#lieutenant fullbody

[presidentpoppy]

CAN I FUCKING HELP YOU

[bimbopieced]

This one was also one of my favorite jokes from the anime. Zeff introduction!! He’s one of my favorites when it comes to the crew mates’ family members. The Baratie arc is also one of my favorites when it comes to the arcs that introduced a future crew mate (Not top 1 but in the top 3)

Extremely funny, I don’t remember if this joke was used in the anime but I hope it was, this is brilliant. (Oh, hey, Sanji intro!)

Oda does a great job at power scaling characters immediately after their introduction. Zoro’s strength was talked about extensively before we met him, and here Sanji is shown easily taking care of the marine that himself easily took care of Yosaku and Johnny. Also, super cool panel I have to admit. Here we are faced with Sanji’s iron beliefs. Before that, in the anime at least, comes the part where he’s crouching in front of the soup and lays his hand in it, on the floor. I think that scene is extremely telling and symbolic and it serves as a great starting point in the buildup of rage Sanji goes through.

[vinsmoke-lover]

Thinking about the Baratie arc... Fullbody deserved that shit.

[the-bejeesus]

Using the scans from One Piece World Top 100 to make high-quality profile pictures designed for use on Discord or other chats (Part 54 of 76)

[mugiwara-shuenobi]

[bimbopieced]

One thing that made the Baratie arc to me almost perfect is the sincerity of its side characters. Patty and Carne’s characterization and this whole new category of pirates that change their ways to follow a dream. This fits nicely with setting the tone of the series, in which the sea’s lawless nature allows for anyone to truly find their place. Criminals at sea are as welcome as anyone else and can make their journey about anything as long as they have a ship.

After Sanji’s easily defeating Fullbody who himself easily defeated Johnny and Yosaku, here’s another power scaling tool: Don Krieg, who’s gonna do a great job in showing how Luffy’s ideals surpasses his (another pirate who doesn’t respect his crewmates much like Kuro, although to a lesser extent) and will set a theme in the Grand Line and how the crew must approach it. Rereading has reminded me that one of the first things that set apart our main character from other pirates is how he approaches his crew and recruits them and how he feels about them. I think this blends in absolutely perfectly with the more recent themes in the series, where we learn that Luffy’s power, amongst many other things, is to rally people to his cause. Surely the drums of libération serve this exact purpose, and reading the early chapters shows that this has always been a structuring storyline. This also serves in showing the importance of food in the story, and, completely unrelated, how absolutely necessary Nami is to the crew in their hopes of reaching/navigating the Grand Line. And also the East Blue truly was the weakest sea because how is Don Krieg the strongest? Come on…

Sanji’s gimmick of using the word crap has seriously been one of the best jokes surrounding his character since the beginning. Also, after reading some of the most recent arcs, rediscovering Sanji’s character truly brings a deep sense of nostalgia in a way; upon first reading, I completely overlooked him and thought of him as another typical shounen character. But now I can’t help but see his deep sensibility in everything he does 😭 Oh Sanji of the true lost potential…don’t mind me thinking of what used to be, and what could have been!

(On a much less serious note, Oda again with the brothers dynamic! He truly is obsessed…sets a tone for how we should see the next brothers that will appear)

[mugiwara-shuenobi]

[mugiwara-shuenobi]