ONE PIECE VILLAINS #1: ALVIDA

Alvida (original look)

The first main villain/enemy Luffy encounters in the One Piece world is pirate Captain Alivda. She is a mean spirited fat ugly woman who mistreats her crew with the use of her iron mace. She thinks she is beautiful and doe not tolerate anyone saying others wise although she is truly ugly on the outside and  the inside. We first meet her after Luffy is accidentally rescued by some of her crew form a barrel in the ocean while she is attacking a cruise ship. Her belief that she is strong and will be a powerful pirate leads her to mistreat her crew and others. She thinks Luffy is a nuisance and he will be easily defeated by her, but to her misfortune Luffy takes her iron mace attack without a scratch then one hit knocks her completely off her ship and out of the picture or so we think..

Although as compared to normal humans she is strong to Luffy and other pirates she would be one of the weakest in the One Piece world. Also her actions of treating her subordinates like trash and forcing Coby into her service would fit a stereotypical pirate. These attributes are not all that common among most good pirates in One Piece therefore hurting her chances of being more powerful. The delusion of both her beauty and power are part of why she will not be anyone special in the pirate world anytime soon.

After her defeat by Luffy Coby was able to leave and she was sent flying to parts unknown. She however was not completely destroyed and would return later with a new look and powers, which i will do in a separate edition of One Piece Villains, because to me she is almost a completely new villain. This introduction of her was more of a straight away back story of who she would later become.  In my opinion she was just an initial fodder enemy to show Luffy is not a a joke when it comes to fighting although his personality sets him up to seem useless at times. Where she was not much I think her inclusion as a One Piece villain was crucial to establishing many things which come back in the story overall. Feel free to comment on what you thought of her as a villain and if you liked her or not.

ONE PIECE WITHDRAWALS

I have not been writing much on this lately, because of my utter sadness over One Piece being on a 4 week long break. At first i was intending on rereading the entire series. Although i have read them so much I felt it would be a waste of my limited time . Therefore I decided to catch up on some anime and manga I had recommended to me. First i tried to read Soul Eater, but could not get into it at all. I may come back to this one, but on my own time. Then i decided to try out Hitman Reborn and began to fall for it as an anime and watched all 200 episodes in a matter of a week or so. Then i read up in the manga to catch up with the recent ones. Now i went for an oldie that i had heard of and have watched half of it so far. these things i have had as a distraction while One Piece is on its break. I am just curious as to what everyone else has done to pass the time. I shall keep up with these series and such and remain an avid reader of One Piece. Also i should be able to get back to making more videos as well.

ACE'S TATOO

If you check out this "What If" cover for chapter 596 you can easily notice Ace's tattoo is different from the one he always had throughout the manga . Every time we saw besides this one it was spelled like this ASCE with the S crossed out. In the chapter where Sabo wrote a letter to Ace an Luffy telling them he was leaving you can see the S with the cross through it is Sabo's pirate mark. Also it is seen on his flag as he tries to leave out for sea. This denotes that Ace knew about what this mark meant and had it tattooed on him as a sort of way of paying respect to his supposedly fallen brother and friend. When Sabo's mark was shown to be a crossed out S most people came to the conclusion that's why the  crossed out S was in Ace's tattoo. Although it was a widely spread rumor that Oda had supposedly told in an SBS that the crossed out S was a mistake by the tattoo artist. This has not been confirmed and therefore it makes perfect sense that it was in honor of Sabo the whole time. Now with the realization that if Sabo was alive and grew up with Ace and Luffy then Ace's tattoo would be different and it is in this cover page. I think this is Oda's way of telling us he knew about Sabo the whole time since the introduction of Ace and goes to show us how great a writer he is. This also must mean Oda plans out his story very far in advance and knows where it will be going as an overall story. Or of course he could just be retconning it to fit what he has just not written. Maybe we will never know, but to me it just reassures me of Oda's great story telling ability. This is why his story continues to amaze and delight us all , because he actually knows where he is going with it. Let me know what you think in the comments and such and feel free to pass this blog post around to anyone you feel who would be interested in such things.

ONE PIECE STRONG WORLD DOUBLE FEATURE

Watch my Chapter Zero review below first before you watch Strong World review.


Now check out One Piece Movie 10 Strong World Review .There are tons of spoilers if you have not seen the movie do not watch this review.





I hope you enjoy at least one if not both of these reviews. It's two for one this week because it is a tie in episode . Let me know what you think in the comments here or on the youtube video. Thanks for your viewership and such. Hopefully these can ease your hearts since there was no new One Piece chapter this week.