Okay, look, I don't mean to be a critic (that is a blatant lie, I love critiquing media. I love it so much I got a fucking degree in it. Now that is devotion) but I can't help but feel One Piece really missed the marks with the
[Look, at this point not even Drake has the audacity to keep calling these bullshit magic bullets the plague. And the guy makes a professional living as an Undercover Pirate-Dino Cop; a career actually illegal to tell ten year old children exists, because their poor little hearts can't handle the Awesome Impossibility of it all.]
"Plague Bullets"
The entire idea here is that it's something we've already seen in Udon, and yet when they're reintroduced to us here - The Grand Finale - they are somehow even somehow even more badass and terrifying than before, when our hero almost died.
[You guys remember this? When Momonsuke was like, "you poor, naive child, someone has to tell you the truth" while I watched on looking at Momonsuke like, "you poor, naive child.... I hope your father is reborn as a kick ass nonbinary individual who spares you from all this pain". Or that is what I would have thought, if I had known. Ah, we were all so young and naive. And irreversible damaged.]
I get what they're going for. Have Queen pull out a machine gun full of the very bullets that less than a 100 episodes earlier almost put an end to our heroes life. How horrible! How terrifying! How....
[Pictured: Not... a shiny Pokemon?]
Okay. No.
One Piece. I am totally into you. I follow you through a lot of bullshit but this?
You cannot convince me that this actual Zombie Plague is somehow LESS scary than Water Fairies: On Ice!
That's JUST not how it works.
