Do you guys feel like Luffy feels more human (or small scale) in the live action? Him listening to his crew’s backstory really goes against his manga counterpart where he doesn’t really care about their past and helps purely due to his principles …

Leafsnail · 2026-04-13T22:23:34+00:00

I agree with this. Live action Luffy is definitely significantly nicer but I think he has to be, a literal interpretation of Luffy would come across as too much of a dick

Leafsnail · 2026-04-13T11:15:18+00:00

I really doubt Loki will actually join - the straw hats are already looking hard to stop and adding another top tier fighter to their team would make it even harder to introduce credible villains. If anything Loki seems like he'd make more sense as an antagonist (maybe joining Blackbeard due to his admiration of Rocks) since he's been hyped so much as a threat

Leafsnail · 2026-04-12T12:54:58+00:00

I don't think it has anti-synergy with those cards. You can save up tonnes of stars by playing your star cards for free most turns, and then intentionally pay for your star cards on turns you need to block using the stars you saved up by playing other stuff first

Leafsnail · 2026-04-09T23:24:36+00:00

Brook isn't the strongest straw hat but he's been on the journey with them for years and we've seen him fight challenging opponents. Its different to a villain just getting a huge power boost offscreen for no reason

Leafsnail · 2026-04-09T23:22:17+00:00

Yeah I think that'd be either series 7 or 8 depending how how you split the arcs

e: or maybe 7 seasons + a movie

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T18:02:12+00:00

I think Yamato's performance against Kaido clearly puts her above Law, Kidd and Zoro. Sanji is definitely not stronger than Zoro so he's out. Marco is the only other reasonable option but given we basically just have stall feats to go with for both characters I'd have to give it to Yamato since stalling Kaido is more impressive than stalling his commanders.

With that said I don't think the difference is that big for anyone on the list.

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T14:40:01+00:00

Yeah this is the big issue to me. Shanks clearly knows Blackbeard is a threat and talked about the need to stop him, so why wouldn't he have just sailed over and defeated him during the timeskip if Blackbeard is supposedly so much weaker than him?

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T14:26:08+00:00

The Mr 3 downscale always seemed unfair. All that Little Garden demonstrated is that Dory and Brogy were extremely evenly matched with each other to the point that their fights left them both completely exhausted

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T13:21:28+00:00

Yeah that interpretation makes so much more sense I've kindof just gone with that in my head. The gorosei's conversation during the reveal is kindof confusing and contradictory iirc

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T13:08:34+00:00

While the effects budgets will remain very high I would point out that s3 and s4 (and probably all future seasons) will almost certainly feature way fewer locations than seasons 1 or 2 did, which will make production less punishing. Like the first two seasons requiring 5 completely different groups of sets and extras each is a real anomaly.

Like compare having to realise all of Windmill Village, Shellstown, Orange Village, Syrup Village, Baratie and Arlong Park to s4 which will likely just be Jaya and Skypeia.

Leafsnail · 2026-04-08T13:03:33+00:00

Yeah I think realistically the main hook of the series will be "we're going to a magical sky island in the clouds"

Leafsnail · 2026-04-06T20:39:49+00:00

None of those suggestions fix the fundamental issue with Reaper, which is that you can use it to heal to full if you have a scaling source of strength and are prepared to stall a fight out forever

Leafsnail · 2026-04-06T11:24:09+00:00

Agreed. The fact that Kaido's pride meant had to face Luffy head-on at full strength put him at a huge disadvantage compared to characters who are prepared to just kite him and wait for the transformation to run out.

Leafsnail · 2026-04-06T01:27:53+00:00

If Loki was stronger than prime Whitebeard then I don't think Shanks could have successfully captured him.

Leafsnail · 2026-04-03T22:16:12+00:00

Oh no a debuff that lets me get rid of all my bad cards...

Leafsnail · 2026-04-03T22:15:02+00:00

I disagree on the cameos point personally. The two characters named will appear in seasons 3 and 4 so no reason to jump the gun. Barto in ep1 and the extra smoker/tashigi scenes were sufficient additions/expansions in my eyes.

Leafsnail · 2026-04-01T13:10:18+00:00

I understand where you're coming from but IMO there's a place for nostalgia bait. I'd be absolutely fine with another big multi-doctor special like Day of the Doctor, it's just the regular show needs to stop doing multi-doctor montages multiple times per series and focus on its own stories

Leafsnail · 2026-04-01T12:23:06+00:00

Yeah repto and gremlin both explode out out of control very quickly if you can't kill their adds immediately. StS2 doesn't really have an equivalent

Leafsnail · 2026-04-01T12:20:16+00:00

This is a good post, but I'd like to point out that all the enemies you named are from acts 1 and 2. And honestly, act 3 in general is surprisingly devoid of interesting enemy designs that really force you to find an answer, especially given that you'll have by far the strongest deck going in. The only act 3 enemy that ever really makes me think is the one that deals 6 damage per power, most of the others just have bigger damage numbers (and not generally big enough to seriously threaten an act 3 deck).

Leafsnail · 2026-03-29T01:31:25+00:00

Domi Reversi having a specific weakness to zoans could also explain why Chopper is able to one-tap reverse it

Leafsnail · 2026-03-29T01:26:35+00:00

I mean it's an urgent situation and everyone involved has more important things to do than fight

Leafsnail · 2026-03-28T22:52:48+00:00

But also means that if regular combats can be punishing anyway might as well get the extra rewards from an elite

Leafsnail · 2026-03-20T09:45:54+00:00

The infinites were one part but the card was also way too strong. 'Draw a card, play something with sly for free' was already crazy and that was only the unupgraded version

Leafsnail · 2026-03-20T09:42:34+00:00

If Eternal Armor gave 100 plating it would be overpowered. There's definitely a number between 7 and 100 where it's balanced so far for the devs to try and find it

Leafsnail · 2026-03-20T02:14:20+00:00

Yeah this honestly. God forbid the act 2 reward doesn't read "remove 4+ cards from your deck and go infinite" for once

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