#one piece ending

[gizaoyas]

"Shambles"

[ddrqoyote]

Luffy vs Kizaru just started and this panel is so weird to me in a good way.

I've been a One Piece fan for almost 8 years now (from age 13 to 21). The Admirals were unimaginably strong pre-skip. Even post, our heroes could only stall them, and only then cause they weren't taking things seriously or didn't really want to hurt the Straw Hats. Even against other god-tier characters we've seen an Admiral get hurt badly exactly once (Whitebeard vs Akainu) and even then he was fine pretty quick.

The Emperors were just as strong or stronger, sure, but we never saw them fight until their own arcs. With the Admirals, it felt like Oda would never write them losing. That was for the end of the series, always at least 5 years in the future, a far-off day that would never actually come, and that's how it's been since Aokiji showed up in 2003.

Then a couple days ago Luffy catches an Admiral, not even a newbie but a true blue pre-timeskip Admiral, off-guard and hurts him against his will, and it's not a fluke. It feels so unreal but it happened. And it's gonna KEEP happening. One Piece is really gonna end someday.

[grac3enocturne]

Can we talk about how the last two opening and ending we got where so fucking amazing and a declaration of love to the serie and fan?

The peak and Raise where so good, the music and animation were fantastic and it was such a nice closure to Wano and very touching.

Assu ! and Dear sunrise, both in artsyle, animation and music are beautiful and so heartwarming!! Also the fact that Assu is interpreted by the one who made the first opening, and Dear sunrise by the one who made the first ending is everything and tell a lot! And is such a good introduction to egghead and the final saga!!

The flashback in the ending made me sob so much

[lumochiart]

i’m so glad they brought back endings to the anime after what felt like an eternity 💕 they really know how to hit the fandom’s heartstrings 🥹

going to be listening to this on repeat for the next forever 🎶

[annimator]

Gear 5 this Gear 5 that

WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT ONE PIECE FINALLY HAS A NEW ENDING AFTER BASICALLY A DECADE??

[oneguardian15]

himmmmm 🥰

[animedegens]

One piece finally has an ending after years!!! First time since 2006! Check out our podcast and join our discord!

[mahgck]

you have to outlive donald trump

[monstermonger]

Holly berries!

[stargirl230]

you’re my hero!

bnha doomed yuri was not on my 2024 bingo card

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[ddrqoyote]

i think you're right and i think people are going to be SO mad at him over it. but oda presents so many kings and high-ranking marines as good people. ESPECIALLY kings. cobra, gan fall, neptune, riku, oden... am i missing any? i honestly can't remember because there's too many.

i don't think finding out about imu is gonna change things for akainu, because he made fun of the elders for being walked on by "the people above you", so he already knows there's a conspiracy. i think he'll just get tired of sitting around and doing nothing but serving the unappreciative celestial dragons while the world burns. he HATED how they treated him when he fought kuma.

Garp, Fascism, and Parental Failure

Garp is truly one of the most interesting One Piece characters for me because of the extent to which his dogged, relentless devotion to a fascist system–and the supposed "order" it promises to uphold in the face of anarchy or rebellion–perseveres no matter how many times it fails him and his son and his grandsons. He's fully aware of the deep-seated corruption and atrocity, and feels some kind of moral obligation to bend its rules to protect the innocent (as we can see with his attempts to protect Rouge and Ace), but when faced with widespread femicide and infanticide, genocide, slavery and endless examples of egregious cruelty, he is unable to comprehend the notion that the system is indefensible, or that the only moral choice he can possibly make when faced with that level of atrocity is to leave and resist it. His son recognizing the inherent, inexcusable failures of the World Government and its armed enforcers–literally quitting the force to start a revolution– changes nothing. The order to slaughter pregnant people and infants at Baterilla can't convince him otherwise. The countless instances of bribery, the tolerance of atrocity from state-sanctioned privateers, everything about the history of the Valley of the Gods are all things he's aware of, and takes issue with, but never comes to the conclusion that he cannot affect positive change within a system designed for oppression. The public execution of his grandson–a prime example of the marine's fundamentally irrational, arrogant, vindictive cruelty clearly bound to blow up in all of their faces even before their Pyrrhic victory at the summit war–makes him waver, but even when confronted with this obvious, indefensible injustice against a child he raised and rescued by people seeking to murder him on live TV and desecrate his corpse as a show of power, he cannot bring himself to act against it in any meaningful way no matter how much it hurts him to leave his grandson to die. If he can't veto it, he'll stay Vice Admiral and suffer through Ace being sacrificed on the altar of fascist state control, and functionally leave Luffy for dead in the process while he's at it. He fails every single person he wanted to love–Ace, Luffy, and almost certainly Dragon–and allows himself to be reluctantly complicit in countless crimes against humanity again and again and again because he's so deeply steeped in this notion of preservation of order through state control that he convinces himself that even this disgusting, atrocious, fundamentally flawed and untenable excuse for a government is better than abolition, better than revolution, or just the act of expecting accountability or literally anything better from the systems that issue false promises to protect you. Dadan beating the living shit out of him and calling him a failure as a grandfather, as a self proclaimed defender of the people, is one of the most important scenes in the Postwar Arc because a lesser series might frame Garp as a tragic, helpless figure suffering more than anyone else due to conflict of love and duty, but One Piece refuses to whitewash his actions/inaction or allow the grief and suffering caused by systems he's complicit in to take precedence over its real victims: the D brothers.

There's so much I could say about statism and anarchism and the ways people have internalized the supposed necessity of state violence to the extent they can't oppose that violence even when it ruins them or their loved ones, but that horrible indoctrination and its devastating consequences for both him and his family are what makes Garp so fascinating to watch and so thematically/politically important to One Piece as a whole.

[mimimar]

a glimpse of the sea fairy

(prints)

[deadpoolsmom]

as far as one piece antagonists go Crocodile truly gets absolutely scooby-doo’d at unmatched levels

He immediately falls for a phone scam and from basically little garden to rainbase he doesn’t even know the strawhats are alive (and clowning towards him at incredible speed). As soon as he does, they’re in his house tearing at his walls and bringing marines into his villain lair.

He uses a literal floor trap door over a gator pit to catch them, gets phone scammed again, full scooby-doo chase scenes after Chopper through the streets while still missing him, and suddenly his prisoners have escaped his impossible cage, and his giant bananagators are dead. and Nico Robin saw it all happen.

He then spends rest of the arc complaining about those meddling kids and their dog “strawhat pirates and their weird pet” and at no point does he even know how many strawhats there are.

Like yeah he keeps having plans on top of plans to stop everything Vivi can do but also she keeps coming up with a new thing to do (Tom and Jerry ass dynamic).

Part of it is that he’s underestimating them and keeps grandstanding villain monologuing but also teens keep killing hundreds of his grand line bounty hunters and he straight up does not know what is happening.

Cause he IS trying to kill them he’s sending top assassins after them and ripping out luffy’s organs, the whole time he’s yelling HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?? DIE. as whack-a-mole Luffy keeps inventing new ways to hit him.

[hinamie]

how many hoodies can i give this kid

[jet-spirit]

The only exceptions are Inuyasha and Ghibli isekais.

[h3lian]

Sanji 👨‍🍳🔥