Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to another episode of the One Piece Virgin Podcast.
This week we are covering Thriller Bark, and of course
we have the Virgin herself, Poseidon Mythos. How's it going gamer?
Speaker 2: Hello, gamers, it's being a hot minih.
Speaker 1: We're so back though, We're so back. We are so back,
and our guests not guests. You're basically a host at
this point. Jordan the anime dude, how you doing?
Speaker 3: I could be a guest if I put my mind
to it. What's up everybody? How are you doing?
Speaker 1: And well? Hell yeah? And like I said, we are
covering Thriller Bark today, or at least like a portion
of it. General Thoughts was sidon before we go through
some moments and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You know, coming off of Water seven and Ednie's Lobby
just being like such an intense are uh, you know,
it's kind of nice to go into something that isn't
like super high stakes and it's just kind of like
comedic and silly all around. So I've been enjoying Thriller Bark.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Jordan, General thoughts and Thriller Bark.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad she's liking it, especially since it's
not even October. But yeah, this is a great arc.
I love it. There's so many little things in this
arc I kind of forgot about until I revisited sod
be exciting to hear Poseidon's thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's never been one of my favorite arcs by
any means, but like Paseidon said, it's nice to have
a little bit of a change of pace. It's got
a good esthetic. It's got like the horror Halloween aesthetic.
It's got a lot of funny moments, but also a
lot of badass and crazy moments later on in the
arc as well. Obviously, still not like my favorite, but
I do still like it. I think a bad one
Piece arc is still a top tier arc.
Speaker 3: It's weird because it's like the only I think they
say it's like the shortest saga in One Piece because
it is literally just like the one arc. But it's
like a it's still important nonetheless, so some good moments,
good high's, good lows.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it kind of starts off with like they
enter the Florian Triangle, some foggy waters they have like
a barrel come to them, do you want to just
take it from their Persidon and kind of walk us
through what you remember some highlights.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try my best americ because I've been kind
of watching this kind of on and off all the
past few weeks. But so they find like this little
barrel and they think it's like there's like booze in it. Oh,
it's probably one of those sacrifices to like the sea
gods or whatever.
Speaker 4: So then they end up opening the barrel and it
just explodes, like it like a firework or something.
Speaker 2: So it goes into the sky and then Robin's like,
that's not good because this could have alerted somebody that
we're here. So then like time kind of passes by
and they kind of kind of pull up next to
this what's looking like an abandoned boat, but there is
somebody on this boat. And we get to meet Brooke,
who is a skeleton. He ate a double Fruit. I
don't remember the dame of the Double Fruit, but it's
the one where he basically is still alive after he
quote unquote dies, so like he basically it's just a
walking skeleton.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: So thoughts on Brook's introduction, I love.
Speaker 4: Him, he's so funny he is.
Speaker 1: He's a gentleman, kind of he's a gentleman to ask
to see your panties.
Speaker 4: At least he's upfront and polite about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, he does it in a very casual Do you
mind if I see your panties, my dear Jordan thoughts
on the introduction of Brook.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. I uh, like I said, Sidon said,
we start by activating a trap card that initiates all
the thriller bark stuff, and then we meet Brook on
the side. And despite the fact that he's a skeleton
and this is like a Halloween type the theme dark,
those two things are completely unrelated. He doesn't even have
like a skeleton fruit. It's like a resurrection fruit. But uh,
you know, he was kind of dumb in a Zoro
like way and stuff after resurrected, it's all foggy. Took
him a year to find his body, and now as
a result, he's a skeleton.
Speaker 1: So that makes me think like if he died anywhere
else on the Grand Line, he probably would have just
found his body and had flesh for the remainder of
the series. But because it was in the Florian triangle
Florian triangle that's all fog. He just was a skeleton,
but he still gets a second life regardless of having
flesh or not, which is interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he got to keep his afro. You know,
those roots are strong, that's the important part.
Speaker 1: I'm jealous. I'm jealous of those strong roots. Goddamn. I
feel like Oda wrote longering long Land gave Lufia an afro,
and he's like, fuck, I need to give the next
straw hat an afro, or maybe not the next straw hat,
but an upcoming straw had an afro.
Speaker 3: That afro lived in his head for a couple of
arcs there until he finally made it reality. But uh yeah,
we got all that and then we've had a lot
of straw hats up at this point, fill some relatively
important roles, right like nom he's the navigator, Sonji's a chef,
Choppers both like an emergency food supply and a doctor.
But like, uh, brook had got to be the magician,
you know, or the musician.
Speaker 1: The magician.
Speaker 3: Musician.
Speaker 1: Lufy has been asking for a musician since like the
first ten episodes of the series, since.
Speaker 3: Begin important role.
Speaker 1: He's like, we need to cook and a musician. The
most important role is before even mentioning a doctor. So
the thing I love that.
Speaker 3: He didn't even know he was a musician when he
asked him.
Speaker 1: He thought he was a cool guy. And honestly Brook's introduction,
he is a cool guy. But there's two things that
are like of note kind of like with his we
get a little bit of a backstory for him, like
Jordan mentioned with the Devil Fruden's resurrection and why he's
a skeleton unrelated to thriller Bark, but also his lack
of shadow, which is related to thriller book. But anyway,
let's kind of jump back into Poseidon and her thoughts
and like her going through it.
Speaker 2: So all the straw Hats are first of all really
freaked out. They don't want him to join the crew
because obviously up into those plant nobody has seen a
walking skeleton before. Everybody is scared, like Chopper here is
wearing like a garlic garment, garment Usop has like a cross.
Like they're all really scared of Brook, but he's just
a silly little dude.
Speaker 4: So then we.
Speaker 2: Find out that he does not have his shadow because
they were trying to I think, like use a mirror
or something.
Speaker 4: I can't exactly.
Speaker 2: Remember, but yeah, he was s comming up on like
the mirror and he has no shadow. And when we
get revealed that somebody had taken his shadow and he
cannot step into like anywhere with sunlight or else, he
will like die, He'll surn up, he'll burn up. So
he initially was like, I can't join you guys because
I cannot you.
Speaker 4: Know, I don't have a shadow. So then Luvi goes, well,
who took it? We'll We're gonna get it back for you.
We'll get it back.
Speaker 2: So, uh you remember that little barrel of fireworks. Yeah,
they get pulled into this what seems like an island,
which we later find out is not an island, and
uh we meet the Thriller Bark pirates. So they they
kind of trapped them in there, so no Mesop and Chopper.
I think they like they they drew straws or something,
and they were were the ones I can't.
Speaker 1: Remember them the most scared, the ones that were freaking
out the most about Brook ended up going to Thriller
Bark first, and I think it was because they just
wanted to take a ride on the on like the
Little Mary Frankie revealed the Little Mary and they just
wanted to take a ride and then they ended up
falling into the moat with the with the three headed creature.
But anyway you can continue from there. But yeah, I
don't know if they drew Straw. I think they just
wanted to draw the ride the Little Marry and then
they ended up in thriller Bark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they end up over there. They kind of
like fall into this like almost like a ravine type
of thing, and they find somebody and they're like, please
help us.
Speaker 4: Please help us.
Speaker 2: So they take a carriage right towards the castle and
then we find out.
Speaker 1: That poor guy.
Speaker 4: I love that dude.
Speaker 2: Like at the part, I'm like a little bit over halfway,
I'm like, I really hope he's alive.
Speaker 1: By the end of this, Uh, the service chases the
fuck out of Nami, Oosop and Chopper, but then later
on when Zoro, Loofy and Robin come in, it's a
different experience, Like the service is always there, just like Chase,
like a Chase Brook in the flashback, like just chasing
people that like fall into like enter the island, and
this time it's just like Loofy tames it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's that he knows not to mess with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for real, he knows in such a funny way.
I can't remember what Loofy said, like he let the
dog like bite him and then.
Speaker 3: He and then he just got bit. He's like down,
oh yeah, sit.
Speaker 1: And punches it into the wall or something funny. That's
one thing this arc has going for it is the comedy.
I love it. Andy, continue with Nommy and Chopper. They're
taking this carriage with this creepy dude they are.
Speaker 2: So we find out there is somebody at this like
castle mansion type of thing.
Speaker 4: I remember his name was like doctor.
Speaker 2: So one of Chopper's like basically idols, right, he really
looks up to him as a doctor. So they go
over there and they are, you know.
Speaker 4: Surprisingly very hospitable.
Speaker 2: They are serving the meals, you know, oh you know,
we have a room ready for you and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So, uh, I believe it was and no me who
were getting like the hev gbs, we were like, we
need to go.
Speaker 1: Well, what did they see? What did they see along
the way in the carriage. Zombies, zombies, creepy stuff. Creepy
stuff was going on a lot.
Speaker 4: Of freaky, freaky things.
Speaker 2: So they want to leave, but Chopper's like, no, like
I want to, you know, meet my idol.
Speaker 4: I want to you know, learn from him. Blah blah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So then there's this scene where Oosop and Chopper are
outside like this bathroom place, like the bathroom just kind
of sitting by the door, right, and Nami's in there
taking a bathroom. She is just full on, like nude.
Obviously they didn't show it. But then there's something weird
having in there, and someone like grabs her and we
can't see.
Speaker 4: This person like at all.
Speaker 2: We presume like it's a ghost up until this point,
but he is just like grabbing on to her wanting
to take her, and she's like, we need to leave now.
Like she's screaming for Oostop and Chopper like help me.
Speaker 1: He going invisible. Dude is a freak literally licked Robin.
Licked Robin. Just an absolute freak. Yeah whatever, what who
said that? Uh?
Speaker 2: Continue ah, I'm kind of like losing a little bit
of memory.
Speaker 4: You're good, You're good.
Speaker 1: Honestly, like you're doing You're doing pretty good job. I believe.
It kind of leads them into like running around the mansion,
like the picture frames were coming to life. They had.
They ended up in the yard and like the zombies
were fighting and Shadow stuff was happening, but it also
transferred back and forth between like Chopper, Usap and Nomy
and also like the other the other guys, so like Frankie, Robin,
Loofy and Zorro and I think even and all entered
the island trying to find Nomy and like obviously, like
Loofy wants to kick Maria's can get it, get Brooks
Shadow back.
Speaker 3: But we got you gotta go back a little bit
further than that, because we don't they don't even know
it's Moria yet at this point, right, because no, they
don't enough of a gentleman to say, like I'm not
even gonna tell you who it is, don't worry about it,
just get out of here, right true. And then like
a magician, he's skidaddled across that water just that he
has a double three. He ran to the island himself,
right and kind of kind of disappeared.
Speaker 1: There was some funny scenes along the way because obviously,
like the zombies chase Oosop, Chopper and Amie. But the
way that the zombies interact with Loofy and his group
is different if you want to talk about that at all,
A sidon and any like information that the old man
with serious injuries gave us.
Speaker 2: The old Man, I believe, is the one who let
like luf, you know, hey, like you're looking at you
and how you guys like thought, I think you guys
can like save everybody. There's this man, he's the captain
of this like whol crew. Because till this point we
find out this isn't an island. This is just a
really really really really really big boat.
Speaker 4: It's not an island.
Speaker 1: It actually might be a plot hole as well. That
was brought up because it's a huge ship. But then yes,
Brook reveals that it was like from the West Blue,
but now it's in the Grand Line. And I don't
think it's possible to get from the West Blue to
the Grand Line if it was like a different because
they it would have to go through Reverse Mountain or
the com Belt, right, the com Belt, Yeah, but the
com Belt from the West Blue could only get to
the New World.
Speaker 3: From the West Blue. Oh, potentially, I think it's actually
a plot hole.
Speaker 1: Teching brought it up in one of his videos and
I looked up a map and.
Speaker 3: You can go all the way around right.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, maybe the boat got bigger in Paradise,
like in the in the Grand line, Like, how the
hell were they going to get it up and down
reverse mountain? Sorry for that little tangent.
Speaker 2: My bad.
Speaker 1: I just know you're a potential plot hole. Leave a
comment chat about it if if you think I'm wrong.
But there's a funny moments leading up to that reveal
as well. One of my favorite moments comedically in this
in this arc is the zombie coming out of the
ground and then Loofy just casually pushing the zombie back
into the ground and then he comes out again, like hey,
what are you doing? And it looks like, oh my god,
it's an old man with serious injuries, no zombie, Like
I don't know. It was such a funny moment for me.
Speaker 2: I think one of my favorite moments is the one
where uh Sanjy's on top of the like writing service
and he's just making fun of Zorro.
Speaker 4: I'm like, even the dog was laughing at Zorro like
it was so stupid. I loved it.
Speaker 1: It was two dogs and a wolf right or something
like that, something like, yeah, oh my god, Maria buddy
couldn't find another dog.
Speaker 3: I love. I loved all the uh the comedic tone
of Loofy's in their adventure there too, because not only
do you get that moment and stuff, but then you
get like the uh you'll turn around of you know,
oh my god, it's old man with injuries. No, that's
a zombie. No, I really am an old man with injuries.
Things like that, and then uh, like a unicorn and
the middle aged tree dude having a tea party and Loofy,
you know, first thing he does, you want to join
my crew, so we might even get more than one
straw hat in this sarc it's a it's a cool thing.
Speaker 1: This is the most Loofy's ever asked people to join
his crew in all of one piece.
Speaker 3: But it's a unicorn breaks you can't just yeah, you
got it. At least try to shoot your shot there.
Speaker 1: Lufy just liked inviting all the freaks. Yeah, oh my god. Anyway,
I can't remember what happens, so I know Absalom and
what's the girl general names? Prona gets introduced.
Speaker 3: The big pig their name, I forget her name.
Speaker 1: I forget her name.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm she's the one in the wedding dress.
Speaker 3: At least one of her names is gonna change soon
because she is determined to get married.
Speaker 1: This uh this Lola Lola? Yeah, right, and I didn't
want to spoil anything, but it actually is Lola. What else? Anyway,
if you want to like kind of take us from
there Precidon and just talk about moments you remember or
like specific characters like Pirona.
Speaker 4: Trying to remember.
Speaker 2: So I just remember Robin also being like holy moly,
like we're on Geka Maria's ship, like she knows he's
a seven war So we've find out he's actually a seven,
one of the seven war lords. So he's one of
the ones that kind of have like a deal with
the with the Marines. You know, we will kind of
just turn our eyes away from you and whatever you're
doing if you could just like work with us, right,
we find that out.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of Robin, Robin Frankie, we're fighting like a
monkey on a bridge and Brooke has a really cool
moment there as well, if you want to talk about that, if.
Speaker 2: You remember, so we get like a little bit of
his backstory because we kind of of he kind of
tells them like where he came from, how he kind
of like ended up where he is right now. So
we're kind of going back to reverse Mountain, like all
the way back. If you guys remember Laboon, Love Love Boon,
Oh my goodness, So if you remember back in reverse
manin Laboon was like a little small arc. He kinda
is a whale that he was like getting injured and
hurting himself because he was so sad and frustrated because
when he was a baby, there was a pirate crew
that kind of passed by, spent a lot of time
with Laboon, played with him, you know, kind of you know,
they were they had a friendship, and eventually, you know,
the pirate crew had to go and leave Laboon. So
it turns out that Brooke was on that pirate crew
and his dream is to go back and see Laboon again,
and it was so so sad. He's like, I can't
do that if my shadow is like taken away, and
he's really determined to get it back, and he's been
trying for like the past five years and he keeps
getting defeated over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: Older with the connections, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Like, how many episodes was that, Like I.
Speaker 1: Kind of two hundred episodes ago or something. We're around
episode three point fifty right now, what we're talking about,
And that was within the first hundred for sure, to
over two hundred and fifty episode ago. The one whale
that we interacted with for two episodes that we all
fell in love with, and they talked about a crew
that like it followed up Reverse Mountain and then didn't
like continue with them because it would be too dangerous.
He was just a little guy back then. It was
Brooks Crew. But we also know that all of Brooks
crew died except for him right now, or he died
as well. But he's backed to life. Oh my god,
the reveal.
Speaker 3: The Spoon's over there waiting for him start breaking.
Speaker 2: And that is why like he will not like if
you notice throughout the article, he's like, don't touch the
afro like anything but that. And it's because he feels
like the only way that Laboon can recognize Brooke is
with the afro because obviously he's a skeleton. He's not
you know, flesh anymore. So very very sad, and the
thing is both Frankie and Robin were two characters who
weren't even there when that happened. So to them, Initially
they're like, oh, you know, that's that's really sweet, you know,
But then when Lufy Frankie and Robin go and tell Loofy,
Lufy's like, wait a second, I.
Speaker 1: Remember that I know that way.
Speaker 2: I know that way we passed by, and then are like,
no way, there's actually no way that this guy is
one of the people that you know, La Boon was,
you know, crying over all those years, so really really sad.
Speaker 1: What I was bringing up. Jordan, do you remember the
Badassma with Brooke in the on the Bridge?
Speaker 3: So you mentioned Brooks moment that one. I'm like struggling
a little bit to remember.
Speaker 1: It took his first cool moment where like Frankie and
Robin are in trouble.
Speaker 3: It's overshadowed because Robin can fly breaks Robin can she
had wings. That made I hang out about that full
seconds of airtime. Yeah, and that was what my mind
was on. That overshadowed everything else.
Speaker 1: Frankie pulls out, then the Numb Trucks turns him into
big numb Trucks, wax the spider, Robin flies very cool moments.
But this is frank This is Brook's first badass moment
of the series, and Frankie and Robin are all like
caught up in the web. They're in trouble, and all
you hear from the distance is yo ho yo.
Speaker 4: Song ya.
Speaker 1: Yo ho ho ho. He walks past the spider Monkey,
has a badass, has like a little conversation with Frankie,
and he's like, don't worry, I'm gonna help you guys,
closes his sword. The spider behind hims already been cut.
He savagely cuts him up again, takes out his soul somehow.
I don't know if it was I'm assume it's been
explained already and I don't want to spoil it, but like,
what a cool Like we got like a funny introduction
with Brooke, but now we've got a fucking badass introduction
with Brooke, And like this was the moment that made
me like Brooke needs to join the crew.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm not gonna not gonna lie that sounds
pretty magician y. I'm just kinda gonna stick with that.
I don't know did that moment stick out to you, Poseidon,
or did it also get overshadowed by by Robin being
able to fly.
Speaker 4: You know, I'll be really honest, Robin being able to fly.
It was just like a huge one.
Speaker 1: God damn it. All right, did you how did you
feel about the shadows being in different character different zombies
any funny shit?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I thought it was so funny when
it was like Chopper, they were getting like attacked by
all the little animals, and then you see this one
little penguin. I think it was like a penguin dude.
Speaker 4: He's just like stop, don't hit women.
Speaker 2: And then like Namby was like hold that, wait a second,
I swear I've heard somebody else say this.
Speaker 4: Exact line before.
Speaker 2: And then we find out that Sanjy's shadow was taken
and put in this little dude. So it's when your
shadow is taken, a lot of your personality traits kind
of move into like the new entity it's in, but
the physical strength of that entity is like still there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting as well because the other zombies are all
in the same situation where like they had shadows taking
from other people and put into them, and they're forced
to follow the orders of like Moria or Prona or
whoever it may be. So Sanji's shadow, Douglas the penguin
or whatever it is technically forced to follow the orders,
but Sanchi's shadow and like his like morals and ethics
of not fighting women and protecting women overpower the orders
of the generals, because so ubconsciously he would never hit
a woman and like his body would move without even
thinking to protect a woman. So I love the fact
that Douglas, I think that's his name that they call him, right, Douglas,
what a name? What a goat Douglas or straw hat
bucks gi badass moments moves even though the other zombies
can't move and Protectsnomy. I love it.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 3: It's quite the reveal. I'm not gonna lie, just that
we got Sezoro's shadow as well. Right, and somebody it's like,
you know, a swordsman, uh, a swordsman's has no scars
or something to that effect. What was his line that
he says, it's me hawk Europe. It's the same line.
But it's like, oh, except I do have scars everywhere.
Speaker 1: But I have a lot of scars.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, my body does not mess with the mentality.
Speaker 1: I'm a swordsman with a lot of scars. Yeah, swords
in the back are are a swordsman's shame or something.
The line hawk, you got to meet a few different
zombie generals. There's one that has a like samurai. They
call him the samurai Reuma Uma.
Speaker 2: So actually before I watch this arc, so I'm watching
that uh one piece on Netflix because that's just like
the easiest way for me to watch right now.
Speaker 4: Fair.
Speaker 2: So I was told by a friend who is like
all cut up with one piece to watch. Apparently there's
like a little side episode that was made recently that
connects I think Reuma. So it's Reuma's like before he
became a skeleton. But I was told to watch that
before I watched through their bark, but I didn't end
up doing that. I don't know if you guys know
anything about it.
Speaker 1: So I've watched it. You don't need to watch it beforehand.
So it's actually Oda's one shot. He made a one
shot like manga back in the day, and the main
character is Ruma. I believe that's still his name in
that in that one shot, I think, so yes, and
he's just a samurai from this village like like like
like a hundred years ago, maybe even more like a long, long,
long time ago. And this zombie is based on that
character from his one shot because it's in the same universe. Okay, okay,
and he's just known as like one of the strongest swordsmen,
et cetera. It's with a really strong body.
Speaker 3: Yep, okay, monsters. But yeah, it's not technically like required
or anything like that. It's just it's fun for him
to go. You know what, These are same universes.
Speaker 1: The same universe my one shot from the same universe
that swordsman Samurai in my one shot. We're gonna make
him a zombie on Thriller Bark because more he loses
uses zombies from strong people. It's about it.
Speaker 4: I see, I see, I see. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was recommended to watch that before Thriller Bark, but yeah,
I just didn't end up doing it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I need to watch that still if it makes
you feel better. I still haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I've seen it twice.
Speaker 3: I read it way back when it's been forever true.
Speaker 1: Anyway, is there any other standout moments things you want
to talk about with Sudden?
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved the whole so they put Loofy, like
they Maria takes his shadow, takes Loofy's shadow and puts
it in this one like giant, like really strong zombie
because he's like, oh man, you know he's worth a
lot of He's he's worth a lot of berries. You know,
he must be a really strong zombie. I'm gonna put
his shadow in this guy. But like him not knowing Loofy.
So the zombie ends up kind of being dumb. He's
just hungry all the time. He's like, I'm gonna be
there carrying out the pirates and they're all like freaking
out because they're like, oh my god, what have we done?
So you kind of just see his big zombie kind
of causing some chaos. He's wanting to eat.
Speaker 4: Yes, we've oh go ahead, no, go for it, go
for it.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, like we find out that
we these zombies do have a weakness. USAP finds out
that they cannot eat salt. Or Brook tells him that
escause like their weakness is salt. If you give them salt,
their shadow gets released and goes back to like the
original owner essentially, And so there's a scene where Loofy
zombie I don't even remember does the zombie have an
actual name.
Speaker 4: I've just been calling Itfy Zombie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2: He's like trying to eat like the salted fish, because
you know, Loufy loves meat. He loves just eating and all.
Like the little zombies are like, no, no, you can't,
you can't eat it has salt. He's getting really frustrated.
They're like, hurry up, we need to give him something
else to eat.
Speaker 1: So terrible for these you can't have anything, I know.
Speaker 2: Sub they're not allowed to have sucked sounds awful whatsoever. Yeah,
so we get some like really cool scenes where you know,
the straw hats are just kind of throwing solad in
everybody's mouth, you know, Ussam kind of shooting him, shooting
all these little saltballs.
Speaker 1: So it looks a lot further than I expected.
Speaker 2: Oh, I did go a little bit past like the
two point fifty four.
Speaker 4: I think I'm on two sixty one. Actually, I don't
know when the.
Speaker 1: Last did you Did you see stuff with Usop and Proona?
Speaker 2: Yes, I actually I actually watched one episode before I
got on here, so I'm in the midst of that.
So where I ended is where we find out that
Pirona's body is actually somewhere else, Like she's almost.
Speaker 4: Like astro projecting in a way. Yeah, that's where I.
Speaker 1: Left off's peak, and there's a peak fight right after this.
Let you you stop at a good.
Speaker 4: Spot, you know.
Speaker 2: I uh I got to the fight also where Sonji's
fighting Absalom.
Speaker 4: God, Oh my god. It's interesting Cep.
Speaker 2: So he has the clear clear fruit so he can
make himself invisible, and he just like peaks at women.
And we find out that Sanji's like out of all
the double fruits, if I I told myself, if I
ever came across the clear clear fruit, I would eat it.
And he was like, I'm to protect people, but like
we all know that the only reason why he wants
it is to peep at women. But it was like
kind of funny that that fight was pretty comedic because
you kind of just see like both of them kind
of turning at Nami and they're like ahing at her
and oh she's a goddess, she's a princess, and then
they're fighting and then it's just it's.
Speaker 4: Just super silly. Sanzi is something else.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty strong fruit, so like it gives Sonji
a little bit of trouble as he like has to
try to fight while protecting Namy and whatnot. But yeah,
leading up to that, Absolom as a character is very uh, like,
I'm far from a ladies man. But if you ever
try to propose to a woman like right after meeting
her and then she like tases you or shocks you
in the way Nami did to him, that doesn't mean
it's true love. Okay, that's that's the only advice. What
you mean?
Speaker 1: His his nerves were like He's like this is this
can only mean that it's love?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know I would advise against that.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's worse or Lola. Lola was like
trying to get him, like yeah, and then Nami's advice
made it even worse. No's like, you know, we should
drug him. You should make him sign the marriage certificate
in his sleep.
Speaker 2: It was so funny because like Nami told Lola like, oh,
I'm actually a man who dresses in feminim clothes, and
Lola is.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, and nominally, I'm actually rooting for you guys.
You guys are totally cute together, and Chopper believe them
amazing Oh my god, one piece comedy hits different. That's
one thing this arc has going really well for it
for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Schopper's too precious for this world. It's like sad
he had to meet his hero this arc because you
know what they said, never meet your.
Speaker 1: Heroes Hogback, it's a piece of shit, a little bit
of add on my part and stuff.
Speaker 3: But going back to the OZ thing, So them putting
Lufy's body or Loofy's shadow into OZ, I can't overstate
how much I love that, just because you know, it's
he has a three hundred thousand or three hundred million
very bounty now, right, So they go, this is a
pirate whose shadow is probably worthy of like this this
great body, and they put him together, but in then
an attempt to make him subservient. Lufy's subconscious is just
so naturally skewed towards like freedom and of itself, right
like he his whole thing is wanting to be as
free as possible right be out on the sea. So
I don't know the clash there and just him not
being subservient is something I've always, uh, I appreciated, I've
always appreciated from this arc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same as far as goes, it's nice seeing like
Sandi's fruit go crazy like to protect women. So that's
something he truly believes in and like such a strong
mentality towards it. And then with Loofy, like with freedom,
and they're trying to give him orders and he's just like, no,
I'm gonna be the kick of the zombies anything else
that we're missing. So you you started the USAP versus Pirna,
which is a great fight. I'm looking forward to hear
thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, say, I think this has, like so far
has been my favorite fight. And I was actually talking
with one of my friends that he's caught up, and
I'm like, you know, up until this point, I feel
like Usa has grown so much as a character. He
was just like full on cowardly, didn't want to be
involved in anything, and you know he every now and
then he's like do.
Speaker 4: We really have to go on this island? Do we
really have to fight this?
Speaker 2: Like he doesn't feel like it's necessary, but when like
push comes to shove Usop knows how to get things done. Like, yeah,
I feel like he's grown so much as a character.
So whenever I hear from like people that like they
don't like USAB or he's so useless or whatever.
Speaker 4: I have to disagree, because there have.
Speaker 2: Been moments where Usop has really like defeated people in
like fair fights. Even though he's not like physically strong,
he's very clever and knows how to like you know,
use some of his like strengths and see their weaknesses
and take advantage of it. So you could see that
in Parona's fight, like she's a devil fruit easer, she
has I believe the hollow hollow fruits.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we find out in that fight that like if
you're her, like uh, ghost pass through you, you kind
of go into a negative mindset. But her ghosts don't
work on Usop because Usop just has a negati of
mindset already.
Speaker 1: You can't get negative already, you can't.
Speaker 4: Get it get it like she, It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It's so funny watching that the ghosts go through Like
Frankie I, which I was never born. I wish I
was a clam for like Loofy and like other people
like it was.
Speaker 3: My favorite because he talked so much ship to everybody
else as far as uh, he's like, you guys just
don't have strong enough spirit, like you know, a true man,
it won't, it won't affect you. And then as soon
as it passes the ram, he's like, I'm sorry I
was born.
Speaker 1: It's a good way to get these guys that are
always so optimistic and so positive and have like like
grand dreams and goals versus usap was just always so
negative and it doesn't I it's a funny gag. It
is a really funny gag. It just doesn't work on him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw a whole video recently on somebody ranting
about God. I can't remember the source, but they were
just ranting about uh. I guess it was a skit
where they were ranting about, like who's up that fight
he had with Loofy? They're like, why are you doing
that here against me? Like you've been have you been
able to do that this whole time? Like they just
they went off about it about how he never does
that against anybody else. But I agree with Sidon. He
always pulls through when he needs to. He just might
not be optimistic to jump in right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think what people complain about Poseidon, I
think you're absolutely right. When push comes to shove, he's
able to like he's come such a long way, and
he has these moments moments in Alabasta where like he
keeps on fighting on in thriller Bark so on and
so forth, like cool moments, badass moments where he stands
up and isn't very cowardly, which is very different than him.
But because his comedic character is to be the guy
who's like scared and cowardly, and if we constantly feel
like he's making progress, and then in the next arc
he's like, I don't want to go here, I'm scared,
my knees are shaking, blah blah blah, So it takes
away from the progress he made because they're using him
as a medic role. Sometimes, yes, but you're right when
push comes to Souve Shuff, he has made so much
progress it's hurts sometimes, especially like we've been watching reading
for much longer than you have, so when you see
him revert back to being cowardly, it's like, didn't you
learn from that last fight your you're beauty, you could
do it. Believe in yourself.
Speaker 3: Part of it I do understand, though, is that like
the entire Nislobby saga, which is, you know, one of
the most type things we've had up to this point.
He wasn't even in it, right, so like things like that,
I get why the fans would be a little bit disgruntled, right, Yeah,
so that and then, uh, I guess this is a
little bit off the topic of OUSAP, but I do
love the contrast at the very start of this arc
before they go on the island, so Ousap, you know,
is right there with a Nami and chopper as they
have the you know, I can't go on this island disease. Yeah,
but like this is like the first big adventure that
like Robbins had with the crew since and as Lobby,
So like seeing her kind of excited to go adventuring
with Loofy, Like she was like the second one like
right behind them, ready to get on that island, and
she was.
Speaker 1: Depressed of want to die not that long ago. Yeah.
I love that she was happy with like going an adventure.
Oh my god, I love it. And this is right
after his Lobby. That's such a good point, Jordan. What's
also really funny is seeing Proona kind of root for Usa,
like to not be so represhed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's trying to put him in a positive mindset,
so her her ghosts kin.
Speaker 1: So you didn't finish the fight though with Usa and
Parana didn't give I did not.
Speaker 2: Literally the last seed was when Usa blue down the
wall like he shot exploded the wall and we see
kind of Prona's body just sitting on her bed because
that's her actual body. So we get that whole reveal
like this is not actually you. You are projecting from
somewhere else, is what I mean? Like he's able to
figure it out, He's.
Speaker 1: So Ecidon. What do you think is gonna happen for
like the rest of the arc, or like ideas about
the arc or ideas about one piece going forward and
any thoughts with that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know how this arc is gonna go.
I have a feeling that Gogo Moria is gonna go down, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is gonna go down. I'll be really honest kinda.
I was a little bit under very underwhelmed with him
because when you say, like the.
Speaker 2: Seven war Lords, right, these are very very powerful pirates.
You know, even the Marines respect how strong they are.
So I was, honestly, maybe it's just because I went
into this having like Crocodile as a seven war lord
and Mehawk you know, DOPHI we know that these all
these you know, war lords are really really powerful only
to kind of be I guess shown moria and kind
of feel underwhelmed with.
Speaker 1: Wrong devil fry Fruit, but his personality, I feel like
an actual strength is a little bit underwhelming compared to
like crocodile yea from what we've seen so far, at least, right, yes,
hopefully your opinion will change. I don't know, I don't
think mind it.
Speaker 3: Mean, if nothing else, the fruit itself is crazy.
Speaker 4: It is taking shadow mm.
Speaker 1: Hmm, and.
Speaker 3: That so like I don't know, if nothing else, There's
a lot of cool powers and a lot of memorable
characters in the Ark, right, like Corona, you can't hate her.
And then we haven't gotten your thoughts on Sindery yet,
Like Sindury is one of the most relatable characters of
one piece. She just really hates dishes, right, So that
is one of my favorite little skits from this art,
some spaghetti soup.
Speaker 1: I know who you're talking about, Like, who the fuck Sindra?
I forgot about her already.
Speaker 3: Sindury is the blonde former stage actor's girl that just
really hates dishes.
Speaker 1: A lot of hilarious thing. Do we know the backstory
about why she hates dishes?
Speaker 3: I can't remember, Like it's something to do with like
that was why she got fired or died or something.
It was heard the fire or two. I don't remember
the specifics. But but the hate for dishes, you know,
that's just relatable.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Becided any thoughts on like, I guess this is not
the best art to ask this. I can see like
the series going forward, like any ideas of like the
direction you think it's gonna go or maybe keep that
in your mind for next time and you could think
about it.
Speaker 2: So all I know is that I know they're trying
to head over to Fishman Island.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, but.
Speaker 4: I have like, I don't know how long that's gonna take.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just around the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know what arcts coming up after this,
but it's I know it's not fish Man.
Speaker 4: I know know very much after.
Speaker 2: I think it's Subodi, right, Yeah, so I don't know
what happens everybody, but I know that somebody's.
Speaker 1: Coming islands underwater, so there's definitely gonna need to be
some prep to like ten thousand meters below sea level. Yes,
but yeah, you have to.
Speaker 3: Well they even get off this silent Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: They may. They may all become zombies and then continue
to become the undead Pirates straw Hat Pirates.
Speaker 4: You know, all I want is for Brooke to reunite
with Laboon. Okay, that's all I want.
Speaker 2: I think that's I don't care if it happens in
like nine hundred episodes.
Speaker 4: I just need to like see this happen.
Speaker 3: Same say, if that doesn't happen by the end of
the series, people will write I don't want to overstate it, but.
Speaker 1: Speaking I briefly mentioned I like the aesthetic of this arc,
but also the outfits, like Robin's outfit. Robin's outfit, how
much do you love Robin's outfit? Beside it, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I love how the lace on her like dress is
spider Yeah. I think it's so cute, and like the
theming everybody everybody's outfit ish just really good this arc.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is like top top four Robin
outfits for me. Yes, I mean her like leather jacket
and his lobby. Water seven is also very good, it's iconic.
Speaker 3: I like this one.
Speaker 4: My favorite is still like Miss all Sunday.
Speaker 3: That one's up there for me, the cowgirl hat.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, Jordan, go ahead, good.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say at some point beside, we need
to get you to go through like the one piece
movies because, like I said, one of my favorite things
up to this point is the fact that the outfits
chick for the whole crew change like from movie to movie,
right like they go along with that. They never have
the they don't do the same born outfits.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to watch Olmutsudi Island episode.
Considering we're going from Spooky with Thriller Bark, maybe we
watch Amatsudi Island for for an episode and talk about
that if you guys are down. But next week it's
a movie. So it's not. None of the movies are cannon,
but they do have some canon event events sometimes in them.
But this one's just a really really trippy one piece movie,
very unlike the rest, and it's my personal favorite as well.
We're up there, so maybe after Thriller Bark we could
do like a movie or like watch like two movies
and talk about them or something.
Speaker 2: Are they Okay, are they like right after a thriller Bark.
Is it like one of those movies where you just
kind of place it in between.
Speaker 1: Orcs, it's movie six. I feel like, no, it just
it just it's literally just a little spooky, and I
figured it would go with the spooky arc. I feel
like I need to double check the matures on any spoilers,
because like with powers and like certain things, right, yea
double check anyway. Pirona's outfit also fantastic. I love her
character design.
Speaker 4: Great design, great great design.
Speaker 3: Parasol, it's so adorable.
Speaker 1: Anything else that we're missing, Jordan Poseidon that you are
that we feel like we forgot to talk about.
Speaker 4: I think we.
Speaker 2: Covered honestly most of like what I've gotten up to,
So perhaps next time we will be going over the
rest of Thriller Bark. I don't know how many episodes
I have left.
Speaker 4: I need to check.
Speaker 2: I stopped at three sixty one, so I think I
have like twenty episodes.
Speaker 1: Last yeah, three sixty one, and I believe it goes
to yeah, around three eighty one roughly, so to finish
the arc. I do like the Brooks backstory is kind
of like slowly shown so I'm excited to hear what
you think about his entire Backsperey, once we finish some
cool fights with Yuma and Oosop come and Pirna coming up,
which is great, and of course the ending of the arc.
And there's one thing about this arc that I really
like is there's certain moments that like help with the
world building as well, but we'll get into that in
the next episode.
Speaker 4: I think, I see, I see.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Any final thoughts, Jordan, Uh, Nope, none for me, None
that I can think of. I think we touched Sean
most of the major things that happen, so if anything
does come to mind, we'll talk about it next time.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. We'll be finishing thriller arc in two weeks ideally,
that's our goal. And just like that, guys, I'll see
you all next time later, Bye bye,