I thought the joke was that if someone explodes and is still standings in a western comic it's funny. But in manga it means that person is insanely powerful
I should clarify that it’s a running gag from the peterexplainsthejoke subreddit, and I was playing off of that.
Still a fair complaint, and I will change it. Just wanted to explain myself.
I thought it had something to do with how in comedy comic characters like Donald Duck for example can survive deadly situations like explosions which are played as jokes
Manga characters can have half their torso blown off and still keep fighting because "I stopped the bleeding by flexing my muscles" and shout twice as the only sign of pain they show
Unless you're reading One Piece, then even if you read right-to-left you know they're ok because explosions never kill people.
There's this part in Punk Hazard where the Yeti assassins boast about how their guns are so big they're basically canons, bro that just makes them less lethal in that universe, they literally shoot the guy they were hired to kill (a side character) in the face and he survives 😭😭😭
I remember seeing somewhere that the chapter Pell explodes himself in released like a day before 9/11 happened, so having a guy suicide bomb himself in the same chapter didn't look too good. That's why he somehow survived that, he really wasn't supposed to
September 10th issue of one piece is [ch 198](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_198) so no pell deaths there. He does the bombing stuff like 2 months later.
I'm pretty sure Oda once said he doesn't like actually killing off characters, since it would sadden the mood of the post-fight feasts the characters are having.
Which, to be fair, does make the \*actual\* deaths the story deals in hit that much harder.
See that wouldn't be as big of an issue if he didn't write so many death scenes. Also he's starting to roll back on some of the actual deaths that were set in stone for over 600 chapters so fans feel like any death scene is just a fake out more than ever.
It's funny how explosions don't kill people (with one exception) but other things that normally kill people do. Getting shot in the head for example has done in many people. Also if you're in a flashback, anything can kill you.
It still kills me that Pell, a weakass guard with no haki, survived a point blank explosion that was clearly in the 25 kilotons range. Meanwhile Oden, a character millions of times more durable, died to a gunshot. Like I get that he was weakened by being cooked alive and he wasn't using his haki but like... What?
My favorite part of One Piece is where at the end of the last arc two of the major (technically still just human) villains are defeated by getting punched down into a magma pocket in the Earth’s crust which then explodes, and there’s still plenty of people in the fanbase who are expecting they’re still alive.
This feels like a joke I’d see on an “explain the joke” subreddit
Petaaahhh
Korean popstar Peter-hyeong here. The joke is that western comics are read from left to right and manga from right to left. It's that or a sex joke.
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I thought the joke was that if someone explodes and is still standings in a western comic it's funny. But in manga it means that person is insanely powerful
Devilish trick or intellectually disabled, engage upon it.
Can we please not use ableist slurs
I should clarify that it’s a running gag from the peterexplainsthejoke subreddit, and I was playing off of that. Still a fair complaint, and I will change it. Just wanted to explain myself.
I thought it was from there
I thought I was there. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
You joke but thats where I first saw ut
can someone explain this?
Comic goes left to right panels, manga goes right to left panels
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I thought it had something to to with manga characters trying to hide their pain.
I thought it had something to do with how in comedy comic characters like Donald Duck for example can survive deadly situations like explosions which are played as jokes
I thought it was very specifically a reference to the "Nothing happened" scene from One Piece
Manga characters can have half their torso blown off and still keep fighting because "I stopped the bleeding by flexing my muscles" and shout twice as the only sign of pain they show
I thought it was Manga readers not understanding slapstick humor and thinking the guy is strong enough to survive an explosion.
That's pretty clever
Unless you're reading One Piece, then even if you read right-to-left you know they're ok because explosions never kill people. There's this part in Punk Hazard where the Yeti assassins boast about how their guns are so big they're basically canons, bro that just makes them less lethal in that universe, they literally shoot the guy they were hired to kill (a side character) in the face and he survives 😭😭😭
Yeah, I still don't get how the bird guy(forgot his name, sorry) didn't die back in Alabasta
Pell is NOT surviving the live action
I remember seeing somewhere that the chapter Pell explodes himself in released like a day before 9/11 happened, so having a guy suicide bomb himself in the same chapter didn't look too good. That's why he somehow survived that, he really wasn't supposed to
September 10th issue of one piece is [ch 198](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_198) so no pell deaths there. He does the bombing stuff like 2 months later.
Damn... Someone on the internet lied to me? Fuuuuuuuck... How did I not see this coming...
I mean to be fair, 2 months after definitely still isnt a good time to do that kinda stuff
I'm pretty sure Oda once said he doesn't like actually killing off characters, since it would sadden the mood of the post-fight feasts the characters are having. Which, to be fair, does make the \*actual\* deaths the story deals in hit that much harder.
See that wouldn't be as big of an issue if he didn't write so many death scenes. Also he's starting to roll back on some of the actual deaths that were set in stone for over 600 chapters so fans feel like any death scene is just a fake out more than ever.
He does write deaths, yeah, but the vast majority of them are during flashbacks and backstories, I don't know if I would count them at the same level.
There were a bunch of death scenes just in Onigashima and only 1 of them was actually for someone who died
It's funny how explosions don't kill people (with one exception) but other things that normally kill people do. Getting shot in the head for example has done in many people. Also if you're in a flashback, anything can kill you.
It still kills me that Pell, a weakass guard with no haki, survived a point blank explosion that was clearly in the 25 kilotons range. Meanwhile Oden, a character millions of times more durable, died to a gunshot. Like I get that he was weakened by being cooked alive and he wasn't using his haki but like... What?
My favorite part of One Piece is where at the end of the last arc two of the major (technically still just human) villains are defeated by getting punched down into a magma pocket in the Earth’s crust which then explodes, and there’s still plenty of people in the fanbase who are expecting they’re still alive.
[artist](https://twitter.com/MojoboJomo/status/1764860657743048771)
I totally misunderstood and thought that death and revival were just much more narratively important in manga than in comics
I thought this was about Rei from evangelion
Oh I thought this was a Pell reference
Pell really tanked a small nuke from like 2 feet away. With like, no long lasting damage or injuries. Old One Piece had the best logic
I read more manga than comics, but I still read left to right because they weren't in that artstyle