#haki

[bettysmagichut]

she kills people

[full-metal-negro]

[opbackgrounds]

It's pretty neat that even in its raw and untrained form that Luffy's haki is able to knock out veteran members of the Kuja Pirates. These ladies are the strongest warriors on an island full of strong warriors, and even they aren't able to withstand his will.

Compare all of the Straw Hats making it through Rayleigh's haki unaffected.

[zestyangle]

THIS FLOPPED ON TWITTER PLEASE DONT LET IT FLOP HERE 🙏🙏🙏

[v-67]

Yeah idk man, I'm simping for this character design. Like wow. Just look.

Katakuri

I hope he doesn't do something which makes me hate him😩

Episodes 835 to 847 somewhere

17th January, 2024

I have an exam tomorrow😭😭😭😭

Will watch Onepiece after 29th January now

[the-frizzle-fry]

I’ve read the chapter like 3 times now and this has me thinking.

So the more you love what Summers used his powers on the more it hurts when you touch them.

If that’s true, Luffy doesn’t even know these giant kids……..

Is Luffy gonna go Adam Sandler on these kids and wake em up? Hahahahahah!!!!! Or Sanji too he doesn’t like kids.

The Brook way would be cool too. His soul music.

[bubbydarkstar]

uncle shanks in honor of the new ep

[coneg]

marguerite of the kuja pirates is on the hunt!

[thekingofwinterblog]

One Piece/Ranma - Amazons

So one huge Ranma Reference/inspiration that is stupidly obvious that i never really thought about despite having read both one piece and Ranma for close on 20 years now, is how blatant Oda was about taking inspiration from Rumiko's "chinese amazons" for the Kuja.

Though the actual japanese wording for the group isnt directly amazons(instead basically using their homeland of Joketsuzoku as the denominator of their ethnicity as opposed to the english official translation) in every other way they are stupidly similar, down to the meta beats.

Both are heavily Chinese inspired societies of warrior women, with similar architecture who's only settlement is a mountain town, who famously value strength above anything else.

Even our first main look into their cultures both feature competitive matches between amazons.

Both luffy and Ranma had a seemingly inconsequential match on these very same introductionary arena's that both ended up being some of the most important fights of their entire lives(This setting up everything Ranma ever learned from cologne, and for luffy this was the beginning of him winning hancocks heart and everything that came from that) where both wowed the onlooking amazons with their massive power, but also lead to both of them winning the heart of one of the amazons there in the long run(though for somewhat different reasons).

Also, Oda famusly made Hancock as "perfect" a romantic partner for luffy as he possibly could have in order to have some fun with parodying the tropes regarding love stories, with even her name Hancock being a reference to one of the big early names of rubber during the victorian age... but one aspect that was dropped for the final product was that Hancock was originally supposed to have purple hair... An aspect she would have shared with Shampoo, though her's is a bit different in shade.

the most important dynamic within both amazon cultures as related to the actual plot is between a younger, more contemporary amazons(Hancock and Shampoo), and their wiser older mentor who used to be incredibly beautiful but who's looks withered away with age.

For bonus points, both are famous for carrying around a staff in their old age.

The twist of course is that Cologne and Shampoo's relationship is defined by their shared blood and with the older woman loving shampoo dearly and generally doing everything in her power to help her achieve her dreams, while Gloriosa and Hancock do not share blood and have a much more tumoltous relationship though they still care about each other.

Furthering their meta connection, Both people also are essential for the story through introducing more mystical techniques into the story, With Ranma being taught several of Cologne's techniques, most famously his trademark hiryu shoten ha, while in One Piece, though they didnt introduce it, it was here where through the kuja we finally got a real introduction to the 3 colors of haki that would dominate the second half of the series.

Honestly im baffled i never really realized how much ranma influenced One Piece before, and how Oda managed to still make it his own while clearly taking inspiration from one of the big series of his childhood that wasn't dragon ball.

Also given how Oda was one of the first(and by far the biggest author) to just blatantly steal Ryoga's "Strong Guy with terrible direction sense" schtick with Zoro, i honestly dont get how i never really realized how much Ranma influenced One Piece before.

[have-i-threatened-you-before]

If you haven't yet discovered the amazing KobyLu story written by @okiedoketm then you're missing out! May I introduce you to

A true roller-coaster ride of emotions that will leave you breathless, tearstruck and laughing uproariously.

In addition to this, chapter 8 especially struck me hard leaving me to produce these pieces of art!

Under the cut to avoid spoilers for those who wish.

[wesleysniperking]

Out of everything that could happen in Elbaf for Usopp. I think the best possible thing would be for him to meet his dad. He’d be killing two birds with one stone. Meeting his dad would give him a bit more character introspection, and his dad could give him some pointers on observation haki. Win-win.

But I'm pretty sure RH pirates aren't on Elbaf anymore!!! Waaaaah! 😭

[bettysmagichut]

Beta/alpha (idk) hat kid and our hat kid

Played ancient gods mod by ultra boo and enjoyed it a lot

I mean it lowkey broken but who caaaares!

[full-metal-negro]

[opbackgrounds]

Part of having Conqueror's Haki is having an unnatural charisma, and though Hancock's looks are part of that, I think even if she were less beautiful that her force of personality would still get this sort of reaction out of people

[forged-in-kaoss]

[v-67]

Luffy v. Katakuri

End of fight. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FIGHT. MAJESTIC. AMAZING. AND PROPER.

Episodes 867–871

29th January, 2024

It took Luffy time to analyse and understand the technique. And he figured it out. But they showed us the process, the history of him understanding Rayleigh's words. Him failing at it, working it out and trying and slowly figuring it out. And finally making it work. And winning. And this end dialogue between them. Truly loved this fight.