Latest / Spoil Me! One Piece / One Piece MOVIE! Baron Omatsuri & The Secret Island

Transcript

One Piece MOVIE! Baron Omatsuri & The Secret Island · Spoil Me! One Piece

0:02
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me covering one of the
0:11
one piece movies Baron Omatsuri and The Secret Island in this episode, kiddos,
0:21
this was a pretty dark installment. Oh my god, I really really liked
0:27
this movie, but I wasn't ready for like how serious we were going to
0:33
be about it. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone.
0:57
I am Natasha. Thank you so much to me as for commissioning this episode.
1:02
For those of you who are listening who maybe haven't seen this movie and
1:04
you're wondering where I found it to watch, Max sent me a file to
1:11
download, because you could just open it from the Google file, but it
1:17
doesn't have subtitles. If you do that, it's just in Japanese. So
1:21
in order for the subtitles to show up, you have to actually download it.
1:25
I don't know why, but that's how it worked. And otherwise I
1:29
could only find it like on DVD for like a hundred dollars. It was
1:34
insane, but otherwise couldn't find it streaming literally anywhere. So if you're wanting
1:42
to watch along and you've been looking for it and are kind of frustrated,
1:46
sorry, about that. I will see if I can share this Google drive
1:52
file in the discord. Actually, when i'm thinking of it, I'm just
1:55
going to go ahead and do that now since I have Discord open, and
1:59
any of you who are interested can go and check it out. But yeah,
2:05
I was really really unprepared for the intensity of this movie, and I
2:12
am like impressed. Honestly. It's not like just being more serious makes something
2:21
better, which is a thing I think DC could learn from. Everybody seemed
2:25
to go through this era for a while where they were like, let's make
2:29
it all gray and angsty and gritty, and that will mean that we are
2:32
serious, and frankly, that's horseshit and it's weak sauce and it's very immature.
2:39
But this was just really really well done, and I didn't expect to
2:47
enjoy it as much as I did. I'll be honest, I kind of
2:51
expected it to be like a wild romp that was sort of off the wall,
2:55
But I didn't think that I was going to be like so moved isn't
3:01
quite the right word, although there were times when it was moving. It's
3:06
more like I was disturbed by it in a way that one piece doesn't often
3:10
get to me. You know, Florian says, as far as I know,
3:15
this is considered the best op movie by lots of fans. Yeah,
3:20
Max's email he said something like, it's very different. So let's say I'm
3:25
gonna read what his email says. It's kind of a fifty fifty shot whether
3:30
you will like the movie or hate it. Since it has story elements,
3:31
I think you may enjoy. But on the other hand, it is pretty
3:36
different from the One Piece you know and Love, to the point where most
3:38
people consider it a good movie, but not a good one piece movie.
3:44
If you aren't feeling it, given all the hoops you have to jump through
3:46
to watch it, no worries. But if you do want to move forward
3:50
with it, let me know and I'll drop the money in PayPal. This
3:53
is when we were still talking about whether I would cover it, and Yeah,
3:58
I think that this was a win for sure, Max. I really
4:00
liked it, and I even though it is very different tonally than the One
4:05
Piece I Know and Love, I still felt like the characters were familiar and
4:12
I felt like it felt like a one piece movie. It was just like
4:15
a really different energy mostly, but yeah, I just was really if the
4:21
first thing that I want to ask, because I don't I didn't look up
4:26
any information on this to start off with, you know, and I didn't
4:30
have time before recording after watching it, but I'm wait, year did this
4:36
come out? Because there is some wild animation stuff going on in this film,
4:42
and it's not like I won't say it's bad. It's certainly not bad
4:48
exactly. In some ways, I almost feel like the weirdness of the animation
4:54
is what makes it feel so unnerving, because they have these like photo realistic
5:01
backgrounds, or for example, like the goldfish when they get to that part,
5:06
looks like it's made in CGI. You know, it's not animated the
5:13
same way. It's not a line drawing the way everybody else is. And
5:17
so you've got these moments that are they feel in some ways really beautiful,
5:25
but there is like an uncanny valley element to them that is almost like a
5:31
signal to you as a viewer that shit ain't right, you know. And
5:35
I don't know if that is intentionally what they were trying to do or if
5:41
that's just a side effect of the animation improving over time. And now we
5:46
look at this stuff and we're kind of like, yeah, this is fucking
5:47
creepy, But either way, it works really well to me to make me
5:54
feel like something's not great in this place. And I don't know what it
5:59
is is because it's like clearly meant to be beautiful, and in a way
6:02
it sort of is, but there's just a part, like an edge to
6:06
it that I'm like, m No, I don't think so. So we
6:13
start this off with everybody looking at this brochure for a an island that has
6:20
this like reputation. It's called Omatsuri, which I think it's Robin who says
6:30
something, or maybe it's a it's Nami. But Zoro asks why do they
6:38
call it Omatsuri island? And he asks do they hold festivals or something?
6:44
And then Robin says, the only pleasure island resort in the Grand Line,
6:48
as its name implies, every day is a festival, So I'm guessing Omatsuri
6:54
means festival, and it says you can enjoy spas and beauty salons, which
7:00
gets Nami's attention. Your nightlife will be filled with beauties from around the world
7:05
and a selection of like choice beverages, which makes Sanji turn around. And
7:11
then dinner will be a full course of exquisite cuisine, which is what it
7:15
Chopper's attention, which I actually kind of found surprising. I don't think that
7:20
of Chopper as being somebody who's like super food oriented. I thought that that
7:26
would have also appealed to Sangi and if not, then definitely Lufy. But
7:31
Lufy doesn't chime in here. Initially they have to like ask him what he
7:35
thinks about it. Usup is the one who sees it as a trap immediately
7:41
is like, this isn't this is not what it looks like. And I
7:45
was like kind of amazed in retrospect that he had the foresight to see this,
7:51
because who Stop is a lot of times the one who's the most credulous
7:56
out of everybody, you know, He's he and Chopper are the ones that
8:00
tend to be pretty gullible, and I would have thought that this would really
8:05
speak to him and win him over. But there isn't like a particular element
8:09
mentioned here that I guess would really get his attention. He's not particularly girl
8:16
crazy, he doesn't seem to care that much about food or drinking, so
8:22
really what we've seen that he's into is like gadgets and stuff, and that's
8:24
not really a resort thing. So this is when they ask, like,
8:31
Lufy, what do you think, and he asks not me, to read
8:35
the first part again, which says, if you are a pirate among pirates,
8:39
among pirates among pirates, gather your steadfast crew of nakama and set sail
8:46
for our island. And Nakama is a word that is just the central theme
8:56
of this episode, I say, episode of this movie, and I had
9:01
never heard it before. I don't remember if it's used a lot in the
9:05
actual show, because I don't like the subtitles here. You know, they
9:11
use the word in Japanese. In the dub I think they'd probably have translated
9:16
the word. But that said, it means friend or colleague or comrade,
9:24
you know, just somebody that is your your pal, you know, and
9:31
that could be on a professional level, or it could be on a personal
9:33
level, or it could be both, and it's super super meaningful. So
9:39
that's what gets Lufy to be like, yeah, let's go instead of the
9:43
food thing, which does like make sense in a character way, but I
9:50
also really wanted him to get psyched up about the food, and he doesn't
9:54
really mention it. Although there is a food centric challenge later, which he's
9:58
really really into, and we get this cool like there's a the opening credits
10:07
and the ship. We are seeing it from high, high above, as
10:11
if on a map or as if you're in an airplane, really, because
10:16
when you're in an airplane you can see like weird details, but it's still
10:20
high up and you're watching. You can see like these islands with the reefs
10:24
around them, and the ship moving with the wake, and it's this white
10:28
streak. And at one point there's like a close up of the ship in
10:35
this clear water, and as they're pulling up, there's all sorts of people
10:39
like enjoying the water, hanging out in hammocks. It looks incredibly alluring.
10:50
There's just a whole energy to it that feels like a vacation spot. And
10:56
I'm thinking that's where we're heading, but they pass by that area that's not
11:03
the island that they stop at. So I got myself like in a oh
11:09
sweet, it is a resort kind of mindset, and then it turns out
11:13
that's not even like the spot where they're heading. And there's also a really
11:18
cool moment of like a cloud far away that's pouring rain and all of these
11:24
rainbows that pop up, just like little moments of atmosphere like that that I
11:30
thought were really really effective. And even as they're coming up on the island,
11:35
the camera so to speak, is really low, and so the waves
11:39
are sort of obscuring the island a little bit as it's like, and I
11:43
don't know, I just really loved the way all of this was animated,
11:48
and I felt like, I wish this show did a little bit more of
11:52
this, because I sometimes feel as if I lose the sense of place the
12:00
show, and a lot of it is We're on the ship and sure there's
12:07
water around, but you don't really see them passing other islands. We see
12:09
them arriving places, and that's you don't like get the feeling of travel the
12:18
same way, if you get what I'm saying. There was something about this
12:22
that I felt as if I had sailed there with them, and I don't
12:26
know, I just found it to be like kind of refreshing and made me
12:31
long for a bit more of this in the show. And it's funny again,
12:37
with the way that the show will stretch some things out more than it
12:41
should, I feel like they could do this. They could add these moments
12:46
in and it would be a really great way to fill time and not have
12:50
to like draw other parts out unnecessarily, and it would be beautiful and it
12:56
would set atmosphere really well. So they get to the island and apparently,
13:03
like at first, they're looking around and it doesn't really seem particularly exciting,
13:07
and us up is like, I don't get it. This doesn't seem like
13:13
the place, but Nami is one hundred percent sure. She's like, come
13:16
on, have I ever made that kind of mistake before? I've always been
13:20
right. So and this is when we get one of our first shots that
13:26
I was like, what is happening here? Because everybody is standing on the
13:30
beach and they are in there, you know, their animation style with this
13:33
very cartoony look. But in the background is this jungle that looks like it's
13:39
from a video game, you know, And I was just like, what
13:43
is happening? This is the first real inkling you get of how different the
13:48
animation is going to be in I was going to say in the background,
13:52
but like I said, that Goldfish also had this weird animation style and that
13:56
is not a background thing. So anyway, at this point, they hear
14:03
something lufy says. This way, they make their way through the jungle,
14:09
which we kind of go back to the regular animation style for this sequence and
14:11
see all of these beautiful places. It's really really cool, honestly like it
14:18
looks really good. And then we get we break out into the open,
14:24
and this really should have been the part where everybody got suspicious because if you're
14:31
if you are a resort island, you are not going to make it difficult
14:33
to find the place you're heading. This isn't how it would work, but
14:43
oh, Florian says, it's a big part of the series. Yeah,
14:45
And Nakam is a soulmate, just not in a romantic way. There's no
14:48
real translation. I love that it didn't say that. When I looked up
14:54
what it meant, it didn't like. But I really really like that version
14:58
a platonic soulmate. That's the fact that there's like no real translation. Is
15:05
that so telling or what? Like? So many is not an inherently romantic
15:11
word. It We see it that way when we use it, because that's
15:18
the only way Americans at least tend to really use it. I'm gonna say
15:24
Westerners in general. But it's not inherently romantic. We just don't see the
15:30
value of friendships the same way we see the value of romances, and it's
15:33
it's a shame anyway. So this is when they break out into the open,
15:39
and you see this place that looks like a cross between someplace in like
15:50
Prague, the taj Mahal and a carnival. This place is wild looking,
16:00
like the whole vibe of it is overwhelmed, and that's really what you get.
16:07
Everybody's like looking around at these different areas and seeing where they think the
16:15
spot that holds their particular interest is going to be, and they are very,
16:22
very into it. But again there's no people. So I'm like,
16:27
what is this. You've got this amazing city, but I don't see a
16:30
single other human being. And then all of these people come out and like
16:37
they're in these dance outfits and they hold their leg out and it's a very
16:42
sort of like what are they the Roquettes from New York? Have you've ever
16:49
gone to see them? It's a good time. It's like very splashy spectacle,
16:56
you know. But they all have fans of their face and when they
17:00
pull their fans back, even though they're in dresses, it's definitely dudes,
17:06
and they are they have these weird like plant extensions growing up out of the
17:14
top of their heads, and I immediately was like, okay, these are
17:18
pod people. Like something's really really not okay here, But nobody seems as
17:23
worried about this as they should. So then we hear the cry of elephants.
17:30
There are trunks, and this elephant comes out with this dude who is
17:36
wearing an outfit the likes of which I mean, first of all, his
17:41
hair. It's kind of beautifully done, because the hair that's coming up off
17:45
the top of his head is very reminiscent of the plant thing that everybody else
17:48
has got going on. But for him, there is an actual flower growing
17:55
out of his shoulder. It's a different energy, and it's got a face.
17:59
It's not a simple plant. So it's a whole different situation with him
18:03
clearly, and he greets them as courageous pirates. I congratulate you on reaching
18:11
Omassouri Island. My name is Baron Ohmatsouri. I am your host. And
18:18
everybody gets very excited thinking that he is going to offer them some of the
18:25
comforts and recreation that they've been looking for. You may enjoy yourselves to your
18:30
heart's content, but before you do, you must long pause undertake the Ordeal
18:41
of Hell. Now, I just want to take a moment here. You
18:45
guys know that, like, I never really warmed up to Robin that much,
18:51
but she's wearing this vacation outfit in this movie that is just flawless.
18:59
It's this like white ensemble, a sort of nineteen forties look, with this
19:10
wide brimmed hat. I mean, it is so good. So every time
19:17
we would go over to her, I was just like, oh my god,
19:18
Robin, sir, it is just excellent. And later on Zoro changes
19:26
into an outfit that I was like, all right, Zoro shit, because
19:30
he looks fine as hell. So Nami says, the note that we found
19:38
said something about spas and beauty salons, and they, you know, all
19:41
talk about the things that they were looking for, and this baron is acting
19:47
like he has never heard of any of the things they're talking about, like
19:49
it's a complete mystery. So instantly us up, Nami and Sanji are all
19:56
like, okay, we're leaving, And of course Lufy is like, I
20:03
don't know, this Ordeal of Hell sounds pretty cool, and I just,
20:11
of course I'm kind of relieved at how much Lufy takes it to heart that
20:18
this ship was his fault later, because, like it is, it was
20:22
everybody's decision to come here at all. So I don't want to lay the
20:26
blame solely at his door. I'm not sure that by the time they got
20:30
here, if they decided to turn around and leave, that they would have
20:32
been allowed to turn around and leave. You know, I'll be honest.
20:37
As much as I want to blame him solely for keeping them here, maybe
20:41
it was already too late. But he really does have to like push this
20:47
shit here. So this dude says countless many have failed to endure the task,
20:55
and it says in the translation fled barefoot from this island, which I
20:57
thought was a really weird way of saying this. I don't know what barefoot
21:02
is meant to signify. If it's just supposed to be like they literally like
21:07
left everything behind to flee. It feels evocative, even though I don't really
21:14
get it. And Nami is the one who yells at him, and it's
21:17
just like, what would we gain from accepting this? We don't have to
21:21
do it, and Lufy is like, yeah, I know, we don't
21:23
have to, but I want to try it, and I trust that all
21:26
of you guys will be able to handle yourselves. I believe that you guys
21:30
can do it. And everybody is sort of won over by that, and
21:34
of course Zoro himself is like, honestly, I'm kind of interested, and
21:41
Robin also chimes in and it's like, yeah, you know what, let's
21:45
do it. Oh. I forgot to mention that Robin, she's got like
21:49
her outfit also comes with a piece of luggage sitting by her, Like she
21:52
just looks like she has landed in Cuba in like, you know, nineteen
22:00
fifty one and is going to be going to a very luxurious resort to meet
22:07
her boy toy. So as he says prepare the Ordeal of Hell, the
22:15
whole place begins to move around, and literally, like the ground shifts underneath
22:22
them, and it is banana pants crazy. I feel that this in particular
22:30
should have been also more of a warning, but they are in too deep
22:37
at this point. So the first thing that they have to do is goldfish
22:45
catching, and there is a there is a pool that rises up between them
22:52
that has regular goldfish in it, and everything turns into stands. So all
22:59
of the people that been standing around or like now audience members of this arena,
23:04
and the baron says, the team that captures the largest goldfish in three
23:08
minutes wins, and they understandably are like, no problem, this is super
23:18
easy, and he gives them a sort of net to catch it with,
23:25
but it dissolves in water, so they would have to do it like really
23:29
really quickly, and he says, now I'm going to present my opponent,
23:34
and this dude, who I really enjoy the whole vibie brings to things.
23:45
This dude comes running forward in shorts that look like they belong in nineteen ninety
23:52
eight, and he says that he is Mucigoro and he has his own little
23:59
scoop as well. So everybody is like, let's do this, no problem.
24:04
He looks like an idiot. I Am not concerned, and they're like,
24:11
all right, so which one of you wants to go first? And
24:15
I love this, guys. This is when Sanji not Sanji Usup, is
24:21
like, don't worry, guys, I've got this handled, and he tells
24:29
Luchigo, you're going to regret being my opponent. You'll be facing the man
24:33
known as the Master of goldfish catching me, and this dude totally falls for
24:41
it. Us Up is like, yes, really, I am not to
24:44
be trifled with, and this guy says please, saying you're lying, and
24:48
then Usup just says, I'm lying. I have to mention as well.
24:52
Of course, Chopper fucking is holly believing this bullshit because he is a precious
24:57
angel. So the baron says we shall now begin, and as Usap is
25:07
diving forward to get his goldfish, he hears something and he turns around to
25:15
see this massive goldfish, saying it's the size of a whale. I'm not
25:21
even sure that's accurate. Maybe like a sperm whale, one of the bigger
25:26
guys, you know, a blue whale. But this is the first thing
25:32
that's like living animated in that weird way, and so it really makes a
25:38
sort of uncanny Valley effect for a creature that is supposed to be really creepy,
25:42
and it works excellently. And of course Lufy, for his part,
25:52
is just like, oh, this is amazing. We are one percent catching
25:56
this fish, no problem, and so we basically have our usual all of
26:03
our friends work together to take this fish down kind of thing like everybody does.
26:08
Chimes in with their bit, and by chimes in with their bit,
26:12
I mean Usap hands over the little catcher to Nami and runs away. So
26:19
Nami watches this fish coming for her. Truly, the fucking animation of this
26:26
is so scary, and Sanji jumps in and kicks it away. It has
26:32
like golden armor looking on its body. It's got a very like Fanos sort
26:37
of vibe because of the gemstones embedded in it. But yeah, so Sanji
26:44
kicks it aside. She hands the thing to Zoro, who jumps in the
26:48
air. He begins to draw his katana and he's told as he does this
26:52
that katanas are not allowed, so he has to use the sheath instead and
27:00
bashes the fish off to the side, which I did feel kind of bad
27:03
for this fish. And then as it's falling, Lufy says, all right,
27:11
I'm gonna use the net, and this is the first time he's showing
27:15
off his devil fruit power. He hits the fish with the net and it
27:22
goes flying again. This fish at this point has been airborne for what feels
27:26
like a full five minutes. And then the baron says, Mucigaro, you
27:34
have to show them and he gets this giant ass paddle out of a backpack,
27:42
I guess. And when everybody's like, how come he gets that one,
27:48
the baron is like, well, nobody said you had to use the
27:49
one that I gave you. I only said that paper dissolves easily in water.
27:56
And they'll realize that he basically like fuck and tricked them, which is
28:03
cowardly and shitty. So he's trying to lure the fish over to him and
28:10
it gets caught in his weird net and he is like chucking it toward the
28:17
bucket. This whole thing is really something to watch, you guys. I
28:25
love it's floating in the air as everybody is cheering. And this is when
28:29
Robin says, oh, so there were never any rules to begin with.
28:33
Then it's fine, and she makes her arms come out of the bucket.
28:41
They all link together to create a net and they chuck the fish out of
28:47
the bucket, and who should be standing right under the fish saying he can
28:53
handle this, but Chopper, you guys, I don't know what he's thinking.
28:59
He eats a rumble ball. He inflates in a way that I don't
29:03
think we've ever seen him do before, and the fish basically like bounces off
29:08
him into the bucket, so they technically win this one. And the fucking
29:17
creepy flower sitting on the baron's shoulder had been calling the time, and they
29:25
says game over, game over. The straw hats win, and I was
29:30
just like, what is the deal with this weird flower? Because I at
29:34
first thought it was like a little creature that he was friends with. But
29:41
the baron never like turns to acknowledge it, and later on he does,
29:45
he like kind of talks to it, but at first I was sort of
29:48
like, I don't know what to make of this thing. At this point,
29:52
Chopper falls into the water because he's dazed and confused from having been bashed
29:56
by a fish. Lufy like a jerk off jumps in the water to save
30:00
him, even though he himself cannot swim, and then Sanji jumps in to
30:06
save both of them because he is a very good boy, and we see
30:11
when they are underwater briefly all of these other ships that are busted up,
30:19
sitting at the bottom of the ocean. It's unclear to me whether they saw
30:26
all of the ships. I don't think they do. I think it's supposed
30:32
to be just for our benefit that we know something is up here. But
30:37
anyway, so this is when Lufy is like, all right, so we
30:41
won, this is awesome. What's up with the next challenge? And I
30:51
love when they're just like, I can't believe you called that the Ordeal of
30:53
Hell. That was really nothing. So he says, well, it's not
31:00
finished. There's another one. I won't allow this to go unpunished. And
31:06
I loved that initially, that Muchigoro who is devastated that he failed. It
31:12
seemed I was expecting the baron to be like, you piece of shit,
31:17
I can't believe that you let me down. Instead, the baron is like,
31:21
I can't believe you made my Muchigoro cry. And once you know what's
31:25
going on, it makes a lot more sense. But at the moment,
31:29
I was just kind of like, oh, he's like very protective. That's
31:32
kind of cute and not what I thought it was going to be. Like
31:33
I expected him to be a real hard ass. So this is when Lufy's
31:41
like, yeah, another ordeal sounds dope, let's do it. And of
31:45
course everybody is like, dude, come on, we weren't here to like
31:49
play around. This was supposed to be arrest and he is not hearing it.
31:56
Nami is like ready to kick the shit out of him. This is
32:01
the first time that we see a little dude with the mustache. I can't
32:06
remember his actual name, but we're just gonna call him Mustache, and he
32:09
is observing things from the woods. He's got his little what do you call
32:15
him binoculars that he's spying on them with. So guys, this is the
32:19
part where they're going through the jungle. And before it was just cool line
32:24
drawings. This looks like it was meant to be watched with three D glasses.
32:31
It's got a very POV video games sort of animation to it, and
32:40
it is awful. This like Uncanny Valley animation is fine for all of the
32:47
other places it's been put This though, is the one spot where I was
32:52
like, this is super distracting. What are we doing? It looks so
32:58
bad? And I think, you know, if it were in if it's
33:00
in the background and we've got our characters in the foreground, then fine,
33:04
But when it's the focus of everything, not so good. Even if it's
33:09
an odd like the fish, because it's meant to be scary, fine,
33:14
But yeah, they're they're looking at the map and realizing that it really doesn't
33:19
help all that much, and they find this spot where somebody had just been
33:24
having a picnic off to the side in the middle of this jungle, which
33:28
is we have almost the identical three D animation of them wandering around the jungle
33:36
repeat itself because somebody, I guess, just loved it so much that they
33:39
were like, yeah, we absolutely should just use this again. Easily the
33:45
worst part of the movie. So this is when they arrive at a very
33:51
weird stage, and I really enjoy this particular ordeal because it is it involves
34:00
these old people who have such attitudes. They are great. So the point
34:05
of this one is ring toss, and each team has two boats with two
34:12
people aboard. The first team to ensnare all of their opponents in rings wins,
34:19
and we have got every single one of these old people is in a
34:25
kind of frog costume. They are adorable and not to be fucked with.
34:36
I just really really enjoy these outfits. Guys. I would not mind dressing
34:39
up as one of these for Helloween. Kiroko obviously like the pink frog.
34:45
I mean, it's hard to go wrong. And they all comment on the
34:50
fact that like Nami has lost her temper, to which she's like, yeah,
34:52
it's my personality. I have a quick temper, Like what are you
34:55
going to fight me about it? And I do sort of like her just
34:59
being go like, hey, you know what, Yeah, I am fucking
35:02
pissed. I have the right to be pissed. This is bullshit. And
35:07
I was like, yeah, you know what, She's right. So we
35:14
begin the next ordeal where we've got Zoro and Sangi on one boat because they
35:21
really work so well together. Why would we not put the two of them
35:24
on one of the boats? Such a bad choice? And then we've got
35:30
Nami and oos Up on the other boat. I don't think that we see
35:36
the decision of who goes on which boat. I was very surprised that we
35:40
don't have involvement from Lufy where he wants to be on one of them,
35:46
but apparently we're just going to skip over that part. It's fine. And
35:52
notably, the island once again sort of like moves in such a way as
35:57
to make these canals for them to go racing down, and so it's a
36:02
really weird moment of seeing the like city just sort of appear before their eyes,
36:07
and Namie is just like, what is happening here? So this is
36:14
when they find out they have met their match in these old folks. Like
36:17
they're very surprised that they're going up against old people to begin with, thinking
36:22
that it's not going to be a big deal to beat them, and it
36:24
turns out this is they have like regular boats, and the old people have
36:30
boats that are like Bond Villain level, with like all kinds of contraptions and
36:37
shit built in to cause them to sink or there's at one point they're obscuring
36:45
vision by just like grilling food on the back of one of the boats and
36:51
causing all of the smoke to fly into their eyes, which honestly was so
36:57
great. It was like a combo of the fact that it's just a very
37:00
practical way to make smoke. It's like, oh, yeah, we're also
37:04
going to make lunch. But I love that. When we're with usap he
37:07
says something about how, oh man, I'm kind of hungry now. It's
37:12
a very good distracting weapon, just being like, oh, that smells really
37:15
good. So this is when we go over to Lufy, who is in
37:23
the hotel, and again it's just really weird to me that he's not participating
37:30
in this ordeal. I just you know. But anyway, he's standing in
37:37
the lobby and somebody keeps pelting him with rocks that increase in size as he
37:43
continues to stand there, and eventually this dude who is about to bash him,
37:49
he turns around and catches him. The guy's holding a rock the size
37:52
of like a loaf of bread, and he has got that weird mustache.
37:58
It's the dude that we saw spying on them from the jungle. So Lufi
38:00
goes and chases after him. I'm going to wrap things up with the second
38:07
door deal by just being like they win. I feel like that's adequate.
38:13
Mostly we get the usual sort of fight in fighting between Zoro and Sanji.
38:20
The dub has Sanji calling Zoro moss head, but in this it was translated
38:27
as green tea head, which I am assuming is true to the television show
38:31
as well. I don't remember that, but I did find it kind of
38:36
funny the way that was changed. And yeah, there's this weird moment,
38:43
and I don't recall exactly how he gets here because Chopper is just exploring the
38:50
city and it's sort of jump cuts between different areas, and so it seems
38:55
like he's just wandering around, but we never really see him walking, so
38:59
it feels straightge. But he suddenly turns up in this absolutely massive graveyard and
39:09
there are wreaths at every single grave, which he notes and says like something
39:16
about flowers, which I thought was a weird thing to note, because plenty
39:22
of people put flowers at graves and that doesn't really seem that unusual to me.
39:25
I think it was supposed to be sort of hinting at what it turns
39:30
out is happening here, but at the time I was just sort of like,
39:34
why is that the weird part? Isn't it just like the sheer number
39:37
of them that would throw you off. So he's staying there looking at this,
39:42
and this shadows creeping up behind him, and it's this dude who is,
39:45
as we find out, pretty much a coward, and he is attempting
39:52
to save face in front of his kids and make it seem like he's actually
39:57
a badass who is protecting them, when in fact, he's like barely holding
40:00
it together. And it turns out the kids all kind of know this,
40:06
but they keep it to themselves, and he thinks that Chopper is one of
40:14
the Baron's minions, as he calls him, but when he realizes what the
40:20
deal is actually, he's like, oh shit, well then maybe you could
40:23
be on our side. We're pirates as well. Our family are pirates,
40:30
but we aren't too well known. The kids behind me are my daughters and
40:35
my son. And this is when we jumped to this weird this. There's
40:45
there are so many like sub blots that happen in this. I'm trying to
40:51
see where to go next with it, because this conversation with Chopper, he
40:54
gets to know this guy and agrees that he is going to pretend that the
40:59
dude like over houred him in order to help him save face. But the
41:06
place we go next is Lufy at the hotel, chasing down this dude who
41:10
wants Lufy to become his nakama and Nakama actually I'm realizing I don't remember how
41:20
they pronounced it, but this dude tells Lufy to beware of the Baron because
41:25
he separates Nakama, and that for me was like pretty clear. At one
41:32
point, everybody's sort of wondering why is he setting up these contests to determine
41:39
who is the strongest, and I felt like it seems pretty clear that he's
41:44
wanting to sort out the toughest ones, but I'm not entirely sure now why
41:50
it is. At the time, I was like, he wants to try
41:52
and get the strongest players to be part of his own crew. But I
42:00
think it's supposed to be that he's feeding the strongest people to the plant in
42:04
order to get the plant stronger, like they do more than a regular person
42:12
would. I'm not totally sure that that's how it works, but I think
42:19
so. This is when we go, You guys, I love this so
42:23
much. The next ordeal is this like cooking competition, and it is the
42:30
best, y'all know. I love any time that we get to see we
42:35
get to see Sanji doing his thing with food, because a lot of the
42:37
times it's just him like in the background cooking, or it just is him
42:43
showing up with a full plate of stuff, and here we get to actually
42:49
see him making it. Right before this, we have that weird encounter with
42:53
this kid who looks like a frog who wants us ups hat, and when
43:00
Usa refuses to give it to him, this kid says he won't forgive him
43:04
and gives him this like look and it's really freaky his eyes change color.
43:10
But yeah, we go so the whole like the way that this cooking competition
43:15
works. They are standing on a flat top griddle basically, and they each
43:23
have like shoes on that makes it so they can kind of like skate around
43:27
and they're making massive, massive amounts of food. And this one dude who
43:34
is competing against Sanji makes these noodles, and Sanjie takes the noodles and rolls
43:40
them into a ball and then like makes an omelet which he tosses into the
43:46
air. The noodles land on the griddle, and then the egg pancake turns
43:52
over and lands on it, and he puts a layer of sauce on it,
43:58
like maybe a hoist and saw or I don't know, teryaki saus uh
44:02
some mayonnaise, and then he tosses bonito flakes. And I love this line
44:08
as the veil like bonito flakes dance in the air. My modon yaki is
44:15
complete, modon yaki oko nomiyaki with yaki soba noodles. Yeah, I'm gonna
44:22
go ahead and look up what modon yaki is right now, because that does
44:27
not help me. I don't know what that means. Modon yaki means modern
44:32
yaki. It's simply okaki yaiba noodles. Thank you, But I don't know
44:38
what okaki is. Fucking fucking Google telling me the exact same shit he did.
44:45
I don't know what that is. Um, So I'm looking up okaki
44:51
now, a popular street food from Osaka. Okoyaki is a delicious Japanese savory
44:59
pancake grilled as you like it with your choice of protein and tasty condiments and
45:04
toppings. And there's a picture here with the bonita flakes on top. This
45:09
looks really good, you guys. I think I'm just hungry, but no,
45:15
for real, this looks really really good. This is making me want
45:20
to like try some cooking. The thing is around here. I'm so.
45:23
I got so used to shopping for ingredients in Philadelphia, where you could like
45:29
get anything, and now I moved here, and like, if I want
45:32
to find ingredients that are a little bit off the beaten track from a regular
45:37
NORMI American palette, I have to drive like forty five minutes to an hour
45:43
to a store that sells that stuff. And it's a pain in the ass.
45:47
There was also another thing, because this is reminding me the way that
45:51
it's like a pancake that's topped with a bunch of stuff. I saw a
45:54
video the other day, a real on Facebook where this lady takes right that's
46:00
left over, like the kind of sticky rice, and she presses it in
46:06
a waffle maker and he's super crispy on the outside, and then it's got
46:09
that dense rice inside and she just tops it with all kinds of stuff and
46:15
she topped it with like avocado and raw fish. But I'm you could do
46:20
absolutely anything and it would be really good on that crispy waffle, a savory
46:24
waffle. So yeah, lots of ideas today that are calling out to me.
46:32
But it's just this moment of him tossing the bonito flakes and standing posing
46:37
as he tosses them and then says, and that's how it's done. And
46:42
this chef is just like, that's impossible, and he sinks to his knees
46:45
and puts his hands down on the fucking like grill and he's feeling himself and
46:52
thinking like, oh, at least Robin is going to really appreciate how well
46:57
I did. He turns and Robin's gone, and when he tries to get
47:02
Nami's attention, she's sitting with that mochi guy I can't remember his name,
47:09
which she's trying to get some information out of him, but he is very
47:15
disappointed. Meanwhile, of course Lufy literally dives head first into this meal because
47:20
why wouldn't he. So, yeah, she is talking with him, and
47:27
she gets she's trying to get him drunk in order to find out what the
47:30
hell's going on, but she gets him a little too drunk. He is
47:37
struggling, so she calls the baron the flower guy, which this guy takes
47:43
exception to, and he says, he's a great man, strong and courageous,
47:50
and he's kind, the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of men.
47:55
And he all he says is like because he you know, she's trying
48:02
to get what she's asking him questions, but she's being like very she's not
48:10
getting to the point. And I know that's part of questioning in this fashion
48:16
effectively, is that you can't be too direct or it's very clear what you're
48:21
trying to do. But this guy asks, why are you drinking with me
48:24
instead of your nakama? And she says, I don't know, we've never
48:32
fought like this before. I just thought to myself that I wanted to hear
48:37
about Mucci. And when he's like, who's that, Well, your name
48:46
is muchI Garo, so I call you Mucci and he starts sweating and looks
48:51
like kind of like he doesn't know what to do, and then all of
48:54
a sudden is like, actually, no, you know what, I'm into
48:58
it. Yeah, let's go with that. This is when we see Zoro
49:00
in this outfit. You guys. He's wearing a black suit with a white
49:06
collared shirt that he has like unbuttoned to almost his belly button, with a
49:12
gold chain on. And this look works for him. I am just saying
49:16
it is a good look on him, and I'm not trying to say that
49:21
he doesn't look good in anything, because Zoro is Bay, but this is
49:25
the best look on him I think ever. I will say though, earlier,
49:32
when Sanji is taking the challenge to do this like food thing, he
49:39
looks pretty Bay there as well, because he was like not ruffled at all
49:45
by anybody's suggestion that he wasn't up to it. And then when Lufy complimented
49:51
the guy on the food that he was making. That was when Sanji was
49:53
like, you know what, fuck this, And I fucking felt that in
49:57
my soul. Man, I nobody is going to try and come at me
50:00
about my cooking. It's not happening. I'm not going to allow it straight
50:05
up. So anyway, he runs off trying to find Robin. Zoro's looking
50:10
around and it is just like, what is happening even tonight? And this
50:15
is as close to like a real resort vibe as we get. We have
50:19
all the people like that are sort of standing around looking sitting at tables and
50:23
eating the food that he has made, and you know, with the fire
50:28
and the torches and everything, it feels like really relaxed and nice. So
50:35
I started to sort of let my guard down a little bit here. But
50:38
this is when we cut to Robin, who is looking out at this area
50:44
with tons and tons of busted up ships and she doesn't say anything, but
50:50
it's clearly like bad news and this mochi. He says that they were the
51:00
Red Arrows, a really strong pirate crew. I'm sure the Baron could even
51:07
beat Roger. And she says, which Roger are you talking about? And
51:12
he's like, well, gold Roger. What do you mean which Roger?
51:17
There's one Roger, like, come on, and she says, well,
51:23
he was executed a long time ago though, like he's been dead for twenty
51:28
years. And this guy says, what are you talking about? There is
51:34
no way that's true. And I still I should have realized what was happening
51:39
here, but I wasn't getting it. So this guy says, I met
51:43
I just met him recently. And we're seeing like flashes of this storm and
51:51
he says, before that stormy night. And as he's saying this, the
51:54
camera keeps going back to this like candle that's guttering lower and lower in its
52:01
holder, and Mucci is looking away from her and clearly like not really focused
52:07
on the conversation. He's caught up in some weird memory. We see the
52:15
broken up ships and he I'm trying to because we cut over to Robin here,
52:22
who's just like, what is happening? What is going on over here?
52:29
And oh, that's right. She turns to this figure that's sitting there.
52:37
She says, I thought I would find it here. I think it's
52:43
her that's saying or thinking it, but the baron is like sitting and watching
52:47
her and Mucci says the secret flower, the lily Carnation, and the baron
53:00
is sort of finishing his sentence in a whole other place, the flower of
53:04
death and rebirth. And Robin turns around and we see this thing like towering
53:14
over her, and it is so weird, you guys, because I don't
53:19
understand exactly how this thing works. It's a huge it looks like a giant
53:30
pipe but not it's not hollow, well it kind of is, but it's
53:35
just a really weird thing. She sees it and she's like, you call
53:38
that a flower? And as she's looking at this, we cut back to
53:44
Mucci, who's like crying and trembling, and Nannie says, what happened that
53:50
night, Mucci? And he drops his hands and looks at her, and
53:57
his face is like rotting away. It's truly horrifying, you guys. It's
54:04
really really creepy, Like it's just so sudden and unexpected with everything that's going
54:07
on. And he gets up and stumbles off and says, I'm so sorry.
54:16
And there's a real like energy to it of I just drank too much.
54:22
I'm going to be sick almost. You know. It doesn't like if
54:28
you missed what his face was doing. You might not understand the intensity of
54:34
what's happening. So Robin, for her part, is like stuck with this
54:42
fucking psycho who pulls his bow out. And you guys, this moment was
54:47
so unnerving to me because she's looking at the thing and she's like, you
54:52
can't call that a flower. That's like that thing, that's not what it
54:57
is. And when she turns and looks at the baron, the flower on
55:01
his shoulder gets this really excited expression on its face that's so extra creepy because
55:07
of how harmless its face otherwise seems to be, so when it gets this
55:15
like eager expression, it's extra creepy. So this is when everybody gets together
55:24
and it is like where is Robin. She said she was going to look
55:28
for a flower, and of course Nami shows up and she's like I heard
55:30
about a flower too, and they all realize that they don't know where us
55:35
up is, and this is when it gets a little personal, and Sanji
55:40
starts accusing. First of all, he gets mad at Zoro for not keeping
55:44
an eye on them too, which Zoro rightfully is like, they're not children.
55:47
I can't do that. Twenty four seven, which I think is fair.
55:52
But this is when Sanji is like, this is your fault, dude.
55:57
You're the reason that we're even here, and you have to do something
56:01
about it. You're the one who got us into this. So this is
56:09
you, guys. This is so freaky. Mucci is on the ground,
56:15
he's got like teeth missing, he is a disaster, and the Baron walks
56:25
up sees him there, and instead of really reacting like I would expect,
56:34
maybe like nothing to see here, instead he's like, all right, it's
56:38
time for the next ordeal, and he just like moves it along. So
56:44
this is when the DJ shows up and he's the one who stole Usup's hat,
56:49
which to their credit, Sanji and Zoro immediately recognize. They see the
56:55
hat and they're instantly like, come on, kid, we know that you
57:00
fucking took that from our friend. Where is he? What did you do
57:04
to him? And I love the fact that they get his name wrong and
57:07
he's super offended by it. So this is when he says. The baron
57:19
says, if you want to find your friends, you have to get through
57:22
the next ordeal, and they're like, give me a fucking break, you're
57:27
going to tell us where our friends are, and when he refuses, both
57:32
Sanji and Zoro are like, fuck this shit, We're bailing. And the
57:42
next ordeal is sharpshooters that are going to hunt them, and they have to
57:46
dodge. And it's a really eerie moment because Nanni is trying to get Lufy's
57:53
attention, and Lufy clearly is like so affected by the accusation levied against him
57:59
that this is all his fault that he doesn't even move when it's time to
58:02
run, and all the sharpshooters just go right past him. They don't give
58:07
him the time of day. They don't seem to be like, oh,
58:09
perfect opportunity. This kid isn't defending himself, let's just go after him.
58:14
It's just him and the baron sort of facing down, and he had been,
58:23
you know, warned about the fact that he was going to the Nakama
58:28
were going to vanish, that they were would be separated from each other,
58:32
but he's only just starting to really understand how real this threat is. So
58:38
the baron fires an arrow at him, and this arrow first of all materializes
58:45
out of nowhere on the end, like it's really weird how it forms but
58:52
this guy can apparently just make a bunches of them appear at once, because
58:58
we see him fire like hundreds of these. And I have to assume that
59:06
will White watch this movie because there is a lot about the vibe of this
59:13
that I feel in the Cradle books, and the whole thing with this like
59:17
Archer, it's just giving malice to me. So for those of you who
59:22
are not fans of Cradle, if you're listening to this podcast, you should
59:28
definitely go read Cradle. I'm just saying. So the whole thing with like
59:34
Zoro and Sangi bailing they don't get to bail is the thing like they run
59:38
off and act like they're not going to participate, but they are still being
59:43
hunted. And this kid, the DJ is like really not here to play.
59:50
He's throwing these discs that like explode on impact, and he says something
59:55
about how they can't get away, and they like he's writing what almost looks
1:00:01
like a it's like a turtle shell, but it's been made into a skateboard.
1:00:09
I guess it's a Really the whole vibe of this kid is so off
1:00:16
putting. You know the fact that he's got like no nos the fact that
1:00:22
he has this weird like plant growing out of his head, the just the
1:00:30
whole thing so not Sanji Zoro goes up against him and is basically like,
1:00:37
fuck you kid, I can't believe you did this? What are you?
1:00:39
What are you even trying here? And he delivers a cut and the kid
1:00:45
does not bleed. He doesn't even get hurt at all. It's a really
1:00:52
weird moment, and he doesn't seem to understand why not. He's looking at
1:00:57
it like that's weird. Why isn't that Why isn't that doing anything? And
1:01:02
Zoro also is like, I don't get it. What tricker you using?
1:01:08
The baron comes up behind Zoro and takes him down with an arrow, and
1:01:14
so dj comes over to the baron and is like, hey, how can
1:01:17
I never get hurt? What's the deal? And the baron is just like,
1:01:23
you're very strong, that's why. And he's like, but I'm not
1:01:28
really that strong, and he's like, no, but you are, though,
1:01:31
and he says, yeah, okay, I guess I really am.
1:01:38
He promises to go and find Lofy and he starts walking away and begins to
1:01:45
stumble and says, I feel weird, but this does happen all the time.
1:01:52
And he puts his hand to his face and when he takes it away,
1:01:55
he's gotten really gone and his eyes are doing weird like circles within circles
1:02:00
sort of things, extremely creepy. So, you guys, it's just I
1:02:12
really like I hate this. This whole thing. The way it's being revealed,
1:02:15
I just think is so well done, because you know something is wrong,
1:02:20
but you're still not quite getting what the fuck you know. So we've
1:02:25
got all these dudes that were sharpshooters and they have collapsed inside the building that
1:02:30
they had like chased the boys into, and one of them says something about
1:02:36
how he doesn't feel good and maybe he overdid it and let's just take a
1:02:40
rest and once we rest will be fine, and it's it's like none of
1:02:52
them are aware of what's happening to them either, which I feel like it
1:02:57
would be a really different entergy if they were all in on it. But
1:03:01
the fact that they don't seem to get it is what makes this so extra
1:03:06
sad. And it as an element of like there was not consent involved here,
1:03:12
you know. It's really really reminding me of Maria, but done in
1:03:16
an extremely serious sort of way versus like the over the top goofiness of that
1:03:22
island. This is a real investigation of like what you'd be willing to do,
1:03:31
you know. So we go to Lufy, who is sitting with the
1:03:37
guy with the mustache who wants him to become one of his nakama. He
1:03:39
admits eventually that he's the only one left and tries to convince Lufy that he
1:03:45
has to become one in order to get the like map, so to speak,
1:03:51
of how to get out of this place, because every door he leaves
1:03:53
through he winds up back in this room. And this is when Lufy sees
1:04:01
the picture of him, and the guy finally says I'm currently the only member
1:04:06
left. And we find out later this dude was the captain and he says
1:04:14
something about, you know, the day that they were all swallowed by that
1:04:16
gigantic monster, and we cut away from him here. I'm sorry if you
1:04:23
guys can hear that. Sam is asleep, but he's like growling in his
1:04:27
sleep. It's a precious thing. So, okay, this is the moment
1:04:34
that you find out what the fuck is really happening here. The flower on
1:04:39
the Baron's shoulder is saying I'm hungry, and the baron says, well,
1:04:45
it's time to eat, And the camera goes up to that weird pipe thing
1:04:54
and all of these holes begin to form in the surface of it, and
1:05:00
these threads come out of it, and you, guys, this could have
1:05:06
been designed in so many different ways, and they went with this, which
1:05:16
is absolutely nightmarish. Like I wouldn't ever think to even go in this general
1:05:27
direction, never mind this specific design. I don't know if this is like
1:05:31
based on a plant that exists, or where the fuck this freakish idea came
1:05:38
from, but the nature of the plant and the way it works adds so
1:05:45
much horror to the whole affair, Like it just takes the creepy factor up
1:05:50
to a thousand. It is remarkable to me how incredibly scary this becomes once
1:05:59
you see how this works. I can't emphasize enough how much my mind was
1:06:04
like rejecting what I was seeing, because it is not the kind of thing
1:06:09
you see from one piece usually this is just a different animal and the animation
1:06:15
of the holes appearing in it. Also, I think it's tripophobia triptophobia.
1:06:20
I can't remember what it's called, but people who have like an aversion to
1:06:24
seeing lots of holes in a thing in one place. It's definitely like playing
1:06:29
on that sort of fear. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
1:06:32
I wouldn't recommend that you google it because it is a real freaky thing.
1:06:36
People have done a lot of animation stuff with it, and even if it's
1:06:40
something that you don't think would bother you, once you see the images that
1:06:43
come up, you start to be like, actually, never mind, yeah,
1:06:45
no, that really really bothers me. But yeah, So the threads
1:06:51
come down and sees whoever's like on the ground and begin to lift them into
1:06:59
the air. And these threads, it's not like they shoot straight down.
1:07:03
This is what I mean in terms of like the design. When I'm describing
1:07:09
it, it sounds like a bunch of ropes come out and like drop and
1:07:15
grab somebody and yank them back like their bungee cords or something. No,
1:07:19
these threads spool out into the air in very irregular patterns, like their weightless,
1:07:27
and then the tips of them float to the ground, wrap around somebody
1:07:33
and as like the threads like lift them up, but it doesn't seem like
1:07:40
they're being retracted it seems like the threads themselves are animated. It's the worst.
1:07:48
I hate it so much. It's so fucking creepy. So it goes
1:07:56
after Daisy, the very little girl, and Chopper interferes and saves her and
1:08:02
gets her out, and he turns into the larger versions of himself and is
1:08:06
like beating the hell out of this plant, trying to do something, but
1:08:13
the baron is like, good, trying everything, but too late, And
1:08:18
this is I have offered. This is the first time I had offered Lily
1:08:23
somebody with the powers of a devil fruit. So we see Chopper being carried
1:08:29
into the air, and the father of Daisy is starting to walk away,
1:08:35
and then he hears her call out and turns around and sees that Daisy is
1:08:40
trying to save Chopper because Chopper saved her. Both of his kids run up
1:08:45
and try and grab Daisy to save her, and their dad from far away
1:08:51
is like, guys, come on, let's get out of here, and
1:08:57
his eldest daughter, who has no respect for him at all, says,
1:09:00
you're supposed to be strong, aren't you help us save the reindeer? And
1:09:05
instead he comes and grabs his children and pulls them off of Chopper's hand,
1:09:12
and they're like, Dad, he saved Daisy, Why are you just letting
1:09:16
him go? And he slaps his daughter in the face and she calls him
1:09:24
a coward and he doesn't argue with her at all. He's just like,
1:09:27
yeah, I am And I was like, yeah, you slapped your daughter
1:09:30
because she told you to do the right thing. One hundred percent are more
1:09:34
than a coward? Like come on. This is when the baron says,
1:09:43
show me more. I love to see pirates fighting amongst themselves. And I
1:09:51
was like, what are you? What? What does that mean? And
1:09:57
we cut back to mustache guy who is talking to Lufy about how the baron
1:10:03
said specifically that seeing the camaraderie between Nakama like fills him with rage and that
1:10:15
he wants to chop him into pieces and make them all feel the same pain
1:10:20
that he has felt. So this is when Chopper says, my Nakama is
1:10:30
going to come and save me and he'll beat you to a pulpe. The
1:10:33
baron is like, no, he won't come, and they go back and
1:10:39
forth like this, and the more faith Chopper shows, the more angry the
1:10:45
baron becomes, and he's just like stopped saying that they're not going to come,
1:10:51
and I hate this. We turn Chopper around and he sees his friends
1:11:02
embedded in this weirdo plant and they have there's like this effect in the animation
1:11:10
that almost makes it look like they're surrounded by like what's the word I want?
1:11:15
It's almost like mercury, like moving silvery, you know. So the
1:11:24
baron here says, Nakama, Nakama, Nakama, that's all they ever talk
1:11:28
about. You will nourish Lily well. And the threads let go of Chopper
1:11:33
and just drop him into it, and you don't see him like hit,
1:11:39
but you do see Lily go and eventually begin like making chewing motions with her
1:11:47
mouth. It is, I mean, you guys, truly horror movie type
1:11:53
stuff, so so freaky. At the moment that makes that motion, it's
1:12:01
like Lufy can feel it. And he like sits up and it's like,
1:12:10
I've got to get out of here, and he opens one of the doors
1:12:14
and flees from this mustache guy and apparently like chose correctly because he winds up
1:12:17
actually getting away. And I like to think that he has such a connection
1:12:23
with his crew that he that he felt what happened to Chopper, and also
1:12:30
that was what led him to choose the right door, that it was like
1:12:33
an instinctual thing. He knew what direction to go in. And I don't
1:12:38
know that that's correct, but I'm that's what I'm thinking. And this is
1:12:43
when Mucci wakes up, because apparently feeding Lily is what regenerates them and makes
1:12:49
them come back to life, and he's super happy to see his friend.
1:12:57
Ah you guys, so yeah, he says, go back and join the
1:13:04
others, and Lufy shows up and is like, I am going to fucking
1:13:12
take you down. So we have a drawn out thing here, and I'm
1:13:16
going to speed it up a little bit because I have been I'm an hour
1:13:21
and fifteen minutes in and i haven't even like really gotten to the fight.
1:13:29
And I'm gonna the fight isn't the important part, I'll be honest. What
1:13:33
happens here is Lufy demands to know where his friends are and it is like,
1:13:44
I am never gonna let you hurt them, and this dude is like,
1:13:47
l ol, that's really funny. They're gone already. And when he
1:13:55
says, you say, you'll never let me hurt them, and he's it's
1:14:00
giggling like this is truly the best thing he's ever heard, which is like,
1:14:06
wouldn't you understand the pain that he's in and seeing it in somebody else
1:14:13
that it gives him like some comfort. It's a real weird Like again,
1:14:16
just get therapy. So Lufy is about to try and fight him, and
1:14:21
he just keeps firing arrows and like holding him in place doing this. Eventually
1:14:29
there's only his head free, and he like does shoot his head forward.
1:14:33
He says something with the boy with the phallic nose has just died. I
1:14:39
was like, really, that's what we're saying, okay. So Lufy's head
1:14:45
is the only thing that goes forward and he sees Zoro and he had caught
1:14:51
one of the arrows in his mouth. And what I had thought was going
1:14:58
to happen right here was that he was just going to like jam the arrow
1:15:03
into the plant or somehow managed to hand the arrow to Zoro, who is
1:15:11
a fighter, and it would like he would revive and fight back using the
1:15:16
arrow. I thought the arrow was going to play into this somehow. Spoiler
1:15:20
alert, it does not at all. He literally just opens his mouth in
1:15:24
horror and the arrow falls out of his mouth onto the ground and that's it.
1:15:29
That's there's nothing with the arrow. But I really thought that was going
1:15:31
to be something. So at this point, Lufy is certain that all of
1:15:41
his friends are dead. He really thinks like, that's it. I'm I
1:15:45
fucked up. They're all gone. And the little girl Daisy is the one
1:15:53
who's like, no, they're they're not gone. I can hear them.
1:15:57
I can hear them cheering for you. And I don't know if we ever
1:16:01
find out exactly where this like connection comes from, but I like the fact
1:16:08
that her name is Daisy because she's a flower and that somehow she's like able
1:16:14
to hear. So, yeah, the mustache guy with all of his tunnels,
1:16:20
he retrieves Lufy's body, and yeah, this is the moment where because
1:16:27
they're like trying to take care of him and revive him, and she's like,
1:16:30
yeah, the mister Reindeers is looking for you. He's asking where he
1:16:35
are. And I really like the animation here because everybody's their normal like appearance,
1:16:43
but Lufy is very gray. He's like dark, you know. It's
1:16:47
it's like he's in a totally different light source or something, and nobody can
1:16:54
hear them except for Daisy apparently, so that's helpful. This leads to,
1:17:03
of course, the big attack, where Lufy has decided that he is going
1:17:10
to go up against this fucking plant and the baron and everybody who is left
1:17:16
has decided that they're going to help him as much as they can. I
1:17:21
love Lufy jumping in front of mustache guy and catching all of the arrows on
1:17:27
a shield made out of rock, as this is a really good moment.
1:17:30
It's a badass moment for him. And he shoots forward with his fist and
1:17:34
punches this dude in the face and it's one solid punch, but the way
1:17:39
it's animated makes it look like he punched him like six or seven times.
1:17:44
And he turns and does the mustache salute to his mustache guy. You guys,
1:17:50
that was so moving. It's such a silly thing, and I was
1:17:54
just like, oh my god, he gets all teary eyed because you know,
1:17:57
nobody's left who even knows that salute anymore. He tried to get Lufy
1:18:00
to do it earlier, and Lufy was nonplussed and just didn't and then he
1:18:04
does it for him in this moment to just be like I'm doing this for
1:18:06
you and all of our people. You know, it was just really sweet.
1:18:11
So Lufy jumps up and he bashes this fucking plant, which starts to
1:18:16
shoot this sort of weird rainbow ish light out of it, very weird looking,
1:18:24
and I was definitely thinking, hey, I don't know if you want
1:18:26
to get caught in that rainbow light. But that feels like a bad deal.
1:18:30
And it's just so weird seeing him fight this weird shaped creature. You
1:18:38
know, it's just not it's just all so strange. So he punches it
1:18:45
enough that it begins to fall apart, and it's looking like sweet. He
1:18:50
won. It's breaking and they're all gonna like fall out of it. And
1:18:56
this is when Daisy says something is wrong. The voice is are coming from
1:19:00
somewhere else now, and he turns around and sees this image that I am
1:19:08
still like trying to understand. It's like the whole plant is made of arrows.
1:19:17
I am not getting this. I'm gonna be honest with you, guys.
1:19:21
I don't know if it's supposed to be that the arrows are like that's
1:19:27
where he was getting the arrows from. Was that this plant is made of
1:19:30
them, or if it can just like transmute its shape into other things or
1:19:35
what. But it's like been broken open and there's all these arrows sort of
1:19:42
hovering and clustered inside. I could not make sense of this. I don't
1:19:46
understand it. And he says, where are they? And then we see
1:19:50
Lily's face in all these holes opening and it's the worst. It is the
1:19:58
worst, you guys, And the baron says, they're right here, and
1:20:04
Lily explodes out of the Baron's back and has all of his friends like in
1:20:12
pods wrapped up and this is really giving envy from Full Metal Alchemists, the
1:20:18
like horror aspect of this animation. At this point, the baron is like
1:20:25
just a carrier. He's barely even participating here, you know, like he's
1:20:30
talking, but it's very much like he's a puppet. And he says die.
1:20:39
All of these arrows that had been like in the air turn and begin
1:20:45
to head toward Lufy, and there's literally millions of them at this point.
1:20:49
It is completely out of control, and he says, every single one of
1:20:57
those arrows symbolizes a day of loneliness I endured after that storm. They are
1:21:02
the number of regrets I've suffered from suddenly losing every one of my beloved na
1:21:08
Cooma, and we get to see again the like images of the storm,
1:21:17
and Lufy is like in the midst of this, completely shot through with arrows,
1:21:23
and his eyes are white, so it appears that he has been taken
1:21:28
over as well. And Daisy runs forward and she says, mister Reindeer and
1:21:34
the others are still alive and they're cheering for you, and it's like Lufy
1:21:39
can hear her, even though this thing is attempting to take over his will.
1:21:45
He's got such a creepy like color to him in this scene, and
1:21:51
so he's like walking forward. He looks like a straight up porcupine with all
1:21:55
the arrows sticking out of him, still walking forward, saying my nakama,
1:22:00
nakama, whatever it is, and telling the baron to give them back.
1:22:08
The baron is truly horrified that he is still walking and able to attempt to
1:22:15
save them. It's like it's breaking Lufy's will that he's after and let's see.
1:22:30
Daisy says that her hearing has always been good. This is when she's
1:22:33
talking to her dad. I heard everything you told, mister Graindeer behind that
1:22:36
grave. Earlier this evening, and I just my hearing is just really really
1:22:45
good. I can hear the faintest sounds. I just pretended not to know.
1:22:51
You're always trying so hard to keep us happy. And her dad has
1:22:59
a moment of real like, oh my god, I didn't I feel like
1:23:02
an idiot, and she's like, but that is because you really are strong.
1:23:06
And I like that, especially because yeah, he did a shitty thing
1:23:11
with just being like, get away from Chopper, let him die. But
1:23:14
I, you know, like I can't blame him too much. It's like
1:23:16
he's holding onto the only thing he's got left and saying, you are strong
1:23:24
for the way you keep fighting for us. That's not wrong, you know.
1:23:29
So he decides here that he's going to do something, and he sneaks
1:23:32
up behind the baron and draws an arrow and Lily is like turning and coming
1:23:40
at him, and he lets loose as his daughter is yelling, don't give
1:23:45
up, and that arrow just busts right through Lily. It is guy's Lily
1:23:51
looks so creepy. Now it's a much more like feed me seymore sort of
1:23:56
imagery happening at this point. Yeah, Lily explodes in this like green burst,
1:24:06
and all of these like bits come out of her, and instantly all
1:24:14
of his friends on the island and all of the people in the stands and
1:24:18
everything turn into plants, and all of the arrows that had been impaling lofy
1:24:26
and were littering the ground vanish like they were just illusions. And the bits
1:24:34
that fall out of her, I'm guessing are like supposed to be the remains
1:24:40
of his friends, and the baron just completely dissolves into tears and begins desperately
1:24:46
like picking all of them up, and it's like a moment where I was
1:24:53
really actually feeling bad for him, like there was a frantic quality to it.
1:24:58
And he turned around and screams unforgivable and has completely lost the plot,
1:25:09
and Lufy is able to get him because he gets a drop on and this
1:25:14
dude is very very distracted, and everything turns white and becomes this weird,
1:25:20
like sketchy animation as he punches this guy, and it's like he has a
1:25:28
vision from being punched, and he's saying all of his friends names and saying,
1:25:34
please don't go, don't leave me alone, and then we see the
1:25:40
photo of them all and they're like talking to him and saying, we're really
1:25:48
sorry to have gone, and we love that you kept the memory of us,
1:25:56
but you really should have forgotten about us. Or I'm imagining a better
1:26:00
translation would be like you needed to let us go after that night. We
1:26:06
don't mind. You should have found some new knockama And he says new knockamam
1:26:15
like that just never occurred to him. And they said, look like them.
1:26:23
And Lufy is surrounded by his new friends who helped him out, and
1:26:30
he wakes up. It's light out, and he says, I thought I
1:26:34
was gonna die. He sees all of these people like standing over him and
1:26:40
I'm sitting here, like, where where are his people? Though? Where
1:26:43
are they? Because I'm sure I know they're fine, but like, where
1:26:46
did they go? Though? Like what happened? And he starts to sit
1:26:51
up, and it's just like in so much pain, and he said,
1:27:00
I couldn't have done it without all of you guys. And I really like
1:27:04
this. He's giving Osan credit and everything. This is when he hears Daisy
1:27:12
yelling mister Reindeer and she is running toward him. I really like the way
1:27:17
the camera is upside down at first, and then it turns over as he's
1:27:20
sort of getting his bearings and all of his friends are coming up over the
1:27:28
crest of the hill and the sun is just coming up and Lufy, who
1:27:34
is on his back looking at them from like upside down, he just smiles
1:27:40
with satisfaction. It's so weird, guys. We see us up here with
1:27:45
no hat or anything on his hair, and I'm sure we've seen him that
1:27:47
way before, but I didn't remember it at all. And they all ask
1:27:55
him, what are you doing sleeping out here? So I guess it's supposed
1:27:58
to be that they just don't remember what happened. And he starts laughing,
1:28:03
and that's the end of the movie. It's just like it's a weird ending
1:28:08
where I was like, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to think about,
1:28:11
like it wiped their memories or what like, you know. But anyway,
1:28:18
yeah, I really really enjoyed this. It was so creepy, you
1:28:21
guys, It really really was. I really like this. This is the
1:28:25
sort of thing that I would be willing to show people who didn't know one
1:28:28
piece because I feel like, even out of context, it really works as
1:28:30
a movie. So all right, I'm gonna wrap this up, but thank
1:28:34
you again so much Max for commissioning this. This was super fun and I
1:28:40
feel like this is a movie I would watch again, I really do.
1:28:43
I wish that there was a better way to watch it than just like downloading
1:28:45
a file, but what can you do? All right, everybody, thank
1:28:49
you again and until next time to the loom. Motherfuckers. That was an
1:29:23
unspoiled Network podcast.