#ch 972

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

i hope this similarity is preserved in the translation, because it should translate directly i think, but what hiyori says here is the exact same as oden's last words, just slightly modified. as he dies, oden says 煮えてなんぼのおでんに候/niete nanbono oden ni sourou, "the purpose of oden is to be boiled" (oden being a boiled dish).

orochi's surname, 黒炭/kurozumi, literally means 'black charcoal.' so here, during the reenactment of orochi's death (and accompanied by the people shouting along, just like oden was), hiyori says 燃えてなんぼの黒炭に候/moete nanbono "kurozumi" ni sourou- "the purpose of kurozumi/charcoal is to burn."

[larkreadsop]

Honestly seeing this made me want to go watch these commercials again because modern!AU is such a fanfic trope but it works so well and trying to find all the characters in the background of all the shots is really fun, too.

[aggressive-2na]

Ma'am I'm love

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

*continues to never shut up about the word uchi*

similarly to how one piece pirates will sometimes refer to their crews/crewmates, oden calls the akazaya nine ウチの侍達/uchi no samurai-tachi, which is basically like “my/our household’s/family’s samurai.”

[aggressive-2na]

babies sleep

[aggressive-2na]

When you meet that one fucking person whose vocabulary consists of "hmmm" and "k".

[larkreadsop]

I do kind of like that this all ends up tying together in that the whole ‘twenty years’ thing wasn’t just a random number and that knowledge came from all the traveling around Oden got to do, but also Momo and Hiyori were making those balloons for when Oden came home and I’m sad about that now because look at how many they ended up finishing...

[larkreadsop]

In the end I don’t think Oden ever really expected Orochi and Kaido to hold to their promise, but it gave him enough time to give his final request and be able to save everyone else.