Speaker 1: Hey, what up everybody at sandomac here from anime opro,
that YouTube channel that talks about one Piece a lot.
But once, long ago, I was the one Piece virgin
who never read or watched one Piece, and then I
went through this whole podcast thing where I caught up
to one Piece over the course of a long time,
and it was an experience that changed my life. So yes,
and I got my co host Briggs here with me,
who went through that journey with me. You know, he
held my hand while I lost my virginity. It was
quite something. And we still run this podcast. As you
guys know. We discussed the new chapters as they come out,
but we thought we'd give it a shot and bring
in a new virgin into the podcast and start going
through the story again from the beginning with a brand
new virgin who's never read or seen one Piece and
kind of see how that goes. And if you guys
like it, if you want us to keep going, and
our virgin the honor of being our virgin for the
One Piece version two point zero is none other than
Poseidon Wetuber from Mythos and an actual Iril girl, a
real girl.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi everybody, Thank you, for having me.
Speaker 1: And that you are from a mythos, the YouTuber agency
where Greek gods became hot anime girls online. Correct.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that. I don't believe that they're actual girls.
They got to have voice changers or something. I seev tubers,
and until I see a selfie or something, I don't
believe it.
Speaker 1: It's true. Every betuber is actually a man with a
voice change.
Speaker 4: Real girl, I don't have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I do agree with that. What you know,
who what real girl would agree to watch One Piece
or read it? Come on? But we do appreciate Poseidon
you being here. You are very busy. You know you're
from Atlantis. You have a lot of administrative duties there,
and yet you are here with us, So we really
appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I'm really excited. Thank you so much. I go ahead.
Speaker 3: It's good to have you. It's good to have you.
We were covering romance down today. It's just like the
first arc of One Piece, and I'm sorry to cut
you off. I just want to start off in general.
Are you are you having fun like getting into One
Piece here?
Speaker 1: Like I did?
Speaker 4: You enjoy it so far?
Speaker 2: So I honestly have had a Blast. I watched the
first seven episodes and it's been really fun. The it
really reminds me and you can kill me for this.
Speaker 5: The only anime I.
Speaker 2: Feel like I've watched like binged in a way was
fairy Tale. And I finished fairy Tale like in the
span of two months, and it's the only anime I've
ever really watched in like large portions, and I kind
of am getting that same feeling I got from watching
fairy Tale when I was watching One Piece, and I
had to kind of restrain myself from going a little
further because I didn't really want to get my thoughts
for like the other episodes mixed up with my current
The thoughts were like the ones we're going to be
talking about today. But it's been a great time. I
actually really really enjoy it. I only have seen the
live action prior to this.
Speaker 3: Oh so you saw the live action prior to this,
so you do have a little bit of a base.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: And the live action only covers up until the East Blue,
so you really haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 4: You're still just a baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure the live action cut out a
lot of it.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, yeah, but it is good for what
it is live action. Definitely, it could have been a
lot worse, as we know in live action, so you know,
kudos do it. But yeah, it definitely cuts out a lot.
It merges certain characters, takes out a bunch of other characters.
So yeah, it's definitely different, different medium and everything. But
you know, Mihawk is a legend in the in the
live action, so I do respect that a lot. Yeah, So,
as Briggs said, we're covering romance don and sort of
that introduction to all the new to old the characters
and to Loofy and they'll flashback with Shanks. That is
so crucial. Even to this day we look back. You know,
we're we're one and twenty six chapters, I think the
twenty six chapters coming out this week, so we are
we have a lot of material for one piece and
even to this day we still talk about some of
the scenes that we are going to be covering here.
So it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: It's true, like there's relevant stuff to this day in
like these early arcs, which is crazy really Yeah, so
start like taking mental note of things. Well, I mean,
as we go on the journey will definitely be like, hey,
do you remember this and like kind of and help
you out, help you along. But I know everyone wants
to know as well. Do you have a favorite character
so far?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I really like Zoro, and I think it might partially
be because I really enjoyed him in the live action,
but I kind of just love like the tough guy
but also dumbass energy.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I really enjoyed Zoro.
Speaker 2: I actually really enjoyed Nammy as well. I haven't gotten
too far into where like we're getting to know Namy,
but the parts i've seen me in the first seven episodes,
she's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I really like her.
Speaker 3: This is how much beside he must have liked one piece.
He was only supposed to watch the first four, but
he watched seven instead.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 4: She couldn't stop.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I also remember really liking Zoro too,
and I remember na me being my favorite member of
the crew for like the longest time up maybe even
up to the time skip, because I loved how funny
she was. I loved how sneaky she was. She was
relatable to me. I was like, you know, she doesn't
mess around, you know, she she sees a danger. She's like,
I'm out of here. I'm not crazy, right, So I
was like, man, I really, you know, respect her, that
she's strategic and smart and clever and all that type
of stuff. So yeah, I thought I remember that being
like a big thing while I was going through it.
So it's cool that you like both Zoro and no Mel.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting to see if her favorite character
changes along the journey, because I think for me it
was Zoro at first too, and then slowly I became
a fanboy of someone else, which we'll we'll talk about
when they get introduced. But I'm glad you're enjoying it.
You like Zoro so far? Do you want to like
try to walk us through kind of like your journey,
like favorite moments and like certain scenes you remember.
Speaker 2: So I particularly want to highlight the first episode because
the first episode admittedly made me I feel like.
Speaker 5: Laugh the most. I love how carefree Lufy is.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like here's he's on.
Speaker 2: A pirate ship with a bunch of like what's her name,
al Vena Alvina. Yeah, and there's just a bunch of
people on there who are ready to whoop his ass
and kill him, but he just doesn't care. Yeah, he
just he's so confident and he's like, nah, nah, you
guys don't have anything on me. And here's Kobe screaming
for his life, like oh my god, don't mess with them,
they're gonna kill you. And he's just like no, no,
I got it, and then he absolutely kicks all of
their ass.
Speaker 5: I love the confidence that Lufy has.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think care free is a great way
to describe Loofy Deafinitely relevant and yeah, he's like he's
definitely confident and he wants to become the Pirate king.
He's on his journey and like, I feel like nothing
will stop him.
Speaker 4: He speaks so.
Speaker 3: Openly and freely versus Kobe is such like such a
timid contrast, right, Like he's so shy in comparison, where
it's like he just wants to be a marine and
it's like hard for him to say. Meanwhile, Lufy's like, yeah,
I'm gonna be the fucking king.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it is funny because in that scene, Kobe
is like so hesitant to say anything against like Alvida
and the pirates because he's been their prisoner for two
years and he's learned, like to survive, he has to
be very like timid and just obey orders, and Lufy
is just like, I'm gonna be the Pirate King no
matter what. He's like, what do you mean, what if
you die? He's like, well, if I die, at least
I tried, you know it was worth it. And he's
like he can't even Kobe can't even fathom someone having
this mindset, and it like opens his kind of mind
so much to realize that, you know, yeah, you can
be like, I'll follow my dream no matter what, and
if I die, well then I at least I die
do something worthwhile, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 3: It definitely motivates Kobe and changes his mindset a bit.
And then yeah, you get this. You get to see
Loofy kick Alvida's butt and the rest of the crew.
You see his crazy devil fruit fucking rubber man powers.
I guess you already knew that because of the live action,
so there's no surprise there.
Speaker 2: Something I kind of want to highlight what you're saying
is in that small arc you do, you see Kobe
go from somebody who's very timid but being with Lufy.
I remember that I think it was episode three or
four where they're leaving the Island after they defeated Captain Morgan.
Kobe standing up for himself and yeah, he's putting his
foot down, which was something he wasn't previously able to do.
But he was only able to do it because he
saw how confident Loofy is and how like passionate he
is about his dreams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get to see Kobe.
Speaker 3: You get to see Kobe even Puncho fiedback for like
when he was talking shit or whatever. You get to
see him like openly speak to the Marines like, Hey,
I'm going to be a marine with integrity or whatever,
like he like the amount of confidence he is showing
compared to the first episode is crazy and such a
small amount of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the character development was really nice, and I'm actually
really excited to see Kobe because I'm going to assume,
if it kind of is similar to how the live
action works, we are going to see Kobe very soon hopefully.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, Yeah, we definitely will see Kobe very soon. Yeah
mm hmm, you're right.
Speaker 5: Out.
Speaker 3: So the live action does do things a little bit differently,
just a little bit like for the most part, like
obviously you're going to see Kobe again, and like it
just some things in the story are put into different
places than the live action.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And speaking of which, in the manga, which is
how I read it, initially, we get the Shanks flashback
right away, and and then we go to him being
Lufy being ten years older and getting on starting his
journey and meeting Kobe and Alvida and so forth. In
the anime, you get the flashback later, right.
Speaker 5: I think you get it like episode three. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The anime starts off with Lufy and the barrel on
then going to Alvida's ship. The manga starts off with
the flashbike back and then goes to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the flashback kind of explains if you're an
anime watcher and you see like Lufy kicking all the
sass and having all these powers, then the flashback explains
that how he got the powers, but also that he
trained for ten years, since you know he had the
fruit for ten years, he trained with it before he
left his village in order to pursue becoming a pirate.
I remember That's something I wrote down in my notes
when I went to talk about it initially, because I
was like okay, So it wasn't just like okay, he
gets the powers and it right away, he's like the
strongest dude. Yeah, he was spent ten years actually training
and earning his strength, and then he ends up killing
the sea Beast or kicking the sea beasts ass before
he leaves, and then you know, you know, okay, so
he's strong now. So then when you see him kicking
Alvida's ass and the Alvida pirates and stuff, you know
where that's coming from.
Speaker 4: So in the anime, do you think that's better?
Speaker 3: Ana Mac, do you think like starting with the flashback
makes more sense than starting with the him on Alvida ship.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you can only go through it once once.
So I like the way the manga was because it
does explain how he got there and how he got
so strong. However, I mean, when you get the flashback,
you get the same thing in the anime. Right first,
you're gonna be like, well, who is this guy? Wise?
He so strong? What's this power he has? But then
when you get the flashback, you're like, Okay, I get
it right. So I don't know if there's a huge
difference about the order, but I like the manga order.
Speaker 3: I think it starts off pretty like I think the
reason they probably did is they wanted to start off
with an action scene with like Loofy the main character
and introducing Loufy like right away in his current age.
I think that's probably the mindset, And it was kind
of cool that like after the like whatever the mini
arc happens, it's almost as though he's telling the story
to Zoro. I think that's how he did in the
live action. Did they do that like that in the anime?
Do you remember Poseidon, like was the flashback like kind
of like him telling the story to Zorro or.
Speaker 5: No, I don't recall it being like that.
Speaker 3: Maybe that was Maybe that wasn't a different thing. Maybe
maybe I'm making it up, because it's definitely implied later
that Zoro knows this backstory, but I can't remember, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because it's like if I didn't watch the live action,
right m hm, And I went into the anime completely
like blinded, right, not having having no idea about the
Devil Fruit about Shanks, and we're going straight into like
Loofy being stretchy and kicking ass.
Speaker 5: I feel like I would have.
Speaker 2: Been a lot more confused, and I'm just kind of like,
how does he have these powers.
Speaker 5: Where is that you know has? Nobody else has?
Speaker 2: And I feel like the flashback would have been great
in the beginning as opposed to like being kind of
towards the end of the first arc.
Speaker 5: It would have.
Speaker 2: Made me understand more. But because I watched the live
action it didn't really matter.
Speaker 5: But I feel like for.
Speaker 2: Somebody who hasn't, they would be incredibly confused.
Speaker 3: So how was your first introduction to like Zorro and
the Marines once you get to the island.
Speaker 2: So I was the Zorro just him being like, nah,
I can get out of this by myself.
Speaker 5: I don't need anybody. It was just like, stop being stupid,
just get the help. The Marines.
Speaker 2: I really like what was the Sun? Yeah, the guy
with the really weird haircut. He was really funny. His
dad is Captain Morgan. If I remember, he was.
Speaker 5: A really cool character. I kind of wish I.
Speaker 2: Saw a little more of him. If I'm being honest,
I feel like he was gone a little too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it was definitely quick quick in the anime,
but I guess definitely A big thing is like dude,
you got this fucking corrupt asshole? Dudes like yes, Helmepo
is funny, but yeah, you got you definitely see some
corruption early on. You see realize that, like things aren't
always black and white.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: You have Lufy, who's a pirate who everyone just assumes
is gonna be bad. It's like not bad or not
necessarily bad. And then the Marines, who Kobe's like, oh,
the Marines are all justice, And you meet fucking Helmepo
and Axen Morgan right away, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kind of even the Marines themselves don't really
find themselves very fond of them.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I remember in my notes thinking
that Helmepo was so over the top, like cartoonishly villainy.
I was like, man, Helmepa must be the eyes of
of one piece, Like he's just making everyone think he's
this useless like moron, but in reality he's the mastermind
behind everything. Was I right, We'll have to find out.
Speaker 3: To find out, honestly, how Meppo might be the one
piece that hair that haircut might be the one.
Speaker 5: Piece that's where it was the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I just want to say that hell,
Meppo was great in the live action.
Speaker 2: He was oh my gosh, yeah, he was a silly,
silly guy.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember exactly what happened. So when you
get there, Zorol's on the like on the post, being
stubborn because how what was it? How Meppo brought like
a fox into a bar and then Zorol kicked its
ass because it was like a wild animal. And then
Zoro agrees to like go a month without eating in
order for them like to not kill the children or
something I don't remember exactly, or sentence the children.
Speaker 2: M m.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, Lufy shows up, offers a offers to
grab his swords and save the day, and they join
a crew, a two man crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just think it's so funny how like quick Zoro
went from being like I'm a pirate hunter, why would
I ever join your crew?
Speaker 5: And then he being like you know what? Why not?
You know what? Why?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And the other thing is it's funny because before
Louf even means Zoro, Kobe is like, Kobe takes them
to the town where the navy base is right from
Alvida's Island, and Loufy's like, wow, you just you know,
you just arrived where we were going, and Kobe's like, yeah,
that's like the minimum of traveling by sea where you're going,
and he's like, oh yeah, I've just gotta been floating
around and he's like, bro, you need a navigator, Like
he tells them at like that early point, you need
the navigator. And even though he makes a crew with Zoro,
as we know, they are not navigators.
Speaker 2: No, they don't know what they're doing, which I think
is so funny because you know, you see Loofy who's like,
I'm gonna be killing of the pirates and he has
no idea how to be one, doesn't how to doesn't
know how to have organize a crew. He's just recruiting
people and he's like learning, which I think is really funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's having he just he just started his journey.
Speaker 3: He's very he's very naive, but he knows what he
wants and hopefully the boys he recruits will fill the gaps.
You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Loufy knows the big picture, but yeah, the gaps,
like you said, he needs people to fill in those gaps.
Speaker 5: I just think it's so funny. They start off on
the little boat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lufy's like, I do have a ship because there
I was like, you even have one?
Speaker 5: And it's like the tiniest boat ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little row boat.
Speaker 3: How did you feel about like the you said you
like the first fight with lufy On and Alfeito ship.
How did you feel about the fight with like the
Marines and Ax and Morgan and stuff.
Speaker 5: I thought it was really cool. I really like I
really like Morgan a lot.
Speaker 2: His design was really cool in the way he fights,
it was really cool.
Speaker 5: I I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Upon of rewatch, it was cool seeing like Zoro and
Loofy kind of have like some chemistry and like trust
each other and kind of fight together. So early on
I didn't remember that, so I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 5: They were meant to be on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate one of one of the final punches
on how MEPO was like actam Morgan was like right
behind Loofy about to fucking like hit him in the
back and like kill him, but he knew Zora would
like save the day.
Speaker 4: Like the trust was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there was a little bit of a period
before Zoro was released when he's kind of like awaiting
death or whatever where he's like kind of saying f
you to everyone, including Loofy. But then after Lufy helps
him out. They very quickly bond.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also it's it's I feel like the second anyone hears
that Lufy wants to be the King of the pirates
and that what he says it, I feel like Zorol
like wants to be the world's greatest swordsman. So right
away they bonded over having like insane dreams over the
top and like.
Speaker 4: Like Lufy's is even crazy, crazier than Zorro's.
Speaker 3: And Lufy even has a line like I would have note,
I would have nothing but the best on my on
my crew, like like it makes sense for you to
have that goal because I'm gonna need it since I'm
gonna be the king. Like it's it's just like a
great dynamic right away, and you'll see time and time
again like Lufy's over the top dream influencing the people
around him. And I think that's part of the reason
why Zorro is like, well fuck it, I'll join right away,
Like he kind of turned you mentioned it Poseidon that
like he was like, I'm a pirate hunter, why would
I join you to being like all right, screw it,
I'll join you. It doesn't matter even if I'm like notorious,
I'll still be the greatest. I'll still be able to
achieve my dream. I think it's like definitely influenced by Loofy.
Speaker 2: Which makes him such a great character, right, being able
to positively influence people around him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely like a trope or a trope or
a character trait in anime that we see a few
times or like every now and then, and it's one
I definitely like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so we already, even in this early stage,
we're seeing two people heavily inspired and influenced by Loofy,
Kobe and Zoro. Right, yep, So Loufy does have that
charismatic impact on people, even though he doesn't exactly know
what he's doing for many you know, in many cases, right,
but he has like that kind of way of bringing
people together and towards a common goal and kind of
towards himself.
Speaker 3: M Yes, I also want to we definitely need to
talk about the flashback as well, Poseidon if you want to.
Is there anything about that you want to talk about
with Shanks?
Speaker 5: Correct? Yes, Honestly, it made me really emotional.
Speaker 4: For what's seen, specifically.
Speaker 2: The whole when he was saving Loufy from oh Yeah,
and then Lufy, you know, feeling responsible and blaming himself
for Shanks losing his arm, and he's just like, no,
it's just an arm, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Loufy, I got another one.
Speaker 5: I feel like, oh go okay.
Speaker 3: No, I was saying like, yeah, I told you an arm,
I got another one. Sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, you're fine. But that whole flashback scene,
you could see how much Shanks cares about Loufy, and
I really I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: I really pulled on my heart strings. God.
Speaker 2: There was actually one episode during my watch that made
me cry a lot.
Speaker 5: I think it was maybe I'm going off.
Speaker 2: Of the arc that was You're good watch, but uh,
because now we we're talking about emotional stuff.
Speaker 5: I was crying a lot during the Dog.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you got to you got to the
Dog episode already? That was so emotional.
Speaker 5: I cried so much at the end, and I was just.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, I don't know when it comes to
animals and stuff, I get super super emotional.
Speaker 5: So when they were beating up the dog, the.
Speaker 3: Did you guys, yeah, did you get the dog flashback already?
Where like you see.
Speaker 5: Why he's there, Yeah, because his owner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like, oh, I'm gonna go to get
like a doctor's appointment or something and he never comes back.
Speaker 5: That one was like so sad.
Speaker 3: I'm very sure I cried watching that too. Upon rewatch
for sure, Oh my god. Yeah, it's always the animals.
And then they had the music playing in the background. See, like,
I tend to prefer the manga, but the one thing
about the anime that hits is like any sad moment
with the music, or any badass moment with the music,
like I get chills or I start like getting emotional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's true. The manga is great for pacing,
and you're only getting the cannon material focusing on that,
no filler, no drawn out scenes, you know like next
time when Dragon ball Z, like where it's like the
half the episode, nothing happened. It was just like them
powering up. But the thing you definitely miss out on
are the musical elements and like the voice acting and stuff,
which do really add when done well, they really add
to the experience.
Speaker 5: M H.
Speaker 4: So Poseidon got it.
Speaker 3: By the way, guys has decided to watch the anime
instead of read, which is completely okay, like you get
to choose whatever she wants to do. However, I will
warn you the filler does start to get bad, and
like you could skip filler arcs or whatever, but like
some of the episodes are very bad pacing. I recommend
I recommend one pace. I want to hear what chat
thinks about that or like what like people think about
it in the comments, So feel free to recommend, like
if you guys are against one pace or for it.
I personally like one pace because it just like cuts
out all the filler and makes it a little bit
more streamlined, especially like if we want to do this
podcast like a little bit more frequently, it'll be hard
for her to watch a million episodes with filler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're skipping skypea right.
Speaker 4: No, you're treating Oh that's a troll. That's the troll.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, remember the whole story that people had, like, oh,
Skypeio was caught on pointless and then it's like Scipio
was so important, But dude.
Speaker 4: Are all these acts are so important?
Speaker 2: I will say that was something that I did take
a note on, was was the pacing of the episodes
The first seven episodes, it did feel like it was
a little bit unnecessarily slow in certain parts.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, gracious, if you think this is slow,
I think it gets worse.
Speaker 5: You think it gets worse.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it definitely gets worse because these early parts,
when they were making the anime, it started after the
mongo already had some content. So these early parts they're
not really doing filler. They rearranged some order, but not
doing filler. Once they get to the point where the
anime is closer to being caught up to the manga,
that's when they really are dragging things out. That's why
I also think one pace is fine. I know wetobers
can't read, so if you just I think that will
be fine.
Speaker 5: I think it doesn't help. But I'm also a TCG player.
We don't read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god, same dude, I play you yell.
It's like I Themata of Duels. I've lost this because yeah,
we just don't read.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, if you guys like Pokemon Trading Card Game
and other trading card games, Poseidon actually is a huge,
huge fan and a competitor even yeah in the Pokemon
TCG like regionals and stuff like that. So she streams
that a lot on her Twitch makes YouTube videos about
it as well, so definitely check her out at Poseidon Mythos. Right, yeah,
and google how to spell Poseidon and then when you
know the spelling that you can find at Poseidon Mythos
on social media. I don't know my phone is talking
to me. Never mind.
Speaker 3: Someone said one skips some things are important way later,
does it really? Because one Pace is supposed to have
everything that's cannon from the manga, so I don't know
if that's necessarily true. I've with Studio anime. Good with
Studio hasn't even come out yet. This is why I
don't listen to the fucking comments. They're like one Pace,
bad with Studio good One with Studio has it even
like it's a remake that we don't even like nothing,
that we haven't even experienced it yet.
Speaker 4: It's not out right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be great, but it's gonna be out
in years and years.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've watched one Pace and one Pace for like the
dub and stuff, and like, from what I could tell
as a long reader, I think it does a pretty
good job. I also recommend watching like a certain filler arcs,
but I'll let Posidon know what to watch and what
not to watch.
Speaker 4: If we decide to do that.
Speaker 3: We did skip over a few things within the flashback
that I thought were pretty like important.
Speaker 4: There's a cool bar.
Speaker 3: Scene with Shanks that you get to see Loofy eat
the fruit, but you also get to see like the Bandits.
The Bandits come in, Oh yeah Mountain.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know what did you think of that scene,
like where they come in and start like spilling drinks
and breaking glass and stuff.
Speaker 2: I was just like, is this what like the quote
unquote bad pirates are These are the bad guys who
are here to just cause trouble and take from people.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: But I thought that scene.
Speaker 2: Was really cool and how quick Shanks and Lufy were
able to kind of act upon it. And you see
like young Lufy all tough trying to try to fight
these guys when he's.
Speaker 5: Just a little kid. Yeah, I thought that was funny.
Speaker 4: It's definitely a cool contrast.
Speaker 3: I feel Shanks is like trying to teach him a lesson, like, hey,
like you don't need to get all angry and kill
people and fight just for like over a spilled drink
type of thing. I think he's trying to keep Yeah,
pick and choose your battles exactly, That's what he said, right,
versus like Loofy, I feel it's so gung ho and
has like a vision of what a pirate should be
at a young age, and Shanks is kind of like
breaking that mold for him. But then Lufy is still
being a stubborn kids like goes and tries to fuck
up the bandits. And because Loofy thought that, like Shanks
was just being a coward and he's actually secretly weak.
And then Shanks actually shows up later on when when
Lufy confronts him, when you get to see how strong
Shanks and the boys really are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was really cute, you know, looking
back on it and rereading it now. How Loofy was
pissed off about Shanks avoiding conflict initially because he was like,
these parties should be badasses, and they're freaking weak and
they just let these bandits walk all over them. But
then when Shanks wasn't there and the bandits returned and
started bad mounting Shanks even though Lufy was also talking
about him, He's like, how dare you talk bad about Shanks?
And that's why I ended up getting in trouble and
almost killed by the bandits. Right. I thought that was
funny because he was he was insulting Shanks, but it's like,
I'm only these stupid bandits insult.
Speaker 5: That is, I could do it, not you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was cute.
Speaker 3: And then you get to see like, oh, when someone's
fills a drink on Shanks, not worth it. But then
when the guy was fucking with Loofy, they literally killed
a guy. I think that's like the first first death
in one piece. Lucky Rue just shoots a guy in
the in the side of the head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he pointed the gun at Shanks, which is no,
you know, no joke.
Speaker 3: Did that Did that surprise you at all? Because I
didn't like to see a death so early on?
Speaker 5: Hey it did. And then it made me kind.
Speaker 2: Of think as well, because I remember there was like
the four kids dub. Yeah, did the four kids dub
handle this part?
Speaker 3: So he got he got shot with a cap gun
and the four kids dub and he's like, don't worry,
he'll wake up later. Well, like that misses that, like
misses the whole point of the scene, because like the
whole point of the scene is like someone puts a
gun to Shanks's head and Shanks makes a comment like
guns are for threats, not actions. No, the guns are
for actions, not threats. Oh my god, Like they're not.
They're not from making threats. Like, if you pull up
a gun, you better be prepared to like use it
and be prepared to die, because if you're willing to
kill someone, like if you're willing to kill Shanks and
he's willing to kill you, but he's not going to
fight over a spilled drink, you know. So the second
gun gets pointed to Shanks's head, that's when Lucky Roue
blows his head off with like a nice little I
think it's a nice moment and a nice line from Shanks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of because Shanks is and his guys
were completely silly until this point, right, they were just
going to be silly and and goofing off. But that
really drives home that no, this is serious business.
Speaker 3: Yep, exactly, Like this is life or death. They're betting
their lives on being pirates, right mm.
Speaker 5: Hmm, that's the risk you take.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and speaking of risks, Shanks loses his arm. You
already mentioned this beside him, but like pretty pretty crazy scene.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of the more emotional scenes. But
it really goes to show like how much Shanks cares
about Loufy and the relationship Lufy also has with Shanks.
With the way he reacted, but that entire scene was
really cool. It just also shows how strong Shanks is
because that monster was so much bigger than.
Speaker 5: All of them.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but there was a there's a moment where
like Shanks just tells it to get lost or to
beat it or to fuck off basically, and it swims.
Speaker 5: Away and it respects him.
Speaker 4: It respects him.
Speaker 3: Okay, I was gonna ask, like, what did you think
of that scene? Like what are your thoughts? Generally you
think like it was like, oh shit, this this this
guy's tough and respects him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was like.
Speaker 2: You know, he must be a big deal or some sorts,
right for these like sea monsters that are like ten
times fifteen times their size to be able to just
like you know what, I'm not messing with that.
Speaker 5: I know I know better than that.
Speaker 1: And you're saying the monster just basically.
Speaker 5: Basically, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love I love hearing like someone's first impression of
One Piece, it's so great. Yeah, he loses his arm
and then he does give him his his like very
notorious or not notorious, very like famous straw hat that
we get to see for the rest of the series. Right,
Shanks is the one who gives it to him, which
is important to note.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Lufy loves that hat.
Speaker 2: I think there was one scene if I remember maybe
I don't know if I'm mixing this up with my
watch of the live action. I watched the live action
I think exactly a year ago as well, where Lufy
does lose his hat and legacy and then you just
see how much he freaks out. Yeah, he's just like, no,
I can't lose this hat. This is everything to me.
Speaker 3: That's how he like, that's his relation to Shanks, but
also like he calls it his treasure.
Speaker 1: Right, guys, has it been a year since the live
action came out? It has damn happening with time bro,
time fucking was It's actually crazy. I feel like it
was like six months ago. Tops.
Speaker 5: Let me see One Piece Live action release state. It
was released August thirty first, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So yeah, essentially we all watched it
right away, so we watched it more than a year ago.
Speaker 4: I think next year the new ones coming out, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think they are filming the second season already.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's scheduled for season for next year, but
I can't remember exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there was some talk I would potentially being
delayed because of that strike from last year if you
guys recalled. Yeah, but then hopefully hopefully it didn't, because
I definitely want to see they're going to handle like Logtown,
like that's going to be sick.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I've seen the like other anime live actions,
like I saw the we Don't talk About the Death
Note Yeah live action and the Cowboy Bebop. So I
feel when I watched the live action and One Piece,
I was kind of having that same expectation of, oh,
this is not going to be that great, but you know,
I'm going to give it a chance watch it anyway,
and I ended up loving it a lot. I really
love the live action, which honestly, I feel like if
it wasn't for the live action, I wouldn't have been
as interested in watching the anime for One Piece.
Speaker 1: Oh see, that's really interesting because that's something that we
were hoping as one piece of fans, that people would
see the live action enjoy it enough to actually check
out the original. But so the fact that you're saying
that that had it had that effect on you is
a really cool thing. It means that the live action,
even though it's its own separate thing, that it actually
did its job.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's a successful adaptation if it does that right, Like,
if it's making people more interested they want to watch
these and two of the live action, they want to
go check out the anime or the manga, I think
that's a w for all one piece fans.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really it made me be like, you know
what I want to I want to know what goes
past this. I want to see how the anime handles,
you know, these certain events.
Speaker 5: And arcs and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I'm very pleasantly like happy with how the anime
is going. So I'm excited to continue watching it. I
don't want to keep comparing it to the live action, because,
like you said, they are two different entities.
Speaker 5: They are.
Speaker 3: I think it's fun, like it's it's it's definitely two
different entities. But it's okay to compare it every now
and then, like it. It was a funny note that
you're like, yeah, we're gonna be seeing a lot more
of Kobe. I'm excited. It's like, uh, I don't want
to spoil what the anime does. Tend to take its
time with certain characters that we love. It's like we'll
see them again for sure, and they'll definitely have some focus,
but maybe not as soon as the live action did it,
you know, so you'll you'll definitely be able to compare
and see what they do differently, and we'll see by
the end of I believe the live action ends with
our along Park. You'll, well, once we finish our long park,
we can kind of compare and see what you like better.
Speaker 1: So far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you'll be unbiased. Like you watch the
like we all read the Mango watch the anime. We
watched a thousand episodes or a thousand chapters, so going
into live action.
Speaker 4: Like, we're super biased.
Speaker 3: But for you, if you've watched the same amount of both,
I think it'd be it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually the arc I'm most excited about because
that was my favorite part of the live action was
Our Long Park, So I'm really excited to see how
the anime handles it.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I Urlng Park is and there's there's a
there's an arc called Barratier if you remember, where like
when Sandi's introduced in the live action with the Sea
restaurant that has a whole arc in the anime versus
it's not really an arc in the in the live action,
it's kind of just like a transition point from one
to another, Like you get like fifteen episodes or something
for Barratier. I don't think you get that anything, Like
you don't get like any fights or anything happening at
Brotti in the live action if I remember, maybe like
a little bit with Our Long Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so live action basically turns to Barratier as an
introduction to our Long that's like a setup for our
Long Park. It does the job of introducing Sanji, but
then it's old really a setup for Our Long Park,
whereas the anime manga really take its time with Bardier
and with Arlonge Park, because you know, I would argue
that Urlong Park parts were very rushed, So I think
the manga and the anime do it much better, but
we'll see if beside An agrees when we get to
that point.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 3: So sure, are you available next Tuesday or do we
have to do it like every other Tuesday?
Speaker 5: I can't remember. I actually I am available next Tuesday.
I'll do the calendar right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, so next Tuesday, probably around four. The time might change.
We'll definitely talk with Like in our group chat, we're
we covered romanced on just like a very quick intro episode,
but we do want to cover Orangetown next week. Do
you want to cover Orangetown and set Village or is
that too much?
Speaker 5: Can?
Speaker 3: I know you already started. I don't know how much
of Orangetown you've already done.
Speaker 5: I believe I'm on the last episode, which is episode eight.
Speaker 3: Oh, so you're basically already done Orangetown. So I say
we do Orangetown and Sert Village. Yeah, I'll send you.
I'll send you like the links and the info and stuff.
If you want to do one pace, it might cut
it down just a little bit, but not much early
on I do.
Speaker 4: I do want to tell you like.
Speaker 3: One Piece is definitely one of those shows in my opinion,
that gets better and better and better. However, sometimes the
pacing in the anime gets worse and worse.
Speaker 4: And worse.
Speaker 5: I can imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I'm really looking forward to talking more
about Zorro Anami because they're gonna obviously get all up
all right action soon.
Speaker 5: So yeah, hell yeah, dude, I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to hear your thoughts and we'll talk about
all those characters. So so far, you like Zora the most. Overall,
you're enjoying and you're excited. Do you have a favorite
moment that we can end off with, like something that
really like probably your favorite moment of romance down or
is it just the dog scene from Orangetown?
Speaker 2: The dog scene is definitely the most memorable for me
because that one I was actually like crying, fair fair, But.
Speaker 5: You know, I really the scene.
Speaker 2: That I'm getting into mine right now was nam which
she is like sneaking into Avina's ship. It's like, oh,
I'm going to go get the tray or no, no,
not that's the that's Orange Town.
Speaker 5: Never mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay, you know, you're good. It could be
it could be the same with same scene with the dog.
So next week we'll probably briefly cover orange Town since
you already kind of watched it, and we'll cover We'll
cover Syrup Village as well, and I'll send you all
the information, just letting everyone in chat and know what
we're covering. I hope everyone enjoyed, and Mac if you
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will say that Nomy's introduction was definitely
my favorite introduction in one piece for a while, and
then there was one that's better. I'll talk about that later,
but yeah, I love the Nami's introduction and we can
talk about that more next time. Thank you so much
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