User blog comment:Vazelos3/Group C in action - chapter 715/@comment-94.68.151.238-20130718233839

I feel that this chapter is below expectations.

It is reasonable tho to have a less interesting chapter every now and then. In the end, what makes this chapter average (or bad) is the fact that the last chapters were pretty awesome.

Now that the scene is established, with everyone about to make a move it is only natural to have some distraction by the colosseum. What disapointed me is that Block C doesn't progress as fast I would like. Oda wasted a lot of time to introduce the contestants and let Luffy idle with a cow in the back.

I would like to see a compressed version of the events so we can have 4-5 additional  action pages in the end of this chapter. These pages would be enough to get rid of some fodders and Jean Ango or Ideo, who seems to me as named fodders too. That way I would expect Block C to be completed in the end of chapter 716, but with this chapter's progression this seems highly unlike.


 * Ideo seems as a cyborg to me. I double checked his shoulders after I read your blog and no, this doesn't seems to me like a stance. Since I like ranking systems I loved seeing another one revealed. XXX fighters! Maybe this system will be met later on the series.


 * Nothing to say about the Mexican brother of Obelix. Not even a little interesting to me.


 * It seems ok to me to have Chinjao with Haoshoku. He is a badass old jeezer who holds the highest known active bounty. I suppose he used to be a quite impressive pirate on his golden age. After all, if Roger Pirates could have two Haoshoku Haki users in the same ship, wouldn't they be at least some decades of pirates with Haoshoku Haki in the entire New World? Well, it makes sense to meet one of them during a tough tournament like that.


 * Funk Brothers did something weird for sure and they appeared to be an interesting couple. I have to agree with Ayet-san that they seems to complete each other in terms of abilities. A brother skilled on offensive fighting and with an offensive personality and a brother who is defensive and hesitant, but with an extremely well armored body. I would guess that Bobby ate the Wear Wear no Mi and he can put someone else on him, so he use to merge with his brother that way. He keeps his own body but he gets the personality and skills of the person he "wore". The merged fighter they created is for sure quite noteworthy in terms of power.

If that theory comes true... Brace Yourselves! "Who would like to see merged" blogs are coming!

K