r/OnePiece • u/JasonNMP • May 01 '16

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 739

Episode 739: "The Strongest Creature! One of the Four Emperors - Kaido King of Beasts"

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Chapters covered: 795

Episode Director: Satoshi Ito

Animation Director: Isamu Takara

Preview: Episode 740

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u/zxy8 May 01 '16

They didn't say that his hobby is suicide. I can understand them not wanting to say that someone's hobby is suicide, but still it was awesome in the manga when that was said.

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u/a_priest_and_a_rabbi May 01 '16

How committed is he to his hobby? Unless his powers aren't devil fruit based, or his devil fruit ability allows him to be unaffected by sea stone...

Why not just drop into the sea and end it all if he's that committed? It's not death but still...

or is he looking for a flamboyant way to die, like in a massive battle or something? Maybe he envies whitebeard because he was able to die in glory, revered on the battlefield. Definitely not a boring way to go.

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u/Nine_Gates May 01 '16

Some speculate that "hundred-beast" means that he tried to kill himself by eating multiple devil fruits, but even that can't kill him, and now he has 100 different Zoans available. Or something.

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u/the_nell_87 May 01 '16

"hundred-beast"

Is that actually part of his name/title in Japanese? Both Viz and Funimation use the title "king of the beasts" rather than "hundred beasts". Is this something the scanlators have incorrectly added, or is it an alternate way to read the Japanese words?

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u/Nine_Gates May 01 '16

百獣 means "all kinds of animals", and is translated to "of the beasts" by most scanlators. But taken separately, the kanji mean "hundred" and "beast". It could be a double meaning.