have to admit.
@@lukecartwright535 I love how that simultaneously honours Corazon (heart in Spanish) and ties in to how strongly Law carries his legacy (I mean he has the mans name on the back of his jacket) but also sticks it to Doflamingo because he turned down the heart seat
Funny thing about Doflamingo's sunglasses. A fan once asked Oda if he could draw what Doflamingo looked like without the sunglasses, and Oda being Oda and not wanting to draw that for whatever reason, decided to troll us all by revealing that Doflamingo wears a second pair of glasses directly underneath the first one in one big joke response. I doubt Doffy actually does this in story, but it does make you think how he could get a second undamaged pair so quickly.
Definitely the one of the best arcs of the series! Oda went crazy in this arc and it felt way more impactful because of the set-up in Punk Hazard. I was a lot more excited for your review of this arc particularly because of how much you already had a hatred towards Doflamingo. It’s been a blast following your journey so far.
when it comes to immortality, i remember dr. kureha. She kept on saying "Do you want to know the secret of my youth?" Oda never followed up on it. Usually, the jokes are used by oda as foreshadowing.
54:44 I do not know if you misunderstood or if it is a bad translation but... Just for the record, that ability does not grant Eternal Life, but Eternal Youth, it just stops aging, you are still vulnerable to all other types of death. Kaido's invulnerability has nothing to do with it
I actually hardcore disagree about Law’s arm. Because the moment it was cut off, I immediately assumed he was going to be the one to reattach it to himself with his devil fruit abilities. He was able to literally cut out his white lead disease from his own body on the cellular level. Reattaching a few blood vessels, arteries, and muscles is much simpler by comparison. Them having princess Mansherry do it instead was a surprise.
To answer your 1st critism. It's because One Piece chapters are released weekly, so sometimes Oda make those kind of "fake" tension to keep the weekly release engaging for weekly chapter reader. It become a bigger problem when the reader binge read it, as the tension are resolved rather almost imidiately since the "week gap" tension isn't there. It's totaly valid critism, but at the same time i also quite undertand why it ought to be written that way especially with weekly crunch deadline format he is in.
To clarify about the Law thing....
It totally makes sense that he would be *able* to reattach his arm with his devil fruit. I DO think that it makes sense within the world, but my issue isn't that it doesn't make sense, just that things are regularly reversed which takes away the impact. I used this as an example, but I didn't mean for it to be a rant about this thing alone, just more using it as an example in something that I don't love that comes up a lot
You can't trust Oda that much on risk scenes. He gives false risk or "fake death" in every arc.
Here is a list of some of them:
Kaya's butler - brutally sliced up by Kuro. he's okay later.
Igaram - Explosion in whiskey peak. he comes back later unscathed. Robin probably saved him.
Dorry - face exploded by baroque works agent. he survived.
Pell - center of nuclear blast, survives with just crutches. awful.
All of the people fried by eneru that just kind of walked it off.
Conis dad - sacrifices himself to save daughter, blasted directly with lightning, survives inexplicably
Bellamy - seemingly killed by doflamingo, confirmed alive much later in the story.
Franky family - entire franky family declared dead by marines. turns out they were just wrong.
Bon clay - stays behind to save luffy, Magellan is clearly about to kill him before it cuts away. inexplicably survives
Vander decken - impaled by hody jones with a trident. i don't even remember how he survived this honestly. probably some BS.
Sabo - headshot by world noble and left to drown. his survival was at the very least hinted at
Law - arm sliced off, beaten, and filled with bullets. stated to be dead by doflamingo, only to survive and quickly recover
Doflamingo - decapitated by Kyros, only for it to be a string copy.
gecko moria - doflamingo attacks moria during marineford with heavy hinting that he has intent to kill, especially his line (paraphrasing) "I'll tell them you died a warrior's death..." However, doflamingo later states that moria escaped.
Gas victims - the poison gas is explained to freeze people in place so that they cannot escape and are forced to breathe the gas and die. many marine soldiers are stuck like this left to suffocate in the poison gas. after they get rid of the gas, they just break the soldiers out of their casings and they are fine.
Brownbeard - shot point blank in the face by a shotgun-wielding gigantic yeti
Even if someone really die (Ace) he immediately presents us with a "replacement" (Sabo) literally few chapters after.
Will Law inherit the WILL OF D???
you mean like pell not dying?
Leo is the one who attached law's hand
Don’t worry, this is a critique shared by even the most hardcore One Piece fans. We’ve all been trained not to believe a character is dead, which definitely lessens the impact when their death does occur, because nobody believes them.
the running theory about doffy's glasses is he just had another pair underneath the glasses
I love that 😂
Behind my glasses are.... Another pair of glasses.
Actually, Oda drew that in SBS.
kakashi style lol
@@leonkastilyo7463 or the vice principal from Ned's Declassified
There’s one thing that is lost in translation that adds to Sabo’s memory recovery. “Sakazuki” is the name of the ritual they did as kids with the sake cups, and it is also the real name of Admiral Akainu, the lava man (aka-inu meaning red dog, just his code name). So Sakazuki (the ritual, and the admirals name) mentioned alongside ace and luffy in the newspaper is what made it come back. I still agree that it’s a bit too convenient but just thought I’d give a lil extra insight that only makes sense in the original language!
Ironic
Huh, I never knew that! Thanks for the info.
god damn i forgot about that thank you
An thats probably why Luffy don't drink. The first time he lost sabo, the second time is when Sakazuki (that bonded luffy,sabo, and ace) took the life of ace from him.
Also its aces death which subconsiouly hurt him even tho he did not recognize him at the time
I love how Merphy just never calls Cavendish by his name, but rather, the name that Luffy gave him. Peak content
Cavendish thats what his name was
Ngl never really stuck lol
Also fun to see that robin also calls him the same way Luffy does haha
well, I too remembered him by name cabbage.
Actually I remember the guy by his Horse, Farul
Faruls owner
@@oscaralthausen5750 Robin calls everyone that Luffy nicknames with their nick name.
FOUR VIDEOS ON DRESSROSA?! LET'S GOOOOOO
Nakama!
*three
Hey roger
@@crimsonflare8422 four* technically cause she's making a video about Doffy tomorrow
@@MollyMargaretBPrado oh nevermind
Hello from Japan. I think your understanding of One Piece is great, even though it is a manga with a lot of very wordplay and Japanese specific wording. So here's something I'd like to write about the author, Oda.
Please forgive me if my English is a bit strange.
Luffy is Oda's ideal child, so I don't think Merphy-san's expression about Luffy is wrong. However, when I see him speaking in the media, the manga that depicted Oda when he was a rookie manga artist, the feelings of his editor at the time towards Oda, and the battles between them and the publisher before the serialization, there are times when my image of Oda and Luffy overlap.
I can't explain in words the feeling I get from being Japanese and having Japanese as my mother tongue, but I feel that Oda has a very cheerful personality, but at the root of his heart, he is very dry and realistic, and has a kind of cool humanity. I often feel that he has a very bird's eye view of the world and even the manga he draws. On the other hand, there is also an unusual amount of passion, hard work, and compassion for others. In fact, Oda has said that he doesn't put his own ideology into his work, that he just uses whatever he can to make his manga more interesting. Among Japanese fans, Oda is famous for his wide range of friendships and his interest in all things. There is no other manga artist like him. He takes all of them and sort of uses them in his manga. I think that is why he is able to draw so many characters in a consistent way without contradiction. On the other hand, he has also donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his hometown where there was a disaster, without announcing it (I'll spare you the explanation, but it was announced later due to the trouble) Japan has a lot of disasters, so the amount of undisclosed donations is probably much higher.
I think this aspect of Oda's work is reflected in Luffy, making him a mysterious character with a childlike and mature side. I don't think Luffy is inherently a very likable character. He does stupid things, he annoys other people, and he's selfish in many ways. He is not portrayed in a way that would make him popular in terms of appearance, and he has lost many battles. But Luffy is number one in the popularity polls in Japan and around the world. I think it's a tremendous technique of Oda's that the readers don't lose faith in the characters even when they expose their pathetic parts or act stupidly repeatedly and it's Oda's magic that he can make even seemingly negative flaws into lovable characters.
I do not read up on oda much but I probably should! This was a great read, thank you for this 🥺
Do you prefer a protagonist that always win?? It just only showed that Luffy and the others are like us, Being a human. We are not perfect as I do, you, him/her or the others. And that, what fall in love the characters.
Some of it I was already getting from manga and its tone but thank you for insight and I'll try to read it all gain in Japanese after I have learned it( yes I am learning Nihongo, very much rich language). So all in all thanks for bringing this to me.
thank you!!!!
I love this breakdown, and this insight. Thank you for sharing.
I legit almost cried when Fujitora says that he wished he didn't blinded himself so that he could se how Luffy looked... It's just so awesome how Luffy's kindness makes almost everyone support him and his dream, even if they are directly opposed to him
Same here, it's such a powerful moment. I also think it's really cool that Oda wrote it so a big part of Luffy is how much other people tend to like him, and he actually is that likeable!
That's one of my highlight moments from the arc, it really hurts, but also feels soft in a way.
That moment is a tear jerker for me as well!
That short speech from Fujitora is one of my favorite moments in all of One Piece. Every time I hear it or read it, I can’t help but get tears in my eyes. ;(
@@pattongilbert "I reckon it must look mighty kind"
Oda explains luffy not killing villians by saying that defeating them and taking away their dream is way harsher than killing them in a way. especially when looked at from luffy's point of view I would say
Yeah, Oda has this policy about death, but I maintain it’s a BAD policy, especially when the stakes are often presented as life or death in nature.
@@jammersanimovieblog but the straw hats are pirates. They don't do what is seen as the best for the "greater good". Rather they do what they want to do. If they want to spare the villain they will.
Just want to add on to this:
If you look at certain scenes like the one in Logue Town where Luffy almost died, he doesn't regret the decisions he made leading to the moment. Instead, he's smiling because he's content that he at least is going out trying to achieve his dream.
Letting someone live while crushing any hope of achieving their dream is what Luffy does to others because it's what he himself fears.
@@jammersanimovieblog When it comes to Luffy not killing villains I think this works really well
@@jammersanimovieblog it depends on the story, yes there should be a few more deaths but specific for the policy its about the pain of living with your ideals crushed, and that's definitely worse than death.
Realizing that Baby 5's name is just her being the 5th kid too many and she was never actually given a name by her mother is what really made me love her as a character
Underrated comment
I never realized this and now my heart is shattered
Oh my god... how could I miss that!
No, that's not true. During the Law flashback there is a scene in which Baby 5 reveal her real name to both Law and Buffalo. We never get to know this "real name" but it is hinted at, and the leading theory is that Baby 5 is just a code name. Oda planed for the Doflamingo family to all be an extension of Kaidos crew, hence why they all have card- or cardgame related names, like Doffy himself being the Joker card. But I do love the 5th kid theory as it fits to the backstory of the character, no fact to back it up tho.
@@Kfoglarsson She might've been given a name by Doflamingo or has given one to herself, which she considers her real name
I love Robin's deep bond with Luffy and how much she admires him. One of the ways Oda shows this is how Robin (despite being extremely smart and mature) will call people by the nicknames Luffy gives them. There's a lot of understated depth in Robin and her love for Luffy and I love that.
i always see robin-luffy relationship as that of an encouraging mum and her tireless kid, lol. just her going along with him, constantly smiling and always being entertained by his antics-i love it, it's really heartwarming and wholesome.
Has anyone ever pointed out to you that Elbaf backwards spells Fable and that Usopp’s name and character is based on Aesop’s Fables?
Hory shet!
I thought i was the only one who noticed
@@gabextome nah
Incidentally, also "uso"means "lie" in Japanese
@@diegotejada55 Oh shit I forgot about that connection
100% agreed about Law's arm. Such a powerful, dramatic and consequential moment immediately wiped away by the fairy dust of magical fruits. This sort of thing happens a lot with fake out deaths as well. If you're gonna do it, then do it. Many of us are actually at the point where we see something like this happens in One Piece, and instead of feeling the drama of the moment, all that occurs is the realisation that whatever we're reading is almost certainly going to be magically fixed and the moment rendered meaningless in a couple of chapters.
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I honestly think he did that to mess a bit with Law's fanbase, given how massively popular Law had grown at the time. 😆
"Doflamingo is a Caterpie", that has to be the boldest statement I've ever heard
I mean ... his whole thing is using "String Shot"!
Or spinarak
Level 100 caterpie
@@VivioSaf 😂😂🤣🤣 TRUTH!!!
@@VivioSaf lol
Hour long one piece and merphy? Oooh baby.
Your take on Robin is low-key really refreshing, there are too many folks blowing their gaskets cause for so long she's been playing a supporting role that for some reason they feel she *shouldn't* be. That she should be front and center with the other straw hats when that isn't really what she wants to do or what she's about.
Aye, it took me a bit to realize that a crew or team can most definitely be more than just frontline fighters.
Yes. I was disappointed before as well but her works at Wano made me realize that Robin prefer the "work-in-the-shadow" methods. She is intellectual and she wouldn't rush in front if someone else (The Big 3) would volunteer to do so. She trusts them that they will do the job and she will offer what she can do best.
Yeah, people mostly complain because, pre timeskip, Oda was generally pretty good about giving all the Strawhats a fight every arc. As the cast has grown, a lot of the crew just doesn't get to show off their skills as much, and Robin's powers are one of the hardest to write fights for. Either Oda needs to make her opponent immune to her usual jointlocks, she insta-wins, or the opponent is just too high above her weight class and she loses.
Yeah also it would really ruin the point of a crew if they aren’t all different in their capabilities and what they bring to the table
Yeah, helps it's a woman giving this take because for some reason ppl like to use Robin as an example of "sexist writing" or badly written female characters in shonen manga. Which I have some pet peeve with the idea of a badly written female character in general, at least what it seems that ppl make it mean, but that's another beast.
Luffy's specialty is seeing through the self-deception people use to deny what they actually want. Like with Nami saying she was ok with going along with Arlong, Coby not standing up to Alvida, Ace deciding he shouldn't live, Rebecca convincing herself to stay away from Kyros, and many more examples that are yet to come, and that are even more amazing.
Don't forget Robin accepting death at Water 7/Enis Lobby
You're almost reaching modern One Piece, Merphy. What a journey, huh? Its visible that Oda tried some new things in Dressrosa, hopefully they will pay out. Love the reactions!
Zou, Whole Cake Island, Wano (Act 1,2 & 3)
@@theifzelnite1087 act 3 will probably be 2
It‘s wild that „almost“ means „the length of several manga series“
@@paperbackwriter1111 That's the point hahahaha, demon slayer, for example, has only 205 chapters. One Piece can get out of hand sometimes, but the capacity to produce so much consistent art is absurd.
@@theifzelnite1087 You forgot the Reverie Arc and probably one video will be only about Odens Flashback
Bellamy also said that if he's going to die for the "idiotic" goal that he is following, it might as well be in the hands of the other person that he fully respects, Luffy. That one hit hard
Another parallel between Alabasta and Dressrosa: They way Luffy defeated both Croc and Doffy is mirrored. With Crocoboy, he sent him flying, through the floor, out of the shadows for everyone to see. With Mingo, he punched him into the floor, from the heights from which he puppeteered the entire island as a god
Incredibly farfetched. Oda could have ended the fight in x ways, doesn't mean they all need symbolism behind them.
@@MonkeyDIvan You're right, he *could* have ended it in any number of ways but he chose to mirror the ending of Alabasta. That's not something he did on accident.
@@MonkeyDIvan Oh come on.. this is everything but farfetched. Crocodile working from the underground and Mingo trying to be a god. You clearly underestimate the way Oda writes this story. You can find this kind of stuff everywhere in OP.
@@MonkeyDIvan nope. Oda implements a lot of symbolism, and this was the case for crocodile and Doflamingo. Their arcs have extremely similar themes, a princess in Despair, a King whose completely broken and unable to do anything etc. However the difference in their position is that Crocodile pulled and acted through the shadows, whereas Doflamingo just sat atop of Dressrosa as a God. Luffy Pulled Doflamingo down and beat him into the ground. Whereas in Alabasta, Luffy beat the shit out of crocodile and punched him through the ground in the middle of the war, for all to see who the true perpetrator was. The parallel is obvious here.
@@lordhughmungus You're reaching too far. I'm not even trying to sound mean or condescending since One Piece is my favourite series ever, but just try and imagine any other scenario and see for yourself how you can literally apply symbolism to whatever you feel like.
00:00:00 ⟾ Format/Intro - Parts, Doflamingo video, fights, lore, characters, highlights, climax, theories
00:01:44 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo: D.
00:03:00 ⟾ Criticisms - Law arm
00:06:00 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo
00:06:18 ⟾ Fights - Zoro vs. Pica: slow growth reveal
00:08:50 ⟾ Fights - Sai-Chinjao vs. Lao G
00:09:42 ⟾ Fights - Ideo* vs. Dellinger, Hakuba
00:10:04 ⟾ Fights - Bartolomeo vs. Gladius
00:10:38 ⟾ Fights - Franky vs. Senor Pink, flashback
00:11:04 ⟾ Comedic Relief: Cavendish-Bartolomeo
00:11:32 ⟾ Characters - Bellamy: (misplaced) loyalty, dream, tragedy, vivre card
00:17:49 ⟾ Characters - Baby 5: flashback, Sai
00:20:25 ⟾ Fights - Rebecca-Kyros vs. Diamante: roles, protection
00:26:20 ⟾ Characters - Robin
00:29:33 ⟾ Characters - Luffy: emotional intelligence; Bellamy, Rebecca
00:33:07 ⟾ {Tea Break ☕}
00:33:10 ⟾ Fights - Luffy-Law vs. Doflamingo-Trebol: room, powers, stomp, Rayleigh parallel, backstory, Gear 4, time limit
00:35:09 ⟾ {Tea spilled ☕}
00:37:19 ⟾ Fights - Sabo vs. Burgess
00:38:29 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Zoro
00:38:51 ⟾ Characters - Luffy and Law
00:39:36 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Bartolomeo
00:39:48 ⟾ Characters - Mansherry
00:40:02 ⟾ Highlights - Zoro-Kin’emon-Kanjuro Scene: connection
00:40:30 ⟾ Fights - Violet-Rebecca vs. Doflamingo
00:41:39 ⟾ Criticisms - timed battle, Gatz
00:44:54 ⟾ Fights - Luffy vs. Doflamingo: awakening, haki, speech, final blow
00:45:50 ⟾ Falling Action - Birdcage, flashbacks, Alabasta parallels, cinematic, Sabo-Burgess, Riku, Issho
00:48:48 ⟾ Characters - Kuzan: Blackbeard
00:49:51 ⟾ Characters - Sabo: plot convenience, entrance, scenes, crows*
00:54:05 ⟾ Characters - Kaido: presence
00:54:35 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kaido, immortal?
00:55:56 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Rayleigh, knowledge
00:57:16 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Crocus
00:57:39 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kin’emon
00:58:13 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi
00:58:29 ⟾ Highlights - Rebecca-Kyros Scene: warm hand
00:59:29 ⟾ Highlights - Bellamy-Law & Smoker-Zoro parallels
01:00:12 ⟾ Highlights - Law-Sengoku Scene: D., Corazon
01:00:44 ⟾ Highlights - Luffy-Issho-Dressrosa Scene
01:01:02 ⟾ Highlights - Dressrosa citizens knowledge: dwarves fairy myth, Scarlett-Kyros, rumour
01:01:33 ⟾ Highlights - Straw Hat Grand Fleet
01:02:43 ⟾ Highlights - Usopp & Giants connection
01:04:09 ⟾ Highlights - Lucci, Zou crew & other samurai*
01:04:32 ⟾ Highlights - Doflamingo alive, deaths, spare glasses, Pokémon reference
01:05:17 ⟾ Highlights - upcoming war, Joker influence, chaos
01:05:47 ⟾ Overall Thoughts - characters, crew, action, emotion, flashbacks, week-to-week, Doflamingo, setting, Alabasta parallels, lore
01:07:50 ⟾ Looking Ahead
01:08:17 ⟾ Next Videos - Doflamingo Analysis, Zou
01:08:39 ⟾ [Promo] [Credits]
Bloody legend mate!
Thanks, I was looking for you
@@Adam19811 matey ❤️
Thanks dude, i was looking for this.
I love the “tea break” and “tea spill” lmao
Sabo’s memory loss was a sticking point for a lot of us, but it makes a lot more sense in its original translation.
We don’t get this as English readers, but having the paper mention Ace, Luffy, and admiral Sakazuki at once is significant. The admiral’s name literally translates (or can be translated as) an exchange of cups in brotherhood, just like the three sake cups Ace, Luffy and Sabo drink to solidify their brotherhood. It’s not just the names, but the events that make it all click into place.
Just some of those nuances we just don’t seem to get here in the west.
Yea been a fan for years, never really felt the sabo memory loss either. But this is cool if its true
Yes, I just came to comment on that, I hope she reads it, it is a shame how much is lost in terms of double meanings and cultural meanings in translations
Amnesia was still a bad way to do it especially when they are all infamous
Also, even if Robin knew Sabo because he is well known, that doesn't mean she would know he has a connection to luffy. And luffy wouldn't know him because he's ignorant of much of the world news.
@@lukvanleeuwen7603 there is no valid reason for ace not knowing though
Fujitora's speech about wanting to see Luffy's face is genuinely one of my favourite moments in One Piece as a whole. It's so sincere, from a place of wisdom and respect from the admiral. So good.
I cried, it was a beautiful scene, and I would also want to see Luffy's cute face.
Lowkey a heavy moment indeed. It's so good to see older wiser "navy members" gaining such respect for a "pirate".
Yall eat up anything. Dressrosa was a crap arc. Over 100+ chapters and over 2 years of nothing. If it weren't for Doflamingo that arc would be 0/10.
@@Name-jw4sj ok....That's like...just your opinion man. Let us seemingly mentally lacking folks that actually liked or loved the arc live in peace. You and the rest your enlightened kind just leave us be.
@@jbogle531 You are easily entertained dude.
Robin's ability to be a background/side character in the story is a testament to her character development honestly. For the most part she's just happy to be around them, going along with or enjoying watching their shenanigans as you say. She still has her own dreams of course, and still has her moments, but I think the decision is the right one, even if her fans want to see more of her all the time.
When it's about the poneglyphs/void century she always takes focus again. It's her dream. Her role.
She is the representation of Freedom
This is why Robin is my favorite Strawhat. She said her real dream was to uncover the world history, and she only became an assassin to stay alive.
She's so powerful yet once she found a crew that she could trust, she only uses violence when necessary, and for the most part she's content with just being a historian. Top tier character development.
But I'm miffed she spent 2 years with the revolutionary army, and we didn't get anything from her... [spoiler]
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Until very recently
Also she would have been op just imagining her with haki is crazy.
Merphy: "At the end of the storie Ussop is going to live in elbaf"
Kaya: Am I a joke to you?
Usopp is not in love with Kaya, and we don't really have any reason to believe that she would be in love with him either.
yes she is
@@FuckTH-camAndGoogle you'll never know
@@FuckTH-camAndGoogle but that doesn't negate the fact that he will return to his village some day
@@zerodlaw9622 No, we actually do know because Oda has stated that all of the Strawhats are in love with adventure.
In case someone hasn't clarified yet - Crocus (the guy with Laboon) wasn't on Brook's crew, he was on Roger's. He met Brook before he joined Roger which makes it interesting considering he swore to be with Laboon only to join Roger, leave Laboon alone for a few years, and then eventually come back.
Rayleigh mentions this back in Sabaody arc
No way we share the same name
he joined roger with the intent to look for brook's crew though, iirc. several years have prolly passed by that point, and my guess, while specifically looking for someone or some crew would be difficult in grandline, his main objective was to just gather info and hearsay to make sure whether or not the crew is still kicking in the sea.
so it wasnt really like he bailed on laboon for adventure thrills.
@@mophead_xu yeah youre right i overlooked that when writing this comment. i still find it interesting that he just kinda let laboon be alone for that long though. i dont doubt crocus, im sure he found a way to make sure laboon was safe while he was gone, but it just makes me all the more curious
Im kinda sad that Merphy didnt include in this review Senior Pink's masterful backstory 😢
I think she skipped the back story cuz he is a idiot dressed like baby
not that good in the manga, the anime did a great job lengthening and filling in some gaps
Because it’s very forgettable moment
@@momame8258 Senior Pink is HARD BOILED good sir, you don't know what you're talking about
@@metalxwarrior If you know his backstory, you know he's not an " idiot dressed as a baby"
50:46 There is a One Piece novel call "One Piece Novel Heroines" talk about 5 characters during timeskip Nami, Robin, Vivi, Perona, Hancock. It explain why Robin doesn't tell Luffy about Sabo. Sabo is the one who brought Robin to Sabaody, but decided not to meet Luffy and ask Robin to hide the matter. Here summary about Robin Novel Chapter :
Robin has a meal with the Revolutionary Army before her arrival at the Sabaody Archipelago. The meal is a recipe from the Yukali Kingdom. The kingdom had existed during the World Government's establishment and was under its rule, but after being destroyed by another great country, the only surviving record of it was the recipe. It takes the group 2 weeks to sail from Baltigo to the Sabaody Archipelago. After arriving to Sabaody, Robin thinks that Sabo will ask her about Luffy. However, he decides to leave and not to meet his brother yet, asking her to take care of Luffy for him.
Wait… One Piece has novels? There’s more canon material?!
Oh boy, here we go again
Where can I read this? :0
Link to the books please!
Luffy actually said that G4 was something he created in the 2 yrs time skip, but I do understand what you're saying with the 10 min thing, it was pain when we read it week to week.
It was certainly a long arc to read week to week. I will say that the chapter panel ending with just a "4" was still the most hyped I'd ever been reading One Piece.
What weirds me out about the 10 minute recharge is the manga says he can’t use haki in those 10 minutes which is weird because wouldn’t it make more sense if he can’t move his body for 10 min since it specifically affects it similar to early gear 3 (like characters like vergo or pika could coat there whole bodies in haki and they don’t experience any recoil)
Well the 10.min thing is kinda the same as gear 3rd.. In Enies Lobby (I think the scene where he went G3 offscreen first with chimney. He said oww im small exactly as long as Ive been in G3 form. So Luffy knowing the downside of his power is rather logical, he trained with G4 for over a half year since he showed Rayleigh the form befor he left (and created King Kong Gun afterwards) thus knowing it's 10 minutes makes sense. Counting By the second is kinda dumb, but feel like the announcer counting down was more added for suspense and comedic relief then actually a plot device, hence Doffy not reacting to it. But it kinda backfired...
@@dohtje5029 Another guy commented the same...but why would Doffy believe a random colisseum caster?
Seriously, seeing someone noticing how absurdly well written is Bellamy always makes my day
52:00 the memory recovery moment only makes real sense when you know japanese. Sabo read in the newspaper the name of the person that killed Ace. It was Admiral sakazuki . Sakazuki is also the word for cups. He had to piece the name ace with the sakazuki (the 3 cups the brothers drank) for his memory to come back at that moment.
29:48 - Luffy doesn’t see the world from an innocent perspective at all. He sees it as it is. Remember when he flat out told Vivi that human collateral is a reality of war? Also, the reason why Luffy doesn’t care about backstories is because he prefers to judge people in the present by their current actions. Luffy might be an idiot but he’s not really “child-like”, innocent, naive and pure.
Edit: In fact Luffy is among some of the most selfish shonen protagonists, something Nami alluded to when she got his 3D2Y message. But somehow this image of Luffy as this pure childlike, innocent, wholesome boy persists. He’s a pirate. He can fight dirty. He steals. And has cause countless of human collateral damages.
He also has amazing judgement of character when he helps nami, but is the one sleeping, and he cares about nami now seeing through her. He is forgiving if people change and stop being abusive, mostly.
".....human collateral is reality of war..."
And then his brother died in front of him because of a war
And he lost himself
@@yuizaift8940 "Nothing's a cliche when it's happening to you" - Max Payne
@@yuizaift8940 Yes, because he’s human.
@@Sebster85 So does Vivi
I always saw Bellamy’s unwillingness to betray Doflamingo as the flip side of what Luffy showed him on Jaya. On Jaya, Luffy was rewarded and portrayed positively for chasing a foolish, ridiculous dream. Bellamy was punished and portrayed negatively for having shallow beliefs and a unwillingness to believe in dreams.
Here, Bellamy is acting much as Luffy did in Jaya. He’s continuing to pursue a dream, serving Doflamingo, that is foolish and ridiculous. However, it’s obvious how misguided this dream is. And yet, he refuses to abandon it because of what he learned from Luffy on Jaya. That foolish and ridiculous dreams are worth pursing. Yet in this context, we see the clear flaws in that idea.
Bellamy as a character has always been deeply tied to the theme of dreams, and as dreams are one of the central themes of all of One Piece, it’s always made him a fascinating character.
The arc we are currently in is longer, but I think a key difference in making it (at least for me) a much better weekly experience is that it takes place over a longer period of time and features many different locations...
Dressrosa takes place almost entirely in just one day mostly in the same place so it got tiring way faster... the current arc has actually been a really fun read weekly
Not only that, it's the pay off for many years of story telling and plot construction.
Dressrosa could have been so much easier to read week to week if the final act had just taken place at night. Wouldn't even need to change anything else. Could easily stretch all the events of Dressrosa over 12 hours
@@MDoorpsy dressrosa is a summer island so they get 16 hours of sunlight at most. But yea I get your point
I feel like the pica fight shows the main issue of the arc. You know that Zoro is not really being pushed by this bad guy we are just spinning things around so zoro doesn't crush the other bad guys while we see the grand fleet fights.
I honestly disagree. The last year of this arc has been extremely overblown and unconcise. Couple that with the fact that nearly every conflict is snuffed out in the same manner Law losing his arm was meaningless and you have an arc that fea really messy
Murphey: He's a Caterpie
Doflamingo: ... *must evolve into metapod*
Fun thing about Sabo recovering his memory: the name of "magma guy" is Sakazuki. The Sakazuki is the ritual of exchanging cups of sake, so Sabo reading Luffy, Ace and Sakazuki altogether would trigger that especific memory
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That was wild.. I'll buy that trigger..
But i do get merphy..
Also, i hope this could get to merphy..
Sabo was in Loguetown with Dragon when Luffy was about to be executed by Buggy..
And Sabo just stand there with the crowd..
The story is based on Luffy's perspective in general, so him believing that Sabo is dead before the start of the story could be justified..
There's no need to introduce a character that was believed to have died from long ago by the person we follow right?
Still, i do get merphy..
3 things to consider about Sabo's amnesia:
1. It did came back over 2 years before Dressrosa, when he read the article about Sabo's death
2. In that article he read 3 important things: Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Luffy, and Sakazuki. Sakazuki means cup, and it's also the name of the Yakuza ritual through which, by sharing a cup of sake, you swear allegiance as equals (siblings) or master/subordinate (parent/child), so the ritual that made Sabo, Ace and Luffy into brothers (or the one the Grand Fleet shared with everyone but Luffy at the end of this arc)
3. I don't know if you've ever found out of the death of someone you used to know through the news, and I wish you never will. It hits way different than seeing someone you know/used to know on the news for a different reason. I've experienced both, and while with the latter you kinda think "oh, how nice, I wonder how they're doing, will give them a call", with the former you just get into a shock state, and start wondering how and why before starting griefing and remembering everything you ever shared with that person. And it's even more so when it was a violent death (also experienced both violent and non-violent). I know this is not something most people cannot relate to, or even imagine, and upon first reading it even myself did not catch it, as the episode of learning through the news of a childhood friend having been killed in one of the most brutal ways I can even imagine had not yet occurred. Upon re-reading it, though, after that had happened, it hit me on an entirely different level, to the point that I wondered if Oda himself went through that. Came to the conclusion he hasn't, because it is a bit flat, but an episode like that certainly does jog your memory in the most painful way
Garp: "I heard you met up with your dad in Loguetown."
Luffy: "I have a dad?" "Dragon, What why are you all freaking out..?" "Whats a Revolutionary Army?"
I've always just assumed Luffy gave zero fucks for anything going on that wasn't directly happening around him that it made perfect sense he would never have heard the name of any of Dragons people. The circle of people that knew about the three brothers even being connected is quite small and consists mostly of a single group of mt bandits. Not sure if either of the boys or Dadan would have even brought it up with Garp, he doesn't seem like the type you confide troubles in.
It's also been stated that Luffy doesn't read Newspapers.
Yes, I always thought about that issue like this, too. Luffy just doesn't care about newspaper articles and bounty posters of others and stuff.
Also I never was quite sure if the marines even had a proper photo of Sabo. Like, I always headcanoned the revolutionaries to often do more like spy stuff and pull strings in the background etc. (I'm not up to date, so if there were new canon informations out there I don't know about, I apologize), and seeing as they didn't even have a photo of Sanji for a long time, I could see that the marines just didn't have that much concrete infos about the members of the revolutionary army to put out there. Which then would explain why Ace also didn't know about him (if he even read that much newspapers... I assume more than Luffy, seeing as he was a commander plus searching for Luffys bounty posters, but I also don't see him as someone who paid that much attention on stuff like that).
I remember, back then, my friend and I were just so relieved about the reveal with the amnesia that we just didn't care that much about it being a little bit too convenient for the plot 😂😅 because since the moment of Sabo's return, we were like: We want to like you, but we can't do that fully until you give us a really good reason why you let your brothers think you were dead and why you weren't at Marineford (or trying to get there)...
That was most certainly not Luffy's first time using Gear 4. He was obviously training it during the 2 year time skip with Raleigh, since we have a flashback panel of them talking about it.
We saw him using it, actually. Also timeskip was 2 years.
Thats spoiler
@@svenbieli1094 Not sure why I said 1 year.
@@metalxwarrior Literally in this arc, chapter 790, they talk about gear 4. So no, it's not a spoiler.
I love when Merphy says "if you're still here"
Of course we're still here!
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The moment where Kyros finally gets to cry is one of those things that really stuck with me. From the moment cruel irony took away his ability to feel or be remembered by his daughter and continiueing on through all the horrifying pain and happy moments with his daughter he was never able to get an outlet for his emotions.
And when he finally gets to cry it's in relief, because after all those years of hardship there is actually a bright future ahead of him. It felt really good after watching all the things the poor man went through.
Crocus (the dude at Reverse Mountain taking care of Laboon) was on Roger's crew, not Brook's.
I thought He was on brooks crew until they left him with laboon?
@@cmk5498 nope. He met the Rumbar Pirates (Brook's old crew) at Reverse Mountain when they came thru to find their fame and fortune in the Grand Line and eventually left baby Laboon with him
@@kipwhitler6804 nope...when Brook's crew was sailing the seas Roger was still a kid playing hide n seek
he was originally from brooks crew and when brooks crew got lost he joined roger on his last journey with the goal of trying to find the rumbar pirates in mine
@@taimoordanish3802 no. He was at Reverse Mountain. Brook's crew needed to repair their ship after coming down the mountain and Crocus allowed them to stay at his place. They met Laboon while repairing the ship. Then the Rumbar Pirates left Laboon with Crocus hoping to return after they made their fortune.
I kinda figured that you wouldnt like Law not losing his arm. When I brought that up to my brother he said that it was showed in Sabaody and Punk Hazard that his powers can dismember and reattach body parts, so it shouldnt be a surprise that he can do it to himself.
oh yeah it totally makes sense for his powers, I guess it's just convenient that the one character this happens to is the one character it wouldn't really effect on a big level
But Law is not the one who re-attached his arm back it was Leo who stitched it back on. Law has never shown to use that ability on himself ever.
@@ismailuchiha hehe I guess so. It has been a while since my brother has read/watched Dressrossa
@@ismailuchiha why would you say that it doesn't happen in the future
@@woodberry323 fixed
"It's suffocating me". When I read that I simply said "I know Luffy, I know it is". I've known him for a bit over a decade and I know Doffy is absolutely revolting to him. I really feel like Luffy as a character is flawless. He is just so goddamned fleshed out. What he does always makes sense.
Exactly
Reminds me of Oden, now that I'm currently watching Wano.
I feel like the “losing and arm immediately followed by the reversal of that decision” is a consequence of weekly publishing. Not defending it, but when you have to hook your readers every week into coming back, having characters seemingly go through something major is a great way to do it. I feels like Oda had an idea of what he wanted to do but the editor said “shit needs to happen in chapter 973 or else the readers will be bored” so he puts something he’ll reverse as soon as possible in
"Samurai guy is old?"
Your intuition is like the Demon Cat from Adventure Time that had "approximate knowledge of many things, Frank the Human!"
I think it makes sense that luffy hasn't heard of Sabo. He didn't even know he had a father, he isn't aware of what the revolutionaries are so why would he know dragon's right hand. I'm sure people around luffy and ace knew about Sabo, but they didn't bring it up because they didn't know they were brothers. Luffy never speaks of himself and it's probably the same with ace.
They only tell when asked
@@shameryda exactly, but as we know luffy doesn't care about his crew's past and it's the same for most members. If they don't want to talk about it, no one will ask them. What matters isn't where they come from, but where they are now.
Also I don't think it was ever confirmed when Sabo actually became the Chief of Staff. Plus, most of the stuff he gets involved in is covert, and is probably classified by the government, which contributes to his bounty being fairly low for his power level.
So something that you might miss reading the manga alone:
Oda insinuated in a little Q&A session called SBS that Violet and Doffy had a steamy romantic relationship and he couldn't really get into it because of the target age group of this manga (open to being fact checked on this) which is quite interesting for Violet character-wise
Also I hope Merphy picked up on that subtle thing Oda does where the devil fruits match the personality of the villains in most cases...
Crocodile was sand that sucked out the moisture and to an extent the life of out of Alabaster and left the place a desert
Enel was lightning because of his god-complex
Moriah because he's a shadow of the man he once was
Akainu was an all-consuming fire (magma)
And Doffy is the puppet master that manipulates and controls everyone from the shadows...so the string string fruit
Pretty sure the SBS implied an unconsentual relationship not a romantic one ... bit too dark for the onepiece audience.
@@wiikoolaid9768 no quite the contrary. It seemed consensual from the way Oda said it
@@wiikoolaid9768" Hm, she was dashing against the enemy. There is a deep secret setting I can't tell you about though. I informed the supervisor about it, but since it is a pretty adult part of the story it remains hidden in the shonen manga which One Piece is. To all adults, please try to imagine yourselves. Dressrosa is truly a passionate country!!" SBS Vol 83 p. 118
And luffy is always bounces back.. hence the rubber fruit
@@davidowusu1184 Yes, but pronounced a certain way, Viola can also mean "to rape," so...
Merphy: Dressrosa was long can’t imagine what it was like reading week to week.
Luffy/Katakuri fight: Hold my donuts
Wano kuni: hold my oden
@@powercouch1845 More like hold me Oden.
I love how Merphy simply gets Robin and Bellamy; people usually disregard him as a character, and complain about Robin's sporadic fight scenes while forgetting that she is not really a fighter type.
I kind of agree with her view on Sabo's convenient amnesia, but I really liked him from the start and I also love him as an adult, so I can easily let go of my disapproval on how he came back.
Also, the scene when Zoro is resorted to ask Orlombus to throw him because Sanji who usually does it isn't there: precious! I really love these two!
Merphy didn't say Robin was not a fighter. Her ambition is gaining the knowledge of the world and for that she even goes her separate ways from the crew. And that merphy wants to see more Robin in front in the future.
I really like to think that Dressrosa shows us as the reader what the fate of Alabasta could be like if Crocodile had taken over successfully. Doflamingo is such an amazing villain, and all of his speeches before this arc really hit different on rewatch / reread
Also Luffy created Gear 4th during the 2 year timeskip and it went through an evolution to fight the animals on the island, so he’s gotten a good handle on the strengths and weaknesses! That’s why it looks so weird, it’s built to fight off literally every type of animal - it’s been through a lot of evolution
His Marineford speech is already one of the best in the series but after learning his backstory it means even more and makes it so much better since he was that kid that he talked about the kid who experienced a life of pleasure, peace, and comfort and also life of persecution and fear he's experienced it all.
Croco is 100% different from doffy ,they have different perspective of the one piece
Oda was flexing his backstory crafting with senor pink....giving a minor character better origin story tqhan some mcs
Surprised that Merphy didn't linger on the detail on Sanji's new bounty poster.
If im not mistaken thats part of Zou's arc, since it's chapter 802 already
shhhhhhh let her find it in Zou which she will tho
I think something lost in the whole "Rebecca not fighting" thing is that both growing up, and even in the Colosseum is that she really doesn't like fighting and doesn't want to hurt others (going so far as to develope a non lethal sword style). Kyros isn't just defending the purity of his daughter, he's also most likely trying to stop her from an action that has haunted him his whole life. (Remember his first kills he justified to king riku)
I also love the way Luffy usually has to look up at the bad guys; who see themselves as above all others. (shown physically in the baddy's stature and location) Luffy always fights, crawls, and drags himself and those around him to their level. Then he literally knocks them down a peg from their "high horse" at the final moment of the fight. There's a lot of using the environment and elevation as a story telling device and it's spectacular.
For Bellamy, he knew at that moment that he followed the wrong person but for him he wanted to become like Luffy to pour himself in what he believed in, even if that person he believed in betrayed his loyalty, because without it he would be left with nothing, so his determination is the only thing left and he wanted to to pit it against Luffy as a manner of respect for Luffy's own determination towards his dreams.
A headcannon with the community is sengoku dyed his hair when he was the Fleet Admiral, but after retiring got a lot more laid back.
"Don't try to find a reason for somebody's love" didn't hit me as hard as Hiriluk's speech or other great moments in One Piece, but now it has become one of my favorites.
Oh also I disagree that Luffy has a "innocent" outlook on the world. I think one of the best examples of this is Enies lobby arc. We all love the moment where Luffy tells Ussop to "burn down the world govt flag" but right before his order HE TELLS ROBIN "I KNOW YOUR ENEMY VERY WELL" which is him seemingly refencing the Sabo situation!
Disagree with the disagree.
Even though he showed the intelligence to identify the enemy which is after his nakama and display that and that he would still support his nakama, he isn't bothered in the least about why she is being chased, what information such an institution is suppressing or matters pertaining to the world at large. Later shown when he doesn't make anything of the racial issues while still willing to support fishmen
When he tells Robin "I know your enemy very well", what he says in Japanese is implying that he understands who her enemy is now (the world government) so nah I don't think it's related to Sabo
The person I think probably has been granted immortality is Dr Vegapunk, he’s way to mysterious and seems to be the smartest person in this world.
I think it might be that guy
I spent a lot of time thinking that the 5 elders were inmortal.
Nowadays I think they have been living more time than normal lives thanks to the powers of fruits like Bonney's.
SPOILER ALERT
My bet is that Imu was granted with immortality.
@@samufreestyleable that's the probable thing
I'm betting for Kureha, she knows way more than she says
@@mayo10able She's just 150, it's nothing for a proper doctor.
I kinda get what you mean with Law but it isn't nearly as bad as it was with Pell. He did show the ability to detattch and reattach body parts of others as he pleases back in Sabaody. So him controlling his limb kinda makes sense plus Leo fixing it works on level. That strings took his arm off and stitching fixed it. Yes, Luffy's true fruit of training is Gear 4 and Haki.
And then you have the Tonttata princess whose fruit is literally the Heal-Heal Fruit !
I let the Pell thing slide because Oda was actually going to kill him off, but the chapter was released shortly after 9/11 and they considered it in bad taste to kill off a character by suicide bomb at the time.
Every other fake out death has been telegraphed as a fake out though, so it never came as a surprise. When Oda really kills a character, it's pretty clear when they're actually dead.
@@alexrosario423 I don't think this is a direct one to one as everyone's playing up. Dying and losing an arm are different stakes. Rarely in fiction does it mean anything. Even in manga, either they reattach it next chapter, regrow it, or by the end of the arc it is fixed or they get a new power up via a bionic arm. This happens everywhere from manga to Star Wars. Emotionally marrying yourself to the position of loss of a single limb as high stakes and then getting mad that it wasn't high stakes even by the story's own internal logic is just silly.
Yeah......the thing is it's true that Oda sometimes create fake tensions and I sometimes hate it but in this case when I was watching I never thought Law is going to lose it, being an exceptional doctor with the ope ope (literally OP) nomi.
plus it plays a part in Trebol's defeat somehwat kinda
Elbaf is Fable backwards
Never noticed that before
And, incidentally, Usopp's name is partly derived from an ancient storyteller named Aesopp, whose work was collated into Aesopp's Fables
Nice
Have you heard Pica’s voice in the anime? You won’t regret it, it puts a new perspective on the fight and his character!
Yeah, no kidding. It's a very "Roger Rabbit" moment.
Kyros going off to the distance to cry by himself still gets me after all this time, I can feel in my flesh all his pain and suffering being lifted all of the sudden by some random people that were just passing by. I can't even begin to imagine what it'd be like living under war for a decade!! Just amazing storytelling
Fujitoras whole "I wish I hadn't blinded myself" hit me hard.
I need a compilation of Merphy realizing Oda played her
I couldn't stop laughing when I heard
"He's a Pokemon... he's a caterpie"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My stomach hurts!🤣🤣
PS: I must say!!
No one understands Luffy as much as you do!!
One Piece being explicitly about Big D Energy is the craziest part.
Oda really likes his D's to be the most 'fleshed' in his story.
Omg, what has been seen can't be unseen.
@@prajwalkrishnabhat5539 the amount of questions revolving around dicks Oda has answered in his SBS is actually hilarious😭😭
@@asap4bri I know and I like how he answers most of them sincerely, without any disrespect.
That's cringe.
My rationalization for the time limit thing is that luffy actually WASN'T being super precise with this time limit, and Gatz just misunderstood. But when Gatz started hyping everyone up and counting down Luffy also got excited enough that he forced himself to get back up at the end of the countdown even though he wasn't completely ready yet. That also explains why Luffy spent a little longer getting beat up before transforming again.
It was still pretty silly though...
you gotta love how EVERYONE was sure the gladiators would be just random one off foes in the tournament, only to turn out to ALL be strawhat crew members (albeit not part of the MAIN crew)
Luffy's perspective of the world isn't innocent. It's the opposite of naive. He's Hyper realistic. To the point that he finds value in being light-hearted and viewing things simply.
He is an enlightened being.
I like this take.. very nice point of view about Luffy
Luffy’s emotional intelligence is off the charts.
More like hyper simplistic. He simply does whatever he wants, and it just so happens he's a good person. This is said a lot, but a good example is declaring war on the govt but because they're corrupt, but only because he wanted Robin back.
someone hyper realistic won't be duped by usopp's sogeking persona. though I do agree he isn't innocent. he's pure-hearted, but not innocent.
Part of the impact of Law losing his arm is really in the weekly read. Waiting a week for the next chapter lets you sit with the impact of it. Reading in volume form, it comes and goes so fast and is less impactful or meaningful
I think you've done a great job reviewing this arc.
I'd even say the best I've seen.
To do it properly, you need time to hit everything.
unironically, bellamy is one of the most hopeful case of a person groomed into an incredibly abusive relationship then getting out of it.
the fact that he went as far and low as he did, but still have the strength to pick himself back up afterwards, _and,_ like you said, not just continuing the cycle by following the next person able to fill in the position of his previous abuser, is what makes his case really hopeful.
I just want to leave a comment here saying how much I appreciate Merphy's style of criticism of the series. I've agreed with the majority of criticisms she's had once she really started delving into One Piece, and they truly feel like criticisms made by someone who loves the series and wants to see it get even better.
I enjoyed TotallyNotMark's series on One Piece, and have watched several of Daniel Greene's reviews, and while I enjoy their content creation and perspectives, I think their criticisms are often made in bad faith. I don't think there's anything wrong with someone who isn't a huge fan of something criticizing it, but the things that they tend to criticize are often either nitpicky or personal issues they have with the material (at least TNM is very honest about this and states on multiple occasions that the problems he has with the series are personal). A lot of what they felt was badly-paced or not well written was mostly a result of them speeding through the series and glancing over details, not understanding character traits and how those impact certain decisions, and other such things. They often make comments or assumptions that are blatantly wrong because of how fast and how analytically they read the series.
Murphy, on the other hand, has just as discerning of an eye as the other reviewers, and is even going through the series almost as fast. Yet it's extremely clear that Murphy loves One Piece, and on a deep level understands and is affected by its themes and characters. Because of this, she reads in much more detail and appreciates much more of what Oda does to make One Piece truly an epic. Likewise, her critiques come from a place of true desire for certain elements of One Piece to be better, and feel much more sincere (and are much more justified).
I really don't mind critique and rants, but when a large portion of the entire review is dedicated to something that isn't even true, or something that has been misunderstood because of lack of close reading and understanding, it really becomes hard to watch, at least to me. Murphy's criticisms are much easier for me to stomach because they are things that are usually informed by actual facts and consistent information. These days it's so hard to get that sort of sincere and accurate criticism because so many One Piece youtubers and reviewers are heavily biased for or against the series, making it either pandering or needless slandering.
I like mark critiques.
I totally agree! It's a true joy to watch her!
Uh yea no. She thinks fishman island is a masterful arc and dressrosa is just ok gtfo lmfao stick to western books
@@PatsDynasty maybe because fishman island is good and dressrosa is long
@@PatsDynasty I mean, she said she loves mermaids and everything water and praised how wonderfully Oda handled the mature topic of racism. So, you can say she has a bias but at the end of the day, it's all opinions. It's hard to argue that an arc is objectively better. If you don't vibe with it then that's just how it is.
Luffy coats himself in Haki as opposed to use it sparingly. If you look closely, Doflamingo only coats the tip of the strings with Haki, not the whole thread, while Luffy constantly coats 2/3rd of his body in Haki in G4.
All his body actually but for design reasons he is not entirely black.
Fun fact. The chapter when Luffy turns into Nightmare Luffy in Thriller Bark is 478 and the chapter when Luffy uses Gear Fourth is 784.
Another great review Merphy! Dressrosa was one of my least favorite parts at first. This series really suffers from Week-to-Week reading. Upon rereading... This arc is so good, so fun!
lol why does it say that you posted this comment 2 days ago
@@maxime9670 Patrons get early access to her videos I believe.
@@indigo1296 ahhh yes that's true I forgot that
Let's be honest, do you really believe Doflamingo WOULDN'T have spares of those sunglasses?
In an SBS section Oda confirmed that if Doflamingo takes of his glasses another pair instantly takes its place.😂
Baby 5 backstory is even feel more sad, because her mother didn't give her real name, She was the 5th baby so she was simply named Baby 5
While I agree about Law's arm and how Oda often doesn't stick with some of the things he does , but not letting it stew is a problem only while binging since Oda writes the story week to week ( he obviously plans the overall story of an arc/saga ahead but a huge chunk of the story he comes up with the week the chapter is finished ) ; to the people who were reading weekly at the time it took like 3 months untill Law got his arm reattached
I don't know what that's supposed to change about the final product.
@@clydu91 the format is meant to be read weekly not binged, that's how shonen manga works, it's not being written with binge reading in mind, so the pacing is going to be vastly different than say a graphic novel
@@Ytinasniiable Well it's true and wrong, manga authors and their editors take into account both weekly reading and volume reading (tankobon) to build their stories.
@@Shenmeh Ofc! And thats why some things are better read weekly while others are better read in a row!
Robin has an overlooked moment in this arc where she declares her faith in Luffy, that scene is specially awesome in the anime when the put overtaken while she gives the speech
I guarantee you that if Law had not re-attached his arm, 90 percent of the fandom would have complained why didn't Law do it calling it a plothole as we know that he has the power to attach limbs. Literally no winning for Oda in either case. I'm just glad that he gets to write the story he wants, not how we want him to write.
i dont know why people think it was a big deal, losing a limb is just an inconvenience to law, he could even give an arm to kid or shanks
There's lots of winning for oda. He could just not remove the arm or find a reason why it can't be reattached like it being completely destroyed or something. Also that last part is such a dumb way to counter bad parts of his writing.
Oda couldve just had the arm destroyed somehow, then it wouldnt be a plothole and it wouldnt have ruined that dramatic moment.
When his arm was severed, it was easily hinted that he would reattach his arm back, with the help of Leo. Since Leo's character was introduced early in Dressrosa with his stitch devil fruit power. Still impactful scene but nothing much to feel disappointed or anything. Law pretty much wasn't affected during the battle anyway. He can do surgery on himself and remove the bullets, what's a severed arm gonna mean for him. Lol.
@@GoldenMechaTiger Did Law re-attaching the arm makes sense in the story? yes. Did him losing an arm adds to how menacing and threatening Doflamingo is as an antagonist? yes. Did him re-attaching an arm fundamentally breaks the rules established by Oda already in the story? no. The whole point about Law losing an arm was not about him getting nerfed but to show how terrifying of a villian Doflamingo is. And that scene 100 percent served that purpose. There are a lot of things Oda can be criticized about but to call that specific sequence bad writing is not one of them. That is why I said Oda can't win either way. At the end of the day opinions are subjective and you can interpret the sequence however you want to interpret it though so its fine. I'm not fighting over a fictional scenario with someone in a youtube comment section. Have a good day ahead!
18:28 What’s even more messed up is her mother naming her baby 5 implies that there was a baby 1-4 that she also abandoned or sold off
Merphy reviews are such a delight to watch. She offers such a fresh take on even the long modern arcs
Why would doffy believe the announcer? The annoucner distracted doffy, that is why he did it mainly. It also ties back together to the colloseum, and all the buildup with lucy that never was resolved.
Luffy knows that his limit is 10 Minutes because he used gear 4th coultless times, he trained to be able to do it . We even get a flashback about it.
That flashback is anime only
@@GioHimonPro nope, while doffy is controling luffy near the ending of their fight, we get rayleigh commenting on luffys time limit in gear 4 and what he will do once Gear 4th fails him
@@jukaa1012 my bad you right. I forgot about that quick one
Yeah the time limit thing better be precise. He trained on the island with the right hand of the king. If Rayleigh couldn't spot luffys weaknesses and the time it took to Luffy to recover then he'd be a shitty sensei
Kyros fighting 1v1 is better as he was the original champion of the colosseum and then Diamante took over. This fight proved who the real champion is even though it was not kyros' main intention.
Murphy: *makes hour long One Piece video*
Me: YES! INJECT IT RIGHT INTO MY VEINS!
just an hour.... I should say....)
Phantom Greyfire
há 11 horas
00:00:00 ⟾ Format/Intro - Parts, Doflamingo video, fights, lore, characters, highlights, climax, theories
00:01:44 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo: D.
00:03:00 ⟾ Criticisms - Law arm
00:06:00 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo
00:06:18 ⟾ Fights - Zoro vs. Pica: slow growth reveal
00:08:50 ⟾ Fights - Sai-Chinjao vs. Lao G
00:09:42 ⟾ Fights - Ideo* vs. Dellinger, Hakuba
00:10:04 ⟾ Fights - Bartolomeo vs. Gladius
00:10:38 ⟾ Fights - Franky vs. Senor Pink, flashback
00:11:04 ⟾ Comedic Relief: Cavendish-Bartolomeo
00:11:32 ⟾ Characters - Bellamy: (misplaced) loyalty, dream, tragedy, vivre card
00:17:49 ⟾ Characters - Baby 5: flashback, Sai
00:20:25 ⟾ Fights - Rebecca-Kyros vs. Diamante: roles, protection
00:26:20 ⟾ Characters - Robin
00:29:33 ⟾ Characters - Luffy: emotional intelligence; Bellamy, Rebecca
00:33:07 ⟾ {Tea Break ☕}
00:33:10 ⟾ Fights - Luffy-Law vs. Doflamingo-Trebol: room, powers, stomp, Rayleigh parallel, backstory, Gear 4, time limit
00:35:09 ⟾ {Tea spilled ☕}
00:37:19 ⟾ Fights - Sabo vs. Burgess
00:38:29 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Zoro
00:38:51 ⟾ Characters - Luffy and Law
00:39:36 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Bartolomeo
00:39:48 ⟾ Characters - Mansherry
00:40:02 ⟾ Highlights - Zoro-Kin’emon-Kanjuro Scene: connection
00:40:30 ⟾ Fights - Violet-Rebecca vs. Doflamingo
00:41:39 ⟾ Criticisms - timed battle, Gatz
00:44:54 ⟾ Fights - Luffy vs. Doflamingo: awakening, haki, speech, final blow
00:45:50 ⟾ Falling Action - Birdcage, flashbacks, Alabasta parallels, cinematic, Sabo-Burgess, Riku, Issho
00:48:48 ⟾ Characters - Kuzan: Blackbeard
00:49:51 ⟾ Characters - Sabo: plot convenience, entrance, scenes, crows*
00:54:05 ⟾ Characters - Kaido: presence
00:54:35 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kaido, immortal?
00:55:56 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Rayleigh, knowledge
00:57:16 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Crocus
00:57:39 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kin’emon
00:58:13 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi
00:58:29 ⟾ Highlights - Rebecca-Kyros Scene: warm hand
00:59:29 ⟾ Highlights - Bellamy-Law & Smoker-Zoro parallels
01:00:12 ⟾ Highlights - Law-Sengoku Scene: D., Corazon
01:00:44 ⟾ Highlights - Luffy-Issho-Dressrosa Scene
01:01:02 ⟾ Highlights - Dressrosa citizens knowledge: dwarves fairy myth, Scarlett-Kyros, rumour
01:01:33 ⟾ Highlights - Straw Hat Grand Fleet
01:02:43 ⟾ Highlights - Usopp & Giants connection
01:04:09 ⟾ Highlights - Lucci, Zou crew & other samurai*
01:04:32 ⟾ Highlights - Doflamingo alive, deaths, spare glasses, Pokémon reference
01:05:17 ⟾ Highlights - upcoming war, Joker influence, chaos
01:05:47 ⟾ Overall Thoughts - characters, crew, action, emotion, flashbacks, week-to-week, Doflamingo, setting, Alabasta parallels, lore
01:07:50 ⟾ Looking Ahead
01:08:17 ⟾ Next Videos - Doflamingo Analysis, Zou
01:08:39 ⟾ [Promo] [Credits]
Phantom Greyfire
há 11 horas
00:00:00 ⟾ Format/Intro - Parts, Doflamingo video, fights, lore, characters, highlights, climax, theories
00:01:44 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo: D.
00:03:00 ⟾ Criticisms - Law arm
00:06:00 ⟾ Fights - Law vs. Doflamingo
00:06:18 ⟾ Fights - Zoro vs. Pica: slow growth reveal
00:08:50 ⟾ Fights - Sai-Chinjao vs. Lao G
00:09:42 ⟾ Fights - Ideo* vs. Dellinger, Hakuba
00:10:04 ⟾ Fights - Bartolomeo vs. Gladius
00:10:38 ⟾ Fights - Franky vs. Senor Pink, flashback
00:11:04 ⟾ Comedic Relief: Cavendish-Bartolomeo
00:11:32 ⟾ Characters - Bellamy: (misplaced) loyalty, dream, tragedy, vivre card
00:17:49 ⟾ Characters - Baby 5: flashback, Sai
00:20:25 ⟾ Fights - Rebecca-Kyros vs. Diamante: roles, protection
00:26:20 ⟾ Characters - Robin
00:29:33 ⟾ Characters - Luffy: emotional intelligence; Bellamy, Rebecca
00:33:07 ⟾ {Tea Break ☕}
00:33:10 ⟾ Fights - Luffy-Law vs. Doflamingo-Trebol: room, powers, stomp, Rayleigh parallel, backstory, Gear 4, time limit
00:35:09 ⟾ {Tea spilled ☕}
00:37:19 ⟾ Fights - Sabo vs. Burgess
00:38:29 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Zoro
00:38:51 ⟾ Characters - Luffy and Law
00:39:36 ⟾ Highlights - Birdcage Scene: Bartolomeo
00:39:48 ⟾ Characters - Mansherry
00:40:02 ⟾ Highlights - Zoro-Kin’emon-Kanjuro Scene: connection
00:40:30 ⟾ Fights - Violet-Rebecca vs. Doflamingo
00:41:39 ⟾ Criticisms - timed battle, Gatz
00:44:54 ⟾ Fights - Luffy vs. Doflamingo: awakening, haki, speech, final blow
00:45:50 ⟾ Falling Action - Birdcage, flashbacks, Alabasta parallels, cinematic, Sabo-Burgess, Riku, Issho
00:48:48 ⟾ Characters - Kuzan: Blackbeard
00:49:51 ⟾ Characters - Sabo: plot convenience, entrance, scenes, crows*
00:54:05 ⟾ Characters - Kaido: presence
00:54:35 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kaido, immortal?
00:55:56 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Rayleigh, knowledge
00:57:16 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Crocus
00:57:39 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi: Kin’emon
00:58:13 ⟾ Theories - Ope Ope no Mi
00:58:29 ⟾ Highlights - Rebecca-Kyros Scene: warm hand
00:59:29 ⟾ Highlights - Bellamy-Law & Smoker-Zoro parallels
01:00:12 ⟾ Highlights - Law-Sengoku Scene: D., Corazon
01:00:44 ⟾ Highlights - Luffy-Issho-Dressrosa Scene
01:01:02 ⟾ Highlights - Dressrosa citizens knowledge: dwarves fairy myth, Scarlett-Kyros, rumour
01:01:33 ⟾ Highlights - Straw Hat Grand Fleet
01:02:43 ⟾ Highlights - Usopp & Giants connection
01:04:09 ⟾ Highlights - Lucci, Zou crew & other samurai*
01:04:32 ⟾ Highlights - Doflamingo alive, deaths, spare glasses, Pokémon reference
01:05:17 ⟾ Highlights - upcoming war, Joker influence, chaos
01:05:47 ⟾ Overall Thoughts - characters, crew, action, emotion, flashbacks, week-to-week, Doflamingo, setting, Alabasta parallels, lore
01:07:50 ⟾ Looking Ahead
01:08:17 ⟾ Next Videos - Doflamingo Analysis, Zou
01:08:39 ⟾ [Promo] [Credits]
Long time watcher, first time commenting:
One thing I REALLY love about this arc, and this ending specifically, is how it essentially finishes off the last of the “Bad Warlords” at the SAME TIME Luffy’s Grand Fleet establishes a sort of Pirate Warlords for him! It’s such an interesting parallel, and I’m very curious to see if we get more development of the Grand Fleet members as we go.
Hearing the excitement in your voice as you hit the highs of the series is awesome.
I love when people also geek out on the crew embracing their roles. Chopper wanting to be the crew's monster, Franky becoming Luffy's enforcer upon hearing about the Mera Mera fruit and subsequently being the one man army seiging the factory.
It's not confirmed, but is a popular headcanon backed by a lot of small interactions and how often Oda pairs the two on cover pages, but Franky and Robin are a couple which plays into them being functionally team dad and mom.
Merphy: people don't die easily in one piece .
Kunia from the stairs ......;-;
They did her dirty
Down D Stairs too OP
Is that really what happened though or is that just what they told a young Zoro?
@@heyarnold7256 it's one piece .
@@heyarnold7256 Until I get a satisfying answer as to why Tashigi looks like her, I'm not buying it
The best part about Korazon being "hearts" place in Doflamingo's desk is that it works on two levels:
On one side, Doflamingo misses "hearts" place, because he killed his brother, who was once there. So he quite literally killed his own heart.
On the other hand, Doffy was ready to give that place to Law - specifically because he thought they were so similar. Which basically means, that the only person who he can have in his heart is actually himself.
That, my friends, is amazing character/thematic work, I have to admit.
As such Vergo was the Heart seat
@@theifzelnite1087 and Doffy threw him away before Rosinante rejoined
Then law later being captain of the heart pirates
And he went vergo on distance.
@@lukecartwright535 I love how that simultaneously honours Corazon (heart in Spanish) and ties in to how strongly Law carries his legacy (I mean he has the mans name on the back of his jacket) but also sticks it to Doflamingo because he turned down the heart seat
I imagine Rayleigh with a stop watch timing Luffy’s recovery time during his training arc
Funny thing about Doflamingo's sunglasses. A fan once asked Oda if he could draw what Doflamingo looked like without the sunglasses, and Oda being Oda and not wanting to draw that for whatever reason, decided to troll us all by revealing that Doflamingo wears a second pair of glasses directly underneath the first one in one big joke response. I doubt Doffy actually does this in story, but it does make you think how he could get a second undamaged pair so quickly.
Make a theories video after Zou's arc, there will be plenty to theorize after that
SPOILER
More like after Reverie
Definitely the one of the best arcs of the series! Oda went crazy in this arc and it felt way more impactful because of the set-up in Punk Hazard.
I was a lot more excited for your review of this arc particularly because of how much you already had a hatred towards Doflamingo. It’s been a blast following your journey so far.
when it comes to immortality, i remember dr. kureha. She kept on saying "Do you want to know the secret of my youth?" Oda never followed up on it. Usually, the jokes are used by oda as foreshadowing.
54:44 I do not know if you misunderstood or if it is a bad translation but... Just for the record, that ability does not grant Eternal Life, but Eternal Youth, it just stops aging, you are still vulnerable to all other types of death. Kaido's invulnerability has nothing to do with it
I actually hardcore disagree about Law’s arm. Because the moment it was cut off, I immediately assumed he was going to be the one to reattach it to himself with his devil fruit abilities. He was able to literally cut out his white lead disease from his own body on the cellular level. Reattaching a few blood vessels, arteries, and muscles is much simpler by comparison. Them having princess Mansherry do it instead was a surprise.
To answer your 1st critism. It's because One Piece chapters are released weekly, so sometimes Oda make those kind of "fake" tension to keep the weekly release engaging for weekly chapter reader. It become a bigger problem when the reader binge read it, as the tension are resolved rather almost imidiately since the "week gap" tension isn't there. It's totaly valid critism, but at the same time i also quite undertand why it ought to be written that way especially with weekly crunch deadline format he is in.