#zanbai

[badjohnspeakeasy]

Leaves from the vine...

Falling so slow,

Like fragile tiny shells

Drifting in the foam.

Little soldier boy,

Come marching home

Brave soldier boy

Comes marching home.

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[weebianplebeian]

I just want to reblog this and stress this: Kamikaze lost his entire squad. He didn’t lose 20% of his squad. He didn’t even lose 50%. He lost his whole squad.

All of the S-Class heroes (and the protection squad) are having quite possibly the worst day of their lives. Darkshine and Tatsumaki are getting their shit rocked for the first time ever. Genos is once again getting his shit rocked. Bang just lost a shirt and the sanity of his former student. CE had to see his surrogate father get turned into giblets, and so on and so forth. Its just not a good day to be a hero right now.

But Kamikaze? I'd arguably say he's getting the worst of it right now.

webcomic spoilers ahead:

In the original flow of the webcomic, BS beats him up, he loses his sword, gets talked down to by a teenager and his students also get beat up and that's about it.

In Ch. 69 of the manga we got introduced to the Council of Swordsmasters, a group that’s shown to be pretty close with AS.

Not only has AS had to put down his fellow swordsmaster in the first chapter they were introduced (Haragiri), but now he’s had to see the last three be killed in horrible ways. Two of his best disciples are knocked unconscious, and the last one is going to have a foot smooshed on his face. Can you imagine the guilt he’s going to feel when this is all over? Mind you it’s implied that it took a bit of convincing from his students to let them fight on their own.

ONE created the Council of Swordsmasters to make AS and his fans suffer.

[mugiwara-shuenobi]

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Zanbai uses respectful verb forms the entire time he’s haranguing Franky into leaving, which is fully at odds with his normal persona and style of speech- it serves as a really good indicator of just how much he and the rest of the Franky Family respect and love Franky.

[dilebe06]

Miniavventure di One Piece: dalle tolde del mondo parte 1

[signutai]

Aoki drew the Council!

[weebianplebeian]

Are you satisfied with how strong the Council of Swordsman (or at least just Nichirin) are?

If anything they've exceeded my expectations!! Part of me knew that if ONE gave them a whole chapter to be introduced earlier in the story, then surely they would be at least somewhat important to the upcoming fight. Especially since they were introduced as people our favorite "I only acknowledge the strong" samurai guy sought to consult after fearing that Bang may not be able to take down his own student.

Spoilers below:

I am of course a little sad that Zanbai died, and in such a brutal fashion too!!! ;^;. He was honestly my favorite of the group, I was looking forward to seeing more of him and his Buddhist monk aesthetic. But I guess SOMEONE needed to die to show just how deadly FU has become. Dude really showed up to help his buddy out and then paid the ultimate price :(((

I hope Amahare and Nichirin survive, what kind of council only has one member?? OR maybe they don't and that becomes one of the biggest factors as to why AS goes to challenge King in such a pushy manner HMMMMMM

Also a little off topic but I do love how Nichirin's slashes look like rain...,

[signutai]

My hot take on what kinds of dogs some of my OPM faves would be since dog AUs seem to be the cool new thing (???): Atomic Samurai: Shikoku (sesame) Iaian: German Shepherd (white) Okamaitachi: Akita Inu (sesame) Bushidrill: Hokkaido Ken (black and tan) Nichirin: Sakhalin Husky (light grey) Amahare: Puli/Akita mix (black) Zanbai: Kai Ken (red brindle) Haragiri: Shiba Inu/Hokkaido mix (longhaired, black and tan) Stinger: Border Collie mix (black and white) Lightning Max: Siberian Husky (blonde) Lightning Genji: Miniature Bull Terrier mix (black and white) Death Gatling: Belgian Tervuren mix (grey and black) Darkness Blade: Belgian Tervuren mix (grey and black) Red Muffler: Cardigan Welsh Corgi/Red Heeler mix (red and white) Spring Moustachio: Levriero Italiano mix (black and white) Golden Ball: Tosa Inu/American Staffordshire Terrier mix (tan and white) Captain Mizuki: Borzoi (brindle and white) Peach Terry: Shiba Inu (red) Blue Fire: Kunming wolfdog (sable) Lin-Lin: Kunming wolfdog (tan and black) Charanko: Chow Chow/Irish Terrier mix (red) Tanktop Girl: Akita/Catahoula Cur mix (merle and white)