WHITEBEARD ON THE RAMPAGE! - One Piece #472

I love the whole family thing with the Whitebeard pirates

Mystra

So far, I absolutely love Whitebeard! The combo of his absolute badassery and his devotion to his boys is incredible!

Spaz Boys Comedy

It's a good thing he stabbed whitebeard and not cut him in half.

The Muddler

I honestly think this translation isnt as great as some of the others. I watch on WCO stream. When i watched the Mihawk vs Luffy battle there was a lot more admiration coming from Mihawk than with the VRV translation

Eminence

Everyone's talking about the fighting and the pacing, and I'm sitting here almost at tears from Whitebeard hugging Squard after saying he's a foolish son. For the longest time, Whitebeard was my absolute favorite character because of this moment and the following episodes. Even now, he's tied with Sanji for 2nd with Luffy sitting at the top again. Would love to know where this ACTUAL father of the year sits on your favorite character list.

Miasimon

Bad translation. Whitebeard isn't "out of shape", he's a sick 72 years old man Ò.ó I guess that automatically means he's out of shape, but still... :| Incidentally, that's one of the win conditions the navy had against Whitebeard: 1. Wait for him to be old and sick 2. Kidnap someone close to him 3. Lure him to Marineford with his allies, where the kidnappee is to be executed. That way, Whitebeard can't unleash his full power without destroying his allies and/or the person he wants to rescue 4. Find the person most likely to be swayed by well-placed words and have him betray and injure Whitebeard It's a bit much, but no one sane would want to face an emperor of the sea without at least this much preparation :D

Aeco

Who ever subtitle this episode in English must have been Canadian. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 I’m not your OLD BUDDY, OLD GUY I’m not your OLD GUY, OLD FRIEND I’m not your OLD FRIEND, OLD BUDDY

gomugomubrooo

That would be super effective considering how many devil fruit users there are..

V_VMat

Seeing Whitebeard charge into action is SUUUUUPER thrilling!

Tyler

they are lucky whitebeard didn't just say "fuck it" and sink the island into nothing

interested party

shit, that's a good point.

interested party

Good analogy! 😊

Spaz Boys Comedy

I'd actually argue that the pacing gets fairly mixed after this episode. This one being an example of it being bad.

DevilJynx

No way Curtis remembers with that his memory!

Bee

What do we know about Roger up to Marineford? Because what we see in Squardo's flashback seems something I would not think Roger pirates would do, but is that because what we learn later?

V_VMat

Lets give Squard this much, the Navy did a great job of proving the deal to Squard and he was already distraught before that, he started off thinking that he and his friends/family were dying for the son of a person who murdered his friends/family. Squard had every reason to believe it, was not in a great state of mind and whitebeard didnt even reinforce the back lines.

Miklar Sihn

So, I think this is a good time to mention something about Admiral Akainu. Remember Robin's flashback? During the buster call, both Aokiji and Akainu were there, destroying Robin's island. However, they were both only Vice Admirals at the time. And, while Aokiji was willing to let Robin escape, Akainu actually tricked all the kids by lying to them to get on a "rescue ship." So, that he could eventually sink the ship himself and minimize the possibility of Robin escaping by killing all the children. It's crazy how a seemingly random individual in a flashback could become so important now.

flameenforcer619

How else do you think One Piece has nearly 1000 episodes, they milk the shit out of everything. Not quite as bad, but it nears DBZ levels at some points.

Vega

The pacing in this episode was horrible jeez

Akainu is the type who'd burn down an entire village that housed a supposed witch and would call it justice. Sure, the town is gone, but so is the witch. No tactic or scheme is beneath him if it gets what he considers "Justice" fulfilled.

DevilJynx

Also *spoilers* why didn't Marco...?

V_VMat

It felt like first 15 minutes of this episodes were just still shots of shocked faces... Jeez

V_VMat

Divide et impera. (Divide and conquer)

V_VMat