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time. This

1:02

is the One Piece Podcast, Episode 799. For

1:06

the week of Monday, December 11th, 2023. My

1:10

name is Zach. And my name is Ed.

1:13

And my name is Alex. And we

1:15

may have Steve later on the show, but for

1:17

now, we have a very special guest translator for

1:19

One Piece and weekly Shonen Jump and Manga+. We

1:21

have Stephen Paul with us. How's

1:23

it going, Stephen? I

1:26

got a crick in my neck, so

1:28

not great. But I will persevere. Thank

1:31

you for the update. We

1:34

have two of like our longest,

1:37

long-time guests on this

1:40

show. First, he

1:42

worked on in Crunchyroll and

1:45

all that anime. We

1:47

have Miles with us. How's it going, Miles? Hey,

1:51

hey, hey. Glad to be back. Was a

1:53

listener from Episode 1, so I always like

1:55

being here when I can. I remember when

1:57

I was talking to you about

1:59

that at a con. and I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry I

2:01

had to listen to hers. Uh, well, here we are 799 episodes

2:04

later. We

2:08

also have Casey

2:10

Monosky article. May also know him as. How's

2:12

it going, Casey? Hello, yes, it's

2:15

nice to be back precisely 100 episodes since

2:18

my last appearance. Yeah, so

2:20

I took Casey notes. It's been so

2:22

long for Miles that I don't have

2:24

like a proper appearance ready for Miles.

2:26

I think we had you

2:28

on during Zo and apparently send your pink, you

2:30

remember, which that's completely out of my brain. For

2:34

Casey, Casey, you were on 509, 600 and 699. So

2:38

it's 2018, 2019 and 2021. And

2:42

we just got you under the wire here. So

2:44

we do have that pattern of almost

2:46

every 100 episodes. I'm trying

2:48

to make sure that you come on every 99.

2:50

This time I like, Casey didn't ask to come

2:52

on. I messaged him and said, it's time. It's

2:55

your biannual checkup. Yeah,

2:57

I was willing. It was time for me to

2:59

catch up on One Piece again as well. I

3:03

understand you read a lot of One Piece. Yeah,

3:06

so I had finished Wano, but I had

3:08

not read any of the current arc. So

3:12

I read all of that in

3:15

the past week. And this

3:17

is a very dense series, as I

3:19

imagine you all realize. And, or at

3:21

least, you know, it's become increasingly dense

3:23

in the modern era. And

3:26

yeah, it's a real adventure

3:28

to try to kind of cram all of this

3:31

into your head and make

3:33

clone copies of yourself to retain the

3:35

information as you go. I

3:37

wish. Yeah, I really do

3:39

think that, you know, being week to

3:41

week immersed in this is probably the

3:44

correct format. And I applaud you all

3:46

for doing it. I'm

3:48

always jealous of people who can marathon

3:50

it. And I've mentioned this a lot,

3:53

just because it's just a different way of digesting

3:55

it. I've been doing this for 15 years, and

3:57

I haven't got it to do that really very much. Honestly,

4:00

so I did the same exact thing

4:02

as Casey. I was exactly behind at

4:04

the end of Wano arc And

4:07

I had done Wano in like three chunks

4:09

and that was actually really hard because I

4:11

forgot so much in between each chunk Oh,

4:13

yeah Doing this arc

4:15

all at once. I

4:17

have never felt this positive

4:19

about one piece of my life Wow,

4:22

I had so much fun this last week it

4:25

I couldn't stop reading. It was infectious. It was

4:27

great I felt like I was going through the

4:29

first, you know 200

4:31

chapters when I got caught up 300 chapters in so

4:34

it felt like that I'm so happy I

4:36

could see why I'd like Wano is this

4:40

Very dense epic as we round it

4:42

off on the actual in the anime

4:44

now I like understand

4:46

why it wouldn't kind of feel like

4:48

that marathoning, but that's super interesting that

4:50

I Get it. I

4:52

mean we have all the old characters back in some

4:54

way shape or form during these last few months Years,

4:57

how long have we been here? At

5:00

least a year I think Anyway

5:05

This week we're gonna go through chapter 1101 The

5:08

title is dear Bonnie to Bonnie

5:12

You get it title for a letter Before

5:16

we get started a few

5:18

podcasts housekeeping things First of all,

5:21

this is our last episode of

5:23

the year and if you're

5:25

saying hey Zach Isn't there

5:27

another chapter this year there is but

5:29

it's funny because it's on Christmas Day

5:31

and believe it or not I wasn't

5:33

able this year to get everyone to

5:36

work on Christmas Day and podcast with

5:38

me. I don't You know,

5:40

I am the Ebenezer Scrooge of

5:42

this podcast But

5:46

it's still it didn't work this year

5:48

for whatever reason So we have some

5:50

cool stuff coming in the meanwhile including

5:52

we're gonna run One

5:55

or two episodes of force force for

5:57

kids flashback. I think

6:00

I think we'll be doing it with the artist

6:03

who put together the 4Kids

6:05

rap, Sean Conrad, and

6:07

I'm also hoping to have the interview, which

6:09

is going to be on the 4Kids flashback

6:11

feed, which is its own thing and it's

6:13

free. Norman Grossfeld,

6:15

who was the president of 4Kids, there

6:18

was an interview Steve

6:20

and Tara did with him, which I

6:22

have not yet listened to and I

6:24

should. And

6:26

I'm excited to listen to it because he

6:28

definitely does mention one piece on at least

6:31

one occasion. So

6:33

looking forward to hearing and uncovering some

6:35

of the mysteries behind

6:38

that dub. We

6:41

also, and I haven't told anyone about this

6:43

here, and I'm not going to spoil the

6:45

full surprise, but we have a holiday special

6:48

that will be coming out on Christmas Day,

6:50

not recorded then, because

6:53

I have nothing to do then. So

6:57

look forward to that. It's

6:59

going to be cool. It's going

7:01

to be different than anything we've

7:03

done before, but it'll be a

7:05

cool little special thing for you guys. And

7:08

I think that's everything. And we're going to be off

7:11

on New Year's Day as well, so apologies for those

7:13

listening to the one piece podcast on New Year's Day.

7:15

We're going to try and have an anime recap on

7:17

this episode too for 10.86 and 10.87, hopefully? Yes.

7:21

Yeah. We'll see if Sam is awake. Sam

7:25

and I are on opposite

7:27

schedules, so it's just I

7:30

wake up early in the morning. I think he works overnight. He

7:32

works the night shift. Yeah. And I wake up

7:34

early in the day. So it's

7:36

just hard sometimes. I

7:41

think though we could get straight into this chapter, and

7:43

there's so much I want to talk about this week.

7:45

This was a really good one, in

7:48

my opinion. So why don't we get straight

7:50

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8:57

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9:06

mangaplus.shuwaisha.co.jp. Ed,

9:10

we have a lot to talk about before we get into

9:12

this chapter. You want to talk about

9:14

the cover of Shonen Jump first? Sure. We

9:16

got Rainbow Sherbert Snowboard Luffy. And

9:19

this jacket he's wearing is actually Disney apparel because it

9:21

says Goofy on the sleeve. Wow.

9:25

Get ready, lawsuits. Lawsuits

9:27

Shonen Jump coming your way.

9:30

I do love Nami's slope

9:33

jacket. I

9:35

love the color scheme here. It's great. Maybe

9:39

Oda will get a cease and desist twice in

9:41

this chapter. We'll talk about that in a little

9:44

bit. Yeah, there's lots of ceases and desists coming.

9:48

I'd like to see that design on the

9:51

bottom of the snowboard actually as graffiti somewhere.

9:53

I'd love to see that. That's a great style. Pretty good.

9:56

The dripping in the... It makes it... little

10:00

bit of authenticity. Why is the skeleton, why is

10:02

art, why is the Jolly Roger in between the

10:04

P and the I though? That's

10:07

my only qualm of this. Okay

10:13

I guess. Skull after P but

10:15

not before E or whatever. No that's

10:17

what it is. I forgot

10:19

my English classes. That's

10:21

what they've learned in Japan. Yeah

10:25

this is cute. Have we had a

10:27

skiing color spread

10:29

even? I can't recall. I

10:31

mean the chances are yes.

10:34

Hi. Yeah. I cannot remember.

10:36

As a skier I appreciate this. Any

10:38

other comments on the cover? If

10:43

not Ed, should we

10:45

talk about the author comment? You've hinted at this

10:47

before we started. I have no idea what it

10:49

is. So this is

10:52

from Eichiro Oda, an almost 49 year

10:54

old Japanese man. He says saw

10:57

my first Godzilla. Minus one was great. I had

10:59

to watch the first one after that. Next is

11:01

Shin. How?

11:05

How? Even I've seen Godzilla. How are you? And

11:07

I don't watch movies ever. You've never seen Godzilla

11:09

movies. I can't believe it. After

11:11

all the other movies he's seen like these you

11:13

know samurai movies and stuff and like you know

11:16

he did the art for that that one movie

11:18

collection and stuff and just yeah I

11:20

just everyone has a blank spot everyone has a

11:22

blind spot I guess yeah I

11:24

mean he's in for a ride you know isn't he?

11:27

It makes me think of um there was

11:29

an interview with Ryuhei Kitamura who directed Godzilla

11:32

Final Wars and a bunch of other movies and

11:35

he was being interviewed by an American

11:38

podcast and he's like oh he's like I'm also

11:40

doing a Lupin project he goes believe me that's

11:42

a much bigger deal to us Japanese than Godzilla

11:45

so like I don't know maybe yeah

11:49

wow I mean I saw Godzilla minus one it's

11:51

uh it's it

11:53

lives up to it it's great so it's pretty

11:55

good. He turned off on a good one. I

11:58

am happy to see where he gets influences

12:00

from this or if he gets influences from

12:02

this. This Godzilla.

12:05

Yeah, me too. I like

12:07

we've we've mentioned Kaiju as

12:10

like influences before. Um,

12:12

and I made, I assume you've

12:15

seen some of the genre. He's

12:17

an ambiently received Kaiju. Yes.

12:20

Who hasn't? Yeah. I

12:22

was like, I don't, I don't think

12:24

anyone has like not. I mean, I

12:26

was watching a Steve stream with a

12:28

song one and they were doing Reptar

12:30

and the Rugrats game. And like that

12:32

whole series, that's the whole thing is

12:34

Kaiju, you know, so it's been biosmosis.

12:36

This seems like a perfect arc if

12:38

he suddenly wants to enter, you know,

12:40

introduce a radioactive reptile of some kind.

12:44

There's always time for a radioactive reptile.

12:46

If you ask me, um,

12:48

actually, are they radioactive? No, they're not. I'm not going

12:51

to pick about this too much. Um,

12:54

Ed, should we talk about the, uh, color

12:56

spread? Sure. We got, we

12:59

got the Vega punk family, uh, uh, all

13:02

together here in all their, all

13:05

their full color slurry. Sometimes the

13:07

family is just, uh,

13:09

seven copies of yourself. Yeah.

13:13

Uh, second to the thousand year old robot. Oh,

13:16

that's the, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

13:18

no, no, no, no, no, yeah, that's the thing. Of course. One, uh, I

13:22

do like the, the paint job though, the blue

13:24

with like the pink, pinkish highlights. Mm.

13:28

Yeah. I love all the color schemes.

13:30

I don't think there's any, well, I'm

13:32

also, I don't think, I don't think

13:34

I noticed this until like 30 minutes

13:37

ago when we, you know, started setting

13:39

up and I was looking at this,

13:42

has Atlas always had the little lamby

13:44

ears? Yes.

13:47

Yeah. I have noticed that. I

13:49

never noticed that. I never noticed that.

13:52

I recall maybe we had like

13:54

a little discussion and just I think

13:56

gave it up for like a weird

13:59

ODA flare. Yeah,

14:01

probably when you see a color then then

14:03

you can tell but yeah Maybe we just

14:05

maybe I just assumed it was like little

14:07

swoops of hair or something if we didn't

14:09

mention it. I I definitely have Noticed

14:12

it and just I think you know

14:14

like all of Caesar clowns people have

14:16

those weird goat horns Like

14:18

it's just like at one point you're just like okay.

14:20

I guess that's a thing Whatever

14:26

Yeah Yeah, I

14:28

was really excited to see this because this

14:31

like aside from some sort

14:33

of themed like, you know, we had the the

14:37

color spread that was like all the the number

14:39

two guys and We

14:41

we've had like some of the the new

14:43

era or the new age style ones where

14:45

it's like a bunch of worst-generation Type

14:48

characters, but I feel like we've never really gotten

14:51

Like a such a like arc arc

14:54

themed Spread like this

14:56

where it's just Vega punk and all of the

14:58

other The satellites and

15:00

I was like, oh, that's

15:02

really cool I like you look at this We

15:05

look at the background you can see that

15:07

it's got like the the intersecting lines Like

15:09

it's this is like something that's on a

15:11

sentai show and they get punk across the

15:13

back It's very you know, so if you

15:15

know the super sentai Vega punk family Yeah,

15:19

he's been getting a lot more experimental

15:22

with this color spreads recently Like he

15:24

did the one for monster recently There's

15:27

just been like a lot more out-of-the-box

15:30

ones where it's not his usual thing.

15:32

I really like this one. Yeah Yeah,

15:35

I am I'm

15:39

shocked it took so long for this to happen Like

15:42

this is something we should have gotten like The

15:45

chapter or two after like the rest

15:47

of them were introduced Hmm.

15:50

Yeah But

15:54

yeah, I think it's that's his

15:56

pose now right that's a that's

15:58

Vega punk's pose this little

16:00

he's flying getting kind of

16:03

heroet. Yeah. Much

16:06

like the actual Albert Einstein he's very graceful.

16:08

Yeah, the tongue is for balance. Yeah. No,

16:10

I heard like I like

16:12

I love the

16:17

composition. I think the composition is great. This

16:21

is going to be a great one when it shows up on the 2025 calendar.

16:25

I don't think I realized until right

16:27

now, looking at this that York is

16:30

like constantly doing the peko Chan face

16:33

from the Fuji cakes logo. Yeah,

16:37

I've got to have the tongue out. Yeah,

16:41

I mean, I could see that on the side of some sort of

16:44

it. It's funny. I was gonna say before

16:47

before we got but Alex mentioned the the calendar

16:49

and I was gonna say that like, I

16:52

didn't think you know, when I was thinking of

16:54

the last year, so the the 2024 one piece

16:56

manga calendar just kind of shipped out. So a

16:58

lot of the people who ordered them, like

17:01

many of us, I just got them and

17:03

I didn't really have a strong image in

17:05

my mind of like, oh yeah, there were

17:08

a bunch of really good color spreads this

17:10

year, maybe they just weren't particularly memorable. But

17:12

when I saw the actual list of

17:15

spreads that are in the 2024 calendar, it's

17:17

really good. I was like kind of surprised.

17:19

I was like, man, there was some really

17:21

good color spreads in the past.

17:24

Mine is supposed to get in soon. I'm

17:27

supposed to get in soon. I need to

17:29

take a look when that I really I

17:31

don't remember. Exactly. Yeah, we were talking before

17:33

the show like, or even early in the show,

17:36

like that being able

17:38

to digest it week by week, but my

17:40

memory of that kind of stuff just it

17:43

all meshes in together for whatever reason. Yeah.

17:48

Yeah, no, I this is this is this

17:50

is a favorite of this year, I think

17:52

for me, I really I've enjoyed the Vega

17:55

punk. What do you

17:57

call them offspring? is

18:00

off-supplementary, off-shoot. Satellites, what? Satellites,

18:02

I forgot that's the term.

18:05

It's been a while since we've, I mean we

18:08

had like a month-long reprieve going around the world,

18:10

and now we've been in this for over a

18:12

month. Yeah.

18:14

And I should say for Steve's sake, since

18:17

he pre-pointed it out when they put

18:19

up the process video, there

18:21

was apparently some other very different angles

18:24

that Oda was working on. There was one of like, it

18:27

was like an overhead shot of a table or something, and

18:30

there were like dogs hanging out with them or

18:32

something like that, so I think he

18:34

changed the fact that- It was like a

18:36

Frankie-centric one. Yeah, Frankie, yeah, that's right. But

18:40

I'm glad that we got the Vega Punk one. I

18:42

think it's cool. Yeah, I

18:44

mean we could always get Frankie in an overhead

18:47

position playing with dogs on a video game or

18:49

something, and I'm sure

18:51

we will one day, hopefully. Anyway,

18:54

Ed, you wanna get into the

18:56

chapter? Sure, we can

18:58

start the chapter. We got, so

19:02

picking up right where we left off, three

19:04

years ago, Mount Corvo, Goa Kingdom in the

19:06

East Blue, we see a

19:08

forest, and sticking out of that forest, we

19:10

see a gumgum, and we see

19:12

it's Kuma who's watching, and the ax, gumgum

19:15

ax, comes down, smashing

19:17

the, I guess he's just smashing

19:19

rocks, it looks like, but

19:21

there's a crocodile and a tiger there who are

19:23

very intimidated by this, and

19:25

yeah. Kuma's

19:28

just lurking in the background,

19:30

sort of keeping an eye on Luffy, and

19:33

then he starts to have a flashback

19:35

of his own to a

19:37

conversation that he apparently had with Dragon some

19:39

time ago. Alex.

19:45

Okay, so I'm starting my page.

19:48

Here I go. So

19:52

Kuma says to

19:54

Dragon, we see them looking off into

19:57

Goa from Dragon's Ship. And

20:00

he says, you seem extremely familiar

20:02

with this particular nation. And

20:04

I couldn't help but notice you traveling to a little village at

20:06

the edge of the country and watching

20:08

a particular young lad. And

20:11

there's a slight pause. And Dragon says,

20:14

keep going if you want to see

20:16

me killed. And

20:19

Commissus, what do you mean? And Dragon says, children

20:22

are a vulnerability for any parent. And

20:25

we get an awe type

20:28

shock from Commissus. Oh,

20:31

that's what you meant. Yeah.

20:33

Pardon me. I'll forget

20:35

I saw anything. As

20:37

if he's covering his

20:40

eyes. Oh, sorry. So

20:44

he thought back to that moment as

20:48

he continues to watch Luffy, who

20:51

is seemingly talking to himself. I think he's

20:53

just talking to his animal buddies. He says,

20:55

that's going to be a special attack. I'll

20:58

use it when I'm up against really tough enemies. Once

21:01

I'm a pirate, I'll find new crewmates, see? And

21:04

then he says, and there'll

21:06

be times when they get beat or captured. When

21:09

that happens, I won't hold back. I'll give them

21:11

a gum gum ax no matter who it is, see? I

21:14

like he's kind of talking like a 30s mobster.

21:18

Gotta find new crewmates, see? And then times when

21:20

they get beat or captured, see? And

21:22

when that happens, they'll be sleeping with the fishes, see?

21:26

So obviously, according to the Yoda Box, as

21:28

if we haven't recognized it already, this is

21:30

Monkey D Luffy age 16. So

21:33

a year before he set out on

21:35

his journey to be a pirate. And

21:40

the crocodile and the tiger are

21:42

pretty scared, but he says, what?

21:44

Don't worry. I don't eat weaklings.

21:50

So, yeah,

21:52

Kuma continues to watch. But as soon as Luffy turns

21:54

around to see who's there,

21:57

Kuma pops away. He's

22:00

getting a phone call. Yeah,

22:02

I gotta get out of

22:05

here. Oh, yeah, he is

22:09

And look he says that was weird I felt something

22:11

made me shiver Hmm. There

22:14

is still a big boss looking somewhere on this mountain.

22:16

I'm gonna find it hunted before I set sail raw

22:23

Yeah, I should I'll point out here that the

22:26

when I say at the when I use the

22:28

term big boss That is the it's the same

22:30

term that they use for the the Lord of

22:32

the coasts, which is Nushi

22:35

Which is basically like in

22:37

Japanese, you know folklore or folk wisdom There's

22:39

always like the big one in you know

22:41

in a pond or in an area on

22:43

a mountain or something like that And it's

22:46

always the one animal that's like the real

22:48

alpha. It's like the bigger than all the

22:50

other ones and So that's

22:52

what he's referring to there. Also,

22:55

I guess we can kind of We

22:57

can pour one out rip skinny

23:00

Luffy you know,

23:02

he's gonna join ugly chopper and T'nami

23:05

and Miss

23:07

all Sunday all the oh, yeah. Oh,

23:10

yeah. Yeah, I still like shouldn't have Shouldn't

23:13

be so ripped yet. Yeah Talking

23:16

about yeah It's

23:19

like you guys are talking about last week

23:21

with usop usop like Oda's overcompensating in some

23:23

places and I guess here he's Forgetting

23:26

to draw how to draw

23:28

Luffy without being one eight

23:30

pack. Yeah Yeah,

23:33

I think somebody was saying like it well at

23:35

least he didn't like forget and actually accidentally draw

23:38

the scar on his chest Which is the kind

23:40

of thing that would have probably would do Just

23:43

going on autopilot. Yeah on

23:47

the next page, however we

23:50

see kumas the Do

23:53

we have a name for his his boat for

23:55

the daddy pirates here? Just

23:58

got his his cute little bear

24:01

boat and there's a call

24:03

coming through, pirates have pillaged a merchant ship and

24:05

are now on the run. Sink the pirate ship

24:07

at once. So he is answering

24:10

the call as the warlord of the

24:12

sea here. And these

24:15

are the victims that he has sidled up against

24:17

and they're saying, the pirates came out of nowhere.

24:19

And he says, I'll take the injured to a

24:21

hospital right now. And they're like, huh,

24:23

oh. And

24:25

meanwhile, the call is continuing. Bartholomew Kuma, what

24:27

are you doing? And

24:29

then we see Kuma, he's got at

24:32

least one person in

24:34

his hands, in his arms there. He

24:36

says, I'll go ahead, you catch up. And

24:38

the others are, they're praying

24:41

to him, they're showing their

24:43

appreciation. Oh, thank you, I thought it would be too late for

24:45

us. As the

24:47

phone continues, Kuma, come in

24:49

Kuma. So he's kind of

24:51

ignoring the orders. He's prioritizing

24:53

healing the injured before catching

24:56

the pirates. But then

24:58

later that evening, we see the moon is out and

25:01

he is at another ship and saying, give

25:03

yourselves up. I

25:06

imagine like a robocop. And

25:08

they're like, we're sorry, we'll return everything. Give

25:11

back the treasure, man, do you wanna die? So

25:14

we can tell that Kuma's reputation

25:16

does precede him here. And

25:19

then we get the Ken Burns

25:21

voiceover. Let's

25:23

get some slow sad fiddle music

25:26

and some, you know, pan over some black

25:28

and white photos. To Bonnie,

25:31

the world is full of more beautiful

25:33

and wondrous sites than any book or

25:35

picture could describe. I wish I could

25:38

see you react to them, Bonnie, over

25:41

a really fantastic panel. I

25:43

love that one. I love that panel. The,

25:47

like, especially when I marathon reread through

25:49

one piece, the panels that stick out

25:51

most to me are these kind of

25:53

like quiet, beautiful,

25:56

like, scenery panels. Yeah.

26:00

This is kind of Otis stretching his

26:02

muscles a little bit because he does

26:04

do some interesting sort

26:06

of, I hesitate to say

26:08

pastoral because there's no pastors here, but he

26:11

does some nice sort

26:13

of natural background work

26:16

and he has had pretty

26:18

shots at sea before, but I don't

26:21

think he's ever quite done this sort

26:23

of sunset with the wavering, the clouds

26:25

in front of the sun and

26:27

stuff like that. And yeah, it's a really, really

26:29

nice... A really nice line

26:31

of birds too, just all the way across the

26:34

sky. Yeah, big ol' fly. It's

26:38

a nice one. And meanwhile, in

26:40

Sorbet Kingdom, we get

26:42

a series of views

26:46

of various buildings, including the church, as

26:48

we hear... Is it here yet? Is

26:51

it here yet? Is it here yet? Is it here

26:53

yet? And then the

26:55

interior shot from inside the letterbox

26:58

here... Is it here yet? As

27:00

we see, Bonnie is looking for

27:02

a letter. What a great

27:04

shot. Yeah. It's

27:07

like almost ominous. And then just

27:09

to be certain, Otis draws the

27:11

Japanese symbol for the posts over

27:13

the slot. I'd

27:15

be getting Noah the little Japanese toy cars

27:17

from Tomy, I think is the brand, and

27:20

so I've just been looking at that symbol

27:22

because I got him a post office one.

27:24

It's like all week. Yeah. Yep.

27:28

And she's saying, is it here yet? Is it here? Just

27:31

opening and closing the little interior

27:33

latch on the letter feed. And

27:37

Gio-Gio, her buddy

27:39

with the hat, is saying, look, he's

27:42

probably busy with his work. And sometimes

27:44

news crews make mistakes. Bonnie

27:47

is not convinced. In fact, she's

27:50

reaching in and just smacking the empty

27:53

container there to demonstrate how empty it is.

27:55

She says, daddy said he would write me

27:57

lots of letters. Yeah. Letters

28:00

take a long time, you're supposed to be patient. And

28:03

Connie, who is ever the

28:05

comforting presence, just

28:07

beams and says, oh, get here eventually,

28:10

dear. And we

28:12

see outside, the news coup

28:14

is flying overhead, and it

28:16

drops a package onto the ground outside

28:20

where Nurse Alpha, the CP-8

28:22

agent, sees it, says,

28:25

oh, a newspaper and a

28:28

letter. Mya.

28:32

Yep. Put this in

28:34

the church post box, and that's Alpha.

28:37

Yes, ma'am, I don't even know who she's talking to.

28:40

And then we have a young Bonnie

28:42

again, Annie, letters. Nope,

28:45

just the paper, Gilgo says. And

28:47

we get a pashu via whatever

28:49

you wanna call it, Bonnie. She's

28:51

disappointed. We look at the church, time

28:54

has passed. Another letter, huh? Yes,

28:57

how many is this? Must have been about

28:59

10 months. There have been dozens. I'm

29:03

surprised he hasn't run out of things to write. And

29:06

it's a letter to Bonnie, and

29:09

there's Nurse Alpha ripping it up again. What

29:11

a sap. Lastly,

29:13

Bonnie, as I've said so

29:15

many times, I send

29:18

you all the love in the world, I will

29:20

write again. And that's

29:22

Kuma over an image of a trash

29:24

can with a whole year's worth

29:27

of letters. Then

29:29

we get Bonnie transforming herself

29:31

into a very buff fighter.

29:35

Let's take Gilgo. Again,

29:38

what about Jenga? Fight

29:40

me. So,

29:42

Steven, this is where you wrote it. That's kind of

29:44

the Adbro lawyers, yeah. Yeah,

29:47

it's funny, because he did use

29:49

the term Jenga in, I

29:51

mean, it's obvious, yes, that's what they're playing, but

29:54

yeah, he didn't use like a euphemism, or like,

29:56

what about the block game, or something like that.

29:59

You know, I'm surprised. I've seen it do like

30:01

a pun of some sort. I don't know what. Oh

30:04

yeah, like make his own one piece version

30:06

of it. Yeah, why not? Is

30:09

Jenga a copyrighted term? Cause I have seen

30:11

enough other brands use it that I feel

30:13

like it might not be. I

30:15

had tumbling towers, which I think was the,

30:18

what do you call it? The off

30:20

brand, the generic version of Jenga. I'm wondering

30:22

if Jenga might be one of those things

30:25

that's old enough to have somehow flipped into

30:27

the public domain. It's only 40. I'm

30:30

looking this up right now. Is it really 80's?

30:32

Yeah, it's only from the 83. I

30:35

mean, a lot of like bars have like the giant

30:38

Jenga. I know I've played that with at least Steve

30:40

in the past. Well, they don't use the name. They

30:42

just assume everyone's gonna call it Jenga when you go

30:44

there. Oh, you know, I did not know. The

30:47

name Jenga is derived from Kujenga,

30:50

the Swahili word, which means to

30:52

build. Thank you, Wikipedia. Yeah,

30:56

so. He would end up, the creator

30:58

was born in what is now Tanzania.

31:01

So that I guess

31:03

explains that. I had no idea. But

31:06

yeah, I don't know how the copyright would,

31:09

yeah. No, I mean, they just wouldn't be able to

31:11

do that then. A trademark, sorry. Yeah.

31:15

Or patent, but the patent would have run out by this

31:17

point. Probably. Yeah.

31:21

How many years is it, Zach, for a board game?

31:24

I don't, is there a difference for the board game? Is

31:27

it 12 years plus, I think it's 12 for

31:30

a patent. And I

31:32

know copyright, copyright is what?

31:34

Something plus the life of the author. I know

31:36

Disney kept changing. Life was 70. If

31:40

it's younger than Mickey, you were in the clear. Yeah. All

31:45

right, sorry. We'll talk more about Jenga later. And

31:49

then we've got, we've got

31:51

the giant buff Bonnie attacking Gilgo

31:53

again. And then Nurse Alpha comes

31:55

in saying, it's time for your

31:57

medicine, Bonnie. There's a big crack.

32:00

at the door she says, huh strange

32:03

I could have sworn she looked like a

32:05

giant and Bonnie's back to being

32:07

what like seven years old at this point oh

32:10

no nine nine nine yeah yeah

32:12

almost nine Bonnie's saying

32:14

I hate medicine it's yucky and the

32:17

nurse office says that's how you know it's working

32:20

and she says if only

32:22

she knew it was just

32:24

bitter syrup or I am

32:27

shocked that she's not poisoning

32:29

Bonnie I

32:31

mean well I mean she's no use to the government dead

32:33

at this point or

32:35

like giving her indigestion or something evil like

32:37

kill her later I mean would you really

32:40

want to mess with kuma while he's still

32:42

got a little bit of humanity left right

32:46

but she's ripping up his letters so

32:49

I've yeah but that's

32:51

harder to find out if you find

32:53

out that like secondhand that your daughter's

32:55

like dying or in the hospital here

32:57

have this neon blue medicine here that

33:02

sounds familiar yeah what it's

33:04

like green coop wasn't there sorry

33:07

go ahead go

33:09

go and Connie are

33:11

talking under their breath old Connie why

33:13

is it bad if they find out about Bonnie's powers

33:17

and Connie says it's just in

33:19

case a wise hawk hides its

33:21

talons now we're

33:23

going to the Navy Science Division laboratory

33:25

8 that's amazing

33:28

doctor it's already done says

33:31

someone after these

33:33

I'll just use island clouds to make

33:35

the lab and brain float the

33:38

truth is half of what you

33:40

see is actually a hologram this

33:43

has been my plan for punk hazard too truth

33:45

be told and you can tell

33:47

by the fact that my thumb without that that was

33:49

vagopunk I was gonna say

33:51

the great thing about vagopunk is

33:53

it's made everyone who has come

33:56

on this podcast do absolutely absurd

33:58

voices I think of all had

34:00

the same thoughts on this flicker in my

34:03

attempts at Vega punk as well. Okay. So

34:06

yeah, so we cut to

34:08

clone Stucy asking

34:12

Vega punk about the

34:14

fact that his, what do we call this, he's

34:16

got that kind of lid now. I

34:19

think this is the first time we see it in the

34:21

flashbacks that reduces the tide of the

34:23

grainy. He's in a satellite dish.

34:25

Yeah. Yeah. His

34:27

apple. Yeah. But like the

34:29

brand, but I can't. His apple noggin.

34:31

Yeah. Yeah. That was

34:34

a network on from Nickelodeon, I

34:36

think. And so

34:38

Stucy says, and you've gotten the fresh cut. And

34:41

he goes, it's so light, I

34:43

could just slow it away. And

34:46

they say, are you really going to lose your free

34:48

will, Kuma? I wonder which is worse off, a clone

34:50

with her own will or a real human with none,

34:54

which makes Vega

34:56

punk very upset. Stop that. You

34:59

are a human being. So

35:01

easy to take him serious when he sounds like

35:03

this. By the way, imagine being Vega punk in

35:06

your whole life, having a head

35:09

many times the size of your body weight going

35:13

around and then just getting that all cut

35:15

off. It must be an amazing experience, I'm

35:17

sure. Meanwhile,

35:20

we have Kuma looking

35:23

massive on his cyborg recovery

35:26

bed. What

35:29

does it mean to lose my free will,

35:31

Vega punk? However you might

35:33

be following all of us, we'll go back to

35:35

the moment. We'll do content.

35:37

I have no idea what you're

35:39

just saying. That's right. I'll

35:41

stop. No, that was too good. Don't

35:44

stop. It was too accurate. It was true to watch.

35:46

It was true to watch. But

35:49

the point is

35:52

that losing your free will in this research

35:55

project means losing all of the memories and

35:57

human emotions you've gained to this point in

35:59

your life. life. But

36:01

I'll make certain that you can

36:03

maintain a bare minimum of conscious

36:05

thought right up to just before

36:07

the end. That should give you

36:09

another year, I suppose. And then

36:11

we go to Kuma

36:15

writing another letter and saying,

36:19

I'll keep sending them for as long as I can.

36:21

I love Bonnie. I have

36:24

another year to write out an entire

36:26

life's worth of emotions for her, which

36:28

is quite a sentence. And

36:32

Stu, and Stu's kind of going, T he that

36:34

sweet. Bonnie

36:38

will be nine soon. I bet she's so big

36:40

now. Not in that short of a

36:42

time. Ah, ha ha ha. And

36:45

then of course, the we have

36:48

the what Stephen referred to as

36:50

the Kin's Burn textbook. I

36:53

don't know when this letter might

36:55

reach you. But happy ninth birthday,

36:57

Bonnie. I am writing to you

36:59

from Vega Punks lab and ended

37:01

we jump cut to Bonnie, happy

37:03

birthday. And everybody

37:05

brings in cake and everything from all

37:07

the characters you like. And this is

37:10

game master jewelry Bonnie's birthday.

37:15

This one, yeah, go ahead. I was

37:17

gonna say this one definite this little

37:20

scene definitely reminded me of Robin showing

37:22

up to the library. Yeah. And having

37:24

everyone celebrate for her there. Yeah. Yeah.

37:27

All the characters you like. That's my

37:31

add a few characters we haven't met. Honey's

37:33

there but Bulldog isn't. Yeah. Yeah.

37:36

Oh, yeah. Bulldog busy

37:38

busy. Yeah, he's right. Yeah, he is. To

37:40

be fair. Connie's just a Queen Dowager. I

37:42

mean, what do they even do? Let's

37:46

go to the next page. They sit around and be old.

37:50

How would you celebrate your ninth birthday? I

37:52

think it's pretty simple. The answer here

37:55

with one of old Connie's

37:57

special huge pizzas. From

38:01

the folks who bought your Chuck

38:03

E. Cheese and glutinous weird blob

38:06

pizza, here it is. And

38:11

you see it takes the entire town,

38:13

let's say, to bring

38:15

in this pizza. And

38:18

it's so good. And

38:21

her face is just stuffed with it. Yeah,

38:25

this is what, I mean this is the perfect

38:27

9th birthday, let's be fair. Everyone

38:30

is asleep because they ate a ton

38:32

of what is only cheese. And

38:36

as they snore, you have Bonnie

38:39

rifling through the mailbox

38:43

and realizing, no, there are still

38:45

no letters there. And

38:48

this was her little toy room that she

38:50

was playing in. As

38:53

I've mentioned, the parental thing is

38:55

all rooms become toy rooms when you have kids.

38:59

True to form, we're in a church, so that makes

39:01

sense. And on

39:03

the bottom panel, we

39:05

have a tearing up Bonnie doing, what

39:08

do we call this face? The

39:10

three face, the backward three. That's

39:14

what the- That's the face where you better watch what

39:16

you're doing or a crow will come and land on

39:18

your lip like that. That's what

39:20

these are telling me. Stop

39:24

patting. It's

39:26

better than a duck face, I'll say. And

39:29

she's like, don't you know I'm nine

39:31

now, daddy? You said you'd

39:33

write me letters and she starts crying. And

39:38

then we have an Oda box, not the Ken

39:40

Burns box, but the original Oda box, saying half a

39:42

year past without a single

39:45

letter reaching her. And

39:47

we see, time passes,

39:49

but in this case it's by Alpha

39:52

being the doucheiest person in

39:54

the universe. And

39:57

we head to Revolutionary Army

39:59

HQ. Baltigo as

40:03

we have a back

40:05

and forth between presumably

40:08

someone in the revolutionaries in Baltigo

40:10

and someone somewhere else and

40:12

they're saying Kuma saved you again and

40:15

the response is yes he helped the army

40:17

out of a pinch then he left

40:19

without saying a word and

40:21

I believe dragon is the one

40:24

on the other end saying if

40:27

that's what Kuma wants don't go after

40:29

him I'm sure he has

40:31

his reasons ones he can't tell us and

40:33

we see a shot of Sabo here showing

40:36

us that we are still very close

40:38

in time to the present I think

40:40

we're two we're only a year

40:43

I think before the time skip at this point

40:45

because Luffy was 16 and I think

40:48

he leaves 2017 yeah and it's a three

40:50

years ago a year one

40:52

year before the

40:56

time skip three years ago yeah sorry yeah

40:59

that makes sense we're 19 it did say that

41:01

at the beginning forget

41:04

I forgot that anyway I

41:07

try to like I'm sure he has his

41:09

reasons ones he can't tell us and meanwhile

41:11

Bonnie is all better

41:14

her trademark jewelry gemstones

41:17

are gone and she

41:20

proclaims that because of that she'd like to

41:23

live outside in the daylight

41:25

and Alpha exclaims

41:27

grr that's

41:30

the sound effects are you

41:32

can't Bonnie we're under instructions to care

41:34

for you until your 10th birthday and

41:37

Bonnie retorts that she is

41:40

lying and that Vega Punk said that

41:42

she'd be better in a year and it's

41:44

been a year and if there's one thing

41:46

I know it's how long the year is and

41:48

Alpha explains that she still can't Ed

41:52

yes so we you

41:56

see Connie and she's

41:59

talking with Bonnie

42:01

and all the people there, and

42:04

sort of looking around shiftily and

42:06

whispering, alpha at her

42:08

ilk, secretations of the government. Huh?

42:11

Shh, quiet. They

42:13

were drinking in town. Someone that slept

42:15

at your disease is already fully geared. Really?

42:21

I don't know what else they've got riding on this. It

42:24

makes no sense that they'd keep you alone and

42:26

sign for another half year. You're all healthy now.

42:29

It doesn't make sense that Kuma wouldn't write a single

42:32

letter either, does it? Yeah.

42:37

I love her expression right there. Yeah,

42:39

she gets it. Yeah, people are conspiring.

42:42

Connie continues, I've already

42:44

told the men about this. Go to the

42:47

harbor, buddy. Go to see and find your

42:49

father. I can see

42:51

him? But

42:55

Connie continues, Yo-Yo and

42:57

his crew aren't ordinary fishers, they're legendary

43:00

ruffian fishers who strike fear into pirates

43:02

and beasts alike. They'll help

43:04

you reach Kuma. I'm off

43:06

to the palace. And

43:08

this is her, this is Connie talking to, crap,

43:12

what was her name again? Alpha.

43:14

Alpha. Alpha, yeah. And

43:17

Alpha's sister, oh take care, ma'am. And

43:21

Connie smiles as

43:23

she's walking out of the church. And

43:26

obviously this is not Connie, this is Bunny. Talking

43:28

about, I'm outside, there's turn, rest

43:31

and sigh. Bunny's

43:33

walking in the light of day. It's

43:35

a miracle, there is a God, to

43:38

think his day would come. This

43:41

way, Bunny. And you see

43:43

their names, more names

43:46

now, we got Gyo-Gyo, Tots, and

43:48

Potato Potato. Let's call the whole

43:50

thing off. Uh, look

43:53

I'm outside. This

43:55

is a very happy moment right here.

43:57

I'm gonna be king of the outside. We

44:03

got back at the church and

44:05

I guess his elf

44:07

was saying, Where's Bonnie? I just saw Queen

44:09

Delwitter Connie outside. What's going on? Yeah.

44:13

The elf finds

44:15

Connie and says, It's me.

44:17

I'm Bonnie. Don't lie to me.

44:22

The pigtails. Yeah,

44:24

the pigtails are what I'm saying. We

44:28

decorated the ship like a pizza. Oh,

44:31

that's just, that's perfect. It's

44:34

a pizza and obviously the fishermen sort of pirate pirate

44:39

symbol from what they were doing before, I guess. I

44:42

would not have guessed that that was a pizza. Yeah.

44:45

What part of that is pizza? I

44:49

think the dots are pepperonis. And

44:52

then they be frosting is cheese, be

44:54

very stretchy cheese. Right. Yeah. I

44:57

don't know. Maybe they

44:59

stole a ship from Big Mom or something. Big

45:01

Mom. Yeah. Yeah. That's more what it looks like.

45:04

Oh, there's a pineapple in the back.

45:06

This is a blasphemous ship. Yeah.

45:09

It's got Marco on it. Is there a parfait? It

45:12

looks like a parfait, honestly. How? Like the,

45:14

like the, that cooks it all. The tweelys,

45:16

whatever they're called. Yeah.

45:20

This is as much pizza as

45:23

an antibiotic. Like

45:26

I just, I can't think of anything that's

45:28

less pizza than this. They did it overnight.

45:30

Like this is their birthday present to Bonnie

45:32

from yesterday. Antibiotics. It looks like it's covered

45:35

in penicillin. It actually

45:37

does. I was trying to think what's

45:39

the opposite of pizza and antibiotics are

45:41

the things that, the thing that

45:43

kills harmful bacteria is the thing that's Is there

45:45

some penicillin on your pizza? The

45:48

Petri dish. Well, I mean, some

45:50

people eat mushrooms. That's how you

45:52

make it up to your

45:54

audience that you're not doing an episode next week. You

45:57

have someone on the team try and make this pizza.

46:00

Ah, the penicillin pizza, yes. I

46:02

wouldn't bring such an awful

46:05

thing into this world. Absolutely

46:08

not. Alex,

46:10

did you want to round us off? I will

46:12

round us off, yeah. So, Alpha is

46:16

running on the

46:18

water, saying stop right there,

46:20

and they're like, ah, it's Alpha. And

46:22

she says, if you attempt to escape,

46:25

I have authorization to use non-lethal violence

46:27

to subdue you and bring you justice.

46:29

No, not non-lethal violence. I

46:31

really like that. That phrase is non-lethal violence.

46:35

So, yeah, I guess that's just beating

46:38

you within an inch of your life, basically. So,

46:42

she looks like she's using Skywalk, and

46:45

Giogeo says, ah, she's flying at us.

46:47

That's the government fighting style. The six

46:49

powers. And, you know,

46:52

Alpha's just talking to nobody but

46:54

herself, saying accomplices may be eliminated.

46:58

I think she's talking to him, Giogeo. Yeah, I

47:00

guess that's true. It just sounds like she's knocking

47:02

herself. I like that idea better. And

47:07

so we get a little flashback from Bonnie, who

47:09

says, hey, Daddy, what

47:12

does Nika look like? He's not here, so… Yeah,

47:14

I could hear you doing the joke without you

47:16

actually doing it. He said, what does Nika look

47:19

like? Well, no one really knows, but

47:22

Alpha's within the ship's grasp.

47:26

And then Bonnie jumps off the ship and

47:28

says, distorted future, and gets real buff really

47:30

quick with a… What a great sound effect.

47:34

Buff. Yeah. Buff.

47:37

Muscle. That's

47:39

what my muscle sounds like. Yeah, and

47:41

sort of has a gear third

47:43

style arm now, and

47:47

Giogeo, and I guess that's Tots, or is it Potato?

47:51

Who knows yet? Yeah. Where

47:54

do we walk, though? Yeah, they're a little

47:56

freaked out, and the little

47:58

flashback continues about Nika. And

48:01

Kuma says, it's said that his

48:03

body had properties like rubber, and

48:05

he fought however he fancied. And

48:09

we have this really awesome panel here of

48:12

– it's

48:14

a Luffy Lake panel. Bonnie has a

48:16

huge fist, sucking

48:20

Alpha right in the face, breaking her glasses,

48:25

ruining her chances of ever being a body double for

48:27

Khalifa later on. Somebody

48:30

had to say it. Okay, we'll talk

48:32

about this in our round off. We definitely

48:34

talked about it last time. Yeah,

48:36

this attack is Nika-like future.

48:41

And yeah, she

48:44

gets punched right into the ocean with a giant

48:46

splash. Everybody

48:50

on the ship is extremely

48:52

wowed, and we have our little

48:54

oat-a-boxes saying, the escape of Bonnie

48:56

the hostage was relayed to the

48:58

government at once. And

49:00

eventually, the fishing boat

49:03

in search of her father transformed into

49:05

a pirate ship in the New World, much

49:08

like Luffy's. And

49:10

with a dawn, we

49:13

end the chapter. And

49:15

I did want to say, and I'm sure,

49:18

Steven, you drew from it, Chapter

49:20

1044, when we first see

49:23

Nika, and the Gear 5,

49:26

the language is similar, possessing a body with

49:28

the properties of rubber and fighting in whatever

49:31

way he fancies, bringing smiles to the face

49:33

of people. That's

49:35

from the Five Elders. I

49:39

wonder, I just wonder the

49:41

origin of that, I guess, but I

49:43

don't think that's something we're going to find out soon.

49:47

Anyway, that is Chapter 1101. Thoughts

49:51

on this one? Miles, I'll start with you.

49:56

It's kind of cool that Bonnie canonically uses Gear

49:58

3rd before Luffy. at

50:00

least a year. True. I

50:04

love this chapter. You're starting with

50:06

me, which is hard because this is a very emotional

50:08

chapter and a very dad chapter. Yes, finally,

50:11

some company here. Honestly,

50:15

Kuma, you called him last episode what the

50:17

best dad in one piece and I couldn't

50:19

agree more. And this is just heart

50:21

wrenching. I think it's a little annoying, honestly, how they

50:23

kind of did so much

50:25

about the letters, which we already feel

50:28

like we got the anger out last episode

50:30

or last chapter. So

50:32

this chapter harping on it so much didn't wasn't

50:34

as necessary. But the catharsis we

50:36

got at the end of it is so

50:38

satisfying. And the pacing of chapter is great.

50:41

And the emotionality and getting to see the

50:43

quiet scenes again, that last little

50:45

bit before, you

50:48

know, Kuma had to go away from last

50:50

chapter was so nice. And so seeing him in while

50:54

he still has most of his mind was

50:56

also nice. Seeing his connection with Luffy early

50:59

on kind of reframes a couple more things

51:01

that we saw later on. And

51:04

seeing Dragon be a good dad

51:06

for the first time. Yeah, I

51:08

like that. So real good dad

51:10

chapter. I don't know if I go

51:12

good, but certainly, for the first time, shows

51:15

that he thinks about his children at least.

51:18

Yeah, he knows they exist. Right. Like

51:20

he's concerned for his well being. I

51:23

guess the first time we saw him he

51:26

kind of had that. He didn't

51:28

know he was he was daddy back then. But

51:31

we didn't know he did. He

51:33

did, I think. Yeah. For

51:37

more daddy, we'll get to that

51:39

later. Casey. Yeah, I

51:41

think this is a perfectly fine chapter.

51:43

I think this

51:45

was a nice little spot of levity

51:47

and hope before our hearts get crushed

51:50

again. Because you know, we have

51:52

the nine year old having the

51:54

best birthday outside of dad not being

51:56

able to show up. We have a

51:58

little bit of hope, you know, Kuma. Kuma hoping that the

52:01

letters he's been writing all this time, his

52:03

one last year of emotion is received in

52:05

any way and tragically we

52:07

know it isn't. And we have

52:09

Bonnie's hope that she's gonna go to sea and find

52:11

him. And yeah, we do

52:13

get that nice catharsis of Alpha getting socked in

52:15

the face. Something

52:18

I really like, something I have enjoyed about this

52:20

arc is that Kuma was a character I've liked

52:22

a lot, so it's been nice to

52:25

get some of Kuma's story here. And

52:27

yeah, I think this

52:30

was our moment of kindness

52:33

before tragedy takes hold again. That's

52:37

a free chapter, one piece. Especially

52:40

flashback. Stephen,

52:43

your thoughts? I think this was a, this

52:46

is a very solid, like I think he

52:48

just really, thoroughly wrote the

52:50

hell out of this chapter. Like

52:53

it's the same density that he

52:55

has been writing with, particularly in

52:57

Egghead and in

53:01

this flashback as well. But

53:04

it does feel very singularly

53:06

focused on telling this

53:09

story of Bonnie

53:13

and Kuma clearly,

53:15

very clearly thinking so heavily of

53:17

each other while they are separated.

53:20

And the strength of that bond. And

53:23

Miles is probably right, you didn't

53:26

need to harp on the letter

53:28

thing so often. But

53:30

it does really, for a character

53:32

who is, does

53:35

not really serve much of a purpose other than

53:38

to be this Nurse Ratched

53:40

bad guy, it makes

53:43

the payoff of Bonnie knocking out

53:45

Alpha much more satisfying.

53:48

And it was a really awesome, like I

53:51

had that like, you

53:53

know, that sort of like stand up out of

53:55

your chair like, whoa, reaction when I saw the

53:58

punch in the. the

54:00

double page spread at the end, which I

54:03

really liked because I had

54:06

this thought and I almost didn't

54:08

want to say it

54:10

because of like cursing it into

54:12

kind of becoming true, but

54:15

it did occur to me particularly

54:17

when the kind

54:19

of the full narrative of the

54:21

Kuma and Bonnie stuff

54:24

became clear in

54:26

the flashback that it

54:28

is also very similar to the structure of

54:30

the Kiro and Rebecca stuff, where

54:33

you know it's like the father

54:35

and daughter who are separated

54:38

who cannot be together due

54:40

to circumstances and you

54:42

know tragic stuff has befallen them and

54:46

all they want is to

54:48

to be together and I just

54:50

remembered how like what happened with

54:53

Kiro and Rebecca was that

54:55

once that came true then Rebecca had

54:57

no agency in the story anymore like

54:59

she had no purpose to be served

55:01

it was just she she was just

55:03

the good daughter who

55:05

was you know

55:07

he was rescuing her from a

55:09

lifetime of you

55:12

know violence and of doing bad things and

55:14

stuff and I was a little worried that

55:17

you know once we got the the full

55:19

backstory here that that the same thing

55:22

might happen with Bonnie where it's like all she

55:24

wants is to see her dad again

55:26

and then what happens to Bonnie you

55:28

know the the supernova the worst generation

55:31

pirate if that's what the entirety

55:34

of her quest revolves around and

55:36

that's still kind of an open question I

55:39

think but I really

55:41

did appreciate seeing her like get

55:43

down and dirty and actually kicking

55:45

ass and kind of you

55:48

know she doesn't I don't think she even really knows that

55:51

that she's avenging the lost letters here she

55:53

doesn't realize that her dad she still doesn't

55:55

realize that her dad has been writing to

55:57

her but you know in in

56:00

terms of the dramatic irony

56:02

of it, is that she is kind of

56:04

getting back at Alpha for that. And-

56:07

Well, she knows me. What's that? She

56:10

knows now, right? She kind of put two

56:12

and two together. Today, probably. I

56:14

mean, she's, well- No, no, no. Well, she

56:16

touched the bubble. Yeah, she went into the

56:18

paw chamber. Yeah,

56:20

but Connie even, Connie says to

56:23

Bonnie, don't get confused here, I

56:26

don't, where is it? It doesn't make sense

56:28

that Kuma wouldn't, wouldn't write

56:30

a single letter to you. Okay, yeah, so maybe

56:32

that's insinuating to her that- Yeah, I mean like-

56:34

Even keeping it secret. It doesn't

56:36

say for sure, but she knows her father enough

56:39

to be like, okay, he's a staff, he's gonna

56:41

be sending me a lot of letters. Right, right.

56:43

And asking, why don't you call? Why don't you

56:45

write? If

56:48

anyone, yeah, go ahead. Yeah,

56:50

so again, I'm not sure if,

56:53

what the long-term plan is, but I

56:55

was very happy to see this, this

56:59

kind of kick-ass moment for Bonnie and

57:02

to see her do something that is really cool. Like,

57:04

the age powers are interesting,

57:07

but I

57:09

don't think we had really seen her kind

57:12

of deliver on this level in terms

57:14

of being a very impressive feat of

57:17

using her powers to fight. And

57:20

that was really cool, I liked that a

57:22

lot. I'm

57:25

not sure, I mean, okay, I haven't seen

57:27

the next chapter, it's gonna be two

57:30

weeks, but it

57:32

does kind of seem, like maybe

57:34

we'll get a little bit of kind

57:36

of connecting material. Maybe there's something about,

57:38

this is what happened in the

57:40

year or the three years since,

57:43

but it does kind of seem to suggest that

57:45

this is the end of Bonnie, I

57:47

mean, obviously she's leaving, she's not stuck

57:49

in Sorbet Kingdom anymore, but

57:53

it sounds like a wrap-up to be like, and then she

57:55

became a pirate in the new world and

57:59

here we are today, that's where. So I'm

58:01

not sure if this is the end, but it does seem

58:03

like we're pretty much there Yeah,

58:06

I think at this point. I mean

58:08

also Bonnie knows her story here It's

58:13

a lot of kuma story is what I guess she

58:15

yeah Alex

58:18

your thoughts on the chapter. I thought

58:20

was great great chapter so

58:26

Yeah stuff with dragon is

58:29

really interesting I think we've talked about this before

58:31

but you know I think I

58:33

mean using Ed's words You know we're finally

58:35

like Oda is finally forced to make dragon

58:37

a character in this in the story and

58:45

This is a side of him that like We

58:48

sort of see and it sort of is a slight

58:51

justification as to How he's

58:53

been acting the way he's been acting every single time. We've

58:55

seen him Like when

58:57

Sabo and koala or like even koala. I think said

58:59

hey. What's the matter? You're not even gonna bat

59:02

an eye that your son has a higher bounty or

59:04

whatever and he just doesn't he's just like never mind

59:06

Let's talk about something else Like

59:09

I get the I get the The

59:13

sense that we're going to have a really

59:15

heart-wrenching moment with dragon at some point in

59:18

the story And

59:20

I'm really gearing up for it now because if

59:22

like I thought it was gonna

59:25

be Parburly to God Valley, and I was kind

59:27

of hoping yeah, but this is just this flashback

59:29

It's just gonna be all about kuma come on

59:31

Bonnie Yeah, so

59:34

yeah, we'll eventually get there Yeah

59:38

Alpha I Haven't

59:41

listened to last week's episode. Did you talk about

59:43

if alpha could be a caliph's

59:45

sister or a Clone

59:47

or something because I it has the pho

59:50

she has the pho in the name and I wonder if there's

59:52

a Alpha caliph, uh, you

59:55

know Yeah, I did

59:57

think about that. I mean now

59:59

they just have some similar, like the Katakana

1:00:01

is similar, Karifa and Arufa, but

1:00:05

I'm not sure if there's anything more than that. I

1:00:08

mean, they do look insanely similar. We did

1:00:10

mention that. Clefa's dad was a CP9 agent,

1:00:12

so there is that family thing. That's true,

1:00:14

too. That could be true, yeah, maybe they're

1:00:17

sisters. Yeah, and I'm sure there's a lot

1:00:19

of, what do you call it, nepotism

1:00:23

in the one piece, especially in

1:00:25

the government. Especially in CP9. That

1:00:27

wouldn't surprise me. Cypher

1:00:29

nepol zero, yeah, there it is.

1:00:34

Yeah, so that's something I've been

1:00:36

thinking about since last week. Turns

1:00:40

out she has blonde hair, then that's

1:00:42

probably Kalifa's sister. The

1:00:46

fact that she's called Alfa, I wonder

1:00:48

if she was a clone of

1:00:51

Kalifa or something. We're

1:00:53

freaking clones of Kalifa. Like, who is she

1:00:56

to have a clone? I don't

1:00:58

know. Who are any of these people with clones

1:01:00

to have clones? Well, no, no, the only other

1:01:02

one we know is My parents' girlfriend. The only

1:01:04

other one is Stussy, right? And that's Ms. Buckin,

1:01:07

and she seemed to have, she

1:01:09

was a member of the Rocks Pirates. Yeah,

1:01:11

she seemed to be of some notoriety. Yeah,

1:01:15

we'll find out more about her at some

1:01:17

point, I'm sure, but yeah. Yeah,

1:01:20

the letter stuff, I guess

1:01:22

the letter stuff is important, though, too, because Bonnie

1:01:25

has seen all this flashback now. She

1:01:27

has seen what we've seen, what

1:01:30

we have seen, because she put her hands in the

1:01:32

big Kuma paw force

1:01:34

field thing, Kuma's memories. Yeah,

1:01:39

also I love that Bonnie's

1:01:41

got bigpunchies.com as well. Great

1:01:46

stuff. I

1:01:48

mean, and you sort of get to know why she was

1:01:51

a force to be reckoned with amongst the other

1:01:53

worst generation. Very cool chapter. More

1:01:57

reason to visit bigpunchies.com, by the way.

1:01:59

Yeah. I don't recall. Is

1:02:01

this the first chapter we've seen Brallik Bonnie

1:02:03

in? No, we

1:02:06

saw her once against Vega

1:02:08

punk when she was

1:02:10

chasing him through the hall Yeah, she

1:02:12

did the distorted future thing. She

1:02:14

did the upper body whole thing

1:02:17

This is a consequence of reading all of that in

1:02:19

a week. So I Don't

1:02:22

blame you at all Ed

1:02:28

Yes, I as Alex was saying I

1:02:30

I called a couple weeks ago for

1:02:34

Dragon to be more of a character in

1:02:37

the series going forward and this is you know It's

1:02:40

gonna be a gradual thing with him. Otherwise, we're

1:02:42

gonna get some big

1:02:44

revelations with him at some point But sort

1:02:46

of breaking that ice with him of him

1:02:49

having an opinion about you know About

1:02:52

Luffy and you know Recognizing

1:02:54

that you know children can be a

1:02:57

weakness which is poignant for Kuma in

1:02:59

particular. He does really hit him hard

1:03:02

When he says that to him, so it's

1:03:05

um, you know, it's interesting that he keeps an eye

1:03:07

on Luffy as well Just

1:03:09

after that. Well, this is before this is

1:03:11

before Kuma had Bonnie right

1:03:14

I'm trying to think when in the timeline

1:03:16

where they act goa I

1:03:18

believe he's reflecting. He's reflect. Nobody's reflecting my

1:03:20

diversity might have he's reflecting on

1:03:23

that conversation Currently at right

1:03:25

by the point the point when Luffy is 16 So

1:03:28

it's just you know, it's something that you

1:03:30

think about more I guess thinking about conversations

1:03:32

you've had with you know, other other

1:03:34

dads when you're dead But

1:03:37

I just want to point out that Connie I think is

1:03:40

You know sort of the unsung hero of

1:03:42

this of this chapter. She really

1:03:44

takes on a role in Raising

1:03:46

Bonnie to be sort of

1:03:49

this, you know, I

1:03:51

guess assertive personality this You

1:03:53

know someone who's capable of being a leader. Yes.

1:03:55

It was already I was always naturally within her

1:03:57

But it's nice to see someone, you know

1:04:01

This is one of the few positive, you know,

1:04:03

mother relationships in One Piece, like with the

1:04:06

Don's sort of this foster mother for this

1:04:08

character to show her how to sort

1:04:10

of be that person who

1:04:13

people want to follow you. And

1:04:16

her figuring out like that Alpha is a

1:04:18

government agent and doing the

1:04:20

switcharoo with Connie. I

1:04:23

laughed out loud, that was a great moment. I think

1:04:26

Connie is a great character. She's been the source

1:04:28

of so many good gags over

1:04:30

the last few chapters. It's

1:04:34

interesting to see that other side of a character we've seen throughout

1:04:37

the series are alluded to occasionally

1:04:41

when Bonnie would transform like that. But I

1:04:43

do love to see Bonnie transform. You

1:04:46

really see how strong she

1:04:48

is, how she would become one of the

1:04:51

supernovas, I think, with that power. And

1:04:53

she's nine years old. It's

1:04:56

true. She's...

1:04:59

Anything else, Ed? I don't know. Kuma

1:05:01

is just a... He's a very thoughtful guy, you

1:05:03

know. A lot of these characters are all

1:05:06

action, you know, sort of... Luffy

1:05:08

is a sort of ultimate Ed character. But

1:05:11

you know, it's interesting to see a

1:05:13

more introspective character in

1:05:15

One Piece. Yeah,

1:05:20

I'm happy you mentioned Connie

1:05:22

in particular, Ed, because I

1:05:24

think she was probably the

1:05:27

MVP of this particular chapter.

1:05:31

And you know, we talked

1:05:33

a lot a few weeks

1:05:35

ago when Ginny was unceremoniously

1:05:37

off-screened. That

1:05:40

kind of... Well, it's important that Connie is...

1:05:42

Well, I guess Connie is actually a mother.

1:05:44

Her son was the king. But

1:05:46

she must be extremely strong if she's managed

1:05:48

to survive in this series. Yeah,

1:05:51

I mean, I think more

1:05:53

importantly, it's another good example

1:05:55

of found family in One

1:05:58

Piece or False or

1:06:02

a parent because of the circumstances.

1:06:04

Not super happy with

1:06:06

how the Ginny story went because

1:06:11

it was for the sake of Kuma, but I do think it's a

1:06:13

very positive thing to

1:06:17

see the mother figure in

1:06:19

Bonnie's life and seemingly pretty

1:06:21

consistent through these early years.

1:06:25

And more important than Kuma, who I

1:06:27

think, he's not naive,

1:06:29

but I think as a trusting individual,

1:06:31

it is good to see Connie explain

1:06:35

Bonnie's, I think, cynicism that

1:06:37

she seems to have when we first

1:06:39

meet her and thereafter.

1:06:41

She has a lot of that,

1:06:43

like, suspicion. And it

1:06:46

looks like Connie is what instilled that personality

1:06:49

trait into Bonnie a little bit more.

1:06:53

I also think it's

1:06:56

just... What was I going to say?

1:07:00

I agree with what Miles said.

1:07:02

This was a heartbreaking chapter, particularly

1:07:04

as a dad, because

1:07:08

I really felt the letter

1:07:10

thing. I think the

1:07:13

letter thing is a great example of, we

1:07:16

already get it, but it's that,

1:07:18

like, oh,

1:07:21

this is just so overboard evil

1:07:23

is how it feels. Let's

1:07:25

really drill this in. And

1:07:29

I guess no surprise really reminded

1:07:31

me of Spandom. Not

1:07:34

in looks, but hopefully now also

1:07:36

in that. Her soul

1:07:39

is ugly. Right,

1:07:41

they both, yeah. But

1:07:44

Spandom is a great villain

1:07:46

because you

1:07:49

feed him and have such good reason to hate him,

1:07:52

and he's just such a truly awful

1:07:54

human being, which is like he's

1:07:56

a villain. I think

1:07:58

Alpha in two short shorts... chapters manages

1:08:00

to kind of achieve that. Um,

1:08:03

in like, she's over

1:08:05

the top evil, yes. Oh, sappy, let

1:08:07

me rip these up. Um,

1:08:10

but also just like, I don't

1:08:13

think unrealistically evil, um, even

1:08:15

though over the top evil,

1:08:18

um, like, this is her

1:08:20

job, she doesn't like kids, she doesn't like

1:08:22

being a good human, she's just an evil,

1:08:24

you know, terrible person, and

1:08:26

she gets punched in the face. Because you

1:08:28

get that catharsis with spandom a lot, uh,

1:08:32

through Ennius Lobby and Water Seven,

1:08:34

uh, as a lot

1:08:36

of people may recall, he got punched a lot.

1:08:39

Um, and so it is great to see that here.

1:08:41

I think this chapter

1:08:44

did a very good job

1:08:46

with that. I, with

1:08:49

the stuff with Luffy

1:08:51

and Dragon and particularly

1:08:53

Kuma here, um,

1:08:56

in that relationship, it

1:08:58

makes me wonder

1:09:01

how the story, how the rest of the flashback

1:09:03

is going to be organized. I think, you

1:09:06

know, I read a lot of, I reread a lot

1:09:08

of the Thriller Bark stuff with Kuma, uh,

1:09:11

last week. And I really

1:09:13

wonder if we're going to get some

1:09:16

of the events we've already seen

1:09:18

in Thriller Bark and, um, Shabadi

1:09:20

and afterwards from Kuma's

1:09:23

perspective, particularly since Vega

1:09:26

Punk says that line, um,

1:09:28

what is it? Uh,

1:09:31

I'll try and give you another year at

1:09:33

least of the bare minimum conscience, uh,

1:09:36

which sounds like that period during the

1:09:39

time skip, um, or

1:09:41

right leading up to it. Um,

1:09:43

I, yeah, I think we're one chapter away

1:09:45

from the end of this, uh, flashback.

1:09:48

And I think Steven knows you

1:09:50

who said this is the end of what we

1:09:52

get to see of Bonnie, probably. Nothing more

1:09:55

of her story that we need to know.

1:09:57

I'm kind of disappointed about that, honestly, because

1:10:00

I feel like there's a lot I would

1:10:02

like to know about where she develops and I

1:10:04

also see her and this is something we can

1:10:06

come back to Like this chapter

1:10:08

in particularly in particular made me

1:10:10

think of her as a potential straw hat even

1:10:13

in whatever form that takes But

1:10:17

I don't think we're gonna get any more based off of that Oda

1:10:20

box at the end Well, she has the

1:10:22

obsession with Nika Yeah,

1:10:25

yeah, that's why yeah, that's an interesting I

1:10:27

think we're also at the point and I

1:10:29

think we've talked about this in the past

1:10:31

But I think we're at the point

1:10:33

in the story and I think Yamato and Momonosuke and

1:10:35

Kinemon are really good examples where we get big

1:10:38

allies that are really Intertwined

1:10:41

with the straw hats, but they're not riding the ship

1:10:44

with them And I could totally

1:10:46

see Bonnie in that kind of role after

1:10:48

this I don't think

1:10:50

this is the last we're gonna see of

1:10:52

her in this flashback but

1:10:55

I do think that This

1:10:57

is probably the end of the of

1:10:59

the majority of her story, but

1:11:02

Kuma story needs like

1:11:04

Kuma and Bonnie's story kind of are working

1:11:06

off of each other here and I

1:11:09

think we'd be remiss if we

1:11:11

don't see what she's doing during

1:11:15

these important moments with Kuma and Even

1:11:18

like the pacifistas on Shabadi I for I

1:11:20

need to get the look back at that

1:11:22

volume in particular because I don't remember how

1:11:24

she reacts to that because

1:11:28

she was there I I'm

1:11:31

sure well, I think it's gonna be

1:11:33

really interesting We've never really hit a

1:11:36

flashback that literally crosses back as far

1:11:38

as I can recall into Stuff

1:11:40

we've seen in the main story in

1:11:43

this sort of way and I find

1:11:45

that really that's a very interesting Dynamic

1:11:50

I'm really looking forward to it The

1:11:54

one of contributes to this whole arc feeling

1:11:56

like it's wrapping up a lot of loose

1:11:59

ends Like we've been having this for the

1:12:01

last 10 chapters or so, but it felt especially

1:12:03

like that right now. Yeah.

1:12:06

I think that a lot of people, you know, calling

1:12:08

this the final saga or whatever, like, I

1:12:11

think it is certainly, I don't know

1:12:13

if I subscribed to that title,

1:12:16

but I definitely think Oda is working

1:12:19

toward a conclusion since,

1:12:22

particularly since Wano. So and

1:12:25

the last thing I want to say is

1:12:28

every chapter, I kind of am like re-examining

1:12:30

what I think of the flashback as a

1:12:32

whole until we get to the end of

1:12:34

it. I

1:12:36

think the, it's interesting

1:12:38

since the story

1:12:40

starts as Kuma, the child

1:12:44

who led a really

1:12:46

cursed childhood and found

1:12:48

people, then his

1:12:50

relationship with Ginny and

1:12:53

now his relationship with Bonnie and

1:12:56

how it undoes him. It's

1:12:59

there's so, I feel

1:13:02

like those early, the early stories while

1:13:04

good. I don't know if Miles

1:13:07

and Casey, you agree, but it

1:13:09

felt very haphazard

1:13:12

or rushed at times, I think is what I've

1:13:14

said. I think the

1:13:16

latter half of this flashback, this

1:13:18

stuff with Bonnie and Kuma have

1:13:20

been extremely heart,

1:13:23

I want to say heartwarming, but

1:13:26

have been very sentimental and very

1:13:29

heartbreaking and well done and paced in

1:13:32

a much, I think older

1:13:35

one piece flashback sort of way, which

1:13:37

I appreciate. I don't know Casey or

1:13:39

Miles, if you have thoughts on that. What

1:13:44

are the flashbacks pacing generally since

1:13:47

you read it in one day? Yeah, I

1:13:49

would say that as far as flashbacks

1:13:51

go, it does take me back more

1:13:54

to the older style of one piece

1:13:56

writing. Yeah,

1:14:00

there is, it's at least more focused

1:14:02

on just a couple of characters, whereas

1:14:04

I think that outside of the flashback,

1:14:06

the preoccupation can be to try to

1:14:09

juggle as many characters as possible, and

1:14:11

as many concepts, and we're

1:14:13

constantly jumping from, you know, this mythic thing

1:14:15

to this returning character, to this cameo, to

1:14:17

this gag, and yeah, when you get back

1:14:20

to the flashback writing, that

1:14:22

can kind of more focus

1:14:24

on the emotions of specific characters

1:14:26

and beats. So yeah,

1:14:28

it is a welcome pace

1:14:31

setter, I suppose. I also

1:14:33

wanted to really quick echo a couple

1:14:36

things you had said. I

1:14:38

really did enjoy Connie as

1:14:41

someone instilling a...

1:14:44

as being an adult that encouraged

1:14:46

Bonnie to question authority. I

1:14:48

do think that is a necessary step in her

1:14:50

character development. And yeah,

1:14:52

I also, now that you mentioned it,

1:14:55

really enjoyed the comparison of Alpha to

1:14:57

a character like Spandom, and that they're

1:14:59

both sort of the very

1:15:01

mundane bureaucratic side of government evil.

1:15:05

Like they're people who are given those jobs

1:15:07

and don't, like, they don't seem to have

1:15:09

any... second

1:15:12

thoughts about following those orders. They just

1:15:15

kind of do the really evil bits

1:15:17

and get some kind of enjoyment

1:15:19

out of it, and there are people like that in

1:15:21

life, and unfortunately you can't just punch

1:15:23

them in the face and be done with them. There

1:15:26

is no such catharsis like that. So I

1:15:28

think they are... Vagabunk

1:15:33

also says, Takuma in this chapter,

1:15:35

what does it mean to lose your free will? Well, would

1:15:38

you follow orders if he ordered you to kill a child?

1:15:41

That was his example that he used. Yeah,

1:15:44

and these are people who willingly give

1:15:46

that away. Like they're happy to do

1:15:48

it. And, you

1:15:50

know, in a very real way, like

1:15:53

these are more everyday villains. These are the kinds

1:15:55

of people you're more likely to deal with than

1:15:57

someone who can turn into light or, you know...

1:16:00

turn their hands into dragons so

1:16:02

lightly less likely to find You

1:16:05

have to there's somewhere in the country

1:16:09

cancer cancer

1:16:11

your question Zach for me I You're

1:16:14

talking about the first part of the flashback where

1:16:16

it was all over the place. Yeah, I'm a

1:16:18

childhood Yeah, I mean that that

1:16:20

was the most fan servicey part of one

1:16:22

piece. We've gotten some stampede so I couldn't

1:16:24

complain I'm not denying

1:16:27

that The

1:16:29

pacing I didn't even think about the pacing

1:16:31

because I just felt like you know when

1:16:33

Frankie sees a robot for However

1:16:35

many chapters that was like there's

1:16:38

whitebeard standing next to you know so-and-so

1:16:40

and there's a young Stussy and the

1:16:42

young Everybody

1:16:44

and there's Roger and Rogers crew and

1:16:47

we're getting all this fun backstory and

1:16:49

garps doing cool things I

1:16:51

don't know. I couldn't complain like the

1:16:53

writing could have been bad. But because I did read

1:16:55

it all in bulk I

1:16:57

was just in they can't put it

1:16:59

down mode that's what I appreciate. Yeah,

1:17:01

yeah, I appreciate this part of the

1:17:03

flashback That is much more Yeah

1:17:07

classic I and again.

1:17:09

This is another reason why I'm like Bonnie

1:17:11

for straw hat I hate it. I hate

1:17:13

it to be clear whenever anyone's like oh this

1:17:15

character could be a straw hat But for

1:17:17

whatever reason this chapter just gave me very

1:17:19

big Bonnie straw hat vibes To

1:17:22

be fair we all got that when in

1:17:24

Yamato's short flashback

1:17:27

and We

1:17:29

already have a character with Luffy fight powers Luffy

1:17:33

you know we don't have a character who like Views

1:17:37

him as a god, and I also do think about

1:17:39

it. We'll he'll join the crew eventually Yeah,

1:17:42

yeah, I I just think we're at the

1:17:44

point that my my cop-out answer is we're

1:17:46

at the point in the story Where

1:17:49

I think everyone? Along

1:17:51

the way is you know gonna be

1:17:53

part of this final battle or whatever

1:17:55

it is and so You

1:17:58

know I think there are some strong allies

1:18:00

that have been built. I think Greg said

1:18:02

something along the lines of like Yamato

1:18:05

and Momonosuke and Kinemon are kind of on

1:18:07

the same line as Vivi where

1:18:09

they're in absentia, you know.

1:18:12

And I could see Bonnie

1:18:14

being at that point. I

1:18:17

don't think I want someone on the

1:18:19

crew who worships Lufido. I think Bonnie

1:18:22

and Bartolomeo should brawl for president of

1:18:24

the fan club. Like,

1:18:26

they haven't, we don't know, so

1:18:29

Bonnie digested a lot of the

1:18:31

information from Kuma, but remember she

1:18:33

was not his biggest fan before.

1:18:36

I'm wondering if

1:18:39

she puts two and two together

1:18:41

here or is told through this

1:18:44

in the Paul room whether or

1:18:46

not Luffy

1:18:49

is Nika or figures that out. We

1:18:52

haven't really actually seen her fans

1:18:54

service like, you know, like, oh

1:18:57

my god, I can't believe it.

1:19:00

Well, no, but we saw her attitude change a

1:19:02

bit to Luffy after she was in the Paul

1:19:04

room. Yeah. And so that's kind of the important

1:19:06

thing for me. I don't

1:19:08

think, when I'm saying she's worshipping him, like

1:19:11

she's a 12 year old, which is another

1:19:13

weird part about her being a straw hat.

1:19:15

Yeah. And of a lot of things.

1:19:18

And of a lot of things. Yeah. Yeah.

1:19:20

Yeah. We don't need to get into that.

1:19:22

But the thing is, I

1:19:24

think there'd be a little more complexity to the

1:19:26

way that she views Luffy that is can actually

1:19:28

be more adult than an actual adult would treat

1:19:30

him. Yeah, I

1:19:33

agree. Any other final thoughts? Two

1:19:37

very quick notes is specifically

1:19:40

because Zach kind

1:19:43

of had a little Freudian slip a

1:19:45

little when he said the title of

1:19:47

the chapter is Dear Bonnie because I

1:19:51

kind of wanted to call it Dear

1:19:53

Bonnie. But I need to make

1:19:55

this very pedantic point here, which is

1:19:57

that the phrase pops up a couple of

1:20:00

a couple of times, but most specifically,

1:20:03

the panel where you see Alpha,

1:20:05

you know, go like, oh, too Bonnie, well, what a sap.

1:20:09

And then it's written on the outside

1:20:11

of the envelope. You don't write dear

1:20:13

so-and-so on the envelope itself.

1:20:15

You write dear so-and-so at the top,

1:20:18

above the body of your letter. You

1:20:21

don't write it on the envelope that you send

1:20:23

to them. And so because

1:20:25

of that, in good faith, I could not call

1:20:28

this dear Bonnie. But I would have liked to.

1:20:31

To be fair, I

1:20:33

wouldn't write too necessarily on an envelope.

1:20:35

Either, yeah. Or just write the name.

1:20:37

Well, in Japan, I'm not sure. Yeah,

1:20:39

but then she has to respond to

1:20:41

that and go, wee, wee. So

1:20:44

yeah, that was slightly

1:20:46

annoying. But I also did want

1:20:49

to point out, because I think this is the sort

1:20:51

of thing that a lot of people would probably gloss

1:20:53

over or not really recognize, which is

1:20:55

that all of the stuff that Kuma writes with

1:20:57

like, you know, I send you all the love in

1:20:59

the world. And I love

1:21:01

Bonnie. I have another year to write

1:21:03

an entire life's worth of emotions to

1:21:06

her. That's a very like, I

1:21:09

keep wanting to say the word blatant. Not

1:21:11

blatant, but it's a very forward

1:21:14

expression of

1:21:16

love and sentiment that you don't often

1:21:18

see in Japanese writing. They're just the

1:21:20

way that they prefer

1:21:23

to express things. There's

1:21:26

that meme of, you know,

1:21:28

how do you say I love you? It's, oh, the

1:21:30

moon is beautiful tonight or whatever. Oh, yeah. That

1:21:35

is a meme. It's a little bit of an exaggeration, but it

1:21:38

does reveal something about

1:21:42

how things are preferred to be

1:21:44

expressed. And so

1:21:46

it did strike me as like,

1:21:49

wow, Kuma is really, he's

1:21:51

laying it on very directly in here in

1:21:53

a way that is fairly rare, I think,

1:21:56

for Japanese

1:21:58

writing. And... I think

1:22:00

yeah, yeah, it really helps

1:22:03

sell the you know the

1:22:05

connection in this chapter I

1:22:07

I hope it's reflective of Oda

1:22:11

I mean you definitely you talked about

1:22:13

the similarities between keros and Rebecca and

1:22:17

The stuff here with kuma and bonnie

1:22:19

and I think the the

1:22:21

similarity with both stories is the idea And

1:22:24

I'm sure as a father You

1:22:26

know the idea of what if this

1:22:29

really terrible thing happens with me and

1:22:31

my kid How

1:22:33

would I you know approach the situation

1:22:35

or? The

1:22:37

perspective of a father who is unable

1:22:40

to see his daughter due to circumstances

1:22:43

like drawing Dear

1:22:47

daughter I am stuck here writing chapter 100

1:22:49

1,100 and whatever it is Yeah

1:22:59

That's not true by the time you're a ten.

1:23:01

I'll be halfway through with one piece The

1:23:05

common refrain there Yeah,

1:23:08

I feel that I I

1:23:10

think the big difference I mean there's a lot

1:23:12

of difference of the keros and scarlet

1:23:15

and or um Rebecca

1:23:18

story and this one, but

1:23:20

the the fact that Bonnie and her

1:23:24

dad already have such a established

1:23:26

wonderful Relationship that they're so open

1:23:28

about I think one of the

1:23:30

thing keros was like very reluctant

1:23:32

to Let his love

1:23:34

out because he felt so terrible

1:23:37

about himself It's

1:23:39

like a very it's it's it's an and also Bonnie

1:23:43

is Nine

1:23:46

and she should just be able to

1:23:48

have fun at Chuck E cheese and

1:23:51

eat her goopy cheese pizza Like

1:23:54

on her awful awful boat but

1:24:00

I think with

1:24:02

Rebecca, there's a whole other thing I

1:24:04

don't even want to get into, but

1:24:06

it's interesting the different types of dads

1:24:09

that are portrayed in One Piece, but

1:24:11

at the same time I think this

1:24:13

chapter does something One Piece doesn't do

1:24:15

enough and it shows that nine-year-old girls

1:24:17

could really kick ass when they need

1:24:20

to. I

1:24:24

hope he is finally admitting that

1:24:26

not just 12-year-old boys read One

1:24:28

Piece and that he shouldn't just

1:24:30

be catering to just 12-year-old boys.

1:24:34

Any other comments on the chapter? I

1:24:37

just have a general observation about the

1:24:40

monk-priest figures in One Piece

1:24:43

are like Kuma and Urogue.

1:24:46

They're all gigantic, big, punchy

1:24:48

guys, which tells me

1:24:50

that Oda's main relationship

1:24:52

with priests is as a

1:24:54

D&D type class situation. They're

1:24:57

all clerics, yeah. Yeah.

1:25:01

Just something I wanted to point it out

1:25:03

because I'm guessing he hasn't run into

1:25:05

too many priests when he has a half hour of free

1:25:07

time a week. Or scary people you saw when you were

1:25:09

a child and you were running all day much longer. I

1:25:13

was going to say that and I decided not to. I

1:25:18

really hope, and I'm sure we will, get

1:25:20

a lot more about religion in One Piece

1:25:22

and we'll see which of

1:25:24

you guys are right about how he

1:25:26

views it when we get there. We

1:25:29

obviously got God and that kind

1:25:31

of stuff in Scipia, but I mean the

1:25:33

actual religion in One Piece that I'm curious

1:25:35

about. I

1:25:38

feel like Oda, generally speaking,

1:25:40

has been more pro-religion than any other

1:25:42

Shonen Jump rider I've ever seen. Religion

1:25:46

is treated pretty respectfully where even the

1:25:48

straw hats will respect other people's beliefs.

1:25:52

Except Zorro. Except Zorro, yeah. Except Zorro

1:25:54

doesn't respect anybody or anything. True. I

1:25:57

say this a lot about the podcast. about

1:26:01

having a crew is you could all

1:26:03

have different opinions so you could, you

1:26:06

know, say you could both

1:26:08

make fun of religion with Zorro and

1:26:10

be very respectful for it like Kuma

1:26:12

or whatever. It's,

1:26:15

you could have your cake and eat it too,

1:26:17

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is the Double Anime Recap for episodes 1086 and 1087.

1:27:30

I'm your host Sam, and today

1:27:32

with me, we have Ed. Yes! It's good to be back. It's

1:27:36

a new era for the One

1:27:38

Piece anime. We are completely out of Wano now. We're

1:27:40

back in the old days. We're

1:27:43

back in the old days. We're

1:27:45

back in the old days. We're

1:27:47

back in the old days. We're back in

1:27:50

the old days. We're back in the old days. We're

1:27:53

completely out of Wano now. And

1:27:55

we're sort of making our way around the world a

1:27:57

little bit. Yes, we

1:27:59

may... eventually reach a

1:28:01

new location. The

1:28:05

first episode on the docket is 1086 a new

1:28:10

Emperor buggy the genius jester

1:28:13

and it opens with Nami

1:28:16

has put Luffy in a cage for

1:28:18

taking the waterfall route along with the

1:28:21

kid in law after their

1:28:23

little dick measuring contest

1:28:27

and Jim Bay still

1:28:29

still getting a read on the room is like

1:28:31

well everyone turned out okay so it's no no

1:28:33

harm no foul and then Nami

1:28:36

is like lit on fire and gives

1:28:38

him the evil eye and

1:28:41

Jim is like what is this conquerors

1:28:43

hockey this

1:28:46

is the this is just the flavor of the crew this

1:28:48

is always some

1:28:51

of the best parts of so the in-between parts

1:28:53

of one piece of getting to see the crew

1:28:55

hang out yeah

1:28:58

there's some there's some hijinks and like

1:29:01

Luffy stomach growls and then like

1:29:03

Nami gets mad at him for

1:29:05

that like oh you can be you can afford to

1:29:07

be hungry now huh I put

1:29:09

you in the cage and the audacity to be

1:29:12

hungry Sanji

1:29:18

steps out onto the onto the deck and

1:29:21

he's he's just smitten by the by

1:29:23

the the raw sexuality

1:29:25

of Robin retrieving the newspaper

1:29:29

and

1:29:33

Robin's flipping through the pages and she's like

1:29:36

oh look our new wanted posters and that

1:29:38

gets everybody's attention and

1:29:41

you know the straw hat fleet the we're getting

1:29:43

the narrator being like you know the straw hat

1:29:46

fleet has says 5,600 members

1:29:50

and the Emperor

1:29:52

of the sea straw hat Luffy

1:29:54

has nine senior officers and those

1:29:57

nine are chopper

1:29:59

who's bound to is updated to 1000 but

1:30:02

he's still a pet I

1:30:07

love the Sanji one where he because you see

1:30:09

him because he's the reason that all the wanted

1:30:11

posters fly up into the air in the first

1:30:13

place so he is yeah but

1:30:15

like when his name they read his name

1:30:17

he falls out of the tree so that

1:30:21

was I don't know you like that one got me jumps

1:30:25

at Robin Nami

1:30:28

is so basically but

1:30:31

most of them like

1:30:33

unless stated otherwise most of them got like the

1:30:35

300 million bumps and so Nami's went from like

1:30:37

66 million to 366 million Brooke is eight or

1:30:39

Brooke is 383 million Frankie

1:30:42

is 394 million

1:30:48

and his picture has changed from

1:30:50

the general Frankie to just a picture of

1:30:52

the sunny itself which

1:30:56

is a non choice I've been I'm wondering if like

1:30:59

Frankie's uh Frankie's

1:31:03

true appearance is kind of being phased

1:31:05

out of the public eye if that's

1:31:08

gonna like play like if we ever might meet his

1:31:10

his family because they were always alluding to like him

1:31:12

having a pirate that's rather it's also

1:31:14

I think it's sort of similar

1:31:16

to you know Tom the

1:31:18

crime that Tom was wanted for was building the

1:31:21

pirate king ship so maybe the ship is

1:31:23

the more important thing than necessarily

1:31:25

who Frank is I guess I

1:31:28

mean it's just like you know like before it

1:31:30

was Frankie himself then it was the general Frankie

1:31:32

which is like fair enough and that now it's

1:31:34

just the sunny you just weren't

1:31:36

easy out of Frankie at all yeah more known

1:31:38

for his creations I guess I

1:31:41

guess yeah God usop

1:31:43

got up to 500 million

1:31:46

not really for having done anything

1:31:48

in wano just because he's got

1:31:50

usop he's got a key pace

1:31:53

Nico Robin is 930 million so she got she got a

1:31:55

big bump

1:32:00

And then Vince smoke Sanji one

1:32:03

billion thirty two million His

1:32:06

wanted poster has reverted back to a

1:32:08

sketch which like I had

1:32:10

to like I think in the manga You

1:32:13

don't really see the wanted poster like straight on

1:32:15

like it's just like a little doodle and like

1:32:17

yeah He does have like a he

1:32:20

does have like the close-up like sketch

1:32:22

artist face again It's just

1:32:26

but now it's time skip now. It's time skip

1:32:28

Sanji. Just digging the knife a little

1:32:30

bit on Sanji He'll never be a team It

1:32:34

feels a little off like I feel like the the

1:32:36

hard eyes one was was good for the new world

1:32:39

now And

1:32:45

then Jim Bay as you know a

1:32:47

former warlord former, you know associate of

1:32:49

white beard and all them His

1:32:52

bounty is one billion one

1:32:54

hundred million meaning that

1:32:58

Sanji is now a step

1:33:00

lower on the totem pole Yeah,

1:33:03

yeah a moment about this. It's

1:33:05

the monster trio. No Sanji's in place Zorro

1:33:10

is one billion one hundred eleven

1:33:12

million and Then

1:33:15

we round back up to Luffy the

1:33:17

the powerful terrifying

1:33:20

Emperor of the Sea in a

1:33:23

cage With a with

1:33:25

a swollen face three billion dollars or

1:33:27

three billion berries So

1:33:31

I guess it's like what 30 million ends I mean depending

1:33:33

on how much what the end conversion

1:33:35

is these days Yeah,

1:33:37

just lop off like two zeros basically Then

1:33:43

we we get a little glimpse into

1:33:46

what's going on with that cross guild

1:33:48

thing between crocodile Me

1:33:50

Hawk and buggy and we see crocodile and

1:33:52

me Hawk like showing up at empty pluffs

1:33:55

Being kind of welcomed by the by the

1:33:57

group by the by buggies men And

1:34:00

then like once they're in like the

1:34:02

private zone where it's just the three

1:34:04

leaders uh Buggy

1:34:06

is decapitated and Krakatama have clearly been

1:34:09

like beating him up Which

1:34:14

brings us to the new slash

1:34:16

old eye catchers we're going back to the

1:34:18

east blue style um with

1:34:21

the but now the 10 person crew and the it's

1:34:24

uh Jim Bay is the first poster you see

1:34:27

and then also we get a I

1:34:29

think law was the next one Or

1:34:32

is kid in law in the second one kid

1:34:34

was the next episode. Yeah No,

1:34:37

so so this episode is is Jim Bay and

1:34:39

law and then next episode is kid in zero.

1:34:41

That's right. Yeah So

1:34:47

we come back from the commercial break and Krakat

1:34:50

is Asking buggy

1:34:52

why he's the one who gets to be considered

1:34:54

boss And buggies, you

1:34:56

know just doing his crying sucking up thing And

1:34:59

then mr. Three galdino is

1:35:02

up. It's like oh crocodile. I'm so happy to

1:35:04

be working with a real man again uh,

1:35:07

so he's very quick to Um

1:35:11

to adapt to the to the new old

1:35:13

regime And

1:35:16

we get some flashbacks where mihawk is

1:35:18

Remembering when the the marines were encroaching

1:35:20

on his island and he

1:35:22

received the call from crocodile like hey,

1:35:24

dude Let's let's team up. Let's

1:35:27

have a thing here and

1:35:29

also likewise uh

1:35:32

when buggies, uh Is

1:35:35

his crew was being swarmed by the

1:35:37

marines? uh, that's that

1:35:39

that's the same time that crocodile was

1:35:41

showing up on empty bluffs to collect

1:35:43

a debt from buggy but

1:35:46

to the uh To

1:35:48

to the to the staff to buggy staff

1:35:50

to buggy screw It just

1:35:52

looks like uh, you know crocodile and buggy

1:35:54

go way back from marine forward So of

1:35:57

course, uh, you know a dude as powerful as crocodile

1:35:59

would help out a dude as powerful as

1:36:01

buggy right I mean it's kind

1:36:03

of implied that crocodile was the funding for

1:36:05

like buggies delivery agency

1:36:08

and like he's buggies talking about you know man

1:36:10

I've had this downturn all the Giants left and

1:36:12

I mean I'm good for it like just be

1:36:15

cool but you know

1:36:17

I've all these mouths to feed yada yada my

1:36:20

and my men they just loved me so much that's

1:36:22

why they put in the poster yeah

1:36:26

so the reason the reason

1:36:28

that this whole cross

1:36:31

guild came to be as it is is that

1:36:33

you know these three teamed up it was supposed

1:36:35

to be just crocodile mehoc really but

1:36:38

like some of buggies staff made a poster where

1:36:40

buggy was the prominent one it looked like the

1:36:42

leader and sent it out to the

1:36:44

world before asking for approval and

1:36:48

now that's that's the reputation that's how the world

1:36:51

sees it and how

1:36:53

buggy gets a funny like scream as a

1:36:56

camera zooms in and there's like a like

1:36:58

a match cut to zooming in on marine

1:37:00

HQ giving

1:37:03

us the you know similar to how

1:37:05

we got like of the world the Emperor

1:37:07

bounty roll call halfway

1:37:09

through wano we're getting the updates

1:37:12

here you know crocodile is 1.9 six

1:37:15

five billion mehoc is

1:37:18

three point five nine billion as

1:37:21

the world's greatest swordsman and

1:37:24

buggy you know for

1:37:26

for being seen as a

1:37:28

leader of these two buggies a three point one

1:37:31

eight three point one eight

1:37:33

nine million I mean

1:37:35

interesting to be highly below mehoc

1:37:37

mehoc yeah I mean mehoc

1:37:40

get special privileges because he's

1:37:42

you know he's got the strongest of

1:37:44

blank yeah he's got his

1:37:46

best sword it's interesting that crocodile got

1:37:49

inducted into the warlords so young

1:37:51

or at such a low bounty

1:37:53

at 81 million but this is

1:37:56

a you know yeah I guess it must have had

1:37:58

hek goz Goes

1:38:00

through the same scaling basically yeah and

1:38:04

I guess his bounty must have gone up after

1:38:06

the first time when he escaped from being fell

1:38:09

down but to see miss Just

1:38:11

wonder what kind of jump it was huge Yeah,

1:38:14

this is this is basically just saying you

1:38:17

know characters who Are

1:38:20

still supposed to feel important in like a

1:38:22

big deal and and you know

1:38:25

relative relatively strong with

1:38:27

all the other characters Even

1:38:30

if it doesn't really make sense that they'd be keeping

1:38:32

up with like the straw hats right now You

1:38:35

know it's a sort of Dragon Ball logic where like even the

1:38:37

humans You know they

1:38:39

get a buff just by like kind of being

1:38:42

associated with the rest of the cast yeah And

1:38:49

Mihawk is actually kind of okay with this arrangement.

1:38:51

He's like all that buggy take the heat in

1:38:53

my place You know I didn't I don't want

1:38:55

that much attention on me I Mean

1:38:59

the episode ends with a buggy

1:39:01

doing his his shtick of rousing

1:39:03

the crowd giving his big speech

1:39:05

looking all imposing intimidating But

1:39:08

he's crying with fear on the inside Episode

1:39:14

1087 the war

1:39:16

on the island of women a

1:39:18

case involving Kobe the hero and

1:39:22

it opens with Marco

1:39:24

getting dropped off back on

1:39:26

whitebeard's Island He's

1:39:29

he like hitched a ride with shanks and crew and you

1:39:31

know they're kind of bantering Marco

1:39:35

remembers Yeah,

1:39:39

you know Yamato Luffy having their conversation about whether

1:39:41

Yamato would join the crew or not and You

1:39:44

know Yamato has decided to

1:39:46

stay behind and sort of help fend off

1:39:49

big strong guys like Ryokugyu and You

1:39:52

know the The

1:39:54

idea is that like okay? Well now the straws

1:39:56

can sail feeling safe that somebody

1:39:58

as strong as Yamato is is back on

1:40:00

Wano. Right. Yeah, Yamato couldn't

1:40:02

live with himself if, I guess, if

1:40:05

Wano got attacked while he was

1:40:07

gone. And I guess it's,

1:40:09

I like that Luffy is also concerned about

1:40:11

what happens to, you know, it

1:40:13

shows more forethought than he usually

1:40:16

has, like, you know, protecting,

1:40:21

regarding the safety of Wano. I mean, like, it's not

1:40:23

a thought that he had on his own, but, like,

1:40:26

he understands the reasoning and he respects it. Yeah.

1:40:31

We come to the Isle of

1:40:33

Women and we're getting kind of the story of what

1:40:36

was going on when the Marines came

1:40:38

to arrest Hancock. We

1:40:42

have Lady Nyon and Hancock in the forest,

1:40:44

kind of talking about, kind

1:40:46

of, the consequences of the Warlord news. The

1:40:50

Marines are coming, there's a cool, kind of, like, zoom

1:40:53

in shot, like, like, the Marines are getting

1:40:55

shot, shot up by arrows and the camera,

1:40:57

like, zooms in on Margaret and the girls

1:41:00

shooting their arrows. But

1:41:03

then they're being attacked by what looks to be

1:41:05

a strange

1:41:08

child version of Hancock. And

1:41:12

so there's a new, weird, strange

1:41:15

problem with a child Hancock who looks like

1:41:17

a king from the Beast Pirates.

1:41:21

She fires off her laser. Poor Margaret. They

1:41:23

got blown up pretty good. Nice

1:41:27

Admiral Yamakaji is sort of overseeing

1:41:29

this whole attack, basically. But

1:41:35

the Blackbeard Pirates are, like, showing up right on their

1:41:37

ass. And

1:41:39

Blackbeard's got his weird shades going

1:41:42

on again. The

1:41:44

shades, we weren't sure if they were supposed to be like, upkeeps used

1:41:46

or not. That

1:41:51

brings us to the eye-catch of the episode. And

1:41:55

Blackbeard is landing on the island and

1:41:57

he's chilling with a...

1:42:00

Katarina Devon and Vasco shot

1:42:02

and There's

1:42:04

like some Marines around them and they're like Vice

1:42:06

Admiral. Yeah, but Kanji like we found Blackbeard, but

1:42:09

Yeah, I just like oh wait for

1:42:11

HQ to give the signal and And

1:42:14

that gives blackbeard just enough time

1:42:16

to earthquake them into oblivion And

1:42:21

we've got some cool to see that it's cool to see

1:42:23

the blackbirds like that just Even

1:42:25

get to see their like crew

1:42:27

dynamics, so you know Katarina

1:42:29

talking about how

1:42:32

you know talking about putting like Hancock's like

1:42:35

Head on her wall or something like that just like

1:42:38

Clayton like the basket shot is like got

1:42:40

more sinister intentions Kobe

1:42:47

Kobe running through town There's

1:42:51

There's an arrow shot at Helmeppo, but then like

1:42:53

you know Kobe's hand shots in

1:42:56

the frame and catches it And

1:42:58

Kobe is trying to like negotiate with Hancock

1:43:01

over the speaker And you can you can

1:43:03

see like the big like Luffy booster like

1:43:05

in the background of some of these shots And

1:43:11

then like back in in the palace like

1:43:14

Hancock's standing to attention

1:43:16

getting out of receipt So

1:43:19

so long so long a the snake

1:43:21

looks like delivers her heels For

1:43:24

her it's like lifts them up so that she can

1:43:27

put them on and get to action Because

1:43:31

nothing says Getting

1:43:34

ready for a big fight like putting your your high heels on

1:43:37

Well when you're the Empress expected of you

1:43:41

I had sir thing yeah, you

1:43:43

have a similar to the

1:43:45

child version of Hancock. We have a kid

1:43:47

version of mihawk

1:43:50

and And he's interrupting

1:43:52

the blackbeard pirates and

1:43:54

blackbeard seems kind of shaken by this like

1:43:57

he recognizes the characteristics of of

1:43:59

the Lunarian And then

1:44:02

the PX symbol. Yeah, it's

1:44:05

a type of pacifista. And

1:44:08

he clashes with this mihawk thing and

1:44:11

he makes a note of the mihawk

1:44:13

being big. And we're supposed to

1:44:15

like... It feels like we're

1:44:17

supposed to have the dawning realization of

1:44:19

the scale of these pacifistas. Except

1:44:22

like next to Blackbeard, like

1:44:25

it's... The giant mihawk

1:44:27

child just kind of looks about what you

1:44:29

would expect him to look. I

1:44:33

like how they have to have... They

1:44:35

have to have Vasko shot walking in

1:44:38

front, I think, of Katerina

1:44:40

Devan and Blackbeard. Because

1:44:42

he's supposed to be so much bigger than both of them.

1:44:44

But they're like the same size. We

1:44:51

have a shot of the gates opening up so

1:44:54

Hancock can confront the Marines. And she's

1:44:56

like shooting slave arrows and turning everybody

1:44:58

to stone. And we're

1:45:00

seeing whose hearts are impure. Yamakaji

1:45:04

and Helmapau are fallen.

1:45:11

The pacifists are showing up and like

1:45:14

Kobe giving them orders and fighting

1:45:17

alongside them is kind of surreal.

1:45:20

Like these very intimidating just

1:45:23

like monster robot things or whatever they are. They're

1:45:28

like taking the warlord's jobs and you got Kobe

1:45:30

just like commanding them. And

1:45:34

Blackbeard is expending himself to try

1:45:36

to fend off this mihawk attack.

1:45:40

I feel like he's holding his power back

1:45:42

at this point, but he

1:45:45

just uses just enough to sort of end the fight.

1:45:50

And the

1:45:53

mihawk pacifista is smart enough to sort

1:45:55

of back away from the darkness powers.

1:46:00

Yeah, Blackbeard is making the Black Hole thing.

1:46:04

And Hancock gets

1:46:06

a... She dive-kicks on Kobe and

1:46:08

almost gets him right before Blackbeard

1:46:11

interrupts and grabs her and uses his

1:46:13

dark, dark powers to deactivate

1:46:17

her Devil for Powers. And

1:46:19

we get these really strange, skewed title cards

1:46:21

that are hard to read. Or at least

1:46:23

I imagine they'd be hard to read in

1:46:25

Japanese, but we get the subtitles. And

1:46:29

Marshall D. Teach has updated bounty now. It's

1:46:31

3,996,000,000 and Hancock's is 1,659,000,000. And

1:46:40

Blackbeard is talking about how, he's like, oh,

1:46:42

I was hoping to take your Devil Fruit

1:46:45

for myself. And then Hancock's like, well, it

1:46:48

sucks to be you because you

1:46:50

need my beauty to use it at its

1:46:54

full potential. But

1:46:57

things aren't looking good for Hancock or Kobe,

1:46:59

and that leads us into

1:47:01

the 2B continued card. Yeah, which

1:47:04

is a flourish on that, using

1:47:07

the dark powers. Uh-huh. That

1:47:10

was... I felt like

1:47:12

the second episode definitely had more flourish

1:47:14

like that. It's sort of getting

1:47:18

to play around with the Pacifistas

1:47:20

and Blackbeard and Hancock. I

1:47:23

think the animators were enjoying

1:47:25

themselves on this one. Yeah,

1:47:28

there's more action set pieces and

1:47:31

we're getting a more fleshed out

1:47:33

idea of what these

1:47:35

confrontations between the navies and

1:47:38

the former

1:47:41

warlords now. Yeah,

1:47:46

I mean, and also I think the focus on the

1:47:48

first episode was more sort of on the comedic

1:47:52

scenario of how

1:47:54

Buggy ends up leading these guys.

1:47:56

I think it's just sort of showing

1:47:59

a baseline. Anything

1:50:01

else you'd like to say before we move on to the next

1:50:03

segment? No, that's a good

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anime this week. Alright, let's move

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on. The holidays

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start here at Kroger with a variety

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of options to celebrate traditions old and

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new. You could do a classic herb

1:50:16

roasted turkey or spice it up and

1:50:18

make turkey tacos. Serve up a

1:50:21

go-to shrimp cocktail or use Simple

1:50:23

Truth Wild-Caught Shrimp for your first

1:50:25

Cajun risotto. Make creamy mac

1:50:27

and cheese or a spinach artichoke fondue from

1:50:29

our selection of Murray's cheese. No

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matter how you shop, Kroger has all

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the freshest ingredients to embrace all your

1:50:36

holiday traditions. Kroger, fresh for everyone.

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Sometimes during Christmas, something magical

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happens. Hey, Cricut customers! The Max with

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at no additional cost. And this holiday season,

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Max is the one to watch when you're

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feeling festive. Son of a

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nutcracker! Cozy up to all the

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holiday classics, like Elf, 8-Bit Christmas, and the

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Harry Potter 8-Film Collection. Just log in with

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your Cricut username and password to experience Max

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on all your favorite devices. While

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in plan streams and standard definition programming subject to

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change, fees, terms, and restrictions apply. See cricutwireless.com for

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details. This

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is the Pizza Gather segment where we

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take your questions, comments, theories, and discuss