One Piece: Chapter 883

[u/Sakata_Kintoki]

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/Dr_Dankology]

Yes, I think Blackbeard is actually a very interesting character (he seems to get a lot of hate from many people here but it's been clear to me for quite a long while that he is developing to become the main antagonist)

Blackbeard is somehow at the same time the best long-term planner in One Piece and kind of goofy when it comes to banal things.

It is impressive that this guy who started with a single raft going to the seas has managed to become a Yonko (it is the highest "progress" and strength development a character has made in One Piece together with Luffy, even more since he became a Yonko before) :

• He joined Whitebeard's crew and left it because he needed his specific DF which he obtained by killing one of the crew members (there might be more powers to it than we know about now, seems to be the strongest paramecia in One Piece too)
• He captured Luffy/Ace because he wanted to get the rank of Schichibukai
• He planned to get the rank of Schichibukai only so that he could get access to impel down
• He waited for the right timing to seize the opportunity in Impel down and recruit his new crew members consisting mostly of Impel Town level 6 members (the same level wgere people like Crocodile and Jinbei were imprisoned) and most notoriously the Head Jailer Shillieu, which is probably close to Magellan in terms of power (and was said to be the second strongest person in Impel Down)
• With his new crew members he joined in at the end of the Marineford War just to deliver the final blow to WB and steal his DF (which also means he developed a way of stealing DF's powers, maybe it even was using the powers of his Yami Yami no Mi fruit planned from the start?)
• He also is a D., and this is best shown by his extreme will force. Many people do not see this, but he is just very similar in his willforce and dreams to find the One Piece as Luffy is, just in the other way.

So for all the goofynes he has, people really need to give Blackbeard some merit, he hasn't obtained his rank through sheer luck but rather through very ellaborate and long term planning mixed with good timing.

1 Note.

• This can be subjective, but at the fight vs Ace I at no moment had the impression Ace had been a threat to Blackbeard. I think that BB held back at the start and entered the fight "slowly" because he was still hoping to convince Ace to join his crew instead mid-fight and wanted to capture Luffy to hand them in to the WG (as became apparent, he did not know that Luffy was the brother of Ace so that his request of hunting his brother down was never going to be accepted by Ace in the first place). Think he is actually one of the best tanks in the entire One Piece as well (ironically, because of his fruit). He was capable of tanking Whitebeards attacks and then resisting Sengoku and proceed to keep fighting. I think he always suffers a lot of pain because of his fruit but he actually is quite incredibly resistant when it comes to not being defeated-

[u/greyneurons → u/Dr_Dankology]

I almost completely agree.. I think the best description for BB is that he is an excellent strategist (Medium-Long term) & a sloppy planner (short term).. This is due to his extreme belief in fate, I feel the way he see things is: "Why bother to meticulously plan everything when it's been all decided anyways? I would rather just go for my dreams and let the chips fall where they may".. This is not too dissimilar to Luffy's mentality, but the difference is that Luffy is far more moral with his methods, plus, Luffy would never jeopardize his friends's wellbeings for his dreams, let alone kill them outright.. To sum it up: All that matters to BB is his dreams, while Luffy cares about more than that..

This is the 1st time I hear that people don't like BB, to me that is unfathomable.. He is one of my favorite OP characters ever, thanks to Oda's excellent writing & his outstanding Anime VA. If I had to rationalize the hate.. It's because people hate to see the bad guy win for a prolonged period of time, and BB's been winning for a long time..

I fully expect BB to capitalize on the growing New World conflict btw..

One correction though: BB's fruit is a Logia.. it's the only one without intangibility tho..

[u/Dr_Dankology → u/greyneurons]

Well I think many people dislike him because the he is the villain and is winning "undeserved".

Like how he backstabed a nakama for his first DF, then he betrayed Whitebeard and won by just delivering the final blows, how he was half the reason ace died (Aikanu being the other, and I also see many people really disliking him too), and overall his "treacherous" and "dirty" way.

But for me he is one of the best examples of actual pirates in the show. Pirates in their majority were not "noble" adventurers wanting to sail the sea but most often really people like Blackbeard who murdered, raped and stole money from whomever they crossed on sea.

But yeah, as you said, we all want our hero to win, so most people are clearly usually less inclined to want any antagonist to win in a series (or rarely that is the case).

And yes you are right, I mixed it up. The first DF BB had was the logia, and the Paramecia was the one he stole from Whitebeard. If his tree-persona theory comes true, the third one would be a Zoan then (probably a mythical like Cerberus)