#i must buy the start event archive to experience the OP since we didn’t get it in ep 1 ahhh

[nyoomsy]

IS PARADOX LIVE THE ANIMATION GOING TO BE THE CATALYST THAT BRINGS ME BACK TO TUMBLR?????

i usually blab about these things with my irl friends but they don’t share my interests and i’m starting to fear i’m being too annoying 💀 SO. i figured i should return to the place where i used to be annoying about the things i like~

i don’t plan on making more ranty posts like this, i’ll just mainly be reblogging and quietly annoying in notes (my beloved feature of this site) i just wanted to give a fair warning and kinda explain myself with a bit of ranting heehee. sorry in advance 🫶

i’ve been a (casual? semi-casual??) fan since the time in-between JUSTICE and PRIDE and just seeing how much this franchise has grown just makes me so EMOTIONAL!!!

episode 1 made me F E R A L .

I REALLY WASNT EXPECTING SUCH GOOD QUALITY. AND 3D MODELS???? I WAS SCREAMING AND CRYING AND PAUSING AND REWINDING SO MUCHHH.

THE SOUNDTRACK. THE REFERENCES. THE FORESHADOWING. THE P A I N . THAT ONE KANATA FRAME LIKE FUCK OFFFF (im far behind in the drama so idk the exact situation bUT STILL.) AND POOR SHIKIIIII :((((((((((((

i couldn’t help but freak out and feel petty with all the BURAIKAN stuff tho, like we knew so little about them and now there’s so many bits about them thrown in episode one 🫠 gahhh

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quick info about my relationship with the franchise incase whoever reads this is also into it (<-just an excuse to be more annoying since i’m already talking about it and have never done so publicly because i do acknowledge it has its issues)

• i keep up with the music releases but as stated i’m behind in the drama (last thing i listened to was VIBES part 1. i plan to catch up before the anime surpasses that point)

• i don’t vote cause collecting points seems like a hassle really (although i feel regret when the group i’m rooting for looses haha 🥲) (i tend to root for the songs i like better/fits the theme best)

• i’m a seiyuu fan and that highly contributed to me getting into paradox live. also the fact there’s utaite involved of course. (AmBitious!!! was my gateway and slowly realizing Murase Ayumu and 96Neko were singing together blew my MIND!!!) (pararai is also responsible for opening my eyes to Kajiwara Gakuto’s appeal hehehe)

• favorite group: BAE (if you couldn’t tell from the above) but as the groups and characters evolved i’ve come to love them all fairly equally (except a few which you could probably guess💀)

• favorite song by each group:

BAE - EmBlem!!! TCW - Shooting Arrows cozmez - Hit em up (i guess? i dont have a clear czmz fav) AKYR - ROWDIEZ -悪漢奴等 Wanted Vibes- BURAIKAN - BURAIKAN is Back VISTY - BE A STAR AMPRULE - Do as I say 1Nm8 - S∀G∀ (honorable mention: Itsuki’s 2nd part in BOH) GokuLuck - Trigger (Ryoga and Kenta’s parts win me over)

• songs i must mention: F△Bulous, BErmud△ Tri△nglE, Mercy On Me, Life is Beautiful, My Sweetest Love, The Sound of Voltage (stopping myself here before i list the whole discography)

• i watched the 1st stage play to fill the void of the inaccessible first Dope Show and i also watched the BAE & TCW show (for Kiyama Ryu) but that’s it… (maybe i’ll return if Takenaka Ryohei is casted in a 2nd gen group 👀) Fight For The PRIDE and Here We Go are certified bangers though

• i watched Dope Show 2 and 3 but cried hard over 3 i bought the night show but then i found out the matinee setlist had Shooting Arrows 😭😭😭 (if they do a 4th and decide to free stream 3 like they did 2 i PRAY it’s the matinee show 🙏 I WANNA SEE TERASHIMA JUNTA SHINE AS SHIKI. for 4 i’ll wait to see the setlist before buying a ticket)

OKAY BYE.

#i must buy the start event archive to experience the OP since we didn’t get it in ep 1 ahhh #why’d this take me over 4 hours why do I do this do you see why i can’t dump all this on my friends disjjdjdjdjdns #wrote this all between 10pm to 2am 💀💀💀

[mokomodukedom]

My history with One Piece

I already wrote about my history with One Piece on this blog some time ago, but since it's the 20th anniversary I guess it won't hurt to repeat some of it.

I first discovered One Piece when I was in middle school, around... 2005-2006 I'd say. In my year group there was only one pupil besides me who read manga whom I didn't see all that much (because she was in a different class). But one time we talked about Ranma ½, which was one of the first manga series translated into Finnish. A few years earlier I had bought the first seven volumes, but at that age I didn't know how to deal with Happosai's pervy antics, so I stopped following after his introduction. But this other girl had continued buying the volumes, and I was excited to get the chance to borrow them. She also threw in the first volume of One Piece which I didn't really care about at first, but I took it anyway. I remember Shanks' death glare from the first chapter and Luffy's similar expression from a bit later making a big impression on me, and I think I got hooked by Baratie despite not really liking the art style. And Arlong Park was what really sealed the deal.

I obviously had to return the borrowed volumes at some point, and I can't remember properly what I was doing with One Piece for a while or how intensive my relationship with it was. But I know I was still very much into it, and whenever I visited my relatives in a bigger city they'd let me borrow One Piece volumes from a library with their card. The volumes had been used a lot so their covers were all sticky and gross, but it was the only way for me to read the physical volumes. The scrap books I filled with cool fanart I printed from the Internet started to get more and more One Piece content. And I know I also watched the anime up till the sea train/Aqua Laguna episodes, but with the pacing problems in the anime I couldn't go further.

At some point I discovered that I could also read the manga scanlations on the internet. Back then we didn't have these cool manga reader sites with handy layouts and a billion series kids these days use (or I was just too dumb to find one); the site I used looked more like Windows file system with yellow folder icons for each chapter. The first "newest" chapter I read was luckily a memorable one for archival purposes, ch 431 (Garp's introduction) in October 2006. It took me a while to get the hang of One Piece being a weekly series so checking the site in the hopes of a new chapter was a bit sporadic, but ever since then I've been following the series regularly. Whoa, it's been over 10 years! Unfortunately I don't care for Halloween stuff so Thriller Bark was probably the worst theme for me to jump in, but the overall quality kept me returning.

Meanwhile the aforementioned manga reader from my school had lost interest in One Piece, and I bought the 17 first volumes she had for a good price. Then I started buying the most recent published Finnish volumes from the store starting from #37 (the one with Franky & Iceburg on the cover that contains Franky's flashback), which was in April 2008. Then I had to hunt for the missing 20 volumes from internet auction and second hand book shops. It was a lot of fun to get a new book, and I remember I would regularly arrange the volumes I had managed to get in a grid on the floor to see the the holes close up.

One the fandom side my first published fanart is from May 2007, and the dress ups started in January 2008. I remember playing Alinajames' OP girl dress ups (which I sadly can't find any more anywhere) at that time, can't remember if they were up before mine or after, but regardless they played a big role in inspiring me to continue making new dress ups myself, and certainly had a part in my second dress up ever created, Nami dress up v2. Later I've made a v3, and I'm sure a v4 will appear eventually. It feels like going back to my roots.

When it comes to pairings I've always been pretty disinterested, usually I'm simply fine with the obvious main guy + main girl couple and don't think about it much, but now that I think of it, I did have a rather rare occurrence of actually hoping that Luffy and Hancock would become a couple. I wrote plenty of fanfiction of their wedding where all the friendly characters we had seen were invited and Shanks super enjoyed the party, and then they had a daughter or two, but thankfully the fanfic only existed inside my head so there's no proof of it. And that ship has faded by now and nowadays I find Hancock a really boring character, though she'd still be my #1 choice if I really had to pair Luffy with someone (followed by Vivi). But definitely not Nami, I've always disliked the idea of Luffy/Nami and it's a little strange, since usually when I hate a pairing it's because I hate one of the characters involved or find the fans really annoying, but in Luffy/Nami's case I just find their interaction so platonic that somehow the thought of them being a couple has always made me cringe. So Nami's only ok as a part of Luffy Harem which I've enjoyed in an ironic way ever since I saw someone post about it on APforums.

One Piece has also the honour of having been one of the works that have put me into a major long-lasting fangasm mode, as in I consume plenty of media and may rank various works really high in terms of quality, but only a select few manage to get into the "daydreaming about new stories for my favourite characters" phase that lasts for months. And while as of now it has been dethroned (there can be only one at a time), OP has been the only one that has managed to make a big comeback after having fallen once.

Overall reading One Piece on a weekly basis for a decade has been a really important experience for me. It has been a regular friend who visits weekly for a large part of my life, and the fact that my earliest OP memories are from pretty long ago makes the OP world feel a lot larger than it probably would if I had marathoned the whole thing just recently. I also have a lot of fun memories of the (then) most recent big events, like the shocking mood whiplash when after a week of waiting for the outcome of the tragedy at Sabaody instead we got penis jokes on Amazon Lily or feeling the presence of a legend when Rayleigh was introduced (I could totally relate to the Straw Hats' excitement and respect). During Impel Down and Marineford arcs I visited Pixiv's D兄弟 tag daily and read all the Japanese mini comics I couldn't understand. And then there was the Arlong Park April fools joke where someone drew a pretty convincing fake spoiler where Ivankov had turned Luffy into a girl to infiltrate as a prison guard... I was so disappointed when that wasn't the case.

Since waiting for the new chapter every week has been a big part of my life, the thought of One Piece coming to an end one day makes me sad. But I suppose all good things must come to an end (and I can't blame Oda for wanting to get done with the series), and there will be new series to take its place. And on the other hand I really want to see what's up with Raftel; Crocus' description of it being a legendary island still gives me as big chills as it did when I read it for the first time.

#one piece #whoa this got long #there would be a lot more #but if I try to write every OP memory long there would be no end