#collun

[weiyjling]

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[fallensnowfan]

One Piece 1174 first thoughts.

A simpler chapter this week, I like it. Things are progressing about as expected. That said, Collun's family and the kids and their families continue to be the best part of this arc. They are all so kind and brave.

I love all of the scenes with the kids and their families and with Ange.

And seeing Elbaf becoming more and more on the nose about imitating parts of Wano is super interesting. I'm curious to see what it is all building up to.

If I had a nickel for every time Luffy flew up into battle on an heir to the throne of a warrior nation, who has pink as a prominent part of their color scheme and a dragon devil fruit, to fight someone who was present for the God Valley Incident, I'd have two nickels...

Some disparate thoughts to round this post off.

This makes me curious if Zoan devil fruits are always the same size when the user is transformed. Momo and Kaido were the same size as full dragons, but Kaido is much larger than even adult Momo. If Leo had Loki's devil fruit, would he be just as large as Loki in dragon form?

While I love the art for each of these, a few other scenes from Zou-Wano I would have enjoyed as potential double spreads would be the reveal of Zunesha, the reveal of Road Poneglyphs, Zunesha destroying Jack's fleet, Luffy's "I've always been free, and now this place is mine" in Udon prison, Luffy and Momo confronting Kaido, Luffy awakening his devil fruit, Oden holding his retainers when he's in the the oil, something from Bad End Musical, something from Big Mom's flashback.

And a goofy situation crossed my mind. Imagine Lilith sees Loki next chapter, then says. "I forgot to mention, I made this clone of his devil fruit. It's flawed though. It's neon green instead of black(?)"

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Maternophobia

I could use our bone boi getting stepped on, head cruelly cocked back so he can't see dem panties. Part of me wanted the image to be them all tied with with Nami hilariously giving Jinbei shit because he's supposed to be able to handle things. But no. Boney get a "whiteout" panel and that makes this a true red-letter day. This is subtle, but it is exactly what I wanted to see out of Brook & Gunko. He seems to recognize something about her. He's able to learn she's a fan. So even given this tense situation, he's very polite in his rejection to be a music slave. But specifically highlighting how Luffy gave him a new lease on life.

We've established the idea that Gunko might be somewhat a victim in the sense of never really knowing she had a choice. Brook is providing proof that circumstances can change and relationships can change them. Do you know how badly I wanted Brook to have a moment like this with Kiku? Obviously Gunko is an antagonist and that makes things very different in a lot of ways, but I love how even the framing here and following that bit from Nami serve to highlight what we talked about last time. Brook is getting a chance to show where his specific experience and wisdom can do what Jinbei cannot. And that is something very cool and very hard to express so I want to highlight it and admire it when it happens.

With that out of the way...iconic. You know what? No. It's peak "Wife Bad" Boomer Humor™ but it works because it is so unabashedly peak Boomer Humor™ and doesn't feel like it needs to put on pretentious airs of justifying itself. This is hilarious. The real monsters have awoken from the children's dreams...THEIR MOTHERS!!!

Fuck it, based. I have mother issues, stopped being scared of a pathetic drunk as I got older but when I was a kid that shit was terrifying. I don't think these giant moms are that bad, but they sure seem strict and imposing. A serious challenge indeed. We also have Spooky Gregg back hanging around a few panels so that's nice. It seems our eulogy was premature. But he is already a ghost so it's never fully inaccurate to honor his memory.

Jokes and personal trauma aside, there's a bit more thematic harmony with this gag than just lol scary moms. A land like Elbaph is now where kids are well behaved and focused on education kinda sounds like a land of strict, strong moms keeping them in line. Not a huge deal, the gag is good on its own, if they were actually Dorry/Brogy's wives I'd be on their side because you better not have run of on a 100yr duel if you're married. But it does connect more to what's going on than just being a silly goof.

Speaking of cool, very impressive Collun. He's jumped up to the front of the line and willingly got involved in the compulsion to follow the arrow just for a chance to help and keep things calm. Down below with Ripley & Scopper finding this out is hilarious...and kinda feeds back into that point about parents. Gaban's all like, hell yeah that's mah boy. Ripley's not having it and demanding he go save the kid. Hilarious and they're cute together.

And it leads to the cool part at the end! Sure there's a former Roger Pirate heavyweight jumping into the fray but they have angered the Devil Child and that is not a smart thing to do if you like things like being alive. I will never ever ever not love the series treating Robin like a core threat on the Straw Hats rather than a smart pawn to try and capture. Show Saul how far you've come by showing how fiercely you'll protect the friends you've found girl.

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

DADDY’S BOY 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[thischristianguy]

Non-spoiler attempt for One Piece chapter 1136

Collun is a little scamp of a giant

He’s striking the Nika pose

Big things for this young ‘un

[boredinagoodway]

MY GIANT VIKING SON

Colon from One Piece!! Him and young link show why boys with swords in tunics and eccentric hair are peak adoption fodder. And he's giant!!

[cornpickerart]

Inktober Day 19: Garden(ing) Collun from Hero's Song. #my sweet boy

[fallensnowfan]

A bit of Elbaf pondering.

I'm curious if Loki will still be disparaging against humans by the end of this arc, or learn to see things from their perspective, as Ida spoke of.

Loki's dislike of humans is why I'm still unsure if he truly cared about Lola.

We know Loki does value and empathize with Shaggy, who may or may not be a human, and idolized Xebec, though I guess I'm not exactly sure where the line is drawn for Loki between his negativity towards humans specifically, and his overall closed off emotional state towards trusting anyone, regardless of species.

Harald wanted to foster connections between giants and humans, though ultimately took the wrong approach, even with Ida's guidance.

And in the present, we see the consequences of Harald's misstep regarding other things he tried to understand, as discussed here. He failed to find a balance between valuing warrior's pride and valuing the library/school.

Aside from Collun, the kids of Elbaf in the present have no warrior's pride, which all but goes to show that Harald's influence resulted in the old ways being mostly thrown out, both the good and the bad.