Speaker 1: How's it going? And welcome back to another episode of
the One Piece Virgin podcast. Today we're covering the first
half of Skypea with me today. Of course we have
our one Piece Virgin Poseidon. What up Gamer?
Speaker 2: Hello, Glad to be back, Hell yeah.
Speaker 1: And we got Jordan.
Speaker 3: Yellow happy to be here. What's up everybody?
Speaker 1: So we ended off Jaya with the first opening playing
they're taking the knock up stream up to the sky.
They're going straight up and honestly, it was such a
high moment, but they do finally land on some clouds,
the white white sea. Poseidon, what are your general thoughts
on the arc? While I fixed my lighting?
Speaker 2: Just like over all the first half, how I felt
I've been enjoying it. Definitely. A change in the scenery
has been quite the shift. I'm so used to seeing
the nice blue watery ocean, but now we're up in
the clouds and there ocean is just clouds. So it's
been a it's fun. I actually even really enjoying Skypeia.
Speaker 1: Hell ya, Jordan, Do you have like any general thoughts
on this arc?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun arc.
Speaker 4: Glad to hear Poseidon doesn't feel like too much of
a fish out of water with a you know, the
ocean being gone and all. But uh, you know, it's
a it's a change in scenery, it's a it's a
fun little arc and it's not even really just an arc,
like it is the first one of the first times
we have like basically one arc that's also like its
own saga. Right like by the time Skypia wrapped up,
that was like a third of a third of the
manga at that point.
Speaker 1: So do you mind is lowering your headphones? I think
I hear Jordan's audio coming from oh you, that's not you, Jordan.
Speaker 2: Just think I've been messing with my mic settings recently.
I think it's a little more sensitive. But yeah, I
lard it a little bit.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, I said my voice sounds good in the
sound check. She wanted to hear me too much.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been trying to get the audio better
because it's been a couple episodes in the past that
we're scoffed. So now I'm trying to be a little
bit more on it. Guys, leave your comments on Spotify.
You could comment on Spotify now, which is really cool,
but in general, that in general, with one with this
arc Skypo. I really like this arc. However, I do
think it drags at times, and but I also think
it's underrated. It gets a bad rap. Some of the
community used to hate on Skypo quite a bit back
in the day.
Speaker 2: Really, I've been enjoying it. I mean, I guess I
could see why people would think it drag, because there
were moments where I'm just like, dang, this could have
been like half an episode. But I mean that's just
like one piece, right, Like, I feel like that's already
expected at this point, so I wasn't necessarily like that
bothered by like somethings dragging. But I don't know, maybe
it's just a me thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think some people also, just at the time, really
thought it was just such a separated arc from the
rest of the world. Like you have their adventure to
become like the Pire King, and they're traveling the Grand Line,
and this feels almost like a detour where they're going
up into the sky and it's unconnected from the world building,
is what some people may have thought back then.
Speaker 4: I mean, it does almost feel like a whole new
world unto itself, Like you are literally up in the
sky with a whole new culture, a lot of different technology,
so many things are different, and it kind of has
to go through.
Speaker 3: And introduce you to that. Yeah, over the course of
an entire saga. Right, so it's one.
Speaker 4: I actually feel like the manga pacing is a lot
better than I remember from reading through it the first time.
Speaker 3: Like, it doesn't feel bad to bingjuried.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if the anime pacing is slowing anything down,
I could see that detracting a lot of people.
Speaker 3: So but luckily except I didn't seem to feel that, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's I think she's starting to fall so so
in love with one and the character.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The fact that I feel you're not even really complaining
about the like the pacing is is crazy. I love
that for you. And I feel like my first time
watching One Piece, I just love the characters so much
when I was in a similar vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I Yeah, I think I'm in that
boat too, where I'm just like, I just love the
characters so much that I don't honestly mind having to
spend like extra time with them exactly, And I don't
mind them like filler. I don't mind like things taking
a little bit. So that's why I haven't been that bothered,
I guess.
Speaker 1: And I also I feel like the beauty of like
ODA as a writer is like and with one piece
being like a like a kind of like a trip
around the world or an adventure around the world. Like
you get these arcs that are so different than anything
we've ever experienced, and I think that's actually a good thing.
You don't want it to feel repetitive, like it's it's
just like, dude, it's a whole different story happening right now.
It feels like mmmy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I was just gonna say, and you know,
that's the top priority for a lot of the characters,
right is the adventure. Like I know they kind of
discussed it and Me's like, you know, I choose me
and then also money after that. But Lufy's like it, no,
it's all about the adventure and that's what this is, right.
So just it's a little detached but still fun all
the same.
Speaker 1: Do you have any standout moments, Besideon, that like really
stood out to you that you really enjoyed or thought
was like badass or funny.
Speaker 2: I was laughing so hard because I was actually watching
this episode last night. There was one particular moment. It
was when I believe it was Zoro, Robin, Loofy, and Chopper.
They kind of separated into their own group, right m hm,
and you know they all kind of go down their
own little ways like they split up. And then the
goat divine Soldiers I think that's where they were called
the divine Soldiers. They have they were like making goat noises. Yeah,
they had wings. Well, particularly it was Robin. She was
she found like this cool almost like abandoned building and
she's like wow, like the architecture is so cool, and
this like goat divine soldier goes up to her and
it's like you need to leave, and she was just
like so unbothered by him that she just used his
her devil fruit power and just like snapped his neck
in like a matter of a second and just kept
moving on with her day. Like I just thought that
was just so funny, dude.
Speaker 1: She is super old pie against any like normal fodder,
like anyone who's like just not super physically strong. They
could even have like cool abilities and stuff, anyone who's
not physically strong. Robin's like super rope against them. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I know, it's insane. I was actually talking to one
of my friends about this because they really like one piece,
and I'm like, man, you know, I feel like at
this point in the anime, they have to like give,
like they have to put Robin away at some points
because it's like, I feel like this fight would be
over so quickly if she was there, but like she
just happens to not be there. It's kind of like
how we were talking about, like earlier in this Yeries,
how they had to like nerve Zoro. I feel like
they're doing that with like Robin right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even with the like the cell of Bird, like
it was like they had to make sure that Robin
never saw it, otherwise all that fun adventure wouldn't have
happened the second Robin saw it. Arm Grab done Like.
Speaker 2: Her role right now is delegated to like little things
like if somebody falls off something, Robin will use her
double fruit power to like save them or pick them up.
But she hasn't really gotten too much until, like I guess,
fighting up until this point, which I feel like if
she was fighting, it would have just been over.
Speaker 4: One of those weird things where she joined the crew
in such a weird way that this is like the
first real I know Jaiya was a thing, but like
this is like the first real arc where we've had
Robin as part of the crew, right and gotten see
that dynamic kind of kind of take form. Any thoughts
on that or any.
Speaker 2: I guess you could kind of see like everybody finally
like kind of getting comfortable with her. I noticed that
Zoro isn't necessarily like getting mad at her as much
during this arc, because I feel like during Jaya and
like a little bit before Jaya, he was still like
not accepting her as part of the crew. But I
feel like now he hasn't really said anything about He's like, Okay, yeah,
she's part of us now.
Speaker 3: You gotta have one skeptic.
Speaker 1: Speaking of like the goat guys, I just want to
say one of my favorite funny moments was Loofy heard
one of the goat guys like or whatever they are?
What don't I don't even I don't even know, like
is it a goat or sheep with a goat? I
think there were there were goat sounds. Anyway, Lufy was
excited to hear the because I know he was excited
he heard like the noise of an animal and he's think,
oh my god, a goat. I'm gonna get to see
a goat. And then the guy pops up and tries
to like sneak attack him. Loofy one shots the guy.
He's like, God, damn, I wanted to see a goat.
Speaker 2: There just no care in the world.
Speaker 3: Oh man.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I do want to try and go through this
somewhat chronologically. So they landsidon, do you remember, like, so
once they land on the white White Sea, do you
want to try to take us through some events that
you remember happened?
Speaker 2: So I remember once they kind of land into the
Whiteite Sea, they get it attacked by somebody, Yes, and
we later get to find out it's uh Wiper. Uh.
They get they they get attacked by him, and they
get saved by the sky Night Let's Go, who fights
off Wiper and gives the crew a special whistle that
they can blow whenever they need help. So the crew
kind of goes onto their way and they make it
to I guess this toll, like some sort of toll,
right like.
Speaker 1: The walks out, give me all the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They're like, well, we don't have the money, and
she's like, well, I can't necessarily stop you from going
through the gate. So they go through the gate. And
she goes and tells, I guess I forgot what they're called.
Almost like the policeman of the of that world.
Speaker 1: Right, they're like army guys for yeah, for Sky Island
that like, but they're not exactly associated with m l
or Eru and the and the priests. It take a
separate like military force. I feel.
Speaker 4: I think they kind of work for They work for
them very directly, right, they keep they keep doing they
what they're called.
Speaker 1: I think there's something Berets keep that little bit, the
white Berets. And yeah, they have these rules that they
have to follow. So when there's criminals and then now
the fact that they entered, they entered like illegally. Now
they're all criminals even though they were pirates, so they
were already criminals to begin with. But they have to
like lead them to the island right to.
Speaker 2: Get judged.
Speaker 1: Yes, any any fun moments along that way.
Speaker 2: We get to meet some of the people that live
over there. I forgot if they mentioned like what kind
of people they are. But we get to meet Komas
I believe is her name, and her father and they
do like kind of taken the straw hats kind of
introduce him to how like the world works up there.
We get introduced to this kind of item called dials
that look like seashells almost and they have like special abilities,
Like we get introduced to one that can basically it's
like a recorder. Whatever you say to it, if you
press the button, it'll repeat it. And we get to
see all these like cool stuff you have to.
Speaker 1: See the waiver. Tries the waiver and you can't do it,
and he's super jealous of Nomi. I hope he falls in.
Speaker 2: She's so mad that she was able to think him
he isn't so quick. But we do actually get to
see Nami have fed on the waiver and she comes
up upon an island that is much more different than
the one they just went on, and it has dirt
on it and it's called the Upper Yard. So we
get introduced to I believe, the priests of the Yard
and she sees them and she gets scared and uns away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they ended up killing or Noll ended
up killing one of the one of the people that
were on the island illegally, and she's like, she gets
the fuck out of there, right she sneaks away. I'm
trying to remember anything else. There was some funny frickin'
moments with just like Loofy messing around with Sonjy Sandy
making like a little comment about like he like zoomed
in with it, like with the binoculars or whatever to
look at the ship and the ship was getting like
taken away by a crab bringing them to upper yard,
and just like why are you wearing a shirt? Nobby
not a shirt?
Speaker 4: Or like there's a lot of little cultural things right
there too. Whenever you first introduced that, they're talking about
like and you know, they're trying to take it all in.
Soji's like, oh my god, what's this? What's this spice?
It's so strong, I can't taste anything. He's like, oh,
that's just expired. Like but you know, over the course
of that, we're introduced to dials for the first time.
So I mean, do you have any strong thought on
dials in particular and how kind of.
Speaker 2: Those are crazy? Because I think the last one I
was introduced to before I stopped halfway, I believe, was
the impact dial. So if you hit it and press
the button, it almost kind of like redistributes that energy
that it sucked up and is able to really hurt people.
And I know we're going in chronological order, but I
kind of want to make note of something that Godfall said.
I believe his name right, Godfall. Yeah yeah, yeah, that
the impact dial could easily kill any sort of like
normal human being. But here's Sangy getting hit by it,
and it was like completely fine a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the boys ain't normal. The boys ain't normal.
Speaker 2: They are not normal. No, and.
Speaker 1: We lost to Jordan him.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to backtrack too much from talking chronologically,
brought up Robin earlier.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, you're I think you're good now. I
hear you now, Yeah, I hear, I hear.
Speaker 3: Can you guys hear me? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh no, my internet, I guess is going bad. All right,
says I'm connected.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're you're all good.
Speaker 3: Okay, So whenever you're talking.
Speaker 2: Oh oh of course I amazing timing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, super random, but funny moment.
Speaker 4: About Robin earlier and stuff. I wanted to bring up
that they had that win groundwork for you know, who's
a lot about god try and leave it and coming back,
you guys hear me, all right?
Speaker 2: Oh no, uh oh is he coming back?
Speaker 1: He's gonna come back in a second, super funny moment,
uslap apmals died. He swam all the way straight down
and animals went through where there was no bottom of
the white white sea, and buddy just animals died. Thank
God for Loofy slash Robin combo where Robin spawned her
eyeballs on Lufy's hand, which is just a cool calmo
that I just did not remember happening.
Speaker 2: This is what I need. She's just broken. She can
do anything. She can spawn any body.
Speaker 1: Part would Jordan, are you alive?
Speaker 3: Did you guys hear me?
Speaker 1: Kind of h oh oh? So try going no no camera,
Try going no camera. I'm sorry audio, I.
Speaker 4: Would be eating up some bandwidth that oklahoma internet?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeha. Can you guys hear me now?
Speaker 1: Yes I can.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever had trouble with internet.
Speaker 1: Thank you Thorkel by the way for the sub man.
Speaker 3: I just discord. That's wild. I'm sorry about that. That
is great. I'm still here.
Speaker 2: It's okay. I get it. Internet issues are the worst.
I can't stand.
Speaker 1: Try going no camera if you can in Jordan, it
might help. All right, let's see hello, Hello, Okay, we
just have to continue and see if you get to
fix it along the way, trying to.
Speaker 3: Remember where breaks.
Speaker 1: You're all good after, You're all good. Yeah, intern out,
I'm having a good time. It happens, It happens, It happens.
It's actually happened to all of us. I'm sure at
some point with discord and our internet bullshit, remember where.
Speaker 3: It's so sad?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I know I was saying something about uh
my last I remember, I was saying that whenever they
had the whistle, they were talking about who's.
Speaker 3: Allowed to blow it?
Speaker 4: And they who formally considered like the Big three, like
they were like Loofy Zorrosagy and Robin. They're like, you
guys aren't allowed to blow this thing. Like if it's
one of you guys, you know you don't need it.
Speaker 1: But and then we get a hilarious argument from who
sap Chopper and Nami arguing about who's more pathetic, who
the least capable and the weakest member of the tract.
And I decided that they all suck and they're gonna
put it on the on the uh on the ship
and hang it up.
Speaker 2: I will say I noticed Oostop and Chopper were really
going through it during this first half of the arc.
I I was watching it in the English dub, and
I take notes of like stuff because I also do
voice acting, so I like, I guess take notes of
how they are voicing it. And uh, it was a
lot of screaming and yelling both of their characters were
doing throughout this arc. And I'm like, oh my gosh.
First of all, Chopper and Ustop have just been freaking
out right. They're in a new place, things just keep
going wrong. And then I'm like, oh my god, they're
poor voice actors. They want their drugs. Must hurt after
all of this. But yeah, yeah, they really went through it.
I mean, having to be transported into the middle of
Upper Yard to be told that you are going to
be sacrificed, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor guys. And Chopper was so sad. He had
to defend the ship and he did a decent job
defending it. Obviously, he blew the whistle and we could
talk about that. But when they when they came back
to the ship, someone destroyed. Chopper was those he was
so scared to come out and face everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did his best.
Speaker 1: He did his best trying to think what else. So
eventually we have one part of the group that's on
the altar, and we have another group that's trump coming
to try to find them at the altar and the
kind of regroup. But at the same time, there's like
the priests are setting up their locations, the Chandorians are
coming for war, and Nell's at the oh Also thoughts
on a Knell would would is crazy?
Speaker 2: I told that so many times. I keep telling my friends,
I'm like, why is a now like kind of hot?
And they're like, Poseidon, you are the only person I've
ever heard.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the best character in one piece. He's
my favorite character, So you know, same, would that would?
Me and my chat are the number one and Nell supporters.
We are the Annell power scalers. To this day.
Speaker 2: I hate to bring this up because I feel like
every episode I bring it up. But my only prior
like knowledge of a Knell before all of this was
the card game because his deck is so disgusting.
Speaker 1: So the Nell deck is discussing I read it once,
I read it once.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much. I hate playing against it.
It's so I already kind of had like an idea
of like who he was before we like went into
this arc. You know what, I'll forgive him.
Speaker 1: I think it's Cannon. I do think he was. That
design is based off Eminem. I do think that. I
do think that's Cannon. I don't think that's the fan
theory chat chat. Can we back that up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think Otis said that in an interview.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who knows how.
Speaker 2: He's based off of Eminem.
Speaker 1: The rap God, All right, Jordan, just just take your
keeper camera off for the whole thing at this point.
Speaker 2: Oh no, and.
Speaker 1: Cause that display's gonna be too much editing. Oh lordy,
just keep your camera off, my friend, Yeah, just leave it.
Speaker 3: We'll do, we'll do.
Speaker 1: What were you saying. You're saying that it was a
was an interview or like a something like that, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, Uh, there's no telling what's real and
whatnot whenever it comes to interviews with Oda, because some
people just make stuff up online. But I believe it
was an interview with Oda where or he said that.
I could be making that up, who knows, I read
it online. People don't make stuff up online, right.
Speaker 1: True, it's true if it's online. That means it must
be true exactly. Okay, so where where were we? Eventually
the boys get to the island. If you want to
continue chronologically poseidon mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: So they get the Upper Yard, right, yes, yes, So
they get to Upper Yard and then particularly I think
it's usap Sanji and Louviy ran into one of the priests, Atori,
the big sphere guy. So that's when they're kind of
introduced to kind of how powerful these priests are.
Speaker 1: And you're introduced to Mantra at this point, which is
they interesting?
Speaker 2: The ability?
Speaker 1: I think Skypia is such an important arc. I can't
believe people skip it. It's wild.
Speaker 3: People skip it, will skip it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people skip Skypia. At least back in the day
they would say, oh you can skip this arc. It's
a standalone. It's wild. It's actually fucking wild because it's
so important, but it's so relevant nowadays to one thousand
chapters later. It's what it's insane.
Speaker 2: See I we are introduced to the ability, right. I
wasn't sure if this was like something that was completely
like just for the sky people. Is this an ability
that they just have or is it something that like
everybody has, but they just have to like train it.
Speaker 1: You'll have to see him find out. It's like that's
a good thought process.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's ability.
Speaker 3: Are we talking about mantaa yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1: We know that Gondfall can't use it. He was just
talking about like the importance of like sky warfare with
the different dials. Some people are putting heaters in their
in their spheres. They're their birds. He put like a
flamethrower in it, basically dial they use like like one
of those guys had like like basically like skates with
like little little little waivers or little dials that are
like the waivers and they're you're rying different clouds and
throwing clouds. And even the guy has spheres of clouds
versus other types of clouds, like the skypeer of warfare
is is crazy and so different than what we're used to.
And then there were a moment when when Soundrey brings
up what about Mantra and golf falls, like, yeah, even
I can't use that, so I don't really know much
about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's so cool how it? Oh, go for it?
Speaker 2: Sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, I was just gonna say it's so cool how
they like slow roll that too, because these things at
the end of the day the day are just tools, right,
and it shows you them being used as tools, like, uh,
to cook and to do all these other things around
the house when they first get there. And then you know,
you see a guy using like a fire spear and
a bird with fire breath, and they're like, yeah, that's
the same one that's used to cook, right, because it
has has fires. It's it's just kind of slow rolls
that and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Godfall even makes the comment like it's not
it's not the dial, it's the person, right, Yeah, with
the same with science and stuff here.
Speaker 2: And it's very interesting. This is the first time we
are introduced to this kind of ability, right, this is
we haven't really experienced it prior at least it hasn't
been addressed.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the first time we're seeing seeing dials
and and mantra as well. We haven't seen anything like that.
Speaker 2: I see, I see interesting. Interesting because it was I
do remember one of the episodes. It was made note
that if like you trained enough, you'll be able to
hear like the voices coming from someone's body and you'll
be able to predict like where they're gonna move.
Speaker 1: So, and that was mentioned in skype A or a
different episode.
Speaker 2: Sky I think it's one of the more recent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then again, you could we could point out
like that, now that you point that out, like Zoro
mentioned when he defeated mister one, kind of like ascending
to the next level and hearing kind of like the
voice of things.
Speaker 2: Oh, I never got that, and.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's the same thing. I
actually don't even know, like genuinely, I don't know, But
just now that you bring it up, I'm just like, Oh,
that kind of was kind of mentioned prior to this
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was mentioned that, like you could hear
voices like radiating from their bodies. So I was like, whoa,
that's interesting. Like that's what made me kind of think,
is this like an ability that's only able to be
used by the sky people? Can anybody? Can anybody use
this if they're you know, trained enough, Like that's that's
very interesting, and I guess we're gonna have to hold
on to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. I love that you're you're thinking
about these potentials for the world. I do want to
point out, Zoro continues to surpass his limits and just
gets stronger with every arc and alabasta, he surpasses limits,
hearing the voice of things and manages to cut steal
mister one. And then he does like a ranged attack.
You got here right where he fought a guy with
a tuq and like the two blades. Okay, yeah, that
was a cool fight.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that, I mean, you kind of you
kind of already rut over. Zoro just gets scaring struck.
There was actually particularly one moment with Zorro that I
thought was so so funny that I was like dying laughing.
Eileen was a guy with the guns. He had like
the double pins. Yeah, and then Zoro keeps getting like blinded,
I guess by it, and he puts on his goggles
and he like comes back from like the back of
the tree. He's like, I have my special goggles on,
now I can fight you. And the guy's like that
those just look like regular goggles.
Speaker 1: Like a man, he got me, He got me, read
my blood.
Speaker 4: Kills me.
Speaker 1: Dude, Like Zoro cuts like the sea snake can have
and he's like this would be good for a barbecue show. Yeah,
but honestly, dude, like it's it's really hyphe because this
is a hard battle for him. He's fighting in someone
with range attacks and he manages to like cut the
air and like have a range sword attack. It's like insane.
Speaker 4: They still had to nerve him though, by making him
not pay attention and then getting shot.
Speaker 3: In the leg.
Speaker 1: Though, like always always, we got to see Loofy versus Wiper,
which is kind of cool. Any thoughts on that one.
Speaker 2: Gosh, darn these people, Like it's just so different. There's
fighting styles I guess are so different than what we've
seen before, and it makes me just like very I
don't think we've gotten to the point where we really
know too much about the Shandorian. Is it Shandorian people?
Speaker 1: Sandorian you'll find out more, Yeah, the Shandorian you'll find
out more in the second half for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm their characters just like we barely get
to know them up until like the halfway point. But
they're just so interesting, like I want to know, like
why there. I guess the way they are they want
to take back there, like their land and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the only thing we do know about them
so far at this point that you've watched Gonfall revealed
that like this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I was about to say, I think
we kind of skipped over kind of the big twist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I would you would we consider this a twist? I
don't know.
Speaker 1: It depends on if you knew it's all it coming
or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not see this one coming. So we
do find out that if you remember in Jaya, Mount Blanc,
he has been diving into the ocean trying to find
the gold from like the other half of the island
that's been you know, missing, And we come to find
out that Upper Yard is that island. It shot up
into the sky. Yeah, four hundred years prior, which is
why it's the only island at least to our knowledge
right that has dirt on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't have dirt and soil and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And that's why, like the sky people kind of value
the dirt because they don't have that up there. It's very,
very valuable. So that was like the huge plot twist
that nami uh was able to figure out that because
he she found how do you say this, mom Blanc's
house was kind of like cut in half. Yeah, and
then the other half was on upper Yard, and that's
when she was like, wait, hold up, this is the
other half of the island, dude.
Speaker 1: I was trying. I was really trying to hint it
to you a little bit last episode, like so wait,
like like Nolan's were trying to search for it underwater,
they can't find it. I'm like, where do you think
it is? Do you think it exists? I was like
trying to like stimulate, like maybe you like theorizing, Well,
they're going up into the sky, maybe it's there.
Speaker 4: But well, obviously an island disappears, it's going to be
in the sky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because nobody would have thought of that. I
don't blame them for not like thinking that was gonna
be a possibility. But I also think it's funny that
because there was prior knowledge right that the other half
of the island had gold on it, and Nomy was like,
you know what, We're gonna look for it because she
loves treasures and money, you know what.
Speaker 1: Gonfall Gonefall said he doesn't know what gold is, which
is interesting.
Speaker 2: You don't know, so maybe you haven't found it yet.
Speaker 3: Well isn't that fascinating though?
Speaker 4: How like depending on how much of a resource you
have or don't have and whatnot, the value of it
changes so much, just like how how much of a
treasure that dirt, like a bag of dirt is to
that six year old girl.
Speaker 3: It's just wild to me even even just looking back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like in the blue Blue Sea, it's dirt,
like it's literally mud. And then up there where they
don't have it, they're like, oh, this is like treasure
like sacred, sacred land. But it's truely they couldn't like
most of the plants that were growing, like would not
grow naturally without the soil, right, so they probably need it.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if you guys caught this as
well and whatnot, but uh they say that the way
that there's different clouds that are forming and whatnot is uh,
the microscopic organism or not organism, but like the microscopic
material that's used in like sea prism stone, oh, like
whenever it's like shot up from like a volcano and whatnot,
like instead of mixing with seawater and mix it with
like clouds and stuff, right, and uh, to form like
the different kinds of clouds that they have up there.
And I don't know like I was reading that. I'm like,
I don't remember that at all, But that's just the
first time.
Speaker 1: I literally just rewatched the episodes for this podcast, and
this is the first time I'm hearing that.
Speaker 3: I was getting it, so I was reading it. Maybe
that's why. Maybe it didn't say it in the anime.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why I don't remember it, but like, uh,
but it's I don't know. It's talking about like how
all that forms and how like because of like the
different environment stuff that probably affected like the different plants
and animals and stuff over the course of those four
hundred years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was definitely mentioned. I just don't remember. I'm
just joking around.
Speaker 2: I didn't catch that.
Speaker 1: Also, it's cool to see, like the fish that are
currently like in the sea of the White White Sea
are fish that were probably shot up through the knock
up stream and then evolved and adapted to the clouds
over time, which I wonder if the same could be
said for the people that have like these these wings
and stuff like that. Are they just humans that evolved
and changed due to the conditions.
Speaker 2: That is something I think about because I'm wonder how
even those people got up there in the first place.
Speaker 1: It's implied that there's multiple Sky islands, so there was
an initial route where you would go from Sky Island
to Sky Island to Sky Island and you would eventually
end up at this island that the boys are on
where we're Upper Yard is and stuff like that, and
mostly there would be a lot of casualties along the way,
versus is the knock up stream is like an all
or nothing thing. Either everyone dies or everyone lives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a wild revelation where it's first revealed
because you're like, we didn't even know there was other options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like we took the most throughout. I think
that was when USAP was like getting so mad, like
we might have been safer. We didn't have to risk
our lives to get up here.
Speaker 3: That's one way to take an elevator.
Speaker 2: No, I find it very interesting. And then there was
another thing that was mentioned that, uh, even the animals
and like the life that is on the Upper Yard
is just like so large. I think it was actually Robin.
She was observing something and she's like wow, like the
moss and the roots just grew over. I think it
was a well grew over, like all of these buildings
and stuff. So I'm also like, I don't know if
addressed it too much, but I wonder how why upper
yard just everything is just so much bigger over there
because at some point it's Texas. That is exactly right,
it's just Texas. I'm like now just like realizing, wow,
it was part of like the island of Jayas. So
how is it that all of these animals, all of
these like plant life got so much bigger? And I'm
wondering if it's maybe because it's closer to the sun
because it's in the sky or like what. But I'm
very I'm looking forward to learning the rest of the lore.
Speaker 1: I think Robin theorize something about like the clouds given
get like different types of nutrients that it would get.
We don't know if that's true, but then it would
get down on the blue blue sea, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's like it all like it's crazy how you know,
it doesn't have to make scientific sense like in our
universe per se, but like it all comes together and
it's so fleshed out and uh in the one piece world,
and it's always fascinating to see how those pieces come together.
Speaker 1: So other than you thinking and Ella is hot and
and thinking the deck that is overpowered. Any thoughts on entering,
any thoughts on.
Speaker 2: Enteror he is a man who is bad, he's a bad.
Speaker 1: Man, anything about his abilities.
Speaker 2: I he's the one has like the almost like the
lightning stuff right like he does. I remember when I
think the priests were all arguing with each other outside
of his little palace, they were like shot down something.
I don't remember if it was like lightning or some
sort of energy, but it does look like he can.
I don't think I've seen him fight really up until
this point, but I mean, clearly he's stronger than the
other priest, isn't able to like stop them.
Speaker 1: Also, you've seen you've seen that the islanders are talking
about like God will smite you down if you like
disobey him, and he or it's implied that he's try.
He was the one who smite it down Knus or
whatever her name is, with a gigantic like lightning bolt
from the sky.
Speaker 3: I remember, doesn't that make it almost scarier?
Speaker 4: Is like, we don't know a lot about him up
to this point, but like we saw Nomi saw the
guy get just smited down, and then uh, it almost
happened to old Girl too. And then you know on
top of that, I don't know if it's shown this
in the anime or not up to this point, but
like he's talking about how many people there are in
the fight, and then he knows exactly whenever one of
them loses, he's like, all right, well now it's down
to eight. Like he knows what's going on around the
entirety of the country, right, we don't, oh why, but
it's not explained yet, but.
Speaker 1: He does have god likabilities.
Speaker 4: It seems like if I living in Sky Island, yeah,
I would think he was a god like like Buddy's
Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: He knows when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake,
he knows when you get killed by Chandorian.
Speaker 4: Like if he didn't just show up six years ago,
like like you know, if it wasn't like young enough
or my dad be like yeah, that's not true. Like
you know, I could see why people would think, like
not even just why they would think that, but like
with the authoritariitarian nature of it of like if you
dare go against like the orders, lightning will come down
and just site you on the spot. Yeah, like you
you don't disobey in a in a situation like that, right.
Speaker 1: Also, he's got that drip. Dude, he's got like gold
toe rings. He's got like like like gold like necklaces
and that cap and like he just got that aura.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, he's vibing.
Speaker 4: He's got that drip and like the first time we
see him, I think he's doing like a bit of
a pose where he's like laying on his side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and an arm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it wise mentioned. I think they were
talking about the montra.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How I guess his ability if you train it enough,
he was able to hear everything that's going on in
the island.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's just like because he's
technically god that he acquired these abilities, or he like
trained enough to do that.
Speaker 1: One of the children, Chandorians, has the ability. She was
kind of just born with it as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was able to kind of hear what was
going on with the priest fighting.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I believe she was like, oh no, so Toy's downs,
Like she she just was able to sense that welcome.
Yeah that's actually another kid.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the real one piece. But now it's just
a bunch of questions constantly. This is what the podcasts
are going to be going forward, but what about this?
And what about this? And what about this?
Speaker 4: You'll get one answer and twenty more questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets trained out in like five hundred episodes.
Speaker 1: So where did you end off? You were messaging me
something you want to know.
Speaker 2: I believe last episode I ended often was when Annell
popped onto the boat with Nammy and us up and
Sanchi I believe.
Speaker 1: And there but Sandri got smoked.
Speaker 2: Oh he did. It was like no effort on an
ELL's end.
Speaker 3: He was just terrifying.
Speaker 2: He is a very very scary guy because I don't
think I think the villains that we've had up until
this point are just I've just been like very powerful
guys with double fruit powers, right, But we are now
dealing with somebody. I don't know if he has a
double fruit or not, but it almost seems like he
has god like abilities, like he you know, he is God.
So I'm wondering how the straw Hats are gonna be
able to to like defeat him and try to like
I guess beat him yet.
Speaker 1: Do you have any theories on how they're gonna beat
him or like this the future of the arc or
where do you think is going?
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know, because it's they have already been
kind of some of them, not all of them, but
some of them have been struggling against some of these
guys because they're not used to fighting the way they do.
They're not used to having all their moves get predicted
and dodged and everything. So I don't know if maybe
they have to train their own onto that or like
find a loophole or something. But yeah, I'm very interested
to see how Lufy's gonna be able to handle this guy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: The situation is also just kind of chaotic in that,
like there's so many factions that were already there and
then the Straw has kind of come in, and now
you know the people that already lived there, like the
I forget his name, Like they don't like Lufy and
his crew and Ellen them, they don't like Loofy and
their crew. It's just kind of whoever you meet and
happen to fight, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's against them. Honestly, it kind of annoyed me
at this point. I remember being annoyed that the Shandorians
would just like pick fights with the straw hats for
no reason. It felt like, yeah, obviously there may have
been a mistaken like as to who they were initially
on the White White Sea when Wipe are attacked, but
even still, like Wiper attacked Loofy and the guy with
the hat attacked Zorro, like these are people that potentially
could be taking out priests for you. It's like if
you're going to take on a knell and the priest like,
why are you stopping to fight? Like Loofy was like,
oh you guys were here first, Well, good day to you, like.
Speaker 4: Like well, like they kind of had some conversations between
themselves about that a little bit, because that's what kind
of spurred them to action, was like all these fights
happening then were like a priest went down and then
uh you know the oh godfall uh went down against
another priest, Like all these fights are happening, and that's
what spurred them to action. Yeah, and then they actually
debate between themselves about that. They're like, well, if they're
the enemy of our enemy, are they our friend? He's
like how dare you think like that? And like no,
they're all our enemies, like we gotta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all your enemies, but maybe some of them
are more pressing enemies. Like stopping to fight Loofy after
like your bodies and channels from the reject dial is
just crazy to me, Like let him go and go
find a now, go find a priest and then fight
them later if they're still your enemies, you know.
Speaker 4: Nah, Yeah, he definitely doesn't come across as the most
rational guy at first, right, Like he's very much a
hot d Yeah. But speaking of the reget reject dial,
how crazy is it that whenever they mentioned eighty one
people in this bit of a free for all, who
expected one of the priests to go down to make
it number eighty, right, you think of those are like
the three big bags that are left, like Lufy Sanji
and who teamed up on one and then I don't know,
I was like a little crazy twist like that.
Speaker 2: I just find it like kind of crazy that it
took a little bit for the straw Hats to be
able to defeat one of the priests, and it took
Wiper like just a few minutes mm hmm to feet
is it sure? The woman the bird?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Wiper one shot Sharer but the reject dial
has been kind of explained to be ten times more
powerful than a normal impact dial. But it does damage.
You could tell it does damage to yourself as well.
Speaker 3: So bit of a double edged sword.
Speaker 1: Double edged sword, and it's probably only so many times
you could use it. Slash like picking a fight for
with Loofy after using the reject dial is just actually
ridiculous to me, Like it's just like, why don't you
go and find another priest or something. It's just frustrating
because you have you have Zorol taking out like one
of the like that kind was a good fighter with
those two to those two guns and like those like yeah,
like he's from Canada for sure, with those with those
fucking blades.
Speaker 4: But these are pirates invested in like coming into your
home trying to steal your gold, et cetera.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. By to see it, it drove me crazy. Anyway,
any final thoughts beside it.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see where this art goes. I want
to know. Just there's just so many questions, like these
people are special? How did how did they you know,
you know, do all these like cool things? How are
they gonna defeat know. I mean, I'm hoping that maybe
because they're not used to what did they call them,
the Blue Sea people something? Yeah, what did they call that?
They don't know very much about the Blue Sea people,
that maybe the straw Hats can use that to their advantage.
I don't know. I'm very interested to see how this
art goes. I've been really enjoying myself and I hope
to see Robin douce on two more things. Please make
her fight. I want to see her fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a lot. We've got a lot of
fights coming up. This first half was half with a
lot of setup. The second half is just pure action.
You probably have like twenty episodes left of pure action,
and that's what we're gonna be doing. Yeah, in two
weeks boys finishing off the rest of Skypeia obviously, Jordan,
is there any other moments you want to discuss our
favorite parts or anything before we wrap up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I got I got two.
Speaker 4: The first one, I just want to run by beside
and real quick, who do you think fix the going?
Speaker 3: Mary? Oh?
Speaker 2: That yet? Because Usa Middle you just see this guy
look over at Ushap. I don't know if it's the
guy or girl, big old smile, and usof just is
like I'm done. I'm not I'm not gonna be here
anymore and runs away. I do not.
Speaker 1: Know and pointed out that like it was the same
style as back when they were on the Blue Blue Sea,
so like who could have known what it looked like
before the.
Speaker 3: Sky island down there? Huh yeah? And uh.
Speaker 4: The other thing I wanted to kind of bring up
before we called it was just never lose track of
the little moments. And I don't know, maybe they bring
me more joy than most, but I love uh, I
love Robin's dynamic uh in the interpose personal connections of
the crew. How she's so competent, but she ends up
doubting herself because everybody else is so confident, like if
that makes sense, Like she's like, oh, we need to
turn off the campfire because we'll be giving away our
position here and everybody else is like, you're done. He
doubts herself. She's like wait, like am I Like what
what are you? What are you talking about? And they're like, well,
you got to have a campfire if you're gonna go camping.
This is that's.
Speaker 1: Camping one Like like dombie and Robin to kind of
like make a comment about it, and then it cuts
the sanjianza like we've got a lot of wood guys, yeah, dude,
And then they ended up they ended up dancing with
the wolves.
Speaker 2: That was so funny. I love that, so good, so good,
you're getting drunk with them.
Speaker 4: And my other favorite moment is like they split up
into two parties on purpose, and then one of those parties,
you know, Robin, Chopper, Loofy and Zoro they get split
up on accident again, and you know, they try to
meet up where they started, and Robin actually goes there.
She's confident, She's like, did I get the wrong spot?
And then he ends up to some other places like man,
everybody else must have got lost, and then I don't know.
It brings me you way to see the little map
where they all go in different directions where Zoro is
completely wrong, Robin's right on point, Lukey's just kind of
wandering off straight in other direction.
Speaker 1: It's so freaky funny, especially like because Zorol thinks he's
right and he's like, you know what, I guess I
gotta keep on moving. I'm gonna go right, and then
walks left immediately, and then Lufy's like, well, I have
the other guys must have got lost, Like he thinks
he knows where he's going. He's got I gotta go south,
so I'm gonna go where it's hot, Like just a.
Speaker 4: Whole new layer to that, because Robin's usually right, but
like she doubts herself so much because everybody else is
so confident about it. They're like, are you are you stupid? Like,
come on, obviously it's this way. Why because north means
up stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm glad you brought up the camping
scene because not only was it funny, but there was
also some like like really cool moments with it, ms.
Speaker 3: The little things on the journey. Don't ever lose sight.
Speaker 1: On that note, guys, in two weeks we'll be covering
the rest of Skypea, and then after that we have
the best, most go witted non canon filler arc, which
we will do a full episode on.
Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, I look.
Speaker 1: Forward to that, Posidon. It's been a pleasure and uh
just like that, I will see you guys all next time.
Speaker 2: Boys, boy and everybody, Bye bye,