Arguably The Best One Piece Theory: "The Inherited Will"

Nickname "Kukriblades" in mangahelpers forums has in my opinion constructed the best One Piece theory that I've read so far and it sounds so plausible that I'm actually a bit disappointed that I read it: if it stands out to be true, then there's a good chance that the story of One Piece is somewhat spoiled for me. You can find the link from the bottom of this text, but be warned: if I could decide again I would not read it to enjoy One Piece fully with all the revelations to come regarding all the mysteries.

I'm going to keep this text pretty much spoiler free, so I'm not going to give out any details here. Basically the theory explains all this (as nickname "Lord Rayleigh" put it very well):
-What is All Blue and why no one has found it
-Why Ancient weapons exist
-Why there was an apology by Joy Boy (and other stuff regarding Joy Boy)
-Why the fishman island will be destroyed
-Why the manga is called One Piece in the first place.

The theory consists of couple of main parts related to One Piece story:

The hidden pattern of the story
As the title says, there's a "hidden" pattern, which pretty much dictates the past and the current events of the story

Roger's dream
Roger is basically a huge mystery in the world of One Piece. We've been revealed some of his intentions, but the underlying meaning behind his actions are (or should I say were) shrouded.

"Project" One Piece
In this part One Piece and the meaning behind it is explained, I really can't think how it could be otherwise.

"Promised day"
The promised day is pretty much related to the concept of "One Piece" and what the storys final aim basically is.

The theory explains all these in so believable manner that I can't think why the story wouldn't go like this. In some way I actually hope that I wouldn't have read the theory, it was indeed amazing, but in a way I've always loved reading the theories since no one has managed to pull all the strings together so well that it would have no holes and that has made me put more trust in Oda. So in a way I really hope that this theory won't come out to be true, but I'm pretty certain that it will have some or very much similarities to the real upcoming One Piece story. Read the theory here

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One Piece Chapter 708: Luffy In Trouble

Comments:
A decent chapter this time, nothing special, but still fine One Piece quality.

It was pretty much expected that there would come a small fight and as expected it ended very short. I was pretty surprised that Don Chinjao was actually so strong and his head not getting pierced by a sword was pretty weird. More weird however was that Cavendish actually attacked Don Chinjao instead of Luffy, but maybe that was because he wanted to take down Luffy himself. Don Chinjao and his family are 'revealed' to have some real goal, if it isn't the Mera Mera fruit then what are they aiming for?

Then there was Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo, who seems to have some unknown, but seemingly cool power. I indeed found it funny him being so carefree and actually peeing outside the arena. It was pretty evident that Fishman Hack was somewhat hyped up during this and the last chapter, but it looks like it was supposed to boost Bartolomeos hype up even higher so to say. I find it very entertaining that the blocks have so many interesting and strong characters of who you can't really say who will win. In this case there are basically three who would be suitable for winning this block and they are Bartolomeo, Bellamy and mysterious gladiator Ricky. At this point I would like for Bartolomeo to win the block, but depending on how gladiator Ricky presents himself in the chapters to come I may have to change may opinion.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 708: Colosseum Of the Thieves

-Luffy has been found out, he still tries to convince that he is Lucy.

-Don Chinjao isn't convinced however and tries to headbutt Luffy breaking the ground.

-They say that Don Chinjao had a bounty of over 500 million when he was at his peak.

-Cavendish unseathes his sword/blade, which is Durandal, one of the world's legendary swords.

-Don Chinjao attacks with Battle head, Cavendish counters with beautiful blade - blue bird.

-Now Luffy attacks him, but it's uneffective. They say that Don Chinjao split an entire arctic continent with only a mere headbutt.

-We see that Don Chinjao's beard has grown for one reason or another. Don Chinjaos grandchildren, Sai and Buu come and stop him.

-Meanwhile the battle royale is on - Abdullah and Jeet have taken down Tank Lepanto.

-Bellamy however takes down both Abdullah and Jeet at the same time.

-We then see Bartolomeo peeing outside the arena - fishman Hack tries to attack him with karate, but his arm gets hurt instead.

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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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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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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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One Piece Chapter 705: Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo Hyped Up

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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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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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One Piece Parodizing Fairy Tail / Homage To Toriyama?

Eiichiro Oda parodizing Fairy Tail?
I think that based on the latest chapter I belive it's somewhat possible that Oda has decided to (more or less) subtly parodize Fairy Tail in One Piece.

Fairy Tail has just got out of a Tournament arc which didn't deliver to some the fans as they would have hoped. Even though it can't really be called a bad arc per se, this must have been a chance for Oda to make some comedy out of it since he most likely has been planning to make a tournament arc for a long time.

The most evident sign of this is of course in One Piece chapter 703 when Luffy is signing up for the tournament he almost spews out his real name but ends up using "Lucy" instead. Lucy just happens to be one of the main characters of Fairy Tail and the series just happens to be getting out of a Tournament arc. Also, there just happens to be some "fairies" who stole Zoros sword. I'm sure some people may think that this is just a coincidence, but I tend to think about Oda when he was either designing / drawing the latest chapter that he could not not have realized the connection that he was about to make. Whatever the reason these are the kind of small things which make reading good series just a little bit more enjoyable.

So why would Oda be compelled to make such minor notion? In Fairy Tail there has been a bit more evident resemblances regarding character similarities between One Piece and Fairy Tail.

First example is the resemblance of Gildarts Clive and Red-Hair Shanks, Gildarts happens to be the strongest mage of Fairy Tail and maybe one of the strongest mages in the whole series. Shanks however is considered as one of the strongest pirates in the world of One Piece and I have to say that they do look pretty much alike.

The second example is Bartholomew Kuma and Hoteye (Richard) of Oracion Seis. Both are huge and are for some reason or another holding a giant book near their chest in the same manner. They are however using different hands to hold their books so it may be too farfetched ;P.

Of course it is always possible for either of the authors to make these things unconsciously, but the most important thing is that it's not bad to do such things in my opinion. It brings a bit more to the fans who recognize this stuff and it's good as long as it's done in good manner as opposed to copying too straightforwardly.


Odas Homage to Akira Toriyama?

As a child, Oda has been influenced by Akira Toriyamas works greatly. I think that the most of the people have seen in the past couple of chapters that Luffy wearing the fake beard, sunglasses and the shirt really looks like Master Roshi from Dragon Ball. This one, I believe is almost certainly a homage to Akira Toriyama and it's very well done I might add.

Do you have any other examples? Please share it with us in the comment section - you can do it without signing up.

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One Piece Chapter 703: Shishishi, Nice To Meet Ya!

Comments:
A good chapter even though it was pretty much a build up one once again.

I really loved the ending of this chapter, especially Luffys huge bearded grin and the "shishishi, nice to meet ya" after throwing Spartan to the ground. He really did show that he's not just someone to mess up with. While I was reading the chapter I was actually waiting for him to use Color of the Conqueror, but this was really a much better way for him to show his 'superiority'. The Color of Conqueror would have attracted a bit too much attention and perhaps Luffy has enough brains not to do it. Of course it's possible that it wouldn't have worked against Spartan anyway.

We are finally seeing in which direction this arc is starting to go and so far I'm loving it. Oda is clearly staying with sure thing comedic and character trait based story line: Zoro getting lost, Sanji doing his funny women comedy etc. It seems though that the strongest teams object has been forgotten by everyone and that's really fine by me. This kind of solution works for me a lot better and I can't even hope to predict what's going to happen next as everything is still open.

At this point it feels that I'm very much hoping to see Luffy and the Corrida Coliseum stuff at this point as it seems the most interesting stuff at the moment. Of course depending on what the other strawhats are going to do next will most likely affect that pretty much, since there's of course always a meaning why things go like this each and every time.

So in this chapter nothing else really progressed except Luffy getting himself into a cool situation, the other strawhats getting drifting off to their own ways. I can't really say anything about Zoro at this point, but I really loved the way Sanjis 'path' is going. The comedy was pure gold and now that I think about it there really hasn't been this kind of relationship for him in the whole series. I think it's pretty much obvious that this girl Violet (Who I thought at first was Robin, they really look similar) is going to use him without feeling guilty, but nonetheless I'm sure that they together will provide some good comedic value and maybe this meeting has more deeper meaning than we can even anticipate at this point.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 703: Waiting Room

-Doflamingos underling is explaining to Luffy and Franky how Doflamingo got the Mera Mera Fruit.

-Luffy decides that he wants the fruit and immediately offers it to Franky, they then decide to go to the Coloseum.

-Meanwhile, Zoro is running after the fairy who stole his sword. Sanji is coming close behind him, stops and sees a dancing girl called Violet.

-Sanji being mesmerized loses sight of Zoro, but then suddenly Violet appears before him asking Sanji to hold her.

-It seems guards were after her because she stabbed a man. Soon after she tells that there's a man she wants Sanji to kill.

-At the same time Franky and Luffy are about to enter Corrida Coliseum when they see a toy soldier being chased by the guards. The toy soldier uses "jet walk" and gets away before explaining about the law of Coliseum. This One-Legged soldier is introduced as Thunderous Wrath Soldier.

-Luffy then goes to sign in to the competition and almost says his real name, but Franky stops him in time. So his contestant name and number is 0556 Lucy.

-Luffy enters the waiting room, there are lots of people warming up. We see someone who at least looks a bit like Lao-G doing Karate or something similar on a punching bag.

-One of the contestants, Spartan gets agitated because Luffy is just looking around. He tries to hit Luffy but Luffy grabs his arm and throws him strongly to the ground. "Shishishi, nice to meet ya!"

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One Piece Chapter 702: A Tournament Arc!?

Comments:
Chapter 702 was pretty good, but not (understandably) amazing. Most of all it was almost a pure build up chapter where happened something which happens in basically every arc: Strawhats got split up again, it's pretty much the same pattern that we've seen in the past arcs, only the method for strawhats to go on their own ways is a bit different each time

So the Splits are: Zoro+Kinemon+Sanji and Luffy+Franky, somehow I like this set up, Franky and Luffy make a great duo in my opinion.

It's pretty interesting that the swindler got a direct order to cheat the samurai. Of course we already knew that the blind samurai is someone important and I think it was pretty expected that we wouldn't get to see who he is. He implied strongly that he recognized who Luffy is and I think it's somewhat obvious that basically the only reason for him to conceal his identity would be that he's part of the marines. Of course there could be a lot of imaginative ways why he wouldn't be linked to the marines, but I'll leave that to Oda.

Also it's interesting to see that Oda decided to "subtly" tell us that the Colosseum fights are to death: I think that his principle to not to kill people in One Piece has been shredded to pieces long time ago (ie. Monet dying). This gives a lot more unpredictability and gives Oda some freedom to do some rough decision with most of the characters.

I think that we haven't really seen a true tournament in One Piece, so this is somewhat refreshing to see: this Dressrosa arc looks very good so far and I really expect a lot from it.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 702: The Corrida Colosseum

-The amazing blind swordsman (Zatoichi) has just made his huge hole in to the ground, the strawhats are wondering what ability he has.

-He offers to pay for the damages to the owner and is heading out, the owner seems to recognize him and then Luffy asks him who he is.

 -The blind swordsman says that it's unwise for both of their sakes to tell Luffy who he is.

-Suddenly people in the bar are realizing that some of their stuff is gone and so is Zoros sword Shuusui, which is the sacred treasure of the wano country. One of the toys says that it's fairies handy work.

-The fairies are said to be invisible and have been revered as deities in Dressrosa. Zoro then hears something and sees that his sword is being taken out of the window but go stuck.

-Zoro runs after it and Sanji + Kinemon follow him. Luffy tries to go along, but Franky stops him.

-So the swindlers who were taking the samurais money were in fact one of Doflamingos men.

-The presenter in the coloseum presents aces Mera Mera no Mi and says that it goes to the winner. The best of the best of New World have been assembled in the colosseum.

-Presenter introduces Donquixote Family's fighters: Senor Pink, Dellinger, Lao G, Machvise, and Mister Diamante.

-In the last panes Luffy finds out that Aces devil fruit is a prize in the tournament.

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One Piece Chapter 701: Incredible Blind Swordsman!?

Comments:
Oda has done it once again. I was expecting after so many great chapters one or two chapters which wouldn't be so interesting, but he still manages to keep up the high quality of the events that keep happening. I had a bit low expectations so they were exceeded by a huge margin.

It looks more likely that the blind man with gravity devil fruit is indeed Fujitora, since until now the admirals have been based on real people and the blind man resembling Zatoichi the blind swordsman is just too great to be a coincidence. The Wikipedia article of Zatoichi is definitely worth the read:
-At first sight Zatoichi seems to be relatively harmless gambler who wanders around the country
-A recurring theme of the films and television series is Zatoichi protecting the innocent from oppressive or warring yakuza gangs, and stopping general injustice. His fighting skill is incredible, with his sword-grip in inverse manner (That's what the blind swordsman is also doing)

The blind man who was introduced to us resembles in my opinion very much Borsalino(Kizaru). The most obvious guess would be that he is Fujitora, but I wouldn't go all in with that since it feels a bit too obvious. Also Akainu seemingly having to rely on him implies that Fujitora would at least have some kind of way to separate people, especially people with bounties from other people. I also wouldn't have it impossible for him to be the seventh shichibukai of which there was discussion in the marine base in the last chapter.

Needless to say the blind mans (Possibly Fujitoras) power is amazing making a huge hole to the ground. People were guessing that Fujitoras power would somehow be related to the ground/earth, but it seems that either this blind mans or his sword's power is gravity because before the hole was formed the hoodlum felt being pressed to the ground. I'm saying that it could be his swords ability because using his power of gravity would not require him pulling out his sword.

This was a great chapter with a humor value: I laughed to the scene where the strawhats were watching the toys going around in Dressrosa and they all had such a funny faces with jaws dropped.

Also the disguises that apparently Kinemon made to strawhats made them look absolutely badass with all their beards on. I'd imagine that Oda would have used that kind of sight with some kind of color spread or something like that, but it was awesome nonetheless.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 701: Adventure In The Country Of Love, Passion And Toy

-The Strawhats have landed on Dressrosa

-Luffy tries to fly with Momonosuke

-Momonosuke seems to have some kind of fear of flying, he has a one-screen-flashback which asks him who he is. Earlier that face looked a bit like Doflamingos. He then says that he will never fly. Luffy and Momonosuke have a minor 'fight' and argument after that.

-Kinemon says that in dressrosa everyone wears clothes as he shows in a picture where women are naked and men wear shirts.

-Law gives the strawhats vivre cards that point to Zou. He then shows the map of Dressrosa and explains the plan of returning Caesar to Green Pit.

-Team to give back Caesar is Caesar, Robin, Law and Usopp

-Team to secure the safetu of Thousand Sunny is Chopper, Brook, Nami and Momonosuke.

-The team to destroy the factories and rescue samurai contains Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Franky and Kinemon.

-We are finally introduced to Dressrosa, where toys are living beside humans.

-They then arrive to Port City, Acacia (reference to Torikos Acacia? Dunno, it's a plant too though)

 -The strawhats + Kinemon look badass with their disguise beards.

-While the strawhats are eating they see that nearby there are couple of people cheating a blind man in a roulette.

-Luffy comes and reveals to the blind man that he was being cheated on so the blind man pulls out his sword and makes a huge hole in to the ground making the hoodlums fall in there.

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One Piece Chapter 700: Aces Mera Mera Fruit

Comments:
It was an excellent chapter, even though I was slighty disappointed since I honestly waited for a little bit more. We got to see a little bit something that happened at other places, but nothing much. I believe this may be because this isn't a complete transition from one arc to another but sort of a continuation to Punk Hazard. Couple of pointers:

It seems that Jewelry Bonney has managed to escape from the Government and when we saw Akainu (or Sakazuki) once again it seemed like he was a bit younger than before. This is most likely because of Bonneys power.

Kid Pirates mentioned of "Abusa" who is a free writer and is apparently known to make some scoops lately, I'm pretty sure that this mention of him basically means that we will at some point meet him. I'll be keeping my eye on the future chapters if we manage to catch him in action before he is 'formally' introduced to us.

This chapter was somewhat interestingly named "his pace" which of course refers to Joker's ability to control the flow of discussions to his way. This is in my opinion on way for Oda to show how Joker actually managed to make it to the top of the underground businesses, very nice.

Also we were introduced to Commodore Brannew, who I think resembles pretty much Aokiji, or rather Kuzan. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be related. Also we got a mention of Fujitora, which can be translated as "Pink Tiger". There of course has already been some speculation whether he has, like the previous admirals, some kind of Logia

It seems that we are introduced to the match ups of this arc. It's a rather unknown at this point how it will turn out, but it seems that Doflamingo has his own special group of people which represent suits of cards. Trevor we already saw clearly who seems to have some kind of slimy logia/paramecia: also Diamante was introduced who Doflamingo seems to keep in high regard. I believe Diamante will most likely be Zoros match up, it would suit him being hero of the colosseum and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd be some sort of swordsman.

And finally Doflamingo having Aces Fire Fruit, I think that he prepared some fruits at the war for the possibility of obtaining some new devil fruits. This is very interesting turn of events even though it was somewhat speculated beforehand, but if and when strawhats emerge victorious from this arc it will definitely be interesting to see who will finally get to eat the Fire fruit.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 700: His Pace

-News of Donquixote Doflamingo quitting from Shichibukai are spreading. Jewelry Bonney is eating pizza and reading the newspaper.

-Also Jinbei and most likely Crocodile are reading the paper.

-In the New World, Hideout of the Kid Pirate crew they wonder who is this free writer and how does he know about Kid pirates alliance. He speculates correctly that Luffy and Law are after Yonkou, but doesn't know which one of them.

-At Dressrosa Doflamingo answers to the Den Den Mushi and says that he has left the Shichibukai.

-Luffy yells at him saying that he is the one going to become the pirate king. Doflamingo asks where has he been for the last two years. He also mentions that he has something with him that he would be interested in. Luffy thinks he is witholding meat and Law stops him not getting into Doflamingos pace.

-Joker wants to check whether his business partner, Caesar Clown is safe.

-Trafalgar Law reveals their plan, 8 hours from nay on the solitary island north of Dressrosa, Green Bit, southeast beach they'll leave Caesar Clown there. Leaving Caesar there is sort of a decoy.

-Their real objective is to destroy the Smile Factory.

-Luffy gets all happy once again saying that he's ready for an adventure: he's looking forward to seeing Dressrosa as well as Wanokuni. After that there's a funny scene of Law getting sucked in his pace.

-Inside they are eating and Kinemon is talking that they went out in the sea to look for a place called Zou. Law mentions that his crew, comrades are waiting there. Kinemon tells how his fellow samurai Kanjuurou became hostage to cover for Kinemon.

-In the New World close to Red Line we are introduced to Commodore Brannew who talks about the Shichibukai.

-Current Shichibukai are "Hawkeye" Dracule Mihawk, "Ten Yasha" Donquixote Doflamingo, "Tyrant" Bartoholomew Kuma, "Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock, "Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar Law, "Clown Star" Buggy and the seventh man is apparently left secret for now.

-Akainu is there saying that he has sent Fujitora (new admilar most likely) somewhere.

-In Dressrosa Baby 5 is yelling for Trevor who appears near her. Trevor looks like a slimy guy who most likely has logia or paramecia.

-Inside the castle Doflamingo is in front of chairs which represent four suits of cards, spade, heart, diamond and club.

-Doflamingo is talking to Diamante, who is the hero of Coliseum and represents suit of diamond.

-Trevor appears and gives Doflamingo a box, who gives it to Diamante.

-Doflamingo is now holding the Mera Mera, Fire Devil Fruit which belonged to Ace. He says that Luffy for sure doesn't want anyone else to have it.

-Meanwhile, the Strawhat crew have arrived before the country of love and passion, Dressrosa.

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