#chapter 1121

nami chapter 1121 🍒🍊🍍🥝🫐🍇

This panel. Holy Shit! But this panel! A picture speaks a thousand words but this panel speaks 1121 chapters of pure distilled Luffy.

Blown away by chapter 1121! Not only do we get King, we get flashes of the trauma that he and others like him (Kuma, Bonney, Pudding) have experienced due to oppression and persecution, but oppression does not always breed subservience, but quite the opposite.

The real gem though, was Luffy enabling Bonney to attack Saturn, the one especially treating her and her whole family as nothing more than dust, all the while observed by her father. Bonney landing that blow for King, and for Pudding, and for Ginny and for Kuma (and for Robin, and for Law, etc.) was so satisfying.

As @danwhobrowses says in his analysis, Luffy’s attack is the definitive and deciding factor, but Bonney fights on through, and fights, and, like Law ignoring Doflamingo’s derision, and Yamato refuting Kaidou’s demeaning criticism, she refuses to wear the mantle of criticism that the so-called mighty and righteous would place upon her.

And Luffy sees that it happens. I might be 1121 chapters too late, but I’m definitely warming up to Luffy in this form, and beginning to be drawn into his hype. Haha. I like him a lot,, but Oda often writes him as taking over the fight from the person it seems slated for, and that is Luffy’s saviour role, but here it’s implemented with giving agency to the person he is fighting for, as well.

One thing I love about Luffy, though, or Oda’s writing of him, is that he always acknowledges the help he’s received, even when he fights for them, and even if parts of fandom sometimes refuses to do the same.

Anyhoo, absolutely stellar chapter.

HES TOTALLY ONTO THEM LMAOOOOO