BACK TO THE SEA!! GOING MERRY SAVES US - Reaction Mashup One Piece 

Yea man, tears of joy, lol idk if anything will ever top it

I cried harder here than Ace's death tbh

Yes. Merry's funeral and Ace's death are hella overrated. This scene is where real men cry.

I cried during both😭 The Merry was so loved

Yes. Merry comes back, Nami "Help me", and Dadan beats Garp will always be more emotionally powerful for me than the overrated Ace's death. And Merry's funeral.

Damn you, now I'm crying and laughing at the same time

That's the thing which both frustrates and impresses me with One Piece. It can be so god-damn dumb and silly, the more serious or profound stuff (and there is plenty of it) is mostly subtextual and implied, and is often undercut by a joke to keep the tone light. I often want this story to just be fully serious for a little while, to talk openly about the big ideas and themes Oda is crafting the story around, but it almost never does, and never for very long. Sometimes I want One Piece to be more like Hunter x Hunter, which is much more up my alley in terms of tone and storytelling. But I've never experienced a story that hits it's emotional beats even 80% as hard as when One Piece is at its best. I think it's something about the emotional honesty of Oda's storytelling, the way it embraces big emotions over everything else. Whatever it is, One Piece just hits different emotionally, even if it doesn't lend itself to the kind of introspective character and thematic analysis which is usually more my jam.

That's what fuels him.

ME TOO BRO