#that jacket though

I wonder how this little off shots of total diaster human beings is faring.

Oh, lost and separated on a mysterious island on the middle of a thunder storm while a yonko is right on their tail?

(I kid, Brook. Your skeleton puns have won me around.)

Yep. Sounds about right.

Sanji-Kun

I feel almost bad, because in the lead up to this it was playing that cheerful little musical cue and doing that half shadowed camera work it does when it wants to ramp up your excitement. Like guess who it is you guys? I mean, yeah, we know it's obvious but... You're excited? Right? Right? Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod IT'S-

Let me stop ya there for a second.

See, despite all the right camera angles and sound edits, there is a teeny-tiny small problem: Sanji's story-beats just make me uncomfortable too often and, try as I might (and I really have tried because Nate, Merri and Em all love him) I just cannot care about him for any longer than the length of any specific, nonsexism filled scenes in which he might be temporarily awesome.

So I'm sorry all your excitement build up had to go to waste there. I--

(Pictured: One of my favorite characters in those show. Also: Sanji and Ceaser)

Wait.

Wait... Is that? It is!

The return of the gas jacket!

But goddamn, I love this overly villainous labcoat so fucking much! I mean, first, it just looks cool with the smoky edges, right!? Actually, I am all over Cesar's design. It's definitely a case of a villain who is neither conventionally handsome not does he have a devilish charm to make up for it and yet I find his design so attractive! I think I would break it down like:

Physical Acumen: 4/10 - would likely not tap dat gassy ass and now that I've typed that definitely wouldn't

Personality Appeal: 2/10 - actively sought to committee Nazi science crimes. Still isn't Vander Decken though so... Congratulations.

Over All Design: 8.5/10 love it love all of it

Also, the fact that Ceaser went out, bought a labcoat, and then patiently sat there embroidering the word GAS on both sides amuses the hell out of me. And, yes, it must be embroidered (or stitched or at least ironned on but that would be less recommendable since I imagine keeping your labcoat with a constant collar of visible gas has to create some condensation) and not just a construct of his powers, because it's on both versions.

And that is one of my favorite things about this baby. When he is put in those seastone handcuffs it turns into just a normal labcoat. Like honestly without that snog effect it's kinda meh. And that makes me love it all the more.

You see, he could have gone with an entirely gas jacket, but clearly it was really important to him to have that added layer of protection offered by actual labcoats while still looking properly evil. Of course, maybe he already had a labcoat that had GASGAS across the chest and after he ate the fruit it seemed wasteful not to wear it (plus it makes his aunt Mindy happy to see him in that Christmas gift she sent him.)

Chopper!

(Chopper!)

Chopper!

How I've missed you sweet fluffy baby. They tried to make up for your absence by making Donflamigo oh-so-fluffy, but it wasn't the same.

Although, I mean, I do kinda have a question about why you're dressed as an American football but you're busy. It can wait.

Quick side note: I know biology and chemistry are very different fields, but come on Ceaser. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REINDEER AND A RACOON!? REALLY? Hell, my area of specialty is Victorian Novels and I think I could answer that one.

(And the Reindeer defense line has done it again? Can nothing get through this line of racoons?)

You know what, I should have never questioned you, Chopper my main doctor (sorry Law, but look at him!). Clearly you did require that football equipment since immediately after I said that you tackled Ceaser to the grown like a bad ass boss.

Ah, look how cute he is trying to be so scary!

Brook

Wait? What has happened?

Let me get this straight. There was a Mysterious Woman™. You and Nami were so distracted by said Mysterious Woman™ that Sanji - SANJI of all people - got seperated from you. From you, Nami, and a Mysterious Woman™?

Look, I'm sorry this story does not check out at all.

(Admittedly this section contains nothing about Brook but I fit TWO different skeleton puns into posts today so he knows I'm thinking if him.)

Nami-Chan!

There she is!

I have a lot of favorite character types, but two big ones are the honorable idiot fighter and the good hearted but first a survivor characters, and what Zoro is to the former Nami is more than happy to balance out on the latter.

She's not going around looking for ways to hurt people, necessarily. She has a.moral compass. But push comes to shove and she's tripping you and getting v the hell out of there before you have time to stand up and shove her back. Much like when the fighter has everything else stripped away you know he'll make the big, stupid but honorable sacrifice a survivor is someone who may have plenty of other goals but when you get down to the bare bone (how can you not? That's all Brook is. Yohohoho!) Of the matter a survivor is going to be the one who lives, damnit.

Who...?

Who...?