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Look, when they brought up the whole midnight curfew rule in conjunction with the whole "toys must stay in the toy house and humans can't go there" rule, I figured maybe they had something going on aboveground at night? Seemed like a strict curfew would be a questionably effective way of hiding this, but maybe? 🤷‍♀️ Except the more they revealed about the hidden port, the more apparent it became that the only thing that happens at midnight is the toys going to their secret elevator down to the port. Which does not require a human curfew??? If anything, I think the toys having a strict bedtime independent of human citizens would be less suspicious.

This mostly bothers me for two reasons:

A) Look me in the eye and try to tell me the Donquixotes are not a "still partying at 3am" crowd. Doffy's birthday week is a 7 day festival that does not pause, and certainly does not empty the streets every midnight when they could be singing / dancing / drinking / setting off fireworks / celebrating Doflamingo's existence. Be so real right now. These guys are not giving people curfews and then wondering why they cannot get services at 1am because they've legally outlawed staying open that late.

B) Dressrosa is Spain. And it's culturally pretty Spanish too - we see that restaurant taking a midday siesta break when Sanji is running around with Violet before the 3pm meetup. (Also you can't tell me Doffy doesn't siesta 🙄) This is relevant because Spain is also pretty hardcore on the nightlife. I didn't get to go to a certain bar with my local friend the one night I was in Madrid because unfortunately I flew in that morning and did not have the energy to wait in the line until we'd finally enter around midnight. The youths do not go home at midnight. The youths are getting dinner at 10-11pm and just starting to get going at midnight. Doffy is literally king of Late Night Party Kingdom - the man is not outlawing late night parties now that the citizens are flush with cash and adore him 🤷‍♀️

I genuinely think Oda really missed to think of the points you made because EXACTLY EXACTLY. The literal country of PASSION and ROMANCE and you ban NIGHTLIFE?

WHAT THE FUCK.

I like to think everything works on the inside as in people come in before the curfew, then at curfew the owners just put the "closed" sign outside but the party/dinners/dances/bars etc are still ongoing inside.

Still ruins all the DANCING and FESTIVALS on the street though???

The hell was Oda thinking when he wrote that "rule" it could have been just for the toys, but he made it for people too, it made NO SENSE. And as you said, the toys work underground, anyway, they would never be seen!

Adult Tōshirō Hitsugaya (VA: Yūki Kaji)

The Teacher™ side of Byakuya is strong in this Cour...

Also... Sir! You keep grabbing Ice type Shinigami IN BANKAI STILL without regards for the consequences it might have to your health...

CATCHING IT AND PUTTING IT IN MY POCKET FOR LATER