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Happy belated birthday 😅

Yeah (edited my previous comment with more details). That's Oda's purpose with Shanks. Worked wonders. Basically the more fights in his fan base the more money he makes. I just think feats and narrative are equally as important in any fiction.

But I'm not against using pure feat to compare strengths, but preferably it's stated as a condition to avoid conflicts.

But this might be taking away the fun of the conflicts, and a lot of discussion opportunities, which I guess makes me another kind of annoyance here associated with Shanks....

Well, I don't preach Shanks to be the strongest. But his abundance of "face" makes me "want to be him".

Here's my thought. With Shanks, a controversial topic comes with him: whether to judge a character's strength by feat or by narrative/implications (even vague ones). More of a... philosophical thing if you will. And being someone who acknowledges both, I'd naturally sometimes disagree with people who judge only by feat. I just like the whole picture painted in my head than the hard cold feat. I do understand that people use already-shown feats as evidences, but sometimes to me it gets unrealistic. That's the main issue. And Shanks is so fitting of this issue because he is precisely the character Oda tries to convey with nearly no feats and all implications and narrative.

Actually, Luffy did clash Garp in marineford, Garp let Luffy beat himself to the ground. Since both did go on the offensive (though Garp gave up), I counted that as a very short fight. So I guess depends on your definition.

He means the reason Oda didn't want her in the crew. I guess Oda just wants the dynamic consistent! It's the "Oda reason". The "story reason" would be that "she had her ideals".

Actually, even the powers IMO pre-timeskip also takes the cake. The fight between devil fruit powers was kind of what got me into this series. Then they resort to the system of haki, and a very vague one at that (compared to, say, Hunter x Hunter). It's basically turned into a plot device.

Maybe like in the real world, a world renowned true beast of a man could still be brought down by a mere pawn if not careful.

Definitely pre-timeskip for me. So much more humor.

My favorite is Mihawk (even got his expensive action figure). But I think Doflamingo and Crocodile kind of ties on the warlord job, assuming they promptly distribute their wealth to the WG.

My guess is that it'd be a magically different type of explosion which bypasses Mr. 5's immunity...

Oh nono, that's it for me. Nothing serious. Let's get back on topic.

Huh? What do you know? If you ask me, you're the one getting the most serious and irritated for some reason here! How on earth can some random fun One Piece info get on your nerves? Just curious.

Uh... That's not negativity dude. That's getting a bit opinionated.

I'm sorry. I just thought it'd be fun info. Sorry it got on your nerves.

Hey it's been my way of commenting for like half a decade here already. Just my way of contributing. If you dislike it you could ignore.

I think those are just different ways to refer to those three. "All stars" seems like the name of their "rank" in the beast pirates (as opposed to governor general, tobiroppo, gifters, ....etc.)

And the "three calamities" seems like the epithet given to those three. And "lead performers" I think are just what they call them when they're doing that funky concert thing.

So the translation should've used all these simultaneously.

In terms of translation, it'd make more sense if you asked whether people like "three calamities" or "three disasters". For the record, I think "three disasters" sound more "in your face".

Isn't very consistent anyways, the fruit power of the boss of this filler I think overlaps with that's of Oven's. The best parts about this arc are the interactions between the straw hats.

By feats (seems to be the general rule for most people here), it's cracker. By narrative, it's Smoothie.

My impression on the Jaya arc is short but important.