Top Gun

Hey BENNY! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the RIVER!

Chef's kiss.

I'm presumably the only person on the planet with my name so I either get me or some sort of relative.

I mean I know Chick-fil-A hates gay people but their nuggets are still crack.

Dammit, sniped.

Surely everything is fine and will remain fine forever!

No, there were 275 players. They were all told they were in building 5 because the guy running the show is a sociopathic asshole whom any sane person would tell to fuck off and leave.

Holy shitballs!

That bitch is toast.

Huh, let me through this time.

Don't think I have a static IP, but do what you have to do to keep the site running. It's more of an issue on Cloudflare's part that's bitten Pale Moon before, and it seems like they pushed some updates that messed things up again.

Ugh...the Cloudflare verification screen gets me stuck in an infinite loop on my browser of choice (Pale Moon). Not your guys' fault at all, it's Cloudshit being Cloudshit and not following basic web standards. Just means more inconvenience for me I guess.

Shanks and Buggy were both cabin boys on Roger's ship. We first found that out...I don't even remember when, but it was hekkin' ages ago. (Quick search suggests that it was when Shanks met with Whitebeard after Enies Lobby.) So naturally everyone else who was on Roger's crew would have known them. I think Rayleigh brought it up too when the crew first landed on Sabaody. And according to wikis and such, Buggy and Shanks are both 39 years old. Roger was executed 24 years before the present time (so 22 years pre-timeskip), which would have made the two of them teenagers back then.

K_N said the site's been getting utterly demolished by bot pings recently.

Trying to get out to see Project Hail Mary, which will be my first theater trip in 2 or 3 years.

Jebus that's a lot.

Fuck it, I'll do it myself then. So for the newbies in the audience, let's recap the crazy series-shaking revelations that Oda crammed into this handful of chapters/episodes: This one almost feels like an afterthought at this point, but oh yeah, Sanji is the son of a notorious crime family and has been forcibly engaged to the daughter of one of the Four Emperors. Remember Raizo, the man that the Minks swore up and down wasn't on Zou to the point of being nearly slaughtered en masse? Turns out he was there the whole time and they risked everything to keep him safe. Everyone's favorite little shit Momonosuke isn't Kin'emon's son at all, he's actually his lord, and the rightful heir to the shogunate of Wano. Still a little shit though. We've been chasing Poneglyphs going all the way back to Alabasta, and now we learn that there are four special ones that give the final directions to reach Laugh Tale and see Luffy become the Pirate King. Phew. Oh right, and two of those other special Road Poneglyphs are in the hands of...Big Mom and Kaido. Have fun with that guys. So not only is Momonosuke the rightful shogun of Wano, but his direct ancestors are the ones who made the Poneglyphs in the first place, and his father Oden was the last in the long line who knew the secrets to deciphering them. ...sadly, Momo didn't get that knowledge, because his father was brutally murdered by Kaido, who's still trying to hunt down Momo and his retainers to this day. Oh right, there's the little fact that said father sailed with Gol D. Roger (and Whitebeard too!) and MADE IT TO LAUGH TALE WITH HIM. Dear lord. And just as a topper, everyone's favorite Dog and Cat were part of Roger's crew as well, even though they didn't make it all the way to the end. Also Momo said something about having met Roger too, but he died over 20 years ago wait what the fuck? Oh right, and the Log Poses that Nami's been using to navigate the Grand Line ever since they met Crocus at its very start don't point to Laugh Tale itself, but they do point to a place that's necessary to reach that final island beyond the path's end. Did I miss something in there? Like fifty crazy things happen in this arc, so probably! Probably not hard to see why this is one of my favorite stretches in the entirety of the series.

Yeah I'll be perfectly honest, I'm only doing this so I don't get mixed up when moving old threads in the future. Still cannot express how much I fucking hate the stupid-ass eyes in this show.

Eh, why not. Time to reset the "X minutes since Takemichi got his ass handed to him" sign. Also how much of this mess could have been avoided if one of these dumbasses had thought to call the cops?

Can't let a whole week go by without our dose of cock, right? Demon bro is a total bro and Piyoko remains my precious daughter but may also be a Hulk.

Figured we could still have one after the fact, discuss amongst yourselves.

Have no fear, we've got stories for years!

Takemichi is really bad at this.

Okay, they gave that extra warning at the start, but still...holy fuck. I needed a drink.

This episode is a fantastic example of Luffy's personality. He's not stupid (okay sometimes he is), but he is blunt and single-minded. He's a leader, and he needed Momo to be a leader too before he'd engage with the plan.