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I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Pica
Haki-infused katana-wielding Zoro. Good. Lord.
I don’t know what to say except, apparently he can conduct colors of armaments with HIS TEETH!
Wado Ichimonji’s hilt has *never* been black and yet here it is time and again, infused with fresh-squeezed wreck juice. Oda-sensei also took special care to make sure it wasn’t only the grip or hilt expressing the change either.
Compare the blade of Wado from Fishman Island to his final attack on Pica. Can’t wait to see this animated.
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Weekly Shonen Jump #14 Ch.778
Weekly Shonen Jump #15 Ch.779
One Piece Vol.65 Ch.646
GSM
One Piece Tower is now open to the public! To commemorate the event, Oda-sensei created a pizza party setting with characters checking out leaflets for the ’Tokyo Pirate Festival’. Chapter 779 was an exciting and certainly MANLY chapter but what’s the icing on my muffin this week? But of course, Zoro’s T-shirt in the color spread!
Huh?
Of course! Come on this is a big deal! It’s his GSM T-shirt! We’ve seen it before! Back in 2006 it showed up on the cover of Color Walk 3 and in 2011 Zoro was wearing the shirt in the 3D short film One Piece: Straw Hat Chase.
The meaning behind the ’GSM’ is still a mystery. Does it stand for something in Japanese? Something in English? Who knows! If I had to venture a guess in English I’d say: ’Great SwordsMan’ representing Zoro’s dream.
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Color Walk 3
Weekly Shonen Jump #15 Ch.779
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FREAK
Bartolomeo is being handled very well by the development team considering how easy it would be to run his inherent comedic value into the ground.
Thus far, each anime-original Bartolomeo scene has done something interesting with the character that’s always managed to wrestle a smirk out of my stoic lips. I also approve of his carrying a magnifying lens in his hammer space.
Speaking of freaks, I’m happy to see that Kinnemon, a proud man from a xenophobic country, is expanding his horizons to appreciate foreign…um ’cultures’?
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TV Anime #681
DERp
A lack of Pica’s vocal debut was completely absolved by Koala’s fight scene. Adorable and deadly? Be still my heart!
While doing her secret agenting, Koala discovered that Doflamingo is selling arms to the Kingdom of Biggschots or in Japanese, ’Doerena’ (the wordplay is the same in both languages).
The ’DER’ stamp represents a shortening of the Japanese spelling and if you’ve got a mind for details, you’ll recall that this isn’t the first time we’ve heard that name pop up! In Chapter 720, someone hailing from Biggshots, presumably a ’big shot’ himself, was the colosseum competitor whose tongue seems to have been given a trim by Bartolomeo for badmouthing Luffy.
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One Piece Vol.72 Ch.720
TV Anime #682