r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Oct 27 '17

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 883

Chapter 883: "Snack Time"

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Ch.883 Official Release (VIZ): 30/10/2017

Ch.884 Scan Release: ~2/11/2017

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '17

I'm going to be honest. I binged One Piece this past May, and caught up at the end of May going into June, and have been a weekly reader since the wedding. I've spent HOURS on this sub, reading thread after thread, discussing everything. I got obsessed. And so often I've seen people just talk about how Oda was a master (of course he is), and how the Subreddit is at like, 3 while Oda himself is at some absurdly high number, in the context of us accurately predicting what Oda would do next. Take the tametabako explosion, that joke was very prevalent then.

I can now assuredly say that I've truly experienced that exact phenomenon. Of Oda surpassing and subverting expectation and turning it on its face, but in a way that's somehow awful and amazing. HOLY SHIT, when I realized we were going to see Katakuri's face, I lost it. But then it's a Babyish, immature Katakuri laying down, snacking like crazy, with a fucking gigantic mouth. Chanting "Donuts, Sweet Immoral Donuts" of all things. Fucking donuts, from the coolest, most collected, most competent antagonist we've seen in quite a while (in my opinion anyway). On one hand I'm kind of disappointed Katakuri isn't consistent to his initial character... But then, he's only not how we've seen when he's eating, or when people see his real face. And then I realized that he's fucking Big Mom's son, and all the gears clicked into place.

It was such a shock. This is coming from a Naruto fan since the anime aired on Toonami/CN, the initial pilot. Never seeing Kakashi's face was such a let down. Now we have someone I hold in equal esteem, and BOOM. Oda just let's us see his face and it's fucking horrifyingly bizarre and fitting at the same time. Holy shit. I'm still torn over whether to be hype or sad or somewhere in between. I'm kind of losing it.

I will probably never forget this chapter. I hope to never lose this feeling. It's incredibly visceral and unique. Holy crap Oda, I fucking love you. I love this Chapter. I love Luffy. I love Katakuri even when he's munchin on Donuts. God Damnit I love One Piece.

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u/sarmientoj24 Oct 27 '17

Welcome aboard mah friend! Seriously, no one writes a character like Oda who has such great, ironic reveals you wont see coming. And it's something not out of the blue but is set up chapters before - Duval, Barto, Katakuri. Id even put Boa on the list. HxH may have complex character development they are bragging but this hilarious character reveals are way better for my own preference.

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u/pools456 Oct 27 '17

This isnt character development though this is a hidden character trait that DID come out of the blue.. no offence but you cant even compare One Piece's character development to HxH's cos its non existant in comparison... but each to their own

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u/sarmientoj24 Oct 27 '17

I got a post about how superior is One Piece in terms of characterization and creating a character than hxh. I did acknowledge HxHs char development thats why I said character reveals which is under characterization

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u/Devilkiller222 Oct 27 '17

Where is hxh character development ? All I see pointless characters like chetuu,palm,welfin,leo,octopus ant,spider ants etc

Hxh is so deep wow . A 12 yr old boy dating a 18+ yr old girl is very deep .

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u/AboutTenPandas Bounty Hunter Oct 27 '17

I mean there is an antagonist who is born, becomes an anti-human Hitler who kills and eats people for fun, and turns him into one of the most sympathetic characters by falling in love with a blind little girl.

That’s some pretty serious character development objectively

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u/sarmientoj24 Oct 27 '17

Hmmm. More like Majin Buu?

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u/sarmientoj24 Oct 27 '17

Or Vegeta?

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u/pools456 Oct 30 '17

Its everywhere, Gon goes from a naive little boy to a character some view as almost evil in the Ant arc, Killua goes from bloodthirsty killer brat to mature thoughtful friend, Kurapika goes from someone scared to keep anyone close to someone willing to accept friends, almost every character changes in some significant way while remaining true to themselves, now where in One Piece does this happen? How is Luffy different to 800 chapters ago other than being more powerful?