#ch 581

Here? It’s pretty different, actually. He says, first, 助ける義理もない/tasukeru giri mo nai- tasukeru is ‘to help’ and giri means ‘duty’ or ‘obligation.’ So he’s saying “No, I have no obligation to help” (in response to Ivankov asking if he’s Luffy’s friend (nothing fucking changes lol)). 

And then he says 親切が不安なら何か理屈をつけようか?/shinsetsu ga fuan nara, nanika rikutsu wo tsukeyouka? Shinsetsu is like ‘kindness’ or ‘generosity’ and fuan is ‘anxious’ (so it’s like ‘making you uneasy/anxious’) and nara is ‘if’ which makes this whole first part a conditional statement. Then nanika is ‘something’, rikutsu is ‘reason’ and tsukeru is like ‘to add’ or ‘to attach,’ conjugated kinda like “shall I...?”

BEPO IS SO CUTE...

Hey more birthday puns, let’s talk about those so I don’t have to think about the devastated mess this arc has made of my heart.

Law’s is really simple, it’s just from his name (which is written in Japanese as トラファルガーロー/torafarugaa rō). ト/to is a reading of 10 and ロ/ro is the start of 6/roku, so October 6th.

Blackbeard’s comes from his devil fruit (the yami yami no mi). Ya is a reading of 8 and mi is a reading of 3, so 8/3. This one gets bonus points because it actually shows up in one of the cup noodle commercials, if I remember right.

Marco’s comes from the phrase ‘1st Division Commander Marco’ (1番隊隊長マルコ/ichibantai taichou maruko), because マル/maru is the Japanese word for circle and you can get a reading for 5 out of コ/ko. So that plus the ‘1’ from ‘1st Division’ gives you 105 > 10/5.

Crocodile’s is also from his name- クロコダイル/kurokodairu. Ku is 9 and ko is the same slightly messed-up reading of 5 as from Marco’s one.