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EP. REVIEW: One Piece

This is absolutely my favourite part about One Piece. Unlike other Shonen series like DBZ or Bleach, where everything is determined by big, flashy attacks or arbitrary power levels, One Piece prides itself on the fact that no one ever truly gets 'stronger' in a physical sense, but Devil Fruit users get better though creativity and often little else. Just look at Luffy's fight with Crocodile. They realised he uses sand, and gets weaker with water, so Luffy got a giant barrel of it, and when he couldn't use that, he used his own blood instead. Gears 2-4 are also the product of sheer creativity, not months of training. Luffy had that down pat in like 2 nights, just because he had an idea to do it. It's why Logia users were so OP early on, but less so now. They never got creative because they never needed to, so by the time they hit the New World, everyone is ready for them with Haki.

hold on. i thought do flamingo was a logia type? not the same type as luffy. at least that is how it was assumed to be during the paramount war and ceaser punk arc.

well in the manga. especially during his short fight with smoker , he kinda did though briefly, though there were zero signs of that in the anime.

and there were parts in the dressrossa arc where when they attacked him , his entire body become string. so unless that was part of the "awakening" that some devil fruits have, there are some people especially new to the series will assume his powers are logia.

Apparenlty sometimes the anime of One Piece tones down Violence for broadcast but puts it back in during home release, so me might see the Swollen face then.

i must have missed that. its not like he called this cloning tech with a name like tien's multi clone technique so probably anyone who wasnt paying attention could have easily mistaken his powers for a logia.

the only tech i do know other than the birdcage was the everwhite technique which is an "awakened" ability where according to those wiki websites are only in some zoan and logia types like eneru as well as minatauros and the jail beasts from impel down which had "awakened zoan type powers" .

the author definitely needs to clarify when it comes to devil fruit types since some of those abilites could be mistaken for a logia when in fact its a paramythia type. i would have to suspect that akainu lava powers are also paramythia and not logia as well right? i assumed he might have since aokiji and kizaru's powers are logia.

jr240483 wrote:

i must have missed that. its not like he called this cloning tech with a name like tien's multi clone technique so probably anyone who wasnt paying attention could have easily mistaken his powers for a logia. the only tech i do know other than the birdcage was the everwhite technique which is an "awakened" ability where according to those wiki websites are only in some zoan and logia types like eneru as well as minatauros and the jail beasts from impel down which had "awakened zoan type powers" . the author definitely needs to clarify when it comes to devil fruit types since some of those abilites could be mistaken for a logia when in fact its a paramythia type. i would have to suspect that akainu lava powers are also paramythia and not logia as well right? i assumed he might have since aokiji and kizaru's powers are logia.

I don't know what wikis you looked up, but while awakening is still a mostly unknown part of the devil fruits, nothing has said it's exclusive to only certain types. In fact I'm pretty sure the only awakened logia devil fruit user is a non-canon movie villain, and his movie came out after the Dressrosa arc.

And Akainu's power is logia. Logias are defined by being able to create and become a certain element, and Akainu's been able to turn his own body into magma. Doflamingo is able to create string body out of his body and can even create string from around him thanks to his awakening, but he can't turn his own body into string. Another character who some incorrectly thought was a logia user is Pica, who can assimilate with stone, turning into it and manipulating it, but he can't make stone or turn himself into stone on his own, he needs already existing stone for his powers to work.

regardless, sanji's past more or less explains why he swore to himself that he will never kick a woman during the enies lobby arc. with a mother and sister who were the only ones that treated him like a family and not like absolute crap, its makes sense. though its a mood point that it also turned him into a womanizing pervert. not to mention that he wants to be the polar opposite of his dad.

At the very least, having it as two separate episodes allows us to distinguish in our ratings between a largely pointless episode and a great one, rather than having to split the difference. It would have better not to have the former, but what's done is done.