One Piece: Gear Second

[BWYuko]

The hiatus is indeed due to Oda's health, but the official message's translation does fuck-all to help us understand his actual condition and prognosis.

So Honesty Impact is the last new episode of Egghead til April 2025. Next week is a special 25th anniversary episode.

Then after that they are compacting the Fishman Island Arc from 58 episodes down to 21. They're not merely hacking off a lot of fat from the original cut, they're actually re-drawing the entire thing. Check out some before/after pics on news sites/reddit to see what's up. So, a canon One Pace edit of the Arc that needed it most is really great. Maybe they'll fill other voids later with that treatment.

It's lookin good. The redraw is a lot more like the manga.

[BWYuko]

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Colon is such an unfortunate name...

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But, wow, we've got some incredible lore tying together here. Stuff that's 20 years old, like Louis Arnot's return. And the first dream of a crew member is officially realized - what a payoff. Also get the stupid feeling Luffy released Loki already...

[Lokus]

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Oda is so good with character writing. And yes, my eyes got watery, what of it?

[BWYuko]

For fuck's sake. What a payoff. What a gift.

[Outlaw]

I'm not really a fan but I know a lot of people are. I thought I would post this here.

https://x.com/Crunchyroll/status/1863614399472173093

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[Obsidian]

Reminder that their monthly price is also doubling in January.

Edit: I guess that sub increase only applies to old Funimation account holders who were on a grandfathered price tier.

[BWYuko]

Full color spread for retiring VA of Franky/Bon Clay/Jango, Kazuki Yao! His successor will be announced at a "graduation ceremony" 12/22/24.

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No Break!

[Drai]

isn't Jump itself on Break cause of Christmas though? so still no chapter next week?

[Lokus]

Correct. After that, it seems we're back to the normal 3 chapters into break flow.

[BWYuko]

Graduation Ceremony !!!!



The new guy is Subaru Kimura (born in Germany as "Subaru Samuel Bartsch"). Seems he voiced a young Buggy in some 2021 episodes, but is best known for Doraemon and JJK characters, as well as dubbing lots of Western media brought into Japan.

Final Comments

[BWYuko]

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Still no break!

[Drai]

Wasn't expecting a chapter this week, glad we got one though.

[BWYuko]

happy new year
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[Drai]

happy new year
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what are the odds that dude is like, shanks twin brother or something?

[Lokus]

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what are the odds that dude is like, shanks twin brother or something?

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That's been the long-standing theory, especially since Oda has hidden the left side of his face, which would make it more obvious if it was really Shanks.

[Drai]

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[BWYuko]

The way this arc is progressing is just... masterful.

[BWYuko]

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Wow, what reveal and lore dump. Has been lots of speculation about this stuff the last few months, but that last panel is something else. Folks will be theorycrafting from that for the next 5 years.

Also am told no break for some time, like 3 more consecutive chapters are incoming uninterrupted.

[Lucavi]

Biiiiiiiiiig lore drop here. No wonder Imu needed all the other races at one another's throats, suppressed and/or killed.

[BWYuko]

Here's some redditor's preliminary markings, just to get started.

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