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2024.05.17 21:12 AdmiralMizufugu Promotional merch isn't reliable for powerscaling

“The author said” “No, he didn’t” “Yes, he did” “NO, HE DIDN’T” “YES, HE DID”
We’ve all read the age-old debate more times than we would honestly like to. That one debate so pervasive, so long-standing that it transcends the borders across series and generations. As long as fictional media exists, it will do so as well
A topic so extensive that no singular dialogue is likely to ever cover every single argument available in either side’s arsenal, dooming the discourse to be started from scratch all over again without a verdict in sight
Are third-party sources reliable for drawing conclusions about the source material?
In a broader sense, nobody on earth has the catch-all answer to that question, as its true answer is variable on a case by case basis. In the particular case of the One Piece manga series, we will attempt to answer that question here and now
If you find reading from Google Docs more comfortable, you can do it here, which would be my recommendation due to formatting and the possibility of future updating, since this format of Reddit posts can’t be edited
In this post we will aim to holistically examine the role of promotional merchandise in One Piece powerscaling, seeking to grasp the big picture of the subject as well as delving into the more technical and detailed points, while also dabbling in various adjacent topics relevant to the main conversation
It would be my preference to give individual credit to every soul who has contributed their stance in this discussion, whichever it may be, but really it was an innumerable number of posts and comments over the years that collectively helped me put together this behemoth of a write-up. So, to everyone who paved the way— thank you
Although there is some continuity and callbacks between sections, this is a long read so I don’t expect anyone to just sit through the whole thing in order. Feel free to see this post as more of an encyclopedia rather than an unbroken prose. Hopefully this or that individual section can be of relevance to you at some point or another
For easier browsing, here’s an index:

1- Reviewing promotional material claims

2- Defining reliability and promotional merchandise
A) Reliability
B) Promotional merchandise

3- Addressing the arguments for merch being reliable
A) Oda has mentioned merch in the SBS
B) Oda supervises Vivre Cards
C) There is an official website that corrects Vivre Cards

4- Is One Piece promotional merch reliable for powerscaling the manga?
A) Is it reliable?
B) Is promotional merch necessarily wrong?
C) Should merch be trusted “with a grain of salt” or “until proven otherwise”?
D) What sources of information are reliable for powerscaling the manga?

5- Greg, the One Piece live-action series official advisor
A) Who is Greg?
B) What can we learn from him?
C) What makes these insights trustworthy?

6- Conclusion

Without further ado, let’s begin!

1- Reviewing promotional material claims

As an appetizer, let’s first go over this post’s slides and take a look at a few claims that would be confirmedly true if promotional merchandise was reliable for powerscaling the One Piece manga
1- Jozu top 1 offense and defense confirmed. Also blocked the confirmed strongest slash in the verse
2- The confirmed strongest slash in the verse couldn’t scratch him, however, somehow Daifuku is totally capable of cutting Jozu’s diamond skin that “repels anything and everything”
3- The “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” with strength that is equal to her beauty
4- Apparently Mihawk > Whitebeard and Whitebeard > Mihawk are simultaneously true, with both men being confirmed to be the strongest man at the same time
5- Tamago kicks > Kizaru kicks confirmed
6- Ben Beckman confirmed to have intimidated Kizaru in four different sources with release dates ranging from 2012 to 2022
7- Don Chinjao, the 500.000 million berry one-shot fodder, is confirmed to have rivaled Gol D. Roger
8- Marco, who has been effectively damaged after running out of stamina is confirmed to be capable of regenerating no matter how many times he’s attacked
9- Sentomaru is confirmed to be an “impregnable” guard
10- Apparently who is stronger between Wano Zoro and Cavendish is a legit question worth asking, and a rivalry between them is something that Oda wants us to seriously consider
11- Whitebeard, who has pronounced his disinterest on more than one occasion, is confirmed to have contended for the title of Pirate King
12- Old Big Mom from Wano confirmed to be stronger than prime Shanks
13- The Egghead Incident and the fate of Luffy and his crew confirmed by the editors to be addressed in Chapter 1099, which ended up being an entirely Kuma-centric flashback chapter
14- Vista is confirmed to be capable of overwhelming and cutting down any opponent no matter who they may be
15- Speed Jiru, a background WB commander with no relevance, no feats and no hype in the manga is confirmed to be faster than YC1 Marco and Yonko Oldbeard
16- Katakuri confirmed to be literally flawless both offensively and defensively and yet lost a fight to someone who is multiple tiers below the strongest characters in the verse
17- Katakuri > Big Mom confirmed
18- Doflamingo confirmed to be the toughest enemy Luffy’s ever met, after having met Magellan, Blackbeard and the Admirals
19- We’ll come back to the last couple slides later on
And we are up to a rocky start. These takes certainly don’t inspire much confidence, if any. This section alone already speaks volumes about how credible third-party products really are, simply by observing the claims made by promotional merch directly from the source and without the need for additional reasoning
Take into consideration— this is only a fraction of the amount of absurd or contradicting statements that can be found in promotional merch. If you take some time to go through the translations of any source of merch, you’ll come to find that these types of claims are par for the course

2- Defining reliability and promotional merchandise

A) Reliability

Before diving deeply into the credibility of databooks and other promotional merch, let’s first establish what does it mean for something to be reliable, and what material can actually be qualified as such
We will use the word “reliable” instead of the word “canon” because the latter is a fan concept that has never been used by the author and thus can lend itself to unnecessary misunderstandings and disagreements, muddling the discussion. The word reliable is, redundant as it sounds, a much more reliable and fitting term for our objectives, and will enable us to all be on the same page moving forward
A.1) What is reliability?

Reliable: “Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way you expect”
Source: Cambridge Dictionary
Reliable: “Of a person, information, etc.: able to be trusted; in which reliance or confidence may be placed; trustworthy, safe, sure.” Reliable: “Of a product, service, etc.: consistently good in quality or performance; dependable.”
Source: Oxford English Dictionary

As we can see, none of the definitions above are anywhere close to being synonyms of the words “Official” or “Supervised”. A product can be both official and supervised by the author while also not providing reliable information. This is true when it comes to information of any type about any series in general, and it’s also true when it comes to information concerning One Piece powerscaling specifically

Reliable ≠ Official
Reliable ≠ Supervised
Reliable = Trustworthy, Safe, Dependable (for a particular purpose)

First-hand content from Oda directly about the manga — like the SBS — is already a given when it comes to reliability, of course, but what about everything else? Following the definitions we just established, how do we define a product that is “reliable” for accurately powerscaling the One Piece manga?
To that end, it would have to be a product that we can empirically prove “can be trusted because it behaves well” (behaves well for a purpose, in this case powerscaling the manga), or that we can empirically prove is “consistently good in performance” (in this case a good performance means providing accurate powerscaling for the manga)
In other words;

A third-party product is only reliable for powerscaling the manga effectively when it can be empirically proven that the information it provides translates to accurate estimations of the real abilities and real scaling of characters in the actual manga

A.2) How do we apply these concepts?
When evaluating any particular source, an useful approach that allows us to put things into perspective is to just ask three simple questions. Is the source official? Is it approved or supervised by the author? Is it reliable for powerscaling the manga? We’ll see that a positive response to the first two questions does not imply a positive response to the last question
Oda took part in One Piece Film: Strong World, in which pre-timeskip Luffy beats old Shiki 1. Is Strong World official? Yes, it’s not fanmade, this was 100% an official project from Toei and Shueisha 2. Is it supervised by Oda? Yes, he even had a hand in writing the story himself. Nothing made it into the film without his own foreknowledge and compliance 3. Is it reliable for powerscaling the manga? Hell no. Post Thriller Bark Luffy with no training, no Haki, no Gear 4, no awakening is not beating an old legend no matter how you spin it
We didn’t have to dig deep at all to find a suitable example. Information from a perfectly official source with Oda’s very own supervision and shiny stamp of approval can be unreliable for powerscaling the manga. The same can be said for a myriad of other sources with information that had Oda’s supervision or his personal approval
Novels, shows, games, films, magazines— I’m sure there are plenty of examples you can come up with of One Piece products that are official and fully supported by the author while also not being reliable for powerscaling the manga effectively

B) Merchandise

B.1) What is merchandise?
Crudely, merchandise is defined as “goods to be bought and sold”. However, in the distinct context of the anime and manga industry that is relevant to the subject we are discussing, the more appropriate definition would be:

branded products used to promote a film, pop group, etc., or linked to a fictional character; merchandising”
Source for both definitions: Oxford Languages

Going by its definition, merchandise refers to branded products used to promote. The role of merchandise is not to give an accurate depiction of manga characters and events, but to make sales, create hype and get more people invested in the source material and buying other official products. In essence, it exists to promote the brand and cash in on its popularity
The landscape of merchandise includes an incredibly vast assortment of products (and services or experiences) ranging from figurines to keychains to apparel to concerts to theme parks to fanbooks. In this post we will, of course, be dealing specifically with the latter. Currently, all existing arguments vouching for the reliability of a particular medium specifically concern databooks and — especially — Vivre Cards, while there are no notable arguments for magazines and other forms of media being reliable to powerscale the actual manga. Consequently, when mentioning merch from now on we will mostly be referring to databooks and Vivre Cards— which also happen to be the most prominent source for merch scaling by far
B.2) What are Vivre Cards?
For those who may not know, Vivre Cards are official two-page character outlines about One Piece characters— to give a few examples; the Vivre Cards of Blackbeard, Kin'emon and Marco. These cards are sold separately in many different packs/sets and meant to be progressively collected in the “Vivre Card ~One Piece Illustrated Encyclopedia~” databook, which is an initially empty binder book designed to store these collectible cards. Basically, it’s like a One Piece version of those popular World Cup collection albums
In the “Profile” page of a card we can find a profile with miscellaneous information about the character, including completely original details not found in the manga (depending on the character), like their age or bounty. On the “Essence” page of a card we will find character-relevant panels ripped straight from the manga, each accompanied with a paragraph of text describing it, much like you would find in an online wiki page. This text is popularly referred to as “flavor text”, which is roughly a synonym for fluff or filler text. Most of the examples of the images above come from Vivre Card flavor text
Contrary to popular belief, Vivre Cards are not written by Oda, his editors, or even anyone within the Shueisha company or its affiliates, despite Oda’s name being on the cover of card packs (including credit to the author of the source material is standard practice for derivative material, in and outside of the manga and anime industry). While Oda does provide his supervision plus some original character details and sketches, Vivre Cards are, in fact, outsourced to a book production company called Caramel Mama (キャラメル・ママ), which is in charge of the creation and publishing of the card packs
Any information about the specifics of Caramel Mama’s services and work history can be found in close detail on their website. They are specialized in the elaboration of manga and anime promotional merchandise, so you may already be familiar with some of their products from other series
Artur from the Library of Ohara, the most well-known Vivre Card translator in the One Piece community (you’ve likely seen his translations before), has his own explanation about Vivre Cards, which can serve as a compliment to this post for anyone interested. You can also find here his translations of the first batch of Vivre Cards, in which he describes in detail the anatomy of the cards and breaks down the information they contain
B.3) What are databooks?
Databooks (also known as fanbooks) are a number of books which contain a wide array of information about the story, world and characters of One Piece. This group includes the prominent collection of the 5 color-themed databooks as well as other separate individual booklets like Volume Stampede, for example. As of now, no sources claim Oda personally writes or even supervises databooks, although he does provide tidbits of original info and sketches, just as he does with Vivre Cards (we will go over this in-depth later on)
Unlike Vivre Cards, which have very specific and standardized formats and topics, databook content has great variety in format and subject matter, including sections like interviews, games, gag strips, concept art, behind-the-scenes info, etc. Here is an excerpt from databook One Piece Green: Secret Spices, which gives us a peek at what the content of a more typical section of a databook looks like. As we can see, it’s composed of flavor text highlighting characters and recapping manga events, containing no original information
Let’s use the Road to Laugh Tale booklet to check out a couple of very popular claims which serve as opportune examples of how databooks operate. Rocks straight up confirmed to be stronger than Primebeard? An skewed reference to Sengoku stating in the manga that he was perhaps Roger’s greatest foe (Ch. 957). Shanks being too much for the Gorosei to handle? Again, an exaggerated reference to the Gorosei’s comments in the manga (Ch. 233)
When it comes to powerscaling claims, taking manga events and statements and paraphrasing them in a severely embellished manner is the standard methodology of databooks, every bit as much as it is for other sources of flavor text

3- Addressing the arguments for merch being reliable

As of now there are three prevalent arguments vouching for the validity of promotional merch, which we will be thoroughly addressing one by one in this section. As mentioned before, databooks and Vivre Cards are the only formats with arguments to fall back on, so those are the two sources we will be chiefly referring to in regard to merch

A) Oda has mentioned merch in the SBS

One of the two most common arguments cites Oda referencing on more than one occasion exclusive material provided by himself for databooks, as well as describing Vivre Cards as being for “readers who want to know everything”. What do these author comments tell us about the reliability of promotional merch to powerscale the manga? Let’s find out
A.1) Reviewing the SBS statements
First, let’s check out every one of these instances and all additions Oda claims to have provided for merch in his SBS answers: * • SBS 293: Oda shares sketches of a pair of gag characters he mentioned in fanbook One Piece: Blue * • SBS 451: Oda references descriptions he provided of a few devil fruits belonging to marines for fanbook One Piece: Yellow * • SBS 695: Oda brings up a name he provided of a background Whitebeard fleet pirate for fanbook One Piece: Green * • SBS 914: Oda names Galette’s devil fruit and says that SBS and Vivre Cards are for “people who really want to know everything” * ○ Note: the Viz version mistranslated “ONE PIECE図鑑もありますので” as just “bonus materials” instead of “ONE PIECE Illustrated Encyclopedia” (which is specifically the name of the Vivre Card binder book, as mentioned earlier) * • SBS 982: Oda addresses the name of a Roger pirate according to fanbook One Piece: Blue Deep differing from his name in the manga, by urging to call him whatever or just not bother with his name at all * • SBS 997: Oda discloses trivia about Jinbe and mentions that Jinbe’s favorite foods were already revealed in his Vivre Card * • Vol. 108 SBS: More recently, Oda also referenced a name he provided of Roger’s sword for his Vivre Card
Now, what do all of these additions from Oda have in common? 1. They are NOT about powerscaling 2. They are NOT related to flavor text or retellings/summaries of the manga in any way, shape or form 3. They are completely original worldbuilding tidbits (character names, weapon names, fruit names)
Without fail, every single thing Oda comments about is a piece of trivia or original knowledge that he provided for external sources, and not one of his comments even tangentially references the endless paragraphs of hyperbolic flavor text that are published in them
Based on the examples he himself puts forward in his SBS comments, we can see that by “know everything,” Oda is alluding to niche knowledge like design sketches, character names, devil fruit names— all entirely original content that he actually needs to come up with on his own. Unlike flavor text, none of these things are subjective reinterpretations of already published panels that anyone could just see for themselves in the manga volumes
There is no explicit or implicit indication to be found here of Oda writing or supervising merch flavor text, or of any personal participation beyond the names and sketches he provides. The argument “Oda has brought up databooks in the SBS” may sound sensible at first glance, however, when we take the time to actually look into these SBS comments and what they are communicating, we will find that there’s hardly any evidence at all supporting the reliability of flavor text for powerscaling the manga
In short, what Oda himself is personally contributing and sharing with us through databooks and other merch is not the recycled flavor text, but just the previously unheard of tidbits of info that are meant to enrich the worldbuilding and carry no major implications in the manga
A.2) Oda’s philosophy on bonus materials
In order to shine a light on Oda’s personal stance on bonus material and non-manga sources, here are a few insightful quotes from the man himself:

“First and foremost, I am a manga artist. I don’t create anime, and that’s that. But I do help out with character design for original anime stories and movies based on my manga. I don’t really do much. So I have to entrust the world and characters of One Piece, which I created in the manga, to other people”
SBS 194
“Stuff that’s talked about in SBS really doesn’t need to be remembered for the main story. I don’t talk about certain things in the main story because I omitted them on purpose. I think that too much unnecessary information will only confuse the readers. So please enjoy the stuff in SBS strictly as an extra.”
SBS 569
“Not remembering their names won’t affect your ability to understand the story. If I don’t make a character’s name clear enough through the story, it’s not that important of a name to begin with”
SBS 730
“Because the motto of the SBS is “you’re not missing out if you don’t read it”!!”
SBS 846
“You’re right that there’s a lot of Devil Fruit powers here, but it would bog everything down to stop and explain them all, so my idea is, if it’s not central to the story, just breeze through and take it all in stride!”
SBS 914

Oda’s opinion on bonus materials expressed throughout his many comments can’t get much more clear-cut than this, and has remained perfectly consistent for over 20 years. The manga is the manga and everything else comes last. Oda is determined to include any and all even remotely relevant information directly in the manga, and when the series is 1000+ chapters, you know he’s not bluffing. If it’s not in the manga, it wasn’t important to begin with— his words, not mine
Not only has Oda made the claim, but he has also proved through his actions that he has no qualms about taking a hands-off approach on non-manga material and entrusting projects, especially merch, to other people. When he actually does get involved in something, you know that it will be relentlessly promoted and we won’t ever hear the end of it. Case in point: Oda’s involvement in the live-action series
Something that really stands out about these comments is that this is mostly the SBS that Oda is talking about, which actually happens to be a very reliable source written first-hand by the author himself. Even though it’s the most reliable source there is outside of the actual manga pages, Oda still insists on the SBS being an inconsequential source to the point of choosing to repeatedly reiterate how you can dismiss it entirely, as anything of importance will be revealed in the manga
If that’s the author’s take on his very own work that is published on the actual manga volumes themselves, then what does that suggest about third-party products like databooks and Vivre Cards, which aren’t even first-hand sources like the SBS is?
Anybody who has read the SBS corner can testify to how stubbornly unwilling Oda is to reveal anything powerscaling related in his SBS comments. If the man is adamant on not giving away straight answers on his own personally written corner published in the manga, then it firmly stands to reason that he did not — in a completely out of character manner — decide to just casually settle in some external source years ago all the age-old debates and biggest powerscaling enigmas that are still being built up in the manga to this day
Let’s put forth the questions we posed before, concerning this specific argument: * • Is merch official? Yes, it’s supported by Shueisha * • Is merch supervised by Oda? No mention of that whatsoever from these comments * • Is merch trivia reliable? Yes, something like character names or fruit names are open-and-shut cases directly provided by Oda and not up for interpretation * • Is merch flavor text reliable for powerscaling the manga? Nothing in Oda’s SBS comments even begins to suggest that Oda had a hand in the flavor text from merch or that their powerscaling claims conduce to effective estimations of the reality in the manga. On the contrary, we now know for a fact that Oda is actively averse to giving away that kind of information outside of the actual manga pages

B) Oda supervises Vivre Cards

The most prominent argument out there in favor of merch reliability comes from a statement from One Piece editor Naito in an interview concerning Vivre Cards, in which he states that the cards are supervised by Oda. It’s also mentioned that Oda contributes information, which will be addressed in the next point— for now, let us just focus on the elephant in the room, that being Oda supervising the Vivre Cards. Reading the full interview before proceeding is recommended
Original source of the interview with editor Naito
English translation (images are unavailable)
B.1) Author supervision
Oda allegedly checks out Vivre Cards, which inevitably raises the question: is Oda just giving a routine thumbs up simply as a formality, or is he actively correcting flavor text to make sure every word printed in them is accurate to the reality in the manga?
To begin unraveling this topic, let's follow our methodology once again, but this time in the context of Vivre Cards instead of databooks: 1. Are Vivre Cards official? Absolutely. Although published by Caramel Mama, a simple search will confirm they are supported by Shueisha 2. Are Vivre Cards supervised by Oda? The answer is yes, according to editor Naito 3. Are Vivre Cards reliable for powerscaling the manga? Now this is the part where the editor statement falls short
Let’s remember the definition of reliability and its criteria that we defined earlier

A third-party product is only reliable for powerscaling the manga effectively when it can be empirically proven that the information it provides translates to accurate estimations of the real abilities and real scaling of characters in the actual manga

This editor statement by itself fails to prove that Vivre Card flavor text claims translate to accurate estimations of the real abilities and real scaling of characters in the actual manga. As we’ve seen with many projects approved or supervised by Oda before, author endorsement does not automatically guarantee that the powerscaling involved will translate to actual manga accuracy. When it comes to manga powerscaling, this statement does not give promotional merch a better standing credibility-wise than the live-action series or the films, which also have the benefit of counting with author supervision
To conclusively prove reliability, the merch needs a successful track record and consistency with manga showings, which is a qualification that — as we all know from reading the actual thing with our own eyes — merch spectacularly fails to fulfill. This is all the more so true for Vivre Cards, which are the single biggest culprit out there when it comes to churning out ridiculous claims
On paper there may truthfully be a certain level of supervision in place, but when we look at the claims made by the Vivre Cards, it really is nigh-impossible to argue that there’s actually any back-and-forth between Oda and the third-party writers about flavor text powerscaling with rectifications being produced as a result
B.2) Editors and their role
In order to apply some very relevant perspective to this discussion, it’s useful to keep in mind at all times that Shueisha is a business and its editors are businessmen. Shueisha is a company whose foremost concern is to maximize value for its shareholders by securing sales and earning as much profit as possible through any means available, while its editors’ ultimate priority is none other than to turn the franchise they are in charge of into a money printer
It’s a common misconception that editors are primarily artists, when in reality their job is first and foremost to handle the business side of a franchise. Editors are marketers, supervisors, representatives, publicists, salesmen and managers, and every decision they make reflects those roles. Editors of huge franchises are very, very high up on the corporate ladder, and you simply don’t get that far up in the hierarchy without proving that your motivation and actions align with the interests of the company and the shareholders
This is how you end up with editors issuing blatant false promises like the Straw Hats supposedly showing up in Ch. 1099. They did not choose to publish that preview because it was the statement with the most accuracy — which ISN’T their objective — but rather because it was the statement that would generate the most sales— which actually IS their objective
While Oda himself doesn’t mind being open about his indifference towards bonus material (as we went over in a previous section), you are never ever going to hear an editor in an interview declare that “the author approved this thing but didn’t really look into it that much” or that “he supervised it but didn’t really provide any meaningful feedback”, because author involvement is their biggest selling point and that’s how the entire marketing machine behind it works
Career-wise, every editor is highly incentivized to overpromise and put out the kind of idealized claims and half-truths that we often see from them. The system hinges on them asserting “Oda approves this thing and he wants you to buy it”, and that is why you should never expect to hear otherwise. Author involvement will always be susceptible to be overstated, and in this case it’s an easily verifiable truth for anyone reading the bizarre, contradicting statements that databooks and Vivre Cards are publishing
B.3) Information added by Oda
Now, as determined earlier, it’s time to go back and take a closer look at the interview, regarding Oda “adding missing information” to the Vivre Cards. As it turns out, Oda actively contributing to merch exclusively by providing concept sketches and background details in particular is an assessment that is even supported by the editor himself
Firstly, when the editor elaborates on the information being added by Oda, the accompanying image used to describe it specifically points out the yellow box from the “Profile” page and nothing else, along with the caption “Oda sensei's handwritten additional instructions”. As stated in the second section of this post, this yellow box from the “Profile” page contains an assortment of completely original knowledge that, unlike flavor text, no one could possibly interpret from manga panels, like a character’s exact height or birthday
Does any of this ring a bell? It probably does, because — unsurprisingly, knowing Oda’s MO — this is the exact same situation we went over recently. What we’ve been told about Vivre Cards is perfectly consistent with the information that we already know is the kind that Oda actually prefers to contribute to bonus material, based on his own SBS comments about merch that we just checked out and that exclusively reference trivia
Secondly, this is then even further confirmed by the next question and answer in the interview right after the aforementioned image and, much more importantly, we are told that flavor text is not even supposed to contain new information. Translation provided by ChatGPT:

Katsuhei: Whoa~~~ Oda-sensei is serious. Are there any first-time revelations?
Naito: There's quite a lot, like blood type and birthplace! Also, they've published rough sketches of Oda-san's character designs. It's information disclosure pushing the boundaries, getting pretty close to the edge (laughs).

Editor Naito is directly asked if there’s any brand new content being revealed for the first time in Vivre Cards, to which his answer is that the brand new content is the trivia information like blood types and birthplaces and the sketches from Oda. This cannot be stressed enough. Once again the editor refers specifically to concept drawings and the yellow box trivia from the “Profile” page as the material provided by Oda himself, while the flavor text in the “Essence” page isn’t even part of the equation. He then goes on to add that even just the trivia and sketches is already pushing it in terms of giving away info
What we have here is an explicit clarification straight from the horse’s mouth. The statement from the editor is as blunt, clear and conclusive an answer as there could ever possibly be on the topic. Same as databooks, the only original content Oda provides to Vivre Cards are trivia and sketches. Flavor text, from the very beginning, plain and simply has never been meant to contain original information at all in the first place. Its sole purpose is to serve as filler for the collectible cards based on information that is directly compiled from the manga. Fundamentally, “Essence” pages are no different from the subjectively interpreted character articles you can find in the One Piece Wiki, except in a physical format instead
To sum up: Vivre Card flavor text can agree with the manga, but it can’t add on original information to the manga or clarify any ambiguity in the manga because its one and only source is actually just the manga itself— it is by design not supposed to contain any new information or insights that weren’t unequivocally in the manga already. Any disagreement with the manga or any claim that wasn’t previously explicitly confirmed in the manga is not to be considered a new piece of reliable information, but rather a personal exaggeration or interpretation derived from the writer of that card

C) There is an official website that corrects Vivre Cards

Lastly, the third and least recurring argument is based on an official website geared towards correcting mistakes that were caught in Vivre Cards after their printing. The logic behind the argument being this one: any of the powerscaling claims that haven’t gotten a correction yet are reliable, otherwise they would have already been addressed in the website by now
Original source
English translation
Just like the previous two arguments, this is another case of an idea that can sound really solid on the surface, but utterly crumbles when you actually look at the source for yourself and get the full picture. What this argument fails to mention is the fact that the website covers a very specific set of mistakes, and powerscaling claims in flavor text are simply not part of that group
The entire argument hangs on the assumption of there being a precedent for erroneous flavor text claims being corrected in the website, which would in turn mean that the claims that haven’t been corrected were ultimately considered accurate. Except, no such precedent exists in the first place. There is not one example of an erroneous powerscaling claim being corrected. The website deals with a narrow range of issues and has never dabbled into the subject of flavor text powerscaling, ever
Anyone is free to check the website for themselves and confirm it. You can read every single correction in the page from top to bottom and will find nothing but “fixed typo, fixed year, fixed name”. Even the page’s own description refers to itself as correcting “typographical errors”
So, is someone going to go back and update the list to add “My bad, Sentomaru isn’t actually an impregnable guard”? No, not at all. Nobody is showing up to take back statements that pertain to powerscaling, after hundreds and hundreds of Vivre Cards have already been published and there hasn’t been a single instance of a flavor text powerscaling claim being updated yet
If someone wrote that the Germa Kingdom is from the South Blue instead of the North Blue and corrected it, or wrote that the name of the Cocoyasi Village sheriff is Gen instead of Genzo and corrected it, does that somehow make it true that Katakuri is the strongest paramecia in his family and has flawless offense and defense? No— fixing trivial mistakes like a name or a number is something completely unrelated to flavor text powerscaling claims, and under no possible reasoning whatsoever does it prove their credibility
For the last time we make our questions, in the context of this argument: 1. Are Vivre Cards official? Yes, same as before 2. Are Vivre Cards supervised by Oda? No mention of Oda involvement from this website, but as we know from the editor interview earlier, the answer is still yes 3. Are Vivre Cards reliable for powerscaling the manga? Nothing about this website supports the notion of Vivre Cards being reliable for powerscaling the manga, especially when the particular cases that are handled by the website are completely removed from the area of flavor text powerscaling and doesn’t acknowledge it even once
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2024.05.17 03:35 Spiritual_Drama_6697 For those who use the Beckman Coulter Unicel DxC 800, what’s some common errors that happen and how do you fix them?

So I’m a very new tech and in school, we didn’t really learn much about chemistry analyzers. In the chemistry department at my hospital, we use the Beckman Coulter DxC 800 machines with Access 2 connected to them. I’ve yet to have to troubleshoot the machine myself and one of the techs was showing me how to change a glucose sensor today and I felt so overwhelmed.
She gave me the procedure on how to do it and had me try to figure out where the sensor was on the machine myself and i didn’t even know where to begin. When I look inside the machine, I feel so lost and I’m always so afraid to break something if I ever have to replace something. I tried to read the procedure on what to do but tbh, it all sounded so foreign trying to understand what it was talking about.
In a few weeks, I’ll be starting my shift by myself and I’ll be working mostly chemistry because the coworker I’ll be with doesn’t know how to do chemistry. As far as the basics of chemistry, I’m okay, but as far as troubleshooting and correcting errors, I have no idea what to do or where to begin. I know how to do like basic maintenance like put some cleaning fluid on, change reagents, and things of that nature. But idk what to do if an electrolyte is out of wack or how to change some probe or electrode or all those other things.
So I was wondering what common errors do you guys come across and how do you guys usually fix them? Like is it usually simply changing fluids/reagents and cleaning, or is it like having to change out parts of the machine?
I’ll be working weekends, so service won’t really be available either if I need something fixed.

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2024.05.15 12:19 GUMGUM404 URGENT/NEED HELP : Beckman Coulter AU480

TLDR : au480 fails to read reagent volume on random position each time i check , with no error declared , just gives the normal "no volume in the bottle"
working in oncology lab for about a year now , 20-50 test a day , au480 works fine except for few picky hiccups
this time for the last 20 days it's been failing to detect reagent levels for random position with no error message , somes times the same position and only read it after i change it , sometimes it reads the level when i run volum check again , so nothing to do with reagent position , i ran thourough cleaning , even changed the R-probe and the R-tube ... i've been told to check the electrical ground situation but i ran it on multiple conditions with a qualified electrician
help

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2024.05.13 03:44 KMS1011 2 year old bloodwork concerns

I recieved my child’s bloodwork back, and he has a very high level of Thyroglobulin by IMA°1. I have no idea what this is and his doctor didn’t seem concerned but when I looked it up I keep seeing conflicting responses.
For background, he’s a healthy average 2 year old with no prior medical history. Can anyone help explain why his Thyroglobulin by IMA°1 would be 33 and if this is normal?
His yearly blood work showed his TSH at 7.12 that’s why we even did this extra panel to make sure eveything was fine.

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2024.05.11 04:40 Strong_Tell499 Beckman Coulter Diagnostics is hiring Senior Software Engineer in Test US [C++ C# Java React]

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2024.05.10 21:14 Content_cacti Help!

Husband is now 5 months post orchiectomy and coming up on a follow up. He got these results today. Could anyone tell me overall if this is good or bad?

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2024.05.10 19:09 Mushy-Mango I don’t know what to do. MLS

I live in an area with minimal job opportunities related to Medical Laboratory Science, basically just two hospitals near me and the rest of the career opportunities are about 50-60 minutes away. I love my career field but hate the people I work with. I went from a fast paced laboratory to a small slow hospital. The less workers, the more petty drama. It gets tiring.
I tried to have the “I come to work and go home” attitude but I don’t want to create a toxic environment. I don’t care about making friendships at work with people who are petty about every little thing. Not sure what other career opportunities I could go for. Maybe remote (Beckman Coulter FSE?), go back to school (for what though), idk at this point lol I’m just ranting. Enjoy your day :)

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2024.05.10 06:10 Strong_Tell499 Beckman Coulter is hiring National Informatics Service Support Specialist [New York, NY]

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2024.05.09 17:01 samotsar 5 new zero tax jobs in tech in Saudi Arabia - 9 May

A selection of 5 new tech jobs

Job Position @ Company	Location
Senior Motion Graphics Designer @ Dentsu	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Computer Programmer @ The Coca-Cola Company	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
IT Manager @ Beckman Coulter Diagnostics	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
D&AI (Information Architecture) Partner Technical Specialist @ IBM	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Client Services Director @ NEOM	Neom, Saudi Arabia

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2024.05.09 10:33 Silent_Contest_2337 Please help me!!

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2024.05.07 21:34 BarberAccording Cool CYTO2024 Launches

In case you missed CYTO here is a short list of some new toys coming out which were either announced or launched at Cyto! In fact I think they were all announcements and no full on launches. Just the quick notes go dive around the websites if interested.
Nanocellect announces the Verlo image enhanced cell sorter. The images look great and it offers 9 Channel of fluorescence. Not too shabby! This can be a major disruptor. I like it. Images and flow just makes sense!
Beckman Coulter announces a modular add on device for existing Cytoflex instruments where light can be redirected into a new optical engine supplied with 88 detectors. I didnt see a prototype at the booth and the booth had about 47,000 reps in it so I just walked on.
Thermo Fisher announced a new spectral instrument, the Attune Zenith. The booth staff told me 6 laser 57 channels of both spectral and conventional. This might have been the most interesting one of them all for me anyway as we have 2 Attunes and would love a high color Attune. I just hope the software is stable so we can hit the ground running as our existing Attunes are quite stable.
Agilent announces a 5 laser spectral instrument with 73 detectors called the Opteon. It’s a bit bigger than I would have expected for only a 5 laser but still can fit on most benches. I’m not a spectral expert but seems like it would have been interesting if they could cram another laser in there with 73 detectors but heck, it’s wide enough.

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2024.05.04 23:00 Emergency_Donut_173 To RAI or not RAI…

I’m a month out from my completion surgery. Dec 2023, I had PT on the left side and they found a minimally invasive follicular carcinoma. I chose to do a completion even though my nodules had shrunk because I was tired of all my thyroid issues and anxiety. Well, I’m glad I did, because they found a small papillary carcinoma on the right.
So now, I don’t know what to do. My surgeon (ENT) and my endo both say RAI is something to consider, but they don’t have strong recommendations either way. My endo reviewed my labs and is upping my Levo dose to hopefully suppress my TSH more (it’s currently 1.31). But should I be concerned about that thyroglobulin number? My endo says it could be ok to watch & wait, and my surgeon said to potentially do a full body scan first. What would you do? I’m just starting to weigh pros & cons, so any thoughts are welcome.

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2024.05.03 20:19 78bobert My doc is very concerned about my PSA levels for my age (46). Talking about taking me off test all together. He also had me get off test for 3 weeks prior to this blood draw.

My doc is very concerned about my PSA levels for my age (46). Talking about taking me off test all together. He also had me get off test for 3 weeks prior to this blood draw.

Any way to lower PSA levels? I was on 200mg a week for 14 yrs kept my levels at 5-600. Tried a supplement called Prostate Formula on Amazon. Doesn’t seem to be working.

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2024.05.02 17:30 wewerecoolonce Looking for advice from the TRT veterans out there

Wondering what some of you veteran TRT/PED Users think. I’m 42, this is my first set of Bloods at 4 months. Im fit, eat decent enough although I’m not a sadist with my diet..work out daily, stay pretty lean but definitely have room for improvement. My regimen is as follows:
1st month they put me on 210mg Test C a week…pinning daily. Within a couple of days all my low T symptoms disappeared and I felt amazing..by week 3 I could definitely tell my BP was up so started checking daily and sure as shit I went from pre trt 125/80 to consistent 140’s/90’s…didn’t do bloods but knew my hematocrit was probably through the roof. No high E2 symptoms just BP issues. Dropped my dosage to 110mg a week, still pinning daily, noticed within about a month I started feeling better so checked BP and now I’m down in the 125-130’s/mid 80’s pretty consistently. Still higher than I’d like but an improvement. Let myself do 3 full months on 112mg and this is my blood results.
Not pictured is my Ultrasensative E2 which is 50, so I feel pretty dead on sitting at 975 test and 50 E2 putting my in that 20:1 “sweet spot”
It kinda seems like my body responds pretty well to Test c so my questions are…Without donating blood, would dropping my dose to say…~95-100mg a week help lower my RBC/Hemo/Hematocrit enough to drop out of the high range? Not so much worried with the RBC and Hemo since they’re like, .2 and .3 points out of reference… but the Hematocrit is where I’m uncomfortable. I wasn’t hydrated like I should be when I got bloods done, but I’d like to drop that without donating which may also help lower my BP a little more… other than that and having LDL 1 point out of reference I feel amazing. What say ye veterans of TRT??

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2024.05.02 17:29 wewerecoolonce Looking for advice from those dialed in

Wondering what some of you veteran TRT/PED Users think. I’m 42, this is my first set of Bloods at 4 months. Im fit, eat decent enough although I’m not a sadist with my diet..work out daily, stay pretty lean but definitely have room for improvement. My regimen is as follows:
1st month they put me on 210mg Test C a week…pinning daily. Within a couple of days all my low T symptoms disappeared and I felt amazing..by week 3 I could definitely tell my BP was up so started checking daily and sure as shit I went from pre trt 125/80 to consistent 140’s/90’s…didn’t do bloods but knew my hematocrit was probably through the roof. No high E2 symptoms just BP issues. Dropped my dosage to 112mg a week, still pinning daily, noticed within about a month I started feeling better so checked BP and now I’m down in the 125-130’s/mid 80’s pretty consistently. Still higher than I’d like but an improvement. Let myself do 3 full months on 112mg and this is my blood results.
Not pictured is my Ultrasensative E2 which is 50, so I feel pretty dead on sitting at 975 test and 50 E2 putting my in that 20:1 “sweet spot”
It kinda seems like my body responds pretty well to Test c so my questions are…Without donating blood, would dropping my dose to say…~95-100mg a week help lower my RBC/Hemo/Hematocrit enough to drop out of the high range? Not so much worried with the RBC and Hemo since they’re like, .2 and .3 points out of reference… but the Hematocrit is where I’m uncomfortable. I wasn’t hydrated like I should be when I got bloods done, but I’d like to drop that without donating which may also help lower my BP a little more… other than that and having LDL 1 point out of reference I feel amazing. What say ye veterans of TRT??

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2024.05.01 16:58 Daniel_Vocelle_PhD [MegaThread] CYTO 2024

CYTO is the Annual International Flow Cytometry Conference held by the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). This year CYTO is taking place in Edinburgh, UK from May 4th - May 8th CYTO 2024 Information Please use the following thread to discuss all things related to CYTO
CYTO After Parties: Please send me a message if I missed any after parties

Date	Time	Company	Registration	Google Calendar Link	Outlook Calendar Link
Sunday, May 5th	7:30pm - 11:00pm	BD	Bring your CYTO badge	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Sunday, May 5th	7:30pm-11:00pm	Beckman Coulter	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Monday, May 6th	7:30pm - 12:00am	Nodexus	Register at Booth #61 Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Monday, May 6th	6:00pm-8:00pm	Sony	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Monday, May 6th	8:00pm-10:00pm	ThermoFisher	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Tuesday, May 7th	7:00pm-11:00pm	Cytek	Bracelet at booth #98	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Tuesday, May 7th	6:00pm - 9:15pm	Cellular Highways and Metafora	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Tuesday, May 7th	6:00pm-9:30pm	ThinkCyte	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar
Tuesday, May 7th	7:30pm-9:30pm	NanoCellect	Link	Add to your calendar	Add to your calendar

Summary of new instruments from u/barberaccording
https://www.reddit.com/flowcytometry/comments/1cmkgvl/cool_cyto2024_launches/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Nanocellect announces the Verlo image enhanced cell sorter. The images look great and it offers 9 Channel of fluorescence. Not too shabby! This can be a major disruptor. I like it. Images and flow just makes sense!
Beckman Coulter announces a modular add on device for existing Cytoflex instruments where light can be redirected into a new optical engine supplied with 88 detectors. I didnt see a prototype at the booth and the booth had about 47,000 reps in it so I just walked on.
Thermo Fisher announced a new spectral instrument, the Attune Zenith. The booth staff told me 6 laser 57 channels of both spectral and conventional. This might have been the most interesting one of them all for me anyway as we have 2 Attunes and would love a high color Attune. I just hope the software is stable so we can hit the ground running as our existing Attunes are quite stable.
Agilent announces a 5 laser spectral instrument with 73 detectors called the Opteon. It’s a bit bigger than I would have expected for only a 5 laser but still can fit on most benches. I’m not a spectral expert but seems like it would have been interesting if they could cram another laser in there with 73 detectors but heck, it’s wide enough.
And u/willmainskier
https://www.reddit.com/flowcytometry/s/66EfDDj51E
Sony has their FP7000 sorter, merging the SH/MA tech and the ID7000 spectral.
Cytek has a new plate chiller and high speed mode on the Aurora. They added 6-way 5ml tube sorting on the CS as well.
BD showed off a 50 color panel on the S8 and released some new Real Blue and Real Yellow reagents allowing options to ditch PE tandems for pairs excited more discreetly by 488 and 561 lasers.
u/daniel_vocelle_phd
MarineCytometey: Ger van den Engh's new company. He made a new dark field sorter that is quiet frankly beyond amazing.

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2024.05.01 16:02 ElectronicEnd3429 Beckman Coulter Z2 Particle Counter Insanity

Hello!
I am working with a Z2 particle counter that was used by a different lab before my lab obtained it. I have no idea of the history or anything about it other than what has happened since I have been using it for the last 8ish months. I suddenly kept getting an 'abnormal aperture flowrate' error. I thought maybe the platelets I was measuring were to aggregated. However, when looking at them under a microscope they were not.
I have deep cleaned the machine with 20% bleach and warm water, per the manual. I purchased a new aperture because we saw that ours was cracked. I thought all of this may fix the problem but unfortunately it hasn't. It will not measure the dilution solution even! It also will not allow me to calibrate the machine.
Yesterday, I spoke with the company and they gave me a quote for someone to come out and look at and possibly fix the machine. However, it is over 8k.

My question is is it worth it? I'm not sure how old the machine is, but in terms of lab equipment it's old. We are trying to measure platelet concentrations from plasma.

Has anyone else had these issues?

Thank you:)

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