One Piece Manga Discussion: Scanlation/Translated Only

[Stoopider]

Nah, get some old fogey to do it. We don't need an apprentice swordsmaker on our ship.

[budak getah]

chapter 441 raw is out after waiting for a long long time.

http://anip.homeunix.com/manga/one piece/index.php

[Knives122]

SCANLATED ONLY DISCUSSIONS!

[Stoopider]

Yup, Knives is correct. Hopefully it will be out later tonight. (thats for me).

[KoKo37]

Chapter 441 MQ Scanlation by Lilmax :

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[Grape]

Awesome climax. I'm glad they made a character like Teach, who is unbeleivably powerful despite having such a huge weakness. It will be great to see how he is defeated (by Luffy, obviously). Great ending.

[xDarkMaster]

This stuff is epic. Looks like we are heading for another crazy arc and even more plot developments.

[Stoopider]

Black Beard has nullifying powers as well. I guess it'll come down to a battle of strength and will.

Good that BB isn't invincible. If nto I would think the only way to defeat him would be Sea-Stone Weapons. But what does BlackBeard mean by "In history, it's the most feared Fruit"..

It seems that there could be more than one person with such power?

[Knives122]

Now that the ch. was translated I can restate what I said:

The only way to beat darkness is to blot it out with light or take it all in(basically suck it into yourself). So anything short of that will not work to more or less any effect.

I don't think this fight ended well for Ace(dir!!) as seen by how the hat was centered on the frown face on his hat....but I don't think Oda would kill off his 10th most popular character right?....Right?

[Death13a]

I don't think this fight ended well for Ace(dir!!) as seen by how the hat was centered on the frown face on his hat....but I don't think Oda would kill off his 10th most popular character right?....Right?

Knowing how Oda loves surprises i wouldn't hold my breath for Ace to be alive. And that was awesome chapter. I like how Teach is extremely powerful but not without flaws

[Honoko]

I think Ace'll get out of this fight barely alive and at least well enough to talk to warn if not Whitebeard, then Luffy. Whereupon massive ass-kickage will ensue afterwards.

Do we get the chapters more regularly now? All the mangakas' vacations are over right? hehe

[Augury]

This chapter could be the entry point for a massive, epic war. Kinda makes this global stuff in One Piece more exciting than the Strawhat's next prospective adventure at Merman Island.

We all know Oda doesn't like to kill off characters, and Ace is indeed one of the most popular outside of the main crew. From what I understand about Blackbeard's DF power though, Ace should now be absorbed inside of him... unless he is not making contact with his body in that last attack.

I think there is also another way to defeat Blackbeard besides light or absorbtion of his darkness - dish out enough damage in one blow that he can't withstand the attack. With the way Blackbeard is set up, I'd say Zoro actually has a better chance of beating him than Luffy, but then that wouldn't follow Shounen stereotypes since Teach seems like one of the types of villians that are only important enough for the main character to defeat.

And yes, the mangaka's vacations are over for them until April.

[Carnage]

From what I understand about Blackbeard's DF power though, Ace should now be absorbed inside of him... unless he is not making contact with his body in that last attack.

I dont think he did make contact, it seemed that he made a huge fireball that clashed w/ Teach's powers. Anyway, I hope Ace isnt dead, he's one of my favorite characters. But I wouldnt be completely dissappointed if he were dead, it would add another reason to list of why Luffy should beat the shit out of Teach.

On a sidenote, although this may be the 1 millionth time its been said, Oda is a friggin genius. I....want.....more.....now....

As said before, next arc is going to be crazy. I cant wait to see what Zoro's new sword will be like.

[Munsu]

I really wish the manga hadn't revealed so much of Teach's power at this moment.

[Augury]

Why is that? Do you feel that it sets up for a defeat next time he fights?

[Stoopider]

I like it how it's revealed, especially against Ace. I love the suspense. I think if we see Ace on the floor defeated and BlackBeard standing over him without seeing the battle, it would be seen as a overwhelming win over Ace and not a hard fought battle on both ends, and such a
'loss' wouldn't be cool.

Whereas if they show the battle, we'll see that their quite equal, except BlackBeard has a slight advantage over Ace.

[Munsu]

Well, there was no mystery to his power... He simply went step by step explaining it which is bad storytelling in my opinion (very rare for the mangaka). I mean, he could've kept silent of the nature of his powers, especially about him not being a normal logia user and his weaknesses.

I don't know, I've never liked characters explaining their powers in the middle of fights. Seems very foolish, I preffer to speculate on what's going on, and maybe get an explanation after the fight.

[Death13a]

Well that's yours preference i like the fact that Teach's powers were finaly revlied and cleered away. Time for new arc from fresh start.

[ChaosK]

I don't know, I've never liked characters explaining their powers in the
middle of fights. Seems very foolish, I preffer to speculate on what's going on, and maybe get an explanation after the fight.

Yeah but that sort of thing happens all the time. I mean, the "villain" always has to boast about his powers, which the "hero" will later use to his advantage.

Didn't the same thing occur with the CP9? I mean, they explained what each of their 6 moves were, pretty clearly. They didn't wait for battle, then suddenly shoot someone with their finger and have them go "holy shit wtf?"

[Deblas]

Chapter 422 scanlation

Damn, this is one of those chapters where you ask yourself just what the hell was Oda smoking at the time and where can I get some? In other words awesome!

I loved how we get to see more of the interior of the Sunny and a little bit of the Soldier Dock system. I never thought that the tank franky mentioned would turn out to be a huge aquarium.

Brooke pwns. What's not to like about a perverted english skeleton with an afro?