Episode 906, “The Power of Love” (With RogersBase & Marianne Bray)

Summary

The One Piece Podcast – Episode 906, “The Power of Love”

Hosted by: Zach (B), Alex (C), Ken (D), Marianne Bray (A), and RogersBase (E)
Guest: Marianne Bray (voice actress), RogersBase (YouTube creator)
Release date: February 16, 2026

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Overview

This week’s episode of The One Piece Podcast features a full manga recap of Chapter 1174, “The Strongest Thing in the World,” a deeply emotional segment in Elbaf’s saga. The hosts and guests – including the return of YouTube personality RogersBase and voice actress Marianne Bray – discuss the live-action Season 2 trailer, parent-child themes in One Piece, and review a chapter packed with high-stakes, emotional sacrifice, and a truly monstrous reveal.

The conversation highlights family, love, and community as the central themes, contrasted sharply by the sadism of the arc’s main villain. The cast also explores parallels between the Elbaf kids and the Straw Hats, offers thoughts on villainous comeuppance, and celebrates the artistry and mythic scale Oda brings to the manga.

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Key Segments and Timestamps

1. Introductions and Banter

[00:57 – 06:00]

• Zach, Alex, and Ken introduce returning guests: Marianne Bray (voice of Pompeii) and RogersBase (YouTube).
• Recap of where RogersBase has been and his previous episodes, referencing the Saul and Robin reunion chapter.

Notable Quote:
"You can’t belong to anyone. Your actressing knows no bounds." – Zach, to Marianne [01:48]

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2. One Piece Live Action Season 2 Trailer Reactions

[06:00 – 13:35]

• The team dissect the new trailer, praising set and costume design, practical effects, and the inclusion of minor manga characters (e.g., Mr. 13, the Unluckies).
• Observations about increased budget, hidden story elements (e.g., Karu’s deliberate omission), and the joy in capturing Oda’s quirky details.
• Discussion on the making-of book releasing close to Season 2.

Notable Quote:
"Doesn't appear that Karu is going to be in this season, but I have a feeling that it'll probably show up in season three, because, like... there's no reason to have Karu on...with the crew.” – Alex [07:51]

[13:35 – 15:20] News In Brief:

• World fan events planned for the live action launch (LA, Mexico City, Brazil, Europe, Asia).
• First 155 chapters of One Piece available for free through Viz until April 10 for a reread "East Blue Challenge."

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3. Rereading One Piece and “Final War” Timeline Theories

[15:21 – 18:09]

• RogersBase discusses the timing of his own planned reread, after finishing Bleach, and how the series’ “end” keeps extending.
• Speculation on One Piece’s endgame and author Oda’s years-long pace.

Notable Quotes:
"I do feel like by this time next year, we're entering Final War. Like, we're getting there. So it's close.” – RogersBase [16:55]

"I don’t know. I used to say 2027, but I… No way in hell, in my opinion, is it ending.” – Zach [17:20]

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4. Manga Recap: One Piece Chapter 1174, “The Strongest Thing in the World”

[21:57 – 63:06]
Detailed, page-by-page breakdown and impressions.

Opening and Reader Request

[24:08]

• Humorous recounting of the cover story: Roger going on a walk with a T-Rex, Mario Odyssey-style.
• Banter about mustaches and inside jokes from past episodes.

The Stakes – Elbaf Kids on the Edge

[27:44]

• The tension as the giant children, under the spell of the arrow, march toward their doom — off the edge of Elbaf’s “branch.”
• Summers (the arc’s villain), delighted by the cruelty, contacts his henchmen. Giants and parents make desperate but futile efforts to save their children.

Parental Despair and Villainy on Display

[31:25]

• Summers’ delight at the parents’ anguish:
  “All those parents, right at arm’s length, unable to touch… forced to witness their beloved children plummet to their deaths. Now that’s a deliciously depraved way to die.” – Summers (impersonated by Alex) [31:25]
• Parental pleading, physical harm, and futility as the arrow’s curse cannot be broken.

Children’s Guilt and Confessions

[38:46]

• Kids begin to self-blame, convinced they’re being punished for being “bad children.” Flashbacks to minor misbehaviors and their parents’ scoldings.

Parental Sacrifice: The Power of Love

[45:36]

• Ripley breaks through the barrier of thorns, embracing her son Colin—injuring herself to shield him.
• Other parents, grandparents, and even a surrogate mother (Angie) cling to their children, ready to die together rather than allow them to perish alone.
• Emotional montage of flashbacks reflecting on the nature of “bad kids” and parental love.

Notable Quote:
"All we can do is watch helplessly as our children plummet off the edge before our eyes… Curse you, foul demons." – Giant parent [37:21]

Villainous Glee

[52:18]

• Summers lavishes in the suffering with lines like:
  “Look at that. Like scraps of garbage falling down to hell. It makes my heart tremble. Oh, what a saga of emotions… Stupid mothers, stupid fathers. Martyrs for love.” [52:57]

Miraculous Rescue: Loki and Luffy Intervene

[53:16]

• Just as all hope seems lost, the group lands on what appears to be the back of a massive, dragon-like beast—Loki’s true form, awakened via his ancient giant Devil Fruit.
• Luffy, in Gear Five form, cheerfully helps usher the kids to safety, as Loki warns:
  “Listen up, once we’re up there, I need you off my back at once. This will prevent me from fighting!” – Loki [54:27]

Elbaf Legend Realized & The Drums of Liberation

[56:27]

• The sky darkens; thunder, snow, and the “Drums of Liberation” pound as Elbaf’s prophecy is fulfilled: with the union of lightning and snow, a vast beast appears to blanket the sky—and with him, the Sun God will appear.
• Double-page spread: Loki as the enormous Nidhogg dragon, dwarfed by the immensity of his powers and Luffy’s presence. The defeated villain is finally terrified.

Notable Quote:
"On an exceedingly rare day when lightning and snow combine, a vast beast will blanket the sky with its presence. And with the sound of the drums of liberation, the Sun God will appear." – Jarl, Elbaf leader [58:02]

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5. Chapter Impressions & Thematic Discussion

[61:07 – 65:39]

Mythic Scale & Storytelling

• Praise for the scale of Loki’s transformation:
  “Kaido in his dragon form is the size of one of Loki's horns.” – RogersBase [59:57]
• Discussion of Oda’s use of Norse mythology, connections to Final Fantasy, and parallels to the mural in Elbaf’s lore.
• Reflections on the enormous stakes: “This feels like the beginning of the end.”

Love as the Strongest Thing

• Multiple hosts (especially Alex and RogersBase) link the chapter title and events to parental love as the ultimate force—relatable both to parents and all forms of family, biological and otherwise.
• Discussion about the impact of the chapter from a parent’s perspective and how Oda’s storytelling on family has deepened over the years.

Notable Quotes:
"This chapter is called the Strongest Thing in the World… it’s obviously the love of a parent." – Alex [81:57]
"Every once in a while, Oda just creates a total piece of shit that… you hate them, but you like seeing them chew the scenery." – Alex, on the villain Summers [76:08]
"He struck a very interesting balance where you really hate them, but you also, I don't know, you like seeing them chew the scenery a little bit.” – Alex [77:18]

Villainy and Comeuppance

• Summers is compared to villains like Spandam and Orochi: an irredeemable, yet almost comical, sadist.
• Speculation that Summers or all three God Knights will face poetic (and possibly “Saturn-style”) fates.
• Discussion of how powers and regrets might shape the arc’s endgame, including speculation about reversals, Devil Fruit awakenings, and the ultimate role of love and found family.

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6. Character Parallels & Hidden Meanings

[85:00 – 93:26]

• Alex color-codes a spreadsheet with One Piece’s Elbaf kids and their Straw Hat parallels, proposing each child embodies an aspect of the crew.
• The significance of Joanna’s “found family” moment resonates with readers who connect with adoption and chosen families.

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7. Dis Piece: Listener Questions & Games

[114:43+]

• Dozens of community comments: universal hatred for Summers and emotional reactions to parental sacrifice; hopes for villainous retribution ("Saturn’d," i.e., being obliterated when failing the boss).
• Fun challenge: All panelists randomly generate a Devil Fruit and explain how they'd use it. Hilarity ensues, especially as Zach draws the "jacket jacket" fruit.

Notable Moment:
"You just got the worst devil fruit. The jacket fruit always comes up as, like, one of the worst." – RogersBase [136:36]

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8. Rapid-Fire: Straw Hat Birthdays and Other Q&A

• How would the Straw Hats celebrate their birthdays? (Luffy: eating; Nami: extortion; Robin: reading; Sanji: cooking for all, or... porn)
• Is Loki’s dragon form secretly cute? (Consensus: even Oda’s monsters are a little adorable.)

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9. Community, Plugs, and Closeout

[154:34+]

• RogersBase plugs his Youtube/Bleach readthroughs; Ken promotes the One Piece Art Collab; Alex and Marianne share upcoming events and roles.

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NOTABLE QUOTES

On Parental Love:
"You will literally do anything for your kid. If these parents didn't do this, it would not… this would not have worked. It would be a shittier manga." – Alex [84:06]

On Summers (the villain):
"Look at that. Like scraps of garbage falling down to hell. It makes my heart tremble. Oh, what a saga of emotions it could have been." – Summers [52:57]

On Chapter Scope:
"This was one of the first panels where I really was like, 'Oh, I get what you mean.' …when you connect this with Fishman Island, Shirahoshi, Sea Kings…it’s like, things are going to get nuts as we get into these last few…this last saga of One Piece that we're in." – RogersBase [65:37]

On the Live Action Trailer:
"All the beasties, and I'm really loving that." – Alex, on the practical effects [07:51]

On the God Knights:
"There’s layers of evil to these guys and privilege and all that. …There's something about these guys versus the Celestial Dragons where the Celestial Dragons are sort of just, you know, literally one note and they're supposed to be that way." – Alex [80:06]

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SUMMARY: WHY THIS EPISODE IS ESSENTIAL

• Deep Dive into Parental Love: The community’s own parents and non-parents alike are moved by Oda’s most heart-wrenching display of family bonds since the series began.
• Villain Analysis: Summers enters best-villain territory – unmatched in depravity since Spandam and Orochi.
• Season 2 Live Action Hype: Early breakdown of trailers and anticipation for the next wave of One Piece media.
• Art, Mythology, and Scale: Rich discussion of how Oda blends Norse legend, Japanese storytelling, and sheer spectacle in the latest chapter.
• Community & Fun: Through games, theorycrafting, and warm conversation, the episode balances heavy subject matter with trademark podcast levity.

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LISTEN FOR…

• [36:02]: Marianne’s moving voice acting for the kids’ pages.
• [45:36]: The emotional breaking point as Ripley hugs Colin.
• [53:16 & 57:51]: Loki’s gigantic, mythic reveal—a jaw-dropping manga moment.
• [81:57 & 99:47]: Reflections on parental love as the arc’s deepest message.
• [114:43+]: Dis Piece’s chaotic Devil Fruit challenge.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

This episode delivers on every level: heartfelt, funny, and packed with insight, Episode 906 is essential for any One Piece fan looking to understand both the manga’s narrative power and the passionate spirit of the community that loves it.

“The strongest thing in the world” isn’t just the chapter’s title – it’s what bonds fans, families, and Straw Hats alike.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

This is the One Piece podcast, episode 906 for the week of Monday, February 16th, 2026. My name is Zach.

[C]

And my name is Alex.

[B]

And on today's episode, we have our official archivist for the One Piece podcast. Because we've been going on so long, we need someone to look things up for us. It's Ken.

[D]

Hey, everyone. Good to be back here this lovely February night.

[B]

Yes, it's this February that we're in right now.

[D]

Yes, this February. Yep.

[B]

I see what you're doing. And it's done. We have our voice actress. Voice act, not our voice actress. We have the voice actress for Pompeii. Marianne Bray is joining us. How's it going, Marianne?

[A]

It is good. I am your voice actress. I don't know what that means exactly, but I can be now. I can be now. I am the One Piece podcast's voice actress, whatever that means.

[B]

You can't belong to anyone. Your actressing knows no bounds. Last but not least, YouTube sensation. Still to this day, Roger's bass joins us once again. How's it going, Roger?

[E]

It's going awesome. I'm happy to be back. I love that. Throughout the years, that has just always been my title YouTube sensation. I'm a fan.

[B]

It will always. I like, started when I didn't really understand what YouTube was. Right now I kind of understand what YouTube is, but not enough. I do watch a lot more of my media on it. I. So, like, I, I get it. It just took me really, really long time.

[C]

Well, now you don't understand what TikTok is. So the cycle continues.

[E]

That's fair.

[B]

But TikTok is going to die, I assume soon ish, probably. Yeah, soon ish.

[E]

But also it's weird. It's also kind of on the rise among, like, shorts creators. And it seems like YouTube wants to copy it still with shorts. So it's like everybody's copying each other.

[B]

It's like, Roger, I want to say, I want to say congratulations on the air as well.

[E]

Oh, thank you very much. Appreciate it.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Japan.

[E]

In Japan.

[B]

That was.

[E]

Right. It was in Shiroshi, actually. Not Shiroshi. Not like the mermaid, but Shiroshi is the name of the town. It's a really, really cool samurai village. And so it was literally right outside the castle. And then we had lunch at this old grandma's house, literally right downstairs, which was awesome. So it was. Yeah. Absolutely fantastic. So appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[B]

Yeah. No, welcome to the. Welcome to the club. The club I was gonna. Yeah, Ken. So did you find out when was Roger last on? Did you find out?

[D]

I'm trying to figure it out. I'm pretty sure Roger was on. No, I did not find out exactly. But the last one I did find was Roger was on back in December 2024 on that podcast. I'm still trying to find the most recent one I'm looking.

[E]

Was that God Valley?

[B]

That'd be it. Yeah.

[E]

I feel like that.

[B]

No, God Valley was more recent.

[D]

No, that was when Robin met Saul again back in December.

[E]

Yes, actually. That sounds right.

[B]

That sounds right. And that was a big chapter. That was an awesome chapter.

[E]

I remember that.

[B]

Yes.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

And I did my job. There we go.

[E]

Well done. This is why you're so.

[C]

Really. Has it really been that long? Wow, that's.

[D]

Over here.

[E]

It must have been.

[C]

It's Buck Wild. Buck Wild, they say.

[E]

I feel like I was barely in the States last year. I feel like with the amount of traveling, the last 12 months has just been nutty. I was in London, so I was in London. I was in Paris for the. For Pokemon. For the previews for Pokemon. Japan for two whole weeks plus back and forth between New York, Vegas, Chicago, and la. And it was like, literally every week. I was somewhere else for about, like, I said, a year. So that makes sense. When you were like. When you were like. The last one would have been the Saul Robin chapter at the beginning. Elbaf. I'm like, that tracks. I could have sworn there was one during God Valley, but maybe it was because I was listening in and I.

[D]

There might be. There might be more. That's just the only I could find right now with my limited search.

[B]

Well, you're gonna be on forever 900th, but I got norovirus. You also had some other thing.

[E]

That's what it was for sure is that. Yeah, we all got sick and everything got delayed. Yes. Yes.

[B]

Yeah. Maybe I should schedule these things during the time everyone gets sick next time.

[E]

To be fair, how you scheduled this one was perfect. I'm Happy I was able to make it. So that's great.

[B]

Yeah. This. So ODA knows we discussed this before, that Roger was coming on. That's why it was such a good chapter this week. That's right.

[E]

That's right.

[B]

So we need to. I think we said this last time. We need to have Roger on more. So there's just like banger chapter after banger chapter. You can't have too much of a good thing at ruin. It dilutes the whole thing.

[E]

Exactly. You gotta be special. I'm a little. I'm a little sprinkle you put on the top of your birthday cake every once a year.

[B]

A little sprinkle I put on my birthday cake.

[E]

December. I just missed your birthday last year, unfortunately. I apologize.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, so long. So long, YouTube sensation. Hello, little sprinkle.

[E]

Little sprinkles, actually fun.

[B]

Is it?

[E]

I love it. I love it.

[B]

Well, we'll ask the YouTube comments for that. I like it before. Yeah. Also, Roger, great having you back. Roger, for those who don't know was also, we were talking about it just before with, like, a constant may stay mainstay during whole cake island.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Which feels like eons ago, because I kind of was eons ago. Pre pandemic. Yes. Yes.

[E]

Pre pandemic.

[B]

Yeah. So, yeah, we're always glad to have Roger on Always glad to be here news. Always glad to have you. I have to have the final word in being happy.

[E]

Please, go ahead. Fine. That's fine. Yeah, I hate you too, man. No, no, it's fine. Go ahead.

[B]

Yeah. So did you guys see the trailer for the One Piece Live Action that just came out this past week?

[C]

No, I'm kidding.

[D]

This new trailer.

[E]

I had no idea.

[B]

I'm sure you was that.

[C]

I think Ken. Ken. Ken can really, like, sell the sarcasm.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, I can. Yeah. No, it's great. I love that trailer. I am. I was already hyped, ripped. Now, like, I'm more sold than ever. And I think that, like, to people who don't watch One Piece, that new trailer again, Come Sail Aways. I don't know how good that is for. But people who don't know will, like, oh, they'll eat that up. It's good for the comedy.

[C]

I was like, oh, a needle drop. I mean, I guess this is Netflix. And I wonder also if, like, they had just gotten the rights to a whole bunch of 80s songs during, like, the Strange Stranger Things. I didn't even consider, like, sure, sure, we've got this. So let's just plop that on there and.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And worked out. No, I. I think it's a lovely trail. It's really cool. It actually got me. I popped at the stuff that I. You know, you wouldn't think that I.

[B]

Would pop at the unluckies. The unlucky.

[E]

That's still amazing to me, the fact that they.

[C]

Mr. 13, like, just, like, waddling around. Like, I'm. I'm actually kind of, like, I'm kind of shocked at the. At the budget.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, because I feel like. I feel like, compared to the first season, relatively, like, you know, much, much, much higher.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Especially in the effects department, like, they're going all in on the little beasties, and I'm really loving that. Doesn't appear that Karu is going to be in this season, but I have a feeling that it'll probably show up in season three. Because, like, there's no. Honestly, there's no reason to have Karu on, like, with. With the crew.

[E]

I also kind of think they might be, like, withholding him because of Vivi. Right. I feel like that's a big.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

I think there's a lot of stuff that's, like, cut around or that they're not showing because of the fact that they don't want to, like, spoil the Vivi twist for people. Sure.

[C]

No, I totally get that, too.

[E]

I think. I think at the very least, we'll see. I think you're right in that he's mostly Alabasta, but we're definitely going to see a glimpse of him this season, no doubt about it.

[C]

Yeah. He's very important in Alabasta, that's for certain. What else made me pop? I really loved, like, Wa Paul, of course, Correa.

[D]

Something else.

[C]

Kureha. That was nice to see a case of Gaul, finally, and the makeup and stuff. But everybody who's followed the podcast for a long time knows that I am a Whiskey Peak lifer, and this is some of my favorite stuff in the series, so I'm especially looking forward to seeing that stuff. Mr. Nine looks incredible.

[E]

Were you popping off when you saw the bakery scene with Luffy? With Luffy and Igoram, it's, like, the level of detail. They went in to, like, show all the different buildings. It's amazing.

[C]

Yeah, it's really great. What the thing I really appreciate about everything in the live action is the production design more than anything else. The commitment to actually building sets and doing a lot of actual props and stuff, like, practical effects and all that, like, they could have just as. Just as easily. I don't know, did what they've done with Iron man and just, like, dress him. Robert Coletti up and like, just blew whatever and then CGI'd whatever the crap over him. But no, that's. That's a prosthetic mouthpiece. That's crazy.

[B]

Prosthetics always look better with that kind of thing. I love that, you know. Yeah. You want to be able to mix and match that kind of stuff. I think the dinosaurs, I thought, look great on Little Garden, so.

[C]

So there's another Netflix show called, like, Dinosaurs or some shit.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

And I wonder if they're like. And I wonder if they've Share assets. Like, that's. I'm. I'm like, I'm. My. I don't know.

[B]

They do look very good. Yeah.

[C]

My, my.

[B]

Yeah, you're very suspicious. You're cynical about Hollywood.

[C]

I'm not cynical. I'm just saying, like, what would be the most cost effective way to. To do this? Yeah.

[E]

I still am blown away by Laboon. I think Laboon, they really nailed, like, because the first time we saw Laboon in one of those early teasers, right. Like, Laboon looked menacing. But then when you get that shot of Laboon coming out of the water and this new one, I'm like, oh, they actually made Laboon cute. So it's. They did it. They hit a good mix, I think. And that's very hard to do with that look.

[B]

Yeah, I think they did a better job with that than the going Merry, which still looks somewhat horrifying.

[C]

I agree. It looks like it's got like the bones or whatever. I. I really do love.

[B]

But it's not cute. I would.

[C]

The pirate mark, that. Luffy's pirate mark on Laboon, I like how it's not like one to one with the manga and it has its own. It still looks like it's the same spirit a little more. Yeah, it's really great. I don't know. I'm really, really excited to see this play out.

[B]

Laboon does look great. Everything I saw in the trailer looks very good. I'm, as always, cautiously optimistic. I think the casting has always been insanely spot on. Oh, yeah, the set design, as you mentioned, they put everything into that and costume design generally to look one to one. Whether or not you like that, it definitely looks one to one.

[E]

And the use of, like, color spread costumes and stuff too. Like, I remember when we visited the set in Cape Town for season one.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I remember still vividly, like, how blown away I was looking at the costumes. And like, seeing the amount of love and detail and like walking into the costume shop and seeing all the sketches based off of Oda's color spreads and.

[B]

Being like, yeah, I completely forgot you did that.

[E]

Oh, it was. The thing is to.

[B]

No, it's a cool video. I suggest to.

[E]

A lot of people forgot I did it too, because I couldn't post it for like 12 months because of the sex strike. So I have. So I couldn't even cover. I couldn't cover any of the stuff for season one until the strike was over. And so I had recorded it pretty wild. Uploaded and then had to wait like another seven months. And by that point there were already things that kind of carried over into season two where it was like, well, I guess it's a good thing that I had to wait this long to upload it.

[B]

You could always. Yeah, you should, you should repost that. Exactly.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Every once in a while. Yeah, you should.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of fun to watch too, I think.

[C]

I mean, it's worth mentioning too that I think there's a. I think it's gonna, it's supposed to drop, I think close to the release of season two, but there's a making of book or an art of live action. So I think a lot of those sketches that you talked about might show up in that.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

And I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to that, like the project, like I am more than anything just really a fan of the projection design side of things here. It's, it's just, it's just real, real high quality stuff, at least from, from, you know, the viewer's eye. So that's always a plus.

[B]

And I'm Roger, we have to have you. Oh, no, we have to have you on when we talk about the live action and more details.

[E]

100%. I mean, literally, it's the day after my birthday is when it comes out. My birthday's March 9th. It drops on March 10th. So once if you guys do like a live action special or something, I'll definitely swing by for that.

[B]

Yeah, we'll bring, we'll bring. You could be the little sprinkle on top of our discussion.

[E]

I'll be your little sprinkle Per.

[B]

That's some other. There's some related news and that's that they're doing the fan events again. Let me get the full. So it's going to be LA is the one, I assume. Roger, are you going.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah, I assumed. I was going to assume that's on February 26th, it's in Mexico City on the 23rd, Brazil in March, Belgium for like a week, it looks like. And in Paris, Milan for the Olympics, I assume. No. March 6th through 8th. Is it still going? I don't think the Olympics are still going on. Malaysia, Tokyo, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Taiwan and Cape Town. Because how could you not. Of course, in Cape Town. So it looks like it's through March, you know, the latest. But like leading up it's the 10th that the season two comes out. Right?

[E]

That's it. Yeah.

[B]

March 10th. There you go. So very, very excited to hear more about that. I'm sure that'll be great. Completely different news. There is good news because I think it is probably to celebrate season two of the Netflix coming out. The first 55 chapters of one Piece are free through Viz. Nice until April something. Oh, I'm so prepared. April 10, that would make sense. That's a month after it comes out. So maybe that's why there's also. They're doing that like East Blue challenge thing again through Toy. I don't. Is there a prize or they're just challenging people. Maybe it's just their pride that they're. They have to put on the line.

[C]

I mean, just by the way, I feel like Ed would normally come in with this sort of stat. Chapter 155 is. Yeah, it's basically, I think where the season two is going to end up. That is the chapter where Crocodile makes his actual first public appearance. That makes perfect sense as the hero of Alabasta. So I think that's a great way for the season to potentially end.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, look, I'm already a subscriber for the Shonen Jump, but I want to reread those again. It's been a while since I've done like a full reread and I know once I get to especially like Alabaster, I'll be hooked in and have no free time again.

[E]

That is, to be fair, that's. That's my plan. Literally later this year. I've been holding off. That's like the. It's not like an emergency button type thing for. But for all the one piece YouTubers, we're all like, when are we finally gonna bite the bullet and like do a reread? And I was thinking about it. I really do feel like right now I'm going through a manga read through for the first time of Bleach. Because Thousand Year, I saw you doing that. Right. And it's been really fun doing it. Each of the Break weeks of the manga I've been covering.

[B]

Had you watched the anime. This was your first time with Bleach.

[E]

And in fact, two years ago or three years ago when I did the Naruto one was my first time watching Naruto. So I had no experience. One Piece was my only love as a kid. So I got to experience all of Naruto. And now I'm doing all of Bleach. And when Bleach is over, I feel that'll probably be the time to be like, all right, now I'm going to jump back to the beginning and like read all of One Piece because I do feel like by this time next year we're like entering Final War. Like, we're getting there. So it's. It's close.

[B]

To be fair, you probably said that last time you were on.

[E]

To be fair. We did. But I think we are like hitting 2027 and that's like the anniversary.

[B]

Did you say. Did you say this is ending soon? And I was like, I mean, kind of. But like, I still think. I mean like story wise we're definitely. You could feel it. Like we're in this chapter. I think.

[E]

Pacing wise. Definitely. Yeah.

[B]

But I. I don't know. I used to say 2027, but I. No way in hell. In my opinion. Is it ending.

[E]

I think.

[B]

I think so.

[E]

That's the cheat, right? Is that. I think there's a way he can get to a point where you're like, oh my gosh, are we actually like at the end in 2027? And it's like, oops, surprise. Here's another three years of the final arc. You know, Like, I think that is probably more of what we're looking at. We're not necessarily just like wrapping up next year. Obviously.

[B]

Well, let me know when you press that button for the reboot. I will let you know because. No, yeah, you don't have to.

[A]

It'll be like attack on Titan. 2027 is when the final arc will actually begin.

[E]

Exactly.

[A]

It'll be the final part.

[E]

600 that's. See Miriam. That's beautiful. That is. I'm also an Attack on Titan fan. That's exactly right. It's the triple final season technique.

[B]

I'll save for bleach. Then I'll move on to One piece again. But I was on Quest for the Best recently and it was sold to me as Tite Kubo trying to do like a Sailor Moon like, type of thing, like Magical Girl series. And it completely changed my perspective on bleach. Like I'M like, wow, that's pretty. That's. Yeah.

[E]

I gotta say, I'm enjoying it. I really. I didn't know what to expect going in. I had like heard music just. Cause like it is a. When you're going to anime conventions, right? And you're a person of our age. Right. I think like you just hear bleach and so you know certain songs. And so I think for me there was always stuff that I had recognized but not that I had known. So that like when you get to certain moments in the manga and you see certain characters, I was like, oh my God. That's the character I've seen cosplayed at events for the last 20 years that I had before.

[B]

They all are kind of wearing the same thing for a point in time.

[E]

A couple pretty distinct ones that again, I have no idea. They were even from bleach. So it's cool to like actually see them do something.

[B]

It was a brutal week to week thing. I can imagine why I fell off. It's. I. I don't. Or did you finish it?

[E]

No, I'm at chapter 341 right now. So I'm about halfway. I'm literally at the halfway point of the series. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Is that like Hueco Mundo, like where I just.

[E]

So I just finished that. We're in.

[B]

That's weird.

[E]

That's amazing though. You knew that. Yeah. It's the beginning of the Karakura Town fight stuff.

[B]

Okay. I fell off. I fell off.

[C]

I fell off. I think. I think I stopped reading about when Ikaku and Bankai. Because that's like. He was like my favorite. He was my favorite guy and I'm like, oh, okay, cool. He went. And then I totally, totally stopped reading it. Yeah, well, Kurosushi was my. My favorite favorite.

[B]

Which one was that?

[E]

The Frieza character? The scientist dude?

[C]

Yeah. It's. Oh, Yakuba's favorite character. Yeah. I did. I did, I think go back and read his very last chapter. Like his very last fight. Which I guess you haven't gotten to.

[E]

I haven't gotten to yet. No. I'm looking forward to. I also like the character though, so I feel like I'm excited.

[C]

No spoils. Yeah.

[B]

Well, I think if you go in now, like if I ever do a reread, I'm going to go in with the magical girl thing. Like he was trying to rip off not. What's the Yu. Yu Hakusho Hunter. Hunter author Togashi Takahashi but his wife is what he was trying to rip off. That's. Anyway, now that I've anchored all of those fans, I think they don't listen to this show. Yeah, this is one piece. Okay. We're gonna talk about, though. I'm very excited to talk about this week's chapter. We have some dads on me and Alex, at least to talk about manga chapter 1174. So let's get straight into it right after this.

[A]

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[B]

Gofundme.Com gofundme.com this podcast is supported by GoFundMe. This is the manga recap for chapter 1174, the strongest thing in the world. This chapter and all chapters are available at shonenjump.viz.com or mangaplus. Shueisha Co JP you can read them for free, legally, worldwide, the same time it comes out in Japan. That's pretty incredible. Let's first bring in Stephen Paul. And by that, I mean I will bring in a comment that he sent me, and I will read it. And he says, can I do a Stephen Paul? No one can do a Stephen Paul impression. Alex, can I do a Stephen Paul impression?

[C]

Maybe Give me the thing.

[B]

Oh, okay. Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm putting it right now. Yeah, go.

[C]

All right. Is this it?

[B]

This is it.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

I'm excited for this. Okay.

[C]

All right. Let me. Let me. Let me think of it.

[B]

If anyone can do it, it's Alex, I think.

[C]

Okay. Okay, good. I got it. After the chapter was released, the Eiichiro staff account on Twitter issued a correction to the title of the chapter where it was previously written using kanji. It is supposed to be written all in hiragana.

[B]

Hmm.

[C]

While it doesn't change the English translation, this makes it implicit that the Title is structured like the essays the Elbaf children were writing in school.

[B]

It's so subtle. I see what you were doing. I think it's a hard one.

[D]

You nailed it for.

[C]

Here's the thing. Steven just sounds like a regular guy.

[B]

That's the problem.

[E]

No, but you added the. Because I saw all of us do it live on the thing when I heard the.

[C]

Yeah, he'll do that. Like, everybody has, like, an activator. Like, that's the one.

[B]

Yeah, I think it was pretty good. I couldn't do that if you paid me, because, as you said, he just sounds like a guy. Yeah. So I thought that was pretty interesting. What? So that was pretty interesting. Alex, do you want to read what's going on on the COVID story?

[C]

Sure. Well, we're not reading one piece anymore. We are reading Super Mario Odyssey.

[D]

Nice.

[E]

Very time. Very good. Very good.

[C]

Yeah. Roger has given his cappy to a tyrannosaurus, and now he's the tyrannosaurus. That is. That is what is happening.

[B]

Very nice of you, Roger. Actually, this is perfect that you came on this week for this. Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Well, the reader request is Roger going on a walk with a tyrannosaurus he tamed like a puppy. And this is from Tokomon. And this. It's exactly what it looks like. It looks like he stole some pants from a white be.

[D]

Oh.

[B]

Oh, Roger.

[C]

You mean Roger, not the tyrannosaurus.

[B]

Oh, yeah, you're right. Those are wiper. A wiper. A. From one piece, which I guess that's not a term that exists.

[C]

Yeah, but it's funny because Wiper's got a mustache. Super Mario has a mustache. They both have, you know, caps that will transfer their soul into the body of whatever you put on.

[B]

Wiper has a mustache because that's Roger.

[C]

Did I say wiper?

[E]

I did not have a mustache, but this Roger has a mustache.

[C]

You know what Wiper does it like Wiper.

[E]

Wiper is cool.

[B]

You could rock a mustache, Roger.

[C]

That's.

[E]

I. My dad had one for years, and then he shaved it off, and then I cried, apparently. And so he grew it back. And then eventually it took until I was like 30 or something for him to Finally.

[B]

Finally.

[C]

That's so funny. I'm not allowed to shave my facial hair.

[B]

My dad has had a mustache for at least 40 or 50 years, and he shaved during COVID and everyone's like, no, go back. No.

[E]

Yeah, don't do that.

[B]

Yeah, don't do that again. But I was curious. I was morbidly curious. What could be under there that he's never.

[C]

I've never seen my dad without a mustache. It's very.

[B]

Yeah, I can't. Yeah.

[C]

But if I said wiper, I don't know why. That was a Freudian slip. But you're much of the white.

[E]

Why you said wiper. No, the reason you said wiper is because the very first episode I was ever on, we had. Because I vividly remember this very first episode I was ever on. There was a fake ad for butt wipers, which was the name of, like a dude wipes, remember? And there was like the photoshopped image of wipers sitting on the toilet.

[C]

I remember this.

[E]

Don't use pumpkins, use butt wipers.

[C]

That's funny.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

That's a 24 time ago.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. You know what? That's got to be it. That's it. That's definitely it. That's. That. There it is. That's why.

[B]

That's what was in your head, Alex.

[C]

Cool. Anybody else got anything to say about this? Cool. Cool.

[B]

It's cute. It's really cute.

[C]

I like this one a lot, Ken.

[D]

Marion, this is totally just a me thing, but did anyone else see the face in the top right corner?

[A]

No.

[D]

Face in the top right corner with the negative space. The two like. It looks like two eyes and a nose and a mouth.

[E]

Oh, it looks like flamingo glasses with the palm trees. I actually see it now. Oh, weird.

[D]

I saw that first. I'm like, oh, what is that?

[C]

Oh, I see it now.

[E]

I get it.

[C]

Yeah, Yeah, I kind of see.

[D]

It's totally not relevant.

[C]

It's just.

[D]

It's a me thing.

[C]

At first I was about to be really mad at you, Ken, because I can't. I famously cannot do magic eyes. And I thought this was a.

[B]

It's kind of like a magic eyes a little bit. You can't do magic eyes, Alex.

[C]

No, I can't. I've never been able to do it. And everybody's like, oh, cool. A dolphin. Like, yeah, okay, this looks like a pattern to me. Piece of ship.

[D]

It's a schooner.

[C]

Yeah, it's a sailboat, you dumb bastard.

[B]

Wow. You get angry about that.

[C]

It's not a scooter. It's a sailboat. Yeah.

[B]

Okay, Alex, why don't we start the chapter?

[C]

Why don't we?

[B]

All right.

[C]

So when last we left everybody, the giant Nika Sleep tid basically crashed into the kidnapper ship and was destroyed. And. And that's where we leave off. Summers looks at the. Basically the havoc that the sleep tit has Wrought and goes, ooh, that's bad. Stupid, stupid sleep.

[D]

Go away. Lose the ship. And I lost the sea clouds.

[C]

And we see this really great overhead shot of this just giant hole in the clouds where there is just an abyss. So we see the giant veiny shaft of a branch with the kids walking on it with the arrow pointing out towards nothing, just leading to. To their doom.

[B]

Marianne was disturbed by your use of shit that way.

[E]

But it looks.

[B]

Have you seen the map?

[C]

Have you seen the map? I'm so sorry, but it's. It's like we. We've mentioned. I feel like we've mentioned every single episode at this point, and I. I feel like it bears mentioning again. Oda did not have to do this. He did not have to. He did not have noticed that.

[A]

And now I can't unsee it. And I'm right there with you.

[E]

I'm right there with him area. And I've never noticed that in my life, which is crazy. And now I.

[B]

A fan pointed it out. And now. Or maybe Alex, I don't know.

[C]

No, it wasn't me. I've barely been on the podcast lately.

[B]

It must have been Alex.

[C]

I was waiting for the zoom in.

[B]

Damn it.

[C]

Okay, so, yeah, Summers is still riding on his little, like, Thorn snake or whatever. I. By the way, I love when Oda does this. Like. Like, I think the same thing happened with Perospero. He's just riding on a candy slug or whatever. Just. Yeah, I just made this thing. I'm not gonna even explain it. So. So Summers is, you know, continuing to monologue himself, you know, oh, this looks really bad for me.

[D]

The power of the ear is still active.

[C]

The kids are gonna walk themselves right.

[D]

Off the edge and splatter onto the mountainside below.

[C]

And he gets on his first. He sort of gets on his little phone snail, and he goes, gunko, stop the kids, Gunko. We need to pause the operation. And then he thinks, look at this.

[B]

Look at the Thorn snake's face there. That's an incredible face. That's.

[E]

It looks like the Beetlejuice snake.

[C]

The sand worm from Beetlejuice.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, definitely.

[C]

So, yeah, we have this. We kind of pull back and we sort of see the sleep kids wreaking havoc in the background. And Summers is on top of his sandworm talking, and he kind of stops himself a little bit and says, wait, that won't work. Great. Emu is inside of her right now. If I could just undo that arrow. But don't worry, the giants are trying to do that for you. Summers, the parents and grandparents of the kids are doing their damnedest to try and break the arrow, Hitting it with axes, biting it, pulling it, but to no avail. What's it made out of? We can't even scratch it. And then we hear mommy, Daddy, help from one of the. One of the kids. Well, I'll refer to the spreadsheet when we can get a clearer look at who that is. Doesn't matter who. And Summer says, it's pointless, you clowns. If you could stop it, I would have done so already. And then Summer's got an idea. He got a deliciously awful, evil idea. He says, wait, his heart.

[B]

He swung three silent sizes that day.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

He's like the Grinch looking down at Hoover.

[C]

You could probably do a good Grinch impression.

[E]

Just do Summers as the Grinch for the rest of the read through.

[B]

No, I like yours. Who are you doing as Summers right now? It's perfect.

[C]

I don't know. I was just. I wasn't doing an impression.

[B]

I'm just like, it's good. Sounds like a Hanna Barbera villain. And it feels right.

[D]

Alex was doing his Stephen Paul impression for.

[B]

Oh, God.

[C]

Yeah, that's my Stephen Paul impression. So he begins an inner monologue, and he says, wait. All those parents, right at arm's length, unable to touch due to the thorns and forced to witness their beloved children plummet to their deaths. And we go to the next page. No, that's a deliciously depraved way to die. As he huffs and huffs.

[B]

Stop making him likable. Like, I don't like this album.

[D]

How is that likable?

[B]

It was a funny voice.

[C]

He's too horny. He's got the. He's got the face of Dice from Film Gold, Right? Same Dice makes whenever he gets.

[B]

This is like a very. This is an Oda face that he does a lot.

[C]

No, he's having a lot of fun with this.

[B]

It usually is the piece of drool coming out. So I'm happy that that's not quite.

[E]

I mean, he's got a little drool on the edge of the tongue right there, but it's usually.

[B]

It's like a little. Like.

[C]

It's a little snot that I like.

[B]

Still gross. He's still awful. I just. I like the voice Alex was doing, but please.

[C]

So then, like, you know, he puts his sunglasses back on and goes. And I think it's worth it. And if anyone's at fault here, it's the great one who's controlling Gunko's Body. We can always march more kids over.

[B]

Here and claim the boss. That'll work out great.

[C]

Oh, yeah, No, I think goes, call their name. Scream your family love to the heavens. This is the real stuff. This is emotion. And he gets back on his transponders now and says, ahem, listen up, all you brats and PTA members.

[B]

The ones from the SBS, that's right.

[C]

ODA's basically calling out, yes, the PTA here. We were planning to have you taken safely and smoothly to the Holy Land, but due to an unforeseen accident, we seem to have lost the ship. And the sea clouds it rested upon. And we say the. The sleep did. Still. Still stabbing the ground in the background. And this means you'll be reaching your goal via the hilarious, tragic conclusion of.

[E]

Falling to your deaths.

[C]

We still. And we have. We have that overhead shot again, but we kind of zoom in a little bit more because the kids are. They're getting closer and closer to that empty dock. And the kids are starting to notice, hey, there's nothing there. If we keep walking, we're gonna fall off. These kids are great, too. What the heck? I'm on fire, Ton. And. And here comes O, who says, there's.

[B]

No way I'm going to let him.

[C]

Keep going, even if I have to give up my arms to do it. And he just tries to hold on with all of his might. His. His granddaughter. Right. And those thorns are going, I think boy.

[A]

Olav is a boy. According to the sheet. The reference sheet.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

Well, I did put pronouns, because I really don't know any of them.

[C]

If I had a third monitor, I would have the spreadsheet up on me.

[D]

Everything. Yes. The sheet, the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet with the giant kids. That sheet, yes.

[B]

Can we stop that sheet again?

[E]

Cusco spreadsheet.

[C]

Cusco spreadsheet. Thank you.

[D]

Thank you.

[B]

That's good.

[E]

I love it.

[C]

And yeah. Olav goes, Grandpa Oimo. And very clearly in pain with a stab, Stab, stab. Cyrus is still on the loudspeaker.

[E]

Oh, I'm afraid there's nothing you can do.

[C]

And killing him.

[B]

Winnie the Pooh mixed with the emperor and appropriate.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I guess that's true. Killing him is just sitting there kind of pissed off. He goes, what does Summers think he's doing? It took forever to get those kids to the port. Marianne, the deacified Killingham.

[B]

Sorry. Yeah, yeah. The one that we all don't like the design of as much.

[E]

Yes, yes, yes.

[B]

Yeah, he's a pretty boy now, Marianne.

[A]

Okay. All right, so we see Oimo crash to the ground and he says, damn it. I don't know if that's him screaming still, but someone, I think it's him going, argh. And then the kid, I presume we just said his name, Olav, is saying, Olav.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Not to be confused with Olaf, is saying, ow. Stop it, Granddad. Oimo, that hurts. And then he like lets go and he grabs his very bloodied arm and he says, I'm sorry, kids, forgive me. And then it looks like we got the old lady who's this kid was scared of her in the background going, oh, okay, Huff, that settles it. As long as that arrow doesn't disappear, there's no way to stop the children for sure. And then we pan over and we see Ripley and she says, there's. So we can't save them anymore. And another, another mom presumably says, oh no. Oimo's hands, by the way, are super duper bloodied just from trying to save his poor grandson. We get another overhead shot of the kids marching to their inevitable doom. As someone says, all we can do is watch helplessly as our children plummet off the edge before our eyes. If they fall into the underworld, we'll never even find their bodies. Curse you, foul demons. As all the loved ones of these kiddos stand on top of the cliff looking down. And of course, Summers is just laughing and laughing because he sucks. Next page if it will load. Thank you, Internet. There we go. Then we get these kids in a row and one of them in the back is saying, I think heaven is punishing me for doing bad things. Another kid responds, huh? And then one of the little girls says, that's what they said when I got scolded too. Me too. I wish I'd been a good boy. So we're all gonna die because we were naughty. No, I don't wanna. It zooms out and you see all the kids crying for their life. I swear I'll be a good girl. I swear. Help us spare our lives. I'm sorry. And Summers again with that shit eating grin on his face.

[D]

That face. Sunglasses off, sunglasses off.

[A]

So you can see just how giddy he is about.

[B]

I need to take my sunglasses off to be really evil. Doflamingo never even got to that point, right?

[A]

It's awful, right?

[E]

Laying still in a belt down with his sunglasses on. That's right.

[B]

So the kids, I believe. So I made a spreadsheet for those who don't know.

[A]

I didn't want to go back and forth and try To.

[B]

No, I get it. So from right to left in this line is Mag, who has no relatives that we know of. We have Karen, who also. We get introduced to their mom a little bit later.

[C]

Or is it Corrine?

[B]

Corinne? No, it's Karen.

[A]

It's probably Corinne. It's probably Karin, knowing Japanese pronunciation.

[B]

Oh, but it's crispy, but it's probably based on Viking something.

[C]

Sure, yeah.

[B]

Who is this? Is that 8 bent?

[C]

No, no, bent is back behind you.

[B]

Maybe that's one of the.

[A]

Is that Olav?

[B]

Who is.

[E]

I think that is Olav.

[B]

Actually, that is Olaf. That is Olaf. So that's Oemo's grandson, then. I believe that's Skaldi, who we don't know anything about except that he has cool goggles. And then Yiva. Am I pronouncing that right?

[E]

Well, you gotta say it correctly. You gotta say it the way Wally would say it.

[D]

Yor.

[B]

That is Jarl's great great granddaughter, who you would think, actually, everyone probably is, because it gets to a point where it's like, okay, and Colin, of course. Gabon. And Ripley's son, Believe it or not.

[A]

Yeah, please believe it or not. Speaking of Colin, he's in the next panel. He gets a nice little close up, and he says, I won't be bad anymore. And then we get a short little flashback, and it's his mom saying, remember, when you're a bad boy, the sun God is watching. Yeah, but I want it in a duel, so it's mine now. And he's proudly displaying a doll that looks so suspiciously a lot like Emmett. He's a little robot guy showing off to his mom. And then the next panel is her yelling at him, saying, if you're that strong, you should be gentler to the weak. Now go and apologize as she pinches his ear. Good.

[D]

Mom, can we talk about the Emmett doll for a second there? That I think has some pretty cool implications.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Especially considering. And we're gonna get right back to that, I'm sure, at the end of this chapter as well.

[D]

Absolutely.

[E]

So many connections and cyclical kind of things with the Laura one piece going on here.

[B]

Let's talk about that at the end. Yeah, okay.

[C]

Okay. Yeah, sorry.

[B]

This is one of the few times I would say that. Yeah, go ahead.

[A]

All right. And then we get poor little Yiva, who's crying, and then you see her mom, who looks a lot like Ginny, but that's another story. Why did you leave so much on your plate? Do you hate my cooking that much? But the carrots she makes a little face.

[B]

Now, this is a conversation. This is probably the most relatable. Oh, actually, the one after this, too. My sword. You know.

[A]

Yes, this one is.

[C]

Let me see if I can figure.

[A]

Out which kid this is. This is.

[B]

This is Scaldi Skaldi. I keep reading it. Skibidi. And I know that's not what it is.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Scaldi toilet.

[A]

Oh, my God. So this is Skaldi and Skaldi's mom, who is. We're not scolding them.

[C]

Scolding.

[E]

There you go.

[A]

There you go. And she says, hey, don't take your father's sword out again. And he goes and sticking his tongue out and his hands covering his ears. He's cute. Then we have.

[B]

Sorry, I said that about your Skibidi. Scaldi.

[A]

Skibidi.

[D]

Scaldi.

[A]

Getting scolded. Then we got Olaf, and he's got his fingers pulling out his cheeks, saying, I hate you, Grandpa. You're a barbaric pirate. Yeah, little. And then. Oh, let's see. Karen, Karine, Corinne, whatever. With her mom. And she's. Her mother is saying, I like the baseball cap her mom's got on. Anyway, uh, why did you lie to me again? How can I keep you safe if you won't be truthful with me? And she's looking, like, pouty as well. And then we get the kid who looks like Frankie Mag. That's his name. Um, he says, why did you. Or, oh, that's what it. I'm not sure. I guess that's his mother talking. Uh, why did you bring that to school?

[B]

No, this is. This is. No, this is him.

[A]

This is him talking. Okay. Why did you bring that to school? I forgot my homework on purpose because I didn't do it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah, there we go.

[B]

Yeah. You've never left your homework at home on purpose because you didn't do it. And you just want to say you forgot it because it's lesson by lesson.

[A]

No, I assume that's what it is. I and said that I never got the homework. That's so weird, huh?

[E]

That's the way to do it. That's what you recommend?

[B]

I don't know if that's.

[A]

Everything is digital, but back in the 90s and early 2000s, that was easier to say.

[E]

Chatgpt ate my heart.

[B]

Homework. I need to be fair. That's how that works. Yeah.

[C]

When I was in second grade, I went. I got by the entire grade by stuffing everything in the back of my desk. And then I tried doing it in third grade, and I lasted like two weeks before I got in like, huge trouble.

[A]

That third grade teacher was on to you.

[C]

Oh, yeah. No, no. Yeah. She. She was like, I ain't no fool.

[B]

Yeah. No, kids waste things.

[A]

Yeah, I was a pretty good liar as a kid. I don't know. I don't know about you guys, but.

[B]

That'S why you're an actress.

[A]

Yes, exactly.

[B]

That's true.

[E]

There you go.

[A]

Also, my brother was the shittier kid, so I got away with more.

[B]

That's how you do it. That's how you do it. That's what I do. There you go. If my sister's listening. I mean. No, go ahead.

[A]

Speaking of kids, they are getting closer and closer to the edge. And poor Colin and the rest of them are crying, I don't want to die, Mommy. And then suddenly, swish.

[C]

Huh?

[A]

Colin it is in. In fact, Ripley is there, right at the edge. And we go to the next page, and she holds him. She holds him to her, even though the thorns that cover his body are piercing through hers now. And she says, come here, baby. As he cries, She says, I'm sorry I wasn't able to stop you, but. And he's. He's crying, looking at her all shocked, and she's bleeding from every orifice, it looks like. And she. She holds on to him, but the arrow is still pushing. And he says, get away from me, Mommy. You're gonna die. She says, I don't care. I won't let you die alone. As she smiles and we see this side view of them about to be pushed over the edge.

[B]

This. This like, particular panel also kind of reminds me of Olvia. Like the, ah, that very classic panel. I mean, it wasn't the same context, but it's like, you know, I'm happy to die for you. I just want you to be happy. Something along those lines. And here we have all of the parents, grandpar, familial relations beginning to hug their thorned kids as the arrow in the foreground points straight off the pier into the nothingness below. And you see each of. So wait, I should have my own spreadsheet out here we have Yiva yelling, saying mama with her right there. This is. Oh my God, who is this?

[E]

Y' all are doing this. There's no. Everyone listening to this right now is like, good on them for having a.

[C]

I got this. That's Scaldi, that's Olaf, that's Corinne, and that's Mag.

[B]

Mag. I know at the end. But the thing is, after this.

[E]

Spreadsheet readers.

[B]

Yeah, after this Episode. We're gonna freaking know this and it's not gonna matter at all. No, no, that's. Anyway.

[D]

And then there's Mag. So.

[B]

Yeah. Okay. And then there's Mag.

[D]

That one's for Steve. If he listens to this.

[B]

No, I get it. I get the joke too. Mama, mommy, grandpa, mother, Ma. And you just get a sadistic summers here just bawling in laughter. And then Rona, everyone's favorite.

[A]

My baby.

[B]

That's maybe the wrong way to put it here. Don't worry, everyone I'm sure will turn out just fine. Right? Everyone shut up.

[E]

Right, how's that?

[B]

The time Ronya. And here we get Ronya's dad, who we saw feels like a year ago, probably. I forget. Ronya was before the flashback, I think.

[E]

Yes, it was.

[A]

I think that was the last time I was on that big.

[D]

I was gonna say.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, wow. So. Yeah, they had the same teeth. That's how you know they're related in one piece terms. Teeth is a way.

[A]

Well. And the scorpion hair.

[D]

The same scorpion hair.

[B]

Oh, they have scorpion hair. How could I forget?

[C]

Aw.

[B]

Scorpion hair and teeth. But this is a really. I really like this moment saying, Ronya, I heard you earlier. You were so brave as. He's getting stabbed as well. Father. She says back. And here is Bent, the famous one who drew his mom as a sleep tit. And here's. We did see the dad too, who was very terrified of that sleep did. And mama. And remembering back now, what's the scariest thing in. In the world? And he says, my mama. And he apologizes. I'm sorry I said you were scary. I don't know if she knows. Did she see the sleep did? I'm trying to remember.

[E]

I think so. Those sleep dids were massive. I feel like everybody.

[C]

She must have seen it. Yeah, for sure.

[B]

My son no longer.

[C]

No.

[B]

Anyway, that's fine, darling. Sometimes mommies need to be scary to keep you safe. Sure. And finally you have. That's Johan. Johanna. Right? Yeah. Well, this one's important. They're all so lucky they have parents to hug them. Ken. I'm sure this will go fine.

[D]

And then it cuts to a flashback showing Angie saying, I can be like a mother to you. And she is. Huh? But you're not my mother. And then it cuts back and then it shows Angie embracing her. Joanna just squeezing her tight. And Joanna in tears.

[B]

Know.

[D]

Is that. What are you referencing?

[B]

There's a song.

[E]

I also thought the same thing. We're going to totally different songs. In my head.

[D]

I went To Sweeney time.

[E]

Me, too. Thank you. I'm with the right team, right? I'm with the right people. Right now I'm literally sitting over here going, I feel you.

[A]

Inside me.

[E]

There you go. Oh, my God, Your window. Yeah, exactly.

[C]

I went the other way around. And I was thinking, these are not Joanna's eggs. Like, that's.

[E]

That's short.

[D]

Oh, I know. What. Okay. Skibidi, Todd. All right.

[B]

Oh, my scaldy toilet.

[D]

Or whatever. Scaldy to.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Anyway, maybe I'm thinking of a different.

[B]

Song and I'm just effing this up. Yeah, please, go ahead.

[E]

Oh, man.

[D]

Then we cut to Roto's brother, who. I don't have the spreadsheet up. Who's Rhoda's brother?

[B]

That's Bjorn. Bjorn. Bjorn Baby Bjorn is what they called him in the family. Yeah.

[D]

And it's a flashback of him saying.

[E]

Don'T show up at school.

[C]

I'm embarrassed to have a nerd for a brother.

[D]

And Roto is like, I'll try my best to hide my nature with his big doofy grin and nose there. And then his brother saying, it's heavenly punishment. And then Roto coming in for the win here. Ultra Rampjorn. And running in and embracing his brother. And it doesn't hurt.

[C]

And he's like, big blooded.

[D]

I just wanna say, all these scenes of just all the loved ones embracing the kids.

[E]

Just extremely good.

[D]

They're so good and they're so varied. And it's showing all different types of love and connections and type of family there is. It's a very. Oda. This is one of the best chapters we've had in a while. ODA really did a good job with this one. And then we continue on to summers. Look at that. Like scraps of garbage pulling down to hell. It makes my heart tremble. Oh, what a saga of emotions it could have been. Just 10 measly little brats if they only stood back and watched. Stupid mothers, stupid fathers. Martyrs for love.

[E]

Oh, I've got a stitch in my side.

[D]

Such pointless, pointless deaths.

[E]

You nailed that laugh, man. That was good. That was really good.

[B]

Oh, we.

[E]

Oh, it's my check. Oh, I didn't even. That's perfect.

[C]

All right, great.

[E]

No, I'm good. I was admiring the laugh. That was fantastic.

[B]

I would say with this, I was thinking stupid mothers, stupid fathers. But Alex, that was really just for Alex.

[C]

Marge, is Lisa. Camp Granada.

[B]

There it is. Thank you, Roger.

[E]

So they don't end up landing at Camp Granada. They actually end up landing on the Back of what appears to be looks like a mountain range at this point. You don't know really what this is, but you see this silhouette with these spikes and then this little platform in the middle. And you hear thud. And the first group, you got Ripley and Colin looking there going, huh? As Ripley says, colin, where are we? And Colin, look it up. Looks at Ripley and looks at some of the other kids and says, I don't know, but everyone's alive. Meanwhile, one of the kids is the back suffering, going oof. And screaming, mommy. But you then have it's gum, gum, tummy cracker. Now you're poking me, so get off already. And you get this little moment with huh, Luffy. As we get this really awesome first glimpse, first shot of what they could have possibly landed on with the eyes of Loki saying, listen up, once we're up there, I need you off my back at once. And you get this little panel revealing that they're actually on the back of what appears to be a dragon like creature. And you get the proclamation of your back. This will prevent me from fighting. And then Luffy exclaims. And you can see a little bit of a glimpse of what appears to be Gear five. Luffy saying, they just started falling out of nowhere. It was a good thing that we were passing by. And Loki immediately trying to, you know, do the old chopper thing of it's not like you like me or anything. I'm not a good guy or anything. He says, it's not a good thing that we were over here. I'm a destroyer. I won't guarantee that anyone survives, but here goes. And you get one of those great little like Oda fade in like little thin noodle panels where you see the beginning of snow dropping. And Summers after coming out of his evil laugh, holds out his hand, look at the snowflakes and goes, snow. What's it snowing for? As you then get another panel, really beautiful environmental panel with some of the sleep critid still in the background with all these sound effects. You see the rumbling and then, wait a minute, thunder. And then we finally get this beautiful spread of what appears to be the tree in Elbaf, rippling as music is proclaimed. You hear the doom da da doom beginning of the drums of liberation with snow falling down and lightning striking everywhere. You have some of the giants saying, what's that? The whole tree is rippling. As again you get this cool, cartoony, really visceral look of the tree, just like swaying back and forth to the music. You see some of the other Giants still in the main town as well. Next to Jarl saying, what is this rhythm? It seems as Elbaf itself is shaking, as you still see Doom da da dum da dum da doom in the background. And Jarl proclaims that on an exceedingly rare day when lightning and snow combine, a vast beast will blanket the sky with its presence. So obviously things are coming true. Things that have been prophesied for Elbaf after all these years. You get another shot of a crackle as you see the back of what appears to be again, this Loki dragon forming out of view as Jarl continues saying. And with the sound and the drums of liberation. And then suddenly, you know, the shitting in green gets wiped off of Summer's face. He finally looks scared for the first time in this chapter. He goes, huh? As you get another shot of Gunko emo, looking up Kunko emo. What am I saying? Kuko imu Kunko imo.

[B]

I guess she's always been.

[E]

She's emo too.

[B]

That's fair.

[E]

Two of them are looking on over. And as we turn the page, we get this. This absolutely incredible double page spread of Loki in his devil fruit form. He is a giant dragon, presumably either like a dark purple or maybe a deep black. We don't really know. We're gonna find out once the colorization gets confirmed in the anime.

[C]

I think he might be. This might be an obscure. Like an obscure.

[E]

It could be too. Like a silhouette.

[C]

Yeah. Almost like. Yeah, the detail's obscured, but enough that you can tell that, oh, this is a big ass dragon.

[E]

Dragon. Yeah. And you get the continuation of what Jarl was saying on the previous. On the previous page. That on the day with lightning and snow combining, that the vast beast will blink at the sky with its present, and with the sound of the drums of liberation, the Sun God will appear. And again you get this great double page spread of Loki in his dragon form with Luffy jumping on the back of him in gear five form, and our sweet little happy little ratatoskar Ragnar hanging off of the other horn of Loki. As. As the drums of liberation are playing in the background, you see some of the music. You see actually Ragnar singing along with it going, cool. Which is, I also think, such a neat little touch. You got some of the other giants laying on the back of Loki going, I can't get over how huge you are. And. And again, I cannot express enough how cool this double page spread looks with all the Cryptids that, you know, were taking over Elbaf previously looking up at Shock at Loki as he's finally flying back up to the lair. You've got one of them getting knocked out on the bottom of the screen. You got another one. The, the ghost with the, the horns on its head getting pushed aside. The giant skeleton one that was a threat a couple chapters ago, just gets smacked off to the side like nothing. And again, the scale of Loki in this sequence cannot be like overstated. I think you really start to realize how massive he is when you realize that the Luffy on the back of Loki right now is actually the giant Luffy from Egghead and the end of Wano. So realistically, Kaido in his full dragon form that we saw in Wano country is the size of one of Loki's horns. That's pretty incredible if that, if that even. Right.

[B]

And the really amazing part is I was thinking of the song Rosanna from Toto, not Joanna. And that. That's where I was having.

[D]

Yes, that makes more sense.

[B]

It took me that whole time to figure that out.

[E]

We got there though. We got there.

[B]

I got there, I wasn't there and now I'm still not there. But I found the answer to that. Yeah, no. Amazing spread. That's the chapter. We're back in two weeks with a new chapter. I do want to say, I think I mentioned a few months ago how it is so rare to get a full two page spread with no other panel in them. And this is like the second one we've got in as many months. There was. Was it in God Valley? I'm trying to remember.

[E]

I think it was God Valley was the last one.

[B]

Yeah, we definitely got one somewhat recently and obviously the Five Elders and Egghead was a recent ish example. But I. Alex, I thought the same thing as you at first, that it was like a silhouetted version, but the fact I, I, yeah, I'm stepping back from that. Yeah, go ahead.

[C]

Well, well, if you look closely on top of Loki's head here, it looks like there's part of his helmet, which is why I think that like, oh, this is like an obscured image. Like we're not seeing the full detail as to what he looks like quite yet.

[E]

I think the bandage probably throws people off too. The bandage in the belly as well, because it looks like the belly is a lighter color. Right. And you see the tongue sticking out and the bandage. But again, the, the eyes have this like flame effect.

[B]

It's what they use in the flashback when he first eats the devil fruit. Yeah, right.

[D]

He looks so much like maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.

[B]

Sure.

[D]

Maloki.

[C]

I mean, in that they're both big dark dragons. Yeah.

[D]

And like the flames in the eyes and it's more of a, like a, like a European style dragon where Kaido.

[B]

Was like, yes, yes.

[D]

Yeah. Chinese, Japanese style, Eastern.

[C]

Well, I mean, you look at the. Well, you look at the Nidhogg reacting to him, which is really funny because it's.

[B]

Right, it's like, am I looking in a mirror right now? A very big mirror.

[C]

Are you my mother?

[E]

That's also awesome too.

[A]

Right.

[E]

Because again, that, that, that version of Nidhogg that's on the bottom, that Sleep Cryptid is like the, the nightmare that the kids had of what that dragon could look like. So the fact that the real thing is looking down and significantly more terrifying than the worst nightmare of these kids, I think is a really, really nice touch.

[B]

Yeah, true. Yeah. Like, for example, Nika looked much more terrifying in their mind. A beard.

[E]

Right, right, right.

[B]

So we know from all our facial hair.

[D]

Sure.

[E]

Right.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I love the, the white outline, like the glow around, like all the facial features too. And the horns. It just, it's such a cool image. Like, if this is just a silhouette, it's fine. But like, like, this looks great.

[C]

I mean, that's definitely an ODA fig for sure. Just to be like, well, this. I can't, I can't just. I need to give some detail here. By the way, Roger, speaking of bleach, here you go.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Dumping a whole well of ink all over the page.

[E]

That's right.

[B]

ODA does not normally do this.

[C]

Right.

[E]

Because it's dark space. Normally it's like the negative space in bleach.

[D]

Right.

[E]

You're looking at just like it's all white and then like two little lines in the corner and a tiny little image.

[B]

But what's great is, Roger, so we were talking about, like taking off your glasses. Like, this is like kind of a panel where it's like, I feel like the less detail you see almost the crazier it looks because it's the chaos below it. And as you said, the scale is mind boggling. I always see Those like, stupid YouTube bait videos of like, here's each of the. I'll watch them because I'm a human being. But like, this is the, this is the size and you get bigger and bigger and bigger. This has got to be. Be the biggest thing I say with hesitation, is it seen in one piece. I feel like this has got to be bigger than Zunisha because it's bigger than the whole island. I mean, you can easily fit people that there are.

[E]

There are multiple giants on the back of this thing right now, which is also what's kind of wild when you think about it. Mostly kids, but still the giant kids are bigger than most adults. Right.

[C]

So I would say.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Well, let's say for the sake of argument that this, that, that, that, that Loki.

[B]

Let's break this down. Let's get the books out.

[C]

Let's get as big as Zunisha. And I think he must be this.

[D]

Tall to ride Loki.

[C]

Yeah. And I think that's pretty.

[B]

I'll look this up. I'll write it.

[E]

I do think I agree with Alex, though, that it's that Loki is probably smaller or equal in size to Zunisu. Yeah, I think it's. It's similar. Yeah.

[C]

Based on, like, based on what we sort of know about the mural and the past and, and the fact that, like, you know, Zunesha is this age old, you know, creature.

[D]

Yep.

[C]

The, you know, something resembling Loki's silhouette here as the Nidhogg shows up, of course, in the mural. And I feel like. And you have to take the Sea Kings into account as well. Like, there's gotta be like a series of just giant animals. I feel like it's. It can't just be one.

[E]

That's also, I think, a big thing about this chapter. I. I guess we haven't gone into, like, our thoughts on it, but just while we're on the topic of size, it's like, still, like we're still on this last panel. So cool, man. Giant animal. But I think size matters, you guys. Yeah, right. Yeah. I. I think one of the things about these last two pages in particular, like the chaos of it all and the size of everything is like, with the lightning going and the snow of the blizzard and you've got the drums of liberation and you've got Loki and.

[B]

All these in existence.

[E]

This world even. Yeah. Being that huge. I think when you think about this and you think about those statements years and years ago where Oda was like, you know, if you thought Marineford was crazy, just wait till you get the final war. Like, it's going to dwarf it. This was one of the first panels where I really was like, oh, I get what you mean. Because when you connect this with, like, even the things that we got with the connection between the people of Fishman island and Elbaf. Right. And that connection with Shirahoshi and being the princess and like you mentioned earlier with the Sea Kings, it's Like when we are actually into this final conflict and you've got like sea kings rolling around in the waves is like you've got this giant Nidhogg Loki flying through the sky and people are getting domi reverseed and potentially reverse. Reverseed by Luffy. Like things are going to get nuts as we get into these last few, you know, these last. This last saga of one piece that we're in. And this really does kind of feel like the beginning of the end in terms of like the size of the conflict. Right. They can only get bigger from here.

[B]

Yeah, well. Yeah, well, it's definitely starting to. So for the record, lengthwise, because height wise, Zunesh is ridiculous because he goes to the bottom of the ocean floor. Yeah. But lengthwise he's a little over a mile. So Loki in his Regular size is 3% the size around of Zunesha. That doesn't really give us any idea as to actually how big the Nidhogg or whichever version that we see here. But I. You might. Zunesha may be bigger at the end of the day because I guess if Zunesha had wings, he would be pretty insanely intimidating.

[D]

If elephants could fly.

[B]

If elephants could fly. Where's Steve Yurko for this episode? That would have been the image right there.

[D]

Something to bring up. It's interesting that when they talked about Loki's devil fruit in the past, they said that only a true ancient giant would be able to utilize the fruit to its full potential. So I wonder if a normal sized human ate the fruit, they wouldn't grow to this size. This is only because Loki is a massive ancient giant, probably. So he becomes this biggest version of the Nidhogg.

[E]

And there's not very many giants we've seen with devil fruit powers either. I mean, there's nothing to like connect it with, you know.

[B]

So Ken, did you put both of these things here?

[C]

So.

[B]

Oh yeah, Joey posted one. So first of all, in. Let me copy the image and stuff. But I think you remembered the mural. Roger, you talked about how at the top you see the Nidhoggar. I assumed I hadn't looked back, but Ken had already posted by the time I was gonna. But Joey, also from our podcast, I think he was on last week and he did the art. I think last week as well, we have had posted the punk hazard dragon that was like all tame and that is very similar, if not cuter than. Well, we don't know the full Loki.

[C]

Well, we brought that up before though, that it's the same yeah, but now.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Did we mention it was a Nidhogg last time? Okay.

[C]

Well, I mean, not last summer, but I. Not last summer, but a couple times ago that I was on the podcast, I mentioned that the Nidhog kind of looked like the Punk Hazard dragon. Everybody forgot about it, but that's okay.

[E]

I feel like I've been inundated with this for like months at this point now. Every single live stream pretty much since like that mural panel has been like, oh, Loki's gonna have a nidhog fruit. And that's gonna. So it's like for me to finally see this, I was like, oh, cool. This is oda's interpretation of like, what's going on.

[C]

The real mcill.

[E]

Right, Right.

[B]

So there's a few. There's a few different dragons at Punk Hazard. I think I was thinking of the large one when you were talking. We're talking about. About. Apparently they have number designations. 21 is the one that was posted by Joey. 13 is what I thought you were talking about, of course. Which to be fair, also similar. I need to look at a side by side. Okay.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, western dragons, I think Otis Saving kind of look alike, I guess. Yeah.

[E]

ODA does love dragons, to be fair. I mean, even like back in the day, I remember pre Kaido reveal. Right.

[B]

When people were one piece and wanted.

[E]

Exactly. Right. It's like dragons have always been a huge part of it.

[C]

So I think seeing the Oppis arc.

[B]

Right.

[E]

Oh my gosh, of course. How could I forget the first major filler arc? Of course. It's just cool to see like his interpretation of all these different cultures dragons, you know, know.

[B]

And.

[E]

And this one, this one in particular, like, Ken, you brought up the maleficent connection.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

That.

[E]

That style of just really horrifying looking, Final Fantasy esque, almost dragon is like right up my alley. I. I love this. This is way cooler.

[B]

Me too.

[E]

Even than like what I would have expected Loki to look like in his. His devil fruit form. So. So yeah.

[B]

Are you a Final Fantasy XIV head? We had a lot on this podcast.

[E]

14, of course. Huge into it. Yeah, I know.

[B]

Yes, Greg. Well, so like I was looking it up. Is there a Nidhogger in or. Okay.

[E]

In 14.

[B]

Yes. Yeah, that's the one nidhogg I saw that looks similar to this. And we did like a dissection a couple weeks ago because of. Oh, where was it? The. Wasn't there like a village or something that was mentioned that was in Final Fantasy recently there's been A Niflheim.

[E]

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[B]

What was Niflheim related to? I forget even what. Oh, that was the attack that Loki.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And we were like, is that. I don't think that even came. Or Nibbleheim. That's what it was. It was Nibble. And it was whether it was an F or a B. And I only think Steven was even thinking of Final Fantasy 7. I think that one's in that when he was translating Nibelheim.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[B]

Sure, Nibel. But Oda, we look through his old comments, talks about Final Fantasy all the time and is clearly a big Final Fantasy head, which does not surprise anyone.

[C]

1.

[B]

So it would not surprise me if this dragon were based, like, oh, I really like Final Fantasy 14. So I'm going to draw this.

[E]

I also fully believe, like, he's doing a really good job. And the reason why I think we're picking out, like, different pieces of the mythology and, like, connecting him to stuff. He's doing a really good job of taking Norse mythology and, like, mixing things together. So, like, I don't know if you guys had the conversation during the Ragnar episode with. With the squirrel, right? But, like, Ratataskar, who. Friend of the show someone. Right? Voices Ratatasker and Gotta War Ragnarok. Right.

[B]

That.

[E]

That squirrel is, like, a huge part of Norse mythology. And so tying that squirrel in with, like, Ragnar and the idea of, like, this. This attacking kind of creature is a really cool, I think, twist on the idea of, like, these Norse characters and them folding into the world of one piece. And I don't know, I'm just. I'm loving it. I'm liking to see, like, I know some people want Jormungandr and the snake to come into it at some point. And, like, there's a lot of things that people have brought up. Right. And I. I'm in the same boat. It's like a why not type of thing. And I do feel like as we move further into this story arc, we're going to get more and more of that of, like, Norse mythology being folded in kind of an unexpected ways. I mean, even if you look at the chapter would have been like the end of the flashback.

[B]

Right? Right.

[E]

Where you get, like, the hybrid form of, like, Loki using his power for the first time. There were so many people looking at that and going like, oh, maybe it's going to be Fenrir. Right. Because it had kind of like, seemingly wolf like features with the claws and everything.

[C]

Yeah. And I was gonna. I was gonna like, pitch a little bit of a fit if it was Fenrir. Just because, like, Yamato has a wolf power, too. Like, and that was the, like, wolf power. Just enough.

[D]

That's great. I love that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Yamato. Stan, is that the right word?

[D]

Sure.

[B]

Okay, Marianne, thoughts on the chapter. Let's take a step back. You did. I want to say. I want to give you props. I was going to, but we were kind of in a rhythm as to, like, the emotional us being ridiculous. And then you just, like, really bringing the gut punch. Damn. Being able to. To do real kid voices hurts to listen to, but it's in a good way.

[A]

I was glad you gave me those pages.

[B]

That's why I gave you those pages. Yeah.

[A]

I had a feeling that.

[C]

I know you could do it.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, gosh. No. This chapter, I was, like, a little. When I read it this morning, I was a little weepy because I was not fully expecting it to go that hard with the parents and family members of these kids. Like, basically trying to sacrifice themselves is just. Just so the kids aren't alone. Like, man, I'm not a parent. I have a cat. That's it. But, like, still, that's so. Oh, it was really good. And then obviously, the. The Loki big devil fruit reveal is, like, sick. It's sick. And then you get this all juxtaposed with, like, Summers just being the worst. I mean, we've had worse characters, but, I mean, he's up there, so it's. It's. Man, I feel like the gut punches, they hit even harder and, like, really seeing all these kids and, you know, you have the thing, like, the part where the kids are like, oh, I think, you know, maybe it's my fault because, you know, I was a bad kid and they were doing just typical kid stuff, like, nothing awful, just kid things, you know, that of course they're gonna get scolded for. But, like. Like, nothing, though. Oh, this is. I'm going to die because I, you know, left my homework at home. No. And they don't know because they're kids and they're helpless and it's such a terrible situation. But I loved it. I thought it was great.

[B]

Yeah, agreed.

[E]

That's good. That's the perfect.

[B]

That's the perfect noise to describe.

[E]

Excellent.

[B]

Yeah. Alex.

[C]

Yeah. Okay, so, no, I'm great. I'm just trying to figure out in the order of which I'm going to do this. So first I want to applaud Summers on being a total piece of shit and just an Incredibly fun villain to watch.

[B]

Not to interrupt you right away, but he feels the most like Spandom that we've had since Spandom him.

[C]

Well, because he's getting Glee out of the misfortune of others. And you don't see that too much because I feel like the way Oda writes a lot of villains, you know, there's a lot of method to their madness, but every once in a while, he just creates a total piece of shit that. I don't know in this case, like, we've. We've talked about how we feel kind of bad that these knights, these God knights are really, really fun to watch be evil. He struck a very interesting balance where you really hate them, but you also, I don't know, you like seeing them chew the scenery a little bit.

[B]

They're good villains. They really, truly and absolutely suck.

[E]

Free time skip goofiness, too. I think it's like you mentioned Spandom. I think that's right on. But even like a character recently that kind of felt very similar was Orochi in Wano Country.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Orochi is great.

[E]

We had this conversation on the live stream this morning, like, when I was reading it for the first time and someone had brought up like, yeah, we haven't had a character this just like, flat out evil and goofy at the same time since Orochi and I basically made the argument. I'm like, yeah, but Summers is way worse because, like, Orochi as a Kurozumi. Right. Still suffered within Wano Country. Like, like the. The history of the family and like, other stuff, though, like, at some point, Orochi was suffering as a person.

[C]

Yeah, there's nothing tragic, right? Yeah, He.

[E]

He was born into privileges like the Celestial Dragon, became a God Knight. Likes watching these kids die, right? He's. Yeah, exactly. He's existing to be a piece of. So it's like it. We haven't seen something like this, like.

[B]

A revenge, like, whereas Summer's not just a different.

[A]

Well, and Summers also has the power to back up his villains, like Odochi sort of did, but he never really utilized it, whereas Summers is like the one at the top brass, basically.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I think Spandam was also uniquely infuriating because he didn't have that ability to back it up, but he was in a position of power and authority where it was like, he did have that. And so Summers is kind of both in that he has the power and author authority to back it up, but he also has the power, like the literal physical ability. And here he. It would behoove him like career wise or whatever you want to say to just, you know, put a stop to this. But he still is doing the wrong thing and doubling down on that just because he's so awful.

[C]

Well, I think, I think, I think a really big difference between him and Spandam is that Spandam still has ladder to climb and Summers doesn't. Like, Summers is, is literally just worried. Oh, like the plan is, is ruined what's going to happen? And I feel like, well, what's going to happen is you'll probably die.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

100%. Yeah.

[C]

But, but I love how he is the type of heel that is just like, well, this isn't my fault. I mean, like, if it weren't for the fact that like Emu possessed Gunko, none of this would be happening. So Unbelievable.

[B]

Honestly, he's like my boss the most.

[C]

I have an argument. Yeah.

[B]

He calls the Great Emu. Like, it's his fault. I'm sure he'll, I'm sure the Great Emu will understand that it is their fault that they effed all of this up.

[C]

Yeah. Summer Summers as a villain is not just like, he's not just a terrible, like, terrible person, but he's also interesting. And we're gonna find a lot more about these, these guys moving forward in the story, obviously. So it, I, I don't know. There's something about these guys versus the celestial dragons where the celestial dragons are sort of just like, you know, they are literally one note and they're supposed to be that way, but there's layers of evil to these guys and privilege and all that. So. Yeah, so, yeah, enough about Summers. Let's talk about being parents. So obviously there is a lot in this arc that hits differently when you have kids. We talked about Loki's past already and that was like, that was in the throes of me being a very new father at that point. I think Milo was like, like four months or something like that when, when that chapter came out. Maybe less. Maybe, maybe less than that. I don't know. When did that chapter come out, Zach?

[B]

I, I, I got a w. The. No, it was, it was in the summer because it started. So it was. You probably were in the early. I was gonna say, for me, it was Bonnie was right before my daughter was born. And like, my daughter. So that was like, oh, wow. That it was like the real stuff with Bonnie was like, I think I was on paternity leave, like around there. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. One piece after you have kids really hits differently.

[B]

I mean, it's written by A dad. And you could tell during the later part, obviously.

[C]

So this chapter is called the Strongest Thing in the World, which doesn't really get referenced ever by name in this chapter. The strongest thing in the World. But it's obviously the love of a parent, right? That's the strongest thing in the world. And I think it's really funny that.

[B]

Yeah, you're gonna make me cry.

[C]

Oda has earned this reputation of saying like, you know, oh, well, you know, there are no mothers in one piece because the adventure doesn't start until like, you know, the, you know, mom's out of the picture. Which, you know, I think.

[B]

Think.

[C]

I think he's.

[B]

Did he say that as a 20 something? That's what I'm thinking.

[C]

I. I don't know. I don't. I don't remember which SBS that was, but that was way earlier. And I also do think that, like, it's funny that, like, because he said a thing like ages ago, people infer this about him. But like, then we have this chapter where you truly see, like, the breadth of like, this is what parentage is. We've seen a lot of really great parents over the last couple years in one piece. And I think it's really great that you introduce these kids, you introduce these parents at the start of this story arc. And I feel like this couldn't be. Like, There couldn't be better payoff than this. Like, it's. It's. It's. It's just so nice. It's. And obviously it's. It's a universal thing because everybody has parents. But when you have a kid, like, yeah, you will literally do anything for your kid. If these parents didn't do this, it would not. Like, this would not have worked. Like, if they sat there and just watched like, oh, no, my kid. And then they all got like, saved by Luffy and Loki. It. It would not be. It would.

[B]

They'd be shitty parent.

[C]

It would. It would.

[B]

It would be a shitty.

[C]

It would be a shittier manga.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Is. Is what I'm saying here. So. Yeah, I love this chapter For.

[B]

For.

[C]

For that alone.

[A]

Also. Sorry, I just. I just remembered something. Didn't. Speaking of parents and. And shitty parents, in some cases, didn't Loki's mother throw him off the very same cliff?

[E]

Right?

[C]

Yep.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Well said. And Loki is the one who gets through the kids.

[E]

Exactly. Exactly. Bringing her full circle again. Nice.

[B]

Yeah, very nice, Marian.

[C]

That's. That's a good. That's a good catch. Yeah. Again, that's. That's really. That's an excellent layer to this. God, I love this arc. So.

[B]

Yeah, you just. That's how. That's like the second time in a row someone's pointed out something that's like very. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I'm not. I'm not going to talk about the Loki. I'm not going to talk about the Nidhog because I feel like I've. That's been talked to death. Talked to about to death already. And I'm sure we have more to say. But what I wanted to bring up is something that I think has gotten brought up before that. And now I. If you look in the spreadsheet, I color coded it a little bit while we were kind of going through the chapter because I feel like there's a straw hat equivalent to each of these kids. And I'm leaving Colin out. I'm trying to figure out where Colin. Colin is here because Luffy probably.

[B]

But.

[C]

Yeah, well. Well, here's the thing. So going through and seeing, like, how these kids interacted with their parents, that is sort of where I got my. Like my comparison for. For example.

[B]

I see. I see. Did. Yeah.

[C]

So when in this. On pages what, 8 and 9. Is that what this is? 6. What's it? 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Yeah, that spread there where, like, the kids are sort of thinking about, like, you know, when they were bad and their parents were scolding them. Colin at this here reads to me a little bit like, Sanji, if you're that strong, you should be gentler to the weak. Like, it's sort of a play on, you know, being kind to those of you who are weaker.

[B]

Yeah. Eva Kaban is his father. So that makes sense.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Since they have similar ish philosophies.

[C]

Now, Eva, that to me, that's. That's Nami. Do you hate my cooking that much? That is a direct. Oh, shit. Sorry. I. Delaney hit my mic. Sorry about that. Why did you leave so much on your plate? Do you hate my cooking that much? That is like one to one. Bell mere. Yep, that is bell mere. Next. Don't take your father's sword out again. Okay. You're Scaldi. That's Zorro. Like, I'm not even gonna. Like you use the word sword. Olav, I had a hard. Yeah, Olav I had a really hard time with because Colin, like I was assuming Luffy because he's the main kid, but I think Olav might be. Might be Luffy in this case. I hate you, Grandpa. You're a barbaric pirate. I hate you, grandpa, you're a Marine. Or I want to be a pirate. You know, like, it's sort of a.

[B]

Well, it's funny because Oemo was like, taken by the Marines for that or like, served the Marines for like, 50 years. What was it? Yeah.

[C]

Karen obviously Usopp Mag, obviously Frankie. Now here's where it gets a hair in the nose.

[B]

And that's all you need.

[C]

Yes. When you go to the next spread. Bent. Bent is definitely Chopper. Who has the scariest mom? It's Chopper.

[B]

That's true.

[C]

And she loves him so much now.

[B]

Good.

[C]

Now this is where it gets a little tricky. Joanna, or Joanna, or whatever we're calling.

[B]

Her Rosanna is the song that I was thinking of.

[C]

Please, Roseanne, Rosanna, Dana.

[B]

She stuck in my head.

[C]

I'm thinking Robin here because she has no family, but who jumps into savor but the scholar, the teacher. Now, I also thought about Bjorn being Sanji because he looks a lot like Sanji. And there's.

[B]

Brook was where I would think first just because.

[C]

And there's also, like a sibling element. But here's the thing. We don't know enough about Brook for me to like. We don't know enough about Brook for me to personally, like, assign.

[E]

I think, though, that's coming not to cut you off in the middle of this. That's coming soon. Yeah, I'm like, literally like a month.

[C]

100%.

[E]

Like, especially because. Not again, not to move away from this, because this is great.

[C]

I hope I'm right.

[E]

But I. I really do think it's going to be soon because, like, Summers being the outright just piece of. Of the three of them. Right. And killing him being kind of mysterious. And the stuff with the sleeping, like, I don't know how that's going to come into play, but like, the Gunko connection with Brooke, it's that. I mean, that's. That's for sure gonna come into play, especially with, like, the idea that whether or not Brooke worked for her father or, like, what that relationship was like, like when she was a child, you know, ultimately, I guess I'll save talking a little bit about it once we're getting into talking about the chapter. But, like, I think that has a very specific direction that's going to go into that also kind of folds in with the rest of the theming of this specific story arc and, like, what we're talking about today. So, yeah, I think the answers for Gunko are coming soon.

[C]

Yeah. So we have. I'm looking at the spreadsheet, the ones that I Don't have color coded. Are Ager and Rania Ager. I don't know anything about the spreadsheet. Has nothing other than his name and a picture of his face.

[B]

No. Also he came up with the Yommer Gonder apparently was sorry for the pronunciation. So that's it.

[C]

So Rania is the weird, happy, go lucky, everything's gonna be okay character. And I'm not really sure who to assign them this too. If we have a. So there's 11. There's 10 straw hats. There is 11. 11 kids including Colin.

[B]

Sure. Sure.

[E]

Would have been a great time for Carrot to join the crew as well. I feel like.

[C]

Sure. Well, no, before Yamato. Vivi. Before. Before anybody else. Vivi's on Thereonia.

[B]

Kind of. Because Ronia did take that, like, stand, like don't sacrifice us for the greater good sort of thing, which is such.

[C]

Aish. Sonya could be Vivi in that. In that instance. Now Aegar, I could be.

[B]

I don't know.

[E]

Anger's Jim B. There you go. You just said it. That's Jim. Yeah.

[C]

By process of elimination.

[B]

Okay, sure. I like, I don't think there will be one to ones, but.

[C]

Yes, but. But there's definitely, like there.

[B]

Definitely doing this.

[C]

That there is a correlation here. And you know, it helps us if we aren't parents or if we are children who don't get along with their parents. At the very least for the reader, there's some sort of connective tissue that helps us identify with these characters because they pull a lot from the ones that we know and love and have for decades.

[B]

I think Joanna in particular is such a good. Like, it's something that had already been established that she was either orphaned or I forget exactly why she doesn't have parents. But I think for people who have found family and for people who are. For people who don't have, like, known family adoptees and so on, like, seeing that is very impactful. Like. Like the fact that someone you're not blood related to would also do that for you when they consider you like a kid of theirs. I completely get that too. And that's, you know, powerful on its own. Right. So I think ODA was trying several different ways to get the reader into that perspective. But I mean, the good news is I think hopefully everyone out there has, you know, I think there's someone in their lie. I'm sure there is someone in their lives who would run into a pack of thorns for them. And I think that's kind of what. Or that you would run Into a pack of thorns for sure. Which is, I think. I mean, certainly having kids. 100%. I think about this all the time. Maybe not with thorns, but, like, would I. Like what? You know, maybe that's also ocd, but just like me, like, what would I do for my kid in, like, this sort of situation? And especially with how crazy the world is, I just feel like, you know, it's even more resonant that I don't know. Yeah. Alex, you were talking about the chapter.

[C]

No, I mean, that's it. Oh, that's it. Yeah.

[B]

10. And then I'll go to Roger.

[D]

All righty. There's lots of stuff to go. I'm trying not to go too, too long here. One thing I just wanted to point out right away with was Loki's design. Like, we've already talked about how cool it looks and whatnot. But if you go a couple pages before the big reveal, one of the panels that show the Loki dragon silhouette looks like he has a bunch of extra arms and feelers on the underside of him or whatnot. I don't know what those are, but it just leads more into the classic Nidhogg design, which I think is really cool. And I think we now have an answer to why Loki believed that he was Nika or he believed he was the Sun God. Because for a while, we were speculating what his power could be. Because he's like, oh, what would he have that he would think that he's the Sun God or whatnot? And now, if you go back to Jarul's little quote, I feel like Yara's quoting something when he's like, oh, a vast blanket will. It sounds like that. Like, oh, okay, so when this giant beast shows up, the Sun God will appear. And Loki took that as like, oh, oh, that must be me. Not that, oh, he accompanies the Sun God. And so there's Loki.

[B]

And remember, Jarl knew that Loki had this power already, presumably, and, like, knew the circumstances of it and only has just told everyone about it. So it very. I'm sure, like, this is like, oh, the moment has arrived. And also, they all knew Luffy had, like, the Nika thing going on. Cause, I mean, I assume they discuss. I think they discussed that a little in the partying.

[D]

They were debating on which Nika is this. Cause some believe that, oh, Nika is the bringer of laughter now. He's the bringer of destruction. He's good, he's bad. That's why there was a general fear of it. But just Bouncing off of that, too. Like the fact that we see the tree literally turning to rubber when Loki and Luffy show up. Because the lightning is hitting the tree and the tree is now rubber. Because I'm assuming the lightning is from Ragnar, the snow is from Loki, and the rubberiness, of course, of the tree and the bouncing whatnot. That's Luffy.

[E]

Exactly.

[D]

So the three of them with their three powers combined, like, it's.

[B]

It's just a very image, because you.

[E]

Literally brought it up, too, is like, the whole thing with rubber negating the lightning. Right. Is that early on in this story arc, there was the whole thing of, like, how terrifying Loki is by lighting up the branches of the tree with the lightning. And at this point, with the two of them working together. Right. Like, you get that Eneru moment where the lightning no longer.

[B]

You know, I would say, though, everything is on fire on the bottom.

[E]

But I think a lot of that is from the Cryptids, the trees, and from the remnants of before things were awakened.

[D]

The existing fire with the rubber.

[E]

Exactly. It was existing fire.

[B]

Right. We'll see. I guess we'll see in two weeks.

[E]

Yeah, I guess.

[B]

I do think that. So what is that page, like, 15? I think that you could definitely argue is.

[D]

Probable the fact that the castle is going completely rubble. Look at the castle. It's like tilting.

[B]

However, I don't know if I completely buy into the fact that that is continuing into page 16 and 17. But I do agree that what we're seeing in that one panel with the cast vessel. Absolutely. And the snow, at the very least.

[E]

Could put out the fire as well. If there's enough snow from the blizzard. Right. That could just pack down, hopefully put out some of these flames.

[B]

I'm thinking like a Californian.

[E]

That's exactly what I'm thinking of.

[B]

Exactly. Because I know the snowpack is important.

[E]

Exactly. Exactly.

[B]

Yeah, Ken, you can finish up and.

[D]

Yeah, we already touched on a little bit too. But definitely that looks like Loki. Nidhogg dragon in the mural. So interesting how that plays into it, because I'm assuming that's whoever the original user of the Nidhogg power was. Like maybe the first ancient giant or. Because it's right in the middle of the mural. If that's three different ages, then that's not our Loki, then that's probably something in the past. Colin with the Emmet doll. That is super interesting, too. I'm betting it's based off the mural, too, because all the little kids know the mural in the story of the Harley, Obviously, they'd have, like, a little stuffed animal or a plush based off the images carved into the tree. And. Yeah, that's about it. Again, I love this chapter. I could go on way too long. We've been talking a lot about it. The stuff with Roto and his brother. I have a younger brother who me and him couldn't be more different. And growing up, he was not into the theater stuff I was into, or the video game stuff or the manga stuff. And he always likes, don't bring up that stuff around my friends. So, like, that kind of hit, like, oh, that's. I understand that feeling. So seeing them together was very cute. But, yeah, great chapter.

[B]

Is the Roto in that scenario or.

[D]

The I'm the Roto in the scenario? No, it's fine. Again, me and my brother, we get along, but, like, we couldn't be more different. But I would still. I would hug the thorns if I had to. For instance.

[B]

I think that's another great example of, like, Oda realizing the reader might not relate to these, but they'll maybe relate to that.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I touched on it during the page. Like, it's so many different versions of family and relations here. And again, it's not just all familiar. It was great. It was really well done. And Summers is a really fun piece of shit to hopefully get his comeuppance very soon. It'll be fun to see him get taken down.

[A]

Can't wait to watch his face get smashed or whatever. Just destroyed. It's gonna be sad.

[B]

He said in a good way.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Happens. Yeah. Roger, thoughts?

[E]

Yeah. I mean, you guys have all touched on pretty much everything I wanted to discuss on this one, between the mural and the family and the theming. I guess just a couple quick things is like, you know, Alex, you brought up earlier the title of the strongest thing in the world, right. With, like, that being love. And how that's even paralleled with, like, Loki and what we're seeing, like, his physical strength. Right. Potentially one of the strongest creatures in the world as well, too. But I do think the overall theme of Elf, as we get further into it, definitely is love.

[B]

Right.

[E]

And I think that even feeds into how I think they're going to get out of the situation and, you know, beat emu. Right. Because every moment you've seen of weakness of these characters that get dummy reversed, whether this is Harold with Loki or whether this was, you know, rocks thinking about Blackbeard, like, all of these things that we've seen throughout the course of the story arc, the moment of clarity for these characters that are reversed comes from these moments of passion when thinking about family and the people that they love. And, you know, with Luffy again, loving his crewmates and. And having just this love for people in general and the people of. Of Elbaf and being that liberator, I just think a lot of that is going to come into play when we think of how to potentially beat Emu in this situation. And I know people have their ideas of like, you know, there being some type of reverse of the Reversi, right? That like, in the same way that that Emu can flip the pieces and Domi revers, we're going to something along the lines of like Luffy turning people into his allies. Right? And so much of what we saw, I think in this chapter, even with the stuff with Roto, like how that was the full parallel of like the first dude. You have to remember when we first got to Elf, we were in his Lego castle. And the fact that we're coming back, it was a cool castle. But like, I think a lot of the things when. When I think back to like, early Elbaf and how people were feeling about it, right? The general consensus from a lot of people who were very excited to see this island for the first time, you know, us having been long time one piece readers, like, hyped for Elbaf, I think there was a level of disappointment from some people of being like, I really hope we get more of the culture of the actual island and that this isn't like all we're getting. Especially as the flashback went on, I think people were like, you know, are the characters of Elbaf or is the island of Elbaf not really going to have as much of a presence in, you know, as the story arc progresses. And I feel like this really just puts into picture, like, how great it was that he introduced those kids when he did. Because I remember my initial feeling being like, we don't need to get the names of all these children. This is like a wano situation of like, let's name all the Toby Ropo and all the numbers and all the. It's like this is too much information for where we are in the story.

[B]

Right now, but Ono a Bond shoe, I think.

[E]

Right, right, right, right, right. All the. Yeah, the one who A Bond show.

[B]

Do you remember the Onawa Bond show?

[E]

Unfortunately, I do, yes. But I don't know.

[B]

Roger. Oh, okay. I was gonna say, Roger, you would be one of the few people that.

[E]

Would not be me. No, he would know the Name.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

No, but I feel like in general, just like having that introduction to those characters and having that beautiful before the God Valley flashback right before everything that we got and then coming back to it. I was kind of worried when I was starting reading the chapter, like, oh, this isn't necessarily gonna hit for me because it's been so long since the last time we really spent time with these kids. But it felt like it was yesterday. And it really, I think the way that he made each of those little sequences really stand out and showcase. Just as all of you have already mentioned, right. Like these different relationships that people have with their parents or their parental figures or people who care about their.

[B]

Them.

[E]

I really, I thought it was brilliant and I think to pair that with such a hype reveal, right. I think when each of us go into reading a one piece chapter, you're looking for like a good story beat or you're looking for like a hype reveal or a cool action moment. But you get all of that here. I mean, you get like your, your hype action moment with Loki. You get that big reveal, you get that character work, you get that impactful family moment that's going to make you, you know, cry. You get the goofiness of the villain. With Summers, it's like this really is a chapter that kind of has everything thing. And yeah, it's. I really thoroughly enjoyed it. And the last thing I will mention on the topic of the stuff with Summers and what I was talking about when Ken brought up, or actually it was Alex when you were talking about the Brooke. Right. And like potentially finding out more information. I do feel like Summers being as irredeemable as he is leads me to believe that like when we see his death, this is going to be very similar to Summer Saturn, right? Like where.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[E]

When the, when the abyss, you know, when, when the abyss tattoo is taken away and you get this like full disintegration of the power and you literally are just like evaporated and Emu's taking it all back. We haven't quite seen that with any of the celestial characters yet, like any of the God Knights, but I think this is a clear sign that like we probably will. And we don't quite know like how the aging works or like when you make a contract if you completely stop aging. Because Summers looks slightly younger in the God Valley flashback than he does here. And yet Gunko has been this age seemingly for like 80 years. So there's like some weird.

[B]

It's different hair.

[E]

It's different hair.

[B]

Or something.

[E]

But there's, like.

[D]

I think it's the different level of tattoos, because I think that Gunko and Harold maybe.

[E]

Exactly.

[B]

That's it.

[E]

The parallel I think we're kind of seeing here. And again, speaking to the idea of love being the thing that gets through to the people that are, you know, sided with emu, whether you're Reverse Seed or whether you're a God Knight or whatever, I really do think that Brook relationship is going to be key to it, because with Gunko, if that is some type of situation where Gunko felt protected by Brook, that we might get kind of ironically, the reverse of what we get here, of Gunko essentially saving him, and that when that tattoo evaporates of Gunko, she potentially gets brought to the age she would be. Which would be like 88 or 90 or something. Right. And then would. Would be like, that old woman that's standing right alongside Brooke that he could then see as, like, a motherly figure. There's just a lot of, like, cool stuff that I think is being set up here that could parallel nicely with the family stuff that really just brings everything together. So, yeah, I. I thoroughly love this chapter, and again, I'm so happy you guys had me on for this one, because this is. This was definitely one of my favorites in a while. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. First of all, well, time for Valentine's Day, too. That love is the antidote to. Yeah. Yes. I do really, really like that take, though, Roger. Like, the. That's kind of like the theme of this arc, especially since, again, in the real world and in fiction here, we have like. Like this, like, real evil like we've never seen before. And also just, like, these really amazing examples of love that come through the darkness here that I think sometimes, what is it like having suffering or dark moments help contrast the good ones in life that come out. That. That's kind of what this chapter feels like in a nutshell. Like, this is a very dark series of events with some really, really evil, truly evil person and people, but mostly person. And it highlights the good as it literally ascends from hell here. It's a really, really beautiful sentiment. Yeah, I. I don't have a ton to add. I think Summers is like, Spandam is the only other villain I could really. And actually, what the hell. That guy in Cocoyashi village. The cat guy?

[E]

Oh, sure. Nezumi.

[B]

Nezumi.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

I feel like that's a character. I'm glad I've forgotten his name, but. But like, that when he does the shit with the money, With Nami, like that character in that moment, I remember just like feeling that searing anger toward Oda is really, really amazing at creating that kind of character. And also that those sorts of people do really exist is terrifying. But it does. Like, one of the things that makes One Piece compelling is that it's so fantastical and ridiculous, and yet the characters really feel real. Like you could have, you know, Chopper, who's a half reindeer man, but, like, still feels like my boy. Like, there's a very realistic element to everything we get. Even though Colin is a 20 year old, 8 year old, it's still. Which is boggling my mind and I'll try and get through it. But God, the parents stuff, I'm like, that goes right to the freaking heart. And I think Roger and I think Alex may have touched on this a little. We've been talking about, like, I think our joke at the end of the year was like, won't someone think of the children? They're still dangling over this branch and being driven into oblivion here or wherever they're going. And through that whole flashback, we had like six months. We didn't know what was going to happen to them. And we were like, do we have enough stakes with these kids? It's the Onobanchu thing. I should call that the Ono Banshu problem from now on, because no one will know what I'm talking about because no one remembers the Ono Wabanchu.

[C]

Fukuroku Ju. Is that the guy's name?

[E]

That's the guy.

[B]

Yes. That's the main guy. Do you remember any of the others?

[D]

Raijin, Fujin Hanzo.

[B]

Okay, okay. Get out of here.

[C]

No, no, no, no. Ken's reading off of a list.

[B]

No, I'm not. No, I believe Ken.

[D]

That's all.

[B]

I. He looked hurt that you would even suggest.

[C]

Well, as soon as you mentioned Fujin Raijin Hanzo, I was like, oh, yeah, those guys. And I remember what they look like too.

[B]

Fujin Rajino used to be.

[D]

They wrote on the catfish.

[E]

Raizo fought Fukuroku.

[C]

Hanzo did get hit by football.

[B]

Yes. But Raizo used to be in the Ono wasn't there like.

[D]

Or he's the head Raizo and what's her name?

[B]

Shinobi. There was also an old Ono of Banshu and there was a new Ono. Like, there was a flashback one and a regular one.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

My point being is I thought that was kind of like a red herring almost that like, I'm like, oh, okay, they're introducing kids. Why do I care about these kids? We had guests come on reasonably so and be like, yeah, but what about why do I care that these kids. Who are these kids? And why do I care that? And I think in like one chapter, Oda really, like, unleashed like, okay, now it's time to really show you why you need to care. And maybe he realized having a six month flashback might have kind of killed the momentum there, but he really did an excellent job getting that across quickly. Like, I could tell you my son's only 4, but I. A lot of those. I mean, like, I'm not saying the sun God is going to punish you if you do this, but would not do that. But, like, there's a lot of, like, like, yeah, I did this. It's fair. It's these rules I made up. So that's why I could do this. Or, you know, oh, I hate that you did the, you know, like, you, you. The one thing about parenting a toddler. You're almost there, Alex, is when the one thing you work so hard to do something and it immediately gets pushed aside. They don't care. Like, I gave up like making food for my son because he's going to end up eating two bites. And even if he likes it, that's, that's it. The, the number one cause of food waste. Toddlers. Look it up. It's scientific, I'm sure.

[C]

Yeah, well, we compost, so I think we'll be in good shape.

[B]

Okay. But it. But that all these, like, little things that I think, as Alex said, that are so relatable, you know, them taking your sword out, you know, that, you know, obviously that, you know, not respecting you in a certain situation, not doing their homework, I'm not quite up to yet. Hopefully lying for no reason, which it's not just as a child you can relate to, but as a kid. And then not knowing when to believe them because they just enjoy saying, making things up. Yeah. That's like, it is heartbreaking from a kid's perspective and from a parent's perspective that they would internalize those things that way. But also, we've all had that happen to us, so we know it's not even wrong to do that. But as a kid, you're gonna of course internalize it and just. It makes these characters feel much more real and gives this moment a lot more impact.

[E]

Yeah. Like Marianne said, I think in particular you brought up that idea of, like, these kids think this is heavenly retribution for something small they did as a child. Right. They think like, that's the worst thing that I could have Ever Possibly done. And meanwhile, wait till you're an adult.

[B]

And you start murdering people and you've got this dude.

[E]

Literally, as they're thinking that, like sniveling and crying, laughing.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Over their potential death of the death of their parents.

[B]

It's like, oh, yeah, the juxtapose nuts. Yeah. Like there's an actually evil man doing actually evil things. Laughing about being evil.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Yeah. Alex, what were you going to say? Sorry.

[C]

I was going to say that it's remarkable that Oda made me care about the giant creepy pervert Roto Fear is a strong word.

[B]

But yes.

[C]

Also, I wanted to say, after we were talking for a bit, I updated the Google sheets.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Color coding.

[B]

And I decided to share this with everyone.

[C]

Well, I decided that Ager is Brook, because we haven't figured out Brook's total past yet. And that Bjorn is definitely Jinbe. Because Jinbe. We don't know anything about Jinbe's parentage, but Jinbe was embarrassed about a brother in Arlong. So that's the connection that I'm making there. Okay.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That's a good one.

[D]

All right. Nice.

[B]

Okay, now we just have to publish this. Make this list publishable instead of something I put together five minutes before we start anyway. Yeah, no, AB. Absolutely. Very good discussion. And we have a million piece piece together questions. So we'll try and get into those. And I'm sure we'll hit everything we forgot to talk about. So we'll see you after the break. This is the Piece Together segment where we take your questions, comments, theories, and skibidi Skaldi getting scalded. Alex, what's our first segment?

[E]

Dis Peace.

[C]

As you all know, dis Peace. We dive into our Discord and Patreon subscribers. Thank you so enjoy this first one from Big Mike, who just simply says Summers is a dick.

[B]

Great comment. Great comment.

[C]

Yeah, we got a whole bunch. So I'm just. Let's just keep them coming.

[B]

Yeah, I think they all say the same thing.

[C]

Yeah. Straw part nine says what a chapter. I need two things from ODA going forward one summer to get his ass kicked in the best, most satisfying way possible because, oh, I hate him. With a fire of 1000 suns. Two for Ripley and the other moms on this island to not die. Please, just one soda. Just goddamn one. That ending Loki is massive. Like, I knew he had to be big, but seeing the scale, I am so excited to see him and Luffy fight and win. Yes, we all, I guess, assume comments this fight, but yeah, I think that's better.

[D]

Oh, that's too big.

[B]

There it is.

[C]

That's not that much cheese. Emotional mess cram says, ahoy, Opp. Or I'm sorry, opp. Theo Hoy. I know I say this every week, but, like, for real this time. Banger chapter is always one of the biggest bangers. Like, holy shit. The emotional core of the sacrifices really hit me super hard. And the final spread. So cool. I was very much on the side of wanting Loki's fruit to look stupid, but when it's this sick, I don't care at all. And fuck Summers. What an awful, depraved pervert.

[E]

It's a recurring theme, I see. With all these Disney.

[B]

I'm glad we don't have any truly evil listeners. Summers, very redeemable.

[C]

I think Summers is just trying to do. Summers just trying to do his job.

[E]

I need that flashback to redeem Summers.

[D]

Oh, God, he's having such a nice time. He's laughing. He's great.

[B]

He worked at a bank all along. He wore diapers for his diet.

[C]

Yeah, well, there's. There's more. What fate do you hope he has in store? And how graphic should it be? I hope it's very. Have a great week and keep up the amazing work. All right, so the question posed to us, the panel is, what fate do you hope Summer has in store?

[B]

Right. Answers them.

[E]

I think. I think he definitely dies this arc. I think he is the. Of any of them, he is one that, like, definitely dies.

[B]

Yeah, the one you said earlier, like, the Saturn. Saturn, but worse.

[E]

Somehow it's gotta. I think it's something like that because it's like, something of the extent of, like, the tattoo being taken away because.

[B]

Of him screwing up. But worse. But worse.

[E]

Yeah, because he really.

[B]

Not only did he f up, but he's blaming the boss. Like, oh, you're so screwed, and it's gonna be great.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I get the sense that he's probably not as old as Saturn or even Goko.

[E]

No, no, no, no, no.

[B]

He's.

[D]

We saw Summers in the flashback, so he is aging. I think Summers and.

[B]

Or he was, at least.

[D]

Yeah, well, no, I think that Gunko is the only one here that has the tattoo where you stop aging, I think. Cause when Harold died, IMU got really hurt and messed up and said, oh, it takes a toll on IMU as well. I think that it's gonna be a very tragic ending. I think all three of them are gonna die with Gunko being the last one. It's gonna be like, hey, listen, you need to kill me before Imu takes back over. Kill me. Because it'll do damage to Imu if you kill me. Yes.

[A]

Could they just disarm them literally?

[B]

Like with the.

[E]

With Gabon. Right. With the. With the shanks?

[B]

That.

[E]

That I think is another good question. Right. Because when you look at like, the layout of this and we've seen like, Summers fighting in the past versus what's it called? Gabon and things like that during God Valley, and you've got killing Ham with all these weird dream powers. I mean, that could be set up kind of. Kind of nicely right there of like, Summers with his kind of perverted passion to Sanji and like, killing him versus Zorro creating all these like, sword creature cryptid things that Zorro could fight. You got like, those two matched up and then Gunko kind of being the play on that, with Loki and Luffy essentially taking care of everything while Brooke has that kind of like, personal moment with Gunko. You know what I mean?

[D]

I love. I love. You said before, Roger, where you think that if Gunko gets reclaimed their body that they'll turn back into their proper age and be like a motherly figure.

[B]

She'd still be a daughter figure, to be fair. But I agree. I actually think it works better as like. Because she'll be like, decrepit and old.

[E]

And she'll be old. Exactly. Yes.

[B]

And also depending on how much of the evil she actually is, which I still think she. She's pretty evil, like pre. Her getting taken over. But there's been a lot of. I know. Debate about that in our community. At least. I still think that would be an excellent, like, karmic and not if not end at least a karmic conclusion to that storyline with Brooke.

[E]

Yeah, most definitely. And on top of that too, when we're talking about, like, opponents, I think another one that would really make sense as like a Perona esque kind of thing would be Usopp versus killing him. Right? With like, the idea of killing him not being able to create like a nightmare of Usopp. Because Usopp's always like, already confronted like the worst of his fears.

[B]

What am I gonna say?

[E]

And pairing that in some way with like, even taxes. We're pairing that in some way with like, the parallels that we've seen a lot post timeskip with pre timeskip arcs. Right. Of like, you've literally got this hammer that's present in this arc with like, Usopp and the pretend hammer.

[B]

We talked about that.

[C]

Yeah, we've. Yeah, we've Definitely. Yeah, we definitely covered that.

[E]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Well, I. You raised something interesting about killing him. So my. I always pitted Zoro up against killing him because I thought it would be cool if he's like, oh, well, I've beaten a Kirin before. I can beat one again. But I like the idea of Usopp fighting, killing him and Usopp's lies basically coming to life and being what beats killing him.

[E]

Right.

[B]

Like, that would be great.

[E]

That'd be awesome.

[C]

Yeah, I think that would be really cool if he had a whole bunch of lies that were, like, personified, like, telling him, I'm gonna use your own imagination against you. And he's like, oh, well, I'm a liar.

[B]

Nice try. I love it.

[C]

I think that would be. I think that would be a lot of fun. Very similar to the Perona thing. But I don't think that, like, I think retreading that almost, I think. But I like where your head's at. I like where your head's at, theme wise.

[B]

Yeah, sorry, I did want to say now I. Go ahead. I'll figure out what I was going to say.

[C]

Well, I mean, I wasn't going to say something serious. I'm just saying that, look, you have somebody on the straw hat crew who has the power to get rid of tattoos at will. Frankie can use lasers.

[B]

Oh, that's what I was going to say. The whole thing, the whole hierarchy and what powers who has is still very nebulous and confusing in that. Okay, so we know that they could regenerate Summers and, well, Summers we saw has gotten hacked to pieces. Also, we know from Harold that having his tattoo hacked at is not enough to get rid of the tattoo. You need to just obliterate with conqueror's hockey is what it seems like. Just, you know, really rush the zone or whatever the hell the saying is. But so, you know, I really do like the idea of, like, killing him. And I think killing him and Summers and Gunko really all need to be taken down by straw hats or allies. I think that's just how that has to happen. However, I think at the end of the day, Gunko is going to ultimately be taken down by Emo, but in not a redeemable moment, but a moment in which she has her comeuppance and is able to face her past and kind of, as Ken really put it well, too face her past in a way that both. That gives some sort of conclusion to brook, but also isn't light on Gunko. I am. I am like one of the people who Are like. There's a lot of Gunko defenders, which I get. But like, she is interesting. Don't get me wrong, but I think she needs comeuppance. She still has shown herself to be awful.

[D]

She's not wearing pants.

[B]

Is that why none of them wear pants? We discussed this a few weeks ago, actually.

[D]

They're evil.

[B]

Oh, they're evil? They don't wear pants? Is that what you're saying? Our pantsless people are evil?

[A]

Then explain Egghead.

[B]

Explain Egghead.

[E]

There you go.

[B]

That fits York, but not everyone else.

[D]

Hey, Egghead burned down. They learned their lesson too.

[C]

Actually, no lessons were learned.

[E]

Also, Lilith still being here is wild. That like Lilith and Kuma and Bonnie are still chilling here with us. So it's like.

[B]

I know that. That kills me every time I think of Kuma still there. And we don't really have a conclusion to that story. Kill me. Yeah, okay, Alex.

[C]

Yes, we'll get that at some point. But anyway, here's the next one. And keep an eye on the chat in a moment because I'm going to give everybody a link to click on. This is from.

[B]

I have it open.

[C]

But yeah, this is from Rage you against the Machine, AKA Slay. Who says hello, my fellow martyrs for love. I have an. I had an idea a couple days ago and you have to hear me out or the Dispiece council will be most displeased. What if you were to each randomly generate one devil fruit from this site and I'm putting it in the chat now. One devil fruit. So once you click on it, then you just like when under the number, just hit one and then generate. Click a. Generate. Generate devil fruit and then tell us what it is and how you would use that power in your everyday life if you had to. Thank you and have a great week. And no cheating from everybody, because this.

[B]

Has the potential to be one. And then do you write number one.

[E]

In the generate thing instead of 10? Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Otherwise you could choose and you shouldn't be able to choose.

[C]

And I'll go ahead and start off. I got the Niku Nikyu no me AKA the Pawpaw fruit. That's Kuma's power.

[B]

That is a great one. That's the one I would want.

[C]

Allows users to repel anything they touch, including intangible objects like pain and fatigue.

[B]

That's. I forgot about that part too. Yeah.

[C]

Well, now this is People can. It also teleports people. Now we all know it also teleports you to Wherever you've been. So naturally I would use that to my full advantage.

[B]

Greece.

[C]

Yeah, obviously I would go to Greece and see my family.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But I would also go to Japan and avoid any tariffs. True. But remember when it comes to shipping stuff.

[B]

That's true. Plus you'd have to fly through the air though, for however many days that would take. Just remember. But that sounds fun. You bring a book.

[C]

I mean. But I'd also go to Italy and get, and bring back the espresso that we like, you know.

[B]

That's great.

[C]

I would basically just use it to go places now.

[B]

Alex, you are so lucky you got that.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

That's literally. Especially when you hear the stupid one I got.

[C]

No, I can't. I honestly can't.

[B]

I don't have an answer for this.

[C]

No, no. But, but don't like, but you know, be, be. Feel. Feel free to like, you know, even if it makes your life a little easier now.

[B]

True.

[C]

Now, now, now the, the repel. The ability to repel pain or remove pain.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I keep thinking to myself, like, I would definitely help out people who were, you know, sick or whatever.

[B]

You'd be so.

[C]

Alex, that's the problem.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I can't let people know you have this power. Now I, now I told myself, oh. But the next thing that I thought about right. Is like, oh, well, I'm a kid and I hate whenever my kid is in pain or whatever. But then eventually I will die and my kid will be conditioned to live a life with no pain. And when they first have pain, it's like what is like, you know, it. You.

[B]

Pain has a purpose. I mean.

[C]

Yes. Yeah, exactly. I, you have to be. I, I would have to use this power very judiciously.

[B]

Like for real pain. Like.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

That pain scale. When it gets to like excruciating.

[C]

Okay, well, I'm taking away your pain, but you go see a doctor.

[B]

That's true. Because yeah. You could take away pain. Zorro still needed a doctor after nothing happened. Like even. Well actually that's the opposite. It's kind of the opposite. He was thrown pain at him. So.

[C]

Yeah, but like what the, the people in, in, in Sorbet Kingdom kept coming every week to see.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And he would just like take pain.

[E]

Away from the pain. The way that power works though is that you take the pain, but you have to put, put it into something else. Right?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

So like realistically, if there's just a lot of people. Cuz we live in an era where there's just a lot of annoying people. If Someone bothers you at the grocery store, just flick a little. Little bit of pain at them and then get them out of your way. Like, that's all you gotta do. That's all you. You just gotta.

[B]

Evil people saying.

[E]

That's what I'm saying. When you see someone. Not a grocery cart back when they could put their grocery cart back, you take the little bit of pain and you. Like I said, you just flick it their way.

[C]

I mean, what I could do is I could just take a lot of pain from. I could just go to a hospital, take a bunch of pain, and then go to the Republican National Convention.

[E]

That's what I'm saying.

[C]

Shake a lot of hands.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, my God. Alex, we gotta get you this first.

[E]

That's 100%. You just shake. Because it works via contact, right? Yeah. So there you go. There you go. I like it.

[B]

We should move on to the next person. Ken, do you want to go next?

[C]

Yeah, Ken, what's yours?

[B]

Ken looks like he's in. Thought. I have a. Oh, you're.

[D]

I think mine's not working right because I got the Saracera. No. Mi model Triceratops.

[C]

Okay. That seems fine.

[D]

It's attributing it to Dalton in the. In the end.

[B]

Oh, no, that's.

[D]

That's not right.

[C]

No, that's. That's Dalton.

[B]

The Triceratops.

[D]

No, I completely missed that in Drum Island.

[C]

Well. Well, we're gonna. We're gonna go with the Triceratops fruit in this case.

[B]

I think that's a.

[E]

There you go.

[D]

I would do. Well, I would do that ability because that. Who was that in.

[B]

That was the Frank. Yeah, Frank Sa.

[D]

When he did, like, he did the helicopter thing where he flew with it. How does he use it to fly around? That's the best practical use of it.

[B]

Dinosaurs didn't do that.

[D]

You don't know. You weren't there.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

That's true.

[B]

Yeah. ODA had a lot of plausible deniabilities.

[D]

Yeah. But that was not Dalton. So I will let the next person go.

[C]

Roger.

[E]

Mine was garbage, bro. I got Foxy's Fruit. I got Foxy's Fruit.

[B]

Oh, no, no. So it says.

[E]

Allows users to emit light that slows down movements of anything that it touches. Obviously, it is a. It is a good power. I just think when I pulled it up and I saw it was Foxy, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me, bro. This is.

[C]

How would you.

[B]

But you have to laugh like that. That's part of fruit.

[E]

I mean, I would I would use it. I already know. This is the first thing I thought of. I would use it to manipulate traffic in Los Angeles is 100% what I would do. I mean, that's, like, guarantee.

[D]

I.

[E]

Well, the thing is, it's already slow and backed up, but I feel like if I was going through one of those areas where it's like, you know, everyone kind of gets stuck in that. That one area in Los Feliz before you're turning into, like, the Glendale Burbank area, Dude, I would just freeze every car in one of the lanes going a different way and then stop the stoplight and just be the only car in the lane and everybody else, traffic. So the thing is, California, I feel like that's the problem is that with this devil fruit, I don't. I don't think I would be benefiting anyone but myself. I feel like I'm actively making people's lives worse.

[B]

Alex is. Alex is our benefactor.

[E]

How can I. How can I make lives better?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

As a Californian, you go to the wildfires and you slow them down.

[E]

Oh, there you go. That's good. You slow them down before the firefighters come. That's a. That's a good one. That's actually good.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

He be. You'll be in the front lines.

[E]

I like that.

[B]

Marianne, what about you?

[A]

I also got a Sara. Sara. No mi. But I got model axolotl.

[D]

Oh, no, the better one.

[C]

You got the cutest one.

[B]

The cutest one. What would you do with that?

[A]

What would. I don't know. See?

[B]

What are you doing with that?

[A]

I'm already a lizard person. Like, I'm already cold all the time, so I don't know. I feel like this is just. I think I already have this fruit. And I don't know. It's so. I don't know. It just says, allows users to transform into an axolotl. Oh. And regenerate any injuries. I think I already have this fruit. I think I already have this fruit, and I don't know it because I've never, like. Well, I've never broken a bone. I have, like, twisted my ankles more times than I can count, but it's never been, like, an actual twist. It's like I'll bend my foot sideways and then maybe like, oh, no, we're good. All right.

[B]

I think it's more if you lose a limb and it grows back, because that's what axolotls do.

[A]

I think perhaps. Well, I haven't tried that yet, so.

[D]

Right now give it a shot.

[E]

I'm the test.

[B]

You don't actually have the fruit.

[A]

Yeah, I'm not really sure how one would practically apply an axolotl fruit in real life.

[B]

That is a difficult one. You got. I got how I'm gonna pronounce. This is the. Jake. Jake know me. I know that's not how it is. I don't care.

[C]

Oh, my God. Did you get the jacket fruit?

[B]

No, I fucking wish. Wait, you wish you got the jacket? I said Gecko Moria. No, this is. It says Gekko Moria.

[D]

This site's not right. No, no.

[C]

Gecko Moria is the Kage. Kage.

[B]

The jacket fruit. Fuck. You're right. Right? You're right. I got the jacket fruit.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I got the jacket fruit. Are you kidding me with this?

[D]

It's. It's pretty cold.

[B]

I can't do live reactions, but this is, this is ridiculous. I can't. I. The jacket fruit. I can use a jacket jacket fruit. And it says Gecko Moria allows users to manipulate shadows and create shadow clothes. That's not what it does.

[E]

That's nuts.

[B]

It's a jacket.

[C]

It's funny because. Yeah, I, I, I pulled that up on the, on the thing.

[B]

My son's asleep right now.

[C]

And if you click it, if you actually click. Takes you to the jacket fruit.

[E]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

It does.

[C]

So, so allow, Allow me to read this from the One piece wiki. Okay. It says here.

[B]

So is Sai gonna draw us all on these powers for this? It's.

[C]

It allows the user to become a jacket and be worn by others with which makes them a jacket man.

[D]

So the end.

[C]

Zach, how would you use your powers in everyday life?

[B]

I'm the jacket.

[C]

You become the jacket.

[B]

So I get to, I just get to manipulate someone if they choose to wear me?

[E]

Yes.

[D]

The problem was the guy was all strong. Oh, my God. Fight. So their jacket, like, he controlled the body.

[C]

No, but Mary, my wife.

[B]

Warm.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

She's.

[C]

She's absolutely right.

[A]

That's what you can use your day.

[B]

I could keep my wife warm. I can't just buy her an actual jacket. Like, look, I'm not getting a Canada goose jacket. But I mean, come on. I don't need to.

[A]

As a person who's cold all the time, like, just putting a jacket on doesn't help that much.

[B]

Marianne, I am not going to be your jacket. I'm sorry.

[A]

No, no, no, not.

[B]

No.

[A]

But for your wife. Like, if, if, you know, as a jacket that's self sufficient.

[B]

So you're saying you'd want to wear A human being.

[A]

I'm not saying I would. I'm just saying it would be a more effective jacket.

[B]

No, I think you could save money in warfare. I think I should manipulate someone in a high position of power to leave that position of power.

[C]

Yeah, but then they have to put you on first. They're gonna. You have to convince them to put you on.

[D]

It still looks like you just stretched over something. Someone else.

[A]

Yeah, that's true.

[C]

Honestly, you would get burnt before anything else.

[E]

Got the worst devil fruit. Like, I think people talk about the worst devil fruit powers. The jacket fruit always comes up as, like, one of the worst.

[B]

And I randomly chose. Wow. How many devil fruits are there? There's like, hundreds.

[D]

I go back to Vegapunk's thing where he's like, oh, devil fruits of the dreams and admiration. Someone wanted to be a dragon.

[B]

I'm really trying here to come up with a good explanation situation.

[E]

It's probably the most tragic of all the stories of, like, there was a child. There was a child whose mom died and was, like, dying in front of him. And the child was like, I wish there was a way I could keep my mom warm. I wish she could wear me like a jacket. And then here you go, and you give the kid the jacket fruit. You know?

[C]

You know, Roger, that is. Roger, that's a. That is actually a brilliant origin of that. I was gonna go the exact opposite way where it was like, you know, a genie wish, where it's like, you better be very specific.

[A]

I want the ability to control other people. Okay, sure, sure.

[B]

Yeah. It's a monkey's paw.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That's how they do it.

[D]

Who's the bad guy from Silence of the Lambs?

[C]

Hannibal Lecter?

[D]

No. Buffalo Bill. There we go.

[C]

The Buffalo Bill fruit.

[B]

This has been fantastic. I've really been over here. There's no other way to. To put that. I'm glad we.

[C]

I have some good news for you guys that we have so many more to get through. Okay. NZL says, hey, Opp, how do you feel the arc progresses from here? I know that on the sgs, Greg talks about how things need to be at the worst before things can get better. So was this it? Were the kids falling off our time limit to wrap things up or do things just look like they're to going. Going to like things looking up now so they can get worse again? It feels like with Luki, Luffy, and Loki up top now, the resolution can almost be too easy. With us having had the party at the beginning of the arc, I Keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. Sorry for the long one, but do you think this is the prophecy that Harold said is why Loki thought he was. Naa. That. That I think we covered. We did mention that already.

[B]

I think the way that this could get much worse is if someone of big stature, not just like literally, but like a straw hat, is Domi reverseed. And they have to figure out how to get out of it.

[E]

Or Loki gets. I mean, Domi reversed. Loki would be insane. Yeah.

[B]

That's Nami. Imagine Nami being Domi. That's the end of the series.

[C]

That's the end of the series.

[D]

Nami and Loki are both the same.

[B]

No, Nami would.

[E]

Nami would.

[B]

Shark teeth.

[E]

When she slaps the crewmates is the strongest character in the entire.

[B]

Sanji out of the picture. Yeah, See, as Sanji's out of the picture, Luffy's out of the picture. She could really do a number on everyone.

[C]

Well, no. Here it is, right? Loki gets Domi. Reverse destroys Elbaf. That's. And there's our Ragnarok. Right? There it is. And our heroes have no choice but to go up to the Astral Realm.

[D]

Yeah. We have not seen the Astral Realm.

[C]

Come on.

[B]

Astral Realm. I need to see the Astral Realm.

[D]

Astral Realm.

[B]

Realm.

[C]

All right. I'm going to. I'm going to keep going a little because.

[B]

Please, please, please, please, please.

[C]

We're going pretty long.

[B]

This question was really good, though, with the devil fruits, unfortunately.

[C]

Oh no, that was too great. King Doji. Our friend King Doji says. Hey, Opp. Today is my birthday.

[B]

Happy birthday.

[C]

Happy birthday. I'm sure this has been asked before, but every episode has different people, so everyone has different answers. How do the Straw Hats spend their birthday?

[D]

With their family. Next.

[B]

Eating a lot. I mean, we know how they party. I mean, I assume.

[C]

King Doji, since it's your birthday. Since it's your birthday, King Doji, I will indulge you here.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Let'S see.

[B]

We're contractually obligated to indulge. Don't do.

[C]

Luffy spends it eating. Nami spends it trying to extort people. People for birthday card money. Zoro spends it sleeping or drinking. I think. I think.

[B]

Love the Lunar New Year. I just.

[E]

Robin reads, for sure. Robin's reading.

[C]

Yeah. Robin spending her time doing what she loves doing. Honestly, I feel like.

[B]

Don't bother me. I'm gonna go read in the corner.

[C]

I feel like the easy. Like those are the easy answers. I think the more like Frankie. Frankie and usopp I think are the ones that are like a little tougher.

[B]

Frankie would like, you could play like a toy thing, you know, with a bunch of robots and stuff. Or like a rock em sock em robot thing, you know.

[A]

I do think he would figure out a way to make like they make rum cakes. He'd figure out a way to make a cola cake for him, you know.

[E]

I like that. I like that.

[B]

Oh yeah. Fire this.

[C]

I mean if we're gonna go buy the. The new. The new. I'm Sanji. I'm kind Sanji. He would spend his birthday making a feast for everybody.

[B]

I think that or he could be buying pornography.

[D]

Isn't Chopper's birthday on Christmas?

[C]

Yeah, Chopper's birthday is on Christmas.

[D]

He gets one gift.

[C]

That's right. Just one. And. And it sucks. Yay. I think if anybody's gon traditional birthday party, it's going to be Chopper.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

As we found out.

[B]

It would be adorable. And it would be a carnival. Obviously. It would be like the.

[E]

It would look like. It would literally look like my shirt. This Araju.

[B]

It would.

[E]

Chopper is exactly what it would look like. You'd have cotton candy. It's gonna be great.

[C]

Hold on. When we went to one piece Tokyo Tower, it wasn't like the big walk around thing. It was like Chopper's birthday.

[B]

Oh, you're right.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

The one that I got jump scared at.

[B]

Oh, did we tell you the story Roger? When we got jump scared at the.

[E]

Tower when they had it still.

[B]

No, we did too.

[C]

So then you know there's a that, that bit where you go around the thousandth. The sunny and I. The shark scared the out of me.

[B]

It was the funniest thing. I think I talked about it like last week.

[C]

I also got scared during like the Brook Haunted House.

[E]

When they had the. The stage show still and Maddie actually toured it with us. And I remember walkway through. When you're walking through the sunny room, you know there was that the sign where you like look through the window and then Nami zaps Chopper and then the thing turns around and he looks like he's dead. I remember breaking out seeing that being like what the heck are they doing to my boy? Why would this be the animatronic that you spent money on? It's just a poor little zap chop Chopper. Of all the things you could have built.

[B]

It's like in DS9 you have to torture the most lovable character. O'. Brien. Or in this case Chopper.

[C]

So O', Brien, you think O' Brien is the most lovable character in DS9.

[E]

No, I don't.

[B]

Someone did say. Someone say, like, he's the. This is so. I'm sorry. Never mind.

[C]

Let's continue different podcasts. Okay, Hug says. Hey, Opp, I wanted to start off by saying the new trailer for season two of Live Action is the best one piece AMV I've seen in years. I'm definitely excited to see what they do this season. More AMVs, anyway. I'm sure they'll find the one piece this season. Anyway, this week's chapter hurt me. Seeing all those kids start blaming themselves only to watch their family members sacrifice their lives just to have someone there for them when they're dying really packs a punch. I hope Summers gets all the evil juices sucked out of him like sad Saturn did. Hey, as. As for my question, am I the only one who thinks Loki's dragon form looks kind of cute? He's supposed to be menacing and dangerous, which he is, but there's something about the design that I find to be rather adorable.

[B]

That. That just describes Loki, by the way. Like, he looks intimidating, but he's actually adorable inside. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. He's the pointiest cinnamon roll ever.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

I've been listening to the podcast on and off since Dressrosa, so it's finally exciting to submit a couple question. Hope everyone has a good week and thanks for all your work over the years.

[B]

Dressrosa.

[C]

Let's not talk about Dressrosa.

[B]

Let's talk about.

[C]

That's.

[B]

That's still like 12 years.

[C]

No, no. I mean, it's really crazy.

[E]

He is cute in this form then. Is that. Was that the question?

[B]

Is that the question?

[E]

Yeah, because I'm like, yeah, I could see a world in which he's got.

[D]

He's got pretty eyes.

[E]

Yeah, there you go. There you go.

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Yeah, we actually see his eyes in this form once or twice.

[D]

He fit the dragon.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Although we see like the. Yeah, that's true, too.

[C]

Garrion is a lizard person. What's your take on this?

[B]

I forgot. You're a lizard person.

[A]

Yeah, I am a lizard person. I am an axolotl. Apparently, Wardle was in person. Exactly. I mean, he's okay, but I feel like all the monsters in one piece could be considered cute because none of them are drawn, like, crazy menacing, usually, because they're just the one piece art style, you know? So from that standpoint, sure, if we.

[B]

Had more time, I would ask what's the actually scariest thing in one piece? But I'll let you mull that over my mom.

[C]

Let's see.

[B]

There it is.

[C]

All right, that's the consensus. Loki is a cutie pants, straw hat. Rigby says, hey, Opp. What a chapter, huh? I mentioned before that the scale of everything on Elbaf sort of breaks my brain. And Loki in this dragon form, definite shatters my brain even more. This chapter is one of a few in the recent years that's definitely made me cry, specifically because if you allow me to get sentimental, it made me think of my mom. Growing up, my mom had a, let's say, a specific way that she'd deal with things, as I'm sure any kind of immigrant parents can attest to. One time she told me, if the house is on fire and I need to get you out, I'm not going to politely ask you, please get up and go. I'm going to yell and scream and drag you out if I have to. And this panel really reminded me. Reminded me of that and of her. So here's to all the moms out there doing their best with love in their hearts. As the chapter title pointed out, it's the strongest thing in the world. Have a good week. And the panel that he posted is the panel where Bent apologizes to his mom for thinking that she was scary.

[E]

I will say that in that one in particular, of all of the little flashes that you see of the parents, was the one that I related to the most because my mom could definitely terrify me when I was a little, little kid. But I always knew it was coming from a good place. So, yeah, I very much saw my mom in that.

[C]

That's lovely. Yeah, thank you for that one. That was very lovely. SNP says. Hey, Opp, one, I'm definitely not crying. All the parents in Opp definitely aren't crying either, right? Two, he really loves the PTA, doesn't he? Or is this Oda's ploy to appeal to. To the PTA's good side so they don't go after him with all the naughty things he did in the end. SBS3 these images below are just one piece, fans. Every time ODA wrote a sad backstory. And it's. Yeah, yeah, it's Summer is laughing his ass off saying, it makes my heart tremble. What a saga of emotions.

[B]

Call their names. Scream your family.

[E]

Yeah, maybe.

[B]

Maybe just the second part of that. But yeah. And it takes my heart. It makes my heart tremble. Oh, what a saga of emotions. I mean, yes, that's good, but for good reason. I mean. Yeah, I mean, I guess for bad reasons. Too. But they're fictional characters. Nah. Go ahead.

[C]

What's next? Indefinite Seas says. Hi, Opp. I've just spent the last six weeks catching up all the way from chapter 1133. I love having the podcast to listen to with each chapter as it makes me slow down and savor each one as well as helping me notice details. I definitely would miss this otherwise. Thank you all for for. Thank you for all the work you do to make the podcast happen. This is my first weekly chapter since catching up. And what a chapter. I was crying real tears when reading and had and had watery eyes on every reread since. Summers is so horrible and entertaining at the same time. I can't wait to see him get his ass kicked. Do you think Sanji will be the one to fight him? It seems that Sanji may get his conqueror's hockey. Do you think this arc will bring back his German mutation reversed eyebrow? I think him going east evil and Zoro having to fight him would be some have some interesting resonance with EMU's reverse powers. Thanks again for all the great podcasting and I hope you have a great week.

[B]

What would a reverse Sanji be like? Oh, that's a.

[A]

That's a. I hate all women. Punch them with my hands.

[B]

Would he be like extra gay? Is that like what it like, more gay than he usually is?

[D]

That is funny.

[C]

That's good.

[B]

Like, I'm gonna leave that up to the audience.

[E]

You're saying evil Domi reverses. Sanji is either Andrew Tate or Milo Yiannopoulos. It's one of the two. There's no mix. Those are the two evil. Most worst possible versions that you could think of.

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Wow. Perfect zoom in from Alex there. Can't see on his chair.

[E]

Zoom was so good.

[C]

Every once in a while you get a really good one.

[B]

It's always good.

[C]

Yeah. Thank you.

[B]

Zoom feature on Zoom.

[C]

I mean, at the start of the arc when these guys were introduced, you know, I kind of figured that, like, all right, Gunko's gonna be Loki plus Luffy. And then we have Summers versus Sanji and Gabon. And then Zoro versus Kirk. Kirin. Kirin Ja. What the fuck is his name? Killing him and someone else.

[B]

I was just gonna say, I don't think we are getting traditional fights this arc.

[C]

Probably not.

[D]

I don't think so either.

[A]

I don't see why the fights need to be all one on one either.

[B]

I don't even know if we're gonna get fights in the traditional way. We have a giant freaking dragon over us right now, like, who the hell knows is gonna have.

[C]

They don't. They don't.

[D]

And.

[C]

And one.

[B]

They don't. Sorry.

[C]

And. And. And of course it's like the ultimate shonen trope to get, you know, the one on one fights. But I'm sorry, I love them. Like, to me, Alabasta is like platonic ideal for fights.

[B]

We had Alabasta and we're never going.

[E]

To variations of that as well. And we've had many actually.

[B]

Yeah, we had Dressrosa. I mean, it's like, yeah, Wanobi a little bit too.

[C]

I wouldn't say that Wano is a retread. Wano did have a lot of really great one on ones. Every once in a while we're going to get one on ones. And I'm sure that the final battle is going to have a slew of those too.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

I just. That's how my brain thinks when it comes to arcs now. I mean, like it's. It's the easier way to go other than like, well, what group is going to be fighting this? Get one individual, you know? But as we said before, I do like the idea of Usopp fighting. Killing him in some specific way. Like that is. That is dead on. Roger. Yeah, we've got. No, we've got two more. Let's, let's. Let's do those and see where we're at. Sailor Karna, whom we hear from a lot. What's up? Says, hey, obp. This chapter was another tear jerker. I really had to stop reading and hug my own demon nugget and go back to reading. If that's what you call your child, then that's very sweet.

[B]

Is it? No, it is.

[E]

Well, zoom in again. I wish people could see it.

[B]

I wish people could see it.

[C]

It's very good.

[B]

We have to start posting these at some point. Yeah, go ahead.

[C]

Just for the zoom ends and this is the lastest piece and then we can move on. Reverse tummy patch. Okay, I do want to say I really like. Of what? Gum, Gum Tummy cracker.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

We didn't even talk about that.

[E]

That's so funny.

[B]

I just got that. It's like putting a cracker in your tummy. And that's the whole extent of the joke, I guess.

[C]

I guess that's. Yeah, like how Homer Simpson, he stretched.

[D]

His tummy out to the size of a cracker. Like a square cracker. It's basically gum gum balloon, but like square.

[C]

But I like tummy cracker a lot.

[B]

It is a very stupid sounding but it's great.

[C]

I bet there's some. I mean, Steven's not here, but I bet there's some sort of portmanteau that I'm sure. Yeah, like senbei balloon or senbei Fusin.

[B]

Oh, actually, that would. That would be. Yeah, I could see that.

[C]

Anyway, reverse it from Cracker.

[B]

Yeah, Go.

[C]

Reverse tummy patch says Cracker chapter, as always. If you tamed a T. Rex, what would you do with it? I would teach it to ride on a ball.

[B]

Oh, full circle.

[C]

Well, first of all, reverse eye patch or reverse tummy patch in this case. I see your. I see your Dragon Ball Z reference, and I appreciate it.

[B]

Oh, I just got that. Okay. Juggling, though. Anything with the hands, I think is hilarious.

[E]

Immediately, I think I would go on a walk with it and give it my pirate hat and feed it meat.

[B]

Okay. No, Roger, you're on the COVID Jesus Christ.

[C]

All Rogers are the same.

[B]

I get.

[C]

I think I would give it my hat and then inhabit its body and.

[B]

No, that's me. You stole my Team Mario.

[D]

Oh, it's Mario.

[C]

It's a me. It's a me, Alex.

[B]

Oh, you're doing the Odyssey thing. Not the jacket fruit that I have.

[C]

That's right.

[D]

I'd put him on a movie poster for the upcoming movie Chasing Baby Luigi and Baby Mario.

[E]

There you go. In theaters April 1st. Super Mario Galaxy Movie co production between Nintendo and Universal Pictures.

[B]

You're probably getting.

[C]

Are you getting paid for this?

[D]

I was very excited about this poster.

[B]

Hey, that's my birthday. Perfect.

[D]

It is.

[B]

Go see the Mario movie.

[C]

It'll be great.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That does it for this piece. What else do we got, Zach?

[B]

Oh, no. We're gonna stop there because it's late and we started late, but we've still been talking for a while. Let's round off the show after these messages. This has been the One Piece podcast episode 906 for February 16, 2026. Plugs, don't skip this. I see you pressing that 15 second or 10 second ahead button. Don't know, Roger. No, no, I've got a plug that. Please listen to our episode from Thursday. We had a special interview with congressional candidate Kat Abu Ghazali, which was.

[E]

Was.

[B]

I think I mentioned there that we had originally scheduled her for the day that she ended up getting indicted. Like, at the time, like, she told us, like, right before, like, oh, I can't do it. And then I see, like 20 minutes later that it was. That's what happened. So it's not our fault. Please don't blame us for that. But yeah, please take a listen to that episode. That was a lot of fun. And listen this, this, this year we've done a lot of great episodes already. The the manga has been great, the world has been terrible, but One Piece has been on fire. So yeah, please listen to us and please subscribe to us on [e-mail] One Piece podcast this month on. So if you join. Sorry at $12 a month, you could join our sticker of the month crew where you get some of Steve's art in sticker form. This month the vote is between. There's only two days left as I speak. So one day left. If you're listening to this when it comes out, it is between Luffy's rare cards, which is Luffy holding up his Pokemon card, but it has Jim Bay and himself on it, I think. Or Luffy eating the world. All of the Simpsons. The Brazil episode where it's Uncle Sam eating the world. So vote right now as I speak, the rare cards are winning 64 to 36. Only surprises me and no one else because I love that Simpsons reference one and I think, oh yeah, please also check out I was on Quest for the Best on two weeks ago to talk about Orb on the Movements of the Earth, which is great series that I got I know our musician Kirsten into and she likes it. What the hell happens after episode four? I'm not gonna tell you. I'm not. I'm not telling you. Roger. Where could people find you?

[E]

You could find me same place as you've always been able to find me. For the past 10 years, I'm @rogers Bass on YouTube, on Twitter because I'm not calling it X Blue Sky, Instagram, literally everywhere, you name it. But mostly nowadays I'm on YouTube. I just try to avoid social media.

[B]

Has it been 10 years, Roger? I feel like time.

[E]

Yeah, well, I've been, I've been doing it full time since 2017.

[B]

That's.

[E]

And I've been doing YouTube for I think 12 years. Yeah, it would have been about.

[B]

Wow, congratulations. Yeah, I mean it's making a career on YouTube I like can't imagine for so many reasons, but like good, good, good on.

[E]

I'm very, I'm very lucky. I got a cool audience and obviously One Piece fans are great. So it's always a pleasure to be on the. On the One Piece podcasts. And then the only thing I really got to plug is obviously we're gonna be on break next week. But for each of the Break weeks. As I talked about earlier on the show, I've been doing these bleach read throughs where I basically read through a chunk of the bleach manga. We do it alongside the official release on Viz. Thankfully they have it all designated in like volume format and so we usually go through about three or four volumes per stream. Mostly due to the fact that there's a lot of negative space and a lot of things where it's just an image is the panel. So it's, it's great and it's been really a lot of fun.

[B]

Are you talking about the heart? The one where it's just a page and it just says the heart on it?

[E]

There was, I, like I said, I just finished Weko Mundo and there was literally a panel that was like the whole page, the entire page was just white and then a tiny little image on the bottom of somebody shooting a beam. So I've gotten very used to that with bleach. But I've thoroughly been enjoying myself.

[B]

So now, you know, I was when I was 23, making fun of the. That as a 23 year old with 23 year old sensibilities in 2009 or something like that. Thank you. Thank you, Roger. Yeah, we'll have you on soon so that we know we have a good chapter coming up.

[E]

We'll do a live action thing for sure. I'll try because I know I'll be covering that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. And I'm very excited for that to happen. No, we'll definitely do that. I want to hear more about your trip to. I don't know if we like really got to dive into that trip with you.

[E]

Like I said, well, if we do a live, we're just watching like do a whole segment. But I'm happy to talk about it because there's a lot of stuff that I can now talk about that I was not allowed to talk about in that video like three years ago. So that'll be cool once people see season two.

[B]

Yeah. Okay. Ken, where could people find you?

[D]

You could find me anywhere online under kindking01, whether that be Blue Sky, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, you name it, I'm on there for the same name. I have good search engine optimization there. And if you have not checked it out already, please check out the One Piece Art collab. Back in 2024, I ran a giant art collab where we got over 400 artists to draw over 800 characters between post dress Rosa and Egghead. Alex contributed a bunch of art to that. Roger, your thumbnail artist James. He participated in that too.

[E]

Awesome.

[D]

So, yeah, it's over 800 pieces of really, really amazing full body character art. Look up op collab on Blue SK Sky. It's a free download. All there. Go check out all the amazing artwork and all the amazing artists who made it happen.

[B]

I know.

[D]

Yeah. Thanks, Chat.

[B]

Kirby, who also does our. He helped you, like, put that together too, right?

[D]

Yep. Kirby was my co host for the entire thing.

[B]

He also has a bunch of stuff on there. Right.

[D]

Steve was part of volume one ten years ago. He didn't get. He didn't get to do volume two, unfortunately.

[C]

But I did a bunch.

[B]

Yeah, we mentioned you, Alex.

[C]

Oh, yeah, sorry, I thought you did, but I zoned out.

[B]

Marianne. Yeah. Wow. I just said people shouldn't skip this part.

[C]

And I'm also. Look, I'm also a tired dad. Don't give me. Don't give me guff.

[A]

Well, I'm not a tired or dad. No, I am tired, but I'm not a dad. But anyway, Axolotl.

[B]

You're Axolotl.

[A]

Axolotl. Thank you very much. No, you can find me on the regular social medias, the Twitter, the blue sky that I forget to post on and Instagram under Marianne D. Hobbit. I also I voice actor for Crunchyroll. If you're watching Crunchyroll stuff, watch it dubbed or sub. Sub's fine too, but you probably won't hear me.

[B]

If you're watching it sub also, watch it dubbed.

[A]

Yeah, do both. Compare the two. Don't do that. Also, I got to do a really fun thing recently that I was using a pseudonym for, and then I realized nobody else was, so I felt silly about it. If you watch the Team four Star Toonami abridged, I am in fact the one named Sailor Moon in that, so.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

Congrats.

[A]

Yeah, I'm Sailor Moon herself. So they just released a like, both. All the episodes together thing. So it still has my pseudonym on there. So if you're like, who is Mariana Book? Well, that's. That's me. It's me.

[E]

I got.

[B]

I get it. But I feel like Team four Star is as legitimate as they get these days.

[A]

Yeah, these days. Yes. For sure. I just know there had been backlash in the past, but also like literally everybody, everybody else, including other bigger named actors than I, are using their regular names. So I'll admit to it now, too.

[B]

Yeah, we had Kaiser on years ago. They're all great. He.

[A]

He's great.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, he is. That was everyone, right? Anything else, Marianne?

[C]

That's all.

[B]

Well, that's cool news too. You could find [e-mail].

[C]

That'S not everybody.

[B]

Oh, Alex. Oh, we talked to you before.

[E]

Sorry, he's zoned out. Sorry.

[D]

Yes, Alex, you're in the art collab. We mentioned it. I'm sorry.

[A]

Zoned out. But zoned in.

[B]

Someone came in and put me on as a jacket and I zoned out. Out.

[C]

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Can you believe this guy?

[B]

Like me, you'll understand.

[C]

Boy, you're lucky I don't have the paw paw fruit. Otherwise I'd teleport myself over there so fast.

[B]

That would be great. Can you please do that?

[D]

And I'd put you on.

[C]

Actually. That'd be really great.

[E]

You can go visit your friend. That'd be awesome.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. Big old hug a bear hug and.

[B]

Accidentally throw me into next week. Yeah, go for it.

[C]

Send you to Rochester. So a couple things. You can find me on Blue sky at digit exclamation Bisky Weeb Simpsons. You can also find that there under Weeb Simpsons at Bisky. Yeah, I'll be doing Super Art Fight and ball Baltimore on the 28th of March. It is our this March or this. Yes, this March. This coming March. AKA several weeks from now. Almost a month from now, actually.

[B]

Nice, because next March is in 2027.

[E]

Oh my God, you guys.

[B]

This is Ken. Do you even remember this joke? I don't know. Go ahead.

[C]

Anyway, here's my plug. I'm doing Super Fight. We could get in Baltimore at the autobar on 28 March. It is Marty's last show. Marty is one of the commentators, one of the original commentators. This is going to be the last show where Marty and Ross commentate a super art fight. And you can see me tag teaming with my friend Nick as Team Spaceballs. It's going to be really great. It's going to be a really fun show. You should come if you're in the area and if you. You're not, you should still come. I also wanted to plug superart fights Patreon. We've got a Patreon. Check it out. You can see live video of past shows. A lot of fun and a. This isn't a plug for me, but the. The book that I mentioned at the beginning of the show, Set Sail the Art and Making of One Piece. The Netflix show. The release date of that is actually June 23rd 3rd and you can pre order it off of the Viz website. And it looks sort of like the the Color Walk compendiums where it's like from East Blue to Drum island has.

[B]

A cool right on.

[C]

So yeah, you could put it right next to your color walk compendiums and it'll look kind of nice.

[B]

So I love things when they fit on the shelf just right.

[C]

Yeah. So I guess pre order that if you want. I mean I'm not getting paid for it.

[B]

Not yet. Let's have some optimism. Come on. Netflix Viz. Is that it, Alex? I zoned out a little bit.

[C]

Wow. Piece of shit.

[D]

Turned to a jacket one time.

[E]

Yeah, that's it.

[B]

It happens to everyone.

[C]

No, no. Where can we. Where can the good people find us?

[B]

They could find us at One Piece Podcast. I'm Zach Logan. Find you at zacklogan zackloga.com on Blue Sky. I don't really post anything interesting. It's fine. You could find us anywhere. You get your podcast One Piece podcast including YouTube. YouTube.com One Piece podcast. We might not be sensations but we're there. We are present on. We are on the platform. Do we have video on it? Sometimes. Like the Catabu Ghazali one. We do have video on that.

[C]

Yeah. Check it out. That's a good one.

[B]

Yeah, very good episode.

[C]

Listen to it.

[B]

And if you're interested, Rosanna is by Toto again. That's the song I was thinking of. Ice. We'll see you next week, everyone. Goodbye.

[C]

Bye.

[D]

See you. This March.

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