Can we just take a second and talk about how One Piece episode 1051 has everything?
Law being worried about his boyfriend ally.
The Strawhats having infinite amounts of faith in their captain.
Luffy being the badass and generally amazing little pirate he is.
Perospero getting trashed.
Yamato being fucking gorgeous (like always).
Yamato getting his own eyecatcher.
And just the general aesthetic.
It’s perfection, it really is.
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We talk a lot about how the anime & manga versions of scenes sometimes have to approach a subtlety with Kiku differently. The translation for the subs really helped me get the cool way the narrator always did it as the ending. In the skies of the future, as a warrior sheathes his sword the flower petals flutter. I have my limits, but I'm curious if the original is some form of haiku. There's more than the 5-7-5 we learn in the West. The rest is about Momo clearly, but that part is so cool to me because like other points in Wano it quietly works just as well for Kiku.
In the manga, we only have to do this for a few static panels. Few enough you can have fun obscuring her more. The way we frame this shot gets all of them in and her lithe frame at the end she's on is hard to see around Neko. But I noticed we did this a few times, cut the frame in such a way she's the only one of them you really see. My pics trimmed it some but you only get Raizo's hair. It's a more direct way to nudge you with the association. I'm curious, if we don't cut a week ahead next time we see her if this might not just be setting up seeing more of what we talked about with the chapter. If you'll recall my first impression was that it felt we were visually treating her more cutesy and "Okiku" again from there.
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Select screenshots from episode 1051!
Kin’emon and Kiku looking so valiant here, I love them, I love them so much.
Love Inu’s smug grin.
Carrot’s smile is adorable.
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Episode 825: Parallels
Pinnacle of Whole Cake Island in my opinion. (please do not get me started on Katakuri vs Luffy… i was kinda disappointed when i watched it)
Anyways, i loved this episode the most, it was brimming with symbolism that riddled my silly little brain for days on end. I would like to preface that i’m not yet caught up… episode 1051 please cut me some slack. I will catch up before Gear 5 Luffy though, trust. I digress though. As i was saying, the most glaring piece of symbolism was the comparison between Sanji’s mother and Luffy. It’s not much of a comparison actually, more of a parallel. During the flashback of little Sanji running in the rain to get some food to his mother, he drops it, making it look basically inedible and gross. It perfectly parallels Sanji in the present, running towards Luffy in the meeting spot and the food being ruined from the rain.
In both situations, Luffy and Sanji’s mother ate the food gratefully, citing how delicious it was. However, in both these situations, I believe it represents different things.
Sanji, a boy who was a failure for being human.
In the first situation of Sanji’s mother eating the food that had gone bad, it represents her love for him, despite him being not as good as his siblings. Sanji is represented by the “bad” food, because of the fact he is human (has emotions and moderately athletic, in comparison to his inhumane siblings at least), not perfect like his siblings. Up until that point, his humanity was seen as a disgrace, which made him utterly unwanted by his father and bullied by his siblings.
This symbolism really hits home during the scene where he drops the food in the rain. It was an honest mistake and humans are prone to making mistakes. Ever heard of the saying, “To err is human”? That is basically it. In that one scene, Sanji’s plight as a child is perfectly encapsulated (when everyone around him puts him down for the fact he are not perfect, it is completely unfair, because humans are made to make mistakes) And when his mother accepts his dish, without question, it was an ode to Sanji, a testament of a mother’s everlasting and unconditional love. Sanji’s mother was the first to ever accept him as he is, as a human with his flaws and all.
And before i talk about the parallel between the current Luffy and Sanji interaction, I’d like to say that because of his mother, (as well as Reiju, because she was the one who eventually set him free, cried for him and basically showed that she actually cared for him like how his mother did), he has this moral obligation (doesn’t want to hurt them, believing women should be treated better than men.) towards all women. He wants to love all women, maybe as an ode to both his mother and sister, the only people who had accepted him as a child.
Sanji, a man shackled to his conflicting obligations.
Hence, with all this talk of moral obligations, it brings us to the parallel once more with the Luffy and Sanji interaction. We all know that Sanji is a man of great morality, not only that, he is extremely steadfast towards them. Where Sanji’s mother accepted him for not being perfect physically, Luffy accepts him for not being perfect mentally. OKOK I know it’s phrased weird but hear me out. Like I said, Sanji is a man of great morality, due to his rough upbringing. Hence why he feels all sorts of obligations that held him back from returning to Luffy and the rest of the crew at first. (Sanji felt obligated to Chef Zeff for raising him which made him reject Luffy the first time he asked him to join the crew is one of the examples of how his obligations had set him back before.)
This time however, Sanji felt obligated not to return to the crew because he felt like a) he disrespected luffy and b) was obligated to not let his family die, both his family at Baratie and his biological family and c) his obligation to the strawhats as they would be attacked if he returned to them, hence why he left them for their own safety.
This made him believe that sacrificing himself, his happiness and his freedom was the way to do it. Sanji is incredibly kind, that is what makes him human, yet at the same time, his kindness had shackled him once more. I belive that the food going bad is his own view of himself, believing that by going back to Luffy after his disrespect as a subordinate, it would make him a bad, selfish person.
And that is the flaw that Sanji sees in himself, going back to Luffy to ask for his help to get him out of his difficult situation after actively beating him up and refusing his help earlier. I mean realistically speaking, would you go back to someone you've hurt and ask for their help?
But when Sanji says how his food was a failure when in actuality talking about how he was a failure as a subordinate as well as keeping up with his obligations, Luffy merely says it was delicious. This then reassures Sanji as Luffy doesn't see him as any less because of his decision. Luffy is all about freedom, hence why he didn't see Sanji as 'going bad' because of his selfish act of returning and failing all his other obligations. This is because the biggest obligation a person has is to themself, the freedom to say and feel what you want without any reservations. Sanji is his friend, his crew, and that is enough of a reason for Luffy to fight for his freedom to put himself before his kindness.
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Episode 1053-1054: The Spark That Fell on the Ranch
Based on volume 99, files 1051-1054
Plot in five keywords:
The Detective Boys are on a trip to a chicken farm with Kobayashi and Rumi... and Amuro (+ three other men)
The chickens aren’t in their stable, but the Detective Boys spot a huge hole in it and Mr Hatoyama, the owner of the farm, is also missing
When Ayumi finds one of the chickens, she finds herself in a forest with a lot of dynamite before she gets kidnapped by Mr Hatoyama
All of them (except Rumi, Ai and Genta) get taken hostage in the cellar where Kazami was already trapped as well
It turns out that a meteorite impact of the past is the key to solve the case
Important plot development:
We get to know that Kobayashi is afraid of birds
When thinking of crows, Rumi thinks of dark, sly and farouche people
Rumi and Amuro meet each other for the first time
Amuro finds a shogi piece
Rumi sees how the Detective Boys communicate with their detective batches
Rumi realizes that she lost her shogi piece and Genta tells her that Amuro picked it up
Amuro tells Kazami that he has seen the shogi piece before. When Kazami mentions Shukichi, Amuro remembers Koji Haneda’s death and that a shogi piece was missing at the crime scene (his good luck charm). Amuro deducts that the shogi piece must have been taken by Koji’s murderer and that this one is just like the one that Koji owned, So, he thinks that Rumi could be Koji’s murderer
Amuro thinks that he has met Ai before
Rumi doesn’t do anything against the culprit who is about to kill the man who’s responsible for his brother’s death
Rumi doesn’t let Amuro leave the cellar. Then, she fights with him to get her shogi piece back and knocks him out. Amuro can’t see who’s fighting with him
Rating:
9/10 chicken
It’s a very interesting cases, a big case with a lot of plot relevant parts. This is a must watch, not only because it’s a great case. Very watchable with lots of tension. The case and the plot relevant parts are both amazing.
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Luffy and Kaido crack the heavens, Momonosuke learns to fly, and the Minks emerge victorious
The confrontation between Luffy and Kaido in One Piece Episode 1051 is visually stunning. The installment, titled A Legend All Over Again! Luffy’s Fist Roars in the Sky, finally begins the long-awaited rematch between Kaido and Luffy.
The Gum-Gum Fruit user had previously relied on Yamato and Momonosuke for assistance, but in this episode he declares quite confidently that he intends to take on…
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