Yeah call me a sensitive westerner if you must but it hits different when you hear a crowd shouting in unison the kurozumi were meant to burn. Like if Tama was one and said hah flame can't hurt me i'm a kurozumi we were born to burn, that works as an odd boast. But when used as a cheerful community chant against them it gets a little weird, pun or no pun. One is arguably an endearing quirk, the other feels like more of what got them into this mess in the first place. But honestly this wouldn't have hit as bad if Oda hadn't written Fishman island as wonderfully reflective as he did. He raised the bar too high and now he's smacking his head right into the bar with full force.

An offboard crewmember is just a friend, don't go sugarcoating Odas lack of follow through

You guys were more fun before you got so selfaware. Imagine Oda dangling this juicy best girl and not even a nibble

He hardly looks human, so gender is the least of my worries with that creature

So the correct translation of the Japanese would be only Orochi was born to burn? Not the other who have the same pun rich last name? Seems odd that all translations would miss that it was not a joke about their family name but just about specifically Orochi himself. I don't speak a lick of Japanese, so that whole their last name doesn't mean people with their last name unless it's with an -ke at the end sounds wild to me.

Yay the clubhouse is back

It somehow bugs me that Momo got robbed of his childhood and not too much good really came from. Now he's a 28 year old being waved goodbye by his 20 year old big brother and that's how it'll stay i guess.

Woli will do a half pike salto over Martinez while somehow raining perfect jabs down on him, then maybe he'll do a handstand and box with his feet. Oh that Woli is so whacky, barf.

I mean i would've assumed that Oda set out to tell a story he wanted to tell, and not just pander to the most casual reader. And that this whole what would weekly readers most enjoy is something that grew out of being the big money machine. Or who knows, maybe Oda was a sales numbers guy from the get go

Y'know what never really went anywhere? That swordstealing, shapeshifting fox.

@ARTEMlS i suppose what is unnatural is the strawhats turning into pouty children because some dong mildly prods them. Like compare that to what it took to cause a real rift in W7 and it seems pretty OOC for them to be this easily broken apart. I mean baring any sort of plant based grudge magic.

Just out of curiosity tho, the flower is the real villain isn't he? With Robin looking for that lily, and everyone clearly being plant zombos it just seems like it is setting up for one of those gasp they were already dead moment where the real baddy shows up

Dunno, personally i never jelled with those the gang breaks up because of outside manipulation plots in general. And it doesn't help that it's got that butt ugly 3D adjacent art style.

I could never make it thru that one. I gave another try last weekend but by the time Usopp fell on that frog and it started turning into one of those oh no the gang turns against each other plots my interest was waning and my GF had fallen asleep. I've made peace with never seeing exactly how the no doubt sad backstory of the baron ties into his crew dying.

Yeah dead end adventure would've been the best if it stayed longer on the zany and colorful race, instead of spending so long on that dark dreary second half

I generally like the small stakes movies the most. The only large scale movie that sorta worked for me was the island in the sky one, all the other felt hollow and made without any real OP feel. Like that let's put every single cool character in one action movie one, talk about soulless.

Can't be better than the second movie

I'm halfway into volume 83 and i can't even remember when we had a straight Richard solves the case case last. The big sister character who everyone thinks is a dude keeps horning in on the action and she does nothing for me. Bring in the kansai guy at least, or the doc. Hell i'd rather take some more organization bullshit. But then again she'll probably end up being FBI, or the organization. Or both. Probably both huh

Which volume number are they up to now? I've been holding of for a while to create a backlog because reading this chapter by chapter is just the worst

@Robby said in Lupin the 3rd:

Oh neat, I may have to watch those. I don't know that I'll ever have the time, energy or inclination to rewatch all the old Lupin stuff, it took me 20 years to get through it once! (Its easier now with modern internets compared to bootleg VHSes picked up at conventions though.) Someone doing an in depth retrospective and having thoughts on the things may be a better way to go.

It is great fun for a lupinatic like myself. Good production values, good enough speaking voice and a nice structured breakdown style. And it really makes you feel like re-watching it. I never thought i'd voluntarily pick up hemmingway papers again but here we are