Mastodawn

finally posting this after a weeklong break lol. as mentioned before, kid me skimmed/skipped through a lot of Whisky Peak and Little Garden, so my recollections of them are very, very vague

ANYWAY

- love love lovvvvvve Miss Valentine. she’s one of the few agents from early Baroque Works that I can distinctly remember, aside from Miss All Sunday (Nico Robin) and maybe Miss Goldenweek? Jazzara Jaslyn really nailed her cackling and I enjoy the Twiggy-esque thing she’s got going on

- I don’t remember Mr. 5 especially well, but from the looks of the anime/manga, he looks like he stepped right out of them, similar to how Kuro, Zeff, and Mihawk did. floors me every time I see that

- same goes for Robin/Miss All Sunday! Lera Abova captures her beauty and chilling presence accurately. her accent really accentuates both! my only complaint is that she isn’t as olive/dark-complected as she was in the anime (and a lesser extent, the manga). Abova is Russian though, which matches the hypothetical real-life country that Oda listed for her once

- also really like how Robin’s Devil Fruit powers are portrayed. the arms she spawns are beautiful and elegant, but oh so deadly and vicious. I couldn’t stop rewatching her introductory scene just to watch how each one mirked all of those Marines

- haven’t had a chance to mention this at ALL, but I love how OPLA has the wanted poster overlay pirate character intros! it feels fittingly comic book-like, and kinda stands in for the “Oda box” that introduces new characters in the manga

- the pre-Loguetown scene on the Going Merry felt a little…idk…thrown together? but it was also super funny watching 1) Usopp and Sanji bicker over the pepper grinder, and 2) Usopp get exasperated over Sanji convincing Nami to treat herself to a shopping spree…while also complimenting Sanji’s looks the whole time. SanUso shippers, come get your juice

- Loguetown did feel authentically like a small-but-bustling port town. a lot of different people coming and going, the shopping districts…almost wish there was more time spent there just to look at everything

- Nami and Usopp shopping and talking together was really cute. I hope there’s more scenes of them being besties; their dynamic is probably my favorite out of all the Straw Hat relationships

- wasn’t sure how to feel about OPLA introducing Bartolomeo this early, but I completely forgot that he actually *was* at Loguetown that day. it was hilarious seeing him try to pick-pocket Nami and her turning around like “man, you fucking suck at this. listen, dumbass, *this* is how you do it”

- the Italian opera singer performing “My Sails Are Set” was a nice little treat that I wasn’t expecting

- OPLA Tashigi is really cute; she really does—shockingly—look almost exactly like the girl who played Kuina and I enjoyed seeing her demonstrate her sword autism around Zoro even though that friendliness is short-lived

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- I wasn’t full sold on Callum Kerr as Smoker, as I was expecting him to look a little older, taller and more grizzled looking. maybe it’s the wig? nevertheless, his Devil Fruit powers looked eerie as hell, so maybe he’ll grow on me

- was really, really hoping the horny sexist nonsense where Captain Alvida loses her weight thanks to her new Devil Fruit powers would’ve been left out entirely. but…siiiiigh

- on one hand, Paulino didn’t shed that much weight; her face is still noticeably round and not much attention is drawn to it. on the other…I’m seriously hoping she did so on her own accord and not because she was asked. it wouldn’t make sense anyway b/c season 1 left out all of the jokes/jabs about her being fat and focused on her arrogance and violent temper. it should’ve stayed that way tbh

- low-key wish Jeff Ward was given more profanity to work with to Buggy’s lines aside from “shit,” like…he’s a clown! and a bitchy pathetic one! he can make all sorts of vulgarities work

- Buggy and Alvida’s dynamic was pretty funny and fitting from how little I saw of it. Buggy try-hard womanizing when he talks to/about her while she just rolls her eyes feels about right

- one of the few times I didn’t mind the blurry wide-angle shots was when we see Luffy’s POV as he’s drowsy and delirious from the seastone cuffs. also felt SO bad for him because Godoy makes him look like a sad-eyed puppy when he’s totally helpless like that 😭🥺

- the scene on the platform worked better than I expected it to! initially I wasn’t sure how to feel about having Luffy not only smile but laugh, but it makes sense for two
reasons: 1) both “to smile” and “to laugh” usually use the same word in Japanese, i.e. warau (笑う), and 2) Roger himself also smiles and laughs, probably to also drive home [REDACTED SPOILERY OP LORE HERE]

- on that note, I’m also kinda-sorta ambivalent about the red herring approach to how Roger and Luffy are connected. I could see the idea of leading a new audience on to think they’re father and son —only to reveal that they aren’t—being tantalizing to showrunners. but I’ll withhold judgment to see how it plays out

- Dragon’s performance felt a bit flat, but the way he zips in and stops Smoker and stares at him from under the hood were SO fucking spooky. same goes for how him and Smoker just disappear in a gust

- the brief cameo of [REDACTED CHARACTER] in the foreground felt weird, but given the spoiler nod during the Roger/Garp flashback it makes sense to add him there

- it was really cute how Bartolomeo’s first sign of his budding admiration for Luffy was imitating his wanted poster. Luffy-sempai gained a kouhai that day and doesn’t even know it

- Robin propositioning Tashigi to join Baroque Works was??? interesting. let’s see where that goes

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- the sailing up/down Reverse Mountain was *extremely* intense, even while knowing that the StrawHats and Going Merry come out of it worse for wear. the ship getting knocked around by waves and currents felt so realistic, like they could’ve been tossed overboard at any moment

- Luffy steering Merry by grabbing onto jagged rocks with both of his arms + nothing to hold him down was the most shonen manga bullshit ever, and I loved it

- something so precious about Nami joining Luffy at Merry’s mast and laughing together before the drop :’)

- the way I blurted out “LABOOOOOOOON” the moment I heard whale sounds

- “Five more minutes, Dadan” <— if there’s a flashback sometime in season 3 that shows Dadan way earlier than the manga did, then I’m gonna fuckin lose it lmao

- Crocus looks and sounds great. not exactly cranky, but he still has that tired old man“don’t bother me”vibe. didn’t have his hilarious introductory scene, but it was referenced in dialog so I can live with that

- the little shithead smirk Zoro gave Nami after she mentioned his muscles break the whipstaff —> “not a compliment.” “not NOT a compliment. 😏”

- slowly warming up to Callum Kerr’s Smoker. the close-up shots do him more favors in this episode. he’s clearly young but not *too* young

- laughed SO fucking hard at Luffy busting down Crocus’s door just as he settled in his easy chair to relax, the comedic timing was impeccable

- also, Crocus’s home really felt lived-in with its maximalist, former seafarer interior. the fish heads, old maps, little antiques…even the old radio

- happy to see Jacob Gibson leaning further into Usopp’s nervous chattering and anxious/scared noises

- also Usopp screamed soooooooo fucking much this episode, I can tell Gibson must have practiced to make it sound *just* right too

- congratulations to SanUso shippers these past two episodes, their chemistry is replicated pretty well so far

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- I liked the angle taken with Nami this episode, clearly feeling insecure about her navigation skills before and upon entering the Grand Line. particularly liked the moment where Vivi needles her about not knowing what a log pose is

- I’m not big on the Baroque Works business card introductions, though I see they’re supposed to be like the Wanted posters. having different characters reach out and grab/interact with them is still one of my favorite OPLA touches

- got a little kick out of Smoker shoving two cigars in his mouth after Garp briefs him on and assigns him to hunting Baroque Works

- “Stay calm!” “I WILL NOTTTTTT” <— I think we can say definitively that Gibson has fully grown into playing Usopp now

- on top of that, Luffy (badly) singing “Bink’s Brew” to earn Laboon’s trust was such a lovely addition! I forgot that Shanks’ crew really did sing it around Luffy when he was little

- Laboon’s big sad eyes kept getting to me, I won’t lie…both as a baby and as an adult. really gave a lot of pathos to him, on top of his backstory 🥺

- somehow Luffy painting his Jolly Roger seemed more precious on a more realistic-looking Laboon? I think because the damage to his head is so much more pronounced and you can tell he’s aged on top of it. the way he bellowed was so 😭😭😭😭

- trying to enjoy the moment between Tashigi, Coby and Helmeppo, all while trying to ignore that they’re too young/naive to realize what they signed up for by enlisting 🫠

- gonna echo at least one other fan’s opinion and say that having Tashigi be a laser-focused sword maniac felt a bit silly, if not a tad insulting to her character? it’s not *incorrect,* mind you, but emphasizing that over her “lawful good” commitment to upholding the Marines’ (supposed) ideals felt odd to me

- that said, Julia Rewald is a really cute Tashigi; loved her little dance when Smoker agreed to bring her along to his mission

- forgot how poetic it was for Crocus to hand off his log pose to Nami…mostly because I ALSO forgot he was on Roger’s crew! the nods to Roger were brief but not too heavy-handed though

- LAUGH TALE MENTIONEDDDDDDDD

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