I HAVE THEORIES! Skypiea Arc (Part 2) | One Piece by Eiichiro Oda | Reaction / Review | Ch. 255-273

"nobody talks about Eminem" that is hilarious timing.

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Oda was firing on all cylinders when it came to creativity and foreshadowing this arc, actually a much deeper arc than is obvious and Enel is a menace!

The first big clue to the larger mystery of this series: The Poneglyphs and the void century!!

Feel free to theorize, that's what makes one piece so good.

So some name of the devil fruits are Japanese onomatopoeias, which is a big thing in Japanese culture, and are definitely a huge part of mangas. Even signifying someone staring has the word (jirojiromiru) used as a "sound effect" (ji~~~~). Some examples are Ace's fruit, which is NOT the flame-flame in Japanese, but mera-mera, an onomatopoeia of a blazing fire; Enel's is called goro-goro, which is the sound of crashing thunder/lightning; and Mr 1 is not called blade-blade but supa-supa, which is the sound of blade swishing the air!

My take on the pumpkin juice line is: 1. Gan Fall want want to humanise himself in an attempt lessen the gap between the 2 groups 2. The reason soil (vearth) is sacred is that it’s needed to grow crops and especially something as big as a pumpkin would be impossible to grow in clouds. So he a little playfully says he’s not willing to completely give up upper yard but is willing to share it.

20:43 The Rumble Rumble Fruit is called the Goro Goro no Mi in Japanese (ゴロゴロの実). ゴロゴロ is the onomatopoeia for thunder. For those "rumbles" to be related to earthquakes it should be Gura Gura (グラグラ), Gata Gata (ガタガタ) or Yusa Yusa (ユサユサ) the onomatopoeias for tremors. Just explaining this because it is common knowledge for the intended audience, the Japanese audience, so this information should've been provided in a Translator's Note, that VIZ refuses to use. They localize the manga instead of translating it, and do it badly. The don't research, so Going Merry Go became Merry Go instead of Going Merry (the final "go" is a suffix added to ship's names, all ships in One Piece are "Something Go"), they censor, so Enel/Eneru stayed "Kami" instead of being translated as "God" and they turned his "Priests" into "Vassals" (to avoid the very much intended religious connotations, after sailing through Heaven's Gates into a field of clouds filled with angels), and they don't provide all the intended information, so you end up trying to guess what rumble means, when it's pretty clear in the original (ゴロゴロ should've been translated as Rumble if you provide a Translator's Note clarifying it's the sound of thunder, but if you don't it should've been localized as Thunder. And the same goes for Ace's メラメラ, where mera-mera is the sound of fire, as the translation given, "flare", doesn't necessarily mean "fire". Many other DFs, past and future, have undergone the same problem), etc. VIZ way of translating when convenient, localizing when convenient, and ignoring when convenient, SUCKS! Sorry for the rant, I'm a translator, and this angers me.

Did you ever watch that 1990 Kevin Costner film, Dances With Wolves? It's about a Civil War vet who ends up joining the Lakota Sioux in their struggle to defend their land against the encroaching US Govt. I love that in an arc that's a metaphor for the struggles of First Nations/Native Americans, Oda had our Strawhats LITERALLY dance with wolves.

Vinland Saga is a special manga for sure. One of my favorites of all time. The evolution of the characters and the messages the series is conveying is so beautiful. It raises many questions about war, pacifism, diplomacy, revenge, maturity, forgiveness, slavery, colonization...

Instantly clicked, liked and commented for the algorithm, but will watch later when I have time~ 😅

Even Eneru’s name can be a weird twist on Eminem. Eminem sounds like MNM. Eneru’s most common English translation is Enel, which is pronounced like NL.

One of the things I love about this arc is that there are so many subtle hints to a discussion around belief and religion, or the power behind belief and what that means. Oda does a great job of presenting ideas and he tells his audience “now YOU discuss.” The messages and themes in this arc are great, accompanied by some excellent moments of dialogue. There is a lot of foreshadowing of things in this arc and it introduces a lot of concepts we will still not understand for a while, but nothing in this arc is wasted. While I always say Loguetown, the end of the East Blue, is the end of the prologue, I also think Skypiea is introducing a lot of set up for the future. If Loguetown was the prologue for our main characters, Skypiea is the prologue for the world. After this arc the world and the story of the world just feels so much bigger. Oh I also love the Giant Jack talk. What’s interesting is that if you look at the Map of Skypiea that we got before Jaya, there seems to be a big giant drawn on it. I’m curious if there is a connection between the sky islands and Giants. So there is definitely a connection there. You’ll also see influences from Pocahontas, which I am sure Oda was influenced by. There are certain parts of this arc I’m excited to see you get to. Also as we talk about Jack and the Beanstalk, it’s interesting to me that Usopp had such a strong connection to giants on Little Garden and he has a slingshot. It’s almost like David and Goliath. I’m also interested to know how you’ve been liking the cover stories and if you’ve been reading SBS stuff. Always happy to see you post.

That's our Luffy 🤣 he just hoped she was okay after getting eaten by a snake lol

I feel like the Eneru is a pretty interesting character. It's not clear how he came to wield such awesome power, but seeing the aftereffects on his psyche is great food for thought

The flow of consciousness here is exactly what i/we want. We know what happened. Keep telling us how you feel. I love the insight you bring to the community Shelly. Keep it up!

The different versions of Kami Enel/Eneru are because it’s japanese, and the whole L/R thing, plus their words don’t end with consonants. So they’re saying Eneru when they speak, but they also say Usoppu and stuff, and we ignore that U. Long story short tho it doesn’t really matter :) that’s just why they exist as far as I understand and until Oda writes it in English there’s not really a “right” way

Amazing content as always 😊

29:55 Vinland Saga is AMAZING!! Extremely different to One Piece in both tone and development, but just as amazing. Its targeted to an older demographic, so you can expect things to be more brutal, but there's no gratuity in it, and the artstyle and feats performed to be more realistic (to some degree) as opposed to One Piece cartoonish style

glad to see you upload another review,!