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One Piece, 509 & 510 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one Piece
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episodes five oh nine and five ten encounter the Great Swordsman Mihawk, Zoro's self,
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will deadly struggle, and a disaster for Soanji, the Queen's return to
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the Kingdom. In these episodes, our friends are just trying to get back
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to Loofy and they are being prevented in a variety of ways, and it
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is genuinely frustrating in some cases because like, come now, that's clearly Sonji
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in that poster. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone.
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I am Natasha. I am going to say thank you to Florian for this
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episode, and I'm right, okay, Thank god. I was about to
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be like, did I not read my thing correctly? But thank you Florian
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not only for commissioning this but also being patient in me having to postpone it
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because I did not feel well on Friday or Thursday. One of those things
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guys, where you've ever been so tired because something's up with your body that
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even though I'm not somebody who falls asleep watching TV or who falls asleep reading,
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I could not get through any of my reading that day without falling asleep.
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I couldn't get through a one piece episode without falling asleep. I don't
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know what was wrong with me. And after I finished watching the episodes,
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I have tried to, like because I'll do this sometimes where I sort of
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think about, like the high points of the episode, of the plot,
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and I couldn't, like remember what happened. My brain was fucking messed up.
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But these episodes are really like the main thing about them is just what
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everybody is running up against, the obstacles to getting back together with their friends
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at Sabayote. And it turns out that and you know this, this was
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pointed out at the end of the last episode, but I don't think that
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I realized exactly what the significance was. Because Mihawk shows up right at the
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island gloom Island, I think is what it's called, where uh Pirona and
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Zorro are, and I just thought he was here to deliver news sorrow.
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I don't know why I thought that Zora was important enough for him to track
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down and tell this too. I just took it for granted that he would
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do that, And it turns out I was just so wrong. It turns
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it turns out this is his house that they're in. They're chilling in Mehawk's
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castle, and they are uninvited and they're very rude. House guests says,
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it turns out just eating him out of house and home and fucking with his
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stuff. And I think that at this point there was a I think that
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Florian. That Florian is saying that was so sweet to hear you think that,
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Yeah, a sweet summer child, was I. But I feel like
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when I was asking about like where this place was or who lived here,
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that Florian, you were trying to sort of I won't say you were trying
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to hint, because you weren't giving me any clues or anything, but you
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were like saying that it belonged to somebody that we had met before. For
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I feel like you just gave me that much info and that I tried in
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vain to think who that could possibly be. And I was coming up with
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nhing my friends because I always forget that me Hawk's aesthetic is spooky guy.
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Ooh, I'm sorry, guys, I lost power for a second there.
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My stuff, like my router and my computer are plugged into a backup battery,
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so that's why. I didn't actually like lose my feet or anything,
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but I just heard the beeping of stuff turning on and off, and now
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the lights behind me are blinking because that's their default setting. Sorry about that.
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I wonder why we are losing power. But anyway, me Hawk for
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me the fact that he is like the greatest swordsman, I would think that
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his aesthetic would be something that's centered around like fencing a lot more, but
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I always forget. He has that boat that's like coffin shaped, and he's
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got those like weird green candle flames and wears that cross around his neck and
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there's like a cross on the island. So that really should have been like
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a clue. And I didn't put that shit together at all. So I
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don't know what it is about Mehawk that makes me forget his whole deal.
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But it's so I think that I consider because it's almost like a Dracula,
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right, okay, Florie, And I was just about to say it's almost
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a Dracula sort of vibe, and then he types Dracul Mihawk is his name?
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I don't. I think that the reason why I forget is because his
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whole per personality, his vibe is so sedate, and I think of a
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person whose first name is Drac Cool, and I'm like, this is a
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very dramatic motherfucker. And he isn't. Like he's dramatic in just the fact
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that he can fight on a level that nobody can compete with. That is
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inherently dramatic. But Mihawk doesn't have a dramatic presence. He is his esthetic
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looks dramatic, but in like one Piece Land, it's not even really like
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that much. To be honest, you could actually say that his look is
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sort of sedate in comparison to what a lot of people are wearing and how
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they look, and you know what I mean. So like, I think
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if he had more flair, then I might recall this a little bit more
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easily. But he just seems so uninterested in his own vibes that I forget
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about them, is what it really comes down to. Florian says, well,
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him just sitting there and drinking wine, that is drama to me.
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Well, that's that's the thing, is like, because he is so understated,
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it does feel more dramatic. This is the thing that some people can
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manage to do is in being really, really restrained, they keep all eyes
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on them, and it's somehow this like reverse psychology thing, and I absolutely
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could never restraint me, never heard of it, so it's very difficult for
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me to understand, especially you're going with your like Dracula esthetic. I mean,
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like, then go for it, then do it fucking have an accent
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and shit, you know what I'm saying. But anyway, part of his
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appeal is the fact that he doesn't do that. So Okay, I'm getting
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ahead of myself here, but you know, I just really wanted to start
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things off with the revelation of whose home this is because I felt like a
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real fucking ding dong for not knowing this right away, and also when I
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found out it was his home, I fully thought, this is why the
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weird apes are like this. They fight the way they do because this is
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Mehawk's territory, Hawkeye's meet territory. And it turns out that's not actually true
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either, that there was like this war going on and they imitate human behavior
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and so the war that left all of this carnage behind is responsible for their
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warlike nature. And if this war hadn't been happening, they would have turned
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out to be very, very different creatures, and I was so surprised because
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I just completely assumed, Oh, yeah, they're amazing swordsmen and fighters on
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the level that they are, because just being around somebody who is on the
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level that Mihawk is has inspired them and they have like followed his example somehow,
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or Mihawk has taught them, which didn't feel real in character, but
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I was just like, what do I know? They know? What does
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he do in his spare time? I don't know? And instead it's like
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a completely unrelated thing, and Mihawk describes coming to the island for the first
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time and they're being like bodies everywhere, which I don't recall. If we're
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actually told why that war was fought, what was going on with that,
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I don't think so, And I'm not sure how important that even is,
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But just just wanting to share with you all the assumptions that I made right
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and left that all turned out to be fucking incorrect, because I don't know
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how things work still, I guess. And it turns out like Pirona is
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out here sobbing, crying because she is under the impression that Maria is dead,
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and I was definitely for a second like, wait, did I miss
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that? I felt again like a goon. And then it turned out,
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okay, this isn't meant to be actually, like, uh, what is
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it that he says? Mihawk is reading the article because she found out about
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this from the newspaper, and he says, this article is not credible.
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So because the thing that I remembered was a bunch of people like gathering around
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Maria, I feel like it was Kuma's that were gathered around him if I'm
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not mistaken, but I may be mistaken. And so I was like under
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this impression that he had been captured, but I did not think he was
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dead. So Parona grieving as she was, caught me off guard. And
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then it turns out I was right to be caught off guard, because that's
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not necessarily the information that I have. Parona also is surprisingly interested in Zoro's
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welfare, and it's really difficult for me to tell how much she actually gives
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a shit about Zoro and how much she's just drama girl and wants to be
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have something to whine and complain about, because no shade to that. By
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the way, I am an ace complainer. I love complaining. It's so
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much fun and it can be very funny. So I am not cast in
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judgment or aspersions by saying this, but there was a part of me that
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was like, I don't think you even care about Zoro. I think you
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just want something to like rail about and just be like I can't believe you
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do that. I can't believe he'd do that. I can't believe this is
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happening. I can't believe exs you know what I mean? Like, I
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just get the vibe from Pirnha that she's sort of never happy with anything,
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and maybe that's unfair, maybe that's not true at all, but that sort
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of the vibe I got was just like, I don't really know that she
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likes Oro at all, that it's about him. I don't think it is.
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I think it's just like later on, when she's pursuing him, all
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she's thinking is how I thought this was amazing by the way, he's at
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least better than me, Hawk, who She's been here this whole time and
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he's never even offered her a cup of hot coco, not even ones,
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which, you know what, She's right to be upset about that Mehawk,
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sir, where's your hospitality? He rightfully says, I didn't invite you.
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I just showed up and you were here. They didn't ask to come here.
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Though they didn't choose to be here. They got sent here. That
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wasn't their choice either. So in showing some like respect for the fact that
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they are actively like at least one of them trying to leave, maybe just
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be nice, maybe you know, And one could argue he is nice because
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when Zora wakes up and is like, I want off this fucking rock,
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he tells Oora where to go to get a boat, which is more than
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he was expected to do. I guess. Unfortunately, Zorro gets waylaid by
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these ape creatures. I can't remember what he keeps calling them, but I
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saw it last time as well, and it was like it it's like humanids
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or something like this, or and they, it turns out, are able
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to imitate Zoro's three sword style. I am shook by that. It's one
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thing to just know how to fight. It's another thing to be able to,
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like harness whatever power Zoro is harnessing to fight back the same exact way,
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and to be able to do that practically overnight as well, that's a
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whole different situation and when they busted that out, I was genuinely like,
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how the fun because there's actual humans mandrills. Florian says mandrills. I think
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they're called the human drills is the way they're called. That's what it is,
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human drills. Thank you, Florian, But I just don't understand how
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these creatures are able to figure out his style and human beings aren't able to
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replicate it as far as we have seen. And I love the fact because,
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like, yes, Zoro is also shaken by the fact that they're able
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to do this. But it's not as much the reaction that I was expecting,
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which is like, oh shit, these are nobody to fuck with.
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As it turns out, it's instead this indignation, not that they stole his
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technique, but more that they have so little self respect that they would be
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willing to use a technique they stole on him the person they stole it from.
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You know, like, it's one thing to steal a technique and use
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it on somebody else who doesn't know you stole it, and so it just
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seems really impressive. But if you're stealing it from someone and then you use
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it on them, you are admitting to the fact that you're just copying,
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which is embarrassing to Zorro's just like, how can you do that? Have
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some fucking pride, you know, And I do sort of enjoy coming at
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it from that place. I am very curious about and this is something that
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has come up with like loofy as well. I don't know if we're ever
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going to get an explanation. I don't think. I feel like you guys
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have attempted in the comments and stuff at times to give me some borderline head
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canon explanations for the ways in which Lufy has figured out first gear, second
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gear, third gear. Because we didn't really see on screen him developing these
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new techniques. It sort of just seemed like he busted out with them out
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of nowhere a little bit. And that's sort of how I feel about Zoro's
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techniques as well. I wish that we got to see how he came across
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some of the methods that he uses. It's not like really important. I
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just find it a bit jarring when he's able to use like a demon technique
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that I've never seen before, and I don't know how he figured out how
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this even worked. But I'm spending too much time on Zorro suffice to say
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that uh, Parona like chases after him to see if he's okay and leaves
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Meehawk in his castle, and Meehawk has a moment of like, I'll just
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let her go, But then he thinks back to the way that Zoro fought
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and was willing to take a cut on his chest because any marks on his
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back would be a disgrace. So he comes out and like checks up on
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Zoro as well, and when he points, when Mihawk points out, like
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that ship's fucked up, so you can't use that, Zoro just says,
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well, it's it's not that bad. I'll be able to hold onto it
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and partially swim. I don't give up that easily. Meehawk says, it's
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an admirable sentiment, but you aren't going to be able to defeat these creatures.
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And this is when he describes this was the site of a great war.
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When I first came here to live, the island still smelled of blood
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and smoke everywhere. Dead bodies littered the ground. So that's where they're getting
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weapons and armor and whatnot from. Is like all of these people who were
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killed here. So he says, now let's leave. It's late the humandrils
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won't set foot near the castle, and Zoro's just like, fuck you,
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I'm not doing what you say. I've got to get out onto the water.
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I have to go and find Loofy. And Mihak just says, all
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right, fine, do what you like, Zoro. I've already wasted enough
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time stranded in this dump. And he says, I'm gonna cut down every
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single one of them. And as he says this, we cut to Pirona
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who sees him going in once again to this fight. All of his swords
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go flying into the air, and then we have an interstitial and when we
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come back, it's a whole other storyline, so we don't actually see what
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happened to Zoro. That's just the way that ends. So the storyline we
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come back on is Brooks, where everybody thinks that he's Satan and that he's
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going to help them get defended against the long Arm tribe. All right,
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I am gonna just say this. I had a lot of hope for this
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storyline, and there are some funny bits. I'm not going to lie.
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However, it's sort of agonizing, and I think that's the point, right,
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But it's just difficult to get through because there's kind of one joke and
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it's just over and over again. It's just said, and the joke is
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that they think he's Satan, and so they just keep saying the name Satan,
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either hail Satan or like at a boy Satan, whatever it's it's the
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joke is using the name Satan in the way that they are so constantly is
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the part that's funny, and it mostly does work, but it feels very
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flat after a little while. And it's also really confusing because like, you
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know, he locks himself in this room and he's writing this music. We
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know he's writing music, and he comes out and he's got this stack of
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music that he has written. And evidently these guys don't even know what music
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looks like written down, and so the leader of this group is apparently like
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This is something that I always find kind of frustrating. It's a trope that
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happens a lot, especially when you're dealing with this kind of storyline where it's
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somebody being mistaken for a god, where you've got like the person who's the
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actual god allegedly, and then you have somebody who is supposed to be the
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leader interacting with that God, and the actual God is telling people no,
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no, no, don't do that, but nobody's actually listening to that God.
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They are listening to the leader instead. So the dude who's running things
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here with his stupid sheep hat, he tells everybody like, oh, these
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marks are like sigils to keep the long Arms away. I bet if we
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put these up all over the place, even just looking at them, is
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it's gonna kill the members of the long Arm clan. And Brooke is like,
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no, well, no, that's not what they are, and you
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shouldn't separate the pages. And nobody pays any attention to him, which is
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part of what I found, Like, this doesn't make any sense. If
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they think he's God and he's speaking the same a god, they think he's
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Satan and he's speaking the same language as them, they would listen to him
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over their own leader. Anyway. It doesn't matter all this to say that
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they spread the papers out before he manages to be like, no, this
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is music and it's supposed to be that. Once he gets the pages together
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and he actually plays the music, they get so inflated with inspiration. Basically
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to defend themselves in a way that they haven't in the past, that they
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finally stand up to the long Arm clan and they are they They say later
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like, well, Brooks, you're the one who really well, they say,
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Sane, you're the one who really fought and did most of the work.
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But still you prove to us that, like we can stand up and
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do something and fight back. And uh, it's such a The way that
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this goes is so weird because they've got the long Arm guys in a cage,
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and the clan leader is like, I know what, let's do.
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These guys are freaks because they have like two elbows, and we could sell
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tickets to look at them because they're freaks and make a bunch of money off
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of it. They'll be like a little display. And Brooks, who had
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been like about to bounce from this place overhears and is like, no,
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no, no, you can't do that. That's immoral and you wouldn't like
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it if they did that to you. And he's trying to do this sort
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of turn the other cheek thing, which nobody seems to have any questions as
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to why Satan would be this forgiving, but he convinces them let these guys
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out of their cage, let them go, because that's what you would want.
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And once these students are let out, they just scoop Brooks up,
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tie him up like a little fucking turkey, and carry him on their shoulders
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because they are going to cell tickets for people to see the walking, talking
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skeleton and make a bunch of money that way. And when he is carried
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off, the people in the klan that he just left behind are like,
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well, we'll have to summon another devil to help us help Satan. And
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one of them is like, yes, well summon him through the power of
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underwear, which I had forgotten about the panties thing from earlier that they deeply
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misunderstood. I am really kind of wanting them to actually summon a devil and
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to see what that would even look like. I don't anticipate that that's going
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to be how the story goes, but I think it would be funny.
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But Brooke, as he's being carried over the hills, is thinking to himself,
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how like, lufy, I hope that you listen to music to inspire
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you, because that'll help you get through a lot of the bad times.
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And I actually really kind of liked that even though it does not feel like
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it, that whole storyline is just not good, you know, it's just
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not Florence says, Yeah, Brooks and Choppers are the weakest storylines to me,
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with all the straw hat my boys deserve better. Yeah, definitely,
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although I maintain for me right now, even weaker than Choppers is probably at
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this point oosops. But we haven't gotten enough of his to know, so
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I have just I look, I'm just not here for like tons of fat
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jokes, you guys know, And that's kind of been all we are getting
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from us up story, but it may change. So that's that's the deal
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with the rest of this episode, because it's all just Brooks and you know,
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that whole thing until we get to like the very end where Boa is
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talking to Raley and demanding basically like not demanding that he repeat himself, but
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demanding that he explained himself. Because reminder, we ended the last section with
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Raleigh telling Loufy something and we don't hear what it is, so he's giving
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him advice, and when we start this one and come back to it,
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everybody has already heard the advice he's given, but they're outraged by it,
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and it turns out he is advising Loofy to go back to Marine Ford,
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and he's like puzzling over this because of his friends. He's like, I
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don't want my friends to go through something like that again. So if I
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do like you'd tell me to, will it help me protect them? And
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Raley says, no promises, but it's certainly worth a shot. That said,
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you do realize you have a lot of work to do, and Lufy
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says, Okay, I've made up my mind. I'm going back to Marine
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Ford if that's what you think I should do. The next episode is most
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concerning everybody finding out that he has gone back to Marine Ford, but not
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actually knowing why, and we don't get told why. We're just seeing everybody
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kind of being like, what the fuck is he doing? Except for Robin.
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Robin is the only one that seems like to understand what it is that
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Rayley is planning. She has the most understated reaction, and she actually kind
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of smiles, whereas almost everybody else that we see is like, are you
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fucking kidding me? And that feels right to me. Robin always just seems
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like she's a step ahead of everybody else in the crew. You know,
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she just always kinda look, I'm just gonna say it, as much as
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I don't find Robin to be that interesting a character at this point to watch,
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I think her backstory is interesting, I think all of that, but
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like, in practice, I don't find her that much fun. Despite all
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that, it will always feel to me like she's kind of slumming it with
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the straw hat pirates, Like she has other options she could pursue. She's
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smart enough and capable and competent enough, she could be doing a lot of
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other things, and she's here with them because she enjoys them, and so
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she's kind of like, you know, she's keeping company with people that need
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her a lot more than she needs them, is the way I'll say that.
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But Okay, so we have this opening for the next episode, a
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disaster for sangy Is. We get a bit of a surprise here because we
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hear somebody from a ship who's like telling the navy to open up the gates
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of justice. We're a naval ship five nine sixty three code number confirmed,
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blah blah blah, and these people who are opening up the gates for them
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to be let in don't realize that the crew has been completely tied up,
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and Lufy is here with Jimbey and is apparently like totally healed, and they
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are coming in. I don't know what they're planning on doing, but Raley's
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with them, and the guy who's like sort of in charge of this ship
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is very impressed and has no idea what it is thereafter either. He's just
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sort of like, my god, we've got some real badasses here. So
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we see them going in, but we don't actually find out any further what
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they're up to. So we check in with Chopper here, and you know,
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we basically get what had been hinted at last time, and that I
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wound up like Florian mentioned the birds, and I was like, oh,
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it takes the bird. That makes sense. That is what winds up happening.
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It's really funny, how loofy not loofy, how Chopper is unaware of
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the fact that he doesn't know where to go or how to get there until
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he begins walking away. I forget sometimes because Chopper is meant to be a
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doctor character, and I just assume that means he's smart. He's smart in
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like a certain way, but not in like a get things done, like
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in general sort of way. So he's over here just generally doing the broker
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ring of peace between the birds and the humans, reminding them to get along,
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and they give him some cotton candy as a gift. I have no
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idea how they make cotton candy here. It feels unlikely, but I do
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kind of enjoy that's his brand now. And they tell him like, anytime
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you want to come back, you're always welcome, and he gets real emotional
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about it. When I can, I promise I'll come back and visit,
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okay, And they give him a container full of like all of these different
32:28
fruits as well, and the when he heads out, he stops realizes,
32:37
I have no idea where I'm going, and then the bird the chick kind
32:43
of like jumps in front of him and tells him, my father will fly
32:50
you there. There is a moment when he's just noticed that he doesn't know
32:53
where he's going, and it goes back to the people, the humans,
32:59
and I do have my issues with the way they are being portrayed and voiced,
33:04
but I could not help but laugh when one of the kids says,
33:08
of Chopper, he big dummy. Yes, he is bless his heart,
33:15
but he is big dummy. No arguing with that, So he gets on
33:22
the back of this bird. We have some high jinks in the air as
33:27
he's being thrown around and caught by the bird and almost throws up, and
33:32
eventually he spots one of those birds that is like a pelican carrying the newspapers
33:39
of the day. And this is when he comes across the information about Lufy
33:45
and it is just like, wait, what is going on? Then we
33:49
cut from him to the Snowy Bridge where Robin is. She's on one of
33:55
those she's on a train, I think here, and we get a bit
34:02
of a flashback where she's being released from her manacles along with all of these
34:07
other people who were like rescued by the rebels. And uh, I can't
34:14
remember this little girl's name, but she has drawn a picture of Robin and
34:20
gave it to her as a sort of keepsake. It's the sort of thing
34:23
that I think is really like when you step back and think about it,
34:27
it's kind of funny. It makes sense. Especially it makes sense as a
34:31
kid because like I remember doing this sort of thing as well, because I
34:35
love to draw. But Soren is her name, that's right, But the
34:44
idea of giving somebody a portrait of themselves, like when you're making it and
34:49
you're like, I drew you. I'm giving this to you because I made
34:52
it of you. That makes sense, but it is sort of funny out
34:57
of context. If you like, visit somebody and they've just got drawings of
35:00
themselves around, you know, there's just a funny vibe with that sometimes.
35:07
And it was something that when I was doing a lot of drawing in college
35:10
and in high school, we were like set to do self portraits, and
35:17
I remember how odd it felt to just stare at myself in the mirror and
35:23
then draw myself. It felt very like vain, even though that was not
35:29
the point. So I just found this kind of funny. But yeah,
35:35
Robin tells Sorn goodbye, and Soren says, are you going to be back?
35:43
And Robin nods, doesn't say anything and doesn't give like a date,
35:49
but she nods. So we'll see how that works out. I have to
35:52
assume that, like some of these storylines feeling kind of unfinished, are going
35:58
to come up again later with our friends, you know that they're going to
36:00
get involved. So then we have oh my God Bunny Joe is the name
36:07
of that guy Bunny Joe on Earth, and he is talking to Robin about
36:13
where it is that she's headed, and he calls her the light of the
36:21
revolution. You're the only survivor from O'Hara, the brave country that fought against
36:28
the whole world, and now that we've finally found you, we will shield
36:32
you from the government at all costs. Those are our boss's orders. And
36:38
he explains to her that Dragon is the leader of the rebel army Lufy's dad,
36:45
and she's just like, wow, wild the way that things overlap.
36:51
He wants to introduce her to Dragon. He's like, let let me bring
36:55
you over there myself in that way you know you, And she says,
37:00
I can't. I have to return immediately. But a part of me really
37:07
felt like that was not the move personally I would And I admit I don't
37:16
have anything to really like base this on. This is the sort of thing
37:21
that I would make assumptions and they might turn out to not be true,
37:23
and I might have wasted my time and everybody else's. But I'm just gonna
37:30
tell you how I would feel about it. If I'm trying to get back
37:32
to Loofy really urgently, and I find out that the leader of this revolution
37:39
is Loufy's dad. I am definitely going to speak to him to not only
37:45
get me back to Loofy, but to involve him in whatever is going on
37:50
with Lufy. With him going back to Marine Ford, I don't know if
37:54
he would have any interest because the fact that Dragon has seemed to like not
38:00
kept super close tabs on Lufy most of his life, I don't really know
38:07
what to think about his attachment to his son. It's as if he didn't
38:14
want Lufy to know he was his father. And maybe I'm wrong about that,
38:21
but I just you know, there there's potential for if Robin were going
38:27
to do what I just suggested, Dragon might not want anything to do with
38:32
Lufy and would be like, look, i'll get you a sabaoti, but
38:35
I'm not involved. I'm not you know, like, this is not my
38:37
fight. I just think I would want to explore that avenue. It would
38:43
just be the thing that I would leap to first. And when the fact
38:47
that she like just immediately turns this guy down kind of surprised me, and
38:57
she's like, I don't need you to look out for me. After all,
39:00
I have my friends, and I'm like, girl, they're not here,
39:05
Like you need somebody looking out for you. Look at what happened.
39:07
You got captured and thrown into a prison, and some bad shit very nearly
39:14
happened if it weren't for these folks showing up. They are your friends too,
39:17
Now maybe include them in your little mental crew. That's all I'm saying.
39:27
There was just a sense here for me of like her acting as if
39:35
simply having faith in the straw hats would keep her afloat and safe. And
39:40
I'm just like, in what practical sense has that ever happened? And it
39:45
felt a little out of character for Robin herself, because she just is kind
39:52
of practical. She seems to be somewhat pragmatic, so telling him like,
39:57
Hey, I don't need you, I just need my friends who aren't here.
40:01
And she says to him, your army seems to need me, and
40:07
I would like to know why, And he says, between here and where
40:15
you're going, you'll notice a lot of ghost towns because a lot of this
40:19
country relocated when the construction was going on. That one there, for example,
40:23
is from three hundred years ago. They kept building because the world nobles
40:30
ordered it, but honestly, the reasons don't matter. That doesn't justify the
40:36
deaths of those who've been enslaved here. It's all the same, and this
40:46
storyline is sort of basically the point is, the nobles just want this bridge
40:53
built because it would make traveling easier, and they don't care how many lives
40:59
they have to sing in order to get it done right. So the thing
41:06
that I feel is sort of missing a little bit is the presence of the
41:10
nobles. We have the the armies punishing the people, but I don't know,
41:19
there's something about this storyline being so serious and compared to in comparison to
41:24
the others I've already said this that makes it stand out in such a way
41:28
that I want it to hold together a little bit more. And it just
41:31
feels like they're trying for something that isn't quite jelling. And it may just
41:36
be that we need more info. I don't know, But uh, we
41:40
have all of these guys like seeing the newspaper and the news about Loofy and
41:45
bringing her that article so that she finds out like, oh good, he's
41:50
safe. And there's a moment when she gasps as she continues reading, but
41:53
then she smiles, and Bunny is just like, are you amused or upset?
42:02
And she says both, and that's the end of what's going on with
42:07
her interstitial and then we go to Soany. I have a question about what
42:20
the deal is with this constant imagery of the wave washing up onto the beach
42:28
and leaving shells, because I think it's supposed to be that the white one
42:35
is Soany and when it washes up and there's a bunch of like yellow shells,
42:40
those are supposed to be the other people on this island. And then
42:45
eventually there's like a really large shell that's I believe supposed to symbolize Eva.
42:52
But it's just sort of a strange. It's just odd, you know,
43:00
like this isn't the sort of thing the show does all that often. There
43:04
have been weird moments. I'm trying to remember, because I know that back
43:07
when we were at us Up's Island. Was it a snail or a turtle
43:16
or a front There was something that was like swimming in the bay area.
43:23
Just our camera would constantly go back there to this one animal and it would
43:30
be occasionally falling off a rock and back into the water and it was just
43:37
a sort of bizarre visual thing they kept doing. And that's what's happening here
43:43
with the shells washing up, and I don't really get what the deal is.
43:46
I feel like maybe it's just a full time, to be honest,
43:50
because there's not a lot going on here. Sanji is trying to explain that
43:58
he wants to leave to Loofy, and basically the woon on this island are
44:05
all just like, well, that's just a ploy for you to escape,
44:09
which it's sort of at this point, after he has gone ahead and embraced
44:16
the makeup and the dresses the way that he did for a while, it's
44:21
sort of weird that they still want to keep holding him here, like why
44:27
is it important to you? And he even says like, even if it
44:30
is a ploy, I just want to leave, and they refuse to let
44:35
him. And finally once Eva shows up, it's really I didn't even think
44:43
about this, you guys, but when Sanji first meets Eva, she is
44:52
in her female form, and you know, she's got this insane body with
44:59
these fucking knockers, and he instantly has his like nosebleed thing, and he
45:06
tells himself like she's a dude underneath all that hotness. Otherwise she wouldn't be
45:12
on this island. So I'm not gonna fall for it. But he can't
45:16
help it. Every time she talks to him and he opens his eyes and
45:20
looks at her, he just gets these like heart eyes. Her boobs are
45:25
a perfect ten and her butt's nice and tight two. And it's so funny
45:30
when they do this because her boobs just like kind of bounce independent of her
45:35
body and her butt like squeezes a little bit. And I was just like,
45:37
what are we doing here, folks? But again, nosebleed, nosebleed,
45:44
nosebleed. And finally it's just like, is there anything I can do
45:49
for you? And he says, I've got a lot of questions for you,
45:52
buddy, and the first one is are you single? Ah, I
45:57
mean it's about loofy. I do find this really funny, to be honest,
46:07
Oh god, this is just like this is one of those things where
46:10
it's like we're really walking a tightrope here, because the whole like men who
46:16
are attracted to trans women but have not come to terms with that is a
46:21
really dangerous concept and something that has led to the deaths of lots of trans
46:27
women. So it's like not a joke, but also it is a joke
46:32
here in you know what I mean, Like it's just such a it's a
46:37
real sticky subject here. And the idea that like men will sitis, men
46:49
will act out in anger and violence towards trans women because of the fact that
46:55
they are attracted to trans women and that fucks with them in some basic way
47:02
with their idea of their own masculinity and everything. You would think that that
47:07
would like open people's eyes to the fact that gender is just a construct and
47:12
that if somebody just can like dress a certain way and suddenly you find them
47:16
very attractive when you didn't before that it's all just it's all just kind of
47:22
nonsense. You would think that you would see that, but that's not what
47:27
happens, you know. Anyway, So when he asks about Loufy, finally,
47:37
I wasn't expecting the response that he gets here, because what it turns
47:42
out is going on is that Eva doesn't trust that Sangi actually is friends with
47:50
Loufy, and so I thought it was just going to be like, oh
47:55
my god, you're Soangy, Like yeah, I'll definitely reunite him with you
48:01
whatever, that it was gonna be a helpful thing. But what it turns
48:06
out to be is that Eva thinks Sanji is just somebody working for the world
48:13
government who wants to find out where Lufy's hiding out and get the drop on
48:19
him. And it never even entered my mind that she would think that.
48:24
I'd never even thought that for a moment. And Eva keeps doing this thing
48:32
I'm saying, she but she transforms back into her male form here uh,
48:38
and is just like, yeah, how about no? And that's like there's
48:45
the constant like, Oh, I'm gonna pretend that you've almost got me in
48:49
this fight, but no, I'm gonna pretend that you've won me over and
48:52
I'm gonna tell you everything but no, over and over again. And it
48:57
was genuinely actually funny to me after point, because you see it coming,
49:02
you know a lot of the time when it's happening, But because of how
49:08
flamboyant the no is, the punking is, it's still very very much like
49:19
the delivery makes the joke, do you know what I'm saying. So Eva
49:24
pulls up all of these different posters, these wanted posters, and is seeing
49:31
Sanji's response to all of them and asking whether or not he's friends with these
49:37
people. When he sees Zorro and is asked if he's friends with him,
49:42
he gets real mad. When he sees Namies, of course, his eyes
49:46
bug out, are you familiar with the King of Sniper's picture here? And
49:50
he just says yup, and there's like barely any response, And then is
49:54
this one you? And he shows Sanji the weird cartoon verse, which Soanji
50:01
insists isn't him, and Eva is saying, well, if you're not on
50:07
any of these posters, then there's no evidence that you have any relationship with
50:13
Lufy, So I'm not gonna tell you jack shit, And finally Sonji is
50:17
like, okay, I'm just gonna admit it. Yeah, that is me.
50:22
That poster is me. And Eva it's like he holds it up and
50:30
is like, do you admit it, which makes it sound like Eva believes
50:36
it's soanjy and is just waiting for him to cave. But when Sonji finally
50:40
is like, yeah, okay, yeah it's me, Eva then says nope,
50:46
no match. And I love the fact that she made him admit it.
50:51
But then won't like give him the satisfaction, like that's just evil.
50:57
It's very funny. Oh my god, it's so mean. So eventually the
51:07
deal they come to is that Sanji is going to fight Eva for the pirate
51:15
ship, and that if he beats Eva in this fight, he's gonna sail
51:20
off in it, and that way he can get back to Sabaodi. And
51:27
this whole like the way that the fight goes again with the joke that we've
51:35
heard already, but it still works. I thought for sure he was going
51:40
to like impress Eva, and Eva would be like, wait, maybe you
51:45
do work with strawboy, because you know you're clearly very committed, or you
51:51
have skills or whatever. But no, instead it's the I'm on the edge
51:58
of death, you're so powerful and strong, and then of course the or
52:05
not, and Eva just absolutely destroys Sanji. Like Sanji has he's using his
52:15
red hot leg thing that he's got going on. So he's using some of
52:22
his best moves, is my point, and it makes no impression. And
52:29
Eva says, I dare say you could benefit from some discipline forty fourth esthetic
52:37
technique hair removal fist, and we just see her like going in and the
52:45
camera pulls back and we hear her yelling like death wink, hell wink,
52:54
galaxy wink, and poor Sonji just ough, oh like just clearly getting the
53:01
shit kicked out of him, and then the bell and Eva is standing over
53:07
him, and Soanji is bloodied and bruised, his clothes are a shredded mess.
53:16
They're like he's twitching basically, and Eva says, all right, mister
53:22
curly browse, I'll give you an update on Strawboy. And when he says,
53:30
wait, what made you change your mind? Eva says, oh please,
53:34
there's no need to hide with the whole world knows anyway, and he
53:38
throws down the newspaper that has the article about the fact that Lufy has gone
53:44
back to Marine Ford and the facts that Eva has this paper and just beat
53:51
the shit out of Lufy anyway or Sonji anyway. Just Eva, what are
53:58
you? Why are you like this? What are you doing? What is
54:00
this? It was honestly very funny though. So we then have Eva going
54:09
and talking to what is it the Baltigo where Dragon is and Eva is saying,
54:20
like, we're your men, upset about finding out that you had a
54:22
son, and Dragon says they were actually happy to find out their mysterious boss
54:28
didn't have a heart of stone after all. But it doesn't make any difference
54:34
now because Lufy's not a kid anymore. But I was surprised to hear that
54:38
you were with him, and Eva was just like, yeah, fucking coincidence.
54:44
But Destiny's weird, what with that prison break In meeting your bundle of
54:50
joy, I have to say I have questions for you, and Dragon says,
54:53
I'm sure you do. The time has come for us to call our
54:57
commanders from every corner of the world as quickly as poss possible. Now that
55:00
white Beard is dead, the government, regime and the world situation are going
55:05
to change. Not only that, but it occurs to me, I haven't
55:07
gotten to tell you what happened to Kuma, and so you know, I'm
55:15
sort of like thinking that my assessment of what Robin should have done was probably
55:22
the right one. She should have gone a Dragon because this seems like he
55:27
is involved and he wants to be part of everything, you know. And
55:31
yeah, Eva, it's just like yeah about Kuma, Like I couldn't believe
55:36
the fact that he was about to try and kill me working for the government
55:38
was already quite terrible, but now they've got clones of him, Like,
55:43
what the fuck is going on? And have you seen today's news? Strawboy
55:49
has thrown me for a loop yet again. He's just as wild as his
55:52
father. He seems to be relaying some kind of message, and we see
55:58
just a real quick sh shot of Loofy standing with his eyes closed and his
56:05
head sort of bowed, holding his straw hat over his chest, and in
56:12
the background all of this smoke, the what looks to be sort of scaffolding
56:16
like they're rebuilding Marine Ford and a bunch of marines with weapons raised behind him.
56:23
And that's it. That's all we get, and it's the end of
56:27
the episode. So I have no idea what it is he's trying to do.
56:32
Like a part of me was like, is he attempting to sort of
56:36
extend an olive branch? Like I don't see how that is possible, you
56:45
know, Like the only thing that I could think was that it might have
56:49
something to do with Garb, but it just maybe it's just that he's like
56:57
hoping that if his friends get on Sabote, that if he makes enough of
57:01
a spectacle of himself here that it will be a distraction, but like,
57:07
there's got to be more to it than that. There has to be something
57:09
that he's attempting to accomplish. I really don't know what it could be.
57:15
Like, Yeah, I don't have any ideas. I really don't, so
57:22
sorry about it, folks. Sometimes I come up with stuff and some days
57:27
my brain is barely functioning, And this is one of those days. Florine
57:31
isn't the chat saying loving this odin milks? That wanted poster jokes so hard?
57:38
I honestly like that wanted poster has popped up a couple places for me
57:46
recently, Like there's a I think I mentioned this place before, but there's
57:50
an area near us that's got a lot of like Korean restaurants and also Korean
57:55
like stationary store and a sort of Korean dollars store. It's more than a
58:00
dollar, the way that our dollar stores are now more than a dollar,
58:02
but that's that kind of vibe. And the stationary store has a bunch of
58:09
like fandom stuff, And they had that Sandy wanted poster for like wal Art,
58:15
and I was very tempted, but I just don't have any space on
58:20
my walls right now to put anything, so it's just like where am I
58:22
What am I gonna do with it? But uh yeah, it comes.
58:25
It's very funny. Every time I see it. I laugh. All Right,
58:30
guys, I'm gonna wrap up. Thank you guys so much for listening.
58:34
Appreciate you all. I hope you're enjoying the coverage, And until next
58:37
time to loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast