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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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Nirli
Bulgaria370 Posts
Also, the WG had possession of the Paw Paw fruit so for sure they knew that it's really powerful. Tbh, we probably still haven't seen its full potential. Again, we can play the "they didn't want to shed too much light on how strong Kuma was" card. I guess my underlying point is Oda is making stuff as he goes way more than people think. But it's not as bullshit as Kubo ofc. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18410 Posts
On December 05 2023 15:34 Nirli wrote: Yeah but we learned what Roger's bounty is in chapter 957 while Kuma's was shown in 243 or something. Also, the WG had possession of the Paw Paw fruit so for sure they knew that it's really powerful. Tbh, we probably still haven't seen its full potential. Again, we can play the "they didn't want to shed too much light on how strong Kuma was" card. I guess my underlying point is Oda is making stuff as he goes way more than people think. But it's not as bullshit as Kubo ofc. Kuma having a weird reason for changing allegiance is almost as old as One Piece? Why do you think he is making stuff up along the way? Kuma was introduced the same time Doflamingo was, we all knew they are both really strong | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On December 05 2023 15:34 Nirli wrote: Yeah but we learned what Roger's bounty is in chapter 957 while Kuma's was shown in 243 or something. Also, the WG had possession of the Paw Paw fruit so for sure they knew that it's really powerful. Tbh, we probably still haven't seen its full potential. Again, we can play the "they didn't want to shed too much light on how strong Kuma was" card. I guess my underlying point is Oda is making stuff as he goes way more than people think. But it's not as bullshit as Kubo ofc. We learned Kuma's just now. He has a low bounty because he's a bit player in what they consider a bit game. If he comes back at 100% and is going to be a commander for Dragon again, his bounty will be around Luffy post Whole Cake Levels. | ||
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Nirli
Bulgaria370 Posts
On December 05 2023 16:08 sharkie wrote: Kuma having a weird reason for changing allegiance is almost as old as One Piece? Why do you think he is making stuff up along the way? Kuma was introduced the same time Doflamingo was, we all knew they are both really strong I was still referring to the bounties thing. It's obvious Kuma had an agenda from the fact that he basically helped the SHs by throwing them all over and consequently when he was guarding the Sunny. ClutZ, his bounty was revealed way back, when they introducted him, so my argument stands. | ||
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Hyperbola
United States2538 Posts
Do you get where I'm going with this? Stop thinking about bounties logically. They are there to hype up characters. They're not supposed to make any sense. | ||
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CHEONSOYUN
524 Posts
On December 06 2023 05:54 Hyperbola wrote: We learned Kuma's bounty in chapter 234, which was one chapter after Luffy 1 Hit KO'd Bellamy and his bounty was revealed to be 100 Million. At the time, this was meant to be a shocking revelation. Luffy's bounty was 30 Million since his battle with Arlong and after a fight with a big shot like Crocodile (with a former bounty of 81 Million), the 100 Million number was huge by comparison. Now, two more Shichibukai are introduced: Doflamingo and Kuma, and they're given massive bounties by comparison, roughly 300 Million each. This was very shocking at the time since up until that point, 100 Million was the highest bounty we ever saw and now there's two more dudes that completely outclass Luffy. Do you get where I'm going with this? Stop thinking about bounties logically. They are there to hype up characters. They're not supposed to make any sense. yeup. bounties are less of an in-world thing and more of a dbz "power level" thing where the numbers escalate as the story escalates. "big number!" is pretty much the effect in-world. luffy has a "big number!" bounty that's bigger than his previous big number! | ||
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Hyperbola
United States2538 Posts
Still not done with the flashback... It's been 7 chapters already. I feel like it could have been resolved in 3-4 chapters easily. Maybe I have a heart of coal but I don't really care about Kuma or Bonney, I just want plot progression. It feels like we've been reading filler for 2 months now. | ||
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PVJ
Hungary5221 Posts
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8655 Posts
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On December 22 2023 04:07 PVJ wrote: What about Bonney's weird attack against Alpha? I don't really get how she'd do that, I think I'm missing something I think the running theory is that her fruit can incorporate her imagination in a way so she transformed her arm into an imaginary future where she had Nika powers. Kuma had at least told her Nika had a rubber body as for why it made her arm giant maybe because the buccaneer race is huge? Idk. Seems like her fruit could be extremely broken if this is the case though. It already seems pretty strong | ||
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sharkie
Austria18410 Posts
On December 22 2023 14:35 evilfatsh1t wrote: i thought the backstory of kuma was generally great. a lot of callbacks to key moments in the story and huge feels at the end. I just became a father of a daughter a year ago and the whole Kuma story is hitting me hard. The end of the current chapter is just too much | ||
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Hyperbola
United States2538 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On December 24 2023 04:25 Hyperbola wrote: Kuma's alive, isn't he? Saturn said he'd know if vegapunk did that. But who's to say who's the greater scientist | ||
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Warfie
Norway2846 Posts
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Hyperbola
United States2538 Posts
Also, I'm not so sure if Kuma's still alive anymore. It could be that he's just programmed to protect whoever has that necklace Bonney got from vegapunk. However, that doesn't explain why he randomly started moving before Bonney got it and the egghead incident started. It could also just be "instinct" as Dragon and Iva proposed. The same thing happened to Cindry from Thriller Bark where even though her personality was wiped, her body still started crying and stopped responding to Hogback's commands. I'm thinking that's probably how it's going to end, Kuma will fight Saturn without saying a word and then smile at Bonney once Saturn activates his self destruct. | ||
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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lestye
United States4163 Posts
On December 06 2023 13:39 CHEONSOYUN wrote: yeup. bounties are less of an in-world thing and more of a dbz "power level" thing where the numbers escalate as the story escalates. "big number!" is pretty much the effect in-world. luffy has a "big number!" bounty that's bigger than his previous big number! Yeah, up until the Cross Guild thing, I always thought the bounty system was so undercooked..... Do we even know of anyone cashing in on a bounty? I know Zoro used to be a bounty hunter but besides that tidbit I wish it was fleshed out more. On December 08 2023 00:44 Hyperbola wrote: New chapter just dropped. Still not done with the flashback... It's been 7 chapters already. I feel like it could have been resolved in 3-4 chapters easily. Maybe I have a heart of coal but I don't really care about Kuma or Bonney, I just want plot progression. It feels like we've been reading filler for 2 months now. I hope you changed your mind because this is the saddest heartbreaking story I think Oda has put out. To the extent, I don't really care about the Strawhat's dreams. I wanna see Kuma and Bonney burn the world government down. | ||
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