#episode 1088

[empressofmankind]

[Part I] [Part II]

Oh, SURE.

It's only a dozen odd pirates with billionaire Wanted Poster status on the loose again.

No big deal.

WE SHOULD BE OK.

You better mention the mens now, Robin.

Catch me shouting 'Frreee Wanniii!' when she talked about setting the mens free to the sea, where they belong.

Me but w Croc, ngl

I imagine you recognised LOTR, but this is probably well, truly and comfortably before ya'll's time.

I forgive you.

me having pants problem

At any rate, the boys are back!

The BoYs R BaCk iN ToWn

In sepia, no less. So classy. Much WoW.

I feel robbed of a sepia Bugs though!!

Ahhhh~

Clownboi gets a dramatic full colour we haven't seen.

Me over here, rubbing Croc's shoulders like, don't be upset. Nobody thinks you're the clown's errand boy. Nobody. I promise.

I AM FINE.

I am completely NORMAL about them.

WHEEZES. Me @ing Croc: See??????? Nobody is buying it. Not even sticks-for-brains over here.

I love how Luffy is always like. 110% unto the plot. But then everyone is like "oh Luffy…"

He's so adorkable, I wanna adopt him.

Benji needs a big brother anyway!

And we aren't asking Law to babysit, omfg. He'd probably let her smoke weed or something. SHE'S TEN.

ARGH, I hate getting cock-teased about Luffy's true/secret/actual dream cccccccmonnnn tell me???

But it's probably the end all, be all, plot line. We can't be far off now. How much more, 2 years? 3 years? We're getting there.

I've said it before and I am saying it again - the One Piece is freedom.

The kind of freedom only a ship and the wide open sea can provide, literally or otherwise.

THAT is Luffy's dream.

To be free, and to bring freedom to everyone else.

Just like Roger did.

That notion is as old as the age of piracy itself, mind. And isn't that what the manga calls it, the "great age of piracy"?

Freedom.

I am telling you:

[umbrace-rambles]

They CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS. I NEED TO KNOW

[hauntingblue]

BACK TO ONE PIECE LETSGOOOOO

[ratfest]

my heartbeat sounds funny!

[ichigoginchan]

THEM BULLYING ZORO >>>

then there's zoro bullying sanji lol

[beanghostprincess]

He brings joy to the world. He's happiness itself. He's the sweetest thing in the whole universe. How do I tattoo an image to my eyelids?

[elles-home]

spoilers until episode 1088 of one piece

cant stop thinking about boa hancock, who is written to be one of the most selfish characters in one piece but in a malicious way as opposed to luffy's self-indulgence, and how she's become less and less of that and more compassionate over time, especially in towards her feelings for luffy

(and i know we all talk about how that is not a good ship, how she was 29 crushing on a 17 year old, but genuinely, i think, luffy's aroace ass may have been the only man she has ever met that didnt immediately sexualise her (maybe my mans rayleigh too, but more on that later), and i can only imagine what it felt like her to not be an object of admiration of beauty despite how much she revels in it or weaponises it, and to see the way luffy defends her and her sister's honor, even mid fight (i saw someone on tiktok call luffy a girls girl over this and i was like omg. so true) and immediately fall in love)

i let the point run away from me

all of this to say the amount of trust she has in rayleigh, a sort of father figure to a woman from an island filled with women that do not traditionally have fathers in a parental role. the way she was kneeling by him, torso thrown across his knee while he had a hand over her shoulder. the absolute trust she has in this man to protect her and look after her, for he was one of the people that rescued her as she was running away into freedom after years of being subjected to slavery, and i dont even want to assume what kind of treatment she received from men in the years she spent up with the celestial dragons, and how gentle rayleigh would have had to be when they met for him to earn her trust

just thinking about boa hancock. yeah it sucks she's crushing on someone ten years her junior, but it genuinely is very in line with her character

she's just a girl

i love her

[end3rs-eye]

i have 40 minutes of content to watch and only 30 to do it...

[soranatus]

MONKEY D. DRAGON 🐉 🌸 Episode 1088 - Luffy’s Dream

[mugiwara-lucy]

Episode 1088 gave us some of the most memeable faces for our favorite rubber dumbass ☺️

[empressofmankind]

Meanwhile, #1088

Great. We're fucked. We're ALL fucked.

No wait. Are we going to pull a 'look for my coming in the first light of the fifth day'?

Why else would she flashback to him? She's having a Helms Deep moment right there. I swear, if they don't deliver, I will cry.

As a total aside, that dialogue ('Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn!') with the hymn coming on still drives me to tears twenty-one years later to the day.

Yes.

It came out today, in 2002.

These movies were peak. And they aged so well. Everything after was less.

ENFIN.

Back to One Piece~

Not to ruin a moment, but I feel like I could put that line to pretty good use in one of my fanfics in an entirely inappropriate context.

Like, that's a line to repurpose, that's for sure.

FUCKING CALLED IT.

Chortling over his back-lit arrival, too. White cloak and all.

Thanks for pointing out the evident, Captain Obvious Koby. Are we bluffing our way out of this one?

Are we?

I am not sure he was kidding when he expressed doubt at being able to slam-dunk Blackbeard.

Here's the thing though - does Blackbeard know that?

Weapons? WeApOnS?

Are we talking about the wittle star-eyed baby clones??

I've had them for only a day, but if anything were to happen to them, I'd---

One of the interlude Wanted Posters is Bugs.

Please.

Gimme some Cross Guild to snort, I beg of thee.

[Part II]

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 1088 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: The Plantars Check In

[beaulesbian]

missing them, how they looked pre-time skip..

why did egghead (and since wano especially it's more visible) go back so much on their skintones... they feel like almost different characters, post time skip

fishman island was worse for robin, but at least left some color in zoro and usopp, same for punk hazard / dressrosa

wano seemed okay for zoro and give to luffy a bit

but take away from usopp and robin a lot

and then there's beginning of egghead:

there are these two interesting episodes, that are continuing with similar scene, but are already so different as it shifts into egghead style

1088:

vs.1089 (new egghead opening starts here as well):

and then the egghead arc itself starts (the animation is great and everything, just the skintone choices..like making robin even a shade lighter than sanji)

ep 1094

i think the end of episode 1092 made me facepalm the most (just like robin here), the comparison from robin in water 7, and the new robin beside here are just... sad. so sad.. and they put it on screen together.

[pippin-pippout]

WAIT WTF DID LUFFY SAY AS HIS DREAM??? THAT HE ACE AND SABO MADE AN OATH FOR? Everyone on the Strawhats was surprised so it couldn't have been King of the Pirates. He said maybe it's possible if he becomes king of the pirates... And that he only told Shanks, Ace, and Sabo... I guess it's what he screamed out on the cliff when he was younger? I Thought it was just "I'm gonna be king of the pirates" but now he's saying he wants something 'at the end of that dream'????

AHHH. Is this the New Genesis thing? Wanting to free the world?

This was episode 1088 - right before this we got a flashback of the 3 brothers and a slow rendition of the OG one piece song.

[moonpaw]

i'm on chapter 345 i'm on chapter 25 i'm on episode 200 i'm on episode 1069 i'm on chapter 1088 i'm on episode 10 for the love of god help me

[ichigoginchan]

THEY TALKING ABOUT SAY GEX???