#ch239

[abybweisse]

Tags for ch211 through ch240

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Of course, the tag won't do much of anything until I have posts on my blog about that chapter.

[1000wangjis]

Special edit from MDZS manhua (ch239) because they have really been going for it 🧡. But I just had to fix it a little bit 😅.

[opbackgrounds]

What really gets me about this opening scene in Skypiea is how happy everyone is to be there--with the exception of Zoro who is too busy being grumpy/playing the straight man for everyone else’s enthusiasm to bounce off of, even if he wants to explore the island as much as everyone else. Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp are always game for an adventure, but now we add in Sanji doing backflips into the ocean and Nami being a literal ray of sunshine. 

Even Robin is excited, although you can tell by her body language that she’s a little more hesitant to show it

And what starts as the Straw Hats doing what the Straw Hats do shifts seamlessly into a little aha moment for Robin. She’s not sailed with a crew like this before, and it’s opening herself up to an entirely different way of living. 

I’ve said it before, but from the moment Alabastian poneglyph turned out to be a bust to the point she finds Roger’s message at the end of the arc, Robin is living with a dead dream. She doesn’t think she can find the True History and is only with the Straw Hats because Luffy refused to let her die. 

I truly think that aspect of her actions during this arc is important. She isn’t using the crew to further her own agenda. She doesn’t have any plans or goals for the future. Robin is traveling with the Straw Hats because she can, and later on because she wants to, and since Luffy and co., have no idea about Ohara or how important her ability to read the poneglyphs is, they aren’t using her either. 

For the first time in twenty years, she’s able to form relationships with no strings attached. And since the Straw Hats are literally clueless about her past, they aren’t going out of their way to integrate her into the crew or show her how different they are from other pirates. She gets to see and figure it out for herself, and it’s scenes like this that make her willingness to destroy the whole world so long as the Straw Hats can live feel like an actual decision a person in her circumstances would make and not a bit of forced drama to drag the plot forward  

[every-sanji]

[iiloffy]

so sailing the seas and exploring new lands... is your idea of adventure? i never thought about it that way.

[hotforhandman]

Excuse me whilst I go nUT

[every-sanji]

[opbackgrounds]

Sometimes Sanji is, in fact, good