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Meet The Geek: Eiichiro Oda

RG: Hello! I’m Redgeek and welcome to Meet The Geek. Today, I have with me the esteemed creator of One Piece, Mr. Eiichiro Oda. Oda-sensei, I must say it is an honor, pleasure, and privilege to talk with you today.

Oda: I know. Just kidding! Hahahaha!!!! Hey buddy! What’s up?

RG: Wow! I had no idea you spoke English so well.

Oda: Oh, yeah yeah. I know a couple words and phrases. Good for you or this interview would be impossible.

RG: Yeeeeeeeah. *cough cough* So, why don’t you like being photographed? Is it because you’re too busy?

Oda: Oh, no! Because I’m too gorgeous! I don’t want my lovely face to distract my fans from my manga. It’s not fair for them to choose between that or me.

RG: I see. Now, how do you fee-

Oda: Japanese George Clooney! Yeah! That’s what I am. The Japanese George Clooney of manga.

RG: Right. You work hard. Fans know you spend almost every waking hour on One Piece. How do you feel about scanlators translating your story?

Oda: I hope everyone able to purchase One Piece where they live support it. My dream is for One Piece to be available for everyone to enjoy in the world.

RG: I see. So, you have no problem with fans living somewhere One Piece isn’t available reading a scanlation from Mangapanda or-?

Oda: FUCK MANGAPANDA! Have you seen what those asshats do to my baby?! Horrible translations and that God damn watermark?! Who the hell do they think they are treating my life’s work like that?! I’ll never forgive them!

RG: Woah.

Oda: I’m pissed! If you’re going to rip me off at least do it with respect! They don’t care about me or my fans, only being the fastest. Scumbags!

RG: Yeah, but what can you do?

Oda: You mean besides using my vast manga money to hire a crack team of assassins to find and murder them while they sleep? Don’t worry, papa Oda got this. They may try to RUN RUN RUN or Fight Together but I Believe One Day I’ll Share The World news of Mangapanda never Wake Up again. Sorry, forgive my English.

RG: No problem. Let’s move on. How do you respond to fans criticizing you about your treatment of women in the series?

Oda: Yes, I want to say how sorry I am for early form Alvida, Ms. Merry Christmas, Jora, Big Mom and others. I know it’s disgusting but they are needed in the story. Please be patient with them.

RG: Huh?

Oda: Ugly girls. No one likes them but they are needed to make the other girls more beautiful.

RG: No no, Oda. The problem some fans have is you drawing only beautiful, large breasted, super skinny women in One Piece.

Oda: Wha?

RG: Yeah. They want you to draw more physically diverse women.

Oda: I don’t understand. Are you saying people like ugly women and small breasts?

RG: No, that’s not it. They like beautiful women too but they want to see different kinds of women.

Oda: They like breasts but want girls with small breasts?

RG: No, Oda. They just want more gender equality in One Piece, like in real life.

Oda: There are small breasted girls in real life?!

RG: ……………….

Oda: ………………

RG: Okay. Let’s end it here. Thank you so much for joining us today Oda-sensei. See you next time on Meet The Geek. Goodbye!

Oda: …Wait. Are ugly girls real too?

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Manga One Piece

The Paramount Booty Call

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Make love, stop war. What’s Red-Haired Shanks real movitation for stopping the Paramount War?

We all know Shanks is a laid back guy. The main reason he’s so popular with other pirates is because he has the best weed, allegedly. He loves to party and he loves the ladies, well, loves the Makino. So, why did Captain Party decide to stop the Paramount War between Team Edward and Team Sengoku? Answer: Ass.

Let’s look at his first appearance all the way in chapter one. He spent months at Foosha Village on business. Business? Riiiiiight. What business does Shanks have in East Blue? Taking his crew to strip clubs and bowling alleys, that’s what! But, that’s for his crew. I’m thinking he just wanted to spend time with his Makino but left to do “business” to keep his crew happy. Sly dog.

Fast forward ten years with our roguish captain horny as hell, looking for ANY excuse to get back to Foosha Village and tap that bar maiden backside. What’s this? A war at Marine HQ? This is it! His chance finally arrives!

Shanks conveniently arrives in the nick of time to end the war, knowing he could have joined up with Whitebeard in the beginning. He even meet with Whitebeard before the war! Dude couldn’t suggest they team-up for shits and giggles? Course not! He had to be the big hero to impress his girl. Bros before hoes, my friend. Whitebeard is dead because you didn’t follow ye Pirate Bro Code.

The Funeral set him back a few days but mission accomplished. Saved Whitebeard’s crew and now sadden by his death he has more than enough reason to visit Makino for a double dose of hero/grief lovin’.

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Uh-oh! Someone didn’t use a Luffy! Time to haul ass back to the New World!

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Manga One Piece

Oda VS GOda

Are you a true fan of One Piece? Probably not.

The internet is full of arguments, big and small. Mostly unimportant. One such argument is between fellow fans of One Piece. Superfans, I call GOdas (God + Oda) are nothing new. The guys and gals who obsess over something to the point where loving something means loving every single thing about it. Maybe it’s because I hold One Piece fans to a higher standard and I love it so much but these GOdas have got to calm the hell down! Here’s a GOda post in response to people complaining about the end of chapter 742.

People who are complaining about how Sugar was defeated – you clearly think you’ve been reading a completely different manga. Go home and stop whining like little bitches :I

Enjoy One Piece for years but if you criticize anything about it you aren’t a real fan. Don’t like something in an over seven hundred chapter story? Sorry, you’ve been wasting your time and money. Stop now and get out while you can.

Get a grip, people! Everyone isn’t going to like every chapter, every character, and every scene in One Piece. That doesn’t make them any less a fan than you.

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One Piece Chapter 742: Ever At Your Side

Plot is moving. That’s good.

I’m conflicted with this chapter. I’m happy, very happy, Usopp fought Trebol & Sugar knowing he would probably lose. But, I’m bothered we only saw the beginning and ending. Now, about the last page, I didn’t like it. When I first read it I had no idea what the hell was happening. I thought Usopp made some sort of plant tentacle vine double of himself. After I got an explanation from a forum I understood the joke but still didn’t care. Don’t hate it but it was too reliant on dumb luck for my taste. Like Oda wrote himself into a corner having to make Usopp beat Sugar while also losing to Trebol while making sure he didn’t physically hurt Sugar.

I hope the Kyros flashback is justified in the next couple chapters because I don’t care about him enough to enjoy all the attention Oda is giving him because at this point I’m assuming he’s going to get taken out quickly by Doflamingo to get to him fighting Luffy. Maybe he’ll take out some members of the Donquixote Family instead. At this point he needs to do something awesome to get me to care more about him.

Speaking of the Donquixote Family, I’m curious how the rest of the family will be defeated. Franky and Usopp are out of commission and Team Sanji busy with Big Mom and/or her crew. That basically leaves Luffy, Zoro, Robin, Kinemon, and Kyros to deal with the rest of the family. Or, not.

Sabo will take down Diamante and there are several pissed off toys about to turn human to serve Trebol and his grunts hell on a platter. Zoro got Pica so that takes care of the elite officers but what about the other Donquixote executives? Kinemon could take one down but someone is missing…Fujitora! Even Law may help a little. I knew Sanji leaving Dressrosa was a departure from the usual versus formula but Oda could be taking it to another level. Looking forward seeing how it plays out.

I wonder if the woman looking at baby Rebecca was the queen? By the way, what’s with Oda hating queens? Either they’re dead or not around. Bad experience watching Alice in Wonderland or Freddie Mercury kicking sand in his face, you decide.

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Manga One Piece

Chapter 735: Fujitora’s Outlook

Violet joins Team Luffy in an effort to sneak inside the palace. Senor Pink protects Ms. Valentine 2.0 as the marines join in deciding a cyborg with enough firepower to blow up a small country is kinda dangerous.

Best part of the chapter is Fujitora declaring his goal of having the Royal Shichibukai abolished! He made DoDo sad. The chapter ends with the final match for the mera-mera about to start.

Let’s talk about the Reverie for a moment. Ship is gonna go down at the Reverie. Perhaps crappy new World Government rules or a plan formed to take down the world’s worst pirates and/or revolutionaries? Or, could Dragon and his buddies crash the Reverie party or use the opportunity to start revolutions in countries with their monarchy away? Whatever happens there one thing is sure, it’ll be a game changer.

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Manga One Piece Rebecca Revolutionary

Chapter 734: The Kamaitachi of Rommel

Haters gonna hate!

Rebecca won thanks to Cavendish going in Hakuba mode. Love the guy who accused Rebecca of hiding a gun. Just where exactly could she be hiding one? I bet someone made a frisk Rebecca adult doujin.

Sabo knew about Hakuba, interesting. It’s definitely not common knowledge so how does he know? Either the Revolutionary Army also investigated the Rommel incidents or there’s a revolutionary mole in the Navy.

Another interesting point was Doflamingo saying Luffy had “treacherous blood”. He’s obviously talking about Luffy’s father, Dragon, but saying Dragon is treacherous could mean something important.

Crazy theories time!
We know Dragon was born in Goa Kingdom and for some reason the king of Goa was never shown or named. Why? Is the king of Goa linked to Dragon? Could he be Dragon’s father-in-law? At the very least for someone to create the Revolutionary Army he has to know what really goes in the world. I think Dragon was part of the World Government or Navy at some point.

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One Piece Chapter 731: The Dressrosa S.O.P. Strategy

One Piece Chapter 731 The Dressrosa S.O.P. Strategy

This chapter. THIS MOTHERHUGGING CHAPTER!

I should build it up but screw it. Sabo! Now, my excitement doesn’t come from confirmation he’s alive, I knew I was. Most Piece Heads figured it out, wasn’t hard. The real shock comes from seeing Sabo this “early” in the series. I figured we wouldn’t see he for at least two years real life time but there he his. So, what does this mean?

1. High probability Sabo is getting the flame-flame fruit. Makes sense considering the other Strawhats wouldn’t want it.

2. The Revolutionaries are starting something big. From the conversation between Sabo and Koala (she’s back, yay!) they’re looking for the underground port too. They are either looking for Smile to steal for the Revolutionaries and/or trying to strike at Doflamingo at the heart of his operation to bring him down. Doflamingo. The Warlord Doflamingo. The former Celestial Dragon Doflamingo. That’s bold. Kick in the World Government’s crotch bold! If that’s their plan the Revolutionaries may be starting their final push to take down the World Government. Insane!

Whatever the result, the Revolutionaries are now in the forefront of the story and that’s exciting.

Backtracking a bit, we learn Dellinger is a master of kicking people in high heels AKA Skank-Fu. Bellamy, get a clue my friend. Doflamingo doesn’t like you. Move on! Sugar has the Hobby-Hobby fruit, confirming she’s the one turning people into toys. Not impressed until I see her change someone into a PS4. And finally, Koala knows fishman karate, interesting! Looking forward to see her in action and happy she’s back in general. You go marsupial girl!

Oh yeah, Caribou cover story is over too. Thank Enel!

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