Speaker 1: Yo, what is up? Boys? How's it going? And welcome
back to another episode of the One Piece Virgin Podcast.
Today we're covering EN's lobby and maybe a little bit
of Water seven the very end of Water seven then
we didn't cover last time, but Edna's lobby with us
today we have the Virgin posited herself. How's it going?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I love Nickel Robin?
Speaker 1: Who doesn't that hat?
Speaker 4: But guess for our go ahead, I was gonna say
apologies in advance if I can't keep a straight face
in this podcast. I just keep giggling as I As
I stare at the hat, it has my attention.
Speaker 1: For our audio listeners, she is wearing an eye of
I love Nickel Robin.
Speaker 2: Hat.
Speaker 1: Is that what I see?
Speaker 2: Yes? Hm?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? And what is It's kind of flipped
on my screen? What's the acronym above?
Speaker 2: Milner? Can? I like how people say milk because it
stands for a man I love? So we have Milner
man Nico Rob.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's so funny. It makes sense anyway.
Jordan's also with us today the anime dude, what's up? Dude?
Speaker 4: What's up? Everybody? Happy to be here? I'm excited for
this one.
Speaker 1: I'm super excited. Let's briefly talk about the end of
Water seven. They were chasing after the train with Nico, Robin,
and Frankie on it. I know there was some interesting stuff.
I think Somji fought a noodle guy. Frankie had some
moments with Robin and the CP nine Poseidon, if you
want to briefly talk about that before we get into
the thick of it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so long ago. I know. Yeah, you
had a sniper king, Sniper King, Soga king.
Speaker 1: Why would you even bring up us up?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not in this arc.
Speaker 1: Quiz quiz quiz, Poseidon. Where is Sniper Island located?
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It's in your heart. It's in your heart the song, right,
I think he also said it to Chopper and Lufy once.
I'm trying to remember the song. The song was lu
lu La la lou Uh. Thoughts thoughts on Sonjy fighting
the with with knives and not using his feet for once.
Speaker 2: It was against a noodle dude, right, Yeah, I guess
like came noodles came out of his mouth or nose
or something. It really gross, But I thought that fight
was super fun. It was kind of a chef versus
chef type of thing. But don't sleep on Sony. He
knows how to Not only does he know how to
fight with his legs, he's also good with blades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although he usually will probably never use blades, but
you know, it was in a kitchen against food, so
it made sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love how they do kind of a I don't
say nerve him in that way, but like they give
Sonjy such principles that he like stands by absolutely that
just have nothing to do with fighting, like bat and
second and a chef first, right, Yeah, that really shines
in the arc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy will not hit a woman, he will not
use his hands in combat.
Speaker 4: He's just deserve first, chef second, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there we go, first, chef second. Do you
remember chat even remind us? I know Frankie and Robin
had some moments with the CP nine, but I can't
remember because it's been over a month, even though I've
watched and read one piece like nineteen times.
Speaker 2: I just remember they were having a conversation about I
guess Robin was talking about how she's like a monster
and stuff, and Franky was like, well they can take
away everything from you, but they can't take away who
you are. And it like hate Robin because nobody has
a really told her that. Oh my God, and loving
water seven just had me in tears.
Speaker 4: Milner.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I think we jump into Enna's lobby. Do we
want to talk about some specific moments, you know what beside?
Why don't you just take us away with his lobby
and we'll I'll let you lead the lead the assault.
Speaker 2: So the sea train, the prototype sea train, did not
have a break on it, so they just the straw
hat crew just kind of crashed into the island and uh,
we are introduced to the rest of Sep. Nine. I
believe there was a I believe that was the one
with the like the little zipper on the mouth, and
then we get introduced to the Lion's main guy and
the wolf dude.
Speaker 1: Basically great character, great character names.
Speaker 2: I don't remember their names, I remember what they did.
And we finally get to see Oh my god, Span
Damn or Span Dne. I always get those two confused.
I know once is one Span Damn to meet him
and his little sword that was a that's an elephant
that sword ate the elephant fruit. I know how.
Speaker 1: I still don't know how they do that. How does that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. I thought that care
was so cute, though I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 2: This is the second time that has happened, because we've
seen that in Alabasta or the gun Ate like a
dog fruit or something. I don't understand how that happens,
but it did. But we get to CP nine, the
straw hats kind of land and all the Marines are
kind of like, all right, I gotta get him, gotta
get him.
Speaker 1: We saw one one's very goofy attacks when he first
lands on the on the island. He like took control
of a person by wrapping his like his limbs around him.
It was so stupid, but it was so stupidly loofy,
and I love it, very very loofy. It's interesting that
Spandom is like kind of directing and ordering these people
that are all so much stronger than him around. Oh yeah,
span him is a piece of ship with no powers.
How did he get there?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: His probably his dad, dad, no more than me.
Speaker 1: The version of.
Speaker 2: His dad was the one who uh, we can get
to that later, but I'm pretty sure it was because
of his.
Speaker 1: Dad called the thing on O'Hara. Oh, yes, you're reminding me.
Speaker 2: Was the one who called the buster call.
Speaker 1: Okay, big things happened, big moments. But before we get
into that, how do you feel about Loofy's new powers?
Speaker 2: Oh? Gear two, right, a little bit of Gear three.
But he starts glowing cause there's a fight where he
fights I believe BLUEO. And you know he's he's trained
in the six arts or six techniques of CP nine
and Loofy almost has like no problem dealing with him
iron body, no problem.
Speaker 3: Lufy's got it. But he starts kind.
Speaker 2: Of glowing, and uh, we don't know at that point
what is going on with Loofy, but he just completely
obliterates Blue No, and it shocks like the rest of
CP nine because there's like no way, no way. He
took down one of our one of our agents.
Speaker 1: And that quickly and like in a single blow. I
don't know if it was a single blow, but like
it was a single blow that ended up taking him out. Jordan,
what are your thoughts on Gear two at this point
in the series.
Speaker 4: I think, uh no, it was such a good reveal too,
because as we saw going into water seven or I
guess leading or leaving long land long land ring, long
long land arc. I can't freaking speak today. Loofy and
his whole crew lost for one of the first times,
just very solidly, very single handedly against an admiral and
uh and lufy saw. You know, you know he felt
firsthand like where I'm at now, that's not going to
cut it, right. So so rather than like some type
of long training arc that makes him like physically stronger
or what have you, you know, he comes up with
some type of technique that kind of mimics what he
sees CP nine doing in order to enhance their bodies. Right, So,
I don't know, it's a very cool thing where he's
increasing his blood flow, he's he's getting going, and it
just has that esthetic to it too, right, It gets
the people going. Just a fun fight all around, and
we see him kind of pop it out as a
bit of a last resort once he's fighting a somebody
like Bluno, and prior to that, you know, he's running
around all of Nislobby just causing chaos like normal, like
a thousand marines before he even got the Bluno right,
So it don't know, it was a fun like build
up to it that like was very subtle, Like you
don't really think about like power ups in One Piece
because you don't hardly ever get them. But like, I
think the timing was pretty spot on coming out of
that al Kigh meetings.
Speaker 1: So I will say with Gear two being introduced two
hundred and seventy episodes into the series, with most anime
that's like unheard of. Usually its power up after power
up after power up, And I think for certain people
that go into a shown in expecting Dragon Ball Z
or Naruto, some people are like this. They're maybe a
little bit disappointed that, like Lufy is not really growing.
But I think a big thing is the straw Hats
are badasses. They're notorious, not notorious as fuck at the beginning,
but they're already kind of strong at the beginning with
their own backstories. Of course, they're small fish in a
big ocean, so eventually they have to get stronger and
stuff like that. But I think in the East Blow Blue, especially,
we're worried about backstories and like character development and not
so much physical power ups. And one of the things
I liked about One Piece was the fact that didn't
like power scale super super super quickly. It still ends
up getting ridiculous eventually, But two hundred and seventy three
episodes for like Lufy's first new form or first thing
other than a punch or a kick like a normal
punch or normal kick is I think it's actually a
good thing because it stops the series from getting blown
out of proportion, especially with like its dynamic power system.
I'm having Hockey and devil Fruits and so much going on.
I think keeping it somewhat grounded or slowing down, removing
the grounding, I think it's actually a good thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and there's a lot of early fights
up to this point right where it's not so much
that the people they were going against were as strong
as them. But like I think, I think Odo was
very subtle about nerfing them and very I don't, I
don't know what other word to use besides subtle, Like
Zero would always be injured, Lufy was always dumb things
to that effect would make the fights like way closer
than they probably should have been. And then uh, yeah,
you don't really need a you know, a power up
of any sort until you starting those you know how
big the world actually is through people like al Kigi race.
Speaker 2: Yes, but uh but.
Speaker 4: Yeah the fight versus Blueo. Any I guess thoughts on
the kind of how that went overall or did you
expect it or.
Speaker 2: I honestly, because I knew the gears were coming up,
I didn't know it was gonna come up this soon,
to be honest with you. So I remember when he
was like second gear. I was so hyped of like,
oh yeah, we're finally getting it.
Speaker 3: So I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It was noted that it does take a lot out
of Loofy physically. He wasn't able to stay in it
for very very long against like right after he defeated Luno,
he went straight back and it took a toll on him.
So it wasn't just.
Speaker 1: Like to have like some consequences, especially at first when
it's a new power that he's still learning and stuff
like that. So I do like the having like the
consequence of him getting drained or earning small or weird
things like that. Okay, do you have a favorite moment
of the arc of like.
Speaker 2: The arc or like the beginning. Damn, that's really hard
to kind of narrow down to one like moment. I
think everybody. I think This is probably a cliche moment,
but it was the I want to live.
Speaker 1: Hey, I wanted you to say it and not me
to be like, so what did you think of that?
I want to live?
Speaker 2: God, Niko, Robin's backstory destroyed me, I think the most
out of the straw hats. It's a it ruined me.
It ruined my night, like because I watched all of
it in one night, like that little section of like damn.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you like walk us through like her backstory
and like what you thought about certain parts and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2: So we go back to this island named Ohara. So
this island is notoriously known to have a bunch of
people who are archaeologists. They study the world in the history.
And Robin she is I wouldn't say she's an orphan
because her mom is still there, but her mom left
on a multi year trip and she is staying with
her uncle and her aunt, who don't really treat her
very well. She's kind of a loner. The kids make
fun of her because she already has a devil fruit.
She just kind of wants to like sit and read
what these kids call her monster. So she's been hearing
that for a very long time. However, she finds comfort
with Professor Clover, who is the lead archaeologist on the island.
And I forgot what the tree is called, but there's
a tree with a bunch of books. It's a library
with all the records, and she, at her young age,
becomes an archaeologist, which is honestly really unheard of. I
don't remember how old she was, but she like five
or six, seven under ten, very young under ten. But
we start to learn that the archaeologists on this island
are studying opponent glyphs, and we learned that that is illegal.
They are not allowed to do that, banned by the
World Government. But they we learned that there's a one
hundred year period where there was no history recorded at all.
So they're trying to find out what the hell happened
in this one hundred years, And it just so happens
that the World Government was formed right after the one
hundred year period that there was no history, So they're
theorizing that the World Government had something to do with
that being erased, and.
Speaker 1: Any any theories that you would have about like the
World Government in the voice.
Speaker 2: Entry, I am just I for sure know that the
world government is hiding something. They're hiding something, something happened
in the one hundred year period that they don't want
anybody else to know about. So and the only way
that they could probably find out is through the ponoglyphs.
I don't know, so. I remember they were talking about
how the ponoglyphs were left behind by some like a country, kingdom,
some group of people as a way to try to
keep the history alive from that period, which is why
they're not letting anybody study the poonoglyphs because they don't
want people to know. So I don't know exactly what happened.
I just at this point start to realize how corrupt
the or like the world government is. Yeah, like they're
they're playing the good guy here, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: This arc has so.
Speaker 4: Much going for it.
Speaker 1: You have like these crazy fights, these character like moments
like I want to Live, flashbacks that are tragic and
also build character development, but also world building and lore
being dropped, and it is just it just one piece
is gets better and better. I freaking love it, I
will say that. So what we know currently is there's
one hundred years of history that has been wiped out
the world government wants to hide that history. The ponent
glyphs are like the one way to get it back,
like you said, but that's why they went ahead and
killed anyone who could read it and made a band
to research it. And that's why Robin had a big
balanty at at such a young age, because she's able
to read it. She read one in Alabasta had to
do with a weapon. Yes, so that's kind of what
we know so far. Mm hmm, Jordan, any thoughts on
that or on the on the flashback?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, No, I think that that pretty much sums
it up as far as you know what the flashback
is and kind of what the voice century is. You
know that information itself could be so dangerous to centralized
power that you know whenever they're trying to erase it,
they they literally held no bars. So we got to
see what the buster call was, what that what that's
capable of, which was terrifying to that extent. We know
that Robin saw that from a very young age, right,
so she's terrified of like what could become if if
if that comes after her again? Right or great? I
think she's seen it multiple times, but like seeing it
that first time destroy our homeland was uh was huge, right,
and then yeah, uh as far as like seeing how
corrupt the government is, it's it's one of those things
where we see up to this point many point times
where there's good marines, there's bad marines. It's it's it's
all kind of shades of gray. But whenever you have
centralized power, that's that unchecked and like kind of a
you know, it's a coalition of like one hundred and
seventy different countries, right, you're gonna have factions of that
have that have a lot of corruption, right, And I
mean CP nine in particular, they do a lot of
the dirty work of that of that uh of that
section between like assassination and an espionage and et cetera.
So yeah, I think we get to see a big
look into that and we get to see one of
the major just anslobby itself is one of the major
landmarks of that world government.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: It is like the I believe it's where they do
a bunch of the judging and whatnot, like the judiciary
branch of it. I guess you'd say say it's like
one of like three major islands, and it just kind
of shows the scale of what this arc is, right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but talking about the I want to live moment,
obviously I want to hear your feelings and emotions behind it.
But also let's not forget all the boys standing on
the pillars asking Sooga King to burn down the flag,
literally waging war on the world for their friend. Oh
my god, is it badass? Is it wholesome? Is it beautiful? Presided?
Any thoughts on like how did you feel in that moment?
Speaker 2: I think I cried. I can't imagine how, like Nico
Robin she felt, you know, her entire life, she never
really had people a group of people who she stuck
with for a long time because she kind of was
always on the run, and every single group she was
a part of all fell apart, and nobody really fought
for her. Everybody was like trying to fight her and
trying to capture her. So to finally see like people
who consider her family, who are willing, like you said,
to wage war against the entire world just to get
her back, I think really really hit me. And the
whole flashback with her mom, because if you remember, like
during the flashback, she the mom Nico Ovila Oliva.
Speaker 1: Olivia she told Robin.
Speaker 2: She told Robin to live when Saul was taking her away.
I also want to highlight from that ow Kiji was
the one who let Nico Robin live the goal kind
of he let her live, which is really interesting, which
I think maybe.
Speaker 1: He's let them live twice now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It really highlights how like different individuals within that system, right,
are going to have their own values that they kind
of kind of work on. So yeah, I feel like
he's one of those characters that highlights that more than
anybody else in the series.
Speaker 2: So I think he's a that That moment was what
made me be like, oh my god, Like this character
is very because he easily could have killed her.
Speaker 4: He was just a king.
Speaker 2: She didn't really, she doesn't. She's not that strong, but
he gave her a boat and let her sail away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's not necessarily like a black and white
thing where his hands are clean either, right, like he
was there with the buster call that's or call. It's
like base destroying an entire island and its people, right,
So it's it's not like he's uh necessarily a force
for good, but it's not like he's you know, going
out of his way to be unnecessarily evil either, right.
Speaker 2: But uh, it makes me want to learn more about
his character because I want to know why he did that.
Mm hmm, because I I don't really know up to
this point. But yeah, so just that going back to
the I want to live because up until this point,
Robin's like, I just want to die, Like if there's
no point in living anymore, I just want my friends safe,
and if that means I have to die, right, I
I have no purpose anymore. And for her to like
kind of remember back to her mom and see the
straw hats and feel like, I I want to live now,
I have I have people I want to live for
was very, very emotional for me.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those series she finally has people
that she wants to live for. But that's also the
reason why she was willing to die. Yeah, it's like
she wasn't willing to let them sacrifice these people along
the way, like she sacrificed so many others.
Speaker 2: M M and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. It's one of the more heartwarming
moments in the series, and I feel like it's one
of those where this is where I feel like Lufy's
character shines a lot to me, because there's a lot
of times throughout the series where he's really dumb, right,
and like he's silly in situations where he probably shouldn't
be and whatnot. But there's times where it gets serious
and he has this weird maturity about him where he
kind of sees to the heart of the matter. So
you know, he's in this moment he seems very cognitive
that like, if the world is your enemy, then it's
also our enemy, right, And he's very frank about saying that.
Whenever he says to burn down the flag, he knows
full well what that means, right, he knows they're declaring
war on the world. And there's like, no, there's no
jokes or anything play there. It's it's literally, uh, I
don't know, one of the most serious yet heartwarming moments. Yeah,
and it's loofy of all people, uh just fully uh
jumping into that right. So yeah, I don't know. I
think this is a moment that kind of sticks with
most people for for one reason or another.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: We gotta jump into the different fights and the difference
oh so many, they all get a moment to fight here,
all the different straw hats including even Frankie gets a
moment to fight some crazy stuff with Chopper goes down
some funny moments along the way. Because I don't you
have a favorite fight in this in this arc.
Speaker 2: So I want to make not before we start this
that Khalifa and cock have devil fruits.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, de fruits.
Speaker 2: So if they weren't already dangerous before that, now they
have an extra little power. So COCKU got the giraffe fruit,
which I thought was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Test type fruits? Do they have test pop quiz? What's
it called?
Speaker 2: Is it the logia?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, sorry, Zone, I got it. We gotta
make you the one piece mask I need.
Speaker 3: I didn't know we were doing trivia today.
Speaker 1: You know what's more important than that sniper islands location
in your heart.
Speaker 4: That's the most important thing to take from this whole
art right there.
Speaker 1: Even on a mouse's eyeball, lock on the word that
song kills me. Dude, anyway, continue to story.
Speaker 2: To cut you off, Zone, Khalifa has a bubble fruit
where she can just creates bubbles.
Speaker 1: So wait, who said.
Speaker 2: That my personal favorite fight from Anny's Lobby was actually
not and khalifall Yeah, I just no me is so
bad ass. I think this is, up to this point,
her best fight. Don't sleep on Amy. She's not necessarily
like a physical fighter. However, she's very clever and she's
very smart. So if like physically right, Khalifa would one
hundred percent beat Namy, but Nomy was able to.
Speaker 3: She has like she knows how to.
Speaker 2: Use her I always forget the climb attacks. I always
forget the clim attack. Yeah, she finally knows how to
use it because up until this point she struggled a
little bit, but she was able to beat Khalifa at
her own game, use the elements to her advantage. And uh,
I thought that was such a fun fight to watch.
And then we have the cocko and the wolf guy
sorry I forgot his name. I am.
Speaker 1: I am very happy as well. All got their time
to shine. We got like a one on one nom fight.
We don't get it that often, and it like it's always,
it's always peak. It's so good, especially this one.
Speaker 4: Definitely the best fight of the arc. And I love
that game like right after, Like I know it was
kind of because he was a sympth and whatnot, but
it just showed not only is she like a badass
like CP nine agent, but she had just beat Sonjy right,
so it's like now now she's with me right after,
So yeah, I don't know. Definitely stands out.
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny because Nomy's like, wait, how
did she beat you? He's like, I just can't kick
a woman. I just can't do it.
Speaker 1: I love that Sooga King became a sword for a bit.
He did got handcuffs, so that was just a random
thing that came to my memory.
Speaker 2: I thought it was also silly the CP nine agent
specifically Cockon and the wolf Stine just like arguing because
they were making fun of his devil for you. I
love this.
Speaker 1: One piece really brings characters to life with like their
little quirks and then funny amongst themselves. There's a lot
of shows that I find would be like, these are
the big bad villains. These are like their principles or
like what they believe in, and like they're like like uh,
but their personalities can to align with that. One piece
is always like this is the big bad villains, this
is their this is like what they're trying to do. Also,
their personalities are gonna be the exact opposite of what
you would expect they're gonna bigger and argue and say
stupid things and joke around and be feel real and
get you attached to them a little bit, and then
the fight goes down and the comedy that they slip
in makes characters just more likable, it makes you more immersed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is a weird little side tangent here,
So sorry to distract from the fight, but going back
to like Robin's backstory real quick. So this was the
arc that that made me pay the most attention to,
or at least start paying attention to. I guess just
all the different laughs within one piece as part of
that little bit of characterization. So I don't know, did
you have any thoughts about Sauls Like was it garat
she she?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, like as far as like characterizing people, giving them
their own little quirks, so people laugh and like, uh,
you know, in their own little weird ways. I'm sure
we all have a lot of different friends where when
they laugh, like you just know it's their laugh, right Yeah, yeah, Oda,
Choosing to characterize characters and make us remember them by
their laugh is a It's always interesting to me, And
I feel like this is the arc where I started
kind of noticing that a bit.
Speaker 2: So it was honestly so wholesome, solid Robin's relationship her
first Like real.
Speaker 1: Dude, that guy, right, I like so so so funny.
He kills me, like the little things about like him,
like not being able to keep his mouth mouth shot
and spreading rumors even or like we're reeling information he
wasn't supposed to reveal, and like him literally having the
zipper as a mouth. It's just so good. Like Oda
is just the go honestly like what he's like literally
like one of the weakest villains partisi benign, but you
like he makes you care about every fight because of
those little things like I like that character a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not wrong. And speaking of the green haired dude,
and I guess the purple hair dude too, Like their
fights were very interesting because we got to see, uh,
we got to see Choppers transformation.
Speaker 1: Oh well.
Speaker 4: That's amongst the best, right, Yeah, I don't I guess
any thoughts on that. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: He ate one too many rumble balls, but had no
other choice.
Speaker 1: Did you ever expect to see chopp I guess maybe
you could have been spoiled by the card game. If
that's a card. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Choppers. I don't think like.
Speaker 1: Him turning into a gigantic monster, especially with his backstory
where like being called a monster in the past. Like
it's so cool.
Speaker 4: Click chop you get the exodia. There you go, you
win the game.
Speaker 1: I need chop appause, Zippric. I just can't stop glazing
one piece. It's so bad.
Speaker 2: There is a chopper deck that has like all the
little different choppers in it. It might be in there.
I don't know. I don't play that one.
Speaker 1: So I played against the Carrot deck today and I
got ruled.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that deck is so annoying, frustrated.
Speaker 1: All my blockers were useless, pissing me off.
Speaker 2: I just built or I just built probably the most
meta deck right now out Oh it was like somebody
bought it from me on thrown. It was like three
hundred four hundred dollars, damn, And I finally got it.
But it's a green, purple loofy it. I don't know.
I believe he's in like a certain gear in his leader,
but I don't know what it is. I guess I'll
have to find out when the time comes true one day.
It does play a water seven card in it. It's
the one where he's I guess punching a bunch through
some water. But it says water seven on the bottom
and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, too expensive.
Speaker 4: Though the almost drowns in the stars, doesn't he is
trying to trying to like, does does he try to swim?
I guess I'm I'm blinking on that part, but I
feel like that's one of the parts that they were.
Speaker 1: They were in a tunnel and it got filled with water. Yes,
And we got a reveal another monster.
Speaker 4: Oh god, it might be at an order on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, so okay, sorry. Going back, so
we got the the Zorro Shoga King versus Cocking and
the other wolf dude. We got to see the wolf
dude kind of shine a little bit to he.
Speaker 3: Uh he he lies.
Speaker 2: He was lying to USAF and Soanji. My favorite one
was he had like this whole thing with soanjy how
He's like, yeah, no, take the key. Robin is my sister,
my long lost sister. I want you guys to save her.
As like a try to get Slji to get his
guard down and Soanji Sanji didn't buy it. Osop did, though,
was like, no.
Speaker 3: He's lying, don't love, he's striking you.
Speaker 2: But I think it's kind of silly with given that
his double fruits like a wolf fruit. You know, we
got to see.
Speaker 1: The big bed wolf, the big bed wolf guy.
Speaker 2: They start bringing Robin to the bridge. Is it's called
the Bridge of justice, justice bridge. The sounds right, bridge
of justice or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know you're gonna be able to go into
I love that moment.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, continue, So they start bringing there, start bringing
her there. So it's Lucci spandam and Robin and spandamn
and accidentally presses he tried to call somebody with the snail,
but he grabs the wrong snail. And this particular snail
is a gold snail that if you press the button
on it, you call a buster call.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, So this.
Speaker 2: Idiot calls a buster call on the entirety of Ednie's lobby.
Speaker 3: So now everybody is panicking.
Speaker 1: He destroying his own bass is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's it's actually the same.
Speaker 1: All that.
Speaker 2: So so Robin's like, you initiated the buster call, So
he takes the other snail and he's like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, I meant to press this one.
So they start.
Speaker 2: Arguing and then he's, uh, he presses like the button
on the other one. So now the entirety of the
bass can hear what he's saying about how he called
a buster call and how he doesn't care if everybody
else dies. He just needs to bring Robin back with him.
Speaker 3: So now the.
Speaker 2: Entirety of the Marines are freaking out because they know
that they're probably gonna die. So we get to the.
Speaker 1: But any moments on that bridge that you remember.
Speaker 2: Oh Frankie. Frankie is so bad as this.
Speaker 1: Arc made Frankie one of my favorite straw hats.
Speaker 3: He's such a cool dude.
Speaker 1: But he's just such a bro and like he just
like I just didn't expect him to have this turning character,
where like when he's first introduced, he's the bad guy, right,
He's trying to steal their money and beat up their
friends and collect their bounties, breathing fires, causing fights. He
seemed like a chill dude or like a like like
a like a fun character. But I never in a
million years would think that he would end up being
the ship, right, until a little bit more into the
arc or whatever. I thought Paulie was gonna be the
ship right at first, right, I.
Speaker 2: Think a lot of us felt that first too.
Speaker 1: But through his conversations with Robin, his fight, like his
like sacrifices for the straw hats that he really doesn't
like even fully know that well yet it's just made
me fall in love with him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I think Frankie's such a quote.
Speaker 1: What moment are you? What are you talking about? On
the bridge.
Speaker 2: When he sets Robin free and she finally is like,
I've been waiting to do this. She's she's beating up
everybody but her and Frankie kind of team up.
Speaker 1: What about?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he sniped from all the way across the island.
Speaker 1: Dude, their guns couldn't even fire your back.
Speaker 2: No, he was too far.
Speaker 1: I mean, Soga King, I mean Soga King, I mean Soga.
Speaker 4: King, not even in this arc. Breaks. What are you doing?
I think he knows one piece?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh gosh, uh I kind of. I
think we did skip over a little bit of Lucci.
Speaker 1: Skipped over a lot of fights and stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: So Lucci is no secret that he is the strongest
of the CP nine. He is. We get a little
backstory of him, so he's been with that believe seep
since he was a child teenager, and we learn that
he kind kind his morals are kinda he does not
really care. He's he's willing to kill people for like nothing.
So we get a flashback where he's fifteen. There's I
don't remember the kingdom or the island, but basically pirates
take over this island. They take three hundred hostages as
a way of leverage for the king. So the king
calls the world government and they just send Lucci.
Speaker 3: They only send him. They don't send anybody else.
Speaker 2: They just send him, and they're like really like that's it,
But they slowly learn that there's a reason why they
only said him. So Lucci goes to the pirates and
tries to deal with them. So Lucci decides to kill
all of the innocent hostages from this kingdom as a
way to be like, now, you guys don't have leverage,
and beats the rest of the pirates up. So this
guy he has no problem killing and uh, it's he's
a very interesting character. We didn't really get much past that,
but he just takes a lot of joy in that.
So everybody's really scared of him. No, he has never
lost to anybody. So we get the fight between Lucci
and Lufy and they're going pretty toe to toe. Loofy
goes into second gear again and Lucy notices that he
he gets very weak after so he tries to take
that to his advantage and they just kind of go
at it.
Speaker 3: Frankie goes in at it for a little bit.
Speaker 2: With them, and then Lufy's like, no, like, our only
chance of saving Robin is if you go and go
after her. I'll take care of Luci. So yeah, there's
a pretty epic fight. Loofy. I think this is the
most difficult opponent up until this point.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about a Gear three introduction?
Speaker 2: The little one?
Speaker 1: He's turned to a little guy afterwards, but he's trying
to hide. We got to see gear two now some
Gear three all in one arc. I love it.
Speaker 2: I know I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 1: We all yeah same. I'm like, yeah, we got finally
got a power up. Oh shit, another one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's another one where he didn't It's not even
necessarily like any type of special thing where he trained
for all. It's it's literally just him inflating his arm
or what and whatnot, right Like, it's him being creative
with it in like very specific ways that so you
love to see it. He's one of the most creative fighters.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about Zoro versus Cocky? We got
a little sword fight happening. Gosh, perfect cube that.
Speaker 2: Uh. I thought it was super funny watching Cocky use
a sword as his little giraffe guy. I actually, out
of all the CP nine characters, I really like Cocku. Yeah,
I thought he was a they go at it.
Speaker 3: He is pretty funny.
Speaker 2: But even at the end of the fight because Or
beat him, Zoro was like, I'm passing a message on
from Polly. He wanted me to let you know that
you're fired. Cocku had a little flashback of all the
times he spent at the Galilan and to me, that
was it. It was almost like even though he's a CP
nine agent, he's still human. He still had like bonds
with these people, and uh he was talking about like, oh, no,
where am I going to find a job now? So
I was like, perhaps gets a little bit of a
oh Cocku being a human, which we don't really got
didn't get to much with the other agents because they're
pretty much business only. And you know, even though he's
he's he's a killing machine, he still is a human
at heart. And I'm really excited to like see what
else he has come in because I thought he was
a really cool character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we got to see Zoro, like you that
did different technique we haven't seen before, like Ostra. Was
it called shortan Do you.
Speaker 2: Remember that sounds familiar?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like a I believe it is kind of
like it's kind of like King gansha, Right, I got
the six arms right there, or they're not literally there.
I still don't know exactly how to explain this technique,
but we all know kind of what it is, six
sword style essentially, right, So he's like, you got four,
I'll do six.
Speaker 1: It's the start of like them showing things that aren't
really there, like I think, yeah, like like even the
sword slashes that are like from a distance, like the
slash isn't actually visible. It's like to make it visible
for us. Later in the series, they make hockey visual
visible for us, even though like that the people aren't
seeing these guys glow and turn black. And this and that.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's like Sanji's kicks being on fire, right, Like,
it's not like he has a double furd or anything.
I don't. I don't know how to explain that quite either.
Actually on fire, they probably are, but like the way
they explain it, like I don't. I don't know. I
couldn't repeat it back to your friction.
Speaker 1: But then, yeah, he doesn't need to spin afterwards, So
I don't. I don't get it. He actually ate ate
his devil? Uh? Oh no, you saw you saw him,
you saw him use fire. I thought I spoiled that.
Speaker 2: I'm not even going to pretend like I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're an alabastapot smoker. He saw fire. We saw it.
We saw it. I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't pull attacking. Okay, I remember that attacking. I
remember that so hard. Oh god, that was so funny.
Speaker 1: Though then I didn't cut it out of the audio
or the video. Then the comments on that video are disgusting.
It's so bad. Everyone hated me. I'm like, I wasn't
even the one it was spoiled.
Speaker 4: Is it my turn to spoil something? Is that how
we get the people going? Okay? So so has anybody
told you about hot Tory yet the bird. Yeah's pigeon.
It's the actual mastermind of the whole arc.
Speaker 2: Has it?
Speaker 4: Has it? Has? Everything? Was all along, yeah said, these
guys are business. Even he's usually wearing like a hat
or a suit or something. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: How did the straw Hats manage to get away from
this buster call?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was like a whole fish I
even like trying to remember.
Speaker 4: You don't remember. This is the part of the Yeah, yeah, hold.
Speaker 2: On, hold, we need to go back because we've got
a reveal that Cocoda is a mermaid. Yeah, because the
whole little tunnel fills up with water and obviously there's
they thought, oh my god, there's no way that we
get out of this, right, So Cocoda does this reveal
where she turns into a mermaid and bust them all
out and they land on they land on some sort
of ship.
Speaker 4: I believe. So alright, I guess has it not said it? Yeah? Okay,
so I guess Pop quiz time. This is how we're
gonna do this pop quiz. I want you to list
every straw hat. Okay, three single straw hat, Every single
straw hat can you list them up to this point?
You leave anybody out? If you, I'm gonna I'm gonna
hold it against you. I'm gonna judge you.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, okay, Luthy Namisoro up, Robin Chopper. Uh, that's six, right, six,
there's a seventh one. Oh god, I'm gonna put Club
Bottom on on there.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right? Why would you say?
Speaker 1: Mary?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 1: It's crazy my defense.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm going to go back to the TCG. There
was somebody on the last podcast who was like, can
she stop talking about the TCG.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not going to stop talking about But.
Speaker 2: They printed a card called Clive Bottomon recently in the.
Speaker 4: Not a digimon. That sounds like a digimon.
Speaker 2: It's not. That's why I remember it now because I
pulled so many Clive Bottom on them.
Speaker 1: Bottom is not Mary, It's the the concept I believe
of a ship taking physical form.
Speaker 2: Oh that was just like the name of it.
Speaker 1: Wrong. Anyway, How did the straw hats get away? Did
that happen in this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It does, it does in the end, so we
get a flashback of So if you guys remember in
Water seven, Frankie like through let the boat go. They
let the going Marry go. So after the straw Hats
kind of leave the island to go to Ennie's lobby,
we get oh my god, Iceberg. There we go. We
get a scene where Iceberg sees the ship kind of
wash up during Water Aqua Laguna and he can kind
of like hear the spirit going like, I want one
more one more time, one more time, guys, like.
Speaker 1: I genuinely thought during Water seven that the mayor was cooked,
like it got dropped into the aqua laguna. I'm like
it's done, Like this is so sad, Like it's not
a way for I. It has to come back at
some point. There has to be a better way to
like say farewell, or to like get a fire, like
it's just gonna end like this. And then it was
just wild. It was absolutely wild. Continue Marry wanted one
more chance.
Speaker 2: So he fixes her up at least like barely enough
for one more go, and she just takes off.
Speaker 3: Nobody's on the ship. She just leaves, and everybody.
Speaker 2: Is kind of sitting there on the island like what
the heck did we just witness?
Speaker 3: So you get this scene.
Speaker 2: Where you hear a voice and it's telling them to
go to the sea. So all of the straw hats,
including the devil fruit users, jumping to the sea and
you kind of get this like epic montage of like
each individual character kind of like falling into the water
and the going Mary saves them, and it was so emotional,
makes me cry, so good.
Speaker 3: So good, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: It was Mary and Candorano just just sitting there waiting.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Remember everybody always forgets so you.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to bring that up, kind of like
get a little finale here, but you brought up the mermaid.
What do you want to say anything about that? I
kind of cut you off.
Speaker 2: I just love that scene where Sanji was like, man,
mermids are supposed to be pretty, and then it just
looks at Cocoa, she's not necessarily the prettiest. But we
do get a little bit of reveal where mermaids they
as they get older, the form legs. So I don't
know if that's going to be important later on, but.
Speaker 1: Now we know that mermaids exist and they do. We
know fishmen exist, and we know fishman islands of things,
so that's exciting.
Speaker 2: She did drop Fishman island talking about how like you
want to see more.
Speaker 1: You go over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we get to Lucci gets defeated, and you
know they're still trying to The Marines are still kind
of trying to bust you down the Any's lobby, so
they have to somehow escape.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I in one second continue no no, no.
Speaker 2: No, you're good. We also see Golli loc kind of
pull up as well.
Speaker 3: They get there.
Speaker 2: And we get this really emotional scene where they have
to let go of the going berry.
Speaker 4: Oh god, you know, I think he went to go cry.
If I'm honest, I think every time I think back
to this moment, I'm trying to hold it in here,
stand strong for the podcast because the camera's on. So
but uh, I guess any thoughts in particular on that
moment on them saying goodbye? Do you ever think you'd
cry were a boat?
Speaker 2: I did not. I think what I really cried was
when Loofy was saying he was sorry, he like felt
horrible for not taking care of her, for like everything
that she had gone through, Like he was like, it's
my fault. I should have done better, I should have
taken care of you more. And you hear like the
cleb bottom one voice of like the going marry go,
It's okay, Like I had fun with you guys, thank
you so much for everything, and they make the hard
decision to light her on fire. Yeah, so that was
her funeral.
Speaker 4: The funeral of a ship and oh God made made
the whole world tear up.
Speaker 2: I thought it was so funny that Loofy was like, Man,
I'm gladsof is not here. Yeah, And I just thought
it was so funny that up until this point he
still did n't put two and two together that Sniper
King and USOP are the same person.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you wait? What do you mean? What
are you talking about?
Speaker 1: They're definitely different people.
Speaker 4: Wasn't there for that? Those are definitely two different characters.
USOP left the crew. We saw that. This is Yeah,
that's another point I took off earlier when you did
your whole list to stop. You can't list him. He's
not even part of the crew anymore. He's not even there.
Speaker 1: It's true, soaking here to help now, Harley crew. Currently,
So you guys talked about the Golding Berry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we know you want to go cry.
Speaker 2: And you kind of get like all the flashbacks of
all the crew having good memories with her and then
it starts like snowing.
Speaker 1: This is one moment that the manga just I mean,
the anime enhances from the like it's so much better
than the manga. And I'm a person who constantly says
the manga, for one piece, is better than the anime,
But this is one moment with like the flashbacks and
the music, it just made me cry. I think that
may have been the first moment I ever cried to
in anime or even in fiction.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one of those arks that has a
couple of those moments, like even if somebody's only reading
one piece, as much as I love the manga, I'll say,
at least go watch the you know, the Walk with
the Flag or go watch the Going Merry Spener, Like
those are two moments I think the anime does really well.
So whether it's the music or the build up, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knew that in this anime you could get
so attached to a ship I.
Speaker 1: Know, right, the crew that the crews attached that we're.
Speaker 2: Attached right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Overall thoughts on the arc, where would you rank it
compared to the others socidics?
Speaker 2: Oh my God, this is number one. I think this
is number one. I feel like with every arc I
kind of like put number one or number two, but
this one, I think just the whole saga is just
peak one piece. Truly. I don't think I have been
so like attached to every single character because I feel
like this arc, especially obviously Robin, you know, but each
character had their time to shine and develop, and I
think Lufy also really shines as a captain during this arc.
He had to make a lot of hard decisions. He
had to really step up, and I loved it ten
out of ten. Truly. I would actually rewatch this. It
was it was great.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, did you end up watching the Post and
His Lobby arc? Are we covering that next time?
Speaker 2: I think next time.
Speaker 3: The last episode I.
Speaker 2: Watched was the Funeral.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so I did watch like.
Speaker 2: The little Holiday Fillers, which I thought were funny. I
don't know if you guys watched it.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched those in years.
Speaker 4: I have to try to remember him. But there was
a couple other little things I wanted to kind of
touch on. Well while we're here talking about it, so
we've touched on the the fact that Murman exists and
mermaids and Murmay Island and stuff, but we haven't we
never really touched on the giants that were being kind
of tricked by the government whosops uh, you know, influence
on them bringing up Dory and Broggy and all them.
So like that came kind of full circle there and
so much happened and they ran rampant. Yeah, like so
it we kind of skimmed past like them running rampant
throughout the city because we know Lufy was doing his thing.
But getting through that city and stuff in and of itself,
trying to get to the courthouse was a it was
a journey, right.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Something I wanted to know was I actually loved how
all of like the little parties that were on Water seven,
like they were all kind of like fighting each other.
Everybody teamed up for Anny's lobby to try to save
Robin and Frankie, and I loved watching all of their
dynamics just kind of go together and then working together. Yeah,
we get the little we go the giants, We kind
of go back to Little Garden. And please correct me
if I'm wrong, I'm misremembering this that it has been
quite a little bit since I've seen this, but we
learned that the giants were part of that group of
giants that were on Little Garden and something that had
to do with the Marines, and the Marines told these
two giants that, oh, yeah, we have your guys. After
you guys served enough time, we'll set you guys free.
And it turns out they never had the guys. They
never had the two giants that were on Little Garden.
So these yeah, two giants that are serving the Marines
felt so betrayed and USAF had to like explain to them.
Speaker 3: Like, I know these guys. I know these guys. They're
not here. We saw them a while ago. They're on
this island.
Speaker 2: So now the Giants turned on the Marines and they're
working with Sniper King and the Galile Law and the
Frankie family to try to cause havoc and save their guys,
which I thought was really cool, very cool.
Speaker 4: You can see the Sniper King himself just make the
the Giants turn on the Marines, et cetera. Giants. Yeah,
get right.
Speaker 3: King really stepped up this arc.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed him this arc.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I know that was one thing we had
kind of skimmed over. And then the other thing was
the fight prior to them all jumping onto the marry.
You know, that went on for a while. There was
a lot of marines that we kind of saw of
a variety of ranks, and one of them had a
devil fruit called like I think it was the rust
rust fruit or something to that effect. Oh yeah, yeah,
so Zoro lost one of his swords.
Speaker 3: Yes, so.
Speaker 2: Note of this because I actually watched the last four
episod said when I was in Portland for Pokemon regionals
and I went with a group and the entire group
so we stayed in a hotel and the entire group
have seen one piece already except for me. So they're like,
we are going to finish any lobby with you. So
and when that moment happened, they told me, remember that,
So he loses one of his swords or something.
Speaker 3: And I was like, okay, I'm gonna remember that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's all That's what I was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of this whole thing. It happens pretty quickly, right,
but yeah, I guess I at least wanted to bring
it up because, yeah, they those swords are all pretty
important to him, right, Like, yeah, here sword Now he
only has two. How was he going to do his
three sword style with two swords? Oh? You know, it's
the little things things.
Speaker 1: I do want to say, though, what are we covering
next week? As what is after this? His lobby is
three thirteen to three twenty five. I don't know what
episode you stopped on. You stopped at Mary's funeral. It
may have continued a little bit after that as a thing.
I actually know it.
Speaker 2: Didn't because I know for sure the next major arc
after this, I believe is thriller Bark, Yes, which I'm
actually quite excited for.
Speaker 1: Okay, but the problem is there's a little arc after
in his lobby that is up to seven two. It's small,
but it is. I mean it's three thirteen to three
twenty five, so it's not that small. It's a thing
like twelve episodes post and his lobby of like stuff
going down, some cool interactions and stuff. But it's pretty
chill from what I remember. I actually can't remember that watching.
But maybe we get into there's lots of filler in there. True,
should we get a little bit into the thriller Bark.
I'm looking at this Wikipedia for it, and it's like
there's so much filler, and the way it's laid out,
I do not like it.
Speaker 2: Because there's yeah, there's that. I'm looking at it too,
so there's post ennis is to I mean, I can
get to everything up to oh my god. Yeah, you're right,
there is a lot of filler.
Speaker 1: I you know what, just just can just watch anime
for two weeks and let me know where you get.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, sounds like a plan.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I was all over the place you're thinking,
because it's been a hot minute since u we uh
we met. My brain doesn't necessarily remember things in order.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been too long. And then it's also just
a really big arc with a lot of things going on, right,
So I was kind of as well, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It gets it gets tougher as the arcs get longer,
and what's called it has been a while since we
covered it, and I'm also exhausted. Usually I have a
bunch of notes in front of me to try to
guide you, like gnaw me and navigate the conversation. This
time I was asked you, I'm like, yeah, talk about
this talk about this.
Speaker 2: Guy. That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you guys. So much for joining me
once again. Guys, can you guys rate the one piece
version on Spotify? Please drop a five star review if
you have that right now? Hell yeah, leave a comment?
Do you leave now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Let's go and uh on On that note, I will
see you all next time. Space cowboys, let's go comment.
Speaker 4: Leave a comment for Condorano.
Speaker 1: Yes,