Which means he should turn completely into a human and not something of sasquatchian nature.
i thought it had something to do with his genetic oddity (blue nose) kinda Fed up his DF powers
Which means he should turn completely into a human and not something of sasquatchian nature.
i thought it had something to do with his genetic oddity (blue nose) kinda Fed up his DF powers
In this battle I can see some marines turning sides, like perhaps Coby, Helmeppo, Tashigi and Smoker who are better informed by then.
I don't know if it will be "turning sides" so much as becoming the new generation of Marines who will have a much different attitude towards (and relationship with) pirates – specifically the SH pirates. The current generation of Marines will eventually have to fall, and the whole institution may temporarily disappear, but I think that from the wreckage of it, the people you listed (I'd add Hina too to that list) will be the ones who rebuild it in a more fair and less corrupt way. The thing they have in common is that they all chose to be Marines on their own, and still believe strongly in the Marines, in spite of the flaws and corruption they've seen.
@Don:
She`s the young marine beside Coby who sees that not everything is good with the marines or the WG..so sure a big candidate for a future leader of a new marine in the end of the story.
Yes, exactly. With enough energy and idealism to undertake the huge task of rebuilding that organization – and with the strength and wisdom that will eventually come from experiencing all the future battles.
she is rly close to her mentor in many ways which i like)
Smoker is a great mentor for her. He's gruff but likable, intimidating but reassuring, and he's teaching her not to just blindly and mindlessly follow orders, but to think about them and to weigh decisions and develop a personal concept of "Justice" that's based on judgment and reflection – not on mindless adherence to rules and orders. He may yell at her a lot for being clumsy and stupid, but his actions show that he feels she's capable in spite of that. Especially in a crisis.
It`s about respect and skill which should be noticed from the other side.
Yes, and in that regard, it echoes the first battle between Zoro and Mihawk. Zoro was upset by the lack of respect that Mihawk showed him ("haven't got a smaller knife than this one", etc) as well as the huge gap between their strengths. So you could say that Zoro is Tashigi's "Mihawk" – the person she needs to confront to regain her lost self-esteem.
@I:
I don't think she needs him to recognize her existance, per se, so much as her worth–as separate from Kuina, yes, but mostly just in general--as both a swordsperson--one swordsperson to another, and a marine--as an entity to be taken seriously by a pirate.
Buster, that was an interesting read, and you make a lot of good points, which I wish I had more time to discuss with you – (and I may get a chance to do so in a day or two, so hold those thoughts!) -- but there's one thing I want to bring up now. Look at what Zoro says:
Tashigi: It's humiliating to have someone go easy on me in a serious duel,
just because women aren't as strong as men!! But I doubt YOU'D know what it feels like to WISH you were born as a BOY…!! I didn't first pick up a sword just because I wanted to PLAY with it!!! Zoro: I can't stand the fact that you EXIST!!! Tashigi: What?!!
Zoro: Listen!! You look EXACTLY the same as a friend of mine who died, years and years ago!! On top of that, you say all the same things she used to say!!! Quit imitating her, you ripoff copycat!!!
Tashigi: WHAT?!! What a CHILDISH thing to…!!! How RUDE!!! I live exactly the way that I AM!! I've never even met your friend!! I have a right to be offended, too!!! Are you sure SHE isn't the one copying ME?!!
(translation by Stephen)
"I can't stand the fact that you exist" sounds dangerously close to: "I wish you were dead", don't you think? So with that kind of undertone, who wouldn't feel like they needed to justify their existence as well as their worth?
So while I do agree that what she really wants is an acknowledgment of her worth as an individual and as a swordsperson, I also think that because Zoro is refusing to accept the fact that "everyone has a double in this world" (something he even said to himself after he first met her), Tashigi may feel like she needs to justify her existence, too, not just her worth.
But showing her worth is probably the best way of justifying her existence, so it's hard to say where one ends and the other begins.
Anyways, that's my take on the whole "exists" thing. Feel free to disagree.
(Of course we know that after that her world view got shaken up even more in Alabasta. Oh the cognitive disonance! Poor Tashigi.)
Yeah, from the first minute we meet her to the moment when she's crying beside her bed after having been told to get stronger, it's just a downhill slide of one humiliation after another, and it's only when they set sail a few days later that something good happens:
Smoker makes coffee for her.
i was disapointed in Franky's retractable hair. Introducing it now really feels like Oda recieved complaints about Franky's design and changed it last-minute. It just doesn't fit with the new design. He had short hair in the colorspread, and now he changes it exactly at how it was before ? Sounds very fishy to me…
i was disapointed in Franky's retractable hair. Introducing it now really feels like Oda recieved complaints about Franky's design and changed it last-minute. It just doesn't fit with the new design. He had short hair in the colorspread, and now he changes it exactly at how it was before ? Sounds very fishy to me…
The chapter was done in advance at least 3 weeks.
Plus Franky is going to stick with being bald. Hair is occasional. Which is cool because re-timeskip his hair also served humor purpose on occasions.
I think chopper's human form oddities seem consistent with other non human entities that ate zoan fruits. Look at lassou and the elephant sword.
What about them? We've only seen Lassoo in two of his forms and Funk could change entirely into an elephant.
i thought it had something to do with his genetic oddity (blue nose) kinda Fed up his DF powers
Clever idea but I dunno how it would hold up when we've got objects eating DF's. In that event what determines genetic oddity eh? Good idea though.
Which means he should turn completely into a human and not something of sasquatchian nature.
I won't be surprised if he doesn't though, given the role his incomplete form played back at Drum (monster).
I agree its a relict of his time where nobody wanted him neither from the reindeer nor from the humans. That was an importnat part of his character and why he later joined because Luffy saw him as a friend\being which he wasn
t scared of.