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moveyourdeadfrosAnd so, the conclusion…
We open up with Tashigi teaching Coby about swords and swordfighting, while Helmeppo displays his usual success at life by chasing a racoon who stole his food… while another racoon steals even more food. Clearly the shining future of the marine crops is safe in their competent hands.
The marines cry out in surprise and concern: despite having finished their battle with Kaidou only yesterday, Redhair has arrived at the scene of the battle! But Shanks doesn’t care- his psychic bond with Hat let’s him hear it’s cries of lamentation over being separated from it’s owner (just watch, Luffy’s hat will receive it’s own Klabauterman before long) and so he asks Buggy to hand it back to Luffy and to do so snappy, because he’d like to give him a treasure map for no real reason. Shanks- the inventor of the Nigerian Prince-scam in OP-world. Buggy, as blue-eyed as he is red-nosed immediately agrees and flies off, and when Shanks is asked by Lucky Roo if he doesn’t want to meet Luffy in person Shanks replies that the promise was to meet when Luffy was a great pirate: a definition that ”magma-boiled vegetable” does not really fit, so to speak.
(Also, Bepo tells Law to stop fanboying Shanks and batter down the hatches already. Love ya, Bepo.)
Akainu senses that this new interuption will mean an end to his Happy Fun-Burninating Sparkling Time and yells out for someone to get Dragon’s son which his fellow admirals oblige: Aokiji lashes out with an Ice Age that stops just short of grazing the submarine, and Kizaru follows up with a beam-spam straight out of Touhou, but fortunately whoever is captaining the Yellow Submarine is proficient in Bullet Hell-ese for they suss out the pattern and escape intact… which Kizaru seems to be okay with: luck is luck, after all. Someone who is not so lenient is Boa Hancock, who has comandeered a vessel, orders the men in it to chase after Luffy and send a message to the marines that she, in her role as a Shichibukai, will hunt Monkey D Luffy to the ends of the earth! Which prompts a marine to ask her WHERE they will chase them to, but Hancock can’t be bothered with such insignificant details. Oh, Hancock.
And oh, Buggy. After Shanks reveals his boldfaced lie saying he just wanted to talk to him for a while, Buggy tells Shanks ”loot or gtfo” as his new followers mancrush even harder upon seeing how their captain treats an emperor in the flesh. Buggy calms down as he figures out that Shanks IS pretty much his only way out while Shanks tell the Whitebeard pirates to take a chill-pill (except Joz OKAY MAYBE A LITTLE TOO SOON) whereupon Hawkeye decides that he’s out. He can fight a wrinkled old man anytime, but Redhair wasn’t part of the deal. The fangirls would lap it up like hotsauce, and he’ll be damned if he’ll give them any more fodder to work with. Shanks and the Redhair-crew then assume their best team-pose and tells the assembled forces that if anyone wants to fight then they’ll have to go through them first and- well hello there Yasopp, nice to see you actually get a cameo for once! And… you’re darkhaired. Oh man the anime and it’s color-inconstistencies.
Shanks asks Blackbeard if he wants a piece of him, and Blackbeard, who hasn’t QUITE managed to make his face pull any other expression besides ”giddy as a schoolgirl” over being overpowered enough to destroy the world, manages to calm himself down long enough to laugh and order his men to retreat. After all, it is ”not yet time to take on the likes” of Redhair… dun. Dun. Dun.
And so, as Sengoku begins his painful unfrowning process since he at long last remembered his mothers sage advice on how his face will get stuck if he holds one grimace for too long, the battlehigh wears off and all the assembled forces begin to withdraw. The Whitebeard pirates weep openly while the marines drag away their wounded, including one of the giants that we thought was killed by Whitebeards shock-punch. The Shabondy ”evacuation” proceeds as smoothly as it can, Coby is still out cold, Oz jr looks dead as ever and HOLY CRAP Moria looks far too pleased about Oz Jr’s corpse. The Kuma-bots stand in grim procession and all the admirals begin to withdraw, with the exception of Akainu who’s trying to hold back his tears of anger because he can’t burninate anything the light touches anymore.
And before the curtain finally falls upon this play, Redhair tells Sengoku that he’s taking back Whitebeard and Ace’s bodies so their family can mourn them properly. Doberman objects because he was really looking forward to stealing Whitebeards moustache but Sengoku tells him to STFU. And because Sengoku is now shirtless and in regular shape the power of his hypno-abs makes everyone obey him, as he tells Redhair he’ll accept the heat from his superiors in exchange for ending the war on Redhairs terms. The final order Sengoku gives in the battle of Marineford is for everyone to tend to the wounded, for this war is at long last and after twentyeight chapters… over.
Twentyeight chapters. Three-four volumes long, spanning over approximately nine months. When this all began we were set for a triumphant and massive battle, the thrilling climax to an arc of Luffy’s own, personal struggle to reunite with his scattered nakama. We believed we would have a happy ending. We believed, at most, Whitebeard would die in a heroic sacrifice. We were all wrong. This was to be Luffys tragedy. His Kaya, Bellemere, Hiriluk, Ohara, Tom and Rumbar pirates. Three heroes are dead, as we know it. After triumphing over Impel Down and Enies Lobby… Marineford proved to be the one pillar that not even Luffy’s spirit could topple.
I don’t know what changes will come now. I may never have been much of a fan of Ace. I may think the manner his death was handled felt a bit rushed and forced. But I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what will happen from now on, ESPECIALLY concerning Blackbeard. A villain who is not some all-scheming mastermind, but who simply reads the way the wind blows and does what he can to make it blow his way is far too rare these days, and I for one want to see more of what ”his” age will bring.
Now then… all that is left is to speculate on when we can get to canon-update our peeps! What do you think: another nine months?
We open up with Tashigi teaching Coby about swords and swordfighting, while Helmeppo displays his usual success at life by chasing a racoon who stole his food… while another racoon steals even more food. Clearly the shining future of the marine crops is safe in their competent hands.
The marines cry out in surprise and concern: despite having finished their battle with Kaidou only yesterday, Redhair has arrived at the scene of the battle! But Shanks doesn’t care- his psychic bond with Hat let’s him hear it’s cries of lamentation over being separated from it’s owner (just watch, Luffy’s hat will receive it’s own Klabauterman before long) and so he asks Buggy to hand it back to Luffy and to do so snappy, because he’d like to give him a treasure map for no real reason. Shanks- the inventor of the Nigerian Prince-scam in OP-world. Buggy, as blue-eyed as he is red-nosed immediately agrees and flies off, and when Shanks is asked by Lucky Roo if he doesn’t want to meet Luffy in person Shanks replies that the promise was to meet when Luffy was a great pirate: a definition that ”magma-boiled vegetable” does not really fit, so to speak.
(Also, Bepo tells Law to stop fanboying Shanks and batter down the hatches already. Love ya, Bepo.)
Akainu senses that this new interuption will mean an end to his Happy Fun-Burninating Sparkling Time and yells out for someone to get Dragon’s son which his fellow admirals oblige: Aokiji lashes out with an Ice Age that stops just short of grazing the submarine, and Kizaru follows up with a beam-spam straight out of Touhou, but fortunately whoever is captaining the Yellow Submarine is proficient in Bullet Hell-ese for they suss out the pattern and escape intact… which Kizaru seems to be okay with: luck is luck, after all. Someone who is not so lenient is Boa Hancock, who has comandeered a vessel, orders the men in it to chase after Luffy and send a message to the marines that she, in her role as a Shichibukai, will hunt Monkey D Luffy to the ends of the earth! Which prompts a marine to ask her WHERE they will chase them to, but Hancock can’t be bothered with such insignificant details. Oh, Hancock.
And oh, Buggy. After Shanks reveals his boldfaced lie saying he just wanted to talk to him for a while, Buggy tells Shanks ”loot or gtfo” as his new followers mancrush even harder upon seeing how their captain treats an emperor in the flesh. Buggy calms down as he figures out that Shanks IS pretty much his only way out while Shanks tell the Whitebeard pirates to take a chill-pill (except Joz OKAY MAYBE A LITTLE TOO SOON) whereupon Hawkeye decides that he’s out. He can fight a wrinkled old man anytime, but Redhair wasn’t part of the deal. The fangirls would lap it up like hotsauce, and he’ll be damned if he’ll give them any more fodder to work with. Shanks and the Redhair-crew then assume their best team-pose and tells the assembled forces that if anyone wants to fight then they’ll have to go through them first and- well hello there Yasopp, nice to see you actually get a cameo for once! And… you’re darkhaired. Oh man the anime and it’s color-inconstistencies.
Shanks asks Blackbeard if he wants a piece of him, and Blackbeard, who hasn’t QUITE managed to make his face pull any other expression besides ”giddy as a schoolgirl” over being overpowered enough to destroy the world, manages to calm himself down long enough to laugh and order his men to retreat. After all, it is ”not yet time to take on the likes” of Redhair… dun. Dun. Dun.
And so, as Sengoku begins his painful unfrowning process since he at long last remembered his mothers sage advice on how his face will get stuck if he holds one grimace for too long, the battlehigh wears off and all the assembled forces begin to withdraw. The Whitebeard pirates weep openly while the marines drag away their wounded, including one of the giants that we thought was killed by Whitebeards shock-punch. The Shabondy ”evacuation” proceeds as smoothly as it can, Coby is still out cold, Oz jr looks dead as ever and HOLY CRAP Moria looks far too pleased about Oz Jr’s corpse. The Kuma-bots stand in grim procession and all the admirals begin to withdraw, with the exception of Akainu who’s trying to hold back his tears of anger because he can’t burninate anything the light touches anymore.
And before the curtain finally falls upon this play, Redhair tells Sengoku that he’s taking back Whitebeard and Ace’s bodies so their family can mourn them properly. Doberman objects because he was really looking forward to stealing Whitebeards moustache but Sengoku tells him to STFU. And because Sengoku is now shirtless and in regular shape the power of his hypno-abs makes everyone obey him, as he tells Redhair he’ll accept the heat from his superiors in exchange for ending the war on Redhairs terms. The final order Sengoku gives in the battle of Marineford is for everyone to tend to the wounded, for this war is at long last and after twentyeight chapters… over.
Twentyeight chapters. Three-four volumes long, spanning over approximately nine months. When this all began we were set for a triumphant and massive battle, the thrilling climax to an arc of Luffy’s own, personal struggle to reunite with his scattered nakama. We believed we would have a happy ending. We believed, at most, Whitebeard would die in a heroic sacrifice. We were all wrong. This was to be Luffys tragedy. His Kaya, Bellemere, Hiriluk, Ohara, Tom and Rumbar pirates. Three heroes are dead, as we know it. After triumphing over Impel Down and Enies Lobby… Marineford proved to be the one pillar that not even Luffy’s spirit could topple.
I don’t know what changes will come now. I may never have been much of a fan of Ace. I may think the manner his death was handled felt a bit rushed and forced. But I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what will happen from now on, ESPECIALLY concerning Blackbeard. A villain who is not some all-scheming mastermind, but who simply reads the way the wind blows and does what he can to make it blow his way is far too rare these days, and I for one want to see more of what ”his” age will bring.
Now then… all that is left is to speculate on when we can get to canon-update our peeps! What do you think: another nine months?
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Date: 2010-04-04 08:23 pm (UTC)no wait OH ME I guess because wow I sure did set that one up nice. Although this DOES mean that Rogues womb is tougher than this war, since this war only kept up for NINE months while she well you know what she did by now.