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Manga One Piece

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste [One Piece 1067]

OG Dr. Vegapunk has a devil fruit. Wasn’t expecting that!

The Brain-Brain Fruit. It basically turned Dr. Vegapunk into a walking library. Which he then transformed it into an actual library. How exactly? It’s a devil fruit; Oda doesn’t have to explain it. Probably better if he doesn’t. Cutting off your brain, turning it into a digital library, then creating clones and giving them your mental Wi-Fi password is straight up magic. Let’s just accept it and move on.

Did you notice Dr. Vegapunk glitching? What’s that about? Is he dying? Is there a massive flaw to his Brain Library of Congress? Just putting it out there.

It used to be Cash Money Records, but they dropped Dr. Vegapunk for DJ Khaled

More power source talk. Yeah, that has to be why the advanced Ancient Kingdom lost. Something happened to their power source. Either it fizzled out or the Pre-World Government destroyed it. That would explain how they could possibly win against a country that advanced.

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Manga My Hero Vigilantes

Critical Dorkface Theory [My Hero Academia 373]

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What message is Kōhei Horikoshi trying to convey? Okay, the heteromorph’s rioting was wrong, but there has to be a general awareness of what’s happening to them. Sometimes civil unrest is needed to tell the world what’s going on. While destroying everything in their path was a bad idea, coming together to share their pain with those who’ll listen was good.

Bringing the evildoers into the light? I’m down with that. But, trying to change them until they’re “ashamed of their cruelty”? I’m sorry, what? Sure, racists can change. But, it’s not feasible to think ALL of them will “see the light”. That’s where I call bullshit. How about coming up with some actual solutions, Horikoshi? Putting more heroes in rural areas? Improving Quirk Counseling ? Civil Rights laws? Anything other than let’s be good and hope the racists feel bad about being racist one day.

What the hell are you smokin’, Horikoshi. …And can I have some?
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Manga One Piece

Take A Look, It’s In A Book… [One Piece 1066]

How the heck did an advanced ancient civilization lose a war?

Maybe they ran out of batteries? What we do know is Jaguar D. Saul survived Ohara’s buster call? Cool, I guess. Honestly, I’d forgotten about that character. But if he’s on Elbaph along with Ohara’s books, that’s one more reason to guess the Straw Hats are going to Elbaph (besides Usopp wanting to go and it’s probably the location of the 4th Road Ponegliff).

Sure, Dr. Vegapunk’s the smartest man in the world. But can he rap?
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Manga One Piece

Spare The Rod, Spoil the Seraphim [One Piece 1065]

Clones of powerful pirates, laser beams, Lunarian DNA, and now, Seraphim have devil fruit powers?!

Now that’s overpowered! Even more interesting, the Jimbei Seraphim possesses Senor Pink’s Swim-Swim Fruit. Hmm… Is Senor Pink dead? Maybe, unless Dr. Vegapunk extracted the devil fruit power without killing the user. But, for now, I’d say he’s dead. I wonder what devil fruits the other seraphim have? I’m looking forward to finding out!

Ya know? Shaka The Good seems to know a lot about the world 900 years ago. Looks like curiosity got the better of the Vegapunks and they know more about the Void Century and the time before it than the World Government allows. Could the Vegapunks knowledge of the past be the reason the Elder Stars want them dead? Makes sense given their zero tolerance to anyone mentioning anything about the past.

When I asked “Do you know how to pick up women?”, I didn’t mean literally.
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Manga My Hero Academia

Mighty Heteromorph’in Power Rioters [My Hero Academia 372]

Final arc character development. Sure, why not?

Nothing’s wrong with it, unless you hold off on a character’s full development until the very end. You couldn’t sprinkle Shoji’s past and feelings on heteromorph discrimination throughout the series, Horikoshi? No? You just wanna dump it all at the end for drama? Ugh! Between this and the manga flying to the end of the series, My Hero Academia’s pacing could be its biggest flaw.

To be fair, Spinner, you haven’t posted on Instagram in months
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Manga My Hero Academia

Cool Kids Don’t Do Quriks [My Hero Academia 371]

Quirks: One Even Once!

Well, one is okay. The problem with Spinner is All For One giving him two quirks. Including his originial Gecko, Body Bulk and Scalemail gives Spinner three quirks. That’s not good, Y’all. Too many quirks inhabiting one body can mess you up unless you have the body and/or a special quirk (ex. One For All or All For One) to handle them. Spinner has neither.

I feel bad for Spinner. I consider him currently the most sympathetic League of Villains member, joining the malevolent group to make the world better for all heteromorphs. And now that he’s finally back on track to do something about it, AFO takes away his ability to think, to choose his own path. Tragic.

Spoken like a true millennial

It’s also kinda lazy. Spinner and other heteromorphs have a valid point about being treated as less than human. But instead of showing both sides in a complicated gray way, Spinner’s a hulking blood-lusted monster needing to be put down by a hero. Spinner, bad. Shoji, good. Get it? Got it? Good. And also boring.

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