One thing I really enjoyed about WCI arc is that it restored my respect for the non-Monster Trio Strawhats, like, I like the characters themselves, but I wouldn't really respect them as an effective fighting force beyond kicking some cannon fodder ass. This completely changed after this arc.
Interesting. After Alabasta, I never once thought they never
could stand up for themselves in a fight. Granted, they were all still learning and that's something that takes time to do, but still, it's good to hear that the two-year timeskip is actually paying off.
I personally made a deal with a friend of mine, where I would read GoT and he would watch/read OP, but I honestly couldn't go through with it, and he cock-blocked me in response lol, stopping right at the beginning of the Arlong arc..
That sucks, man, though... a deal
is a deal. But still, he got that small taste of it. Chances are sometime in the future he'll try it again, maybe.
If they're manga readers, then I can guess that they're probably pushing you to catch-up faster, Reverie has been simply amazing, and this week's bombshells are gamechangers..
They were pushing me into One Piece long before they started reading the manga tbh. It's kinda funny, too, because at roughly about the same time when I was in college, a classmate of mine got into One Piece and was binging the crap out of it (anime hadn't reached Marineford yet if I remember right), and she was telling me all sorts of things about it, especially about Robin. I was half-listening at times, didn't really understand what was going on and I didn't think it was all that appealing at first. To this day I'm
still kicking myself for not starting it around that time, but maybe I should stop doing that since I apparently found the right time for me to start it. Funny how things work out.
I have a feeling like I'm going to end up writing out some blog-esque comment one day about my journey with One Piece after enough time has passed lol. But as sappy as that sounds, I'm pretty sure One Piece is the cure to my depression and it helped me get on a plane for the first time in my life, weird as that sounds (well, I mean, it partly helped). It's one thing to hear about planes and see it on TV and the like, but it's another to get on one yourself and just travel outside of your comfort zone. But anyway, I had of yet to make up my mind about going out-of-state with my brother to see his twin graduate basic, and I mainly just wanted to know exactly what goes on because I'm super anal like that and want to
know these things ahead of time so I don't feel like I'm going to miss anything. So in attempt to psych myself into it or not, I had my mom explain as much of it to me as possible while she lamented the pre-9/11 days because apparently airports were so much more fun back then.
Anyway, to draw parallels to One Piece, she literally ended up saying it'd be an adventure to have with my brother, and immediately I thought back to Hiluluk telling Chopper to go out and see the world one day and just have an adventure. It's fucking autistic and I'm a pussy, I'll fully admit it, but that alone made up my mind to hop on a few planes with my brother and head out for a few days. Turned out I have air sickness (and so that would mean I could have sea sickness, the pirate's life not for me then
), and the first day didn't go as planned, but hey, I went out and did it thanks to a short walking, talking reindeer having a dream (before it went to shit for a bit in-story).
*rates self :autism:*
Katakuri is most definitely best nigga.
