Okay...huge sigh of relief for Gerd's precious little massive fingies. She needs those for all kinds of things. Like doctoring, like our dear Chopper here who saved said fingies. We get some choice Rodo goobermaxxing too so it's all in good fun. My elder Millennial nerd brain can't see this Imu/Loki scene without translating the dialogue to "Come Nidhogg, friend or traitor come...and bring Ragnir, I have need of it." so the less said there the better probably. Something tells me I'm gonna get silly enough by the end of this.
We do seem to be getting to that part of a One Piece arc where everything else is peeling back. The Knights are setting the time limit too and you know? How about that for a subversion? Unlike Birdcage or dropping Onigashima, this time the villain is on a timer. And I do think there's a certain logic to that. You see how daunting the finale with the WG will be here, they have their limits though this deep in the New World. So you can give em the slip and race to the One Piece with Shanks, BB, and Cross Guild...but this limit won't be there when you have to take the fight to them at Mariejois. So...anything? Anything else interesting or is this just one of those between two breaks setup chapters?
What in the dahlink? Yeah okay, I'm sold on Zaza Gabor dude we can just make the next fifty chapters about her. I do get it, it makes sense the Knights would be put off by something so simple and commonplace. Like, yeah living up on the Red Line they probably don't get a lot of it but you know there's also that element of it being something they can't control.
I also...don't care. It's a giant four-armed rain goddess with a cool look to her. Big ladies with precipitation-based motifs are our jam here. I love this combination of this very big conical hat that's more elaborate than a casa but still very East Asian, then a veil with an Arabian vibe but underneath we've got a figure that if I had to compare kinda reminds me of Stussy or Hibari. Light hair, heavy bangs. Very cosmopolitan style. The raindrop motif and all the pearls are just super cool!
Now how the hell are we supposed to fight the embodiment of the rain guys? Jinbei? Water's your domain. Sanji? This count as a lady? If she does...is she weird and quirky enough to become Usopp's favored enemy type? Nami wanna protect your territory in this series? Or...or, just spitballin here maybe she likes cute things and wants to be our friend going forward. So let's deploy the Chopper. Baby Gramps Chopper. Does it make sense? Not really, but I'd like it. Now all we need is for our Sun God plus this making a big ol rainbow...so he can bonk Satan with it.
