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The fanservice seems obligatory for the genre. Well, for the target audience, too - it's not like western superhero comics are any better. What I don't really get is the Woshu Woshu no Mi. That's so...

The Mino-animals are a riff on a theme. They're based on the same thing. Changing "cow" to "zebra" doesn't change the source.

Chopper's not an Awakened Zoan. You're thinking of what Oda said about...

Ah, yes. I'm being huffy. Why, I must sit down, I feel an attack of the vapors may strike my at any moment.

Of course this isn't significant! You know what my first post said? This one thing has...

Here I was thinking I had said all that could possibly be said on this subject, but then:


Try applying this "things have only one influence" idea to One Piece and see what you get:
The admirals...

Zoro's eye? Mihawk mistook it for takoyaki.

Browser errors keep recurring, so I'll make this short. Sea Kings might as well have a name from Norse myth, because they resemble the sea serpents of Norse myth. Personally, the sea serpent...

Sea-king comes from Norse myth and history as recorded by Snorri Sturluson in 13th century Iceland. Here's what one translator of Sturluson's work said:

And here's the best part - it doesn't even...

. . . okay, I'll just look up Viking and sea-king in the dictionary. Hey, whaddaya know. Vikings were pirate Norsemen. A sea-king was a Norse pirate chief. I'm guessing you don't like this...

Oh, I see where this misunderstanding arises. "Sea-king" refers to a Viking chieftain. We can and do call Viking leaders pirates. Most of these were not literally kings - they were just vikings that...

So does Blackbeard.

If Mr. 5, a bomb-man, has explosive boogers, then can Joz poop diamonds?

Yep. I'm going to withhold judgment on Franky until he starts doing Franky things, like dancing or shooting people. I guess I should extend Chopper the same courtesy, since we've only seen him in one...

Maritime raiding is piracy. They're pirate kings. This is not an extraordinary claim.

I said they weren't PK / "king of the pirates" in the One Piece mold: "None of them were the greatest of all...

Well, I mean, it's all branching off of Kelvin's original theory. I think I originated the fingernails-of-defeated-enemies thing. With all the people who are mystified as to what Kuma's up to, I...

Don't cry for me . . .
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I'm already dead.

So, here in the U.S., a ten-year-old is usually in fourth grade. And while any smart ten-year-old is reading far above their grade level, a "fourth grade reading level" is still the recommendation...

Watchmen has a fairly superficial layer of meaning right under the surface, too. Plenty of simple visual puns and easy-to-grasp themes. I know Watchmen has layers and layers beneath that, though, and...

Why would he make cars? This world has more need of boats. A useful transportation project would be more like the Panama Canal, something that allows free and easy travel over previously impassable...

From what we've been shown, he did his best to thaw his homeland, and they loved him for it (and still do). We have yet to see his motivations for making the Pacifistas and modifying Kuma, who was a...

Doflamingo's got style. When Moria was screaming ALVIIIIIN MUGIWARA!!!, Doflamingo was smiling. This episode, we saw him casually hop down from a pile of slain enemies. And you'll find Doflamingo has...

Saying "Anything is possible" or even "This specific event is possible" is an idiotic argument, because it has no substance. "It could happen because it is possible" (which is what you quoted in your...

Stupidity can be fun to read. The problem is that the more stupidity there is in a thread, the more spite there is. Past a certain point, it's not fun to read spite, if only because it makes a thread...

Is there any imaginable backstory that would make the readers sympathize for a character whose lifelong ambition is to rule over a kingdom of zombie servants/slaves? I don't think the standard "I...

Ace and Sengoku accessorize well, but Zeff's hat deserves this one.
I think it's just as well that Lucci, Vista, Brook, and/or Hiruluk aren't representing top hats in this, or we'd get an unfair...

This is kind of a derail, but . . . the search function's not so great. For example, as a new member, I wanted to search the Theories thread for previous ideas about Doc Q. Guess what I got:
In this...

Loved this one. We got Ace delivering meaningful dialogue in a human-sounding voice, tons of nifty fight scenes, and Doflamingo being a magnificent bastard.

Favorite moment was Ivankov grabbing...

If I had to summarize this thread in one sentence, it would probably be:
Well, the jerk store called, and they're runnin' outta you!

I don't know who originally thought up the idea of a pirate king. Are there any Gilbert & Sullivan fans here who can explain who the Pirate King character is in Pirates of Penzance? That seems like a...

The name of this tournament . . .
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is SOUTHBEARD!

The fancypants string music when Fullbody enters Baratie is from Sanji's Feast.
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Your description of uplifting classical-sounding music from the Baratie arc made me think of...