I don't think Oda ever spelled it out but it seems obvious that he was partially inspired by Hulk Hogan like so many One Piece characters are inspired by big stars
>literally the same eyes, the long blond hair, the durag when they go bald, the size, kinda the personality outside the ring, the same "white beard" but upside down, one of Whitebeard's crew members is officially based on Andre the Giant, etc.
Maybe he never said it because of some of the controversy around HH, but you can't tell me Whitebeard is solely based on some Japanese barkeeper
>one of Whitebeard's crew members is officially based on Andre the Giant
Though you can also see a resemblance between Andre the Giant and Blackbeard
>>280882257 (OP)explains why wb feels like such an authentic character out of the gate
Am I the only one who found his death sadder and more impactful than Ace's? Or at least the slow, inevitable way it happened. Always reminded me of King Kong.
>>280882257 (OP)he's posing like a wrestler when using his df
>>280882454>Or at least the slow, inevitable way it happened. Always reminded me of King Kong.The anime butchered most of that
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>>280882756This scene did a lot of heavy lifting.
>>280882257 (OP)hulkster also got the protruding chin
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Love the love he gets in flashbacks, way more than I ever hoped
>>280882756someone needs to explain why they filled the break time making a fucking fishmen island remake instead of finally remaking the war. though i guess it would still be censored
>>280882454The entire leadup to Whitebeards death is filled with a variety of raw emotions, you didn't get that with Ace. His boy may have died, but it is Whitebeard who has to live with the fact that he survived him, and the way he channels that suffering while still refusing to kill any of these "brats" makes his last stand much more impactful. Whitebeards death hits the hardest because you can feel that he is filled with love.
>>280883443fishman island in the anime was REALLY rough(I didn't see the remake so don't know how much they fixed)
dressrosa is even worse
>>280883161Oda loves whitebeard a lot which is clear because he refuses to let anything make him look remotely bad. He did fuck up with wb not avenging oden
>>280882257 (OP)He was neptuneman before he was whitebeard.
>>280883972Did he even know about Odens death? Wasn't Wano completely isolated?
>>280884042He learned it years after the fact.
>>280884042He knew about odens death but decided not to take revenge because it would kill a shit ton of people (including wano citizens). Dumb thing is at the time of odens death whitebeard was in his prime and kaido wasnt yet so he shouldve beaten him quite easily. Oda is a hack
>>280882257 (OP)pretty sure oda confirmed this
>>280882257 (OP)And they both died because of heart failure.
>>280884338Wb mustve thought to himself what a bunch of degenerate lowlifes he was hanging out with at rocks
>>280884338Whitebeard was too based for this shitty ass manga
>>280884184dunno maybe whitebeard planned going to war with kaido but some shit always came up. clearly kaido felt threatened by whitebeard and planned to exploit his marineford/ace distraction
>>280884338>KAZOKUanime sadly sucked outside of some key scenes but his voice and delivery was peak
>>280884483>outside of some key scenesThere is that one animated by Shida where he grabs the giant's head and does the rapeface. Always loved this because it's so virile. Funny thing is retards always go out of their way to cut the scene right before this happens in their shitty AMVs
Speaking of, is there really not a single good war arc/Whitebeard AMV?
>>280884609Someone just needs to put this song on Ace and WB clips for perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9AWegauJM
WB is 100% my favorite powerful Old man.
Netero and Yamamoto are cool and all but WBZ IS just so much better.
When you think about it you have literally two persons who died this week who served as inspirations for OP characters.
Ozzy for Brook (alive) and Hogan for WhiteBeard.
>>280883443I can see wit studio remaking the whole pre time skip while they remaster the post time skip
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>>280882257 (OP)Don't forget he was also in Dragon Ball before
>>280882454Ace's death felt like editor mismanaging
>>280886877That'd be funny because pre timeskip anime is a lot better than post timeskip anime and often even covered more than 1 chapter. It's the post timeskip anime that consistently has shit pacing and looks like shit without even having the charm of the pre timeskip anime
I bet they would adapt all the art and color schemes to post timeskip too
>>280887681she looks like a russian camwhore now
>>280887489I loved it but especially because of Luffy's reaction that apparently filtered a lot of people. Ace wanting to pick fights after watching the whole time made sense and how we went from "oh he's saved" to "oh he's dead" made it even more effective.
>>280886702>Ozzy for Brook (alive)huh? how are they similar. always thought it's more slash
Thought on the anime atm? It's still kinda hit and miss for me.
>that last episode
>turn 1 (one) emotional page into 10 minutes of Kuma running in a straight line and people saying his name
>lame scenes for things the manga purposefully leaves to imagination with cool stylistic minimalism, like Ginny's crystals or Kuma wrecking fodders
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>>280890147toei forgot how to do soulful fillers, only way for the anime to be good again is to cover more than 1 chapter per episode like they used to
>>280890147>>turn 1 (one) emotional page into 10 minutes of Kuma running in a straight line and people saying his nameI think this was actually good, the one advantage the anime has over the manga is the ability to really let you sit in a powerful moment like that, they often do it just to pad out the episode but sometimes its actually done well to make the moment hit hard.
>>280890217>I think this was actually good, the one advantage the anime has over the manga is the ability to really let you sit in a powerful moment like thatIt dragged on way too much, shrill voices saying the same name just gets boring and annoying (worst combination ever) after a while. In the manga it's clearly a quick flash of memories and it's up to you how long you want to reflect on it.
>>280890216The anime really helped building Ace
>>280890053goofy motherfucker definitely looks straight out of one piece
10/10
>>280891168this guy always creeped me out as a kid playing the n64 game
>>280884408I think this was the crew before Rocks, where he was given away to Rocks as the price in a Davy Back fight. When we saw him with rocks before Rocks was even officially a pirate, he already had the mustache
>>280882257 (OP)Kenshiro killed him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPw2cAOrcQ
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Raikage is Hulk Hogan.
So he is white.
>>280882257 (OP)Whitebeard was seemingly not racist, so........
>>280882257 (OP)i wonder if whitebeard ever dropped the hard r
>>280883972I don't blame whitebeard since wano arc was not very well thought out.
>>280882257 (OP)Makes sense, Whitebeard refused to put Ace over so he was relegated to the mid card as a result(Yonko lieutenant) for the rest of his pirate carreer.
>>280882257 (OP)So whitebeard is canonically racist?
>>280892035which one of the scabbards or oden have the earthquake fruit? sorry for being kizaru
>>280892035Whitebeard is 100x stronger than the scabbards and could easily sink islands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfFF3RbWDi
Impressive. Though he also got several things wrong. One interesting thing is if you take these 4 numbers from BB's last bounty number, and rotate the 6 so it looks like the hiragana "no", it says something like Ghost of Jonah.
> First used in print in 1726, the name Davy Jones' origins are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of Jonah".
>>280888781It is Slash. That anon is just making connections where there are none.
