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One Piece Film: Strong World – 2009
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: One Piece Film: Strong World
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: One Piece Movie 10
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: ワンピース フィルム ストロングワールド
ژانر: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
تاریخ پخش: پاییز 2009
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمت‌ها: یک قسمت
مدت زمان فیلم انیمه‌یی: یک ساعت و 55 دقیقه
کارگردان: Sakai Munehisa
منبع: Manga
استودیو: Toei Animation
زیرنویس فارسی و انگلیسی دارد
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خلاصه داستان (منبع)
داستان از جزیره سابوندی شوع می شه جایی که تبهکاری به نام Golden Lion که 20 سال پیش به وسیله پدر بزرگ لوفی و سنگوک دستگیر شد و زندانی شد ولی موفق به فرار شد و به جمع آوری خدمش و بدست آوردن نامی کرد. لوفی تلاش می کند که نامی رو آزاد کنه و ...
سلام.
به علت اخطارهای گوگل، تا اطلاع ثانوی پست‌های معرفی انیمه، لینک دانلود نخواهند داشت. بیشترین دلیل حذف شدن دو تا وبلاگ قبلی‌م در بلاگر توسط گوگل، به خاطر لینک دانلود انیمه‌ها بوده.
One Piece - Episode 937 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 937 [Review]
The prison rumble continues. Armadillo man is upset about Hyogoro downing his good buddy alpaca man and whips out two pistols to start blasting. Luffy jumps in to scoop up the elder and dispatch the armadillo man with a massive punch. Hyogoro informs Luffy that what he calls haki is known as ryuo here in Wano. Luffy continues to put the beat down on more goons and practice with his haki as Hyogoro offers advice, but he finds himself frustrated at a lack of progress.
Back in Ebisu, Yasu is going around making quite the impression on everyone. He mentions Kinemon in relation to the rebellion, leaving Shinobu and Kanjuro shocked. Even though the villains know about the tattoo and the plan, Yasu tries to remain upbeat that more will join their cause regardless. He then sets out about town tending to the sick, providing food for the hungry, and checking in on the elderly. When the Straw Hats press Shinobu and Kanjuro to reveal who exactly Yasu is, they admit they don't know and were afraid to be rude and ask him. Usopp and Nami ask an elderly woman in the village who reveals that Toko is his daughter and she sends him money from the capital. He in turn spreads as much as he can to others in the community and eats very little for himself. We also get a brief moment of Toko dreaming of her father giving her a piggyback ride while she sleeps next to Zoro.
Back in the prison pit, Luffy is frustrated by his lack of progress. He has fought until nightfall and while he has won every encounter he doesn't feel that his haki is up to snuff yet. He and Hyogoro are surrounded by guards watching them, but when Hyogoro asks why he's so consumed with beating Kaido the future king of the pirates knocks out the guards with a quick haki burst. He explains his ambitions to be king just as Raizo arrives… inside Caribou's cloak?! It turns out Raizo had the keys to Caribou's cuffs and freed him.
Caribou grovels at Luffy's feet to join his crew. Luffy agrees so long as Caribou has really changed, which surprises everyone (Caribou most of all). Hyogoro pledges himself to Luffy as well and Raizo reveals that Hyogoro was a big yakuza boss back in the day. Hyogoro mentions that there are four other identical prison pits full of people jailed for treason against Orochi. Luffy deduces that if they free them, the prisoners will probably join their fight. Excited at this new plan, they steal a big pot of red bean soup and dig in.
Meanwhile, the Big Mom and Chopper gator-riding crew are getting closer to the prison. Charlotte Linlin is starving and can't wait to have delicious red bean soup. Kiku speaks kindly to her as they travel, but Chopper is terrified that Big Mom will turn on them at any moment – as is the reptile they're riding who is worried Big Mom might start gnawing any second. We get a final shot of Luffy licking his face clean of soup before the To Be Continued card flashes and draws the ep to a close.
Another phenomenal episode of Wano. This episode had a great mix of emotional beats and dynamic combats, with a hint of what's to come tacked on at the end. Yasu is such a fascinating character and watching his earnest attempts at helping others through the difficulties of Orochi's rule is very heartwarming. A good chunk of screen time is spent lingering on Yasu speaking with the elderly, feeding the hungry, lifting newborn babies, and it all does a great job of investing the audience in him as a character. With someone like Orochi stomping around doing all the most evil things all the time and creating nothing but anguish for the people of Wano, it's nice to have the counter-balance of Yasu providing a glimmer of hope through uncertain times.
The visual fidelity was once again outrageously good. The scenes of Luffy and Hyogoro leaping around using haki were all visceral and paced very well, with plenty of jaw dropping environmental destruction and kinetic dashing through the prison arena. The absolute show-stopper of a punch Luffy delivered to armadillo man was beyond excellent. That ripple of flesh rolling across his face like a shockwave was superb, I felt that one in my bones.
I also wanted to make particular note of a few highlights. At one point Hyogoro is recounting prior events and giving a bit of exposition for the audience. During the scene he kneels down and the events are “projected” behind him like a literal projector is just off-screen, complete with his shadow outlined against the film reel. It's a really brilliant flourish to spice up a somewhat standard flashback, and ties in very well with Hyogoro being an older character. Having this sort of classic film-style display for an aged veteran of sorts helps underscore how much older he is and being from a bygone era, as well as tapping into the chanbara/classic film vibe that Wano has going for it.
Lastly, Ikue Ōtani had me rolling this episode. When Chopper does this little scream/squeal as Big Mom is looming over him, she has this truly hilarious deliver that has an almost chirp-like quality. Just hearing her do that improved my day tenfold.
Source
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One Piece - Episode 890 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 890 [Review]
When the Straw Hat alliance split up back in Zou so Luffy could pick up Sanji, most the remaining gang made their way to Wano to wait for them while Cat Viper took a group of Minks to go searching for Marco and the remnants of the Whitebeard pirates, hoping to recruit even more allies in their battle against Kaido. After Whitebeard died, his crew got into a battle with the Blackbeard pirates, now known as the "Grudge War," and their organization has seen better days. The lives of powerful pirates like Marco, Jozu, and Vista have remained a mystery in the fallout of their crew's destruction.
As of this week, we're not quite done with the expanded world-building in the calm before the Wano arc's storm. This episode sets out to show us where Cat Viper's journey has taken him, filling us in on Marco's new gig as well as providing some fresh insight into the life of the late Edward Newgate. The filler this week puts us in an odd situation, since this episode is very Whitebeard-focused and we already got a Marineford recap a few months ago. The show's solution is to give us another Marineford recap, overlapping footage be damned. I'm going to call this the end of my mini-retrospective reviews, since we're so close to starting a new arc and the new story material this week is interesting enough to discuss.
Marco now lives in a small village and works as a doctor, using his regenerative phoenix powers to heal the local people and animals. This is not the first time a character has been retrofitted into a doctor role (looking at you, Trafalgar Law), but it still makes perfect sense. I'm just never ready to learn that a pirate of such high rank also has a medical degree. The island where Marco now lives is special, because it was Whitebeard's secret pride and joy. The old man used to funnel dirty money into the place, and because the village was poor, it was never able to join the World Government, so it needed protection from somebody strong. There's a surprising amount of heart being communicated in such a small amount of detail. We see Marco fighting back tears, remembering how stingy his father-figure was and how everybody on the crew was okay with it because they knew what he was actually doing with all his treasure. I always appreciate how One Piece can show the delicacy of familial love like that, where a seemingly negative quality has a secret true meaning that only those closest to them can see. Because this island was Whitebeard's final memento, Marco has decided to spend his retirement protecting it in his stead.
It's an interesting piece of the world to show us at this point in the story. When Cat Viper first set out to search for Marco, I figured that had to mean Marco was eventually going to join the main story again, but now he appears to be rejecting that path. He and Cat Viper's conversation is brief but effective, and I can't help but wonder what kind of role Whitebeard's legacy will have in the coming arcs. He could have something to do with Rox (which we know is relevant to Big Mom and Kaido), or perhaps Weevil (the man claiming to be Whitebeard's biological son) is finally going to become important soon. Either way, it doesn't look like the former Whitebeard pirates are going to be following us into Wano.
This is yet another episode that I wish didn't have to be weighed down by excessive amounts of recapping, but I appreciate the new material quite a bit. Even in a vacuum, this side-story paints a complex picture of a man who had already felt like a fully-realized character. When you map out Whitebeard's life story in your head, even the parts that were filled with smiles and happiness leave you with an aching feeling. There's a lot of chest-puffing in this series over who's going to leave the biggest impact and be remembered by history, but even the larger-than-life characters eventually succumb to the fleeting impermanence of life. There's a good mix of sweetness and sadness in this episode, and it manages to say a lot with a little.
One Piece - Episode 878 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 878 [Review]
With Whole Cake Island behind us, it's time to gear up for a new story arc. The Straw Hats' next destination is the samurai country of Wano, where Zoro and the rest of the crew are waiting for us, but before we get there we'll be jumping around the rest of the world and catching up on what we've missed since slinking into Big Mom's domain. Normally at the end of an arc, we'd get all these big-picture info dumps while the Straw Hats celebrate a well-fought battle on whichever island they just saved, but we didn't earn a party this time around, and the upcoming story developments are significant enough to warrant their own mini-arc in the form of the Reverie.
The Reverie is a political convention held every four years, where established government figures and monarchs all come together to discuss world events. This is an event that's been talked up in the series for quite a while, and a multitude of important characters have notable agendas, like how Fujitora wants to propose the abolishment of the Seven Warlords program, and the people of Fishman Island want to formally join the World Government so they don't have to align with pirates like Big Mom for protection. Many long-term story threads will come to a head here, and disaster is low-key inevitable.
But that stuff is just barely getting started this week, and the main bulk of this episode still focuses on the Straw Hats. At least half of this episode is filler in the form of a re-animated Luffy/Shanks flashback, and I could probably recite this story from memory at this point, so I'm the last person who needs a refresher. I'd say this is an especially unremarkable take on this flashback too—it looks like the Episode of East Blue TV special where they use more modern character designs, but it isn't nearly as well-directed or animated—it's simply here to kill time. I guess they have to make room for filler somewhere to keep themselves from overlapping with the manga, so these transition episodes are the sacrificial lambs.
Back in the present, news has spread about the crew's exploits in Totto Land, and it seems Morgans has written a massive puff-piece all about Luffy. The most exciting surprise is that the paper dubs him the new "Fifth Emperor," putting him in the same league as Shanks, Big Mom, Kaido, and Blackbeard. Whether this qualifies him as an official Emperor or not is up for debate (Sakazuki of the Navy rejects the announcement) but no individual person gets to decide who is and isn't an Emperor, since it's a matter of world power and reputation more than anything. According to the paper, Luffy's a mastermind who deliberately blew up Big Mom's tower, led groups like the Sun pirates, Firetank pirates, and Germa 66 to victory, and singlehandedly defeated two of Big Mom's strongest officers—Cracker and Katakuri. The paper also acknowledges the Grand Fleet that pledged allegiance to Luffy at the end of Dressrosa, so as far as the world is concerned, Luffy is a super-powerful genius who commands an army of 5,000 men and fears absolutely nothing.
Luffy and Sanji are both getting bounty upgrades as a result of this adventure, though sadly Luffy's new number is being held until next week. Sanji is now a man of 330 million berries, so for a brief moment his wanted level is slightly higher than Zoro's. But that doesn't mean everything is going right for Mr. Swirly Brow! Earlier in the episode, Luffy discovered a mysterious can in his pocket, and it turns out one of Sanji's brothers snuck in a Germa 66 transformation raid suit as a "gift" to Sanji. Sanji's annoyed by this and tries to throw the can overboard, but Luffy and Chopper are eager to see him transform into a Power Ranger and shoot laser beams. This surprise also comes around the same time that Sanji realizes the name on his wanted poster has been changed to "Vinsmoke Sanji," even after he went through all that trouble to properly disown his family. Life's just punking him at this point.
I feel like in another story Sanji would have disowned his family and that would have been considered closure, but here it's almost the opposite. Sanji got to re-establish his separation from the Vinsmokes, but in the process of dealing with them, their fingerprints are more visible on his life than ever. Sanji hasn't used the raid suit yet, but you know there's got to be a scene in the future where he has to choose between being stubborn or using this new tool, even if he doesn't like where it comes from. It's too complicated of a situation for me to definitively say this is a good or a bad direction to take his character, though it would have been strange for the story to introduce the Vinsmokes just to tell them to screw off and make them disappear again. Sanji kept his relationship to them secret for a very long time, and now the luxury of that secret is gone.
It's a shame that the anime is holding on to the exact size of Luffy's new bounty at this time, since it goes hand-in-hand so well with the Fifth Emperor reveal. This is a fairly weak episode all things considered, but I really like the compromises being made in upgrading the Straw Hats post-Whole Cake Island. It's a nice payoff to what was already a spiritual victory at best. I love the contrast between the chaotic mess that was the Big Mom assassination plot, and the perfectly executed middle-finger that the rest of the world assumed. It takes guts to fail upward this hard, and Luffy's a man of guts if nothing else. Nami is also getting a power upgrade in the form of Zeus, the right-hand-cloud who was seduced away from Big Mom. It's not clear how Zeus can operate independently of his original master, since he was given life by Big Mom's own soul, but I like that Nami now has a super-powerful (but still kind of dopey and cute) ability that's also technically its own character.
ワンピース 第01-91巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-91]
ワンピース 第01-91巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-91]
Title: ワンピース 第01-91巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-91]
Associated Names
(一般コミック)[尾田栄一郎] ONE PIECE -ワンピース-
ワンピース
ون بیس
海贼王
航海王
วันพีซ
원피스
Budak Getah
第91巻(NEW)
Sakurafile
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One_Piece_v31-40.zip – 510.0 MB
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One_Piece_v78_LQ.zip – 132.0 MB
One Piece v87 LQ.zip – 18.1 MB
One Piece v87 HQ.zip – 203.1 MB
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One Piece v88 HQ.zip – 110.2 MB
(一般コミック)[尾田栄一郎] ONE PIECE -ワンピース- カラー版
One Piece color v01-05.zip – 202.9 MB
One Piece color v06-10.zip – 202.4 MB
One Piece color v16-20.zip – 210.8 MB
One Piece color v21-25.zip – 213.2 MB
One Piece color v26-30.zip – 215.0 MB
One Piece color v31-35.zip – 229.3 MB
One Piece color v36-40.zip – 237.8 MB
One Piece color v41-45.zip – 250.0 MB
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One Piece color v51-55.zip – 235.5 MB
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One Piece color v66-68.zip – 144.5 MB
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One Piece color v71.zip – 121.7 MB
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One_Piece_v1000.zip – 252.8 MB
ONE_PIECE_500_QUIZ_BOOK.zip – 207.2 MB
One_Piece_Final_Answer.zip – 59.0 MB
One_Piece_Takarafukuro.zip – 5.9 MB
One_Piece_Yellow.zip – 192.0 MB
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One Piece Calendar 2016.zip – 92.2 MB
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One Piece - Episode 858 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 858 [Review]
The enthusiastic but slapdash structure of Whole Cake Island's climax has been starting to take its toll these past few week. Things were just heating up with Fourth Gear Luffy's onslaught against Katakuri, but the entire reason Luffy waited this long to bust this transformation out in the first place is that he knows it has a time limit and a gnarly recharge time. Katakuri's Observation Haki has returned and now Luffy's power is beginning to deflate, meaning he has to hightail it out of the mirror world altogether. He finds Brulee hiding around one of the corners, so he's able to kidnap her and escape.
There's a lot that's hit and miss about this portion of the battle. It seems with each escalation of the stakes, something else has to get dramatically undercut in the process. Luffy is able to escape the battle and leaves Katakuri stuck in the mirror world. That's good! But the mirror he exits from just happens to bring him to Nuts Island, where Big Mom is actively rampaging and throwing skyscraper-sized peanuts around. That's bad! I love that the second Luffy uses his Get Out of Jail Free Card he accidentally stumbles into a much, much worse scenario. There are so many places this could go, but unfortunately this will ultimately prove to be a momentary breather from the Katakuri fight, and all we're doing is wasting our time. The tension that was building during the actual important part of the story has been shot in the foot.
The animation isn't helping a ton either, and it really shows during the scene that needs it the most: a new musical number! That's right, this is still a musical arc, even in the heat of battle, and this time it's Praline singing away the Big Mom pirates' territory sea slugs. This is a nice return of Jimbei's Sun pirates, and a further extension of this arc's crazy Rube Goldberg machine of a plot. Though, it should feel a lot more effective and whimsical, really nailing the arc's equilibrium between the Straw Hats' crazy luck and their systematic domination of the Big Mom pirates, but it's barely animated and the song's composition feels unfinished. This could have been a perfectly timed breath of fresh air to contrast against the same-y Katakuri fight, but instead it's just really boring.
This is a big turning point for the climax of the arc. Luffy has changed locations, the Sunny crew is getting ready to make their next move, and the breading of the new wedding cake has been finished, meaning Sanji and company will be heading out to sea while they put on the finishing touches. Sadly, it's all too little too late. We're constantly waiting for the next big shake up, and yet when we get it we still feel like we're jogging in place. I like a lot of what this big operatic chase adventure is going for, but the weaknesses are showing through way too much this week.
ワンピース 第01-90巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-90]
ワンピース 第01-90巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-90]
Title: ワンピース 第01-90巻 [ONE PIECE vol 01-90]
Other Name:
(一般コミック)[尾田栄一郎] ONE PIECE -ワンピース-
ワンピース
ون بیس
海贼王
航海王
วันพีซ
원피스
Budak Getah
第90巻(NEW)
Sakurafile
(一般コミック)[尾田栄一郎] ONE PIECE -ワンピース- カラー版
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Gintama - Episode 365 [Review] & One Piece - Episode 854 [Review]
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Gintama - Episode 365 [Review]
After three consecutive episodes of classic Gintama hijinks, the series once again puts on its serious face as the real final battle's stakes are laid out. Now reunited with Takasugi, Gintoki reveals what he's been up to the past two years. Never convinced that Utsuro was truly gone, the silver-haired samurai searched for signs of him at every Altana gate in Japan. While visiting a seaside Golden Dragon shrine, the head priest revealed the existence of an infant version of Yoshida Shoyo, who had gradually materialized in the gate the shrine worshipped. For a period of months, Gintoki traveled with the child as he rapidly aged into a mute young boy. When the duo was ambushed by a group of Naraku, the boy spoke and revealed that he remembered Gintoki from his previous life before being captured and entrusting Gin with his heart.
Gintoki isn't the only one with important info to share. As Takasugi reveals, in the closing moments of the war, he'd attempted to finish off the deformed, undying remnant of the Tendoshu before being mortally wounded by some Liberation Army remnants who quickly made off with the Tendoshu's remains. In order to survive, Shinsuke stabbed himself through the heart with a sword laced with Oboro's ashes, thus imbuing himself with the latter's healing abilities. However, as was the case with Oboro, said abilities are gradually weakening, and Takasugi is slowly dying.
Back in Edo, Shijaku briefs Donald Zarump on the Tendoshu's master plan. In the years following the war, the Tendoshu have been experimenting with Utsuro's immortal blood in the hope of finding the key to immortality. Taking advantage of the countless people who lost loved ones during Utsuro's initial Terminal attacks, the Tendoshu have founded a new religion that uses a phoenix as its symbol and promises its followers eternal life. The terrorist incidents occurring across the galaxy can all be tied back to this religion, and large amounts of Altana have been stolen during each attack. With an attack on Edo imminent, Gintoki and Takasugi arrive in the city and proceed to meet up with some old friends.
Much like The Battle on Rakuyo's opening chapter, this week's installment is essentially an episode-length info dump, albeit a consistently fascinating one. With so many game-changing revelations packed into a single episode, it's sometimes difficult to keep all the pertinent details together. Viewers are given virtually no time to process each new development before several more pop up, which has been a problem at various points throughout the show's endgame stage. Since the edge-of-your-seat battle against Utsuro was billed as a “series climax,” it's strange to see the show's original Big Bads reemerge as a legitimate threat, but their grand plan is interesting enough to justify further examination, and this storyline may provide Utsuro/Shoyo with a chance at redemption. Also, this appears to be opening the door for at least a cour's worth of new material, though it's unlikely to be produced in the near future in light of the manga's run being extended.
Episode 365 is also a prime example of Gintama's propensity for switching gears at the drop of a hat. As recently as last week, it felt like we were watching the Gintama of old, but this latest offering is a somber affair from beginning to end. (There were only two jokes.) Although there are likely many more laughs on the horizon, episodes like this are a stark reminder of the effects the events of the past few arcs have had on the show's world and its inhabitants. Losing Shoyo and growing apart from Takasugi have always factored heavily into Gintoki's character arc, and the fact that he's on the verge of losing them both for good has got be weighing on him. Although Gin has always been rather sullen and deadpan (usually for comedic purposes), he wrestles with a wave of conflicting emotions while traveling with Kid Shoyo. Shortly after being entrusted with the child, he strongly considers killing him—and comes perilously close to doing so. Behind all the wackiness, Gintoki has always been at war with himself for killing Shoyo, and the emergence of Utsuro compounded those feelings exponentially. Gin and Takasugi embarking on another quest to rescue their adoptive father is a great way to bring the overarching plot full-circle and possibly assuage Gintoki's deep-seated guilt. Shinpachi hits the nail on the head when he opines that he doesn't know what he'd do if someone he loved became the entire world's enemy—but he knows he'd want to see him again.
A reflective, emotional, somewhat overcrowded installment, episode 365 sets the stage for Gintama's true climax. Although our heroes put everything on the line to defeat Utsuro and the Altana Liberation Army, another battle with galactic implications is right around the corner. Once again, the time has come for the Kabuki District's finest to suit up and defend their home planet.
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One Piece - Episode 854 [Review]
When Luffy first pulled Katakuri into the mirror world, it was done with the implication that neither of them would have an easy way back to the Sunny. Luffy was willfully facing a challenge where he'd not only have to beat Katakuri in a one-on-one fight, but he'd have to beat any other Charlotte siblings who might get in his way once it's time to find a new mirror elsewhere in Totto Land and find the way back to his crew. The hiccup is that there's more than one mirror on the Sunny, and the Big Mom family has easier access to them than he does, so using a loose shard from the original mirror like a phone, Luffy has to command his crew to destroy any extraneous exits from the outside, thus helping him double down on his crazy gamble.
After surviving Big Mom's tidal wave, the Sunny crew is momentarily in the clear. The enemy assumes that the Straw Hats are dead, and Big Mom gets distracted on her rampage and steers herself towards the delicious-looking Nuts Island. There's a significant release in tension that leaves the Thousand Sunny side of the chase a little limp, since they're basically free to sail off and hide until Sanji has the cake ready, though the shift comes with Luffy's fight becoming even more dire. He lies to his crew and tells them everything's going to be okay before their communication gets cut-off, when in reality he's getting his ass kicked by an opponent who he'll have to deal with for the ten-plus hours it takes to bake a giant cake.
So since we're going to be spending a lot of time with Charlotte Katakuri, let's get to know him, shall we? Brulee is very quick to brag about his outrageously silly backstory this week—not only has he never lost a fight, he's never once laid on his back! He came out of the womb standing up, and this obviously true legend (no need to look it up, there are no lies here) is supposed to be evidence of true nobility, coolness, and masculinity. Katakuri doesn't seem like to type to brag on his own behalf, but he is demonstrably much stronger than Luffy, so much so that it barely feels like he's trying in this fight until he gets mad at Luffy for trying to strike his siblings.
We get a brief return of the Germa 66 subplot this week, though I had forgotten they were even still in this story and not a lot has changed in their ongoing skirmish with the Big Mom pirates, but there was an interesting anime-only detail where Charlotte Bassquarte (one of the nobody Charlottes whose name you wouldn't even know if you didn't follow supplemental materials) pulls down the covering on his face to breathe fire and you get to see he's got a jagged monster mouth. It was interesting to see the anime add some flourish to the arc's motif of Charlotte children hiding a part of their true appearance, though it's a little redundant if you have even an inkling about what's going on under Katakuri's big scarf.
This is a decent episode for the Katakuri fight, but you don't reach the end feeling like a whole lot of progress is made. The biggest issue with this battle is that it gets repetitive by following the same basic beats: Luffy attacks, Katakuri dodges. Luffy attacks again, Katakuri copies his move but bigger. Rinse and repeat. This week introduces Katakuri's trident into the mix, but now is about the time we'd want to see a shift in the power dynamic between the two. Thankfully, the moment-to-moment pacing is much more exciting than last week, so as bare bones as this episode is, it still manages to be enjoyable enough.
One Piece: Episode of Skypiea - 2018
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One Piece: Episode of Skypiea - 2018
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: One Piece: Episode of Skypiea
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: ONE PIECE エピソードオブ空島
نام فیلم انیمه‌یی: One Piece: Episode of Sorajima
ژانر: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Super Power, Drama, Fantasy, Shounen
تاریخ پخش: تابستان 2018
وضعیت: تمام شده
تعداد قسمت‌ها: یک قسمت – اسپشیال
مدت زمان فیلم انیمه‌یی: یک ساعت و 45 دقیقه
کارگردان: Uda Kounosuke
منبع: Manga
استودیو: Toei Animation
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One Piece - Episode 849 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 849 [Review]
So we've managed to survive long enough in the Big Mom chase to finally board the Thousand Sunny. Things will never be easy, however, and now our heroes' next priority is to actually set sail, which is a real challenge while continuing to deal with Perospero (who this week proudly announces his 700 million berry bounty) and Katakuri (Mister One Billion). Big Mom's rampage is pushing the Straw Hats off the shore, and an entire enemy fleet is arriving to challenge them at sea.
It's hard to call this the official start of the Luffy vs. Katakuri fight, since it's a momentary skirmish so far, but there's a unique air between these two as Luffy tries to plow through his opponent's Mochi-Mochi powers. The real meat and potatoes of this week's episode lies on the shoulders of Pedro's fight with Perospero, since Perospero is adding his candy powers into the mix and locking the Sunny on the shore to block the Straw Hats' ability to use the Coup de Burst and fly away.
Long story short, this is the "death" of Pedro episode. This is yet again about half a chapter's worth of material being covered, but it's a rare instance where I don't mind so much, because the show does such a good job sucking you into the moment and helping you forget how long we've been in Big Mom's territory and how much needs to happen before we're out. The artificial pacing isn't at odds with the sense of power and scale they're trying to convey. This is Pedro's episode through and through, flashing back to his childhood admiration of Gold Roger and connecting that to his mission in favor of the Straw Hats.
The Alice in Wonderland influences in Whole Cake Island feel very appropriate, because there are a number of what I'd call "through the looking glass" moments—turning points where the audience can feel their expectations crumbling to dust in their hands. Pedro's sacrifice (using dynamite to blow himself and Perospero to smithereens) feels like it's been telegraphed for months, and yet it feels so sudden when it actually happens. I think the tragedy is in how much time and effort we've spent trying to save Sanji from throwing his own life away for the benefit of the crew, and then Pedro goes and does exactly that. The rest of the cast doesn't even have time to grieve. If they don't immediately embrace this new opening as a gift, they'll be next.
I have to put "death" in quotes because this is still One Piece, after all. With few exceptions, characters who commit a heroic sacrifice usually get up and dust themselves off in the post-arc or have their survival teased in the story years later. As of the manga, Pedro is still presumed dead, but anything's possible for this series. I think if he was for sure deceased, the story could get a lot more explicit and save the audience a debate, but on the other hand I think the mystery gives us an optional safety net from the arc's more sinister subtext. Whole Cake Island to me is at least partly about the ever-blurring line between noble self-sacrifice and pathological self-destruction. The arc began as a detour from the Kaido storyline, a quick adventure to get Sanji back and see the crew whole again, but now we'll be leaving it with more lost than gained.
This episode is notably strong in execution as well, sporting a lot of great art and indulging in a myriad of legacy OST tracks. I can't think of the last time I heard 'To the Grand Line' in this show, and it cements Pedro's death scene as an instant classic in my mind. This really feels like the anime staff going above and beyond to make something that feels just a little bigger than the source material, and I believe they have succeeded wonderfully.
One Piece - Episode 847 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 847 [Review]
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┃┃╱╲ In this
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Charlotte Pudding
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Before we get ahead of ourselves, however, the Big Mom chase rages on as usual. Nothing can stop Big Mom from chasing that delicious (nonexistent) wedding cake, not even being blown into the ground by a giant lightning bolt. The Straw Hats stop, thinking they must have slowed her down, only to hear her thumping footsteps as she walks through the crater walls like they're made of cardboard. By this point, most of the audience is probably tired sick of hearing her scream "wedding cake!!!" over and over again in a half-conscious tantrum, but each successive example of how ludicrously unstoppable she is gives me goosebumps.
Some progress is made elsewhere since Brook and Chopper have secured the submarine and arrived at the Thousand Sunny only to discover the enemy on board. Katakuri and Perospero are watching from the side for now, but the action scene with the smaller grunts looks fantastic. There's something really exciting about seeing Brook and Chopper, two of the more scaredy-cat members of the crew, fail to miss a beat in taking the enemy head on. The adrenaline is rushing through their veins and the rest of the crew is counting on them to keep the ship safe, so their decision to go head first into the fight is awesome. This sequence makes for a great companion to the better-looking scene from last week.
From there we reach the next significant development in the story, with Pudding and Chiffon flying into the middle of the chase and begging Sanji to help bake the cake that will calm Big Mom down. We've already learned by now that Pudding is a flustered mess around Sanji, but only now that she's actually confronting him again do we meet hyper-tsundere Pudding, flip-flopping between blushing adoration and throat-slitting villainy.
In a stroke of happenstance, I actually prefer how this reveal got spaced out in the anime. In the manga her feelings for Sanji leading up to this moment were split between two cliffhangers: one showing "good" Pudding and one showing "evil" Pudding. The reveal that she's still juggling her evil side is a lot funnier when it comes all at once like this, because it's so comically futile. Normally tsunderes act mean because they want to hide their true feelings, but Pudding's already vomited hers for the world to see and now it's just damage control. "It's not like I didn't want you to die or anything!" What's the point of saying that?! Everybody just saw you talking about how great he is two seconds ago!
Pudding really strikes a nerve with me. Despite the cartoonishness of her personality, I find her incredibly sympathetic. She's spent her entire life playing a character for everybody else, only truly existing in her own head, and now the facade is broken and she can't go back to the way things were anymore. Anything that isn't the raw id-fueled acceptance of another person (which Sanji can offer in spades) just feels like loneliness to her now. I have a love-hate relationship with tsunderes, but I like how this cuts straight to what I've always believed was the most relatable aspect of the trope—it's reaction-formation, a conditioned hatred of your own feelings. I also like how Chiffon gets to play the straight man act opposite her. They have this entire plan to calm Big Mom, and she'll be damned if she lets Pudding get in her own way!
This tsundere-twist is definitely not for everybody—many will be disappointed that this is the destination of a character who was the secondary antagonist of the arc not too long ago. To me, the tsundere thing feels like a deliberately sensationalist spin with the intention of pushing the trope to its logical extreme and bending it into a new shape as a result. I always got the sense that the author sees a human being underneath her wackiness, and the audience is given every opportunity under the sun to understand her situation and feelings despite appearances, which is frankly a very Eiichiro Oda way of telling a story.
So the Straw Hats may be closing in on their ship, but the battle isn't ending any time soon. The argument that Chiffon and Pudding make is that the crew would have no way out of Big Mom's territory even if they could make it to sea. Big Mom is just that good at finding and killing people. Their only course of survival is to hold the fort and wait for Sanji and the girls to bake the most delicious wedding cake in the world, praying that it gives the crew a chance to skedaddle. This episode is the feeling of taking another deep breath to hold. We were so close to victory and now an entire cake has to be made while we twiddle our thumbs and hope the rest of the cast doesn't die.
And I am here for it.
One Piece - Episode 843 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 843 [Review]
At long last, it's time for the Luffy/Capone/Caesar alliance to come to an end. They may have failed to kill Big Mom, but they succeeded in knocking down her castle (an accident) and pissing her off (hey, what can you do?) so Capone's ready to cut his losses and call it a day. The Big Mom pirates are furious and on the hunt, so they only have so much time to escape the territory completely. Sadly, this is also Caesar Clown's final appearance in this arc, concluding his multi-hundred episode long saga as the Straw Hats' resident hostage/bargaining chip. His final gag is to hang out in the background, shouting goodbye and hoping somebody somewhere will care that he's gone.
I care, Caesar. I care.
The Big Mom pirates were able to survive the fall off the chateau thanks to Streusen's food powers that turn the Whole Cake Chateau into an actual cake so that people can land on soft bread and frosting. However, food produced by the Cook-Cook Fruit apparently doesn't taste good enough for Big Mom's liking, and in the rubble of her fallen castle all she can do is lament the loss of that wedding cake she was craving for at the ceremony—the one that Luffy busted with his grand entrance. Mom's "hunger pangs" were established early in the arc, and the combo of those and her seething rage toward the Straw Hats as she hits a furious withdrawal and topples the nearest city screaming "wedding cake!!!" over and over again. Her children have a lot to worry about between killing the Straw Hats and stopping Mom from killing them.
After spending the past few months on top of the bright, confectionary-themed chateau, it's refreshing to see the green grass and trees again now that we're back on the ground floor. This episode's greatest strength is that we're finally entering a new phase of the story, with new settings and goals. That doesn't mean that our heroes are anywhere close to done with Big Mom and her family, but there's still something bittersweet about parting ways with our allies nonetheless. There's a lot of good comedy that comes with the end of the Straw Hat/Firetank partnership too, like Capone putting up a "Straw Hats went that way -->" sign in a last ditch attempt to get the Big Mom family off his heels.
The weakness of this episode is that somewhere along the way we slipped back out of the one-chapter-per-episode pace, so a lot of the runtime gets taken up with Big Mom's kids standing around talking, and the fate of Charlotte Opera, who was sent to try and calm Mom down in the midst of her rampage, is left for next week. If you were an anime-only watcher, then you'd likely be confused as to why the Straw Hats are now free to escape Big Mom's territory without any more fighting. Like, really? That's it? The faster the show can get us to the the Straw Hats' next concrete goal on WCI, the better.
This is a serviceable episode if ever there was one. Entering a new phase of the arc can be a little exciting, but it also comes with new challenges. The gimmick of Whole Cake Island moving forward is a giant chase with Big Mom herself, so we're going to hear her shout "wedding cake!" a deathly number of times. It's about to get very old, very fast. However, the focus on story flow and momentum in this part of the arc is incredible, and I'm looking forward to seeing it be adapted, janky pacing and all.
One Piece - Episode 842 [Review]
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One Piece - Episode 842 [Review]
It's starting to become tradition that every major One Piece arc will have that one mysterious character detail that remains a painful tease and nothing more. In Dressrosa it was Doflamingo's eyes, and in Whole Cake Island it's Judge's eyebrows. Big Mom dropped the thunderbolt on Judge's face and cracked his helmet wide open, but its contents are still covered in shadows, leaving all my theories up in the air. I'm still pretty sure that his eyebrows are massive and bushy, with six swirls on each side (Get it? Germa "66"?), but it looks increasingly likely that we may never find out. Perhaps it never really mattered to begin with.
Anyway, this episode suffers from a lack of polish. The first half continues to be action-heavy (still adding embellishments on top of the original manga material) but there's a notable lack of detail in most of the drawings. There manage to be some stand-out moments of animation sandwiched between the endless reaction shots of characters hanging out on the sidelines, but it's an awkward mishmash of good and bad, both aesthetically and pacing-wise. Right up until the big scenery change at the end, this episode gets bogged down by a lot of meaningless noise. If you want to see the Vinsmokes and the non-Katakuri members of Big Mom's family get some more time to shine, the anime has you covered, but the content can still get boring.
That said, a major scene I forgot to mention in the last review was the continuing adventures of the Tamate Box, the bomb-rigged chest that Mom was hoping to open during her daughter's wedding. It ended up in the hands of Du Feld, one of Big Mom's guests, but before he could open it and discover its "treasures", he was slain by Stussy, who turned out to be a double agent working for the government's CP-0 group this whole time. And before she could open the box, it began tumbling down the side of the Whole Cake Chateau. I think this episode does a good job getting our protagonists to an emotional low point, with Big Mom crushing the Vinsmokes effortlessly and her kids successfully capturing Luffy and Sanji just as Katakuri's Haki alerts him of the falling box. We've been anticipating this bomb going off for months, and once it hits the ground it creates an explosion much bigger than expected; it takes a big chunk out of the chateau, and Big Mom's entire castle begins to fall.
There's real joy to be had in seeing the tables turn in our heroes' favor so drastically and unexpectedly. The chateau falling will take at least another episode to play out, but the excitement in Capone's demented laughter once he realizes he may have won is infectious, and it's cool to see the camera cut between all the various rooms we've visited throughout the arc being destroyed. You can only imagine how dumbfounded the Big Mom pirates must be as they topple and roll off the side of the building. Luffy's "gift" from all those years ago paid off tremendously, and this final sequence was enough to elevate the whole episode for me.
This set piece flings the entire cast into the air to fall thousands of feet, bringing the adventurous spirit that this arc has desperately needed. We're doing away with Big Mom's tea party and moving to the ground level where the Straw Hats will have a renewed chance to book it towards the sea now that their goals have been re-accomplished. Honestly, the next episode could spend most of its runtime in midair with the heroes and villains still falling, and I'd still probably have a good time. That scope and whimsy are the shot in the arm I needed.
One Piece - Episode 833 [Review]
One Piece - Episode 833 [Review]
The big cliffhanger we ended on last week was Luffy's surprise entrance to the wedding. I was so focused on Pudding that I neglected to mention in last week's review that the wedding cake, the one Big Mom covets so dearly, was actually so large that it served as the altar, and the flashy entrance that Luffy was so giddy and secretive about was that he had Capone's crew sneak a piece of mirror into the wedding cake when they were snooping around the kitchen a few episodes back, so he could use Brulee's powers to warp through and burst out of the cake alongside a bunch of wild animals he caught in the forest (using Brulee's powers again to turn the animals into Luffy clones so they could serve as a distraction.)
We seem to be easing back into a one-chapter-per-episode pace, though that could just be a temporary thing. I hope we're getting back on track because pretty soon Whole Cake Island is going to transition into one big 30-40 episode action set piece driven by organized chaos, and that sounds like trouble waiting to happen when it comes to the anime. The story content in this episode is crazy good, but that high octane energy easily gets lost when it feels like all the big scenes are standing around, quietly waiting for their turn to debut.
But boy, do we have some big scenes this week! The star of the show was Jimbei, who confidently decides to step into the middle of the action just when Luffy looks ready to fight Big Mom face-to-face, choosing that moment to request a formal parting of ways with the Charlotte family. Jimbei's a man of honor, making it clear that he was not satisfied with the treason he got strong-armed into, and he volunteers to confront Mom's 'Soul Pocus', a power that allows her to steal the soul of anybody who fears death. There's a lot of "I'm going to join the man who will be King of the Pirates!" talk from our fish uncle this week, and it feels great.
Jimbei's journey through the Whole Cake Island arc is a thing of beauty. Before this moment, there was a lot of talk about "death flags" for the character, since he talked a suspicious amount about how willing he was to lay his life on the line for his soon-to-be captain. This fear gets subverted when it turns out Jimbei's willingness to die is exactly the reason he survives (Big Mom can't even pull a second of lifespan from him because he's that much of a badass), which is probably the most One Piece way possible to have a character cheat death, and it allows him to then return his symbolic sake cup of brotherhood and finally cut ties with a "Thank you for all your troubles!" It's the most polite yet powerful way I've ever seen a character tell his old boss to shove it.
But as the final scene to cap off the episode, Jimbei's declaration is only the first part of a one-two punch. Immediately afterward, in the disarray that follows Big Mom trying to snuff out her new enemy, it finally clicks with the audience that the Luffy clone who looked out of place at the beginning of the episode was just Brook in a really bad Luffy disguise, and now he's sneaking up to the Mother Carmel picture to smack it with a hammer. I cannot watch this scene without laughing. It's way too good of a punchline for the episode.
We're entering a phase of the arc where I have such intimate memories of reading the source material for the first time that it's going to be rare for the anime to meet my expectations and kick my heart into overdrive. That Jimbei scene is so good, but I didn't walk away from this episode with my blood on fire like I wanted to. Between the tease of a Big Mom vs. Luffy showdown, the reveal of Katakuri's Mochi-Mochi fruit, Jimbei's speech, and Brook breaking the Mother Carmel picture, I really want these scenes to feel as dense and concentrated as they are on the page. I know that's not a reasonable expectation from this show, but every once and a while the anime succeeds at capturing the hugely transcendent emotions of this series, and other times it's just pretty good.
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One Piece - Episode 832 [Review]
One Piece - Episode 832 [Review]
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When it comes to Eiichiro Oda, fans are always ready for that other shoe to drop. What we're never quite ready for, however, are the five or six other shoes he seems to keep tucked under his arm at any given time.
Truly unadorned build-up aside, the conversation around this episode begins and ends with one main scene; the moment of truth during Sanji and Pudding's wedding, when it's time for the groom to kiss the bride. All the various evil plans are designed to intersect at this time, so obviously what will happen must be a surprise, right? As a manga reader, I've been anticipating seeing this part of the story adapted because it was a massive turning point in my experience with the Whole Cake Island arc, as well as a rather controversial one among my group of friends. In a matter of days, it will have been a year since this twist debuted in the manga, and I've continued to digest my feelings since then.
Charlotte Pudding is a roller coaster of a character. There's a real magic trick at play with her and the millions of twists surrounding whether she's "good" Pudding or "evil" Pudding, and just when you think the answer's been handed to you on a silver platter, that's when the story hits you with the next surprise. When we first met "good" Pudding, we were suspicious of her. She seemed way too nice. Then, we got to know her a little more and the idea of her tricking Sanji and the crew stopped making sense. And then BAM, malevolent three-eyed actress Pudding revealed herself! All right, everything's on the table now. What else could we possibly learn about her?!
And then her diabolical plan to shoot Sanji's brains out after he lifts her veil falls apart, because rather than recoiling in disgust at the sight of her third eye like she expected, he blushes and calls it beautiful. It's certainly something. There's a significant presence of "female villain defeated by love" tropes in One Piece, which I go back and forth on when I think about it. Many people do not like it. Hell, I don't like it most of the time, but Pudding is a case where I'm kind of infatuated with it. Problematic warts and all, I think Pudding represents so much of what I find compelling about Oda as a writer.
However, I feel the need to say that I don't think this episode actually does the scene justice. It's extremely straightforward in its adaptive choices, to the detriment of a quality I think is present in the source material. The manga version is fairly bizarre, opting out of any connective tissue that could have added some tenderness and made this romantic gesture seem more grounded and human. Instead, possibly to keep the pace of the story moving, it plays out as a series of big moments. Even with Sanji doing a very Sanji thing, we can't get inside his head at all during this scene. Was this his genuine reaction to seeing her eye up close? Did he recognize something familiar in her ahead of time, and now he's making a calculated decision to speak to that? Pudding's emotional breakdown at the compliment feels right at home with the sudden bursts of crying we see in this series all the time, but in the context of this scene and the general touchiness of the trope being employed, it easily reads much more tawdry.
These are problems that the version of this scene that I like in the manga was already dealing with. That said, I do appreciate the way that the manga leaves the tone open for interpretation, all while sticking to its broad and wacky style of tackling human emotions. Watching it play out in the anime, which is almost lifelessly faithful to the pacing and structure of the manga version, started to sway me in the other direction. I began wondering if I was reading too much into the scene this whole time, that maybe it really was as shallow and tacky as it seemed at face value, but writing my thoughts out is drudging up old feelings again.
More important are the snippets of Pudding's backstory that unravel as a result of this, where we see her being ruthlessly bullied for her third eye. This is the point where the crude selfishness of Big Mom and the people of Totto Land goes from being an amusing characterization to the entire point of the story. Everything about Whole Cake Island is a lie; the promise of safety and racial harmony is nothing but an appeal to a monster's ego, and the deliberate and inescapable cycle of abuse becomes crystal clear. The country's motto is "Leave or Life." Make Mom happy and die slowly, or stand against Mom and die now.
And then there are the obvious parallels between Sanji and Pudding, who are now both unambiguously victims of their own families: two peas in a pod, just like their fake relationship began. The series aimed for a similar scene back in Dressrosa, when it was between Sanji and Viola. There's a clear desire to take the joke of Sanji's chivalry and weakness for women (something villains have historically been able to exploit) and turn it inside out to give him a win. I found the Viola example embarrassing and insincere, but here in Whole Cake Island it threads into the larger story in a more compelling way. Whole Cake Island is about how our parents—biologically or otherwise—create us. It's about how the flaws that we're born with or get bred into us impact our ability to understand each other. Sanji's relationship with his mentor Zeff is hugely important in understanding what motivates him, and what allowed his weaknesses to occasionally become strengths, and I assume we'll learn something similar to be true about Pudding's relationship with her big sister Lola.
At the time that the manga version of this scene came out, my relationship with One Piece had simmered in the wake of the Dressrosa arc, but it was this moment that brought the passion roaring back. It felt like there was something ambitious in the works, a desire to string one of the more eyeroll-worthy elements of the series into some kind of poetry that would pay off as the arc fired towards its climax. At a time when the audience is already expecting the wedding to explode in spectacular ways, this direction feels the most like a crazy gamble, committed to sympathizing with a character who's designed head-to-toe to be unlikable. But I do like her! I find the whole "embarrassed by romantic affection because you're used to acting a certain way around family" thing a little too relatable, and from this point forward I'm invested in finding out where the rest of her character arc goes, because what we've gotten so far is bananas.
So I've got a lot of feelings about Pudding and what Whole Cake Island becomes as we continue to move into the second half, because the weirdness is far from over. For what's such an important chapter to me, I don't think the anime does a satisfactory job adapting it. It's already a challenging story to review, since it's worth breaking down all the ways in which it's going to be unpalatable for a lot of people, but my own response is so passionate and warm regardless. I don't think this episode's direction quite delivers what I see in it, but it's got that One Piece fire in my belly flaring up all the same.