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NICO ROBIN Fashion Appreciation — 16 / ∞

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genuinely i feel like more people would enjoy nico robin post-timeskip if they would just

understand that being a fighter and using her powers against people in a violent fashion is not really, and never has been, her thing outside of self-defense

realize that her entire journey as a character is about learning to rely on her friends and allow them to protect her so that she can continue to do the things she wants.

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One Piece Burning Blood

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Everyone wants to focus on Robin’s haircut but nobody wants to draw art of Brook actually cutting her hair??

It’d be so cute! 😊

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DOFFY FEEDING ONIGIRI IS ADORABLE! AND PETTING HIM, AWWWWW!

I've been squealing at the adorableness of this for the past five minutes.

DOFFY

PETTING

ONIGIRI

ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

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Gintama final thoughts

*just saying - I don’t really like the ending so if you’re reading this, please be aware that this is just my opinion, the ending doesn’t affect my love for Gintama and I’m just writing my thoughts down

I actually finished the series a week ago, I’m still kinda obsessed with it, especially with the new content flooding like the popularity poll (makes me wanna rewatch that arc) and the exhibition coming up (makes me wanna fly to Japan), I just couldn’t stop rewatching some clips haha

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Silver Soul and The Final

tbh the ending…I wouldn’t say I like it…silver soul arc is good for some moments but i have a feeling that the arc is very stretched and honestly feels like it should be ended way before. Arcs after shogun assassin arc make sense to me because it’s wrapping up some storylines that sorachi left through out the stories. Example like kagura’s family, isaburo & nobume background and shoyo & his students…but each arc feels very stretched to me and it’s the same pattern…in the beginning, they go save someone and at the end the same dude appear lol

I read it somewhere that sorachi planned to end way before but got asked to extend the series…and he extended. Unfortunately, there was some schedule conflict that at the end jump didn’t give him enough time to finish the arc properly. I don’t know if it’s true and I don’t bother to do the research lol But that’s exactly how I feel about the arc, the plot seems repetitive for multiple arcs and the ending feels rushed…I still like how he planned the ending tho like the very end, but the plot leading up to it…I’m not very fond of it

The Final movie is just...i don't know what to say lol the plot seemed scattered all over the place and it feels like another silver soul but just shorter...It's not like a bad ending, it's just ok to me. Again I still like gintama A LOT it's just the ending is not my tea.

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The Battle of Rakuyou

I do love the story with kagura's family. The love between Umibozu and Kouka is romantic and tragic, he wanted to save her, but she just wanted to spend as much time with her family :'(

And the aftermath and trauma respond of losing someone that you love is so real in the story. There's someone like Kamui who became avoidant and distant himself from the family and there's someone like Kagura who wants to save everyone and reunite the family like her mother wished to.

For Kamui, I understand where his struggle came from, I can't say I like him but he's definitely a cool and complicated character. I do like some of the Kamui and Kagura interactions, the siblings relationship is definitely very abusive (which's somehow realistic lmao) but also it's funny sometimes. I'm glad at the end he's trying to recover from the trauma and accept his family.

and of course this arc just made me like Kagura more, especially her strong will to protect her family. She definitely treasure everyone she loves T^T

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This reminds me, I saw someone say "if you expect something romantic to happen at the end in gintama, might just as well drop the series" (something like that I dont remember the exact words)

But I totally disagree!!!! Sorachi wrote some good romance in a series that you never expected to have any lol and the variety of love inside gintama is just insane. From falling in love, unrequited love, heartbreak, losing a loved one, divorce, separation, hurting each other out of love, misunderstandings, learning to love, sacrificing for love to fight because of love, what do you mean I can't expect any??

I know romance isn’t the main focus -- the bonds between Gintoki, yorozuya and the people of Edo are what truly matter in this anime. But we can’t ignore that love is also a type of bond. I don’t understand why people who read shonen manga often seem to reject romance. I know it's not the keypoint but you can't exclude it especially gintama have plots that go in depth on love.

Btw I’m not saying I expect them to be pair up at the end, that’s not what i meant, I just think romance or love is also important part of a story

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Also, you probably think why I didn't mention anything about Joui4 and Shoyo...um...because I'm still kinda confuse lol I understand where Takasugi came from but I also don't??? I don't hate the character, I just don't understand...yet...so maybe I will read the manga and left another post.

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I found out the arc that made me cry so much years ago was the one gintoki became a cat lmao I still teared up a bit but I didn’t cry too hard this time.

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Ah yes...I'll definitely write another post for tsukuyo sorry but not sorry Ok that's it for the rant today

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LawxRobin 😍

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Random rant on Gintama popularity poll

1) I’m so glad tsukki made to top 10!! I think it’s quite impressive, considering she only appeared 3-4 times after shogun assassin to silver soul. She still ranked top 9 for the last 3 polls and with these many competition, I’m very happy she made it again 🥹 I knew there are many people love her!!!

2) I’m quite disappointed about how low the female characters ranked. In my opinion, I think sorachi wrote really awesome female characters, and they still rank quite low :/ Like at least for one piece, nami is top 3 (the worldwide one) imo kagura should rank at least top 2/3 for most of the polls and I ain’t joking, kagura is my favorite for a long time when I first watched Gintama, who doesn’t like a girl that’s strong, cute, independent, love and protect her family wholeheartedly? It’s quite disappointing to learn that she only rank 5-6 most of the time.

3) gintoki is another main character that always rank #1, it doesn’t happen quite often in manga apparently

4) Madao didn’t make into top 20 is quite disappointing too

5) Otae and Kondo are in 13-14 is quite interesting, because 1314 in Chinese means they are together a whole lifetime lol

6) feel like sachan should rank higher too _(:_」∠)_

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NOVEL LAW IS GETTING A SEQUEL!

According to @onepiece_mag, the upcoming One Piece magazine (release date: Dec. 4th) has a sequel to Novel Law, with Law as the protagonist.

Cover art/sketches (above) for the Novel Law sequel are drawn by popular artist Kinu Nishimura, @nishi_katsu on twitter.

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i love you nico robin

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It's here!

It turned out huge, but I love it. I hope you guys do too!

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Ah…yes…tsukuyo made me so touched again…

She wanted to see and experience everything, so when he came back, she could tell him all about it,all the changes and all the things that happened so he could walk the same path as everyone else again…

Ah…my girl _(:_」∠)_ she’s so romantic in her own way..

I don’t think y’all will surprise if I wrote a post for gintsu when I finished Gintama right? ♪(´ε｀ )

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So you mean to tell me that Law has BEEN looking for poneglyphs since before Dressrosa, before the timeskip even? My lawbin brain doesn't know what to even do with this information.

How long has he known about the poneglyphs? How long has he known about Robin? Surely, at some point, someone must have told him about the only person who can read them.

If he was told about Robin and was shown her first bounty poster, I would LOVE to know his thought process. A small girl with a bounty. He knows a thing or two about how the government can twist things. I'm sure he would empathize.

Did he read the news about Enies Lobby? We know he spoke about the miracles the straw hats have been able to pull off, but did he read the news about Enies Lobby before meeting them at Sabaody? If so... I wonder what he felt knowing that a rival of the worst generation had found her first. I also wonder about him seeing her updated bounty poster. He now had a more reliable image of her if he wanted to look for her and ask her about the poneglyphs, but she was in a rivaling crew.

I would also like to know what he was thinking when he finally met her in Sabaody because she also knew his name, but she was a bit hostile. I wonder if he already had like a thousand questions to ask her about the poneglyphs but couldn't because she was in a rivaling crew, and she was the first one to caution her captain about him.

I REALLY want to let my delusions loose, but I also wanted to get my more serious thoughts out first. Maybe I'll leave those for a separate post or a reblog later.

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BOOM! POW!

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The Rocky Port incident...

...turned out to be another instance of Law meticulously crafting a plan only to shoot himself in the foot, then forming an emergency alliance and somehow turning the tide in his favor. That's incredibly consistent 😭

But now everything makes more sense. It seems Law's intended bargaining chip for becoming a Shichibukai was to hand over a Poneglyph/rubbings to the World Government, and he was accepted not because he submitted 100 hearts of random pirates, but primarily because he played a key role in taking down Ochoku and saving some VIP royalties (also for securing the Poneglyph, I suppose).

According to the translation we have in hand rn, the name of the vassal Law hijacked was "Rocky Port". We know there's a port in Hachinosu with the same name. Maybe it was named after the ship after this incident.

But what "important" Poneglyph was there, anyway?

I don't think it's the missing Road Poneglyph. Probably a Rio Poneglyph protected by the resident pirates. I wonder if Law was originally looking for the Road Poneglyph possessed by the man marked by flame, but then changed his target. Curious that he didn't know two of the Road Poneglyphs are possessed by pirates, let alone Kaidou and Linlin..

The chaos that broke out was not part of Law's plan, he was lucky that Blackbeard arrived to join the fun, and they could come to an agreement. Koby, on the other hand, was probably the only marine who agreed to work with the pirates, and thus was able to save the most number of innocent 'Rocky Port' passengers.

I'm pretty sure it was Law who proposed the alliance. Scoring cookie points aside, his conscience surely kicked in. He felt responsible for accidentally dragging an entire ship of innocent civilians to a devil's nest, and offered to form a pact with the marines to reduce casualty. Without his presence that buffered both sides, a three way alliance wouldn't have been possible.

I had a hunch that Blackbeard and Law might have worked together for some time. But why did Blackbeard need to work with Law? Was Ochoku that strong?

It seems Law didn't know Blackbeard could use two fruits at once (during their flight at Winner island), so Blackbeard likely didn't go all out. Possibly it was of Blackbeard's best interest to secure his victory without greatly damaging the island that he's soon going to rule, so he decided to follow Law's plan. He likely invited Law to his crew too, similar to Kuzan.

In retrospect, it makes sense as to why the alliance with the Straw hats puzzled Law so much, it wasn't because he didn't expect the chaos but because it was entirely different from his previous experience.

I didn't expect the main story the dive deep into Rocky Port incident, it was only a matter of time until we got a short summary. There's enough meat to it to extend it into a short comic, and there's plenty of time in future.

For now, I'm looking forward to the Japanese fanworks flood on Monday 🍿