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[chibi_trillian]

tarvosio, you are my cosplay GOD. I loooooove you, darling, you and your pink Sanji apron and your excessive generosity. Thank you for pitying me and my inability to use a sewing machine. Programming VCRs yes, sewing machines no. I fail at life. T_T

So, I have the hat. It needs to be pinkified, but it's definitely the right shape. It's a also one big fucking hat.

Speaking of hats, alucardblue looks eeriely hot in an Ace hat. Conclusion: Ace's hat is sympathetically enchanted with Sexy.

And now for something completely different...

Dude, Sanji. Just...dude. Getting pwned like that by a chick. You're fighting a woman FOR a woman! Suck it up, boy! We know you've got the five-point version of the Pussywhipped Flaw, but dayum.

Beat that fishnet-wearing whore, Nami. Beat her good.

That being said, I hope that Devil Fruit whatever that got done to him is reversible. And I hope that Chopper gets to do some serious pwning without getting the crap beaten out of him first.

And I still can't believe that Usopp, who until these last couple of chapters had yet to miss anything he aimed at, managed to fuck up the most important shot of his life. Seriously, WTF? *doooooooooom*

Now I need to go reread Raptus Regalis just to make myself feel better and marvel at the apparent eerie level of GMTA-ness among One Piece fanauthors.

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Re: On 403

[chibi-trillian.livejournal.com]

I do wonder what will happen if Kalifa actually manages to injure Nami. Sanji's kishidou will tear him in half, because Nami got hurt because of him.

We've seen flashes of this before, but I dismissed most of it as Sanji being a horny bastard who will do a great deal to get laid--which is how I think he tries to portray himself, frankly, because his kishidou is a serious weakness. He knows it, and that's why he tried to fake out Kalifa in the first place.

I seriously hope we get Sanji-backstory on that soonlike--there's got to be an interesting story behind someone having that strong of an aversion to striking women. Hell, in a kicking fight women have the advantage. They're better balanced and their legs are stronger.

I've noticed that the anime (what I've seen of it, that is) is a little rougher on Usopp than the manga tends to be. I know he gets used for comedy relief and as a foil for tension a lot (rather like Chopper), but he winds up being either a failure or useless a bit more often in the anime.

On the other hand, his one filler arc episode with the fireworks was pretty awesome.

Nah, have at. As some of the comments on my other posts have shown, I'm a bit of a talker. I'm lucky in that I've infected almost all of my RL friends with One Piece, but I always welcome more fandom discussion.

Re: On 403

[admiralnaismith.livejournal.com]

Yes... Sanji practically seems to see women as some kind of mysterious other species or something. Some of it might be from growing up in a predominantly male environment (Baratie seems to be lacking in female employees) but he was already ten when he met Zeff and Baratie had plenty of female customers, so that can only explain so much. Zeff doesn't strike me as being the kind of teacher who'd emphasize gender differences... heck, he'll kick little kids around, I doubt he'd hesitate to seriously strike a real female opponant. Even a weaker one, if she were a threat to someone he cared about and stupid enough to challenge him. Maybe something Sanji picked up from a female encounter instead. Like an anti-Kuina. That could be very interesting... Maybe even Sanji's unknown parents?

The anime subtly (and not so subtly) changes a lot of the characters. I think Usopp and Nami get the worst of it, though. Even apart from outright filler, Nami laughing after giving a scolding in a scene is cut out, or a 'hilarious' cowardly new line from Usopp is added. I've thought about going through the anime and manga to do a list of little changes like that, based on characters. I think the problem is that the characters superficially resemble a lot of character stereotypes, but they're actually far more complicated than that. The complication seems to confuse the animators, who then go, "Why hasn't Usopp done something funny? He's the comic relief!" or "Why would Nami act friendly?! She's the series Shrieking Harridan, cut that part out." At least Usopp's ability to get along with children seems to have seeped into the animators' heads in the fireworks filler... as opposed to that (IMHO) unbearable Loguetown filler.

I have a lot of IRL friends who like OP, they just don't like analysis, fanfics, that sort of thing. My fics are sort of an embarrassing secret.

Please forgive any typos or blathering; this was written on a PDA and under the influence of painkillers ^^;;;