One Piece

Chapter 894: 00:05

Luffy is training with Rayleigh to get his observer haki down pat, but he ends up attacking their food rations which pisses Rayleigh off. Luffy is blindfolded and he (Rayleigh) uses armarment on a bat to knock Luffy out.

Luffy: Whoa, I can sense your anger!

Rayleigh: That's Haki, too!!

But since Luffy failed to use Haki properly he goes without dinner and the animals of the forest take pity on him but he refuses to eat. Rayleigh says observer Haki allows one to unconsciously feel the emotions of living things. The strongest users can even see the future a little.

Rayleigh: What will you do if you fight an opponent like that two years from now?

Luffy: I guess it depends on what kinda guy they are...

Rayleigh: Oh? So you're actually interested in their personality? I hadn't even thought of that.

Luffy: But it's obvious?

Luffy is able to dodge Katakuri's attacks at first, but then they start trading blows. Luffy manages to take Katakuri's arm, but he just grows it back.

Scene changes to Bege and it's 10:10. His group is still headed toward Liquer Island, and they're almost there. However Chiffon says they should change course because Liquer is too close, and they should go to Fluffy Island instead. Chiffon reasons that if they take BM to that island and she regains her senses after eating the cake the Strawhats will be far enough away to escape.

BM isn't...looking too great. She's like skeleton skinny now.

10:50, and the sunny is still barely avoiding attacks. Carrot asks if Luffy's won yet, --she's awake now. Chopper asks if Nekomamushi and Inuarashi can do the same (and he's calling her his little sis now.)

11:08, and Pudding comments while riding on the carpet with Sanji that the military and the naval units have luffy pincered in the middle, so she wonders if he can escape.

Sanji: My captain will be here to save me. I know it.

11:36: Charolette family is gathering on the island --the boys from 36-40 and the girls 30-34

Including the 33rd son Raisin, 35th son Yuen (?) 32nd son Brownie, 27th daughter Jorgand, and Snack the 25th son. Everyone's amazed at how many forces are gathered --Luffy must be one hell of a threat.

00:05 and the fight against Katakuri seems to have ended with Luffy on the floor defeated. Katakuri asks if this is all Luffy has.

Luffy struggles to his feet and says he will end it...and activates Gear 4 "Snake Man".

End.

BTW Snack has a bounty of 600 million Berries.

Filler chapter. Oda clearly doesnt want to end this arc yet. I'd say 2 more months for ending.

Reminder LuNa fags are making stuff up now just to claim "BTFO" when they made up those scenarios.

Also "instead we got pudding heading out with Sanji"
Kek

I WANT TO SEE THE NEW CHARLOTTE CHILDREN GIVE ME PICS NOW

>Rayleigh says observer Haki allows one to unconsciously feel the emotions of living things.
Nami confirmed loving Sanji because Sanji says "I LOVE YOU TOO"

SNACK HYPE

Daily reminder don't make BTFO assumptions based on spoiler text.
You may again lost because of this and look silly.
Peace.

This arc is expected to end by april may of this year, shit's been confirmed already and it makes sense it ends by then.
The thing is until confirmation everyone expected the arc to end by December, and we've been left with this 'the end is near' feeling

more like SNEK HYPE

>Jobck
>Getting hype

>Jobck
you didn't even try

Hehehee!

>spends all week saying btfo and spamming
>d-don't make assumptions guise
SAD!

SEETHING

>Nami was unconsciously all fight with Absalom
>Sanji was real white knight and not a perv wierdo.
Why Oda make love powerful force?

Sanji will never give up Nami user

>Soyck
>Hype

What a fucking bullshit. Luffy entered this fight in bad condition. Got a shitton punch from Katakuri's strong power mochi. Dealt barely damage, he was a punchbag for hours. Even G4 was useless and ran out of haki. Got a fatal injury. He is somehow still able to go into G4 into a new from.

Oda lost his shit, biggest plot armor ever.

it's like you're reading typical shonen tropes in a shonen series, right? What a hack this Oda guy

Snack has only 600 million bounty.

I was really happy ate the start of this arc about Urouge defeated a Sweet Commander, but come on Oda.
He was the weakest. And Luffy is about to tak down the second almost within a day.
Which makes Urouge look much weeker now.

Why Oda, why?

go read something else, nigger

Why is it okay when Oda does it?

>getting mad at tried and true shonen tropes
Looks like you activated GEAR FOURTH STRAWMAN.

Bounties are powerlevels, you heard it here first folks!

>mfw patiently waiting for my friend Zoro to appear

>implying they're not

Wow, Chopper is weaker than Higuma?

Luffy was able to beat crocodile with a hole in his stomach.
Luffy plot armor is something to point out here, but mind you his plot armor doesnt activate until he is pushed to near death.

For the most part, yeah. There might be an exception or two, but that's it.

>The thing is until confirmation everyone expected the arc to end by December, and we've been left with this 'the end is near' feeling


This and the year of Sanji were good lessons, we shall not listen and belive what editors say.

I wouldn't be surpried even Oda himself could not predict when he will finish this arc, so I'm sceptic about the "Wano in 1 or 2 years" (from Summer 2017) statement.

long answer: Luffys resilience and stubornness have been already shown throughout the series, but specially throughout this arc. Plus, he needs to build up resistance to superior enemies and this is the way it's done. His objective is to endure and defeat Katakuri and he's pushing himself beyond his limits for that. He will most likely need Choppers post-TS medical skills to come back from this one.

short answer: it the classic shonen tension buildup narratively required for the fight but exaggerated at this point in the series because the stronger the enemy the harder it must be for luffy to defeat them

Wano is 3 years minimum.

>adding "-man" in my transformation name lets me win battles out of nowhere
It's what me and the other avid readers around here have feared: He can't write a good-ol balanced battle anymore.

But why is it okay?

>I'm sceptic about the "Wano in 1 or 2 years" (from Summer 2017) statement.
Well, it makes sense considering Reverie will most likely take place in between WCI and Wano.
So it'd be Reverie mid-2018 to late 2018/early 2019 and Wano from then onwards

>muh outliers
The exceptions prove the rule.

Why it is not? Snakeman isn’t a powerup.

For the long answer it'd be 'okay' because it'd make sense
For the short one, it'd be 'okay' as in usual and required for narrative purposes

How is this battle not balanced?

Because it teaches a lesson to
1. Nevet give up
2. Pushing past your limits makes you stronger
These are lessons fpr young boys and girls tp learn and seeing some one succeede in that inspires others.

Robin confirmed stronger than Franky and Brook

It blatantly is a power up he just pulled out of his ass.

>Snack is fine
Why was Opera such a coward? Snack jobbed to Urouge and only got demoted as punishment.

Objectively true

Bounties are power levels with very few notable exceptions.
- Luffy: needs to be perceived as weaker than his opponent, or it won't look like a challenge
- Chopper: gag
- Robin: plot
- Teach: plot
- Shichibukai: lower than what they'd normally have because lore
For everyone else, bounty is their power level.

>lying to prove a point

>he just pulled out of his ass.
this
His ass being the Rusukaina training flashback, where Oda's been pulling from all the last minute upgrades and powerups since the TS

>rewatch Marineford, ep. 476, 478
>Luffy vs Vice-Admirals and Elite Marines scenes.
>Soru, Tekkai, Shigan, Geppo all the way from literally whos
>Oda claims that Marineford will be look "cute" prior to next major battles
>mfw Sanji still show only fire leg and Geppo/Skywalk and some "teleport in front of you" speed.

If Oda dosn't make Sanji's power up this arc/Wano, he will be looking very weak with his "generic CP9 techniques, also fire leg".
His character desperadly needs something cool to stay relevant powerfull fighter now.

Proof to the contrary?

Bpunties arent powerlevels, hell buggy is a shishibukai and hes weaker than most of the pirates in the grandline.

>Bounties are power levels with very few notable exceptions.

HELP ME RAYLEIGH I'M DYING OUT HERE

>Snake Man

The memes are real.

THIS
Haki ruined everything.
Back then Oda created a scenario where the guy was made out of sand, and water was rare. So Luffy had to
(1) realise his weakness
(2) find water in a drought-ridden country
(3) take the water to Crocodile somehow in a mobile way
(4) beat him before running out of water. Then the water plan still went wrong but he figured out he could use blood instead. It also tied in thematically because the drought was intertwined with the civil war. It was a sand country so Croc fitted in with that. Fighting a sandman in a desert, water is his only weakness it seems but there's no fucking water. An interesting and thematic setup.

Oda made that all up and would have to make up a new thing each time for each fresh character. But instead Oda made up just one more scenario; a far simpler one. Oda said "Okay, his hand goes magic and he hits him". It's way simpler. And it gets used every time from now on forever more. Enemy one: hand goes magic and he hits him. Enemy two: hand goes magic and he hits him. Enemy three: hand goes magic and he hits him.
Enemy x-1: new gear/new form

Almirals must be weaker than Higuma since they don't have bounties, right?

my wife more deserves screen time

>get ass kicked for 10 hours
>ass pull new form in last 5 minutes to win

Snack is only like 25 years old. 600 million is nothing shameful.

Franky is the 4th strongest in the crew user, until Jinbe joins. You don't have to lie.

>Luffy vs Katakuri is a mirror match
>taking place in mirror world
oh I get it

Like someone else said, there are a few exceptions. For the rest, it's all powerlevels, basically.
I don't understand why you insist on denying the obvious.

>Oda is a misogynist
In other news, water is wet

>hes weaker than most of the pirates in the grandline

Which is true.

Why didn't you drop One Piece when Zoro did that against Mr. 1?

In order for it to be a called a «powerup» it needs to be univocally stronger than everything he had prior. Which isn’t the case, it’s a different form of the same powerup. And him having different form was foreshadowed from the start.

people just get triggered by the term "power level", say strength indicator or something

>Bounties are power levels
It's like I'm talking to a fucking shipper.
>oda said theres no romance
>THERE'S ROMANCE REEEEE
>oda said bounties arent powerlevels
>BOUNTIES ARE POWERLEVELS REEEE

>enforcers of law
>having bounties
How do you type without a brain?

You're not going to get away with that bullshit here.

Katakuri will win and will carry Luffy outside mirroworld

>point out fight isn't balanced
>WHY DON'T YOU JUST DROP IT??

To be honesto, this scheme run out of ideas by the time Luffy fought Enel, and the distance was too big with non-solid logias (i.e. Ace, Smoker, etc.) and the fights against Rucci and Moriah are an example of that.

What's Buggy's bounty again?

Fucking this. If Oda is really the foreshadowning master, he should make +1 chapter back then about Luffy's training, let Rayleigh say the exact same things as in the recenet chapters.
Then it would be foreshadowed long enough and wouldn't be an asspull.

Haki is probably the response to the shishibukai existing, Oda said that the story went on longer because of the shishibukai.
But even then I dont think Haki ruined anything, it still relies on endurence and it varies from person to person. Like how law was able to cut vergo in half with out haki but just his DF.

Holy shit

>it doesn't fit my definition of a powerup, that means it isn't one

Bounties aren't powerlevels because they are set by the threat the criminals pose to the Govt. and they change according to that.
A threat might be reading poneglyphs, freeing slaves or murdering civilians, and none of those are structurd in a single definition/scale of power

>people still acting like bounties don't serve the same function as power levels
we really need a collage of all the times they're used for that exact purpose

Can't believe it took me months to figure it out.

You do know Katakuri not only can do what luffy is doing but also have an awakened fruit power right?
If anything his G4 Snek version is balancing things out.

WTF hadnt noticed that

You just don’t know the definition and i’m trying to teach you the meaning of the word you are using. Fucking retard.

I can't wait to see which shipfags get blown the fuck out in the ending.

He is the 25th son, not 25 years old.
Was you the same one, who complained "how the fuck is Smoothie 15 years old?"

Hopefully all of them

If they weren't power levels Oda wouldn't use them to hype up strong enemies

Editors are retards that probably post in these threads

>A threat might be reading poneglyphs, freeing slaves or murdering civilians
So like I said, very few notable exceptions.

They are illustrative not factual, lrn2read

Because they earned that in various ways not just in strength. If it was Buggy wouldnt be a shishibukai and Ussop would be stronger than Enel. Enel doesnt even have a bounty.

They're not solid power levels but it is pretty foolish how far people go to deny that Oda often uses them in that fashion.

Yeah, I hope so.

If he pulls a new form out of his ass in order to beat an opponent it's a "power up" by very definition. He doesn't have to becoming physically stronger, he could be more agile or whatever, it's the same shit.

>editors
they're used just as a much by oda himself. most recently with katakuri's billion bounty and peros's 700mil.

Oda is a hack

Nah wasn't me I probably speedread the spoilers. My bad.

Katakuri is stupid. Why didn't he form giant pointy mochis during awakening? As many time as he hit Luffy, Luffy would be now a strainer.
and even if Luffy could dodge them with CoA it wuld cost more haki, so he would run out of it already.

So should we just disregard them every time Oda mentions them? Why?