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That girl is a fucking idiot. I made the mistake of watching part of her "Worst Reasons You Liked Rogue One" video... not going to make the mistake of watching more of her crap.

Mark your spoilers, boy. I'm pretty sure something is heavily implied with Zoro and Kuina/Tashigi, and Usopp with Kaya. The Veggie Pirates even alluded to it, saying something like Usopp is really lucky and should count his blessings or some shit. In was in one of those things we get every now and then where we go around the world and see what everyone is up to and/or their reaction to the Straw Hats' latest exploits. You're right that Robin hasn't been put in any such situation. I look at Luffy more as a 'big kid' than 'asexual'. I'm pretty sure that's the intent there. I remember early on he would drink milk instead of beer. That disappeared without explanation later on, though. I would hope no one is thinking about putting Franky or Brook with anyone... because eww. Actually, I bet someone is putting Franky with the 2 long nose girls he saved from alcoholism, CM Punk-style. FUCK. What possessed you to bring up Chopper, I have no fucking clue. As for Sanji, it's not just sex jokes... besides the perviness there's romance implied there, too, saying he wants to marry women and deciding things are proof that women love him. Doesn't make much sense if you want the series to not have romance, to throw inthese jokes (which have been thoroughly run into the ground at this point), hyper-sexualized characters, and then cringe-inducing lines like "I'M-INTERESTED-IN-ADVENTURE-NOT-RO-MANCE!" :

Why do you keep saying "confusing?" The confusing thing is what's going through Oda's heads, but as for the series itself, it's just hypocritical and annoying. And if there won't be actual romance, with all these hyper-sexualized characters running around, someone should at least be interested in sex! Humans reproducing! HOW GENERIC! Though I will say one thing. For years Kubo said he didn't believe in doing romance, because he believed there better and more interesting things he could do with his characters. Yet he would continue to throw hints in various directions, tease, and troll. Then at the end he timeskips over all the romance and throws characters together that never so much as held hands together before that. It felt... awkward, in some ways. I mean, you can't have that rule and then go against it at the last moment. Well, I guess he did technically not show any romance... but that makes timeskipping over all that all the more annoying. More annoying still is how he seems to have gone back on Rukia x Ichigo at the last minute and throw subtle hints and the new pairings he was planning. I'd personally rather had the series end with nobody together. Maybe we wouldn't be able to see where everyone was ten years later, but I don't think that's such a tragedy. It would have been principled, at least. And felt more natural, with how loveless the whole rest of the manga had been... besides the tragic romances that ended with one or both partners dying, of course. Actually, with no current timeline romances explicitly developed and all past ones, while done well, ended in tragedy, made you realize what Kubo thought of including it... then he does that ending anyway. I mean, I can see setting up a "next generation" sequel, but it's pretty obvious Kubo wasn't going to make a sequel... that would be left up to the fan's imaginations. SO! Why not leave the pairings or lack thereof up to the fans' imaginations?! Okay... got on a bit of a rant there...

It has to be at least 24-26, and hopefully the plot advances faster this time.

*clicks into thread* *reads OP* *sees link is to comedy cancer* *groans and leaves*

Lovely OP, by the way. I too have had issues with linking to pics from some sites and then for some reason it gets replaced with a tiny one later on. Not sure what the the deal is there.

GOD DAMN IT!

I just remembered the Hellsing author was originally a hentai mangaka.

It's Rogue One, and you better see it before it's completely out of theaters! Star Wars is made for theaters, and this movie is awesome! Trust me, Kevin Smith himself said it was "Empire good!" Gotta be honest I never heard anybody talk shit about Return of the Jedi until the internet, and it seems like only in the past few years, too. I don't get it.

Yeah it's too late now once I saw it. x_x Too tired but will respond when I get the chance. No it doesn't. And fuck Eva. Her being Luke's daughter would kinda make sense, though. She lives on a shitty backwoods desert planet, she has a doll of a rebel pilot, has that helmet. She's good with machines, decent fighter, a decent pilot. The saber calls to her as it did Anakin and Luke. The reveal doesn't have to be a big surprise. And most casual fans aren't going to care if it was "too obvious." A lot of people walked out of the theater thinking she was Luke's daughter, so a twist to something more annoying and nonsensical probably wouldn't sit well. The Kenobi thing would be stupid as fuck. Then again, I've heard it said that her parents are in fact just 2 random deadbeats that left her on the planet. Some obvious things were pointed out that we've overlooked. When the spaceship takes off, Rey is already wearing the desert garb. It doesn't make sense for her to be wearing that clothes if someone just dropped her there. Rey says "come back." She doesn't say "take me with you!" When Rey sees Takodana she says she didn't know there was so much green in the entire galaxy. So, it sounds like she's always lived there and her parents were just awful people who took off the first chance they got and that dumped her there. Then you have Maz Kanada saying "whoever you're waiting for, they aren't coming back. But someone still could." Which implies that Luke is not among the people that left her there. So maybe there's no mindwipe or heritage to past characters or anything. I've also heard the argument that Ben Solo was given that name for Luke, since Ben was much more special to Luke than Han or Leia, and if Luke didn't have any children, he wouldn't be able to name any of them Ben... Finally we have Daisey Ridley herself saying she thought the identity of Rey's parents was obvious after seeing the movie. I mean if it were any other movie we'd probably take the information we were given at face value and understand Rey's parents abandoned her and don't matter. But since it's Star Wars... So yeah maybe we are all overthinking this and Rey really does come from nothing. Not sure how audiences would take that, though.

Well, Luffy did react to the flashing at Albasta. Yeah that's true, she has done that before, especially early on with various pirate thugs. I can see that. It would also be difficult just in practicality, since if they did hook up with someone, that person would either have to wait for them to get back (if they ever do), or have that person join the crew, and they'd have to have more to contribute than just being someone's boyfriend or girlfriend. Yeah, she should have said something like that. Or like I said, just say she's not interested in that whacko. Well yes, that's true, but it's something that's kind of hard to get around. It's a pretty major and integral part of the human mind and life as a human. If this was Star Trek, One Piece characters would be some weird race on an alien planet with a totally different culture, ways of doing things, physiology, etc. It's kind of hard to do that for a whole series instead of just one episode, and the reason given is "THAT'S JUST HOW THE SHOW IS!" I mean, in other cases, we always get explanations, or things are at least addressed. Batman, for example, tries to avoid having girlfriends because he doesn't have time for it, or because of who he is, it would just put them in danger. With One Piece, you're just supposed to not think about it at all. And again, it's not like you can just put it out of your head, because it's thrown right in your face with the cartoony-but-still-sexualized characters, Sanji behaving the way he does, etc. I mean, you're right, romance can be bad or nearly non-existent in a lot of shonens, but if Oda thinks he's not good at it or simply doesn't want it as a big part in the story, he could've done something like maybe some girl fall for Zoro, and he has to leave her there, because well, he has to keep travelling on the Grand Line. Like, it's not even something that would need to happen more than once. I think if you did something like that, it would put a lot of this criticism to rest. And again, it's kind of hypocritical when you have hyper-sexualized characters running around. The shippers are annoying as fuck, though.

I see. I need to read some chapters then to see for myself, I suppose. Also, some parts of One Piece fights have no backgrounds. >=] I read and looked through earlier chapters and I didn't see much difference, except that the art looked more sketchy. Hell, that big epic entrance into the Seireitei when Ichigo and co. first land in Soul Society isn't even in the manga. The anime did that shot on their own. Or maybe I'm just remembering things wrong. I think the fights come off pretty well. Kubo wanted readers to be more focused on the characters, and there's plenty of background and its destruction when it's called for, haha. Though with many series I find fights better in animated form. I read the chapters of Kakashi's backstory, one with the bridge battle with the Mist Ninja, and I think the first volume. Don't remember it being too sketchy. Hahahaha oh god. Well, that series does like to over-explain mundane bullshit.

I'm not the one that derailed the thread. Haters gonna' hate. Baiters gonna' bait. 'Baters gonna' 'bate.

Aaahhh and now I see the originator post of the joke you posted in the Hiatus thread. Things make more sense now. Would you be surprised to learn-- Nah, nevermind, I'm not a trader in TMI like you. >

It took a while. My head is pretty big. :-D

I could, but I can't be certain if the paint or plastic might mess with the fish. Could probably do Legos since those are made safe as fuck for kids, but I dunno', haha.

There was something I had mentioned before and was meaning to bring back up. I once stumbled across this Ichigo x Uryu yaoi and the art style looked exactly like Kubo's. The one-sided unexpected anime hug thing even happened! > I can't find it back though! But yeah I'm sure there's a few that do, or once did porn doujins.

God damn it, Moose. The whole asexual thing is really stupid, though. Especially when some characters are sexualized as hell. Bit of disconnect and hypocrisy there. You know, a line of dialogue from Thriller Bark really bugged me. Nami said she didn't want to marry inviso-perv (blanking on his name right now for some reason) because - "I'm a pirate! I'm interested in adventure, not romance!" Can you possibly have a more stupid and unnatural sounding line? She should have just said she's not interested in HIM. The other thing is, romance or not, which some pirate stories do include, pirates are the furthest thing from "asexual." They lust after treasure, booze, and adventure as much as they do "wenches." Jack Sparrow is a prime example. Going by this logic/theme/trend/trope, Nami should be as interested in man-whores as she is in money. I can accept Luffy as being "a big kid," or "not done with puberty," like Ace said, > but every other character? And from what I can tell, the only Straw Hats that show hints of possibly having romantic relationships are Usopp with Kaya (the Veggie Pirates made this even more blatant in one of the last worldwide check-ins we had), and Zoro with Kuina/Tashigi. Well, we've got Sanji, of course, but he's got about the same success rate as Miroku.

I've heard people say that One Piece is "too dense" and supposedly the art is crammed together and the pages filled with walls of text, and that Bleach is too light (again the large pictures and panels, telling story more with the art than dialogue is Kubo's style), and that Naruto was in the Goldilocks Zone and "just right." Not sure how true any of that is since I've only read a handful of Naruto chapters ages ago and not sure if I ever read any One Piece chapters. That's good though, then. Yeah, we're stuck with it. And as we've discussed before, Toei isn't going to make One Piece a seasonal series or anything like that. Too greedy and they can always use the excuse that it was started before that way of doing things became more or less the norm... So Naruto and One Piece will be the last of the long-runners, then. Dinosaurs of the anime world.

Pretty sure he has nothing to do with Garlic Jr. That was a filler saga and Funimation happened to use the same voice actor for both characters. Not sure about in Japanese.

Are you sure it's not Toei's fault for being lazy and shitty?

I wouldn't be surprised if that already happened, actually. Funny thing is as many times as I've re-watched Dragonball/Z my memory seems foggy of some things at the moment.

He only ever fucked Asuna. And no, that isn't what I mean. Oberon will gleefully lick up the tears of butthurt of the SAO haters. NOT CANON NOT CANON NOT CANON! Damn it.

More people know who Kirito is than will ever know of Gon! :-D

People complain about bad acting and clunky dialogue in the prequels... I'm like, have you ever seen Star Wars? I've also heard the argument that Lucas' "clunky dialogue" is more realistic, since people don't talk perfectly in real life. It's a good point. As far as Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, they're my least favorite Star Wars movies, but to me they are still good movies, good Star Wars movies. Phantom Menace gets a lot of beef for the slice of life moments. If we don't have those moments then there's no reason for us to care about the characters when the shit actually hits the fan. Why do we care if Anakin is leaving his home if we spend like 2 minutes there? Besides, the pod race, ligthsaber battle, space battle, and ground battle are undeniably awesome. As far as "green screen the movie," each individual Prequel had more practical effects than the original movies combined, and I don't see the issue if the effects are done well. As for Attack of the Clones, I think there's a lot of great parts in it that are undersold, like Anakin finding his mother and going after the Sand People. Not enough credit is given to the visuals of scenes that match the mood, either, like when he's searching for his mother and what happens after that. Revenge of the Sith is the second best Star Wars after Empire, I don't care what anyone says. I should probably make a general SW thread, getting on a tangent here. Anyway, here's my personal rankings - 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. Revenge of the Sith 3. Rogue One 3. Return of the Jedi 5. The Force Awakens 6. A New Hope 7. Attack of the Clones 8. The Phantom Menace