LADY CORVUS

I cannot describe the heavy breathing I felt when Logen struggled to understand the play at Jezal's party because he doesn't speak common tongue that well, or when Ferro meets West and she doesn't understand what he's talking about with Yulwei. Like, yes! Yes!

Logen not understanding how "STANDS TO SIT" makes sense because he isn't used to the language's phrases is chef's kiss (although maybe my man has just never seen stands before, but I wanted to interpret it that way).

Nothing gets me harder than an author that understands that people don't speak the same language and need translators or they simply misunderstand what's being said!

Ryuzo is loyal to a fault to the Straw Hats. They were the only ones who took him in after he lost at Lord Nagao's tournament against Jin. When their leader died at Komoda, it was him who stepped up and convinced them to keep on fighting for their lives and stick together.

This man literally gave all of himself to these Ronin.

Did you forget that during the ships raid with Jin, Ryuzo couldn't shoot an arrow because he had given his bow to his men?

Do you remember how Ryuzo constantly clapped back at Jin for putting his men in danger with his plans, while also following the samurai two times in battle in the desperate hope to get food for them?

And what about that time at the forge, when Ryuzo came back looking for Jin, begging for help because his men had been captured?

Was I the only one who saw how conflicted he looked when, during the attack on Castle Kaneda, Jin offered him food and a title, and he refused? Do you remember why? It wasn't just petty envy, it was because Shimura would have killed his men, just like he got half of them killed at Komoda.

(Which by the way, was a correct guess, if you remember the explosion at the bridge at Castle Shimura).

And during the Mongolian conquest of Castle Shimura, literally the first thing that Ryuzo asked the Khan was food for his men. Ryuzo set fire to a paesant so he could feed the Straw Hats, crumbling on the ground right after from the shock. Can you even imagine the trauma?

And despite all of this, despite trying to keep his men alive, it was Ryuzo again that asked the Khan to give Jin a second chance, an attempt to save both his friend and the Straw Hats at the same time.

After Jin massacred the ronin, Ryuzo said that with their deaths, he lost everything. He came back crawling because the only reason that tied him up to the Mongols was gone, that the only thing he had left at that point was Jin.

Yes, Ryuzo had an inferiority complex towards Jin and the samurai. Yes, he was envious of their position and had a grudge against his old friend for ruining his future prospectives. This doesn't mean that everything he did for the Straw Hats should be forgotten.

For the Ryuzo lovers out there, a couple of screenshots I grabbed while playing.

Him and his small potato nose look so focused in sharpening that sword!

He's also taking none of that samurai attitude.

I'M LOSING MY MIND!

Dayum, the animators really said "Make him look like an actual 30 years old, but beef him up too".

Mr. Compress be hitting the gym and I really want a piece of this man.

You don't deserve me at my:

DO YOU SEE THIS PANEL, STUDIO BONES? DO YOU SEE IT?