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see you then. This

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is the

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One Piece

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podcast episode

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812 for

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the week of Monday, April 8th, 2024.

1:30

I am your host, Steven,

1:42

by default, apparently. So

1:45

many hosts on this show. We have four

1:47

hosts and none of them are

1:50

here. Nobody wanted, I asked them all,

1:52

they all said, no, we

1:54

don't care about the fans. But

1:57

you know who does care about the fans? Our

1:59

guests. today. We know

2:01

them colloquially as Team Dark. That is

2:04

Avero. Hi.

2:07

A Brodsky. Hey there. And

2:11

the prodigal son who has returned to

2:13

us, Josh McKenzie. Hi. And

2:15

listener, might I say you look so good

2:18

today. Have

2:20

you ever heard Zach ask that? I have never.

2:22

No. Zach

2:24

doesn't want to know how the listeners are feeling. Right.

2:27

It's very rude. The dereliction of duty is what the

2:29

hosts are doing. Yeah. Yeah. I

2:32

want you to at us right now and tell

2:34

us exactly how you're doing. Good.

2:36

This is good. Yeah. We need to, we

2:38

need to call back out for being rude and not

2:41

ask you how all of our listeners are doing every

2:43

single week. Yeah. We care.

2:45

Who wants to talk about what? Here we care.

2:52

And yeah, well, so our,

2:54

uh, we're in the middle

2:56

of, if you've been under a rock, we

2:58

are in the middle of a three week

3:00

break from One Piece for a variety of

3:04

reasons, apparently. And in

3:06

fact, yesterday, or last

3:08

week I should say,

3:11

if you were only paying attention at

3:13

the usual time, you

3:15

may have thought that we didn't have an episode.

3:17

And that is because Zach told

3:19

everyone, he told the public we're not having

3:21

an episode this week. And then he was

3:23

made the April Fool by Sam

3:26

and Ed who did release a

3:28

triple anime recap in the

3:30

middle of the week. So I hope

3:32

you all listened to that and enjoyed

3:34

that. This week, we are

3:36

going to be covering the volume 108

3:38

recap. And that

3:41

is better

3:43

off dead in this world. This

3:46

motherfucker's spittin. That

3:48

is, that's what we're going to do this week. I'm not sure

3:50

what we're going to do next week

3:53

actually. But there

3:55

is a lot of other stuff going on.

3:57

And in fact, I'm glad that Brodsky is

3:59

here because. because we are releasing our

4:01

season two of OPLA about

4:04

the Netflix live action show. And I believe

4:06

that you have been there for

4:09

those recordings. So what have we been

4:11

doing? Honestly, these have

4:13

been so much fun. I

4:16

know we're releasing, I think, Aidan's first, so we

4:18

got Helmepo. We

4:20

have Kuro coming,

4:23

Zef, and the last one, I

4:25

was not sadly on. Uh,

4:29

God, my brain is so smooth. Was

4:32

that the Nojiko's actor? Yes, Nojiko's actor. That was

4:34

the one I unfortunately had to miss and I

4:36

was so sad about that one. But

4:39

I'm very looking forward to everyone listening to those

4:41

because I, especially

4:43

for like Aidan, I know his is like gonna be the first one

4:46

they're releasing and like we could have had him

4:49

on for like four or five hours just chatting.

4:52

And I know he's been so, he's been

4:54

so wonderful and he's starting to do the

4:57

concert. And then so is Kuro

4:59

too, is like they're both starting to

5:01

do the concert. So if you see them coming to

5:03

any of your local shows, go say hi, they are

5:05

wonderful. Very cool.

5:07

Yeah, I believe, so

5:10

we're releasing them on Patreon first

5:13

and then about a week later or so

5:16

is the public release. And so

5:18

I do believe Aidan's episode is

5:20

out and for

5:22

everyone and maybe, I'm

5:25

sorry, what is the actor's name

5:27

for Kuro? Alexander

5:31

Maniatis, the

5:34

Klahedor actor. And you

5:36

should all check out Alexander's Instagram

5:38

because he also sings and is wonderful. Ooh.

5:41

He's got good music that comes out. Very

5:44

cool. So yeah, we're gonna

5:46

have a lot more of that stuff coming which

5:49

is very exciting. I've

5:53

heard some little grapevine bits and pieces

5:55

about the progress on season two. So

5:57

that's exciting, things are definitely. in

6:00

the works for the show itself and

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we'll just have to wait and see how

6:06

that turns out. Next week

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though we do have or I should say this

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week on April

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14th I would be remiss if

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I didn't mention our big live show

6:17

that is happening in New York at the

6:19

City Winery. I believe that is

6:21

Pier 57 in Manhattan that

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is so yeah 4.14 at 3 pm

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and I believe as of the time

6:31

that we're recording this tickets are still

6:33

available for that.

6:35

That's going to be let's see Zach

6:37

and Ed and Alex I believe are

6:39

going to be there. I will also

6:41

do that. Brodsky are you going? Brodsky

6:43

will be there? Awesome and I do

6:46

believe that Jersey Mike Patton will be

6:48

there as well and

6:51

maybe more I don't know. So

6:54

yeah definitely go and

6:56

check that out if you are available.

6:58

I know that the podcast has

7:00

not done any

7:03

con panels for probably

7:05

years at this point so it's an

7:08

exciting chance to see them do stuff

7:10

live again. And for

7:13

the record whatever Brodsky says at the live

7:15

show, Viro and I co-endorse so

7:17

it's like we're all there. Yes

7:20

I bring all of Team Dark with me. They're

7:23

all there in spirit. All

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right well in that case I

7:28

think let's just get right into our recap

7:30

of volume 108. I

7:34

don't know if you guys can hear me but I can't hear anything

7:36

and I think Steve's headphones are messing up so you might have to

7:38

pause so I can figure out what's going on. That's

7:41

okay we just yeah that's like

7:43

perfect timing because that's weirdly perfect

7:45

it's almost like you can hear

7:48

us. I'll

7:51

keep the recording going. Delaney

7:55

leave this in. Yeah this

7:58

note that Viro does not actually care about

8:00

the public and does not want to listen to

8:02

our opinion. I you can't keep cutting

8:04

him out is it? Oh,

8:06

that's funny. Was it you? That'd

8:08

be why. Were you connecting to the headphones via

8:10

your phone? Yeah. Wow,

8:13

it really was his fault. Hello? Okay

8:17

Delaney, leave that in for sure. Yeah, it's

8:19

all Steve's fault. Yeah,

8:22

I can hear everybody now. It was funny to come cutting

8:24

out and I was like, it couldn't be his fault. The

8:26

title of the episode is One Piece, One Oh

8:29

Eight, It's Steve's fault. I can't hear

8:31

everybody. I

8:33

love it. Jose, I'm just talking over

8:35

you. Okay,

8:37

what did I miss? Sorry, I feel bad. No, it's fine.

8:40

We just did the intro, so let's just move on. Yeah. This

8:57

is the manga recap for volume 108, Better Off

9:00

Dead in this world. This

9:05

is the latest volume of the One

9:07

Piece manga in Japan. We're going to

9:09

be getting to it now. We

9:17

always talk about the covers when the art

9:20

gets revealed, but I don't think we

9:22

had any of you guys on when

9:25

those illustrations came out. So what are

9:27

your feelings about the cover for this

9:29

volume? I

9:32

think it's cute. I like the colors. I

9:34

like that it's like Luffy's all backlit and

9:36

stuff. I don't know. It

9:39

feels a little muddy, but I really like it. I like

9:41

that he's trying with it. Yeah, because I think when you

9:43

say like muddy, because there's a lot of that like playing with

9:46

like, because I mean you have, personally, I'm in the background, kind

9:48

of being the main focus. I

9:51

like it, honestly, because it has pretty much all the

9:53

little aspects of everything going on. Yeah,

9:56

yeah, I think it's dope. I like these diagonals. I like

9:58

that Luffy looks like he's pretty good. playing Super Monkey

10:00

Ball with... I'll

10:03

say it's very like the layout of

10:06

it is very aesthetically pleasing to my

10:08

eye even like wherever everyone's placed. Yeah,

10:10

and I really like the way that Kizaru

10:12

is sort of like framing everybody up top. Yeah,

10:15

it's cute. I like it. It

10:17

has Sanji, so it's a win. Okay,

10:19

girl. Calm down. Can you

10:21

ask me again? Yeah, I'm gonna pick you!

10:23

I'm gonna pick you! Vega

10:26

Punk is definitely driving while white.

10:29

He's got the Koon Tan right

10:31

there. Yeah, he's holding on to

10:33

it, he's doing well so perfectly. Do

10:37

you think Frankie is backseat driving though? Well,

10:40

he's got to. Yeah, he is

10:43

definitely frustrated right now. Yeah. He's

10:45

like, you're driving is not super! Yeah, yeah,

10:47

yeah, yeah. Vega Punk's thinking about his recent

10:50

role in Oppenheimer and he's a bit too

10:52

busy. Yeah, Frankie's thinking about how

10:54

they should implement driving tests. Those over 65.

10:57

Yeah, honestly. Oh boy. Anything

10:59

else? Yeah, I think

11:02

it is. It's

11:06

definitely true that especially with like

11:08

that backlit color palette, that a lot

11:10

of like sort of muted, cool

11:13

tones on Luffy's shorts,

11:16

it does kind of give you that like kind

11:18

of brownish blue look to

11:20

it so I can see the

11:23

muddiness of it. Going

11:27

to the under the cover illustration,

11:29

I'm gonna say this one,

11:32

kind of boring, not super exciting. We

11:36

just have a, there's a little Panda

11:39

Man and he is, he

11:41

is now backseat driving. He is backseat

11:43

driving. I think this is one of the first ones

11:46

I've seen where like Panda Man is actually a, an

11:49

additional character is actually not replacing

11:51

someone. Because like

11:53

theoretically he could have replaced Sanji with Pin. Right.

11:56

I was about to say. Yeah, I like this

11:58

one because I like how. visibly distressed Panda

12:00

Man is at Vega Punks driving. I

12:03

think this Panda Man will be very funny if you

12:06

cropped it to be just his face and then blew it up

12:08

so it was all artifacted and sad

12:11

looking. Yeah. Kind

12:14

of a banger. This Panda Man is the

12:16

10th crew member of Panda Man because he

12:18

is an addition. Yeah. Not him. That's true.

12:20

Yeah. Yeah,

12:23

actually, I think our scenario is making a

12:25

lot more sense now of the

12:27

concern about the driving here. Because,

12:29

yeah, he is not looking good

12:32

about this situation. So

12:36

we'll go to the inside cover,

12:39

the inside flap. And

12:41

we have some interesting commentary here. So I'll

12:43

get to the illustration because the illustration is

12:45

very busy. But

12:47

the comment first from Oda is,

12:50

so they say that tears

12:53

can have different flavors. They

12:57

say that happy tears of joy

12:59

and tears of sadness are sweet, while

13:02

tears of frustration and anger

13:05

are salty, apparently. So

13:08

he says, when I draw people crying,

13:10

I always make sure to include somewhere

13:12

in their expression is a sense of

13:14

resistance that they don't want to cry.

13:18

And so he says, does

13:20

anybody actually cry because

13:22

they want to cry? I

13:25

hope that in my life, I

13:28

only shed, that I

13:31

never shed any tears or cause other

13:33

people to shed tears that

13:35

are anything but the sweet tears of

13:37

joy. So let's begin volume 108.

13:41

I'd love to say to that. Well,

13:43

I was going to say he just made me cry. He's

13:45

made me cry. So many times. I

13:48

don't think of joy once.

13:51

We actually have like newer friends of a collection of

13:54

a folder in a chat

13:56

we have that's titled Wobbly Tears

13:58

Collection. And

14:00

as they're watching and reading one piece, just a collection

14:02

of them, and I don't think he's made me cry tears

14:04

of joy. So Oda, your statement

14:06

is- The bottom right one is what

14:09

I looked like when I was like marathoning through

14:11

it and got to Marine Fort. That's literally what

14:13

my face looked like. I don't know what Oda's

14:15

talking about here. Yeah, so we have like a

14:17

little, I guess alignment chart or something. He,

14:21

I feel like this is like Oda's take on the, what

14:24

was it, Inside Out, the emotions. They

14:27

all have different color pairs. But

14:30

yeah, on the top, we have the sweet

14:32

tears. So there's a happy on the right,

14:34

the tears of joy on the right and

14:36

the tears of sadness on the left. And

14:38

then on the bottom, we have the salty

14:40

tears, frustration on the right and anger

14:42

on the left. And so

14:44

here are the comments. So

14:47

for the happy tears, this

14:50

kid with the green hair is saying, oh,

14:52

I'm so happy. You know, mom said I

14:54

got to keep that dog I found. So,

14:57

you know, happy tears. And

15:00

then on the left with the blue hair,

15:02

this kid is saying, you know, oh, my

15:04

dog went missing. And

15:06

there's this really bad joke. So is

15:09

a play on Shiba. So, you know, because it's

15:11

a Shiba Inu, there's

15:14

a verb, a shibuku, which means

15:16

to punish. And so

15:18

he's saying, and I was only because I punished

15:20

it because it was a Shiba. So it's like

15:22

this very bad jokes or anything. I'll

15:24

have to take a look and see if I can

15:27

find some, you know, dog breed

15:29

related pun or something. So

15:31

that's the sad one. The

15:33

frustrated one, the blonde guy on the bottom

15:35

right is saying, I stepped in

15:38

some dog poop. So

15:40

that was the emotion that Vera was feeling,

15:42

reading, reading for him. And

15:45

then the angry one with the red hair

15:48

on the bottom left is,

15:50

watch out. There's a dog that bit

15:53

my leg and ran away. So

15:55

he's really angry about that. That

15:57

one's me. I'm that guy. Mm-hmm.

16:02

So yeah, there you go. The tears

16:06

of the human experience encapsulated

16:08

in four little doggy anecdotes.

16:12

Cute. It is cute. It's nice. He

16:15

put more effort into that illustration than a lot of

16:17

them. And

16:19

next, just, you know, I included these in the

16:22

images that I took for everybody else, that

16:25

in the category of things that

16:27

really only I care about is

16:29

that the character profile page got

16:31

a redesign for

16:34

Egghead, I guess. I mean,

16:36

the information is all pretty much

16:38

the same, but, well, actually,

16:42

no, it's not. Because he did,

16:44

he went back to the straw

16:46

hat character profiles. He had written

16:48

new ones for the post time

16:50

skip, and it

16:52

looks like he kind of went back to the

16:54

classic character profile text,

16:57

so. Oh, fun. Kind of

16:59

getting back to the roots of the characters, which is nice. And

17:03

then, you know, all the other characters. But yeah, it

17:05

has a shiny new coat

17:07

of paint, and boy, there are a lot

17:09

of characters in this arc. You know what

17:12

I gotta say, though? The first one is

17:14

the red-haired pirates, so Josh, we got Hongo

17:16

mentioned. Yeah, Hongo mentioned. You

17:19

there. Yeah, Hongo mentioned. Delaney put an

17:21

air horn in here. Our

17:24

glup shittos right there. And

17:29

mine bonked on, she's there. Yeah,

17:31

bonked on. Two air horns,

17:33

Delaney. Yeah. Oh,

17:36

I was talking. I

17:38

heard a cat. Simba's doing his air horn.

17:40

Simba is also very excited for. Yeah,

17:44

she's excited for Monster, the

17:46

monkey. All

17:49

right, anyways, so this

17:51

volume covers chapters 1089 through

17:54

1100. So

17:59

we pretty much. start at

18:01

the you know

18:04

the the reporting around the world

18:06

and the reactions to the news

18:08

that strawhead Luffy has apparently

18:10

kidnapped Vega punk and hold up on

18:12

the island of egghead and

18:15

we end in the middle

18:17

of I don't think we yeah

18:19

it's not the full end of

18:22

kumas flashback and

18:26

so yeah it's a lot of lot of chapters

18:28

12 chapters so

18:30

let's move ahead to the first

18:33

SPS segment our

18:35

header in this one is a very

18:37

cool one of ulti who

18:40

is looking super pissed and

18:42

she is yelling you're not supposed

18:44

to start the SPS without me so she

18:48

is I don't know if that's

18:51

supposed to be like Oda's uh you know his feelings

18:53

on the matter but our

18:56

first reader suggests

18:59

that Oda we should play a

19:01

game of shiri-torii which is the

19:04

it's the famous Japanese word game that every

19:06

translator hates where you know

19:08

you say a word and then the next

19:11

person has to take the last character from

19:13

the word and then start the next word

19:15

and then you know

19:17

you just keep going until somebody

19:20

ends with the the solitary

19:22

mm because there's no

19:24

word that starts with mm in

19:26

Japanese so that's like the

19:29

game over and you have to avoid you

19:31

can't double up you can't repeat any words

19:33

and so on so this

19:35

person say you want to play shiri-torii

19:38

I'll start and

19:42

so they you know they do the

19:44

call and then Oda is like okay

19:46

soo soo and then

19:48

he says supon pong which means like butt

19:50

naked but he's

19:52

like oh crap it ends with the end

19:54

oh damn it I lost and

19:57

he's like oh but more importantly damn it it

19:59

started with us me so there

20:02

you go you just wanted to say that you

20:05

just want to be you don't want

20:07

to say butt naked I bet yeah

20:09

and next we have a little

20:12

question now I do believe this was sort

20:14

of asked before but it is about Shirahoshi

20:17

her little headdress her her fish headdress

20:19

which we did know is a taiyaki

20:21

which is you know

20:23

the the Japanese pastry that

20:25

is shaped like a fish but

20:28

this one is asking what is

20:30

inside the the thing because

20:32

they can have different kinds of feeling so

20:35

it's is it anko which is the

20:37

sweet red bean paste that's the classic way

20:40

or yeah or is it custard because

20:42

that's another popular I mean that's also

20:44

nasty mm-hmm and

20:47

Oda says oh that yeah it's it's

20:49

anko and there is also butter

20:53

on it as well so

20:55

it it tastes like something

20:57

that he calls ogura toast

20:59

from Nagoya and

21:01

he says yeah so I've heard that

21:04

apparently it's a really delicious and it

21:06

will go well with coffee it's a

21:08

question though if it's Shirahoshi would

21:11

it also be soggy if

21:13

she is under the

21:15

water yeah probably suspension

21:18

of disbelief you know the

21:21

next one is really adorable you can see here

21:32

that they printed the text

21:34

because this comes from Yuki Hito

21:37

age 8 and

21:39

his question is a chiro oda why why

21:41

are the cover of volume 25 and

21:43

105 almost the same

21:49

and so you know he

21:52

puts the pictures side by side this

21:54

of course is the famous you know

21:56

four Emperor's way back

21:58

in Jaya and then today And

22:00

it was like, oh shoot, oh

22:03

darn, they figured out that I was lazy. And

22:07

he's like, oh, but actually, you know,

22:09

if you think about it, you

22:13

know, it's just the covers,

22:15

they just happened to include the characters

22:17

who were in the volume. So you

22:19

know, it's just a coincidence that it

22:21

happened to be the same characters. So

22:24

you know, I think you can cut me some slack on

22:27

that one, right? So I'm just joking with you for

22:29

your postcard. Just

22:31

a little joke. I'm just joking the kid calling

22:33

him lazy being like, why do you just copy

22:35

it? And

22:39

the last one here, we have a picture

22:41

of Odin doing his famous line.

22:44

And the letter is the

22:46

SBS was born to be

22:48

perverted. And

22:50

Odin says, all right. And

22:53

then Odin just says, all right, step outside.

22:57

That was enough. I'm

22:59

cutting you off. Yeah, that's me when I

23:02

am looking for the Dojan booth. Yes,

23:06

if only he kept up this energy

23:08

throughout the entire volume, let's find out.

23:13

So we'll go to the next SBS here.

23:15

Really cool. It's kind of

23:17

cute and spooky. The

23:20

SBS header here is of Emu

23:22

and the five elders. And

23:26

the SBS is like Emu's

23:29

outline. And

23:35

their eyes are on the SBS, which

23:37

is funny and like kind of creepy

23:39

because the eyes are really big. But

23:42

then the five elders are just these really, really

23:44

little squish head adorable versions of

23:46

them. I kind of like the eyes.

23:50

I like the eyes. And

23:52

you should be like very old men behind

23:54

it. But the eyes are very cute. We

23:58

accept that. Yeah.

24:01

They look like they look like you city

24:03

the be able to put like two quarters

24:05

into the machine and get stickers of these

24:07

guys at the yeah Waiting and waiting for

24:10

the charms to happen. And.

24:12

I'm Natalie. What's going on with this

24:14

matty hairstyle? This man now are

24:16

for their. Efforts. Question here

24:19

is about St. Garlic, who is

24:21

known for his very distinctive. Hairstyle:

24:24

At what would happen if he let

24:26

his hair and beard continue growing with

24:28

have putting them up and us as

24:30

though it draws as he just this

24:32

happens is as was justice to the

24:34

picture of you know Mack tonight is

24:36

little is Moon haircut but now it

24:38

is a full circle. Doesn't like or

24:40

of Boris itself it just keeps like

24:42

growing in his sniffer as he is

24:44

ready for the Ucla yeah that's how

24:46

and yeah I like to think that

24:48

we had like to think that I

24:50

feel like is like I was at

24:52

the. Sideburns. Are sticking

24:55

out should Also connected to a circle

24:57

and appointed as a sacrifice. Yeah, I

24:59

feel like when you're close enough to

25:01

make another circle once, they're close enough

25:03

to operate them together. Really? Sort of

25:05

really high that up. He played jump

25:07

rope with himself. As.

25:11

Yeah, Ah, this is like

25:13

the reverse Ariana Grande day.

25:16

See. I would say I would. I would say he is

25:18

the opposite of Ariana Grande and. Ah

25:23

yeah, he heard slay and he thought it was a

25:25

different. Way

25:28

needed a war crime that. Hurried

25:33

So or doesn't Mariana or next question

25:35

is a good one. So if you

25:37

remember the of the seems a bit

25:39

of a of a spoiler. In fact

25:41

the odor even mentions that this is

25:43

a referring to something that happens in

25:45

the flashback which is at the end

25:47

of the volume. That.

25:50

You know when we saw on God Valley.

25:53

They had the arm the blue

25:55

dragon. Fruit. When a

25:58

what if even cause had eaten. That.

26:00

Fruit the fish fish route model

26:02

as your dragon won't even cough

26:04

have looked like he haw. And

26:07

so we get a. Pretty.

26:09

Amazing! it was introduction of i

26:11

even carve in. Chat. Dragon

26:14

form with the whiskers which is.

26:17

Of course. A Must. I think

26:19

this is the best or nisei. I'm

26:21

so glad It's not like an actual

26:23

drag. haste as evil as is like a

26:25

three eggs you know, powerful. See ya

26:27

see if ever retains a you know that

26:29

if this was like tied or something the

26:32

head would be half as big. It's

26:34

like no matter what form even cop takes

26:36

that the face is gonna be twice

26:38

as large as anyone elses. Yeah. He

26:40

transforms with the face in proportion to the

26:42

body that stays the same. Yeah

26:46

so and out his comment is like wow,

26:49

you know the I'm. Ah

26:51

that the the ways in which feats

26:53

can change on a dime I you

26:55

know. So what what could have been

26:57

is isn't that scary that face. And

27:02

lastly, We

27:04

have a comment here. We

27:06

can see. Roger. Is is

27:09

that from one of the flashbacks I forget

27:11

which show which seen this was butts at.

27:13

Roger is a swinging his sword. And

27:16

he's got some crazy hockey stuff coming off of

27:18

it. And it

27:20

says or any V Ricard We

27:22

found out that the name of

27:24

rodgers sword was Ace. I thought

27:26

that was so. Moving on. Soak,

27:31

Them as hi guys as as

27:33

it he named his side as

27:35

soon as such so i assess

27:38

assess like. David.

27:40

Your kid after your conrad? Yeah

27:42

yeah yeah this is my kid seven

27:44

with feel like if I named my

27:46

future for. Storing to bear and as like

27:49

your named after the greatest cat. That and are.

27:51

Allowed you know, like offenders at.

27:55

The. at this i

27:57

remember that gear building i think in another sbs

27:59

a thing This is named

28:01

it. They're just like, you really did

28:03

that. It

28:06

gives him a very specific characterization

28:08

that I don't think Oda like intended

28:10

to trust upon him. But I was

28:12

like, yeah, dude's rock. It

28:17

shows us how straight Roger actually was. Yeah.

28:20

Yeah. They

28:22

were on that belt. They were like, you know, it'd be so fucking funny,

28:24

dude. He's

28:27

got the best name for it. He

28:30

says that's a really awesome. He's

28:33

like, listen out. I need you

28:35

to go find my son. And

28:38

I need you to make sure because,

28:40

you know, Roaruge, whatever

28:42

the fuck her name was, she didn't

28:44

like the name, but Ace. And

28:47

Garth's like, you mean like your fucking sword, dude? Like,

28:49

are you kidding me? And he's like, that's all I

28:51

need from you, bro. Like I'm dying here. Name

28:54

my son after my sword. Yeah.

28:57

Yeah, it's exactly how it went down. Sorry.

29:02

So this person is asking, can

29:04

we see your rendition of the

29:06

personification of Roger's sword? And

29:10

so it is like, whoa, OK. So actually,

29:13

yeah, a lot of people ask me this. And,

29:15

you know, it's just it's not fair because now I have

29:17

to do it. I have to draw it. There

29:20

are a personification of Ace. He's

29:23

like, all right. Well, you know, I want to make

29:25

it cool. So, you know, I'm going to draw on

29:27

the next SBS page. So, you

29:29

know, skip ahead, like flip ahead to

29:32

page 80 and check it out. And

29:35

boy, howdy. Oh,

29:39

no. Why

29:43

do you make it like an outlaw biker? Why did you

29:45

make it so big? I'm

29:48

like, I'm trying to think of who,

29:50

like what actor like it

29:52

kind of looks a little bit like I

29:54

mean, I'm reminded a little bit of like Bob

29:56

Hoskins as me. Just because of the. handle

30:00

like the mustache and the stubble

30:02

on the beard, but Yeah,

30:05

I'm gonna turn on your location. I just

30:07

want to talk. Yeah, I

30:09

need someone to Photoshop the rest of aces ace

30:11

tattoo into this Crossed out

30:13

as it is actually the only sword on the grand

30:16

line that does so math okay, but like you look

30:18

at look at look at his little Thing

30:21

like how innovative his little his little

30:23

hat with the yeah, yeah, yes the

30:25

sword hill But

30:27

it just kind of looks like a teacup I

30:39

think I think Steve doesn't need a image

30:43

for a thing is it just Just

30:45

show Steve this image and that's

30:47

it Yeah, have to finish

30:49

the ace tattoo and just let it go like

30:52

I don't need anything else. This is it this

30:55

We can't top this you you you

30:57

don't want to look too close at

30:59

the swords tattoos Like

31:11

I think this guy knows that a glory hole Well,

31:15

yeah, I mean I mean Roger definitely does no

31:17

He's the one that I find like the leather

31:19

daddy bars. I find him in the basement. That's

31:21

like this is the The

31:23

bodyguard that's the the door guard Roger

31:29

named his sword after the guard at the

31:31

ramrod He's

31:45

saying the the famous attack which is divine

31:48

departure That's the

31:50

one that Roger uses in the

31:52

flashback. Oh He'll

31:55

show you a divide departure We've

32:00

all had invited to Vine Departure. That's

32:03

the name of the bar. It's okay. The

32:06

name of the bar is Vine Departure. I

32:09

can't breathe. So Oda's

32:11

comment is just like, here you go. Here is

32:14

the personification of Ace, the sword

32:16

of Gold Roger. He's

32:18

like, that one is on the

32:20

house. Like, enjoy, guys. He

32:23

wanted someone to ask this question. Even when you

32:25

look at the little thing at the top, we

32:27

didn't even talk about yet where the SBS has

32:29

like Shanks and Ace, proper Ace.

32:32

And he made it smaller to fit

32:35

this man.

32:40

We do also have a little

32:42

SBS header, which is a very

32:44

adorable Ace and Shanks, doing a

32:47

Grog. Cheers. What

32:49

does it say next to it? What

32:52

does it say next to it? Yeah, next to the

32:54

SBS. Well, the

32:57

thing on the side is always the

32:59

attribution from through the thing. Okay, that's

33:01

enough. He made it smaller. No,

33:04

you just needed the extra space. The

33:08

next question here, you can

33:10

already see we have an image of Frankie

33:12

with his nipple lights going. And

33:15

this person says, please help. My

33:18

girlfriend keeps saying that she's going to

33:20

turn on the nipple lights. What

33:23

should I do? And

33:27

Oda says, I'll do it too. He's like, shine.

33:31

So he did a little sound effects to

33:33

show that he is blazing

33:36

the nipple lights. I

33:38

mean, this isn't listed on the page. I

33:40

want to know if she's saying she's going to

33:42

activate her own nipple lights. I think that's going

33:45

to turn on his nipple

33:47

lights. No, I believe

33:49

it's hers that he's talking about. Because

33:52

one of those is a direction and the other is a threat.

34:01

I mean, Frankie's girlfriend. Remember that scene? You

34:04

remember that scene in Dumb and Dumber when

34:06

he's driving on the highway and he imagines

34:09

that the girl is gonna flash him and

34:11

then he's like. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sick. I

34:14

feel like if Robin just goes behind Frankie and just

34:16

like clicks both his nipples, they just like turn on

34:18

like the little like push button lights that you get

34:20

on like little clickers. Oh yeah. That's what Frankie's are,

34:22

you just go boop boop. Turn on.

34:25

Yep, for sure, for sure. Our

34:27

next comment is about my

34:30

favorite character here, Kinderella, AKA

34:32

Miss Universe, Waffle's wife.

34:35

And the question is, what

34:39

does she like about Waffle aside

34:41

from his money? Is it his looks?

34:43

Is it his heart? Is it his power? And

34:46

Oda says, it's only the money. Okay.

34:50

Yeah. She's

34:52

so base, that's incredible. Yeah, she's so real

34:54

for her. Yeah. As

34:58

long as she's slowly poisoning Waffle, we've got to

35:00

re-learn business. I 100% bet she's

35:02

microdosing him some shit. Yeah. Arsenic.

35:05

I think we have to be reverse podcast

35:07

bros in this moment. The other guys who

35:10

are like, men, you gotta know,

35:12

all these females want is your money.

35:14

And that's bad. And we're saying, no,

35:16

no, no. He's not a bull off

35:18

queen. That's good. Yeah, he's got this shit.

35:20

Give me a money spread right now. Ladies,

35:24

if you marry an evil king, begin

35:27

poisoning immediately. Make sure he's rich. Yeah. Don't

35:30

hesitate on the poisoning. Yeah. If

35:33

he mentions the word prenup, you

35:35

gotta know. Or you gotta start poisoning now.

35:38

No, that's when you turn on the car. See, he's got a

35:40

cousin. A

35:43

Duke or something. Next in line. Yeah.

35:49

All right. And our last question is

35:51

a more straightforward one here. This

35:54

is referring to the scene in chapter

35:56

1066, where we signed back.

35:58

This was just in the end. anime I believe the

36:01

scene from the flashback

36:04

with Dr. Vega-punk where he was on

36:06

Ohara and he sees the Giants lifting

36:08

the books out of the lake and

36:12

this reader was asking those

36:14

Giants we see was that

36:16

Hiridin, Gerd, and Goldberg from

36:19

the giant pirates

36:22

and Oda said like oh yeah that's you

36:25

you spotted it good job there

36:27

were also a bunch of other Giants there

36:29

but those are the three that we saw

36:31

in that particular scene I wonder

36:33

who the captain was we know

36:38

we know it was Saul

36:42

yes yes but

36:44

apparently Oda doesn't want to to

36:46

admit it yet so we have to pretend that we

36:49

don't know no

36:56

one I've ever heard of you would know it's probably

37:01

screen well

37:04

I can make fun of him where he's

37:06

gonna draw for us that's it he's drawing

37:09

he's drawing aces sword we're fine we

37:23

have a very cool header

37:25

here of Karasu the crowman

37:27

from the Revolutionary Army and

37:30

he is crows

37:32

are making the S's and then

37:34

there's a little building that forms

37:36

the be somebody else who likes weird men that's

37:44

not my the jury was very out

37:46

of it you might thought one guy

37:48

from my hero

37:55

though with the mask so I figured like this

37:57

would translate over am I wrong I mean yeah He's

38:00

also like, it's

38:02

not every mask. That guy wasn't wrong. He looked

38:04

the same to me. Not every mask means I'm...

38:08

Oh, Brodsky doesn't like masks now. Very

38:10

interesting. I do love being a mystery, but

38:13

I also like... I'm

38:17

sorry. Okay, fine. Moving along. Okay, I

38:19

can move over people with yours. No, he's not one of mine. I

38:21

do not claim this one. So

38:24

the first question, this is pretty amazing here.

38:27

And the funny thing is there's actually kind of two

38:29

ways to translate this. And

38:32

I think they're both equally amazing. So

38:34

the question is, what is the name

38:36

of the new Cross Guild ship? The

38:39

one that has the big buggy

38:41

on the front. And

38:44

so my first inclination when

38:46

I saw this is, okay, so I think the

38:48

way that, the way it sounds when

38:50

you read it is, it is the big

38:52

top blaster. Which

38:56

sounds hard as hell to be honest, but then

38:58

I realized that the whole thing. So

39:04

like Buggy's Island was empty Bluffs Island.

39:06

And then I realized, oh no, this

39:08

is big top blaster. Yeah,

39:13

I think that's what it's gonna end up being. But...

39:16

That's fun. Yeah, and then he

39:18

included the disgusted expressions of Mihawk

39:20

and Crocodile just to remind you.

39:22

I was like, look

39:24

at how disappointed they are. Mihawk

39:27

is disgusted by probably every single design

39:29

choice that has been made on this

39:31

ship. Oh yeah,

39:33

no elegance at all. I

39:36

bet a point that that ship head is

39:38

going to go get, de-headed

39:42

at some point. Like either Crocodile

39:44

or Mihawk, just like you're gonna piss

39:46

him off once and just like slice it.

39:50

Yeah, that's what's gonna happen to you. You're gonna big top

39:52

blast him out of here. Some big pops are gonna get

39:54

blasted at the front. Yeah.

39:57

Okay. I

40:00

will not elaborate on that more. Moving

40:02

on. We haven't done a recording with

40:04

Trisha Cerimas in so long because like

40:06

it requires them, them being like

40:08

Zach and everybody to lock Steven. Let

40:12

me out. So

40:16

our next question is about

40:18

crocodile and mihawk. In

40:20

chapter 1058, let's see, mihawk,

40:27

let's see, mihawk had said,

40:30

that crocodile

40:32

was, or wait. Yeah.

40:35

Okay. Crocodile had said that mihawk was a formerly

40:37

a, um, a, a Navy hunter.

40:39

Um, you know, he, he hunted me in the

40:42

way that Zorro is a pirate hunter. Mihawk was

40:44

a Navy hunter. Um, does

40:46

this have anything to do with

40:48

mihawk joining the seven warlords? Um,

40:53

and, uh, so Oda says, uh, mihawk

40:55

had a past which, which gave him a,

40:58

uh, a, a

41:00

great grudge against the Navy. Um,

41:04

and, uh, he had, he had experienced

41:06

a great betrayal. Um,

41:08

so that, that was a mihawk's past. Um,

41:11

so that kind of makes him in

41:13

the same way that, um, crocodile is,

41:17

uh, same way that they are

41:19

alone because they don't trust

41:21

anyone. So he's very similar to crocodile

41:23

in that sense. Um, and there's

41:25

a part of him that is very tired of life

41:27

in general. Um, and,

41:30

uh, so, uh, you know, at least

41:32

if he joins the seven warlords, then

41:34

he doesn't have to worry about, uh,

41:36

the sailors chasing him anymore. Um, and

41:39

so I think that's why he chose

41:41

to join just for the, the relative

41:44

tranquility. Mihawk wants to live a

41:46

quiet life. Yeah.

41:48

I can fix him. I think I

41:51

can make him worse probably. Uh,

41:54

and so now that he has lost

41:56

that place, because the warlords are no

41:58

longer, uh, came

42:00

up with the idea of hiding

42:03

in Buggie's shadow. You

42:05

can't respect him and he just wants stability in

42:07

his life. Yeah,

42:10

he just needs a wife. Yeah, he

42:12

really needs... Josh, we got this. He

42:15

just needs a wife, that's us. Yeah. All

42:17

right, go ahead. So

42:20

our last question here is about

42:24

the bowls of ramen that we see Kizaru and

42:26

the other navies eating

42:28

in the recent scenes, were they

42:31

cooked by Wanze? No. And

42:33

just for the slander, Oda includes

42:36

the picture of Kizaru just slurping

42:38

down the bowl of

42:40

noodles, which you are now imagining

42:42

that got shot out of Wanze's

42:45

nose. I

42:47

thought I'd never see that man again. And

42:50

Oda's like, oh no,

42:53

no. Big,

42:55

big bold letters there. He's

42:57

like, you know how he makes that ramen. You

43:00

know, and you ask that question anyway. That's

43:02

disgusting. So

43:05

yes, it's definitely not him. And

43:09

remember, this ship has not only a Navy

43:12

admiral, but also one of the five

43:14

elders on it. So they

43:16

have one of the four

43:19

great chefs of marine headquarters.

43:23

And this guy's name is Komakov

43:26

the winter chef. So

43:29

he's on board and making

43:32

the noodles. Listen, a new glove shadow just dropped.

43:34

Look at that man. This

43:37

is like Oda doing the chef from the Little

43:40

Mermaid. Like he's

43:42

got the same face, same little mustache,

43:44

the little chef's at. That's great.

43:48

So yeah, I imagine I'm assuming the implication is that

43:51

the other three chefs have like the different seasons. They're

43:53

all they have some kind of a theme. to

44:00

it. They're all evil apparently. He specializes

44:02

in... Sanji's gotta kill him. Yeah.

44:04

That's Sanji's great for warlords. For our

45:14

first question here is I'm asking

45:16

this because I don't want to

45:18

get a stomach ache

45:36

I don't get food poisoning is

45:38

the apple on vega punk head edible and

45:41

what is the apple on vega punk head edible

45:43

and what is the apple on

45:46

vega punk head edible rotten.

46:01

It's like beef jerky flavor. It's

46:03

the other white meat. I'm

46:07

calling it apple jerky. He's

46:11

never put sunscreen on in his

46:13

life. We

46:17

need to get this man a speciality. That's just

46:19

leather. Well actually that's the bad flavor. He

46:21

needs some retinol. That's the bad flavor is

46:23

the retinol on the apple. All

46:26

right. Our

46:30

next question here. We have

46:32

a picture of Shanks where he's getting

46:34

hugged by the nobody's

46:37

under his grand fleet

46:39

here that we saw around

46:42

the time that he was fighting with a kid

46:44

in chapter 1079. What

46:50

characters? Who is she? What crew

46:52

is she from? The beautiful lady

46:54

hugging on Shanks. I

46:56

want to hug her too. Don't

47:01

listen. The fangirls are asking so they can find

47:03

her and kill her. Oh

47:06

my God girl you're so pretty. What's your

47:08

address? Yeah. He should be

47:10

for lunch sometime. Let's share their patience. I'll just

47:12

see how. I'll tell you everything that he wants.

47:18

Oh man. She

47:21

is Renaria from

47:24

the Knight Butterfly Pirates.

47:26

Wow. That

47:29

kind of slays. When she was

47:31

young, Shanks saved her life and so she

47:33

became a pirate out of her admiration for

47:35

him. She's

47:39

known as Renaria the Igniter because

47:42

she is an arsonist and is very dangerous.

47:44

Oh we respect that actually. I want her.

47:47

Yandere Queen. Where's

47:49

her fan art? Her

47:53

motto is put it on Shanks tab. Okay

47:57

actually respect. Nevermind

47:59

I don't want to kill. Oh

48:01

no, she's like, the fangirls now keep her. We're just like,

48:04

we will plot with her. Our

48:08

next question. Now this is where

48:10

Oda has to fess up and disappoint everyone. So

48:14

this question is, you know, in volume

48:16

87, chapter 872, Morgan's

48:21

says, big news Morgan says, oh, that's

48:23

right, I can't fly. Does

48:25

that mean that he is a mink

48:27

of a flightless bird?

48:31

And Oda says, okay,

48:34

so first of all, there are

48:36

no bird, there are no avian

48:38

minks. They're

48:40

all fluffy mammals, basically.

48:43

Those are the mink types. So Morgan's

48:46

is a person with the

48:49

bird-bird-fruit model albatross

48:51

and he just stays in his bird, I

48:59

guess it would be man-beast form, is

49:02

the way we refer to it, the hybrid

49:05

form all the time. So

49:07

I wonder, he says, oh, I wonder what he looks like as

49:09

a human. I need the

49:11

fan art now. He's an inspiration to furries. Yeah,

49:13

I actually do need the human version now. I

49:17

need him to be ugly. No. I need him

49:19

to be butt-puckin' ugly. I need you to stop

49:21

where you're at now. No, and that's why he chooses

49:23

to be a bird. No, he can choose to be

49:25

a bird all he wants. He could still be fine

49:27

underneath that. Yeah, Vero, you can be hot and a

49:29

bird. Yeah. That's

49:34

very disrespectful of her, actually. There's

49:37

not an ugly man in one piece. Yeah, there's never

49:39

an ugly guy in one piece. A

49:43

single ugly man in one piece. Yeah, there's

49:45

not Roger's sword in one piece. Oh my

49:47

God. Actually, what if when

49:49

he's not in bird form, he just

49:51

looks like Scott Thompson? Okay,

49:54

what if he's like... Okay,

49:57

all right, there's a show called Kids in the Hall. Yeah,

50:01

he plays he

50:03

plays a bird lady That's

50:12

that one's for the old okay, but

50:14

in acceptable All

50:17

right in our last comment

50:20

here is about the Vega

50:22

Cola which we see coming

50:24

out of the vending machine Is

50:27

the Vega Cola a Vega Punk

50:30

original flavor? You

50:32

know, I I want to ask What

50:34

I want to ask Frankie what this

50:36

super flavor is is like And

50:40

so he brings in Frankie and

50:42

Frankie says oh man, you better

50:45

believe it. It tastes like a genius super

50:47

and It

50:50

tastes like Beverly Those are

50:52

for my real Disney heads out there and

50:54

Oda says apparently it tastes like genius You

50:58

know like Vega Punk either. He's got a whole

51:00

section on the island That's like he's making his

51:02

own like like wines and

51:04

kombucha and whatever It's

51:09

hobby Vega Punk come Yeah,

51:14

that's what the Apple is for You

51:16

know Cola

51:19

is there from the Apple so don't drink Yeah,

51:22

much hay is made about Ghibli food, but

51:24

I want to eat this burger so bad

51:28

Notice how to draw some like good fucking food a lot of

51:30

it his food kind of looks like a goofy movie type food

51:33

Oh, yeah, we are where it's like there's like too

51:35

much liquid somehow, but like complimentary

51:39

It's teetering that line of like you can be like

51:41

ooh, oh to tone it back But he got that

51:44

he's got that nice like cheese pizza from a goofy

51:46

movie type vibe Yeah

51:51

Our next SPS has I love this

51:53

illustration. This is so cute. They

51:57

wrote in and they drew the five

52:00

main cast from the live action show as

52:04

their characters. It's

52:06

really nice to see. I

52:08

like to see the Japanese fans kind of

52:11

run with that and not just be like, oh, this

52:13

is weird. I don't know if I'm into this. It's

52:16

really sweet to see the fan art of

52:18

the actors and stuff. I still love how

52:21

the live action just loved in both everywhere.

52:23

Everyone loves it. It's just, it warms my

52:25

heart. I was just about to ask, what was the

52:27

reception like in Japan? I

52:29

don't think I was aware of that. I don't

52:31

really know for sure. In a

52:33

truly accurate way, I don't

52:36

know because I didn't go

52:38

looking for the critical response

52:40

or anything like that. But I

52:42

get the feeling that it was kind of

52:44

along the same lines as the

52:47

worldwide response. I'll say, like, that's a question we

52:50

can ask Greg later to get

52:52

his opinion. Yeah, maybe he would know better.

52:56

Zorro looks like the Chad from the

52:59

Supergene facial structure.

53:05

He's like, clearly you don't an air fryer. No, no,

53:08

we know. I'll kill myself. All

53:13

right. So our question

53:16

here is, all

53:18

right, let's see. So this is actually kind of a, this

53:20

is a cute question and answer.

53:22

So the reader says,

53:25

hi, Orachi. So

53:27

there was a thing I was wondering as

53:29

I read One Piece, which is that when

53:31

they're fighting, they always say the names of

53:33

their attacks when they do them. Is

53:36

there a benefit to that? Like, is something good

53:38

happen when that, when they do

53:40

that? And Oda's like,

53:42

ah, okay. Well, yeah. I mean,

53:45

there's basically no manga where they don't

53:47

do this, you know. And

53:50

this is he's like, I'm gonna be real

53:52

with you here. This is so that kids

53:54

will copy it. So

53:56

let's say that you're on the playground and

53:59

your A Coon on the other side

54:01

is like, gum

54:03

gum pistol. And he swings his arm out. Obviously,

54:08

his arm is not actually stretching,

54:11

but B Coon all

54:13

the way on the other side is gonna go, ah,

54:16

and act like he just got punched. And

54:20

that's because the two have a

54:22

shared understanding that this is what

54:25

gum gum pistol is. So

54:28

if A Coon did the same thing, and

54:30

he was just like, ooh yeah! B

54:33

Coon is just gonna be like, hm? Huh?

54:35

Huh? So Oda wants kids

54:38

to fight, is what I'm getting. Yeah. What's

54:40

it to pretend to fight? So

54:43

he says, yes, manga. Manga

54:45

is packed with all kinds of

54:48

little tips and tricks and things

54:50

that are designed to make it

54:52

more fun for the reader. So

54:54

if you're an adult, don't

54:56

be bashful, do this at work. So

55:01

you can do it across the office. Hell

55:04

yeah. Monday, everyone

55:06

watch out. I mean, we

55:08

do this with the One Piece podcast

55:10

offices constantly. Yeah. Yeah.

55:15

All right, so our

55:17

next question is, check

55:22

it out, Oda Chi, I thought of my own

55:24

devil fruit. And this

55:26

would be called the Bye-Bye No Me.

55:29

In this case, by is means double.

55:32

So you'd be the double man. It's,

55:36

you know, anything you do becomes twice as

55:38

much. So yeah, you can use that one.

55:40

You know, go ahead, have fun with that.

55:43

And this came from a pen name,

55:46

Five Points on the Test. And

55:49

Oda says, thank you, pen

55:52

name, Five Points on the Test. Maybe you

55:54

should eat it and double your points. Light

55:57

them up. Too

56:00

bad that's still too short. It's a fucking burn

56:02

right there. Yeah, you really really got him good

56:04

on that one. Ouch.

56:09

That's pretty good. Let's roast

56:11

your readers. That's

56:15

what you get for for trying to give him ideas.

56:19

Shot down. The

56:23

next one is about and it's kind of hard

56:25

to tell from this sequence here, but there's

56:28

a question When we

56:30

saw the scene of the marine

56:32

lesson happening where

56:35

Garp is is talking about stuff they're talking about

56:37

the the value of life this was before or

56:40

around the time that Garp was on Pirate Island and

56:43

You know, we was talking about who do you save?

56:47

There was the lady the

56:49

one who wears the the bucket the marine

56:51

bucket hat with the sunglasses and

56:53

she is Scolding Garp and saying that all

56:55

lives are equal because you know if you

56:58

remember The context of that

57:00

scene was you know You have the

57:02

younger people and then the older people and

57:05

Garp was saying cut the older one loose Like

57:07

he's gonna die anyways, like he's only got two

57:09

years to live So, you know save

57:11

the ones with the long future and then he got

57:13

scolded for that and So

57:17

this they're wondering who is this

57:19

this woman who is scolding him for saying

57:22

that? This is one

57:24

of Osuru's Subordinates

57:26

and one of her one of her battle

57:28

biddies as we call them and

57:31

she is also a vice-admiral And

57:33

her name is kind of funny cuz like it's

57:36

a it's a really nice name, but it

57:38

might not sound like it Her name is

57:40

hot hotogisu Which

57:43

is Japanese word for Nightingale

57:47

Which is nice or was it nightingale or is it cuckoo?

57:49

I think it was nightingale It's

57:53

a it is a famous for being

57:55

in a a bit

57:57

of kind of poetry about the three

58:00

Unitors of the Sengoku jidai where

58:04

Maybe it is a cuckoo. It's um it's

58:07

about Oda no Munaga, Hira Yoshi and

58:11

Who's the other one I forget now and

58:16

Tokunaga and so one of them

58:18

is like it's what do

58:20

you do if the bird will not sing and

58:23

so it's about each of the three of them

58:25

and Obunaga is if the bird will not sing

58:27

kill it and Hira Yoshi

58:29

is if the bird will not

58:31

sing make it want to sing and then Tokugawa

58:34

is if the bird will not

58:36

sing wait And that's supposed

58:38

to like demonstrate the differences of the philosophy

58:41

styles of the three guys. So it's a

58:43

very famous poem

58:45

in Japanese Our

58:49

next one, you know one thing I will

58:51

say Oda's naming all these

58:53

random like little side characters only one panel

58:56

and he still hasn't even finished naming a

58:58

lot of like the kid Pirates crew like some of

59:01

the main that have been animated. They still don't have

59:03

names but Well,

59:06

they're awful Bratzki and I don't need them to be They're

59:11

dreadful So

59:16

the the header image here this one is

59:18

of The

59:20

the sword members you

59:22

have Prince Groose sitting on the chair in

59:24

the middle and then Kujaku

59:27

with her whip is on the left and Halmapo

59:31

on the right and This

59:34

one comes from a friend of

59:36

the show or it's not friend

59:38

oomphie oomphie of the show 420

59:42

land who has been very

59:44

frequent You know frequently

59:46

in the SBS and the cover requests

59:48

and all that stuff And

59:50

the interesting thing is as I noticed

59:53

like oh their name is is different

59:55

now Like instead of 420

59:58

land, it's a light It's

1:00:00

in Katakana. It's a dike Hawaii d420 land

1:00:03

and I am actually oompies with for 20 land

1:00:06

as well So I actually DM to them to

1:00:08

ask like hey, what's the what's the English spelling

1:00:10

for this this name? So they told me so

1:00:12

it's it's like oh, I l a k a

1:00:14

I w a I D

1:00:18

420 land. Yeah, so

1:00:20

I get to put that in there Thank

1:00:22

you oompin law reload Oompy's

1:00:25

winning And So

1:00:30

here we go. We have some information about

1:00:32

sword speaking of which So

1:00:35

this person wants to know what are the hobbies

1:00:37

of? Kobe Drake hibari,

1:00:39

Groose, Kujaku and hell meppo

1:00:43

And so okay, so I actually at

1:00:46

sorry I should go back The

1:00:48

question actually says okay the sword members

1:00:51

Kobe Drake's on he body,

1:00:53

John Groose kuja kusan and hell

1:00:55

meppo Please tell

1:00:57

me their hobbies and Oda says I think

1:00:59

it's very interesting the difference of

1:01:02

who you chose to address in what way in

1:01:05

that list, but okay So,

1:01:08

yeah along with the picture they picked

1:01:10

for hell meppo Some

1:01:15

of these I think we did get before

1:01:17

I definitely remember Drake because he was in

1:01:19

the The I

1:01:22

think yeah, maybe his habits have changed since

1:01:25

then or the or the worst generation. He's

1:01:27

Drake has been in a lot of categories here So

1:01:31

yeah former Rear Admiral Drake

1:01:34

is a he's a reptile

1:01:36

nerd He

1:01:39

loves astrophysics Nerd

1:01:43

you casually fuck with

1:01:46

the way that he's absolutely swiping left on me

1:01:53

Next we have a kujaku her

1:01:56

hobbies are discipline and

1:01:59

baking sweets Alright,

1:02:02

you know. She likes to scold

1:02:04

and reward. That's right. That's right.

1:02:07

I can't wait. Um,

1:02:11

let's see. Prince Groose, oh

1:02:14

shit, I forgot to look this up. Um,

1:02:16

alright, I'm gonna do some live

1:02:19

research here. Sodorokyan.

1:02:22

You're to us. What is Sodorokyan? Let's

1:02:24

take bets while Steven's looking it up. What do we

1:02:26

think he's gonna be into? I

1:02:28

bet he really likes fashion. Like I think he's a

1:02:30

slime girl. I had to discard the first

1:02:32

five. So

1:02:39

it's listed as Sodorokyan. So I haven't heard

1:02:42

this term before that is apparently short for

1:02:44

solo camping. Oh, cool.

1:02:48

He's got a YouTube channel. He's taking his camper

1:02:50

out with the camera set up. You

1:02:53

know, he's an influencer. Absolutely.

1:02:56

Oh yeah, no. He's verified

1:02:58

on a couple accounts because he's, you

1:03:00

know, he's like a Nepo baby. He's

1:03:03

hashtag van life. He

1:03:07

literally has like, yeah, he gets he gets

1:03:09

by on sponsorship. Like vegan food company. So

1:03:11

it's like those fucking influencers in their van

1:03:13

where they open to be like, this is

1:03:15

my morning and it's like a coffee. It's

1:03:17

like next to the lake. This is a

1:03:19

beautiful scenery. Right. Yeah,

1:03:21

his solo camping and then his other hobby

1:03:23

is dancing. Of course. Again,

1:03:26

tell the tick tock or influencer. We're good. Yeah.

1:03:29

Yeah. He's doing tick

1:03:31

tock dances. Kobe's interests are sea

1:03:35

fishing. So like I

1:03:37

don't I don't a boat at sea and

1:03:40

training. So I'm sorry. He

1:03:42

bari. You're barking up the wrong

1:03:44

tree clearly. Yeah,

1:03:48

totally. He

1:03:51

likes getting sweaty. Yeah. Girl.

1:04:01

He barries hobbies are

1:04:03

photography and collecting pouches.

1:04:08

Sorry, bags. Yeah,

1:04:11

she's at the bag and she's

1:04:13

like, she's a bad girlie. The

1:04:15

tinier the bag, the better. Oh,

1:04:17

yeah. Yeah. And

1:04:22

lastly, we have Helmeppo. His interests

1:04:24

are fashion and street

1:04:26

food. Fetch. Helmeppo is

1:04:28

so funny to me. Okay, folks, of

1:04:30

the six, who are you hanging out with? I

1:04:34

was just here too. As much

1:04:36

as I have always hated Helmeppo, but

1:04:38

Aiden made me love him, so now I'm just like, no,

1:04:40

he's adorable. I'm just like, you like Helmeppo? Yeah.

1:04:44

Well,

1:04:47

based on interests, Helmeppo and I have the most

1:04:49

in common. I...

1:04:52

what's Hat Girl's name

1:04:54

again? I forgot it. Kujaku. I

1:04:58

think Kujaku and I are chilling. Maybe

1:05:03

she can bake cupcakes and then we can

1:05:05

roll up men together. I'm just a boy,

1:05:07

I'm sure. Yeah, I'll participate with her. I

1:05:09

do a cute boy. I'm just going to

1:05:11

take photos. There you go.

1:05:14

I would hang out with Drake because sometimes I just

1:05:16

want to learn new facts because that's all he's going

1:05:18

to do. He's going to tell you facts. He's

1:05:21

like an eight-year-old talking about dinosaurs. Drake was my second

1:05:23

pick. He's an info-dumper for sure. You could go to

1:05:25

a reptile convention with him. He's the

1:05:27

info-dumper that you just like to hear them

1:05:29

talk and he'll just go on and on

1:05:31

and on and get very excited about his

1:05:33

interests. Not an a-like-mansplaining type of way, it's

1:05:35

that endearing type of way. I

1:05:38

spent two weeks planning this date and

1:05:40

he has no idea it's a date. I can't

1:05:42

bring him to the function. I'd like to

1:05:44

imagine he just gets too excited

1:05:47

and goes lizard mode in the middle

1:05:49

of the story. No, no, no, because when he talked about lizards,

1:05:51

he's like, oh my God, let me show you and he'll turn

1:05:53

into a lizard. He's like, yeah, I'll show you. You

1:05:57

want to see these claws? And

1:06:00

you're like, oh yeah, baby. And he's just like, no, no, but

1:06:02

like, look. Now

1:06:04

he's like, I'm not doing this to be horny. I'm doing

1:06:06

this to show you how cool it is. Honey, this is

1:06:08

a nice restaurant. Devil Island. This is

1:06:11

how Komodo dragged me. All

1:06:14

right. Yeah. Yeah.

1:06:16

Yeah. Band from restaurant.

1:06:19

Yeah. All

1:06:21

right. So our next reader

1:06:24

comment here is, this

1:06:26

one goes out to all the celestial dragons

1:06:28

out there. I hate you. Right

1:06:31

on. I know, just like, oh, I get

1:06:33

it. I know, I know. I hate them too. Which

1:06:37

is, it's good. Always good to reiterate that. Yeah.

1:06:42

Okay, next one. Let's see. Hi,

1:06:44

Odachi. So are

1:06:46

the ears on Kuma's

1:06:49

head, are those hair ears? Because

1:06:53

if you remember, I think, well, who

1:06:55

was it? It was a emoji back

1:06:57

in the buggy days. His

1:07:00

little bare ears were hair. Because

1:07:03

he had regular ears. So

1:07:06

yeah, are Kuma's ears made

1:07:08

of hair? Did

1:07:11

Ginny braid together his hair

1:07:14

to look like those adorable little ears? Which

1:07:17

is the sweetest thing I've ever heard. And Oda's

1:07:20

answer is, that's a cowlick. Oh,

1:07:22

no. Just

1:07:24

shut it. Just shut this person down. It's

1:07:27

a cowlick that defies fucking fabric and goes

1:07:29

straight through its hat. Like, no, I gotta

1:07:31

keep, you know what? Screw it. Oda, your

1:07:34

opinion is gone. Sometimes you have a crazy

1:07:36

ass cowlick, okay? No, no, Oda's

1:07:38

opinion is now canceled. It is now Ginny

1:07:40

has braided them and he has kept them.

1:07:42

Yeah, that's way cuter. That's right, cuter. That

1:07:45

is actually the new canon for Kuma. Our

1:07:50

next question is, are there normal

1:07:52

civilians who live on the pirate

1:07:54

island? It's a little led. And

1:07:57

Oda says, nope, they are all

1:07:59

evil. They're all villains. Destroy

1:08:03

that island. When you

1:08:05

see those shops and businesses, like yeah,

1:08:07

those are former criminals that are running

1:08:09

those. An evil business. But

1:08:12

they're reformed now. He

1:08:14

does say. And they're running a

1:08:17

business. He does say it might

1:08:19

be a lawless island, but even

1:08:21

the villains have their own rules

1:08:23

to follow. So

1:08:25

they do have a code that

1:08:27

they go by. It's sort of

1:08:29

like how there's technically people that live in Vatican

1:08:31

City that aren't like the Pope. But

1:08:35

they're not innocent. Are you saying that everyone lives

1:08:37

in the Vatican City in the evil? Yeah,

1:08:42

that makes sense. All

1:08:44

correct. Alright,

1:08:46

here we go. Last one. Last

1:08:49

question. It's been such a fun SBS. Let's see what

1:08:51

the last question is. Oh, good. Alright,

1:08:55

this one comes from our friend. No, not our friend.

1:08:59

We don't have Zack here to yell at him either.

1:09:03

Oh, I'm here. Don't worry. So,

1:09:06

Nami, Reju, and Viola all

1:09:09

have something in common. Can

1:09:11

you guess what it is? Your

1:09:13

hint is they are

1:09:16

round and soft. Oh, no. I

1:09:19

need this guy to kill himself. My answer is

1:09:22

Jacob. Oh,

1:09:24

you've made me. Oh my god. I

1:09:28

really was hoping they'd be like a pun. No. I

1:09:32

thought that was going to zag and it didn't. Otis was

1:09:34

just being like, yes, they all have massive hu-huz. They

1:09:36

got the biddies. The business and here's

1:09:38

their cup. We gotta find

1:09:40

this guy and kill him with rocks.

1:09:43

Yeah, that is Sanodachi. Okay, Sanodachi. And

1:09:46

so Otis' response is, oh, yeah, now that

1:09:48

you mention it, that's very interesting. No, it

1:09:50

is not. Sanodachi. No, it

1:09:53

is. This is an

1:09:55

angry thing. And I should mention now, at this point

1:09:57

in the volume, we are in the middle of the

1:09:59

volume. of Kuma's flashback.

1:10:02

So he's like,

1:10:04

this is a really serious part of the

1:10:06

story. So this is you're the last guy

1:10:09

who's supposed to be here. And he's like,

1:10:11

okay, see you next volume. He's like, God

1:10:13

damn you. So the font is

1:10:15

like fading out as

1:10:17

he is grumbling about it. Just

1:10:20

couldn't help himself. He had to put one nasty

1:10:22

comment in. Listen, I love, I

1:10:25

love in the middle of Kuma's fucking flashback.

1:10:27

Listen, we need to laugh after

1:10:29

those, those freaking these chapters.

1:10:31

I'm not laughing. Not that

1:10:34

one. I

1:10:36

also did include, so this, the

1:10:38

next chapter, I remember this because

1:10:40

of the way that he drew

1:10:42

the message on Brooke's leg on

1:10:44

the cover page. The

1:10:47

next chapter was the infamous one where

1:10:49

he didn't finish the art on time.

1:10:52

And it has been fixed

1:10:54

here in the volume.

1:10:56

Although I'm to be honest

1:10:59

with you, like the character art is still pretty

1:11:01

messy. You know, he was pressed in these

1:11:04

chapters for sure. It was a

1:11:06

very busy time, I imagine. But

1:11:10

I was noticing too that like, I

1:11:12

honestly feel like the step that they were

1:11:14

missing that, that like you noticed the most

1:11:16

was I think they, maybe he didn't have

1:11:18

time to get the, the assistants

1:11:21

into the office to do the,

1:11:23

the screen tones because I remember

1:11:25

him doing this like sort of

1:11:27

pencil, like just sort of shading

1:11:29

it over the whole, the

1:11:32

whole panel. And really the big difference is just that now it's

1:11:34

like a nice, nice smooth, great

1:11:36

cleaned up the sketches and like add

1:11:38

the screen tones. Yeah. So

1:11:41

yes, it is, it is better. It looks,

1:11:43

you know, the same as any other, other

1:11:45

chapter now. Listen, I was worried that

1:11:48

week. I was just being like, Oh, do you need break? Please

1:11:50

take. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I had

1:11:52

a feeling it was going to be normal the

1:11:55

next week, but fortunately it's been

1:11:57

fine since so, but that's why we're on

1:11:59

this. this three week break now

1:12:03

because of maintenance, as

1:12:05

he calls it. Yeah.

1:12:09

So, yeah, I think that

1:12:11

is about it. There

1:12:13

are some ads

1:12:15

in the back. I did notice

1:12:18

that they do have, they have

1:12:20

a full on one page ad

1:12:22

for the One Piece, the announced

1:12:25

series that they're going to be doing

1:12:28

on Netflix with WIT Studio. Oh, yeah.

1:12:31

Which is... What does that have to do with that? No,

1:12:33

we don't have a date. It does. In

1:12:35

fact, it says at the bottom, like, you know,

1:12:37

the project is underway. Look forward

1:12:40

to updates in Shonen Jump.

1:12:43

So I like, I'm a little, a

1:12:45

little sad because pre-time

1:12:47

skip art style is so charming. Yeah.

1:12:50

I just wanted to like stay like that. But maybe

1:12:52

if they're updating it to like not

1:12:54

have so much like filler or using the same

1:12:56

background. Like, listen, you know what they

1:12:58

need to do? Screw everything. Redraw all of Dressrosa. Let's

1:13:01

go. I was like, you

1:13:03

think it doesn't need a remake? Yeah,

1:13:06

it's not. Like Dressrosa, like East

1:13:08

Blue, perfect. Skip to Dressrosa. Fix

1:13:10

that. Yeah. Is he? Yeah.

1:13:14

Are they going to draw? Are they going to update like East Blue

1:13:16

Luffy where he's going to look all all ripped

1:13:18

the way that he does now when Oda

1:13:20

draws him in flashbacks? No. The

1:13:23

flashback, listen, I took a

1:13:25

break from reading for a while. I

1:13:27

haven't been able to say anything. In

1:13:29

the flashback where Luffy's like, why

1:13:31

is he ripped? Yeah. That's

1:13:34

not my baby boy. He's like a 16-year-old Luffy. Yeah. He's

1:13:37

stacked. No. Whose child

1:13:39

is that? That's not my... He's supposed to be

1:13:41

like a tube with some arms. Yeah. Where's

1:13:43

my noodle boy? Mm-hmm.

1:13:46

Yep. This is historical revision.

1:13:48

With the giant mouth where the sides

1:13:50

of his mouth, they go

1:13:53

right straight to the tips of

1:13:55

his cheeks. Yeah. Yeah.

1:13:57

Yeah. Exactly. We'll

1:14:00

see. We'll see what this new anime series

1:14:02

looks like. I'm I'm still excited. Watch it.

1:14:04

I still cry until I see it again.

1:14:07

I still cry. Happy tears, Oda. Fucking listen.

1:14:09

No, like, you

1:14:12

know, he's like, you need to cry.

1:14:14

Sweet, happy tears. That's

1:14:16

right. It's happy tears for him because it's just

1:14:18

like, he's like, I've made them

1:14:20

suffer again. It's

1:14:23

like the what is it? The thought process that. Like

1:14:29

meat tastes different if the animal was like

1:14:31

scared or whatever. When you say that's the

1:14:33

same thing that's like a psycho in my

1:14:35

mind. Yeah.

1:14:39

You know. All right.

1:14:41

Well, all you listeners out

1:14:43

there, you don't need to cry your your

1:14:45

sad tears, your said

1:14:48

sweet tears, because we

1:14:50

are going to be wrapping up this show in

1:14:52

just a minute, but I hope you did enjoy this

1:14:56

SBS look through volume 108. They'll

1:14:58

probably come out in about a year or so in English. That's

1:15:01

how we tend to do these. But

1:15:04

thank you guys for for

1:15:06

joining me on this. Always a blast,

1:15:08

honestly. Thanks for story time.

1:15:10

We love it. Thank you for dealing with

1:15:12

all of us. Oh,

1:15:15

no, it's good. You can't see it. We have a

1:15:17

gun pointing at Stephen Paul. I

1:15:20

just have to say the the reread the thing and

1:15:22

then you guys just do all the rest. Yeah.

1:15:25

Yeah. We make the penis. You

1:15:28

do the story time is always my

1:15:30

favorite. Yeah. All right. Yeah. All right.

1:15:32

That's enough. This

1:15:46

is the anime recap for episode 1100. Powers

1:15:49

on a different level. Luffy versus

1:15:51

Lucci. I'm your host, Sam.

1:15:55

And today we have none other than Ed. Yes.

1:15:58

Me and back. This is me. It's appropriate.

1:16:00

This is the this feels like

1:16:02

the four episode cycle that

1:16:05

we were in starting from the triple

1:16:07

enemy recap last week and sort of runs through

1:16:09

this week and then We get

1:16:11

a recap episode. So this is like, you

1:16:13

know, this is the capper on what

1:16:16

the last three episodes we watched Mm-hmm.

1:16:18

This is the climax, uh

1:16:20

within Within

1:16:23

the the four episode long story beat

1:16:25

within the arc right,

1:16:27

I mean I don't

1:16:29

know. Maybe maybe a different anime could have done this in two

1:16:32

One and a half episodes. I don't know But

1:16:35

that's just not what this anime is these days so

1:16:38

we open this episode with Soka

1:16:42

zuki aka akainu reacting

1:16:44

to the news that the surahats

1:16:46

are on egghead And

1:16:49

that cp0 had just barged their way in

1:16:51

without permission And that they

1:16:53

you know that vega punk is well aware of

1:16:55

their intention to assassinate him Uh,

1:16:58

so so sakezuki's annoyed because this

1:17:00

is you know, effectively the world

1:17:02

declaring war on vega punk When

1:17:05

they should have done it, you know stealthily so they

1:17:07

could make excuses uh,

1:17:10

sakezuki asks, where is kizaru and

1:17:12

uh He's told well

1:17:15

kizaru is already on his way and

1:17:17

we get uh, we get to see

1:17:19

kizaru in his new his new duds

1:17:21

his new like yellow

1:17:23

olive stripes Suit

1:17:27

it's an interesting choice and

1:17:29

uh You know sakezuki

1:17:32

Manusingly walks towards the camera saying and

1:17:34

let you know rob luchi know that

1:17:36

he must not fight straw hat no

1:17:38

matter what Which

1:17:40

is I mean excuse you sir. I mean

1:17:42

a lot rob luchi does not take orders

1:17:45

from you That's

1:17:47

clear. And I mean only only the

1:17:49

sir. Can you not feel the the

1:17:52

editor of the show? Cutting

1:17:54

to a scene of rob luchi about to

1:17:57

fight louvie Why

1:17:59

would you say a line like that. I

1:18:02

mean, what are the subtexts of

1:18:05

the post-time skip one piece?

1:18:08

How little fun Sakazuki is having after

1:18:11

getting what he fought Aokiji to

1:18:13

get, and it just makes

1:18:15

him miserable. Yeah,

1:18:17

those managerial positions. He

1:18:20

doesn't get to kick his ass and take his names the

1:18:23

western district way like he used to. Yeah,

1:18:26

so Luffy and Luchi start

1:18:28

their clash. Luffy

1:18:31

punches Luchi, but Luchi catches the punch with

1:18:33

his hand, and they're trading

1:18:37

these close quarters, CQC

1:18:40

blows, and I like

1:18:42

the bouncy little standing

1:18:45

splits that Luffy does to dodge one

1:18:47

of Luchi's attacks.

1:18:50

Then he gets down into like, after

1:18:52

the hockey clash, he gets down

1:18:55

into gear second position. Just

1:18:58

to call back to that initial fight with

1:19:00

Luchi, which is nice, and this all looked

1:19:02

pretty good. Yeah,

1:19:04

I like how even before he

1:19:07

transforms, Luchi has this very feline

1:19:10

posture to the way that he'll

1:19:13

get on all fours in

1:19:15

the middle of some of the swings and

1:19:17

the punches and stuff. I

1:19:19

was thinking about that because I think later in

1:19:21

the episode, typically, Zoan users who

1:19:24

awaken their devil fruits lose their minds, basically.

1:19:27

He's becoming more and more cat-like. He can

1:19:29

control it, but it still

1:19:31

affected him even more. Maybe

1:19:35

the reason he gets to keep his personality

1:19:37

is because he was already cat-like. Right,

1:19:39

that's what I was thinking. He has

1:19:42

the power to master his devil fruit like Crocodile

1:19:45

did. He was a guy who was very in

1:19:47

tune with his devil fruit powers when he first met him. They

1:19:50

clash with some armament hockey punches

1:19:53

and finger pistols. They

1:19:57

take their breather, Luchi,

1:19:59

and... Asks like hey straw hat. What

1:20:01

was that on your wanted poster? You

1:20:03

look strange and Then

1:20:06

Luke is like oh you wanted to see it, huh? What

1:20:09

you want to see you want to see it, huh? And

1:20:12

so they both they both like looks

1:20:15

so fucking cool like taking off their

1:20:17

jackets. Yeah I

1:20:20

guess like last week Lucci would have had

1:20:22

to like because he took off his jacket

1:20:24

to take off his like suit coat So

1:20:27

he's like down to his just like his bare shirt

1:20:29

muscles And then I guess he would

1:20:31

have put his coat his jacket back on

1:20:34

so that he can take it off now Yeah,

1:20:37

there was a lot of time passed between last episode this

1:20:39

episode got cold Yes,

1:20:42

so so they're getting serious the doing

1:20:44

the yakuza taking jackets off showing your

1:20:46

muscles And

1:20:48

Luke is like oh you want to see it so

1:20:50

he he's humoring Lucci He takes

1:20:53

a deep breath and he clears his mind which

1:20:55

is very easy for him. We remember Skype

1:20:57

yeah, right and

1:21:00

you know like some some a Little

1:21:03

montage of gear five stuff

1:21:05

from from Wano kind

1:21:07

of goes through his mind the drums of liberation We

1:21:09

get the that like screen again, and we hear the

1:21:11

drums as Luci starts like beating

1:21:13

on his chest like a monkey His

1:21:16

hockey lightning is going everywhere Hockey

1:21:19

lightning going everywhere and Yeah,

1:21:22

he transforms you it's

1:21:24

interesting seeing like his clothes turn white

1:21:26

along with his hair and stuff. Yeah,

1:21:28

I Get to see

1:21:30

Lucci and he is visibly aroused by

1:21:33

the prosperity of fighting this Hum

1:21:37

and yeah, so the the drums are going

1:21:41

Luffy's transformed they start Fighting

1:21:44

again, just like immediately the soundtrack

1:21:46

cuts as like Luffy with

1:21:48

like his scary red eyes Is already

1:21:50

inches away from from Lucci and punches him

1:21:54

and then like the the contrast of like

1:21:56

the seriousness of that first punch But then

1:21:58

like as Lucci He's

1:22:00

like hitting the ground you get the like the

1:22:02

cartoon bouncing noises For

1:22:06

gear 5 for my taste but like I mean

1:22:08

I guess that's also I mean Luffy bouncing and

1:22:10

you falling all over himself after he does it

1:22:12

sort of lightens it But I guess that's what

1:22:14

Lucci sees in the moment before he's about to

1:22:16

be hit. He must perceive it extremely negatively I

1:22:19

mean, I Thought

1:22:24

you were supposed to be jolly There's

1:22:28

something very uniquely surreal about

1:22:30

like the the

1:22:33

cartoon callback stuff

1:22:35

the super light-hearted goofy stuff and then

1:22:37

like the you know, just the

1:22:42

The sparkly Sakuga showing

1:22:44

off stuff Yeah,

1:22:46

I mean it's not necessarily even the Sakuga. It's just I'm

1:22:49

not I don't know Luffy. I mean the

1:22:51

anime tends to make gear 5 more I

1:22:54

don't know sinister or More

1:22:57

super sanish then the end it feels in

1:22:59

the manga, but I don't know

1:23:02

I think that was really the only moment where it

1:23:04

felt like overbearing to me in this episode though Yeah,

1:23:08

so so Lucci gets sent through some buildings

1:23:11

Stucey's off on the side being like manner

1:23:13

so stupid And

1:23:17

Lucci pulls himself out of the rubble

1:23:21

and he's like walking himself back into the into

1:23:23

the scene He just looks super

1:23:25

cool, especially with like kind of the It's

1:23:28

like when he's in the house and the everything's kind

1:23:30

of dark and he has this almost greenish

1:23:32

wash over him He

1:23:35

starts transforming Yeah,

1:23:37

now it's his turn to transform. He's like, oh

1:23:39

you ain't seen nothing yet and And

1:23:43

Like Luffy's eyes bug out It

1:23:46

almost feels like he's making fun of Luke like it's same thing

1:23:48

happened with Kaido when Kaido did the big Fire

1:23:51

blast and like Luffy did the eyes

1:23:53

bugging out like whoa, that's so cool

1:23:55

And it almost feels sarcastic like he's

1:23:58

making fun of his opponent And

1:24:02

it's an intricate transformation sequence for

1:24:04

Lucci, which is mostly obscured behind

1:24:07

the smoke, but then it allows you

1:24:09

to be more

1:24:12

abstract with it without having to show exactly how

1:24:14

weird he looks in this moment. Yeah,

1:24:16

and then when he finishes transforming, he's

1:24:20

drawn in a cartoonish way too.

1:24:23

He's loosened up in the

1:24:26

lines and the animation style and he's

1:24:29

wobbling back and forth in

1:24:31

front of the camera, kind of like Lucci does. He's

1:24:33

less bulky in this form too. Yeah,

1:24:36

he's more... What

1:24:39

do they call it when it's the... There's

1:24:42

that one mode of Six Powers,

1:24:44

it's something Return. Oh,

1:24:47

like Life Return? I think it's what it's

1:24:49

called. Life Return, yeah. He

1:24:52

goes Speed Mode in his

1:24:54

lobby. I saw this part

1:24:56

where he... This is interesting. But he's got

1:24:58

the black smoke main thing that Lufi has

1:25:00

and the little... You

1:25:07

see that going up

1:25:09

his back and all his hair is

1:25:11

on fire and that's really well done.

1:25:14

But then he starts bopping around

1:25:16

after Lufi's eyes bug out and Lufi's

1:25:18

got this movie six animation? It looks like

1:25:21

movie six animation. Yeah, it

1:25:23

goes super squibbly, super

1:25:25

watery, super loose. Yeah. And

1:25:28

like he said, Lucci is running

1:25:30

circles around Lufi and Lufi's

1:25:33

eyes are following him in different

1:25:35

directions and go spinny and he gets dizzy. And

1:25:40

this is where Shaka watching from a

1:25:43

screen mentions,

1:25:45

yeah, the zone awakenings

1:25:47

are often known to rob the user

1:25:50

of their personality. But

1:25:52

I guess characters like Lucci

1:25:54

and Lufi, who is also his own,

1:25:58

their mastery over their powers is... is

1:26:00

greater than the other way around, I guess. And

1:26:03

so yeah, they clash, they're smashing

1:26:05

each other through buildings, they're having their man of

1:26:07

steel battle through the city. And

1:26:10

I just, I love these shots of them like

1:26:14

running along the walls and stuff of

1:26:16

the buildings and like towards

1:26:18

the camera and everything is hyper,

1:26:20

like foreshortened and just

1:26:24

the way that the characters are

1:26:26

interacting with the scenery, the way the scenery is

1:26:28

reacting to the camera, just

1:26:32

fucking beautiful, love it. And

1:26:35

Lucci tells Lucci to kiss his ass. Lucci

1:26:39

tells Lucci to kiss his ass and

1:26:41

he spanks his ass. Very

1:26:44

Goku, I mean, you know Goku, maybe

1:26:46

Krillin would do it in the- Well,

1:26:48

yeah, there's a, I

1:26:50

saw a tweet going around of a

1:26:53

scene from like the Frieza saga

1:26:55

where Krillin has been revived

1:26:57

by Nende and he's like spanking his ass

1:26:59

to distract Frieza. And that's

1:27:01

funny because they're both Mayumi

1:27:03

Tanaka. Right, that's right. Yeah,

1:27:07

so they're having their battle and then elsewhere the

1:27:11

old Vega punk shows up in the room with the

1:27:13

rest of the straw hats. And

1:27:15

they're like amazed and Vega

1:27:18

punk is at the screen like, oh, watching

1:27:20

the fight. And

1:27:24

he's like, what is this? What

1:27:26

is Lufi doing? And the straw hats have

1:27:28

to be like, yeah, we don't really know

1:27:30

much about it either. Something

1:27:32

to do with the gum gum fruit. And

1:27:35

the Vega punk acts like super shocked like

1:27:37

gum gum fruit. There's

1:27:39

no such fruit in the old

1:27:42

encyclopedia, which

1:27:44

makes you wonder like what exactly, what

1:27:47

information goes where? There's

1:27:50

an old encyclopedia that Vega punk

1:27:52

has familiar knowledge of.

1:27:55

Of all the people who had access to

1:27:57

it. But then the

1:27:59

government re-kicks it. named the gum gum

1:28:01

fruit to like change you know the

1:28:03

the populist's conception of the

1:28:05

fruit but then that is something that

1:28:07

Vega Punk apparently never heard about. It's

1:28:10

interesting what he would have known about the devil fruit prior

1:28:12

to this. I

1:28:14

think that it is convenient for the

1:28:17

writer. The

1:28:19

way it's the way it

1:28:21

works. Yeah. We

1:28:23

come to the eye catch of the episode and we come back and

1:28:27

Vega Punk is explaining

1:28:30

Nika a little bit saying like oh

1:28:32

he looks exactly like that one you

1:28:34

know fictional deity that you know some

1:28:36

cultures believed in and then

1:28:39

he goes on to his spiel about what

1:28:42

he believes the the devil fruits actually are.

1:28:44

He says

1:28:46

the devil fruits are manifestations

1:28:48

of people's aspirations for human

1:28:50

evolution. You know

1:28:52

people might say I want to be like

1:28:54

this or I want to be like that.

1:28:57

All the different powers represent the diverse futures

1:28:59

of humanity. But what

1:29:01

most I mean if by that logic what

1:29:03

people want the most is probably the most

1:29:05

wish for thing is you know for

1:29:07

their God is real and he wants to make me

1:29:10

happy. That'd be great. That's like the ideal world.

1:29:12

So if Nika the idea of Nika is

1:29:15

the thing that people want the most maybe

1:29:17

that's why it's the most powerful devil fruit

1:29:19

possibly. Yeah and it reminds me of like

1:29:21

there was an SBS where like

1:29:24

Oda said something like you

1:29:29

know he when he's thinking of powers he's

1:29:31

always trying to like pull

1:29:33

it from experiences like the gum

1:29:35

gum fruit would come from a desire to be like oh

1:29:37

I want to reach that cup from across the room but

1:29:39

I don't want to get up so I wish I could

1:29:41

just reach my arm over there. What's

1:29:44

the black fruit fruit? That's where like a

1:29:46

stretchy power idea would come to mind. And

1:29:49

so like when when Vega Pung explains it this

1:29:51

way the powers

1:29:53

are dreamed up by others and different realities

1:29:56

this is my theory like like I'm

1:29:59

like I interpreted this in a very

1:30:01

meta way. The

1:30:04

devil fruits are

1:30:07

the wishes of people from the

1:30:09

real world, in the same way

1:30:11

that the fiction of One

1:30:14

Piece exists at all because somebody wanted

1:30:17

a story like that to exist. That's

1:30:21

sort of the abstract

1:30:24

meaning of it to me. What

1:30:27

I was saying before was, what

1:30:29

were the people wishing for that spoke

1:30:32

Blackbeard's fruit into being? What were the people

1:30:34

who want the dark, dark fruit? What desire

1:30:36

is that? I think I know. They

1:30:39

want darkness. They want

1:30:42

a portal dimension. They want

1:30:44

a bag of holding. They

1:30:50

want to steal other people's powers if that's

1:30:52

related to... Just darkness. Yeah.

1:30:55

Some people just want the world to burn. And

1:31:00

Centimaro arrives with the seraphim and

1:31:03

he's calling Vega Punk up on

1:31:05

the phone. He's like, what do you want? Today

1:31:07

is my day off. And

1:31:10

then Vega Punk says, what took

1:31:12

you so long? And then Centimaro

1:31:14

pauses like... He

1:31:18

really just wants to say, today is

1:31:20

my day off again. So

1:31:23

what took you so long? I

1:31:25

just answered you. The

1:31:30

seraphim have arrived. Vega Punk

1:31:32

explains to Centimaro like,

1:31:35

oh, don't fight with CP0

1:31:38

because we're fighting against

1:31:40

them. They're trying to kill

1:31:42

me. And Centimaro's like, okay, you want us to

1:31:44

be criminals for this government organization that we have

1:31:47

worked for up until this point? Well,

1:31:50

I mean, Vega Punk like guilt him. Yeah.

1:31:54

Well, I mean, it's in Centimaro's... I

1:31:57

think it's in Centimaro's best interest, honestly, because...

1:32:00

He said tomorrow is so like basically because

1:32:02

of me vagapunk you are so

1:32:04

close to me that you're probably gonna get exterminated too

1:32:06

on this mission And

1:32:08

but you know, yeah, he is very he is a He

1:32:12

is he's not a good guy all the time

1:32:15

Yeah, he's just straight up like, you know You

1:32:18

can't owe me for saving your life a long

1:32:20

time ago. Yeah, I saved you from poverty I

1:32:22

gave you a job. I think

1:32:25

you could I think you could risk your life for me this one time

1:32:27

I Like

1:32:30

the the scene actually plays it kind of

1:32:32

sinister like we're supposed to read like some

1:32:35

delirium in vagapunk or like, you know,

1:32:38

he's he's using this kind of I

1:32:41

guess this this I Guess

1:32:46

the selfish instinct of his to his

1:32:48

advantage we need to they

1:32:51

zoom in on the like the shadow Yeah eyes

1:32:53

of they get punk. They do make him

1:32:55

seem very sinister in that moment and

1:32:59

It seems to work since tomorrow is

1:33:01

kind of like sighs. He shrugs. He's

1:33:03

like, okay Like

1:33:05

it's a cuff fucked up logic that using

1:33:08

but like I don't know what else what

1:33:10

my other options are here and

1:33:14

so the The

1:33:17

pacifist is an s bear the

1:33:19

is turning on CP

1:33:22

zero as well because they're

1:33:24

the pacifist is follow away

1:33:26

a hierarchy of authority Which

1:33:29

goes the the five elders? then

1:33:31

Vega punk then sent tomorrow and

1:33:34

then whoever holds the Authority

1:33:36

chip so like they came to this island with the

1:33:38

authority chip, which is supposed to give them permission

1:33:41

to Order the the pacifist

1:33:43

is in the seraphim Yeah,

1:33:46

but they're on the fourth rung of the of the authority

1:33:48

ladder as we find out Mm-hmm

1:33:51

and It you know

1:33:54

the if the five elders were to give an order

1:33:56

they would have to do it in person They couldn't

1:33:58

just like dude over the phone. So they

1:34:01

are in a pickle.

1:34:04

I like the way that they show the authority

1:34:06

hierarchy here. It's the yes, the could have done

1:34:08

that very in a very staid, they could have

1:34:10

done it in a very uncreative

1:34:13

way, but they decided to play with

1:34:15

it and you know that's the spice

1:34:17

that makes the episode you know better

1:34:19

than the average episode. Like

1:34:21

the little like title screens of

1:34:23

each of the characters

1:34:25

who have authority over the seraphim to

1:34:28

give this kind of stylized like it almost

1:34:30

looks like like Eric Carlson like hungry cat

1:34:32

the very hungry caterpillar art. Oh

1:34:35

okay. It's interesting.

1:34:38

Looked good. I liked it a lot. Luffy

1:34:42

and Lucci continue their battle. I

1:34:44

like this bit where where Luffy punches

1:34:47

the ground and then the ground punches

1:34:49

Lucci. Thought that was

1:34:51

a good that was a good bit. Yeah they have

1:34:53

they have the do a good job

1:34:56

in in this this part of the fight to show

1:34:59

Lucci's fangs or his mouth is open or he's like

1:35:01

bearing his fangs every time you see him. He doesn't

1:35:03

have his mouth closed at any point during this part

1:35:05

of the fight I don't think. And

1:35:09

you know Luffy gives gives Lucci

1:35:11

enough of a smack down that

1:35:14

Luffy and Centomaro can have like a little a

1:35:16

little chit chat on the side. Well

1:35:20

Centomaro's like hey I if

1:35:23

you're helping the old man then

1:35:25

I guess I have to deal with my conflicted

1:35:27

feelings of teaming up with you because

1:35:29

I don't know if I trust you but

1:35:33

but what other options do I have

1:35:36

because we're all against

1:35:38

CP zero here. And then like

1:35:41

almost instantly after finishing this

1:35:43

sentiment Rob Lucci

1:35:45

you know strikes

1:35:49

stabs Centomaro from behind with like a

1:35:51

full hand of claws just like

1:35:54

takes a chunk out of them to

1:35:57

be continued. Levine

1:36:00

never should have distracted him like that. General

1:36:05

thoughts on this episode, Ed? Well,

1:36:07

this is what they do. They sort of build

1:36:09

to these moments where they, you

1:36:11

know, this is like strategically deployed Sakuga

1:36:15

every couple of months to, you know, it

1:36:17

really keeps the anime lively and, I

1:36:19

mean, pacing of the

1:36:21

show is still slow. I mean,

1:36:23

the amount of content that's covered per episode is still

1:36:26

pretty slow. But it's better than it used to be.

1:36:28

I was watching like early Whole Cake

1:36:30

Island episodes like seducing

1:36:33

woods and like

1:36:35

Luffy fighting that army or Luffy stuck in the

1:36:37

book. And there's some other

1:36:39

good stuff in those episodes, but like, stuff

1:36:42

doesn't drag like it used to. And

1:36:44

I do appreciate that. And the fact that

1:36:47

they do animation on this level, like

1:36:49

just the effort that they put into it, it

1:36:51

makes the anime feel more worthwhile to watch than

1:36:54

it did in the Trust Rose of

1:36:56

Whole Cake Island period. Yeah,

1:36:58

it makes the it puts the scale

1:37:01

of the arc in a strange place

1:37:03

where this is by no means like a

1:37:05

climactic this is this no by no means

1:37:07

like going to be the final battle of

1:37:09

the arc or anything. This is like a

1:37:12

like an exhibition. Well,

1:37:14

it's gear five. So you have to I

1:37:16

think they're doing a good job of keeping

1:37:18

gear five special in the anime by doing

1:37:20

this over, let's say over animation, but special

1:37:22

animation for gear five. And I

1:37:26

wonder if that's going to be sustainable, but I am enjoying

1:37:28

it. I mean,

1:37:30

you know, like he has key moments where

1:37:32

he goes gear five in the story. So

1:37:34

like they can definitely afford to plan around

1:37:36

those moments. I just

1:37:38

wonder about like later on, like further in parts of the

1:37:41

story that haven't been told yet if he's going to be

1:37:43

in this form more and more

1:37:45

like a Super Saiyan. But you know, across that

1:37:48

bridge when we get to it. Yeah,

1:37:52

I thought this episode was excellent. Like

1:37:55

it it's like the stakes are

1:37:57

still fairly low for how. bombastic

1:38:00

and how cool and how amazing the episode

1:38:02

looks but Yeah,

1:38:06

I thought the episode you

1:38:08

know certainly didn't outstay as welcomed.

1:38:10

I did not leave me Wishing

1:38:14

it went the story went a little further Yeah,

1:38:18

it's good place to get excited for the next one. No.

1:38:21

Well you shouldn't be because it's recap. It's Well

1:38:24

the next real episode yeah Well,

1:38:27

it was having reached the end of this mini little story

1:38:29

yard We're gonna have a recap episode and then the enemy

1:38:31

will cook the real anime be back in the two weeks

1:38:34

Yeah, I think they're I think it's supposed

1:38:36

to stay like it's like Henry Thurlow was

1:38:39

suggesting that the next several episodes They're gonna

1:38:41

be kind of bangers. Oh Good

1:38:43

so so I'm assuming when we come back.

1:38:46

It's gonna be More

1:38:48

cool stuff. Well the price you

1:38:50

have to pay for that is recap episodes that I don't watch

1:38:52

so be it That's fine. It's fine

1:38:54

with me. Yep. Yep I

1:38:58

That's all I got. All right Ready

1:39:01

to move on to the next segment then indeed.

1:39:03

Let's do it This

1:39:20

has been episode 812

1:39:23

of the one-piece podcast for the week of

1:39:25

Monday April 8th Thanks

1:39:30

so much again to team dark

1:39:32

for joining me on our little

1:39:34

SPS adventure. That was a lot of fun always

1:39:37

a joy Yeah,

1:39:40

I had a blast I'm be haunted by

1:39:43

my new sleep paralysis demon ace the sword

1:39:45

ace yeah Yeah,

1:39:49

the divine departure Y'all

1:39:52

at the divine to perch the

1:39:54

better. No, no, I

1:39:56

mean this man's definitely been in my DM He's

1:40:00

the one he's swiping right of. Yeah.

1:40:04

Yeah, you know he knows what Grindr is. Oh.

1:40:07

Which one's the bigger fuckboy? Ooh.

1:40:11

That's baby Ace, for sure. Yeah. We'll

1:40:14

lead that up to the viewers, the listeners. Yeah. Who

1:40:17

is... Yeah,

1:40:19

who's the biggest fuckboy? Bigger fuckboy. Ace the

1:40:21

sword or... Yeah, add

1:40:24

us and tell us what you think.

1:40:26

Yeah, add us directly. Yes,

1:40:29

if you have missed the respectable

1:40:33

boring podcasts, you'll

1:40:36

catch it live on the 14th.

1:40:39

That'll be this week at the

1:40:41

City Winery in New York City.

1:40:45

Listen, I'll be there. I'll be in

1:40:47

there. And I'll keep the chaos going.

1:40:49

All right. Yeah, Brad's people will be in

1:40:51

supply of prayer word jokes for you guys. All

1:40:54

right. Looking forward to that. I will be there

1:40:56

in spirit as well. And

1:41:00

yeah, also keep on the lookout

1:41:02

for more episodes of Opla with

1:41:04

some of the actors from the show.

1:41:08

Very exciting to see the other

1:41:10

folks that Zach managed to book. And

1:41:13

until, well, I guess next week

1:41:15

or two weeks, where

1:41:18

can we find all of you? Varro, where can

1:41:20

we find you? You

1:41:22

can find me on twitter.com

1:41:24

at GinkgoCrownarts. And

1:41:27

maybe one day, Steve and I will do

1:41:29

Opla for the last two episodes of the

1:41:31

live action. So who knows? Dan,

1:41:34

did you just commit to that on there? I

1:41:38

said maybe because

1:41:41

I'm not going to be nice. And no one wants to hear that.

1:41:43

So that's all I got. That's my review right there. So

1:41:46

that's all. Brodsky,

1:41:48

where can folks find you? Fortunately,

1:41:51

still on Twitter at Zach's

1:41:54

forever hated, double underscore

1:41:57

the number zero underscore snake. everywhere

1:42:00

else at oyve brodsky All

1:42:04

right, and catch Brodsky next

1:42:06

week as we said Josh. What about you?

1:42:08

What's what's up with you? So

1:42:11

many problems you can find me

1:42:14

find me on Twitter Instagram and letterbox. That's

1:42:17

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Bye bye babies Alright

1:42:25

you can You

1:42:27

can find me on blue sky at

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Stephen Paul dot B sky social Where

1:42:33

I am doing my one-piece read through every

1:42:35

day haven't posted in a little bit, but

1:42:37

I'll get back to that Also,

1:42:40

check out a kind of a nashi which is still

1:42:42

running through all of these weeks You

1:42:45

can find the podcast at one

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piece podcast pretty

1:42:49

much anywhere on

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Twitter on blue sky on

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YouTube as well and Don't

1:42:57

call the number because I don't remember what it is I

1:43:02

don't know. Maybe Zach's saving some to like play at

1:43:04

the at the city wire. That'd be fun Get some

1:43:06

voicemails in there eight

1:43:08

some dusty eight-year-old voicemails That

1:43:11

would be great but yes

1:43:16

Yeah, I guess until next

1:43:18

week so long everybody bye