#ch577

Twenty years later and we are maybe just starting to figure out what the hell Marco meant by this

This is a very silly Zoro shirt, and I love it very, very much

Be careful, Jinbe. That's your future captain you're talking about

As always, I like how Oda pulls back to show the significance of the moment for the rest of the world, but this focus on Rayleigh is particularly moving. It's a hard thing to see the people of your generation die off one by one, and I like how he's by himself without Shakky showing his growing isolation

It's a popular theory that Blackbeard is somehow three people in one which is how he's able to handle multiple Devil Fruits, and if this turns out to be true this tripartite identity goes as far down as his very name.

Don't know how accurate this is to the original Japanese, but I do like how the translator phrases this little sendoff. We don't know who the narrator is (my vote is still Usopp) but there's a reverence in how Whitebeard is addressed. It was an epic struggle. He didn't die, he breathed his last. It's just a nice note to end on for such a monumental character.

I very much like that we don't get Akainu's eyes here, the eyes being the window of the soul and all that, but how it's framed makes it look like he's crying tears of blood and that's amazing