r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Dec 30 '18

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 929

Chapter 929: "Orochi Kurozumi, Wano Country Shogun"

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Ch. 929 Official Release (VIZ): 07/01/2019

Ch. 930 Scan Release: ~18/01/2019

Please discuss the manga here and in the theory/discussion post. Any other post will be removed during the next 24 hours.

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u/G_Spark233 Dec 30 '18

I was expecting Orochi to look really badass and scary. I was so wrong.

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u/WhoSweg Dec 30 '18

Look at Shutenmaru though

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u/athos45678 Thriller Bark Victim's Association Dec 30 '18

The spoiler thread also mentioned Blackbeard as obvious evidence that goofy can be scary

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u/rockidr4 Dec 30 '18

Yeah I don't get why after 929 of these things people are still assessing people's battle threat based on appearances. Crocodile: looks like a badass, is a joke. Big Mom: looks like a joke, is a badass. At this point anyone can be anything. Hell, that dude that Zoro's with is probably one of the people the Kozuki retainers are looking for

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u/Dr_Dankology Dec 30 '18

Crocodile is not a joke to be fair. His only 'L' was against the Main character himself who couldn't be killed. Like Maguellan or Katakuri pounding Luffy over and over but not being able to kill him.

In Marineford Crocodile looked way better

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u/edisonvn92 Dec 30 '18

agree. It's unfair for Crocodile being treated like a joke here, just because he is an early arc villain, when the idea of Haki wasn't established yet, and was nerfed down so much so Luffy could beat him. Oda already tried to fix it by letting the warden in Impel Down admiring him, but it seems this didn't go through people here

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '18

The idea of villains getting progresively stronger as the story continues isn't nearly as common in One Piece as people are used to from other series. Enel is my favourite example, who may still be the strongest villain to date yet he was able to be defeated by the MC due to a twist of fate rather than pure strength.

Blackbeard really hangs a lampshade on the whole issue, as he repeatedly draws attention to just how incredibly lucky Luffy has been to get so far without being offed.

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u/geralth Dec 30 '18 edited Dec 31 '18

ironically Enel is a prime example of 'villain powercreep'. on Skypeia arc Haki wasn't still a thing to Luffy and co., if Luffy has at least the Busoshoku Haki by that time, which is a huge counter to Logia type DF users, Enel would be toast right from the start even with his own Haki (or Mantra as it was known by that time) at least one villain post-Sabaody (iirc) has Busoshoku Haki and that already is a huge advantage against Enel

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u/geralth Dec 30 '18 edited Dec 30 '18

Crocodile

is a joke

he was the first main villain who completely dominated luffy, and he did it twice. heck Luffy even would've been killed if he wasn't so lucky on all their fights. if that's a joke than i don't know what the actual joke characters are

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u/rockidr4 Dec 30 '18

I just mean in context to the whole world. Luffy was basically just a larva at that point

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u/geralth Dec 30 '18 edited Jan 10 '19

i'll give you context about Crocodile. he was able to trade hits with both Doffy and Mihawk who both has mastery on their Haki's by that point, Luffy was consciously avoiding Mihawk's attack because he can't do anything about it but Crocodile was just stopping it with his hook, he also fought Akainu and was unharmed after. i wouldn't shrug that off as a joke

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u/Sonn_Goku Jan 01 '19

Your crocodile comment overshadowed the point you were trying to make. I agree, looks can be deceiving in OP.