Also just a note how Usopp and Luffy play off each other. They are emotional brain twins, especially when it comes to feeling things deeply (goofy or not) in fact all the emotions in this beginning are richer and more vibrant than they were previously.
Totally agree! With Usopp's addition there's a wider scope of dynamics than there was previously. Although there's also the fact that the previous arc also helped the earlier trio grow and find out more about each other.
Good points about Fullbody being an ass but not so much of one as he could have been.
I keep forgetting Nami had already seen that newspaper by this point, looking back on the arc. All the while now she's thinking of how to get back. I wonder if she'd already decided on borrowing Merry rather than finding another way to get back.
I think the first times I read this I got the impression that Arlong winding up in the newspaper was a coded message to Nami to get back, but there's really nothing to support it in the manga, is there? My imagination got ahead of me...
Also, Merry sweatdropping rofl
Totally missed that! I wonder if it's just a gag or if we should take it that after just one whole day of sailing with Luffy and crew, the ship already feels beloved enough to start to gain a spirit. If so, maybe it helps that it seems to be built with plenty of love by human Merry to start with.
But Luffy does. He decides what is his fault and what isn’t is fault and doesn’t let anyone change his mind.
He's certainly got a much healthier attitude than Sanji, but I think it should also be pointed out that Luffy has no clue how much it would cost to repair the cannon ball's damage of the Baratie. He offers a week of work because anymore of that would go too much against his own goals. Zeff's demand of one year is unreasonable, but Luffy's just being self-centred in sticking to a week. If everyone thought of their responsibilities that way... well, perhaps in a way it would still be a far better world than what we have since there are many people who don't face them at all, but it could still be pretty chaotic. Luffy can do it because he's got Protagonist Power.
And Sanji is pretty damn hard to rile up when you think about it. Putting his later relationship with Zoro aside, he’s mostly stoic unless something really hits him where it hurts and then it has to be a concentrated effort to get him going.
This I rather disagree with, though with the caveat that Fullbody pushed his buttons to an unusual degree. But Sanji's always struck me as the Strawhat that's closest to anger, even fury - much more so than Nami. It's part of that whole fire motive he's got. (Even so, he was probably worse on the Baratie; since he repressed his own dream and his hopes and adventurousness so much - even his goofiness, which doesn't seem to get free reins in this arc - he had a lot of pent-up anger with no clear target to direct it on except insolent shitty idiots who waste food.)
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Date: 2014-08-08 09:22 pm (UTC)Also just a note how Usopp and Luffy play off each other. They are emotional brain twins, especially when it comes to feeling things deeply (goofy or not) in fact all the emotions in this beginning are richer and more vibrant than they were previously.
Totally agree! With Usopp's addition there's a wider scope of dynamics than there was previously. Although there's also the fact that the previous arc also helped the earlier trio grow and find out more about each other.
Good points about Fullbody being an ass but not so much of one as he could have been.
I keep forgetting Nami had already seen that newspaper by this point, looking back on the arc. All the while now she's thinking of how to get back. I wonder if she'd already decided on borrowing Merry rather than finding another way to get back.
I think the first times I read this I got the impression that Arlong winding up in the newspaper was a coded message to Nami to get back, but there's really nothing to support it in the manga, is there? My imagination got ahead of me...
Also, Merry sweatdropping rofl
Totally missed that! I wonder if it's just a gag or if we should take it that after just one whole day of sailing with Luffy and crew, the ship already feels beloved enough to start to gain a spirit. If so, maybe it helps that it seems to be built with plenty of love by human Merry to start with.
But Luffy does. He decides what is his fault and what isn’t is fault and doesn’t let anyone change his mind.
He's certainly got a much healthier attitude than Sanji, but I think it should also be pointed out that Luffy has no clue how much it would cost to repair the cannon ball's damage of the Baratie. He offers a week of work because anymore of that would go too much against his own goals. Zeff's demand of one year is unreasonable, but Luffy's just being self-centred in sticking to a week. If everyone thought of their responsibilities that way... well, perhaps in a way it would still be a far better world than what we have since there are many people who don't face them at all, but it could still be pretty chaotic. Luffy can do it because he's got Protagonist Power.
And Sanji is pretty damn hard to rile up when you think about it. Putting his later relationship with Zoro aside, he’s mostly stoic unless something really hits him where it hurts and then it has to be a concentrated effort to get him going.
This I rather disagree with, though with the caveat that Fullbody pushed his buttons to an unusual degree. But Sanji's always struck me as the Strawhat that's closest to anger, even fury - much more so than Nami. It's part of that whole fire motive he's got. (Even so, he was probably worse on the Baratie; since he repressed his own dream and his hopes and adventurousness so much - even his goofiness, which doesn't seem to get free reins in this arc - he had a lot of pent-up anger with no clear target to direct it on except insolent shitty idiots who waste food.)