#ch 215

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Hello! I recently reread part of Alabasta in translation into my native language and was surprised to see that in Chapter 215, Bon Kurei's crewmembers address him as "Ms." (or more like "ma'am"), while in the English translation, which I read first, they use "Mr.". Which gender do they use to address him in Japanese?

bon kurei's crewmates address him with the highly respectful honorific -sama, which is gender-neutral. so both masculine and feminine terms of respect could be accurate!

[i-have-no-enemies]

Me, seeing chapter 215 is up: yay! New chapter. I hope we’ll see Thorfinn again. I hope things at the village will at least get a bit better. Vargar is strong and he supports Thorfinn, he will take care of this situation.

Me, reading it: I HAVE REACHED MY BREAKING POINT

[nezuchuuko]

[lloydfrontera]

Do you think Javier wants to be hailed a hero? We know he wants to be a knight or considers him a knight which is why he saves people. But would he want to have the glory that comes with it? What if there was a monster attack or war on the different side of the kingdom and only he was requested by Alicia to help would he go?

Do you think Javier wants to be hailed a hero? We know he wants to be a knight or considers him a knight which is why he saves people. But would he want to have the glory that comes with it?

eeehh not really!

A knight who was always sided with the weak. A hero who pursued justice over immediate power. Lloyd suddenly recalled Javier's appearances throughout the original novel. Yes. Right. I forgot because he's with me all the time, but he was always like this. Javier preferred a conversation in front of a bonfire to a luxurious banquet. He preferred to use the money for a extravagant meal to buy dozens of bread loaves for people in need. He didn’t hesitate to act and didn’t come to regret his decisions. This aspect of his personality remained unchanged even when he became the grandmaster in the novel. If he really wanted, he could have attained all the power and wealth he wanted. If he really made an effort, he could easily have had his own kingdom. But Javier didn’t. He’s really quite the man.

javier doesn't care about power or glory. he easily could've gotten those if he wanted. heck, we outright see him reject the queen's offer to become commander of the royal guards and we're told the same thing happened in tkobai!

“She wanted to see me separately right after the investigation. Her voice was serious.” “What did she say?” “She told me that the position of the commander of the royal guards is open,” Javier explained. “Did she promise to offer you the position? The queen?” “Yes,” Javier nodded as he spoke. Then he added, “So I told her I don’t want it.” “And?” Lloyd stared at Javier intently. “She asked why.” “What was your answer?” “I told her that my only master is Baron Frontera, and no one else.” Javier’s voice grew more serious as if he felt assured by his own words. “Thankfully. Her Highness understood my heart. She smiled and said that she envied the baron. I am very relieved,” said Javier. “Yes, truly, it’s a relief,” Lloyd couldn’t help but smile, and he thought Javier’s reaction was very much like his. The same thing happened in the novel, I think. In the novel, Javier turned down the offer from the queen and the emperor to work for them. And the reason he gave them was pretty much the same as what he just gave. I think it was about how there was only one lord for him, and that was the late Baron Frontera. With such talent, Javier could’ve lived a life of fame and luxury, but he rejected all those good things for the sake of loyalty. Seriously, he’s an impressive guy.

at no point does javier ever express that he wishes to be known as a hero or that he wishes for the glory that would come from it. and his actions do not betray a secret desire for it either. he could've gotten any of that at any point he wanted but he doesn't really care for it. he just wants to keep the family he loves and his home safe.

What if there was a monster attack or war on the different side of the kingdom and only he was requested by Alicia to help would he go?

mmmhhh i'm,,, not sure. on one hand, i literally just put a quote of him outright rejecting alicia's offer to work fo her. but on the other,,, he does have a very strong desire to help people. to the point where he's willing to sacrifice his life and leave his charge behind (at a relatively safe distance) to do so.

i'm gonna go with,, a tentative no. not without having arcos and/or lloyd's blessing or orders. not if it isn't a direct threat to the frontera estate. i don't think he would abandon his duty to the fronteras even if asked by alicia.

but i say 'tentative' because i do believe that if the threat was high enough that alicia, a highly skilled swordmaster with thousands of soldiers at her disposal, requested for javier's assistance, then it would be a threat dangerous enough to put the entire kingdom at risk, including the frontera estate. so like. maybe javier would see it as part of his duty to defeat the threat so it doesn't have the chance to reach their territory. but even so, i just have a very hard time seeing him leaving without arcos or lloyd's permission.

especially after the ending! at that point javier's loyalties have shifted to make lloyd a priority above almost anything else. if lloyd refused to let him go then i don't see javier disobeying him or leaving him unprotected like that (nevermind that he has a bone dragon, four fantastical creatures, and a skelleton army but i digress).

so like. it would very much depend on whether the fronteras give him their permission or not. and if they don't, then it would have to be big enough threat that javier considered it a danger to the frontera estate if he doesn't go defeat it for him to disobey their orders.

also i just remembered @sunflowercider replied to an ask with a similar scenario and i agree with her! javier is loyal to one family only and if that family isn't in danger then he won't leave them behind queen's orders or not.

so. yeah aksjdlfd

[sunflowercider]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ninhaoma-ya]

Chapter 1071 — A hero’s offensive

And we leap straight into the action.

a) Kuma is one big man. Look at ‘em tiny humans gawking!

b) Panels like these really show how sloppy Oda’s linework has become, which is a shame. It makes it hard to distinguish Kuma’s prostrate body from the ground in the middle panel and the people on both sides.

If we contrast with this panel of the crowd attending princess Vivi’s coming-of-age-speech:

The individual people are still visible (and individual), the lines are clean and neat and there is a weight behind the people as we see them disappear into the background.

Back to the story.

Welp, aren’t you a contrary little kittenpaw, Mr. Lucci?

The change from Enies Lobby is quite interesting. There he did whatever Spandam wanted, since he recognised the power Spandam wielded as designated chief of CP9. I wonder what makes him reject the government’s designation now? “Emperor” is still just a title given to people that can upset the balance of the seas and if they see Luffy as important enough, why is he rejecting their analysis?

Off on many tangents this chapter, aren’t I?

Vegapunk really is shameless.

And Kaku suddenly saw his life flash in front of his eyes. Again.

So Killer is their navigator? Iiiiiiinteresting…

And Garp is going to Fullalead to rescue Koby. Does this mean Luffy will keep as far away as possible or go there as fast as possible? Or will they go to Elbaf and fulfil Usopp’s dream?

Interesting question, that: will the crewmember’s dreams get fulfilled before or after Luffy’s?

The prevailing theory about All Blue is that Red Line will break and all the seas form one new sea, the All Blue, so Sanji will see his dream realised after that, which probably is the final fight. Brooks will also see Laboon once he can swim between seas. Zoro is the strongest swordsman once he defeats Mihawk (or Shiryu defeats Mihawk and Zoro defeats Shiryu) until someone else defeats him so his dream is on-going, in a way. Chopper’s is on-going as well, since new illnesses pop up all the time and they haven’t visited all the islands yet. Nami’s dream will take approximately seventy years and Franky’s dream is fulfilled when hers is, since both involve sailing the seas in the Sunny. Robin’s dream… is nebulous, but might get fulfilled once they reach Laugh Tale? And what even is Jinbe’s dream?

Nice little chapter, I give it a call for help and an answered prayer.

[every-monkey-d-luffy]

[every-god-usopp]

[shiro-s2e2-erukinzu]

I was gonna share my favorite parts of this chapter early today, but I discovered that Dandadan was now available to read on the Shonen Jump app (instead of just being web only) and I just HAD to finally check it out after hearing so many good things about it...!! 😆 Anyway, back to some of my favorite things that happened in Chapter 215 of Undead Unluck!! 😁:

[UNDEAD UNLUCK CH. 215 SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON, SO BE CAREFUL!]

Tatiana lecturing Fuuko...!! 😂:

This scene was just really funny to me...!! 😂 I didn't expect it at all!! 😆

Tatiana making Fuuko and the others her bodyguards...!! 😆:

I thought it was hilarious how Tatiana just fires her bodyguards for not being able to find her and just hires Fuuko and the gang on the spot...!! 🤣

Tatiana's outfit...!! 💗

TATIANA LOOKS SO ADORABLE IN IT!! 💗 I also love Fuuko's reaction on the same page:

💗🤗💗🤗💗🤗💗🤗💗🤗💗

THIS PAGE...!! 💗🥹💗

SO SWEET!! 💗🥹💗

And those were some of my favorite things this chapter!! 😄 I can't wait to see Fuuko and the gang do everything that they can to NEGATE Tatiana's tragedy, just like what Fuuko says on the last page...!! 😆:

Anyway, I'll see you all in the next one!! LATER!! 👋😁

[gremlingirlsmell]

i think if this happened to me I'd just pass out on the spot

[marcsnuffy]

5, 9, and 25 with snuffy for the character ask game 🎤❓

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

I already answered this question but here's an actual answer: Déjà Vu by Gustavo Cerati

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

This question is too unspecific. I want to say sure, I don't think he'd be a bad roommate + I don't think he'd be around most of the time bc of football but like, am **I** a good enough roommate? I think I'd put pressure on myself to be a good roommate in this situation. tl;dr: not sure

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

I can't remember what my first thoughts were apart from "oh this guy looks like Zlatan, kinda" and that I had some mild interest abt the title Ego introduced him with & what Noa said abt Ubers being tactics+defense based over everything else. Now, he's one of my favorite characters !!!

[blue-lock-rocky]

head empty only snuffy

[every-nami]

[every-chopper]

[idyllicbby]

this is such a bad bitch panel

[psychewritesbs]

gege akutami is a menace to society actually

in case you haven't read, I'm talking about 215, so you can ignore me when you're ready

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he saw us have a little hope last week and had to send us tumbling again 😢

it's going to be a tough ride for sure ~

I honestly don't know how they'll be able to handle sukuna at full form bc even with the limitations, he was still countering. It'd be even worse if he's willing to work with kenjaku too. For some reason (denial), I have a feeling megumi's going to overcome this. I won't comment more on that because i feel like i'll spiral (cannot believe maki said its weird seeing megumi's face on someone being strong 😭) On another note, sukuna and co's eventual defeat will be worthwhile for how much suffering they've caused and will cause. Sukuna's choice to leave yuji alive will definitely come back to bite him, but it's interesting that his joy comes from seeing yuji suffer and look pathetic than giving him death. He despises everything about yuji and I see him praising others and he calls yuji boring (he's not but I'll let you live today sukuna). I don't like theorizing too too much for fear of raising expectations, but I'm really curious about sukuna's life during the heian period.

When sukuna and uraume laughed at yuji, I felt like I was laughed at too. I guess we'll be seeing his bath scene next.

Anyway, thanks for reading !! Have a good day/night.

(Will I ever go off anon? We'll see one day !!)

HOLA! Happy JJK-Sunday!!!!

Ok. hang I'm just going to go ahead and...

gege akutami is a menace to society actually

There... I felt like it needed to be said louder for the people in the back who may still be on the fence about getting into JJK.

Ok brainrot about chapter 215 under the cut!

Ah yes, no worries about chapter leaks lol. My weekly routine involves checking leaks first thing Wednesday and Friday mornings and nerding out with the moots about it 😂.

Like I am for real worried about JJK ending because what am I going to obsess over when it ends?!!!!!

WHAT KIND OF NORMAL EXISTENCE WILL I BE FORCED TO ENDURE?!!!!!!

But anyways, I did hold off on posting my reply to you until today (Sunday) for those who follow this hellhole of a blog of mine and don't actually read leaks.

he saw us have a little hope last week and had to send us tumbling again 😢

it's going to be a tough ride for sure ~

Yesssss I was hoping we'd get to see Megumi inside the inner domain wrecking Sukuna or at least inflicting some sort of damage 🥲🤧. SOMETHING! ANYTHING!

Regardless, Megumi fighting Sukuna from within whenever his friends are in danger is so... this boy is so beautiful and he doesn't even get it.

To your point about this being a though ride, Frenchie is my voice of reason when it comes to my fatalist fear of Megumi's death. @justafrenchlondoner recently said some good stuff about how Gege is probably trying to get us to feel like all hope is lost before something good happens.

After all, it isn't uncommon to see events continue to escalate in a sort of "it's going to get much much worse before it gets better" kind of way.

For some reason (denial), I have a feeling megumi's going to overcome this. I won't comment more on that because i feel like i'll spiral

Riiiiight so I'm still rather unwilling to let myself hope Megumi is surviving for the mere fact that I don't want to be hurt. That's just my nature tho.

If I break my heart now then I won't be heartbroken later on if it turns out that Megumi is not surviving.

Sound logic as you can see lol. I have a tendency to come up with worst case scenarios.

Despite that, I think the idea of Megumi surviving this ordeal to carry on and change the Jujutsu scheme of things makes a lot of sense. Not to mention having to carry the burden of responsibility for the memory of the people he cared about but lost along the way, quite possibly because of his own miscalculations.

Ugh... depressing.

It's so "Watanabe-ending" in its execution but far, far more depressing, brutal and cruel.

gege akutami is a menace to society actually

On another note, sukuna and co's eventual defeat will be worthwhile for how much suffering they've caused and will cause. Sukuna's choice to leave yuji alive will definitely come back to bite him, but it's interesting that his joy comes from seeing yuji suffer and look pathetic than giving him death.

Yeeeeeeessss. I really like the idea that Sukuna's continued underestimating of Yuji will come back to bite him in the ass. I personally will not be surprised if Yuji takes Sukuna back into himself and then kills himself in a self-sacrificial fashion.

Very Pisces of him. Very dying on the cross for our sins symbolism.

I was also thinking about the idea that Sukuna feeds off of other's suffering too. This whole idea around him being a hedonist with no regards for others takes on a whole new dimension when you consider he might go out of his way to cause suffering because it brings him joy.

It feels like an exploration of a demonic being which made me realize that I think that I've taken for granted that JJK is a horror story and that Gege may be using horror tropes.

This only become clear to me as of late when Sukuna possessed Megumi's body. It was a total execution of demonic possession where the person who gets possessed has to be mentally weakened in order for the demon to take over.

Also, from my understanding of demonic entities, they are said to feed off of negative emotions and actually orchestrate situations that cause suffering precisely so that they can feed off of these emotions.

When sukuna and uraume laughed at yuji, I felt like I was laughed at too.

I couldn't have said it better...

I have to admit that this is one of my favorite panels ever because, as you say, it's SO DESPICABLE of them to laugh at Yuji when he's so utterly broken after having miserably failed at saving Megumi.

I have personally been fascinated with the reactions this panel has gotten because it speaks to something very real.

Whether it is the experience of being bullied or our unwillingness and complete rejection of the very same evil that exists within, I feel like Gege struck a deep cord with the execution.

gege akutami is a menace to society actually

And this is one of the things that have been on my mind about Gege lately--his execution of events as of late has been far more brutal and cruel than before.

Idk how to explain but the events in Shibuya were bad and shocking... but #things right now just feel hopeless and it feels like Gege is unleashing his self-loathing onto his characters--and his self-loathing is cruel and brutal.

With mangaka like him I always have to wonder about their psyche. i.e. CLAMP's Nanase Okawa has an uncanny ability to take you into deep pits of relatable grief and meaningless despair right along with her characters.

All of the above said, I also agree with Frenchie about how I both hate and love Gege for the execution of this moment.

The fact that Gege was able to depict a deep experience of despair through Yuji and then elicit hate from the audience, it speaks to his ability as a story-teller and how the story he's telling resonates deeply with the audience in a cathartic fashion.

Also, not sure if you've seen this post by littleholmes but it includes a photo of what might be the Harima statue in question.

And like... the despair this child statue seems to be experiencing and expressing is so palpable, and I love Gege for making a reference to it because it speaks to Yuji's inner child's grief and helplessness and suffering for not being able to impose his will upon his environment.

Not sure if Spooky will write about it in more detail but I also love what @linkspooky said about the idea that Yuji trying to "Shonen protagonist" his way through things usually doesn't work out.

It's a nice twist on how Shonen mcs just barrel their way through #things with their typical Shonen mc single-minded determination, and everything works out because of the power of friendship or something like that.

Not to sound like a broken record, but this is why I don't understand the idea that JJK is cliché Shonen. There's so much happening underneath the surface that is so rich in commentary on common shonen tropes.

Anyway, thanks for reading !! Have a good day/night.

(Will I ever go off anon? We'll see one day !!)

Thanks for stopping by and sharing all the #thoughts once again!

If you ever come off anon I am looking forward to it. If you don't... well, I'll be looking forward to hearing from you again regardless.

Have a happy JJK Sunday!