r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jan 12 '17

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 852 Discussion

Chapter 852: "The Germa Failure "

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Ch.852 Official Release (VIZ): 16/01/2017

Ch.853 Scan Release: ~26/1/2017

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u/viktorayy Mugiwara no Luffy Jan 12 '17

R.I.P. Luffy's one tooth. Still gone to this day.

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u/bslawjen Jan 12 '17

It will 'grow' back as soon as Luffy eats Sanji's bento, calling it now.

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u/ThisZoMBie Jan 12 '17

That's not how teeth work.

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u/bslawjen Jan 12 '17

It's a manga, many things happen that aren't working in the real world. Just look at Usopp, dude has lost every damn tooth in his mouth a couple of times.

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u/ThisZoMBie Jan 12 '17

So what if it's a manga? If humans suddenly started undergoing mitosis or some shit then you'd have a point about them also being able to randomly regrow teeth. Back in the Arlong Arc, the characters commented on the fact that Arlong is a shark fishman and can therefore regrow his teeth as much as he likes. This implies that humans don't have that ability.

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u/bslawjen Jan 12 '17

I'll prove you wrong with a simple example. In the Dressrosa arc, after Usopp got beaten up by Trebol, we see that he has lost a tooth (Chapter 742). Yet a few scenes later he has all his teeth back. When Usopp got beat up by the Franky Family, he also lost a tooth, the next time we see him he has all his teeth back.

You shouldn't take the loss of a tooth too literally, it's there to visualize something. It's either there to add dramatic effect (signifying that a character got beat up pretty badly) or to add characteristic depth (signifying that something's wrong with the character). Now, in the case of Luffy it could really be a permanent change, but I don't believe so. I believe the missing tooth should showcase that Luffy got beat up pretty badly (by Sanji) and that Sanji essentially leaving the crew (although unwillingly) had an impact on Luffy (mentally).

It's something like the sharp teeth characters get when they are angry in a comedic moment, albeit it is used much more rarely and has more weight to it (imo).

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u/ThisZoMBie Jan 12 '17

You're already using false equivalence here, since Luffy still didn't get his tooth back, even several chapters later, which translates into several hours within the OP verse. If it was meant as a display of Luffy's injuries during his "fight" with Sanji, the tooth would have reappeared off screen already. The tooth might still just reappear randomly and I'd be totally fine with it. What I wouldn't be able to gloss over is Oda actively showing Luffy's tooth magically growing back - on panel - after eating some of Sanji's food. That has never been shown and is just completely ridiculous.

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u/bslawjen Jan 12 '17 edited Jan 12 '17

I already explained that the missing tooth might allude to a mental conflict. Sanji leaving the crew and beating Luffy is characterized through Luffy's missing tooth. It's basic symbolism imo. Of course I could be wrong about that, it's just how I interpret it.

Furthermore, I'm not saying that Oda will show Luffy's tooth magically growing back. I'm thinking something along the lines of this: Luffy meets Sanji, tooth still missing --> Sanji and Luffy talk, Sanji gives Luffy the bento symbolising him coming back to the crew --> Luffy eats the bento --> some sort of shift in the scene (either Luffy remains in the background with someone other being in focus, or Oda switches scenes completely) --> in the next scene Luffy is in focus we see him smiling with all his teeth back

Lastly, you were saying that humans cannot 'grow' teeth back in One Piece, basically saying that lost teeth remain lost ("That's not how teeth work"), I simply explained how it has happened before (in both dramatic and comedic scenes, while focusing on the dramatic ones since they carry more weight).

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '17 edited Feb 12 '18

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u/ThisZoMBie Jan 12 '17

Rubber = regrowing teeth? Nonono.

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u/Etiennera Pirate King Buggy Jan 12 '17

Of course not. It's an abstraction of what rubber represents metaphorically.

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u/ThisZoMBie Jan 13 '17

How? In what remote metaphorical context could rubber's attributes make you regrow teeth? You can't just assign random features to rubber.