Something that started as a fun little doodle, mostly from watching the recent episode 1078 of One Piece. =v=
Spoilers for the recent episodes to those that haven't watched, or the movie Film: Red. I like Uta's story with Luffy, but too many musical number for me, but I did enjoy seeing Usopp and Yasopp met in away =v= However after finally watching the movie and this episode it made me think of little one piece theory. What if Speed, Horsalina's previous name, is the mother of Uta before she joined Kaido's crew and became the gifter Speed. With her placing Uta is a chest that would fall into the hands of Shank and his crew. As it would make Tama request for Horsalina to stay as her mother touching, and give her a second chance at being a mother. =v= That is just a though though. Thank you for viewing my artwork and reading my little ramble. ^-^
We talk a lot about how the anime & manga versions of scenes sometimes have to approach a subtlety with Kiku differently. The translation for the subs really helped me get the cool way the narrator always did it as the ending. In the skies of the future, as a warrior sheathes his sword the flower petals flutter. I have my limits, but I'm curious if the original is some form of haiku. There's more than the 5-7-5 we learn in the West. The rest is about Momo clearly, but that part is so cool to me because like other points in Wano it quietly works just as well for Kiku.
In the manga, we only have to do this for a few static panels. Few enough you can have fun obscuring her more. The way we frame this shot gets all of them in and her lithe frame at the end she's on is hard to see around Neko. But I noticed we did this a few times, cut the frame in such a way she's the only one of them you really see. My pics trimmed it some but you only get Raizo's hair. It's a more direct way to nudge you with the association. I'm curious, if we don't cut a week ahead next time we see her if this might not just be setting up seeing more of what we talked about with the chapter. If you'll recall my first impression was that it felt we were visually treating her more cutesy and "Okiku" again from there.