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Date fam from today

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💥⚡

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mr date

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courtroom révolutionnaire

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Perhaps it’s nostalgia, but this speech by Sanji encapsulates the peak of his character for me. Oda sets it up brilliantly. By having Jabra right in front of the Straw Hats Sanji has to kind of beat around the bush, which gives Oda a good narrative excuse to preserve the surprise of having Usopp help snipe Robin free.

But in-story, Sanji’s putting a lot of trust in Usopp right now. He has to believe that Usopp picks up what he’s putting down, and he has to believe that he has the skill to pull it off. Sanji has the empathy and wherewithal to see how low Usopp is, and the kindness to know exactly what to say to help lift him up. That’s the core of Sanji’s character as someone who nurtures others, no matter the cost to himself.

Sanji and Usopp have a lot more in common that what might appear at first blush, which is why I think out of all the crew only Sanji could have effectively made this speech to Usopp, but on an even grander scale Oda is building on the theme he established during the Luffy vs Arlong fight way back in the East Blue. Luffy couldn’t cook, sail, or lie, but he could beat Arlong’s ass. Now, hundreds of chapters later, Sanji couldn’t fight a woman and had to be bailed out by Nami, only for Nami and Usopp to be bailed out by Sanji in turn when Jabra was too much for them to handle.

Strength comes in many different forms, and one of the reasons why the themes of friendship and comradery land when a lot of other series fall flat is that Oda shows even the strongest members of the crew depending on one another to survive.

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Everywhere I go I see him

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Terrible Whitewashed Netflix Adaptation Names For The Great Ace Attorney's Japanese Characters

(inspired by a Persona 4 post I participated in)

Ryunosuke Naruhodo - Ryan Nelson

Kazuma Asogi - Kevin Arnold

Susato Mikotoba - Susan Michaels

Yujin Mikotoba - Eugene Michaels

Genshin Asogi - Gary Arnold

Seishiro Jigoku - Steven Johnson

Satoru Hosonaga - Stanley Hoffman

Rei Membami - Riley Morrison

more details:

they're all from 1890s Los Angeles in this version, but they're still visiting Britain. there are no puns because the writers weren't willing to put in the effort

Barok van Zieks has a deep-seated hatred of Americans. Jezaille hates them even More

Kevin is a Wild West gunslinger instead of a swordsman. in his holster he carries his father's gun named Karma. after all, an American man's gun is his soul

my friend @redcloak said "an American man's gun is his soul" sounded like something that would be on a Republican dude's t-shirt. therefore I must unfortunately conclude that instead of being liberal like in canon, in this universe Kevin and Gary are conservatives

instead of dueling to the death with swords, Klint and Gary dueled to the death with guns

judo? what's that? Susan and Steven are just really good at Greco-Roman Wrestling

Soseki's still there, because the writers couldn't be bothered to look up any real-life American authors of the era that were studying in Britain to replace him with (and neither could I)

Eugene's wife is still named Ayame for the sake of Iris's name. she and Soseki are the only ones that were still allowed to be Japanese

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pre grand line strawhats

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*multiplies you by 1*

Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred

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society lost its way when we stopped drawing our ships in the pose from the vocaloid song "magnet"

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hey excuse me The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve. please explain this

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some of my shots for ★☆ EPISODE 4 of SPARKLE ON, RAVEN!: The Life of DrillGirl!!! ☆★

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heres some doodles I made that I can now share that the new Raven episode is out ^_^

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oh shit, is it that time of year?

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Starting a collection