Nostalgy Archive: Enter Dark King

Oda has the best way to introduce important characters through sneaky "hype". Needless to say that his way makes readers squirm in excitement and feel dying want to read the next chapter. Here's a prime example of such hype in which I have to admit that got me wanting that next chapter more than anything else.

Introduction to Silvers Rayleigh also was sort of an introduction to Conqueror's Haki. It's funny how he pretended to be just an ordinary old man who tries to get some money from people buying him as a slave.

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Nostalgy Archive: Enter Blue Pheasant

Ice man, Aokiji is one of the characters that are "mix" of good and evil. A lot more complex character which has more than meets the eye. His first appearance was just before Water seven where he froze Robin up and fought with Luffy.

Shortly before that happened very funny scene where people of the island ask Aokiji for help to get over the ocean - this actually reminds the readers that things can be looked from many perspectives. There is no such thing as good and evil, when looked from objective point of view.

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Nostalgy Archive: Luffy turning gears

One Piece managed to proceed for almost 400 chapters, which would make over 8 years since the beginning before Luffy's fighting power massively evolved. This turning point is known as gear 2, which had my heart pounding in excitement when I first read chapter 388.

Thank god One Piece wasn't made into a linear power up -adventure (like DBZ), Oda has done incredible job at surprising fans and keeping them satisfied by finding unique and interesting ways for character power ups.

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Nostalgy archive: Dragon saves Luffy

I get shivers even thinking about this scene.

Monkey D. Dragon: I still remember the speculation where people discarded him being Luffys father because he would have such a stupid name. I think that's why it was so well planned surprise by Oda.

I had been interested in exactly how Luffy was actually saved from execution in Roguetown,  a bolt of lightning struck Buggy as well as the execution stand where Roger himself was executed years before. Since we've already seen lightning powered Eneru so it would be weird for Dragon to have lightning based power. I think the most logical power for Dragon would most likely be something related to wind and gust blowing the soldiers away. But just how Dragon had been portrayed ominously following the lightning struck seemed to imply that the lightning was not a freak accident. Did Dragon save Luffy at the stand or was Luffy simply really blessed?

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Nostalgy archive: Killua The heart stealer

Killua is definitely one of my favorite protagonists

I remember this being pretty heart stopping moment (pun intended) when watching this as anime like a decade ago. At this point I really fell in love with Killuas awesomeness.

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Nostalgy archive: Hottest flames of them all

The God Slayer Zancrow:

Zancrow is pretty self explanatory: God Slayer, is there possibly anything cooler?

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Nostalgy archive: Enter the strongest evil magician boy

The strongest magician Zeref made his appearance at the S-class exam.

 There are still many mysteries shrouded around him such as, why does he know Natsu and why did Igneel's scarf protect Natsu from Zeref's deadly magic? Very interesting character nonetheless.

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Nostalgy archive: lesson from the strongest

This moment belongs easily to Fairy Tail top 5 moments of all time. Gildarts give valuable lesson to Natsu and makes him admit defeat with sheer intimidation.

Basically every chapter with Gildarts on it is amazing and it's a good thing that Hiro uses him very sparingly.

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Nostalgy archive: The coolest Fairy Tail mage

The entrance of Gildarts Clive was so epic. Whole town was DIVIDED for this man. If I recall correctly it was mainly because it would be easier then for him not to destroy everything by accident.

 Not only being the coolest he also is arguably the strongest Fairy Tail mage.

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Nostalgy archive: Mist gun fighting Laxus

What sorcery is this!? Mist gun / Mystogan, however you want to pronounce it showing his magic first time in chapter 120.

 This fight had me gripping the seat of my bench! Too bad that this magic was an illusion in the end but I was still satisfied by it's sheer awesomeness.

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Nostalgy archive: This is dragon slayer!!

This time from Fairy Tail Chapter 98 I've picked up couple of great moments. Natsu shows his real power and owns Gerard and the tower with one punch.

 This chapter was named as "Dragon Force", maybe a foreshadow for after the timeskip? I can imagine how Hiro Mashima was at this point thinking how he would evolve dragon slayers to the next levels to come.

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Nostalgy Archive: Makarov's Fairy Law

This was an incredible moment. Makarov making comeback and utterly destroying Jose and his guild.

You can tell that Makarov's pretty angry. Maybe his size scales by how mad he gets?

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Nostalgy Archive: Mist gun / Mystogan entrance

Entrance by putting almost all of Fairy Tail guild to sleep. How cool is that? Shortly after this we were introduced to Luxus Deher who claims to be the strongest in the guild.

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Nostalgy archive: Mihawk debut

I remember watching this on like a decade ago as anime. I was so excited that I couldn't stay in my pants.

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Nostalgy Archive: Breathing of all things

This is one of the most underrated Zoro moments, him learning of breathing of all things and finally slashing through hardest enemy yet: Mr. 1 or Das Bones.

 I especially like this because it's sort of a premonition to his talent with Haki. Truly an incredible One Piece moment overall.

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Nostalgy archive: Zoro and marines at the very beginning

Zoro knew how to be awesome even at the very beginning. Shortly after that he cut Axe Hand Morgan and joined the strawhat pirates.

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Nostalgy archive: Luffy's first gomu gomu no pistol

Still looks very cool even if it has been over 14 years since Luffy began his awesome journey. Monster got what he deserved for eating Shanks's hand :(

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