#chapter 986

[chromatic-lamina]

Never mind the sulong

How about Bepo erasure in general? How could Toei not include him? I guess he and the crew have been getting a lot of extra time in the animated Polar Tang sections, but...

[every-yamato]

Shocked

[mizumizunomi]

Pause, cause this is definitely the highlight of the chapter.

[randomshitwhenimhigh]

Picture this, me eating lunch with my mom and brother, I see a notification for the new chapter from one piece and decide to read it while I let my food get colder, my mom and brother talking about random things and all of a sudden I start crying becaUSE OF KOZUKI MOMONOSUKE, WHAT A MAN.

I was also high, but that's besides the point, what a beautiful panel. Ok, so from the beginning. That front page was just pure comedy, then we can see Kinemon and Denjiro approach that motherfucker's body, I'm so glad he's dead or dying, just die, please. Izo is just so cool, I wanna be him when I grow up, damn.

Of course no one is willing to die for Orochi, he was a disgrace as a Shogun, how could anyone expect him to be respected. I'm worried about Nami and Carrot, Big Mom is vicious.

This. Fucking. Panel. Kaido asking Momo what's his name. And then we get a ton of other scenes, he sees the resolution Luffy has and the words his mother said, he saw his dad telling him his name means "second to none", fuck my heart. He admires Luffy and has learned from him, his dad travelled with the pirate king as a man, Momo travelled with the new pirate king and they both grew from this experience, he became the man he wishes to be, a brave man, and when he says he will be Wano's Shogun just like Luffy when he says he'll be the pirate king I wholeheartedly believed it, just like I believe Luffy will be the pirate king, not because he's the protagonist, but because he's Luffy.

And then Momo cries, he's such a brave little man, he can't stop crying, he thinks of his parents and his sister, it's just beautiful.

What an emotional edible.

Yamato just wants to believe Kaido isn't a certified piece of shit, which, surprise surprise, he is. Up until the end he's like "I doubt they would explode" oh, your poor soul. Also Luffy can already do that easily! Don't remember how that's called but so cool. Kid seems to be having a good time, where's Killer though? We already know I love that man. Bepo is just so cute. I hope we get to see Zoro in action wayyyy more, like he has a connection to Wano and I'm curious to see how will Oda add it to the story, right now it's all based around Momo and killing Kaido.

Ok so I love Yamato, the shackles explode and he's so done hahaha then Luffy tells him to stop, because they can't give the first blow, like he's so respectful, I love this monkey boy, fuuuuuuuck.

King must have fought Izo in the past, since he was on Whitebeard's crew, another Yonko, where's Marco? Hope that shadow in the water was some help. I just love it when Kaido is disarmed with a "MEOW", quality content.

Kaido saw Oden's will on his men, his friends carry his vengeance and Momo his desires to make Wano open to the world, Kaido will never be half the man Oden was. The worst part is we all know Kaido is immortal or some shit.

Such an emotional chapter, I'll keep listening to Heart now.

[brave-symphonia]

I’m not surprised that Kaido was willing to kill his son. But from Yamato’s perspective it must hurt to know your father was going to kill you. I’m sure he knew that Kaido was horrible but he’s still his father.

[strikerjoshy]

MOST

SATISFYING

PANEL

IN

WHOLE

ONE PIECE

SO

FAR

[chromatic-lamina]

when is a mountain not a mountain?

I mostly just retweet art on Twitter. I don’t get involved in so much discourse (aka shit-storms), but for any Twitter folk who come over here, Japanese artists (not all) are still posting art of Yamato and tagging it (when they do)  Yamato-botchan ヤマト坊ちゃん (can be read as boy, young master, son). The screen cap below is from jisho.org. I’ll put the link in the comments.

Yamato-sama was used in the anime for Yamato’s introduction (the Beast Pirate underlings are using it, before urging each other not to let him get away). The English translation in the manga says: “Master Yamato!”, “Is that young Master Yamato?!”. I’m figuring that’s where the Botchan comes into it. (Just remembered I have that volume! Yes! Botchan is used—chapter 983, page 16).

It’s different from Doflamingo’s  “waka(i)sama” (that man ain’t innocent, nor all that young!). It is true that sometimes a female heir of a samurai family will be addressed with male suffixes, but other discussions on the tweet-board are using ヤマ男 (Yama-O, the ‘o’ is the ‘o’ of ‘otoko’, male), with the 男 kanji, as opposed to お or オ which are phonetic. This is also used with Law: Tora-O (トラ男 ) and Kid: Giza-O (ギザ男),  ヤマ男  is what Luffy has called Yamato. Like, that kanji means male. As a heads up, the One Piece wiki page includes 男, but not an explanation of it.

[Here Luffy says “Mate Yama-o,” or “Wait, Yama-o”]. Chapter 986, p. 12

[待て(imperative) and 待って(polite) (the things I learn. But both are kinda straightforward in that form).]

Anyway!, mostly people seem to be talking about whether Yamato’ll be joining the Strawhats or why there is such a strong connection to Wano (I’m not reading in-depth, and just reading in software translation). 

Of course, if I’m googling by the terms above I’m not going to get anyone who doesn’t recognise them, but as they are the actual terms in the manga, they are being used.

Yamato-kun (ヤマトくん) is used on some of the artworks or discussion too …

…(occasionally young girls are called this and in some other situations too, when they are older, but it’s pretty rare and usually reserved and used for boys). Also, Yamato-chan, but chan is not exclusively female, and it’s not unusual for this to be a friendly suffix for a boy’s name (Crayon Shinchan), although the artist might not be using it that way, or might be remaining neutral. 

Like, my level isn’t that high, so I don’t know if there is debate or not, and I’m looking at art, not meta, but I think people are still letting the story unfold and working with the information they have from the manga. Of course there will be a variety. Lots of folks don’t tag on twitter, and it’s also pretty difficult to search.

I’m not saying that—seeing as how the merch has, and other products have, basically confirmed it—that Yamato won’t ultimately identify as female, but I am saying that fanart/fic is transformative, gender can be fluid, and this is all of the story that we have so far, really. I also know some people feel invalidated, especially on twitter, and with good reason, so if that’s you, I dunno, maybe this is s little something. I’ll tag this yamato discourse if anyone wants to filter it out. Hope I haven’t added to anyone’s stress levels. Also, if I got anything terribly wrong with the Japanese above, let me know. No problem.

[every-yamato]

Angry? Frustrated?