Hideaki Anno is spinning in his grave rn, and he's not even dead
soiejo
Some people realize that the US is very big and lots of people immigrated to it, so of course it's a very diverse place but can't apply the same logic to China, Russia, India or Brazil.
Like, I just found out that they transliterate Stalin as 斯大林, how can you not love that?
哈马斯
Unrelated to the meme, but I can't be the one that thinks chinese transliterated names are very cute right?
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Yea, that means she was 10 years old pre-timeskip right? That's a insane age to be a pirate captain, especially one of the "worst generation"
CW
That's a very good writeup and it does change my mind on some level.
I agree that saying ginny is "Kuma's love interest" was a misstep on my original comment, and that their relationship is more nuanced than that.
On a side note the allusions to rape/SA were already made with the Boa sisters and the introduction of the CDs in sabody park.
So I don't remember now since it's been a long while since I've read them, but until now the notion of SA of slaves by the celestial dragons was mostly a "heavy implication" thing - we see them act extremely gross and possessive towards women, and see the trauma inflicted upon their victims. This fits OP's brand of a manga geared mostly towards children, that ocasionally deals with very dark themes. This chapter however leaves no doubt; Ginny got pregnant while she was enslaved and then she was discarded, and that's why I believe this chapter is very brutal even among the other chapters showing the violence of slavery.
For the brutality of the chapter, I think Oda does well in juxtaposing the successes of the now Freedom Fighters to the inner despair of Kuma and co. It's the acknowledgement that revolution is brutal and that behind the triumph is real people who've lost nearly everything.
That's a good way to put it. All in all, I'm loving how this arc is giving a lot of exposition to the Revolutionary Army in general and Kuma in specific
spoilers also CW:SA
Gonna be honest I don't think Ginny's story was handled very well in this one. It's a character we barely known for two chapters, and then we learn she got SA'd and died shortly after. Kuma's backstory was very good until now but this kinda falls into the old "Using sexual violence against a female love interest to fuel the tragedy" of a male character trope, apart from being an extremely dark aspect of slavery even One Piece avoided until now. Maybe I'm wrong, I've seen wildly polarising takes on this chapter but it did left me with a bad tast personally
In the dictatorship of North Chinastan, people are arrested for just looking at material the government deems dangerous. You don't even have to support it, just knowing it exists is enough to put your entire family in jail
"The deprogram guys are evil opportunists because: [insert perfectly normal quotes]"
Imagine sucking joe biden off and not even being an american lmao, especially being from latam, we're witnessing new levels of cucked behavior from .ee folks
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