You can’t disrespect my boy like that. Bon clays most famous quote when he briefly first met the stawhats and becomes buds with them before they even arrived at Alabasta: “To true friendship, how long you've known each other means nothing.” Ends up sacrificing himself TWICE for Luffy. He is a real one.
“My staff and I often go to a very noisy Japanese restaurant where a lot of people take their children. There are TVs at each table. If you go there on Sunday nights at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="450">7:30</a>, you’ll see the children staring at the TV screens with their mouths wide open, looking silly. They’re watching One Piece. When I see that, I never want to let them down.” - Eiichiro Oda, 2001
That’s awesome. I’m sure that motivates them to continue doing what they do. Reminds me of the video Maximillian Dood did where he talked about meeting some team members on the FF7 Remake team and how they would watch his reaction to the Remake trailer to remind themselves why they are working like crazy. It was a huge honor for him.
Bon chan is in impel down because he sacrificed himself so the straw hats could escape the Marines at the end of Alabasta. You'll love him much more on a re read.
In fact he and Mr 3 are arrested helping the other members of Baroque to escape in one of the cover stories. It is between chapters 359 and 413. (Crocodile and Mr 1 choose not to run away)
Not just that. even before that he befriended with the strawhats already (excluding sanji because he didnt even see him at this point.) he ONLY was chasing vivi & fought sanji later(the only strawhat he didnt befriend with yet). so technically he always was luffys friend. thats why they were happy to see eachother again lol.
To be fair, Boa's misunderstanding of Luffy is funnier and makes more sense in the original Japanese. When he says "Thank you", in Japanese that would be "arigatô", which sounds somewhat close to "ai shiteru" (very strong expression of "I love you" that only romantic partners use). And when he calls her by her name, "Hankoku" (her name spelled in Japanese) sounds somewhat similar to "konyaku" (engagement - which said on it's own can mean something along the lines of "let's get engaged" or "we are engaged now"). So the humor here is in her wanting to hear those words just sliiiighly wrong :D.
あいしている/ありがとう はんこく/こんやく I feel like these aren't really that close though... like it's not "carriage -> marriage" it's "cartridge -> marriage" no one is mistaking the differences. 愛している and ありがとう literally just start with the same sound. Does she freak out every time luffy says something that starts with あ?
@@Slink1701 Hancock didn’t hear Luffy when he said arigato, she only interpreted his mouth movements from afar. Try to say arigato and ai shiteru, and focus on your mouth movements, or just look at yourself in the mirror while doing it. They are very similar and since Boa was already misinterpreting everything it is even more understandable that she thought Luffy worded ai shiteru.
@@ChristmasLore I explained in my comment why they are similar. Boa didn’t hear Luffy say the words, she only saw his mouth moving. Hence, the jokes basically only work in the Japanese language.
Grand Line Review made a great video about what if everyone that luffy invited join the crew. Truly a spectacular group of characters like Gaimon, The Zombie Tree and The Zombie Unicorn from Triller Bark and the best of all Kin'emon's lower half. Only his lower half.
Fun fact: all the 7 Warlords have a connection to animals. Crocodile, DoFlamingo, HawkEye, Gecko Moria, Boa with her snake and medusa motif, Kuma is bear in Japanese, and Jimbe is literally a Wale Shark.
Its Literally literally too, because Jinbei means whale shark in japanese. (Its also the word for a belt like thing, which Jinbei wears, so hes a Jinbei with a Jinbei on)
One thing I love about how Luffy reacts to the villains in this arc is that he is perfectly fine with forgiving Buggy and Mr.3 simply because he himself never took them seriously as villains since they never did any lasting damage as no one died during their attacks. But he is NOT fine with setting Crocodile free as Crocodile has done stuff that even Luffy doesn't forgive. He even had to be convinced to let Crocodile on the team to escape.
The great thing about Blackbeard is that he’s basically Dark Luffy, he believes in the power and importance of dreams just as much as Luffy does it’s just that his are a lot darker, he’s a lot smarter and much more willing to do awful shit to achieve them
Yeah, I love that aspect of his character. Most villains are already powerful when we meet them and the heroes are playing catch up to match their power. But Blackbeard is really growing parallel to Luffy. I think we first meet him in the Jaya arc and his crew really doesn’t seem very impressive, but obviously he’s very quickly rising
I live blackbeard because he's a really contrastive (?) character, on the one hand he's a long thinking schemer, charismatic, and powerful as a fighter, but he's also an opportunist, a coward, and shows weakness when he is surprised by the circumstances
@@rulfus7 Potential Spoiler going forward, read at ur discretion: Strangely enough, black beard is the only one with the "D" initial that has been shown to fear death.
Thank you someone said this, most people hate him because he's a bad guy and does dirty to Whitebeard, but they forgot he's one of the main villain of One Piece.
Fun little fact about the "treasure marker" that luffy wears: He has been wearing it since thriller bark where he takes it from the treasure pile. It belongs to captain John who buggy had been searching for a while and u can actually see captain john's zombie amongst the special zombie that fight franky. Fun little detail oda often likes to encorporate which makes rereading very worthwhile.
Another such example is sharp eyed reader might have noticed that Nami's sister Nojiko is wearing a bracelet through out Arlong Park arc. At the end of the arc, Nojiko no longer has the bracelet and Nami is wearing it now.
Manga spoiler ahead: We now know that Captain John was part of the Rocks pirate crew and that Moria went and retrieved his body as well as possibly Silver Axe and Wang Zhi, so expect this to play a bigger role in the story going forward.
Damn I’ve never met someone that is so harsh on Bon-Chan especially while and after reading impel down. He does so much for Luffy and truly truly cares as much as any straw hat does that he forever became one of my very favorite characters. He’s one of the best friends you could ever ask for.
That’s because most op fans brush past the misogynistic moments in op. As a woman myself I understand where she’s coming from even though I love bon clay
Literally everyone with two brain cells identified this when the story explains the prison’s structure and layout. This isn’t a unique or clever observation.
I do think Jinbei's reply to Crocodile was more of "I shall avoid being offended by your racism because we need to be allies right now" than agreeing with him x'D
He was being sarcastic, starting with the "is it so odd that a fishman can communicate with fish? " then the "I guess we are barbaric" is his way or saying, really prison guy... At least that's my take
@@dynamitepete8545 His Kingdom itselfe is very high developed whit a long rich History. Its like saying a Indian Guy agrees beeing called barbaric, cause the British are civialized.
I don't think Jinbei was being sarcastic. Spoiler: It feels more like a set-up for the FMI arc, because he KNOWS about the reality of the Fishmen district and how harsh and kinda terrible life there is, and what kind of violent and self-destructive mentality it breeds in his brethren.
Dragon was never going to bust Iva chan out, he was always capable of doing that on his own. He was waiting on Dragon’s signal to escape, but Luffy and and Ace needing help prompted him to act.
Could you imagine Merphy as a new Straw Hat experiencing all this in real time and only ever referred to all the support characters the way she does and *Luffy FUCKING UNDERSTANDS COMPLETELY.*
"First son of the Sea" is Jimbei's pirate epithet, same as how Luffy is called Straw Hat, Zoro is Pirate Hunter, Shanks is Red-haired, Newgate is Whitebeard, Teach is Blackbeard, Ace is Fire Fist and so on. The Japanese wording could also (and maybe more properly) be translated as Knight of the Sea, or even Chivalry of the Sea (which sounds off). There's probably some idiomatic thing going on with the phrase as for why it would get translated that way, but I can't tell you what it could be as I have no clue.
Alot of the fan translations have it as "Jinbei, Knight of the Sea" and I always thought that whole name was better than "Jimbei, First Son of the Sea."
@@Silviremon That is quite fitting for Jimbei, but still doesn't on its own explain why they'd translate something totally different as that. The Japanese is 海侠 ("Kaikyo") - the first kanji is sea, the second is chivalry (or tomboy, though we can probably rule that out as the use).
Aosha That’s now put the image of a Tomboy Jimbei GF. Genderbent Jimbei who’s also a tomboy. If I have to be cursed/blessed with this image, then so do you.
@@IceAokiji303 It's supposed to be a pun off of "任侠" (honorific for a high ranking Yakuza member) I'm assuming since there's just no literal translation, you can just do titles that can convey a similar meaning to the pun, which is why you get lots of different translations on it. (Just something hard to translate into English and they took some artistic liberties on it is my guess)
So you don't remember that bon clay was in prison because he fought the marine so the crew could see vivi one last time? And he did that because Luffy saved his life in a funny moment?
I haven’t seen anything “about the thing she said that’s clearly supposed to be corrected” and it makes me super happy you guys are trying to keep her from being spoiled. You’re all Bon Chans to me!!!
Luffy was delighted to see Bon Clay again because he was the one who helped the Strawhats escape Alabasta after the Marines arrived. The important part of his first introduction was when he told the crew that "Friendship has nothing to do with the length of time spent together." He proclaims that he already considered the Strawhats as his friends despite being with them for just like 5 mins and being an enemy in disguise. We thought those were all just antics until he actually proved the validity of his quote when he showed up when the Marines arrived and sacrificed himself to let the Strawhats escape Alabasta.
It's especially beautiful & genuine becos when they first met luffy being luffy didn't treat him like freak (like some of his Baroque Work colleagues). Instead they just vibed lol, which must have gone a long way with him on top of their shared ideals of friendship. It's the same for all the real freaks in the story lol like Bush guy & Brook lool
Hannyabal's defiant, hopeless last stand against Luffy is one of the most underrated moments in the arc (or series?) imho He is portrayed as such a joke character for most of the arc, but then Oda flips that on its head for that one perfect moment where he stands up for his ideals and vision of justice at great personal cost, while directly calling out the moral ambiguity of Luffy's actions in a way where even the reader has to stop and say "hmm, he's... kinda got a point there? 🤔" Sure Hannyabal is working for a corrupt/evil organization, and _we_ know Luffy isn't a bad guy. But there's a difference between how we see him and the general public's perception of him, and what he's doing here by freeing all these prisoners _will_ put innocent people in harm's way (or at the very least, have them living in fear) But just like Luffy does, we as a reader justify/excuse his actions because of our personal connection to the characters and how WE NEED TO SAVE AAAAACE 😭
Bon-chan suffers from chronic self-sacrifice disorder. He acted as a decoy to help the Straw Hats escape Alabasta. He caused the distraction to ensure Baroque Works could escape. And now this.
Garp is definitely an interesting character. I believe he does believe in what the Navy is supposed to be such as defending people from pirates but he also doesn’t agree with the bad stuff that the world government decides to do….. I think that’s non spoilers enough. So he’s like a conflicted idealist.
Personally? I think the big reason why Garp seems to eb the only member of his family to have joined the Navy is partly a generational divide, the Navy was or didn't seem to be nearly as bad when he was growing up and pirates like the members of the Rocks pirates were worse. So, if Garp saw/experienced pirates doing horrible things and the Navy defending people he would join the navy and see it as needed to protect people from pirates.
Hey Merphy! Here's a fun fact. Jinbe was first mentioned as a character in chapter 69. But it wasn't until Impel Down that we really saw what he looks like.
@@leondiegodelpino Blackbeard really is an arrogant idiot. He's so overly confident in his own power that he stole, that he thinks he has enough time to trash talk people and beat them down later. Just leaves him wide open for an attack. He's just lucky that he really is that powerful, otherwise he'd be dead by now.
I think Impel Down expands on an interesting part of Luffy's morality. We've already seen in the Enies Lobby quote you mentioned that he doesn't really concern himself with the state of the world, so it makes sense that he wouldn't really see value in a prison because it protects the world from criminals. He also doesn't really seem to care about prison as a way to punish criminals, the way many people do. In his mind, he already punished people like Mr. 3 and Crocodile when he defeated them and destroyed their plans (ie. dreams). So even though he doesn't like or trust Crococodile, he's not invested in keeping him in prison, and as soon as it is revealed to him that Crocodile can help their cause he has no problem working with him. It's just so purposeful and interesting and I love Luffy's character! (and LONG LIVE THE TINFOIL HAT!)
yesss! Hannyabal's defiant, hopeless last stand against Luffy is one of the most underrated moments in the arc (or series?) He is portrayed as such a joke character, but then he has that one perfect moment where he stands up for his ideals and vision of justice at great personal cost, and directly calls out the moral ambiguity of Luffy's actions in a way where even the reader has to stop and say "hmm... he's kinda got a point there." Sure Hannyabal is working for a corrupt/evil organization, and _we_ know Luffy isn't a bad guy. But there's a difference between how we see him and the general public's perception of him, and what he's doing here _will_ put innocent people in harm's way. But just like Luffy does, we justify/excuse his actions because WE NEED TO SAVE AAAAACE 😭
To me watching this for the first time, Luff free them because the already were punish enough, and they could be redeem able. In a way he gave those people a second chances. Some took that, and prove themselves others did not. Jimba was there wrongfully, and so where other's, in the system, proving that the system in one pice can be just as wrong as the characters.
That not 100% true luffy still had his friend in mind he didn't initially want go free crocodile until he was reminded why he was here and when he realised he could help he put that aside. Friendship is important to luffy but prioritise
Giving Luffy's quest is to maximize freedom, fun, and meat. Trying to waste energy to imprison someone else will interfear with one or more of those goals, with rare exceptions that will continue to interfear with those goals if they are not arrested or at least contained, IE; Mingo, though he usually just defeats them and let the Marines actually do they're jobs
What I like about One Piece is that the treasure marker that Buggy was interested in was planted way back in Thriller Bark with captain john's corpse being among the corpse Moria robbed. Related to those are these minor side story with Buggy looking for captain john's treasure that was also way back in chapter 233, in Skypiea Saga That is just simply... incredible. Oda already had Impel Down in mind at least since Skypiea, or even since Alabasta if you consider the fact that Mr.2 was so fittingly designed as a side character that values friendship since Alabasta! He didn't need to be an antagonist that values friendship in Alabasta, but because Oda has future plans for him in Impel Down... he went the extra mile of planting this friendship focus to Mr.2 since Alabasta!
I love how, despite not being in the community, she came up with its biggest meme by herself lmao...but ngl I think he will end up becoming something yonko-like
Lol so true! It’s funny I binged watched One Piece so I never went into theory insanity seeing this with other people is so interesting and entertaining.
Merphy: puts on tin foil hat trying to figure oda plans Me: this is an almost fruitless endeavor as few have succeed. Not only is it like playing 5d chess without the rules, he's a cheater and his most annoying trait is his patience to wait years to actual decades to give you the context for past events to make sense. Also me every week: ha you may have fooled me a thousand times but ill really think I figured it out this time.... probably... damn fooled again
Blackbeard was after luffy because he needed someone with a 100million bounty or higher to make him a warlord. When Ace caught up with Blackbeard, Blackbeard wanted Ace in his crew but because Ace refused and wanted Blackbeard for betraying the whitebeatd crew. Blackbeard used ace instead of Luffy as an offering to the world government to become a warlord.
“Natural ability to make people follow him.” Hell yeah. One of the reasons I love Luffy. He affects the world around him without even trying nor caring. You’ll see a lot more of that going forward.
@@kaliquis01010 Yeah bro, because his balls were being, as you said, CRUSHED. He was the one walking naked around there. And no, I don't think Robin has the right to grab his balls just because of that, it's just two different weights, two different measures.
@@lily9563 Is it really though? He just showed off his "own body" technically. If someone were to wear a mask of another person and wore some sort of body suit to make themselves resemble another - it's not exposing the other person's body.
@@henri7120 You shouldn't wish that. One-piece is an experience and anyone who has been reading it for years should forever cherish these memories of reading weekly with discussions with friends you were able to make through one-piece and the community you even got to know or interact with it and that's where the fun part lies even more
PSA: There are a lot of spoilers in the comments. Please let’s not spoil Merphy’s OP journey! Comments that are “subtle” hints are still spoilery, comments that confirm or disprove her theories are spoilers, names of future arcs are spoilers, telling Merphy the next arc is “x” or she’s going to feel “x” are spoilers.
Pointing out a misunterstanding of what was exposed so far is a spoiler? For exemple, what she said about the place Iva and Inazuma where beeing the revolutionary army (about the 26 minute)
@@augustomourao2486 personally I wouldn’t consider a correction of a misunderstanding a spoiler. If she gets something wrong but it’s because Oda hasn’t explained it yet and will in the future, then that would be a spoiler. RE her confusing level 5.5 prisoners as all revolutionaries, that could be corrected without spoilers (though I think she’ll figure this out on her own at some point)
@@ReiMizere yeah it really sucks! Some people don’t realise what they’re saying are spoilers/can ruin an experience though, so I’m hoping my comment reminds people to be careful 🙏🏼 ofc some dckheads will still spoil on purpose
let someone who doesnt know One Piece understand this: "Warden Poop Guy easily defeats Blackbeard and his team, but then new warden kill for fun comes in"
Bon Clay briefly flashes Nami’s body for a couple seconds. Merphy: Holds grudge. Nico Robin blackmails Franky into joining the crew by torturing him via sexual assault for an extended period of time. Merphy: Laughed.
But didn't Robin said that he only "grabbed" his thing the first time, and then Franky only "pretending" to be hurt cause he wants to mask his other reasons to cry?
@@torapuffs Regardless of how long Robin held on it’s still sexual assault. Even if she let go immediately there’s no way Franky was faking the pain. Being kicked in the balls is portrayed comedically in film and television a lot, but really it’s one of the worst pains a man can experience, and it’s a lasting pain so Franky’s going to be feeling that for a good hour. But how long Robin held on doesn’t really matter. The point is that any time Oda’s sexual humor is targeted at women, Murphy never finds it funny. Which is totally fine and understandable, but from the way she talks about it, she gives the impression that she thinks it’s morally wrong to have sexual humor involving women. But when Franky (a man) was the source of sexual humor, yeah, she did say what Robin did was horrible, but she still laughed about it and clearly had no qualms accepting it as “just a joke.” The bottom line is either both are okay to joke about or neither are okay. Sure, not all sexual humor is going to be funny, and I agree Oda goes a little overboard at times, but to act like perverted humor with women is never okay and then laugh at perverted humor with men is pretty hypocritical and sexist.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a>, that is one of One Piece's greatest strengths to me. It is wild and crazy and out there, but soooo internally consistent. The world has its logic, and it makes sense and sticks to it. It makes the world building so legitimately magical.
As short as this arc was, this is honestly one of my favorites, the absolute nonstop chaos and entertainment, the pacing and the constant bombardment of twists and turns was so incredibly fun to read
From what I recall Ivan said they are just waiting for Dragon to make a move, they’re always ready and capable to break out of that prison anytime once they are ordered to. Ivan wasn’t going to go with them until he learned that Luffy is their leader’s son. Only after that revelation that he thought he can’t let Dragon’s son die, so he decided to go accompany Luffy that instant.
Even after over a decade and MANY rereads, Impel Down is probably still my favorite arc. It feels so unique and really showcases the best aspects, especially how well Oda incorporates past characters back into the story in ways that feel perfectly natural and logical.
She takes silly things like that way too seriously, and yet she immediately loved Hancock even before we knew her backstory, and she was just a selfish, cruel and vain person. I sometimes wonder how Merphy's sense of morality works lol.
@@riccardototo9737 I'm taking a couple minutes to police comments. Forgive me if I'm annoying, I have good intentions. This is potentially a spoiler. Please delete.
The reason why Blackbeard cheers on Luffy getting the One Piece while still wanting to kill him is simply because despite being enemies, they both have similar dreams and philosophies and he understands that. He wants to kill Luffy because they're enemies but he also respects Luffy's dream and determination.
To paraphrase from Naruto: “From here on out, [Merphy] shall know pain!” 💔 And Bon clay is an amazing character. He is forgiven by most fans for everything he’s ever done. He’s a true hero.
You should really re-read/watch (watching is faster) the sections of Alabasta that have Bon Clay, because I think you must have forgotten that this is the second time he sacrificed himself to save Luffy. That's how he ended up in Impel down. He is an amazing character.
ATTENTION: Everyone, when reading comments, let us report or downvote every spoiler we saw. The next arc would be a lot better experience for her and for us watching her if there wouldn't be any kind of spoilers. Thank you.
2 things: 1) Disliking (downvotes aren’t a thing on RU-vid) a comment on RU-vid doesn’t negatively affect it. 2) There’s nothing (to my knowledge) that you can actually report those comments for, all the options listed would make it a false report. Best thing to do is just not engage with those comments in any way.
KeinNiemand Based on how RU-vid handles dislikes on videos, I sincerely doubt that. If you dislike a video, RU-vid sees that as engagement and boosts it in the algorithm. The best thing to do with content or comments you don’t like is to not engage with it at all.
I love watching these videos because 1) you can feel the genuine love she has for the series, and 2) her theories are always right but wrong at the same time 😂 makes it always funny to see her reaction the next episode
@@skrishna3 magellen isn’t a logia, he’s a paramecia. Haki also doesn’t nullify his poison so even if you use haki to punch or defend from his attack you will still get poisoned. His devil fruit is honestly perfect for keeping prisoners in check. Too bad he shits all fay
Dang! We're really 4 sec short to reach 60 min mark. I'm positive the next arc will hit that one for sure. Enjoyed your review as always and I can't wait for the next one.
Buggy has been looking for Captain John's treasure since volume 25. Here he finally mangaed to find a treasure mark that may lead to the treasure he is searching for, after all this time lol
You got me. Back tracking over really amazing moments in the series and ahhhhh. My heart. I love so much of it but yes the length of this series intimates me entirely. Reading along with you like this is amazing. I really hope you can great through the next few parts as best as we can together.
You could make the argument that the reason Luffy has (his in Murphys words) "super special chosen one" Haki is because Garp put him in so many situations where he had to develop a strong will to survive, or die.
@@captainmarvelous7678 I doubt that. I believe the conqueror haki is passed down through genetics. Garp, Dragon and luffy all have it. All of the "D" people has it as well, I think.
What amazes me the most about this arc is Oda's consistence with his characters. They feel alive and have a place in this world. Most of them aren't just throwaway characters for a single purpose. They influence other characters and impact the world just like everybody else. This is what seperates the world building from so many others.
If i think about, for example luffy broke character like once up to this point, when he attacked Zoro on Whiskey Peak Is it a spoiler to say he will not break character a single time after that point? I think not
To be honest, it's better that way, if the same happens next time, she'll whoopsy-daisy her way to the natural stopping point before doing her top 10. Or maybe top 20 by the time she gets there.
