@@rasaecnai no no it’s just a running joke in the one piece community to call certain characters gods or have a D middle initial. So like Buggy D Clown, Carru D. Uck (vivi’s duck), Go D. Ussop, etc. but they are all jokes.
Law's reaction to Luffy is especially funny when you realize that for two years, he had a mistaken measure about Luffy's personality because the first time they met Luffy was deadly serious and beating the hell out.of World Nobles, and the second time they met his brother just died and he was basically in a coma. So this is the first time Law is seeing what Luffy is actually like
@@memebrain2177 He kinda saw the same side he and Kid showed: Luffy trying to one-up the other 2 captains and prove he was better. He did not see he was 100% incapable of following basic instructions, for example
One thing I really love about post-timeskip Robin is that no matter what's happening, she's always smiling because even if she's in danger or it's chaotic, she's with her family. It's a really nice detail that makes me super happy for Robin.
Yes! I really love the fact that she have a strong confidence in her crew. Because of her backstory she could be one of that characters who speaks 'everyone goes away one day. I can't trust cause it's gonna hurt me' and Oda makes the totally opposite with her! AND I LOVE IT!
The Luffy Robin dynamic slays me. That panel where Luffy suggests the two non DF users swim through the icy waters carrying him and Robin and her mental image of that remains one of my favorite panels in all of OP.
The Best part about Luffy and Robin is that Robin "Gets" Luffy more than anyone else. She can speak his language, understand his mind and the neatest of all is that whenever Luffy nicknames someone cause he doesn't feel like remembering their name, that's also what Robin calls them. It happens over and over.
Spoilers… I think the best example of this is when luffy can’t remember who Marco is and robin reminds him he looks like a pineapple and then luffy remembers
Robin is this way with all the crew members in a sense. Even from the moment she joined the crew, remember how it happened, she just landed on the ship and knew what to say to everyone to keep them at ease. Next day, she was one of them. Robin isn't just about Luffy, she just gets people and situations very easily.
@@sylent8428 I feel like you're missing some things. Yeah, the next day she fit right in and knew how to get on their good side, but that's also how she grew up. Fitting in with strangers. She doesn't even call half of them by their names until after Enies Lobby.
Chopper bites down a Rumble Ball.. . Although Luffy seems to have befriended/become "Alpha" of the wild animals on Ruskiana. I still love that Giant lion trying to threaten Marguerite, and Luffy comes by post training and lion is like oh she's with you? My bad. And you just see goofy lion around camp fire with Luffy.
@@HTX-enjoyer They're just a random troll who spams hate-comments into as many comment threads as they can get their grubby little hands on, best to just ignore them.
Merphy is so great at noticing things, realizing that there's probably something significant about them, and then going in the complete wrong direction with her theorycrafting. Love it.
expecting people to get all the answers right away is like trying to find a tiny piece of hay in a stack of needles. Nobody can guess everything right for the first time. Anyone who expects that to be the case is just arrogant mindset.
@@sokkawiseoaf4839 What are you even talking about? Nothing about my comment was intended to disparage her for not getting everything right. No one expects that, I'm just saying it's fun seeing how she explains things. Samurai from Wano speaking in an old way IS significant but not for the reason Merphy thinks it is, so it's funny. It's practically a joke straight out of One Piece itself, where Luffy will see something he doesn't quite understand and go "Oh I get it, it's magic right?".
"I feel like this arc is a good set up arc" Oh you have NO idea... There were so many small details in this arc that is foreshadowing that NO ONE picked up on, but was amazing on re-read
It really feels like whereas Paradise was about separate stories, New World is about one overarching storyline. Pre-timeskip is more character focused, post-timeskip is more plot focused. It's a very different vibe for the two halves of the series.
@@alfred4576because a lot is going on all around the world and it feels like the story has taken the center stage and all the characters, may it be the STRAWHATS, the black beard pirates, red hair pirates and the world government as general are all revolving around it in whirlpool and at one point all will come together and finally the story will explode
@@hei7846 the troll actually edited it to add Friend, the antagonist from 20th Century Boys, and you falsely accused him lol, damn that's truly embarrassing, pathetic, you can join the troll now lol.
It's pronounced "Wah-no", not "Way-no". Also you got a little confused with the thing about Zoro's sword. Kinemon thinks zoro was the one who stole the sword from Wano, when in fact it was Gecko Moria
@@toomanytamales1323 But he certainly retained more of ryuma's personality than Brook's. Zoro did get it pretty legitimately, but it's not easy to tell someone 'the zombie of this legendary figure who's been dead for god knows how long fought me in a duel and said i could take it'
@@toomanytamales1323 It used Brook's moves but it was much stronger than Brook because of Ryuma's body... That's why Brook lost and Zoro had to step in. But yeah it didnt even come close to Ryuma in power, Zoro took him down without any damage.
THANK YOU. Chopper had a lot of development this arc. He gets so much shit for "NoT DoINg AnYThiNg" after the timeskip. Simply because he doesn't have a lot of fights. But he SHINES as a doctor. The purpose of his existence in the crew.
Very true... I still want some Chopper fights tho 🤔 To play devil's advocate, every time Chopper shines as a Doctor is basically him just going "this goes against my morals as a doctor/scientist so Im gonna fix this and tell you how much of a POS you are" every time...
"He's a couple hundred years old, based on how he talks." Anytime Merphy comes up with an off-the-wall theory, she has a proper line of thinking you can follow
Somewhat Spoiler/Teaser: . . . . . While I was following along the anime, i thought it was more related to the medieval Japanese Wano theme. Not sure whether they mentioned closed borders then
@@aryanks2167 since this has become spoiler filled, I'll say yes. They do mention quite often IN Wano proper that they have essentially never opened their borders
I'd like to think that before that legend came, she was already intrigued with the series because in her other videos there are a lot of people who would comment about One Piece. Like in her video discussing about worldbuilding, we're talking about books here not comics, a lot of comments are literally essays praising One Piece and they would get many likes. Then came that one persistent guy that I guess gave her the push.
@@noremac7216 If anything, Ivan hurts as an example because you can pronounce Ivan as "eye-van". The real name is "Ivankov" which you would never pronounce "eye-vankov".
On the Robin/Luffy relationship, keep an eye out for luffys nicknames for people. Robin is the only other crew member who adopts his nicknames for people- it’s a small but great part of their dynamic
With the exception of Law. Everyone calls him Tra-guy. Thanks to that, some of the samurai think that's his actual name, and call him "Tra-guy-dono", "Tra-guy-sama* or other combinations of Tra-guy and honorifics, and that's hilarious. I love when Shirahoshi does that, too, with "Luffy-sama's Grandpa-sama" or "Nami-chin-sama". Great gag.
I love how that's just how Luffy answers any and every "phone call". Imagine him at help desk or something. "Hello? this is Monkey D. Luffy, I'm gonna be King of the Pirates, How my I help you?" lololol
"Human trade is old news already. This is the age of smiles..." - Doflamingo to Disco in Sabaody Archipelago. I love that little line hundreds of chapters/episodes earlier. Given "smiles" isn't capitalized there like it is now, it really means nothing at the time. Now, we all know what Doflamingo's main cash crop actually is after dropping the slave trade. Great foreshadowing there.
Brook always gave me the impression that he never recovered from his time being stranded - kinda like Jack Sparrow in pirates of the caribbean. He went crazy on that boat so he is in a constat state of dissociation.
@@shabeehhaider2553 you literally just said, "it's unrealistic getting mental damage" yet straight afterwards say pirates leave you with a pistol cause you most certainly will
Being caught up, I think I finally understand why I didn't like post timeskip as much as pre-timeskip. Pre-timeskip is many 'contained' stories. Post timesksip is 1 huge arc that is divided into many parts. And as you get more of the parts, the more you appreciate the previous parts.
I can see where you’re coming from! I feel that pre-time skip has such a different feel from post-time skip that I can’t fairly compare them. But yeah, post ts feels very connected while pre ts feels like the wacky misadventures of the straw hat crew lol
Because their goals lies in new world. This is when things get serious and they focus less and less on adventure and more on working towards the goals coz they are strong enough and is involved with big guns of the world. So Pre timeskip is more about building the world and adventure and post timeskip is about the actual challenges to reach their goal imo.
There's a reason why first half of the Grand Line was named Paradise and second half was named New World. If we are to bring the mindset of Paradise to New World, there will be a lot of discontentment. Which a lot of haters are exhibiting. It isn't just Straw Hats anymore. It's bigger than them and a lot of players are on the move in the New World. I hope people can understand the depth of the story and not just on the surface. That's why, every arc just gets longer.
Kaido (the emperor that they plan to take down) was actually mention twice before. First time in Thriller Bark when Geko Moria said Kaido killed his entire crew. Second time at Marineford when Shanks apeared, one of the marines said that Shanks just clashed with Kaido few days ago.
Historic fact: "Wa no Kuni" (which means "land of harmony") is what japan was called before they called themselves " nippon" (which means "suns origin" or "sunrise land"). Also, you pronounce the 'wa' in 'Wano' like you would in 'Wario'
„So far there has not been an arc I did not like.” I absolutely agree. For me there are no bad arcs in One Piece. Just some that are not as good as others but still entertaining overall.
Law did the body swap because he needs Luffy to stick around. And they need law to fix it. Like it guarantees the straw hats won’t leave the island. That’s what people think at least
Didn’t he also need to play his role as an ally to Ceasar’s group in the first half until he could get to the SAD area? As a warlord he needed to do a little acting too.
When people say „Nothing so far lived up to Marineford” they are forgetting that Marineford took years and years of build up and could only be this great because of many arcs that came before it. Its not fair at all to compare a regular arc to the huge climax of the whole first part of the story that needed so many parts to be this huge and hype. And Oda is currently doing the exact same thing with everything that happened so far in the New World.
If iam being honest.. He is doing it ×10 times more epic, grand and better.... Literally i feel like marineford is gonna look like a single drop of water from a whole bottle of water, which is the final war.
Thats EXACTLY it, but you know how it is. Your typical shounen fan tends to lack critical thinking skills. This is the reason why Wano is hitting so hard, same for Whole Cake. It'll be the same for whatever comes after Wano too, there's nowhere to go but up from this point forward
@@noxtrin1878 I know we're in the minority, but I totally agree. I didn't have to sit through the week to week experience of either, but my top 3 are Water 7, Dressrosa, and Whole Cake. I think week to week people remember the hype around Marineford so fondly that they love it. Reading it years after it came out, it has a ton of great moments, but I don't think the overall narrative is strongest of the series.
@@Bogglemanify of course, the anime for a serialized manga itself is intrinsically disadvantaged to have pacing issues. Except watching weekly, while binging, anime is a pretty great experience as it has great voice acting, BGMs, animation, cinematography making Oda's story alive. And while binging the unnecessary fluff which spoils the pacing can be skipped. we always have our weapon for it (Ctrl+Right arrow). Only when it comes to weekly consumption, I can't imagine how excruciatingly slow anime can be. BUT, I'm glad I caught up just before entering Wano. The Animation is taken to next level and Wano's character designs are heightened by the animea artstyle. MOST IMPORTANTLY, many manga fans said Wano manga is super fast at times (being so condensed and jam-packed) and needs little bit elaboration. This is perfect opportunity for anime to use it's obligation to add fluff, for A CONSTRUCTIVE PURPOSE and add additional value to the manga in pacing dept. However, to be frank, those moments that felt rushed in manga are expanded and feel lot better in anime when coupled with new animation and all, But there are still issues as at times anime becomes so slow as they adapt 1/3rd of a chapter for an anime sometimes. Hence, I suggest if anyone just entered wano, either read manga weekly or watch anime once in two weeks. BOTH ways are equally enjoyable. Manga provides beautiful handdrawn artwork of Oda and highpaced, fresh story ahead of time. Anime adds its flavor of extravagant animation, vibrant colors and improved pacing in Wano, and brilliant heart-moving Voice acting and BGMs but will be 1 year behind in the storyline. Both are great ways to consume one piece and it all comes to personal choice. For me personally, I prefer BGMs and voice acting in Japanese... Even though I read the corresponding manga chapter after every 2 or 3 episodes, I play BGMs and character's voices in my head while reading manga. However, It becomes problematic (especially for one piece) as I imagine one piece world though Japanese audio and reading manga in English feels unnatural to me (for one piece) as I bonded with those characters with those speech patterns. Also I don't know kanji to an extent where I can read Japanese version of manga and my Japanese vocabulary only helps 60% of the time. Anyway, since I'm predominantly an anime watcher who watches 2 episodes back to back once in two weeks and read manga chapters after corresponding to the episodes I catch up. Based on all my experimentation of different methods of consumption of one piece, this is what I feel is the best way, at least for me.
Robin x Luffy is such an underrated dynamic Post-time skip becomes so much more about the characters the strawhats meet rather than the strawhats themselves, but she always shines even when she doesn't have all that much to do. I love how she ends up using the same nicknames for people that Luffy uses... You can just tell she finds so much joy from how Luffy is, she probably the least bothered by his antics of anyone on the crew.
Also, Robin was the last one to be sent off by Kuma before the timeskip and the one that was in more need to be saved, so she has a special connection with Luffy and the crew, but of course, bigger connection with Luffy and Nami.
Robin fully gives me the impression that she has been through hell and couldn't be happier being free with Luffy, no matter where Luffy's antics or journey takes her. I agree with you, and it's something that required a lot of attention to pickup on lol. Some episodes I watched a bunch of times before picking up on this
@@marocat4749 My favorite joke with all the bodyswap shenanigans was when Robin told Franky (in choppers body) never to speak as chopper. Ever. The implied doom she would unleash upon him was great. "You think me flowering arms and twisting off your balls was bad... just try me"
Sorry, but I think it was confirmed that Monet and Vergo are, indeed, dead. And yes, criteria for death in one piece is pretty random haha. Also Merphy in ch. 50 "i don't care about the clown" vs Ch. 700 "I'm so proud of Buggy, he deserves it".
Merphy a few weeks ago: "I am not really into absurdism, I don't feel it" Merphy now: "These guys changed the climate of the island. WITH THEIR FIGHT! I love it!"
this isn't absurdism and One Piece hardly ever does it...it's a lack of involvement and the conscious decision of "I can't or won't take that serious" even though with Oda it either has explanation or if it doesn't you can treat it as a mystery that has an explanation that you don't know yet. Merphy definetly overused that word in regards to OP and doing so she undulated her own experience at least a little
@@shabeehhaider2553 man these berserk elitist are annoying. I am a huge guts fan,he is my favt protagonist after reinhard but berserk fanbase is as bad as any. Try reading manga better than berserk and stop bothering with others like an useless annoying brat
Murphy now "I hate DoFlamingo so much already" Murphy next week "...." Law is one of my favorite characters, and as his backstory is revealed, man does he just get more and more interesting and awesome. Can't wait for the next 2 weeks, Dressrossa is a big one but I thought it was AMAZING. MUCH MUCH better when its not week to week.
"The setup for this arc is great" - talking about the setup-arc for the following 4+. I personally loved Punk Hazard, especially in retrospective. Glad you're enjoying even the "weaker" arcs.
"Luffy met Momo..." "...he is a dragon, and I like him" you just don't know how right you are Merphy The pronouciation of Wano as "Way-no", hilarious, Merphy it's "Wa-No"
@@musph5478 for pronunciation, adding an -h after a vowel indicates that it's a short vowel, not long, so even though it looks silent, it serves a purpose
Ahh we've officially entered the new world , where every single arc gets a lot more hate than it deserves because of the week to week readers and the rose-coloured glasses not being present anymore in the fandom
@@cecirapalini Blame it on the board ( bassically the financers for the anime ) who suddenly , whithout warning said : "You're going to only adapt half a chapter per episode or else you can say goodbye to our money" which made Dressrossa an absolute slog due to the staff not being able to plan ahead . Thankfully this issue starts to get better from Zou onwards and now the anime being the best it's ever been in Wano !
@@bashuggs1205 Grandline Review said it best ( this is paragraphing ) : "It's the arc cicle of weekly reading , people will get excited for the new arc , go through the set-up stage relatively optimistic and then blindly bash the arc during the start of the climax saying it's the worst arc ever and that there's no way Oda can wrap everything he set up well , then the arc ends shutting some people up while a bitter feeling of the arc persists for the next few years . Then a new arc begins and the cicle repeats itself"
@@AlexT7916 the problem is anime caught up to manga in dressrosa and had too many op projects too while manga also had lotta breaks,love how glr omiited those totally unbiased also animation is good for most part in dressrosa for a weekly one lik checkout g4transf ,sai fight,sabo using meremera,a short sequence with luffyvsdoffy was also animated by a legendary animator
Ceaser being "weak" just shows how important learning haki was for luffy and his crew. Without haki ceaser would easily beat them since he has a logia devil fruit. I wouldn't say he was weak, he just wasn't strong enough, because he was depending on his devil fruit too much.
@@OsSas3 i dont believe croc belongs in this list, yes he was forced out of the new world his first time around, but he did try and master his fruit, and even has contingencies for when the fruit doesnt work and he still seems to be alive in the new world so far
@@TheLPcollector Mastering his fruit also means dependable on his fruit. I'm not saying he's weak cause he was defeated by Luffy, is just that Logias tend to get cocky about it.
@@OsSas3 true, but hes one of those logias who knows hes not invincible, which sets him apart from the other 3 in that list, hes aware of haki, and aware of his weakness to moisture in general
I hate that mentality. The moment someone is defeated by the crew, they get labeled as weak. No matter what they have done previously or winning they do.
We need a Buggy to be the last one to join the strawhats. Like, he goes up and up and up, than falling down after everyone discovers that he ia fraud, and then Luffy saves him.
Her description of Caesar Clown is so accurate. “He’s very smart, he’s conniving…but he isn’t cool.” Lol Edit: also, I’m surprised Merph didn’t bring up momo and kinemon’s interaction at the end of arc feast.
I really loved the feast scene. The most care Oda has ever put into drawing food, I think. In a similar vein, I’m surprised she didn’t mention the interaction between Sanji and Kinemon’s head about why he was there, either.
honestly caeser doesnt get enough credit for being one of the smartest people we know. sure there definitely is a fair amount of "scientists" smarter than him and he benefits from vegapunks work. but like if he wasnt so crazy and evil hed probably be able to get a lot of work done. he unfortunately only does his own work in poisons and steals everything else from vegapunk but imagine if he used all that brain on not poisons and weapons.
Brook's "pervy" humour you must picture it by saying it in a polite way. That's the joke, he's extremely polite with his questions The voice actor makes a lot of Brook's character with this and the YOHOHOHOHO
Seeing the kids go through the withdrawal in the anime at least really sold this arc for me. I was actually really shocked that Oda would show us this. I was in tears hearing them scream out in pain and Moccha saving the rest of them and Chopper getting intensely angry at Ceaser was so much emotion for me I had to sit for a bit after those episodes.
Sanji is super cool (only character ever that i love who smokes lol). But then in literally the next scene he is simping harder than any other cherrcter ever🤦🏻♂️
Merphy - "i dont really care about these kids, lets get back to the dragons" merphy -" deskrosa", love the review also i must say ..... oda does not condense stuff, instead what he does is say im going to write less and then adds 100 more chapters to his original plan and say oops.
to be fair lol, his editors turned the story from 5 years into 24+ years, just from suggestions like adding the warlords & the supernova, and honestly I don't think OP would be as long without the fan interaction & love. You can tell Oda feeds off the energy from the constant letters he gets. I mean he rents out an apartment to keep every letter that he's ever received, that's insane
@@shabeehhaider2553 I think you're just too into your own delusion of 'berserk being a masterpiece' that's why you don't see people when they trash on that mid series. Naruto>Guts
Momo's development from Punk Hazard onwards is superb. Especially after the last chapters, you go back and think about where he started in Punk Hazard and it's so satisfying.
I love that you mentioned how cute Luffy and Robin's interactions are. I feel like Robin has this crazy soft spot for Luffy that makes her incredibly overindulgent of his nonsense and it always warms my heart.
Punk Hazard is pretty universally considered one of the weakest arcs in a vacuum, but it is INSANELY important for setting up basically the entire rest of the series. Also, YES to loving Luffy and Robin interactions!! They have probably my favorite dynamic out of all of the crew, it's so subtle but so lovable.
@@rafaelandrade7627 Zou is the interlude of the saga, since it presents new goals, information and setup. In my opinion better then Punk Hazard in also telling a good side story on top.
"Luffy pulls the butt of the samurai out of the dragon" You know, sometimes I wonder why people don't give starting One Piece a shot and then I get reminded by phrases like that how random the series must seem to a non-fan.
"Luffy escapes prison with the help of a transvestite monarch who uses their giant head to break through walls." Convincing people that it makes sense in context takes some doing.
i remember reading punk hazard week to week and feeling like we were going somewhere but was unable to put my finger on it lol. now looking at the whole picture, i just can't help but nervously laugh.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing new One Piece fans come to realize what an amazing character Law is. So glad he became a main character in this arc.
One thing that's interesting about the colony of Laboon whales, is they all had the scars on their heads which Laboon got from banging on the Redline but we thought Laboon was doing that to get to Brook's crew but now it seems like this is smth this species does regularly for some reason
Or maybe they know on an instinctual level that the Red Line is not supposed to be there? Assuming the theory about the great weapons' purpose is to destroy it so that the world's oceans will be united once more is true.
I will say, this arc is primarily set up for what's to come -Law's Introduction/the formation of the alliance -The introduction of Momo and Kin'emon -Build up for Donflamingo
Law's power allows him to create a "room" which gives him the means to manipulate anything inside of it. This is why he is called the surgeon of death. Not only is he a doctor, but the "room" is like his own personal operating room. Monet's loyalty is to Doflamingo, not Cesar. Maybe watching the anime would've framed that a lot better. This is why she is willing to die what seems so easily at the command of Doflamingo in Chapter 693. I apologize for nitpicking the details but that is one of the many reasons One Piece is a such an amazing series. My intention isn't to be negative on your takes of the different arcs as I generally find it interesting to see your opinion as you're going through the manga. I just wanted to hopefully give you a better idea of things you possibly misinterpreted though I know my explanation is not perfect. Some of the foreshadowing can also be missed, but I'm glad you try to catch everything you can. Regardless, I do enjoy the videos.
Welcome to the New World, where arc pacing of weird cause Oda is playing a LONG game (longer than usual) with lots of seed planting that won’t bear fruit for hundreds of chapters yet. Every arc going forward is gonna be like this, so prepare for long stretches of stuff that seems less than relevant now before getting to the meat of the arc.
Merphy I think you're gonna end up like me. I'm up-to-date and there is no arc I dislike. There are arcs I have a lot of complaints about, but ultimately I end up still liking the arc. Dunno why One Piece does this to me but It's certainly more enjoyable this way.
The highs are higher than anything else I've seen and the lows aren't that big of a deal. One Piece has me saying "this is the best thing ever" on a daily basis.
@@shabeehhaider2553 wano is the best one afterwards indeed, but it's also contending with marine ford as one of the best in the series. The latter arcs have only been slightly dislikable for their length, which only really manifests for weekly readers / watchers.
@@shabeehhaider2553 Dressrosas pacing is perfectly fine when you binge read it IMO. Most new readers who have the chance to experience the arc in one go are loving it generally. And Zou is generally pretty well liked for being a short transition arc.
cool thing too is that wano was mentioned all the way back in thriller bark from the zombie ryuma, the zombie who gave zoro a new sword, and was the sword that kinemon was interested about
Merph's observations about Kinemon has made me respect Oda's writing even more. I didn't notice that Oda paid attention to the way Kinemon speaks and the types of words he uses. Wow
I was so surprised by that in the anime. Because my cousin loves to watch Samurai X and anything to do with samurais, so I knew there was Old Japanese and Modern. The Straw Hats use a very casual language that I could hear in a highschool anime. But Kin'emon sounds like Samurai X teleported from the 1800s to the world of One Piece!!!
Yeah but tbh there's lots of Japanese dialects used in one piece (to show that there's people from all over that have different customs) but the samurai dialect is probably the easiest to show in English (by using old english ~ Edo period Japan)
Usopp's new powers made a lot of sense to me as trying to make him more distinct from Franky - finding a way to still allow usopp to be clever and a problem solver but without stepping on Franky's builder shoes. It's just sorta a different direction to get to Franky impromptu building a bridge in Thriller Bark.
I really just wish they'd clarify in advance what seeds Usopp has and what they do to force Oda to have to work within those established limits in how our sniper king deals with new challenges. As it stands, it comes across as 60s Batman just happening to have clown repellent or whatever on his infinity belt.
@@Dark_Jaguar I agree... Tho maybe Usopp deserves to be batman 🦇 at this point. Hopefully we'll get more info on his kit during a potential future Usopp focused arc!!!
@@zooidic Thank you, and you may have a point, Batman is the only place left to ascend to after godhood. That said, I want to be clear that I don't want Ussop's kit revealed purely because I'm curious. For example, Gandalf's exact power set is best left mysterious, due to it's rather fuzzy nature and it's roll in that story. Usopp's special equipment though starts to undermine that "down to earth" nature of how he's won a lot of his fights, in that he has to come up with some way to pull out a win using only the limited tools we already knew he had going into the fight. It's their creative use we cheer for. So, by revealing the entirety of his toolkit now (with a few bonus exceptions explicitly called out as "this one's a secret, I only have 4 that won't grow on the Sunny so I'm saving them for an emergency") we set up an expectation and an understanding of just where his limits are to make future desperate fights actually feel amazing when he manages to pull a win out of those tools.
@@lolax121 Just to cite an example and how his use only of things we were already aware of dramatically improved the nature of the fight, remember that time when he fought Luffy and really held his own? We all do, it's of the most beloved moments in the series. When he pulled out all those tricks, each one of which was foreshadowed in previous issues and arcs, and demonstrated just how well Ussop could creatively use those things in a fight he was truly serious about, well I was internally cheering for him, even as I knew how wrongheaded he was over what he was fighting about. If he'd just popped out a bunch of random shells with effects we'd never seen before from Skypeia rather than sticking only with the shells we'd already been introduced to, I think it would have hurt the fight in a big way.
When people dump on New World arcs it’s usually Fishman Island and Punk Hazard, so it bodes well that you enjoyed them both. In my opinion it’s all up from here. The pacing suffers a little bit but that’s a bi-product of Oda setting up more complex plots.
Next arc is long and has a reputation for being dragging (like the arc after after it) but like you said with Punk Hazard its more a product of being a weekly reader at the time (which I was). Upon re-reading / binging and not needing to wait it was a looot better
This is true for all the arcs tbh. Everything feels way faster on a re-read. I just finished mine and Whole Cake Island went by waaaay faster than I remember
A lot of newer fans only caught up at Dressrosa and as such it was their first week to week experience. Having been weekly since Skypiea it was something I'd experienced for years, so Dressrosa didn't bother me, apart from the section before the finale, that was the only time I've had real issues and Oda took a lot of breaks during that time as well
I've been having this debate with many One Piece fans who say these arcs in the New World drag and arent as good. It's just the week-to-week reading. If you can sit down and read it all in a few sittings, feels sooooo much better. I can't wait for the current arc to wrap up so I can just put it down for a few years and come back and enjoy a ton of awesome stories. Been reading this for 20+ years at this point
Despite the fruit's name, that's... not even a little bit accurate. I've never heard of an operating room where things can instantaneously swap places at a thought, or where body parts can be arbitrarily cut and stitched together in arbitrary ways with each other and random inanimate objects and stay perfectly functional no matter what, or where gravity can be selectively disabled on a per-object basis. The only real similarity his fruit has to an operating room is the fact that its powers create a room from which to operate. And the name.
@@ansalem12 Uuuh, you know that One Piece is absurdist and things are really exaggerated do you? Of course Oda puts his own twist on Laws abilities but they are grounded in the things you do in an operating room.
@@ansalem12 no all its powers are based (loosly) on an operating room. The body stitching is similar to prosthetics or transplants the swqpping of items is similar to an assistant hand you something same with the telekinesis. It's hightned to magickal extreme but their all based somewhat in surgery and medicine
"Week to week on this one must have been rough" Me getting flasbacks of Dressrosa: *sweats* In my case I really liked Punk Hazard the first time I watched it and for a long time I thought it was the funniest arc yet of One Piece for how much I laughed throughout it. On a rewatch I did once tho I was like this is WAY darker than I remember
"Week to week on this one must have been rough." Yeah. Yeah it was. How rough? I put one piece down until this arc finished so I could binge it and get it over with. After fishman island, I was so excited for where we'd be going next, only to get... this... Good news, though: Dressrosa makes up for this SO MUCH. And Brook being so calm in the face of danger makes perfect sense: he has no life to lose! Yohohoho!
As always, Merphy's theories are... fascinating, that's all I can say since I'm up to date with the manga, but I'm hype that you get to enjoy one of the best arc of One Piece, Dressrosa is truly amazing.
@@Cuwinlol Yeah, 2 of the reason its hated is 1st, because of the pacing issues of the anime, the manga version had 102 chapters, while the anime had 118 episode, when normally a single episode of any anime adapts between 2-3 chapters per episode and yet, the anime went overboard in episodes, then 2nd is being long, it lasted for 2yrs and people got tired of reading it weekly.
Punk Hazard is the Long Ring Long Land of the New World. A slow-burn yet fun setup for a GREAT arc. Even Aokiji “coincidentally” appears on both. You’ll learn to appreciate it more when you read Dressrosa because Law and Doflamingo’s character dynamics’ one of the best in the series. Plus, I strongly believe you’ll probably change your opinion about it after you reach the current arc. Oda’s long term storytelling is undeniably one of the best.
Don't you dare compare Punk Hazard to that awful Long Ring Long Island. I choose to ignore this awful arc as much as I can, but I hate it so much. In my personal canon it never happened. I hope it doesn't come up in any arc to come. It made me stop reading one piece for 2 weeks and I considered dropping the manga, because of it.
@@admiralmonocle3874 There are some theories out there that predict Long Ring Long Island arc is not only important but absolutely central to some of the biggest lore reveals coming in One Piece.
For those of us who have made it to Wano, looking back at Punk Hazard and realizing how far we've come is mind blowing. Merphy has no idea how far into the future she's looking.
I just want to say, Law is my favorite character. I hope he makes it in your top 5 list someday. Also, its Dressrosa and Underworld like the criminal underworld. Punk Hazard much like Water 7 is a set up arc, with its own Enies Lobby. P.S. the emperor is Kaido and he was mentioned during Marineford. He's the one Shanks somehow dealt with before arriving on Marineford.
I think Water 7 works betten than Punk Hazard on its own. There are a few arcs that set up the next ones: Little Garden, Jaya, Zou but I feel Punk Hazard is probably the least enteteining (many cool moments but still).
Loved the excitement for the dragon and then the "They did eat it ._. " additional take xD Also the Buggy D. Clown dabbing the admirals. You're embracing the powers of the next King And in Dressrosa... you'll know another God
I always really liked Punk Hazard, and it turns out a lot of the "unnecessary" stuff in the arc is setup for later arcs. That's the thing with post time skip. The arcs aren't self contained little entities where we meet new crewmembers. It's all a big story, setting up everything that comes after it.
"Fighting with heat, fighting with ice, and just being a badass" Very good ways to describe all three of them, I also really enjoy their sword styles with Brook using 1 sword, Kin'emon using 2, and Zoro using 3. It really makes them seem like such a solid group.
One small payoff in this arc I loved is Luffy’s poison immunity following impel down. I feel like we don’t often seeing Luffy directly addressing the events of Impel Down/Marine Ford and so to see him have a reason to not only talk about but smile about this really traumatic thing in his past brought me this little sense of peace or hope or something like that.
Do you think Merph is aware the first scans pop out on Friday mornings and she's got an algorithm gold mine for One Piece fans with her release schedule? Daniel should learn his Goblin place releasing on Wednesday.
FYI - best to describe Law's DF is he is like a surgeon on an operating table, he creates a room - the bubble in Law vs Smoker, and do whatever he wants cut or swap anything including himself with the confines of the room or bubble :)
Already for 3 months my fridays have been joy, as I have watched Merphy going through arcs with intensity and love that I feel I have for the series, even for arcs like Punk Hazard.. Truly I must thank you for this, it is always fun to watch these videos. Now I can't wait to be in Dressrosa for 3 weeks, beats the years we spent there in real life waiting for chapters :,D
Misfit is such a breath of fresh air in that whole power fantasy demon lord genre with its self-awareness...hyped asf for S2 and it's boutta be two cours😩😩
I'm so excited for you to experience Dressrosa, I know some people think it's too long but honestly I think it's an arc with some of the most incredible moments packed into it, and it's a great read to binge. I didn't have to read it week to week so I'm sure parts of it must have felt pretty slow at times, but experiencing it all in one go I literally couldn't put it down!
00:00:00 ⟾ [Preview]
00:00:04 ⟾ Intro, Format
00:01:00 ⟾ Overall, rough arc rank
00:01:50 ⟾ Action, Characters, Set-up for Dressrosa and beyond
00:03:37 ⟾ Length
00:04:09 ⟾ Characters, character moments, set-up, promises, worldbuilding, pacing
00:04:47 ⟾ Not Laboon, Brook
00:05:35 ⟾ Navigation
00:06:29 ⟾ Sakazuki/Akainu vs. Kuzan/Aokiji, climate
00:07:54 ⟾ Setting, ‘Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan’ reference
00:08:49 ⟾ Dragon {not Dragon, also technically not dragon}
00:09:54 ⟾ Kin'emon {pieces of mystery}, also centaur {technically not centaur}
00:10:34 ⟾ Experiment Children
00:12:34 ⟾ Smoker & Tashigi
00:13:20 ⟾ Law - alliance dynamic, powers, fight versus Smoker, Rocky Port Incident
00:16:17 ⟾ Body-swap
00:17:23 ⟾ Caesar - {Caesar D. Fake-Clown, long live Buggy}, powers, Vegapunk, SAD, SMILE
00:19:51 ⟾ Vergo
00:20:30 ⟾ Monet (also Bentham)
00:21:22 ⟾ Doflamingo
00:22:23 ⟾ Baby 5, Buffalo
00:22:35 ⟾ Smiley, underground, Devil Fruits cycle
00:23:53 ⟾ Alliance, Law’s Plan
00:25:15 ⟾ Kid’s alliance
00:25:42 ⟾ Momonosuke (Vegapunk’s fruit)
00:26:33 ⟾ Arc end celebrations, final scenes with Navy
00:27:14 ⟾ Doflamingo enters, Law negotiations
00:28:06 ⟾ Next Up - Dressrosa
00:28:13 ⟾ Doflamingo vs. Smoker, enter Kuzan
00:28:43 ⟾ Buggy {D. Warlord}
00:29:07 ⟾ Mera Mera no Mi, Doflamingo
00:30:05 ⟾ Characters
00:30:18 ⟾ Kin’emon - significance, dynamics, mystery, Wano, Zoro’s interest
00:35:26 ⟾ Zoro and Tashigi
00:36:00 ⟾ Experiment Children - Mocha
00:37:20 ⟾ Chopper, also Nami
00:38:45 ⟾ Zoro
00:38:53 ⟾ Usopp
00:39:47 ⟾ Luffy
00:40:07 ⟾ Brook
00:41:36 ⟾ Sanji
00:42:50 ⟾ Luffy and Robin
00:43:35 ⟾ Marineford as “prologue” for ‘upcoming war’
00:44:54 ⟾ Overview - Kin’emon, Set-up, Doflamingo, SMILE, Kaido, weapons, Worst Generation, foundation
00:47:07 ⟾ Future - Dressrosa format
00:47:37 ⟾ [Promo] [Credits]
How do you do these so quick, the video came out 50 minutes ago and its about that long
@@dastrikreddington1864 He's Merphy in diguise.
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Doing god's work pal
You obviously eating timestamp devil fruit don't you?
"He deserves all the recognition he doesn't deserve." That's it. That's the best description of Buggy the Clown.
That’s probably the most disrespectful thing you could every say. It’s Buggy D. Clown
Influencer Buggy. The dude that lifestreamed marine ford
@@yess.6558 wait.... Buggy has the will of D? I have not followed OP in awhile so i dont know a lot
@@rasaecnai it's a running gag that buggy has the d and will become the king of the pirates
@@rasaecnai no no it’s just a running joke in the one piece community to call certain characters gods or have a D middle initial. So like Buggy D Clown, Carru D. Uck (vivi’s duck), Go D. Ussop, etc. but they are all jokes.
Law's reaction to Luffy is especially funny when you realize that for two years, he had a mistaken measure about Luffy's personality because the first time they met Luffy was deadly serious and beating the hell out.of World Nobles, and the second time they met his brother just died and he was basically in a coma. So this is the first time Law is seeing what Luffy is actually like
That's interesting. I never thought about that
But he did saw luffy's real character when he and kid fought together in saobody against the Marines
@@memebrain2177 No because he was still in serious mode then. He wasn't his usual Luffy self
@@memebrain2177 He kinda saw the same side he and Kid showed: Luffy trying to one-up the other 2 captains and prove he was better. He did not see he was 100% incapable of following basic instructions, for example
Any Me
“Okay Luffy, run around this building.”
“Straight through the building, got it.”
Luffy is such a fun character to read.
One thing I really love about post-timeskip Robin is that no matter what's happening, she's always smiling because even if she's in danger or it's chaotic, she's with her family. It's a really nice detail that makes me super happy for Robin.
Yess and thats sooo Cuute 😍💜😫
Yes! I really love the fact that she have a strong confidence in her crew. Because of her backstory she could be one of that characters who speaks 'everyone goes away one day. I can't trust cause it's gonna hurt me' and Oda makes the totally opposite with her! AND I LOVE IT!
The Luffy Robin dynamic slays me.
That panel where Luffy suggests the two non DF users swim through the icy waters carrying him and Robin and her mental image of that remains one of my favorite panels in all of OP.
Yess 😂😂
The can't swims have become entitled
Robin is almost as reckless as Luffy 😂
The Best part about Luffy and Robin is that Robin "Gets" Luffy more than anyone else. She can speak his language, understand his mind and the neatest of all is that whenever Luffy nicknames someone cause he doesn't feel like remembering their name, that's also what Robin calls them. It happens over and over.
Spoilers…
I think the best example of this is when luffy can’t remember who Marco is and robin reminds him he looks like a pineapple and then luffy remembers
@@MOZZQUESTVANYALI Also Rooster Guy
true I love these small moments with the crew.
Robin is this way with all the crew members in a sense. Even from the moment she joined the crew, remember how it happened, she just landed on the ship and knew what to say to everyone to keep them at ease. Next day, she was one of them. Robin isn't just about Luffy, she just gets people and situations very easily.
@@sylent8428 I feel like you're missing some things. Yeah, the next day she fit right in and knew how to get on their good side, but that's also how she grew up. Fitting in with strangers. She doesn't even call half of them by their names until after Enies Lobby.
Zoro's line with Monet gave me chills: "Have you ever met a wild animal that you were sure would never bite? Because I sure haven't" ZOROOOO
Yeah, I was sad to see the dub screwed up the line
Bro, Im up to par with the manga and anime but I repeat that episode so many times because of that line
Zoro spittin some facts
Chopper bites down a Rumble Ball.. .
Although Luffy seems to have befriended/become "Alpha" of the wild animals on Ruskiana. I still love that Giant lion trying to threaten Marguerite, and Luffy comes by post training and lion is like oh she's with you? My bad. And you just see goofy lion around camp fire with Luffy.
@@weadon44 no one watches dub anyway lmao
Wait did she talk about that moment? I must've missed it
To clarify “underworld,” Oda meant like criminal underworld
Except in Brooks case, he’s weird like that. /j
@@shabeehhaider2553 I'm guessing you're sarcastic?
@@soarimg YOHOHOHOH
@@HTX-enjoyer They're just a random troll who spams hate-comments into as many comment threads as they can get their grubby little hands on, best to just ignore them.
@@shabeehhaider2553 sad attempt troll.
You have no power here.
Merphy is so great at noticing things, realizing that there's probably something significant about them, and then going in the complete wrong direction with her theorycrafting. Love it.
this when comes to her wano old people theory
She dose not realize half the obvious stuff though.
@@willm772 neither did we, we always watched reviews and theories
expecting people to get all the answers right away is like trying to find a tiny piece of hay in a stack of needles. Nobody can guess everything right for the first time. Anyone who expects that to be the case is just arrogant mindset.
@@sokkawiseoaf4839 What are you even talking about? Nothing about my comment was intended to disparage her for not getting everything right. No one expects that, I'm just saying it's fun seeing how she explains things.
Samurai from Wano speaking in an old way IS significant but not for the reason Merphy thinks it is, so it's funny. It's practically a joke straight out of One Piece itself, where Luffy will see something he doesn't quite understand and go "Oh I get it, it's magic right?".
"I feel like this arc is a good set up arc"
Oh you have NO idea... There were so many small details in this arc that is foreshadowing that NO ONE picked up on, but was amazing on re-read
the logo at the entry of punk hazard and the room with frozen giants still gives me the creeps.
Ancient giants
Momo refusing to eat
It really feels like whereas Paradise was about separate stories, New World is about one overarching storyline. Pre-timeskip is more character focused, post-timeskip is more plot focused. It's a very different vibe for the two halves of the series.
@@alfred4576because a lot is going on all around the world and it feels like the story has taken the center stage and all the characters, may it be the STRAWHATS, the black beard pirates, red hair pirates and the world government as general are all revolving around it in whirlpool and at one point all will come together and finally the story will explode
Doflamingo mentioning the smiles in the slave auction house on the not island was one of my favorite little hints
@@shabeehhaider2553 I never heard any of them.
@@shabeehhaider2553 kira and funny valentine are not better then doffy and askeladde isnt a villian just an antagonist :)
@@shabeehhaider2553 you edited the comment to write "antagonists". Damn thats cause for embarrasment
@@hei7846 the troll actually edited it to add Friend, the antagonist from 20th Century Boys, and you falsely accused him lol, damn that's truly embarrassing, pathetic, you can join the troll now lol.
@@shabeehhaider2553 Nothing makes a person more of a weeb than starting dumb AF arguments like this. No one asked
It's pronounced "Wah-no", not "Way-no".
Also you got a little confused with the thing about Zoro's sword. Kinemon thinks zoro was the one who stole the sword from Wano, when in fact it was Gecko Moria
He also doesnt know zorro actually won the sword in a fair duel. From the zombie ryoua moria stole, and the sword.
@@marocat4749 To be fair the Ryuma Zombie was.much closer to pre time skip Brooks skill than Ryuma's skill
@@toomanytamales1323 But he certainly retained more of ryuma's personality than Brook's. Zoro did get it pretty legitimately, but it's not easy to tell someone 'the zombie of this legendary figure who's been dead for god knows how long fought me in a duel and said i could take it'
@@toomanytamales1323 It used Brook's moves but it was much stronger than Brook because of Ryuma's body... That's why Brook lost and Zoro had to step in. But yeah it didnt even come close to Ryuma in power, Zoro took him down without any damage.
THANK YOU.
Chopper had a lot of development this arc. He gets so much shit for "NoT DoINg AnYThiNg" after the timeskip. Simply because he doesn't have a lot of fights. But he SHINES as a doctor. The purpose of his existence in the crew.
Very true... I still want some Chopper fights tho 🤔
To play devil's advocate, every time Chopper shines as a Doctor is basically him just going "this goes against my morals as a doctor/scientist so Im gonna fix this and tell you how much of a POS you are" every time...
He still doesn't really so anything until Wano.
It's not exactly a spoiler, but saying Chopper gets flak "simply because he doesn't have a lot of fights" will definitely influence her expectations.
@@IAmMightyMike The comment refers to people like you
That the problem with most OP fans today. They just want fights and if your aren't fighting you're considered useless.
"There is no bad arc, it just that the arc weaker than the other" is the true definition of One Piece
Idk syrup village was pretty bad
@@Baconsoap71 for you, but a lot of the older people I know really enjoy syrup village
@@Travelling_Heart15 agree, idk why so many people hate on this arc, it was not that bad.
@@iordachidenis5026 People mostly memeing on it.
True💯 people just be really exaggerating when they HATE the weaker arcs, like why you gotta be so negative😅😅
"He's a couple hundred years old, based on how he talks." Anytime Merphy comes up with an off-the-wall theory, she has a proper line of thinking you can follow
Spoiler (please don't read this Merphy)
I wonder how she will react when she sees Kinemons and Momos graves^^
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While I was following along the anime, i thought it was more related to the medieval Japanese Wano theme. Not sure whether they mentioned closed borders then
@@aryanks2167 since this has become spoiler filled, I'll say yes. They do mention quite often IN Wano proper that they have essentially never opened their borders
@@aryanks2167 It was not mentioned...
...up to this point in the story, if that's your question
Just a weekly reminder that all of this was possible thanks to the Persistent Commenter-san.
Thank you again, you will forever be in our hearts
I'd like to think that before that legend came, she was already intrigued with the series because in her other videos there are a lot of people who would comment about One Piece. Like in her video discussing about worldbuilding, we're talking about books here not comics, a lot of comments are literally essays praising One Piece and they would get many likes. Then came that one persistent guy that I guess gave her the push.
Amen!
MVP. In all honesty his actions caused a trickle down effect of me discovering this vast field of books that I haven't read.
Persistent D Commenter
Ran D om Person
Merphy being able to say Dressrosa perfectly, but then butchering the Wano pronunciation is quite funny hahahaha
It burns my ears every time I hear it
Weno
Vivvi and Jen Bae get me every time.
And I really don't get where the "Eye Va" comes from. It's just Ivan.
@@dowfreak7 he's never called Ivan. They call him Iva all the time but have never called him Ivan
@@noremac7216 If anything, Ivan hurts as an example because you can pronounce Ivan as "eye-van". The real name is "Ivankov" which you would never pronounce "eye-vankov".
On the Robin/Luffy relationship, keep an eye out for luffys nicknames for people. Robin is the only other crew member who adopts his nicknames for people- it’s a small but great part of their dynamic
I also love that she knew that was what Bart wanted. a nickname.
With the exception of Law. Everyone calls him Tra-guy. Thanks to that, some of the samurai think that's his actual name, and call him "Tra-guy-dono", "Tra-guy-sama* or other combinations of Tra-guy and honorifics, and that's hilarious. I love when Shirahoshi does that, too, with "Luffy-sama's Grandpa-sama" or "Nami-chin-sama". Great gag.
I love how that's just how Luffy answers any and every "phone call". Imagine him at help desk or something. "Hello? this is Monkey D. Luffy, I'm gonna be King of the Pirates, How my I help you?" lololol
Luffy: Hello? This is Monkey D. Luffy, I am gonna be the king of scammers. Now, Can you share your otp please
@@Kislay11 hahahahahahaha
Hi Monkey D. Luffy! This is Buddy the Elf! What's your favorite color?
@@DrTimes99 omfg I can picture this convo in my head so clearly now. Holy shit. Someone tell Reddit.
@@DrTimes99 🤣
"Human trade is old news already. This is the age of smiles..." - Doflamingo to Disco in Sabaody Archipelago.
I love that little line hundreds of chapters/episodes earlier. Given "smiles" isn't capitalized there like it is now, it really means nothing at the time. Now, we all know what Doflamingo's main cash crop actually is after dropping the slave trade. Great foreshadowing there.
Brook always gave me the impression that he never recovered from his time being stranded - kinda like Jack Sparrow in pirates of the caribbean. He went crazy on that boat so he is in a constat state of dissociation.
Absolutely, that is the point of his over the top antics.
Drifting at sea alone for decades and decades would be hell.
@@cryhwks Drifting alone in the sea for decades after seeing all his friends(family) die before him.*
@@shabeehhaider2553 what is unrealistic about having mental trauma?
@@HTX-enjoyer Do not feed the troll.
@@shabeehhaider2553 you literally just said, "it's unrealistic getting mental damage" yet straight afterwards say pirates leave you with a pistol cause you most certainly will
Being caught up, I think I finally understand why I didn't like post timeskip as much as pre-timeskip. Pre-timeskip is many 'contained' stories. Post timesksip is 1 huge arc that is divided into many parts. And as you get more of the parts, the more you appreciate the previous parts.
I can see where you’re coming from! I feel that pre-time skip has such a different feel from post-time skip that I can’t fairly compare them. But yeah, post ts feels very connected while pre ts feels like the wacky misadventures of the straw hat crew lol
Because their goals lies in new world. This is when things get serious and they focus less and less on adventure and more on working towards the goals coz they are strong enough and is involved with big guns of the world. So Pre timeskip is more about building the world and adventure and post timeskip is about the actual challenges to reach their goal imo.
There's a reason why first half of the Grand Line was named Paradise and second half was named New World. If we are to bring the mindset of Paradise to New World, there will be a lot of discontentment. Which a lot of haters are exhibiting. It isn't just Straw Hats anymore. It's bigger than them and a lot of players are on the move in the New World. I hope people can understand the depth of the story and not just on the surface. That's why, every arc just gets longer.
@@misteryio3990 wel to be fair the first half of the grand line was much scarier and surprising setting wise
Agreed
"He deserves all the recognition that he didn't deserve" ~Merphy 2021
Hmmmmm
Kaido (the emperor that they plan to take down) was actually mention twice before.
First time in Thriller Bark when Geko Moria said Kaido killed his entire crew.
Second time at Marineford when Shanks apeared, one of the marines said that Shanks just clashed with Kaido few days ago.
Actually it was the day before Marineford when Shanks and Kaidou clashed.
He was also first brought up by Garp at the end of the CP9 saga.
@@iceslice762 his silhouette not his name
his name was mentioned by Moriah at the end of thriller bark they mentioned his title and position
@@memebrain2177 In Thriller bark he said Kaido is a Yonko?
I thought he only said it was a pirate names Kaido.
Historic fact: "Wa no Kuni" (which means "land of harmony") is what japan was called before they called themselves " nippon" (which means "suns origin" or "sunrise land"). Also, you pronounce the 'wa' in 'Wano' like you would in 'Wario'
Don’t you mean Wayrio?
I think you mean "way-no kuni"
Excuse me, did you just say "sun origin"??
„So far there has not been an arc I did not like.”
I absolutely agree. For me there are no bad arcs in One Piece. Just some that are not as good as others but still entertaining overall.
Longringlongland..
@@Sunaki1000 Was fun for me honestly.
@@Sunaki1000 I love that arc too...... We get the only Zoro and Sanji tag team fight in the series...... Ehat else can one person ask???
@@harshj2076 Buggy and Usopp finally meeting each other, that's the only thing i ask lol
@@Sunaki1000 probably this arc will add more lore to the upcoming arcs I am sure of it.
Law did the body swap because he needs Luffy to stick around. And they need law to fix it. Like it guarantees the straw hats won’t leave the island. That’s what people think at least
My reasoning was that he wanted to nerf them in case they didn't want to alliance and tried to attack
@@christiancasaverdepertica1802 I think both those reasons are right. Keeps them on the island and if there's a fight he has the advantage
Didn’t he also need to play his role as an ally to Ceasar’s group in the first half until he could get to the SAD area? As a warlord he needed to do a little acting too.
@@roz4688 True, and it all fits. Law is very smart.
@@roz4688 yeah i always assumed he needed to keep them distracted so he can keep his cover, and used a pretty harmless way of doing it
When people say „Nothing so far lived up to Marineford” they are forgetting that Marineford took years and years of build up and could only be this great because of many arcs that came before it. Its not fair at all to compare a regular arc to the huge climax of the whole first part of the story that needed so many parts to be this huge and hype. And Oda is currently doing the exact same thing with everything that happened so far in the New World.
If iam being honest.. He is doing it ×10 times more epic, grand and better.... Literally i feel like marineford is gonna look like a single drop of water from a whole bottle of water, which is the final war.
Thats EXACTLY it, but you know how it is. Your typical shounen fan tends to lack critical thinking skills. This is the reason why Wano is hitting so hard, same for Whole Cake. It'll be the same for whatever comes after Wano too, there's nowhere to go but up from this point forward
It might just be me but I actually prefer dressrosa and WCI over marineford
@@noxtrin1878 I know we're in the minority, but I totally agree. I didn't have to sit through the week to week experience of either, but my top 3 are Water 7, Dressrosa, and Whole Cake. I think week to week people remember the hype around Marineford so fondly that they love it. Reading it years after it came out, it has a ton of great moments, but I don't think the overall narrative is strongest of the series.
@@noxtrin1878 i think those 3 are definitely comparable to marinford in enjoyment and other things. My personal top 3 is MF, Water7 saga and dressrosa
Merphy gushing over how polite Brook is makes me look forward to the "young lady" page. Easily one of the most badass moments in the entire manga.
The voice actor (Chou) did total justice to that scene in the anime!!!! I still get goosebumps thinking about that interaction with Brook. SO BADASS!!
@@gauthamvadlamudi3500 Tbh, the anime does a good job at adapting the impactful moments of OP, it's the stuff between those moments that it sucks at.
@@Bogglemanify of course, the anime for a serialized manga itself is intrinsically disadvantaged to have pacing issues.
Except watching weekly, while binging, anime is a pretty great experience as it has great voice acting, BGMs, animation, cinematography making Oda's story alive.
And while binging the unnecessary fluff which spoils the pacing can be skipped. we always have our weapon for it (Ctrl+Right arrow).
Only when it comes to weekly consumption, I can't imagine how excruciatingly slow anime can be.
BUT, I'm glad I caught up just before entering Wano. The Animation is taken to next level and Wano's character designs are heightened by the animea artstyle.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, many manga fans said Wano manga is super fast at times (being so condensed and jam-packed) and needs little bit elaboration. This is perfect opportunity for anime to use it's obligation to add fluff, for A CONSTRUCTIVE PURPOSE and add additional value to the manga in pacing dept.
However, to be frank, those moments that felt rushed in manga are expanded and feel lot better in anime when coupled with new animation and all, But there are still issues as at times anime becomes so slow as they adapt 1/3rd of a chapter for an anime sometimes.
Hence, I suggest if anyone just entered wano, either read manga weekly or watch anime once in two weeks.
BOTH ways are equally enjoyable.
Manga provides beautiful handdrawn artwork of Oda and highpaced, fresh story ahead of time.
Anime adds its flavor of extravagant animation, vibrant colors and improved pacing in Wano, and brilliant heart-moving Voice acting and BGMs but will be 1 year behind in the storyline.
Both are great ways to consume one piece and it all comes to personal choice.
For me personally, I prefer BGMs and voice acting in Japanese...
Even though I read the corresponding manga chapter after every 2 or 3 episodes, I play BGMs and character's voices in my head while reading manga. However, It becomes problematic (especially for one piece) as I imagine one piece world though Japanese audio and reading manga in English feels unnatural to me (for one piece) as I bonded with those characters with those speech patterns. Also I don't know kanji to an extent where I can read Japanese version of manga and my Japanese vocabulary only helps 60% of the time.
Anyway, since I'm predominantly an anime watcher who watches 2 episodes back to back once in two weeks and read manga chapters after corresponding to the episodes I catch up.
Based on all my experimentation of different methods of consumption of one piece, this is what I feel is the best way, at least for me.
Ohhh YAAaaaAaSssSSSss 😍🔥
@@gauthamvadlamudi3500 he goes by Cho
"Buggy deserves all the recognition he didnt deserve!"
Certified Buggy D Clown Fan
Robin x Luffy is such an underrated dynamic
Post-time skip becomes so much more about the characters the strawhats meet rather than the strawhats themselves, but she always shines even when she doesn't have all that much to do.
I love how she ends up using the same nicknames for people that Luffy uses... You can just tell she finds so much joy from how Luffy is, she probably the least bothered by his antics of anyone on the crew.
Also, Robin was the last one to be sent off by Kuma before the timeskip and the one that was in more need to be saved, so she has a special connection with Luffy and the crew, but of course, bigger connection with Luffy and Nami.
Robin fully gives me the impression that she has been through hell and couldn't be happier being free with Luffy, no matter where Luffy's antics or journey takes her. I agree with you, and it's something that required a lot of attention to pickup on lol. Some episodes I watched a bunch of times before picking up on this
She’s like a big sister watching her goofy younger brother
I love too how she is so protective of chopper.
@@marocat4749 My favorite joke with all the bodyswap shenanigans was when Robin told Franky (in choppers body) never to speak as chopper. Ever. The implied doom she would unleash upon him was great. "You think me flowering arms and twisting off your balls was bad... just try me"
Sorry, but I think it was confirmed that Monet and Vergo are, indeed, dead. And yes, criteria for death in one piece is pretty random haha. Also Merphy in ch. 50 "i don't care about the clown" vs Ch. 700 "I'm so proud of Buggy, he deserves it".
Yeah its funny that they have been dead for years
Merphy a few weeks ago: "I am not really into absurdism, I don't feel it"
Merphy now: "These guys changed the climate of the island. WITH THEIR FIGHT! I love it!"
this isn't absurdism and One Piece hardly ever does it...it's a lack of involvement and the conscious decision of "I can't or won't take that serious" even though with Oda it either has explanation or if it doesn't you can treat it as a mystery that has an explanation that you don't know yet.
Merphy definetly overused that word in regards to OP and doing so she undulated her own experience at least a little
@@shabeehhaider2553 For someone not liking one piece you're making a lot of comments on a 48 minute video about one piece.
that was months ago my dude. not weeks
@@deliii395 yeah, "weeks ago" might have ended with marinefort. Point stands, and it has a better ring to it, I guess
@@shabeehhaider2553 man these berserk elitist are annoying. I am a huge guts fan,he is my favt protagonist after reinhard but berserk fanbase is as bad as any. Try reading manga better than berserk and stop bothering with others like an useless annoying brat
Murphy now "I hate DoFlamingo so much already"
Murphy next week "...."
Law is one of my favorite characters, and as his backstory is revealed, man does he just get more and more interesting and awesome. Can't wait for the next 2 weeks, Dressrossa is a big one but I thought it was AMAZING. MUCH MUCH better when its not week to week.
Merph could make dressrosa a 3 part'er though. At 100 chapters that's 50 a part if it's only 2.
Merphy pronounces Oda’s made-up word, “Dressrosa” correctly when saying it aloud for the first time…
…then mispronounces, “climate”.
Well, all words are made-up.
@@Kfoglarsson but not all words are made-up by Oda
@@Bogglemanify unfortunately
Mocha
nd not just once, either, lmao.
"The setup for this arc is great" - talking about the setup-arc for the following 4+. I personally loved Punk Hazard, especially in retrospective. Glad you're enjoying even the "weaker" arcs.
yeah the payoff for this arc takes so long to get to but it was so worth it way-no is so good thanks to punk hazard. lol love how she says Wano.
"Luffy met Momo..." "...he is a dragon, and I like him" you just don't know how right you are Merphy
The pronouciation of Wano as "Way-no", hilarious, Merphy it's "Wa-No"
Its probably easier to understand it if you write it as "Wah-no"
@@sircheese288 every time I say Wano, I like to think of Waluigi's "Wah"
@@sircheese288 I don't know if that will help or cause confusion,
@@sircheese288 How is a silent h gonna help? lol
Let's just say its "Wano" and not "Weino"
@@musph5478 for pronunciation, adding an -h after a vowel indicates that it's a short vowel, not long, so even though it looks silent, it serves a purpose
Ahh we've officially entered the new world , where every single arc gets a lot more hate than it deserves because of the week to week readers and the rose-coloured glasses not being present anymore in the fandom
Yep facts a lot of these arcs are great but just cause ppl are week to week readers they like to sh*t on it
And Toei ruins them with filler scenes of people running
@@cecirapalini Blame it on the board ( bassically the financers for the anime ) who suddenly , whithout warning said : "You're going to only adapt half a chapter per episode or else you can say goodbye to our money" which made Dressrossa an absolute slog due to the staff not being able to plan ahead . Thankfully this issue starts to get better from Zou onwards and now the anime being the best it's ever been in Wano !
@@bashuggs1205 Grandline Review said it best ( this is paragraphing ) : "It's the arc cicle of weekly reading , people will get excited for the new arc , go through the set-up stage relatively optimistic and then blindly bash the arc during the start of the climax saying it's the worst arc ever and that there's no way Oda can wrap everything he set up well , then the arc ends shutting some people up while a bitter feeling of the arc persists for the next few years . Then a new arc begins and the cicle repeats itself"
@@AlexT7916 the problem is anime caught up to manga in dressrosa and had too many op projects too while manga also had lotta breaks,love how glr omiited those totally unbiased also animation is good for most part in dressrosa for a weekly one lik checkout g4transf ,sai fight,sabo using meremera,a short sequence with luffyvsdoffy was also animated by a legendary animator
Luffy and Law's friendship is so odd yet wholesome, such a nice dynamic, it always fills me up with joy whenever I see their interactions.
Ceaser being "weak" just shows how important learning haki was for luffy and his crew. Without haki ceaser would easily beat them since he has a logia devil fruit. I wouldn't say he was weak, he just wasn't strong enough, because he was depending on his devil fruit too much.
Perfect summarize of most Logias: Cocodrile, Enel, Caesar.
@@OsSas3 i dont believe croc belongs in this list, yes he was forced out of the new world his first time around, but he did try and master his fruit, and even has contingencies for when the fruit doesnt work and he still seems to be alive in the new world so far
@@TheLPcollector Mastering his fruit also means dependable on his fruit. I'm not saying he's weak cause he was defeated by Luffy, is just that Logias tend to get cocky about it.
@@OsSas3 true, but hes one of those logias who knows hes not invincible, which sets him apart from the other 3 in that list, hes aware of haki, and aware of his weakness to moisture in general
I hate that mentality. The moment someone is defeated by the crew, they get labeled as weak. No matter what they have done previously or winning they do.
Also, who remembers...
Rogersbase actually kinda spoiled her about Buggy being a Warlord but he played it off good tho 😂😂
Lol, yes 😂the chat was going off
@@George-km9bz And he was just taking glances to it reading all the "nice save", "smooth", etc. and you could tell he was trying not to laugh lol
I think she was just being polite and didnt want her fans to come down on Roger too hard lol, she was def spoiled
Her joy at Buggy being a worldlord failing up brings back Roger's slip up lmao.
We need a Buggy to be the last one to join the strawhats. Like, he goes up and up and up, than falling down after everyone discovers that he ia fraud, and then Luffy saves him.
Her description of Caesar Clown is so accurate. “He’s very smart, he’s conniving…but he isn’t cool.” Lol
Edit: also, I’m surprised Merph didn’t bring up momo and kinemon’s interaction at the end of arc feast.
Gangster Gastino, however, is the coolest guy around.
@@rancorrage5646 Yeah, that guy deserves his own spin-off.
I really loved the feast scene. The most care Oda has ever put into drawing food, I think. In a similar vein, I’m surprised she didn’t mention the interaction between Sanji and Kinemon’s head about why he was there, either.
honestly caeser doesnt get enough credit for being one of the smartest people we know. sure there definitely is a fair amount of "scientists" smarter than him and he benefits from vegapunks work. but like if he wasnt so crazy and evil hed probably be able to get a lot of work done. he unfortunately only does his own work in poisons and steals everything else from vegapunk but imagine if he used all that brain on not poisons and weapons.
Fortunately, when Oda makes a character REALLY detestable...is when he offsets it by humiliating them horribly, like Spandam >:3
Brook's "pervy" humour you must picture it by saying it in a polite way. That's the joke, he's extremely polite with his questions
The voice actor makes a lot of Brook's character with this and the YOHOHOHOHO
Seeing the kids go through the withdrawal in the anime at least really sold this arc for me. I was actually really shocked that Oda would show us this. I was in tears hearing them scream out in pain and Moccha saving the rest of them and Chopper getting intensely angry at Ceaser was so much emotion for me I had to sit for a bit after those episodes.
"I still like Sanji despite Sanji" is such a mood
This in conjunction with relatively recent arc events with the character.
Oda really can't let sanji get out of his own way
Every Sanji fan ever, probably.
Sanji is super cool (only character ever that i love who smokes lol). But then in literally the next scene he is simping harder than any other cherrcter ever🤦🏻♂️
That's my mood every single day!
i love him but i hate him, i wish we would not simp that much, especially after the wano scene, that was pretty disgusting
Merphy - "i dont really care about these kids, lets get back to the dragons" merphy -" deskrosa", love the review also i must say ..... oda does not condense stuff, instead what he does is say im going to write less and then adds 100 more chapters to his original plan and say oops.
to be fair lol, his editors turned the story from 5 years into 24+ years, just from suggestions like adding the warlords & the supernova, and honestly I don't think OP would be as long without the fan interaction & love. You can tell Oda feeds off the energy from the constant letters he gets. I mean he rents out an apartment to keep every letter that he's ever received, that's insane
@@shabeehhaider2553 Berserk = Trash
@@shabeehhaider2553 imagine spamming over a mediocre manga how mediocre would ur taste be then also again cry over the unfinished berserk
@@shabeehhaider2553 i love both one piece and berserk.
@@shabeehhaider2553 I think you're just too into your own delusion of 'berserk being a masterpiece' that's why you don't see people when they trash on that mid series. Naruto>Guts
Punk Hazard in a nutshell, "You'll appreciate it one day"!
Hahaha so true upon re read
I still wait for that Moment.
And im up to date.
Momo's development from Punk Hazard onwards is superb.
Especially after the last chapters, you go back and think about where he started in Punk Hazard and it's so satisfying.
@@franconicolas3995 To be fair he only really starts developing in [SPOILERS I GUESS??]
Onigashima.
@@sircheese288 Nah, Zou and early Wano as well (Zunesha, speech at Udon, etc).
Hearing merphy say wano like “wai-no” was really hurting my ears but I can’t wait for for her to review the Wai-no Arc
I love that you mentioned how cute Luffy and Robin's interactions are. I feel like Robin has this crazy soft spot for Luffy that makes her incredibly overindulgent of his nonsense and it always warms my heart.
Punk Hazard is pretty universally considered one of the weakest arcs in a vacuum, but it is INSANELY important for setting up basically the entire rest of the series.
Also, YES to loving Luffy and Robin interactions!! They have probably my favorite dynamic out of all of the crew, it's so subtle but so lovable.
I'd argue that Zou is the real set up, but yeah ph is very important in the grand scheme
@@rafaelandrade7627 Zou is the interlude of the saga, since it presents new goals, information and setup.
In my opinion better then Punk Hazard in also telling a good side story on top.
But did we need the Yeti Cool Brothers for that?
@@Sunaki1000 youre just mad they one shotted zoro
@@Sunaki1000 yes, yes we did
"Luffy pulls the butt of the samurai out of the dragon"
You know, sometimes I wonder why people don't give starting One Piece a shot and then I get reminded by phrases like that how random the series must seem to a non-fan.
"Luffy escapes prison with the help of a transvestite monarch who uses their giant head to break through walls."
Convincing people that it makes sense in context takes some doing.
They just don't understand the best things in life.
28:44 RogersBase really did a good job with his poker face so that merphy can have this reactions~! haha all for God Buggy~!
The sheer amount of setup this arc has, is just mind-blowing. From the next arc to even 3 arcs after that, the groundwork this arc laid pays off.
i remember reading punk hazard week to week and feeling like we were going somewhere but was unable to put my finger on it lol. now looking at the whole picture, i just can't help but nervously laugh.
@@nineninesixteensixteen9955 (G)Oda is just something
Gladvin Joshy
GOda is built different.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing new One Piece fans come to realize what an amazing character Law is. So glad he became a main character in this arc.
I have a gut feeling Law is gonna become Merphys favorite character
same, especially after the latter half of dressrosa
Tied for the best backstory in the whole story with the heavenly demon himself. At least IMO.
Idk man Luffy is going to be TOUGH to overtake
@@joejames1794 And whitebeard will be even tougher
@@theta682pl yea it’s like 1. Luffy 2. WB for her right?
One thing that's interesting about the colony of Laboon whales, is they all had the scars on their heads which Laboon got from banging on the Redline but we thought Laboon was doing that to get to Brook's crew but now it seems like this is smth this species does regularly for some reason
My thought has always been that they spent some time trying to get to Laboon
Or maybe they know on an instinctual level that the Red Line is not supposed to be there? Assuming the theory about the great weapons' purpose is to destroy it so that the world's oceans will be united once more is true.
@@00ammy00 yeah its pretty clear that the red line is on one of thier ways to feeding/breeding grounds
I will say, this arc is primarily set up for what's to come
-Law's Introduction/the formation of the alliance
-The introduction of Momo and Kin'emon
-Build up for Donflamingo
even a lot more. Like Underworld, Vegapunk, Wano stuff and more doubts in World Gov from Marines
There is lots of things to uncover here.
Oda already planned for sanji's Character from this arc. You can see this in the interaction between sanji and Kin'emon
Law's power allows him to create a "room" which gives him the means to manipulate anything inside of it. This is why he is called the surgeon of death. Not only is he a doctor, but the "room" is like his own personal operating room.
Monet's loyalty is to Doflamingo, not Cesar. Maybe watching the anime would've framed that a lot better. This is why she is willing to die what seems so easily at the command of Doflamingo in Chapter 693.
I apologize for nitpicking the details but that is one of the many reasons One Piece is a such an amazing series. My intention isn't to be negative on your takes of the different arcs as I generally find it interesting to see your opinion as you're going through the manga. I just wanted to hopefully give you a better idea of things you possibly misinterpreted though I know my explanation is not perfect. Some of the foreshadowing can also be missed, but I'm glad you try to catch everything you can. Regardless, I do enjoy the videos.
"He deserves all the recognition he didn't deserve" is a statement that only makes sense when talking about Buggy.
Welcome to the New World, where arc pacing of weird cause Oda is playing a LONG game (longer than usual) with lots of seed planting that won’t bear fruit for hundreds of chapters yet.
Every arc going forward is gonna be like this, so prepare for long stretches of stuff that seems less than relevant now before getting to the meat of the arc.
Hell with Wano, the arc with the longest build up so far is still setting up a lot.
@@clementgoh9270 but wano still AMAZING
Merphy I think you're gonna end up like me. I'm up-to-date and there is no arc I dislike. There are arcs I have a lot of complaints about, but ultimately I end up still liking the arc. Dunno why One Piece does this to me but It's certainly more enjoyable this way.
The highs are higher than anything else I've seen and the lows aren't that big of a deal. One Piece has me saying "this is the best thing ever" on a daily basis.
the good news is that punk hazard is the last arc that is possible to dislike. the next ones are so good..
@@PROPAROXITONO Agreed. Dressrosa's pacing could be an issue tho.
@@shabeehhaider2553 wano is the best one afterwards indeed, but it's also contending with marine ford as one of the best in the series. The latter arcs have only been slightly dislikable for their length, which only really manifests for weekly readers / watchers.
@@shabeehhaider2553 Dressrosas pacing is perfectly fine when you binge read it IMO. Most new readers who have the chance to experience the arc in one go are loving it generally. And Zou is generally pretty well liked for being a short transition arc.
cool thing too is that wano was mentioned all the way back in thriller bark from the zombie ryuma, the zombie who gave zoro a new sword, and was the sword that kinemon was interested about
Throwback to Rogersbase saying "Speaking of Warlords, Buggy" LMAO
That convo was THE hardest backpedal I've ever witnessed
Timeskip about buggy
"I don't care about these kids lets get back to the dragons" -Merphy Napier. Also someone in her discord tell her how to pronounce Wano
We have sorted that out lol
@@woodberry323 Oh that's great. I don't blame her at all but it just doesn't... sound.. right.
Merph's observations about Kinemon has made me respect Oda's writing even more.
I didn't notice that Oda paid attention to the way Kinemon speaks and the types of words he uses. Wow
Facts, I just realized that too. And I also realized how perceptive Merphy is.
I was so surprised by that in the anime.
Because my cousin loves to watch Samurai X and anything to do with samurais, so I knew there was Old Japanese and Modern.
The Straw Hats use a very casual language that I could hear in a highschool anime. But Kin'emon sounds like Samurai X teleported from the 1800s to the world of One Piece!!!
Yeah I'm surprised how much I missed. Talk about set up. She's on to the fact that Kinemon and Samurai are men out of time.
When Merph got to that part I was like man she's very perceptive.
Yeah but tbh there's lots of Japanese dialects used in one piece (to show that there's people from all over that have different customs) but the samurai dialect is probably the easiest to show in English (by using old english ~ Edo period Japan)
Usopp's new powers made a lot of sense to me as trying to make him more distinct from Franky - finding a way to still allow usopp to be clever and a problem solver but without stepping on Franky's builder shoes.
It's just sorta a different direction to get to Franky impromptu building a bridge in Thriller Bark.
I really just wish they'd clarify in advance what seeds Usopp has and what they do to force Oda to have to work within those established limits in how our sniper king deals with new challenges. As it stands, it comes across as 60s Batman just happening to have clown repellent or whatever on his infinity belt.
@@Dark_Jaguar I agree...
Tho maybe Usopp deserves to be batman 🦇 at this point.
Hopefully we'll get more info on his kit during a potential future Usopp focused arc!!!
@@zooidic Thank you, and you may have a point, Batman is the only place left to ascend to after godhood.
That said, I want to be clear that I don't want Ussop's kit revealed purely because I'm curious. For example, Gandalf's exact power set is best left mysterious, due to it's rather fuzzy nature and it's roll in that story. Usopp's special equipment though starts to undermine that "down to earth" nature of how he's won a lot of his fights, in that he has to come up with some way to pull out a win using only the limited tools we already knew he had going into the fight. It's their creative use we cheer for. So, by revealing the entirety of his toolkit now (with a few bonus exceptions explicitly called out as "this one's a secret, I only have 4 that won't grow on the Sunny so I'm saving them for an emergency") we set up an expectation and an understanding of just where his limits are to make future desperate fights actually feel amazing when he manages to pull a win out of those tools.
@@Dark_Jaguar we have NEVER known the extent of the tools ussop has
@@lolax121 Just to cite an example and how his use only of things we were already aware of dramatically improved the nature of the fight, remember that time when he fought Luffy and really held his own? We all do, it's of the most beloved moments in the series. When he pulled out all those tricks, each one of which was foreshadowed in previous issues and arcs, and demonstrated just how well Ussop could creatively use those things in a fight he was truly serious about, well I was internally cheering for him, even as I knew how wrongheaded he was over what he was fighting about. If he'd just popped out a bunch of random shells with effects we'd never seen before from Skypeia rather than sticking only with the shells we'd already been introduced to, I think it would have hurt the fight in a big way.
When people dump on New World arcs it’s usually Fishman Island and Punk Hazard, so it bodes well that you enjoyed them both. In my opinion it’s all up from here. The pacing suffers a little bit but that’s a bi-product of Oda setting up more complex plots.
You didnt mention the part where Sanji refused to smoke in Nami's body but she was understanding and gave him permission.
I totally missed that! Can you tell the chapter please??
@@idk-dz google
sanji smoking in nami's body
Next arc is long and has a reputation for being dragging (like the arc after after it) but like you said with Punk Hazard its more a product of being a weekly reader at the time (which I was). Upon re-reading / binging and not needing to wait it was a looot better
This is true for all the arcs tbh. Everything feels way faster on a re-read. I just finished mine and Whole Cake Island went by waaaay faster than I remember
A lot of newer fans only caught up at Dressrosa and as such it was their first week to week experience. Having been weekly since Skypiea it was something I'd experienced for years, so Dressrosa didn't bother me, apart from the section before the finale, that was the only time I've had real issues and Oda took a lot of breaks during that time as well
Dressrosa was tough week-to-week, but it's a good binge read. There's a reason it's among one of the most popular OP arcs
Not to mention I feel like Dressrosa was one of the arcs that suffered most from the anime slowing down its pacing (so, so, so many flashbacks)
I've been having this debate with many One Piece fans who say these arcs in the New World drag and arent as good. It's just the week-to-week reading. If you can sit down and read it all in a few sittings, feels sooooo much better.
I can't wait for the current arc to wrap up so I can just put it down for a few years and come back and enjoy a ton of awesome stories. Been reading this for 20+ years at this point
Law can practically do everything with his fruit that you can do in an operating room. That is why he says “Room” whenever he lets the sphere appear.
Despite the fruit's name, that's... not even a little bit accurate. I've never heard of an operating room where things can instantaneously swap places at a thought, or where body parts can be arbitrarily cut and stitched together in arbitrary ways with each other and random inanimate objects and stay perfectly functional no matter what, or where gravity can be selectively disabled on a per-object basis.
The only real similarity his fruit has to an operating room is the fact that its powers create a room from which to operate. And the name.
@@ansalem12 Uuuh, you know that One Piece is absurdist and things are really exaggerated do you? Of course Oda puts his own twist on Laws abilities but they are grounded in the things you do in an operating room.
@@ansalem12 no all its powers are based (loosly) on an operating room. The body stitching is similar to prosthetics or transplants the swqpping of items is similar to an assistant hand you something same with the telekinesis. It's hightned to magickal extreme but their all based somewhat in surgery and medicine
@@furorteutonicus9045 Yes, exactly.
He can do anything within the room, but it take a huge toll of laws stamina and haki can block it. To nerf him a bit, its still pretty op.
"Week to week on this one must have been rough"
Me getting flasbacks of Dressrosa: *sweats*
In my case I really liked Punk Hazard the first time I watched it and for a long time I thought it was the funniest arc yet of One Piece for how much I laughed throughout it. On a rewatch I did once tho I was like this is WAY darker than I remember
This is pretty much how I felt about Punk Hazard. I really liked it. Will be doing a reread in the near future so that'll be fun!
I'm just more surprised to see that people didn't like this arc as much. I always really enjoyed it
Lol me when I caught up to WCI the first time.. but when the arc finishes binge rewatch is so good
"Week to week on this one must have been rough."
Yeah. Yeah it was. How rough?
I put one piece down until this arc finished so I could binge it and get it over with.
After fishman island, I was so excited for where we'd be going next, only to get... this...
Good news, though: Dressrosa makes up for this SO MUCH.
And Brook being so calm in the face of danger makes perfect sense: he has no life to lose! Yohohoho!
Lol. Dropped it after Dressrosa for a 7 year break.
Dressrosa was even worse week to week, and definitely had worse pacing than Punk Hazard.
@@bopit3077 but as an overall arc it was much better
As always, Merphy's theories are... fascinating, that's all I can say since I'm up to date with the manga, but I'm hype that you get to enjoy one of the best arc of One Piece, Dressrosa is truly amazing.
Exactly Dressrosa is one of my favourite arcs, it gets too much hate
From what I've heard I'm pretty sure it's because of reading it weekly on a reread you can go as slow or as fast as you want to
@@Cuwinlol Yeah, 2 of the reason its hated is 1st, because of the pacing issues of the anime, the manga version had 102 chapters, while the anime had 118 episode, when normally a single episode of any anime adapts between 2-3 chapters per episode and yet, the anime went overboard in episodes, then 2nd is being long, it lasted for 2yrs and people got tired of reading it weekly.
Punk Hazard is the Long Ring Long Land of the New World. A slow-burn yet fun setup for a GREAT arc. Even Aokiji “coincidentally” appears on both.
You’ll learn to appreciate it more when you read Dressrosa because Law and Doflamingo’s character dynamics’ one of the best in the series. Plus, I strongly believe you’ll probably change your opinion about it after you reach the current arc.
Oda’s long term storytelling is undeniably one of the best.
Eeeeh Long Ring Island is hilarious
Don't you dare compare Punk Hazard to that awful Long Ring Long Island. I choose to ignore this awful arc as much as I can, but I hate it so much. In my personal canon it never happened. I hope it doesn't come up in any arc to come. It made me stop reading one piece for 2 weeks and I considered dropping the manga, because of it.
@@admiralmonocle3874 There are some theories out there that predict Long Ring Long Island arc is not only important but absolutely central to some of the biggest lore reveals coming in One Piece.
@@maybeitsyou1317 I know, because of the origin of the davi backfight, right? I still hope they never mention this arc ever again.
Aokiji entrance was like post credit scene
Punk Hazzard in a nutshell: too many hanging threads, great setup, fart-talking jigsaw samurai. Also Traffy and Smokey!
I choked on my food when you used that picture of Buggy at Marineford lmao. I wasn't expecting that one haha
Me, knowing dressrosa: See you in 3 weeks Murph. That should be enough time to fully digest the arc.
Edit: called it lol.
For those of us who have made it to Wano, looking back at Punk Hazard and realizing how far we've come is mind blowing. Merphy has no idea how far into the future she's looking.
Always appreciate the enthusiasm that Merphy has. 😃
Wish I could show enthusiasm when U talk. I sound like a robot
I just want to say, Law is my favorite character. I hope he makes it in your top 5 list someday. Also, its Dressrosa and Underworld like the criminal underworld. Punk Hazard much like Water 7 is a set up arc, with its own Enies Lobby.
P.S. the emperor is Kaido and he was mentioned during Marineford. He's the one Shanks somehow dealt with before arriving on Marineford.
Week to week was very rough on this one.
I think Water 7 works betten than Punk Hazard on its own. There are a few arcs that set up the next ones: Little Garden, Jaya, Zou but I feel Punk Hazard is probably the least enteteining (many cool moments but still).
@@nikcantsnipe Also, Law is in my top 3 characters, she's definitely gonna love him in the future.
Punk Hazard is 100 percent pure setup. It's a vital arc for what's coming and was needed, but it is essentially pure setup
But like zou is also 100 percent setup and that arc is great while this arc is just not very readable.
it`s a bridge arc for upcoming arcs like dressrosa and wano.
Loved the excitement for the dragon and then the "They did eat it ._. " additional take xD
Also the Buggy D. Clown dabbing the admirals. You're embracing the powers of the next King
And in Dressrosa... you'll know another God
I always really liked Punk Hazard, and it turns out a lot of the "unnecessary" stuff in the arc is setup for later arcs. That's the thing with post time skip. The arcs aren't self contained little entities where we meet new crewmembers. It's all a big story, setting up everything that comes after it.
"This must've been rough week to week."
Me: *Thousand yard stare*
Bah! Punk Hazard was a pleasant walk in the park compared to Dressrosa.
"Fighting with heat, fighting with ice, and just being a badass"
Very good ways to describe all three of them, I also really enjoy their sword styles with Brook using 1 sword, Kin'emon using 2, and Zoro using 3. It really makes them seem like such a solid group.
I'm so glad you included that first clip from the anime. *take two*
One small payoff in this arc I loved is Luffy’s poison immunity following impel down. I feel like we don’t often seeing Luffy directly addressing the events of Impel Down/Marine Ford and so to see him have a reason to not only talk about but smile about this really traumatic thing in his past brought me this little sense of peace or hope or something like that.
"The strawhats are gonna go to WayNo and Zoro is gonna train to learn the samurai way."
Merphy br expecting a dessert, but Oda delivered a buffet😋
As someone who is reading the manga weekly I always stop with what I’m doing and watch these videos instantly whenever they come out
Do you think Merph is aware the first scans pop out on Friday mornings and she's got an algorithm gold mine for One Piece fans with her release schedule?
Daniel should learn his Goblin place releasing on Wednesday.
@@charlesacker9174 maybe, probs not but Roger might've told her
FYI - best to describe Law's DF is he is like a surgeon on an operating table, he creates a room - the bubble in Law vs Smoker, and do whatever he wants cut or swap anything including himself with the confines of the room or bubble :)
I love Robin's outer darkness and inner cuteness
Already for 3 months my fridays have been joy, as I have watched Merphy going through arcs with intensity and love that I feel I have for the series, even for arcs like Punk Hazard.. Truly I must thank you for this, it is always fun to watch these videos. Now I can't wait to be in Dressrosa for 3 weeks, beats the years we spent there in real life waiting for chapters :,D
Merphy: "They found a way to not die unless they're killed"
Anos Voldigold: "Did you really think killing me would be enough to make me die?"
Misfit is such a breath of fresh air in that whole power fantasy demon lord genre with its self-awareness...hyped asf for S2 and it's boutta be two cours😩😩
Shirou Emiya : People die when they are killed
Anos solos One Piece.
"week to week on this one must have been rough" she says. (Silent tear)
Sometimes when Oda's not up for the task, we gotta wait month to month... :')
Ah yes... The arc that has a dragon with a half bottom of a samurai that can communicate via farts. Oda, godspeed you magnificent soab
In Brook's defense...he's still really polite even when he's being pervy
Punk hazard will always hold a special place in my heart as the arc where the pacing in the anime became so bad it forced me to become a manga reader.
I'm so excited for you to experience Dressrosa, I know some people think it's too long but honestly I think it's an arc with some of the most incredible moments packed into it, and it's a great read to binge. I didn't have to read it week to week so I'm sure parts of it must have felt pretty slow at times, but experiencing it all in one go I literally couldn't put it down!