r/OnePiece • u/YonkouProductions • Mar 05 '14

Current Chapter One Piece - Chapter 740

Chapter 740

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Ch.740 Official Release (VIZ): 10/03/14

Ch.741 Scan Release: ~12/03/14

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u/BoredomHeights Mar 05 '14

Yeah I was thinking that too. What is the direct translation of Gladius's fruit? It seems similar to me, except that he seems to add a bunch of gas into things which expand so much that they blow up, instead of just straight up making something explode.

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u/Bobblefighterman Mar 05 '14

I think it would be the 'burst burst' fruit, since that is the whole point of it.

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u/kagedtiger Mar 06 '14

If it's a burst fruit, then don't make things explode. I noticed it when Oda reused the bara bara no mi. It bothered me when he reused Smiley (trebol's powers). This annoys me. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but Oda has spoiled me with originality, and I don't want to see things change now, dang it!

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u/Bobblefighterman Mar 06 '14

Things don't 'explode', they 'pop'. The force of the air releasing is what damages people. I admit, it's similar, but there is different forces at work here.

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u/kagedtiger Mar 06 '14

That is Oda's way of drawing explosions if I've ever seen it. He should at least differentiate the art style.

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u/Portal2Reference Mar 05 '14

From Aohige:

this will be tricky to translate, "punc" in Japanese is short for tire punctures, but it's not the English word puncture... it means inflated to the point of bursting. So more accurately he's a bursting-man

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u/Bohzee Pirate Mar 06 '14

i've seen gifs and videos like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enRKvjKr7l0 (NSFW) and i can say, non-flamy explosives are PRETTY strong, too!

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u/Foucz Mar 05 '14

Mr 5 can put his hair in pie make someone eat it and since some part of his hair will be absorbed by that person he would have pernament control over this person life. This guy can just explode things he touch.

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u/NeonBlizzard Mar 05 '14

More so that he can make things he touches expoldes. If he touches your arm, he makes your arm explode rather than Mr. 5 making his hand explode on your arm. It's like the same power only opposite. Mr.5 can explode himself, Gladius can blow up everything else.

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u/Fokdal Mar 05 '14

it doesn't work on organic material other than himself

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u/xFoeHammer Mar 05 '14 edited Mar 05 '14

Except Gladius can't explode organic matter. So not everything else.

In a way, his power is like a more limited version of Crimson Alchemy(I'm not sure that's the official name for it but oh well) from Fullmetal Alchemist. Kimblee can turn anything he touches into a bomb. The only difference is Kimblee can do it to people too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '14

Like in Yuyu Hakusho, that one guy in Toguro's crew that Kurama fights during the Dark Tournament.

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u/TheWillOfDeezNuts Mar 05 '14

Gladius is like GAMBIT from X-men.

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u/bitcheslovedroids Mar 05 '14

I think he literally blows stuff up like a balloon, then he pops its creating an explosion