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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Fairy Tail Chapter 329: The Plot Becomes Clearer

Comments:
I somewhat enjoyed Fairy Tail once again, these whole dragon shenanigans are fresh enough for me to enjoy this thoroughly.

So the plot has become pretty clear at this point: in the future the gate wasn't opened and the dragons didn't come through, but it was acnologia who started ruling the world seven years from now. Future Rogue isn't as corrupted as we thought, but still he makes for a bad guy at this point. He does want to stop Acnologia, but still he's fixated on ruling the world himself. At this point we do have seven dragon slayers versus seven dragons, now that Cobra has arrived to the scene. Maybe we'll be seeing from three to six chapter per dragon, which hopefully will be pretty interesting.


But there's a small fallback to all this. For the whole time there's been the mystery of "seven" in Fairy Tail, which I've thought as somewhat intriguing, but if the whole point of the seven was this moment, where seven dragon slayers will be fighting against seven dragons then I'm a bit disappointed. Of course the series won't be ending to defeating these seven dragons, since there's still Acnologia + Zeref left to be defeated. It's pretty interesting how the rest of the series looks a lot clearer at this point, after only one chapter. I might be wrong though.


I believe that the dragons are of course made to be defeated at this point, so that the seven dragonslayers will get their powerup, though I dunno whether Sting and Rogue will get their second one. I doubt that. This actually makes me think about how the "good dragons", who were allied with humans actually foresaw all this and raised the kids to be dragonslayer, we still don't know why they went to hiding, maybe to not to be killed by Acnologia?

Recap of Fairy Tail Chapter 329:

-Natsu is standing on top of the tower, Future Rogue orders his dragon to kill Natsu.

-Natsu tries to attack Future Rogue, but is unsuccessful, Rogue tells him to watch the town below.

-Down on the ground Fairy Tail is fighting against Atlas Flame dragon, Makarov tries to punch it's burning body, but gets burned himself.

-Meanwhile, Sabertooth guild is fighting against the dragon. Rufus remembers that both Sting and Rogue killed dragons when they were young, Sting admits that it's half true and we see that the dragon in fact told Sting to kill him.


-Rogue says that Skiadrum was ill so he just assisted him to die.

-Then the scene changes to Natsu and Future Rogue, and Future Rogue drops the bomb: in the future there wasn't dragons ruling the world, but a single dragon, Acnologia.

-Natsu then hits and drops the dragon that Future Rogue is flying on.

-The chapter ends when the seventh dragon slayer arrives, Cobra. Next chapter's title will be "Zirconis' magic".
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Friday, April 26, 2013

The God of High School Review

The God of High School webtoon which begins with a mysterious organisation, which seems to hold a great, supernatural powers, as in destroying an entire island remotely in the beginning of the story. This organisation sends out invitations for the most promising fighters around the world to participate in tournament and the prize for winning is pretty alluring: They promise to fulfill any wish the winner wants.


Art: This a bit hard one to measure, since the art quality of God of High School varies a lot. There are lots of simplified scenes which are of course providing some comedic value, but at the same time in my opinion they lower a little bit the artistic value of the series. While I was reading the webtoon I though that they were done either for laziness or so that the author could focus on the scenes that really require a lot of time and attention. That being said, if something about this webtoon sticks to the mind it's without a doubt it's amazing fighting scenes. They are drawn and colored so beautifully that they may in fact be the best scenes and work of art that I have seen in any manga/manhwa/webtoon. So in the end I'm pretty much obligated on giving the art of The God of High School a good score. The drawing reminds me a lot of The Tower of God and I'd say that it's without a doubt of higher quality, though I think that Tower of God is exceeding in the imaginative side of the story.

Characters: In this series I really liked the characters. The God of High School mostly focuses on three main characters, of which Jin Mo-Ri is the one focused on the most. The other two are Han Dae-Wi and Yu Mi-Ra. All of them are getting their share of focus and pretty good backgrounds, even though some of them are a bit of a cliche, but I didn't feel any bothered by it. Jin Mo-Ri being seemingly the main-main character, is an excellent example of a character which I like to follow: basically very carefree. It looks as though the author has gotten some influence through a certain main character from a certain mainstream manga.
Funny sidenote: there's a very minor side character at some point of the tournament whose fighting is based on japanese mainstream mangas.

Story: So the Art and the character side of The God of High School are the best side of the webcomic, but story doesn't fall too much short even though it's nothing to gloat about. The whole series is pretty much focused on the tournament aspect, which is the heart of the story and it works pretty well. The tournament is fun to watch as there's lots of different, pretty interesting characters and the power progression is working pretty well and is somewhat similar to Tower of God in my opinion. If you have read the Tower of God you can't help but to notice the similarities between the two. There is however an aspect to the webtoon outside the tournament and that is where the 'big things' concerning the story are pretty much happening. At this point I really can't say anything else than I've enjoyed pretty much every side of the story except for small minor details, but not too much. I consider The God of High School as good or very good enjoyment, not a masterpiece and it doesn't reach up to where Tower of God is, but it's still enjoyable enough.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Toriko Chapter 231: Zebra Unleashed!

Comments:
It's great to see Zebra once again. I've always been very fond of his abilities, which in my opinion are being used in sp imaginative manner that it actually manages to amuse me quite much.


The Four Heavenly Kings have all had great powerups, Sani literally has the power to basically eat anything around him and we still haven't even seen what's up with Coco and Toriko. At this point it looks like Zebra doesn't have any big shot to fight against, I actually thought that the Nitros would present some sort of challenge to him but I was terribly wrong. It seems that the Nitros are nothing short of fodder to him at this point.

There is so much for the author to go through at this moment: there's Mansam + Shigematsu, Setsunos fights, Toriko vs Starjun, Coco vs. the guy I don't remember at this point (I do remember that they jumped into the black hole) and most likely a lot more that I can't recall at this time. I'll be interested in seeing the continuation for this arc. 

Recap of Toriko Chapter 231: Zebra Counterattacks!

-People are watching the chef's holy land, coookinh island which has turned into a sea of flames. They are wondering how they got there and quickly come to conclusion that it was Zebra who "shot" them there.

-The weird looking scum beast handler and another guy try to attack Zebra, but they get countered by Voice breath and beat punch.

-He then sets his eyes towards the Nitros. Zebra quickly beats one of them with martial arts, voice burst, sound knuckle and Onsoku idou (="Speed of sound movement"). He then uses sound bazooka, which shakes entire arena.

-Setsuno and Chiyo are fighting: Setsuna has lowered the 'pressure' around Chiyo, making lack of air around her. Setsuno soon gets grabbed by some giant guy. Another one uses Shokujutsu "Calogie Gui" on her and finally cooking king Zaus hits her with Ittou Rinne Oroshi.

-Setsuno is understandably enraged now.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

One Piece Chapter 707: Luffy Is Found Out!

Comments:
Great to have early chapters this week. Some things that stuck to my mind this week:

In B Block the king Elizabello the second is hyped pretty much. It seems he does have pretty much power, but not too much - destroying enemy fort's wall with only one punch and having to recover a lot after that isn't much in the world of One Piece. We'll probably see him using the punch in one way or another and I can't help to even predict what's going to happen with it.

Then we were shown some of the people who were introduced earlier, Oda has apprently decided to show us a bit more in detail what people can do. Too bad that we didn't see Bartolomeo doing his stuff, but I sure like his carefree nature. The mystery man was indeed interesting, but there's really nothing much to say about him. That older spectator seemed to recognize him, but understandably we weren't revealed any more. It's great that there is constantly something to wait for in weekly chapters.


Bellamy sure has changed. Last time we saw him on Jaya we really didn't see much of him, only bouncing from one building to another and then getting one-shotted by Luffy. I couldn't help but to notice that his skills remind me a lot of Luffy and in some way spring fruit is very similar to Luffy's. I believe that it's so underrated fruit that Oda may as well have some role for Bellamy in the near future.


Finally, Luffy gets found out. Don Chinjao recognizing him and pretty much saying that he hates Luffy was a pretty big surprise to me. Cavendish, who also bears some hatred against the supernovas is an extra at this point: Luffy is certainly in a pinch now. He's currently standing in between two apparently pretty strong people, but I wonder if they are going to start fighting, when that might be against the rules of the Corrida coloseum. We'll see.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 707: B Block

-So B-blocks battle royale has started.

-Tactician Dagama is sure that they will be taking the Mera-Mera Fruit with them. He thinks that their king Elizabello the 2nd is a born weapon of destruction. The punches he throws with his body are so terrific that he only needed one punch to open a hole in the enemy's fort. However he can only throw one of those punches.

-It seems that Dressrosa's captain Lepanto has leapt over to help Elizabello for money. Lepanto tries to attack Bellamy, but Bellamy dodges with his spring spring ability.

-Bellamy reminds me a lot of Luffy, he uses Spring Death Knock to hit Lepanto.

-In the water surrounding the arena there are school of "Little fighting fish", which attack people who fall in to the water.

-We see little bit of Abdullah and Jeet, then the scene changes to "Hyakudanhack", fishman who uses Fishman jujutsu and is a friend of Jinbei (Jimbe).

 -Then there's Long legged tribe Jaokundou martial artist, Blue Gilly, who uses his legs to attack the gladiators.
 
-Then there's an unknown gladiator, who seems to be incredibly strong. (Former) Gladiator Ricky.

-Luffy and Cavendish are talking, Cavendish once again tells about his resolution to kill the "worst generation", those who were rookies two years ago.

-Then a huge man, Don Chinjao, comes near Lucy (Luffy) and Cavendish, asking from Strawhat Luffy, whether Garp is doing well. He then says that he almost got killed by Garp in the past and decided to hate him until his grandchildren's generation.

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Naruto Chapter 628: Final Battle is About to Begin

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It's great to see some of the previously dull war when there's something to wait for: I really liked reading this weeks chapter.

As Naruto has already risen already to the lead of the Ninja alliance, it's been for a long time a definite indicator that Naruto will in fact be Hokage in the end of the series. Of course this has been in some way obvious for the whole time, but I just rolled an idea around my mind where Naruto has actually gone beyond the idea of being Hokage and resigns the position for someone else. That would be an excellent ending in my opinion, but the whole series is built all the way from the beginning for Naruto to achieve the status of Hokage so I still think that it's the most probable scenario.

Obito and Kakashi are going to have their final clash in other dimension - I really don't find much interest in that since Kakashi has pretty much lost his value to entertain long after the early days. Don't get me wrong, he is still pretty much awesome, but not as awesome as he used to be. This seems to be just a way for Kishimoto to deal with Obitos resentment towards Kakashi, I hope it doesn't drag for too long.


 And finally we have the alliance versus Madara + Juubi. It looks like we are going to have the final battle pretty soon. Sasuke, Orochimaru and the previous hokages are along the way to battle against Madara. So it will in the end be that Sasuke and Naruto unite forces to fight against the bigger evil. It will without a doubt be an amazing battle, since there are basically the most powerful people fighting together. I just hope that Kishimotos art will keep up, it hasn't been too bad, but there's always room for improvement. As the series is going towards it's end, it would be perfect if Kishimoto would ie. release a chapter biweekly just to hone the art to the max. Even though it would be nice to read a weekly Naruto, I still appreciate good quality just too much.

 Recap of Naruto Chapter 628: Here and from now on

-The fight continues between the alliance and Madaras bunch. -Madara and Obito attack with a fire/flame breath -attack, but Narutos Kyuubi chakra manages to protect everyone. Sakura is wondering whether this harms Naruto in some way.

-Obito tries to attack Naruto from above using time/space ninjutsu, Naruto however manages to dodge. It looks like Juubi is storing up chakra.

 -Then we have some friendship stuff, Naruto announces that not having his friends is the most painful thing for him.

 -Then we see some Madara, who notices familiar chakra approaching: it's Hashiramas chakra and Madara seems to be trembling with excitement by it.

-Kakashi and Obito went together to other dimension, Juubi released some powerful jutsu which created complete destruction with hurricanes and lightning.
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Monday, April 22, 2013

ONE PIECE 707 SPOILERS IS OUT!!



Credit : nja
Special thanks to: Mangaspoiler

ONEPIECE 第707話 Bブロック

Bブロックが混戦

チンジャオはルフィのことを知ってた
驚いたキャベンディッシュ

チンジャオはカープ元気かなってルフィに聞いた
カープはずっと前カレを殺しかけてた
その恨みを孫の代に打ちつく


One Piece Chapter 707: B Block

B block starts, 138 men battle royal.
Although what Dagama is doing isn’t fair, it’s not against the rules to team up.

Apparnetly King Elizabello’s punch is so powerful, he’s put a massive hole in the enemy fortress.
But there’s on problem… it takes an entire hour of preparation for the king to throw one punch out.
It’s Prodence’s ultimate weapon, that can only be fired once in a single battlefield.
Dagama thinks the “King Punch” could knock out even a Yonkou if it ever lands on one.
Dagama asks his lord if he’s ready, to which Elizabello says he’s ready to throw it out at any time.

Bellamy asks why Lepanto, who is an army commander of Dressrosa, thinks it’s ok to lend hand to military advisor of another country.
Lepanto answers money is what makes the world go around, he’d rather gain money at his feet rather than chase a dream.
Bellamy laughs, saying hearing that hurts (as he shared the same attitude in the past)

Lepanto swings his massive chained spiked ball and knocks three contestants into the water, while Bellamy counters him with Spring Death-Knock (a Gomu Gomu Pistol like spring punch)
There are “Little Battle-fish” swimming in the waters, attacking the fallen contestants.

Abdulla and Jeet are fighting a legion of fodder gladiators, Abdulla howels to grab their attention, while Jeet slices them from behind.
Meanwhile, The fishman Karate master and also user of Fishman Jujitsu, Hack, uses 4000 kawara seiken to punch out a large contestant who mocked the fishman.
Hack is friend of Jinbe, and feels just like Jinbe is a hope for men and fishmen understanding each other, he hopes to find a way of friendship through exchange of fists.
A true Karate-ka!

Blue Gilly is a martial artist who hails from the long-leg tribe. His style of martial artis is Jao-kun Do.
(Obviously a Bruce Lee reference)
He uses his legs like whip, and knocks many fodders out of his way.

One mysterious gladiator stands out… the helmeted “Former” Gladiator Ricky.
No one recognizes him, he’s a newcomer to the arena. Yet, with only a single sword at his disposal, he knocks out multiple combatants.
And old spectator tells a nearby toy man, that he vaguely remembers someone who fights like that, but for the life of him cannot remember his name.

(GEE I WONDER WHO THAT IS, ODA. GEE. THANKS FOR LIKE, MAKING IT OBVIOUS OR ANYTHING. I guess we’ll know the mystery of the statue sooner than we thought lol)

Bartolomeo is lying there on the edge just chilling. He just watches the whole place in chaos, instead of jumping in to fight.

Cavendish says Barto is another one of those annoying rookies.
He’s called the Cannibal because he acts like a douche. (mocking people in Japanese is expressed as “eating people”)
Cavendish is looking through a book containing wanted posters of the “worst generation”.
Luffy asks him why not forgive them already, but Caven is adamant he’ll kill them.
He figured with a big tournament like this, at least one of them will be here…
But just like Burgess did, you can hide your identity in this tournament. He figures he’ll just wait till one of them wins through..
Luffy is sweating bullets hearing this, hahahaha.

A politely speaking Don Chinjao approach the due.

Don Chinjao asks how is Garp-san doing, Strawhat Luffy?
Luffy: Huh? You know my gramps?
Caven: WHAT!?
Luffy: OH WHOOPS!!!

Chinjao tells him Garp nearly killed him long ago, and decided to hate him till their grandchildren’s time.
Luffy: HUH!?

End of One Piece Chapter 707.
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Fairy Tail Chapter 328: Seven Dragons

Comments:
A great chapter, we got to see a lot of dragons once again which is always pretty nice. I really liked most of things in this chapter and I'm going to tell you why:


First of all, I think it's great that they managed to shut down the gates. There was a slight disappointment about that to be honest, since I actually waited for something else from the "zodiac", than all of the twelve celestial spirits coming at the same time. I was somewhat hoping for something bigger and more impressive, but that's just me. It was just a thing that came to my head during the chapter.

The reason why it's so good that they shut down the gates is pretty simple: otherwise there would be too much dragons story wise. Hiro Mashima would either have to tune down individual dragon's strength to at least make it seem that the Fairy Tail characters have some chance, so this is a lot better way to do it. Seven if without a doubt some sort of magical number in this manga and it's also a good number for dragons against who our heroes have to fight against. There's enough variety in the dragons which I went throught in the last chapter, which is surely a good thing.

So the aim of Future Rogue came clear in one panel, which I found a bit weird. I expect that there's something else to it and surely we will see some sort of flashforward or a story told by Future Rogue how he came to be like he is.

From Fairy Tail as a series I'm hoping for a long arc this time: there's a lot for things that Mashima could do now with all the possibilities. In my mind I see that they would have to plan carefully, train and do all kind of crap to take down even one dragon. That would somewhat keep things in perspective about the dragons actual strength, but I'm not too confident that this will happen. The most likely scenario would of course be that all the guild joined together in friendship manage to take down the dragons.. Which in my opinion would be a horrible turn of events.


Then there's Natsu who seems to have done some bodybuilding in the span of getting beat up by Future Rogue and now. Natsu really did get his ass handed to him the last time they fought, so I'm really not expecting him to go against the Future Rogue + most likely immensely powerful dragon. I'd find it too weird for Natsu to suddenly powerup so much that he would take both of them down.

Recap of Fairy Tail Chapter 328: Zodiac

-The dragons are flowing through the eclipse gate

-Lucy is trying to close the gate by pulling the lever, but she doesn't have enough strength. Arcadious notices this.

-Yukino comes running to the scene and says to Lucy that they will use all twelve celestial keys to close the gates.

-Together they say "Celestial spirit of the twelve golden paths, lend us the power to seal this evil" "Open, twelve gates of the Zodiac". Then all the 12 celestial spirits come at once and try to push the door shut and finally they succeed.

-Seven of the dragons came through however. Future Rogue comes to the scene and says that seven will suffice: his motives are coming clear, he or someone he works for wants to control them.


-Future Rogue announces the era of dragons where human species shall become extinct. He then uses the secret art of domnating dragons, Dragon manipulation magic and rides away along with one of the dragons.


-He then says that one of them can stay and do as he pleases: coincidentally it's the one dragon they met at the dragon graveyeard (Dragon's grave), Zilconis.


-It seems though that another one stayed too called Atlas Flame, dragon whose body is covered in flames.

-The guild of Sabretooth are trying to take down the one who has a weird head. Blue Pegasus are attacking the one with rock/earth body. They soon realize that dragons scales are too tough.

-The chapter ends with Natsu being on top of a tower, planning to attack Future Rogue who's flying over him.
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One Piece 707 Spoiler and Summary



LATEST NEWS>> READ ONE PIECE SPOILER 704 HERE

After reading the previous chapter, all my intention is to read the One Piece 707 spoiler. Bellamy appearance was something very unexpected, who else Oda will introduce after. Judging from earlier reading, it is very high probability that Bellamy could win the battle in group B. It just a matter weather the fight is finish or not in next One Piece 707 spoiler.

It's very early now, we got no spoiler yet but we will post here as soon as the One Piece 707 spoiler is out. Should you came here by any means and if you have the One Piece 707 spoiler earlier than us, please by your grace share it to us as well. We are grateful and thankful to any of those who are willing to share the early One Piece 707 spoiler.

While waiting for One Piece 707 spoiler, here are some thought of what will the One Piece 707 spoiler look like. Bellamy will sure going to win the battle in block B, he has another strong reason to win the so called Royal Battle. He wanted to become one of Joker's crew, we think that is one good motivation to keep go on. But in the end Luffy@Lucy will be the one who will posses the mera mera fruit previousely owned by his brother Ace. Next battle will be from block C, we are very positive Luffy will win but we are more interested to know how it will happen in One Piece 707 spoiler.

Since there are many pirates there and an interruption from the Government, the chances for the battle to be interrupted could be anytime from now. At least the battle can continue in One Piece 707 spoiler, otherwise it will be too good to miss watching Luffy defeating everyone in block C. Soon or later his fake identity will be revealed especially when he is fighting strong opponent, however chances for him to hide his identity in One Piece 707 spoiler is still very high. How will Joker get in the battle will be a good question here, we predict that Joker will get Caesar but facing a lot trouble from Law and Government side in One Piece 707 spoiler.

The possible fight in the One Piece 707 spoiler or maybe later chapters are, Luffy VS Joker, Zoro VS Marine HQ Admiral Fujitora, and Sanji VS CP-0. These are the most obvious potential to happen, even if it's not in One Piece 707 spoiler it might happen in later chapter. Everyone knows Oda style, whatever we predict will always go wrong but there are some predictions actually get right. We don't care as long as it's fun, it's what Oda thinks really matters because we enjoy a lot reading his masterpiece. One Piece 707 spoiler could be another great chapter, the whole world is waiting for One Piece 707 spoiler now.


It is very complicated to read One Piece but it is very fun also at the same time, One Piece 707 spoiler will be ready anytime in the next few days.

LATEST NEWS>> READ ONE PIECE SPOILER 704 HERE
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Toriko Chapter 230: Zebra On The Move

Comments:
Pretty much feels like that this week was pretty weak in chapter wise in basically every manga. One Piece felt really short, Naruto is on hiatus, Bleach is pretty much crap anyways and now Toriko offered somewhat uninteresting build-up chapter.

Pointers:
So Elg vs. Branchi got its final moments with Elg showing his 'true' face, which was highlighted as being very ugly. The whole point of that may have seemed very pointless, but the reason for that was to bring out Branchis great nature of symphatizing with his enemy. That was in my opinion pretty good moment and displays good eye for such things from the author.



Then we get something from the battlefield: Yuda rises up and then things start to shift somewhere else: at the IGO Neos plans are starting to move and the ugly guy whose name I now don't remember apparently killed some chefs who were holding a meeting there. Then we see Mansam getting stabbed by a giant snake controlled by Shigematsu, IGO's (former I presume) vice president, who apparently has turned to Neo. On the surface these things don't look like much, but in my opinion bring some depth to this manga. In One Piece I love how the things are moving on the background and situation constantly changes around the world and now I'm seeing similar trend going on in Toriko. First we had basically two major organizations, IGO being regarded as somewhat good and Bishokukai clearly bad - Neo is still pretty much mystery at this point but it's very clear that Neo is going to stir things up.


The final, major build up of this chapter is Zebra finally getting on the field. His entrance didn't lack any hype: he took out instantly probably hundreds of scum beasts who themselves were advertised as being very strong. I'm looking forward to see who he's going up against and especially how he has evolved skillwise.

Recap of Toriko Chapter 230: Betrayal!

-After receiving so many shocks Elg's regenration has stopped and his real, ugly face has surfaced.

-Branchi somewhat comforts him saying that he's not ugly and continues that in his village there are Daruma, Kappa and Oni who are real monsters. Then it seems that Elg dies.

-On the next page we hear words Ishoku Dougen - Sosei giri, meaning that medicine and food have the same origin / resurrection cut. It's Yuda who rises up and is pretty angry to Bishokukai.

-In IGO headquarters people there are in panic thinking that they should send people over. However it seems that someone talking to Shige has betrayed IGO and killed all the chefs in the meeting.

-Then we finally see some of Mansam, who destroys one GT robo with Wanted punch. He then is is suddenly pierced with a spike coming out of a huge snakes mouth. It's Shigematsu, vice president of IGO riding that particular snake.

-People in the battle look upwards and see a huge amount of scum beasts coming down. We are also introduced to the concept of Food pressure, which is similar to Food honor, it pretty much tries to control food with sheer force.


-Suddenly all of those monsters drop down and we see a huge monster with a scythe representing Zebra. "Shioto"


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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

One Piece Chapter 706: Change of Bellamy The Hyena

Comments:
I have to say that compared to quality of One Piece chapters this weeks chapter was in my opinion of somewhat lower quality. I'm basing this mostly on the feeling that I had after I had read the chapter and when usually I get sort of sense of excitement after reading One Piece chapter, this week I had none. This however is somewhat understandable, since we are on this boat for the long run so it's somewhat impossible to make incredible chapters every week. Those incredible moments have to be of course built up in good manner.


Even though I didn't get any seriously good feelings about the chapter I really don't have anything bad to say about it except that it felt extremely short. The essential change of Bellamy was this week's chapters main point and very understandably. In the span of two years he managed to change from a somewhat filler character into a villain who I now consider a lot "better" in a way. I like it how such a character has been going through not only in means of outer appearance, but more importantly in change of ideals, which is in some way one of the main point of the whole manga.

I think that Oda really succeeded in bringing up a character which earlier was very uninteresting and spin him up in a way making him a lot interesting than before. The more I think about it the more I love this weeks chapter title: "I won't laugh at you".

Recap of One Piece Chapter 706: I won't laugh at you


-Captain of the Balt Club pirates, Bartolomeo the Cannibal with Bounty of 150 million beli is finally properly introduced. He somewhat looks like a vampire. He throws a ball at audience which seems to hate him. The audience thinks it's a bomb, but they are mistaken.

-One more person is missing, who is considered as exact opposite to Crazy Bartolomeo, he isn't introduced by name, but the announcer is pretty much describing someone who could only be Bellamy the Hyena.

-Back at the coliseum, there are a lot of people hurt from the battle with Jesus Burgess. Someone then bumps to Luffy and he is no one other than former captain of the Bellamy Pirates, Bellamy the Hyena, user of the Bane Bane fruit, bounty of 195 million beli.

-Bellamy the Hyena recognizes Luffy, who also recognizes Bellamy. Bellamy says that he went to the Sky island skypiea and changed. His resolution comes clear soon: if he wins the tournament, he will be raised to the status of leader in the Don Quixote family.


-We are then shown the C-block and its most promising fighters including Armed warrior Sai, Gladiator Lucy (Luffy!), Assassin, Kelly Funk, Bounty Hunter Jean Ango, Armed warrior Boo, Boxer Ideo, Fighting Bull, Giant Warrior Hajrudin, Assassin Bobby Funk and Don Chin Jao


-D-block includes Necromancer Mummy, Adventurer Orlumbus, Cavendish, Gladiator Meadows, Fighting Lion, Gladiator Rebecca, Pyromanic Damask, Gladiator Acilia, Army Captain Rolling Logan, and Army Commander Suleiman, once  again some of the names unreadable.


-Then there's B-block which includes Fighting king Elizabelio, Brawler Bluegilly, Army Commander Tank Lepanto, Criminal Abdullah, Pirate Bartolomeo, Gladiator Ricky, Pirate Bellamy, Tactician Dagama, Fishman warrior Hack and Criminal Jeet.

-The battle of B-block is beginning. Bellamy is thinking who he should take out first, we then see that some of them are combining forces even though it's battle royale.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

One Piece 706 Spoilers is Out!!



Credit: Nja
Special Thanks to: Mangareader

ONEPIECE 第706話 お前を笑わない

バルトロメオ
懸賞金1億5000万ベリー
野獣みたいな顔をしている
「今最も消えて欲しい海賊」No.1

ベラミー
懸賞金1億9500万ベリー

ベラミーはルフィのことを知ってた
空島へ行ってきたことを言った
そこから黄金の柱を持ってきて
ドフラに寄与した
今回の目的はメラメラの実じゃなく
ドフラの船に乗りたい
バルトロメオとラベミーは同じBブロックで
Bブロック開戦



ONE PIECE Chapter 706 Spoiler: I won’t laugh at you

Bartolomeo – 150million berry
Face looks like a beast
voted number 1 in the “Pirate who is wished to be gone”.
(I guess he’s not very popular lol)

Bellamy – 195million berry

Bellamy knew about Luffy, and he went to a Sky Island and got a pillar of gold from there to give to Doflamingo.
His motive isn’t the Mera Mera fruit, he simply wants to be on Dofla’s ship as a crew.
Bartolomeo and Bellamy are both in block B


Trans: Aohige
第706話 お前を笑わない 
扉絵 カリブーが燃えている取り残された婆の家に行き 婆をみつける 壱枚の写真がある
バルトロメオは残忍 海賊たちの串焼き映像配信 市民への砲撃事件etc・・・・ 
観客からのブーイングに対し何かを投げた 観客は爆弾だといい避難するがオナラ爆弾だった
Bブロックはベラミーとバルトロメオ
ベラミーは空島から持ってきた黄金の柱をドフラに渡し忠誠を誓った  それ以降 ドレスローザを野蛮な海賊 の王国と嘲る諸国の町々を容赦なく破壊してきたよう
ルフィに気付き話しかけるベラミー 仲間を失ったが空島に行って来たという
ルフィは空島の奴になにもしてねぇだろうなと言うも不敵に笑うベラミー
ドフラはルフィをもう笑わない ドフラの船に乗るといいステージへ ベラミーは優勝すれば幹部へと昇進す るらしい
CブロックとDブロックの有力選手紹介で2ページどれも曲者っぽい見た目 レベッカとキャベンデイッシュは Dブロック
Bブロックスタート  中華っぽい連中が手を組み面倒なのから潰すと言う  まずはベラミーから という
バルトロメオはそういうのはバトルロイヤルとはいわねぇべと言う
次週
Onepiece Chapter 706: I won’t laugh at you
cover: Caribou goes back to the burning hosue of the grandma, and find her and a single photograph..
Bartolomeo is known for cruelty.
An image of pirates impaled and roasted are shown, as well as him firing cannons at civilians..
The crowd boos at him, and he throws something at them. They run thinking it’s a bomb, but it’s actually a fart bomb.
Block B is Bellamy and Bartolomeo
Bellamy brought the golden pillar from the Sky Island to presnet to Dofla, and swear allegeance.
He then proceeded to wage battles on near by nations that mock Dressrosa as barbaric nation of pirates.
He wrecked many cities in other nations, earning his infamy.
Bellamy notices Luffy, and approaches him.
He tells Luffy that lost his crew, but he went to Sky Islands.
Luffy warns him you didn’t hurt anyone up there did you? To which Bellamy just laughs.
Bellamy tells him that Doflamingo he won’t laugh at Luffy anymore.
He tells him he’s going to be on Dofla’s ship, then heads to the battle.
Apparently he was promised crew officer position if he wins this tournament.
Then two pages showing promising candidates for Block C and D.
Rebecca and Cavendish are both Block D.
Block B starts, the Chinese looking men join forces with others to take out especially troublesome targets… Bellamy is their first target.
Bartolomeo doesn’t agree with their methods, he says that goes agaisnt the whole point of a Battle Royal.
(The summary just say Sky islands and not Skypea, although it probably is)
Edit: T’s correction: Bellamy won’t laugh at Luffy anymore, not Dofla.
End of One Piece Chapter 706
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Monday, April 15, 2013

One Piece 706 Spoiler and Summary





I just can't wait to read the new One Piece 706 spoiler, it could be great if we have One Piece 706 spoiler right away. There are so much expectation and demand to Oda now, it must be hard for him to maintain the quality of next One Piece 706 chapter.

Well we don't have spoiler for One Piece 706 at this time, we are still waiting for the early release of the spoiler. Come back here from time to time, because the One Piece 706 spoiler should be up anytime from now. The great thing about spoiler is you can read its early version, spoiler also could be in Japanese character.

In the mean time while we are waiting for One Piece 706 spoiler, here are some of our thoughts for the next chapter. In One Piece 706 spoiler, we will see a fight from Government side and the one who get in first will be Marine HQ Fujitora. It was out of expectation the strong old and blind man is one of Marine HQ Admiral, he is about to interrupt the fight and it might happen in the One Piece 706 spoiler. With the introduction of CP-O (CP-Aigiso), in next One Piece 706 spoiler definitely will show some potential fight. We predict that the government is the one who start the havoc first, they might try to take the mera mera fruit as well for their own benefits.

After long wait for the other team to appear, we finally saw Law team in their mission while hiding their identity. But we don't expect them to fight with CP-O in the One Piece 706 spoiler, it's too early for them to involve in the big fight now.

Zoro finally managed to retrieve his precious sword but being hit by the invisible fairy, anyone will think Zoro will see the fairy in the next One Piece 706 spoiler. The fairy mentioned that Zoro will see hi/her in such way, the only thing left is what kind of fairy we see in next One Piece 706 spoiler.

Kinemon the samurai got lost and being surrounded by some group, I believe they are some safety force protecting the island. The outcome for Kinemon can be easily predicted in One Piece 706 spoiler, weather he get arrested or manage to run off are the only possibilities in One Piece 706 spoiler.

Sanji in love is very interesting scene here, he is going to accompany valvet to the next destination for no solid reason. Luffy team will always ended get separated all the time, it is really pitiful to see Sanji keep fighting for Valvet. I hope to see something new in One Piece 706 spoiler, to find the solid reason of helping the girl maybe. One Piece 706 spoiler could be real mystery to all One Piece fan around the world.

The most interesting awaited part in One Piece 706 spoiler is the sound inside Thousand Sunny ship. What or who is hiding inside the male room will be answered in One Piece 706 spoiler. It could be the new enemy waiting to ambush them. What happen to Luffy by now? We hope to see Luffi in One Piece 706 spoiler, hopefully with some serious fight this time.

LATEST NEWS>> READ ONE PIECE SPOILER 704 HERE
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

One Piece 705 Spoilers is Out!!



Credit : Aohige
Special Thanks to: Mangaspoiler

The ZatoichrShinKatsu character IS Fujitora. The name is Isshou.
The smug, shit-eating grin of satisfaction on my face right now is incomparable.


ONEPIECE 第705話 追撃のメイナード
扉絵はカリブーの部下的な奴ら全滅  見せしめ

フランキーが正体ばれなきゃいいと言う。フランキーが仕事に行こうとするとおもちゃの兵隊が付いて来ると言 う。おもちゃの兵隊に工場の場所を知らない奴には用は無いと言う。
おもちゃの兵隊は何かをしっており場所を変えようと言う。
客席では海軍が出場者をチェックしている  海兵と連絡を取っていた男は控室で海軍中将キャップマン(追 撃のメイナード)でバルトロメオの参謀を倒す

藤虎はグリーンビットへ向かう 軍艦を3隻用意するよう本部へ命令  敵の数より護るべき人の数が重要とい う藤虎

変装したロー達一行はグリーンビット前の橋に到着 お茶して情報収集していると CP-0登場 正式名称 サイファーポールイージスゼロ

ゾロは妖精を捕まえるが建物から落下。上から荷物を抱えた妖精がふってくる。ゾロは驚いている
錦衛門はドフラの部下らしき軍団に勘十郎の命が惜しかったらついてこいと言う。
サンジはヴァイオレットの為に狙撃手を倒している

サニーの船室から何か物音がしている。

キャップマンはバルトロメオに瞬殺。
バルトロメオは影だけで登場  やばそうな雰囲気

ONEPIECE Chapter 705 Maynard “the pursuer”
coverart Caribou’s henchmen all taken out, just to serve as a lesson for all
(T may just mean the revolutionaries here)

Franky says as long as he’s identity isn’t revealed, everything’s fine. Then gets to his work.
The toy soldier says he’s follow him. Franky says he has no use for someone who doesn’t know where the factory is, but the Toy soldier does indeed know something… he says let’s move to another place before getting into the details.
In the spectators marines are checking out the audiences. The man who was communiating with the marine is Vice Admiral Capman (known as Maynard, the “Pursuer”) and he defeats Balto Romeo/Bartolomeo’s adviser.

Fujitora heads to Green Pit, and orders three warships from the HQ.
He finds the number of people they need to protect is more crucial than the number of enemies that must be defeated.

Law’s group disguised themselves and arrived at the Green Bit bridge. While they’re having tea and gathering info, CP-0 appears.
Official name is Cypher Pol Aegis Zero

Zoro catches the fairy, but falls off the building. The fairy comes floating down from above, carrying the goods. Zoro is suprised.
Dofla’s goons contacts Kin and tells him if he values Kanjuro’s life, come with them.
Meanwhile, Sanji is taking out a sniper for Violet.

Some strang noise coming from a room on the Sunny….

Capman is taken out instantly by Balto Romeo/Bartholomeo
He is shown in shadows, but looks pretty menacing.

[Thanks Riley]
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Doflamingo and Cipher Pol Aigis Zero?

This may be a bit thin, but I believe it's still worth the post and speculating, especially about One Piece is always pretty fun:


When Doflamingo tried to kill Moriah in chapter 581, Moria asked him whether it was Sengoku who ordered for him to be killed. "Try higher", answered Doflamingo. So we know that at least World Government Commander-In-Chief Kong and the Gorosei are higher ups than Sengoku, but I wouldn't be surprised that there would be others.


We all remember Donquixote Doflamingo talking to someone from World Government in One Piece chapter 595 who ordered Gekko Moria to be killed and the latest chapter (705) may have perhaps given us a more definite hint of that mans identity. So the resembling of the hat with the man in Cipher Pol Aegis Zero may or may not be a hint of the mans identity who seems to have some kind of deal with Doflamingo and who is implied being higher up than Sengoku. I'd say that it's not definite evidence, but I belive that the chances for this mysterious man being at least in charge of Cipher Pol Aigis 0 are quite high. (Maybe he's like Spandam being in charge of CP 9 ;)

This also rises a question that even though Doflamingo resigned from his position as Shichibukai, did he know or even arranged for CP0 / the marines (Though Akainu ordered for Fujitora to go there) to arrive on Dressrosa? It's been made clear to the readers that there's something fishy about the country not reacting to their king resigning, so this may be related to it in some way. I believe that Doflamingo has a lot more up to his sleeves than just the Mera Mera fruit and that there's a lot more going on on the background than we are shown.
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Fairy Tail Chapter 327: Dragons Are Finally Here!

Comments:
Ok, this was somewhat expected, but I still enjoy the current events pretty much.


First: Dragons are alwasy cool and I pretty much enjoy Hiro Mashimas designs of dragons. He manages to create a lot of varity between the dragons which is a great thing to do. The entrance of the first dragon was pretty much well done and was visually impressive.


Here are the different kind of dragon designs which we got, basically all of the dragons in Fairy Tail chapter 327, except for the one dragon in the first picture. We got a rock/earth dragon (Rock/earth dragonslayer, anyone?), some unknown, but rather cool looking dragon. I'm looking forward to see more of different kinds.

Second: This turn of events hopefully represents a whole new "chapter" in Fairy Tail story: The arrival of ten thousand (It would require pretty much continuous stream of dragons for a very long time to actually make ten thousand of them go through the gates)  will pretty much be a huge threat to the existence of the people of the world. I'll be very interested in seeing which way it will go, but I believe that we will at least be introduced to some new interesting characters, including the gods of Ishval.

There are couple of things that are pretty much shrouded at this point. First is the reason why the parents of dragonslayers, Igneel, Grandine etc. Disappeared. I would like to believe it's a separate event and it has been made clear that they are not coming through the gate since they knew about Natsus and Wendys progress in this timeline and were apparently hiding somewhere in the world. However the timing of their disappearance and the date of current happenings, which is "coincidentally" 7th of July.

It's still pretty much a mystery why ie. Future Rogue wanted the gates to be opened even though he must have known that the dragons came through the gates. The whole different timeline shenanigans need some light to be shine upon them, as I really don't feel like parsing them down.

Recap of Fairy Tail Chapter 327: My Share

-Lucy is yelling for everyone to close the doors.

-She is saying that door isn't an eclipse cannon, but a door connected to 400 years ago.

-Then suddenly a tremor hits which is originating from the castle. Then we see it: A huge dragon is coming through the Eclipse gate and stars destroying city surrounding it.

-More and more dragons are coming through the gate, Lucy is trying to close the gates with nearby trigger.

-The gate is in fact a device that puts together magic from the book of Zeref (Zelef in this translation) and celestial spirit magic. The full moon tonight is corrupting the magic so it connected with 400 years ago, in time in which dragons existed.

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Toriko Chapter 229: Tengu Branchi Is Awesome

Comments:
Well, a decent chapter in my opinion this week. Last week I was wondering how would it be possible for Branchi to defeat an immortal being, except for containing him in some way which would make Elg unable to do anything.


The conclusion was a bit better than I expected, but felt really a bit forced. It's great that the author decided to bring an immortal character into play, but immortality in itself is a bit hard concept in my opinion in this kind of mangas since it should be used very sparingly. I have to be honest that I really don't get it how it would be possible for something to be electrically charged in such a way that it would keep 'hitting' the target continuously, but in any case, I'll leave it up to the freedom of the series. In any case it would be pretty much useless to argue about how stuff works in a manga which is only limited by imagination.

The fight didn't leave up to expectations except that I ended up liking Tengu Branchi pretty much and I hope that we'll be seeing him more after this arc. Hopefully he will join Toriko, Komatsu and others when they head out to the gourmet world. I have always somewhat fancied electricity/lightning as power in series and I think that Tengu Branchi is very well designed, enjoyable character.

Recap of Toriko Chapter 229: VS Immortality

-Branchi vs. Immortal Elg continues.

-Branchi concludes that Elgs regenerative ability is "Nou-darake", which literally means "full of brains"

-It's a gene which is located in the head of an organism called planarian. Then we get a lot of explaining about Branchis techinque and some deductions about Elg wounding his cheek. No wonder Toriko needs some time to get translated.4

-Elg then proceeds to attack with all of his bodies, but Branchi rises up, locks on to all bodies and uses Heiretsu, "Eleki Cutter", turning electricity into sharp blades. He then continues with Fuurai Kamaitachi.

-However, Elgs immortal body is constantly adapting and it seems he's unshaken by Branchis attacks. He then starts kicking Branchi continuously until Buranchi is lying on the ground.

-Tengu Branchi does indeed have a trump card - he explains that his body is like a power plant which can convert all energy from the outside into electricity.

-He has accumulated huge amounts of electricity, which allows him to use Ougy Chokuretsu Daitai Dengeki which is essentially a huge bolt of lightning.

-Elg can regenerate as much as he wants, but that attacks electrically charged him so even if his cells rot and regenerate back he is going to keep getting hit by that attack forever.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Terra Formars Review

Terra Formars is a story about people of earth trying to make Mars into a fertile planet. They came up with the plan of sending cockroaches and mold so that they would make the planet eligible for people to live there. After couple of hundreds of years the first expedition lands on Mars and soon they find out that the cockroaches have mutated into huge and strong insects which pose a serious danger to the people on the ship..


Art: Terra Formars art is perhaps the best part of the series and it can be considered as excellent. Even if I'd look with a magnifying glass I most likely wouldn't find anything worth mentioning which would lower the score on its art. The battles of the series, though they are often very quickly over are drawn in a very good manner which I found very pleasing. There are a lot of brutality in the series and at first sight it does look like a yet another series which presents us more imaginative ways for people to die. 5/5

Characters: The characters of this series are at the same time a good and also the bad side. There really isn't any main protagonist who we are following, but rather the whole series looks more like a showcase for the author to show us as much imaginative characters which unique skills. This combined with great art makes up most of the enjoyability of the series. So the human characters, which have been imbued in the most imaginative ways with various insect abilities in this series are usually very short lived, which for those who like to follow some main protagonist who is covered with plot armor it's a definite minus. So the main point of the characters of Terra Formars could be both the human and the cockroaches as entirety. I found it pretty funny how the conversation on internet of this series always turns into pointing out the similarities between the cockroaches and black men. 3/5

Story: Needless to say, the story of Terra Formars really isn't anything to gloat about. As I previously mentioned the point of whole series seems to be a showcase for the author to show pieces of his imagination in the form of drawings and I'm not saying that it's necessarily a bad thing. In fact this way the series presented me something relatively new which I enjoyed to some extent. This doesn't mean that there isn't a story line at all, in fact it's quite opposite. People are trying to make the planet more fertile and they themselves created the menace that is posing a threat for the whole humanity. Along the way Terra Formars also presents us some mysteries regarding Mars itself as it seemed that someone else had previously habited the place, also there seems to be some sort of conspiracies in the background of the actual happenings. 3,5/5

Conclusion: Terra Formars is a brutal, imaginative, excellently drawn, shrouded in slight mystery manga which presented something new at least to me. I'd say that it's definitely worth a try if you aren't afraid of some brutal content which doesn't pale in comparison with Gantz. Actually I could say that if one likes Gantz, then Terra Formars is most likely something to seriously consider for enjoyment. For people who like science, Terra Formars also presents very well researched material used in the designs of the characters, which without doubt will please some, if not most of the readers. 3,5/5
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One Piece Chapter 705: Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo Hyped Up

Comments:
Needless to say, it was a good chapter even though there was minimal amount of happenings this time. Pointers:

Ok so the one guy who took the spotlight in this chapter was obviously Bartolomeo. Oda decided to introduce us to his advisor Gambia, who was then taken down by Mainard the Pursuer. It seemed as Mainard was supposed to be someone very strong, but the main goal for Oda was to hype Bartolomeo up. I'm very interested in seeing who and what kind of guy he is.


Then we got finally a confirmation that the blind swordsman is in fact Fujitora and I believe that his name was Isshou-san. It was expected and there's really nothing much to say about him. What I'm wondering is that how is it that they decided to go to the Green Pit, maybe Doflamingo tipped the marines off? Either way, I'll be waiting to see what's really going to happen there.

This chapter was in essence a build up chapter once again and I really though that it wouldn't be possible for One Piece to be any more interesting, but it seems that I was seriously wrong. I think that every situation with every character at this point is interesting enough that I can't wait to see what's going to happen with each and every one of them. Of course the tournament is the most interesting case at this point, but I can't say that I would be disappointed if the focus would change to the other strawhats.

Once again one more week of excruciating waiting for the next chapter. Feels bad man.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 705: Maynard The Pursuer

-The "champion" appears, Jesus Burgess. Franky is in the audience thinking that he should go and do his job. The one legged toy soldier wants to tag along.

-A certain marine is near the audience writing peoples names up: "Pirate Mercenary" Heildion, "Missionary" Gambia. He's obviously writing down pirates who are participating in the tournament.

-Scene changes to some guy at the corner of the colosseum's changing rooms: he's saying that "he'll as Isshou-san right away", it may be that he's talking to the previous guy writing down pirates' names. We are then introduced to "Bartolomeo Pirate crew advisor", Missionary Gambia.

-This guy is then introduced as Capman Marine HQ Vice Admiral Maynard the Pursuer, he took out Gambia.

-The blind swordsman seems to be a high up marine, it's seems certain that he's in fact Fujitora. He says to his underling that they should go to Green Pit. He is then formally introduced as Admiral Fujitora, I believe his name was previously said as Isshou-san.

-We get to see team which is in charge of handing Caesar over, the team includes Robin, Usopp, Law and Caesar of course.

-The shopkeeper tells them that they can't go to Green Pit because of fighting fish.


-We are then introduced to CP-0, or CP-aigis 0, it's supposed to be even stronger than CP9.

-Then there's Zoro and the fairy who stole his sword. Zoro manages to finally grab his sword but falls down the roof of a building.

-Kinemon apparently got lost and was ambushed by people who seem to recognize him as Kinemon of the Foxfire. They order Kinemon to come with them or otherwise something will happen to Kanjurou.

-Then there's Sanji, who takes out a sniper targeting him / Violet.

-Finally we get to see the team which is guarding the Sunny including Momonosuke, Chopaemon, Brooke and court lady Nami.

-There's a sudden voice coming from the men's room.

-Scene then changes tot the Corrida Colosseum and we see a shadow of Bartolomeo, who took down Vice Admiral Capman down.

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Naruto Chapter 627: Ultimate Battle Ahead!

Comments:
I'm excited. It was a good chapter and a good build up for what's about to come: Four hokages combined, Sasuke, Orochimaru, this will be a great sight for us to see in the chapters to come. I really hope that Kishimoto manages to deliver all that he has built up with all the huge characters who are about to emerge in the form of the ultimate battle.


So, it was pretty expected that Sasuke turned out to take his brothers 'ideology' of protecting the village instead of blaming people who he was cooperating with against Uchiha clan. I gotta be honest and say that there's really not much to write about, since it was just an build up chapter (good one though).

What I still don't really get is Madara's "turn of evil", I wonder whether Kishimoto really decides to clarify it to the readers, which would mean that there could be some turn of events waiting for us.

Recap of Naruto Chapter 627: Sasuke's Answer

-So the flashback has ended and it's time for Sasukes decision / answer

-It seems that Sasuke has come to a conclusion that his brother died protecting Hashiramas will, which means that Sasuke will oppose Madara.

-Tobirama mentions of Kagami Uchiha, who in his opinion resembles Uchiha Itachi. Kagamis son was Shisui Uchiha, who was Itachis friend.

-Sarutobi says that he wasn't able to continue the second's work properly and for that reason he let Danzou handle the darkness of the village. We know how that turned out.

-They ask Sasuke what he's going to do and it seems he goes through all that happened through his head. He says that he is going to the battlefield and protect the Konoha Village.

-They go outside and prepare for the ultimate clash.
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Fairy Tail Chapter 326: Dragons Coming Through Eclipse Gate?

Comments:
Pretty good chapter this time.
Believe it or not, but I'm a bit happy that Natsu got beaten up and not defeating Rogue with the power of friendship. Maybe it shows that Mashima hasn't gone too overboard with it. (even though he already has :). This chapter offered a couple of interesting points, which require some parsing:


First Rogues white shadow dragon mode was pretty cool, I liked the idea and design. He obviously got it by killing Sting, but somehow I would have liked that to be left in the shadows and let the readers deduce that themselves, even though it's a bit obvious. I recently watched a video where a very wise man said pretty well, that a good movie doesn't explain it's message, but rather shows it leaving the interpretation up to the watcher.

From Rogue, where he can actually become a shadow made me have some sort of an epiphany where Natsus and other Dragon Slayers where they could become the element that they represent, pretty much like Logias in One Piece.

Then we get to the good stuff which is the Eclipse Gate. I think that the dragons are in fact in another dimension and are going to come through the gate, this would explain their sudden disappearance. This is where the plot goes a little bit more complicated, but it may look a bit like this:

The first timeline: This is where the dragons appear, people are killed and Lucy escapes to the past: as she herself said, in her time she didn't close the gates.

The second timeline: It seems to me that Future Lucy and Future Rogue possibly came from different timelines + Rogue came several years later. This is where Rogue in fact wants the dragons to invade the land for one reason or another

The current timeline is where Lucy somehow senses that the dragosn are going to come through the gates and wants it to be closed. I wonder though how people are going to react to her as she said just moments earlier that she wouldn't do that.

This is pretty much how I see this plotline and it makes somewhat sense, however I recalled in the middle of writing this the moment at  where we are shown the scene of chapter 101 where Igneel and Grandine meet and talk about Wendy and most likely Natsu. This contradicts pretty much with this theory, but maybe it has some truth in it so I'll leave it like that.

Recap of Fairy Tail 326: Natsu vs. Rogue

-The day has changed to July 7th, which is the same day as when the dragons disappeared

- Eclipse Gate is about to open.

-At where Natsu and Rogue are, Rogue says that Lucy will definitely close the gate.

-Natsu activates Lightning Fire Dragon mode.

-Rogue, however actiavtes white shadow dragon mode, he is possessing the properties of both light and darkness.


-Rogue then damages Natsu with White shadow dragon rough silk. He then says that it's the power he stole by killing Sting.

-He is about to deal finishing blow to Natsu, but Ultear comes and interrupts him.

-Meanwhile, the gate is opening, but then Lucy senses something and says that they have to close the door.


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Thursday, April 4, 2013

One Piece 705 Spoiler




One Piece 704 was a great chapter, I enjoy so much reading it even after reading it few times. Now, my intention is to look forward for One Piece 705 Spoiler. There are a lot of things I like to find out in One Piece 705 Spoiler. I still keep thinking what are Sanji, Zoro, Brook, and the samurai been doing. I hope there are some news about them in the next One Piece 705 Spoiler, before the real chapter come out.

I predict Luffy will win easily on his 1st of battle, but considering of Oda style I am sure that the next One Piece 705 Spoiler cannot cover all Luffy's real fight. He might need not use any of his armed haki to fight on the preliminary stage, but good enough to attract huge attention without revealing his true identity. Since we know one of Blackbeard crew already won the 1st battle, the remaining unknown winner will be of Block B. So far we know the winner for Block A is Jesus Burgess, Block B still unknown, Block C is Luffy definitely, and Block D probably could be The Gladiator Rebecca.

One Piece 705 Spoiler could be very thrilling, after they have four winners from every block they will fight direct with Doflamingo family. Very high probability that Luffy has to fight seriously after this, I don't think he can hide his true identity anymore after the One Piece 705 Spoiler. In the mean time Franky could have done some home work by now, most probably he knows where to find the factory already and prepared some plan. Maybe he already finished some weapon or little robot to go investigate.

I know Joker will meet Law in order to retrieve the scientist Caesar, but as soon as he knows of Luffy where about he will rush to go to the Arena. We might able to see some of Straw hat pirate member in the One Piece 705 Spoiler, maybe Robin and Usopp which are in Team To Give Back Caesar lead by Law. The risk is so high but Usopp was in that team, there must be a reason ant that reason shows Usopp is now a very strong man. One Piece 705 Spoiler is full of promise, and worth to wait patiently.

Credit to:Deviantart
As long as Oda didn't take any holiday, there always be a new One Piece 705 Spoiler. Keep visiting here, because we will upload the  One Piece 705 Spoiler right after it releases.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

One Piece Chapter 704: Final Four Participants

Comments:
Once again a great one. At the beginning of the chapter we are introduced to a lot of people who seem somewhat 'fodder', no one really stands out and I believe that's how Oda wanted it to be. I do understand that there's somewhat a need for some of the participants to be introduced and he decided to leave the important ones to the latter part of the chapter. It seems that Bellamy is alive after all and seems to be in the service of Doflamingo after all.


Pirate Prince Cavendish is the first "important" participant introduced in this chapter. It was a truly funny moment when Luffy mistakenly said his real name causing a shock in the other participants. Also we got some backstory on Cavendish and I really find it pretty nice to hear about him - it's pretty awesome that he has been three years in the new world without any kind of an ability.


Then Gladiator Rebecca is introduced, once again an obviously important character for this arc / tournament. She and Luffy talk about Kyros and it seems that there's an interesting mystery there lying in wait for us and I couldn't help but to see that if he was the champion 20 years ago, he could have been around when Gold Roger was still roaming the seas.


And finally we see Jesus Burgess after a long time, it seems that the 4 participants for the finals are Burgess, Lucy, Cavendish and Rebecca. Seeing Burgess raises a question: is Blackbeard around? Can't wait for next week - damn you Oda.

Recap of One Piece 704: The statue of Kyros and Lucy

-The people in the waiting room are wondering what just happened. Someone comes and says to Luffy that he's out of the game because of the ruckus he caused.


-He then gets interrupted by Country of Flowers Gang: The Chinjao Family, Don Chinjao, Boo and Sai.


-We are getting introduced to more gladiators, Assassins from neighbouring country: The Funk Brothers: Bobby Funk and Kerry Funk.


-Next are Prodence Kingdom King "The Fighting King" Elisabello the 2nd (second) and Prodence Kingdom Tactician Dagama.


-War Criminal from the battle of Dias, Neck Spring Slayman


-Former bounty hunters from the government bombing incident, Abdola and Jet.


-The Fake Massacre Adventurist, The Ruler Ohlumbus


-Donquixote Family Endorsement, Savage Pirate worth over 100 million "Hyena Bellamy"

-Pirate Prince Cavendish, Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo are supposed to be participating too.


-Luffy or rather Gladiator Lucy puts on a cool armor, holding a shield and a sword: he really looks like an old man

-The Beautiful Pirates Captain Cavendish is introduced "formally"

-Luffy mistakenly says his real name, everyone gets shocked and then they realize his "mistake", truly a funny moment.


-Gladiator Rebecca is introduced, they are talking about Kyros with Luffy.

-There's some ruckus at the arena, first block has been finished and the finalist seems to be Blackbeard pirates' Jesus Burgess.



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