"Never mind all that. Hey, come be my nakama!" Brook: "Sure, ok."
It's hilarious that after all the times Luffy has casually thrown out invitations (while the rest of the crew is horrified) and been turned down, he finally found someone who would (just as casually) agree to join them.
I can't translate this. "Made, my ASS!"?
That's exactly how I would translate it.
Something starts grabbing Robin and licking at her (EW)
UGH. Welcome to the part of Thriller Bark I really hate! (I do love the rest.)
re: Cindry -- part of her backstory is related to the Japanese legend of the ghost who counts plates, right? Umm...this one.
Now that you mention it, perhaps they don't. I've always just assumed that everyone knows who is on which crew, but that might only be because of a handful of people we see in-series who seem to know everything while most people are clueless.
Also, something that came up in the volume I was just reading (early 48?) seemed to confirm that Sanji was the one they weren't counting, so it seems you were right.
This is embarrassing, because I'm really glad to see a new post, but I can't think of anything to add!
Love Brook's introduction though. Already we get to see a bit of how strong he is and how sad and touching his story is, though we only see the barest bones (whistles) of it here.
Luffy pushing the zombie back into the ground is such a classic. :D
Pretty sure the bit where he's trying to tame Cerberus, before he smacks him into the wall, is a homage/callback of a scene from Nausicäa of the Valley of Wind, where Nausicäa befriends the little animal Teto (but unlike Luffy, doesn't smack it into the wall when it bites her
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Ah, your interpretation of the Alabasta peeping scene sounds about right. I haven't reread that in a long time. Anyway, in this scene there would be no pressure for him to follow the crowd, because Usopp has better sense than to try to intentionally peep on Nami ever again even if he wanted to. She'd charge him!
It's interesting to compare Thriller Bark to the mystery reveal in Water 7. It does seem to take a long time to put all the pieces together - I had to resist the impulse to cross the t's and dot the i's by explaining things the reader isn't supposed to know until a certain point. But yes, much less tension behind waiting for the reveal, I guess because there's less at stake?
I assumed it was the frontispiece (or whatever that first color page is called) in the Japanese version.
"Color plate"? (That's a stab in the dark guess.) But: Shounen Jump manga (and other manga at the ~¥400 price point) don't usually come with color pages. It's the bigger, ~¥600 manga that do.
In my mind, Sara texted you and begged you to stop my editing (I was on Edit #5).
Wow...interesting that the English edition has one tiny benefit over the Japanese. (Well, the color image on the back + the fact that I can actually read English.) But the important thing here is Viking Zoro is hot.
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but this was the first time I picked up on Franky's "This week's me…" speech gimmick.
this time, he turns out to actually be a badly injured old man.
I possibly loved this more than I should have. (In the spirit of always assuming that Hannibal Lecter is serving people and being surprised when he's not.)
Spaghetti soup, this time.
So it's really called spaghetti soup? I thought it was just the world's worst -- and most unnecessary -- translation of ramen.
Hogback is the creator of all the zombies on the island.
I meant to say this earlier: this frankensteining is what I hate mos…well, second-most about Thriller Bark so far. Most hate Absalom's assault on Nami in the shower.
Apparently, she was controlling the ghosts by means of some sort of astral projection while her body was unconscious.
I found that very confusing. Took me forever to figure out who was Perona, even though someone said earlier that the ghosts were being controlled like puppets.
So it's really called spaghetti soup? I thought it was just the world's worst -- and most unnecessary -- translation of ramen.
No, that's actually what she calls it (well, "soup spaghetti," in katakana). I feel like I need to google it now.
I meant to say this earlier: this frankensteining is what I hate mos…well, second-most about Thriller Bark so far.
Yes, I feel sorry for the zombies. :-(
I found that very confusing. Took me forever to figure out who was Perona, even though someone said earlier that the ghosts were being controlled like puppets.
I think it's supposed to be confusing, right up until the point where the three enemy leaders are revealed at the end. Especially when Absalom actually addresses one of the "ghosts" as Perona (because they're all projections of her).
It was interesting that serrende compared the handling of suspense in this arc with that in Water 7. Water 7 had a genuine combination of complete inability to put the pieces of the mystery together + stunning reveals when you didn't expect them; this arc felt
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Soup pasta is totally a thing in Japan! It was just getting popular around the time I left (2006--I guess that's long enough ago now that it might not be a thing anymore?). But I could never try it because in Japan, soup = meat broth.
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It's hilarious that after all the times Luffy has casually thrown out invitations (while the rest of the crew is horrified) and been turned down, he finally found someone who would (just as casually) agree to join them.
I can't translate this. "Made, my ASS!"?
That's exactly how I would translate it.
Something starts grabbing Robin and licking at her (EW)
UGH. Welcome to the part of Thriller Bark I really hate! (I do love the rest.)
re: Cindry -- part of her backstory is related to the Japanese legend of the ghost who counts plates, right? Umm...this one.
I gather it's not counting Chopper?
Or possibly he didn't recognize Sanji?
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Hm, you might be right about Sanji. Though one would think process of elimination would be enough - they seem to have researched the whole crew.
(I need to diversify my icons - Mihawk is the closest thing I have to gothic.)
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Do the wanted posters identify which crew the person is a member of?
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Also, something that came up in the volume I was just reading (early 48?) seemed to confirm that Sanji was the one they weren't counting, so it seems you were right.
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Love Brook's introduction though. Already we get to see a bit of how strong he is and how sad and touching his story is, though we only see the barest bones (whistles) of it here.
Luffy pushing the zombie back into the ground is such a classic. :D
Pretty sure the bit where he's trying to tame Cerberus, before he smacks him into the wall, is a homage/callback of a scene from Nausicäa of the Valley of Wind, where Nausicäa befriends the little animal Teto (but unlike Luffy, doesn't smack it into the wall when it bites her ( ... )
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It's interesting to compare Thriller Bark to the mystery reveal in Water 7. It does seem to take a long time to put all the pieces together - I had to resist the impulse to cross the t's and dot the i's by explaining things the reader isn't supposed to know until a certain point. But yes, much less tension behind waiting for the reveal, I guess because there's less at stake?
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*whimper*
he had missed the whole Florian triangle explanation, since he wasn't with them at that point.Apparently, neither was I. Dagnabit ( ... )
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"Color plate"? (That's a stab in the dark guess.) But: Shounen Jump manga (and other manga at the ~¥400 price point) don't usually come with color pages. It's the bigger, ~¥600 manga that do.
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Wow...interesting that the English edition has one tiny benefit over the Japanese. (Well, the color image on the back + the fact that I can actually read English.) But the important thing here is Viking Zoro is hot.
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I'm embarrassed to admit it, but this was the first time I picked up on Franky's "This week's me…" speech gimmick.
this time, he turns out to actually be a badly injured old man.
I possibly loved this more than I should have. (In the spirit of always assuming that Hannibal Lecter is serving people and being surprised when he's not.)
Spaghetti soup, this time.
So it's really called spaghetti soup? I thought it was just the world's worst -- and most unnecessary -- translation of ramen.
Hogback is the creator of all the zombies on the island.
I meant to say this earlier: this frankensteining is what I hate mos…well, second-most about Thriller Bark so far. Most hate Absalom's assault on Nami in the shower.
Apparently, she was controlling the ghosts by means of some sort of astral projection while her body was unconscious.
I found that very confusing. Took me forever to figure out who was Perona, even though someone said earlier that the ghosts were being controlled like puppets.
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No, that's actually what she calls it (well, "soup spaghetti," in katakana). I feel like I need to google it now.
I meant to say this earlier: this frankensteining is what I hate mos…well, second-most about Thriller Bark so far.
Yes, I feel sorry for the zombies. :-(
I found that very confusing. Took me forever to figure out who was Perona, even though someone said earlier that the ghosts were being controlled like puppets.
I think it's supposed to be confusing, right up until the point where the three enemy leaders are revealed at the end. Especially when Absalom actually addresses one of the "ghosts" as Perona (because they're all projections of her).
It was interesting that serrende compared the handling of suspense in this arc with that in Water 7. Water 7 had a genuine combination of complete inability to put the pieces of the mystery together + stunning reveals when you didn't expect them; this arc felt ( ... )
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