Quote (TotallyDelicious @ Dec 2 2012 08:45pm)
rofl you provide no evidence that it does not move in a linear fashion
all u did was pretty much say " i disagree and i think OP is better then naurto and bleach "
either ur stupid or u have been reading the wrong manga. i'd go with the first one tho
let's see
laboon introduced in the beginning of grand line
brooke in episode like 400 and he's connected to laboon
the guy of the twin capes in the beginning of the grand line
in like episode 450+ where they meet rayleigh and ray and the guy from twin capes were nakama at one point
let's see....
arlong and hachi before grandline even started
connected to fishman island and the history of fishman island regarding fisher tiger. and why arlong was so pissed at the human race
and an in depth history of the relationship between human and fishman
let's see.... as u can see i can go on for hours and hours
the appearance of dragon before the grand line where he saved luffy from smoker
wayyyy later it's explained that dragon is luffy's father
bartholomew kuma.... introduced in thriller bark
when luffy meets up with invankov when he tries to save ace
it is seen that kuma is actually ivankov's nakama and he actually works for dragon, luffy's father
let's see.....
oh can't forget the fact that franky's master was actually connected to gol d roger, cuz he made the ship for them. another connection
also let's see.... oh can't forget that clover, from robin's hometown, traveled with gol d roger looking for poneglyphs
wayyyy before robin even started learning to read them
gol d roger's inscription at sky island right by the poneglyph on the huge golden bell
gol d roger's visit and acquaintance with the 'god' of sky island
shanks, who is luffy's idol, was actually part of gol d roger pirate crew, and is now effectively one of the yonkous
buggy, introduced in the very beginning, was part of roger's crew too, and once a nakama of shanks
he also appears again at impel down
mr. 2, who appeared in arabasta, appears again in impel down. and he's the same 'newkama' race as ivankov, which leads to another connection and is what helped luffy out in impel down
not to mention that ivankov also works for dragon
also when we first meet shakki, we didn't know she was a pirate. but later we find out that she was one, and luffy's grandfather was chasing her during her pirate times.
She briefly mentions this fact
also the story behind smoker, he was on site when gol d roger died.
somehow that affected his mindset and became a marine with a strong sense of justice.
not all of the details of what happened in his life is revealed to us yet, but it is the core reason why he pursues the strawhat crew, becuz he senses the resemblance
oh and also, law mentions that he used to work for the shichibukai doflamingo
another connection, and prolly a history that will be revealed to us later about what kind of man doflamingo is
there's also the connection of kuma to the scientist vegapunk
vegapunk did some experiments on kuma
he also developed ways to have objects eat devil fruits, as seen in enies lobby ANOTHER GREAT CONNECTION
franky did lots of training at vegapunk's lab where he completely altered his appearance and weapons, getting stronger
coby, who was introduced in the VERY FIRST CHAPTERS of the manga, appears again as a marine recruit and gets training from LUFFY'S GRANDFATHER
i can only expect that he will become uber strong too later
helmeppo appears again as a good guy, but he was a villain when luffy tried to rescue zoro. but he appears again
hawkeyes and zoro, another great connection. fight at sanji's home, and hawkeyes appears again against luffy at the marine HQ and even later on, ultimately decides to train zoro to become uber strong
one piece is not a linear fashion.
old characters keep coming back and keep being involved in the story, which is why it's such a beautiful story and an awesome manga
also if you meant by linear that they just travel from island to island, that is also utterly wrong
when kuma separated the crew, the story took a wild turn
there was a whole arc in between the separation of the crew and the reunion of it, namely the arc of impel down and marine HQlmk if that clears it up for u
if not, then i can post more proof but u shud consider urself
mentally challengedThis post was edited by Firaga on Dec 2 2012 11:59pm