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 the second half of thriller Bark and
with me we have the Virgin herself, the One Piece Virgin,
Besidon Mythos. Hello, good to have you. Are you excited? Gamer?
Speaker 2: I love la boot all.
Speaker 3: I can say so now it's gonna be uh mill
so man, I love Laboo.
Speaker 2: I should have been I should have got in the hat.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: And we have Jordan the anime dude with us today
as well.
Speaker 4: What's up everybody? Hope everybody's doing well.
Speaker 1: It's like holding a coffee bug. Changes like the tone
of my voice. I'm like, yes, yes, is the One
Piece Virgin?
Speaker 4: Do you think that works? Wonders? Try holding out your
pinky it?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 4: Everything?
Speaker 2: Oh super fancy.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's let's jump into it. We don't need to
go chronologically or anything like that. But there are some
insane moments that didn't happen, some good backstories and the
ending fight with the straw hats versus Maria that we
got to talk about.
Speaker 4: Can I point out? Can I point one thing from
from last time that we forgot to cover. Yes, so
or I figured being Poseidon remembered it from last time,
but Briggs was having trouble recalling. So did you ever
go back and watch that fight with the Spider Monkey
where Brooke has a crazy entrance and that's like his
first big moment man and it wassaning. So I just
wanted to touch on that. Since Briggs seemed to have forgotten
about it last time, we gave him a little bit
of a break here, told him to go back and
review it.
Speaker 1: Was I feel like I'm being being bullied.
Speaker 4: No, it was a great It was a great school
you were talking about, gentleman.
Speaker 1: I would never forget ever.
Speaker 4: You know you Jordan.
Speaker 1: Jordan, on the other hand, he probably had to watch
it four times to remember.
Speaker 4: You said the word gentlemen. All right in my mind
with the Brooks, and my mind goes the Brooks that
goes to this moment.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, but uh, posided, do you have a
highlight of this arc?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So.
Speaker 3: I'll just be like straight up, I thought like the
first seventy five percent of this arc was kind of
just like mad to me, but the last twenty.
Speaker 2: Five percent was peak.
Speaker 3: I absolutely loved like the last few episodes.
Speaker 2: I'm very much torn between Brooks.
Speaker 3: Backstory because I thought those episode like two episodes or
however long it was, were beautiful.
Speaker 2: And also Zoro versus Kuma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely I completely agree with like the matt
last twenty five percent just being like a great climax
to the arc, and it's those are some moments like
that backstory and that nothing happened moment or something that
people still talk about frequently because they're like some of
their favorite moments in the anime, and it comes from
everyone's least favorite arc or most people's least favorite arc,
because this art tends to be a little bit more
on like I feel, the humor is good, the aesthetic
is good, but it's just you can't compare to what
you just came from. And is lobbying water seven?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Yes, I'm confused on what she's even
talking about. I'm out at the loop here.
Speaker 1: She's talking about that moment that Brooke killed the spider Monkey.
Speaker 2: Was moment? Okay, why don't we.
Speaker 1: Go through his backstory and what you remember?
Speaker 3: Alrighty, So it was revealed to us that Brooke was
on a crew where they had Laboon. So if you
remember Laboon from Averse Man and he was the little
whil we're not so little anymore, the whale who was
kind of grieving his friends, his he was waiting for
them over I think a span of over fifty years,
and up to this point we don't know who those
friends are, kind of throw away, and then we find
out that Broke was on the crew, and we get
a kind of inside on.
Speaker 2: The relationship between his crew and Labun and also specifically Broke.
La Buon is like Broke's baby, that is his baby.
Speaker 1: And imagine would like connected this this whale that we
meet at the like the start of the grand line
to a new straw hat. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: And it was so it was so beautiful because you
see how much the crew just absolutely loves Labun and
specifically Broke. I think Broken Labun had a very special connection,
and you see them having to make decisions and basically
like Laboon, you guys, you can't come with us because
we want to keep you safe and we are not
confident that if we go into these waters that you
aren't going to be safe.
Speaker 2: So it was honestly such a hard watch.
Speaker 3: Watching how there was that sequence of them having to
ignore Laboon, and at this point, Laboon's a baby. He
is like a toddler, so he is like screaming, crying,
and you could see how like horrible, especially Brooke felt.
But the captain was like, this is for Laboon's good,
like we cannot keep having to interact with him and
have basically have like a connection with him any further.
Speaker 1: Just it's not safe for him to be on on
the Grand Line as a little baby, right, So they
did it for his sake, and they said that once
we go through the entire Grand Line, we're gonna come
back around and we'll come to you. And that is
why Laboon was crashing into the reverse mountain, right mm hmm,
Like it was.
Speaker 2: His kind of way of grieving too.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then we did get what happened. They like
they didn't make it through the Grand Line. They passed
away in a pretty you saw that part, right, That
part happens at the end of through their bark. Okay,
I know they break up the backstory a couple of times,
but I guess it is at the end of How
did you feel about that? How they went.
Speaker 3: Out the scene where it was Brooke and all the
crew was playing instruments, and they all one by one
started passing away, So it went from a quintet to
a quartete to a trio and a duet.
Speaker 2: I thought that was such a beautiful scene, m And.
Speaker 3: It was really just sad, And because of Brooke's devil fruit,
he was basically the last one standing, and he basically
was there for a long long time before anybody had
come to kind of go see him. But there just
comes a point as well where he does get his
shadow taken by was it Hogback?
Speaker 2: What of Geko Morios guys?
Speaker 3: One of those dudes, I believe, if I'm wrong, one
of those one of those.
Speaker 4: Motherfuck I don't know.
Speaker 3: So we saw that sequence and we kind of trail
back to the reason why Brooke is so like protective
of his afro, how he doesn't want anybody touching it
because he used that's the only way that if he
were to ever meet Laboon again, that Lebuon can identify him.
Speaker 2: And it was so sad.
Speaker 4: That's one of those writing things I appreciate so much too,
because he didn't have to give a reason for that, right, Like,
and afro is one of those things you guine genuinely,
people don't want you touching anyways, you're gonna treasure it,
but it just has extra sentimental value regardless, like for
that very reason.
Speaker 1: So yes, any other, So that was the backstore with Brooke.
Did in this portion? Did you get to see Whereuma
fight Zoro or within the last portion?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I believe so I remember that fight being super good.
And then you see Zoro take um a sword. Yeah,
and I'm kind of like, hmmm, is this gonna be
relevant in like eight episodes.
Speaker 1: Maybe? And so he takes Ryuma's sword? And do you
remember where Reuma is from? It is mentioned he is
from Wana Jana. There we go, So just remember that.
I keep that in the back of your head. Anyway,
let's continue we do. We need to talk about the
final fight with the straw Hats versus Maria and how
that ends.
Speaker 3: All I can say is that Maria, I do not
like him, and I'm glad he's.
Speaker 1: Out, but his neck is thick.
Speaker 4: Such a cool character.
Speaker 3: Though he's a cool character, don't get me wrong, but
my god is so irritating.
Speaker 1: He's got a cool devil fruit. But I do something
about him which is interesting because you would think that
having another Shutubukai introduced and fighting against them would be
really really cool, and it was, But I feel like
the highlights of this arc are not him versus Maria.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I thought the fight was honestly kind
of underwhelming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you compare it to the other arcs preceding this,
what I mean, before this, we're a lot better with
like Water seven even like even like people came plaining
about Skypea sometimes and now versus Loofy was fucking sick.
Speaker 4: I agree, I think for this one without like, because
this was an arc that really doesn't have any build up.
It's just such a standalone kind of thing all by itself.
I feel like one of the uh, the major things
that was kind of intimidating about it was just the
fact that we do end up having two she chep
oukai in the same place for like the first time, right,
and they seeing them talk about Loopy in particular, how
the government's worried about him after Annis lobby, and then uh,
you know that that whole conversation that that that they
had was was one of those things that just kind
of sticks with you, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the fight ends, and like you said, Maria
one Chichibukai down. All the straw Hats have been through hell.
They are super, super injured. And that's when the second Chichivukui.
What was your reaction to that? Decided? Oh my god,
what a dude.
Speaker 3: So I remember when he first appeared, he made Pirona
and her like little crew disappear, and I was just like,
what the heck?
Speaker 2: And you can.
Speaker 3: Teleport and stuff like that, So I'm like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: So this is not gonna be an easy enemy if the.
Speaker 3: Straw Hats have to fight this dude, and they kind
of do.
Speaker 2: So you come up.
Speaker 3: Basically, Kuma is there to talk to Maria again about
morning about Loufy. Hey, this is the guy that took
down Ennie's lobby, took down CP nine, and you know,
we gotta we gotta take him in. He is a danger.
So you see after the Maria fight that he is
gonna try to go after Lufy, and you see Zoro
kind of step up here.
Speaker 2: Because Lufy's hegat injured.
Speaker 3: This he is just beat to hell, and then Kuma's like, well,
I need to take him, and Zora's like take me instead, essentially,
and you kind of see this sequence where Kuma, I
don't know, he did some sort of bubble type.
Speaker 2: Of thing, yes, where he basically.
Speaker 3: Took like all of Lufy's pain that he had gone
through throughout all the fighting and kind of condensed it
into this bubble. And Kuma is basically like, I will
let you guys go if you can like handle this
type of thing, and without any hesitation, Zoro just goes
and takes on all of Lufy's pain.
Speaker 1: When he took on just a little bit of Lufy's pain,
what happened to him, The reaction that he had was crazy.
And then they go through the like somewhere else and
he takes it's on all the pain. It was fucking
crazy considering how much Lufi had went through and then
how much Zoro had also went through. But then his
entire body like explodes off of like a little bit.
Oh my god.
Speaker 4: You can tell he definitely did not like he probably
he didn't think he was gonna make it through this
entirely right, like he was gonna try his best, but
he was he was ready to accept and embrace death
in this moment. Yeah, and uh Soanji was tried to,
but he already got that moment back in Skypeia. So yeah,
so their little confrontation there was was also a memorable
one where they're they're butting heads but in a more
wholesome way than normal.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, so Sanzi, I think Soni said he wanted
to do it, but then he passed out, and then
Zoro did it, and then when Sonji woke up, he's like,
where's that bastard? And then he pulls up and you
get the scene Poseidon, Yeah, nothing happened. Yeah, honestly, still
one of my favorite moments all of One Piece.
Speaker 2: It's so good, It is so so good.
Speaker 1: Do you have any go ahead?
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, I feel like it almost
hits harder because it hits after what feels like it
was supposed to be the climax. Yeah, like that big
fight where you know that would typically be what you
build up to in a in a in a shown
in series and a big arc, you build up to
the big bed they all fight him as a group,
and then like after that is the is the memorable
moment that uh that just kind of sticks with everybody, right,
So yeah.
Speaker 3: I think honestly that moment probably solidified for me that
like Soro is my second favorite character.
Speaker 2: Like it just oh.
Speaker 3: He's Loofy's right or died, Like he is willing to
put his life on the line for Loofy And it
was just such such a badass moment and it made
me love Zorro even more than I have previously loved him.
Speaker 1: But so your favorites Robin and second favorite.
Speaker 2: Zura, Yeah, I think so, you think so?
Speaker 4: I thought she meant La Boon, But you know.
Speaker 2: I love He's a good boy.
Speaker 4: It is hard to beat Nico, Robin, all right, it is.
Speaker 2: Very difficult to beat Nico.
Speaker 1: But how did you feel about Nightmare Loofy?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Where he had all the shadows?
Speaker 2: That was such a cool sequence.
Speaker 3: I actually absolutely loved Lola and her little crew.
Speaker 2: They were they were.
Speaker 3: Super duper helpful in the last leg of the arc,
so I enjoyed.
Speaker 4: Remember do you remember what they what they explained to
the straw hats Lola and them did? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So she had lightly mentioned that her mother gave
her a paper and that this paper will kind of
lead her to her wherever her mother is in the world,
and if she ever needs help, she just follows the
paper and we find that I don't know if I
think was this Alabasta that Ace had put a piece
of paper inside of Lufy's straw hat. Yeah, and then
Lufy was like, oh, I have this piece of paper
and the paper started burning up, oh, which was absolutely
not normal, And Lola's like, uh oh, that means your
brother is in trouble. So we kind of get this
sequence of like, oh, are we gonna go try to
save him? And then you hear Lufy go, well, he
can do it on his own. He's strong enough, and
I think he would be really really upset at me
if I were to want to bail him out of this.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you remember that and can made all
the connections. I will say. Oda is just so good
with that, Like he dropped that viver card or whatever,
like whatever they called it whatever early on in Alabasta.
Now we got Lola introducing it, Loofy looks at it,
foreshadowing potential future events or like just that we know
that Ace is probably in trouble or mid fight, the
same way the straw hats are, right, yes, something like that.
So do you have any predictions for the future?
Speaker 3: So I kind of already know who Charlotte Lola's mom
is and it's because I play her in my one
piece deck.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Boca, you're spoiled. Okay, you got spoiled.
I'm saying bookcause you played Big Mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fan liss came out last night.
Speaker 3: You can't play Big Mom and Kategori in the same
deck anymore. Apparently that's just too broken. But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I hate Big Mom.
Speaker 4: I hate Oh dare you what?
Speaker 2: He's so broken series?
Speaker 4: Because you haven't.
Speaker 2: Godness.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you might be the only one here. Any
other predictions based off of stuff that we've seen in
this arc or just in general.
Speaker 3: I all I know up until this point is that
we are trying to head to Fishman Island, and I
I told you guys a little bit ago. I did
go a little bit past through their bark. And it's
because some of my friends their next arc, I think
it's Subody is their favorite pre time skip arc, and
they have been wanting me to watch, like watch it
because they want to.
Speaker 2: Watch it with me.
Speaker 3: So I got through like two episodes of Sobody, and
I got through the filler. I absolutely love the filler,
except for the Foxy episode.
Speaker 2: Why does Foxy keep coming?
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I forgot there was a Foxy episode here,
could you?
Speaker 1: So I haven't watched the Park. I haven't watched anime
filler or one piece filler in so long. I watched
it the first time I watched the anime, like when
I was thirteen years old? How many? What like fifteen
years ago? Jesus Christ. But like since then, whenever I watched,
I skip the filler. I can't take it, honestly.
Speaker 4: Same. So now I'm really curious what do you mean
by Foxy water Park? Like they were.
Speaker 2: At a water park.
Speaker 3: Time gone there and they meet like these two girls.
You know, the girls are just kind of chilling. They
wanted to do something about a five leaf clover. I
just remember watching this episode and I was like, I
have to get through this. I'm not happy about it.
And then you see Foxy and his crew show up
and they want to rematch with the straw Hats, and
it's like, you guys lost, leave them alone.
Speaker 4: So they have like a rematch at the water park. Yes, interesting,
I might have to go back and watch that one.
Speaker 2: He's like, why is he still alive?
Speaker 4: Well, how else is he gonna become the Pirate King.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, but he was a funny sequence. He's like
Ilu improved my slow slow beam and he had like
a bunch of like mirrors or whatever, so his slow
soabeam can like reflect off of those and it could
go everywhere.
Speaker 2: And it's just so silly, and I was kind of like,
I just want this to be over.
Speaker 1: She might need one pace, like a hundred episodes. I
am people hate on one pace. I am a big
one Piece enthusiast, a one pace enthusiast. It just cuts
out all the filler and all the bullshit, and like
it just closer to the manga, which is the best
form of the sort of material. Like, I'm as much
as like One Piece is my favorite manga, it's not
my favorite anime. I like it because I like the manga,
you know, like.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like One Piece, but it's just the pacing is
so fucking bad.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I am excited for Saba Odi. That's what
we're gonna do next time. Yeah, do we have anything
else that we're missing here?
Speaker 3: I I'm gonna miss Parhona. I don't know if we're
gonna see her again. I thought she was just such
a fun character.
Speaker 1: Do you know what who was power to do? Any
ideas around that?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: I there was something with Kuma that I was like, WHOA,
what the heck? I didn't know he was like a
robot like doctor Vega Punk built him, and I have
a vague idea who Vegapunk is, And I'm like, dang,
Vega Punk gets mentioned this early is insane.
Speaker 1: I think Vegapunk gets mentioned a decent amount, but you'll
have to wait and see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I got told that that his arc is really good,
so I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: So at this point in the story, sorry for me.
I remember being like, I want to go to Wanta,
I want to go to Fishman Island. I hope there's
probably gonna be some shit going on with with Ace
at some point, Like you're just trying to see all
the things that are being like foreshadowed and say where
they're gonna they want to go. I've been looking forward
to Albath for a long time because I know Usop
has mentioned he wants to go to Albath. So those
are some things you should have in the back in
your back in your head based off of like usops
that he wants to go to like see those great
Warriors because he saw Dorian Broggy and then in and
his lobby, he saw the other two giants as well,
and he said he wants to go to Albath one day.
But yeah, don't she already knows that they're not going
to fish Man Island next, because did you get into
Saba Odi at all?
Speaker 3: I got to where they basically arrived, and they're gonna
save Hotchie Hatchi, our boy Heartchie all the way back
from our long part, Yes tell me.
Speaker 1: And that was a mistake the live action made. There
was no Hatchie, which is the long run.
Speaker 4: I am curious about that.
Speaker 1: I think they're just very short side excited. They're like,
h that's five hundred episodes from now, or maybe they
didn't think about it or something. I don't know. I
want to know what their planet is because Hatchi is
a relevant character multiple times in the series. Is yeah,
and then they didn't have him in Fishman Island.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's it's weird too because UH stuff always ends
up coming back in UH in one piece right like
it it's almost never relevant right away, Like people are saying,
Kobe mentioned Vega Punk like back in Water seven, right,
and then you wait comes back. It's gonna keep coming
back for Hatchie. As I was reading through thriller Bark,
he's on the uh like the cover art of like
a lot of the different chapters and stuff. So it's
like we haven't even gotten to Subbodie yet, but like
he's on so much like just random cover art uh
leading up to it, where you there'll be like certain
characters where it just shows you kind of what they're
up to in the world, And I don't know, it's
always interesting that that approach to like give you that uh,
that foresight a little bit sooner, right, It's.
Speaker 1: True, and I feel like they could just make them
meet Hauchi in Sad and then like go through the
event similar, but it just adds so much more weight
when you know that he was originally on ar Lung's
crew and then maybe left our long at some point
after the straw Hats took them out, and then you
go into what happens in Sad, it's just like you're
gonna be missing that element, which just makes me sad.
Speaker 4: Are you guys excited for season two? I guess we
haven't really talked about Godness, trailer came out.
Speaker 3: The person that they cast for Nico Robber the Chef's Kiss,
They honestly coked with the cast.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anybody on the cast. I'm just
like wow that.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited. I can't wait to see it
in action, and I hope it lives up to our expectations.
Speaker 3: I got emotion at the end of it because you
see Laboon the straw hats sailing into his.
Speaker 1: Mouth, and you do see a giant your door. You're broggy.
You see Laboon, you see Smoker, you see vv you
see Robin, you see little Garden. Oh my god, do
you see?
Speaker 4: People know how they're gonna do Foxy. They they built
him up so much with that wanted poster in season one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually down. They better do one episode for
fox Give me one episode considering how much he is
in the fucking animate with I want a Davy back.
Speaker 4: Fight foreshadow that future.
Speaker 3: Pirates, just one scene, please.
Speaker 4: I do like that. They said that they shot a
lot of season three and like already announced that along
with season two, because that's one of my biggest worries
with the live action is like actors age compared to
like drawing, right, so they're flying through it.
Speaker 1: But on the bright side, like these aren't children for
the most part, Like there they are adults obviously, loofy.
You have to be a little bit more concerned with that.
You want them to have like a youthful appearance. But
for like I feel like Sondry and Zoro, I feel
like it doesn't matter that much if they're like three,
four years older, they look a little bit older, like
they're adults at the end of the day. Well, you'd
be very careful with kids, because that's two three year
different with kids. Dude, in three years, they're a whole
fucking different person.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, stranger things like like in three started, yeah,
ten years old.
Speaker 1: It's crazy how much they've those stranger things, Like characters
have changed over the years and grown so fast.
Speaker 4: But if they're like like like he's in high school, yeah,
it's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But like what I'm saying, like five years
go by for like someone like Zoro or Saundry, like
give them a little bit of makeup and like you're
not gonna be able to notice that much of a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, let me play Devil's advocate here, Briggs, what
what about once they introduced Brooks. Okay, you got an
actor that's ninety nine hundred years old. You gotta start
filming quick. Okay, there's no more time for dilly dallying. Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also want to mention the there was another filler episode.
Speaker 2: I actually really enjoyed. It was Brooks filler episode.
Speaker 3: How he was kind of like trying to fit in
with the crew and you see him trying to help
each of the straw Hats with you know, their daily tasks,
and him just kind of ruining whatever they were trying
to do.
Speaker 2: He had Sonjy.
Speaker 3: He was like, all right, you can clean the dishes,
and here's Brooke almost breaking all the dishes. You see Nami,
you know, she's drawing her map. He spills tea all
over her map. And you see Chopper trying to dry
out his medicinal herbs but he accidentally exploded some soy
sauce on it.
Speaker 2: And uh.
Speaker 3: There's this one moment between Brooke and Robin that made
me very emotional because he was asking Robin if she
needed any help with anything, and she was like know,
and they had this very heartfelt conversation of how Robin
felt like the only way she felt like she could
be belong on the crew and thank them for everything
was for her to be able to sacrifice herself at
Any's lobby. And you know, she understands how Brooke he
feels kind of like you can't he isn't like fitting
in or whatever that was, and you kind of see
her have that pep talk with him, and it was
It was a pretty good filler episode. I think if
there is a filler episode to watch, definitely that one
because you kind of see two straw hats who kind
of weren't part of I guess, like.
Speaker 2: The original, right, that's cool their experiences.
Speaker 1: I love when they do stuff like that for filler
and actually make it like catch up on some of
these characters that we haven't maybe seen as much or
certain perspectives of.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I do love, like in particular the episodes where
they're just kind of in between arcs and it's just
the crew going about their day to day life. It's
just that slice of life anime fan me. So I
need to go back and watch that episode at some point.
Speaker 1: I think. But then that's something I appreciated a lot
with like the first five hundred episodes a one piece,
you did get a lot of like between island stuff.
I do feel like later on they're like they don't
spend that much time going from island to island, or
like after an arc or before an arc, like like
we got a whole post Water seven like little arc,
and then they they're traveling and they're spending episodes, they
run into a ship like Brookship, and then they end
up with like a thriller bar. There's a lot of
stuff that happened like along the way places. I don't
really feel that very much in the newer arcs. It
might just be because we're stuck in an arc sometimes
for four years, three years, like reading it weekly. So
maybe that's why I'm not feeling it. But and then
you do get it. It's like a one chapter maybe
who knows, not even.
Speaker 3: From my understanding, it's because I hear my friends who
are all cut up with one Piece. The way they're
trying to explain it to me is that the stakes
just keep getting higher and higher and there is really
isn't really much time to goof around. So I think, yeah,
that's why they had let me know, like enjoy one
piece now because it's going to kind of be a
different show as the show kind of goes on, But
does enjoy like the shenanigans and the dynamics between the characters.
Could you kind of see a little bit less and
less on that as time goes by and episodes kind
of keep.
Speaker 1: Rolling, Do you see less of it? Or it's just
like you don't notice it as much when you're reading
it weekly, because like a fight sometimes takes two months
to read.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's insane.
Speaker 4: I feel like I would have likes to cover his
bases as far as like, yeah, if you meet twenty
new characters in an arc, he's going to elaborate on
a good portion of him, right, And there's there's only
so much like screen time or pages to go around.
So it's just I don't know, it's already such a
long series. It's just the focus has to be somewhere, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I say this all the time. When I
entered high school, I made like a reaction or something,
or like a review you on a Dress Rosa episode,
And then four years later I was graduating and Dress
Rossa was still going on like one one arc.
Speaker 4: I still remember whenever I uh, you know, I'm not
I'm just gonna close my mouth as far as well, yeah,
as far as what happened, but whenever I first caught up,
it was, uh, it was not far after like where
we're at now, like that long ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then yeah, and then I like I remember
going week the week for so long there and stuff,
and then eventually I think Dress Rossa was where I
like set the anime down to start reading it instead,
but uh, yeah is.
Speaker 1: Where I fought the anime down and started reading it
instead too. I was watching weekly since like remember, I
can't even so I don't even know if I want
to say the ARC's name.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't want to, but
like it's I don't know. One Pieces just been going
and going for so long, so like you're getting into
it now beside, but don't worry. A decade from now,
you'll still you'll still be going week the week, just
waiting for them telling your kids about the you know,
the time the you know Lufy's journey started.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I used to make jokes about like I
can't wait, like I'm gonna get my kids into into
one Piece when I when I'm older. That's sad. I
used to make a joke like I'll probably still like
one piece priably still won't even be over if I
have a kid in the next like two three years
or something like genuinely one people won't even be close
to being done. Like it's fucked.
Speaker 4: So I'm saying, I know I'm not going to finish
it in my lifetime because I'm never gonna end, so like,
I need my grandkids to carry on that legacy for
me to see how it ends.
Speaker 3: Okay, have you seen that baby on TikTok. There's like
a whole TikTok account where this guy is every single
day showing one episode on one Piece to his baby,
and like there are people in the comments like I
need to get ahead. I can't let this baby beat me.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. Next time, I.
Speaker 2: Will link it to you both. It's so funny.
Speaker 3: I think the baby is like over three hundred, four
hundred episodes in and I'm like, damn, I'm behind.
Speaker 1: You're losing, You're losing.
Speaker 2: I'm losing to the baby.
Speaker 1: I love that concept. That's hilarious. If you watch one
episode a day, I guess it takes like three years
to catch up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, by the time the baby is like in preschool,
he's already cut.
Speaker 1: These kids in preschool. Actually, I've watched every episode of
One Piece.
Speaker 2: That's actually such a flag.
Speaker 1: I'm curly, and I'm curly in I can't I don't
want to say ARC names. I keep on doing that.
Speaker 4: It's so funny because like, I'm also scared to say
ARC names to spoil anything. But meanwhile, she'll be, oh, yeah,
in the card game, this is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a Land of Wana arch type like, yeah.
Speaker 3: The next set in Japanese is Five Elders, And I
was like, who are those people? And my friends are like,
don't even read the bottom of the car, don't even
look at it.
Speaker 2: Just look at what the car does. Don't even look
at the.
Speaker 1: Look at the met the Five Elders once.
Speaker 3: Plays, he wasn't really scared because they had released a
leader and it's Emu and it's just like this shadow
figure and I'm like, who's that?
Speaker 2: You like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't worry about that. That's nothing. That's nothing you relevant.
Why would that be a leader? Anyway? Did you see
at the end of thriller Bark the Monsters in the triangle.
Speaker 2: Oh, I wasn't paying attention to the monster.
Speaker 1: You missed the monsters. Okay, I've been since Thriller Bark.
It has been probably fucking ten years since I watched
Liller Bark. I haven't. I've had a theory about these
fucking monsters for thirteen goddamn years and it still hasn't
come to fruition. But I still believe because they haven't
covered it yet, like they haven't, Like really, I feel
like they have to, Like there's no reason he would
mention them. And given the location, we know Thriller Bark
is relatively close to Fishman Island. We know it's relatively
close to SABAD, relatively close to Marine HQ, and Thriller
Bark happened, or this triangle that Brooke got lost in
and Thriller Bark occurred in happened in whatever triangle? Is
it not the Bermuda triangle? They called it something else
in the anime triangle, it's based off the Brimmuda triangle,
based off that anyway, at the very Florian triangle and
at the very very end of the arc they mentioned that,
or actually at the very very beginning they mentioned that
people always go and disappear within these waters. Right, they've
been dissing up. You have not been coming out alive. However,
thriller Bark, the ship that Maria's on, it's a recent thing.
So this phenomenon of the Florian Triangle and people going
missing has been happening for decades and decades and decades
prior to this. This was not Maria's doing why people
were disappearing. And then they showed these like four or five.
I'm gonna send you the clip four or five, like
dark black monsters, creatures, And I can't say the theory
because that's spoilers. But even though it hasn't come true,
so it's not a spoiler, but it's going it's going to.
Speaker 3: Be a spoiler because I had actually this conversation with
one of my One Piece friends recently. He was telling me,
he was just like, you know, the one Piece fan
theories are crazy, and I was like, what do you mean?
And I guess there was a theory some guy had
posted like thirteen years ago on like Reddit or something
on a forum, only for it to come true like
thirteen years later.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: And he was just like, yeah, some of the one
Piece fan theories are actually insane.
Speaker 2: They can just they can see the future.
Speaker 3: Some of these theories are actually cooking, and I was
just like, don't tell me what they are.
Speaker 2: Let me find out myself.
Speaker 4: It is fun to like look into those at times, though,
because it is like a whole community unto itself just
because of how good O what it is at like
laying groundwork for stuff. Right, So it's like, not all
of it's gonna be true, about ninety percent of it
usually isn't, but like but when it is, it's like, oh, yeah,
that was obvious that he made that clear ten years ago.
Speaker 1: My favorite theory was that Crocodile used to be a
woman and he will be the best girl. He will
be best girl.
Speaker 2: Not big Mom.
Speaker 1: Not big big Mom is currently best girl. But you know,
if Crocodile was Crocodile.
Speaker 4: My favorite villain, you know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I shared the video with you in the rac
fe open chat thing. The monsters.
Speaker 3: Oh it was this scene. I remember I thought they
were mountains.
Speaker 1: Because they're they're as big as mountains. They're gigantic creatures,
and it implied that that this is why people were
disappearing and for the longest time, like the old is
going to have to do something with these guys, is
gonna have to do something.
Speaker 2: These guys out very randomly.
Speaker 1: I'm so close to Fishman Island and Marine HQ, and
and yet later.
Speaker 4: Those things were like the permuter triangles the thing, right,
And I think it's one of those things where it's
not people don't There aren't actually more shipwrecks there. It's
just like an old an old tail, like a you know,
an old wives tale. But you know, if there was
the reason for it, we don't know that, right, So
maybe maybe he's just never going to answer this question.
I could see that. Just leave it up to you
to uh your imagination.
Speaker 1: I want to say so many words right now, Jordan,
but I can't say any of them because it's all spoilers.
But it's not true. But like I'm connecting it to
things that are currently happening in the story, and I
feel like there's a connection and I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh, no, fair enough, I'm still midway through Juana, so
I I am.
Speaker 1: All that would be spoilers for you to too, Jesus.
Speaker 4: I say that I finished one, oh, but I'm not
far past that, right, So I'm a little bit behind to.
Speaker 1: Watch the eggshell thing. I'm a jiggy. I'm trying to
not say the word. You know, you know I didn't
Priority knows Egghead.
Speaker 3: Egghead Robin design, Oh my goodness, knows the.
Speaker 4: Fashion design.
Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for Fishman Island Robin to come by
because that's my favorite design of.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 1: Egg Head's like a nine out of ten arc.
Speaker 2: That's what I was told. That's what I was told to.
Speaker 1: Briggs. I agree with the theory. By way, let's go play.
That's what I'm talking about. It's gonna come in. If
there's gonna be a fucking connection. I swear to god,
Odo wouldn't do it. He's too goaded. He's too goaded.
It's gonna come in seventeen years later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so many different ways to tell stories, and
you're not wrong in saying that Oda is like the
one that actually does connect all the little bitty threads
to like make it come together. Really well, I just
know there are other stories, kind of like JoJo's or something,
where it'll toss twenty million things out there and only
seven of them are relevant and then it just kind
of ignores the others. So yeah, I would have just
allowed to do that once or twice.
Speaker 1: It's true, and this is the Florian trying also, it
could just be like a thing within it. And that's
just like he wants to have that part of this
phenomenon as to why ship this a period. But I
just do feel like if you have these large, gigantic
creatures in this nearby location, they have to come into
play at some point. I might be wrong with my theories.
It might be something similar to a large elephant that
we know, or something similar to this or that. Who
knows what it is. I just think there's gonna be something,
and I hope he does do something for the.
Speaker 4: First time in a long time. I'm right there with you, Poseidon.
I know what it's like to be in the dark
as he's over here theorizing, like I don't know what
he's talking about.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm speaking trying together. I'm trying to
speak as vaguely as possible as well. But anyway, I
do think that's the end. Any final thoughts.
Speaker 2: Sidon Man, I love Laboon.
Speaker 1: Same, I think we all do. I'm excited for the
live action for that regard as well.
Speaker 4: Because I like saying God I love Laboom Laboon, probably
little bit more just because it says it spells guill
Gill's for fish. Fish have to ye, whales have gills?
I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not you know, I actually should know this question.
But you know what Google is great? Do whales have gills?
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm going on a little side tangent.
Speaker 1: The long better, the longer than.
Speaker 2: Ms.
Speaker 1: Okay, of mammals, I was gonna say. I was gonna
say that. I'm like, if they're mammals, would they not?
But I didn't want to sound stupid.
Speaker 4: I sound stupid now, thanks a lot, all right, thanks?
Speaker 1: Why can't a mammal have a gill? With bullshit?
Speaker 4: Alright? Man, I love laboon. It is mil mill anyway.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone enjoyed the episode. We will be back again,
hopefully in two weeks to cover Sabadi arch. I can't
say the word anyway. Take it easy, guys, himpoku