#Arc: Long Ring Long Land

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[lowqualityonepiece]

[biscuitboba]

Thinking about luffy making aokiji/kuzan promise not to attack the strawhats (his crew) VS zoro making kuma promise not to lay a hand on 'strawhat' (luffy) and im ill again...

Once again, emphasizing on monkey d. (i will sacrifice myself to save everyone) luffy and roronoa (i will sacrifice myself to save you) zoro (More about this topic HERE)

[sanjis-moulinrouge]

me watching Zoro and Sanji during the long ring long land arc: they are married but they still don't know

[dyingbowlofpetunias]

OBSESSED with Zosan teaming up against the Foxy pirates. Like if they dont even realize how much better they work as a team what else are they fucking blind to?!👀

And then "lend me a hand for 10 seconds" "ok,seems reasonable" and they know thats all they need if they really work together ... I despise them fr

[dicerxll]

Working my way through Long Ring Long Land, and had to draw the prettiest girl in the world <3

[shusuikokuto]

i love themmm

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[lowqualityonepiece]

[biscuitboba]

Thinking about skypiea and how much trust luffy put in his first mate, I'm ILL again.

"With you here... ... How could this happen?!"

Luffy couldn't even fathom the idea of zoro failing to keep the rest of the crew safe, like the idea seemed pretty much unthinkable. So for luffy to see his first mate lying there, beaten up, and unconscious???

But even after Skypiea luffy never loses his trust in zoro and i think that's beautiful.

Like, we all know the SHC means everything to luffy. So trusting zoro with his nakama means so muchh, you don't understand-

1. Long Ring Long Land Arc

2. Post War Arc

His nakama means the world to him, and luffy entrusts them to zoro the most (in 'certain' kind of situations), i'm just-

[deadite-central]

Long Ring Long Land here we go!! I try to be more positive than negative during my read, but nothing is above criticism and god do I have problems with this arc

But before that, we get one last look at Cricket, a lovely conclusion to the Skypeia saga. The beginning of the arc in itself is actually pretty good!

We also get the second appearance of Doflamingo. Jaya already set him up as an unhinged guy with a weird power that forces people to act despite their wishes, and I love it when one piece villains don’t have their powers revealed from the beginning letting us think for ourselves. My personal idea when I first saw him was a fruit that turned people into puppets

He goes on about a New Era, disposing of Bellamy, who has been nothing but loyal to him, and like I said before with Crocodile, it works to set him up as a man who sees his underlings as tools to be used

Enough about Doffy, let’s go back to the Straw Hats:

The beginning of their adventure on Long Ring Long Land is pretty funny, the long ass animals are hilarious, the world building about how the island works is cool, and I love the little moments between the old man and his horse

Unfortunately, the second Foxy appears things start going downhill. The introduction of the Davy Back fights is important, but because of Foxy being a pretty nothing character, with the occasional funny gag, and his crew being absolutely unmemorable, the arc feels kinda,, empty?? I don’t know how to exactly say it but I just don’t feel any of the usual excitement or urgency, and I haven’t felt it while originally watching the anime either

The jokes are fun tho so the arc definitely has comedy going for it, and Luffy FINALLY punching Foxy to oblivion is such a cathartic moment because Foxy IS SO ANNOYING

Good thing, just like the beginning, the very ending of the arc is really good, with the introduction to Aokiji, and Robin’s character arc winding back up again, one that had been set up way back in Alabasta, and I’d call this the true start of the Water 7 saga

Speaking of what’s to come in this saga, Usopp is currently having doubts about whether or not he’s cut out for all of this, which will result in one of the most gut wrenching moments (for me at least) in this entire series

[usopps-left-bollock]

Usopp being Luffy's corner man in the combat round of the Davy Back fight is the funniest joke in the arc...

COZ HE'S LITERALLY LUFFY'S CORNER MAN

[sancastarcs]

ANOTHER ARC WHERE NAMI AND USOPP HATE THEIR LIFES??? SIGN ME UP!!! long ring long island will be fun!

[ikebanaka]

I understand now why anime watchers hate Long Ring Long Land so much. Like, it is hands down my least favorite arc, but the anime takes an arc that only has minor emotional hooks until you get to Aokiji and strips away half of them by removing all the casual violence.

They shot the horse, y'all. None of that net nonsense. And then everyone on shore during the race blatantly tried to kill Nami, Usopp, and Robin, and were stopped by the Monster Trio. The Foxy Pirates were doing their best to actually kill or steal the Strawhats, and because none of them took that seriously they almost lost Chopper for good.

Even if I don't really care for Long Ring Long Land, it's supposed to drive home that even games can't be taken lightly if you want to be a pirate. It's the point where the crew is at their most confident that it'll all work out, because it always has before. Hell, they just beat God! So they let their confidence rule them, let themselves believe that being a pirate doesn't carry that much risk at this point, and nearly lose it all because of a stupid, pointless game.

And just when they win, just when their misplaced confidence seems to have been rewarded- that is the exact moment Aokiji intervenes and shows them just how badly they've misjudged everything. He demolishes them with minimal effort, without even caring, and they survive on luck alone. Just to drive it home.

Canonically, this is the point where Luffy realizes he's been taking it too easy and he has to change things up a bit. Censoring the violence and adding filler before Aokiji shows up totally dilutes that tiny bit of substance this stupid arc has, and it's really pissing me off.

[phant0ma]

I'm actually gonna scream I thought I was finally at water 7 BUT IT'S LONG RING LONG LAND AND IT'S GOT SO MANY FCKING EPISODES

it's so funny and silly (esp for my little zosan heart) but MAN

[shusuikokuto]

chopper is so cute and focused right after being returned from the foxy pirates