#ch 581

[reading-bleach]

It is such a nice feeling to be rewarded with a nice a person after going through hardships with another. It mends you. The compensation for all the betrayal you went through and it lets you finally experience happiness and acceptance.

Shinji was the perfect person to appear in Hinamori's life after what she went through. I think of at as, he was an amendment to her. After the shock and betrayal she went through with Aizen, let alone the mental, the physical damage he put her though. Hinamori was for sure down and would find it really hard to trust anybody ever again. But then Shinji showed up. With all his goofiness and good naturedness and easy going personality (and momo is such a delicate soul.) And he helped mend her.

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Hey Jonny! Thank you so much for your great effort in helping our bunch of nerds understand One Piece better c: I have a question, if you don't mind. After Marineford, someone (Ivankov?) questions Law's reason for helping Luffy, and in the translation I read, Law says something similar to "If I need one, would kindness suffice?". How is that line in the original? Does it have anything to do with a "helping hand", or would it be a stretch to think so? :) Thank you so much!

Here? It’s pretty different, actually. He says, first, 助ける義理もない/tasukeru giri mo nai- tasukeru is ‘to help’ and giri means ‘duty’ or ‘obligation.’ So he’s saying “No, I have no obligation to help” (in response to Ivankov asking if he’s Luffy’s friend (nothing fucking changes lol)). 

And then he says 親切が不安なら何か理屈をつけようか?/shinsetsu ga fuan nara, nanika rikutsu wo tsukeyouka? Shinsetsu is like ‘kindness’ or ‘generosity’ and fuan is ‘anxious’ (so it’s like ‘making you uneasy/anxious’) and nara is ‘if’ which makes this whole first part a conditional statement. Then nanika is ‘something’, rikutsu is ‘reason’ and tsukeru is like ‘to add’ or ‘to attach,’ conjugated kinda like “shall I...?”

So altogether it’s like “I can come up with some sort of reason if my kindness makes you uneasy?”

[everyjimbei]

Even when Jimbei isn’t being using purely for exposition, he still talks like he is

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

BEPO IS SO CUTE...

Hancock asks if they have a dendenmushi and he responds normally and casually with あるよ/aru yo before panicking and correcting himself to polite form (あります/arimasu) and apologizing.

[everyjimbei]

I always thought Ivankov was talking in this scene but she just randomly has her mouth open

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Hey more birthday puns, let’s talk about those so I don’t have to think about the devastated mess this arc has made of my heart.

Law’s is really simple, it’s just from his name (which is written in Japanese as トラファルガーロー/torafarugaa rō). ト/to is a reading of 10 and ロ/ro is the start of 6/roku, so October 6th.

Blackbeard’s comes from his devil fruit (the yami yami no mi). Ya is a reading of 8 and mi is a reading of 3, so 8/3. This one gets bonus points because it actually shows up in one of the cup noodle commercials, if I remember right.

Marco’s comes from the phrase ‘1st Division Commander Marco’ (1番隊隊長マルコ/ichibantai taichou maruko), because マル/maru is the Japanese word for circle and you can get a reading for 5 out of コ/ko. So that plus the ‘1’ from ‘1st Division’ gives you 105 > 10/5.

Crocodile’s is also from his name- クロコダイル/kurokodairu. Ku is 9 and ko is the same slightly messed-up reading of 5 as from Marco’s one. 

And then Ivankov’s comes, of all things, from his ヒーハー/hii-haa catchphrase. ヒ/hi is part of a common reading for 1 (hito), while ハ/ha is likewise the start of the most common reading for 8 (hachi). 

[my-my-my]

[larkreadsop]

‘no longer strong enough to be a Shichibukai’ becomes all the more ironic when you find out Buggy is one of his replacements