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tfw-no-tennis · 4 years

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One Piece Readthru

heyo ive decided its time for me to catch up on the one piece manga finally!! i last read it uhhh sometime late 2018?? MAYBE early 2019....anyways ill be liveblogging it, basically for myself but if anyone is interested then enjoy lol

so w.out further ado hers 927-931 hya

uh ok i left off kinda in the middle of the wano arc, so im scanning thru some stuff to see what i remember.....i dont really remember what the deal is with that ginger (?) pompadour guy lmao. theres a lot of new characters and intricate politics in this arc from what i remember.

i havent really gotten spoiled for anything....i know that something bad happens to kid & killer, somethins up w/sabo (but we dont know what), luffy fights kaido (more than once i think?) uhhhhh we get roger flashbacks and hear the yonkous bounties....thats abt all i really know. so im hype to find out what else has gone on....

im gonna start around 927, i defs read this but i want a refresher

wow its amazing how sanji can oscillate so fast from being unbearable and annoying to like one of my favs

i loveeee the panels where those dudes start trashing sanjis soba stand and usopps like lol lets back up yall we KNOW sanjis boutta kick some righteous ass....YESSS

franky supplexing a guy....ily franky

toko!!! i forgot abt her!!! cute kid, whats her deal? iirc she works at the uhhh wherever komurasaki works and she almost gets murderized later

sanji and little kids is so cute ;_; more of that and less stuff of him being gross w/women

ok exposition....i do remember a lot of this

928, i feel like i remember this stuff so ill kinda blow thru it

oh yeah i remember luffy n the prison shennanigans....good times

and kidds here too, talkin abt how he lost his arm trying to fight shanks...lol dude

dude is really like oh i couldnt take down shanks, so ill aim for a different yonkou, im sure this will go much better a second time (and down an arm)

omfg i forgot abt this dude who apparently sold his FAMILY to get money for komurasaki....

i think we’re supposed to feel bad for this dude and think komurasaki is cruel or w/e but man honestly i just respect the hustle. girl knows whats up

HVBJSDKFBDS I FORGOT THE HILARIOUS LINE WHERE SHES LIKE ‘I HATE POOR PEOPLE <3′ IM....its literally like a weird twitter shitpost lmaooo

they cut immediately from komurasaki to tama asking momo if he has a sister....LMAO SUBTLE......

i dont even remember if that twist was spoiled for me, but either way it was my like immediate thought upon komurasakis intro lmao

ok 929!

omg kanjuro selling some-drawn fish lol

OUGHHH CARROT AND THE OTHER MINKS....i miss carrot sm i hope she shows up more :( i really wish she would join the crew....

lmao that guy calling zoro a pretty boy and saying girls are probably all over him....zoros like uh ew no im gay

OOOH PLOT SHITTTTT....caesar and doflamingo name drops...

VEGAPUNK HM [eyes emojiey]

orochis defs gonna get fucked up at some point. his design reminds me of wapol and other like corrupt king archetypes

oguhfdbsjkgjdfbh laws head basket i forgot abt that. also i love when people call him traffy thats weirdly cute

oh right the other supernovas who became kaidous bitches are here to fight...i recall that fight somewhat

920 time!

oh yeah the weird place where all the poor starving people laugh constantly...inch resting

OHH YEAH BIG MOM!!! man i definitely read a lot further than this lmao. w/e i was SO fucking hype when she showed up, imo the whole amnesia thing is pretty lame. we’ll see where it goes tho

the art here is just so good oh man. the panel of big moms ship charging up the waterfall while she laughs? fantastic

EPIC arrival. i hope big mom gets to do cool stuff even despite the impending amnesia

i ALSO hope her kids get to do cool shit too. im still holding out for a zoro vs amande battle (if shes even there? i dont see her, but thatd be such a waste)...and smoothie vs robin....

and she wants zeus back....NAMI FIGHT??? PLEASE???

oh its bdsm dinosaur guy....hmm never thought id type that

LMAOOOO law is like Dont You Dare Fucking Snitch On Us and usopp is like uh luffy pls come pick me up this guy is too hardcore

FINAL BATTLE thats so dramatic law please

sanji saying he’ll protect usopp omfg

oooh theyre destorying all the soba shops....here comes sanji to bring the PAIN

OMFG THE RAID SUIT i forgot he busts that out....hilariously quickly all things considered

931! ok but first my obligatory thots on how sad i am abt how the women of op look nowadays lmao revisiting old one piece just makes it all the more obvious how ridiculous its gotten....like nami and robin dont even look human, its insane, and the sameface has gotten so bad...idk i miss when op women used to look normal and could just exist without being Sexy Women bc that was a thing at the beginning and i really loved that...now its just like wow all titty no waist legs are 100x longer than normal....not to mention the writing for women in op has gone way downhill...ugh. ANYWAYS onward

ofc as soon as i say that theres a rlly cute and p normal looking cover w/nami...i love her sm shes my fav character thats part of the reason this bothers me so much lol

i miss her short hair tho...the long hair is pretty and i like her different hairstyles but i defs prefer the short spunky look. i wish she wouldve gotten a cool bellmere-esque haircut after the timeskip at least

ok im p sure i didnt read this...? i dont remember hgbvhjaksdfk

GERMA THEME SONG HBVJSDUIFJBSF are you telling me that the raid suit activation process involves a THEME SONG....please i need to hear this. thats so fuckign funny

‘GERMAAAAAAAAAAA’ [sanji doing an unironic magical girl transformation] IT CANT BE OVERSTATED HOW HILARIOUS AND AMAZING THIS IS LMAOOOOOO

i think we saw this w/his siblings during whole cake but i forget lmao

of course franky and usopp are like OOOH FUCK YEAH

HHBDSJKFJSB the implications of law knowing Exactly who that is....like i really need to see an omake of a campy power rangers/sentai/whatever-esque show/comic with all these germa personas omfgggggggg

and law having read the comics is SO funny

also. sanjis hair is SO unfortunate lmaooo

O SOBA MASK HBVHSJDKUFJBDSK

germa was the bad guy group in the comics....good lmao

law was defs a fan he knows ALL the lore LMAOOO

A BABY SANJI....and then sanji being weird. skip!

ironic hows theyre like oh shit gotta challenge this dude so he doesnt destroy the town and their fight is gonna level the place anyways lmao

oh i did read this i think cause i remember all those ninja busting robin for sneaking around

which ok theyre ninja but robin could grow eyes for surveillance so it doesnt make much sense that shed be caught so easily...alas

THAT GUYS HEAD HBVHJFKD LMAO

oh yeah then big mom washes up w/amnesia lmao. i hope that plotline doesnt suck, i dont have too much hope...normally i really like amnesia plotlines and honestly i think itd be cool to explore w/like one of the strawhats but in this case it just seems kinda like a lazy way to take big mom out of the game :/ my prediction is she’ll get her memory back at a certain time thats convenient to the plot, just in time for like an all out war w/kaidou and the straw hats and the yakuza maybe? we shall see (possibly)

ok its past 6 am so its bedtime. more later!

#LJ reads one piece #thats my tag now!#one piece #my posts #liveblog

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thekingdomheartsprincess · 7 years

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Thoughts on the future of the series, Laurium, and Strelitzia

I’ve thought for a while now that marluxia could be a plausible next main antagonist for the series after this saga ends and xehanort dies. When nomura explained that he plans on continuing the series long after kh3, I thought about where the story could go afterwards. There are a lot of options for where the story could go, and I never came up with or heard any ideas for it that I felt strongly about. However, I do think that due to the amount of characters and plot points that have been introduced so far, whoever the next immediate antagonist/s are after kh3 should be character/s that were already there.

It would be a big stretch to start with a brand new antagonist that’s never been mentioned before. With the plethora of backstory and lore built up already, it just seems like it would be a weird decision to me. Not that nomura couldn’t or wouldn’t make it happen, but I think it would be a little frustrating to watch. A big part of me does want to see fresh new characters and stories with no prior relation after kh3. More than that though I don’t want to see characters and stories that needed to be explored more get thrown to the side. There is no good way to resolve everything built up so far in one game. Nomura likes leaving things open ended sometimes, and actually I normally like that. However, at this point there is way too much stuff to resolve in kh3 or leave open ended. Having an antagonist that already existed to cause conflict after kh3, makes more sense to me and I think would just be more interesting overall.

If they are going to use an antagonist that already existed, Marluxia/Laurium seems like the best choice to me. Plenty of characters could do it, but I think if not marluxia it would be braig or even MoM, Of course I’m not really sure MoM is bad, I would prefer to believe he is good, but he is/would definitely be an interesting villain. Braig could and would definitely take over after xehanort dies, and there is plenty to work off of there. I’m 99.9999% positive his goal from the beginning has been to get what he can out of xehanort and then stab him in the back. The main problem I have with braig being the next main antagonist is he got norted. If kh3 is truly being marked by xehanort’s death, then norted braig must also die, unless he somehow gets un-norted. If norted-braig takes over after kh3, that would be the same to me as xehanort living and staying as the main antagonist. I am tired of his shit.

Marluxia on the other hand actually already betrayed xemnas, had his own evil plans, and is most definitely coming back in some way in kh3. If the original members of org 13 are back, its reasonable to believe the other members will come back as well. That’s not necessarily true, but the nobodies based off of him shown in the trailer pretty much confirm that at least marluxia will be back in some way. I would find it hard to believe that he is working with xehanort again. We never got to learn the true extent of marluxia’s intentions, and I think that they could be very interesting. I also just like marluxia’s design. As much as I wish there were more women in kingdom hearts, I actually think redesigning marluxia as a man ended up being a good decision. The reasoning, that they didn’t want to have a female antagonist lose and unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow a male dominated organization, is pure bs. If they really wanted a solution to that, it would be not making 12/14 characters men. But who the hell am i? I do think that marluxia is the only male character in the series that really had to be a man. The whole flower petal scythe+pink hair thing just leads me to believe that she would would have been made entirely of sexist tropes, not necessarily true, but probably.

This leads me to my internal conflict with him showing up in khux. We had a new female character for what 2 or 3 weeks? She made it a really jaw dropping 2/5 leaders being girls, bringing our grand total of original kh girls/women to 10 I think. (8 if you arent really counting namine or xion as original, though personally I do count them in their own rights.) Also the only thing we really know about strelitzia is that she has some sort of feelings for the player, and that she basically stalked them. Aside from the stalking thing and having no other traits than looking cute, I thought she could actually be a cool character. I’m grasping at straws here, but she could have even been canon bi or pan, considering my player and many others’ are girls. She never got to talk to the player though, and I can’t help but have a feeling she was really just written for the boy players.

Anyways, she could have had a much more interesting and direct role in the plot. She could have broken the rules in an attempt to save the player, she could have been the traitor, and possibly became an antagonist. Maybe she would have actually made a better decision, formed some kind of relationship with the player (friendship or whatever), and found a way to protect the player without breaking the rules. Either of those wouldn’t have exactly been feminist material, but honestly, I don’t expect it or even ask for it in kingdom hearts. I don’t even really care how many girls are in the series. All I’m looking for is straight up decent writing of girls. Having laurium kill strelitzia and basically take her role as a union leader right after her introduction, even if her character was more fleshed out, is below decent to put it kindly. Some people think that she is not really dead and she is going to come back. That is plausible, but to me this is all just another sign that kingdom hearts is going to continue to have sub-par female characters. I will continue to be hopeful for the best in this series of course though.

I would like to see Marluxia expanded on more, whether or not he is an antagonist after kh3. I don’t know how I feel about him being in khux. If his role isn’t too overcomplicated, it could be a good thing. I am worried that he is going to have a very overcomplicated role in khux. If he does, and he is the antagonist after kh3, it could be what defines his role in the future of the series. In which case, I am expecting a khux remake or expansion between kh3 and kh4. They could easily do that and make money off of it, but I am quite done with the whole chi universe already. It could definitely all be fleshed out more, but after chi, back cover, and unchained chi, there is a not-surprising lack of fleshed out story. I am not particularly excited for a laurium driven 4th chi game. I have enjoyed kh chi overall, I just don’t really want a 4th installment of it.

More positively though, laurium’s role in chi may actually really tie things together for the future of the series. Even if I end up liking laurium’s role in chi though, I’m probably going to always be bitter about this whole strelitzia ordeal. Maybe laurium will have a great role in it and strelitzia will come back. I wish I could say I have more faith in that though. Its strange to think about the fact that they changed marluxia’s gender due to the idea there could be misogynistic implications, but now they have used him for this. Its very ironic. For that reason I don’t think its a lack of care, I think they have a huge misunderstanding of what fans actually perceive as sexist.

Still I think they are really underestimating the effects of the way they treat female characters. Its been a long time since kh2 released, and don’t get me wrong kh3 is going to be successful on the sheer basis of the amount of people anticipating it. What about after kh3 though? The fandom and the market they’re selling to in general has completely changed since kh2 was released. When kh2 came out the fact that girls (mainly kairi) were written poorly didn’t really bother people in my experience. People knew it, and made lots of jokes about it, but that’s pretty much it, people thought it was funny. Back then though kh fans also walked around with yaoi paddles and glomped each other at conventions. I was in middle school, so maybe my perspective on it is a little biased. I really think its a different world now though in terms of who kh fans are and what people expect. If I’m wrong I am afraid, because while it definitely made some good stories and jokes, kh fandom pre-2010 was also extremely embarrassing.

#kingdom hearts #khux #laurium #strelitzia #VERY VERY LONG #im very stressed so im avoiding real problems by focusing on kingdom hearts #this is what i did with my saturday night #also i should probably go eat dinner #and like #drink water #oops #if you read all this you are strong

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