Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to another episode of The Rank Cafe The One
Piece Virgin. I'm literally gonna do it every single time.
It's not even a Meme's genuinely an accident. It's going
on both the Rank Cafe Anime podcast and The One
Piece Virgin. Today we're covering the second half of Alabasta
with our Virgin Poseidon Mythos, how you doing, Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I have a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I'm excited to hear those thoughts. A lot
that went down in the second half. We also got
Jordan the anime dude, how you doing?
Speaker 3: Yollo doing all right? Hope everybody else is doing the same.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah.
Speaker 1: And we got axel Beats or what channel am I promoting?
Axel Beats is fine, axle Beats is good. Hell yeah,
good to have you back, my friend. Hope you guys
have been well of course, of course. And yeah, Pasidon,
if you want to take it away, let us know,
like what you loved, how you felt about it, and
maybe walk us through some some moments and stuff.
Speaker 5: So this was a long arc, yeah, about approximately forty episodes. However,
I think this might Actually I feel like I say
this every time. Maybe not every time, but this was
probably my favorite arc.
Speaker 4: It happened the halfway point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's gonna keep on saying that until Thriller Bark.
Speaker 4: Maybe not Skypeia. A lot of people are wishy washy
on that, but.
Speaker 3: I'm actually shocked she liked this is didn't even have
water in it partly. That's like a little bit.
Speaker 5: Oh oh sorry, good Yeah. Anyways, Yeah, this was probably
one of my favorite arcs. I really loved. I loved
the build up. Uh, it just it was just it
was I don't want to describe it. It was just so
good parts of it that I was kind of like
disappointed by. I wasn't too big of a fan of
the fights.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I wasn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't very like wowed you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Does that include water Loopy or no, it's that.
Speaker 5: Was probably the coolest one, But everything else I was
a little bit underwhelmed by.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the fights because we need we need
to dive into those thoughts and those opinions for sure,
for sure, But I do want I don't want to
gloss over because last week I wasn't one hundred percent
sure where you ended off. We're starting the second half
of Alabasta. They escape from the prison, and I do
want to say, we can't gloss over mister Prince aka
Sandy and his like strategic plan to draw crocodile out
in order to enter and help the boys escape. How
did you feel about that?
Speaker 5: It's very Shauny of him, mister Prince. Oh my god,
amazing Alias.
Speaker 2: He is so like he is.
Speaker 5: I feel like he's a lot like Jarro where he
can be really smart, but then like there's moments where
he's just so stupid. But yeah, no, that was a
ten out of ten.
Speaker 4: I think Alabasta and Little Gardener where we start seeing
him be like more. Everyone else is kind of doing
things in the front, and he's just like, I'm gonna
go for a walk and fixes all the problems in
the background.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So why everyone has their role in the crew, Everyone
does something different and they're all like working towards success
type of thing. I love like a soundy from the
background for sure. Jordan in regards to like the prison
break or like the early or like that part of Alabasta,
do you have anything you want to to want to mention.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so whenever we did the first half, you know,
you told me what chapter to stop at or like
what episode, and I know we didn't quite get there
the first time. So it's like immediately after the prison arc,
I thought you were gonna have a stop last time
at like the true ending of what should have been
the ending of One Piece. I'm curious to hear Poseidon's
thoughts on on that.
Speaker 1: I know what should have been and you know UMP's
loofy x yeah smoker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, No, my boy, Crocodile should have won.
His plan was flawless. They to escape the prison with
the crocodiles and all that. But but but but he
is Crocodile. He should have won.
Speaker 1: You should do what a masterful villain. I love like it,
just like this all the tropes. It's like I'm gonna
leave you in a in a prison for an hour
while the water rises and the conaggator James.
Speaker 3: But it was a sea stone prison, all right. It
still it should have worked this time, alright, he did
it better than Jas.
Speaker 1: But it was kind of cool how like he kind
of flashed the key to them, threw it under water.
It got eaten, but it wasn't even the real key.
He had the real key with him. So like if
they even if they were struggling to survive, struggling to live,
if Mister three wasn't there or yeahs they were cooked.
Speaker 3: You do have to love the storytelling elements that are
just kind of subverting expectations like that, Like I said,
he didn't even give him a key. It was just
one little oversight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, they finally do escape and Loofy actually tells
Zorrol to save Smoker. Poseidon any thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: I That's what I love about Loofy.
Speaker 5: He he knows this guy has been after him to
get him arrested, yet he still has like the heart
to be like, we can't just leave him here, we
have to save him. And then seeing Smoker just let
them go, and because he knows that he's indebted to them,
that they saved his life. He would not be alive
without them because he has a double for power. He
can't swim, So that was really touching. I honestly, what
I liked about this arc was the Navy's role in
this entire thing. Like we'll probably get talk talk, We'll
talk about that in a little bit, but I really
really loved their role in this arc with Tashigi and
everything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very complicated, right there was because Loofy
is teaming up with the Princess of Alabasta and they're
trying to stop a revolution and save the country and
take down who someone who's working for the Gumfort government, Crocodile.
But obviously he has his master plan, so it's like,
obviously these are pirates. T Shigi and Smoker want to
take down pirates. Lufy literally saves Smoker. So they're so
conflicted and there's so much going on there and we'll
definitely get into it more. So I'm trying to remember
chronologically where they go from here. I believe this is
one of the first times you see Loofy lose a fight.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, time, okay, yeah, yeah, the only fight he
lost so far is against Smoker in Logtown, so both
Logi users and.
Speaker 5: He got bailed out. He did, someone bailed him out,
and we still don't know who that person is.
Speaker 4: Oh, in lockdown then yeah, where did you end this time?
Be Seidon And I don't want to spoil anything. That's
like very early in the next just paste.
Speaker 5: So I The last episode I watched was the one
where Nico Robin.
Speaker 2: Joins the crew.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I didn't want to spoil.
Speaker 1: Good because guess who bails Guess who bails out Loofy
this time when he takes his first l against Crocodile's.
Speaker 3: Robin, Nico Robin All Sunday.
Speaker 4: Also, I love Crocodile. Like, just before the fight with Loofy,
He's like, anyways, it's noon, I'm gonna send a tornado
with that old man for no reason.
Speaker 1: Again, Dude, that old that's literally the MVP of the arc.
If he didn't get that water and give it to Loofy,
Loofy would never would have found out Crocodile's weakness. And
it just he literally saved Alabasta, He saved one piece.
What was his name again, Toto, my goat.
Speaker 3: They both remembered that. That still blows my mind. I'm
so bad with names. Nobody forgets Toto.
Speaker 1: He went from fat to skinny with otos epic.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's me.
Speaker 3: No food diet is works, wonders.
Speaker 1: I'm looking up character names real quick. I only know Toto, guys,
I only know him.
Speaker 2: My favorite character. This art is my boy Eyelash.
Speaker 3: I love. Yeah, Campbell's underrated. Thank god for Chopper. It
makes it so much better that we can kind of
get like a glimpse into eyelashes head and stuff as
a as they interact.
Speaker 4: Like U percent sure Chopper was added just so they
could talk to animals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's like this would be funny.
Speaker 1: Every crew needs to do little anyway. They finally make
their way to Alabarna. Obviously Lufy gets like falls behind
and fights crocodile. As we said, Robin was the one
who kind of saved him. Do we remember why Robin
saved him? Poseidon, so I recall.
Speaker 5: Her saying something along the lines of, like, what is
it with you people with like the letter D in
your name?
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, why are you all like this?
Speaker 1: So we got we continue to get like little drops
into like the lower and like the world building and stuff.
But Lufy knows nothing about it. So he was kind
of saved on a whim and nothing came of it. Right,
The rest of the group go towards Alabarna and the
fights unfold. I do want to hear some of your
thoughts on the fights because obviously we got what what
are the fights? I think in the last Prumpies version
we ranked them, and I want to hear Jordan and
Actos thoughts on them as well. But I believe it
was like Chopper and Ussaw versus two people we had
for miss Merry Christmas. Perfect, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got you and their dog last Sue.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's start with let's start with that.
Speaker 2: I think that was like the longest fight is.
Speaker 3: That's an underrated fight if there ever was one. All right,
the rubber band, the giant tan ton hammer or however
heavy it is. My boy, stop, he never makes it
a straightforward fight, all right. It's always around the.
Speaker 4: Middle combat finisher on USA break you see go through it.
Speaker 1: You see Ups resolves to keep on fighting, but he
takes a lot of damage, and he's like a normal dude.
Speaker 3: I mean, he is the second in command of the crew,
but you know it's aside from that, it's very normal.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: There was a moment where they were like, we need
to like, I need to figure out what's thinking in
his heady, Like without Loofy here as the vice captain,
I need to think of something, something to get these
boys going. I laughed out loud.
Speaker 2: It was so good.
Speaker 3: There's some moments to where he's like just talking with
Chopper or whatever in the long and he's like, you know,
as the second in command, like he's giving him all
these pointers and these tips because you know, he's the
new guy.
Speaker 4: On the crew's so high on his own type. I
love it. He's like, not even proving it to anyone else.
He's like, this is just for me. I am the
second captain, you.
Speaker 3: Know, only took the new guy under his wing, but
he guided him through that first big fight of theirs,
so he love to see it.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to like kind of lead us in
a direction here presided, but I do want like, I know,
I know you could do it. Once Jordan left last
week and I didn't know exactly what was happening. You
went hard on like all these feelings, all these thoughts,
and chronologically I wanted to try to leave it to you.
Otherwise I'm just gonna keep on happing this whole podcast.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you're good.
Speaker 1: That I believe we're talking about fights. We've got into Alaibarna.
Speaker 2: She said, Merry Christmas fight.
Speaker 5: It was like funny for like the first like fifteen minutes,
and then there just came a point where I'm like,
can this just end already?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one piece as well, that's the one
piece as well. I'm sure that was probably like seventeen
episodes for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that was like, I don't know, it was
fun to watch.
Speaker 5: I love Whostops, like Antics and Chopper also just kind
of going at it, but that fight just it just
drained me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So how about nom versus the Long Finger Girl.
Because I'm so good with names Double Fingers, that.
Speaker 5: Was probably one of my favorite fights. Nommy and Double
Finger and then Oustop and Mister tw bon Clay were
probably my two top favorite.
Speaker 2: Fights this this arc.
Speaker 5: But I really like that no Me gets a time
to kind of shine a little bit because I feel like,
up to this point, we never don't really see her
do much combat.
Speaker 1: Yeah she did. She didn't really fight in our Long Park.
She wasn't there for Bratier. I guess she may have
fought hit that mouse guy. Yeah, so this is like, yeah,
the first time you're seeing her fight her and are
really going like throwing hands and actually getting getting damaged
in hurt. But still managing to win. So that was
nice to see, right.
Speaker 4: What did you think of the climatettack, the which one?
Speaker 1: The weapon?
Speaker 2: Oh, the weapon, weapon went weapons? Remember its name?
Speaker 4: It comes up a lot.
Speaker 5: I thought it was so funny that like the party
made it like as more of a party trick thing
first and then a weapon second. Yeah, so she's over
here like I'm doing all these cool moves, only for
it to just be completely just doing nothing. But I
like that the fight between double Finger and not Me
wasn't necessarily too much about like who was stronger. It
was more like not Me outsmarting her, which I think
is her her strength.
Speaker 1: I agree, I completely agree, because she has to figure
out like for what she lacks in strength, he needs
to figure out strategies to win.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But then you get Sandu who kind of has a
little bit of both. He has the strategies, but he's
also part of like the monster Trigo. He's really strong,
but that's why he fights mister too. And how did
you feel about that one?
Speaker 2: I actually really loved that fight.
Speaker 5: It kinda I guess up to this point, I knew
Son he was strong, but like the fact he was
able to keep up with their second strongest agent is
kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love bond Clay or mister t. Bond Clay is
what we call him. The character.
Speaker 5: He's so cool and I love that, Like at the
end of the fight, he was just like, yeah you
when I'm done, like he was being very respectful about
the fact he lost.
Speaker 1: M bonb Clay is just the home Yeah, I love
him so much.
Speaker 4: I like that his strategy in the fight was like
I'm hot, don't hit me.
Speaker 2: That's the whole Like Sonji's kind of dumb word.
Speaker 5: That's where I kind of kind of correlate that where
he was just so weak to women and she stop
in the middle of anything just to try to swoon
over a girl.
Speaker 2: It's so it's unny.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 1: Oh man, when Robin ends up joining not spoiler because
I didn't see this, and and Sonji is just like
immediately like yeah, I'm down. We'll get We'll get more
into that though, but like he was, he was like
literally that one frame he's in, he's locked.
Speaker 4: So the last fight we have is Zorro and mister
one Yes.
Speaker 1: Fight quixt thing. I want to ask Jordan, what's your
favorite fight.
Speaker 3: You know, it's weird. As with all the good fights
in this, uh, this arc, I feel like the most
memorable moments were like the in betweens of like trying
to get to the fight and things like that. Yeah,
but if I had to pick one, it would be
way before any of these. When Crocodile just impaled Loopy.
That that that's by far and away the the best
fight aside from that, probably probably Zoro and Uh and
mister One for me, I enjoyed that one quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Nice. Okay, So moving on to mister one pside and
your thoughts on that one. You're fucking killing me, Jordan,
But honestly, it was a good fight. Crocodile versus Loopy Paling.
Speaker 3: The main character, all right, he's always strong. I like
to lose every now and again.
Speaker 1: It's true, true, true, Okay, take it away.
Speaker 2: That was a cool fight.
Speaker 5: I probably my favorite thing from it was the fact
that Zoro learned something from it. He was able to
kind of figure out like how to.
Speaker 2: Like was it balance was that they were focusing on how.
Speaker 1: To how to cut steal and like hear the voice.
Speaker 5: Of that, I don't know what the fuck, just some
some sort of sword fighting style that he hasn't been
able to learn up until now, up until he's like
about to get his ship bean out of ms.
Speaker 3: Did you did, Bruce force? Yes, it's like the way
you would cut, not the same way you'd cut like
a leaf or something.
Speaker 4: Right, But like also he picks up a building in
this fight. They don't really focus on it, but he
does that. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Does he get his flashbacks in this one, Jordan, where
like he flashes back to his like mentor at all,
like not cutting something.
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I can't remember the flash flashback specifically.
Speaker 1: I remember you you just brought up like the cutting
paper or a leaf or something, and I remember that
was rob relevant. I could remember the relevant to this
fight or a future one.
Speaker 3: Pretty sure this was the one where he got some
type of flashback related to h It's just the way
he would cut. It would be different than the way
he would cut like a leaf or something, right, Like
you can slice through other things with like brute force.
But yeah, it was some type of changing approach and
it was like a mindset change more so than trying
to just power overpowering him.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's cool because even Mihawk points out, like
Zorol's really talented, but he's like it's like sword plays
not all about being ferocious and strong and like strength, right,
there's more to it.
Speaker 3: This technique, stuff to it.
Speaker 1: And I like that because I had to notice, like
this is something where like he kind of learned something
new and has definitely grown as a swordsman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he learned a lot of things this hark.
I mean, the Marines were trying to help him out
and guide him, and they were like go north. So
you know, he went up and then you had to
learn worth and up or not the same thing, a
little things like that. You know, there's all kind of
lessons in that.
Speaker 1: We can so many lessons, so many lessons.
Speaker 4: I think this is also the first Zoro fight possibly
in the series that is not injured. Going into that
is a wild thing.
Speaker 3: I always had to have him like injured initially and stuff.
Otherwise it's just unfair.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it should muck. So after this, I do
believe we you get is there three fights against crocodile.
Speaker 4: Yes, but also there's a scene that just before all
those fights breakout where like Cooza and the army run
by VV as she's like them to stop. I just
I just want to point out that's a really cool scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a great plan where like they all
had like capes on in order to like lure the
Broke Works away so VV can actually enter Alabarna. She
manages to do it. But then obviously, like there's a
bunch of like undercover Broke Works agents that are so
undercover because their tattoos are not showing at all, right,
and they just like managed to get things going and
start up the war earlier and Kosa and VV run
by each other. They were so close. They were so close, man, Poseidon.
How do you feel about Loofy versus Crocodile number two?
Speaker 2: Number two?
Speaker 5: First of all, I don't know how Loofy survived. He
got like the whole hook went through his body, and
he was in like almost perfect fighting shape, like he
had no problem maneuvering around and all of that. But
I liked his water strategy. I thought that was really funny.
He kind of mixed it with a little bit of
his double fruit power to try to counter crocodile.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I thought it was a pretty pretty a
good fight.
Speaker 5: I liked that it was taking place also where the
royal palace was, so there also the other other royal
I don't want to say guards because I feel like
they're higher.
Speaker 2: Ranked than that.
Speaker 5: It was well and chaka right. They were also fighting him,
which I thought was really cool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I obviously they weren't strong enough, but it.
Speaker 2: Was it was that where they weren't. But I like,
I like their dedication.
Speaker 5: They were like, we were gonna protect the royal family like.
Speaker 4: Their super guards.
Speaker 3: I would like to argue that a bit too though,
like for them to not be you say they're not
strong enough, but I don't know if there's many series
people in the series stronger than my boy pell All right,
do you have any thoughts on Hell? And like everything
he went through this arc is Oh my god, that
might be a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of a r I don't mean the will
of p oh my god.
Speaker 2: I love I loved his character.
Speaker 5: I think if there was a favorite character from Alabasta
that wasn't VV or College, it.
Speaker 2: Would probably be Hell. I loved his dedication.
Speaker 5: I loved the flashbacks and how involved he is with
just like the royal family, and how much he wants
to protect BV. Like he's like this is my duty
and this is my purpose, and I'm going to do it.
And my heart completely shattered at the end of this arc.
Speaker 2: Because the pell.
Speaker 1: Wait, yeah it was it was.
Speaker 4: It was there later.
Speaker 1: No, no, she's seen it. She's definitely seen it. So
it was definitely. What a sacrifice, what a heartbreaking moment.
But there is a scene. It was in Alabastis. You
had to have seen it unless you were like maybe
looking away for a second. There was a random doctor
that healed someone and then the person walking away was hell.
Speaker 2: Yes, I recognized the jacket. Wait, hold up, that's the
same jacket. What is happening? How did he live.
Speaker 3: Strong enough to survive that? How dare you.
Speaker 2: Is this arc that probably should have died carried a nuke?
Speaker 1: He carried a bomb up in to the sky and
it blew up with him holding it. How how well
he's a bird, so you know it's probably fine. Yeah, yeah,
it was probably a bad bob. It wasn't even a
good bob.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god. During the crocodile fight or the
second crocodile fight, he also mentions that he hasn't awakened
devil Fruit or he has awakened his devil fruit. It's
the first time they mentioned that at all in the series.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so that's something about to think about going forward,
Like you have devil fruits, but it was also like
you could awaken them.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Basically he's saying he's so good at it that
it's awakened because he's had it for thirty years, I
think he said.
Speaker 1: And you can tell even in his first fight, like
he's turning the sand and Loofy fought him in a desert,
but like he's like draining people of like all the
water in them. He's turning like the ground into quicksand he's.
Speaker 4: Cutting like so much more versatile and fluid with his
fruit than Lufy, who's just like I'm a punch real far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, he should have won, or even Smoker, Like
Smoker's really good with this fruit, but like he's not
doing any like these like crazy techniques, while Crocodile has
like all these techniques.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has become one with the Yeah, and what a.
Speaker 1: Place for him to fight fucking Alabasta.
Speaker 3: I told you my goat. He chose the right arena,
he planned everything accordingly. He I don't know, I almost
dropped one piece after after this art. I'm not gonna lie.
When the second started, I was just looking at his
plot armor. He had more plot armor.
Speaker 1: Than pill put Sidon any thoughts on the reason Crocodile
has done all of this, what he was trying to
find and achieve.
Speaker 2: I what a wonderful villain.
Speaker 5: I think he's he is just such a well written villain,
like he had a gold in mine. He was He's
he had it, like you guys said, a flawless plan.
Like if it wasn't for or VV or anybody, his
plan would have worked. But because like you said, Lufy
has blot armor, it failed.
Speaker 1: And Robin wasn't really on his side. Robin wasn't really
going to reveal what he wanted to be revealed, so
that that was one, like I guess, like one issue,
but he didn't expect that obviously, just trust.
Speaker 4: I take okay. I think Robin has the strongest non
logia devil Fruit in the first half of the show,
just like anyone's in front of her, She's like, well,
I'm gonna make their back snap, and like there's nothing
you could really do about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in regardless to devil Fruits for sure.
So unless you're fighting someone that's like at like Loofy
Rozoro's level. I think they would be able to resist,
but it would still be like a tough fight.
Speaker 3: I think for them, definitely an interesting fruit. And you
hear flower flower, you don't want to like, you don't
picture like just limbs spreading out right, but very versatile less.
Speaker 4: Also, her bounties basically the same as crocodiles, which is
kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved when she just started laughing when Lufi
insalted crocodile and I'll kill you too. She's like, you
could try.
Speaker 3: But I guess moving back a bit to what Briggs
said whenever he talked about Crocodile's plans. I know last
time we discussed how he wanted to kind of take
over the kingdom and things like that, and there were
all these other alternative motives. But I think this was
the first arc rower an ancient weapon was introduced to Yes,
is that where you were kind.
Speaker 1: Of exactly And even in the last episode it was
kind of hinted upon that, like Ace even mentioned it
to Zorro. It's like, like, why would he want to
take this this island or why would he want to
take Alabasta. What is he getting out of this? He
probably has an ulterior motive because at the end of
the day, like he's the fucking pirate, why would he
want to like become like a king or something or
overtake a kingdom? Like what's it? What's he getting out
of this? And then like it ends up being revealed
that he he oh, was it under ground passed down
from king to king? There is this ponicglyph which is
important for the world of One Piece, and the pony
glyph he thinks has a location of a weapon on
it which would give him military power, which aligned with
his pirate goal.
Speaker 4: Right, m the sudden you watched and didn't read.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, I did not read. I'm not a manga reader.
Speaker 4: Did well? Uh did you see the episode where like
Loofy and Zero fall into a hole and find a
pony glyph? Because I don't know if you're skipping filler,
but like they just throw that in there and they
never mention it again. I remember, Uh, it's I'll see
if I can find it. That's okay, it's not important.
It's just like, know that's not a real thing. Okay.
Speaker 1: So this is the first time they see a pon
a glyph, and we learn about pon aglyph which are
containing history of the world, or that's what Robin's trying
to find history. I don't want to get too into
I don't remember exactly what she said, but she's interested
in the history of the world and sharing it with everyone.
That's her goal, while Crocodile is trying to find weapons
from like locations from the past.
Speaker 5: So I actually, like, pertaining to this particular scene right
where she's like down there reading it to him, about
an episode earlier, I already was kind of like predicting
what was going to happen, because I'm like, there's no
way that like he is going to keep Nico Robin
alive after this, Like I feel like I was telling
myself before that whole episode. I was like, she he
is going to get what he needs from her, and
once she's no longer useful, he's going to kill her,
which exactly is what he tried to do. After she
read the glyph thing to him, he was just like,
all right, well, I don't need you anymore and I
don't want you around so dead.
Speaker 1: I predicted, right, Yeah, he didn't trust her as well.
Speaker 4: He thought she lied about it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: On the note of the pony glyphs, Could I be
a history nerd for a second here?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
Speaker 4: The real life pirate that Rogers named after based on
is Olivier Levassour h And when he was being executed,
he threw a cryptogram into the big crowd. It was
supposed to hold like crypto. Yeah, he threw the crypt
It was supposed to like hold the location of his treasure.
So I put it into the ran cafe chat there.
But it's like it literally looks like a pony glyph
and I just think that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Oh how did I not know this this entire time?
Speaker 4: Don't watch my videos, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw you like that?
Speaker 1: What I try to remember what we're talking about here.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I don't Henry Avery and Olivia love sir. Sorry, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: It's it was the actual final moments though, of the
fight of Lufy firsts Crocodile. Any thoughts on that.
Speaker 5: I thought it was Honestly, I thought it was kind
of amusing just watching Loofy just like continuously beat the
shit out of him, like in the air.
Speaker 2: Was I don't know, it was just funny to me.
I thought it was.
Speaker 5: I thought it was cool him just like basically bursting
out of the ground into the air, yeah, flying up above,
and everybody's.
Speaker 2: Like, is that croked?
Speaker 1: And honestly, I feel like the animation isn't always that great.
It's like on and off, on and off, But in
that moment, it's like, you see the ground fucking breaking.
He's literally punching him upwards. The orchestra music is playing like,
it's just fucking hype. What a hype way to end
an arc.
Speaker 4: And then Loofy does that smile when he hits the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, class, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's pelle. No,
it's crocodile.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fucking crocodile in the air. People were looking up.
It was what a what a crazy way to end it?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Lufy also gets poisoned for the first time.
Speaker 2: Poison yes, and.
Speaker 1: Robin ended up giving him the antidotes or whatever and
then saved him again. Yeah, Robin saved him a second again.
But then Loofy ends up saving her against her will,
like she didn't want she kind of gave up on
her dream was ready to die. Lufy unconscious poison gets
up and saves both Cobra and Robin, which was crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a guy.
Speaker 1: What a guy.
Speaker 4: I also like Loofy beats crocodile so hard that it
starts to rain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, how emotional though when it starts raining.
Speaker 4: So good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's that whole scene where everybody's just kind of
like stopping and they're like, wait, guys.
Speaker 2: There's water coming from the sky. That was great.
Speaker 5: I also want to kind of take note here of
Tashigi and the Navy's role in all of this. So
Smoker sends Tashigi by herself with the with the Marines
right to kind of.
Speaker 2: See I don't think he told her like, oh stop,
what stop? What's going on?
Speaker 5: But just go over there and try to do what
you can and I'll let you kind of form your
own opinion of what like justice is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think this was a huge turning point
for Tashigi as a character because you can.
Speaker 5: See it at the end of the arc, she's she's
kind of broken, like witnessing, you know, a revolution, a
war basically happening and her not being able to like
stop it, and her honest, also realizing that maybe the
straw Hats aren't the bad guys that everybody is saying they.
Speaker 1: Are, you know what I mean exactly. Smoker realized that
earlier a little bit, but now she got the realized
a Smoker left and left it to Tashigi and said,
you make your own judgment. And what she says in
that moment afterwards to the crew to like the Marines
are like, we're gonna go take down the straw Hats
was kind of like her thing. And by the end
she's unable to take down Crocodile, which they revert their
goal to taking down Crocodile and trying to stop the
revolution Loofy and the straw Hat to take down Crocodile
and baroque works. They're there, unconscious and weak. They have
a perfect opportunity to take them out and arrest them,
and she's just like she couldn't do it because they
saved this city, unlike them, like the way in a
way the Marines couldn't do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she ordered her the Marines do not touch them exactly,
don't do anything to them, and she proceeds to arrest
Crocodile and any baroque works people, but seeing her just
like even Loose to Nico Robin and her like realizing
that this is going to be a big thing, like
the straw hats are gonna be you know, important moving forward,
Like even Smoker said, this is we are now on
the horizon of a new historical era, like go to
go to Alabama and see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And I'm really.
Speaker 5: Excited to see where Tashiki's character goes because I really
think that this is going to be a huge turning
point for her.
Speaker 4: What do you think about the war lords in general?
So far we have him and Mihawk, so.
Speaker 5: I am kind of under the assumption that if one
warlord is corrupt, I don't know who else could be
corrupt as well, you know what I mean. They're super
powerful and they are scary, scary pirates that have the
authorization from the world government, so they have all this
power and immunity, and I can't like, after seeing Crocodile,
I'm like, there has to be other warlords that are
that are taking advantage of the fact that they have
a status that they are basically protected, and I am
excited to meet who else is a war lord? I mean,
I kind of have an idea who is and who isn't,
just because I played the card game.
Speaker 4: But I was gonna ask about that later.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, oh lord, yeah, I think she's she's
more into it than any of us.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I've been going to locals every week. I'm
going actually twice this week.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's fucking awesome, dude.
Speaker 5: I just spent more money on another deck for one piece,
and I am I'm in shambles.
Speaker 1: Like me and magic.
Speaker 3: It's nothing than children's trading card games.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it's so fun.
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm on I'm playing Green Bonnie. That is
my favorite deck right now. I don't know who Bonnie is,
but I like her decks.
Speaker 4: You just wait another three episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just so funny. So what are the characters
that you've been playing? Like you're just never seeing in
so long, and.
Speaker 2: So I know, I'm just like, who is eusetss? Who is?
Speaker 3: Luckily there's no shortage of characters.
Speaker 2: Who's this bunny girl named Carrots? I don't know who
these people are.
Speaker 4: But it must be like such a cool experience working
the other way, because like people who watch the show
and then play the game, like, oh, I'm gonna pick
Loofy because you know that's my favorite character. But like,
you get to build a relationship through the card game first,
and then they show up in the show and you
get excited. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It's like sometimes in the card game, you wouldn't even
know if they're good bad if they I like who
they really ally with, Like are they opposing the straw Hats?
Are they friends with the straw Hats because they give
their pirates.
Speaker 4: I've been playing this guy, he's a bastard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or their personalities. That's actually that's gonna be really
fun to see.
Speaker 5: I honestly think the card game is what's really motivating
need to get because I'm just like, I want to
know where this card is from.
Speaker 2: And this is probably major spoilers.
Speaker 5: So I have a friend that has a Buggy deck
because there's a new Buggy Leader card from the newest
set and it has like the trait cross Guild on it.
That's like the whole like theme of the deck is
cross Guiled.
Speaker 2: So my friend hands me the.
Speaker 5: Deck is like, oh, because I didn't look how cool
this deck is, and I'm like rummaging through the deck
and I see Crocodile and on the bottom it says
Cross Guild and his art is him having his hook
up to Buggy's head.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, wait a second, crazy, And then I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, there's another card in there, same set, me Hawk.
It said Cross Guild on the bottom, and.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, what is happening? No idea, guys, dick together,
I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the cross kild is. That
was so fucking funny.
Speaker 4: Her mind's gonna be blown. Eight hundred chapters. Don't let
them guess, Like CROSSI night really a plot relevant thing.
It's most characters and it's like a name for him. Yeah,
you're the best characters.
Speaker 5: R.
Speaker 1: I think genuinely eight hundred chapters from now right like
it is, it is about eight hundred chapters. That's fucking nuts.
Speaker 2: A No, I'm just like I have to know why,
so I have to keep watching.
Speaker 3: Right, You were a bit fan of the Nico Robin
card prior to getting the Alabasta, right.
Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, imagine being a fan back in the day
when like Alabasta was first airing, and you're like, I
love VV so much. I love VV so much.
Speaker 4: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I hope she joined. I hope she joined, and we'll
talk about that moment in a second. And then she
doesn't join, and then Robin joins. I'm fucking crazy? Is that? Like,
like I don't think about it because we've watched the
show and we've rewatched it, and they've been spoiled. Even
Sidon's probably been spoiled about Robin. Like you see her
in every fucking opening in the card game, all the
promotions for the last twenty years. But like imagine at
the time, like all this of VV and then the
enemy Robin joins the grow.
Speaker 5: I thought it was so funny in the last episode
of the arc where like all of the straw hats
are not all of them, but a good chunk and
them we're.
Speaker 2: Like, man, I miss VV.
Speaker 5: Like they're moping, and then Nico Robin opens the door
and she's like, hey guys.
Speaker 2: Immediately Sanji just moves on. He's just like, oh my god,
you're so beautiful.
Speaker 4: So kind of an interesting thing here.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: We met VV in like chapter one hundred and three
or something. She stays with us until two seventeen. We've
been with her for more of the series, than she
hasn't than we didn't have her, that's crazy, and then
she's just gone, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just an arc.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It was a whole saga of the song.
Speaker 1: Yeah Little Garden drum whiskey peek, and then Alabasta decided,
how how do you feel about the moment when so
what ended up happening is Bond Clay took the ship
and they went to a different location. So then the
straw Hats are like, we got to leave, and obviously
VV is stuck with this choice. Now do I join
the straw Hats or do I stay with my people
in my kingdom? And she's like, give me twelve hours whatever,
And we have a moment there. I don't know if
you want to talk about what happens there.
Speaker 2: I cried.
Speaker 5: Where she kind of meets the straw Hats. She's on
the shore and they're on their ship getting chased by
the marines, right, and where she tells them like, I'm
staying because I love my country more than anything and
I need to be here, you know, kind of help
fix things and kind of run the country. And what
made me cry was when she said, even if like
we meet in the future, are we still going to
be for and Lufy is here waiting to respond or
like why do you do a respond and no, me
stopping him and being like, if you respond to her,
the Marines are gonna go after because they're gonna know
that we have it. She has a connection to us.
So instead of verbally responding, they all put their arm
up and they have the little ex that marks their friendship,
and she sees them put their arm up, and she
does the same and just starts.
Speaker 2: Crying and I started crying too, and oh my god, I.
Speaker 5: I the times I cried in this arc was seeing
VV in so much distress because of how much she
loves her country, Like when she was up in the
clock tower screaming at everybody stop fighting, stop fighting, just
like crying because she just witnessed one of her like
what heell diing?
Speaker 2: She just witnessed that.
Speaker 5: She's witnessed everybody killing each other, and you see her
screaming up there. And then one of my favorite moments
was Nammy seeing VV screaming and just like crying and
her telling the straw hats like you guys, like we
have to stop this, like do something about it.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? Just standing here, and to me,
I VV and.
Speaker 5: Nami's relationship was probably one of my favorite things about
like this whole leading up to Alabasta and Alabasta, seeing
them almost act like sisters, and it made me sad
because when VV decides to not joy, Nami doesn't have
that anymore, but now we have Nico Robin, so it's
all good.
Speaker 1: Bribes her with some fucking jewelry sister.
Speaker 5: She's like him, I'm onto you, like I don't trust
you and me because like, here you go, I stole
summer Crackodial's treasure.
Speaker 4: Last time I was on was the Bartier episode where
like Nommy steals their boat and she's like sailing the
way back to Orange Village for Orangetown, and she's the
exact same line that VV does when she's like saying goodbye,
It's like, if we meet you again in the future,
can we still be friends? And I thought that's really cool,
like both of them do it because like ye, like
I said, they have that relationship.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I just want to see more VB.
Speaker 4: I love VIV. She's my favorite character.
Speaker 1: Oh Precidon, who's you favorite character currently? I?
Speaker 2: Oh god, oh lord ah I can't say Nico Robin
because I feel like I haven't seen enough of her,
but just like that be fair.
Speaker 5: Still, though I love Nico Robin, listen, hot women make
me very nervous, and I love that. I'm actually grown
to really like Chopper this this arc. I love Chopper,
He's just a little guy. But I think Zoro still
takes it for me. I love I love Soro. I
think it'll but I think Nico Robin may take the
spot in the future.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of some more moments when need
to talk about. There was a little go ahead to it.
I was gonna say, it does be tough to pick
one with so many different characters. I see her list
in her mind. She's like, there's this one, but also
this one.
Speaker 3: But one character that I feel like, I'm curious on
if we got the closure within the episodes that you
watched for this character. Did we see what happened to
all the Brokes work agents, including the Number two or
or no, no, I you haven't seen.
Speaker 1: No, you see what happened to you see what happened
to Bond Clay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bond Clay. Oh my boy. Basically sacrificing himself.
Speaker 3: That was the saddest moment.
Speaker 2: Forget me, all right, my boy.
Speaker 3: Just he's a villain, but also yeah, he's a homie.
He's he should be the one with the tattoo on
his arm, all right, forget he should have raised his
arm up as as he saved them.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so sad. The bias is so real.
I as this series series goes on rewatching arcs. In
this arc, bond Clay is my favorite character. But that's
that's only because that's only because I've watched the entire series,
but genuinely my favorite character in this entire arc.
Speaker 4: I think that's because, like when you watch it the
first time, there's all the tension and everything, but like
now that you know what's happening, you're just like, Bonclay,
what is silly goose?
Speaker 1: Look at this dude? Look at this fucking dude. Like
literally he heard for a second, He's like, why would
you go that direction? We need to go this direction?
My friend is there? Your friend Okay, And then him
and the boys go out and sacrifice themselves to give
the straw Hatchet opportunity. Like it just the setup is
so well because in the very beginning, they meet each
other and they become friends before they know that they're
on opposite sides. And then they have a fight and
the fight's crazy. Throughout the arc you have these little moments.
Bonclay saves the ship to save the ship, but also
for themselves, so they get to find a way to escape,
and then that mobiuld of sacrifice. I love Bonclay so
so so much. Is crazy. Like literally, I think he's
like my top five favorite characters in the.
Speaker 3: Series Wild also Wild. You're not necessarily like overhyping it either.
Very character, very fun.
Speaker 2: He's just a great guy. He values friendship. That's that's
his thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like him. Hell and Eyelash er like the
Big three for this arc.
Speaker 1: What about the crab Scissors?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and the Kung Fu do Gone?
Speaker 4: Sorry the animals. We never get to see Nico Robbins
turtle again, And I think that's fucked up personally, Yeah,
fucked up. You get a cowboy hat and everything.
Speaker 3: You just ditched him.
Speaker 1: Okay. Someone in chat said, ask you what your top
ten woods are. Okay, don't get into that. Don't get
into that yet. I think for next week. While you
start watching the next arc we do if you're available
next week, we do like a little tier list, like
going through your favorite arcs and your favorite characters. It's
kind of tearing characters and arcs. I think that'd be
fun thing to do next week if you're available.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as around this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you wouldn't really need any prep forge or
anything like that, so you don't need to watch the
episode and it well, we'll organize the time, but it'll
probably be around around now as well.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely down almost like a little special.
Speaker 1: Leadership exactly exactly. So we did that with the Wumpes
version after like certain segments, like to give Animac some
time as well. I think we did it after the
East Blue. So we're a little bit later now, but
it actually might be a little it might be a
little bit better this way, you have more characters and
more arcs to work with. I'm trying to remember if
we missed anything. There was like an in between before
the Straw had started to leave Alabasta where they were
all injured and we're healing and stuff, and you get
some small funny moments where they're eating and they're recovering
and training and stuff. I don't know if you have
anything to say about that, guys.
Speaker 5: Oh, I loved how all the guards were just like, oh,
it's just how like there's a pirates eat and they're
just like all having a good time, and then everybody
just starts just having a good time. You see Cobra
the King just like, you know, going along with it,
and everybody just celebrating, which is something they haven't been
able to do together in a very long time.
Speaker 2: You just stealing people's food from their plates and everybody
getting angry. It was, it was, It was awesome, And
I loved the bath seemed to.
Speaker 4: Happiness punch.
Speaker 5: Where he's like, I'll show you my body for one
hundred thousand very.
Speaker 1: She started only fans, the only fans. Nothing I seart
of got if if if these characters were in real life,
I think she would she would be on only fans.
She couldn't she wouldn't be able to turn on the money.
Speaker 4: Also, Smoker gets credit for stopping Crocodile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And he didn't want to. He didn't want to take
the credit. He says, screw you, fuck you, guys.
Speaker 2: I think that's why I love my boy smoker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love smoking. I think one of the funniest
scenes for me. It's so stupid and small, but when
Lufy wakes up and he's just like, I've been a
sleep for three days. That's fifteen meals. And then the
lady walks in. She's like, I'm the head cook. I'm
gonna feed you till you're full, and she brings in
like a whole like tub of food and the comedy
of it they make it. The food disappeared an instant,
like all the food is gone. It is so fucking funny.
And the other like little moments you guys want to
talk about before we end off this podcast, I.
Speaker 5: Want to also mention we get introduced to another like
navy marine character.
Speaker 2: We get to meet Hena mm hmm. She she's hot.
Speaker 4: And she has the bondage fruit.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, yes would uh we also.
Speaker 4: See we mentioned last suit earlier, but he's the first, uh,
non living thing to be given a devil fruit. It's
like a gun who ate the dog fruit that.
Speaker 5: I just felt so sad about it, Like that poor dog,
that poor gun.
Speaker 1: You mean poor gun, so sadden. It's not a dog
that ate the gun fruit. It's a gun that ate
the dog fruit.
Speaker 2: How does that make sense? I don't know how that
makes sense.
Speaker 1: One piece for the dog.
Speaker 2: I know it's a gun, but the poor guy, that
poor gun, That poor gun.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the gun just trying to follow the
first bed bed that this fucking dog came out of nowhere.
Oh my goodness, they found a way. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's one piece that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: Any ideas decided on where the series is going from here? Rob, Oh,
actually one more thing before I asked that question, how
do you feel about Loofy and Robin's interaction when Robbie
Robin joins, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know how to.
Speaker 1: Loofy is like oh okay.
Speaker 2: He just was like, oh whatever. More.
Speaker 4: She's the only character in the series to join the
straw Hats by asking rather than Lufy asking them.
Speaker 1: Oh that is, And I think it just shows, like Lufy,
I feel like it does value who he has on
the crew and he's not going to ask anyone or
accept anyone easily. It just shows he's like a good
judge of character and he just looks at the crew's like, no,
she's actually a good person. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, he did save his life like twice. All
I would have just said sure too at that point.
And she's hot, Yeah, she's hot.
Speaker 5: We also get that moment at the end of the
episode where she goes up to Zoro and I I
don't know if it's maybe just my girl de Lulu,
but I felt some sort of tension between them.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair beside it. But also he was
the only one that didn't accept her nominally accepted her
immediately the Jewels saw shere's a simp. So that was
like one frame Loofy he said, accepted her when she
asked after being saved by her twice, and they had
some interactions or whatever. Oosop and Chopper and Lufy were
getting tickled and like we're playing around with her hands,
and there was a funny moment where Lufy had like
the Chopper hands and Usof is fucking crying and like laughing.
It's like, this is too funny not to accept you.
And then Zoro's the only one that didn't accept her,
and she kind of like made her way towards him
with the jazz music playing.
Speaker 2: So think of it as I know, Oh lord, oh gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those I'm excited to see the character dynamic between
those two now.
Speaker 2: But I actually have no idea where it's gonna go.
Speaker 5: I felt like we built up so much up to
Alabasta that I'm just like, where do we go from here?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where do we go?
Speaker 4: You can only go up?
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, which is not North? We learned that
that's not North.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Yeah, I guess it is kind of the
end of the saga, the end of like a lot
of big things going on, so it's hard to predict
where it goes from here. What is the next?
Speaker 4: Sorry Chaya?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to cover the probably the whole arc
of Jaya next. I don't know how many episodes it is.
I don't think it's that many. Sorry, guys, give me
one second, my bet. I'm trying to find out. Put
that until mark it's.
Speaker 4: Only twenty chapters, so I can't imagine it's more than
like fifteen episodes.
Speaker 1: So it's apparently it's only nine episodes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, there's only nine.
Speaker 1: Episodes in the anime, which is crazy that it's actually
not that many.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna do some Scypia. I think Skpia is
another long It's the longest one, like even to that
point in the story.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for now, Poseidon, I'm gonna say just watch
up till one fifty two, which is the end of Jaya.
I might try to give you an extra like six
episodes or something just to introduce you to the next arc,
which I think because I think it might work for this,
but that'll be from two weeks from now. Guys. Next week,
we'll try and do something where we do like a
tear list or something like that. But on that note, boys,
any final thoughts on Alabasta.
Speaker 3: Or one piece Crocodile is still my goat. He better
get a good place on that tear list. Beside that,
I'm expecting good things.
Speaker 5: I am excited to do the tear list because I
also kind of my brain's a mess, so I kinda
also want to visually see where starting characters would go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, multi streaming yeah hell
Speaker 1: Yeah guys, And just like that, I'll see you all
next time later bye, see yep