One Piecing! it's been so long! <3
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xparrotOne Piece 379-388 - a whole volume's worth to read! Whee! And this post is pure real-time reaction, completely miscellaneous blathering as I go. Mostly squees and guffaws. I laughed out loud so hard reading this. And cheered almost as much. And generally just loved. Big surprise there.
I love the "Summertime" spread. (Ah, hell, I love all of Oda's color work. When's ColorWalk 3 coming out?) Is Usopp fishing for Sanji with pictures of Nami??
Is numerically ranking CP9's fighting strength (via beating on the zipper-dude) a DBZ homage, or is it just me?
--THE--THE TRAIN IS FLYING!!! And Zoro - "Leave it to luck!"
And Sanji and Zoro bring the cool! And the snark! "That's still better than being Nameless Pirate 'A.'" BWAHA. Sanji is so not going to get a bounty at the end of this. I just know it, all the rest of the crew will, and he'll be forgotten, and Zoro will never ever let him forget it.
Nami-swaa~~~n, you are so amazing. And hot. And almost electrocuting yourself with your own lightning. And your nakama. "Nami-san, you reminded me of how it felt when we first met!" *dies*
...Paulie is still hot. Yeah, his chances aren't great. Yeah, I don't know why, but I still want him (and I still don't see the Franky Family letting Franky go! Though they did just let themselves all be called Mugiwara pirates...) There's still chemistry in his, "tell them this for me: 'You're fired!'"
Waaaaah, Robin...I love her so, so, so much. The way she can be so calm even when being beaten, but threaten Luffy-tachi, and she completely loses it...wow. So, so much.
Luffy's never going to lose his "sparkle over his enemy's super-cool tricks" thing, is he? But the fight = pure WHAMMO.
And Nami's concern for Usopp, and Zoro's absolute confidence in him. <333
And Elbaf!! OMG the giants are their crew!!! They have a tragic backstory! Oda-sensei, marry me~~!!! (yes, I know, he's taken already. Oda-sensei, become a Mormon and marry me too~~!!)
OW. I went "ow" aloud when the SeaHorse was brought down by those giant metal balls. The amount of crazy baddies in this arc is insane. Love the overhead city shots - I've said it before, but One Piece has this fantastic sense of scale. Oda likes big things - not just in the scope of the story, but physically enormous people and creatures and ships and everything. The bird's eye view of Gomorrah fallen on the streets of Enies Lobby is just great.
Re: the cover pics sidestory - um. I just...um...had a brief brief thought that Bon Clay looked almost sort of. Hot. Excuse me I need to go bleach my brain (but the suit's a good look for him!) (And I wanna see 'em save Miss Valentine. Secret confession, I have always had a fondness for Mr.5 x Miss Valentine. I dunno, they're just such, um, partners. So, yeah. Aww~!)
Ahah!! Answers to what happens if you eat more than one devil fruit, finally!! Death, eh? So a reindeer-fruit wouldn't get Chopper back to normal (is there a way to reverse the powers?)
DEAR LUCCHI, STOP LOOKING SO HOT, PLZKTHX. (oh man I need to catch up with the anime just to hear Seki-sama doing a sexy leopard voice...)
You can do that with a door power too? The spinny head trick? Damn. The creative uses of devil fruit abilities never cease to astound me.
And Zoro sees Luffy's fight! And asks Sanji about it! And...
...and now I'm all sad about a giant seahorse. And daaaaamn the spread of Sanji and Zoro on the march. Yeah. Nothing quite kicks ass the way One Piece kicks ass. The sheer destructive chaos of this assault--maybe I've been reading the wrong shounen, I've never quite seen anything like it. It's a siege, practically a war story - there's the one-on-one challenges that are expected of fight shounen, but it's all taking place within a no-holds-barred battle of 10,000 against--quite a lot fewer, but they've got the big guns on their side. The really big guns. (Even if Sanji and Zoro will keep fighting in the middle of it...)
ONE PIECE JOUSTING!!! <333 (With paintball lances, no less. Because nakama wouldn't be using real ones! Especially not with Chopper right there. I want a poster of this one SO BAD.)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luffy.
I love you.
"I have nakama who aren't strong--but I still want them to be with me! So I have to be stronger than anybody else...or I'll lose them all!!!"
<33333333333333333333
...Gear Second just hit every cool-shounen-move button I have. Except following standard rules about such super-powers, they'd take a pretty strong toll on the user. Luffy....
"When this battle is over, that strawhat brat's name will be known throughout the world!" Yeah. I bet so...
And why isn't the next chapter out yet? Waaah! Though...need a breather really, after all that...but when is the next gonna be scanlated?
So, yeah. Still pwns my soul. Now and forever.
I love the "Summertime" spread. (Ah, hell, I love all of Oda's color work. When's ColorWalk 3 coming out?) Is Usopp fishing for Sanji with pictures of Nami??
Is numerically ranking CP9's fighting strength (via beating on the zipper-dude) a DBZ homage, or is it just me?
--THE--THE TRAIN IS FLYING!!! And Zoro - "Leave it to luck!"
And Sanji and Zoro bring the cool! And the snark! "That's still better than being Nameless Pirate 'A.'" BWAHA. Sanji is so not going to get a bounty at the end of this. I just know it, all the rest of the crew will, and he'll be forgotten, and Zoro will never ever let him forget it.
Nami-swaa~~~n, you are so amazing. And hot. And almost electrocuting yourself with your own lightning. And your nakama. "Nami-san, you reminded me of how it felt when we first met!" *dies*
...Paulie is still hot. Yeah, his chances aren't great. Yeah, I don't know why, but I still want him (and I still don't see the Franky Family letting Franky go! Though they did just let themselves all be called Mugiwara pirates...) There's still chemistry in his, "tell them this for me: 'You're fired!'"
Waaaaah, Robin...I love her so, so, so much. The way she can be so calm even when being beaten, but threaten Luffy-tachi, and she completely loses it...wow. So, so much.
Luffy's never going to lose his "sparkle over his enemy's super-cool tricks" thing, is he? But the fight = pure WHAMMO.
And Nami's concern for Usopp, and Zoro's absolute confidence in him. <333
And Elbaf!! OMG the giants are their crew!!! They have a tragic backstory! Oda-sensei, marry me~~!!! (yes, I know, he's taken already. Oda-sensei, become a Mormon and marry me too~~!!)
OW. I went "ow" aloud when the SeaHorse was brought down by those giant metal balls. The amount of crazy baddies in this arc is insane. Love the overhead city shots - I've said it before, but One Piece has this fantastic sense of scale. Oda likes big things - not just in the scope of the story, but physically enormous people and creatures and ships and everything. The bird's eye view of Gomorrah fallen on the streets of Enies Lobby is just great.
Re: the cover pics sidestory - um. I just...um...had a brief brief thought that Bon Clay looked almost sort of. Hot. Excuse me I need to go bleach my brain (but the suit's a good look for him!) (And I wanna see 'em save Miss Valentine. Secret confession, I have always had a fondness for Mr.5 x Miss Valentine. I dunno, they're just such, um, partners. So, yeah. Aww~!)
Ahah!! Answers to what happens if you eat more than one devil fruit, finally!! Death, eh? So a reindeer-fruit wouldn't get Chopper back to normal (is there a way to reverse the powers?)
DEAR LUCCHI, STOP LOOKING SO HOT, PLZKTHX. (oh man I need to catch up with the anime just to hear Seki-sama doing a sexy leopard voice...)
You can do that with a door power too? The spinny head trick? Damn. The creative uses of devil fruit abilities never cease to astound me.
And Zoro sees Luffy's fight! And asks Sanji about it! And...
...and now I'm all sad about a giant seahorse. And daaaaamn the spread of Sanji and Zoro on the march. Yeah. Nothing quite kicks ass the way One Piece kicks ass. The sheer destructive chaos of this assault--maybe I've been reading the wrong shounen, I've never quite seen anything like it. It's a siege, practically a war story - there's the one-on-one challenges that are expected of fight shounen, but it's all taking place within a no-holds-barred battle of 10,000 against--quite a lot fewer, but they've got the big guns on their side. The really big guns. (Even if Sanji and Zoro will keep fighting in the middle of it...)
ONE PIECE JOUSTING!!! <333 (With paintball lances, no less. Because nakama wouldn't be using real ones! Especially not with Chopper right there. I want a poster of this one SO BAD.)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luffy.
I love you.
"I have nakama who aren't strong--but I still want them to be with me! So I have to be stronger than anybody else...or I'll lose them all!!!"
<33333333333333333333
...Gear Second just hit every cool-shounen-move button I have. Except following standard rules about such super-powers, they'd take a pretty strong toll on the user. Luffy....
"When this battle is over, that strawhat brat's name will be known throughout the world!" Yeah. I bet so...
And why isn't the next chapter out yet? Waaah! Though...need a breather really, after all that...but when is the next gonna be scanlated?
So, yeah. Still pwns my soul. Now and forever.
