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| YOU LEAVE CHOPPER ALONE DAMMIT >:( |
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| Wow, this is horrible for Luffy |
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| Air jousting looks badass |
| I criticized Skypiea last episode for having boring world building compared to One Piece at its best, still good world building albeit, just not the kind that would lead it to the peaks of Arlong and Alabasta. Almost to spite me right after I thought this, this episode implemented many ideas that change my view on this. Gan Fall's talk on how the heroes in one timeline or one society can fall behind in societies cracks in another, and that the lines are too blurry to know who's right was an idea that interested me. Then we see Shura speak to Chopper telling him "For someone to live another must die. That's how life is." He explicitly stated that life is a give and take experience and you cannot expect to have it how you want it, you must sacrifice things. I'm sure it's not hard to see that the way Skypiea sacrifices things isn't the greatest, but I don't think he's inherently wrong. There's a little anime about that titled Fullmetal Alchemist. The point is, these ideas having the potential to make this arc meaningful, and little details such as Gan Fall taking Conis and Pagoya to his secret pumpkin house where the mantra doesn't work hold it up a long way. More than all that we learned Eneru took away Gan Fall's role of God 20 years ago, and that when the Upper Yard was formed it created a long war between Guerrillas and sky people. Seriously it's as if it was to spite my criticism! I guarantee that, alike how the symbolic(?) rain fell when Crocodile was defeated, this noise of the isle, the islands voice will play with Eneru is down and Gan Fall is back in, or whatever leads Luffy to victory here. The way he's defending the Going Merry shows how much courage he has, it shows his willpower to fight for what he cares about. The amount the Going Merry got busted up again keeps leading the shipwright foreshadowing. The fact that Gan Fall could fight Shura leads me to think the mantra doesn't work on him. The little girl running around the Upper Yard, clearly not being a priest, makes me think the mantra also doesn't work on her. She may be key to winning these fights! It's also fascinating that we haven't seen Eneru yet. Nearly, if not all the past arcs have shown us the villain early on making them a prominent presence and face. Eneru is just a name and magical judgement attacks currently. That's interesting to me. I wonder if and when we'll get to see Eneru's body or if we already have and it'll be a plot twist. Side note: This isn't relevant, but I was once stuck on something in the Alabasta arc and I've found an answer I'm satisfied with. I had wondered why Crocodile who's slogan was might is right, the part of his ideology that was vilified the most, was beaten by someone stronger and beat the navy who was fighting him mocking them that their justice wasn't real. We've seen before countless times that the message is to fight for what you believe in no matter how strong you actually are, this goes back to even episode one with Coby. But then, we have people doing that and losing and being made fun of, while someone who's stronger than Crocodile is able to call him wrong alike how he did with the navy's sense of justice. But the answer I've come to is that, the reason for that scene and the aftermath was to show us that the good guys don't always win, but the important thing is to keep fighting and getting stronger with strong resolve and never giving up. If you keep fighting and getting stronger for what you believe in you will win eventually, it's your duty even. I think we may get this idea echoed in the future when we get more Smoker and Tashigi. |
| It was very tough to see Chopper desperately try to put out the flames of the Going Merry with his own body and to see him get stabbed by Shura's flame lance. It's a good thing that Gan Fall arrived as fast as he could but I wonder if he really is strong enough to deal with that priest who has the battlefield advantage. I wonder what that dastardly Eneru looks like. |
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| Chopper trying to protect the ship was so cute. |
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| I know this guy won't burn down the Going Merry and yet I'm still afraid about what will happen to it. Talk about a scary villian. |
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| I hope the going merry will be okay! Also these episodes are starting to get slow af. |
| ahh Chopper was trying to protect the ship so badly :(( |
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| Poor Chopper :( ... It breaks my heart to see him getting hurt like that. Glad the former God is helping! |
| Gan Fall was the previous God? 😱 Not the Ship, come one man... |
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| Gan Fall is pretty amazing. These priests are so tough. |
| God knight will be the mvp of this arc it seems like. Excited to see what he does. |
| God that fight with the Sky Knight and Shura was amazing. Such awesome animation for that fight alone. When Gan Fall was talking about pirates that came to Skypiea 20 years ago does anyone think that it was possibly Shanks maybe? Along with his crew? I mean he doesn't refer to them by name but it could easily have been him and his crew. So pretty much every priest has the ability to predict what their opponent can do so it's not limited to the now fallen Satori. And it's also interesting that we haven't seen Eneru at the beginning of the arc like how Crocodile did in Alabasta to foreshadow him being an important figure in the arc but at the time of this episode we've only seen him attack with his powers offscreen and get mentioned a lot by the civilians of Skypiea. I can't be the only one that's feeling the slow pace now but at the very least I'm still soldiering on with One Piece. Otherwise great episode to be sure. |
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