One Piece

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So I decided to catch up on the anime, and I saw some stuff i don't remember from the manga. Like how luffy's old friend from one of the first episodes (the one who is training under garp) can use haki now. Did I just miss that in the manga, or was that exclusively the anime?

Anyway, I'm way excited to see how powerful he got after the two years! He has haki now, and he is training in the techs of cp9. He should be pretty dang powerful.

Originally posted by menokokoro
So I decided to catch up on the anime, and I saw some stuff i don't remember from the manga. Like how luffy's old friend from one of the first episodes (the one who is training under garp) can use haki now. Did I just miss that in the manga, or was that exclusively the anime?

You just missed that. He 'awakened' during the end of the Whitebeard War, and they talked about it after.

Anyway, I'm way excited to see how powerful he got after the two years! He has haki now, and he is training in the techs of cp9. He should be pretty dang powerful.

Yea, Coby should be no slouch. Bare minimum a Lt, maybe as high as Captain.

Did anyone read the latest issue?

Hodi for New Nakama 131

Originally posted by Bentley
Did anyone read the latest issue?

Hodi for New Nakama 131

I think this is the first real threat that is substantially weaker than luffy...kinda pissing me off...

Originally posted by menokokoro

I think this is the first real threat that is substantially weaker than luffy...kinda pissing me off...

Well, some of the East Blue ones were, we just didn't know that yet.

Originally posted by Q99
Well, some of the East Blue ones were, we just didn't know that yet.

Originally posted by menokokoro
Were what? substantially weaker, or real threats?

Substantially weaker, and the main threats of the stories. Like Kuro.

Is it just me, or could this arc of been over ages ago if Jinbe decided to be the one to fight Hodi, rather than Luffy?

I am not sure why Jinbe didn't just kick Hodi's ass in the water.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Is it just me, or could this arc of been over ages ago if Jinbe decided to be the one to fight Hodi, rather than Luffy?

I am not sure why Jinbe didn't just kick Hodi's ass in the water.

Cause he had to help Sanji....I guess

I forget but exaclty why are the strawhats here in the first place?

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
Cause he had to help Sanji....I guess

I forget but exaclty why are the strawhats here in the first place?

It's the only way to get to the New World without government help.

That, and they do have some friends here (Camie, Jinbei, Hatchan).

I get why the Straw HAts are there.

I'm just not sure why Jinbei isn't kicking the shit out of Hodi, rather than fighting some Sea Devil.

The tension relies on Jinbei not doing the smart thing and kicking Jinbei's ass.

If a human does it, it does send a different message than if Jinbei does it.

That the Fishman can't solve their own problems and the humans must get the sub-human Fishmen back in line?

Indeed. estahuh

The arc is extending mostly to show how lame fishmen are, and hopefully, to make us collectively sight in relief that no fishman joins the crew.

If one was to join, I guess they could be fine scouts since they can travel underwater.

Presumably there are fishmen who live elsewhere who may be more badass.

Well Jimbei and Fisher Tiger turned out to be competent in their own right.

This all makes me wonder exactly how Arlong was so weak. Even Hodi doesn't seem as bad as him now.

Luffy fought Arlong on land where he's naturally weaker whereas he's fight Hodi underwater in his natural element. Plus Hodi has a good 3 years of so of training on him because Arlong got his ass kicked/died/what the hell even happened to him anyway?. Plus by the looks of it Arlong spent most of his time above the water dicking around with Nami's village etc. And finally remember that Hodi is suped up on happy-pills and much stronger than he normally is.

At base he's probably not too far from Arlongs level.

Originally posted by Q99
Presumably there are fishmen who live elsewhere who may be more badass.

I'm sure they will appear when the SHs need fodder villains.

Originally posted by Q99
Presumably there are fishmen who live elsewhere who may be more badass.

I doubt we'll be seeing any Fishmen above Jinbei's level personally. And to be fair, Jinbei is really strong, he showed himself to be at least on par with Luffy.

The reason Arlong comes off as weaker than Hodi is because he is. Even before he became permanently popped on his steroids, Hodi was directly stated to be stronger than Arlong.

And to be fair, Arlong was still a Grand Line pirate, despite appearing so early. He just has been completely outdated since the Baroque Works arc.

Though, I would say Crocodile is stronger than Hodi is, at least on land. Obviously Hodi is better in the water.