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One Piece, 343 & 344 · 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 three forty three and three forty four. His name is Maria, The
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Great Shadow, Season Pirates, Trap and Feast of the Zombie Song, The
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Night Raids bell is the Sound of Darkness. I love these titles so much,
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y'all, I just do. I love them so much in these episodes,
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Well, Zombie Night's definitely going on my Halloween playlist. Number one,
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Number two, the concept of zombies that go and carry around a disco ball
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thumbs up forever. And number three, I really want to know why the
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hell's SANGI is always the one who has to get got and put on his
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zone somewhere. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I
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am Natasha. Thank you so much to the One Piece crew for commissioning this
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episode. What's up? Ali all, guys, thank you, thank you,
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thank you. Brian is in the chat saying that he found me through
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the Wire series. Oh dope, but that is a show that so many
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people don't even know. We covered those of you who are interested in me
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in rashaan me in my very like fledgling understandings of race and its role in
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the United States. Like I got it on the broad level, but much
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of the nuance was lost on me. And I really think about like going
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back and rewatching it knowing what I know now, and I wonder if it
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would be like worse. But anyway, this is not a wire podcast.
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However, you should listen to that, except please be gentle with me because
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I didn't know I was doing my best. Bless my little baby heart,
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my baby leftist heart. So this episode we have not left, of course,
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Thriller Bark. I'm assuming Thriller Bark is going to be a thing now
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for a while. And I gotta tell you, guys, frankly, I
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am one hundred percent here for Thriller Bark being where we stay for the rest
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of the year. It is currently May Sat May second. I would have
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no problem with that. Thriller Bark is just such a beautiful, weird,
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little fucking treasure trove of horror tropes and I only my only regret, and
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Floria mentioned this as well, is that I wish that we had hit this
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in September as we started to get into Halloween season. Then it would be
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Chef's Kiss perfect. But I have a feeling this is the kind of thing
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that I wouldn't mind going back and putting the arc on when I hit September
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anyway, just as like a fun little background Halloween thing that's going on.
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I so, okay, I'm gonna start things off from the beginning of episode
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three forty three, because it turns out that Maria is one of the great
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Warlords of the Sea, and Maria is the one who is stealing everybody's shadows,
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which it's still unclear exactly what it is he's like getting out of this.
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For me, I feel like we're that's being kept from us purposefully.
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But the fact that he steals their shadow I wouldn't really have that much of
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an issue with, because who cares. It's the fact that they can't go
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out into the sun now that really fucking sucks. You've stolen You've turned them
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into vampires, except without any of the good parts of being a vampire.
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Doesn't seem like you get any superspeed, immortality, none of that. You
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just get turned into an albino in a sense who is just immediately wrecked by
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the sun. And I this dude, the only like sight we get of
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him are his eyes in the dark. At one point, he's like having
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a bad dream, and one of his little henchman says something about like,
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aren't those great? Aren't those the best kind? Or something like that,
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And as somebody who suffers from extremely detailed nightmares, can I just say fuck
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that forever? Nightmares I think are one of the most unfair aspects of being
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a living, breathing human being. We can have all sorts of things go
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wrong with our body, we can have all sorts of things go wrong with
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our mind in waking hours. And as much as that sucks and is also
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unfair, the fact that you can't even get away from stuff when you sleep,
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that it will continue to fucking haunt you. And this goes for just
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generalized anxiety to trauma. I really think that sleep being fucked with is like
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the akin to like hitting below the belt. Sleep should be off limits.
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We should as much as we suffer in our waking hour during the day.
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As a race of people, I really think nature could have just given us
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a fucking pass on sleep. How hard would that have been, Like,
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come on, just at the very least, if we're gonna have to dream,
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make it so that nightmares aren't a thing. Make it so that the
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dreams are at least neutral, if not outwardly pot like overtly positive. So
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anyway, this, uh, I'm getting ahead of myself. I said I
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was gonna start at the beginning. I definitely didn't. But okay, So
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Woofy is in the graveyard and I love and he's talking to the zombies and
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he's like, what are you guys all tooing out here? You guys,
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I'm gonna have a hard time getting through this episode because so much of it
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cracks me up so bad. So he's asking what they do out here?
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Well, zombie stuff mostly you know, getting buried, hanging out, rotting
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and stuff. Yeah, pretty much rotting and hanging out. Yeah, same
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here. And I love the fact that there are as they each speak with
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the subtitles. There's a bracket to tell you which of the zombies is speaking,
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and they have their number and letter that they're like labeled with to really
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let us know which of them it is. That takes it over the top
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for me into truly hilarious. There was just something about the way this whole
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scene was set up. This show often delves into the ridiculous, and they
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do a lot of humor, but this particular location feels like it is lending
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itself to a type of really overt humor that I'm not used to seeing from
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them, and I will I want it to stay. I want this to
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not be a phenomenon caused by the location. I want this to be a
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transition that one piece makes to being straight up comedy a lot of the time.
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It doesn't have to be that way all the time. But you know,
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there's a lot of comedy in the show so far that has been sort
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of like sensible chuckle, you know, just a very kind of low key
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comedy or slapstick type stuff. But there is between this and our introduction to
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Brooke, this is really funny. I am absolutely here for it. And
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when Lufy is like, you're not lying to me, are you, let
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me ask you something. Did demand with a long nose, a woman with
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orange hair, and a reindeer that looks like a raccoon dog come through here?
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Oh yeah, right, right right. We may have seen them,
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but we're not supposed to. Sorry, we can't say. We're all under
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specific orders not to share information about stuff like that with anyone. Sorry about
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that, And they begin chanting, we have our orders, orders, orders,
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orders, to which Lufy says with a crack of his knuckles, so
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you're not gonna tell me, huh, And then they immediately cave. Yeah,
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we saw. Honestly, it's the kind of thing that I want to
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be. If they're calling these these zombies pitiful and cowards, you know,
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I think, Zoro says something, and so does Frankie. I can't be
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mad at them. They're just p They shouldn't put themselves in harm's way just
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to save somebody else's secret. Do what you need to do to get by
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zombie friends. It's tough out there, and you know, do what you
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gotta do. And I love this. So Lufy says something about how they're
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his friends. He didn't do anything to them, did you, And of
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course all of these guys at first start to say that they didn't do anything,
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and again Lufy is like, I don't believe you. Well, this
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guy did something, and one of them says something about how he bit them,
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and then another guy chimes in with, well, we all bit them,
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and then they all get very agitated as they realized that yes, Lufy
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did hear that. So Robin steps in as Zoro pulls his sword, and
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Sanjie comes forward and Frankie gets his fucking guns ready, and then we hear
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sounds of fighting as the camera pulls out a great distance, and all we
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get to see of it is a bunch of birds like taking flight because of
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the commotion, So that's all we get of that. I am kind of
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like, I kind of am glad that these zombies got knocked around for what
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they did to our friends, but again, I also feel like it's the
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equivalent of beating on a cashier for enforcing a policy for the store. The
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store isn't the one, or the store isn't the one that's like offering its
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face to you, so you just take it out on whomever is directly in
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front of you, which doesn't address the problem and isn't really going to help
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things in the long run. And that poor cashier has now had a shit
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day. So I feel a little bit for these zombies because they're just sort
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of like the service workers of this island. It seems like well, ship,
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as you know, I was spoiled on, but that's what's revealed in
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the next episode is the way that this ship is set up. So then
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we go to Lufy and he's talking about the zombies being sort of pathetic and
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it was just so easy to beat on them that it almost wasn't any fun,
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and Zoro is saying that it's you can never tell when somebody that's going
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to be stronger is going to pop up, which for some reason Sangi takes
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as him acting as if he's scared, which is like, it's not even
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close to what he was saying. But of course this results in the two
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of them facing off and causing such a ruckus that another per catches up to
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them, and understandably, all of them think that this man is also a
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zombie, which you know, he does have some of the stitching and whatnot
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on him that the others did, and it's forgivable. At one point,
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Lucy again calls him an old man with serious injuries, and they're like,
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what are you doing. That's another zombie and the guy's like, no,
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your friend's right, and then they yell at him for not being a zombie
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and things just being confusing. So this guy is here to ask for their
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help, and it turns out his shadow was also stolen and that there are
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a lot of other victims as well, and that they are looking to be
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rescued so that they can all enjoy the sun one last time at least before
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they die. And when they ask, who did this to you? Is
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here somewhere on this island? This guy has a real nice dramatic moment before
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finally he says Maria, and Robin has a strong reaction. She clearly recognizes
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this name and explains to all of them that he is one of the seven
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war Lords. So I keep like, I keep forgetting just how much more
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of this Robin knows than any of them, And so yeah, she's the
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one that like is this is not the first time, of course, that
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she is recognizing names or faces that they aren't, But yeah, she says
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that he is. He has an even higher bounty than Loofy. So yeah,
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when Lufi is like are you sure? Yes, Geko Moria is a
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man of many mysteries, and Frankie is like, Okay, The thing is,
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if this man is so like high profile and so powerful, why is
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he on Killer Bark? Like this place is a dump? Why is he
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here? And this dude isn't sure. He can't give them an answer on
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that. The overarching motivation by Maria is unknown. However, he does say
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something about how Maria is out to get you too, since you were invited
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here or something like that, and Zoro is like invited, No, we
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weren't. And then he remembers that like sacrifice for the sea god thing that
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they came across and realizes like, oh, this was all a big lure
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essentially, And yeah, this dude is like, we're basically completely stuck here,
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Like we can't get go on the sea and try and escape the island
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because we were going to be exposed to the sun. How would we even
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manage to sail? Like, there's no way to do that. And once,
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just once, before I die, I want to walk under the sun
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to feel its warmth on my skin. And he starts crying, and we
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get some real toxic masculinity stuff here because he's crying for, in my opinion,
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a completely valid reason that I would also cry about. I would just
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straight up this is the thing for me that's always like the concept of becoming
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a vampire, all of the perks aside, the concept of having to stay
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out of the sun forever is a heavy price. I don't think i'd be
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able to do that. I love the concept of course of being immortal,
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having strength and speed. All of this stuff sounds great, But one I
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love to eat actual food, and I think losing that would be quite a
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blow. And losing my ability to just like lounge in the sun or enjoy
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a sunny day. Man, that's like a big part of the pleasure of
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life. I just don't see it. So I felt for this guy.
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Frankie's feeling for this guy as well. He starts like crying and saying how
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touching it is. He's been through so much. It's a really gut wrenching
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story. And in the midst of the sobs, you won't make me cry.
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But then Zoro calls him a cry baby, says he's too compassionate,
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and Sanji pointston says only ladies get to persuade people with their tears. Show
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a little backbone, Willia, look, Sanji shut up? All right.
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I will be keeping an eye out for Sanji growing teary eyed about something in
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the near future so that I can throw this in his face, because frankly,
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Sanji, that's unreasonable. And if you were relegated to this sort of
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fate, I feel like you would be. I'm not going to say that
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you would be here crying because you would obviously go and fight your own battle.
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But clearly this guy is capable of only so much. I am just
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unhappy with Sanjie's reaction here, so lufy, well, this does sound like
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the guy that we are at. So I am going to find him and
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kick his ass, and if that saves you, that's fine by me very
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much. A helping you is the side effect of the plan I was already
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going to carry out. And all of these people on the outskirts of this
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clearing in the forest all start to chime in and say thank you as well,
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because they have been hiding and listening to the whole conversation, just like
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eavesdropping eavesdropping offscreen. So when Sanji yells at them about that, one of
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them says, oh, we're sorry, freaky curly eyebrows guy. And I
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was kind of gratified that right after, in my opinion, being kind of
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a dickhead, the Sanji got mocked. I was here for it, just
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saying I can be petty like that. I think it's fine. So this
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is when we go back to the hogbacks what do you call it? Like
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secret lab? We had all of these guys getting approached in the hall.
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While they're spying through the door, They're being approached from behind by this weird
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dude with the skeletonish face. I say ish because he seems like he's got
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skin, you know, he's not a complete skeleton. And he has sliced
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the door in half and like shoved them through it. And they all are
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sitting there just talking with one another about who that was and what his deal
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is, without even noticing that they are now inside the laboratory and Hogback is
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like looming over them. And when he gets their attention Usup tries to reassure
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him that they didn't even see anything. You can let us go, it's
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no big deal, And of course Up has to ruin it by being like,
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we didn't even see the zombie. You were making husup? Why are
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you like this? So I'm sure he goes on to say that, like,
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maybe you've figured out one of my secrets, but the night hunt is
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going to begin in just a few minutes, so you're too late to change
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anything. And of course our friends are like, well what is the night
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hunt? And he's like very dramatic with this, You guys whoa unto those
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who travel at this hour, no intruders shall survive the night hunt. And
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he says this. We get into another like interstitial where you know, it's
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a commercial break and whatnot, and we come back to him still fucking posturing.
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This dude is so much he's not answering their question for now. We're
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going to the Invisible Man, who I do kind of appreciate that. Eventually
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the crowd that like seemingly adores him begins just chanting pervert at him, which
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I don't know, I just sort of like appreciated that. But all of
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the zombies, the sort of like the visual joke about how our crew defeated
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all of the zombies is that when you go to the graveyard, they are
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now all face first in the dirt with their legs in the air, like
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little plastic dolls that have just been buried from the waist up upside down.
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And this imagery. I don't know why, but it's one thing when our
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friends have just finished the fight and they're walking away and we see the zombies
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like this, But when we cut back to the Invisible Man and he is
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coming into the clearing and sees that they are still just chilling like this,
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that was really funny to me, and I expected him to be like a
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little bit more. I don't know if like disgusted is the right word,
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but you know what I mean, just kind of like, oh wow,
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this is so embarrassing. But instead he's just like, well, you can't
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do the night hunt if you're still buried, now, can you? And
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seems pretty calm about the whole thing, which leads me to believe that maybe
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he is used to these guys all collectively fucking up fairly often, and so
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Invisible man, his name is Absalom. I don't know if I'm going to
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be able to remember that, so forgive me, guys if I have to
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ask you, you know, or get reminders. Invisible Man, I feel
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like it's pretty adequate to what we've got. But also, eventually we do
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see him, it seems like he can control whether he's invisible, so I
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don't know if I'll feel like it makes sense to keep calling him that in
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the scenes where we can now see him and he's trying to hype his guys
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up by being like, you zombies, are you know, impossible to defeat?
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You can't die. Every time you get knocked down, you get back
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up again. Ain't nothing going to keep you down. I'm so sorry,
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guys. I know that that's it's going to be in my head now.
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But he's trying to hype them up, and they are really kind of not
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having it. Like one of them just looks down and is like yeah,
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and then they all go in this very morose sort of way. We know,
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like they really are not that hype about being zombies. And I mean,
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I don't know that I would be either. I don't think and I'm
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actually not sure about this. I'm gonna assume if you're a zombie that you
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can't be out during daylight. And I'm saying this purely because of a general
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trope of this sort of zombie like raising out of the grave, punching through
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the dirt of the graveyard. Obviously, we've got entire genres of shows and
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movies where zombies absolutely can travel in the light. But I will be interested
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to see if that's actually the case here, Like, will we have daylight
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scenes and see these zombies out in the light. It feels like thriller Bark
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is in a sort of perpetual twilight and darkness, And I don't know.
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I'm just kind of keeping my eyes open for that. This is when they
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all begin to cheer him. They're calling him leader. And then eventually,
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like I said, transition to pervert, which is hilarious. He begins to
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grow visible and he is so weird looking. He's got like the nose of
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a lion's muzzle. I'm not sure if it's a lion, but it's like
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a large cat, and otherwise seems to look pretty much like a dude,
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like a regular dude. And then we get this really surprising sequence. You
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know, I had thought in the last section that we had kind of seen
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all the major players that we were going to be dealing with. But we
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get this bit where a bunch of ghosts all over the island, you know,
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the saying hut. They are flying towards this one open window, and
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there is an odd creature standing in the window waving them in. I think
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it says his name is Kumasi. He looks like a patched teddy bear like
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patch many many times bandages. He has sort of mask over his mouth,
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like what a surgeon would wear, except he's doing it in the real boomer
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wearing a mask during COVID where it's not covering his nose, it's only covering
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his mouth. It's a weird thing. And he is ushering them into the
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window, and all of the ghosts travel forward into a woman and she is
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sitting there as if when she doesn't have these ghosts like occupying her, she
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doesn't have any strength. There's a sort of sense that she is made up
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of them somehow. I don't really know how that would work. But this
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little stuffed bear is her servant, and he hands her this little like I
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guess Kane, and she hands up. Her name is Pirona. I'm not
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positive of saying that right, but she keeps like getting on his case about
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how ugly he is and that she doesn't want him to talk to her,
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and says something like either be cute or shut up is the way it goes
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in the dub, which honestly, a part of me kind of got that
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because I really enjoy beauty as well. But she has got the e girl
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hair, you know, the giant curling pigtails coming off each side of her
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head, and I think they're sort of a pink color and a very gothic
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Lolita sort of look happening. It's a pretty fun outfit to be honest,
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like, if I were going to cosplay a character, I would probably do
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her because it's just a fun look and it would be pretty easy to put
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together, I think, because so many really generic cosplay items could lend themselves
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to this. But anyway, so this is when we jump to master Morea
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and these guys come up. One of them uses it's a trio of little
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guys, and they reminded me a great deal of the small like trigger treaters
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are the kind of servants I guess, for lack of a better word,
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of the oogie boogie in Nightmare Before Christmas, which I only just saw for
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the first time, like a couple of years ago, but that was really
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the energy here. And they use a bow and arrow to pop this guy's
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bubble that he's like, this is one of those really weird to me visual
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cues. But you know, you guys have explained to me that an anime,
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a sort of bubble that's protruding and expanding and then shrinking is a sign
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that somebody is asleep as well as I think in Full Metal Alchemist there was
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a girl who was asleep in a library and there's just like a weird little
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sort of ghost figure dancing above her head like like as if it's coming out
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of her mouth, and I was like, what the fuck is that supposed
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to mean? And everybody's like, oh, that just means she's sleeping,
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and you know, I think of that as being really weird. But then
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I think of how our visual cue, like in American cartoons and stuff,
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is Z's coming out of her mouth, and that's also really strange, you
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know, Z Like, I guess, why is that better? It's not
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really Gus says, it's a parasol. Oh okay, so the gothlic lolita
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thing, we're really going for it, Saraphim says, So Kuma is Japanese
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for bear, so the ginger stuffed teddy bear looking thing is pretty much named
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Barry. I like it. I want to call him that from right now,
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from now on. And yeah, Perona tends to be a really popular
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causeplay. Yeah, this feels like a really easy one, you know,
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and it's cute and it's like, even if people don't necessarily know who you
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are, they're just going to be like, oh, you look nice,
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versus some of the other Cause plays that I feel like, if people don't
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know who you are, they will just sort of look at each other and
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be like, what the fuck is up with that outfit? Like, I
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just don't see being able to go out into the wider world in some of
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the costumes in this show. I feel like I don't know. So anyway,
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they're all yelling at Master Maria to wake up, and this is when
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we see like he has this big belly in what looks to be sort of
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plaid or argyle pants, but we don't see his face. It's just his
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eyes opening, which are glowing in a sort of purple haze of smoke that
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like hangs out around them. And these guys are all reporting to him about
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the straw Hat pirates and how they have been brought to the island for his
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benefit, and they're asking if he's pleased, because these are the same pirates
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that brought down in his lobby. So what's making me sort of like interested
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here is the suggestion that the more powerful they are, the better the more
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happy Maria is going to be, as if he, like somehow either is
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looking for a worthy opponent or can absorb the power of people who's like whose
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shadows he takes. So he's glad to be getting a whole assortment of people
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who have done something like really impressive, because that means that he will grow
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more powerful. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what
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that could mean. But so this is the part where they're looking up and
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they're like, what is that. Frankie realizes that the banner they're seeing hanging
34:10
is a sale, and this is when we get the official reveal about how
34:15
Killer Killer Bark Thriller Bark is the largest pirate ship there is. It's not
34:25
an actual island. It is a pirate ship with this huge like, first
34:32
of all, it has actual land around it. It has the big ass
34:37
building in the middle, which just looks like a capital building from a major
34:44
city, and then chained around it are is the huge weird wall with the
34:52
mouthlike gate and that is apparently a perman fixture around it. Pretty wild.
35:07
So yeah, everybody is standing there discussing this, and Frankie explains, oh,
35:14
I get it. Bark A bark is a type of sailing ship with
35:16
three or more masts, And I was like, you know what, Frankie,
35:21
appreciate you explaining that because I and I'm pretty sure that, like when
35:25
I've seen bark for a boat. It's been spelled b a r que.
35:31
So it did not occur to me that maybe spelling has changed over time,
35:37
or that what I was reading was maybe the spelling from like another country,
35:42
or I don't know, but I just appreciated that, like explanation there,
35:49
and yeah, this place is the home of Geko Moria, and the camera
35:55
as he says this, jumps to the inside of Geko's house and all of
36:02
these different clocks that are in there a lot of significance for timekeeping apparently.
36:09
So we go back to Invisible Man and he is saying, like, we're
36:15
going to take down the straw hats, show them no mercy. Together,
36:20
we will crush them. Now, go make me proud. And I was
36:23
like, man, they just faced them. And I don't know if you
36:28
noticed, but when you got here, they were all upside down in the
36:30
dirt. I don't know why you think that, like now, it's going
36:35
to be a different result, but I can basically guarantee it will be the
36:39
same result. So I wouldn't get my hopes up too much if I were
36:45
you. I'm just saying. So then we get a sort of montage of
36:52
different areas of the island. I don't really get what the meaning of that
36:59
was supposed to be. I kept like waiting for some significance for that I
37:02
don't know. But we go then to Pirna. She has finally we see
37:08
her in full color. She has these boots. She's got black and white
37:13
striped stockings, this like little frilly skirt with like a sort of cow gurlesque
37:22
look to it, and a big heart buckle on the front, and then
37:29
a capelit that's pink with what I think is supposed to be maybe a lacy
37:36
frill to it, but really kind of looks like sheer ling wool that ties
37:40
at her throat with like a big pink ribbon over a kind of ordinary looking
37:46
in a lot of ways, long sleeve white tea that has a heart,
37:52
like a couple of heart shaped symbols on it, and then her hair and
38:00
big round black eyes that are like very not human looking. They echo the
38:08
eyes of the ghosts in many ways. And she has to top it all
38:14
off, you know, her pigtails have each got a little bow and then
38:20
a crown, a giant I'm not taught, Like if I were listening to
38:24
this and I heard somebody say, and she's wearing a crown what I would
38:29
imagine would be a kind of like delicate jeweled metal sort of tiara type thing.
38:39
Allow me to really describe this crown. It is much more like when
38:46
you see a crown on I don't know, something official, like a stamp,
38:52
where it's got like the velvet kind of cap inside, and then the
39:00
metal curves up and around into the center where like a cross comes up off
39:06
the top of the crown. The really traditional, like her Majesty the Queen
39:13
wore this for her coronation kind of crown. And I mean, I'm talking
39:17
with the cross and everything, it's really quite a look. So then we
39:23
go to Maria and he is talking about the dark realm full of ghosts and
39:30
ghoules, this place we call Thriller Bark. They are going to see nothing
39:37
short of the nightmare to end all nightmares. And he's saying all of this
39:44
and apparently like all of his henchmen can hear, or at least they all
39:47
have the understanding of what's about to happen at the same time. But then
39:52
we cut to the rest of the straw Hats coming to the mansion, and
39:58
it's kind of funny because like, all of this drama is happening, but
40:01
they apparently don't see any of it, and they have no inkling whatsoever.
40:07
So there's like a sort of undercut of the drama here for a second to
40:14
me. But what we get at the start of the next episode. I'm
40:24
trying to jump ahead to find the right spot here. Okay, here it
40:30
is Feasts of the Zombie song. We have all of these guys and these
40:34
zombies are walking around, and I kept being like, that just looks like
40:38
a disco ball. It just looks like a disco ball. What is this?
40:44
There's no light that's coming off it, though, so I just kept
40:46
being like, I mean, that's what it looks like. I guess it
40:50
could be anything, who knows, but that's what it looks like. Spoilers
40:53
it is, but we don't have that yet. First, we go to
40:58
Hogbacks little chamber. I keep wanting to say torture chamber. It's his lab,
41:07
you know, but come on, it's a torture chamber also, and
41:13
Nami is sort of getting like confrontational with him and being like, we have
41:16
seen what you're doing, and all of these other zombies are also down to
41:22
you. And he's like, well, where's your proof, and then she
41:25
points out, Victoria Sindri, you died ten years ago. And it's interesting
41:34
because the doctor seems genuinely put off that they know this, which I was
41:42
sort of expecting him to be like, well, yeah, and look what,
41:45
Look she's still alive. I think that's pretty cool, right, But
41:49
he seems at first just frustrated at the fact that they have got this information
41:53
at all. He gives the command for them to all be grown into the
42:00
world of darkness, never to return. And when he says that, Sindry
42:06
gestures and suddenly has like a whole stack of plates in her hand, which
42:09
I was expecting somebody to say something like, really more plates, But no,
42:14
they don't really address it, and I thought that was kind of odd.
42:19
So let's see here it is. Here comes Ryuma. That's the name
42:24
of the other sort of I think Chopper calls him like a mummy, and
42:36
he comes in with his little hair and his in this tiny, hilarious kind
42:42
of he's got that that sort of ponytail that I really can't stand because it's
42:51
I have nothing against men wearing ponytails as a general rule. I'm actually kind
42:55
of a big fan of long hair on men, depending on you know,
43:00
a lot of factors. But one thing I cannot take seriously is the ponytail
43:09
in one spot where the rest of the hair is the same length as like
43:15
an ordinary men's haircut. And I know that this is, you know,
43:20
sometimes a historical style, a cultural style. I just think it's a bad
43:25
look. I never like it. It's one step away from like a rat
43:31
tail, you know, which I will never get over that they decided to
43:37
style Anakin Skywalker in the prequels with a rat tail. But that's neither here
43:43
nor there. So yeah, this dude says the same thing to Nami about
43:47
how I only have eyes for ladies like you, you're beautiful, and then
43:52
again, would you show me your panties? Oh boy? Now, at
43:59
the very least, it turns out that there is some significance to the fact
44:04
that he has said the exact same thing to her that Brooke said. And
44:09
she sort of stops and it's like, wait a second, I know that
44:13
line. What is this? And I don't know, because you know,
44:19
all she's thinking is that can't just be a coincidence. But I'm like,
44:23
are they related to each other? Or is this guy like part of the
44:30
same soul this dude is saying he is one of my zombie generals and he's
44:38
something quite special. They call his sort a samurai and this one supposedly slayed
44:46
a flying dragon according to the legend. And I don't know how, like
45:00
he just can't imagine why he says the exact same thing. Is there one
45:04
personality that's like controlling all of the zombies, because they do seem to have
45:10
distinct personalities, like when Lufy is talking to them in the graveyard and whatnot.
45:15
And I'm not sure, Like Brooke doesn't count as a zombie. He
45:22
was brought back to life by a devil fruit, so he isn't falling under
45:27
the same category. Has this guy the way that Hogback is talking about him,
45:36
seems he seems to be taking credit for this dude being alive, So
45:42
I think that said, though he doesn't have the numbers tattooed on him,
45:49
I don't think so maybe he's taking credit when really it's not. He's kind
45:57
of, you know, overstating thing a little bit. I don't know,
46:02
I don't know what to think. And he comes at them and he's really
46:07
really fast. He has his blade out, and all three of our friends
46:13
are sort of standing there, like what happened? I thought that he was
46:16
going to come after us, and nothing, even I don't understand, and
46:23
they start to walk away. They're like, I guess it was nothing.
46:28
We're good, and they try to leave the room, and then all of
46:32
a sudden, they go flying and you see all of this, like blood
46:39
coming out of their mouths and whatnot, And what it's supposed to be is
46:44
that basically he is so fast that he hit them and it took them like
46:52
a full twenty seconds to register the fact that they were hit, which I
46:58
kind of enjoyed. It is like a bit of a goofy move, but
47:01
I don't know, I thought it worked. I was fine with it.
47:06
So we then have all of the rest of the straw Hats coming into the
47:14
big main room where the start of the fight went down, with all of
47:19
the guys in the portraits, and we've got the Pig who is sort of
47:25
speaking for the room initially before everybody is like, let's get them boys,
47:32
And it's another fun juxtaposition similar to the zombies in the Graveyard, where everybody
47:39
comes out of the portraits and the huge bearskin rug rises off the floor and
47:46
they're all threatening them, hanging out around them, and you know, just
47:52
really putting on a show, expecting our friends to panic the way the rest
48:00
of our friends did. But instead they all just stare and are like,
48:06
oh, that's what's going on, all right, Well, let's deal with
48:10
this. And we go to each and every one of them individually putting down
48:15
their own monster in different ways. You know, We've got a pretty fun
48:22
moment where Robin is talking to the woman who's in the portrait and it's just
48:27
like, you're really way too pretty to be acting like this, and the
48:30
lady's like, you really think so, and she twists her with her you
48:35
know, flour powers. Frankie literally banging two heads together. Zoro says something
48:44
about two swords style nijeri, and one of them is like, what is
48:47
that sushi? And when he strikes them, I should stick to Robin.
48:53
Oh my god, that is such a bad joke. Good god. And
48:59
then the bear skin rug is like chasing Lufy, who is just giggling and
49:05
having the time of his life. At one point he like slams a paw
49:09
down and Lufy just somersaults out of the way, then jumps over his head
49:15
and runs in the other direction, and it's just Loukey wasting this bear's time,
49:22
having a really good time playing tag, essentially, and eventually Lufy is
49:30
like, all right, well now it's time. I was going to ask
49:32
you to join my crew, but you tried to smash me, so we're
49:36
gonna go with gum gum bazooka. And I love when he goes down.
49:42
The pig on the wall says no, not bear rug, which I like
49:47
to think is not only because the bear rug is obviously huge, very intimidating,
49:53
would be difficult to beat, and probably we all think that's our,
49:58
you know, last resort that's definitely going to succeed where everyone else failed.
50:01
But I like to also think hidden the pig and the bear are the only
50:07
two non human type creatures in this whole room. Everybody else is basically a
50:16
person, you know, a portrait of a human, and I'd like to
50:20
think that there's some sort of like weird camaraderie and kinship with them because of
50:23
that, even though that's a completely invented scenario in my head. But I
50:27
don't know, I'm just kind of you know, why not. Yeah,
50:30
I stick together somehow. So this is when there's this fucking pair of like
50:42
little squirrels, y'all. They have I think they're chipmunks, saying squirrels.
50:47
They have squirrel like tails, so probably they're based on like a version of
50:53
the animal that I'm not familiar with. They have squirrel like tails but chipmunk
50:59
like coloring. And they are standing over Nami Usup and Chopper, who have
51:07
been stuffed into a very very large coffin. And these two little guys are
51:16
clearly also both zombies. They are low key adorable and they fasten the lid
51:24
on and doctor Hogback is like, all right, now take the intruders away.
51:31
Do not know exactly where they're going to end up. Then we go
51:37
to the procession of zombies and we are really getting here now, kids.
51:42
So all of our friends are hanging out figuring out what they're going to do
51:51
next, and they notice Sanji is missing, where is our cook? And
51:57
I love it because a second ago, the ping off the wall was acting
52:00
real intimidated, like definitely wasn't expecting these guys to win, and they won
52:07
so handily, and you know, it's really seeming like the straw hats hold
52:13
all the power. But as soon as they ask where Sangi is, everybody
52:17
in the room starts snickering at the straw hats. At one point, one
52:22
of the guys from one of the portraits is like, guys, stop laughing.
52:25
They can hear you, which made it all the funnier. And then
52:32
everybody has different reactions. I love Sorrow, closes his eyes and just says
52:39
goodbye, Sangie, Rest in peace. He's just like, oh, what
52:45
can he do? But what Lufy says is it's Sangi. I'm not worried
52:54
about it. I'm sure he's going to be fine. And the pig on
53:00
the wall starts to get a little bit of his confidence back, and he's
53:04
talking about how they think they really did something here, but they hardly put
53:07
a dent in their numbers. And on the other hand, you just lost
53:14
one of your key fighters. I wonder who's next. And when he says
53:21
this, Robin interrupts and is like, well, regardless, we should really
53:28
keep our eyes open. And he tries to interrupt again and be like,
53:31
admitted, you're scared. You don't stand a chance, and she just talks
53:36
over him and says I suppose that we could threaten him, but even if
53:39
we did, And as she says this, like in the background, the
53:43
pig is like, like he was intending to get to monologue and she's not
53:50
letting him monologue. And I'm always a fan of that trope, you know.
53:55
So Zoro is like, all right, well, we'll just drag him
54:00
with us and use him as a guide, and again with the guys on
54:04
the ground laughing, yeah, yeah, guide them, and the pig says,
54:09
hey, now come on, no, no, no, go ahead,
54:14
if you want to die so badly challenge our master, it's your funeral.
54:20
And one of the dudes is like, he's so scary, I can't
54:22
even speak his name. Let me try get go Nope, just as I
54:28
thought, it's too scary. And then you know what it is. You
54:35
know what it is, guys, It's time for our zombie song. This
54:43
is really something we've got lights, we've got that fucking disco ball is doing
54:51
exactly the thing it I want the song to be better than it is,
55:02
but I'm also we have never, as far as I recall, had like
55:07
a musical number in this show. I may be wrong about that, but
55:13
I don't remember it, so it was hard for me to like hold that
55:16
against it because it was so unexpected and fun and it's just everyone. It's
55:24
zombie night, round and round until you die. And they're doing a motion
55:30
that's very similar to the like thriller dance motion, which I have to assume
55:35
is a very purposeful homage, and they do that one zombie Night, round
55:40
and round until you die. They sing that like probably ten times in a
55:46
row, and eventually we get to a new verse or I don't know if
55:52
you would even call them that because they're so short. I'm watching it,
55:58
you guys this I forgot about the whoop whoops that are intermittent with it.
56:04
It looks like in the sub they just say that. In the dub,
56:08
I could swear that there was like another verse of a different set of lines,
56:13
but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, So we cut from them dancing and
56:19
really like having such a good time. I can't you know. The zombies
56:24
have got given a they've been dealt a bad hand, and I kind of
56:32
enjoy the fact that they get to have a little bit of fun here and
56:36
there, you know. So we cut then to Absalom going into the crypt.
56:45
I guess underneath the building, and he's yelling at all of these different
56:51
coffins that look very much the same as the ones that Nami and Zoro or
56:55
Nami and Usop and Chopper were put into. He yells, the intruders have
57:01
all wandered into our territory. There are prey. Now let your hunger run
57:07
wild. This will be a feast of terror. Now awaken zombie generals.
57:15
And we see people coming up out of the ground. We see people opening
57:20
their coffins. We see the dudes who are standing on the sides in what
57:28
do you call it in like suits of armor lift their weapons off of the
57:34
like platforms that they're standing on. We've even got a dude at one point
57:39
that I'm assuming he was like assembled this way, but he's got four arms
57:45
and it looks like he's got guns. There's a guy with swords still stuck
57:51
in his abdomen and holes where other swords I assume used to be. There's
57:57
a man that's very giving Juggernaut very very much. And Absalom is still talking
58:06
about how the straw hats are going to fall quickly. They're arrogant. They
58:10
really think they can beat us, but they aren't going to do it,
58:15
and we see a very quickly cut together shot of the little like chipmunk guys
58:24
carrying the coffin, and then we see the coffin. I am assuming it's
58:31
the same coffin, like wrapped in what looks like cobwebs or something hanging off
58:38
of a chain, like dangling over the ground over the water. I believe,
58:45
and I don't really like I'm assuming the cut is so strange, Like
58:52
ordinarily i'd be like, clearly what this is supposed to be telling us is
58:55
that it's the same coffin that they just put them on there, But it's
59:00
done so quickly and so abruptly that part of me is doubting whether it is
59:05
the same coffin. I don't know if it's maybe the like a decoy coffin,
59:10
But anyway, we then go to Absalom and he is standing in the
59:15
midst of his zombie generals and is like basically sicking them on our friends,
59:21
and then to be continued, and that is the end of the episode.
59:25
So I'm pretty stoked. I think the next one, I'm covering three episodes,
59:30
so I'm going to assume there's either a lot of like filler stuff or
59:35
a lot of action that I can't necessarily like go blow by blow on.
59:39
But I am really looking forward to getting to see this weird fight with these
59:45
zombies generals, because they look cool as hell. I'm very excited about them.
59:52
And Saraphim says, so Yuma and the story of him killing a dragon
59:58
is a reference to an earlier men and go Oda did called Wanted. I'm
1:00:02
assuming that's not the Wanted that turned into that movie with Angelina Jolie, right,
1:00:12
and then you just know that if he thought his editors would let him
1:00:15
get away with it, those zombies would be outright doing the thriller dance.
1:00:17
I am surprised he didn't try and push that even more. But I do
1:00:23
really enjoy the fact that there is an actual dance of zombies because I know
1:00:28
what you're referencing with thriller bark. Of course, I never thought we would
1:00:32
see a dance, and that was just a treat that was delightful. All
1:00:38
right, guys, thank you all so much for hanging out with me.
1:00:40
Appreciate you so much. Until next time to the Loo, motherfuckers. That
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