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A lot of people in twitch chat remind him of such things in general. As we know its really easy to forget/miss those details but it ultimately enriches his experience and ours too tbh (and it doesn’t mean he couldn’t remember this one 😉).
@justmyopinion79 he's definitely a fraud in current manga still. Continuously failing upwards he has no business being in his current position. Funny af tho.
For the "boss" name, the term Ace uses for Jinbei in Japanese is "oyabun", which is a title used for yakuza leaders. That's kind of a theme with Jinbei, he's modeled after the romanticized image of an honorable yakuza boss. It's also a thing in his pirate epithet. The word "Kaikyo" would normally mean "strait" or "channel", but a kanji has been switched out (海侠 instead of 海峡). The kanji thus inserted (侠, kyou, "chivalry") is one that's usually found in an honorific used for high-ranking yakuza members (任侠, ninkyou). It's a pun that doesn't really translate. Translations people have made of this include "Knight of the Sea" and "Yakuza of the Sea" - the Finnish manga localization went with "Godfather of the Seas". Viz uses "First Son of the Sea", for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. #AJPiece
*** Spoiler Warming *** I can’t believe how accurate some of AJ’s predications are. He’s legit predicting monumental moments and then follows up with “but idk” haha
#AJPiece To further the date's inferno parallels, Buggy acts as a reluctant Vergil to Luffy's Dante since Buggy explains how Impel Down works and helps guide him.
#AJPiece Something interesting to me about Ace during this arc (especially when taking other arcs into context) is the fact that we don’t see him resist any part of both being in impel down and being led to his execution until he learns how close luffy is to him. In particular when he’s trying to get away he’s not running to get out of the the prison, he’s running to go further INTO it because luffy is down on level 6. He doesn’t care about his own life, all he’s worried about is making sure his little brother doesn’t die for him and that makes some feel all types of emotions.
out of all the arcs Impel down has to be the best to binge in the series. each level they progress you just want to see more and then you get to the climatic final escape and you just cant stop watching. Oda was really in his creative prime with this.
#AJPiece One thing I love about Oda's writing is that he understands his characters so well that a simple meeting can be used to introduce such an important villain like Blackbeard. His introduction in Skypeia us so impactful and only gains weight as the series continues. And yet that simple introduction established the core of who Blackbeard is and his eventual relationship with Luffy in only a few panels. How both are so similar and yet so fundamentally different at the same time. Loving your analysis series and can't wait for the Marineford review.
#AJPiece Now AJ knows why Bon Clay is universally loved by One Piece fans. Just wanted to add that I was guilty of viewing all fishmen in One Piece as a purely antagonistic group. Because of Arlong Park, I wasn't exactly given a good first impression but everything changed by Sabaody and in Impel Down, with the introduction of Jinbe, things become more nuanced as his motive for rejecting the upcoming war shows how the fishmen race has been abandoned by the World Government - not only in their direct oppression through the marines rounding them up as slaves for the World Nobles but also in how, even in actions that are meant to protect the general public, how fishmen are impacted is never given any consideration.
#AJPiece, there's a popular (or at least, widely known) theory that Crocodile is actually a woman, and that she had Iva transform her into a man so she could be strong enough to become a Shichibukai or something. There's a funny subvariant of this theory that Crocodile is actually Luffy's mom. I am not kidding.
Amazing review as always. What I also loved about this arc is how Magellan soundly defeated Blackbeard and his whole crew. If it weren't for Shiryu, they'd be toast.
Thank you for wanting to talk about Usopp and Moria!!! One's my favorite strawhat and the other is probably my favorite villain second to Blackbeard so I really appreciate that you not only like them too but are considering talking about them more. Moria gets so much hate but he's really a great character when you look into him!!
#AJPIECE Something i really like about Iva's quote on Miracles is that they don't happen just because you wish they did, Miracles happens through sheer will and never abandoning And like you said it speaks a lot about Luffy as a character One example i can think of is his fight against Aokiji Luffy knew very well he was no match for him but still decided to fight him, to protect his friends and see the extent of his abilities/strength i guess But that determination to face Aokiji is also the reason why a crew with less than 300millions of bounty were able to escape an admiral By pushing Aokiji to fight him in a duel, he was stuck in a situation where he couldn't pursue the rest of the crew without breaking his honor because the terms of the fight were that of a 1v1 And from here we go from justifying the survival by ''plot convenience'' to an actual driving force that Luffy creates The story progressing thanks to the characters and not the plot making them progress unnaturally if that makes sense
#AJPiece Magellen's constant diarrhea is a simple reference to the demon belphagor who represents the sin of sloth. In almost all of his depictions, belphagor is shown to constantly be on a toilet. Also i don't know if anybody mentioned this during alabasta, but mr. 2 bon clay's name follows both naming conventions that baroque works had. Men would have numbers and women would have days, bon clay being a reference to festivals and days of celebration. That and his clone-clone fruit powers makes for a very fun way to break and play around with gender
I found your channel because I recently finished Impel Down and loved buggy so much that I wanted to find if more people liked him like me. Loved the review and you deep thoughs. Great quality and content!! Special mencion to Bon Clay 😭😭
That's more of him telling his tall tales to curry favor with someone, but before, it seemed more like Usopp genuinely (however unthinkingly it might have been) tried to contend Luffy for the title.
#AJpiece the best description of the difference between Luffy and Blackbeard ive heard is that - Luffy wants to become the Pirate King and BB wants to be the Pirate King Journey vs. Destination. A lot Luffy revolves how certain things should be done, best exampeled in the SH talk with Rayleigh in Sabaody. Luffy's actions and beliefe inform his progress and current goals. For BB, the end justify the means, the goals informs the actions
#AJPiece I really respect Boa. Despite her hatred of men, she was able to stand strong in a prison filled with prisoners and guards. Also, her scene with luffy when he said "thank you," in Japanese, he pronounced it "a-ri-ga-to-u," but Boa saw it as "a-i-shi-te-ru," which is "I love you," but only that word is saved for someone you deeply love.
I like to see Luffy and Blackbeard as representative of the two ways I play through an rpg. Either I just run head first through the story, no research. Just figure things out as I go, do the side quests that are on the way and being under leveled for every boss battle. Or I do my research on the game, check for every treasure pick out the best equipment, not minding how long it takes, power leveling to the point that I know I will easily win the boss battle.
Add on to that, Player Luffy leans hard into their role, making plot decisions based on what they feel is right. Player Blackbeard doesn't care which faction he currently sides with or who he betrays, only caring about what is to _his_ benefit, everyone else be damned.
I think after you finish Marineford you should definitely read One Piece Episode A by Boichi to get more background on how Ace ended up with Whitebeard. It's amazing and I think you will enjoy it greatly!
Last time he has an increase on his list of One Piece characters, he says, no AJ, no it's not. By the end, you're gonna have a top 50 list of characters
#AJPiece Concerning whether Ace deserves to be in Impel Down, truthfully, we don't know if he might have done something while he's a pirate that could have, even by our standards, received a death sentence. We don't think he has, because we know who he is, because we've read his cover stories and because we know what type of pirate Whitebeard is. But it's not inconceivable that he had attacked a marine base similar to Luffy and Enies Lobby and with how volatile his fruit powers are, he almost certainly would have killed someone in that case. The point I'm trying to make is that we don't know if Ace have actually done something that warrants imprisonment and execution (I don't believe anyone deserves to be imprisoned in a place like Impel Down, though), but the reasons we're given is "because he's part of White Beards crew" and "Because of his parentage" doesn't. Sorry, I just thought the statements you made on the topic seemed to lack that distinction and I felt it was important to include in the discussion about justice.
I’m aware, but thank you! In Marineford it’s confirmed that regardless of anything else he’s done, the primary reason for his execution is his bloodline, which is exactly the type of thing I was getting at.
#AJPiece I don't know if it's been mentioned, but it's been pointed out how Luffy having his lifespan reduced is a recurring thing throughout the story. He gets 10 years off his lifespan through this treatment, but it's also implied he loses a bit through Gear 2, and especially at the end of the Moria arc when he's so beaten up Zorro almost dies taking his injuries.Because of that, there's been theories that Luffy will die an early death at the end of the series, just like Roger at the start.
#AJPiece Now that a bunch of arcs have passed since you were last asked this - do you still think Oda's biggest strength is payoffs? Also as a bonus, since you've now read the beginnings of each of the big 3, how would you compare their styles early on?
I know I was kinda' inflammatory with my comment last time and I still feel bad about that comment. Just wanted to apologize and cute Meruem plush! Thanks for the Impel Down review!
#AJPiece Your mention of Hannyabal (?) brought something to mind. He essentially said "you pirates are ruining this - the ONLY safety and security we can know - and you don't even care! THAT'S why i hate you and won't surrender!" I might be wrong, but it seems very telling, especially considering that we hear this and get this insight only when Luffy does. It leads me to believe that many more people of the world - pirates and navy alike - are aware of the flaws and problems with the current world order than we first thought, BUT we seem to only gain these insights as Luffy does. As if we, the audience, are made to be as naive as Luffy is and we come to grow out of that naiveté with him, at his pace. This seems to keep happening in the series in the way that many things and people are fantastical and whimsical and even silly, but every arc the seriousness of all this seemingly lighthearted world is revealed to us as it is revealed to Luffy (I.e., flashbacks and back stories of characters as far back as Syrup Village seem to do this consistently, with Hachi and Cammie in Sabaody Archipelago being most recent example). No grand question, just a speculation and wanted to know your thoughts. Thank you for the content, I appreciate you.
Impel Down is so great I mean we get reintroduced to all these dope characters again Bon Clay who's MVP with Buggy who starts his journey towards becoming PK for real. Then Croco Boi with Daz Bones then new peeps Magellan with such a wicked DF that Mr. 3 counters so cool to see different DFs match up like that. Plus Ivankov the Queen out here with Jinbei first son of the sea whooping ass in a prison break 👏 Not to mention all the parallels to Buddhist hell/Dantes Inferno so much going plus to top it off BB and crew show up which almost ends in death xD
#AJPiece I fnally caught up to your most recent video after binge watching this series. I LOVE the energy and insight you bring but you keep impressing me with the amount of depth you go into each subject. Thank you for that. Finally someone who can describe themes and characters i love most of all. I only have one question, does one piece get overwhelming? not length wise but the amount of different stories that are taking place.
You keep saying Ace’s imprisonment was unlawful but I just can’t understand how you came to that conclusion. Despite our friendly view of him he’s like literally still a pirate, and a subordinate of an emperor at that lol?
Since you didn’t AJPIECE this you likely won’t get a response on this. It’s less that the him being in prison is unlawful, but the system of the prison (and of the world government in general) is unlawful or severely lacking. Impel Down holds all of these prisoners yet no one imprisoned is ever rehabilitated or released. It’s an eternal sentence. Two characters being Tom and almost Robin have nearly been sentenced to Impel Down for “crimes” that the government/navy themselves dictated unilaterally. Tom built a ship, many ships actually but Roger’s ship alone is enough to be sentenced to prison & tortured forever. Robin has crimes here and there sure, but the sole stated reason she’s sentence to Impel Down is for knowing too much. To wrap this up, in Enies Lobby they state nobody who enters the court has ever been judged to be innocent. So how can we say that IP is a lawful place?
As always, in these videos I do not articulate my thoughts using the best, optimal words due to their unscripted nature. I didn’t mean the literal reason he’s imprisoned is unlawful as much as the perpetuation of the culture that’s resulted in his imprisonment, as well as the nature of the prison itself, is unlawful. And in the Hanyabal (sp) section the main unlawful imprisonments I was thinking of were the examples Chiko provided of Robin, and Tom as well (although I don’t think I mentioned him). The WG does whatever they can to suit their agendas, and have made up nonsense to imprison the innocent for the sake of those agendas. And so while Ace isn’t “innocent,” and technically his sentence makes sense given his piracy, as I alluded to in the video the WG are the ones who set those standards and parameters. And given their track record, that precedent is so spotty that simply arresting someone due to their occupation of a pirate still feels quite flimsy to me. And to spoil Marineford, we learn that the primary reason for wanting to execute him is that he is Roger’s son. That is unlawful as hell lol (edit - unlawful isn’t the right word since they’ve established the law, but you get my meaning overall).
@Antardhana as I stated right at the beginning of the message you replied to, due to the nature of these videos I do not always select the best words to communicate my point. Hopefully that is understandable. Substitute immoral in for it if you’d like, to me the difference is negligible at best when the law they’re following gives them such a wide berth for cruelty.
I always remember ImpelDown as my favorite part of the One Piece, along with MarineFord. Though these were last arcs before timeskip, and my own enjoyment of the series slowly fizzled out after the timeskip.
#AJPiece I noticed early on in Impel Down the uncanny comparisons between Usopp and Buggy. Buggy's a fun dark mirror to Usopp and it makes you think of how different Usopp's journey could have been, had he eaten a devil fruit like Buggy had, albeit accidentally. This also made me think about the rest of the Newkama and how similar they are to the missing Straw Hats. Mr.2 Bonclay is an inverse Sanji in the way his adherence to his ideals often led him to make rash decisions. Daz Bones (Mr.1) seems a bit humbled by Zoro since we last saw him. Even when he was heading to take over that ship, I was thinking of Zoro and how his fight with Mihawk humbled him. Ivan reminds me of Chopper in a backalley doctor sort of way and also they're pride in who they are regardless what others think of them, mind you Ivan's got years of honing his/her pride on Chopper. Jinbei's resourcefulness, utility, and empathy reminds me of Frankie. Even reminds of Tom, the fishman who raised him. Even Mr.3's utility and straight-man attitude reminds me of Nami with how he banks off of Buggy and Luffy. Robin's Newkama respect is a bit harder to pin down though, right now, Ace is in a very similar disposition mentally and physically with her when she was in Enies Lobby. I don't have a comparison for Brook other than maybe the primary antagonist of this ark, Megellan, and his devil fruit's downside of giving him the runs compared to Brook's not having much of an upside (as far as we know this far). Still, I thought I'd get these thoughts down. But overall, I could feel the spirit of the other Straw Hats, even if they weren't there with Luffy.
#AJPiece Firstly, I wanna say I’ve been a very long time fan of the channel, especially your Hunter x Hunter and Haikyu videos. Always a pleasure to see a new video pop up on my feed. I’m gonna upgrade my Patron tier next payday so I can get early access to your One Piece reviews because for the first time since you’ve started this series I’m finally caught up to where you are. One Piece has been what I’d call a pleasant surprise for me. I never planned on reading it, but a friend passed away who loved OP and your series reviews so in his honor, I’d like to share his love for your videos and One Piece. We bonded a lot discussing your takes on HxH over the past few years and it’s a small but nonetheless important part of my memory of him. Thanks for that. I’m really excited to be caught up to you - I’ve been anticipating this video a lot since I caught up to Amazon Lily a short time after you posted your review of that arc. One thing I’ve really grown to love about One Piece is the way Oda takes the time to explore so many different ideas. Sometimes it feels like it’s at the expense of efficiency in his storytelling, but I think One Piece fans really value Oda’s sort of meandering style of writing. He explores so many ideas and rarely forgets them, for example the Laboon connection to Brook. This results in so many engaging plot lines and hooks that always seem to coalesce in exciting ways. Impel Down is a another example of these ideas that have been cooking for hundreds of chapters coming together in insane ways. My question(s) for you is/are, do you think Oda sacrifices efficient storytelling for the sake of over-exploring ideas or do you like his willingness to take time to expand on his ideas as he sees fit? Do you think this could eventually become too much down the line and result in a climax being bogged down by too many moving parts? Would you rather Oda get more to the point in some cases or are you happy to just be along for the ride in general? Thanks so much for the content! Always a pleasure. ALSO MR 2 BON CLAY THE UNDISPUTED GOAT
Ace was an infamous pirate in the crew of an Emperor who amassed everything he had through a lifetime of crime and even though Robin started out blameless, eventually she was helping Crocodile overthrow Alabasta so she could read a poneglyph. They're sympathetic characters but they are NOT innocent. The World Government being rotten at the top doesn't automatically make pirates good people for opposing them.
I never said that they were any of those things. I didn’t say they were innocent, nor that they were good people. I’ve said that the world government are short-sighted (and cruel). And Robin was persecuted as a literal child.
#AJPiece For me, Jinbei wasn't someone who believed in miracle or anything like that. He's an honorable person, he always paid back his debt and respect the one who showed him goodwill. The reason he's close with Whitebeard because Whitebeard protect his homeland by claiming as his territory to deterred pirates invading it. He felt grateful and also saw that a lot of island were protected by Whitebeard that way so he has a lot of respect to him and saw him as someone who's important to the world, which is the reason he wanted to stop the war. I only watched the anime (not sure if its the same in manga), he said that he wanted to choose his own way to die and that is by laying down his life for Whitebeard when he asked Luffy to let him out. He also choose to trust Luffy because he has good relationship with Ace where he already heard about Luffy through Ace.
I mean I was just repeating what he said within the story, for me there’s no ambiguity there due to the emphasis and wording on that line. I’ll se show it plays out in future arcs.
I thought that the "defenders of justice" comment by the narrator was more of describing the Navy's perceived stance of what they are. As if you'd ask what a marine soldier is doing there today. But ya I guess you could be right too. Who knows who's really narrating the story of One Piece? Lol
#AJPiece POTENTIAL SPOILER ( but, u will have read the marineford/summit war by this time ) Very Interesting you felt that characters could die in this series ( non flashback ) because of Pel .The "incident" hit me like a truck and is one of most intense emotions I have felt in my entire life. BTW , Whitebeard is my favorite character in all of one piece , I started from hating him with him dismissing shanks but , Marineford changed it a lot . Whitebeard has entirely changed my ideal of a leader(Machiavellian) on it's head and I still Idealize him for it. He is the man who is unofficially given the epithet of king of the seas( Pirate King ) and I love this acknowledgement from oda.
Most people locked up at Impel Down have done terrible things and don't deserve sympathy. A few good people doesn't make them unjustified in what they do. It's no different than our world.
I’m aware that many deserve to be there and I never gave them any sympathy, so that comment confuses me. There is no justification for what they’ve done to Ohara, Robin, Tom, etc, and nothing to excuse killing people due to their bloodline.
#AJPiece I'd like to know your theorys about Crocodille's "weakness" or past, if you have any. Since Iva is the one who knows something about him it could have to do with his gender, or body, it could also have to do with his devil fruit or even the revolutionary army
#AJPiece Impel Down is always an interesting wrinkle in Luffy's morality. Luffy is, at his core, a good man, but his general ideology is dangerously and inherently selfish. Luffy didn’t know what Arlong was doing, he went out of his way to not learn it, he fought for Nami. Same thing with Vivi and Alabasta or Robin and the whole Lobby stuff. Debatably even at Skypeia his motivation was Cricket. Here it's taken to the extreme, for Ace Luffy helps release some pretty genuinely awful people. It tends to work out because Luffy is good, but if it wasn't Luffy, if Luffy wasn’t that kind of character, thos is what his ideals could cause.
@@emperorluffy6001 I'm...not sure you understand what was meant. It's a wrinkle in how we perceive his morality, his ideals, not in that it's inconsistent. That doesn't even make sense, I literally brought up Nami, AKA at the beginning, as an example for how it's always been a thing.
The reason Robin gave herself up was to prevent a buster call from being used. She knows and cares about the countless deaths it causes. But instead of honoring her decision Luffy goes all out to war. It is extremely self-centered and he doesn't concern himself with the deadly consequences of his actions. Luffy is not a good person.
Since this video will be in the Post-War video I believe? How does Marineford + Post-War if you consider them one cohesive story stack up to other shonen arcs or arcs in general that you've experienced? #AJPiece
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I am very glad you remembered that Sakazuki is the same man who ordered the civilian ships to be destroyed at Ohara. Not many people remember that.
A lot of people in twitch chat remind him of such things in general. As we know its really easy to forget/miss those details but it ultimately enriches his experience and ours too tbh (and it doesn’t mean he couldn’t remember this one 😉).
I rewatched and forgot again 😭
Buggy embodies the quote "fake it until you make it"
yeah baby
Except he's not actually fake in the current part of the manga. He was at the beginning.
@justmyopinion79 he's definitely a fraud in current manga still. Continuously failing upwards he has no business being in his current position. Funny af tho.
For the "boss" name, the term Ace uses for Jinbei in Japanese is "oyabun", which is a title used for yakuza leaders. That's kind of a theme with Jinbei, he's modeled after the romanticized image of an honorable yakuza boss.
It's also a thing in his pirate epithet. The word "Kaikyo" would normally mean "strait" or "channel", but a kanji has been switched out (海侠 instead of 海峡). The kanji thus inserted (侠, kyou, "chivalry") is one that's usually found in an honorific used for high-ranking yakuza members (任侠, ninkyou). It's a pun that doesn't really translate. Translations people have made of this include "Knight of the Sea" and "Yakuza of the Sea" - the Finnish manga localization went with "Godfather of the Seas". Viz uses "First Son of the Sea", for reasons I'm not entirely sure of.
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Don't forget the #AJPiece haha
@@apokolypx Only meant it as an informative comment rather than that, but you know what yeah, might as well slap it on.
AJ's probably the only One Piece reviewer whose Fishman Island analysis I'm looking forward to.
Merphy Napier is another reviewer that I feel did the fishman island discussion justice
Merphy did an amazing job with her Fishman Island review.
He got through the flashback on stream the day before I write this and AJ enjoyed it
Imagine his reverie
Jay D Legend also dropped a quite long discussion about themes of FMI and it was just really well done
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I can’t believe how accurate some of AJ’s predications are. He’s legit predicting monumental moments and then follows up with “but idk” haha
Idc if it's a typo but spoiler warming is immediately one of my favourite things
Cannot wait for some stuff, even some of the things he's been hinting at come to fruition in Want
@@DocKrazy Global who? Spoiler Warming is what's really trending
Minor correction for 1:24:30 Crocodile wanted to be Pirate King. It's Mr 1 that wanted to be a hero
#AJPiece To further the date's inferno parallels, Buggy acts as a reluctant Vergil to Luffy's Dante since Buggy explains how Impel Down works and helps guide him.
Never thought about it like that
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Something interesting to me about Ace during this arc (especially when taking other arcs into context) is the fact that we don’t see him resist any part of both being in impel down and being led to his execution until he learns how close luffy is to him. In particular when he’s trying to get away he’s not running to get out of the the prison, he’s running to go further INTO it because luffy is down on level 6. He doesn’t care about his own life, all he’s worried about is making sure his little brother doesn’t die for him and that makes some feel all types of emotions.
Without spoiling anything, the synchronization of this title with the new development in the manga is beautiful
that does kind of spoil though, the title is pretty specific.
out of all the arcs Impel down has to be the best to binge in the series. each level they progress you just want to see more and then you get to the climatic final escape and you just cant stop watching. Oda was really in his creative prime with this.
#AJPiece One thing I love about Oda's writing is that he understands his characters so well that a simple meeting can be used to introduce such an important villain like Blackbeard. His introduction in Skypeia us so impactful and only gains weight as the series continues. And yet that simple introduction established the core of who Blackbeard is and his eventual relationship with Luffy in only a few panels. How both are so similar and yet so fundamentally different at the same time. Loving your analysis series and can't wait for the Marineford review.
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Title is pretty well-timed considering the recent chapter.
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I think thats why RUclips pushed this video onto me 😂 so glad it did!
#AJPiece Now AJ knows why Bon Clay is universally loved by One Piece fans. Just wanted to add that I was guilty of viewing all fishmen in One Piece as a purely antagonistic group. Because of Arlong Park, I wasn't exactly given a good first impression but everything changed by Sabaody and in Impel Down, with the introduction of Jinbe, things become more nuanced as his motive for rejecting the upcoming war shows how the fishmen race has been abandoned by the World Government - not only in their direct oppression through the marines rounding them up as slaves for the World Nobles but also in how, even in actions that are meant to protect the general public, how fishmen are impacted is never given any consideration.
#AJPiece, there's a popular (or at least, widely known) theory that Crocodile is actually a woman, and that she had Iva transform her into a man so she could be strong enough to become a Shichibukai or something. There's a funny subvariant of this theory that Crocodile is actually Luffy's mom. I am not kidding.
Never heard that theory anywhere and I constantly watch one piece yt videos and look at Reddit posts
@@pirateking8988 theres always memes and posts about it
How did they come to that conclusion?
@@pirateking8988 it’s pretty popular, I’ve seen it around
@@jamescook5783 It's not anywhere close to being confirmed it's just because Ivankov knows a secret about Crocodile that made him uncomfortable
Amazing review as always. What I also loved about this arc is how Magellan soundly defeated Blackbeard and his whole crew. If it weren't for Shiryu, they'd be toast.
Skypiea is my favourite arc, Impel Down is my second favourite. Glad to see you so enthusiastic about both.
You are the first person I have ever seen saying skypiea arc is their favorite. Which is a shame cuz it's a pretty underrated arc
Thank you for wanting to talk about Usopp and Moria!!! One's my favorite strawhat and the other is probably my favorite villain second to Blackbeard so I really appreciate that you not only like them too but are considering talking about them more. Moria gets so much hate but he's really a great character when you look into him!!
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Something i really like about Iva's quote on Miracles is that they don't happen just because you wish they did, Miracles happens through sheer will and never abandoning
And like you said it speaks a lot about Luffy as a character
One example i can think of is his fight against Aokiji
Luffy knew very well he was no match for him but still decided to fight him, to protect his friends and see the extent of his abilities/strength i guess
But that determination to face Aokiji is also the reason why a crew with less than 300millions of bounty were able to escape an admiral
By pushing Aokiji to fight him in a duel, he was stuck in a situation where he couldn't pursue the rest of the crew without breaking his honor because the terms of the fight were that of a 1v1
And from here we go from justifying the survival by ''plot convenience'' to an actual driving force that Luffy creates
The story progressing thanks to the characters and not the plot making them progress unnaturally if that makes sense
#AJPiece Magellen's constant diarrhea is a simple reference to the demon belphagor who represents the sin of sloth. In almost all of his depictions, belphagor is shown to constantly be on a toilet.
Also i don't know if anybody mentioned this during alabasta, but mr. 2 bon clay's name follows both naming conventions that baroque works had. Men would have numbers and women would have days, bon clay being a reference to festivals and days of celebration. That and his clone-clone fruit powers makes for a very fun way to break and play around with gender
I found your channel because I recently finished Impel Down and loved buggy so much that I wanted to find if more people liked him like me. Loved the review and you deep thoughs. Great quality and content!! Special mencion to Bon Clay 😭😭
Glad you enjoyed! Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for the next one!
9:15 I want to point out that usopp does still call himself captain when he's leading people
That's more of him telling his tall tales to curry favor with someone, but before, it seemed more like Usopp genuinely (however unthinkingly it might have been) tried to contend Luffy for the title.
#AJpiece the best description of the difference between Luffy and Blackbeard ive heard is that - Luffy wants to become the Pirate King and BB wants to be the Pirate King
Journey vs. Destination.
A lot Luffy revolves how certain things should be done, best exampeled in the SH talk with Rayleigh in Sabaody. Luffy's actions and beliefe inform his progress and current goals.
For BB, the end justify the means, the goals informs the actions
Excited to listen to this tonight as I train. Thanks friend.
Let’s go!!!! I’ve been so excited for this one❤
Finally Impel Down. This has to be one of my favourite arcs in one piece and it is also the arc that i have the most childhood memories from.
I can’t belive buggy being amazing and t-bone we’re both brought up in a review this time of all time
#AJPiece I really respect Boa. Despite her hatred of men, she was able to stand strong in a prison filled with prisoners and guards.
Also, her scene with luffy when he said "thank you," in Japanese, he pronounced it "a-ri-ga-to-u," but Boa saw it as "a-i-shi-te-ru," which is "I love you," but only that word is saved for someone you deeply love.
Ahh Buggy D. Clown….
He’s the reverse of How Gravity works. Unlike most, when Buggy Falls, he Falls Upward.
I like to see Luffy and Blackbeard as representative of the two ways I play through an rpg.
Either I just run head first through the story, no research. Just figure things out as I go, do the side quests that are on the way and being under leveled for every boss battle.
Or I do my research on the game, check for every treasure pick out the best equipment, not minding how long it takes, power leveling to the point that I know I will easily win the boss battle.
Add on to that, Player Luffy leans hard into their role, making plot decisions based on what they feel is right.
Player Blackbeard doesn't care which faction he currently sides with or who he betrays, only caring about what is to _his_ benefit, everyone else be damned.
@@commonviewer2488 yup
The Fishman Island streams have been really great, opening my eyes and allowing me to enjoy the arc more than ever before.
Mark my words, Buggy will be the pirate king
Yessir! I‘ve been rewatching the Amazon Lily video today when I got the twitch notification that you’re live. I was hoping this will be uploaded today
I think after you finish Marineford you should definitely read One Piece Episode A by Boichi to get more background on how Ace ended up with Whitebeard. It's amazing and I think you will enjoy it greatly!
He was told on stream that it has wano spoilers
Man it makes me so hyped to hear you talk about these arcs that I wanna read One piece for a third time XD
Last time he has an increase on his list of One Piece characters, he says, no AJ, no it's not. By the end, you're gonna have a top 50 list of characters
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Concerning whether Ace deserves to be in Impel Down, truthfully, we don't know if he might have done something while he's a pirate that could have, even by our standards, received a death sentence. We don't think he has, because we know who he is, because we've read his cover stories and because we know what type of pirate Whitebeard is. But it's not inconceivable that he had attacked a marine base similar to Luffy and Enies Lobby and with how volatile his fruit powers are, he almost certainly would have killed someone in that case.
The point I'm trying to make is that we don't know if Ace have actually done something that warrants imprisonment and execution (I don't believe anyone deserves to be imprisoned in a place like Impel Down, though), but the reasons we're given is "because he's part of White Beards crew" and "Because of his parentage" doesn't.
Sorry, I just thought the statements you made on the topic seemed to lack that distinction and I felt it was important to include in the discussion about justice.
I’m aware, but thank you! In Marineford it’s confirmed that regardless of anything else he’s done, the primary reason for his execution is his bloodline, which is exactly the type of thing I was getting at.
@@Aleczandxr I understand. I just felt that it was an important distinction ^^;
i appreciate the Buggy hype and he gets even better in recent chapters I'm sure you'll love the development there
Never seen your channel before, but you like one piece, are analytical, have the offspring merch, while xenoblade music plays. LET'S GO DUDEEE
If you’ve been keeping up since this, welcome in!
cool review on my favourite one piece arc
#AJPiece I don't know if it's been mentioned, but it's been pointed out how Luffy having his lifespan reduced is a recurring thing throughout the story. He gets 10 years off his lifespan through this treatment, but it's also implied he loses a bit through Gear 2, and especially at the end of the Moria arc when he's so beaten up Zorro almost dies taking his injuries.Because of that, there's been theories that Luffy will die an early death at the end of the series, just like Roger at the start.
Add #AJPiece and he might address this in the second next video
I am so glad that no one spoiled one piece for AJ, it actually shows you how good Oda is at making us clueless while reading.
#AJPiece Now that a bunch of arcs have passed since you were last asked this - do you still think Oda's biggest strength is payoffs? Also as a bonus, since you've now read the beginnings of each of the big 3, how would you compare their styles early on?
Ngl, but as an absolute water 7 saga fan I'd love a spandam video.
I know I was kinda' inflammatory with my comment last time and I still feel bad about that comment. Just wanted to apologize and cute Meruem plush! Thanks for the Impel Down review!
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I eagerly await you learning about the crossing of a certain guild
1:24:16 ah yes the origins of the greatest theory in all of One Piece
lmao its a miracle he doesn't get spoiled "hires dozens of mods to check any form of communication" lmao
Good video! Gonna check out the previous ones!
#AJPiece Your mention of Hannyabal (?) brought something to mind. He essentially said "you pirates are ruining this - the ONLY safety and security we can know - and you don't even care! THAT'S why i hate you and won't surrender!"
I might be wrong, but it seems very telling, especially considering that we hear this and get this insight only when Luffy does. It leads me to believe that many more people of the world - pirates and navy alike - are aware of the flaws and problems with the current world order than we first thought, BUT we seem to only gain these insights as Luffy does. As if we, the audience, are made to be as naive as Luffy is and we come to grow out of that naiveté with him, at his pace.
This seems to keep happening in the series in the way that many things and people are fantastical and whimsical and even silly, but every arc the seriousness of all this seemingly lighthearted world is revealed to us as it is revealed to Luffy (I.e., flashbacks and back stories of characters as far back as Syrup Village seem to do this consistently, with Hachi and Cammie in Sabaody Archipelago being most recent example).
No grand question, just a speculation and wanted to know your thoughts.
Thank you for the content, I appreciate you.
1:24:45 The birth of the crocomom theory
16:41 trust me it gets even better.
Buggy D clown has to become the pirate king
Wow. You really blazed through the saga.
About the Iva, Croc interaction, you should look up the croccomom theory
Impel Down is so great I mean we get reintroduced to all these dope characters again Bon Clay who's MVP with Buggy who starts his journey towards becoming PK for real. Then Croco Boi with Daz Bones then new peeps Magellan with such a wicked DF that Mr. 3 counters so cool to see different DFs match up like that. Plus Ivankov the Queen out here with Jinbei first son of the sea whooping ass in a prison break 👏 Not to mention all the parallels to Buddhist hell/Dantes Inferno so much going plus to top it off BB and crew show up which almost ends in death xD
Wild to see bts merch in a one piece video
There isn’t any BTS merch in this video, you’re mistaking it for something else! (edit - I am a fool)
@@Aleczandxr as in beyond the summit? isn't that shirt from smash summit, like 12 or 13? The one that was survivor themed
Ahhh my mistake, I thought you meant the South Korean boyband LOL. Yep you’re absolutely correct, I adore the Smash scene.
30:10 SPOILERSSS(Not Really) -->
Yessss! Someone dies...
ME - Dies Waiting for these One Piece videos to come out XD
Love your content! Keep it up!
#AJPiece I fnally caught up to your most recent video after binge watching this series. I LOVE the energy and insight you bring but you keep impressing me with the amount of depth you go into each subject. Thank you for that. Finally someone who can describe themes and characters i love most of all.
I only have one question, does one piece get overwhelming? not length wise but the amount of different stories that are taking place.
So perfect timing.
6:45 I'm kinda glad AJ forgot this bit about Sabondy.
You keep saying Ace’s imprisonment was unlawful but I just can’t understand how you came to that conclusion. Despite our friendly view of him he’s like literally still a pirate, and a subordinate of an emperor at that lol?
Since you didn’t AJPIECE this you likely won’t get a response on this. It’s less that the him being in prison is unlawful, but the system of the prison (and of the world government in general) is unlawful or severely lacking. Impel Down holds all of these prisoners yet no one imprisoned is ever rehabilitated or released. It’s an eternal sentence. Two characters being Tom and almost Robin have nearly been sentenced to Impel Down for “crimes” that the government/navy themselves dictated unilaterally. Tom built a ship, many ships actually but Roger’s ship alone is enough to be sentenced to prison & tortured forever. Robin has crimes here and there sure, but the sole stated reason she’s sentence to Impel Down is for knowing too much.
To wrap this up, in Enies Lobby they state nobody who enters the court has ever been judged to be innocent. So how can we say that IP is a lawful place?
As always, in these videos I do not articulate my thoughts using the best, optimal words due to their unscripted nature. I didn’t mean the literal reason he’s imprisoned is unlawful as much as the perpetuation of the culture that’s resulted in his imprisonment, as well as the nature of the prison itself, is unlawful. And in the Hanyabal (sp) section the main unlawful imprisonments I was thinking of were the examples Chiko provided of Robin, and Tom as well (although I don’t think I mentioned him). The WG does whatever they can to suit their agendas, and have made up nonsense to imprison the innocent for the sake of those agendas. And so while Ace isn’t “innocent,” and technically his sentence makes sense given his piracy, as I alluded to in the video the WG are the ones who set those standards and parameters. And given their track record, that precedent is so spotty that simply arresting someone due to their occupation of a pirate still feels quite flimsy to me.
And to spoil Marineford, we learn that the primary reason for wanting to execute him is that he is Roger’s son. That is unlawful as hell lol (edit - unlawful isn’t the right word since they’ve established the law, but you get my meaning overall).
@Antardhana as I stated right at the beginning of the message you replied to, due to the nature of these videos I do not always select the best words to communicate my point. Hopefully that is understandable. Substitute immoral in for it if you’d like, to me the difference is negligible at best when the law they’re following gives them such a wide berth for cruelty.
I always remember ImpelDown as my favorite part of the One Piece, along with MarineFord. Though these were last arcs before timeskip, and my own enjoyment of the series slowly fizzled out after the timeskip.
that's sad to hear , post time skip has 10'10 arcs too
i see where u coming from but i heavily disagree
Buggy in the flesh
You're catching up to me, I reckon I will pick the anime up again to finish arcs before the manga review!!
definitely should have been reading it in color
I do read it in colour, I have them sent to me
@@Aleczandxr awesome I think it makes it even better having everything in color your one piece videos are great also
#AJPiece I noticed early on in Impel Down the uncanny comparisons between Usopp and Buggy. Buggy's a fun dark mirror to Usopp and it makes you think of how different Usopp's journey could have been, had he eaten a devil fruit like Buggy had, albeit accidentally.
This also made me think about the rest of the Newkama and how similar they are to the missing Straw Hats. Mr.2 Bonclay is an inverse Sanji in the way his adherence to his ideals often led him to make rash decisions. Daz Bones (Mr.1) seems a bit humbled by Zoro since we last saw him. Even when he was heading to take over that ship, I was thinking of Zoro and how his fight with Mihawk humbled him. Ivan reminds me of Chopper in a backalley doctor sort of way and also they're pride in who they are regardless what others think of them, mind you Ivan's got years of honing his/her pride on Chopper. Jinbei's resourcefulness, utility, and empathy reminds me of Frankie. Even reminds of Tom, the fishman who raised him. Even Mr.3's utility and straight-man attitude reminds me of Nami with how he banks off of Buggy and Luffy. Robin's Newkama respect is a bit harder to pin down though, right now, Ace is in a very similar disposition mentally and physically with her when she was in Enies Lobby. I don't have a comparison for Brook other than maybe the primary antagonist of this ark, Megellan, and his devil fruit's downside of giving him the runs compared to Brook's not having much of an upside (as far as we know this far). Still, I thought I'd get these thoughts down. But overall, I could feel the spirit of the other Straw Hats, even if they weren't there with Luffy.
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Firstly, I wanna say I’ve been a very long time fan of the channel, especially your Hunter x Hunter and Haikyu videos. Always a pleasure to see a new video pop up on my feed. I’m gonna upgrade my Patron tier next payday so I can get early access to your One Piece reviews because for the first time since you’ve started this series I’m finally caught up to where you are. One Piece has been what I’d call a pleasant surprise for me. I never planned on reading it, but a friend passed away who loved OP and your series reviews so in his honor, I’d like to share his love for your videos and One Piece. We bonded a lot discussing your takes on HxH over the past few years and it’s a small but nonetheless important part of my memory of him. Thanks for that. I’m really excited to be caught up to you - I’ve been anticipating this video a lot since I caught up to Amazon Lily a short time after you posted your review of that arc.
One thing I’ve really grown to love about One Piece is the way Oda takes the time to explore so many different ideas. Sometimes it feels like it’s at the expense of efficiency in his storytelling, but I think One Piece fans really value Oda’s sort of meandering style of writing. He explores so many ideas and rarely forgets them, for example the Laboon connection to Brook. This results in so many engaging plot lines and hooks that always seem to coalesce in exciting ways. Impel Down is a another example of these ideas that have been cooking for hundreds of chapters coming together in insane ways. My question(s) for you is/are, do you think Oda sacrifices efficient storytelling for the sake of over-exploring ideas or do you like his willingness to take time to expand on his ideas as he sees fit? Do you think this could eventually become too much down the line and result in a climax being bogged down by too many moving parts? Would you rather Oda get more to the point in some cases or are you happy to just be along for the ride in general?
Thanks so much for the content! Always a pleasure.
ALSO MR 2 BON CLAY THE UNDISPUTED GOAT
bugi goat for so many reasons :)))) cant wait for u to catch up to us
Ace was an infamous pirate in the crew of an Emperor who amassed everything he had through a lifetime of crime and even though Robin started out blameless, eventually she was helping Crocodile overthrow Alabasta so she could read a poneglyph. They're sympathetic characters but they are NOT innocent. The World Government being rotten at the top doesn't automatically make pirates good people for opposing them.
I never said that they were any of those things. I didn’t say they were innocent, nor that they were good people. I’ve said that the world government are short-sighted (and cruel).
And Robin was persecuted as a literal child.
This is beautiful
#AJPiece
For me, Jinbei wasn't someone who believed in miracle or anything like that. He's an honorable person, he always paid back his debt and respect the one who showed him goodwill. The reason he's close with Whitebeard because Whitebeard protect his homeland by claiming as his territory to deterred pirates invading it. He felt grateful and also saw that a lot of island were protected by Whitebeard that way so he has a lot of respect to him and saw him as someone who's important to the world, which is the reason he wanted to stop the war. I only watched the anime (not sure if its the same in manga), he said that he wanted to choose his own way to die and that is by laying down his life for Whitebeard when he asked Luffy to let him out. He also choose to trust Luffy because he has good relationship with Ace where he already heard about Luffy through Ace.
I mean I was just repeating what he said within the story, for me there’s no ambiguity there due to the emphasis and wording on that line. I’ll se show it plays out in future arcs.
Fingers crossed you're never spoiled on any of the remaining big stuff.
spoiler for the newest chapter
the title ist perfect for the whole fandom rn, even the people who didnt care for him before love him now
Dragon is always looking at the East, that’s what Iva said to Dragon, bro👌👍
I thought that the "defenders of justice" comment by the narrator was more of describing the Navy's perceived stance of what they are. As if you'd ask what a marine soldier is doing there today. But ya I guess you could be right too. Who knows who's really narrating the story of One Piece? Lol
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POTENTIAL SPOILER ( but, u will have read the marineford/summit war by this time )
Very Interesting you felt that characters could die in this series ( non flashback ) because of Pel .The "incident" hit me like a truck and is one of most intense emotions I have felt in my entire life.
BTW , Whitebeard is my favorite character in all of one piece , I started from hating him with him dismissing shanks but , Marineford changed it a lot . Whitebeard has entirely changed my ideal of a leader(Machiavellian) on it's head and I still Idealize him for it. He is the man who is unofficially given the epithet of king of the seas( Pirate King ) and I love this acknowledgement from oda.
Buggy is literally the goat and the true king of the pirates
Love the chika sweatshirt
please put more live reaction clips from key moments
SPOILER!
45:41 he's gonna be in for a treat once he reaches the current arc (egghead & hachinosu) :D
Buggy's stock only goes up, it's to the moon.
Vivi, Iceberg and Jimbei are all BLUE.
Is this Goda foreshadowing for something?
Vivi, Iceberg and Jimbei are ALL BLUE.
#AJPiece Do you think Buggy is genuinely underrated?
Most people locked up at Impel Down have done terrible things and don't deserve sympathy. A few good people doesn't make them unjustified in what they do. It's no different than our world.
I’m aware that many deserve to be there and I never gave them any sympathy, so that comment confuses me. There is no justification for what they’ve done to Ohara, Robin, Tom, etc, and nothing to excuse killing people due to their bloodline.
#AJPiece I'd like to know your theorys about Crocodille's "weakness" or past, if you have any. Since Iva is the one who knows something about him it could have to do with his gender, or body, it could also have to do with his devil fruit or even the revolutionary army
Man the timing with that title and this weeks chapter (ch 1082)
Lmao
This is the first of buggys expedentures the latest chapters gave his character so much dept
we ALL. love Buggy.
#AJPiece Impel Down is always an interesting wrinkle in Luffy's morality. Luffy is, at his core, a good man, but his general ideology is dangerously and inherently selfish.
Luffy didn’t know what Arlong was doing, he went out of his way to not learn it, he fought for Nami. Same thing with Vivi and Alabasta or Robin and the whole Lobby stuff. Debatably even at Skypeia his motivation was Cricket.
Here it's taken to the extreme, for Ace Luffy helps release some pretty genuinely awful people.
It tends to work out because Luffy is good, but if it wasn't Luffy, if Luffy wasn’t that kind of character, thos is what his ideals could cause.
Not at all. I don't think thats a wrinkle. Luffy has ALWAYS been a character that does whatever suits him without caring about the consequences.
@@emperorluffy6001 I'm...not sure you understand what was meant. It's a wrinkle in how we perceive his morality, his ideals, not in that it's inconsistent. That doesn't even make sense, I literally brought up Nami, AKA at the beginning, as an example for how it's always been a thing.
@@emperorluffy6001 it is a wrinkle on his morality
@@emperorluffy6001 Luffy's actions with regards to Usopp in Water 7 and Eniez Lobby are a clear evidence against that
The reason Robin gave herself up was to prevent a buster call from being used.
She knows and cares about the countless deaths it causes.
But instead of honoring her decision Luffy goes all out to war.
It is extremely self-centered and he doesn't concern himself with the deadly consequences of his actions.
Luffy is not a good person.
Since this video will be in the Post-War video I believe? How does Marineford + Post-War if you consider them one cohesive story stack up to other shonen arcs or arcs in general that you've experienced? #AJPiece
Maglin? Ah Magellan (mu jel an) like Ferdinand Magellan
So.. Camie?
Iva said he knows Crocodile’s weaknesses; Their is a theory that Crocodile was once a woman and Iva turned her into a man👌👍
AJ has been informed of Crocomom
Crocodad*
Buggy Stocks Raising
Buggy D. Clown
ye many parts of one piece are amazing on the rewatch/reread ive done so 7 times now XD
Cant wait foor him to see that one garpp scene after with that one chick
Buggy is the best character
Love how this isn’t even a meme anymore. 😂
1:27:22 i don't want him to 💀
i love him but it would be an even worse version of Pell so yeah i would rather that he stay dead.