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As content creator on TikTok about the Beelzebub series, I think the fandom needs its own tag.

This Beelzebub tag is really bad and it's hard to find anything related to it in our MA. I'm using "Babybeel" for my latest video. But I think I've seen a better tag or a more appropriate term like "dad devil"?

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In my mind, Oga is always like the night and Furuichi is the stars.

The night sky isn't always full of stars; Sometimes it's dark and profound.

Stars can shine on their own regardless of day or night.

But after all, the star and the sky are most perfect when they are together. With stars, the dark night becomes less frightening, and in the darkness of night, stars can show their light to others.

They don't always need to be together, but they are at their best when they are.

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Sometimes I wonder if the scene above is widely known? Or the one below.

In the scene above, chapter 525, Ace is in Impel Down awaiting execution. Garp gestures with an open palm, trying to explain what he knows about Roger, Ace's biological father, but Ace doesn't want to hear. I know, in theory, Garp could have busted Ace out of prison (we hope), but his face tells of his disconcertion with the situation that Ace is in. (The anime is a different creature). The scene above is followed in this post by the scene below from chapter 551 where Roger asks Garp to take care of his unborn child (Garp has a recent flashback, then a more distant one. He's on Ace's execution platform).

Before I go further, I want to say that I'm not particularly a fan of the marines, but I am a fan of nuanced writing, and the complexities of humans and humankind. I also try not to think about things in a polarising manner. Systemic abuse and injustice exists in institutions, and is rife in institutions such as the military, but I don't think that all members of institutions are systemic abusers due to belonging to the institution, although you can argue that by dint of being in the system they perpetuate it. However, people also have many reasons why they're in a system, including that many might not recognise that they are part of one that can generate harm. I also believe that people can change, but that not all people do. Anyway, back to the meta and Garp. I've recently seen some discourse stating that Garp spoke badly to Ace about Roger, and I'm not all across the board with One Piece, so I might have missed it. In the manga scenes I could dig up, the opposite seemed to be true.

Returning to the panels above, Roger selects Garp to look after Ace because he knows how vindictive those at the top are, and after recent God Valley reveals, the upper echelon stop at nothing to not only wipe out clans, but to force the members of those clans to wipe out each other. Roger also trusts Garp as much as any of his shipmates (important for later in this post). From recent chapters, we also know that Roger and Garp fought together at the behest of a possessed Rocks to stop him (Rocks) from slaughtering a truckload of people—civilians, pirates, slaves, marines, and celestial dragons, one presumes. We assume that Garp and Roger also know that Imu ordered possessed Rocks to kill his own wife and child (they fortunately escaped, but I don't know if or when Garp and Roger learn that).

Obviously, Garp did not succeed in fulfilling the request as seen in the panel above where Ace is set to be executed, although he did up to age 20. But Garp's face on the side panelling where

he recollects Roger's words to take care of his son, is the face of a man haunted by this fact (that he has failed). Roger's words are repeated here. Why Garp can't act we don't know. I'm assuming the World Government would have gone after Luffy, perhaps. I don't know. I'm gauging that from recent events. Or he's just married to the job.

The two panels above of Garp sitting on the execution platform with Ace, (Sengoku standing above), include flashbacks. Ace argued in 525 convincingly against Garp's query of why Ace hadn't lived the way that Garp wanted him to, that the navy would not have accepted Luffy or himself having come from criminal stock. But, maybe the navy would have. Joining might have been the safer future, or seemed that way. Garp saw World Government initiated and/or approved horrors at God Valley.

However, more in the manga than in the anime, I feel Oda draws Garp as an emotionally tortured man. Returning to the two manga panels above, Sengogku tells Garp that he'll dispose of him too if he tries anything (to save Ace), and Garp retorts that if he'd been going to do anything, he would have done it long ago.

In the anime only, he'd also been talking with Ace in Impel Down about Luffy, and laughing about, and outright approving, his exploits (525; punching the celestial dragon, I think). Ace smiles. True, he also talks about his "fist of love" being ineffective against Luffy at the aftermath of Enies Lobby, but he didn't arrest him.

Anyway, we know Garp goes to fight Akainu after Ace is killed (maybe his faith in Luffy was endless before that point, but I don't think so). Sengoku stops him. Garp's grief is shown below. He was at Ace's birth.

Back to the posts stating that Garp contributed to Ace's hatred of Roger (as in, badmouthing him), again, I'm not seeing it. Ace heard plenty of it, as shown in the flashback panels below

where people from Goa are denigrating any hypothetical son of Gol D. Roger's due to a perception that Gol D. Roger was monstrous. But from Garp we have that panel I opened with (below)

where—as stated—Garp tries to tell Roger's side of the story, and in the panels below, Dadan remembers this conversation with Garp after child-Ace refused to run from an enemy far stronger than him, mostly due to wanting to protect his Luffy:

In the panels it is clear to me (and Garp says it) that he didn't hate Roger. He saw parallels with Roger's upbringing and Ace's, and he admired, I think, that Roger and Ace would both defend their friends to the end, both having a tendency to overreact to insults against their friends too (second page above).

Garp seemed to understand the loneliness that either Ace or Roger had, although we haven't learnt about Roger's upbringing yet. Shanks also said that there were times that Roger should have run away, and Gaban touched upon it lightly in 1163, and Roger declares to possessed Rocks that he will not let him go after his crew in 1164.

That's all a little beside the point—Garp says, that Roger's friends trusted him completely, and he also says that even as a navy man Garp did not hate him. Roger, returning to near the beginning of this post, says that he trusts Garp as much as he trusts his crewmates. That trust for crew is apparent in the latest chapters too. And, sure, Garp could have told Ace about Roger's good points before Ace got to the stage of deep self-loathing, but Dadan could have too (having had that conversation with Garp), and maybe Ace just didn't want to hear it. It's quite the legacy to carry. Seems like Dadan did pass on some information, and I don't think she alone speaks positively about Roger.

Garp deserved Dadan's scorn after Ace's death (panels below). I also really understand that a lot of people watched One Piece as children, so they have a deep emotional investment in the story (particularly Ace's death). Even rereading these panels makes me tear up, and I came to One Piece as an adult.

During and after Ace's captivity and execution (by Akainu) Garp is in pain too. Maybe he should have died alongside Ace. Maybe he wouldn't have. Maybe he could have saved him. In the world of One Piece, all things are possible.

The story is complex. But of course analysing the story and its characters is a sign of good storytelling imo. Oda doesn't give Garp a lot of dialogue in these scenes, but his face is expressive, and the flashbacks do narrative legwork as well. Dadan declares that Garp has always put the job ahead of family. Maybe this is a situation like Oden dancing in the streets in Wano, or Garp is just a flawed character. The story isn't finished yet. Garp might not get a redemption arc, if he needs one, or maybe that's what he's going through now. He, along with most of the father figures of One Piece, was hands-off, and also harmful, and also helpful in some ways to his grandsons. He did save Ace initially. There are these scenes from chapter 0 too (released for Strong World at the same time as chapter 565).

There is the seeming callousness when Garp first hears of the Celestial Dragons at God Valley, although that's debatable too (Kong might know what's going on in terms of the hunting humans game. He's keeping some information from Garp, as indicated in the panels below, but if Garp knew they'd (Celestial Dragons?) taken Shakky, then we assume he'd know the rest of the leak [depending on how much Morgans leaked]).

In the panels below from 1162, it might be Oda being retroactive, but it seems that Garp didn't know about the Celestial Dragons' sick games, and we know he doesn't care for the Tenryubito. Of course, for sure, the games seem to be ongoing (every four years), and there is such a strong navy presence there that it seems that some information should have got out at some level. The grunts don't appear to be particularly elite.

All up, I guess the end point is that here are a bunch of panels from the manga that define Garp for me. He is possibly an archetype of the foot soldier or common man who lets atrocities occur in the name of duty, but given his rank, he could be far more culpable than that. Or, maybe there's more. Even in that role, he's very human. The manga is also not finished yet, and Oda's great at convincingly diverting and subverting expectations.

Extra commentary reblog here countering some of the above (my writing and reblog).

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Garp thường bị chỉ trích vì không cứu Ace, và tôi ko phủ nhận rằng Garp, với tư cách người ông thực sự đã có rất nhiều lựa chọn, hành động và quyết định sai lầm trong quá trình nuôi nấng những đứa cháu của mình. Nhưng với tôi Garp vẫn là người ông yêu thương các cháu và mong muốn những điều tốt nhất cho chúng.

Giờ hãy mở rộng góc nhìn, Garp một người lính hải quân, và hơn cả là một người hùng, biểu tượng của công lý, biểu tượng của hy vọng, biểu tượng của niềm tin. Ông ấy là đại diện cho người dân biết rằng có ai đó đang đứng về họ và bảo vệ họ, là kim chỉ nam cho những binh lính phải phục vụ chính phủ thối nát. Và Ace, Roger trong mắt công chúng về cơ bản là những kẻ khủ.n.g b.ố đáng sợ và nguy hiểm. Roger đẩy hàng ngàn người, hàng triệu người chết vì cuộc truy lùng OP. Ace ko làm hại người vô tội nhưng việc tấn công hải quân cũng đã là hành động khủ.ng b.ố rồi.

Việc Garp, người gánh vác niềm tin của cả thế giới để cứu Ace, con trai của kẻ khủ.ng b.ố và cũng là một kẻ khủ.ng b.ố chắc chắn sẽ gây ra một cuộc khủng hoảng, suy sụp đối với công chúng. Thành thật mà nói họ chẳng quan tâm việc Garp và Ace là ông cháu đâu. Chỉ cần tưởng tượng bạn người dân trong thế giới đó là hiểu gánh nặng, và trong trường hợp này là xiềng xích ngăn cản tình yêu của Garp (lại còn có Senny luôn nhìn chằm chằm để ngăn cản Garp nữa :V )

Và giờ thì theo quan điểm cá nhân của tôi.

Garp không bao giờ muốn Ace ch.ết, và ông ấy thực sự gi.ết Akainu nếu Songoku ko ngăn cản. Nhưng đúng là ông ấy đã hoàn toàn bất lực và ko cứu Ace. Những trọng trách ông ấy mang giờ đây đã thành gông cùng mà ông ấy ko thể phá vỡ.

[itshatsuye]

Who said I was done feeding my people???

I got another art of our chaotically cute family made!😆

Look at Oga I'm crying 😭😭😭 my handsome devil, and Furuichi, look at my handsome pretty boy 🙏😝

And how can we forget our cute little demons, our prince Beel and our princess Nico 🥹🩷🩷

This lovely piece was made by the amazing artist @\hxemjji, you can find them on twt or insta with the same handle!

I love this so much, and look the chibis of our boys, I'm dying from how much I love it 😭🩷🩷

If you're asking why oga has tats and earrings... umm...

I was inspired after looking at his ending look and was like yeah add some tats to him, I shared the edit of it on twt but I'll share it on tumblr too, maybe I've shared it already but I can't remember lol 🤣

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Do you ever like

Love a ship so much you like

just wanna marry it? Like, you could spend your entire life just reading fanfics, looking at fanart and just watching/reading the series?

Yeah. Go read Beelzebub. I could spend DAYS talking about how much I love it. No joke. Ogafuru, Oga, furuichi, any other characters, the series in general; thats like heaven for me. It’s like falling in love all over again:’D

This is how I feel reading Beelzebub

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Tôi đã dành trọn hai tháng chỉ để đọc truyện fanfiction về OgaFuru và xem tranh vẽ fanart của họ. và tôi vẫn đang tiếp tục làm điều đó.

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ALONG THE WAY WE STILL GROW | Chapter 1

It took me like 10 hours, but it’s finally here. Based on my headcanon of kid!Furuichi, this fic is a series of one-shots that expand on the “What if Furuichi came back as a kid? universe”. This is the first chapter.

Many, many thanks to cracky-anon and fabelyn for motivating me to get off my lazy ass and write, to cows-quack and cracky-anon for beta-ing, to thebibi and alicechugstea for cheering me on, and to thecurtaincall for actually coming up with the concept of kid!Furuichi first. Go read her stuff!

And lastly another round of thanks to cracky-anon for illustrating some scenes with her magnificent art skills (check from time to time, as she might add more later on).

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Chapter 1: Our Souls Are Different

The light was too bright to look at it directly, so when it finally died down no one was prepared for the sight in front of them. Lamia had warned them that an incomplete soul in a body was unprecedented and against all natural laws, so she had no idea what would happen. In the worst case scenario, the body could reject the soul and Furuichi would die.

But the sun was almost up and it was impossible to chase after Udagawa, and as things were at the moment nearly a whole soul was better than no soul. No one would dare say it out loud, but if Furuichi was going to die anyway, there was nothing else they could lose at that point.

So Furuichi’s dismembered soul, who up till that point had been running around in the form of a child with a rather somber look on his face, decided to join with his body. And in retrospective, the fact that the boy who sat up no longer resembled the 16-year-old he had been, but instead looked more like an 11-year-old fighting not to trip with his own coat, should not have been so surprising.

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