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  1. Top Gun
    Zou is one of my favorite arcs in the entire series because of how much Oda plays around with his own narrative conventions that he's established for so long. Half the crew only arrives on Zou after the main arc villain has shown up, destroyed the place, and left of his own free will (and possibly even died?), and the other half doesn't even get there until the conflict has been resolved and all that's left is the after-party. We only learn about what happened at the same time as Luffy's group does. And in any other arc what happened with Sanji would be far and away the most shocking thing, but then we get hit with this bombshell which completely flips what we knew about its events upside-down. It's probably not a shock to first-time viewers to hear that the surprises are far from over.
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    My body has yet to figure out what the fuck time it is.
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    So like, was there a single person on the planet who found that whole ending thing even remotely amusing? Or more to the point, was there a single person on the planet who didn't want to gouge their ears out during it?
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    It's funny, I read about this in an episode review later but I didn't even notice while watching it.
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    I'd rather have it be lighter longer. The morning can be dark and depressing, Imma sleep through it anyway.
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    This still might be my favorite twist that Oda ever pulled. Blew my goddamn mind the first time I watched it.
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    I figured we'd still have to wait a few months. It's great to have it so soon.
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    Huh, I guess Gollum survived the fall and got a new gig.
  9. Top Gun
    Dandadan season 2 starting March 28 at 12:30. FUCK yeah.
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    In the next week it's gonna go from the high 70s one day to the low 40s a few days later. Whee!
  11. Top Gun
    Nope, Sanji came up with that during the timeskip and based it on a similar technique that the CP9 members used during Enies Lobby.
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    I don't think I've ever listened to "new music" even when I was young, but then again I don't listen to much music on its own at all. If I'm in the car and not listening to sports talk I'll put on one of the local rock stations, and a good chunk of that is 50 years old, so about as far away as you can get.
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    I mean we already saw how Sanji learned to fight (well I guess we didn't during this run, but you get the idea). Zeff saved him as a child and raised him, and he taught Sanji the same combat style he used as a notorious pirate. You mean WAS dead!
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    Was wondering why they threw in an extra advisory at the start of this and...yikes. That'd do it.
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    In the continuing saga of "the writer had no idea how soccer works," I love how this collection of the best high school players in Japan is astounded by the other team counter-attacking by...passing the ball to their best player. Shocked Pikachu. Like this shit is bad enough as someone who doesn't watch soccer, I can only imagine that any real soccer fans watching this have had an aneurysm by now.
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    Falling upward baby!
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    It's comforting that there are people making tens of millions of dollars a year to sit at their desks and be complete and total fuck-ups 7 days a week. Oh wait no, not "comforting," the exact opposite word.
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    So I want to put aside the stupidity of that match for a moment. ("Why did I pass?" Because the dude was open and you wanted to score, you dumb shit?) I was laughing so hard when they were whining on and on about "oh, Japanese people don't have the personality traits to win a World Cup!" Like, you motherfuckers do realize that the Japanese women's national team actually won a World Cup in 2011, right? So explain all your nonsense rhetoric to me. Still, at least the assholes were actually wearing shoes for once.
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    So like...Quincies are normal humans with powers, right? Then how the hell are these guys still alive? Because they apparently grew up in medieval-Europe-but-there-are-Nazis-for-some-reason.
  20. Top Gun
    "Hear that squawk? Here comes the cock!" Show hasn't even started yet and I already love it.
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    Cat is the goddamn best and Sungwon is having an absolute blast voicing him. No, nothing was retconned. You'll have to wait for the obligatory One Piece Tragic Backstory to see how things went down.
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    Goddamn that was badass.
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    I've seen a few people mention that both the original manga's writer and artist were known for working on horror-themed series before this one. For this series they basically created a death game story with a coat of soccer paint on top. But man, I cannot remember being less enthused after the first two episodes of a series since...maybe ever? Like, are we supposed to be rooting for this protagonist? Because so far he seems like a complete psychopath. He already knocked out the only remotely-sane person in this place (although with that crazy eyes look I guarantee you that one comes back later as an unhinged antagonist), and none of the rest of these nutjobs are remotely likeable so far. As for the "sports" part, I don't even enjoy soccer, much less watch it, and I'm still rolling my eyes back into my head at the nonsense that dimestore Steve Jobs is spouting. Sure, pour all your resources into developing a single incredibly selfish player in large team sport and see how that goes for you. And put some motherfucking shoes on you weirdos.
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    Beginning and ending with giant cock. Double penetration?
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    Yeah, I loved the shit out of Erased, which has a very similar overall premise to this show, and that didn't put any real effort into explaining the hows or whys of its central time-travel mechanic. And then there was the criminally under-promoted Summertime Rendering, which did have some more specific constraints on its time travel but played with them for the sake of increasing tension and drama. Either of those shows would have been awesome to have on the block.
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