ep 505. so good. it's so good for grief. start to finish not a single wasted moment. it packs a punch. dadan beating up garp, makino standing up for garp, dadan saying luffy is the one who is suffering the most (dadan <3), makino remembering luffy and ace moments, also her teaching ace manners and then you see him struggling so much but the first time we see him in alabasta arc everyone thinks he is SO polite :') shirohige ace funeral with shanks and marco and shirohige pirates. shanks thinking of ace reminding him of roger and shanks thinking of luffy and what great advice!! jimbei helping luffy snap out of it and what great advice that is too 'you can't get back what you have lost? what is it that you still have?' and then luffy thinking of his nakama and the panic attack and the darkness is gone and there's light. we sort of see it in a new light now. we see them and luffy as ace saw them in alabasta. we fuse the luffy we always knew to the crybaby ototo luffy that ace knew and see him all as one. and we know he'll be alright. it'll take some time and it'll never be the same but it'll be alright.
