Chapter 655: Punk Hazard

[Demonicpoodle]

At least people here on Arlong Park are generally smart.In the majority of the other foruns, it's exactly the opposite.
In fact, the levels of stupidity and retardation in some forums are so great that they literally make me cringe in agony... today, for example, I read a post out there in which a guy said that Aokiji was hidding in Punk Hazard recovering from his wounds and ended becoming an ally of the samurais there...now, together,they protect the dragons from the cruel dragon hunters that attack punk hazard....sigh...
Thing like this are rare here,but there?It's almost the law,man.

It's even worse on facebook or youtube... I have to wonder how people can be such paint-huffers. Read mangastream's comment section on their facebook chapter releases sometime.

I didn't even type like that when I was 12, and that's when I really started chatting on the internet.

Also, I find it interesting that Den-Den Mushis can cough blood (top panel).

http://mangastream.com/read/one_piece/59626333/7

[mcdreamy]

@Kami: Yeah I saw Robin steering the merry too. Robin was too epic in this chapter.

Wano is a "Zoro" island, so I want to see Zoro having fun with these Samurai. Seeing more epic Zoro techniques will make the next few weeks enjoyable.

[Gaiyae]

I'm fine with the OP world having Dragons.
But the Fire-breathing needs to get explained.

Not liking Usopp this chapter.
In the Fishman island arc events he seemed alot braver, but now he seems to same old self again, like he was when he joined.
He spend 2 years of training on an island stuggling for survival, and now he hasn't changed a bit (it seems).

[Sharkz1]

Just chiming in to agree with the sentiments about this awesome chapter.

A couple of things, though. People are being thrown off by the fact that this dragon can apparently talk. But couldn't dragons talk in the manga that was essentially the shounen parent of One Piece? You know... a little manga called DRAGON BALL? And dragons could speak in the aforementioned Skyrim and D&D. Also Filia and the dragons in The Slayers, as another anime example. I could come up with others too.

Second, I just noticed that Robin's the one who's steering the Mini Merry. Awesome.

Don't forget that the dragon in The Hobbit talked as well. I was pleased to see the Mini-Merry make a return. It seemed like forever since we last saw it.

[Saturnchild]

I think they were confused by it's ability to talk. Then again, dragons are pretty smart and I've encountered some who talked in video games, cartoons and books. It's not a new thing.

Considering we have a starfish who can talk and that as we know from Chopper pretty much nearly all animals are intelligent enough to communicate I don't really see why. Kinda wierd

Those are all just large animals. A dragon is a dragon. Nothing like any animal. They would be have the same if they saw a Griffon or Cthulhu.

Don't see much of a difference. To me the huge sea kings are far far far more impressive then just a dragon. Hell we also have the Den Den mushi's, we have giant hostile rabbits(which are again kinda more impressive then a griffon)

Not to mention that in Impel Down we had a Sphinx, Manticoras, Basilisk and so on all mythical creatures and yet very much existing

[Nolus]

Those are all just large animals. A dragon is a dragon. Nothing like any animal. They would be have the same if they saw a Griffon or Cthulhu.

I wouldn't call the Kraken "just a large animal".

I've always thought dragons are somewhat similar to lizards.

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Considering we have a starfish who can talk and that as we know from Chopper pretty much nearly all animals are intelligent enough to communicate I don't really see why. Kinda wierd

I agree. Though Chopper's case is different.

[kmohyudin]

So... smoker was waiting offshore Raijin island... which is apparently the most dangerous of the three assessible from fishman island... The question is... why the hell were all those slave pirates coming out there?? Did they all really plan to go to Raijin Island??

Since smokers return, I have yet to see him exclaim he is waiting for Luffy to catch and/ or fight him. With Aokiji gone (the admiral smoker was the closest to, speculation based on smoker going to see him for transfer, and Aokiji mentioning something during his fight with Luffy), Akainu becoming fleet admiral (and more importantly, Oda choosing to tell us he became FA when he did...) and him calling Luffy "Luffy" instead of SH, I wouldn't be suprised if Smoker wasn't antagonist anymore...

Zoro not knowing what a Samurai is? Never expected that...

[GiantGuy]

By the way, if Boa Hancock was a real person, someone should totally show her the picture of Robin feeding Luffy - how dare you, Robin, stealing Hancock's sexual fantasies and exploiting them on your own?

[kirei_lanford]

the matter with the dragon is,.... if it's really not a problem for WG or marine they should've get rid of it, cause it seems that it is the cause of the island destruction.
but it's still there (i'm assuming there's only one dragon there).
so it must be a REALLY strong creature. something that marines could not get rid of,.. could one person such as ryuma has the strength to do that??
another chance could be that the marines themselves that destroy the island, coming from the fact that they could penetrate to the winter part of the island, means the dragon mean no harm to them vice versa. So is it some kind of mythical creature that government has and hide it from the public or sth like that?

[Katzztar]

I recognise her from the cover where Iceburg was looking for a new secretary...
SPEAKING OF WHICH, I BE HAPPY TO SEE ICEBURG~!
and holy shit TYRANNOSAURUS LOOKS SO DAPPER
[/fangasm]

lol I had to find that cover an look again= http://www.mangareader.net/103-2594-...apter-487.html
What I find funny is that I've not seen anyone mention her pose on 655 is same pose Kalifa used when she was the secretary

I have a small theory. Dragons became extinct few centuries ago. Dr vaga punk conducted experiments on this island to genetically resurract dragons from DNA (much like jurrasic park), he was successful but dragons were dangerous and out of control , so the facility got destroyed by dragons.The samurai are there on punk hazard to hunt dragons as it seems history of wano is some how associated with dragons.

Thats a better theory than "its Wano!" This theory is one of teh few I can support

I'd say Nami's cloud-creation works because of better technology, hence why she doesn't use the dials anymore either.

But it's still creating clouds even though it was said to be impossible before. The dial wasn't the problem, where they were was. Probably because of the air. I didn't say it was complete bullshit, but I want Oda to actually explain how that's suddenly possible.

Good points both. The cloud dials didn't work because its lower altitude. I don't think Nami is using dials at all. At Weatheria we see those "wether balls" and NAmi asking if they could be used as weapons. I think her new staff uses the Weatheria tech, esp the weather balls, and not dials.

[Dreamer]

I really wanna see real samurais fighting in one piece.
I mean look how cool Ryuuma looks

Spoiler:

And I think this is a chance for Zoro to fight a real samurai, his fight against Ryuuma was my favorite of all Zoro's fights!

[.access timeco.]

So... smoker was waiting offshore Raijin island... which is apparently the most dangerous of the three assessible from fishman island... The question is... why the hell were all those slave pirates coming out there?? Did they all really plan to go to Raijin Island??

Since smokers return, I have yet to see him exclaim he is waiting for Luffy to catch and/ or fight him. With Aokiji gone (the admiral smoker was the closest to, speculation based on smoker going to see him for transfer, and Aokiji mentioning something during his fight with Luffy), Akainu becoming fleet admiral (and more importantly, Oda choosing to tell us he became FA when he did...) and him calling Luffy "Luffy" instead of SH, I wouldn't be suprised if Smoker wasn't antagonist anymore...

Zoro not knowing what a Samurai is? Never expected that...

I believe he got to Raijin Island AFTER he got the slave pirates and became aware Luffy was going to appear. Then he moved on to the path he thought Luffy was most likely to take.

I agree. Though Chopper's case is different.

I believe he is refering to the fact that we saw Chopper talking with other animals and, through that, we saw all those animals have human-like intelect since they can communicate and reason perfectly.

[Kishido]

I have the poor feeling that Sanji soon will get owned by Smoker... He is on the way and the people which stayed behind should spot him... and I can't see Luffy and him fighting just now.

[Nolus]

I believe he is refering to the fact that we saw Chopper talking with other animals and, through that, we saw all those animals have human-like intelect since they can communicate and reason perfectly.

Oh, I see. I totally forgot about that.

[zxcv11791]

Can't wait to see Zoro taking on some Samurai.

Also luffy needs to learn dragonrend if he plans to fight that dragon.

I have the poor feeling that Sanji soon will get owned by Smoker... He is on the way and the people which stayed behind should spot him... and I can't see Luffy and him fighting just now.

I don't think Smoker would the THAT strong. Luffy had no problem taking on Vice Admirals at marineford before and the biggest problem with fighting him in the past was just his intangibly. Also even Boa kicked him around like he was nothing.

[Katzztar]

Only little dissapointement is Usopp. I love the guy, but "come on man" is what I'd like to say to him.

Not liking Usopp this chapter.
In the Fishman island arc events he seemed alot braver, but now he seems to same old self again, like he was when he joined.
He spend 2 years of training on an island stuggling for survival, and now he hasn't changed a bit (it seems).

Agreed I loved Usopp before but enjoyed the Mansopp after teh timeskip because it showed that a guy can grow from simple village boy who lies to get a raise out of boring villagers to a novice adventurer thats nervous and lies to a brave warrior of the sea. So far after the the timeskip we've seen him act couragous but have moments of nervous "are you serious? you want to BEFRIEND that giant mosther thats 10x bigger than our ship and destroyed other ships?" at extreme moments but he still did not use the "diseace excuse" in those situations.

I litarally yelled "damn" when I read him using the disease excuse again.

It's even worse on facebook or youtube... I have to wonder how people can be such paint-huffers. Read mangastream's comment section on their facebook chapter releases sometime.

Thats one reason I rarely go to Mangafox's forum. Only whent hings get slow here and I'm really, reallybored.

Reading the thread I am kinda baffled by how many people seem to sceptic about a dragon. I mean seriously people? We have Sea Kings the size of islands, we have Kraken, fishman of all kind, giants, giant birds, giant snakes, talking starfish,living islands and so on but somehow you balk at the idea of a dragon and think it must be a zoan? Seems like a weird attitude

Plus we've seen other mythical races, mermaids, sphinxes, cockatrice and kraken. None of them were zoans.

[tatermoog]

So, any speculation on a.) why the island had no field, and b.) what the skull was that was bigger than a giant's? (i.e., Sanjuan Wolf's people?)

[fogdark]

Why can't there be dragons in One Piece?
If you remember that book with Oda's One shots, that came out a long while back, then you'll remember that story called Monsters. A story about this guy called ...RYUMA.....who was a..... SAMURAI.......in the country of.... WANO......who fought against a....DRAGON..... ;) (the few of you who haven't read it, go do it, its a fun read)
This new arc seems to be bringing quite a few elements out of this one shot, into the world of One Piece, and of course we met the body of Ryuma back in Thriller Bark. So honestly? I'm not that surprised to see a Dragon, but i am pretty excited about how this arc will develop.

[Kizuchan]

Only little dissapointement is Usopp. I love the guy, but "come on man" is what I'd like to say to him.

Not liking Usopp this chapter.
In the Fishman island arc events he seemed alot braver, but now he seems to same old self again, like he was when he joined.
He spend 2 years of training on an island stuggling for survival, and now he hasn't changed a bit (it seems).

Agreed I loved Usopp before but enjoyed the Mansopp after teh timeskip because it showed that a guy can grow from simple village boy who lies to get a raise out of boring villagers to a novice adventurer thats nervous and lies to a brave warrior of the sea. So far after the the timeskip we've seen him act couragous but have moments of nervous "are you serious? you want to BEFRIEND that giant mosther thats 10x bigger than our ship and destroyed other ships?" at extreme moments but he still did not use the "diseace excuse" in those situations.

I litarally yelled "damn" when I read him using the disease excuse again.

I actually can defend this. Sure, Ussop wasn't as much as a coward in the FI arc, but that was just during serious situations or "in a pinch"; like when the rubble from the underwater volcano was about to crush them, when the crew "took over the palace" or during the fight with with Daruma. He's still a coward outside of battle, but during battle he's pretty serious. While before the timeskip he was constantly a coward, now he's only outside of battle. You can't expect him to make a 360 in character, but this is a good compromise. After all, there's still half of the series left, you can't just complete his character development right now.

[Kizaru sama]

Amazing Chapter smoker is coming Dragons and an island with samurai that has been closed that is basically Japan in the One Piece world love how Oda keeps bringing more and more mythological things and things from the real word into OP it's still a shonen but it has every right not to be compared to it anymore.