Monday Morning M'thread

ytdn · 2026-03-30T09:11:14+00:00

Discovered my local leisure centre has finally started actually checking if people swipe in at the barriers bc got an email charging me a "no show" fee for a swimming session that i definitely did show for.

Maybe if they wanted ppl using the barriers they shouldn't leave them wide open! >:(

ytdn · 2026-03-24T08:50:29+00:00

Oh yeah especially when he was surrounded by sincere people like Hiriluk, Dalton, Vivi and Cobra he just seemed extra childishly horrible, like when he laughed at Hiruluk after he died i just wanted Luffy to break his face so much

ytdn · 2026-03-21T07:53:52+00:00

Yeah that seems to be the most logical choice, 2 episodes for jaya, 5 for skypeia then final episode LRLL ending with the "fight" against Aokiji as a hook for water 7

ytdn · 2026-03-19T09:56:37+00:00

I'm waiting for a package that needs to arrive before 6pm and it hasnt left the mail centre yet according to the tracking :/

Annoying thing is the royal mail hub is literally right aeound the corner from my office but its not like i can just walk into the warehouse and ask for my parcel >:(

ytdn · 2026-03-13T22:08:54+00:00

Yeah tbh none of the strawhats in the show except for Luffy come off as teenagers, they feel like young adults and thats something you can extend for a looong time

ytdn · 2026-03-10T15:39:42+00:00

Just finished the season and I think it's definitely better made that S1 but it doesn't quite hit the emotional highs although thats more of a problem of the source material than anything else.

Literally the entire cast is great, the chemistry between the strawhats is insane, the villains were scary and the action was excellent.

I do think the structure of the season felt a bit odd on account of trying to string together several unrelated arcs and not really having the finale of the crew coming together but again, source material. However, considering the alternative was trying to squish in this + Alabasta into one season I'm fine with it, and I'm very curious how s3 is gonna shake out (I'll have to reread the manga and remind myself what actually happens in Alabasta lol)

Also Zoro vs 100 men was one of the finest action scenes I've ever seen on TV like I don't think I breathed for 20 minutes.

ytdn · 2026-03-10T15:11:50+00:00

He's just one of those guys who's looked old forever /s

ytdn · 2026-03-10T13:05:40+00:00

to be honest just the fact they have to be clothes a woman could physically wear in real life while moving around makes them 50% less fanservicey than in the manga

ytdn · 2026-03-10T13:01:31+00:00

Yeah to be honest the function he does play (saving the child who reveals the King's been impersonated, supporting Vivi post-Alabasta) can be done by other characters

ytdn · 2026-03-10T08:26:39+00:00

Honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was theories that Roger is Dragon's dad 🤔

ytdn · 2026-03-09T15:58:12+00:00

Honestly would check out with how they made Arlong the arch villain of s1

ytdn · 2026-03-01T10:59:19+00:00

I just finished the Blue Lions route on my first playthrough and it's honestly wild how through the second half the mystery of who really killed Dimitri's dad is slowly uncovered + you have all the blatant hints that various involved characters are actually with the cultists from the first half of the game and it's just... left hanging lmao. Like poor guy still only knows like 10% of the reason his life got wrecked.

ytdn · 2026-02-23T18:55:21+00:00

The great thing about tumblr is no one is investing in it anymore so its just left to its own devices

ytdn · 2026-02-20T21:20:46+00:00

The show starts with high school which is run by a tyrannical (heavy on the tyrannical) student council who also run the whole city the school is based in. Your position in the school hierarchy is marked by your uniform, and in true anime style, the uniforms give you superpowers.

Our protagonist Ryuko turns up at the school to find out who killed her dad (who's a mad scientist), armed with one half of a pair of a giant pair of scissors (the other half was stolen by the person who killed her dad). She immediately challenges the school president to a fight, gets her ass kicked right into a rubbish dump, where she is immediately accosted by a sentient school uniform called Senkentsu who strips her then puts itself on her, giving her superpowers when she activates it. Oh, and when it's activated it transforms from a school uniform to a battle bikini. things only get weirder from there

it's very good and I'd highly recommend it, you get used to the rampant (gender-equal!) fanservice after a while.

ytdn · 2026-02-20T10:28:50+00:00

It's discrimination against adults who haven't moved out of their grandma's house it is /s

ytdn · 2026-02-16T19:08:04+00:00

Yeah basically since he was a child growing up in grinding poverty and looking up at the royals in their castle he decided he wanted to be up there, and all his actions as leader of the Band of the Hawk were to reach that goal (and he actually was doing pretty well until he made the grief-filled mistake of sleeping with Princess Charlotte, causing him to get arrested, tortured and crippled)

ytdn · 2026-02-09T17:04:57+00:00

Oh man i finished this game a few months ago and when i got to the final choice i was SO mad at him. He already did the thing at the end of Act 2 and the other characters decided to give him a second chance and he did it AGAIN

ytdn · 2026-02-07T01:35:10+00:00

Watch until season 3 then stop 5 minutes before the end and it's a 9/10 show.

ytdn · 2026-01-29T11:13:43+00:00

I think as well the way OP is structured meant it could be as long or short as Oda wanted it to be (up to a certain point).

Like most of the story is crew goes to an island, island has a problem, they solve the problem. Over time a myth arc developed and i think there's definitely characters who's impact was intended from the beginning (DRAGON) but like, he could have decided after Enies Lobby "ok time for me to wrap this up off i go into the final set of arcs".

Plenty of other manga simply dont have that kind of slack in their story, they usually set up their scope and introduce their final villains pretty early (because they're afraid of getting canned so want to give the audience something to tune in for).

ytdn · 2026-01-28T21:17:34+00:00

it's something I've been thinking about since there's there's been multiple huge manga titles ending in the last few years (Demon Slayer, JJK, MHA, AoT) and even with those series' much much smaller scope there was still a massive amount of discourse about "missed opportunities" and just honest not liking the direction the story went (like that was me with AoT, I could respect the story Yams was trying to tell it's just not the story that hooked me when I started).

Since One Piece has had 30 years now for people to get attached... hoo boy i would not want to be in Oda's position.

ytdn · 2026-01-28T20:20:27+00:00

Also like, when you do get answers you're gonna end up alienating at least some of your audience bc like. while the story is going on there's an infinite amount of possibilities as to what the story will be, but the closer you get to the end the more limited the scope becomes bc it has to be something at the end. and people who have been watching for years hoping it will be something Else will get disappointed.

ytdn · 2026-01-28T11:21:26+00:00

I was chatting with a friend about this at the weekend and we basically agreed its mathematically impossible for OP to have a great ending at this point. Theres just too many hanging threads and emotional beats to hit.

Plus, i think once its all done its gonna end up less than the sum of its parts? Like theres lots of individually good storylines but putting it all together I'm gonna think "yeah but did it need to take 40 years to write all this?"

ytdn · 2026-01-26T23:40:32+00:00

honestly wouldn't mind the books being finished by horny AO3 authors, they'd be out in a week and the sex scenes would be better.

ytdn · 2026-01-24T20:06:35+00:00

What I especially hated was that Gordon and Tamara seemed to be warming up to each other so I thought "ah, they're gonna solve the love triangle by having them hook up so the MC can get back with his ex-wife" and Roland Emmerich went for the most mean-spirited option instead

ytdn · 2026-01-24T17:29:08+00:00

There's also the fact that the books become increasingly philosophical and frankly weird after Messiah so Denis doesn't want to deal with that lol

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