#ch393

[pardon-my-scifi]

Himiko Toga's name is now Pika-Chew and no one can convince me otherwise.

[opbackgrounds]

Another thing I really appreciate about Robin’s characterization throughout this flashback is that she feels like a little kid. Yes, she’s incredibly intelligent and was motivated enough to teach herself a dead language before reaching double digits, but then you get these moments like this where she’s just so...young. Like, later on the reason she gives for not going to the evacuation ship is that the people there are mean to her. It doesn’t matter how smart she is, she doesn’t have the experience to fully understand what’s really going on here

[dailyakaashi]

[iiloffy]

[gradelstuff]

Did Kim Rok Soo take Choi Jung Soo's place as the next person to be transported into this fantasy world????¿¿¿??

Because if Choi Jung Soo is dead, and if Kim Rok Soo was the one who was supposed to originally die then

Hold on... This is going to fast for me -

W WH NO

[pardon-my-scifi]

What gets me is that people saw this fight and then said they weren't gay for each other.

[opbackgrounds]

Once Robin realizes the Straw Hats won’t abandon her, she says she wants to go to sea with them. The use of the sea as a metaphor for freedom isn’t unique to One Piece--it’s seeped in the Romantic tradition that Oda pulls so heavily from--but leaning into that tradition is part of the reason it works so well. It’s a very human thing to yearn for what lies beyond the horizon, and Oda taps into that yearning to help give a sense of humanity to the grand and impossible dreams his characters often have.

[opbackgrounds]

A lot of terrible shit happens to Robin in this flashback, but this little moment where she meets Clover for the first time is a throat punch to the feels. She’s two years old and instinctively apologizing for touching books in a library.

Also, I appreciate the inclusion of a card catalogue. I bet keeping track of 5000 years worth of books was a miserable experience