#弱虫はうつる is literally “cowards are contagious” so yeah this whole translation is very fast and loose | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

listening-to-thunder · 5 months

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THIS MOMENT.

This is Luffy showing how much he's grown. He understands, now, why Shanks didn't fight the petty bandit in Party's Bar.

He didn't then. He was just a little kid.

Shanks: Hey, wait, Luffy...

Luffy: No! I don't care anymore! I don't wanna be a wimp like you!

Nami: Eh?

Shanks: Oh? You're gonna surpass me?

Ace: The next time we meet will be at the peak of pirates.

Here, now, in Jaya, Luffy is already the kind of pirate that Shanks was back then. The kind of man who understands there are fights you can only win by standing down, and that doesn't mean you're a coward. It just means you know your worth, and have nothing to prove to shitty strangers in the face of their petty insults.

He's not a little kid anymore.

#弱虫はうつる is literally “cowards are contagious” so yeah this whole translation is very fast and loose #and 海賊の高み has been translated as anything from -the high seas- to -the pirate summit - so....#but yeah hopefully that all captures the gist of it?#one piece manga #one piece meta #luffy #naye rereads one piece

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