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Ah, so there's at least one catch with Bartolomeo's power. I was wondering when we'd learn more about it.

 

lol, bit of Frank and Senor shenanigans in a corner panel.

 

The part with Rebecca sort of made sense. Unlike her normal arena bouts where she never even got injured, here she was completely outclassed and was going to die (and didn't have a raging Hakuma to take out the competition), plus there's the whole psychological stuff dealing with Diamante, remember what happened in the Colosseum?

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Most of this chapter is great. I like Robin getting a speech/moment of her own and presumably a fight against gladius (we'll see...), and all the snippets we saw of various fights going on were fun.

 

That Rebecca scene though... yeah this confirms my worst fears about her. She represents everything wrong with Oda's treatment of female characters. "She's a child who you should pity, want to protect... but you can masturbate to her too! Isn't that great?"

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The Mangastream translation treats Rebecca WAY better

http://readms.com/r/one_piece/757/2501/14

 

"I don't want to fight anymore!!" vs. their "No way! I don't want to fight this guy!" 

 

One sounds like she has given up, the other sounds like she either knows her limits and/or Diamante is just someone who gets into her head to easily. Either way, its a much better translation imo.

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I don't believe that I ever thought she'd become a Straw Hat, I figure she'll have to stay behind to help the kingdom once they beat Doflamingo and his gang and let the Riku family take back control, and she'd just be an honorary Straw Hat like Vivi. Assuming the best case scenario happens.

 

Also related, saw this neat thing show up in the CR news: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/08/21-1/costume-maker-shows-off-amazing-one-piece-rebecca-cosplay

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It's just a shame she (probably) won't since she lined up with so many parallels.

She could have formed 3 Musketeers with Zoro and Brook (maybe pick up Kinemon's fire trick within an arc or two for fire/ice swordspeople).

She'd fit with the other girls regarding how Luffy took on and defeated an oppressive organization in order to save the land, later gaining them as crewmembers. Betting Luffy will gain a bounty increase after taking down Doflamingo too, so you could add that too.

She made friends with Luffy before the other Straw Hats.

She's got a tragic backstory (though it's not as in-depth or long as the others, except for Brook).

 

I do feel like she hasn't gotten as much time to shine as other members because of the plot and other circumstances, but then again the same thing happened to Brook and people grew to love him eventually.

 

Though yeah, she's probably more like Vivi at this point now that I'm thinking about it.

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To be honest I didn't find her fighting style interesting at all. She basically used the opponent's weight against them, she couldn't really do much with her own strength which is kinda disappointing cause she looks like she could have been a pretty bad ass female character

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To be honest I didn't find her fighting style interesting at all. She basically used the opponent's weight against them, she couldn't really do much with her own strength which is kinda disappointing cause she looks like she could have been a pretty bad ass female character

 

 

I actually like it. She doesn't like fighting or hurting people, so she uses their own strength against them to simply incapacitate them at that works for her character. Its not useful for real battles, but in the arena it did exactly what she needed it to. I do think that if she did cut lose, she could be pretty powerful given who her dad is, but, again, not who she is.

 

 

Also, reading last weeks WSJ and I'm even more accepting of Rebecca running away. The look on her face when she sees Diamante is "O god, not you, anyone but you" and I wouldn't expect someone with that look of terror on their face too be willing to fight the source of the terror. I think I forgot about it because of how AMAZING the first panal of the last page looked. THATS how you end a chapter.

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