One Piece speculation thread?

I've been rereading the manga because I got bored, having just finished the Thriller Bark arc, I noticed that Nami received a vivre card of Lola's mother--who is an awesome pirate somewhere in the new world.

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I'm kinda thinking that person is gonna be Big Mam/mom/whatever.

anyone else got any pet theories they're sitting on? hell, is anyone here still following the manga?

Why bother creating a speculation thread if you're still 200 chapters behind? You're certain to read at least one spoiler if any one who is up to date posts something here.

Personally, I doubt that Big Mam is Lola's mother. There's nothing one way or another to prove it conclusively yet, but I can't see how just being a strong female pirate in the New World suddenly must mean you're a Yonkou. That's a hell of a stretch. Not to mention, we've seen Big Mam and she doesn't look like the kind of girl any guy would want to try it on with.

And for the love of god, please capitalise the topic title.

dude, REreading. I should have made that stand out more, maybe hyphenated it. I'm already caught up on the manga, and reading it from the start again to pass the time.

You raise some good points, and you're right--it is one hell of a stretch, so I suppose my post was more wild mass-guessing than actual speculation.

Also, that was rather lazy of me. I capitalized the name of the series. Want the rest done as well? (honest question, not trying to antagonize)


have I been gone so long that everyone's forgotten me? Should I swap my name back to Tobinator or the like? I mean really, I had one of the biggest "have read" manga lists here on the boards, so I'm surprised you'd come to the conclusion that I was behind.

edits: jesus christ i can't seem to reword this post to not seem like an enormous douchenozzle. my apologies.

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dude, REreading. I should have made that stand out more, maybe hyphenated it. I'm already caught up on the manga, and reading it from the start again to pass the time.

No, I caught the rereading part, but just the way you put it across made it seem like it was all new information to you. I thought you meant you had read it up to a point, then started reading again.

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You raise some good points, and you're right--it is one hell of a stretch, so I suppose my post was more wild mass-guessing than actual speculation.

Big Mam being Lola's mum has been a pretty popular fan theory for a while, but it's one that I just don't agree with. That's not to say it's incorrect, I may yet be proven wrong of course, but I think it's a leap of faith too far.

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I had one of the biggest "have read" manga lists here on the boards, so I'm surprised you'd come to the conclusion that I was behind.

I know who you are, so no need to change the name. However, just because I know it's you doesn't mean I'm up to date with your manga progress. Again, there's no real way to say this without making me sound like a bit of a dick, but I only pay attention to topics that interest me - I couldn't care less about monitoring every one else's progress. You could have posted a thousand times in the subsections for Bleach, Naruto etc but because I don't read them I'd never had noticed.

Thanks for fixing the title. Yes, I know I'm a grammar whore.

SimianWonder wrote:

No, I caught the rereading part, but just the way you put it across made it seem like it was all new information to you. I thought you meant you had read it up to a point, then started reading again.

Big Mam being Lola's mum has been a pretty popular fan theory for a while, but it's one that I just don't agree with. That's not to say it's incorrect, I may yet be proven wrong of course, but I think it's a leap of faith too far.

I know who you are, so no need to change the name. However, just because I know it's you doesn't mean I'm up to date with your manga progress. Again, there's no real way to say this without making me sound like a bit of a dick, but I only pay attention to topics that interest me - I couldn't care less about monitoring every one else's progress. You could have posted a thousand times in the subsections for Bleach, Naruto etc but because I don't read them I'd never had noticed.

Thanks for fixing the title. Yes, I know I'm a grammar whore.

ah, my mistake. and yeah, it's been a while since i last read through it, so it kinda is new information to me, since that event actually caught my attention this time.

I get what you mean.

ah, okay then, and you're right, I was expecting you to know something that I hadn't said and that you had no real reason to be interested in, so it's all cool that you didn't know.

and no problem, it looked rather half-assed when it wasn't capitalized anyway.

edit: whoops, forgot the quotes.

Anyway, back on topic.

I'm kind hyped to see the crew actually having to try in a fight - the New Fishman Pirates were little more than fodder, none of the SHs having to exert themselves particularly. Get them in a proper fight and we can see just how much they've grown since the timeskip.

It was also interesting to see Pekoms OHKO Caribou. It's a fairly obvious message, from Caribou's "you're just some Zoan!" taunt, to Pekoms then one shotting him and taunting him that unskilled and overconfident logia doesn't mean shit in the new world "logia who think they're invincible have short lifespans". *coughAcecough* Caribou may have been a very big fish on the first half of the grand line - even Luffy pre TS would have struggled to land a blow on a logia - but in the New World he's fodder.

Not that I expect every NW pirate to be on that same level - there are bound to be countless nameless mooks just as there were in Paradise - but seeing a zoan defeat a logia that effortlessly tells us that simply having a good devil fruit means sweet FA.

yeah, chances are the bulk of big mam's crew will be cannonfodder as well, and then the convenient-generals-that-are-equal-in-number-to-the-participating-straw-hats-in-this-arc will show up and the actual fights will begin. I'm looking forward to seeing more of everyone's new skills.

I thought that ugly woman on boa hancocks island might be her mum.

Superbuu3 wrote:

I thought that ugly woman on boa hancocks island might be her mum.

she very well might be.

I wish Hancock replaced Jinbei. He's cool, but I don't want him as a Strawhat. Then even Hancock would be better. Doesn't Luffy have 10 crew members already? Or did I count wrong?

Eight fulltime members and Jinbe and Vivi as reservists.

Puh, that's a relief. Might have to start reading again. I stopped right after the crew re-united.

Maskull wrote:

Superbuu3 wrote:

I thought that ugly woman on boa hancocks island might be her mum.

she very well might be.

Is Amazon Lily in the New World though? My impression was it was on the Paradise side of the Red line.

I think it's safe to assume that Lola's mom isn't wallpaper.

SimianWonder wrote:

Maskull wrote:

Superbuu3 wrote:

I thought that ugly woman on boa hancocks island might be her mum.

she very well might be.

Is Amazon Lily in the New World though? My impression was it was on the Paradise side of the Red line.

given that its near the impel down/marinford/other place whirlpool that comes mostly before the red line, i'd say paradise side.