#toei why

[ziseos]

bloody Law for all my fellow law girlies

because Toei loves to censure stuff

[scoups4lyfe]

Absolutely hate watching them gorp down these jelly cubes, thanks

[srnileforme]

WE ARE (2024) | EPISODE 6

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Colored some junky morning warmup comics eehehe... This is Superhero Taisen to me.

The Sentai is here to deal with physically large threats and contribute nothing else.

[itsallaboutbl]

❤️❤️

[rocketonin]

obligatory redraw of this meme

[shannonsketches]

[tinukis]

1117 preview !!!!

sabo my beloved ♥️♥️♥️

[casualavocados]

Why not consider he might be waiting for you?

Winny Thanawin as Q and Satang Kittiphop as TOEY WE ARE, ep7

[miss0atae]

The act of kissing (Qtoey edition)

I appreciate this scene because in some way it shows them both kissing but with some difference between them.

The first one is a kiss initiated by Toey. It's playful and cute just like his personality. The second kiss is initiated by Q, and it's more serious and deeper. Q may be a man of few words compare to Toey, but his feelings for him are just the same.

I may read too much in these kisses, but that's how I perceive them.

[aprilblossomgirl]

Phi Peem! Phi Q! (Toey)

[heretherebedork]

I need the 'make Q jealous plot' to fall and fall apart because Q is already jealous and that hasn't helped anything. He doesn't need to be jealous, he needs to be acknowledged and reassured. He's obviously reluctant to approach Toey because Toey asked to 'go back to the way things were' and Q is trying to do that. He's trying to go back to being friends. To back off. Because everyone chose Toey and why wouldn't Toey choose Chain? Q is the one who ghosted him, after all.

Q feels manipulated and he isn't going to pursue Toey when he has no reason to think the flirting is still fake. Why would he think they're still faking to get his attention?

Jealousy might work for Phum and Peem (even though it really won't) but all the jealousy is doing is pushing Q away.

[one-vivid-judgment]

Saw someone saying they thought it'd be funny if Fang introduced Beer to his ex and BeerFai became the last couple to round out the friend group (PhumPeem - QToey - ChainPun - TanFang - MickMatt). Which I think is absolutely genius, and as someone who loves Fai dearly (and wishes she had been more of an integral part of the friend group, but I digress), we love to see it.

But I raise you to: BeerKluen.

Do I have any idea how that might happen? Not yet, but I might come up with something. Do I think it would be so funny to have Phum and Kluen be forced to interact and generally exist within ten feet of one another, because now Phum's best friend is dating his former love rival for some godforsaken reason and they are actually very grossly in love? Absolutely. Hell, take these two idiots on a double date with PhumPeem actually, it would be a disaster and I'll love every second of it.

[srnileforme]

WE ARE (2024) | EPISODE 8

[sweettsubaki]

Ok I like characters getting better as much as the next person but every time a fic tries to tackle Sanji's sexism problem it just takes me out completely.

Like not every time obviously, but so many people seem to like...Not understand it ?

For one thing, part of it is linked to Oda's own sexism and the general sexism of the series (highly lessened in a lot of places thanks to Oda being an actual good writer who cares about his characters but it's still there) which means most characters are somewhat sexists (yes even Zoro king of I'll cut up anything and my childhood girl best friend could have been the greatest swordsman). So the fact that they usually just focus on Sanji but keep the rest kind of weirds me out.

Then there's the common "the girls don't like you back because your special treatment makes them uncomfortable" often answered with something along the lines of "but I respect them, I think they can do no wrong".

Which is so wrong on so many levels. Not the idea itself, but its application to Sanji. Like, he doesn't want to get anything out of those women (except seeing them naked and being stomped on but we're not getting into his kinks here). He does believe women are better than men...which includes him. So at no point does he want or expect anything other than being able to serve them which is part of why Oda focuses his development on his own self worth rather than anything else.

That boy does not have the self worth to actually try to flirt with anyone with the expectation that something could come out of it.

So like...Not wrong per se but this advice is very much a "missing the forest for the trees" kind of situation. He also does consider them to be people with their own wants and personalities.

Then there's the Nami/Robin part of it. Because people seem to think that they aren't close and that it's because of Sanji's behavior ? So first things first, they are close. They can have conversations and have fun even if Sanji will put them ahead of everything and everyone including himself (I'll touch on that bit in the part after this one). And like while he always agrees with the ladies BECAUSE they're ladies and it is an issue, he still like...listens to them ? And does think they're right most of the time (he'll also say it when he truly disagrees with something, like he did in Water 7).

- Let's start with Robin who behaves toward him the same way she behaves toward the east blue crew + Chopper, aka all the kids (yes, again, including Zoro, just because he's calmer doesn't mean he isn't also just a dumb kid). She entertains their excentricities in a way different to the way she treats the other adults. Sanji and her are actually fairly close because thay have a similar personality (and now they both know they also have similar backstories too). While he puts a big horny and romantic flourish over everything, he basically just treats her similarly to how he would have treated Reiju (how he did treat her in WCI) had they not been on different "teams".

- Then we have Nami. And I find it the funniest because she also has a bias toward women. A slightly different one sure (because they don't have the same issues) and it's also something I'll go over in the next part but it is a parallel between them that's pretty important and people often act like it's non existent and does not play a role in their relationship. Now they're both friends and before they met Vivi they were the most "mature" of the crew, the caretakers, and this is something that bonded them pretty early on. So yeah they're not the closest and Nami doesn't understand Sanji perfectly (that's part of why she needed to be in the WCI part as opposed to most of the Dressrosa/Wano crew) because they have basically similar symptoms but different reasons for these symptoms to exist, one of them being their self worth. It does not mean that they're not close or even friends. And because of Nami's own bias she has no problem taking advantage of Sanji's simping even if she can get a bit annoyed during serious situations and she has no problem telling him off when she wants to. So she actually encourages him and plays with his simping. And most of the time they're both fine with it. It's not one sided ! They're basically in a symbiotic relationship at this point....

Now let's talk about double standards and lack of them. Nami and Sanji both treat women better than they treat men (tho Sanji goes pretty girls first then other women, then boys while Nami just generally prefers women). Nami would give girls her treasures while making sure the men are indebted until even after their deaths.

So like...way better. That's why it's not just "treat them less like goddesses, more like people" or "this is the way to get girls to like you" problems.

Sanji's relationships with other men aren't "better" than those with the girls, and especially not because he treats them more "equally" than he does women. Like...Sanji is a brat, an asshole. He's closed off and emotional at the same time. He believes no man deserves women and especially not himself. He's kind but he's not particularly nice. He'll still protect and feed other men and just generally take care of them but he'll be mean about it.

And that's the thing, he's generally different in his overall words and attitude, but not really in his actions with a few exceptions. Like in chapter 700, he'll still make Onigiri for Law who doesn't want bread aka doesn't want sandwiches and he'll cut tiny sandwiches so Momo's tiny dragon hands can eat them normally despite being an ass toward them half the time.

Women aren't the only ones who get tailored help. He just does it with heart eyes for women and for the men he does it while insulting them.

His level of closeness is the about the same between men and women and the difference depend more on how the others chose to take him at face value than their gender. Because he hides from everyone and feels empathy for many others (event if he often won't admit it). It's the main difference between his relationship with Nami/Viví and Robin. Because Robin and Sanji have clown to clown communication.

I've reblogged this post recently, about how Sanji's empathy is directly linked to how he treats women, how "Sanji has an understanding that sometimes a woman has to lie." is linked more to his trauma and empathy than sexism tho that's how it manifests. You can add that the way he treated Usopp in Water 7 was actually fairly close to those too.

Also generally you have people who are either team "he's sexist because of his mom and sister" or "he's sexist because of Zeff" and it's kinda...weird ? Like it's both. Zeff offered him a way to channel his trauma and the way his sister and mom play into it plus because Sanji doesn't do things by halves, he went ahead and ran with it way too far.

So yeah Sanji has a sexism problem but so many fics (and fans in general) tend to see it as the cause of his behavior and not just a symptom of a different problem which is that his self worth is worse than that of a twig and his sexism is part of a coping mechanism for his trauma.

[moongothic]

You know it's really interesting to compare the original manga panel here to the same shot in the anime- not just because Toei kind of toned down Luffy's absolutely distressed expression, but also how they completely changed Crocodile's expression. The arrogant smirk he's making (without even opening his eyes to look at Luffy) makes him appear so much more villanous and cartoonishly evil in the anime, without a doubt, but it also makes me wonder what the fuck kind of an expression is that in the manga? Like is that just disgust at Luffy when he gets literally right up in his face to scream at full volume? Disgust at Luffy's "pathetic love" for his friends and Yuba? Or is there something more to it? My brain is so lost in the croc sauce I can't tell anymore