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    Usually in the afternoon at the moment because I'm a lazy ass. When I was working normally it'd be in the morning to attempt to wake myself up. I'll occasionally do a nighttime shower if I know in advance I'm going to be doing something sweat-inducing that day.
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    GARCHU!
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    I'm so glad CSE had those Toonami reruns because I probably wouldn't have seen it otherwise. It was fantastic.
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    Trying to catch up on this so I can maybe finally force myself past wherever the last block appearance left off, and for the love of God why the fuck did we need to spend TWO episodes on Sakura and Ino's horseshit?
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    Sure are some...takes in here.
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    I went over the naming issue in last week's thread, but we first heard about the island under the name "Raftel" very very early in the story, from Crocus (Laboon's caretaker) at Reverse Mountain. I think he mentions it when he's explaining how a Log Pose works. No, Minks and Zoan Devil Fruit users are two separate things. The Minks are a naturally-occurring race of humanoid animals. Zoan Devil Fruits allow the user to turn into a normal animal. If a Mink ate a Zoan fruit that was the same species as them, it probably wouldn't do anything other than make them unable to swim; Oda confirmed that's what would happen if a normal human ate Chopper's Human-Human Fruit. In a way the Minks are almost like the natural version of what Chopper became after eating his fruit.
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    Carrot Piece is best Piece.
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    Absolutely disgusting.
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    This is kind of an interesting story. From what I can gather, the name of the island was always written the same in Japanese, using...I think katakana (I don't know enough about moonrunes to know how these things work exactly). The literal transliteration of the characters is something like "ra-fu-te-ru." So when everyone official or otherwise was first translating that word some 25 years ago, they came up with the reasonable assumption of "Raftel" based on how these things usually work. The English phrase "Laugh Tale" apparently first appeared on-screen in the movie Stampede of all places, and then Oda confirmed in a chapter note somewhere in the 900s that "Laugh Tale" was the intended translation. I don't know whether it was intentional vagueness on Oda's part, or whether he realized at some point, "oh hey I should clarify this." If it was intentional then it's not all that dissimilar to the pirate Gold Roger's actual name being Gol D. Roger. Long story short, it was always "supposed" to be Laugh Tale, but no one has any way of knowing that before it was explicitly stated. Funi switched over to that translation after it was confirmed. As to whatever significance that name may or may not have...you're gonna be here a while.
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    Yessssssssss. Best girl has arrived.
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    I love my car and love driving, but I also hate that that I'm forced to drive everywhere in the hellscape of suburbia. I wish this country actually built walkable connected places so that I could drive because I want to.
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    Reminds me of 20 years ago when the second FMA OP aired for 75% of the series because of some record deal or something.
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    The people who were watching the show weekly on Japan would have known, because those episodes were advertised as such beforehand. Hell, I knew about it when I first watched them. Pretty sure it was reported over here by the likes of ANN. That was also the third time the anime has aired tie-in filler for a movie, and Toonami showed one of those. The filler with the crew meeting the giant girl who could change her size was a teaser for Film Z. Just be thankful you didn't have to suffer through the Strong World episodes... And regardless of how it was depicted, has One Piece ever been the sort of show that would just randomly incinerate an enemy into nothingness? Like, that's not remotely how this series does things. Oda has historically used character deaths very sparingly, and nearly always as part of some major plot event. While this sometimes stretches credulity (looking at you Pell), it also lets fun characters stick around and do more fun stuff in the future. Having one of Blackbeard's core crew members get one-shot in a meaningless side scene would feel pretty lame.
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    I don't know who made that call, but bless them.
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    Man I can't wait until Buggy falls ass-backwards into becoming the Pirate King. This has nothing to do with Bill. As was said multiple times, that was a completely self-contained filler that was a promo for Film Gold. It has zero relevance going forward. No he wasn't. He was shown as being blasted with a ton of fire. Something which approximately several thousand anime characters have managed to survive in the past. Because Buggy is the goat who will one day find the One Piece.
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