#ch 1110

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[chapter 1110 spoilers!]

chapter 1110 reveals to us the mythical zoan forms of all five elders- as some people theorized, they’re all youkai of various sorts.

saturn is a gyuuki or ushi-oni (牛鬼), a type of ox-demon with clawed spider legs said to spread illness and spit poison.

mars is an 以津真天/itsumade, a type of ‘monstrous bird’ said to repeat いつまでいつまで/itsumade, itsumade (‘until when? until when?) during times of plague in myths dating back to the kenmu period. its name is also pronounced itsumade, but spelled with four different kanji.

warcury is a 封豨/houki, a boar monster said to be prone to violent rampages, destroying livestock and fields and killing and eating people. it also has a very tough hide which regular weapons cannot penetrate.

nusjurou is a 馬骨/bakotsu, ‘horse bones/skeleton.’ on a quick look i couldn’t find a good source with much more information about this one, but this blog post, citing the edo-period youkai book tosa obake zoushi, refers to it as a spirit of a horse that burned to death.

and then jupeter is a アンドワーム/sandowaamu, ‘sandworm’, a youkai famously originating from frank herbert’s dune.

[pardon-my-scifi]

Dude had his scars scared off, then slapped them back on.

[larkreadsop]

And this is obviously a call-back to Luffy being eaten by that dinosaur on Little Garden and being saved by the giants, so that’s cool, but at the same time I doubt that one of the Gorosei is going to die from that the way the dinosaur did. So far the giant worm is my least favorite of the designs but I feel like he’s got some sort of regenerative ability so this certainly isn’t over…

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apparently japanese fans were saying after 1110 that the "burden" comment comes of as arrogant and they tied it to some other weird phrasing sanji used this arc, like the way he talks to s-shark in 1065 and 1077, and how he called vegapunk something like "you insolent man" at the end of 1070. have you noticed anything like that during this arc? would you say that those phrasings are different from how sanji usually talks and are there similarities there to the arrogance with which his brothers talk?

i saw a few theories about this, and honestly, not really? nothing about the way sanji talks in this arc has stood out to me as like, more rude or arrogant than he has been previously in the series. i honestly think that maybe sanji's excellent character writing in whole cake island has just made some people forget that he has always been (and i say this with a lot of love) a huge asshole. it really surprised me that him saying something bitchy to zoro and zoro getting competitive about in return set off such a big controversy, because to me it honestly seemed entirely normal for the way they typically interact?

more seriously, i think a storyline about sanji actually being, like, somehow ontologically evil would go pretty directly against both his character development in whole cake island and wano and the broader themes of the story. sanji's personal subplot in wano was entirely about driving himself insane with anxiety over whether he was secretly evil or not; that really doesn't seem to me like something the narrative would turn around and validate after all that. i think sanji's terror about losing his capacity for emotion is likely way more grounded in his personal mental illnesses than in, like, any realistic possibility of that actually happening.

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dorry and broggy’s attack on ju peter is translated as ‘sun saw’ in the official, which is correct and pretty straightforward- the japanese name is 太陽鋸/taiyou noko, and ‘sun saw’ is a direct translation.

however, the pronunciation also sounds like taiyou no ko, which would be ‘child of the sun.’ this line being placed right after dorry and broggy note that luffy isn’t someone suited to dark places can make it read almost like a continuation of that thought; he’s not suited to dark places because he’s a child of the sun.

this is why in the TCB scanlations they did it as ‘child of the sawing sun’- while i think it’s rather clunky and i’m glad they didn’t do that for the official it does manage to get both meanings in there.

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[chapter 1110 spoilers!]

luffy in the middle of this spread… bear the flag of dawn against the world for real

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The new cover story calls Yamato 'oni child' and I was wondering if it was gender neutral in Japanese or if that was just a translation choice. Thank you in advance!!

[chapter 1110 spoilers]

yes! yamato is referred to on the cover page as 鬼の子/oni no ko. ko is just ‘child’, and no ko is a fairly common construction used to mean ‘child of _’ or ‘_ child.’ for example, 女の子/onna no ko (‘girl child’) or 男の子/otoko no ko (‘boy child’), or 虎の子/tora no ko (’tiger cub’).

this is distinct from the gendered language used to refer to yamato in his intro nameplate as kaidou’s ‘daughter’; that word is 娘/musume, which is explicitly feminine. and he generally identifies himself as kaidou’s 息子/musuko, ‘son’, which is likewise explicitly masculine.

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Hello! I am so confused with the cover page (chapter 1110)!

What does it mean "Ogre child Yamato's golden harvest surrogate pilgrimage"? I am very anxious to know!!

(I don't even know what is "surrogate pilgrimage" 🧐)

yes! honestly, there may be some elements of this that i'm missing because there's a lot i don't know about shintou, but i can break this bit they've translated as 'golden harvest surrogate pilgrimage' down for you.

so what we have here is 金稲荷代参/ko-inari daisan. the first kanji there, 金, is 'gold', and is attached to the second word, 稲荷/inari. inari is a major shintou god of the harvest/agriculture as well as assorted other things, and is very associated with foxes; if you ever see fox statues at a shrine entrance, those are representations of inari! so it's "golden inari", which has presumably been translated as "golden harvest" because english-speaking audiences broadly don't know who inari is.

then the last word is 代参/daisan. it's a word that refers specifically to visiting one temple on behalf of another; i guess there's probably no better way to convey that concept simply in english than 'surrogate pilgrimage.'

i would assume here that golden inari/ko-inari may refer to a specific shrine or destination of some sort that we haven't seen yet. so i guess you could translate it as something like 'oni/ogre child yamato's visit/pilgrimage to the golden inari'? that's just me guessing though. does that make more sense?