#Like watching it we were literally calling it “luffytoons” bc it's so reminiscent | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ayara012 · 1 year ago

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what's funny about one piece is that for all that it takes place on a strange world filled with weird and silly looking characters, they do take their pirating and politics very very seriously and every big confrontation involving one of the big players of this world always has massive worldwide repercussions, but our protagonist is literally just anime bugs bunny and doesn't give a shit about any of that. the essence of this series is really the juxtaposition between the importance of the situations luffy finds himself in VS how little mind he actually pays to them. it's like this image as a 1000+ episode show

#Okay okay okay but like #It's even MORESO with gear 5 #In a meta sense and an animation sense #Because bugs bunny (and a lot of other older comedy cartoon characters)#Are basically able to do whatever they want with the rules if it's funny #And the fight against Kaido with gear 5 luffy is literally changing the shape/form/substance of the things around him #(The ground and kaido mostly)#Like the fucking thing with him grabbing kaido by the snout THROUGH KAIDO'S EYES?#(Putting aside how fucked up it is)#That's cartoon logic! He can do that bc it's funny and he wants to!#And then from an ANIMATION sense #(And tbh havoc you can probably explain this better than I can @shinkai-kaiju)#From an animation sense they change the style they use for the fight!#Like I don't necessarily have the vocabulary to describe it but they break a lot of the stylistic habits of one piece l #And pull on animation and drawing styles that are in fact *very* reminiscent of the slapstick comedy in Western comedy cartoons #A la buggs bunny or Tom and Jerry #Like watching it we were literally calling it “luffytoons” bc it's so reminiscent #Anyway sorry I'm still not over the gear 5 episodes whoops

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