So the story of the next 2 episodes come entirely from the various cover stories (one page, single panel spreads that are on the front page of the One Piece manga). Cover stories are told at the pace of 1 panel per manga chapter. These 2 episodes are all of those cover stories combined into one. These cover stories are 100% cannon and will have a direct affect on the One Piece world, they absolutely should not be skipped. Just like the Buggy cover story episodes that happened back in the East Blue. In those episodes we see how Buggy gets back to his crew and teams up with Alvida. Something that comes into play once we arrive at Loguetown, as we now know how he got there and why him and Alvida have teamed up. I always wonder if the people that insist episodes like this and the Buggy episodes actually read the manga. If they did, or if they did at least a tiny amount of research on the One Piece wiki, they would know that these cover story episodes are indeed cannon. All that to say that these 2 episodes are NOT filler, this is cannon material. Just that some people think that because it was on the cover of the manga chapter, and not in between the pages of it, that it is not cannon. So yeah, ages are definitely hard to gauge in this show due to Oda's art style. Helmeppo is 20 Koby is 16 Agree on the Live Action Helmeppo. The dude did such an amazing job. Captured the evil Helmeppo and nailed the gradual change in Helmeppo's ideals and goals. The Morgan hypnotism thought def has merit. I personally would guess that it was more so already in Morgan to abuse the power he was given, but him thinking that he actually took down Kuro surely played a part in inflating that ego and pushing him off the deep end. so maybe like 60% him and 40% in the push from Jango's hypnotism, maybe 70/30, that's my guess. I don't think they specified that Navy HQ was on the Grand Line or not at this point, i don't think they had. Great vid as always!
@@Atowncougars Thank you so much for the explanation! I remember the cover art info about Buggy that's so cool this is essentially a series of manga cover arts pieces together into the full story of their training. I love and respect Oda's writing so much! This makes a lot of sense! Thank you so much for your continued support and kind and helpful comments! I'm afraid of googling for more details on anything without spoiling myself unnecessarily.
So the story of the next 2 episodes come entirely from the various cover stories (one page, single panel spreads that are on the front page of the One Piece manga). Cover stories are told at the pace of 1 panel per manga chapter. These 2 episodes are all of those cover stories combined into one.
These cover stories are 100% cannon and will have a direct affect on the One Piece world, they absolutely should not be skipped. Just like the Buggy cover story episodes that happened back in the East Blue. In those episodes we see how Buggy gets back to his crew and teams up with Alvida. Something that comes into play once we arrive at Loguetown, as we now know how he got there and why him and Alvida have teamed up. I always wonder if the people that insist episodes like this and the Buggy episodes actually read the manga. If they did, or if they did at least a tiny amount of research on the One Piece wiki, they would know that these cover story episodes are indeed cannon.
All that to say that these 2 episodes are NOT filler, this is cannon material. Just that some people think that because it was on the cover of the manga chapter, and not in between the pages of it, that it is not cannon.
So yeah, ages are definitely hard to gauge in this show due to Oda's art style.
Helmeppo is 20
Koby is 16
Agree on the Live Action Helmeppo. The dude did such an amazing job. Captured the evil Helmeppo and nailed the gradual change in Helmeppo's ideals and goals.
The Morgan hypnotism thought def has merit. I personally would guess that it was more so already in Morgan to abuse the power he was given, but him thinking that he actually took down Kuro surely played a part in inflating that ego and pushing him off the deep end. so maybe like 60% him and 40% in the push from Jango's hypnotism, maybe 70/30, that's my guess.
I don't think they specified that Navy HQ was on the Grand Line or not at this point, i don't think they had.
Great vid as always!
@@Atowncougars Thank you so much for the explanation! I remember the cover art info about Buggy that's so cool this is essentially a series of manga cover arts pieces together into the full story of their training. I love and respect Oda's writing so much! This makes a lot of sense! Thank you so much for your continued support and kind and helpful comments! I'm afraid of googling for more details on anything without spoiling myself unnecessarily.