Himuro,
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Luffy vs. Lucci, easily. It had SERIOUS HARDCORE, plus Lucci is just such a freaky killin' machine that you couldn't help but root for Luffy. Plus, I just loved the red herring LUFFY HALF-ISSUE GEAR 3 VICTORY? that turned into a panicked battle across ships as the bridge was collapsing for the rest of the Straw Hats. Also, Luffy shrinking from Gear 3 and Lucci hunting him down was LOLZ.
I also liked the Lucci fight because Lucci seemed mortal and not a seemingly impervious Logia superbeing like Crocodile and Enel -- Luffy's Gear 2 and Gear 3 strikes clearly hurt the fuck out of him despite his weird tekkai restoration shit. He and Luffy just traded their best attacks like motherfuckers and at the end, only Luffy was standing (sorta). TWO MARTIAL ARTISTS DUDES KICKIN' EACH OTHER'S ASSES. :punch :punch :punch
The full-page scenes were awesome -- Lucci's Six Kings Shigen combos from his rokushiki shit had pretty much perfect execution in terms of the sense of the dynamic. I was just in awe over how he laid out those spreads. NO-ONE DRAWS ACTION LIKE EICHIRO ODA. :punch NO-ONE. I'm a total Oda fanboi, though :heart
:-[ and they saved Robin :-[
Zoro versus Kaku was good, and I liked that Oda went for comedy in a Zoro fight this time instead of LOLZ MISTER BUSHIDO SERIOUS. Sanji versus Jyabura was great, too, 'cuz poor Sanji had been getting his ass beat so bad on the train and when he ran into Califa.
FRANKIE :heart
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When Zoro did the 6 arms move I literally cheered. That was AWESOME. What a great fight.
What's great about One Piece is that unlike other shonen anime/manga, you don't have to worry about the characters training and bullshit. They simply grow powerful as time goes on with each new experience, making little dead time.
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Oh, and how the impacts from Luffy's Gear 2 "Jet" Gatling Gun scarred the symbol for the crooked World Government into Lucci's chest. LULZ.
Robin breaking Spandam's neck was cold, but oh-so-deserved. :punch
Yeah, the characters seem to logically develop -- well, logical inasmuch as an anime where they feed devil fruit to inanimate objects needs to rely on "logic" -- and they never magically get abilities 'cuz they "trained". Luffy said he had some ideas about how to get better after he fought Crocodile, and his Gear 2/3 powers are clever extrapolations of his rubberman abilities -- and they have appropriate consequences for their use. Zoro knew he was fighting an opponent that outmatched him in terms of, well, weapon count, so he sped himself up so that he had the illusion of more strikes. Nami's Clima-Tact seems a bit too convenient, though. :/
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Usopp saving Robin was awesome. Usopp almost always give me the series' finest moments. I didn't expect that at all!
Nami's weapon is pretty cool, but her fights are always the most boring to me.