Roger's Adventures at the 2015 Emerald/Sakura-con-bo

It's that time of year again.

Sorry this took so long gents. A while ago, I had a long two weekends at back to back conventions both taking place in Seattle. But I'm finally ready to tell you all about it. So lets get to it.

From March 27-29, we had Emerald City Comic Con. Personally, I'm pretty new to the convention scene, only starting to go to them last year. So far this is easily the biggest convention I've been to yet. A huge attendance, tons of comic writers and artists, fan art, panels, and tons of big name celebrities. Just to name a few of the people I got to met briefly: Janet Varney (voice of Avatar Korra), Steve Blum (voice of Amon, Mugen, Leron, and everyone else) Huberto Ramos (Amazing Spider-Man artist) Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer of Captain Marvel, which Marvel will be making a movie of some day), Anthony Mackie (Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier), Kevin Eastman (creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and the grandfather of comics himself, Stan Lee, and yes I did fork over the $70.00 to get his autograph.

But to bring this back to One Piece, I suppose there's only one name worth mentioning...

Manga: Chapter 760 (SPOILERS!)

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Manga: Chapter 750 (SPOILERS!)

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Adventures in Sakura-Con 2014 (With Roger)

Sakura-Con 2014: Where even the greatest rivalries can be suspended...for a while.

Hello everyone. Roger here, and I am finally back from Seattle, Washington. What a weekend! For starters, yes this was my very first anime convention, and not only did I live to tell the tale, I may have just established a new yearly tradition for myself. I met a ton of new and awesome people, ran into a few acquaintances, and hey, who doesn't enjoy being in a crowded convention center surrounded by thousands of others who share your passion. So without further ado...

Manga: Chapter 744 (SPOILERS!)

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One Piece Theory 102 (With Roger): The Seventh Warlord Revelation

Yeah, way to be subtle about keeping a secret, Oda.

Manga: Chapter 735 (SPOILERS!)

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Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 502

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First Thoughts

What can I say? Wow. Yes, this episode pretty much Blew My Mind with amazing-ness. So much epic rolled into a canon-y mixture of excitement and evil…wow. Although I posted this late, I have to say it is Way better than not at all. I consider this a high honor to have worked on this episode in particular. So many glorious things revealed, and the suspense still just continued to rise and rise! Fantastic. What else is there to do? Go. Watch. This. Episode. And all of the ones following this one. It is an episode worthy of getting people hooked on the entire series, or one that totally renews one’s own faith in the series. Trust me: you will never regret this.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 503

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First Thoughts
I was so expecting tears when I went into this episode. You had the death of Sabo follow by his last words to his brother. How can a person not expect tears to happen.

This episode wasn't perfect though. There was one moment that made me wish to turn off my volume which I was close to doing. Overall the episode was everything I expected when it came to covering the material at the same time was able to add more to it.

Also Mikey is back to blogging. He shouldn't since he still has a convention report to do.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 501

This pretty much sums up the whole episode, in all of it's desperate glory. Only at OnePieceOfficial.com.

First Thoughts

This is an absolutely thrilling episode. The betrayal, the evil, the true muck of this kingdom…it is horrible beyond belief. The whole episode kept me on the edge of my seat, screaming, crying, wailing, exclaiming…it was all just too much for one school night, haha! The suspense, the horror, the corruption of the ruling nobles…all disgusting, and disgraceful. Not to even mention the surprise guest, who is indeed Amazing and astounding beyond words. I have not been this excited for a flashback episode in…well, a long time, haha! Exhilarating, and yet so horrifying, that such people can exist in the world, and what is worse, be in charge of a portion of it. It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think about how this was all going on. The sadness…the horror…it was just so much…especially Sabo’s final realization and admittance. That was the most impressive thing so far this whole flashback arc. Amazing.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 499 *Late*

“Luffy could have been eaten…by Lions, or Tigers, or Bears, oh my!” Oh wait, there were no Lions here. Silly Sabo.  OnePieceOfficial.com: Be there.

First Thoughts

Well, I have to start off by saying that I was really unsure how this episode would turn out. After all, I do not know yet how long this Arc is going to be, so I don’t know when to expect the end of it. I Do, however, know the basis of how it ends (which is unfortunate), so I figured this was not the end. I liked the teamwork developing more between the boys, but also think it is really interesting to watch how much skill Luffy is going to have learned at this age. The overall premise of the episode was cool and all, but I am looking forward to next week’s episode and getting back to the main focus, although this episode certainly had its foreshadowing moments which worry me considerably for the boys’ fate…

And for the sake of time and all purposes today, I will ignore the issue that this post is Almost 3 weeks late due to a need to just get this up and done with...

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 500

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Thoughts
Well here we are. At big episode 500. Nothing super special but except that we finally return canon. Kind of strange to say that we are back to canon after having a few filler episodes. Then again this has been an amazing well done flashback so far. The anime has once again taken the material that Oda has provided and animated it nicely.

Along with coming back to canon we also see many creepy and disgusting people that came from within the mind of Oda. It is episodes like these where I wonder if Oda is trying to make a statement about society in his 'simple' boys manga.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 497

This is the Boss (Mikey)’s face when my Post is late again…and also when he’s just fallen down a pit I dug. See why the Boss of the mountain bandits is like this at OnePieceOfficial.com today!

First Thoughts

So, I am thinking, “Hey, when am I going to be able to see this episode? Another one is already out, and I want to see the end of this Flashback Arc!” I start watching, and BAMP: it makes me excited once more. The beginning of the episode is much too fun and cute for its own good, cute little kids acting silly, and annoying the bandits to hysterics. This episode is WAY to adorable and funny for its own good!

Seriously though, too much happiness is always making up for some horrific event happening later, or soon…which is really, really bad in this Past Arc…aw…

*Warning: Authoress apologizes for shamelessly abusing old people by using a reference, even when said people (Dadan) aren’t all that old and said apologizer is totally not apologetic. Yes, I am terrible, you can yell at me now. *grins*

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 498

I don't watch filler often but when I do it is on OnePieceOfficial.com

First Thoughts
Meh....To tell the truth we get filler a lot via other animes we saw and though Marineford.  So I guess the above statement is a bit of a lie. Still as mention before not all filler is bad since it kind of help fill in the cracks that Oda left behind.

I figure we would get some filler episodes but I was kind of hoping that I will not work on said episodes but I guess I was wrong. At least this week's episode had cooler manga contend then this week's. The episode mostly seems interesting and surely somebody at Toei is milking young Luffy for all that he is worth. haha

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 496

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First Thoughts 
There are a lot of scary things in One Piece. Some of those things include villains who have horrifying powers while others include beasts that have fangs that can rip your stomach out. Still this episode of One Piece had maybe one of the most horrifying this that will ever grace the pages of this series.

Sabo's mother.

Did you see her face? It was freaking creepy. The worse part was that we got a close up and personal view of her face which made it even scarier. There are just somethings that shouldn't get a close up and personal look and the face of Sabo's mother is one of them.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 494

Be happy, it is a Chibi-Luffy! Only at OnePieceOfficial.com do you get such touching flashback-arcs and cuteness of little kids. Aw.

First Thoughts

Sora here, on time - who’d have thought? - and extremely excited to see this new opening! Gods, this opening was amazing! It absolutely blew the last two openings right out of the (proverbial) waters with the music, animation, and presentation of events. I love the part when Ace pushes Luffy towards the straw hat; it is portrayed really well in the suddenly zooming-out manner. Otherwise, this episode was

Oh, and whatever happened to episode 492? Did they just decide that that particular episode was bad, or did one of the animators find great offence in the number 492 randomly? We shall (probably) never know…

Manga: Chapter 588 (SPOILERS!)

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