#ch346

[opbackgrounds]

Aww, look at how excited Sanji is to see his new ship

[pardon-my-scifi]

"There's a gap in your seams." I'm gonna add that to my comeback arsenal. Right along side of "a few bullets short of a full mag" and "not the sharpest pitchfork in the shed."

[dailyakaashi]

[iiloffy]

[hotforhandman]

The fact that Shigaraki is so often drawn without irises or pupils these days creeps me out. He feels so blank and mindless now, I miss him :(

[ushijimaenthusiast]

😂😂😂

[dailyakaashi]

[opbackgrounds]

Okay, so a couple of things here. One, a lot of people tend to forget that Spandam pretty much singlehandedly convinced the Elder Stars that going after the weapons was desirable. I love how Oda writes Spandam because he’s laughably incompetent, a sack of scum in the facsimile of a human being, except when he’s not. 

For all his failings as the director of CP9 and how absolutely terribly he handles the Straw Hat’s attack on Enies Lobby, Spandam is an efficient politician. He’s able to brown nose and fear monger with the best of them, even as he’s able to fall upward into a position of power and responsibility he’s by no means equipped to deal with. It’s a terrifying mix of incompetence and ability to game the system mixed into a single person, and it frighteningly realistic.   

Secondly, Oda makes this scene feel so much more real by using a lot of the same arguments people do in real life when it comes to military and police power, never mind the fact that people wouldn’t be as likely to turn to piracy if their lives weren’t so shitty. Shittiness that has its roots in the very systems the World Government support. 

Oda has said before that he prefers not to spell out a lot of political messaging within the series because he prefers for the reader to come to their own conclusion, but it would be very, very stupid to say that One Piece is not political in ways that relate to modern day societal problems