Out of all of the many many reasons I love gear 5, one I haven't talked about yet is how much Luffy so obviously loves gear 5 as well.
It is honestly revolutionary to have a shonen protag's final form be enjoyable for them. To not be something born out of anger or hate; a thing born out of strict necessity that has to be unlocked by painful emotions/the loss of someone they loved (temporary or otherwise) but rather born out of joy and a desire for freedom. To have them want to be in that final form, to have it spit in the face of the idea that the only way to be powerful is to be serious, edgy, ""mature"" and to abandon joy and happiness in favor of that.
I LOVE that Luffy's final power-up doesn't come at the cost of who he is as a person, and instead amplifies and uplifts who he is. It uplifts his carefree nature, his goofiness, his creativity, his sense of wonder. And as such, the form is something that he enjoys more than any other gear he has used. It allows him to be the freest version of himself, allows him to bend the world around him to his whims, of course he's going to love it.
It also (in a weird way) acts as a message of self love. Luffy does not have to abandon who he is to become stronger, but rather has to lean even further into who he is. The traits that make him 'weird' and 'strange' by pirate (or hell, even just by regular standards) are the very things that boost him up and allow him to win against his foes.
A "ridiculous power" Kaido called it, and yet it was that power that sent him hurdling to the center of the earth, toppling his reign over Wano with the very thing he robbed from its people.
A short translation of an extra collaboration comic published with Chapter 6 in the GFantasy magazine, featuring two other series “The Morose Mononokean” and “A Vampire Called God.” Available to read on Mangadex as well!
Most of the TBHK swap AUs I’ve seen involve the Minamoto brothers as the Yugi twins or Nene as Hanako or just the Yugi twins swapped and those are all fantastic but hear me out
Aoi as Hanako and Sumire as Tsukasa
A comic redraw of one of my favorite moominvalley strips. I love them sm ;-;
honestly one of my fav things that isn’t ever talked about with Kusuo is that he is honestly when you actually examine him, a pretty normal teenager. He’s insecure, he cares a lot about his mom and is scared of making her mad, he gets invested in other peoples drama, he dislikes PE, he hates being spoiled for things, he has an embarrassing crush that his friends judge him for, he has an awkward relationship with his dad and fights with his brother, he wants to be protected.
Like underneath all the unfamiliar stuff, he is honestly Just Some Guy.
Ignore Little My it was my first time drawing her!!
ok but have you considered: magical girl saiki.
he's got pink hair, powers, and an alternate girl form. it's perfect
screaming he looks so much like hanako here lmao. the yashiro nene humbling effect
There is so much to break down here holy shit
First off, I like how Fukuzawa and Mori are the only one fully on different sides here, I think of all the generations of skk they are the ones who simply and truly hate eachother. Everything about them is antithetical, they represent the complete opposite values.
skk here is also interesting, look at chuuyas expression, he has his typical "I hate being here but i have no choice" look that he had as the king of sheep. And Dazai literally leaning over him is pretty spot on for how we see their partnership play out for most of their time in the mafia.
sskk being back to back here I think actually shows their trust in eachother now, Fyodor being a present threat and both of them wathcing eachothers back. There's also the fact that Atsushi is looking up while Akutagawa is looking straight ahead
Animaniacs #37 -May 1998- DC Comics
"All My Warners"
writer: Jeff Suess
penciler: Leonardo Batic
inker: Scott McRae
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
"Li-Hippo-Suction"
writer: Dana Kurtin
penciler: Leonardo Batic
inker: Scott McRae
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
"Mr. Brain's Neighborhood"
writer: Jeff Seuss
penciller: Walter Carzon
inker: Jim Amash
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
a comic about wine, a wager, and reconnecting through your weird kids
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this behemoth of a comic is finally done - and just in time for zoros birthday huehue. initially i wanted to make a zolu introspective from an outsider POV and was like you know who would have really funny input on this … mihawk. and then it spiraled into seven pages of mishanks sitting and talking. i thought it would be funny if mishanks ended up doing self imposed couples therapy the day mihawk brought luffys bounty bc well. its kind of hilarious to think abt mihawk realizing shanks was onto something all those years ago after he meets zoro and luffy. like sure this new generation is batshit crazy but my god are they cooking. anyways. cheers. get some kids