#ch583

[opbackgrounds]

There's something so painfully childlike about Sabo and Ace arguing about killing Luffy. They're trying so hard to be big, bad grownups, but at the end of the day they're all just kids

[iiloffy]

for anonymous

[opbackgrounds]

I just want to mention that in this little flashback section alone it is seen and/or mentioned that Luffy nearly gets eaten by alligators, tigers, wolves, buzzards, piranhas, and giant poisonous snakes just in the walk between Mt Corvo and Gray Terminal. That's like Grand Line levels of lethal animal concentration, to say nothing of the giant sea monsters shown at the end of chapter one swimming around the coast.

For an East Blue location, Dawn Island is hardcore.

[opbackgrounds]

While Luffy may have initially been inspired by how Shanks dealt with the mountain bandits, we learn later in the flashback that Luffy is most driven by a fear of being alone.

Garp has taken Luffy away from everyone he knows and cares for, and the people who knew and cared for him in return. He understandably distrusts and doesn't like the mountain bandits, who in turn see him as a burden to be endured. In those circumstances, what choice does he have but to risk being eaten by a tiger and latch himself onto the only other person around in hopes of making a friend?

[opbackgrounds]

I have many opinions about Sabo, but one of my most strongly held convcitions is that Oda did him dirty by switching his lil' potato nose to a more conventionally handsome design when he shows up as an adult

[opbackgrounds]

Damn, you know the economy's in the shitter when even the bandits are in a recession

[opbackgrounds]

I'd forgotten about this little insert to Shanks. Luffy meeting Ace would have happened very quickly after learning this lesson, so it makes a lot of sense just how much Luffy takes it to heart.

It is a little crazy that Ace is able to knock down this giant tree by kicking it. Low-key one of his more impressive feats of strength in the series

[opbackgrounds]

While this is a realistic and genuine concern that the bandits have to worry about, Ace can't even escape the demon allegations in his own "home".