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One Piece (Beware, spoilers)

Speaking of flashbacks, the big Kuma flashback in the anime is almost done, probably just an episode or two left. Just pointing it out here because following the end of the flashback we'll get The Punch, and booooy I hope the anime sticks the landing with that moment. It should land at least as hard as when Luffy decked Saint Charlos.
 
SpoonyBard said:
Speaking of flashbacks, the big Kuma flashback in the anime is almost done, probably just an episode or two left. Just pointing it out here because following the end of the flashback we'll get The Punch, and booooy I hope the anime sticks the landing with that moment. It should land at least as hard as when Luffy decked Saint Charlos.
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This is one of the most satisfying punches in the series, they really should try to capture it.

New chapter, and it ends big: We see Rocks, before he becomes the captian of the Rocks Pirates. And he is Blackbeards father. Huh. Also, with him are Whitebeard, and I think Gold Lion Shiki? Who is the woman on the left? Big Mom looks different, I think.
 
It's totally Original Stussy. And I think that's not too far off from how Big Mom looked as a kid? Honestly I was waiting for some more info on her to pop up considering a good chunk of her backstory was how she was thrown out of Elbaf.
 
I think Felix’s Big Mom comment was saying that maybe-OG-Stussy didn’t look like young adult Big Mom so couldn’t be here
 
As a young adult, she always has this long, flowing hair, I think. Not that short. At least, if my memory is correct. But Stussy sounds very fitting.
 
We are now THREE flashbacks deep haha. A Rocks flashback inside a Harald flashback inside a Loki flashback.

Looks like we’re here for the God Island incident at last, though (after a break). Some pretty high-stakes action in this chapter alone. And I’ve seen people connect more of the Rocks crew to Moria’s zombies, and putting forward the idea that Thriller Bark was itself God Island turned into a ship, where he dug up the corpses and reanimated them. Kind of a neat idea.

Also: Davy Back Fight mentioned! Rocks Boxing!
 
Davy Back Fight was the first thing that jumped out as OH MY GOD. I'm not sure I ever mentioned it, but since I heard the idea, it never left me: That the final battle between all fractions will be a brutal davy back fight. And THATS why we needed Foxys arc. Aside from that arc being hilarious.

And yeah, I think we will learn about God Island, and generally get the flashback to Rocks. What a weird flashback structure. All together, I kinda buy that Oda wasn't planning to write this arc, and so hasn't planned it out as thoroughly as other arcs. Not a criticism, I do enjoy my time with it, it's just a bit of a mess.

No idea why, but seeing Shiki always excites me.

Also, Blackbeard now feels even more like the spiritual descendant of Rocks. Both have crews who don't care for their captain at all, and are more following, because they want their goals fulfilled. Which, still, is weirdly similar to the Straw Hat crew. Except for them all giving it all for Luffy.
 
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Never, ever would I have guessed, that we see the Kuja pirates here (or generally again). Crazy. What a nice surprise.

Young Roger! Young Garp! And Rocks insane crew. It's always great to see Whitebeard, Big Mom, Shiki and Kaido as equals, in one crew, before they become these giants of history. Love it. This whole chapter was just full with big names.
 
FelixSH said:
This is one of the most satisfying punches in the series, they really should try to capture it.
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Well the episode aired and, yeah, I think they nailed it.

Link to the clip since Youtube won't let it embed.

Can't find an unedited video of it on Youtube yet, this is the best clip I could get and even that has cut things out (including a new version of the opening song that plays post-punch, since that episode did not have an opening sequence they held it off until then, it works surprisingly well)
 
Unexpected to revisit the same event from a different, and fairly recent, flashback from another angle, but wow there was a lot of info in this chapter. About time we saw the event that drove Dragon away from the Marines.
 
It all feels structurally a bit weird, being started as an Elbaf flashback, but yeah, it's a good one.

I don't know why expected Rocks to be the horrible monster history depicts him as (I really should know better by now), but I enjoy spending time with him.
 
I think we’re seeing Rocks’s best face here - he’s still more of a Blackbeard or Kid figure as far as we know, wild and destructive as his expression of freedom.
 
Hmm, you might be right. But it is likely the only time we see something specific of Rocks, and Oda deciding to show us this stuff - I trust him enough to know what he is doing, which is, imo, that Rocks is not the horrible monster he is made out to be. But yeah, there is space between Historys Worst Monster, and a still highly dangerous pirate.

New chapter! And what a chapter that is. Has it all. Rocks Crew! I will never get tired of this absurdly stacked crew, full of legends. It's still crazy to me, that BIg Mom, Kaido and Whitebeard were all on the same crew, once.
Roger! Not much to say, though I'm looking forward to finding out why that Royal Knight dude shit himself, when he realized that Skopa Gaban was coming his way.
Garp! The Legend is here!

And this all just works, because there have been decades of buildup for this. We have known these people for so long, and heard about the God Valley incident. And we are here, and it's epic.

But god, it's disgusting how the celestial dragons treat the people here. Not even calling them humans. Awful stuff.
 
With all the cool stuff happening in this flashback, I think my favorite moments are when young Big Mom does something. I find her a lot of fun, squabbling with her crewmates.
 
Cheeky teenage Kaido was a laugh this chapter, after kind of being a broken “Linlin gimme the fruit you promised” record the last few!
 
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