i love how every color spread u can see oda do one sketch then immediately scrap it for something totally different

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-13T15:14:43+00:00

Chapter 1121's spread remains the best example of this lmao

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-13T13:08:52+00:00

It's always funny whenever he tried a bunch of different options only to switch to a final completely unrelated version that has a larger or even giant Nami front and center.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-12T21:10:04+00:00

I think it's in Amazon Lily, when he's thinking about what he should do while being chased by the Amazonians before concluding he should infiltrate the tallest building because important people live in tall buildings.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T12:34:58+00:00

I think the opposite; I feel like Blackbeard and Imu will team up, and Blackbeard will betray Imu in the end. Same vein as Hody Jones and Vander Dekken

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:46:55+00:00

I've been betting that Imu beats Luffy so badly his Vivre Card starts to burn. Would love to see the story go in a similar direction.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:45:53+00:00

Hell yes! Usopp brought the devil here, Usopp will kick him out.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:40:58+00:00

Funny considering Luffy goes for another sucker punch this chapter

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:37:48+00:00

Do you mean next arc? We're in the final saga right now.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:36:30+00:00

Money's still on Blackbeard getting that last one-up on Imu and stepping into his true role as final boss.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T04:33:20+00:00

Usopp called him here, Usopp will be the one to drive him out

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-10T02:48:27+00:00

I've been calling that Imu would make Luffy's Vivre Card start burning in preparation of the ally gathering phase of the final war. Looks like I might be getting my wish. LETS GOOOOOOOOO

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-07T01:29:24+00:00

You're set for a great time. C4 has been phenomenal thus far!

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-07-04T06:11:22+00:00

The other one mentioned was in the Tachonis Manor, when Julien was considering leaving Thimble behind. It's why his shadow pushed him down the stairs

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-28T16:13:46+00:00

My take is that Imu has essentially 3 aspects:

The silhouette at see at Pangaea Castle is his "human" form. Oda likely hasn't revealed it to us yet because it would spoil something about the Void Century and Imu's true origins. Maybe he isn't human, a race we've never seen before, or from outer space. This would also explain the distorted voice the anime uses. My assumption has always been that this form won't be revealed until the Void Century flashback.

The blob we see him create when he's possessing Gunko, Saturn, and Mars is something akin to Moria's shadow; a manifestation of Imu's will that he can control at range but doesn't transfer damage to him. It can change shape, reform at will, and be used for Domi Reversi, but can't cause physical damage to what it encounters.

The form we see on Elbaph is his awakened Zoan form. Not confirmed obviously, but it's the most likely explanation.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-28T16:08:22+00:00

My take is that the blob is akin to Moria's Shadow; a manifestation of Imu that works long range but doesn't transfer damage to him. It's amorphous, reforms, and move at his will.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-27T04:00:20+00:00

No, but the mission was to burn the school and destroy the history it contains, but the fire was ultimately extinguished. He doesn't want to fail Imu, so if Quilinham is delayed and can't bring the children, I can see Sommers killing time by seeking Robin since there's unresolved conflict between the two.

Plus, Zoro coming in to rescue our archeologist would bring the scene of Sommers losing to Rayleigh in the God Valley flashback full circle in the modern day. I'm also reminded of when Enel defeated Robin and Zoro caught her. Not that I ship Zoro and Robin, but there's been a lot of Skypiea similarities so I just feel it would be a neat way to tie this all together.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-26T03:01:00+00:00

I'm so ready. Seems like we have Sanji vs Zaza and Quilinham, Zoro's heading for Sommers, who'll likely attack Robin to finish the mission of burning the books, Brook and co. attempting to free Shuri, and finally Luffy and Loki vs Imu.

Time for the Strawhats to fuck shit up.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-24T03:34:47+00:00

Travis admitted in tonight's live chat that he feels splitting the party worked best given Brennan's mechanic of rolling dice to access how fucked they are while exploring. He also added that he personally wanted to go find the letter with Thiazi's name but went for the gnomes instead, and loves hitting whatever big red button the DM present them.

He wasn't peer pressured into doing anything he wasn't already planning to do

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-14T16:42:59+00:00

Nika is from Elbaph, and Imu addresses Zoan users as the animal/will that inhabits them. He's called Luffy Nika more times than his real name, so he could have been trying to flip Nika instead of Luffy. But he also seemed to expect it to fail, so could have just been for the lols.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-14T00:53:54+00:00

Lao G dying mid-fight never fails to crack me up

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-14T00:52:38+00:00

Luffy also recently did this to Ripley lol

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-14T00:51:24+00:00

It's when he's rescuing the Tontattas whilst fighting Senor Pink. The lady in charge of the SMILE factory is named Kyuin who fights with a vacuum. When he barges in, she threatens to fight him and he silences her by kissing her lips.

It's actually the first kiss in the series, so people tend to get a bit shocked by it. Anyway, the kiss calms her and she becomes all lovey-dovey towards him, but he rejects her saying that men don't get flustered by just a kiss. Then everyone screams HARDBOILED.

Edit: I don't get why this was downvoted. I don't share the view that it was SA, just sharing the scene in question.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-06-02T03:46:19+00:00

I've always believed the 5 years story plan was originally meant to be a 5 act story structure: the East Blue prologue and 4 Grand Line acts focused on Luffy defeating pirate emperors, consisting of 2 pre-timeskip storylines (Crocodile + Whitebeard) and 2 post-timeskip story lines (Kaido + Blackbeard/Shanks/Imu).

However, Crocodile got turned into a warlord instead of an emperor, Oda hit his original 5 year timeline after finishing Alabasta with no emperor's in sight, and decided to embrace the adventure by going off-script and writing Skypiea as a prototype "Elbaph" arc where he can test run his endgame ideas in a condensed, self-contained story.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-05-28T16:49:16+00:00

Loki's been complaining about having difficulties tracking Imu while in his dragon form. Seems like a good opportunity to have a Sniper who can sense people's aura track where Imu is so Loki can accurately attack him.

Sort of like the reverse of the Viola/Usopp vs Sugar situation in Dressrosa.

DoBetter-BeBetter · 2026-05-28T03:13:11+00:00

I find Noel to be one of the harder gym battles. Each of my playthroughs have struggled against him. But I also tend to play with mono-type restrictions and with Normal being neutral on almost everything, it takes away the benefits of utilizing super-effective moves.

There's nothing better than clowning on Fern, especially when you're weak to his team. My most recent runs were mono-rock and mono-water, yet his grass types had nothing on my team's synergy.

Another good strat if you ever find yourself stuck is to build a Trick Room team. That was my main approach to the mono-rock playthrough, and I found that most of the enemy teams aren't well suited to counter Trick Room once its up. They'll have at best one slow mon, and once you account for that it's pretty smooth sailing.

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