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shell

Portugal2722 Posts

December 24 2016 10:16 GMT

#26561

In the end of this Arc Luffy will beat BigMum and the Vinsmokes will become another part of Luffy's armada

sharkie

Austria18721 Posts

December 24 2016 12:20 GMT

#26562

Alvida is a bad attractive female character...

Jacenoob

299 Posts

December 24 2016 12:29 GMT

#26563

On December 24 2016 19:01 Diavlo wrote:

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On December 23 2016 22:31 Hyperbola wrote:

On December 23 2016 11:02 Sentenal wrote:

On December 23 2016 07:34 Hyperbola wrote:

On December 23 2016 07:19 Sentenal wrote:

On December 23 2016 05:57 Hyperbola wrote:
Ya dinguses, she's pretending, or her third eye changes her personality and she called it out on purpose.

And if you don't believe me, then explain the point of the Lola flashback a couple chapters back. Oda doesn't put random crap in his manga. (except the tontattas)

She probably hates Lola, and Lola's talk of love sickened her. If that flashback was supposed to reflect positively on her, why didn't she provide any commentary on it, internally or otherwise? The lack of exposition was meant to leave it open as to what its purpose was.

Sometimes, media doesn't spoon feed you and expects you to understand what a scene means.
The scene with the flashback to Lola and then the subsequent flashback to Big Mom telling Pudding what to wear and to do everything she tells her to signifies that Pudding wants to rebel against her mother.
If Big Mom had planned to slaughter the Gherma from the start then her shooting Sanji and capturing his sister would be her following her mom's wishes. Clearly, she doesn't want to do that. Hence, she's pretending.

Exactly, it doesn't spoon feed you, and you have to try and think about what it means. Its strange to me that you would take that scene entirely at face value, and then lecture me about it. With absolutely no commentary and exposition to go along side the scene, it could imply virtually anything. In light of things that has been revealed, there is next to nothing that points to Pudding being anything other than a willing, able, and enthusiastic accomplice to Big Mom. While it all being an act and some grand master plan on Pudding's part is within the realm of possibility, there isn't anything that makes that seem particularly likely, considering virtually all of Pudding's actions thus far have been antagonistic to the Strawhats. She has literally done nothing so far that seems to be an act of rebellion against Big Mom. The facts were already stacked against her before this reveal, even.

This sounds an awful lot like denial, so maybe you are going through the same emotions Sanji is going through?

On December 23 2016 08:25 Slaughter wrote:
Hmm. What if Puddings acting skill also applies to her scenes in this chapter as well? If we take this chapter as being chronologically before the last one then why she let Rejiu get away? Could this be her way of leaking a fake BM assassination plan to tuw Vinsmokes to incite a fight to nullify the wedding? Was she just baiting Laffy with her acting skills so he gets angry and motivated to break out?

Its possible, but I think if that was her plan, she had plenty of better opportunities to do so in the past, so her timing now wouldn't make much sense to me.

I would like to bring everyone's attention to this post. This is the perfect, textbook example of grasping for straws.

You can almost see the hay. It's beautiful.

Do you know what projection is? Holy shit, he's not the one grasping for straws, you are.
Right now we have to assume Pudding is in fact a bad guy, something that is a a twist only because of the fact that Oda is reluctant to writing actually bad attractive female characters and because of a well placed flashback that can be interpreted as Pudding wanting to rebel (despite the fact that, as Slaughter said, we are not provided with any insight of how she feels about the flashback).
Right now everything she has done is in line with her being bad.

It's not out of question that she will turn good in the end of course, Oda already pulled the second level twist with Viola but that would be a pretty big cop out in my opinion.

Lol, yes. Good post. What an awful post that was. For now Pudding is bad, and there is no reason to assume otherwise in the Manga.

And what you said about Oda and attractive females is also true. As much as I love Oda and One Piece, when it comes to portraying women he is still years behind and actually just bad and (so far) predictable. He fulfils pretty much every cliche about women there is. The Smurfette principle is in full action (Big Mom only Yonkou, Boa only Shichibukai, Bonney only Supernova, Robin and Nami only Strawhats). Also, attractive women are much more likely to turn from evil to good. We had Nami, Robin, Perona and Viola all turn. Or to be good in the first place. Bonney and Boa are good Supernovas/ Shichibukai. Recently the only good one of Sanji's Siblings is his attrative sister, while his brothers are assholes. His mom was good, his father is evil. The list is pretty long.

With that said, maybe the 3rd eye and the slime are "unattractive" enough to keep Pudding evil. Or Oda surprises us with a completely unexpected twist...

Yorbon

Netherlands4272 Posts

December 24 2016 13:36 GMT

#26564

I don't care about portrayal of women (or men) in any work of fiction.

Slaughter

United States20255 Posts

December 24 2016 15:39 GMT

#26565

He actually killed off a good looking female who was evil during Punk Hazard~

sumsaR

Sweden1812 Posts

December 24 2016 15:39 GMT

#26566

Well that's quite some exposition there Pudding. And good to have it confirmed she's evil. Was silly reading how many couldn't believe that was possible.

Now if only Luffy would stop being so silly. He's usually a bit more throughtful in his stupidity.

Hyperbola

United States2554 Posts

December 24 2016 16:33 GMT

#26567

BTW what's up with Baron Tamago? Did he actually get sliced in two, because it looks like egg yolk came out of his body. Maybe he's an egg man who can rebuild himself like humpty dumpty.

Sentenal

United States12398 Posts

December 24 2016 17:37 GMT

#26568

I'd be very surprised if he was beaten by that. It would be cool if he was an Egg man who could be rebuilt (although Humpty Dumpty was screwed when he broke lol).

herMan

Japan2057 Posts

December 29 2016 14:21 GMT

#26569

Is there a break this week? God please no

Elentos

55591 Posts

December 29 2016 14:23 GMT

#26570

On December 29 2016 23:21 herMan wrote:
Is there a break this week? God please no

No there's no break.
http://mangastream.com/r/one_piece/851/3913/1

Pudding is actually an even bigger bitch than we thought after last chapter. Although those face impressions were spot on.

herMan

Japan2057 Posts

December 29 2016 14:36 GMT

#26571

JUSTICE FIST! So goddam manly

WaveofShadow

Canada31495 Posts

December 29 2016 14:39 GMT

#26572

Fucking God damn fucking jinbe

This arc is so intense and I love it

LennX

4570 Posts

December 29 2016 14:53 GMT

#26573

On December 29 2016 23:23 Elentos wrote:

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No there's no break.
http://mangastream.com/r/one_piece/851/3913/1

Pudding is actually an even bigger bitch than we thought after last chapter. Although those face impressions were spot on.

Pudding face, so much win!!!