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diablademon · 1 year

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Im on the episode where all the strawhats get seperated by Kuma. So I thought I should write out my thought about the straw hats at the moment before the timeskip.

Over all I love them.

I love how loyal they are to eachother and how they all get screentime and attention. Some shows often forgets about characters in later episodes. But the straw hats all get their own fights either solo or team up.

I love their dynamic. There are so small interaction through out the serie between the characts that they all really seem alive.

But why do the girls get real beds on the ship? Arent bed really horrible to sleep in if you on a boat?

And I love how the first rumor the worst generation had heard of the crew is that they are crazy. Ofcourse they are. They follow Luffy. But I till love thats that the thing outsiders hear about them. Sadly noone knew about Brook.

Now to each crewmate individually.

Luffy

I love how childish he is. He has the child like wonder and not bratty or annoying (or god forbid sexulised childish) and I get happy seeing him excited.

I love his laughter. He laughs different at different situations. But I mean speceficly that laughter he does when hes excited and the pitch goes up and down.

I also like that he is pretty selfish. Hes not nessessary cruel but he does eat peoples food and do what ever he want no matter others protests. He doesnt want to be a hero but he will fight anyone that either hurt or make his friends cry.

He wants to help but more often than not so is his 'helping' just to beat up a guy. And he mentioned he want to get stronger, not to save people out of kindness, but to stop people to leave him. He will eat others food. He will also do things for the sole reason he thought it would be funny and doesnt care what others want or care.

I also find his eyes creepy. I will guess its suppouse to make him look ‘innocent’. But his eyes looks so empty half the time, like his smile doesnt reach his eyes. It makes me love those scenes when his hat put shade on half his face so only his eyes are seen or when he stare emotionless at his opponents. Because there is this scrowny looking kid but the way he stare make you realise theres something not normal with him.

Zoro

I love how loyal he is. His loyalty is actually what made me want to watch One Piece. I though One piece was more of a “friendship!” type of show and disregard offical titles of the crew. And seeing clips on yt of Zoro being so extremelly loyal to Luffy made me decide to give One Piece a chance. So thanks Zoro!

I also love when he gets all unhinged when he’s alone or about to fight. There was one meme with that “Too much energy” and “No energy” where Sanji, Luffy and Usopp being ‘to much energy’ with Zoro being ‘no energy’ together and Zoro alone become the ‘too much energy’ with his swords and coverd in blood. And that what I love about him.

And I do love that while he is serious guy, he isnt always taken seriously. And gets put in ridiculous settings just like everyone else. And has his idiot moments like getting lost or just acting stupid.

Usopp

He’s fight scens are sometimes the most interesting fights of all the straw hats. Seeing him outsmart his opponents is entertaining. I especially like his battle with Mr 4 and Mrs Christmas under the Alabasta arc and his battle with Perona under Thriller Bark. His sniper moments in Enies Lobby is also great. But he didnt really outsmart anyone there. But he started to get the recognition he deserve.

Also starting to want to see Nami and him team up more. In Thriller Bark Nami lied to zombie Lola about being a man and Usopp joined in and call her by her fake name. Their personalities would work great together. They would definitely start a pyramid scheme.

Sanji

He might be the one I like the least. I dont hate him or anything. He just got bumb down the list by the others.

His behavor towards women is annoying. At times its fine as it just seem like normal flirting. But other times he is just really creepy. I get annoyed when a woman villian get introduced because I just know Sanji will be wierd about it. If he atleast block or dudge attacks from women then it wouldnt be as bad. Theres a reason why Zoros bunty is higher than yours, Sanji. He did block few attacks from Kalifa under Enise Lobby though. I cheered that time. Still got his ass handed to him but Im fine with that. He can only play defense and refuse to fight for so long.

But outside of that I do like Sanji.

I enjoy seeing him cook, fight and interact with other characters.

I still think about that genien smile he gave Luffy when he mentioned all blue for the first time. He normally are so cool and collected. But right there he looked so full of hope and excited like a kid. And he bonded with Luffy about having foolish dreams.

And when the other cooks in the baratie was trying to get him to leave with Luffy and talked bad about his soup that he was so proud of. Sanji looked like he was going to fight everyone but instead he ran out the door. It was such teenage move and made you realise he is still pretty young.

Sanji is one of the only ones that I think understable want to hang around Luffy. Not as reason to joining the crew, thats a completely different question. I dont know how to explain my thought process. Sanji just seem like a person that would want to have Luffy around him for his positive energy. The other person that would benefit from Luffy is Robin.

Similar to Zoro, Sanji seem to be the only other one that really respect Luffys rank as captain.

I loved his fights on the sea train towards Enise Lobby. It was great.

His fight with bon clay in Alabasta was really boring thou.

I saw there is a Sanji cooking book. I kinda want it. I dont cook thou. But I suppouse I would have a reason to learn with the cook book.

Nami

She also down there with Sanji. Also dont hate her. She just falls behind the others.

I wished the time when it was just Luffy, Zoro and Nami was dragged out a little more. They had a fun dynamic as rookies. After Usopp and Sanji joined it became an actual pirate crew. I would have loved to see the three in their tiny boats trying to make it work.

I love when she keep her crewmates in line and turn them into an actual serious crew. At the moment I mostly think about how she controls the money and when Luffy raids the fridge Sanji asked Nami to be able to buy a lock. And that time at Jaya when Nami pintches Luffys cheek to get him to agree to not look for a fight on the island.

I love her dynamatic with Luffy and Usopp the most. Not when Luffy and Usopp is together thou. She really seem to care about Luffy even if he often gets on her nerves. And she seems to trust Luffys ability the most. Like in Skypiea when she went with Enel and after hearing Luffys voice she got so full of hope. Even after seeing was Enel could do to people and not yet knowing that being rubber made Luffy immune to lightning. She still belived in Luffy. And in water 7 had a lot of food gathered just because she knew Luffy needed to eat before fighting. And I just love the idea of Nami and Usopp being besties. They the two weakest on the crew. And Usopp made her her clima-tact. But also how their two minds would have made up some great schemes.

Its her greed that I dislike. I wouldnt want to change is necessary thou. I think she would have been pretty boring and flat if she didnt have a flaw like that. But atleast you know the money is safe with her.

Chopper

I have discoverd I dont like him that much as a stand alone character. But love how he interact with other characters.

I love when Luffy, Usopp and Chopper get to act like children. I love how he seems to look up to Zoro. I just love how Chopper is the little brother of the crew and everyone look after him. Even when he is one of the heavy hitters of the crew.

I loved the episodes in the Alabasta arc when Luffy, Zoro and Chopper got lost in the desert. If I understand correct those were fillers and not from the manga. But I liked that Chopper asked the 'most senior member' of the group for advise. I do like him in the drum arc and his backstory. But after that, the few scenes Chopper is alone isnt as fun for me as the scenes he shares with others.

And with his different forms I like the jump point and the horn point the most. And the arm point the least. I like that his forms make him looks like a reindeer monster. But the arm point creeps me out with the huge biceps. Stong arms are fine but when its only the upper arm that are ballons its grosses me out. I dislike Zoros ‘one gorilla, two gorilla’ move for the same reason.

Robin

As a villian she wasnt that interesting. I was excited when she first showed up in Alabasta. But she just comed off as a generic female assistence of the main villian.

But I do love her now when she is in the crew.

I got happy everytime she smiled and laughted at the crew antics. And when she encourage Luffys behavior. Like when she packed his lunch at the beginning of Thriller Bark.

Her relationship with Luffy is great. It feels like shes gettin back some of her stolen childhood through Luffy. Like how she was daydreaming about the cats after hearing about the paw-paw fruit.

And when Luffy doesnt understand something Robin is there to explain it to him in words he understand. She never yells at Luffy like the others do. She either encourage or explain to Luffy in a calm voice why something is a bad idea.

Franky

I like Franky, but his body scare me.

Normally in series when there is a cyborg its a person with visible metal parts on the body. It either looks like a person with metal armor or the body is so robotnic that I just see it as a robot. But with Franky all his modifications is under his skin. His body do get somewhat distorted. (Mostly his forearms, chin and nose.) But he still look mostly like a human. And I have difficulties seeing scenes where trauma happens to someones fingers or toes. Or horror scenes when someones body distortes in unnatural ways. So when Franky spin his arms, open his fingertips to reveal a gun, does that centaur thing with his legs or anything like that, I get shivers down my body and I end up grabbing whatever body part Franky is changing to a weapon to make sure my body doesnt move the same way as Frankys. Its an awful feeling.

And I love that Franky is like that. Even if it does make me incredibly uncomfortable. It actually make me question how human he is. I think thats the real point of cyborg characters. I dont think that was Odas intentionen. He probably just wanted a cool cyborg character. But I still love how he was made.

I like how everyone is calling him a pervert when he is one of the most respectible guys in the show.

I understand its probably a cultural difference that pervert in Japan refere to anyone whos more comfortable with nudity as Franky is this close 🤏 to just be a straight out nudist. Pervert in my mind is people that creeps on others. The only time he been somewhat gross is when Nami was ripping off Kalifas clothes to find her key, and Franky gives her a thumbs up. But Franky seemed more impressed about Namis action than actually seeing a woman getting stripped.

I love his personality but I cant really pin point what exactly I like about him. His vibe is just great.

Brook

Similar to Sanji, I dont really like the pervy part of him.

But its not as bad/constant like Sanji's so I can see it more as a gag. And seeing how different he act in the flashback and as a skeleton 50 years late, it comes out more as him gone crazy from being insulsted for so long. But we also never see him interact with a woman when he was still alive so its not completely sure if that is from going crazy or his normal personality.

He is an enjoyable character with his upbeat personality.

I also took very long before I realised how tall he is. I just though he was bit taller than avarage human but it was just him being so thin that was making him look tall. But then I saw how he really towers over people. Hes even taller than Crocodile. (Who I just uses as a reference for the hight when irl human start to get health problems from their hight).

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