#ch 976

...Yeah none of the rest of them buy this at all so Denjiro’s the only one that truly believes it was Kin’emon’s plan all along and not just incredible luck that things happened to work out regardless.

Its been long way to reach here riddled with all sorts of obstacles, but you’re finally here. Welcome back old friend. Glad to have you finally on board.

jinbe is SO polite in his re-introduction, it’s adorable. he even uses the old-fashioned teneigo ござんす/gozansu ending at one point when referring to himself as a newcomer/rookie to the crew, and finishes his little speech here with よろしくお頼み申します/yoroshiku otanomimoushimasu, which is like... a very polite way of saying basically ‘well met/please take care of me/i hope we’ll work together well.’ 

He’s finally in the crew! After so long!

Somebody give this guy an award for most dramatic entrances already.

Literally will throw flowers at Oda for doing this...king oda. Oda goat

Luffy’s giving out a lot of backhanded compliments here but at the same time he knows that’s the way to encourage Momo and, at this point, if Luffy says you’re a friend you know damn well he’s not giving up until you’re safe.