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Quote (Eep @ Dec 3 2012 01:49am)

You seem to think moving in a linear fashion is a bad thing.

All I am saying is that One Piece has shown so far that aside from various manga chapter covers and filler episodes, places in the past don't show up again.

Simple as that. It isn't a bad thing. No need for essay length responses which end with you being wrong :/

Old characters show up, yes, but they aren't dragging the story backwards. They are propelling it forwards, in a LINEAR FASHION

Quote (Firaga @ Dec 2 2012 09:43pm)

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 HQ




lmk if that clears it up for u

if not, then i can post more proof but u shud consider urselfmentally challenged

Quote (Firaga @ Dec 3 2012 12:43am)

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 HQ




lmk if that clears it up for u

if not, then i can post more proof but u shud consider urselfmentally challenged