COMIC
Ladies and Their Toys
Wait a second… Has it happened?!?! Is a grown human woman in ONE PIECE expressing interest in…robotics?!
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I was laughing in tears as I saw Revolutionary Deputy Commander Ahiru making sound effects for her robotic arm…canon? While I can’t be certain yet, I think this infers that while her arm is a fully-functional weapon, the fact that she appears to be manually manipulating the arm’s position *and* making sounds for it (while it clearly does make separate and different sounds) this means that she’s totally into the cyborg/mecha mindset of the boys of the Strawhat Crew! I wonder if Franky could cook up a fully-functioning arm for her one day!
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Weekly Shonen Jump #23 Ch.1082
Staking it on T Bone
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Noooo! Not T Bone!!! I mean…if he’s really gone, that makes me super sad and I hope that Buggy gets his comeuppance but I doubt that will happen because I have reason to believe T Bone is alive and well! Given his penchant for good deeds, I believe that T Bone felt he could perform a good deed, saving the impoverished family, by faking his own death at the man’s hands and allowing them to reap the reward. This falls perfectly in line with his over-the-top dedication to his white knight persona and also explains why such a diminutive man was ‘able’ to best a warrior with the epithet ‘Ship-cutter’!
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Weekly Shonen Jump #23 Ch.1082
What’s New is Old and What’s Old is New Again
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The symbol of the Celestial Dragons and their mark of domination resembles a dragon claw and while I do think dragons (or dragon-themed Ancient weapons) may play a role in the story, I wonder if the so-called ‘Hoof of the Soaring Dragon’ is a desecration of an older image. For example, if we transpose the triangles of the symbol we’ll end up with…
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A symbol that looks stunningly similar to the sun, a symbol we’ve seen used throughout the series albeit slightly different. Alabasta, Skypiea, and Wano have all used symbols of the sun surrounded by circles.
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Did Wano and Alabasta pay tribute to the original pointed sun symbol and avoid upsetting the World Government by substituting circles for triangles? It would essentially be a hidden symbol of protest.
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Skypiea certainly wouldn’t have had a reason to hide the nature of the symbol but perhaps that form was taught to them by the Shandians!
If this turns out to be even partially true, it’s a fitting twist of fate for the Fishmen Pirates who replaced the symbol of the claw with their own variation of a symbol for the sun, essentially returning the symbol to its roots!
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