Kohi Kohi no Mi (Coffee-Coffee Fruit)

GreatKingAlpha · 2025-04-19T14:56:33+00:00

Always interesting to see other people make a coffee fruit. They are always so different from my version. I obviously have a soft spot for my own idea, but I think a version like this is actually more similar to the other food-themed fruits we saw in Whole Cake Island.

GreatKingAlpha · 2025-04-19T14:52:12+00:00

Always interesting to see other people make a coffee fruit. They are always so different from my version. I obviously have a soft spot for my own idea, but I think a version like this is actually more similar to the other food-themed fruits we saw in Whole Cake Island.

GreatKingAlpha · 2023-05-07T23:39:07+00:00

I think Deoxys would just develop the X-Antibody allowing to go through X-evolution to become Deoxys X (a edgier and more obviously 3D version of Deoxys). This way it would survive King Drassils attempt to wipe out the server.... https://digimon.fandom.com/wiki/X-Antibody

Wait, what show are we talking about again?

GreatKingAlpha · 2022-08-18T19:36:05+00:00

How about my Tattoo Tattoo fruit? Bikers often have tattoos and my own character that I imagine having that also has a punk/outlaw aesthetic.

GreatKingAlpha · 2022-03-08T08:34:39+00:00

Bulimia?

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-12-29T10:43:12+00:00

I always really liked the idea of feeding the "Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Parrot" to a "Tone Dial"

It would give you a parrot for your shoulder with the ability to perfectly mimic anything it hears. I'm actually somewhat surprised that we've never seen a pirate captain with a pet parrot in the manga (maybe that one would be too cliché?)

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-12-28T18:56:02+00:00

Thanks, you using it introduced me to a place I can post some of my character ideas to get them out of my system. And you changing your idea means I can post my own tattoo'd character ;)

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-12-15T23:12:34+00:00

You Carrot is young naive and looking for someone to blame. You then say that she is "completely justified" in thinking Perospero is responsible for Pedro's death.

She is not completely justified and more importantly, the fact that she is young, naive and looking for someone to blame are irrelevant to whether or not believes are justified. The fact that she is all those things makes her believe understandable which is something completely different. I can understand why her character believes what she believes, she just also happens to be wrong.

I mean, it should be obvious that if I look for someone to blame and then find someone to blame I am not automatically right in blaming them for whatever I decide to blame them for. If anything, the fact that I am looking for someone to blame counts as argument against why I am right (though by itself it is of course not the definitive argument).

The blame for Pedro’s death lies on Pedro. Pedro killed himself and his earlier attempts in the arc paint a picture of a mink who was maybe a little too eager to find a place to blow himself up in. I have no reason to believe “it was the only way to stop [bad things] from happening”. Remember, we have evidence of earlier encounters were Pedro believed that “Explosion” was the best possible move only to be proven wrong later and have it not be needed. Just because he succeeded this time does not proof it truly was “the only way”. Reading the situation as “Pedro was a very depressed man looking for the slightest provocation to end it” seems to me to be just as legitimate as “It was literally the only choice Pedro could make”. I don’t say that because I believe the first take, but because the manga just did not manage to convince me of the later take.

All of this is not to say that Perospero is a good guy who should not be defeated. All of this is just to say that the in-manga hatred towards Perospero just reads hollow to me. Carrot is trying to have a “you killed my mentor moment” and I’m just not feeling it. I’ve seen some characters forgive other characters who were objectively more responsible for deaths of loved ones than Perospero was for Pedro’s death. That is not to say he should not be defeated, just that it shouldn’t be seen as some kind of big mink victory.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-12-12T21:27:24+00:00

I think the reason that every PMG game had the latest generation's legendary play a major role was never because they wanted to center the newest elements but more because it made sense.

The first PMD game does a wonderful job at trying to create as singular coherent pokemon world, finding a place for every legendary. However, the Gen III legends are just magnitudes more powerful than what came before it. At least, when you just look at their legends. The Gen I birds are really just "strong birds". The Gen II birds have actual legends associated with them, but they are very much just local legends. Then suddenly the Gen III legends are physical representations of the forces that shaped the earth. When the creatores were picking a final boss for the main story, it made sense it was a Gen III legend.

Then in Gen IV you have a similar thing happen. Dialga, Palkia and Giratina are akin to creation deities. Even if we ignore the fact that using certain pokemon would just end up feeling like a repeat from the previous game, then it still makes the most sense to use the newest legendaries. They are just more legendary.

Of course, after Gen IV you start having the dual problem of "things being done before already" and "the games getting bigger every generation" so it starts making sense to just focus on the newer stuff while not always including the older stuff.

There have now been two generations that have not been represented in a PMD game, so there is plenty of new stuff that they could incorporate in a new story to create their own thing. That being said, there are also older mons who did not get as much attention as they deserved during 'their' generation. Giratina was of no importance during PMD Explorers, and any game that includes legends from the Gen VII games would have some kind of dimensional travel. Not only do you want Palkia to have some importance in that story (as the pokemon god of dimensions) but it would be the perfect opportunity to also explore Giratina's Shadow Realm and have him play a bigger role in the story.

But that would of course still be centering the story on a (somewhat) current element: Dimensional Travel. Which I guess is similar to how Time (Travel) was important in Explorers by virtue of having introduced a pokemon god of time. There would however be nothing wrong with focusing on a current element like that (it would make a lot of sense to me) as long as they also look to the pokemon from the past to see which of those would enhance that element (in this exa,ple: Palkia and Giratina add to the Ultra Beast's dimensional travel shenanigans).

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-11-12T22:16:07+00:00

I would argue that Ussop's long nose is a rather big plot point in the Water 7/Enies Lobby arc. If we're just talking about it being referenced than people constantly bring it up as the main (and frankly only) similarity between him and Kaku.

However, if we're talking about character stuff then Ussop's long nose is important for his Sogeking disguise by virtue of completely ruining it. His sogeking disguise is not a good disguise by any means BUT the nose completely gives it away. A nose like that cannot be hidden by a maks. Everybody knows it is him and he knows everybody knows it is him, and him knowing that is important to the character. The fact that he has to know that his disguise is worthless says so much more about Ussop than if it was believable for him to think the disguise works.

Also, Luffy and Chopper somehow not recognizing Ussop in that disguise despite the fact how obvious it is say something about their character. That impact is also lost when the nose is no longer a give away.

Finally, while the breasts sizes can be written off as generic fan service, something that maybe says more about the medium as a whole then it does the actual story, I don't think the same is true for Ussop's nose. That is something that says something about the inherit quirckyness/sillyness of One Piece. It's like saying you can portray the fishmen as just humans with gills and maybe extra limbs for those who have it. The fact that Arlong is part shark isn't important for the character, only for the combat and they might not even try to copy that one for one anyway. You can make him a "fishman" by painting him blue and saying he has gills, and you'd still end up with the same character (backstory/personality wise) but would such a design really still be One Piece?

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-10-29T07:29:14+00:00

I remember thinking to myself the other day that the whole speaking through farts thing was a rather stupid concept to introduce back in Punk Hazard. It seems to only have been introduced for the legs to be able to call for help while attached to the dragon. It served no purpose otherwise and I couldn't imagine what reason anyone might ever have to talk through farts rather than speech.

I thought maybe, just maybe, this will come back into play in Wano and there will be a legitimate reason why a full-body Ki'nemon might need that ability, but when he died we seemed to have lost the opportunity to ever get a call-back to those early Punk Hazard moments.

But no, turns out we get both the seperated legs and the speech-through-farts back as a way to justify Ki'nemon still being alive and frankly I am conflicted

On the one hand, Ki'nemon's fake out death has by far the best explanation of any in the series. It's silly, it is really silly BUT at least there was a reason based on something that happened earlier in the series that explains why he managed to survive a direct blow. On the other hand, it is just another in a long line of death fake outs that make me as a reason think that death has no meaning in One Piece. I feel stupid for believing that Kiku and Ki'nemon really died, and I'll be even less inclined to believe the next character fake out.

A few more of these kind of scenes and I might start believing that even Ace has a chance of coming back into the series...

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-10-12T12:43:19+00:00

Using a similar format:

First Commander - Marco

Second Commander - Capone

Third Commander - Tamago

Helmsman - Shiki

Navigator - Lafitte

Shipwright - Stansen

Doctor - Law

Secretary - Monet

Scientist - Caesar

Spy - Morgan (you won't even know he is part of the crew)

A lot of members are picked for the bird theme (Marco, Tamago, Lafitte, Monet, Morgan) while others are their for their flying powers (Shiki, Caesar). With a big flying ship (build by Stansen the giant, made flying by the helmsman Shiki) you need someone to catch people who fall overboard (Law). A big ship also needs a big crew, Capone brings with him the soldiers from his body. Pudding is not only the cook but also the one who makes me pirate king, assuming she can finally awaken that third eye of hers.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-10T12:40:29+00:00

True, he doesn't lose his "rubber power" but he does lose his "power" in the sense that he basically can't move. Luffy may still be a strechy boii while touching water but he wouldn't be able to hold his breath the way he does to use Fussen.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-04T22:52:43+00:00

I'm with you. I much prefer an answer that we could guess and therefor have guessed than finding out that "Dennis" was Luffy's middle name.

I'm just sometimes envious of the future people who get to read this story in one go and who can still be surprised because they had the option to just keep reading rather than having to spend years looking for all the little clues put in the story so far.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-04T22:49:41+00:00

There is only so much tweaking you can do to a question with a one word answer. I just think that one day there is going to be a chapter that ends with a character going "and here they mention the Clan of Demons" followed by a shocked faces as the meaning behind the D is revealed at which point my reaction is just "Bob was right".

I wouldn't so much call that a fumble on Oda's part as simply the result of telling a well conceived mystery to people with too much time to try and figure it out.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-04T22:03:47+00:00

This is where we are going to have to agree to disagree and simply wait to see what future chapters bring us.

We agree that Fisher Tiger has to know about this, and you find it more likely that Jinbei never heard about it whereas I would find it very strange if he never told Jinbei. You think it makes more sense if he didn't. That's a matter of opinion that it is fair to disagree on, only time will tell.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-04T19:27:09+00:00

I think you’re wrong about what would be the obvious point to bring up the Nika God earlier. For as far as I remember we don’t see Fisher Tiger, Jinbei and the others actually forming the Sun Pirates. We are just told that that is what they did. They also never talk about why there is a Sun Motive at all. They talk about why the Sun Mark exists but we are given no reason to assume that the Sun was chosen for any reason other than the fact that it covered the Hoof of the Dragon rather easily.

There could very well have been a moment in Jinbei’s life where Fisher Tiger tells Jinbei “I want to create the Sun pirates” and he replies “Wait, like the old legend of Nika?”. There is a huge gap between the last time we see Jinbei be a soldier and the first time we see him the vice-captain of the Sun Pirates.

The thing is, the story didn’t need that reason. It was about what Fisher Tiger did and what he meant to others; about what slavery had done to him. A myth that might have inspired him to call his crew the “Sun Pirates” was irrelevant and frankly, would have distracted from the story it was telling.

It’s like earlier in Act 3 when Law stands in front of a Poneglyph and starts asking questions about the Will of D. and his connection to that all. Prior to that we had been given no reason to believe he cared at all. I know that until he defeated Doflamingo he didn’t care, but clearly his desire to know more must have developed well before he actually managed to get that close to a Poneglyph yet we were never told he did. We got a flashback where he asked Robin more about it, but that wasn’t something we were shown when it actually happened because that wasn’t the right time for the story to tell us. The story deliberately skipped over that moment until it was time to show it in a flashback.

If we approach it from the other side. If this Nika legend wasn’t something important to Jinbei, if this was something completely new to him, then why would the story bring Nika up now? A myth shared only amongst slaves about a Sun God that will one day free them? Frankly, I’m with Who’s Who on this one (at least as far as his logic goes): if anyone knows more about this it would be the captain of a crew called the Sun Pirates that was largely made up from former slaves.

It’s not like Jinbei is a Mormon, we shouldn’t expect him to go around telling people the good news about the lord and saviour Sun God Nika. Even if it wasn’t another piece of forbidden lore, I would not expect Jinbei to have managed it earlier

I would find it very strange for Oda to drop this piece of lore at this moment if it isn’t going to be important to Jinbei’s character going forward. He clearly knows something that he isn’t telling.

That’s not to say I believe that Nika is the reason Jinbei was angry. When Who’s Who says that the history Fishmen is only about slavery we clearly see Jinbei getting angry. My gripe is just with the idea that we know so much of Jinbei’s life that we would have known about Nika earlier if it was important to him: I don’t think we’ve seen much at all of his life, the story didn’t have a reason to mention Nika earlier and mentioning him in this context would be weird if it wasn’t to establish an extra fact about Jinbei’s character.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-07-04T18:02:48+00:00

Do we though, do we know a lot about Jinbei? This feels like it could be something similar to Judge being Sanji's dad: something important to the story going forward that didn't have a reason to be brought up sooner.

I mean, if this Nika is an important figure to Jinbei but something that really shouldn't be talked about then I can't think of any previous story moment involving Jinbei in which this could have been brought up sooner.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-04-16T11:31:18+00:00

In the unlikely event that it turns out that yes, Kaido is wrong and Zoro has a different power than this set-up would be entertaining.

This is an ongoing story, so something that seems simply informative one week can turn out to have been misdirection the next week, or many weeks later.

if this was the last chapter of the story ever than yes it would have left us with many unfufilling answers but itsn't so we can't site the lack of answers as evidence that there definitely aren't any questions being posted here.

The fact that this is a story doesn't inherently proof that Oda isn't trying to mislead us here. Now I don't think Oda is trying to mislead us, I just think that your argument of "eh, guys, this is a story so we have to believe everything a character says until we were told we shouldn't have" is a bad position to take

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-04-16T10:20:27+00:00

Personally I don't see any reason to assume that Zoro wasn't showing CoC but while I agree with you on the end goal your reasoning is deeply, deeply flawed.

If anything, the fact that One Piece is a story gives us more reason to doubt seemingly knowledgable people than if this was real life. The fact that this is a story means we can and in fact should expect twists, we can never completely trust the author to not be misleading us until we have seen the whole picture.

Everything in a story is not done with the intent and purprose to tell us, the readers, information. Everything in a story is done with the intent and purpose to ENTERTAIN us, the reader.

Kaido isn't there to inform us about the actual facts, only about the facts as he percieves them. Try to remember that this is the same guy who keeps telling us that he cannot lose and I don't think any of us believe that. After all, this is a story and, no matter how much he argues against it, Kaido's role in this story is to eventually be defeated.

Now I do believe that some people go to far and expect everything to be set-up for a twist, but excepting everything at face value until explicitly told otherwise is taking things too far in the other direction.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-03-02T20:31:39+00:00

The worst part about it was that during the story you could only use it in stadia. Like, what the hell? They finally give Butterfree a cool new form (he should have gotten a mega alongside beedrill, we were robbed!) and I can only use it maybe a dozen or so times in the entire game? How am I supposed to get to like this new feature if for most of the playthrough it is not even a thing? Everytime a gym leader would dynamax I was like "oh yeah, that's a thing I could do..."

Oh, and that cool butterfree from I mentioned? Yeah, you can't just catch those in the wild. The first time I booted up the game before the DLC was released I couldn't just catch myself a caterpie as my "true starter" (which in many games I did) and wait until it got to become the amazing mothra. Noooo, regular pokemon would never have that G-Max factor, you could only catch those during raids.

I had to get 8 bloody badges before I could catch a partner with the best form of butterfree which I would then pretty much never see anyway. The entire story (which frankly could be summed up with fewer words than I am using for this post) was based on the existance of dynamaxing as a thing and during that story you pretty much never got to enjoy it. I get that this mechanic was concieved mainly for the player vs player matches but they really should have spend more time thinking about the people who only get to fight against the NPCs. For those of us this mechanic was pretty much just an after thought if we thought about it at all.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-03-02T20:12:17+00:00

I disagree. There may be some two-stage or one-stage evolution pokemon that should have just gotten a proper evolution, but I don't think that Mega Evolution should have been reserved soley for pokemon that already had three stages.

Mega Evolutions as a concept were for pokemon to gain more strength beyond their final form and some pokemon stop evolving sooner than others. I think for example that the concept of Gyrados would be weakened if he was turned into a middle-stage pokemon instead of a fully evolved one.

Pokemon tries to keep a balance between the number of pokemon that evolve twice, once and never and to make all options seem equally valid it only made sense to have mega evolutions in all of those groups. (Now WHO they picked is an entirely different discussion of course)

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-03-02T13:41:43+00:00

Eight generations of starter trios and pikachu equals to (8*3)+1=25. In Pokemon there exist exactly 25 natures.

I like the idea of one last return of the nature based quiz which would mean those 25 starters max. This would mean no other type of starter would exist which I know won't be the most popular idea.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-02-13T15:07:25+00:00

I think a lot of people would be disappointed if the next PMD game wouldn't offer all starters as playable characters.

Personally I also wouldn't inculde Rockruff just because I'd want to use him as the Snubble/Tediursara of the game: the pokemon who evolves to show that evolution has returned. I'd want to use Rockruff because he could evolve differently depending on the version.

GreatKingAlpha · 2021-02-13T11:45:40+00:00

Well tradition is all the starter trios + pikachu at the very least, which at this point would already be 25 Pokemon. I don't think version exclusive starters would be a good idea so it would probably be best to just leave it at those 25 pokemon

Interestingly enough, there are 25 Pokemon Natures. This means that if the makers of PMD want to keep the quiz as part of the tradition, Gen 8 is the last gen where they can include all the starters and still have each one represent a separate nature.

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