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...is it sad that I gasped at how covered up she is? She's wearing normal knight clothes and everything
Shamrock had a deeper neckline in the previous flashback, to be honest
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(SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1183)
...is it sad that I gasped at how covered up she is? She's wearing normal knight clothes and everything
Shamrock had a deeper neckline in the previous flashback, to be honest
One Piece; Chapter 1183
ITS TIMEEEEEEEEE 🎉💥💞 Brook & Shuri backstory chapter, baby!!!!! Let's get right into it!
Spoilers below, as per usual! I apologize for the single panel posts earlier, I got excited ╥﹏╥
I'm delighted that Lady Oscar has finally made been payed hommage to in One Piece as well
Op chapter 1183 - key points 🎻
(SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1183)
Imu has been talking to and about Luffy and Loki like they really were the Joyboy and Niddhoggr who were his enemies/traitors during the Void Century, so it's interesting that right now he's actually using their names when he's saying they won't be his soldiers. Joyboy and Niddhoggr wouldn't join him, and Imu acknowledges that neither will their successors
The question now is, who/what the hell is Douzan. In Japanese, it's just written as ドウザン (douzan) in katakana, which is how Oda usually spells characters' names. A 銅山 (douzan) is a copper mine, but I don't think that's what he's going for here? lol though honestly who can say
From context, it seems that Douzan was also someone who wouldn't bow down to Imu and got eliminated because of that, though it's still unclear if this is also something that happened during the Void Century (or maybe before that?)
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Loki's attack is 鉄雷二武界 with the furigana ラグナジンヘイム (ragunajinheimu). 鉄雷 is again the kanji for Ragnir, 二 means two, 武 means warrior, military, martial, etc, and 界 means world, realm or area. So something like Ragna Dual Martial Realms. Mythologically speaking, I would guess that the two realms could be Niflheim and Muspelheim, the two primordial realms of ice and fire, especially considering Loki already has an attack named after Niflheim. However, I'm a little stuck on the jin part of the name, to be honest, because 人 (jin) means person or human, but you could also read 神 as jin, which means god(s) or spirit, so maybe the two martial realms are the land of men and the land of the gods. Maybe it's Elbaf's Underworld and Sun World. Maybe I'm reading too much into this lol
Imu's attack is 憤怒剣 with the furigana グラム (guramu). 憤怒 (fundo) means anger, rage, or resentment, and 剣 (ken) means sword or blade. In Norse mythology, Gram (meaning ill-tempered, wroth, angry, frightful or resentful) is the sword that Sigurd used to kill the dragon Fafnir, who wasn't exactly a dragon so much as someone who commits patricide to steal his father's treasure, after which he shapeshifts into a dragon and hides away
It's interesting that Imu doesn't seem to follow any specific theme/culture/language in his attacks like the rest of the characters, since he's used latin (domi reversi), greek (nemesis), aztec (tzitzimitl) and now norse (gram)
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(chapters 1183 and 1179)
So Imu wasn't able to break the ice after all, which means that even if the other Straw Hats decide to free Gunko they probably won't be able to do it, though of course they have no way of knowing that or that flash freezing is apparently not fatal
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He says he lost contact with her after she traveled to Marijoa, and it's someone that he didn't think he'd ever want to see again, which means she wasn't forcibly taken there, or at least not obviously so. The oldest Reverie we know of was 56 years ago (where Rocks met Harald), so it's not possible that she went there for the Reverie and was kidnapped/tricked into staying, at least not unless the flashback covers a few years. Since Brook knew who the God's Knights were, I'm guessing some of them went to his homeland and Shuri ended up going back to Marijoa with them. Also, doesn't the idea of a little girl (apparently) willingly going away with the people who destroyed her home give off Nami vibes?
Since even when she's not being possessed by Imu, she still has a different name, personality and memory than Shuri, there's a chance she lost her memory at some point, whether before or after going to Marijoa, so it could also be that what Brook thought was her own choice was actually her being controlled or already being Gunko. Either way, her behaviour between possessions implies that she either didn't go willingly and it was a misunderstanding on his part, or she went but regretted it later
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(chapters 1183 and 653)
This song is a callback to the one Brook sang at the end of Fishman Island. My musical knowledge isn't the best, but apparently a new single can just be a re-recording of an existing song, so Brook probably just updated it based on his new experiences at FMI, since the next panel shows him singing some verses that are different from the ones he's singing now in the flashback. In Japanese, "good morn-maid" is グッドモー人魚 (guddo mooningyo), which is a pun on グッドモーニング (guddo mooningu), the Japanese-English way of saying good morning, and the word 人魚 (ningyo), which means mermaid
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That "end-maid" is mostly the same kind of pun, mixing エンディング (endingu), or ending, with the 魚 (gyo) at the end of 人魚 (ningyo). 魚 by itself just means fish by the way
Brook's silhouette against the dawn sun rising obviously brings to mind Nika, since he's even kind of doing the Nika dance, which is interesting considering the first verses talking about a brand new world. I wonder if the verse about losing your soul is relevant too. Calling it a bad ending makes me think of those little SBS specials about people at 40 and 60 years old in two diverging futures, which if I'm remembering correctly were in the normal timeline and in one where something goes wrong. Maybe it's one where they lose their dreams/souls? Since they go against everything they stand for now
But anyway, the scene of waking people up by making noise also reminds me of Usopp and his home island. So that's three associations in only two panels (FMI, Nika and Usopp/Syrup Village), I wonder if there's some connection to be made. Brook is kind of the opposite of Usopp in this case, though, since Brook was apparently famous and beloved (at least for his swordsmanship, if not his music) and Usopp was more infamous than anything
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So her eyes were already mismatched even before whatever happened with Imu. It's also not something she seems to have inherited from either of her parents. I wonder if it's just for aesthetic purposes, but her appearing in the same arc as Loki who also has unusual eyes seems a little too pointed for that. Maybe I'm reading too much into it? We still haven't gotten an explanation for his eyes either
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(chapters 1183 and 1139)
Gaban is an obvious Sanji parallel, but it's interesting that he and Brook are saying almost the exact same thing here. I say almost because Brook says 恋 (koi), which specifically means romantic love, while Gaban says 愛 (ai), which has a broader meaning of love and affection that doesn't necessarily have to be romantic in nature. In this case they are both talking about romantic love and how it is supposed to be free of boundaries and restrictions like race or, uhm, monogamy lol
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I think it's funny that Brook calls the king アニキ (aniki), which is a respectful way of calling your older brother, your senior, or just a man older than you. If I'm not mistaken it has a little bit of a gang vibe to it
Later on Brook calls him 国王 (kokuou), or king, but with the furigana アニキ (aniki), basically implying that he thinks very casually of the king and that they have a friendly, familial relationship
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This was objectively hilarious. What does that even look like? Do they put tapes on the snails' mouths or something? Also, I like that silent mode in Japanese is マナーモード (manaa moodo) which literally means "manner mode"
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First, I like that the guy more literally says she's gonna have to accept the don's love, it's such a weird way of putting it. Second, I find it beyond boring that this is the reason they're after her, especially considering she's supposed to be the former captain of the battle convoy and so why wouldn't they have some lingering resentment or something, anything that isn't "beautiful women can only ever be desired", which is giving me Kuja Pirates nightmare flashbacks
Having said that, the fact that she's introduced like this, as this woman who is strong and beautiful and that everyone admires and loves and wants, is reminding me of Shakky and God Valley (and also Ginny, maybe). In the sense that I wouldn't put it past Oda to have the triggering event for the fall of the kingdom be another case of the Celestial Dragons stealing women away
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