Agreed

Will add that if you follow the Op community the “takes” are done and over done to death so the fresh theories and ideAs from a new perspective is priceless. Even if already proven wrong, still provides context for the story we may have never gotten.

I would watch her videos even if 3hrs long.

Agreed. It's refreshing to see a perspective from someone who is going through the story as blind as possible. Over the years the community has homogenized in a lot of ways in terms of where we expect the story to go or what kinds of things we look for (or overlook) in the details. Even though she often has theories I know are wrong it still often makes me rethink things, plus some of them are surprisingly similar to a lot of the fanbase too.

@@jimdeguzman3231 I wish her vídeos had all 3hrs long hehe

Little oars jr is still alive?

@@handle0158 not confirmed but probably

Status say “Unknown” on the wiki page so I assume he’s gone. Him being alive would severly undercut the powers of thw WG in the war. It was a noble way to go out, tbh. But that’s just what I like to believe.

I loved reading that scene. These little details are gold!

Do we not find this out in later chapters?

Oct D Puss is amazing lol

It's his fault! Usopp tells a tall tale of a giant goldfish that eats islands, and whose poop can be confused for an island, it appears at the end of Little Garden. Sanji calls himself Mr. Prince because he is simping after Princess Vivi, you thought? Probably, but he's also the freaking 3rd Prince of the Germa Kingdom! Sanji's drawn wanted poster was a nice gag... Well, no... Duvall is a thing. Remember that gag character on one of the first SBSs that Oda created as an excuse for a door that got magically fixed in the next panel? Minatomo. That surely was just a joke. Until you arrive in Wano and see Franosuke working under his twin brother! With that rep-sheet, if you ask me, Oct D Puss was Roger's strongest and most loyal crewmate! This insane man doesn't even allow you to trust in jokes!

best member

We need another Collab once she catches up!

Are we going to see Merphy in next Reverie?

Reverie I need that Kol and Merphy interaction

@@Ali-sh5sx thats weird just to think about 🤣 Watching Daniel play D&D with Tekking over at Rustage's chanel is already such a weird crossover event hahaha

@@adoniscreed4031 that's why I need it! I need to know what that would look like Especially since they both love Katakuri

I love that we now reference to old videos

I LOVE IT🤣🤣🤣

100% agreed. The things that excite her the most and get her attention are the highlights of her videos

Agreed, that is what got me listening to these. The reactions to things, big or small, bringing back memories of similar reactions when first reading them. I sit there with a goofy grin the whole time listening.

I agree

true, i prefer the manga sound design over the anime

Also interesting how Oda has split Momotaro into 2 seperate characters in Wano edit: in case someone want to read a summary of the tale -> According to the present form of the tale (dating to the Edo period), Momotarō came to Earth inside a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there. The woman and her husband discovered the child when they tried to open the peach to eat it. The child explained that he had been sent by Heaven to be their son. The couple named him Momotarō, from momo (peach) and tarō (eldest son in the family). Years later, *Momotarō left* his parents *to fight* a band of marauding *oni (demons or ogres) on a distant island.* En route, *Momotarō met and befriended a talking dog, monkey and pheasant by feeding them dango* _[anyone who is caught up will know who the first 2 are],_ who agreed to help him in his quest. At the island, Momotarō and his animal friends penetrated the demons' fort and beat the band of demons into surrendering. *Momotarō and his new friends returned home with the demons' plundered treasure and the demon chief as a captive.* Momotarō and his family lived comfortably from then on.

@@asap4bri sorry I don't know about japonese mitology, who are the 2 characters that are based in the tale of momotaro? I suppose momo is the first

@@joaquingarces901 Otama and Momo.

@@joaquingarces901 in the story, Momotaro befriends animals by feeding them dango.

He also brings 3 animal including a monkey to fight the oni. oh yes the dog too its probably spoinlers whoitis thou. i think the peasent was already ther too.

Crazy…

Yes that panel was unsettling in the realist way possible I'll probably never forget it.

This. Every time I think about Wano I just remember that scene with the grandma almost comitting suicide and that mother almost killing her child. Just shook me so much.

Yep Oda is on another level, at least in my opinion. Even death in One Piece has some sort of consistency.

He likes Toilkein so of course his world building and story telling would at least be Toilkein Level

@@FrarmerFrank literally came here to say OP is the silmarillion of Manga.

@@FrarmerFrank Wait he likes Lord of the Rings? I didn’t know that.

i can personally put him upper, to replace "shonen" to "manga", even to the best ones on "fiction, fantasy". Eeeasily, and i have loved and love loot of fiction but.. one piece is not just the level we are talking about, im also including the level of enterteinment and learning we can have reading lot of new stuff EVERY WEEK (almost)

Oda has planned Wano since Thriller Bark and he said about 15 years ago that he can not wait to finally draw the Wano arc.

@@furorteutonicus9045 he wanted to do it earlier then that. He put it off initially to not step on the toes of Naruto. He ended up putting it a lot further back then he anticipated considering this story is longer than anticipated as well.

*Little Oars Jr.*

@@furorteutonicus9045 Oda has planned Wano from the start of the series with Zoro's Backstory in Shimotsuki village (the only Japanese sounding and looking town in One Piece till we got to Wano)

@@dohtje5029 I would not go THAT far. This also can be something Oda came up with later and tied it in with the early chapters. We should not forget that Oda initially thought One Piece would only go on for about 5 years.

Woop woop

Not al capes wear heroes

love ya

@@arielvillanueva1127 lol

More Cowbell! Lol I really want funny titles for the timestamps. Which gives info about what's going on but also insight into your psyche lol. Idk I really enjoy the timestamps on Critical role.

Wear not capes heroes all

Pokémon adventures manga slaps.

Damn...thanks dude since the runtime of the vid is suprisingly short. So thanks again.

No one is reading that

Well, thats why Oda set his goal to make One Piece the next hallmark of what manga can be And I must say, he succeeded, it became one of the manga insudtry titans, and at least in Light Novels more than anime and manga, many of the ones after One Piece are adapting Oda foreshadowing style, and many of them do become highly regarded

Want to point out that you're wrong about the sword. He got the sword from the legendary Samurai Ryuma in Thriller Bark. It was supposedly buried with him. Hence why Kinemom kept calling Zoro a graverobber.

I think they Sumo wrestle in a movie or a special episode in the anime.

@@wifi961 Yes you mean film Gold 👍 even every small details connected Oda never miss any chance to make these things shine

Act 3 has been one hell of a ride.

Oooh i want your review tooa

been a long ride

Was this your first full consumption of manga? How was it? If you may answer that in a short sentence.

@@rinkusan978 I was gonna keep it brief but I ended up writing a lot so I hope that's OK. The tl;dr is that it's not my first time reading manga but I was still not prepared for the absolute massive (both length wise and emotional) journey it has been reading OP and I'm so happy I did it. I've read/am reading Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Haikyuu. While I'm not completely a newbie to manga/anime like Merphy, I feel like compared to most OP fans I'd be considered a "normie" as I've only read/watched less than 30 series. As for my experience reading OP, I'll be honest, I was not expecting I'd love it this much as I had kinda assumed people were exaggerating how good it was. I feel like that may have been because the only side of the fandom I had seen were the toxic fans who would belittle you for saying that you enjoyed X or Y series so that definitely added to the hesitancy to start the series earlier. I was also hesitant initially because of the time commitment I thought it would take to catch up (I think it took me less than 4 months and I actually just caught up to the manga as of 10mins ago!) and I was unsure if I would enjoy what I had assumed to be a very light hearted series (boy was I wrong lol). Despite how most of the anime I've watched fall under Shonen or Seinnen, I actually don't really care for fighting aspects of them, so I was also worried that OP would only be about these big battles (again I was so wrong about that as there is such a perfect balance of battles with quiet moments that give the battles so much more meaning). That's why I started listening to Merphy's reviews as I figured if someone who had very little experience with the medium and genre could still enjoy it then I'd have no excuse to try it for myself. I was watching her videos until Thriller Bark before I decided to stop watching until I could read them for myself first and I think she had just posted Impel Down when I started reading it from the beginning. So I knew a lot of spoilers but I think it helped me reframe my mindset going into the series. Anyway that's probably way more than you wanted to know so sorry about that. I still can't believe that I've actually caught up and will now have to suffer weekly. The only thing keeping me sane now is the fact that I got my sister into OP too as so we're watching the anime together so now I get to experience the story all over again!

It's not just a made up rule. It's the only theory about time travel that is acceptable in real life.

Rule is you cannot go back in time only forward.

@@wiselettuce8715 not really , alot of scientist believe you can go backwards , but the cost of fuel to do that is equivalent of a star energy which no way near possible to do it curently or even in near future , but time travel to future is quite possible with with less power or just being in space , the astronout basically time travel 1 mili second into the future just being in space for a full year

@@wiselettuce8715 no, you can go back in time (well, not physically, but you can see back in time) if you travel faster than light, events happened here can be seen. Just like how we see dead stars still shining through the night

Oda made sure time travel is to only go forward. If she can go back from the past, then we'll gonna have One Piece multiverse.

Reminds me of when Goku meets with his grandpa too. Wholesome :)

Not eeexactly lol cuz didn't Luffy also Cry when he Recognized Sabo??

Big mom did too, she knocked luffy out of gear 4th with one hit and he had to be carried by sanji

Luffy has been easily defeated in the past though.

@@silver_soul big mom did, one elbow from big mom knocked luffy out of gear 4th and sanji had to save him

@@migglejoe1008 i don't think so man, big mom didn't knock out luffy, luffy got carried by sanji cause of luffy's still tired after all those fights and he is running out of haki, not because he got punched by big mom.

@@yosuarichard420 luffy turned gear 4th immediately clashed with big mom after transforming and then de transformed right after she pushed him back. Idk how clearly it needs to be big mom knocked him out of gear 4th and luffy even mentions he feels drained after getting knocked back. Go reread that scene its clear big mom one shot luffy there

Good catch mate

Zoro and Sanji didn't interact with each other since the early part of Dressrosa till Wano act 2. It was a good solid 5 years till they called each other Teme (Bastard) again.

@@charlesacker9174 seeing their hateboner/bromance again felt so good.

@@frankwest5388 SBS 73 had a list of every word they referred to reach other as. I lost it at "Shitty Lost Child Bastard" x 3.

This is a very Luffy and Zoro centric arc.

Wow you were caught up at thriller bark!! I caught up at fishman island. Thriller bark is old

@Lucas Alves the third act in these plays are the longest. Acts 1,2,4,5 are usually way shorter then 3 he didnt forget

Definitely do the flashback as its own video then the fire festival as the final video of the series... maybe split it into pre roofpiece and post roofpiece

also there is the spoiler reading group on like wednesday so there‘s spoilers wednesday fan translations friday official translation sunday i‘m in the friday group

can anyone please share links on where to read it? the anime is what got me hooked but now that i've reached wano i want to switch to the manga

Yup. Because of the early chapter release (of 1036) that usually happens around Christmas/New Years and a following WSJ break, the next chapter is not 14 but 18 days later now😭 At least now it's only a week left until ch.1037, early spoilers for it are out & most importantly, Mercy dropped a new video🥳

the drought is real right now

@@Hecubusx Tom The Drought

@@orbboom6119 lmao Tom the Drought Merphy really is like Luffy haha

@@asap4bri Well, it will be worth the wait at least. I heard 1037 is huge and is already trending on twitter in France after the spoilers came out (which i did not read of course but the hype is still there :) ).

Thanks for the info mate

I thought Luffy had Shusui as his katana

Crazy right? ☺️

This includes her re-reading the beginning through the sky island saga and her adoption. If you include all of that, the speed at which she's catching up to us is astonishing

@@ilsukdyang8134 cant wait for her to experience "One piece break weeks" >:)

@@Ali-sh5sx She's gonna be like, "Why did I catch up so quickly?!?" That's definitely what I was thinking when I first started One Piece. I started when there was around 300 episodes, maybe less, of the anime (I started with the anime, then took a break when I caught up, then switched to the manga because of the atrocious pacing of the anime) and thought there was no way I would catch up so quickly. I think I caught up to the anime with the episode where Garp visits Luffy at Water 7 several months after I started watching OP.

982 and that other one she absolutely needs to watch. And we are not only in the same arc but also in the same act lol

well, but kinemons behaviour isnt really because of timetravel, more the fact that wano in its isolated state never progressed from the edo period. Their traditions and manners are just not in contrast to the rest of the world. you could argue, that the most progressive thing, are weapon factories at the moment there. thats why devilfruits are seen as magic and witchery, while in fact they are just a part of the world but just here they are not.

@@rawrproductions5963 its possible thats what Oda intended, but the fact that when she read it and had an inkling how he acted was due to some kind of time situation is very interesting

Timetravel theories became common/popular in Zou due to Momo comments about Rogers

wats a anility

@@rawrproductions5963 i think his way of talking is interesting foreshadowing, for whatever Oda intended to do, the point was to realize the he isn’t from the modern world

Basically, trust Oda, he knows what he is doing.

and before people try arguing, tactical and strategic are different things!

@@Felipera_ how are they different?

@@merienda4958 A great example is the difference between a Tactical Victory and a Strategic Victory. Say for example that Allies want to bait the Axis into a fight to drain their resources. The outcome is immaterial to the Allies, they just want the Axis to waste time on a fight in one location to get an advantage elsewhere. Then the Axis takes the bait but the Commander of that Battalion is brilliant and makes a landslide victory, they win the fight with minimal losses and take the territory. Meanwhile the Allies are able to accomplish their other goals having successfully drawn their attention. This would be a Tactical victory for the Axis, but a Strategic Victory for the Allies. TL;DR Tactical is small picture, Strategic is big picture.

i don't think luffy ever had academics

@@sheepboy2560 gee I mean it’s like he was raised by mountain bandits or something.

trust in oda

@@pxpx3577 always

Unless it comes to character death, he falls flat 🥲 But I trust him with everything else

@@generalyousif3640 yup......... :'(

Facts. People should finally respect that and accept that One Piece is in the same league as Berserk and other masterpieces. Just because its a shounen aimed at teenagers does not mean it can not be an outstanding work of fiction. It angers me greatly that there are still many people out there who try their best to downplay One Piece just because its not primarly aimed at adults.

982 was the last good ep

@@Divine..__.. that Anime director sure is something. 982 was well done

@@Divine..__.. and here comes 1015

@@hei7846 1017 was pretty good too

Yah and/or apple/google podcast platforms

Same lol.

I think Act 3 by itself is gonna be larger than most arcs, plus there is so much content within it.

The coincidence considering the latest chapter lmao

@@asap4bri *coughs* "Outside the story" *cough*

@@dudeguy8686 lmfaoooo

I loooooove your pfp

Built Different

@@Nastyn1nja808 yes

Facts my guy preach

Already running for more than 2 decades and still going strong.

@@D__634 Right

Agreed on this. The "welcome to Wano" sequence along with the act transitions are fantastic in the anime and worth watching on their own. I'd also add Kaido's arrival with the ominous music as the storm approaches and then he drops through the clouds as Luffy is stunned into asking "wtf is that" and Law replying that it's Kaido.

The intense and important scenes for wano are some of the best to come out of the anime in years! I really enjoyed them. The only issue I have is how much what goes on in between can drag, if they don't do anything interesting with it, and it's just reaction shots and drawn out struggles that weren't in the manga, coz in the manga they were quicker and didn't have at least 30 seconds of the characters just flailing their arms around in order to not fall over as the crowd reacts.

@@bethanybrookes8479 Some of the padding in action scenes I'm all for it. Sanji vs King was pretty quick in the manga, but in the anime they made longer and more interesting

@@phenomenonnarutokun yeah, like I said, the intense stuff is great. It's when you get stuff like the sumo match that it starts to drag.

Yeah, especially with the new style that was introduced it felt so very fresh and exciting!

You lucky bastard😂....

Thanks 😁

just be wary of the comments. Never extend the responses to a comment and overall, be cautious with people trying to explain stuff. There is a guy somewhere in the comment section who spoiler some big character moments and how some stuff that will be explained after Act 1 works. It's always a gamble

Its cool. Spoilers dont bother me a whole lot. I tend to stay away ftom them but if i happen to find out its not that bad. Im still gonna go through and see for myself 😊 everyones experience is different i figure

You're out of line but you're right

@@timmywho6142 I wanted to put it into Merphy terms lol

@@timmywho6142 lol

Lol well put

almost: Pie Do(u)gh

Too bad it doesn't end there with spoilers coming out 1 week and scans 2 days prior to the official release. And seemingly everyone in the community is fine with that so it's hard to discuss new chapters without getting spoiled.

@@see_yl the creator community is pretty good about not talking about that stuff for 'just long enough for the unofficial scans too come out. Not saying it's not still an identifiable issue, just saying that participating in this community is pretty easy if you ignore rant comments

@@RadicalPlasma Every single major one piece KZfaqr has spoiler thumbnail+title every Friday. What are you on about? Forget about any discussion on any discord, there its worse.

@@see_yl 1037 is gonna be huge, just sayin'. It will not be out for a week but its already trending in France after the spoilers came out. ;)

@@furorteutonicus9045 and there you have the perfect example of what I mean. 😂

O-prefix is used for women while Oden is a reference to Japanese hot pot dish just like his father, Sukiyaki.

As an Indian, _Samurai Gandhi_ ,cracks me up. 😆😆😆

@@DarkNorthEmperor Ohh all Gorosei are based on Great leaders.. atleast that is what fandom thinks, BTW I am from Maharashtra

She need to make one piece topic videos in advance then...

It’s a mixture of happiness that he’s taking breaks but sadness because how can you have such an awesome last scene and then tell someone to wait two weeks!

im very happy for oda being able to take as many breaks as he needs

It's mix feeling , I'm happy Oda-sensei got break, but sad as fan because I can't read new chapter next week.

I don't think she will ever interested in Bakuman lol. Maybe another fantasy series with similar storytelling like One Piece

I think Totally Not Mark said in his video that Toae also gave strikes to the KZfaqr who was drawing out the scenes of one piece.

facts i am one of the few people who binge-read it its also my favorite arc

He sure is a top class mangaka, imo Kentaro Miura and Naoki Urasawa are the top of all time

Oda’s the goat

@@DharcVasquez yep Kentaro Miura was artistically better by FAR. While I like One Piece better and understand that the plot is superior I can’t in my right mind say that it’s better than Berserk or not yet at least. But with Utasawa he’s been lacking since Asadora! imo

I feel Oda as a Mangaka is a solid top10, like it or hate it. It has its flaws of course which doesnt allow him to be on Top5 imo. But pretty close.

@@7a81chanel7 he drew more detailed pictures but i dont think his layouts and blocking are as good as Oda's, and i dont like berserk's story as much. i feel like other artists are great at specific things but only Oda is the goat at like, every aspect of story and art together

Love the message of it too. "You can't change the past, you can only go forward".

I would even say that there is no other manga with world building on the scale and quality that One Piece has. This also goes for the long-term storytelling.

​@@furorteutonicus9045 In long term I could say Kingdom, another manga I can think of regarding to worldbuilding is Made in Abyss (it doesn't compare in scale though) and if we go to Light Novels, we have Mushoku Tensei, which has both, scale and quality. I am not saying those are the only ones, but those are the ones I know so far. But yeah, there are few manga that are as long as One Piece, but obviously One Piece is the *king* in long-term storytelling and worldbuilding🙌🏼

Yeah, and in Punk Hazard Kin'emon tried to fight Zoro for it, believing he had stolen it himself (Kin wasn't even there when Moria robbed the grave). It's considered, according to Kin, a treasure in Wano, and Ryuma carried the epithet of Sword God

@@AnyMEmdq We also had Zoro say to Ryuma's grave at the end of Thriller Bark he wouldn't talk about what happened with Ryuma's corpse. Edit 1: I just checked the manga and didn't find that line from Zoro by the grave. Edit 2: I found the line. It was chapter 467. Right after defeating Zombie Brook in Ryuma's body Zoro says "The sword is mine to keep!! But lets pretend this fight never happened. Samurai of the Wano Country".