Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
Speaker 1: back to another episode of the One Piece Virgin Podcast
Speaker 1: with me? Today we have the Virgin of One Piece,
Speaker 1: Poseidon Mythos, how's it going?
Speaker 2: My favorite character now is bond Clay.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: She's an enlightened one go.
Speaker 1: I believe he is.
Speaker 3: He's MVP for sure.
Speaker 1: Between Bonclay, Mister three and Buggy, we had some like
Speaker 1: low key, like like lovable characters that you didn't expect
Speaker 1: to love in this arc. But I know, before we
Speaker 1: jump ahead, we have Jordan the anime dude joining us
Speaker 1: once again.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 4: Everybody? Happy to be here? This is a this is
Speaker 4: a good arc, so I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1: And the arc that we're covering today is Impelled Down
Speaker 1: and Poseidon's been loving One Piece so much that she
Speaker 1: also watched all of Marine Ford. So maybe next week
Speaker 1: Lash the week after we could cover and have a
Speaker 1: conversation on that. But today we're gonna focus on Impel Down.
Speaker 1: Let's start with general thoughts beside and how you like
Speaker 1: the arc so far.
Speaker 2: I actually really enjoyed the arc, like just all the
Speaker 2: way through. I you know, I didn't feel like, oh
Speaker 2: the beginning was kind of end then it got good
Speaker 2: at the end or the good like the beginning was
Speaker 2: good or the end is I honestly thought like Impel
Speaker 2: Down like was just a solid arc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of that, I do think it's well paced
Speaker 1: because I think there's something in like thirty five chapters
Speaker 1: and thirty seven episodes. I may have just made up
Speaker 1: two numbers, but I know it's something close like that,
Speaker 1: And a lot of other arcs it'll be like twenty
Speaker 1: five chapters, forty five episodes, stuff like that where they
Speaker 1: really drag it out to keep kids an anime that
Speaker 1: doesn't want to catch up to the source material. But
Speaker 1: with Impel Down, it's it's close to one to one,
Speaker 1: which is uncommon for one piece.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I agree because like my thoughts just throughout
Speaker 2: like the when I was like at the end of
Speaker 2: the arc, I sat there and I'm like, I feel
Speaker 2: like there was almost like no filler Like in this arc.
Speaker 2: I felt like every episode kind of had its like
Speaker 2: place and like progressed at a pretty pretty pretty good
Speaker 2: pace compared to you know, some of the past arcs.
Speaker 2: But I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. It was cool to
Speaker 2: like meet new characters that will as well and see
Speaker 2: old characters kind of come back.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I thought that was interesting. I think that's why
Speaker 1: a lot of people love this arc is because one
Speaker 1: Piece fans love old characters were turning and because the
Speaker 1: straw Hats aren't with Loofy, they had to make up
Speaker 1: like their own little crew along the way between Bond Clay,
Speaker 1: Bond Clay, Mister three, Buggy Yvonkov, and then a bunch
Speaker 1: of cameos from villains they've already met before, like Mister
Speaker 1: One and Crocodile. It's just one of those arcs that, like,
Speaker 1: its just it's what one Piece vans love this Old
Speaker 1: characters were turning lore and like seeing what's going on
Speaker 1: within the world a one piece like while the one
Speaker 1: piece like while the like the straw Hats were kind
Speaker 1: of continuing their adventure, there were characters that were here
Speaker 1: in Impelled, Impell, Oh my god, in Impel That.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, And I guess on top of that a
Speaker 4: little bit too is one Piece up to this point
Speaker 4: has been it's good, but it's pretty formulaic and you
Speaker 4: kind of know what to expect. But after the end
Speaker 4: of SUBB it's kind of just like a a roller
Speaker 4: coaster on its way down for a good little while
Speaker 4: there as it goes through these next couple arcs, right, Like,
Speaker 4: it doesn't really take time to catch his breath too much,
Speaker 4: aside from uh maybe the arc with Boa, but prior to.
Speaker 1: This, no Amazon Lily, maybe it catches its breath a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit. It's pretty fast paced Amazon
Speaker 1: Lily too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is going.
Speaker 1: The second the straw Hat got split up, it's very
Speaker 1: fast paced, and it's all like all going towards what's
Speaker 1: going on with aces execution, right, it's all building up.
Speaker 1: I think it's my favorite saga and one.
Speaker 4: Piece potentially it's it's one of the best I feel
Speaker 4: like build up arcs in anime right because it is
Speaker 4: it does have big steaks and implications all its own,
Speaker 4: but it is still like building up something even bigger.
Speaker 3: So it's uh, kind of the best of both worlds
Speaker 3: in that regard.
Speaker 1: I feel like I didn't think I was gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot to say because I didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to rewatch it. But the second we started talking about
Speaker 1: impell down down, I feel like I can't stop talking,
Speaker 1: and we gotta let Posidon talk. But one more thing.
Speaker 1: The straw hats get wrecked in Impel Dalley, Impel Down.
Speaker 1: Loofy gets wrecked by Magellan, and we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: We I feel like we're getting to a point in
Speaker 1: one piece where Loofy is weak compared to the people
Speaker 1: he's fighting. And you see that in the mareene Ford
Speaker 1: as well. You did this entire saga and even slightly
Speaker 1: prior Loofy's weak in comparison, which is prior to this,
Speaker 1: like he was always pretty strong buddy tangled with the
Speaker 1: Nell after all. Yeah, because I didn't walk us through
Speaker 1: your favorite moments, things you liked, disliked and maybe like
Speaker 1: this cut, I know you watched it, watched it a
Speaker 1: little while ago, so just do your best, just kind
Speaker 1: to walk us through it.
Speaker 2: Yes, the arc starts with basically Boa kind of almost
Speaker 2: breaks King Loofy into the prison. We get to meet
Speaker 2: kind of the big heads of the prison. We get
Speaker 2: to meet Magellan, who is the warden, and then we
Speaker 2: have Hannib your handbell, Yes he is a vice warden.
Speaker 2: And then we learned that this prison is separated it
Speaker 2: into five levels actually six, and depending you get kind
Speaker 2: of placed in the prison, depending on your bounty. Level,
Speaker 2: So if you have a higher bounty, you are farther
Speaker 2: into the prison, which is underwater. And each level kind
Speaker 2: of has its own little like torture thing, right, Each
Speaker 2: prisoner gets tortured in a different way. And one level
Speaker 2: has like trees with blades on it. There's one level
Speaker 2: where it's freezing cold, There's one level where it's really hot.
Speaker 2: There's one level where it's just just like fire. It's
Speaker 2: literal hell.
Speaker 1: In pill Down is kind of crazy because it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a jail that holds criminals, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: after watching it, it just kills criminals. How are they
Speaker 1: still alive?
Speaker 4: You're not technically supposed to be killing the criminals. I
Speaker 4: think some some of the higher ups, like Magellan, have
Speaker 4: the credentials to do so if they so choose, But
Speaker 4: like we do see like the former guy that was
Speaker 4: kind of on Magellan's level was imprisoned himself too because
Speaker 4: he would just do that, right, Like, you're not You're
Speaker 4: not supposed to just start killing everybody.
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to kill them. But I'm saying, how
Speaker 1: do they survive the situations that they're in, Like the
Speaker 1: first floor, which is like the weakest floor. You're just
Speaker 1: constantly getting stabbed chased by people with axes and poisonous spiders. Like,
Speaker 1: how do you live? And your only choice is to
Speaker 1: go down and then attack get attacked by monsters and
Speaker 1: then go down and be starvation and then go down
Speaker 1: and freeze to death.
Speaker 4: Like, let's say, to be fair, people usually don't go
Speaker 4: down like, that's not that's not the typical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's true.
Speaker 4: They usually don't choose to do that. That's Look, he's
Speaker 4: a bit of a crazy.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Lufy was trying to go down. He was getting chased
Speaker 1: by things as well. I'm just saying, I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: people have supernatural strength in this world. It just felt
Speaker 1: like to me that everyone should, like unless you're really
Speaker 1: really really strong, like one hundred thousand burry bounty, like
Speaker 1: one hundred million Barry bounty or more. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't again, my zeros mixed up. It's been a
Speaker 1: long day. I go, super large bounty. How do you live?
Speaker 1: I think you just die? You get there, you die.
Speaker 3: In two weeks.
Speaker 4: I mean, bounties are important to an extent. We got
Speaker 4: to remember people like on Buggies level are floor one.
Speaker 3: So I's true.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's crazy how this place is set up.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Anyway, continue, Sorry to interrupt, you were talking with the
Speaker 1: different floors.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do find out that Ace is located on
Speaker 2: a level five, and we also learned that he is
Speaker 2: imprisoned alongside a seven war lord named jin May, who
Speaker 2: also recently got locked up and impelled down because he
Speaker 2: had refused to fight against white Beard during Ace's execution.
Speaker 2: So the Navy or the Marines kind threw him in
Speaker 2: there m hm, because he you know, he values Ace
Speaker 2: as a friend. So we got to meet Jinvey, who's
Speaker 2: actually gonna play a huge role into the next arc.
Speaker 1: Without your Marine Ford experience with Jim Bay, What is
Speaker 1: your first impression of him?
Speaker 2: I thought, like when I when I found out that, like,
Speaker 2: oh he's here because like he refused to fight or
Speaker 2: obey the Navy, I was just like, Okay, So he's cool,
Speaker 2: he knows what's up. He's a nice dude.
Speaker 3: He's the only warlord that you just chose not to write.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is the only one. Boa was gonna choose
Speaker 2: not to as well, but we all know that she
Speaker 2: ended up doing so because Lufy convinced her so he
Speaker 2: could get into break into impel Down.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we talked about this last time,
Speaker 1: but there were some hilarious gags with Boa entering impel
Speaker 1: Down and like on the way to impel Down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was eating so much food and then pretending like
Speaker 1: he was making these comments like loofy. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was. It was hilarious. I love Boa, I really
Speaker 1: do love Boa the character.
Speaker 5: I do too.
Speaker 2: She has become one of my favorite characters as well
Speaker 2: because her little antics are hilarious.
Speaker 5: I think it's all right.
Speaker 3: I feel like most people love Boa.
Speaker 4: Magellan kind of fell for her and then uh, I
Speaker 4: mean even Domino was getting wooed, right, otherwise there's no
Speaker 4: way Lupie would a would have got out scott free.
Speaker 4: And the little den den Mushi, the little snails, those
Speaker 4: things are getting wooed like nobody's safe from Boa.
Speaker 3: I will say that it is true.
Speaker 1: Trivia. When was Jinbay first introduced.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, oh god, she was introduced quite a bit earlier,
Speaker 6: because I remember there was like a little montage showing
Speaker 6: like each of the warlords, and he was on there.
Speaker 2: I want to say, when they were talking about going
Speaker 2: towards Fishman Island because Jinbay was technically supposed to be there,
Speaker 2: so I can't exactly that wasn't.
Speaker 1: His first time. It actually goes I believe, all the
Speaker 1: way back to me Hawk's first introduction. Really they mentioned
Speaker 1: Jin Bay. I'm gonna be honest, I'm kind of going
Speaker 1: off with chat here. I don't remember that either.
Speaker 4: I do remember there's one back in East Blew.
Speaker 3: I couldn't remember.
Speaker 1: Or like right before the name came up or something
Speaker 1: mm hmmm, and they mentioned, like the warlords in Bay
Speaker 1: who's a fish Man? And then here he is four
Speaker 1: hundred episodes later. Anyway, that was just a fun little
Speaker 1: bit of trivia. I was gonna see if you remember.
Speaker 1: I think yos or his friend Johnny mentioned him.
Speaker 2: The two guys.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's amazing with the Yeah, anyway, sorry
Speaker 1: for the segue. Let's let's jump back to it.
Speaker 2: That's so funny.
Speaker 1: Uh, It just it just I just wanted to mention it.
Speaker 1: It does go to show like Oda's planning characters and
Speaker 1: what warlords are and their potential future introduction so long ago.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I saw you guys a page
Speaker 4: of Q and A's earlier where it was like years
Speaker 4: prior to her actually appearing in the manga. But it
Speaker 4: was like a cover page that had Boa on it
Speaker 4: in her design, and even Tho would have kind of
Speaker 4: forgot about it, but he's like, yeah, that was one
Speaker 4: of the people had plans like that is her design
Speaker 4: and it was years prior.
Speaker 1: Sothing amazing. He just wanted to draw someone that's hot early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that would makes sense.
Speaker 1: I get it, but I get it, okay. So you
Speaker 1: mentioned that Ace is being held there for his execution.
Speaker 1: Jin Bay is next to him. It's in the they're
Speaker 1: on the bottom bottom floor. Loofy is rushing down through
Speaker 1: the levels, through the spikes and the cold and the
Speaker 1: hot and all the stuff that you were mentioning, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of where you were.
Speaker 2: Yes. So he ends up running into Buggy on level one,
Speaker 2: because it turns out Buggy did get captured at some
Speaker 2: point and was locked up there, and the fact he
Speaker 2: is locked up at level one goes to show how
Speaker 2: little of a threat that the Verenes think he is.
Speaker 2: So Buggy and Lufy kind of reunite with each other,
Speaker 2: and Buggy's trying to get out and Lufy's like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to go in, so, uh, you know, Buggy
Speaker 2: kind of touched by. Also Lufy's kind of kindness was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess I'll help you. Uh So Buggy and Lufy
Speaker 2: end up going down and then they find mister two.
Speaker 2: I believe he was all he was locked up in
Speaker 2: level two as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on level two there was mister three.
Speaker 2: So oh sorry, mister two. Sorry, I get those confused.
Speaker 2: Mister twosbond Clay, mister three, wax, do you there?
Speaker 5: We go?
Speaker 2: Yes, So they run into mister three, who is able
Speaker 2: to make keys to get kind of himself out, and
Speaker 2: then you know him being like, well, I don't have
Speaker 2: any other option I might not get another opportunity.
Speaker 5: Like this again.
Speaker 2: Fine, I'll help you. So they kind of go down
Speaker 2: to level three, which is I believe the level where
Speaker 2: they starve the prisoners. So then they run into mister
Speaker 2: two Bonclay, who's super excited to see Leafy because the
Speaker 2: last time we saw bon Clay was at the end
Speaker 2: of Alabasta, where bond Clay, being a real one, sacrificed
Speaker 2: himself to kind of fight Hena so that way straw
Speaker 2: the straw Hat crew could get away from Alabasta because
Speaker 2: the Marines were kind of closing in on them and like,
Speaker 2: all right, we know where you guys are at. And
Speaker 2: within a heartbeat, he's like, I'm gonna help you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was locked and loaded for this.
Speaker 2: He was locked and loaded and oh, go ahead, and
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm gonna gonna be honest with
Speaker 2: you for here Poseidon.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember back when we did
Speaker 4: Alabasta for this podcast, but I was like very torn
Speaker 4: up inside for for Bonclay, and uh, it's a part
Speaker 4: of that was because you know, you can't rewatch Alabasta
Speaker 4: without thinking of this Arc two and just everything then encapsulates.
Speaker 3: His character goes together right.
Speaker 1: Up until this point. You're like, oh, they get arrested.
Speaker 1: Now You're like, oh, ship, they get arrested and tortured
Speaker 1: and thrown in this terrible jail. Like it's imagine being
Speaker 1: a pirate and not actually killing anyone or something, and like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna skial some meat today from someone impel down
Speaker 1: level one getting stabbed to death all day. I'm just
Speaker 1: a normal dude.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like you're just not doing your taxes.
Speaker 4: If you're a pirate throne, right.
Speaker 1: As Loofy know, the whole thing is that you're you're
Speaker 1: being counter to the world government, that he broke any laws,
Speaker 1: but the law that you're breaking is choosing to wave
Speaker 1: a pirate flag, right right, yeah, fair enough, Like Lufy said,
Speaker 1: like imagine Lofy, like, I guess he has probably killed
Speaker 1: people academically.
Speaker 3: Lufy's probably kind of a menace.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to a menace.
Speaker 4: Look at this now, any criminals he let back out
Speaker 4: in the world.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. I was gonna mention that.
Speaker 7: Later, so I get it.
Speaker 1: But that's true, that is true.
Speaker 4: But yeah, anyway, you're talking about bon Clay.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so bond Clay. They kind of get bon Clay.
Speaker 2: So now he's kind of gathering his own little crew here.
Speaker 2: The straw Hats all all got separated. I believe there
Speaker 2: was some episodes in between Amazon Lily and impill Down
Speaker 2: kind of showing where all of straw Hats ended up going,
Speaker 2: which I'm gonna mention this briefly because I feel like
Speaker 2: it's going to be important. I can't remember the exact locations,
Speaker 2: so I will just briefly describe them. So now we
Speaker 2: got sent to a island in the sky ran by
Speaker 2: this weather wizard island, Yes, an island in the sky.
Speaker 2: Zoro got sent to Muggy Kingdom, where Prona also ended
Speaker 2: up getting heated too by Kuma. Chopper got sent to
Speaker 2: an island full of big birds and cave men who
Speaker 2: want to eat him. Yes, they were hungry they uh.
Speaker 2: Usa got sent to this island with a bunch of
Speaker 2: food that.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Sanji got sent to an island full of women,
Speaker 2: but uh they're not exactly uh the women that Sony
Speaker 2: is really into. Uh. Yes, And Robin got sent to
Speaker 2: a almost like a camp of some sorts, like a
Speaker 2: like an imprisonment camp where they're building a bridge and
Speaker 2: there's women and men who are shackled and forced to
Speaker 2: work by the government. Uh. Frankie got sent to an
Speaker 2: island notably uh the bunch of tech and Vega Punk.
Speaker 2: Vega Punk's old laboratory is there. And then Brooke got
Speaker 2: sent to somewhere where they're worshiping him.
Speaker 1: Fun fact, guys, for Robin, they mentioned they were building
Speaker 1: a bridge. Do we remember how long they've been building
Speaker 1: this bridge for?
Speaker 3: It's like six hundred years.
Speaker 1: I think something insane.
Speaker 3: I like six years is what I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 7: I wonder why you know he said to connect the islands.
Speaker 1: I don't know, questions without answers.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like Robins especially kind of important because
Speaker 2: I mean they did mention that, and it looks like,
Speaker 2: you know, they've been at it for a very very
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 5: So yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, when the Void entry was, it's like one hundred
Speaker 1: year avoid time.
Speaker 5: Yes, where one hundred years of history was erased.
Speaker 3: Correct history because of the dates. Dates are hard, OK.
Speaker 1: So one hundred years of history. But my question is
Speaker 1: was this bridge being built prior to the Voice entry?
Speaker 1: When was you guys can continue talking. Sorry, I'm just yeah,
Speaker 1: I love talking one piece.
Speaker 5: No, you're good like talking one piece.
Speaker 3: That's what we're here for, is talk one piece.
Speaker 4: So I guess out of all the places that people
Speaker 4: were sent, which one was your your favorite therapist Sidon, Like,
Speaker 4: if you had to be to choose to be sent
Speaker 4: to one of those places.
Speaker 2: You know, I think I'd like to chill with the Wizard.
Speaker 2: I think he's a pretty swell dude. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: out of everybody, uh not me, kind of went somewhere
Speaker 2: pretty for fairly fairly stuff, you know, she has shelter.
Speaker 2: He you know, let her kind of stay with him.
Speaker 2: And you know he's he's just a chill dude as
Speaker 2: opposed to Uh, Propper got sent everybody's trying to eat him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: about to get sent to prison, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Frankie's just in the middle of the old.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can't believe weather Wizard beat out Prona. This is
Speaker 4: so sad.
Speaker 2: I was gonna, you know, that buggy Kingdom because I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, you get a nice castle and all, but
Speaker 2: you have Corona seem depressing and a little bit demanding.
Speaker 2: So I don't think i'd wanna get sent there with her,
Speaker 2: as much as I love Corona.
Speaker 1: Update on the timeline, the voice century was eight hundred
Speaker 1: to nine hundred years ago, and there was a century
Speaker 1: that disappeared. And this bridge has been has been being
Speaker 1: built for seven hundred years without a known purpose.
Speaker 4: See I told you I'm bad with dates. I was
Speaker 4: one hundred off. That was in the ballpark.
Speaker 1: It was after However, I just think it's important to notes,
Speaker 1: especially like not that we're gonna get any answers anytime soon.
Speaker 1: But that's part of the reason why I love rewatching
Speaker 1: and rereading one piece so I could refresh my memory
Speaker 1: on some of these facts for what they do for
Speaker 1: when they do eventually become relevant. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: it will eventually become event There's no reason a bridge
Speaker 1: has been being built for seven hundred years for no purpose.
Speaker 4: I'd be surprised. Man, construction goes on forever.
Speaker 3: Something here. They just started and delay those unions.
Speaker 4: Years later they forget what they're doing. They later just
Speaker 4: continue going.
Speaker 1: But I feel like someone has to know why its
Speaker 1: being built. God, damn it.
Speaker 4: They said they were connecting islands now which islands? I
Speaker 4: don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's definitely some significance with like the years,
Speaker 1: and I am I'm looking forward to eventually learning in
Speaker 1: twenty sixty two. Okay, continue my bad?
Speaker 2: No, you're good?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 2: What did I leave off with one? Okay, Monclay. They
Speaker 2: go into level four, which we also find out that
Speaker 2: mister one the Blade the Blade Dude was also is
Speaker 2: also locked up. So basically most of baroque works, the
Speaker 2: important people from Barokes kind of got captured and imprisoned,
Speaker 2: and we find we go into level four. So at
Speaker 2: this point, the warden and the vice warden are like,
Speaker 2: what is straw Hat Loofy doing here? And they realize,
Speaker 2: wait a second, he's trying to break ace out and hannamil,
Speaker 2: he's kind of a silly dude. Uh he he's really
Speaker 2: obsessed with Oh I want He was at some point
Speaker 2: like maybe I should let straw Hat do his things
Speaker 2: so we can blame Magellan so I can be warden
Speaker 2: like he's like over here, like willing to let them
Speaker 2: go like that.
Speaker 1: Who needs enemies for such a serious arc. There's such
Speaker 1: a nice blend of comedy from Hannibel and obviously Buggy
Speaker 1: and like mister three and Boncley and Ivankov, but like Hannibell,
Speaker 1: is a nice touch. You have such a strong warden
Speaker 1: and then the vice warden who's kind of in charge
Speaker 1: of a lot of the time just being an actulute
Speaker 1: like goofy dude who doesn't give a fuck until he
Speaker 1: does give a fuck is just great. The great contrast
Speaker 1: for such a serious arc with torture and all that
Speaker 1: stuff going on.
Speaker 4: I will say I think Magellan's pretty pretty good on
Speaker 4: that end too. I know he's like a strong.
Speaker 7: Presence that around, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but like the diarrhea stuff. And then
Speaker 4: also just whenever they first initially mentioned Buggy and Loofy
Speaker 4: running around, it's like he was there in the com room,
Speaker 4: like he could have been alerted, but he had his
Speaker 4: eyes on Boa.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, he's like, you know what, no,
Speaker 3: this takes priority.
Speaker 4: You know, he just kind of ignored them, and then, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, things kind of spun out from there.
Speaker 7: So I'm very happy.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy Poseidon appreciates how strong Magellan is. I
Speaker 1: watched like four of one piece reviews today as the
Speaker 1: way to kind of prep for this podcast. The amount
Speaker 1: of people that were like, there's not that many strong
Speaker 1: like people, considering there's like a million like strong prisoners,
Speaker 1: there's not that many strong people Magellan. You don't realize
Speaker 1: how fucking strong Magellan is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, dudele them.
Speaker 1: Magellan wiped out the Blackbeard Pirates. Like we'll get we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second.
Speaker 2: We'll get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Migellan's a monster. I feel like he's like a
Speaker 1: right below admir level.
Speaker 4: Right he had he had people, he had insane people
Speaker 4: like Loofy, like you said, black Beard, Buggy, like he
Speaker 4: had all these people running for their lives, yeah, just
Speaker 4: with his presence, right, like his his only weak side
Speaker 4: and like his own worst enemy is himself, right, because
Speaker 4: he likes to eat poison and like he doesn't have
Speaker 4: to do that, like he just think that enhances the flavor.
Speaker 4: And because of that, he's on the toilet for like
Speaker 4: ten hours a day. But like if that wasn't the case,
Speaker 4: like he top ten people in the series probably right, like,
Speaker 4: if not higher, he's up there.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. I watched like five or six
Speaker 1: reviews or a handful of reviews, and multi people were like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe how many strong people we got. Crocodile
Speaker 1: and this other guy who I can't remember his name
Speaker 1: that used to work there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the guy from the rain Dude, I forget
Speaker 4: is that ever?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Whatever, they got that dude, they got Jim Bay, this Ace.
Speaker 1: There's like so many insanely strong people and there's only
Speaker 1: one Magellan. And I'm like, dude, Magellan's fucking stronger than
Speaker 1: them all. Like he's a stronger than them all. And
Speaker 1: they're also isolated. They're isolated in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: like you can't like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that in like prior ten twenty years
Speaker 4: prior and stuff, I said that guy that they have
Speaker 4: locked up. Yes, they said he's on par with Magellan
Speaker 4: and he but he also worked there, right, that's part
Speaker 4: of why it's known as like such an impregnable place, right,
Speaker 4: So it's uh, they they could just think of two
Speaker 4: Magellan's running around.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just I'm very happy because I appreciates
Speaker 1: how strong Magellan is. This guy, I feel like Looviy
Speaker 1: never beat him. He's lucky. Like loovy goal was to
Speaker 1: get him takes that one and escape. He he wasn't
Speaker 1: an opponent that he had to fight in the moment.
Speaker 1: He had to just escape from him. But he couldn't
Speaker 1: fight him like Lufy can't beat him right.
Speaker 4: Now, even after breaking out all those other people, they
Speaker 4: still just had to kind of runs.
Speaker 1: I swear he's like admiral conversation, but since he's not
Speaker 1: technically a loggia, maybe he's like a couple of points
Speaker 1: notch below but way above vice material admiral for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so incredibly strong. Like the only people that
Speaker 2: ended up surviving his his his venom were it was
Speaker 2: other people who were like, Okay, I'm going to try
Speaker 2: to save you or here's the anti venom, so he's
Speaker 2: he's he has such a disgustingly ope in my opinion,
Speaker 2: op double fruit. So yeah, he's definitely not somebody to
Speaker 2: sleep on when it comes to fighting. And Lufy had
Speaker 2: a really hard time because I mean, it looks like
Speaker 2: Magillan has pretty good crasp of what powers he has
Speaker 2: and he had no problem fighting Loofy. So, which is
Speaker 2: what happened in level four.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned it. What's his name? Magellan is not
Speaker 1: a logia like like he's a parame that's crazy. His
Speaker 1: body does not turn into poison. It excretes poison and
Speaker 1: it comes out of him or diarrhea as well. But
Speaker 1: he's also I believe, probably have mastered it, awakened it
Speaker 1: in some ways.
Speaker 4: He's just he's immune to all poison, right, but he
Speaker 4: just can't digest it. So it's like one of those
Speaker 4: things if he didn't eat it. Like like I said,
Speaker 4: he's good, but he just chooses. Yeah, their own worst
Speaker 4: enemy at times.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah for sure. M Yeah, so that's kind of
Speaker 2: what happened in level four. Loofy ends up fighting Magellan,
Speaker 2: ends up losing. You have Mister three and Buggy who
Speaker 2: kind of are like, all right, we need to take
Speaker 2: this opportunity, both of us. We're gonna leave. And then
Speaker 2: you have bond Clay over here, who's kind of having
Speaker 2: like this whole almost like crisis. He's like, I'm a coward.
Speaker 2: I can't do anything to save you, straw Hat. But
Speaker 2: then he gathers the courage to take take Loofy and
Speaker 2: go down into level five, which is the freezing hell level,
Speaker 2: and Bond plays over here. He's struggling. There's wolves on
Speaker 2: level five. They're here attacking him, and here's Loofy like
Speaker 2: on their urge of dying, like on the verge of
Speaker 2: dying here, and these wolves started attacking bon Clay in
Speaker 2: with the last little amount of strength Loufy had, Loofy
Speaker 2: fights off all of the wolves that are down there
Speaker 2: who are attacking them, and then somebody shows up. And
Speaker 2: up until this point there have been little like you know,
Speaker 2: little inklings kind of thrown here and there, like you know,
Speaker 2: there's some prisoners that have that have disappeared over the
Speaker 2: last few years, notably a prisoner name Imperia in Bankov
Speaker 2: who just he didn't escape, but he's just gone. So
Speaker 2: a lot of them just kind of assumed he ended
Speaker 2: up dying, and nobody really kind of you know, took,
Speaker 2: I guess notice of it. So Ivankov shows up and
Speaker 2: he takes both Bonclay and Lufy, who are at this
Speaker 2: point about to die from their injuries and the cold,
Speaker 2: and we find out that ivan Kov and a bunch
Speaker 2: of other people, other prisoners, are hiding in what they
Speaker 2: call Level five point five, which is between Level five
Speaker 2: and six, and they are just free in there. They
Speaker 2: the prison guards don't have access, they don't know where,
Speaker 2: they don't even know they're there.
Speaker 1: Like they know, Like people are really missing, but it's
Speaker 1: not that surprising, considering people could like boil alive, freeze
Speaker 1: to death, probably get buried in snow boil alive. That
Speaker 1: surprising that people are going missing again. In my theory,
Speaker 1: I think people are dying here in two weeks unless
Speaker 1: they're really really strong.
Speaker 4: Yes, which granted, like it's like you mentioned with Crocodile's crew, right,
Speaker 4: like uh, like we see numbers one through three, but
Speaker 4: like it's not like anybody else from his crew is
Speaker 4: an impule down right, Like it is the strongest of
Speaker 4: the strong.
Speaker 3: Everybody in there's kind of a problem.
Speaker 1: So exactly, Yes, at least the ones that survivor or
Speaker 1: a problem or they're just not being sent to impule
Speaker 1: down right for lesser crimes. However, I do want to say,
Speaker 1: let's not gloss over it. So he got wrecked by Magellan,
Speaker 1: poisoned on the verge of death, right, bond Clay defending
Speaker 1: him against the wolves. Loofy uses conquerors hockey again, which
Speaker 1: is really cool.
Speaker 2: Oh, he does like passing out, if I remember, that's the.
Speaker 1: Only thing that kind of keeps them alive. But they're
Speaker 1: on the verge of death, as you mentioned, and that's
Speaker 1: when Evonkov comes and saves them and brings them the
Speaker 1: five point five. But he's still on the verge of death.
Speaker 1: So what happens after that, Besidon? Do you remember?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Prior to that though, just so we don't gloss over
Speaker 4: it too much, just because, uh, I know, we mentioned
Speaker 4: Hanya Bells like a little bit of like comedic relief
Speaker 4: here in this arc. But I do want to point
Speaker 4: out like he took out Buggy and number three really easily,
Speaker 4: and number two only really got to jump on him
Speaker 4: because he pretended to be Nammy, right, Like he tricked.
Speaker 3: Them and him a little bit there.
Speaker 4: So it's like they had him guarding the floor upwards
Speaker 4: and dude's a problem too, right, it's not just the
Speaker 4: gillin in there. So anyways, that uber ba I just
Speaker 4: don't want to gloss over that too much. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like when he started being taking things seriously. It's
Speaker 1: a good contrast, goes back and forth and you'll realize, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: he kind of deserves his job.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was funny, like how fast Hannibal was,
Speaker 2: like because von Clay was impersonating Nomy because obviously he
Speaker 2: had touched nom in a previous arc, so he's able
Speaker 2: to imitate her. He was he like dropped everything he
Speaker 2: was doing. He's like, yoh, yeah, I do want to
Speaker 2: see you change clothing.
Speaker 4: I can't believe he felt that either when right, Like, oh.
Speaker 2: Man, yeah, it's it was so funny. He's such a
Speaker 2: silly character. I love that man. Uh. But we do
Speaker 2: get introduced to von Kaov. So we find out that
Speaker 2: yvon Kov has like almost like a party floor. Right,
Speaker 2: everybody over there is kind of just partying, eating, they
Speaker 2: perform and all that, and uh, it's really exciting. And
Speaker 2: I also got the I was really happy to also
Speaker 2: see bon Clay go oh, these are these people are
Speaker 2: all queer, They're all like me. So like bon Clay
Speaker 2: feels almost like at home with these people because he
Speaker 2: hasn't really had, you know, anybody like that around him.
Speaker 2: So we find out that yvon Kov injected. So yvan
Speaker 2: Kov has a double fruit where he can manipulate hormones
Speaker 2: and inject them into himself and other people so he
Speaker 2: can give people more adrenaline, you know, change their their
Speaker 2: gender stuff like that. So he injected I can't remember
Speaker 2: what exactly it was. Was it the adrenaline or something
Speaker 2: to fight off the venom, but it all came down
Speaker 2: to I could inject him with these hormones. But it
Speaker 2: comes down to straw hats like or Goofy's will to
Speaker 2: be able to continue and live.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he enhanced his like natural healing and like antibodies
Speaker 4: and stuff, right, but it's still on his own.
Speaker 3: There's no guarantee of that.
Speaker 4: So m hm.
Speaker 2: So you see kind of bond Clay over here. He's
Speaker 2: also worried. He's very he cares so deeply for Loofy.
Speaker 2: So you see him kind of almost like freaking out,
Speaker 2: like we need him to live I want him to live.
Speaker 2: I'm bond Clay was willing to trade his own life
Speaker 2: if it only meant that Lufy would live, which goes
Speaker 2: to show how great of a character Bond Clay like
Speaker 2: he he even like in Alabasta, Yes he was fighting,
Speaker 2: but like he was still he still cared so deeply
Speaker 2: for Loofy because Lufy showed him so much kindness that
Speaker 2: he feels like this is his way of like repaying
Speaker 2: back for everything. So it was such a oh, such
Speaker 2: heartwarming moments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because like as soon as he sees Lufy as
Speaker 4: a friend, right, like, he's willing to go above and.
Speaker 3: Beyond for his friends.
Speaker 4: And even on like floor four where he runs away,
Speaker 4: like he he has to kind of make himself do
Speaker 4: so it's not easy for him, and he does so
Speaker 4: with the promise to himself that like even if it
Speaker 4: kills him, uh, you know, he did it logically so
Speaker 4: they don't both go down in that same spot. But
Speaker 4: even if it kills him, he's going to save Loofy
Speaker 4: if he can.
Speaker 3: Thereafter, so and we.
Speaker 4: See him you know, not just say the words there,
Speaker 4: but put it to action.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Got an straw Boykov is a character.
Speaker 2: I think he's great. We do find out that he
Speaker 2: was a commander for the Revolutionary Army, which at this
Speaker 2: point we know that Lufy's father is the leader of
Speaker 2: the Revolutionary Army. So when you know, Lufy ends up
Speaker 2: waking up, he's all kind of okay. He ended up
Speaker 2: barely surviving the venom. You know, it was very lightly
Speaker 2: mentioned to von Kov, Like Lufy was so like nonchalant
Speaker 2: about it. He was just like, yeah, that's my dad whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't really know him much though, and like at
Speaker 2: this point, ivan Kov was like, this is all I
Speaker 2: can do for you, Like, I'm not going to really
Speaker 2: help you past here, like you know, I I saved
Speaker 2: your life. But when Ivankov finds out that Lufy's father
Speaker 2: is Dragon, von Kov's like, I owe Dragon, you know
Speaker 2: a lot my life. So I'm going to help you
Speaker 2: get to your brother and help you guys get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of what kick started everything.
Speaker 1: Loofy's so casually, yeah, that's my dad, and he's like
Speaker 1: and Vankav's like, yeah, your dad, Wait, your dad like
Speaker 1: the little Caw when he was just so good.
Speaker 7: It's funny.
Speaker 1: At that point, Ivonkov is now on Loofy's side, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got to get you out of here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's it's funny too, because that's kind of how Loofy
Speaker 4: found out too, right, is garn't be in the same way.
Speaker 4: He just kind of casually mentioned it. He's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I shouldn't have said that. Don't be telling people that, Like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I shouldn't have vipeat, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 4: But uh, but yeah, there's the whole thing with Dragon,
Speaker 4: and then there's all the implications that that might potentially
Speaker 4: have because it's out now that uh that Ace and
Speaker 4: Lufy are are brothers. Right, So Ivankov has all these
Speaker 4: things going through his head. He's like, wait, does the
Speaker 4: Navy know this? Does that mean Dragon is Ace's dad?
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of questions there that suddenly stop fighting.
Speaker 1: His time, Right, Yeah, Ivankov assumed that Ace was also
Speaker 1: Dragon's son and then doesn't realize it until much later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and oh yeah, it's one of those things too,
Speaker 4: where he's it makes sense why they're not really in
Speaker 4: any rush to get out of there because he's biding
Speaker 4: his time to like make it like a a two
Speaker 4: pronged thing, right, based on whatever whatever Dragon does on
Speaker 4: the outside. So but yeah, this this changes that, right
Speaker 4: Lufy Lupy has a way of changing things.
Speaker 1: Yes, not that it would have been easy for ivan
Speaker 1: Kov to escape regardless, but I guess right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like how you is a rush?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah yeah, because up until this point, only one
Speaker 2: prisoner has ever made it out of impull Down and
Speaker 2: it was Chiky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, you gotta watch the movie with Schiky
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: Do you watch it after this arc or do you
Speaker 2: watch it like kind of in between a certain.
Speaker 4: I think usually after it was like being written, like
Speaker 4: like as this art kind of was coming out. But uh,
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's a movie. It's just have fun
Speaker 4: with it. I don't think it's like two. It probably
Speaker 4: like is cannon, but like not also not really like
Speaker 4: it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's definitely not.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's always like the movies are usually like their
Speaker 4: own kind of separate little things.
Speaker 1: Mmmm, okay, okay, should be good. We lost the recording,
Speaker 1: but we are back. We didn't lose a recording, but
Speaker 1: the recording stopped. So we're continuing from where we were
Speaker 1: talking about the Shiki movie, and we kind of just
Speaker 1: said that if non cannon, but has like cannon characters
Speaker 1: in it and cannon stuff, but it's a non cannon
Speaker 1: story that never actually happens along their journey. But I
Speaker 1: do think a good time to watch it is sometime
Speaker 1: after impelled down. Yeah mm hm, But anyway, let's continue.
Speaker 4: You're talking about four or five point five and uh
Speaker 4: and the fact that Lupy had to be saved and
Speaker 4: then uh, like the reason Ivonko decided to to help
Speaker 4: him out right finding out Dragon List his his dad,
Speaker 4: so I think was the last thing we kind of
Speaker 4: talked about there. H.
Speaker 2: So they end up I Bonkov also takes like his
Speaker 2: entire little group of people to also kind of fight
Speaker 2: against the jailers and everybody to kind of fight their
Speaker 2: way down to U level six. Now, level six is
Speaker 2: kind of the level where if you were placed down there,
Speaker 2: you are either on your way to getting killed because
Speaker 2: this is like the equivalent of death row, or you're
Speaker 2: just gonna basically.
Speaker 5: Your existence I believe is just like gone.
Speaker 2: Like everybody who's down on level six is just they
Speaker 2: what are people who the government considers just dangerous human
Speaker 2: beings who should not be like left.
Speaker 5: Into you know, the other levels.
Speaker 2: So Ace is down there. I think I said he
Speaker 2: was in level five, but I believe he's in level six.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The originally thought he was level five or whatever, but
Speaker 4: uh ended up being six.
Speaker 5: A level six.
Speaker 2: Level six is really a lot of bad people are
Speaker 2: down there. So they go down there. And here's the problem.
Speaker 2: At the time that Lufy is trying to get down there,
Speaker 2: they are now kind of carrying on with all right,
Speaker 2: his execution is happening in a few hours. Let's you know,
Speaker 2: they're trying to escort Ace out of Impell down onto
Speaker 2: the Navy ships to go to Marine Fort.
Speaker 1: One second, I'm getting raided, and the sound effected playing now,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what a scuff day. Give it a second. Raiders. Yes,
Speaker 1: I should say thank you, thank you for the raid.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Actually we're talking about one piece
Speaker 1: and but Sidon was just talking about how Loofy is
Speaker 1: chasing down. Don't apologize at all. That's my fault for
Speaker 1: not muting the notation.
Speaker 2: I would have I would have not just laying around.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the raid. Keep on Raid and Raiders. But yes,
Speaker 1: Lufy is going down trying to get to Ace while
Speaker 1: Ace is Now they're expediting his execution. He's being brought
Speaker 1: up at the same time Lufy is going down. So
Speaker 1: when Lufy finally arrives, Ace isn't gonna be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so shows up. They were just a little bit late,
Speaker 2: you see Jinba there just letting him know, like you're late,
Speaker 2: and they're kind of like, crap, we spent all this
Speaker 2: time kind of going down here, like what.
Speaker 5: Are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: So then.
Speaker 2: We find out that Crocodile is also on this level,
Speaker 2: and he tells Lufy he's still mad at Lufy for
Speaker 2: what he did and our fasta. But Crocodile sees this,
Speaker 2: like pretty much everyone else, as an opportunity to leave.
Speaker 5: So he ast.
Speaker 2: Get me out of here. I will help you, and
Speaker 2: you know he I'm actually really surprised that Crocodile actually
Speaker 2: didn't end up screwing Loofy over. He actually kept his
Speaker 2: word for the most part.
Speaker 3: There was a reason for that, though. Do you remember
Speaker 3: what it was or.
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 4: This is something we've kind of teased about, I know,
Speaker 4: in previous podcasts here. But so you know, initially, the
Speaker 4: their sleeping guests coming onto the floor, they like have
Speaker 4: to use the stairs to like plug that up with
Speaker 4: like the snip snip fruit and stuff.
Speaker 3: And because of that, they don't have a way out.
Speaker 4: So Crocodile's like, you know, like you said, He's like,
Speaker 4: I can get us out if you let me go.
Speaker 4: But if von Kov has a little bit of blackmail
Speaker 4: on him, right, he like he he knew Crocodile.
Speaker 3: Crocodile was a rookie thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, He's like, you know, I'll keep it quiet if
Speaker 4: you Yeah, as long as you stick true to your words.
Speaker 1: So if van Kov is my favorite character because it
Speaker 1: allows for thereas like Crocodile, And somehow over the years,
Speaker 1: at first it's ridiculous, it's not true, it's just for fun. Somehow,
Speaker 1: over the years I have fully convinced myself that now
Speaker 1: used to be a woman. What are your thoughts beside it?
Speaker 2: You know, honestly I love that theory. If he was
Speaker 2: like a woman, I think that would make me love
Speaker 2: him or her or they even So.
Speaker 1: It could be something like that, It could be something
Speaker 1: way less large, but there's definitely some type of Ivankov
Speaker 1: thought something on him.
Speaker 4: That's the fun part about the blackmail was he kept
Speaker 4: it so uh vague that like it could be anything, right.
Speaker 3: I let the theory the theorists still crazy.
Speaker 1: So I mean it could be anything. But like the
Speaker 1: people that say that Crocodile is like Lufy's mom is
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous fucking ship of all.
Speaker 3: Time, that one's the funniest.
Speaker 4: But uh but yeah, to answer your question to side,
Speaker 4: and like that's that's why he kind of I think
Speaker 4: stayed in line there a little bit, right, Like you said,
Speaker 4: you're surprised by it, but they got they got blackmail
Speaker 4: on him, so you don't want to mess with Avankove.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to mess with Avankove.
Speaker 2: So he's quite strong as well. He can he can
Speaker 2: put up a fight, yea. So they also break Jin
Speaker 2: Bay out. Jim's like, I can help you. So obviously,
Speaker 2: you know, at this point, kind of Loofy puts a
Speaker 2: lot of trust in gin Babe, because you know, Jim
Speaker 2: Bay does mention that you know, he he knows his brother,
Speaker 2: he knows white Beard, and like he's willing to help.
Speaker 2: So obviously Louviy needs all the help he can get
Speaker 2: to just get out of here, because getting in was
Speaker 2: hard enough, so getting out must be a lot harder.
Speaker 2: Now that the now that the prison basically knows like
Speaker 2: these people are are here, so we also get to
Speaker 2: see where Buggy and uh mister three are at. They're
Speaker 2: kind of causing a little bit of chaos up in
Speaker 2: the upper levels as well. They're also freeing a lot
Speaker 2: of the prisoners and they're like, we're gonna get out
Speaker 2: of here so amidst all this chaos, so they end
Speaker 2: up going all the way back to level four and
Speaker 2: now they're kind of getting faced with everyone. Blackbeard ends
Speaker 2: up showing up to Impel Down, to much surprise because
Speaker 2: up until this point, Boa I believe it has been
Speaker 2: the only warlord who is kind of step foot into
Speaker 2: Impel Down. It's not an easily accessible, I guess place
Speaker 2: to be. You have to grant a lot of permissions
Speaker 2: to just be able to get into here. So Blackbeard
Speaker 2: pulls up and we're at this point not really sure
Speaker 2: why he's just there, and he kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: fights the navy. They're like, oh, it's a warlord, you know,
Speaker 2: don't you can't be here. He kind of knocks them
Speaker 2: all out, and he also goes down to level four,
Speaker 2: so you kind of see Loofy and Blackbeard and Blackbeard.
Speaker 2: We find out Blackbeard tells Lufy like, actually, I was
Speaker 2: supposed to capture you. It wasn't going to be a.
Speaker 2: He was the initial target for Blackbeard, but because Loufy
Speaker 2: and his friends got shot up in the sky during
Speaker 2: at the beginning of Skypea, Blackbeard couldn't follow him. Like
Speaker 2: the reason why Blackbeard was going after Loofy was because
Speaker 2: Blackbird wanted the warlord title and he felt that it
Speaker 2: was appropriate to get the person who defeated Crocodile and
Speaker 2: basically stripped him of his title and turned him into
Speaker 2: the government. So when he didn't see that asn't like
Speaker 2: an opportunity anymore, he finds out that Ace is actually
Speaker 2: after him because Whitebeard sent Ace after him, and he goes,
Speaker 2: you know what, maybe I should turn an Ace instead.
Speaker 2: So that is why Ace ended up getting imprisoned in
Speaker 2: his upper execution, and it is because of Blackbeard. But
Speaker 2: it kind of like it sucks just to find out
Speaker 2: that it was Ace was actually never going to be
Speaker 2: the person. It was gonna be Loofy because of the
Speaker 2: whole Skypee of stuff going on, he couldn't follow him.
Speaker 4: And just to kind of add to the pain there
Speaker 4: a little bit, like I think black Beard also mentioned
Speaker 4: that like he kind of threatened Ace with Loofy, like
Speaker 4: Lufy's existence, like because he knew that black Beard was
Speaker 4: after Lufy and you know, could kill his brother.
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons.
Speaker 4: Like Ace wasn't going to back off, right, Like, no
Speaker 4: matter kind of what happened, regardless.
Speaker 1: Ace was hunting down black Beard. Yeah him, no matter what.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now Lufy had that extra little bit of
Speaker 1: guilt like it should have been me. I should have
Speaker 1: been the one to fight him. M Yeah.
Speaker 8: That kind of black is interesting, where like when he
Speaker 8: first gets introduced, he always gets wrecked initially, like his
Speaker 8: first the first kit Loofy does black Beard like, but
Speaker 8: then he's very black Beard's very sturdy.
Speaker 1: He didn't take a ton of damage, but he's kind
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know what the word is for it.
Speaker 4: It's too many pies and stuff. Like, you know, he's
Speaker 4: not always training, but like he is strong at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, right.
Speaker 1: I feel he's so strong and so sturdy, but he
Speaker 1: leaves himself like open and he's not ready for the
Speaker 1: initial battle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a he's a slow starter. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 4: you could say, yeah, yeah, it's chaos in the prison
Speaker 4: at this point, right, because at one point you have
Speaker 4: black Beard showing up at the entrance all unannounced.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, he's not supposed to be there.
Speaker 4: You have Mister three and Buggy kind of causing chaos
Speaker 4: and like floor two, and then you know, Straw hating
Speaker 4: them or making their way back up. So I think
Speaker 4: they're at like floor four at one point, and then
Speaker 4: you know, everything kind of eventually meets and whatnot. But
Speaker 4: it's just things are happening all over, right, was ready
Speaker 4: to call it. He's like, I'm just I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: go I might just go home, like.
Speaker 2: He's ready to give up.
Speaker 1: Recon comes to my chat and says one Piece sucks
Speaker 1: balls and this is why he always gets banned. And
Speaker 1: on that note, we're gonna give Recon a fat bag.
Speaker 1: You'll be missed, like almost timing out Marcus. No one
Speaker 1: say anything on chat there we.
Speaker 3: Go Marcus catching strays.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so after one Piece or after a black
Speaker 4: Beard and Lufy fight for a bit and then Lufy
Speaker 4: moves on, black Beard fights Magellan. Is that right beside
Speaker 4: there is that kind of what happens next her?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he and Lufy decide to not or he
Speaker 2: decides to actually not fight Lufy. He is just like,
Speaker 2: you know, I will save this.
Speaker 5: For another time.
Speaker 2: I have something I want to get done, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get it done, which we'll find out later. So
Speaker 2: Magellan is also here. He's now like black Beard, you're
Speaker 2: not supposed to be here, and with an easy just
Speaker 2: swipe of his devil fruit like just drowns almost like
Speaker 2: his entire crew in venom, and they are all like screaming,
Speaker 2: They're all like on the floor, they're like about to die.
Speaker 2: So then we kind of go forward into the kind
Speaker 2: of they're going now up Louvi and the rest of
Speaker 2: his you know, his current crew, not the straw Hats,
Speaker 2: but the people he had gathered up until this point.
Speaker 2: They make it up. They meet up with I believe,
Speaker 2: I think Buggy and mister two, and at this point
Speaker 2: Buggy and Mister two are also almost gathering their whole crew.
Speaker 2: They have like a whole Buggy has his like his
Speaker 2: glazers up there. Oh yes, yeah, they they are they
Speaker 2: Buggy will do something and he won't even intentionally do it.
Speaker 2: And then the prisoners who are like we, oh you
Speaker 2: are life Buggy. They're like just hyping them up. They're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, yes, yes, Buggy, you're the best. You
Speaker 2: talk trash to that wax wall. You know, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's so funny. So they eventually yes, yeah, hiss was crazy,
Speaker 2: Like Buggy will do nothing, and then everybody just loves
Speaker 2: him for some reason. You know, it's it's hilarious. I
Speaker 2: think it's fun. It's a really funny gag for sure,
Speaker 2: but oh god, what was I gonna say?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: They eventually kind of get through there, They get through,
Speaker 2: They get out of the prison and find out that
Speaker 2: there's no like no boats. Why.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite moments in the arc when
Speaker 1: it's like you have all the chaos happening inside, all
Speaker 1: the things that hold them inside and torture them and
Speaker 1: keep them jailed, and then like they finally escape and
Speaker 1: there's not a ship in sight, and you realize the
Speaker 1: strongest defense of the jail is the fact that it's
Speaker 1: in the middle of the fucking ocean. All these the
Speaker 1: calm belt, the strong, all these strong devil fruit users.
Speaker 1: All these strong people use devil fruits so they can't swim.
Speaker 1: And even if you can't swim. You're not swimming across
Speaker 1: the fucking ocean unless you're ralely, especially not across the
Speaker 1: calm belt with what's it called with seekings everywhere like
Speaker 1: what a goaded? I love him down And honestly, they
Speaker 1: also calm silence when they when they finally exited, and
Speaker 1: it's like one of my favorite parts of the arc.
Speaker 4: They also got kind of lucky because the the other
Speaker 4: warden that uh that got released in order to try
Speaker 4: to help, and he started causing chaos as well, right,
Speaker 4: so he destroyed like the communications.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forget.
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention him because he's actually quite important too,
Speaker 2: because he was the head jailer. But they ended up
Speaker 2: actually sending him all the way down to level six
Speaker 2: because he was he was just killing his cowork like
Speaker 2: he was just slaughtering them. It's a very very violent man.
Speaker 2: So Loufy and the rest of the crew that ended
Speaker 2: up breaking out are like, what the hell are we
Speaker 2: gonna do because there's no ships in sight. There's nothing
Speaker 2: that you can do. And then here's jin Bay going
Speaker 2: I need there's ships there, but they're like all the
Speaker 2: way out, like you could see them a little bit,
Speaker 2: but they're definitely not like a loofy can stretch his
Speaker 2: arm and get onto it right length. They're pretty far away.
Speaker 2: So Jinbay does this thing where he's like, I need
Speaker 2: you guys to trust me, and you guys to trust me,
Speaker 2: and he goes into the water and he's somehow like
Speaker 2: I can't remember exactly what he did. I think he
Speaker 2: kind of made everybody jump in and.
Speaker 4: He carried a door and yeah he uh, he carried
Speaker 4: the big three off to.
Speaker 3: One of those ships.
Speaker 4: I kind of launched him at it right the you
Speaker 4: got number one, you got crocodile, and you got buggy.
Speaker 7: So I thought sharks, Oh.
Speaker 3: He did that there after.
Speaker 4: Initially he had them kind of take out the people
Speaker 4: on the ship and then uh, and then he called
Speaker 4: out the the whale sharks or what have you, whatever
Speaker 4: they were that uh to help everybody else get over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so that happens. You know, everybody they
Speaker 2: ended up clearing I think one Navy ship and they
Speaker 2: are able to get everyone out. Now, this is where
Speaker 2: we have another issue is that impel Down is also
Speaker 2: surrounded by a huge, really tall wall, so you have
Speaker 2: to have authorization to open the gate in order to
Speaker 2: leave Impel down, which obviously they cannot get. So they're
Speaker 2: all like kind of like, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2: And for some reason, the gate opens and everybody is like,
Speaker 2: what the hell what is going on? And come to
Speaker 2: find out because Jinbay slipped, he knew about this, but
Speaker 2: he was advised not to say anything until they were out,
Speaker 2: bond Clay ended up staying behind, impersonating Magellan and letting
Speaker 2: his like the jailers know to open the gate, and
Speaker 2: they were all like wait why, but you know obviously
Speaker 2: if the is saying open the gate, you open the gate.
Speaker 2: So bon Clay stayed behind so everyone else could escape,
Speaker 2: knowing that this could be the end of his life
Speaker 2: like this was he knew full well that he could
Speaker 2: get he could die, like Bangellen could kill.
Speaker 5: Him for this mm hm.
Speaker 2: And you have Jin Bay was telling Lufy like I
Speaker 2: told bon Clay told me not to tell you until
Speaker 2: we were out. So then Lufy is like, I give
Speaker 2: me the transponder snail right now, because I have one,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 5: Does bon Clay.
Speaker 2: And here's bond Clay like Lufy's like, no, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go back. We have to get him, and Jin Bay's
Speaker 2: reminding Lufy like we it was so hard for us
Speaker 2: to get out. We can't go back. We have to
Speaker 2: leave him, like this is what he wanted, and you go.
Speaker 2: He talks to bond Clay on the phone and bon
Speaker 2: Clay was like, strawboy, go and save your brother. Don't
Speaker 2: worry worry about me, say your.
Speaker 3: Brother sacrifice wasn't enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, von Clay is like go and I had to
Speaker 2: like pause the episode and I was crying. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my God, like bon Clay and bon Cley letting
Speaker 2: like Lufy know that he has no regrets and that
Speaker 2: one day they are going to meet again, and I
Speaker 2: was just like stop.
Speaker 4: But then even after that, Magellan's like any last words
Speaker 4: and I think he said satisfaction or something like that
Speaker 4: he doesn't have any regrets. But like, yeah, is that
Speaker 4: the end of bond Clay.
Speaker 2: Yeah you bon Clay. He's fully willing to fight back
Speaker 2: against Magellan too. So that was that was definitely a
Speaker 2: very very sad moment on We also come to find
Speaker 2: out that cheer You, the head jailor, gives Blackbeard and
Speaker 2: his crew the anti venom to be able to survive
Speaker 2: and decides to join a Blackbeard, which God damn it
Speaker 2: just like it's moments like this, I'm like, damn, there
Speaker 2: was so many opportunities that Blackbird probably should have been
Speaker 2: dead but ends up somehow getting out of this just barely,
Speaker 2: barely alive.
Speaker 4: I can't wait realists flood armor all around.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see shear you versus Zoro. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna happen. I believe.
Speaker 4: He has a sword, but uh, but I guess just
Speaker 4: one more thing on Bond Clay. As as far as
Speaker 4: being the MVP of this arc, I mentioned earlier, I
Speaker 4: didn't want to gloss over him, like kind of tricking
Speaker 4: Honya Bell as he transformed into Nami and whatnot, right,
Speaker 4: and you know, immediately after that, he acted like he
Speaker 4: was Honya Bell and uh, he acted like he was
Speaker 4: injured and things like that. And it was at that
Speaker 4: moment that he like touched Magellan's face, right, because he
Speaker 4: has to touch the face of like the person that
Speaker 4: he is going to transform into. So it's like all
Speaker 4: the way back to then, like he was kind of yeah,
Speaker 4: he's always kind of doing whatever he can to like
Speaker 4: prepare what might need to be done, and like if
Speaker 4: he didn't do that, like imagine how hard it is
Speaker 4: to touch Magellan's face, right, So he wouldn't have been
Speaker 4: able to even make that sacrifice.
Speaker 7: So that real MVP.
Speaker 3: Yeah, truly the m VP.
Speaker 1: I think there's even a moment on I think level
Speaker 1: four or five where Blonclay has a moment where he
Speaker 1: like sacrifices himself again in a way or like, oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 4: He's fighting all the wolves right bloofy unconscious, like just
Speaker 4: trying to find you know, Bostom, what's of hope like
Speaker 4: I von Kov or.
Speaker 1: Whatever Boncle Like in my top five favorite characters, I
Speaker 1: think he's up there. He's your favorite right out there.
Speaker 2: I mean, Robin's always gonna be my number one, but
Speaker 2: he definitely shot up there for me. He's such a
Speaker 2: great character, like he loyalty and love he had shown
Speaker 2: to Lufy, like it's just it. It makes me so
Speaker 2: sad to see him. I mean, I don't think we
Speaker 2: have any confirmation that he's like not alive, because the
Speaker 2: last moment we saw was just him ready to fight Magellan.
Speaker 2: So for all I know, he could just he could
Speaker 2: still be an impel down alive.
Speaker 4: You know which, which is almost worse than death right
Speaker 4: and we saw him there.
Speaker 2: But I mean you never know.
Speaker 1: You don't know a couple of things we need to
Speaker 1: talk about before we do wrap up. According to Chat one,
Speaker 1: why are the gates so massive? I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: why are they so massive?
Speaker 3: Hit talking about the Gate of Justice or whatever.
Speaker 4: It's a giant gate that like connects the three major
Speaker 4: I feel like maybe headquarters simple down?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and which.
Speaker 1: So the realisted me or like the someone time to
Speaker 1: be logical would be like the currents are large, therefore
Speaker 1: the door or entryway needs to be large because of
Speaker 1: how big the current is or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, why is.
Speaker 1: It like however my actual belief? No, I'm kidding, like
Speaker 1: like a super fun belief. Remember those mystical creatures near.
Speaker 3: They made the.
Speaker 7: Doors Kriller bar in the triangles.
Speaker 1: Back nine hundred years ago. They were the way to
Speaker 1: use the doors.
Speaker 4: That's a good question from the chat because if it's
Speaker 4: taking them six hundred years to build that bridge, how
Speaker 4: long did it take them to build those doors?
Speaker 5: It is us crazy.
Speaker 3: Those things are pretty big. It's two. You're not wrong.
Speaker 1: We didn't mention that Loofy lost many many years of
Speaker 1: his life in order to survive.
Speaker 2: I think I think it was like yes or so,
Speaker 2: because the hormones cut the lifespan, right.
Speaker 9: Which better than dying though, right, So it's yeah, so
Speaker 9: we know that he's probably not living a super super
Speaker 9: long life and it's important to kind of know that
Speaker 9: or note that three you forgot to mention the zone
Speaker 9: b that and then being the first mention of awakened
Speaker 9: devil fruits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was what I was going to bring up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the four guards with the menotaur and whatnot.
Speaker 4: That's what they're They're not any slackers either or slouches.
Speaker 4: I guess you could say that was like one of
Speaker 4: the first mentions of a awakened devil fruits that I
Speaker 4: think we've seen, right, So, yeah, I feel.
Speaker 1: Like Magellans was awakened, but maybe they didn't mention it.
Speaker 4: It. It very well could be, but I don't think
Speaker 4: they mentioned it.
Speaker 1: If it is because they had like multiple different forms
Speaker 1: for a paramesia, which tends.
Speaker 7: To like a hydra and stuff, Yeah, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: We do know, though, those zones awakened their devil fruits,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like mastery or taking it to
Speaker 1: the next level of the fruit more than just its
Speaker 1: basic form.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is I mean, that's that's a detail I
Speaker 4: didn't catch until I read through it again today, Like
Speaker 4: I would not have been able to tell you that.
Speaker 1: But so, why were they awakened zones?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Can they do that made them?
Speaker 3: I think it had something to do with Sadie.
Speaker 4: I'm being honest, like she just kind of awakens something
Speaker 4: in you. You know, it might be devil fruits for
Speaker 4: some people, right, So.
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts on the arc beside.
Speaker 2: And I honestly thought this was a really solid arc.
Speaker 2: I didn't really have any issues with it when it
Speaker 2: came like pacing or just like irritating moments or like
Speaker 2: I didn't really have any of those, not that I
Speaker 2: have very many of those in the past arcs, there
Speaker 2: were like some pacing issues with for example like Skypea,
Speaker 2: or like there's just characters I just didn't vibe with,
Speaker 2: or just like, you know, felt like some stuff was
Speaker 2: a little bit unnecessary. But I feel like impel Down
Speaker 2: is such like a solid arc, and I think that,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's definitely up there for me now.
Speaker 2: It's I think that also did such a good job
Speaker 2: at like showing that, you know, maybe Loufy isn't that powerful.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a ton of people who are much
Speaker 2: stronger than Lufy, and I think Lufy is also starting
Speaker 2: to realize that. I feel like Lufy was only able
Speaker 2: to get in and get out the way he was
Speaker 2: with the help of other people because he was gonna
Speaker 2: do it all by himself. He was ready to, like,
Speaker 2: you know, to to just get ace by himself. But
Speaker 2: he honestly wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for bond
Speaker 2: Clay and if it wasn't for Ivankov. He wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been able to get out if it wasn't for Crocodile
Speaker 2: and Jinbay kind of helping clearing the path and all
Speaker 2: of that. So I think that, I mean, I think
Speaker 2: just moving forward, Lufy's gonna he's he definitely got humbled
Speaker 2: a lot during this arc and same with the future arc.
Speaker 2: But it's it's it's ramping up, and I'm starting to
Speaker 2: see like why everybody kind of goes to tell like,
Speaker 2: because I've been told between saba Ode and all the
Speaker 2: way into Marine Ford is what I was told. His
Speaker 2: peak one piece, Ye, like it's just so good and
Speaker 2: I now understand why it's it's it's just such a
Speaker 2: build up to such an like I would even argue
Speaker 2: probably one of the most the most important arc in
Speaker 2: one piece.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember catching up mid Marine third and going
Speaker 4: week to week on that was tortured.
Speaker 2: Was I can't imagine what it was like to the
Speaker 2: people who were watching it like at the time.
Speaker 10: Live just like anyway, just a quick update, an awakened
Speaker 10: devil Fruit increases the abilities of the Fruit.
Speaker 1: They have greater power, more refined control, and often new
Speaker 1: abilities that were otherwise not possible before. Just to kind
Speaker 1: of give you a definition of that. My final thoughts
Speaker 1: on the arc. It's one of my favorites. I also
Speaker 1: I really love like more linear, enclosed arcs. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: That's something I love in fiction and in video games.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are always like open world.
Speaker 1: I want open world. I want big islands with vast
Speaker 1: lore and world building and stuff like that. Something about
Speaker 1: an enclosed area with many layers just gets me. I
Speaker 1: just love it. I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3: My add needs that. Otherwise.
Speaker 4: You know, many open world games I just don't finish
Speaker 4: because I get distracted.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves open world, and don't get me wrong, elden
Speaker 1: Ring is fantastic, But there's something about like a Dark
Speaker 1: Soul's One in comparison that's sewing closed. Dark Soul's One
Speaker 1: feels like impull Down in video game Poet. They're just
Speaker 1: always getting fucked, always getting tortured, and it's all linear,
Speaker 1: but it's not linear because it's all interconnected with layers
Speaker 1: above and below. Dark Soul's One is the impull Down
Speaker 1: of video games.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like they probably have some of
Speaker 4: the same inspirations I would assume, right, like the Seven
Speaker 4: Circles of Hell from like Dante's Inferno and things of
Speaker 4: that nature. Right, So it's it's the same thing, all right,
Speaker 4: We're going underneath the sea and there's all these layers
Speaker 4: of just different tortures things that these people are going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think sometimes people want open world
Speaker 1: because it has all these different environments and things going on,
Speaker 1: but they I would have managed to do that within
Speaker 1: a fixed environment, with every level having different environments, new enemies,
Speaker 1: and things just constantly shifting.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine a one piece game where it's open world.
Speaker 4: This world's so big, but yeah, I get Losco and
Speaker 4: Island to island.
Speaker 3: I need anomia me.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, I need to know where some of these
Speaker 2: islands are at. I think we also, I can't remember
Speaker 2: if it was between impell Down and Marine Ford or
Speaker 2: it was during impel Down. But we also did get
Speaker 2: a little bit of like, you know, what's going on
Speaker 2: with the straw Hats, because we kind of we found
Speaker 2: out at the beginning where they were, but then we
Speaker 2: also kind of almost like get like an update episode
Speaker 2: to see how they're doing. So Robin gets imprisoned, she
Speaker 2: gets captured trying to defend some of the kid and
Speaker 2: some of.
Speaker 5: The ladies who were locked up.
Speaker 2: Chopper kind of gets taken in by the birds, the
Speaker 2: big birds. I can't remember exactly what happened with usop,
Speaker 2: if I'm being really honest, non surviving. He's surviving. The
Speaker 2: weather Wizard, you know, she not me, accompanies him to
Speaker 2: believe to go like help a town, and not me
Speaker 2: is just so like fascinated by the way he's able
Speaker 2: to manipulate the elements and weather that she, you know,
Speaker 2: ends up being like, you know, instead of me trying
Speaker 2: to go back to Sabaud, I think I'm gonna stay
Speaker 2: a little longer to see if I can, you know,
Speaker 2: if you could teach me how you know, you use
Speaker 2: all of these like almost how you manipulate you know,
Speaker 2: the weather.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Zora and Parona are kind of having their little ocenanigans.
Speaker 2: Pirona's wanting to make Zoro into a servant because you know,
Speaker 2: Kumassi is not really exactly there anymore, so she kind
Speaker 2: of like wraps him up and puts Hi I think
Speaker 2: in a Kumassy suit, uh and tells him to act
Speaker 2: like Kumasi, and he's he's just not having any of it.
Speaker 2: So you kind of have like that little banter there.
Speaker 2: Frankie gets turned into fancy Frankie. He's a fancy lad
Speaker 2: And I can't honestly exactly remember what's going on with
Speaker 2: Brooke Brook.
Speaker 1: Like summoned to it like as a de end on
Speaker 1: an island and then now he's a performer or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Soanji gets is getting chased by the
Speaker 2: ladies on this island, which we also, I believe we
Speaker 2: do also find out that Ivankov is technically the queen
Speaker 2: of this island.
Speaker 1: The comment Kingdom's just running.
Speaker 2: Running, Soanji's running, He's just running away, and they're all
Speaker 2: telling him to kind of, you know, accept his feminine side.
Speaker 5: And it's it's really funny.
Speaker 2: It's it's hilarious because you know, you see Sonji, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I landed in the perfect place. And
Speaker 2: he finds out he's like, mine, I want to get
Speaker 2: out of here.
Speaker 4: The craziest thing about like the little updates too, is
Speaker 4: it kind of reminds me, reminds you how quickly like
Speaker 4: impull Down happens. It's like, you know, it took them
Speaker 4: like four days to get there from from from BoA's
Speaker 4: Island and whatnot, but like it all happens so fast, right, well,
Speaker 4: all these updates are happening with everybody else. Lufy's gone
Speaker 4: through the entirety of the impil Down arc, right, so
Speaker 4: it's things are not slowing down in his arenas.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: So this whole, this whole saga just feels like a
Speaker 4: downward slope goes so fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no it does. And uh, I can't wait
Speaker 2: to talk about Marine Ford.
Speaker 1: If you could fry and do it next week since
Speaker 1: you finished it all while it's still fresh.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I believe I should have time next week.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk and we'll talk in the in the
Speaker 1: group chat and figure out what day works for everyone.
Speaker 1: But we could kind of aim for like a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Wednesday or Thursday or Tuesday or Wednesday at around the
Speaker 1: same time five six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Tuesday's heart. There's harder for me because
Speaker 2: I don't get out of class to like four pm. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: in for Wednesday. Then if that is the case, which
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't have a problem with Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Cool cool, cool, stay in school, stay in school case, Yeah,
Speaker 4: unless you're skipping to watch one Piece or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I forgot to mention. There was also a really
Speaker 2: funny moment at the end of this arc where there
Speaker 2: was a transponder snail on the ship and it's a
Speaker 2: marine guy and he exposes to everybody that Buggy was
Speaker 2: part of Goldie Rogers Crew and he is affiliated with
Speaker 2: Shanks in some way, and everybody on there is like
Speaker 2: freaking out. They're like, oh my god, we had no idea,
Speaker 2: and here's Buggy kind of like what what you guys
Speaker 2: weren't supposed to know that stop stuff. He doesn't want
Speaker 2: anybody to really know. So I believe there was also
Speaker 2: an interaction between Loofy and Buggy because Lufy had told
Speaker 2: Buggy like, oh, I uh before this, I was with Rayley,
Speaker 2: and Buggy's like, oh, I hope he's doing well. So
Speaker 2: you see a little bit of that relation, a little
Speaker 2: bit of a connection between those two characters.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you're just casually talking about these legendary figures, right,
Speaker 4: and it just for all these other people that are
Speaker 4: looking from the outside in. It's putting Buggy on this pedestal.
Speaker 4: So leaderships did at one hundred, I told you, naturally
Speaker 4: charismatic man.
Speaker 3: He's rallying in the troops.
Speaker 2: He really isn't trying to be, which I think is
Speaker 2: so funny.
Speaker 4: He kind of leans into it at the part that
Speaker 4: you're talking about a little bit because everybody else is like,
Speaker 4: we don't want to go there, and he's like, hold up,
Speaker 4: I could use this. He's like, guys were going there,
Speaker 4: I'll use this chance to kill white Beard. And like
Speaker 4: I said, it rallies the troops all.
Speaker 2: I mean, he wanted to leap. They didn't want to Buggy,
Speaker 2: and he didn't want to go to Marine Ford because
Speaker 2: he knew what was going to go on. But he
Speaker 2: doesn't really have another choice other than you know, and
Speaker 2: we also see Crocodile here, He's like, I also want
Speaker 2: to take out white Beard.
Speaker 4: So that's that's the funny thing about him helping out
Speaker 4: Loofy and whatnot. All throughout in pull Down is a
Speaker 4: lot of it's accidental, like he was ready to chim
Speaker 4: right from the get go, right and then uh like
Speaker 4: even whenever he got launched onto the boat with Crocodile
Speaker 4: and number one, he's like, of course it's safer with
Speaker 4: a you know, with these two former warlords, and it
Speaker 4: is you know over there where Magellan's gonna get you,
Speaker 4: like you freaking idiots while you stand back there. So
Speaker 4: like the entire time, he's just being opportunistic, right like
Speaker 4: he's always very self serving.
Speaker 3: But it works out, So it works out. Yeah, great character.
Speaker 1: I love Buggy Buggy. I do think it's actually still
Speaker 1: my number one favorite character.
Speaker 3: He's one of them.
Speaker 4: He is what do you call that, like a foil
Speaker 4: to looky in like the perfect way, right, like not
Speaker 4: only with their fruits, as you know, Loofy. The only
Speaker 4: thing that really hurts him is if you cut, whereas
Speaker 4: Buggy it's the opposite, right, like only blunt force works
Speaker 4: on Buggy and then their personality is the same, right,
Speaker 4: They're just kind of foils for one another.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I will I will say one piece is
Speaker 1: that show where everyone has ten favorite characters in their
Speaker 1: top five, and everyone has two or three favorite characters, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: Buggy's my favorite character, so do my favorite character? Bond
Speaker 1: Clay's in my top five? But what about Lufi and Zo,
Speaker 1: Roland and a much other characters I don't want to mention, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's a million characters that are like
Speaker 1: I love them all. They're all, I guess in my
Speaker 1: top ten, but like, oh my god, Buggy is Buggy's
Speaker 1: Olda's favorite character, and I think he's He's mine as well.
Speaker 2: Yggy's definitely a silly dude.
Speaker 3: He's no Bond Clay, but he's up there.
Speaker 2: He's Yeah, but I'm excited for Marine Ford. It's uh
Speaker 2: my thoughts on that.
Speaker 5: I will say for the next episode.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be yapping for a long time the next week.
Speaker 5: I'll block out like two hours.
Speaker 1: We talked for over an hour ten this week. So
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope everyone enjoyed today's episode of the
Speaker 1: One Piece Virgin Podcast. Huge thanks to Poseidon for watching
Speaker 1: One Piece and sharing your thoughts with us, and huge
Speaker 1: thank you Jordan for always making the time to help
Speaker 1: me out here and yeah, okay and keeping this podcast going.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's a fun time. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 7: Of course, I'm glad you're enjoyed episode.
Speaker 2: I love it. I honestly, I think One Piece has
Speaker 2: become my favorite anime, which is good because, like I
Speaker 2: Monica Monica is my favorite anime of all time and
Speaker 2: it has been for like the past like almost fifteen years,
Speaker 2: I want to say, and or ever since it got released,
Speaker 2: so it it would have taken a really good anime
Speaker 2: to be able to top that one for me, and
Speaker 2: I think One Piece has definitely cemented itself as my
Speaker 2: favorite anime now.
Speaker 1: Ikesis she finished all of Marine Ford as well, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to do that next week. Also, Jordan,
Speaker 1: you have homework to do for this weekend. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: get it done. I've watched six episodes of new anime.
Speaker 4: I'm trying waiting until I get my best Okay, I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch six more. My goal is to
Speaker 1: watch twelve different shows from this season. So we have
Speaker 1: a nice conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: I don't watch anime so far, so.
Speaker 1: We're just watching the first episode. We're watching the first episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of seasonals, I've still watched zero up to this point.
Speaker 3: But I will get it done. I'll watch at least
Speaker 3: a couple. They're all so bad.
Speaker 1: They're all so bad. It's like two good animes i've
Speaker 1: watched so far and four terrible ones.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I only watched seasonals really because of
Speaker 4: you guys. I feel like other than that, I'd normally
Speaker 4: like let the season finish and then I'd go back
Speaker 4: and yeah, and then like pick one or two and
Speaker 4: I'm like these look good, and then that's typically how
Speaker 4: I would do it.
Speaker 1: Anyway. I hope everyone enjoyed shimpock you and I'll see
Speaker 1: you all next time later