Chapter 357: Blackbeard is so strong?
Is Blackbeard so powerful? He controlled the Empress in one second? The Empress is at the level of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. The key is that the Empress's fruit ability is comparable to that of the Admirals. This time Blackbeard came to Nine Snake Island to win over the Empress. Even if he failed, Blackbeard would kill the Empress. But Blackbeard killed the Empress in one second. What's the point of the Empress' fruit?
It has no effect on him at all. In fact, regarding the scene where Blackbeard controlled Boa Hancock in seconds, we can only blame the animation team. They need to take the blame. And a shocking thing also happened between Boa Hancock and Coby. Let's analyze it together below.
I believe many netizens will blame the animation team. The Empress kicked Coby with a fragrant kick, but was captured by Blackbeard. In just one second, Blackbeard's strength was reflected, but is this reasonable?
It is obvious that the problem here is actually the storyboard which was not handled properly. In fact, we cannot blame the animation team entirely. The animation of One Piece is not good because of the poor storyboard of the comics, which roughly means that Oda is not very good at drawing fight storyboards, so the animation team is in a difficult position and can only make the animation like the PPT, which leads many people to blame Oda for the poor fighting scenes in the One Piece animation.
If the comics are not well-written, it will be very difficult for the animation team to make them. But there are some exceptions to this rule, such as Demon Slayer: Jujutsu no Sora. Although there is only one page of fighting scenes in the comics, the animation adds a very smooth battle. What does this mean?
This shows that even if the comic storyboard is not good, as long as the production team is willing to work hard and spend a lot of money, it can also be done very well. But why is the animation of One Piece not so good? It can only be said that Toei is famous for being stingy, and One Piece animation is destined not to spend too much money.
So it is normal that some animation content will be sacrificed. Obviously, the content of this episode was not regarded as the focus by Toei, so the battle animation between the Empress and Blackbeard will not be supplemented. Therefore, we see the so-called second control
In fact, the animation team is reducing costs. It is estimated that Toei has now put its focus on Egghead Island, and other comic content may be sacrificed. However, One Piece is an annual series, and the animation is indeed not as good as the seasonal series. It is just like the theater version and TV. Everything is a cost issue.
Secondly, the most eye-catching thing in this episode is that when the Empress attacked Coby, from Coby's perspective, he saw the Empress completely, because the Empress attacked with a miniskirt, and when her legs were split apart, Coby just looked up. Only Coby could understand this happiness.
But in this case, Luffy would be cheated on by Coby. He has never seen such an exciting scene with the Empress, but Coby took advantage of him instead. Damn it.
The most notable battle among fans is the one between Blackbeard and Boa Hancock. Although Boa Hancock performed bravely and petrified countless enemies on the battlefield, she was eventually suppressed by the Four Emperors Blackbeard. For Blackbeard, who can absorb all fruit powers, as long as he captures the power user, it means victory.
If it weren't for Rayleigh's rescue, perhaps the Empress's Sweet-Sweet Fruit would have been in Blackbeard's hands. But then again, the Empress's strength is already very strong, but she still has no power to fight back against Blackbeard. It can only be said that Oda has once again improved Blackbeard's strength. In order to show Blackbeard's arrogance, Oda specially dedicated a large number of pages of exciting battle scenes for him.
Blackbeard makes a big fuss on Daughter Island. Blackbeard led Dajiu and Depen to Daughter Island to get the Empress's Sweet-Sweet Fruit. Blackbeard, who just appeared, showed the power of the double fruit ability user, easily destroyed more than half of the navy's warships, and at the same time destroyed the terrain of Daughter Island.
Although the navy has discovered Blackbeard, they cannot send troops directly to Blackbeard because they have not received orders from their superiors. What they have to do now is to capture the Empress.
The navy plus Blackbeard are a very difficult existence for the Empress. However, since she is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Empress must have a certain combat power.
Even in the face of numerous enemies, the Empress resolved the crisis through the power of the fruit, using a "slave arrow" to petrify most of the enemies on the battlefield. Those who were petrified included Bellemer, Burning Mountain, Depen of the Black Group, and Dajiu. These people all had certain combat power, but now they have been turned into "stone men" by the Empress. This is the power of the Sweet-Sweet Fruit.
Although the Empress performed bravely, she lost her ability to fight instantly when faced with Blackbeard's sudden attack. The reason is that Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit can make the ability of the ability user ineffective. In other words, as long as the ability user fights Blackbeard head-on, there is no fruit move that cannot be launched.
It shows Blackbeard's arrogance and the Empress's powerlessness. We have to admit that the gap in strength between the two is too great.
Most fans of One Piece feel sympathy for the Empress, complaining that Blackbeard is too cruel and has no sympathy for women. After all, the Empress is the most beautiful woman in the One Piece world, and Blackbeard is a bit ruthless. Blackbeard looks like a otaku, which makes people sympathize with the Empress even more compared to the tall Empress.
I have to say that Oda's move has allowed us to see the gap between the Four Emperors and the Seven Warlords of the Sea. 39 billion versus 16 billion is indeed a crushing level.
Rayleigh and Shakey appeared at the critical moment, fortunately Rayleigh arrived in time. As a legendary pirate of the old era, Blackbeard was obviously a little surprised by Rayleigh's sudden arrival. In order to prevent further conflict, the Blackbeard group chose to evacuate, but made a deal with Rayleigh before leaving. Depen and Dajiu were also unpetrified by the Empress, and only poor Coby was kidnapped by the Blackbeard group.
In addition to Rayleigh, his partner Shakira also made an appearance. Shakira was the former king of the Daughter Island and the previous captain of the Nine Snakes Pirates, and her status was similar to that of the current empress.
Both Shaqi and Rayleigh are top pirates, but if they confront Blackbeard head-on, they may not gain any advantage, so Rayleigh chooses not to have a head-on conflict with Blackbeard, and just to scare off the enemy.
Marco returns to Whitebeard's hometown, and Yamato stays in Wano Country
At the beginning of this episode, Marco left the Red Hair Pirates' ship and returned to Whitebeard's hometown; in the end, Red Hair was unable to keep Marco because he didn't want to serve a big pirate anymore.
Back to a few days ago, Yamato found Luffy and said that he would not leave, mainly because the appearance of Green Bull before made him see the situation in Wano Country and he was unable to protect himself at all, so he planned to stay to protect Momonosuke, which made Sanji very disappointed.
At this time, Marco also came to say goodbye to Luffy, because he had found the ship to leave Wano Country, which was the ship of the Red Hair Pirates. Luffy was very grateful for Marco's help and happily saw Marco off.
The Empress fought against the Blackbeard Pirates, but was eventually defeated by Blackbeard and captured
Let’s take a look at the Daughter Island. Half of the island was destroyed, and the injured Empress was still thinking about marrying Luffy.