#ch403

[myoswu]

[every-sanji]

[opbackgrounds]

Okay, so the fight between Kalifa and Sanji starts with Sanji closing his eyes, almost as if he can’t stand too look at her, and his first action is to defend rather than attack. Then the first time Sanji does try to hit Kalifa he ends up getting hit right in the balls, aka his masculinity

If you really pay attention to Kalifa here it’s clear that she’s surprised by his strength and speed. Like, there’s some pretty genuine fear in that bottom right panel. It also becomes increasingly clear that Sanji’s pulling his kicks. Kalifa knows it, Sanji knows it, and it ends up costing him the fight.

The one thing that I think gets overlooked with this fight is that Sanji is genuinely trying. He knows Robin’s life is in danger, he knows Kalifa is an enemy, but his hangups about fighting women are so deeply ingrained he can’t overcome them, and Nami ends up saving having to save his ass from a fighter that, going strictly by power levels, is far below Sanji in terms of skill.

Later on when Sanji rescues Usopp from Jabra and gives him the speech of doing what only you can do, and depending on others for the rest he’s speaking from experience. Sanji can’t fight women just like Usopp couldn’t fight Jabra, and it’s up to the rest of the crew to cover for those weaknesses.

[sistamajor]

idk if this completely conveys my feelings now, I feel like it’s not enough and isn’t explained to its fullest, but, yeah. It’s on a whim, maybe I’ll clean it and make the message more direct?

Ugh I feel so complicate

Anxiously Waiting for Updates... 🧡💚

[herbarimoon]

Sharing the same dream

[evilkaeya]

yk at the beginning of orv i couldn't understand why ppl shipped yoohankim. now it makes sense.

[parsimonius]

SPOILERS FOR MHA CH403

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

HE LIVED BITCHESSSS🎉🎉🎉

MY FAVORITE KID FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO IVE WATCHED GROW INTO AN AMAZING PERSON AND APOLOGIZE FOR HIS MISTAKE LIVESSSSS HAHSHS (I know this isn’t dc related but mha used to be my fixation for a long while before dc, sooooo)

[grantyort]

Reading Ch403 And Wondering What Happened To All Might

[1cassis]

@ch403-593 photo coll

[mikkisworld]

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[joythemusical]

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[iiloffy]

[every-sanji]

[opbackgrounds]

With One Piece’s heavy emphasis on Romanticism as a philosophy it’s very important (and at times difficult) to determine the difference between a genuine character flaw and something that is Admirable But Stupid(tm).

Take for instance Zoro’s first fight with Mihawk during the Baratie arc. His insistence that wounds on a back are a swordsman shame could be seen as stupid--something Sanji himself points out, funnily enough--if your goal is simply to survive a fight with the World’s Greatest Swordsman.

But Zoro’s goal isn’t to survive, it’s to surpass Mihawk while following his own code of honor. If he dies he dies, but it’s going to be on Zoro’s terms, not Mihawk’s. Such sacrifice could be seen as stupid and senseless, but following the Romantic themes of the series it’s also kind of admirable, and thus Zoro’s duel with Mihawk is portrayed *in series* as a positive event.

Nami being impressed by Sanji’s chivalry also acts as an in-universe signifier that his refusal to hit women also fits into the category of Admirable But Stupid(tm), fitting within Sanji’s particular Romantic ideal. But where Zoro’s fight with Mihawk is portrayed wholly in a positive light, Sanji’s fight with Kalifa is marred by Sanji giving into a senseless death instead of simply running away when he realized he was outmatched.

And that honestly fits in with Sanji’s character throughout the series. Zoro’s potential death against Mihawk was ultimately in service of Zoro’s dream to become the World’s Greatest. One Piece consistently says that risking your life in pursuit of your ambition is a risk you have to take, and usually falls in the category of Admirable But Stupid(tm).

But Sanji losing to Kalifa doesn’t serve any greater purpose. It doesn’t help further his dream, and it sure as hell doesn’t help Robin. Him choosing to fight to the death knowing that he would die is, as Nami says, Stupid But Not Admirable(tm), and he’s chastised for it by the narrative in a way he never is for his chivalry.

[komehyappyou]

Naruto Vol 1-4: Small Details, references, culture.

vol/ch 1, naruto steals important scroll, and Choji’s dad/lookalike is with a crowd of people chanting

"As soon as we find him kill him!”  became a joke called 秋道チョウザを許すな/Do not forgive Akimichi Choza.  Choza's next appearance is during Konoha crush.

Naruto drinks spoiled milk, stomach anguish, goes to public toilet.

Note: limit 15cm of toilet paper.....

.........................15cm?!!

Before naruto booby-traps Kakashi with chalk eraser, there’s an umbrella with eel and dog on sides.

equiv to heart drawing with two names. eel and dog like each other. In manga/anime called 天才バカボンtenseibakabon with character that's a ウナギイヌ/eeldog.

vol 2, ch12, there’s a cover with serious kakashi, next to curious face,

へのへのもへじ/henohenomoheji/ face drawn with hiragana. it's the stereotypical scarecrow/kakashi face. kishimotosensei did a little sneaky face and scarecrow on vol 3 cover. Kakashi’s dogs has the face, and it’s in kakashi’s room. maybe more sneaky faces drawn.

Naruto suffering thousand years murder.

Kakashi’s... 千年殺し“thousand years of death” is a chain reference.

Before modern times/medicine, there was belief in “strike a acupuncture point and the person will die xx period of time later”, in addition, it juuust so happens that in japan it’s a popular children prank to poke people inside the butt. kancho

manga 空手バカ一代karatebakaichidai/Karate Master popularized where the main character describes secret terrifying technique 三年殺し/ThreeYearsMurder/ where he hits a point, and the victim dies three years later.

It became a joke to say that the point was “kancho”

gag manga トイレット博士/DoctorToliet parodied it and made 七年殺し/七年ゴロシ /7yearsMurder. Where a person is “assassinated” through.... a process, pointing 7 fingers in and then so the victim dies 7 years later.

image may be inappropriate: http://hidemaru-823.jugem.jp/?eid=1848 The guy does shout 臨兵闘者皆陣列在前 , a kuji, i think the same as the names of the naruto books.

I would translate as “thousand year murder” like it takes 1000 years for the technique to kill. I don’t know what “Thousand years of death” means, but I do think it sounds cool.

In Land of waves, 八百屋/yaoya/800Shop,  generic term for vegetable shop. 800 can mean “a lot”, more like “abundance”.

NoteUnderSign: “Don’t pee”

Throwing Kunai.

mistranslated?

Sasuke: "Sharingan is abnormal condition that only appears in one part of the family linage(s) of the Uchiha.". said again in tonosho, pg 177 一族の中でも一部の血統にのみ発現する"血継限界". released after kakashi gaiden.

What did the rest of Uchiha do? Flashback Uchiha store shops,vol 25,  vol 44,ch403, had 虎視bar, 酒sake store, senbei shop/makers/primeMemeMaterial 😅 , and...子门... uncommon kanji for entrance/door, uncommon for..

seed/produce shop (seed packets....farmers). Also Nakano Shrine : priest and miko.. lots to say, but not here... maybe never... In addition, Nakano, not Naka, as they would be two different shrines/rivers.

not supposed to have faces...

Haku, Zabuza, rabbit.

Gato’s guys....android 16 from dragonballz! A few of them wear chinese style clothing..

attempt at this, testing? want more? list is incomplete//(naruto room notes, etc) very disorganized.may do some updates.

[stephanericherthanyou]

Ch399-423

Ch399: Deicide

that’s my boy!!! so thoughtful!!! ichigo!!! (lskdfj ‘well aren’t you just a regular poet’ gin pls)

‘ya know how far it extends?’ ‘nope and i don’t care’ ICHIGO PLS

i wonder was gin destroying the buildings to get at ichigo...destroying ur (fake) town & there’s nothing u can do about it

Ch400: Deicide 2

Ch401: Deicide 3

‘so you came....urahara kisuke!’ me: heh heh came

Ch402: Deicide 4

ichigo: ‘...wow...’

(and in that moment, ichigo fell in love?)

Ch403: Deicide 5

k-kawaii?! i don’t want to be that person who always changes their icon BUT

“it’d be lovely if something like that was the end of this, since that would mean he was just an ordinary monster.”

Ch404: Deicide 6

Ch405: Deicide 7

aizen: ur the only being in soul society whose intellect exceeds my own; even though we may not be equal in power, you are still of interest to me

urahara: /rolls eyes into the sun IM A CANDY STORE OWNER

that handshake meme but it’s urahara & trafalgar law and the hand is ��i’m a [nominally-above-the-law-profession]” catchphrase, actually a career criminal

benihime <3

Ch406: Deicide 8 [End of the Chrysalis Age]

(anyway it’s nice that, in the fake karakura, real citizens of real karakura are the ones driving it, especially urahara who has lived there for like 100 years)

the cover page is beautiful

Ch407: Deicide 9

Ch408: Deicide 10

i mean i guess isshin had to see ichigo doing getsuga tensho at some point? but how did he know he could? or is it bc after ichigo was born he went to urahara and was like ‘so how do genetics work’ and urahara was like ‘his power will also be like urs bc both moons and everything but the rain happened so kyoka suigetsu’ or

“if this happened because of ichigo, then he’s also the one who’s going to do something about this” man she knows him so well TATSUKIIIII :’((((((

Ch409: Deicide 11

“as if i care about what becomes of the things you want to protect” tensa!

“the things that you want to protect are not the things that i want to protect...!” what does he mean tho...does he mean like....quincy stuff or like, ichigo’s body bc he needs it or what

Ch410: Deicide 12

and here we go quick a/b/c/a plot, much different from the hueco mundo timez (tho....is everyone else just chilling there still)

OH DUH tensa wants to protect the power

weh keigo....the crawling tension and horror of this atmosphere tho. i can hear the quiet of the town from the page.

Ch411: Deicide 13

DON KANOJI......PLS.......i was legit shocked i totally forgot this part laskdjf

nnnn gin in the background

Ch412: Deicide 14

tatsuki :(

damn gin got her where it hurts.....like, he’s so cruel. he did all this pointless shit nominally for rangiku and kubo flat-out says that’s never what she wanted, and this is what starts to hammer in the point. i do keep harping on this whenever gin/ran comes up in canon but i do think it’s well-executed in a way. gin claimed to do it for her but he was really only doing it for himself, and that’s the awful tragedy of it. and in terms of competing ships, like....i don’t really ship him with anyone (like canon gin/ran is fine as it is to the plot but i don’t really feel a particular way toward it) but like i can absolutely see him getting with aizen/tosen/kira/ulquiorra/etc while claiming/believing that his heart belongs to her or wtv. he never came off as ~truly devoted/loyal~ to me i guess? but i’m not a shipper so perhaps i shouldn’t speak too much on this.

Ch413: Deicide 15

“no way, what a cheater. guess he’s not human. ok then, we’ll leave these here” MIZUIRO PLS

Ch414: Deicide 16

yeah it was some good shit ok

Ch415: Deicide 17

KUBO PANEL YESSS

so butterflaizen makes his appearance at long last...

Ch416: Deicide 18 (The End)

“the end” but there are 5 more deicide chaps after this, kubo you troll

take a shot every time someone gets impaled (did i say that already)

let’s play ‘do i both read and write the kind of stories i like or is bleach a primary influence on my writing’ take 10000. i am still thinking about that - with other influences, i can think of concretely trying to write like that or thinking ‘i like that, i wanna do it’ from before i started reading bleach at all. and some of this stuff didn’t consciously register with me - like, ‘here’s a stark panel on a white background of someone getting impaled by a sword’? didn’t notice its relative frequency (and i love coming back to the same things in my writing, variations on a theme), nor the fucktons of extended metaphors, focus on the inner mind of the main pov character, atmosphere....idk it’s hard to say. like which is it? influence can be unconscious ofc but, i really do wonder /navelgaze

Ch417: Deicide 419

oh ofc ichigo’s hair & beardo’s beard grew longer since they were in there like a month lol (and ig leaving him in there is why rangiku never saw him?)

“imoyama-san” ICHIGO PLS

also these kubo panels of ichigo, KUBO KNOWS HOW PRETTY HE MADE HIM and is just reveling in it.....beautiful son.....

Ch418: Deicide 20

“does it scare you when things you don’t understand happen right before your very eyes” ICHIGO

Ch419: Deicide 21 [Transcendent God Rock]

“i’ve had all i can take of your logic...” nnnnn fuck

Ch420: Deicide 22

uhhhh blaze it

(”why is there nothing but loneliness flowing from his sword into me?” aww tensa doesn’t wanna be alone again)

sldkjf aizen looks like venom im gonna fucken

moonless sky......no moon on the water 4 u!!!!

Ch421: Deicide 23

Ch422: The Silent Victory

This is also marked as 420? A misprint? I’ve been numbering the rest wrong? Kubo stoned?

ROLL CALL!

Ch423: Farewell Swords

“what do u think a captain’s haori is”

so shuuhei is taller than renji huh? interesting....

“whenever you disappeared you’d never leave mea nything to remember you by and i hated that part of you, but if you did leave me something i’d probably be stuck in that spot forever, and i’m sure you knew that about me”

OH.....the pain on their faces :(

“towards peaceful days” uh kubo?