One Piece: Dressrosa - Corazon
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00:00:00 ⟾ Intro, Format, until Law flashback
00:01:04 ⟾ Alabasta parallels, Nefertari family
00:02:58 ⟾ Densely-packed information
00:03:16 ⟾ Doflamingo - separate video
00:04:27 ⟾ Usopp - dwarves, SOP, erasing memories/development theory, cowardice, fear, rising above, also Robin
00:11:34 ⟾ Usopp - SOP, Sugar faint, toys freed, memories restored
00:12:21 ⟾ Usopp - Giants connection, Colosseum floor, {Go D. Usopp}
00:13:53 ⟾ Sabo - Lucy, final round, Mera Mera no Mi
00:15:37 ⟾ Cavendish - transformation
00:16:29 ⟾ Luffy, Zoro, Kin’emon group
00:17:08 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Pica: Zoro fight, Oda revealing crew growth
00:19:12 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Gladius
00:19:59 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Lao G
00:20:09 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Sugar: Hobi Hobi no Mi
00:21:06 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Senor Pink: weird, Franky fight, Franky character/role {*embraces shadow
00:23:19 ⟾ Donquixote Family - Trebol
00:23:30 ⟾ Rebecca flashback - {anime-only fans: *cold sweats}, Kyros, Riku III, Scarlett
00:28:15 ⟾ Fight Chaos - Luffy, Law, Kyros, beheading, Birdcage, game
00:31:06 ⟾ Usopp 5 star
00:31:33 ⟾ Law - carried around by Luffy
00:32:59 ⟾ Corrida Colosseum characters
00:33:34 ⟾ Usopp - sniper, Observation Haki
00:34:27 ⟾ Diamante vs. Kyros (also Rebecca)
00:35:27 ⟾ Bellamy - puppet
00:37:01 ⟾ Luffy-Law vs. Doflamingo
00:37:32 ⟾ Doflamingo backstory - National Treasure of Marie Geoise, Ope Ope no Mi
00:40:36 ⟾ Law flashback - backstory, Flevance, Amber Lead poisoning, sister, D. significance, Corazon: Sengoku, double agent, Vergo, death
00:51:22 ⟾ Sabo - Koala, Hack, Dragon, Revolutionary Army, fight vs. Fujitora,
00:53:30 ⟾ Kin’emon & Momonosuke - significance, Kanjuro: Fude Fude no Mi powers
00:55:29 ⟾ Overall Thoughts - setting, characters, action, flashbacks, Doflamingo, villains, story, gags, little moments, fights, binge ease
00:58:24 ⟾ Looking forward
00:58:35 ⟾ Outro, [Credits]
00:59:00 ⟾ ]Promo] [Credits]
❤️🙏
Merphy in disguise confirmed. The hour long video came out less than an hour ago, but timestamps already up.
This is Merphy's alt account, doing great things for the community.
this must be Merphy right ?
Yo phantom, you drop this👑
Senor Pink is not weird, he is hard boiled!
She will love him Like us by next episode
hard boiled novels
the hard boiled one is other character.
SENOOOOOOR! *moans*
More hard boiled than Baron Tamago?
I loved a literal giant man baby. This arc is weird in a great way.
YESSSSS!!!
You have a great taste in the UA-cam content you consume 😜 Senor Pink is goated af.
Don't worry you'll see some even wierd things moving forward ( a literal man child for specifics🤣 )
LET'S BABY
Now give us our collab and hours long discussions.
Corazon appeared in just 7 chapters almost 7 years ago and in a recent poll of the most popular characters in OP he was number 13th of over 1000. Just a brilliant character.
For reference that puts him above people like Doflamingo, Crocodile, and half of the Straw Hat crew.
I think about Corazon more than zoro tbh. Not because I hate zoro but because I create schematics and plans on how I could have saved him.
@@megamegapop12 whats even weirder is that one piece is the only series where the main character goes against all the usual writer critics and is the most popular character in all the polls. Every other poll for a series has the main overshadowed. Whether it be the world being more important or the other characters being cooler. Its a hard feat. I do see new watchers who hate him but luffy is special. Even goku isn't able to do that with vegeta. Luffy had a competition to be fair with law and I feel oda nerfed law and zolo to keep luffy hype but the animated series loves zolo. Zolo also gets barely any deep story time but it backfires by making him seem mysterious and manly like a stereotype. lol. I also feel if oda can do that in 7 chapters why can't he do it more often. Some chapters feel like he's not sure then others super sure about what he plans.
@@nichescenesYeah, One Piece is the only shounen series where the main character is actually my favorite character. And it’s not even close - I love Luffy *so much*.
@@Necroskull388 Yeah, i get that. Personally I'm weird in that if I get to a story I automatically love the main character. And to be fair that's the point. They are the anchor in a usual story. But for shonen usually they show off the others and make them bigger, usually I stay with my main. But for example JJK, demon slayer, etc. Shonen wise they make the other characters too cool. One piece besides the accolades should mostly be put on pedestal for the one series (to my knowledge) that kept their main popular. Again I think zolo is getting close and that's why he makes luffy do cool stuff while zolo stands back but dang kudos. I do not think the series as flawless and the most impressive thing in history as fans but I like it and give it that. Maybe when it finishes il say it's perfect like others.
Easy thing to miss in Law's flashback is that fellow Supernova X Drake's father was the one who was looking to sell the Op-Op fruit and X Drake himself was there as a child; you can see a kid with the X scar on his chin. He was rescued by the marines having just barely avoided the birdcage.
Oda is crazy at interconnecting little things like that.
He was rescued by the Marines.
Hmmm...
Goddamn spoilers.....
Bruhhhhhhh Wano Arc godaaaammmmm such a subtle forshadowing for Sword.
@@nimishrai257 Is it a spoiler though? It was established in his introduction at Sabadody that Drake is a marine turncoat. I'm caught up with the manga btw.
@@godouroboros8047 yeah, we thought he was a turncoat but he turned out to still be a marine agent all along that went undercover as a pirate.
@@ministerquik I'm aware. I did state I was caught up on the manga in my reply. Looking forward to see what he'll do next.
@@godouroboros8047 Well yes, but no.
I think my favorite thing about Law is how he is just involuntarily dragged kicking and screaming into the Straw Hat’s chemistry whether he wants to be or not.
There’s one moment in particular on the way to Dressrosa where he’s trying to be super serious and whatnot, and Sanji just starts taking orders for lunch, and Law does a full on double take when he realizes he’s gotten caught up in whatever goofiness this is.
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im a lil late just finished dressrosa tho and i can say my favourite moment of this is still punk hazard when choppers put on his head for the first time
I DONT LIKE BREAD
I HATE BREAD
Fun Fact: Corazon means heart in Spanish and Law is the captain of the heart pirates. Law named his crew after Cora 😭
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Just like how Ace was captain of the spades pirates, Ace of spades = card of death. Ace died!
Cora was also the heart in Doffy’s playing card theme set of leaders.
@@roz4688 that's bc Corazón wasn't his actual name, it was Rosinante, a reference to the donkey Don Quijote rides in the tale by Miguel de Cervantes
@@roz4688 just like everyone else in the family represents a card, it's all in Spanish and those aren't their real names
“Doflamingo will get his own character analysis video” music to all our ears
I wanna see more analyses of the villains of one piece by peeps, I think the villains are interesting and great
I dunno man, I feel like Doffy is overrated and Crocodile is better written.
@@penaldotapinaldo1713 i feel like croc is overrated.
@@hhhfdsfs if that's the case then both are overrated lol.
@@penaldotapinaldo1713 lol i just finished Dressrosa today and doflamingo is my fav antagonist and one of my fav of all time
He works as a villian so well
Hearing Law screaming when he finally hears his own cries is one of the most heart breaking scenes in anime history. The small realization of corazon’s death on Law’s face, and the destruction happening behind him as he walks aways had me in tears. Its like he does not care about anything at that point. His mind is only focused on corazons death. That loud scream that he lets out will be forever engraved into my head. I highly recommend watching that scene!
this show keeps breaking me
Oda hates us. He wants to see us suffer and cry, and hurt, and curl into a corner to cry more
@@AnyMEmdq he wants to break our emotional stability🤧
The reason why Rosinante wanted to "do it right this time" is that Law reminded him about young Mingo. Parallels between these two were played out through the whole arc, and the point is that Rosinante left Doflamingo alone when they were kids, so Doffy had become what he is without anybody to keep him under control/
So with Law Rosinante wanted to be here for him and show him love and care that Doflamingo didn't recieve.
@Anime lover And reporting you again
@@AnyMEmdq 🤣😂
@@ceedo9703 That dude left that link like 5 times, reported all I found and the channel it links to, hope Toei DMCAs everything he's put up. I really despise that kind of behaviour
Most accurate comment here!
Kyros not being able to cry or feel the warmth of his (dead) wife in his hands is one of the most emotional moments in the entire series, for me at least. it's 1 thing to grief for a loved one who died(let alone murdered), but it's 10 times more heart breaking when you can't even grief properly like a normal human.
And knowing that they died without any memory of you, then having to return their lifeless body to your child who also doesn't know who you are. Kyros deserves all the hugs.
Man imagine if you couldn't even cry and was forced to laugh instead. That would be quite a bad condition eh?
@@MellowSquash i know what you reffering to, that was quite a horror like scene. but i think it's still better in some way, because even if not crying, you are still human and can express extreme human emotions, the toy soldier couldn't do even that.
Yeah Kyros is one of the most tragic figures in the story. I love the little scene of his emotions at the end.
The cruel suppression of people’s ability to express their emotions comes up again, of course, and is about as heartbreaking there too. Oda really knows how to twist the knife.
For me it’s a close call with grieving with that and when we found out the secret behind the SMILEs and what it did to the people of Wano.
This arc has some of the best flashbacks the series has produced and it's not even for Strawhats
Aaaaand she hasn't even gotten to the best one
@@Allen-qs2xr i know which one you're talking about. Shit's gonna be crazy
Ikr Rebecca and kyros are the best
anime watchers: did someone said... rebecca flashback? *war flashes*
I mean, Law might as well be a Strawhat...
Usopp is one of the most human characters in the entire series with his fears, self-doubt, and depression, yet always steps up. I feel bad so many people dislike him so much, he's an amazing character.
I still cannot get over how sad and funny his immunity to Perona's power is. Everytime I revisit the arc I still feel so sad while laughing my ass off as Perona tries to cheer him up
I fucking love Usopp. In denial or not, he’s very important to the crew.
Yes I think his character is very consistent but also full of surprises. Oda really pulls this off w/o being forceful is what I really like.
I really wish i can tell Merphy how Cora's "I love you" was even more devastating when one knows the nuance of the actual Japanese phrase it was spoken in. Cora's _"aishiteruze"_ was the deepest declaration of love in Japanese that it's not a light phrase to say even amongst Japanese people, even Oda very rarely uses it (correct me if I'm wrong, but if my memory serves me right, the only time Oda ever used it before was with Bellemere) so yeah, I love love love Cora-san and I'm so so sad that I know him for a very short time
Edited: Oda used the phrase too with Ace during... That last moment... Thanks TheSilverKetchup for correcting me!
Edited 2: Bellemere didn't use "aishiteru" after, she said "daisuki" instead, which is more common phrasing for "i love you greatly" that is also profound, but still below "aishiteru"
Well he used the word when Ace said it to Luffy before dying.
@@TheSilverKetchup i kind of still in denial phase about ace's death so that's why i don't remember it, thanks for correcting me 👍🏼
Wow, I didn't know that o.O
Thanks for pointing that out.
I wonder when there will be another moment where that word/phrase is used.
The scenes you mentioned were devastating.
Bellemere said 'daisuki' before she died, unless you meant she used it another time
@@Nilesington see, i can't rely on my memory bcs the Bellemere scene was so long ago and i haven't rewatched it in a while. Thanks for the correction 👍🏼
I honestly feel like Sugar is one of the most terrifying characters in all of fiction.
The ramifications of what she does is just horrific.
I'd rather be violently murdered than endure a life of slavery while watching everyone I ever loved completely forget that I ever existed.
Sugar is the most broken member of the family next to Doffy himself I agree she is terrifying
Its also playing into real erased from history people and groups, not wholly but practically, and dehumanize them. Which is them turned into puppets.
And of course the void century connextion and doffys speech.
I love the scene where Usopp unlocks observation haki. The fact that it manifests as a result of him regretting having forgotten Robin and declaring that he doesn't want to forget Luffy or be on the seas without him... it's so powerful and vulnerable, and a far cry from the stubborn and prideful Usopp of Water 7.
I totally agree with Merphy's assessment of his initial face-off with Sugar. On his own, he is a coward, always was and always will be. He is able to find his courage because of the people around him. And it always leads to incredible moments. All hail Go D. Usopp.
Corazon and Doflamingo are the best example for Nature verse Nurture argument. Both went through same conditions but turned out complete opposites.
Thats because theres no vs, is both, one Is born into the world with an ego of their own which shape the perception of the stuff that happens and change accordingly
Yet, Corazon was picked up by Sengoku and Doflamingo was with Trebol so it is kinda open ended which I love with one piece.
It actually makes all the sense for doflamingo to be the way that he is, corazon shouldn't be so kind but yet he is, wich works wonderful for giving nuance to doffy and pushing forward just how kind corazon really is
Sanji better sefinition
@@tobiasarevalo9929 Why shouldn't Corazon be so kind? Homing and his wife were and he was really young when they left Mariejois. Doffy is the one that should be kind but isn't probably because his ego developed with too much influence from Mariejois. But Homing is the one that defies all expectations by being kind. Born and raised up there, how did he became the way he was, and convinced(?) his wife to follow the same values?
"When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten." - Dr. Hiriluk
When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged... Oh, hi Morj
I definitely agree wholeheartedly with the Usopp bit here. As much as Usopp has grown, he isn't a brave warrior of the sea quite yet. Him still showing fear in situations that are way above his pay grade is on-brand for him.
Hell yeah!
Usopp had learned to be brave around, and for the sake of his friends, but with none of them around or in imminent danger (that he was aware of), there was nothing to keep him from running away at that moment.
I mean, Usopp always fought for his crew, even when he was alone facing Perona he felt that he had a chance and that he could do it thanks to being immuned from her powers BUT in Dressrosa he was alone against two powerful people including someone who can change him in a toy in one thought and he would be fighting for complete strangers instead of his crew.
Also for how him forgetting Robin meant forget the reason he became Sogeking, which helped him overcome his insecurities.
Exactly, and when that moment comes when he truly stands down somebody by himself with no fear in his body, he will actually become the BRAVEST warrior of the sea.
I really loved the moment when Usopp while preparing himself to save Luffy thinks to himself how he had forgotten that Robin existed for some time and that he does not want to live in a world or travel the seas in one with no Luffy in it. And, then, he goes on to make that impossible shot and save Luffy, with Luffy not even realizing it, and Usopp being totally okay with that.
I love that Law carries Corazon's legacy so strongly, I didn't even think about why he had that name on the back of his jacket until after the flashback - I also love how Law can honour his memory and stick it to Doflamingo in the same move being captain of the Heart Pirates because he turned down the heart seat in the Don Quixote family and Corazon also means heart in Spanish - Corazon is by far my favourite character to only appear in a flashback so far
Once Sugar touched Robin she was erased from everybody's memory so when Usoop ran away as far as he knew he didn't leave a crewmate behind , just some complete strangers but even then he couldn't bring himself to leave the Dwarves to die so he came back knowing he is extremely likely to die .
yeah that's just what she said. She never said anything about him leaving a crewmate behind.
Plus we know that method of memory loss can change a persons perception of events (like Scarlet forgetting her promise to wait at the Flower Field) so it is reasonable to assume it would have had an effect on Ussops memory and development from events like Enies Lobby.
My favorite little touch of Usopp this arc is that, when returning to help the dwarves, he declares himself "Usopp of the Strawhat Pirates". Not the Great Captain Usopp. Not the Sniper King. Not Usoland Descendent of Noland. Just Usopp.
Just because he has alreayd achieved a truly great status. A god has no need to call himself a captain or a king.
@@sarafontanini7051 Very poetic that the one time he doesn't declare himself a captain or king is the one time he is elevated to the title of "God" :D
@@belowaverage6216 Go D. Usopp. Together with Buggy D. Clown and Gaimon D. Chest, the holy triad that rules the entire world of One Piece manga. In the anime they have a 4th, in the shape of Con D. Oriano, btw
@@AnyMEmdq The real four emperors
To put the weekly experience into more context, Oda had a health issue in 2013 and starting from then, the higher ups have him take mandatory breaks every couple of chapters. It was only every 4-6 chapters at first, but that alone dragged Dressrosa into lasting more than 2 1/2 years. The length of Dressrosa was unprecedented within One Piece, and it still feels like long time fans are almost scarred by the experience.
Imagine being a berserk fan
Source? Regarding Oda's career, aside from winning an award the same year, I'm pretty sure the only notable thing about 2013 is Oda took some time to design a Gaist character for the video game Gaist Crusher.
@@kneau he had heath issues within that year or that time, there were an insane amount of breaks
Those two years felt like forever but it was all worth it
Funnily enough almost everyone who's reading it now likes the arc way more than who read weekly
The Celestial Toe-Jams have a secret treasure. All the Jams know what it is, anyone outside their bubble does not. The news getting out is bad enough that they must meet Doffy's demands, not because he is a former Toe-Jam but because he knows their secret.
Doffy no matter how young he was was a toe jam who knew that .
I don't know if they ALL know about it, but Doffy certainly does. So yeah, Merphy, it's not that he "found" a national treasure, but that he himself knows about the one they have at Toe-jam city
Merph in this video on Senior Pink: "He's a manbaby... WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!" Merph in the next video "SENIOR PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK 😭"
How such a baffling character can become so sympathetic still surprises me, I didn't think I'd end up liking him as much as I did at the end.
He's hard boiled, but respectable
The one of the few times where Oda's editors allowed him to include some extras and it turned out to be one of the most emotional backstories lmao
@@asap4bri he wanted to do the rest of the the family's backstory but knew that he didn't have the time and wanted to wrap up this arc.
I was shocked to see how long the senior pink fight is because she brings it up in this video but the flashback is after law's.
Def counting down to her reaction next time.
It's Senor not Senior
"I've learned more, and it hurts."
Such a good summation of the story.
One note about Doffy's dad. He is one of the few Celestial Dragons who didnt enslave anyone (atleast to serve for himself).
he was the first good celestial dragon we've seen, once again showing no group in one peice is pure good or pure evil, all humans have an equal capacity for it
@@sarafontanini7051 Thing is, that doesn't change a lot.
We were shown that while he was nice at heart, he was simply naive about the resentment the Celestial Dragons rule had caused . I don't blame the people for attacking him
Did Merphy noticed how fast Doffy/his crew was able to put a powerpoint presentation for the bounties? lol
well that was done using Doffy's strongs, which he has absolute mastery over.
Once more, evil fruits are only limited by your creativity, and here we have an example of how one can master it
He went on his MacBook, opened up iMovie and went ham ✨
@@qistinakhairiah2805 It's his StringBook and his StringMovie app ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@far4955 He probably did it on his stringPad, though, you can go faster with a pen if you know how to draw
He took over a country in a single day. What’s a five minute powerpoint to him? Lmao. He is what we should strive to be as procrastinators.
She needs to hear Doffy's laugh by the japanese voice actor ofc (only said the "japanese VA" because I know she has only heard the dub before. but really Doffy's voice really just adds onto the charachter. he does sucha good job at voicing him. The best villain laugh ever.)
Oh, he is glorious. That is certainly voice ACTING with capital letters. Intonation, pauses, everything just makes you feel how twisted Doffy is and you love and hate him even more
@@AnyMEmdq I love Doffy looking at it as a story from the outside. He's a fenomenal villain. Absolutely fantastic. One of the better one's Ive seen in a story before.
Then, ofc, you hate him when you put yourself in the story. In the shoes of the strawhats. but that's what makes him sucha good villain ! :)
Corazon is such a gentle and genuine person that even though you see him for such amount of time you can't help to love him and be sad that he is gone
Fun fact: Cabbage's alter ego is an oblique reference to Kinnikuman, a series Oda grew up reading (and created Pandaman, the secret background character, for their character submission)
Hakuba's ghoulish smile is the same as the Kinnikuman character Warsman, whose smile was a sign that he was giving into his more violent impulses. It's nearly exactly the same shape.
I love how you point out the parallels without doing the thing that I think a lot of OP fans do in a kind of wrong headed way. A lot of OP fans see the parallels between pre timeskip arcs and post timeskip arcs and will say that Oda is just retreading his old ideas, but that has never been the way I've seen it. Oda does reuse a lot of the themes and overarching plot, but they're always in entirely different contexts. Dressrosa and Alabasta are by far the clearest example of this. Doflamingo didnt just succeed in taking over this country, he didnt just make himself the hero of Dressrosa, he also used the institutional power that Crocodile did not have access to in his quest to take over. He leveraged his power in far more effective ways than Crocodile which is why he succeeded. There is also the differences between Baroque Works and the Doflamingo Family. Doflamingo trusts his crew unconditionally. He is a horrible monster, but he actually does treat his crew like the family he claims it to be. Crocodile on the other hand trusted no one and in turn no one truly trusted him. Outside of their own desire for money and power promised to them by Crocodile, they did not care about the success or failure of his plan.
Great comment! You should check out Totally Not Mark’s One Piece Theory, he talks about the parallels between arcs
@@Dg316. great now I have another OPtuber to check out! Ty
That's one of the flaws of One Piece as well though, regardless of the context, reusing of themes and plot ideas being incessantly rehashed leads to repetitiveness as well as weak pacing.
@@manwithnoname8229 I couldn't disagree more. Even if general themes are re-used, they are changed in significant ways. I think it allows him to explore those themes more deeply and from multiple angles/scenarios. It makes everything feel that much more connected and cohesive.
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Also there was also the difference in how Smoker and Fujitora treated and were treated both by the navy and the narrative as a whole
Here's something to think about for the Doflamingo video: He's probably missing his left eye.
He gets most of the big hits landed on him from the left. The only shot we get of one of his eyes without glasses on is the right one, and that panel is directly set next to a flashback panel close-up on his covered left eye, as a child, in a scene where arrows were being shot at him and his family. And his pirate flag has a line through the skull's left eye! The mystery is why Oda never called it out explicitly. The eye scream horror being too much, or does he have plans?
And everyone in Luffy’s family has a mark on their left eye
So, Corazon is spanish for "Heart", and he also held the Heart Seat in Doflamingo's crew. So the idea that Doffy killed his brother, quite literally makes him heartless! Even Vergo (who then held the Heart Seat), was away on his mission, meaning that Doffy stayed heartless. I just think that is a very neat parallel. Then, obviously, Law names his crew the "Heart Pirates". It's all so great.
Luffy's Red Hawk attack with the switcheroo was soooooo satisfying as a weekly reader at that time.
I literally yelled "YES, take that you MF" when that happened
I like, how "Corazon" means "heart" in Spanish and is the only position left in the "Poker card" armies of Mingo: Pica is the head of the spade army, Diamante of the diamond army, Trebol of the club army. That's also why Doffy is called "Joker".
isn't it *clover？i don't know. i am not a English speaker.
English it's club but yeah clover would be better, it doesn't look like a club but it does look like a clover.
Doffy also called that because he is a partner to Kaido, who has a card related crew.
"Jack, Queen, King, Joker"
It’s also the only spot vacant in the Doflamingo family because Doflamingo is as heartless as they come
Actually, Vergo was the new Corazón. Rosinante was Corazón, and he was intended to perform the Eternal Youth Surgery on Doffy and die in the process, then Doffy CLAIMS he wanted Law as the new Corazón, but that's probably only after he himself ate the fruit, and to the same end, as Vergo was with him from the very beginning, and he ended up occupying the Corazón chair regardless, but as an undercover in the Marine, he could not actively make use of it. And we only know of one member of his branch of the crew, Monet (Sugar's sister, by the way) and they both died before the Dressrosa arc started
Cavendish has a double personality, he is like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was a really good book man.
And Cavendish Square of London is an important location in that novel. If I'm not mistaken, it's where Hyde performed his first murder.
You mean Cabbage?
Technically, Jekyll had non, he just was able to express himselfe more freely.
His Mixture was basically just a Disguise.
@@Sunaki1000 And people distributing it to another person becsuse thst fine gentleman never could do that.
Law's hometown wasn't destroyed by the world government, but by the neighboring kingdoms who were afraid of being infected by the people there. The crime of the world government was that since they knew the disease wasn't infectious, they could have stopped that any time by revealing the truth about the disease. I suppose they didn't do that because otherwise they would've exposed themselves for having profited from something they knew was dangerous for the population. That said, your read of Corazon feeling responsible for Law in some sense could still be valid. It's an interesting view. Also, have you realized that Law's jolly roger is basically Corazon smiley face?
I also think that the whole "gear second chips away your life" is just an exaggeration/mistranslation of Lucci's words. Gear second is just overtaxing on the body, it's like high metabolism, so it does exhaust you fast and makes you consume more energy, but I don't think there is any of that "you life expectancy is being reduced" stuff. At least, no more than what Luffy's lifestyle already has.
Not only is his flag an homage to Rosinante, Corazon is spanish for Heart, and what did he call his crew?
No the world government sent out an externimation order too. If you remember the doctor Cora & law visits calls the govt and asks if they hadn't exterminated all of them.
I think gear second is really bad for his health. It causes really high blood pressure, which only Luffy can withstand cos his is a rubber man, but he’ll probably develop a cardiovascular disease 100%
Agreed, it was the overuse of Gear 2nd that was the problem. It left him unable to move in enies lobby & unconscious at the end of thriller bark. He wasn't physically ready for the strain of it.
With 2 years of training, he's physical strong enough to withstand it, as shown by the fact he doesn't need to take a moment to power up anymore. Plus he's using it more efficiently, post-TS luffy is very aware of his limits.
@@sambros2 I think Gear Second WAS really bad for his body cause at the time he fought with Rob Gucci he just learned it and his body was not used to that level of blood pressure. Also he was forcefully over using it at that moment to fight with Gucci. I think if he would have trained slowly and more responsibly before that so that his body would have been used to it (like it is now) that it would have not been as dangerous to his lifespan.
Similar to lifting weights or long distance running if you force the heaviest weight you are gonna rip a muscle but if you slowly go with the weight up over a longer period of time your body builds up the necessary strength and muscle mass for you to be able to comfortably and regularly lift the heavier weights.
Therefore i think after the time-skip gear two no longer shortens his lifespan similarly like Gear 3 no longer shrinks him since he learned to control it.
To add to Merphy’s point on the briefness of Franky’s scenes I think that’s one of the reasons Oda decided to split up the crew it allows certain characters to get more panel time then they usually do.
Oda split the crew because the crew is getting bigger and it's getting harder to draw them all at once, that's why when he split them again at WCI I'm just like "welp this is a weekly series and Oda is just only a human"
@@HiFiYUNOPi that as well ps what’s ya avi lol
@@HiFiYUNOPi Taken into account the ones who go to WCI are the ones that left Dressrosa earlier, it made sense to split them again (These character were missed for years, they needed the spotlight). But they are all together in Wano now. Oda already knew he doesn't even need the crew to be there (Impel Down and Marineford are widely considered among the best arcs in One Piece and no crewmember is there), and now he knows he can have half the crew as well. I think splitting them was, to a degree, an experiment, and also an exercise in caution so that the story would not get even longer, with tens of new character needing development. If you compare it to WCI, the over 50 characters on the antagonistic side don't get much development, except for a handful that shine under the bright spotlight, same with the allied crew.
In fact, Dressrosa was an experiment in a lot of things: Splitting the crew; introducing a ton of new characters at once, while giving them at least a bit of a background and entirely different personalities; writing an exceedingly long arc; having all the action happen in THE ONE day, and who knows what else
If Oda had treated WCI the same way as Dressrosa, we'd be talking of WCI lasting WAY over 100 chapters. And imagine if he had treated Dressrosa the way he wanted, with flashbacks for every member of Doffy's crew, not only Señor Pink and Baby 5. 200+ chapters? Add the rest of the crew to the action, and... 250+? 300?
Here it is. The first moment that made me cry in all of fiction. Corazon's sacrifice for Law. That stupid toothy grin gets me every single time. And you can tell Corazon hit close to both Law and Dofi.
I mean Law is obvious. Law calls his crew the heart pirates, after his Devil Fruit which was given to him by Corazon. I find it very fitting that the OpOp no mi is also shaped like a heart. It's like Corazon figuratively gave Law his heart for Law to keep living. The jolly Roger of the heart pirates is a grinning toothy face just like Corazon died. Man was the best father a kid could ask for.
And Doflamingo. His own brother betrayed him. It's clear that he really loves the people he keeps around him in a twisted way. It's like he's desperately trying to make himself a new family after he ruined his own. Imagine the hurt he would have felt finding about Corazon's douple crossing. And that too is shown in his Jolly Roger as a grinning face crossed out.
For as much as I hate Dofi, I love Corazon more.
Edit: Law named his Heart Pirates directly after Corazon. Corazon in Spanish means heart lol. Thanks Miguel!
They’re called the Heart Pirates because of Corazon, which means Heart in Spanish. They’re essentially the Corazon Pirates. Which also ties back to Mingo wanting Law to be the next Corazon, which is one of the four suit officer titles in his organization.
Corazon was best boi all along
Doffy has a twisted sense of love for his 'family'. He will fight tooht and nail for them,fight anyone who hurts them in anyway andd will fight to keep them safe...but the moment they stop being 'worthy' of that love in his eyes, he basically abandons them without a second thought.
@@blocks.hollowgrahm huh i stand corrected. Thank you for that!
Also Corazon is his nickname/code name. His real name is Rosinnate (definitely misspelled it).
Doflamingo’s epithet, “Heavenly Demon” is maybe the best in the series in terms of how representative of his characters. As a character, he is meant to represent both God and the Devil. This is especially excellent because One Piece as a series is all about dethroning evil self-proclaimed Gods.
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Merphy: The samurai are going to be important, I just don’t know why.
Me: *SUNACCHI!!!*
Just like Griffith in Berserk. I just noticed Berserk and One Piece are both series about dethroning evil Gods or God hands.
@@manwithnoname8229 too bad England couldn't escape Maradona's hand of God in '86.
@@penaldotapinaldo1713 lol
Lol I'm sooooo enjoying her wonder when the samurai get relevant because we were all like that at one point, and it's crazy now that we're in wano that kinemon is such an important and amazing character that it's funny to think they used to be nobodies.
Literally Zou - Wano is going to DESTROY her
*SUNACCHI!!!!*
I remember when I first saw Doflamingo back in Jaya and instantly fell in love. His absurdly flamboyant style and puppet master trappings. I’m a sucker for villains and I remember being so nervous when relatively early in the New World they were going to confront him, but I am very satisfied with how it all plays out.
And never forget: Señor Pink is so hard boiled!
I've so strong connection between the word "boil" and another guy in my mind, that it impossible for me to see this word clearly.... without this connection (×_×)
@@elenak.4281 Oh for sure. Alexa, play Gold and Oden from the One Piece Soundtrack.
@@00Clank What did you do?? I'm crying now тт тт You must be punished by the hour of Mother Sea (ノ_
@@00Clank I still can't believe how a score written for the first really crappy One Piece movie was accidentally named in a way that makes SO MUCH SENSE 20 years later!
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Either that or Oda created the character just for that song, which would also make sense because Oda is fucking insane, doing stuff like making sure the boiling chapter came out in Japan's National Oden Day!!! Sometimes (most of the times) I'm not sure if I'm supposed to love or hate Oda. What this man does is on an entirely different level
Ahhh I'm so happy you get this binge this arc. Personally I absolutely love Bellamy's role in Dressrosa and character. I just find him perfect for what I interpret he's meant to represent.
Bellamy being the person who was initially against what the entire series is about, chasing your dreams, will, romance and adventure. Even in just his epithet "the hyena" and how hyenas are a despised animal in most cultures (don't hesitate to cheat and steal), originally feeds off others' corpses (chasing pirates that had lower bounties and lower grade than him as we saw in Jaya). How his speeches are very repetitive throughout Jaya and how his character's so dogmatic in that he's fixed on the idea that a new age doesn't exist. Just like a hyena's included in a binary system (Ignorance/knowledge), Bellamy's thoughts are based on a Manichean way of viewing things where he's 100% certain that his values are right. Therefore that's what his identity's solely constructed on, carrying a very childlike demeanor in that we later discover here in Dressrosa the way Bellamy admires and copies Doflamingo's mannerisms and views him as a role model. The way he holds himself and repeats the same speech becomes endearing almost like a child that's trying so hard to prove a point or prove themselves. He acts delusional living in a lie that he perpetuates and is in continuous denial of. When Luffy first takes him down it's such a huge shutter in his belief system and symbolizes that transition really well, serving as this perfect allegory between the fight for Freedom vs Dogmatism.
Also just a cool little detail but Luffy met Bellamy in Mock Town and had Bellamy literally mock him, then the same chapter they meet again in Dressrosa was titled, "I won't mock you".
Oda knows exactly what he's doing 😭, I'm looking forward to the last third of your thoughts on the arc you're in for a ride!
One more thing about the hyena, that kinda fits his redemption: hyenas are scavengers because their's hind quarters are too short and weak, so they can not hunt, but the jaw of a hyena is stronger than that of a lion. So we have Jaya Bellamy with no redeeming quality, yet though Dressrosa we see he can have the strength in him
Hyenas hunt more than they scavenge and have a very structured society.
Me listening to Merphy downplay one of my favourite Usopp theories: No way no how
Me listening to Merphy explain her own theory that I end up liking even better: You knows shes KINDA GOT A POINT
The voice acting on Doffy in the anime is worth checking out, very incredible, one of my favorites.
The way you so perfectly challenged that Usopp theory was GENUIS! and I never thought of it that way 👏🏾👏🏾
I know everyone likes TotallyNotMark's video but he skipped the entire Law's flashback for this arc. I was quite disappointed because I love Corazon to bits and I'm so happy Merphy covered it with so much passion and enthusiasm.
Imo Mark can be quite hit or miss. His latest Wano review is fantastic, but some other reviews felt a bit rushed
TNM started to feel disconnected from us the op fandom already by de Saobody review (in the ignoring completely kizaru's introduction episode). He started to ignore a lot of important and emotional characters/moments when doing it's reviews and only got worse as weeks went over. The magic of Merphy reviews that makes her videos so mesmerizing for us is that she cares deeply for the emotional part of the story ( as we do) and is always impressed or interested in the new characters (as we do)
True. That was a pretty low-point in his otherwise great review series (this and his WCI review).
@@furorteutonicus9045 nah, his Saobody, and post war videos were also really bad
@@cirotourinhoful I agree. I love that Merphy doesn't care about power scaling or dwell too much on fight scenes. Her review stands out compared to TNM because her character analysis and thematic breakdown is on a different level. Furthermore, she's articulate, charismatic and her genuine love for OP is palpable and infectious. I'm always impressed with people who could talk for hours without a script and still successfully retain the audience's attention. That itself is a talent.
At this point, whenever you see the "fade to black background between panels" that signifies a flashback starting, you can probably just go "oh boy I wonder how Oda's going to hurt me this time?" :p
One of my absolute favorite things when seeing people experience One Piece for the first time is watching them go from being indifferent to or even hating Usopp to loving him. Oda has done him so much justice over the years and he absolutely deserves the love :)
Merphy talking about how much she's enjoying Dressrosa while still calling it a mid-tier One Piece arc just shows how good the series is.
Merphy said its "middle of the road" for her. The term "mid-tier" is usually used to discredit something as bad. Also its quite hard to believe she thinks the arc is middle of the road so far after hearing her almost gushing about it and give it so much praise. lol
I think actually Dressrosa is a above-average arc, it's just a bit hated on because of its length and especially the bad pacing of the -manga- edit: anime, where scenes are shown two to three times sometimes and everything is super dragged out.
Dressrosa isn't a bad arc, in fact I haven't disliked ANY arc in one piece, but it IS a pretty tiring one and it's certainly not one of my faves despite the STRONG introduction of Dressrosa
@@rcookie5128 I thought the manga was decently paced. Tons of characters that required grounding and substance. If anything I think it was too packed with info and characters not necessarily bad pacing
One piece is so good that you can only compare it to itself
Doflamingo's father's last words are one of the saddest panels in One Piece imo
I really struggle with watching great harm come to good people as a consequence of their goodness, so seeing the life of Donqixote Homing really really got me
its sad knowing the Donquixote name will be remembered for Doflamingo and not for its more good hearted members
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There's a chance for it to be remembered in the future for Donquixote Mjosgard. At least that's the one the folk from Fishman Island will remember
Manga Readers : Rebbeca's Flashback hurt a little.
Anime Watchers : Yes It did, but you don't understand our pain.
It was brutal for anime watchers in that time
I only read the manga but I was literally still in tears. No background music no VA's just PURE Oda and his talent vs me the reader.
That's part of why I like him as a mangaka, for other stories I need to see the anime before i feel an attachment towards the characters but for one piece I dont need it.
@Los Blancos They replayed it again and again in the double digits making a really good flashback become insufferable to pad out runtime.
@Los Blancos By that time the anime was catching up to the manga. Both release weekly but every anime episode are 2 to 4 manga chapters.
To not run out of source material the anime have to options: fillers (non canon episodes) and artificially elongated some scenes.
They choose the second option.
@Los Blancos iirc it was shown 76 times in the anime...
Hiya Merphy, just a fun little add on: Cavendish the character, is named after a square in London, where the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde takes some place in, and abides apart and yet together in the same body. As a old doctor Jekyll experiments 🧪 with dividing up his soul to get rid of the bad in order to become more perfect, and creates within himself a new divided person. The perfect kind old doctor allows himself to be free in his new persona Mr. Hyde, But ever so slowly Dr. Jekyll looses control of the passions of Mr. Hyde and his Murderous nature.
I really love how Oda just chooses to incorporate random series of events and characters, both real and fictional from all over the world. It’s so cool.
Nice trivia, I never knew that
He does that all the time. Even the overall hated scene of Absalom in Nami's bath is taken (and very much toned down) from an early 80s horror movie called The Entity; Ohara is Alexandria (Tree of Knowledge and the Library); Trafalgar D. Water Law is a reference to the battles of Trafalgar, in Spain, which is the place that inspires Dressrosa, and Waterloo, the 2 battles that cost Napoleon his empire; Hogback's experiments "merging" bodies are inspired on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, and so many many many MANY other references. There's a reason the man spends 20 hs a day working. And of course, the most obvious ones, like Jango, Enel and Diamante being designed after Michael Jackson, Eminem and Steven Tyler respectively, or all the Admirals being designed after Japanese actors (or their roles in specific movies). The level of metatext in One Piece is above and beyond even the early years of The Simpsons
@@BobofWOGGLE HOLY SHIT, THAT'S ONE CREEPY DUDE!! And I didn't know of that, but yes, kinda feels like Hogback's relationship with Cindry
Usopp is not a liar, he's a prophet. He just doesn't realize it.
I mean… when with Kaya he said he’d seen a giant goldfish, and after little garden they went through a giant goldfish
Oda is making all USOPP lies come true!kkkk
1 Pirates came to Syrup village (Black Cat Pirates)
2 Saved a whale from North Blue (Laboon)
3 Fought a huge goldfish with poop as large as islands (The goldfish at Little Garden killed by Brogy and Dorry. The same goldfish had pooped the island called nanimonai)
4 "Honestly, I know I'm a man amoung men, but you can't fall in love with me, girl. Not my fault if you get burned." (Basically what Sanji told the Okama)
5 A big condor, flying through the skies (The big condors Chopper met during the time-skip. Usopp rode one during the reunion)
6 Abominable snowman (Rock and Scotch, the Yeti Cool brothers)
7 A beautiful female swordmaster that brought a lot of meat (Rebecca buying Luffy three bentos at the Colosseum)
8 A huge mole inside the mansion (Miss Merry Christmas from Barocque Works)
9 During Syrup village arc, they pretend to chase "Cerberus", while chasing a regular dog (Usopp met a real Cerberus at Thriller Bark)
10 They also pretend to capture a dragon (The Straw Hat Pirates actually capture (eat) a dragon on Punk Hazard)
11 Country of dwarves (Tontatta country)
12 Legendary hero Usoland (God Usopp)
IFY Just search Luffy Laugh at PIKA and than u will see PIKA is more remarkable than u think!!
Yep search the clip luffy laughs at pika, the series dedicated to that gag and its hillarous.
The entire OP community, "ight this is my theory about ussop"
Merphy : "ight that's cool, but prolly nah, lemme tell u sum about mine"
But actually her theory is makes sense too
That's why I like to see some perspective than a normal manga reader, u can learn something new
Her theory makes so much more sense tho.
'Entire op community' naah
entire OP community? That's a reach, anyway Penaldo Tapinaldo is a fraud.
Then she proceed to say that her theories are always wrong.
Penaldo Tapinaldo he's clear of flopionel pessi
Bellamy having the pillar was a good thing. In the past he rejected dreams and the idea Skypeia existed, him going to Skypeia was a 180 on his character, showing he has changed to Luffy’s worldview, and has new found respect for him.
he saw skypiea and he woke up to reality
Yeah I don’t think he fought them or anything I think he was just messing a bit with Luffy there
@@sarafontanini7051 Fun thing to say about what's probably the most unrealistic setting of One Piece xDDD
@@RonquixoteDIII lol if he really fought them , wyper would wreak him easily
@kaistacks I wonder if he worked with Cricket and the Monkey guys to get there it would be interesting if they were willing to forgive him
omg thank you so much for bringing up Franky. He actually carries the team on his back since one of the major goals of the arc was taking down the factory, he really took ownership of that role and taking care of the Tontattas.
I rofl when Merph mentioned Momonosuke and Kinemon again. 😂😂😂 Oh Oda.
She was waiting and seeking so hard to get clues on how important Kinnemon and momo. But Oda was like
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"Not yet. Let's wait 200 more chapters."
I live for you and Daniel's One Piece reactions but now yall have caught up to where I am and I have to do double time to get through Zou and Whole Cake to stay ahead. Thanks for the great review as always. You get me through my Friday mornings at work 💕
The arcs to come are really good, have fun
no need to rush.Just enjoy yourself at your own pace
I agree with Sara there, don't rush it. And even if you want to stay on par with Merph, you can just read along her, no need to be ahead
I've only recently gotten into One Piece, i'm all caught up tho & I've already re-read about 3 times. I've watched a bunch of other youtubers cover & review & experience the story because it just means so much to me to relive it --
and I really gotta say, you stand hand and shoulder above so many of the other people who cover this story. Your passion is infectious & your insight is wonderful! I feel like I gain a deeper appreciation for these arcs after you cover them, even after reading them multiple times!
I also come to One Piece as someone with a background in lots of fantasy novel reading - and a lot of the long running big epics under my belt - Maybe that's why I can connect to your appreciation so much!
Murphy: "I'm pretty sure most of these characters are unimportant"
Oda: "What's an unimportant character? I haven't heard of it."
I'm so glad to have found this channel, you made me love One Piece more than I already do by having this appreciation for the characters and story.
You point out things that I did not even notice. Thanks for showing so much excitement for the chapters, it really brings me back to when I was following the chapters weekly
I look forward to your One Piece reviews every week, would even watch them if they were 2h long 😆
Usopp can train his muscles all he wants, but he cant change his fight or flight response, thats instinct.
Not only was this not the first time he initially ran and then changed his mind, (Arlong Park), but its also not the first time he defeated an enemy by making them faint, (Thriller Bark).
a lot of people forget that usopp will NOT fight for anyone that's not part of his friend group (at least, before this moment) and will NOT kill people (some peeps complain about him doing a gag instead of trying to actually hurt Sugar)
@@sarafontanini7051 that’s the one thing that irritates me, he’s a sniper with perfect accuracy, yet he has to be underpowered so he doesn’t kill anyone... which makes him useless as a sniper. Sometimes I wish One Piece was a seinen rather than a shounen, then Usopp could show how dangerous/strong a character he could actually be.
@@Rika24 you realise Oda refusing tokill off characters or have the heroes kill isn't a limitation of the medium and is instead a creative decision?
@@Rika24 But he is the character he is intended to be. Oda himself said that among this crew of monsters he wants Usopp to remain the most grounded and human. He is "underpowered" because that's who he is, in his essence. Give him a gun, as his father uses, and he would surely aim for the knees or stuff like that. He doesn't need to be more dangerous, because that's not the story Oda is trying to tell. The role of "dangerous" (as in literally killing people) is not for him, but for Zoro and Robin. The role of "strong" is mostly for the Monster Trio, perhaps Franky. And if you want a role for Usopp, together with Sanji, Robin and Nami, they are "smart" fighters, more strategic than Luffy, Zoro and Franky who would charge head-on
As Sara said, the crew does not kill characters, but there's a corollary there: nameless fodder do get killed all the time, though not shown, like every time Zoro cuts everyone, or every time Robin breaks the spine of everyone
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And if you want an example of Robin being dangerous, chapters 1020 and 1021, when Sanji is unable to fight Black Maria and calls for Robin, she replies with a smile something in the lines of "Thanks for counting on me, Sanji-kun" and proceeds to ravish the spooder wahmen with her Grand Jacuzzi Clutch. She is, after all, a Demon.
To be honest, you *should* be afraid of Cavendish, the man himself is alright (once you get over his self-absorbed nature) and he's quite reliable as such things go... but Hakuba is *not* your friend, he's not *anybody's* friend.
Hakuba is just indiscriminate killing instinct, and him *being* in there makes Cavendish, reliable though he is, a *scary* ally to have because you never know when he's going to fall asleep and turn on you.
Quite the liability.
cavendish? never heard of him, that cabbage dude is pretty intense tho
@@timetraveler0002 I love how literally everyone calls him Cabbage because of Luffy
There is always sleeping Zoro around, so it's fine.
And the fun is he is voiced by zura from gintamas voice actor. And thats a running joke of him being annoiyed being misnamed.
Wow Merphy that was such a good explanation of Usopp and his Character and his development and how meaningful his moment in Dressrosa really is and why it makes so much sense!
That's what people don't understand about that moment, it's not like Usopps character development regressed, but more that it's another step, another challenge in his journey to becoming a brave warrior of the sea
I loved your explanation! I think everyone who doesn't like Usopp's character or that moment should watch that because it really makes sense and it's such a good moment.
Also thanks for giving Franky a shout-out here! He does so much in this arc but he doesn't get enough credit! Franky really deserves more love, thanks for recognizing him :)
Also for shining light on the Kyros Flashback, it's so good and underrated by people. All the royal family is great and I'm glad you recognize and give them there credit
Glad your really enjoying the arc so far Merphy, I'm really excited for you to finish it! 😁
I love that Merphy can't remember names just like Luffy, then uses Luffy's nicknames like Cabbage 😂. Love the reviews, just keep using the nicknames for everyone!
Holy crap this is the middle 3rd? And you're at THAT part like wow I have an odd distortion of time for dressrosa arc. Love these great views. Fujitora is really awesome
Merphy being amazed by Pica
Me: wait till you hear his voice lol 😂
Oh god I almost forgot the gag with Pica💀🤣
XD the series really makes sure it works, yes look at a clip.
dressrosa manga: amazing flashbacks
dressrosa anime: overindulgence in terms of flashback"s"
Well if we are talking about Rebecca's then yes but if Law's, no.
That episode was well directed and probs my fave episode in dressrosa in general.
Because they repeated that ONE flashback a million times, yeah.
@@Man_Man002 the quotation marks around the s were supposed to hint at rebecca
@@sarumane5380 Great (Dressrosa anime was good besides the pacing, change my mind.)
The Dressrosa arc, more like The Rebecca flashback arc in the anime. 🤦
to answer whether everyone in skypia are okay, I'm pretty sure they are since the cover story showing all of the characters after the timeskip shows all of the major characters from that arc and they all seem to be happy and doing well
also as far as the national treasure things goes, the idea from what we know so far is that this is a treasure that only the celestial dragons know about and if the rest of the world knew about it it would cause some issues, so he basically blackmailed the celestial dragons by threatening to reveal it...
Kyros’s backstory is so heartbreaking especially when he held Scarlet in his arms as she died mad his return as a human cutting the fake Doflamingo’s head was so satisfying!
She HAS to Know that was a Fake Right? Didnt Say the Moment she was Stuck at sooo.....
@@DrJackShelton I’m assuming she has to because I’ve been reading weekly since Skypiea and a majority of the One Piece community knew it was a fake. And she said in the review that she started the fight between Luffy and Law vs Doflamingo, so I’m sure she knows it is a fake. Their fight started after Doflamingo created the Bird Cage.
@@DrJackShelton Yeah, Bellamy is already into play for her, so she is way past fake Doffy. Plus she mentioned the beheading, and for a second I was "WTF?" because she says "Dooffy" instead of Doffy and I understood Luffy was the one beheaded xD
It was still such an anti-climax for some moments
When we had Luffy delivering the finishing blow every time, a single arc character springs up and beheads a powerful villain without any struggle
Merphy talking about Corazon and Law's backstory made me cry all over again. It's really one of the best stories or backstories in OP and a real tearjerker that might give you a little headache after crying.
I love how Merphy talked about Franky in this video because it's really true that we often go past him. He's not exactly the most overpowered character and is usually portrayed as the cool cyborg shipwright and cola-loving dude, but he has always been reliable. He's like this rock in the team.
I think that Oda mentioning the eternal youth operation was foreshadowing a major lore drop in the future, and not necessarily a future event.
I do think so too. It should be Chopper's job to cure Luffy if needed, Law doesn't deserve such a fate just to be a tool for Luffy to move forward. It's just too cruel.
@@padrenuestre If Law were to awaken the Opi Opi no Mi and perform the operation, it will NOT be on Luffy. idk how much more I can say without risking spoilers, but if you're familiar with Randy Troy's grand theory on Law, which I 100% believe, it just doesn't make sense for Law to sacrifice himself for Luffy's goals. Oda could def find a way, but it'll still feel like total fan service.
I'm certain that it's got more to do with who's really controlling the world (again, spoilers).
@@CassidyDylyn I think it's either Luffy or no one (was introduced for the lore purposes). I believe in the latter. It's all about writing. Law needs to form a strong bond and deep connection with someone to do such a thing for them and so far he doesn't care that much about anyone but Luffy. He isn't going to kill himself over someone he had less than three lines with.
Also it was never mentioned or implied that he needs to awaken his fruit to perform this operation. Law said he has no intention in using it which implies he already knows this technique or capable of doing it.
@@padrenuestre I know that it was never outright and stated that the eternal life operation is the fruit's awakening, but I think that it's a fair assumption given it came from Doflamingo in the same arc that he later tells us about awakening fruits.
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the awakening makes devil fruit user much stronger and it also affects environments. That's completely different thing. All Doffy said if you're a skilled enough DOCTOR - not a devil fruit user - you can pull it off. So Law already knows this technique, i think it's quite obvious bc of the certainty he says he has no interest in using it. You only talk that way if you're familiar with the thing.
Imo It has nothing to do with awakening, the previous user wasn't even a fighter but just a doctor (a exceptional one at that).
Why am I crying for Usopp's character development? It's not even sad.
The anime did help a lot with the god ussop meme . The scene had this totally unnecessary amazing epic music usually used in other epic moments it was just hilarious
Much like the Sniper Island theme, it was a glorious addition
Much like the sogeking theme 😏
Merphy, I love watching your super long, in-depth videos. I know they're probably a lot of work, but I absolutely adore them and they make work so much better to go through, and your enjoyment is infectious. I took a long break from reading One Piece (I mainlined things up to Dressrosa) but your recaps are making me continue to read and enjoy.
I really love Usopp’s shining moments in this arc because of how much it shifts the tides in favor of our crew. With his fight against Sugar and snot-guy he knew he was out-matched but he enters in because he wants to be remembered as himself and not the made up version he’s led on up to this point. And then when His memories of Robin return and he says “my friends will take care of the rest” I’m just so proud of him and how in spite of all his fear he did what his friends needed him to do so that they could do what they need to do. He also had amazing luck which I think is also a trademark of his character
Check out the kids chin who escaped the birdcage in the flashback.
Maybe he looks familiar with some supernovae collegue
Thank you for uploading these earlyenough that I can listen during my 1 hour commute to work in the mornings. 🥰
Totally agree with you on rosinante being one of the best characters/personal favorite. Another aspect I love about him is that through all visual marker's he looks like the more evil doflamingo (he wears a jet black cloak, is much paler in color, has a joker lipstick smile and has a clockwork orange eyelash) but he is unquestionably considered one of the kindest characters in the series.
also in one of the most perfect twists of fate, in the first global popularity poll one piece ever had he was ranked 13th in popularity which is both good that he made it so high and hilarious he managed to get unlucky 13 as his number
I think my favorite part of Koala being reintroduced is that not only is she in the revolutionary army, but she's a teacher of fishman karate. Her gratitude to fisher tiger and the pirates who saved her runs so deep and I love her so much.
Omg she just talked about señor pink and I’m only 23 minutes in, I love everything about this right now. ❤️
hahaha, senior pink is gonna hit Merphy from way out of left field.
Just to add to the Ussop theory, but don't we see in other characters that they remember experiences they had with characters it just has new context or new aspects to not involve the forgotten characters? I feel like the experience and growth would still be there just with a new context without Robin.
Yeah, I'm not sure if this was only in the anime, but there was a scene where King Riku remembered something that Rebecca's dad said, but just didn't know who said it. Really if Usopp still remembered Robin, he would have fought to the end for her, but since she was gone he had to find courage outside of being brave for his crew which I agree with Merphy, is much better as a note for his character.
Awwww. Poor Murphy. As a weekly reader, I was truly surprised when she said the Cora-san flashback was only 7 chapters because to me it felt like forever (don't take that to sound like I am complaining, I enjoyed every moment). So when Murphy said that she didn't get enough time with him, I felt so sorry that binge reading stole that time that I got with Cora-san from her.
For me Corazon was one of the best / most important characters in OP like of course he isn't important in the context of the overall story or impressive feats but something about him resonated soooooo strongly with me. I often feel that he doesn't get the cred he deserves, people are just like "Oh yah he's cool, sad backstory." Nah man it's way more than that.
love your take on the usopp moment. also yes, that usopp face to scare sugar is iconic ahaha
Corazon is such a fantastic character, he is around for a very short amount of chapters yet he really leaves an impact. Definitely one of my favorite one piece characters
12:32 Holy sh*t you’re right. Every time we have Straw hats and giants in the same picture, Usopp kinda always bond with them, nice. Me as someone who’s caught up, that’s huuge. Usopp what a god indeed mama mama~
One Piece is on break this week,
So it's always a pleasure getting One Piece Content on Fridays.
11:00 I feel like usopp being scared and running away then turns back around and decides to fight for the dwarfs is actually bravery on his part. Like for a guy who’s scared as hell but ultimately puts his life on the line is pretty amazing
Oh one thing you did miss, the guy who was going to sell the devil fruit to Doflamingo, Diez Barrels. That was Drake's dad, when the navy said they found a kid, that was Drake. Drake mentioned that Doflamingo killed his dad but he wasnt mad about it.
Great analysis of Usopp! The first time I read the arc, I was unhappy with what I saw as an erasure of his character development. On my reread though, I understand this was a necessary step into FURTHER development of his character. In addition to all you've said, Usopp has already proven he'll be brave to protect the lives (Enies Lobby), dreams (Alabasta), and expectations of his crew (Arlong Park). This scenario was a test to see if he could be brave to protect the innocent/helpless outside his crew. To become a brave Warrior of the sea (his dream) he has to prove he can be brave in all scenarios; willing to throw his life down to protect all he holds dear.
I binged through Dressrosa too, and yea, I think it helps. But then again I'm doing Wano week to week and I'm absolutely loving it (the manga anyway).
I think anyone that complains about the pacing just wants the story to be rushed. I think it's perfect as is.
Yeah. Even on anime. The wano arc is so amazing. And it is like we are getting god tier animation every other week. You can tell Wano is Oda's favorite arc to make. 😂
I’m only watching the anime and I also finally made it to Wano 😭 already one of my favorite arcs and I was able to decided that at the beginning of act 2. Right now (avoiding spoilers) Luffy is at summer camp and someone big and scary showed up with Chopper 😂😂 I literally can’t believe what I’m watching honestly. Tama is also my fav little bewitching kunoichi ❤️
I love Law's backstory so much. Fun fact: Oda wrote all of the Supernovas only a few chapters before Sabaody archipelago, so the fact that it's so well integrated into the story and mirrors Doflamingo's own backstory is incredible. The two really mirror and highlight each other in my opinion.
Fantastic review of the middle part of this arc. The tears are definitely warranted. Corazon's death hit extremely hard in the anime, and many reactors have streamed tears galore. When we see Law crying, but heard nothing, we knew Corazon was still breathing, desperately trying to stay alive so Law could escape. But, the second the audience and Law heard Law's audible cries, we knew that Corazon had left us.
You're not wrong about Oda playing the long game. I swear, when he writes stuff, especially Easter Eggs, and is writing something, he's smirking to himself going, "And I'll do something with this in about, oh, 200 chapters." Maniacal. But, I love that man.
Regarding the theory you were told about Usopp after Robin was turned into a toy, I have to admit I'd never heard of that one before. I'm on board with yours. It's similar to the head canon I had going, but I think yours paints a better picture. Also, God Usopp for the win. Such a great character.
Just finished watching this arch in the english dubbed anime, and I just absolutely love everything about pica and Zoro vs. Pica. First of all, they nailed how silly Pica and his voice and insecurities are and how Luffy and Zoro just can't take him seriously. I also love how confident Zoro is, just for that it's my favorite fight of the arch. But what I love most is just how hilarious it is. I think easily one of my favorite jokes so far is when Pica starts laughing and Zoro just get's mad screaming "There's no way THAT is your laugh"!
Absolutely brilliant
I really liked the parallel between Corazón and Saul. Their endings were just so similarly bittersweet, the two of them both smiling to try and keep Law and Robin from crying while they died to ensure the kids a better life. And it was kind of nice balance, coming at it from both sides.
(Also, Sabo is awesome, but I just love Fujitora)