#ch477

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this is the perfect Chopper face

[every-sanji]

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This is true both literally and metaphorically, and fits well with the themes of Thriller Bark. Moriah turned to zombies in the first place because the loss of his initial crew was too painful, and he never wanted to experience it again. It was further enabled by Hogback's twisted desire to do the same after Cindry's death. The whole nightmare of Thriller Bark, the darkness and the suffering, was brought about by people unable to cope with loss, who preferred numbness and shadowy imitations over forming new connections with other people.

Brook is the obvious contrast, reveling in the joys of life despite the objective shittiness of his last half century, but looking forward it's easy to see how Luffy could have followed a similar path after Ace's death if he hadn't been able to make a genuine friendship with Jinbe to help pull him out of his destructive grief after Marienford.

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This doesn't work, but Robin gets partial credit for going right for the neck snap

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This is such a lovely use of Chopper's medical knowledge in a fight. More of this, please.

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Moriah's power looks so cool when it's drawn all goopy like this.

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Where the hell did Dr. Hogback find an extra arm big enough to use on Oars?

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Okay, so Moriah obviously doesn't have a zombie to put Robin's shadow into, and it doesn't return to her until after the fight is over, so I choose to believe that Moriah just sort of keeps it awkwardly tucked in his back pocket until he uses Shadows Asgard