to add to the scale of shanks' level he walked out into the middle of a war with a single ship of easily less than 100 hundred pirates, blocked a single attack, didn't kill anybody and then proceeeded to tell everyone "this shit is done" *and the war fucking ended*
Buggy was important cause he accidentally transmitted the deaths to the whole world, plus white beard showing respect to buggy just to have the help of the other prisoners. Also mr3 and crocodile were kind of MVPs on the battle.
Buggy also slowed down their plan sin e the government didn't want to show them doing anything cruel or negative so the longer buggy kept the cameras on the worse the government looked.
Exactly. Buggy made whitebeards speech at the end actually reach the whole world. It also changed the landscape of the worlds view of the Navy. It definitely set up some future insecurities for the world's view of the Navy.
3:30 Actually we did see Akainu before , it's just that he wasn't referred to as Akainu ! He was the Vice-Admiral that destroyed the civilian ship on Ohara and he was referred with his real name , Sakazuki , instead of his Admiral epithet
@@Kavewolf1989 I know plenty who noticed, including myself. And honestly, this is something you might not want to miss if you plan to make a one hour long video analysis of the arc with a specific segment for Akainu. It would be like me reviewing a movie I didn't understand and trying to explain the characters and symbolisms. Bottomline: If 4 minutes long into a 1 hour video you're already wrong about a major character you're reviewing, it might make people not want to watch the other 56 minutes.
@Rotten Potato Umm, you seem to have missed the point of this series then 😂 This entire thing is based on the premise that I am a newcomer to the series, I watch it once and talk about my first reaction and thoughts - that’s it. I haven’t gone through past arcs again and I certainly don’t claim to be the encyclopedia of OP, I have and will continue to miss details, that’s just how it goes. Once I’m caught up, I plan on reading through the manga, so my perspective will obviously be much different, but as of right now - I write these minutes after finishing the arc. If you consider that a mistake, then I’m afraid this series isn’t for you. tl;dr - this is not an analysis series.
@@rottenpotato4733 I have watched more reviews and talked to more people who have missed that akainu was at Ohara then have noticed it. Thats what's great about one piece in my opinion and what's great about people who just started getting into it and becoming part of the community. There's so much stuffed into one piece and so much stuff that connects back to earlier statements and events it's fun to watch new people realize more and more how deep stuff can go.
*it is not plot armor, it is strategy. They prolonged ace's execution to make whitebeard busy fighting all those marines and admirals until he exhausted and injured so that it could be easier to kill him there. If they killed ace before whitebeard even fighting, they would only make whitebeard went rage mode and could have destroyed marineford from afar with his devil fruit. because his goal is to save ace, having ace there on top of execution platform prevented whitebeard for being reckless on using his devil fruit. As well as the admirals. Shoot 2 birds with one stone. Simple logic*
Keep coping there was all warlords there and admirals there to take him down. They could’ve done it after he was stabbed and was weak. They could’ve done it once wb was is the vicinity because his teammate would’ve been collateral damage if he went loose. They’re were plenty of times they could’ve killed ace but they didn’t just cause. For some reason they needed random soldiers to do it when they could’ve done it themselves like when the platform was destroyed and new guards needed to come.
You all really try to make sense of everything don't you. If that was their strategy why was that not mentioned even once? One piece is very much a shonen anime so it makes complete sense for them to mention to make it easier to understand for viewers. It was very much a plot Armor no matter how you see it and personally for me it did not ruin the arc one bit
@@apoorvverma602Not mentioned even once? Did you actually watch/read Marineford? The whole point was to draw as many pirates as possible into the bay so they could raise the encircling walls and trap them in a death trap, then clean up the rest outside as they please later. Ace was the bait for that. If they just killed Ace there would be no reason to walk right into the marines trap. Whitebeard could have leveled the island and his crew/allies could have dealt with the survivors after. The only reason the marines plan didn’t work as intended was Little Oars Jr’s body was too heavy and the walls couldn’t fully close.
In fact, WB really goes to Marineford to trade his life for Ace's, he was very sick and I'm sure he knew he won't survive that's why he didn't fight much in the first half of the arc, he tried to conserve his strength to cover the retreat of his sons.
So I think at the beginning of the arc the admirals were being lazy because of Sengokus plan. They wanted to wipe out all the pirates. If the admirals attacked at the beginning the pirates wouldn't have fallen into Sengokus plan with the Pacifistas. Some would have escaped, and it would have put the admirals in a less strategically safe position. Like in chess, sure the queen is strong, but if you launch it into the enemy lines at the start of the game you run the risk of losing it. So you want to wait till the right time. After the Pacifistas attack the admirals are more directly attacking If I recall correctly.
Agreed People seem to miss that there WAS a lot of strategy going on at marine ford. You just weren't given a generic scene of a guy with a toy set up of the battlefield narrating the tactics. The marines had the benefit of patiece. The whitebeard pirates did not. Yonko commanders while not admiral level can take on admirals with the right matchup. By letting the battle drag out, the white beard pirates slowly lose the abilty to pick their battles as they are in enemy territory. Hence why despite the matchup being unfavorable Jozu took on aokiji. On top of that whitebeards fruit is less effective further into an island because he needs to pull his punches or risk friendly fire. Had the admirals all attacked him at the shore it would have been a very different battle. The admirals might have still won. But facing down commanders able to pick their fights and a whitebeard who can go all out, it would have by no means been an easy fight.
yea even sakazuki yells at kizaru and kuzan that they left their positions without protecting the platform. its kinda formation made to weaken the enemy by making them fight with numbers nd when they reach the platform they have to fight with admirals again
to add to that: they were also the ones playing the defensive game, not the offensive. If they were to all just go out and fight right away, the Marines would have lost their final (and best) line of defense and would have been vulnerable to a quick ambush attack by the Whitebeard pirates. We can actually see this happen when both Kuzan and Borsalino left their posts to go fight the pirates and Jozu launched an attack on the execution plattform, which could only be stopped by Sakazuki melting the ice block. He then critisised his colleagues for abandoning their assigned posts too early, asking what they think would have happened had he too left to fight and not being able to melt the ice block right at that moment. We later see another instance of this where all 3 of them had left their posts and Marco launched an assault at the execution plattform, which had to be stopped by Garp - who was not supposed to be there in the first place, meaning they got pretty lucky with that. Garp would also then assume the defensive position that was abandoned by the 3 Admirals in the later stages of the war because of that exact problem. and yes, technically speaking Sengoku was there, but he wasnt there to fight the pirates, but as a tactician. If he had gotten lured into a battle, the Marines would have lost the man overseeing the battle and feeding them with crucial strategies and information they needed to win.
Just a parallel I would like to draw your attention to. It is not a spoiler. The three Admirals that are Akainu, Kizaru and Aokiji. Akainu - Cold hearted but has the power of fire/volcano (warm) Aokiji - Warm hearted but has freezing (cold) power Kizaru - The fastest person that can travel at the speed of light but talks and acts super slow
so fun fact: the death card in Tarot doesn't mean 'someone's gonan die". it merely means " a great change will happen". So its actually a fairly neautral card. It's THE TOWER that's the bad one, as it means DISASTER.
agreed. tower is more disaster, everything you have crumbles, your stability destroy to renew, for better newer and stronger foundation, but has to be tear down first,
Part of the reason ace wasn't executed ahead of time was the show of force. Of course they coulda just killed him right out. But doing in their way showed that even white beard couldn't stop them they didn't have to just rush kill him (for the public) then for the plan it was bait for white beard had ace just been dead whitebeard woulda just trashed the place solo with his power. But needing a rescue bring in more pirates to capture and gives them time to play this battle chess game against whitebeard vs just him standing a mile away throwing quakes over and over
Dude the speech of Doflamingo at the middle of the war was so perfect and relatable with our world history. Whenever I hear any news about a war, one thing that comes to my mind is Doflamingo's speech with his maniacal laugh.
Just a word of advice to anyone who's not caught up with the manga for One Piece. AVOID explicitly looking up One Piece content for a while. Something BIG happened in the manga recently and almost every One Piece channel is putting out videos with EXTREMELY spoiler heavy titles and/or thumbnails. I didn't mind personally, but I know some people get very upset about that kind of thing.
Ohh trust me, I've noticed. 😂 I've blacklisted every single term I can think of to do with One Piece, but noticed that A LOT of them started trending a few days ago - but no worries, unless I get directly told spoilers, I don't see any chance of that happening with the number of precautions I've taken.
@@Koroto Cool, glad to hear you've managed to avoid those so far. Also, since I've got your attention, I want to put forth a potential answer to the question of why the three Marine Admirals wouldn't be at the front of the conflict more. And I think that you can look to what happened to Little Oars Jr. for the answer. If any of the three, or even all three together, were to move to the front lines too early, or frequently, they'd have pretty much an entire army that's comparable to their own army focusing almost entirely on taking them down. So to me, it made sense for Sengoku to have them stay back and pick opportune moments to hit important targets or defend against particularly dangerous attacks. Because as overwhelmingly powerful as the three admirals are to the Straw Hats, they're still not so overpowered compared to the commanders of White Beard's forces that they can take them all openly like that. Edit: Also, Sengoku's fruit is another Mythical Zoan type, kinda like Marco's. Basically his is a mythical sub type variation of the same fruit Chopper ate. As for what he can do, the Mythical types seem to give you the powers of whatever creature or figure you become. So Marco gets incredible regeneration, flight and some level of fire manipulation. So it stands to reason the Sengoku will most likely have a bunch of abilities that Buddha did.
It is mentioned in this arc, Sengoku's fruit is a Zoan type, Human-Human-Fruit model Buddha. Garp took the hit from Luffy willingly. Senkgoku mentioned it afterwards.
@PibbDFanta daibustu refers to the statues of Buddha it's why he looks like a gold statue then an actual well human turned god, to be fair no idea what that would look like then again Buddhas fingers are supposed to be the size of mountains... so it definitely based off the statue not actually Buddha lol
Sengoku ate the Hito Hito no Mi (Human-Human DF, like Chopper), Model: Daibutsu, a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows him to transform into a giant golden Buddha and a human-Buddha hybrid at will. This power is the source of his nickname, "Sengoku the Buddha". A number of Marines claimed that they have never seen him use this power before the war.
Ace and Whitebeard's death is precisely WHY Oda didn't kill off anyone till now: there was no point. Sure 'raising the stakes' and 'drama' but honestly would killing off Igaram or Conis' Dad really add anything of substance? Is making the ending of arcs more bitter worth it just for a temporary moment of sadness? Oda seems to not think so. if he's going to kill someone off, its going to MEAN something. it's going to matter. Their deaths must affect things beyond "show how strong the bad guy is" or "make you sad". Whitebeard dies to leave a hole in the hierarchy of the world and make a power vacuum. He's the World's Strongest Man, whose very presence kept everything in balance. What's going to happen now that he's gone? Hell, what's going to happen to Fishman Island without him to protect it? Ace meanwhile died to affect Luffy. It's a very real, permanent loss for him, even more than sabaody. Its the biggest loss he's faced in his life. What will happen to him? how will he recover? WILL he recover? and not to mention now he has a more concrete reasn to defy the Worl GOvernment, as their bullshit diectly MURDERED his brother, as well as Blackbeard. These two things are very much his ARCHENEMY now. Without them, he'd still have his brother. These deaths will have REPURCUSSIONS beyon this arc, and THAT'S why they're the first real non-backstory deaths in the story.
like Oda said he feels if an author kills a character he should never revive him because he shouldnt have killed the character in the first place, as he says coming back to life from the dead is unnatural and says his characters will survive anything as he doesnt kill easily.
That's nice and all but with that thinking he shouldn't have had those fake out deaths then. It has gotten to a point that many don't believe it so when one of the deaths happens during the New World many thought it was a fake out like the rest.
I can completely understand not liking Buggy, specially here, but what about Mr 3's clutch? I found so satisfactory to see it, even if ultimately in vain. See such once-so-shallow character be moved by Bon Clay's sacrifice really seemed like a great pay off to both characters.
The Akainu vs Whitebeard clash after Ace's death was actually censored in the anime , in the manga Akainu blasted part of Whitebeard's head off but Toei couldn't/didn't want to show it on Sunday morning television
Hiya friends, just like I said last time I’m not good at talking about this sort of thing and I thought it would be much better to type it up, so please give this a read. With the subject matter and themes of the stories we’ll be delving into, I think it would be irresponsible not to address the real-world circumstances surrounding Ukraine. As some of you know, I myself am also from eastern Europe and know quite a few people who have been directly affected by the ongoing war, so this is a lot more personal on that basis alone. If you are able, I urge you to support the various organizations working to provide aid to those affected - I’ve linked a few such examples, but there are countless more which may be more easily accessible to you depending on where you are. donation.dec.org.uk/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal www.savethechildren.net/ msf.org.uk/secure/donate www.ukraine.who.foundation/
Hope this shit show ends in the near future and these horrible nuclear countries stop their rampage against the world and let us humans live.. Big emphasis in countrIES, here in America we have a big bully that indiscriminately uses our continent's name and has a monopoly on all the poor countries in the continent, I grew up horribly thanks to their influence on our already trash politics, stack onto that all the hate things they've done to our culture, the money they've dunked into cartels, the weapons they've sold to the cartels.. and we have hundreds dying daily, I was about to become one of them when I was 13, now I'm 22 and I realize how worthless our lives are to this world, seriously, nobody would've cared if I died, I know because a lot of kids that age do and not a single country even talks about it, I really hope war on your continent stops, war is the dumbest shit in existance, it's a horrible waste of human life.
Shanks: you guys fighting? Marco: nope Sengoku: not at all Mihawk: I was never here Akainu: It was just a prank Blackbeard: I was about to go home Shanks: yea that's what I thought And also Buggy D. Clown: fight me weakling 😂🤣 He is the real future Pirate King
When I first watched One Piece, I already knew Ace was going to die. It was one of the few things that had been spoiled to me prior to watching the series. I knew the death was coming and it didn’t make me cry…. But Luffy’s response to the death Ace broke me. I legit cried when Luffy screamed for his brother and it hurt me inside so much, especially knowing he had lost everything this saga. And then my sister watched this totally blind. She had gushed to me about how much she loved Ace when she met him in Alabasta and I had to keep my mouth shut about what was going to happen for 3 months after that. And then she watched it… Let’s just say her wrath was destructive and my death was agonizing and keep it there.(Jk, but she was legit really mad at me for keeping it secret)
Ooooh boy that was an intense as hell video to get through. Honestly it's so awesome to see this review series get to this point and I'm more excited than ever to see you keep going. It was interesting to see you get caught into thinking that Ace really would survive when Luffy managed to get to him and save him, which does parallel what a lot of fans thought at the time. Even when Ace was killed and the chapter was titled "The death of Portgas D. Ace", there were fans who still didn't believe someone would actually die in the present story.
Honestly I find it hilarious that you don't like Buggy, only because Oda loves Buggy. Though I can understand where you come from, not all characters will suit each person. I can't wait to see more from you and moving forward on your One Piece journey!
Fun fact in the manga the hit that Akainu landed on whitebeard didn't just remove his moustache it actually took half his head off essentially and then he kept fighting what a chad
Ace's rescue isn't plot armor at all, his execution was a show of strength, if the marines had panicked and killed him early it would completely fly in the face of all that. Your perspective is understandable given oda's relationship with death, but shows a pretty poor understanding of sengoku and his plan
That is certainly a perspective I would accept it they weren't trying to censor the entire thing in the last act anyway. At that point - the narrative is already made up, going radio-silent is not a show of power by any measure. Imagine watching in Sabaody and seeing all the cameras on the navy home-turf go out - would you really think that they were the ones in control there? If anything, blasting him then and there would've portrayed the iron-fist of the navy far better - they stop at nothing to pursue what their view of justice is, no scheduled times, no drawn out procedure or anything - they just deliver justice because that is what has to be done. I understand your read on it, but personally, I don't agree with the idea that pushing up the schedule is a show of weakness.
I think your explanation does make sense but honestly it’s not directly stated that this was their intention so saying “you have poor understanding of this” is kinda unwarranted
@@Koroto I don't think the fact that his execution was moved up was told to the public (I could be misremembering though), it was leaked to the allied pirates to make them rush, but not to the people watching from Sabaody. Sure, the World Government/Marines want to portray an iron fist to their enemies, but they also want to be seen as the good guys by the general public. From the flashes around the world that we saw, the public were already unsure if they could win or not, so instead they wanted to convince them this war is justified and that the Marines were fighting for honor, truth, and justice. Their victory will be their display of strength and they can just blame the pirates for taking out the transmissions. Though I do think that when Buggy was frozen and all the transmissions were finally cut, Sengoku should've just tried to smoosh Ace with his giant golden Buddah fist instead of waiting for another set of executioners.
Yeah, your last sentence very much summarizes my thoughts on that. I did love the whole baiting and boxing the pirates in angle, but when everything went off the rails, I think they could've had plenty of opportunity to do whatever.
@@Koroto keeping Ace alive is mostly to keep Whitebeard in check from just sinking the island without a fight and rushing the execution is not a good public image to keep
23:25 Technically Luffy doesn't HAVE to defeat the Four Emperors since to become Pirate King you just need to find Raftel/the One Piece , it's just that any Emperor not named Shanks or Whitebeard also want to find it
35:20 Just like you , the weekly reading fanbase was so used to Oda's fake out deaths at the time Ace's death happened - the chapter where Ace getting donnuted was even titled "The Death of Portgas D Ace" - the fandom didn't believe it , even thinking the next chapter would be named something like "The birth of Gol D Ace" all the way until the next chapter released .
I mean truth to be told there is some insane shit going on in Wano rn, haven't been this completely on-the-edge-of-my-seat hyped waiting for each next chapter in a while. The manga has been great in general the last few years but I'm just... Flabbergasted by the current events.
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 Lmao, people who like Onigashima, especially recently, crack me up. Legitimately some of the worst writing in all of One Piece.
Personally, I don't think Buggy D. Clown is just in here for comedy. I feel like him continually failing upwards will eventually lead to him playing a role in the endgame of the series.
God, Garp refusing to join the battle and then letting himself get hit by Luffy makes me so sad. You can tell from his actions how torn up he is inside, and how he feels like he deserves punishment for what he is doing
If you're not already doing this, I would HIGHLY recommend switching to One Pace after you finish the Post Marineford Arc. The pacing in the anime becomes absolute dogsh*t and it will drain your enjoyment of the show, regardless of who you are. One Pace is a fan made edit of One Piece that basically removes all of the padding that gets added in the anime - long drawn out shots panning over the battlefield, 30 seconds of reaction shots whenever something happens, the 5+ minutes of recap at the start of every episode, and of course all the total filler episodes. It does keep in anime original stuff that actually adds to the story, so you don't have to worry about missing that. But it cuts down the run time of the series from here on out by about 40% and you miss literally nothing. Also, once you catch up to the current arc of the story, I would highly recommend reading along in the manga while watching the anime until you're totally caught up. The manga is consistently S tier quality, and the anime is suuuuuper hit or miss. It has a really great shift in art style but the pacing is abysmal at times, and the animation goes from movie level to cardboard cutouts depending on the episode and how much money they had that week. One Piece should really be a seasonal anime so that they can keep the quality where it needs to be, but its the one cash cow that Toei will keep milking for every drop it can.
The scene of Luffy's mental breakdown still manages to shock me even though I've rewatched it so many times. Just seeing such a jovial character lose his sanity so completely to the point of his mind just refusing to work is harrowing.
I'm a Buggy D. Clown for Pirate King stand, but I understand your perspective. I do wanna point out that Buggy is the reason that the video transponder snails weren't cut off and the world knows how the war played out.
That might be true..... *BUT*.... you never know. We haven't yet seen a water-based zoan, have we 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 _jokes aside, yeah, that's probably an issue, but let me dream_
Buggy has actual character development and growth , yes his appearance in marineford was mainly for comedy, but here is the thing , In impel down. I loved that buggy begin the series as the coward who try to preserve low status away from the grand-line and all of this , searching for treasures and simple pirates live , when impel down began , we saw the same buggy , the one who takes every single opportunity , who can abandon any companion , and still wants to get out of the complicated place and search for treasures , with a big dose of luck from Oda , he founds that people look to him as a great person , follows him while doing absolutely nothing , but he take the opportunity and hides behind them to get out of the prison , at the end of the arc , this events and follower filled his ego , he thought that all of this happened because he is really the person they talk about and worship , he looked high to himself and immediately thought that he can only go up from here beginning from killing whitebeard. in marineford, we see him trying to make propaganda for himself ,which will be useful after the war, but we see him doubt himself again when whitebeard dies, that he is just another noone , So the theme of subordinates filling the ego of their leader, or making him overestimate himself is a common theme in one piece and will be explained a lot more in the upcoming arcs , marineford arc was very deep , Oda won’t write anything in it without a reason
See?! After Crocodile learns that Luffy is Dragon's son, he protects Luffy when he's passed out and about to be killed by Akainu. Croco-mom theory confirmed.
Man watching this now when we’re finally getting Kumas flashback and hearing Doffy mention that Kuma just lost all of his consciousness right before Marineford makes me think we might get a glimpse of or atleast the build up to Marineford from Kuma’s perspective which would be really interesting. Edit- and Yea I’m ngl a mythical zoan Kraken would be pretty cool Another Edit: wait has Luffy actually never seen Garp since he punched him at Marineford?? Cause dam that’s kinda a gut punch😔
23:53 It has been a long standing theory in the community that Shanks and Luffy will have a Davy Back Fight either for the One Piece or just a friendly one
I think you’ve missed the point of buggy in this arc - he wasn’t just a comedic relief. He played a big part into broadcasting a lot of moments from the war to the world, including whitebeards final moment
16:00 another layer to Garp’s inability to do anything for his grandsons is the hypothetical of if whitebeard wins. The world would be plunged into chaos because pirates now see that they can challenge the marines and win. Garp knows this and it just adds to the weight he carries in not being able to help ace
I knew about Ace’s death long before I started One Piece. So when I started it I told myself I wouldn’t get attached to him but of course……I got attached.
I was so excited for this episode and I'm always looking forward to the new videos. This feels like going through the series for the first time again, somehow. Your reactions are so satisfying and fun. It's nice to have something to look forward to.
Black Beard's true nature is hinted at when we first met him at Mocktown. It's easy to miss but I think that along with other hints explains why he can have miltiple powers.
Buggy is a clown don't think too much of his character he's there just to lightened the mood, a gag, as serious as one piece can get it is still a comedy at heart in fact one of its major theme is joy
Didn't you see Buggy being cut by the World's Greatest Swordsman Mihawk and left without a scratch? I know its like whatever but still it is an accomplishment.
I think the intention with the luffy garp clash is that garp lets luffy hit him. once you get a better idea of garps strength there's no way luffy would win a clash so easily.
I think the way black beard takes on another fruit is what he says about his devil fruit. He says the yami yami no mi can create a black hole that sucks everything in. When he demonstrates this to ace, it drags ace towards him so he can grab him and nullify his devil fruit powers. It’s also shown that when a person dies that has a devil fruit, the devil fruit power, or “soul” goes into the nearest fruit of the same kind it originally was. That’s why his crew is carrying around a bunch of different fruit so when they steal powers the soul will go into one and they now have that fruit ready to be eaten. It’s probably how they steal absoloms powers for shirio. When black beard put the tarp over white beard and they killed him, the soul of his fruit probably went to go into another fruit, but instead using his devil fruit power, black beard sucked the soul into himself. That’s my theory on how he can have both. It’s not that he has multiple souls in one body or the Cerberus theory or whatever. It’s just his fruit draws in other fruits powers to nullify them, it drags in the soul of the power the same way
I’m pretty sure that they didn’t excute ace because they wanted to film his death because It’d send out a message, but when it got serious that’s when they’d try and kill him.
I love these videos! I'm also watching One Piece for the first time and my tradition is now finishing an arc and watching your videos about it 🤓 and also embrace the tinfoil of your theories
Be on total blackout for social media on anything One Piece, whats happening in the manga right now is monumental To say 2 weeks on a row, spoils appeared on monday, when the regular fan translations are on friday can clue you on how big it was
No worries, that's what I've been doing for the past 8 (?) months. I've got literally everything to do with OP as a blacklisted term, so it just doesn't show up. 👍
@@Koroto also, 2 pieces of information I can currently share One Piece launches something called Vivre Cards which are printed in sets and are like bios and the like, many times stating info not covered elsewhere, but sometimes, as the story progress some gets rectified and few ties retconned One is sayig that apparently Garp was the strongest marine at the war, and another piece that I was going to say but remembered it actually gets mentioned way later, so even if the info was aviable around this point, ill keep it for you to watch it
Now, hear me out, with both Luffy AND Shanks being so silly a lot of the time, their Duel or Fight could just be a Davy Back fight. Something that was introduced in one of the most silly ways ever in One Piece, which would make it very comedic, still give it some stakes and Luffy could have a very skewed perception on it because of Foxy's wacky rules and cheating in it.
The way is see it, longer ace is alive the longer whiteboard can’t go all out with his powers against the island, and can draw them in to surround them, also if the admirals or anyone of that caliber went all out fighting the collateral damage would be insane, especially on home turf.
Dude, really enjoyed your video. And I must say your theories are really very good. You are able to apprehend and piece together the hints and clues in much better way than any other OP Theory channels out there. So I recommend, that once you are caught up, start making OP theory videos, you will do very good.
On the topic of surpassing Marineford: Oda said Marineford felt like a side-trip to him. He wasn't even expecting people to like it so much. He followed that up by saying the Final War in One Piece will make Marineford look like *Nothing*.
I always like that no one before this moment died. It made Ace's death feel much more shocking and like a surprise. If I knew from the very start One Piece is a show where characters die, left and right Ace's death wouldn't have hit so hard. In fact, often shows with a lot of deaths make me distance myself from the characters. "One death is a tragedy, 100 deaths are just a statistic" becomes real very fast. It makes the introduction of new characters more boring because you never know if you should invest feelings or just shrug them off to avoid getting hurt when they die just a few episodes later.
If you go back to Jaya arc when Luffy meets BB for the first time, Luffy (and/or Zoro) told Nami something in the lines: is not him, is them, referring to BB.
12:00 the idea that a devil fruit user jumps into the sea water literally cancells out your idea. They loose their power in the sea and therefore a mythical ancient kraken is so unlikely.
I’m not gonna spoil this but just know that there were two little theories that you had that where I was like:”right concept, wrong person”. I will say no more.
This is my first time hearing about the theory that black beard actually stole white beards soul and not just his fruit, and it is indeed kinda amazing albeit a bit dark theory
My favorite part of this arc is Doffy speech, im surprised u didnt mention it, its one of the best lines from Oda: “Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!”
To combat your opinion on lazy admirals, it’s not as if they can move freely. The higher echelons of both sides are at a standstill, only moving in to counter the other side. We see that with Aokiji stopping Whitebeards opening attack, and with Akainu responding to them losing ground on the ice after Luffy and the others take the stage. Both sides have Chaff, or a barrier for the other side to take care of before they have to get involved. For the admirals their chaff is expendable marines; Whitebeard however cherishes all his crew. Their strategy is to slowly chip away at Whitebeard’s chaff until he himself gets involved. We see that work perfectly as in one on one I don’t see them beating whitebeard, but by making him weaker the increase their chances. If they take him out the rest is sure to follow as we see after Pops goes down. Now I do agree their lack of presence does make them less threatening, however their strategy is rock solid and makes complete sense knowing the characters and how they feel about things like expendable crew/marines.
Whitebeard is such a chad that he calls his stache a beard and no one questions him. (Yes I know that Hige just means facial hair, and beard sound coolwr than stache.)
This is by far my favourite one piece arc I binged it all in one day and I'm not finished with the show yet but I dont think anything can top this truly perfect arc
In regards to the admirals being powerful but being more sideline: I’m pretty sure that was just a tactical decision To my knowledge, the ones in charge and\or the most powerful don’t start the battle because they are the trump cards that will lead to victory As we saw, some of White Beard’s commanders could hang with the admirals a bit..if they got too exhausted fighting them they’d get stomped by WhiteBeard later (because I still think overall the admirals were better than his commanders but the margin wasn’t by much) Also, it’s better for them to act as support and observe affairs as it gives space to see if their opposition has any unexpected tricks up their sleeve….if their men are capable enough, they’ll force the other side to pull out all the stops (not a guarantee but a possibility nonetheless) • So I can see why it would seem underwhelming and nonsensical given the scale of the admiral’s abilities, but it’s still extremely practical ______ I know I’m late and that someone else might have said this I’ve been binging these reviews for a few days (a- because I wanted a refresher of past arcs; b- I love seeing ppl commit to the amazing journey that is One Piece)
11:18 I think the reasoning for the Marines not to use the Admirals in the fight at the front is simple: if the Admirals wield so much power, what use would soldiers have and what excuse would there be to send them into a fight where they would risk their lives.
I started watching your videos a few months back because sometimes when you watch one piece they throw back to in the past so I could remember a little bit better. Love the contact by the way, and you pass me😂 I’m on episode 706 now and I’ve been watching for over a year and a half slow grind😭
So to clarify something, buggys main purpose in marineford was that he allowed the outisde world to see the war even after the navy ordered the transponder snails to be shut off, to see what ACTUALLY happened and not a fabrication
I was torn up by Little Oars Jr. large characters or animals always make me sad as they ALWAYS DIE or are horribly injured far worse than any other surviving character.
