(spoiler for chapter 1165)
i don't think anyone present could have imagined how fucking serious dragon was when he said "BRING IT ON!!"
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(spoiler for chapter 1165)
i don't think anyone present could have imagined how fucking serious dragon was when he said "BRING IT ON!!"
One of the hardest panels Oda has ever drawn
Okay, I gotta talk about Marco.
I have GOT to talk this out or I'm going to lose my fucking mind 😅
Since I'm going to be talking about very recent manga chapters though, I'm tossing this all under the cut just in case people want to avoid spoilers - but I'm not going to talk about anyone not directly related to Marco, so take that as you need.
One Piece chapter 1165 first thoughts!
I like the visual contrast between Roger and Garp here. Dark coat, light shirt, and dark pants, and light coat, dark shirt, and light pants.
Shanks is in one of those treasure chests! And I love Gloriosa being all "this place is going to hell and my captain is doomed, can I get a ride?" She probably also wants to support Shakky emotionally after all of this, but she's to stubborn to say that out loud
Do You Know? Do You Know?
Abandon you name, abandon your wits...bet it all on a single strike.
You know, two things I shoulda caught before became clear sitting with this. First, I really should have noticed the whole Ringo cover thing that started with this flashback was in essence restoring an "abandoned" name for Moria. Which is pertinent when Kiku's the one who introduced that thread and "abandoned" in this context is super close to the Japanese equivalent of a "dead" name. But also that while it wasn't so much for Luffy, that concept is where Kid/Law had to finally realize to put Big Mom down for good too. They fell behind Luffy because they needed to learn the lessons of the samurai. Like Luffy did early on with a whole thing about reading what words and faces can't say.
Not that the latter was relevant here or anything, of course. But in essence, this is why I look at Wano the way I do and why the title here is a nod to Utena's iconic Shadow Plays. Luffy's story condenses the "kingdom savior" narrative that's taken up the majority of the series into its purest, distilled form while we watch a play setting up why this all matters. Bonney will kinda do the same thing in Egghead. Remember, Onigashima is already kinda Luffy's God Valley. No one really knows what happened there, just vague shit that sounds crazy like half of the Worst Generation, Kaido, Linlin, and even some shit like CP0 and Whitebeard remnants and a famous Marine like Drake all throwing down in a mysterious closed-off land.
(spoiler for chapter 1165)
i knew it i knew it i knew it. well not exactly what he said out loud but rather how he said it. i think a piece of garp died at god valley and what survived from then on is just a shell of the man he used to be. a shell empty of hope.
(Panels pasted right to left.)
Me, reading this, dictionary in hand:
..."eisu"... Ace...???
Okay, first of all: 火之迦具土 is apparently the Japanese God of Fire, which I will freely admit I did not know!
And there's no way Roger could've known that his son would end up with a Fire Logia. (Or is there?) But.
His attack. It's called 慧士, which I am failing to find as a dictionary word, so assume Oda-sensei has made up which makes sense, because then he could choose to write it out えいす; eisu.
From what I can tell - and this is N1 stuff, so above my Japanese certification for sure - 慧 means "wisdom" or "enlightenment", also in the Buddhist sense of prajñā. Meanwhile 士 is literally "samurai" or "man". So the name of the attack is something like Enlightened Warrior which is very interesting in light of all of the "Roger could hear all things" thing that we don't know much about at this point.
It's also interesting because えいす sounds a lot like エース.
I dunno. It might not be anything! But while we see Rogue say Roger decided on the name エース for their child (ch 551)... we don't see him say it was "Ace" rather than "慧士".