The (Laugh?) Sad Tale Of Joy Boy

it's them 😭

Just read Moominvalley in November and I loved them all, I'm so sad there's not much content of them because they are a gold mine of joke comics.

It wasn't just The Book About Depression, it was also about Some Guy and Some Lady arguing over cleaning duties and the guy snatched Snufkin's tent for a whole night afterward.

Gear 5 Foreshadowing/Analysis

One of the things that absolutely delighted me about gear 5 was how natural it felt for Luffy. It was Luffy to a T - which is what makes it so incredible! That's the best part of him :)

I learned about Gear 5/Joyboy/Sun God Nika like a month after starting One Piece, and I was just able to see how every element of the show was building up to this.

luffy vs. kaido fight spoilers under readmore

GEAR 5 GEAR 5 GEAR 5!!

Part of the reason it feels so natural is because of how it shows that the Devil Fruit's Awakening builds on Luffy's growth and understanding of his powers, particularly his use of all 4 gears, which are all incorporated and clearly referenced in the Gear 5 fight:

Gear 1- Luffy interacting with lightning!! Because since we have known since Skypiea, rubber is nonconductive, meaning luffy isn't affected by it. Luffy grabbing the lightning strikes and using it to catapult him around? That's gomu gomu no rocket! On top of that, he manages to become the lightning and swoop towards Kaido (in a move that looks a lot like Python). He's able to combine his base rubber powers in a wild and wacky way, and absolutely loves it :)

Gear 2 comes in play in this incredible screenshot from the fight after Luffy restarts the Drums of Liberation. Gear 2 is also about controlling bloodflow and breathing - and by extension, the heartbeat!! Its all there. Thank Gear 2 for luffy's auto-defibrillation skills.

Gomu Gomu no Giant is the logical progression of Gear 4 Boundman, (which builds on gear 2 and gear 3 as well). It's like a version of Luffy without the additions

Gear 3: ... Yeah, this one is pretty obvious.

But the most important aspect of Luffy it brings in from his previous fights is his silliness. From the shocked face Crocodile gives him when he sees Water Luffy to Kaido's eyes popping out as he uses him as a jump rope. Things that seem meaningless, like his Gomu Gomu no UFO move. (I had to include this because I thought about how Joyboy it was from the moment i saw it. He's just joyously having fun in weird ways!! <3)

The magic of Gear 5 is in how everything from before comes together and combines seamlessly, which brings us to section 2:

Foreshadowing of Joyboy

Luffy has always been the sun. Tanjiro has nothing on Luffy for Most Sun Coded Anime Protagonist. Luffy is from the East Blue on Dawn Isle. One could say he rose from the East. The beginning of his story is called romance DAWN. This is from other posts that delve into it more, but luffy has been liberating people from the start- Koby, Zoro, Shells Town. Thats just how he rolls, it's part of his existence- Luffy will see someone oppressed, think "Is anyone going to help them free themselves?" and not wait for an answer. Punching a celestial dragon? That's ridiculous. But Luffy was made to do ridiculous things.

Skypiea, which is where we learn about Joyboy, has Luffy facing off against Enel and winning easily because of his nonconductiveness - the true god destroying the false one.

On Fishman Island, he frees Shirahoshi from her prison and promises to take her to see the sun. Another aspect is the symbol of the sun pirates being changing the celestial dragon's slavemark into a SUN. Luffy also takes away the giant shadow of Noah hanging over them.

Dressrosa? Known for it's SUNflowers.

When Luffy loves and accepts sanji, freeing him, the sun literally dawns on him. One of my fave moments with him. (To go into sanji & his wano arc i would need a whole different 1000 word essay on him. Bbg u are simply so fucked up)

Wano arc amps up the dawn = freedom references by 100. referencing the dawn 24/7, having luffy become a slave

Luffy has always been free because he is himself.

there are images running through my mind and i wanted to o hear your theories about them 😊

in the chapter 95 what does tsukasa's condition mean here ? I thought that tsukasa was like this because he takes the power of the sixth yourishiro especially since he holding the radio ?

was hanako able to hear or sense yashiro when she know his yourishiro was tsukasa because if you noticed he started the Hakujodai fast when he took her ? What do you think

i hope my question is not too long for you 😔

This scene specifically leads us to think about a betrayal coming from Sakura and Kokujoudai.

Remember that the joudais are spirits of people who did not take human form like the other spirits.

So, technically, there are two spirits with Hanako and two with Tsukasa, and we know that they talk to them.

Sakura was alone with one of Tsukasa's joudais doing something hidden from him.

At that moment, Tsukasa was talking to Hanako and Nene.

The general idea was that Tsukasa went to get Nene to put her in the number six boundary and she removed Sumire's seal.

While Sakura should have gone after Sumire and taken her to the boundary again.

That's why Tsukasa is happy that she did her job, he put Nene there and she put Sumire there, so the idea was that Nene would be forced to remove Sumire's seal because she wouldn't be able to leave the boundary without removing the seal.

Tsukasa even took Hanako with him, so that he wouldn't interfere and take Nene out of the boundary (something he did with Hitodama).

But here's the point of "betrayal"

Sakura placed number six in the boundary without Tsukasa's permission. And she convinced Sumire that she would have to ask number six to destroy her.

It was for Nene to remove Sumire's seal, but since Sakura knew she wouldn't do it, she sent Natsuhiko to capture number six and put him in his boundary.

Meanwhile, she found Sumire and told her that she has to "sacrifice herself". Sakura intentionally planned this without Tsukasa knowing. Her mission was to put Sumire in the boundary and Nene to remove the seal (that's why Tsukasa put Nene there).

Nene was supposed to remove the seal, but Sakura "forced" number six to do it. And Kokujoudai was with her. Sakura reinforcing that Tsukasa doesn't know and can't hear is yet another confirmation. She was telling Nene information that she probably shouldn't have, like the connection between her life and the yorishiros.

Furthermore, she made a point of showing what happens when Nene doesn't remove the yorishiros. She wanted to shock Nene so that at some point she would prefer to remove the seal.

In this case, Tsukasa's.

At some point Tsukasa's seal will be removed, but Hanako doesn't want it, so it's unlikely that he will destroy Tsukasa. And since Sakura wants all the seals to be removed, then Nene will understand that if she doesn't remove Tsukasa's seal, Amane will destroy him, just like Hakubo did with Sumire.

In other words, theoretically, Sakura did all this so that Nene would know what will happen if she doesn't remove Tsukasa's seal.

But she will have to fight Hanako.

Anyway, when Sakura talked about the information and the image of Tsukasa with the radio appeared, it made me imagine that it represents more of his vulnerable side. That's because Tsukasa was awake and waiting for Sakura's return.

She and Natsuhiko apparently plan to betray Tsukasa.

And he knows it.

Tsukasa always knows.

Just going to rant about something I think I noticed in the new season, I am very very sleepy so this probably makes sense to me

-spoilers for the new season-

During the first season of the reboot Brain was very composed unlike in the third season. Where season one Brain wouldn’t be seen crying, even when he explained his backstory to Pinky, in seasons 2-3 he is shown as much more emotional. But in season 3 this guy seems to be actually loosing it

In their last segment (How the Brain Thieved Christmas) Brain’s eyes were always uneven and look a little crazy

He was irrationally mad throughout the entire episode and couldn’t seem to focus at all, which is uncharacteristic of him, especially when in season one he would never lose his train of thought wouldn’t happen

Brain definitely was getting more ‘emotional’ during the second season and let it slip a few times but I think what started to get to him was the episode Talladega Mice, with having to talk with Pinky and help him work through with his stress, having to contain some emotion. Then the episode Groundmouse Day happened and I think it really got to Brain and caused him to go a bit mad. After that, Brain has been saying and doing things spontaneously and is showing a completely different side while trying to maintain his ‘stern monotone’ facade. Its surreal to see

And with this, its also obvious how much he has changed in the physical touch area, whereas in season 1 and 2, he would grab Pinky’s hand a lot, pull him really close without having a second thought, season 3 Brain is completely different

He gets flustered over just a hand hold that is no different from every other time from the past 30 years

Then there’s the kiss from Groundmouse Day that has him stunned while (probably in season 1) Brain gets kissed but he shows only aggression

Brain’s affection, or more just interacting with Pinky has decreased in this season and he seems to keep getting flustered over something Pinky has done a million times

So I think with all this information combined, I believe that Brain has been getting more insane if you will, or is in an odd headspace, and the suddenish change could be Brain has been getting unstable and could be causing his slip up in affection, or he knows about his blatant love for Pinky that it in turn is causing his insanity

Who knows which one it is, honestly I think its the latter

But hey thats just a theory

a Film Theory

When the Mafia Accidentally Read a Story Written on a Whim and Got Transported to an Alternate Universe by Kino Hinoki 

(Bungou Stray Dogs Third Official Anthology ~Rin~ )

Translation: @ce-la Raws: @mirei191 Typesetting: Me!

Sorry if the quality seems poor or it’s hard to read because of the typesetting and cleaning. This chapter was a lot of fun! I really liked it!

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Looking for treasure at the Hattifatteners' island

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