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All right, One Piece, man.
The great One Piece.
It's been on for like 25 years, all the way back in 1997, I guess.
Is it 97?
I don't know.
If it was 25 years, it'd be like 98 or 9, wouldn't it?
Probably be 1999.
I think it was 99.
But either way, it's fucking eternal.
You could have been born and still be trying to watch, trying to finish One Piece.
Which is sad, but it is.
Right, so we start with chapter one.
I'll give you a little rundown of what happened and you can learn One Piece as we go.
So basically, chapter one is called chapter Romance Dawn.
And the very first page is the execution of Gold Roger.
And he was the king of the pirates, the man that pretty much earned or gained everything
this world has to offer, wealth, fame, and power.
And before he died, they should not have let him have his last words because he told them
like if you want my treasure, all of it, I left it all in one place.
If you can find it, you can have it.
And because of that, in that fucking line...
It sparked the whole thing.
It sparked the entire great age of piracy that's been going on since today in One Piece.
So that happens, we skip over a few pages and I don't know, it doesn't say the year
after that happened, but we come to this little harbor town and these pirates had recently
made that their base of operations like a year ago.
They've been there for a year.
And the manga goes out of the way, the chapter goes out of the way to tell you that the town
is at peace.
Right.
So meaning that the pirates aren't malevolent.
They're nice, I guess.
And you meet Luffy, who was at the time in this first chapter, seven years old.
And he idolizes these pirates because he's really good friends with the captain, his idol,
Red Hair Shanks.
And these are the red-haired pirates.
The red-haired pirates.
They are a lot more famous than they came out in this first chapter.
Luffy wants to prove himself to them, so his big idea is like, let me show you how tough
I am because he wants to join them on their next voyage, but he's seven so they don't
want him to go with them.
That's dangerous, you know, piracy.
And so to prove he's brave, he fucking chops underneath his eyeball.
His left eye fucking cuts himself real bad because this scar is there for the rest of
the fucking series.
And of course the pirates all freak out.
They call him an idiot.
And it blows over and they go to the bar to chill.
And they're all relaxing.
Shanks is making fun of Luffy.
Luffy's arguing with Shanks.
And it's just a lot of camaraderie.
So then of course you need the conflict.
So you fucking fly.
So this mountain bandit, this whole group comes down from the mountains led by this
guy named Higuma the Bear.
He's called Higuma the Bear, but he's thin as fuck.
He's not a bear, you know what I mean?
He doesn't have the bear build?
No, he's just like a regular looking bandit.
And basically he considers him hot shit because he's worth 8 million berries.
He's got a bounty on him.
So they came down to the mountain not to cause any trouble to the village.
They just want some beer.
But the pirates have been there for a year.
So all the beer in the bar is empty.
The proprietor, Makino, she says we're out of beer.
And Shanks is like, oh, I'm sorry, bro.
Let me give you this consolation prize.
So he gives them one bottle of alcohol.
One bottle to be split with the whole bandit crew.
Of course, Higuma hates that.
He's like, that's ridiculous.
So he fucking batches it over Shanks' head.
And there's no reaction from Shanks or his crew.
He's like, damn, I just spilled all this fucking glass on the floor.
Mikuna, give me a broom and I'll clean it up for you.
And Higuma's like, yo, what the fuck?
He can see like he's like, he couldn't believe that.
Like, I just cracked your fucking dome.
And you want to clean?
Like, I got something for you to clean then.
So he pulls out his fucking sword and he just fucking smashes all this glass behind the
counter.
And it just all falls on Shanks.
There's just glass everywhere.
He mocks them, makes fun of him, and the bandits fucking leave.
Because apparently they're not worth their trouble.
They leave and all the pirates are fucking laughing.
Like, oh, they got you good, captain.
Like, he should have seen your face.
All this like just like no threat to them, apparently.
The only one that's mad is Luffy.
He's still young, so he doesn't understand.
And he's like, how could you let him treat you like that?
It's fucking bullshit.
And he storms off.
Shanks grabs him and tries to stop him.
And as Luffy walks off, his arms start stretching out like fucking super long.
And they all fucking freak out.
They're like, did you eat this fucking fruit that we had in this little chest?
And one of the pirates draws a whole picture of the gum gum fruit, which is it's called
the gum gum fruit at the time.
And he's like, yeah, I ate that for dessert.
It tasted like shit.
And then they all fucking freak.
Shanks tells them that was one of the sacred devil fruits, one of the rare treasures of
the sea.
And like, you're never going to be able to swim again now.
And of course, Luffy, it's funny because Luffy couldn't swim to begin with, is what you find
out early on.
So it didn't make a difference.
It didn't make much of a difference.
Yeah, he couldn't swim at all.
So there's nobody to learn now.
And so now he's got rubber powers forever.
He can stretch his body any way, shape or form.
Probably slap his face with his own dick if he wanted to.
I bet you, I wonder if he'd ever tried that.
I know I would have.
I'd have slapped the shit out of myself.
So Shanks and them leave because they basically use the harbor, little town, as a base of
operations to go out.
It's like an actual pirate tactic.
They have a base.
They go out, they raid, and then they come back to the base to resupply.
That way you don't run out of supplies halfway through your trip.
Like the most realistic pirate thing of the whole fucking series.
So they leave for a while.
Luffy's bored.
He hangs out with Makino a lot.
I don't know if it's mom or dad.
He doesn't really say.
You know his dad, but you don't know his mom.
So he just hangs out at the bar.
And Heguma, the pirate, the mountain band has come back to get some more beer.
And they realize that the pirates are gone and they mock him right in front of Luffy.
Luffy flips.
So he's like, you can't talk about my friends like that.
So he's going to fight them.
But instead they just beat the shit out of him.
He says something derogatory.
Or he attacks one of the mountain bandit, the bear, and they take him out front and
beat the hell out of him.
But Luffy's rubber.
So he's immune to blunt attacks, which is making them frustrated.
So then I think they're going to take a sword and kill him.
But before they do, Shanks shows up.
And he's like, this fucking fly is legit right now.
So Shanks gets there and he's like, hey, you can throw food at me.
You can throw drinks at me.
You can even spit on me.
But don't you fuck with my friends.
So now he's ready to fight them.
And one of the bandits is like, fuck you, pulls a gun out, right?
And Shanks is like, hey, you shouldn't play with those.
When you pull your gun out, you put your life on the line.
The bandit's like, what?
And then he gets a fucking face shot off by one of his, he gets shot by, I want to say
his second mate, like his second in command.
Because this guy was allegedly the one that stole the gum gum fruit to begin with.
He's a big round fella, always eating like a fucking chicken leg.
But apparently he's so stealthy, he was able to sneak up onto the ship and steal the gum
gum fruit.
Like, he's like that, like that's like his infiltrator, his sapper.
So the bandits are like, whoa, what the fuck?
And like, you just shot him out of nowhere.
And Shanks is like, yeah, we're pirates.
They don't play by the rules, which I couldn't believe the bandits would say that.
That's not fair.
That'd be like dumbest shit I've ever heard.
He's not fair, bro.
Well, you can't do that.
So then fucking Shanks' second in command, his first mate, he's like, I'll take care
of these captain.
And he beats the shit out of all of them by himself.
He like one guy lunged at him right.
He's like, he takes a smoke of a cigarette and he fucking shoves it right in his eyeball.
He was like, oh fuck.
And he's like, he doesn't even shoot him.
He like takes the blunt end of a rifle and clubs them, all of them.
He goomers sees that his crew is just fucking wrecked.
So for some reason he does the fucking ninja escape tactic and drops those fucking smoke
grenades and he just fucking disappears.
I'm like, what the fuck?
It's just so random because he doesn't look like a ninja or anything.
Doesn't look like a bear either.
He just looks like a regular bandit.
So he ends up flying off or taking a dinghy out to the sea to escape.
Like they'll never expect me to escape to the sea being a mountain bandit.
I'm a god damn genius.
And of course like he's got Luffy as a hostage.
I don't need you anymore.
He fucking throws him overboard.
Then this fucking sea monster comes.
It's just at the right time.
And Luffy goes over and the sea monster sees Heguma.
So he just fucking eats him.
So that's it for that guy.
Oda is tough to kill people, but there he is dead.
That should have been two deaths so far.
The one that got shot in the head, the bandit and Heguma.
So Luffy's about to get eaten.
He's drowning.
He can't swim.
He's up to double fruit.
He's nowhere.
He's floating for him or he's holding him to swim.
He's like in the water.
There's no boat or anything.
I guess he just fucking dipped in the water and caught him.
He saves him.
The sea monster is coming though.
At the time you don't know why.
He just stares the monster down.
The monster freaks and runs away.
Now you know that it's conqueror's hockey basically.
I'll tell you guys about that later as we move on to chapters.
It's hard not to spoil things being as I already know.
And Luffy's like, oh you saved me, but Shanks lost his whole left arm.
I don't know how he's holding Luffy and swimming.
He must be kicking his legs like crazy.
You know what I mean?
There's no way you just float.
You gotta be dancing.
I'm just kidding.
He's just kicking away.
So a little bit further in, Shanks lost his arm, but everything's all good.
They're finally planning to leave for the long haul.
This is their next voyage and then they go north.
So Luffy decided that's okay.
He doesn't want to go with them anymore.
He's gonna start his own crew and be king of the pirates one day.
And Shanks is like, oh okay.
So he gives him his straw hat as a gift.
And he says, when you become a big name, bring this hat back to me.
And I'll see you then.
And he fucking leaves.
And then it cuts to ten years later.
Luffy's now 17.
He's on his little dinghy boat.
Like a boat not needed or not built for fucking long distance sea travel.
And that's the boat he's taking.
And before he leaves, the fucking sea monster from ten years ago comes back up and he uses
his gum gun pistol attack to fucking suck him in the face.
Basically like a, I guess it's like a slingshot.
No, we're not a slingshot.
More like a, kind of like a cannon.
Because like, you know, he's using his rubber arm to stretch it all the way.
But it's like you're getting hit at the very end.
I don't know how much power would, I guess it's powerful enough because it knocks the
fucking sea beast out cold.
And off he goes.
And one of the most important things he says, because Oda never says anything without actual
meaning, I don't think he just, I don't think he just says words just to fill in space.
Everything he says has a reason, is what I feel like he does.
I mean, look at the expansiveness.
Yeah, like the little words that have this huge meaning later on, like years later.
He said, Luffy said, like, I need to build a crew first before I become king of the pirates.
So let me find ten men.
He says men, but you know, there are females on the team too.
So he said ten.
So so far there's not, there's nine or eight, but there's not ten yet.
So a lot of people ask how many crew members he's going to finally have.
Ten.
I'm going to go with ten.
Like what he said at the beginning, that's what he's going to have.
He's had temporary allies that became crew members that no longer a part of his crew.
Like his permanent crew right now.
Right.
It was still not a ten.
So we'll see if they, if he keeps it at ten.
So he might've.
It also locks him though, like in his fucking like, damn, I can't change it then.
Oh, that was all a metaphor.
I was like, fuck, it's a left.
That was supposed to be ten men.
Now, oh yeah, that's a good point.
It might be.
And like with ten men, but like the females as well, that'd be wild.
So that's it for chapter one.
At least he has the leeway.
Right.
You'd have some fucking space.
Maybe he did do that.
Damn, how are you fucking genius?
But that's, that's it for one piece.
Chapter one, the romance dawn.
Do that next Monday for chapter two.
I don't know the chapter name.
So how do you think the Netflix adaptation did with that?
With that?
With that chapter.
Oh, they don't really, they didn't, did they?
I don't remember seeing him, I guess he was a kid.
He did okay.
I mean, I love it.
I love that one.
I love that all the characters are the perfect fit for their character.
The only thing I wish it was as Arlong had been taller and a different looking nose.
That's it.
I mean, like the adaptation is what they could do with live action.
Right.
They crunched in a lot, but it's fine with me.
I loved it.
A monkey dee-loo-fee.
He can't say monkey dee-loo-fee right, but he sure does act like him.
And they didn't give him sandals.
Yeah.
Which people at first were like, and then like now it's like, I don't really give a
fuck.
Exactly.
But I seen that going around for a long time.
He's not gonna have fucking sandals.
I mean like.
I think nobody cares.
No one cares.
You got Buggy that's all the women were fucking jizzing over.
They were fucking like foaming at the mouth for Buggy.
They were like they wanted that clown kai.
He's gonna detach us.
And it detaches.
It'll just shove all the way up you and come out your fucking mouth.
So we're on our adventure for One Piece.
Let's see if we can get there before I would've touched it.
Sadly enough, probably by the time this is all done.
Well no one we're gonna.
He knows he does have a phrase that he said.
He's not a phrase, but he said something about how you would ever you will finally know when
we're very very near one at the end of One Piece.
Right.
The day you see a character with an eye patch in One Piece, that's the very end of One Piece.
Close to the very end.
There are men that have eye patches, are there?
No.
I don't even think about that.
That one person that with the eye patch is the signal for the one at the end of One Piece.
And I think I know who it is.
I've seen him for episodes 1096.
It'll end up being Monkey the Doofy.
Maybe if he loses an eye.
Yeah, it's probably why he's already fucked up his eye once.
Well underneath his cheek there's like a scar.
But that could've been.
He was smart enough not to fucking take his eyeball out at least.
I'm saying that could be a foreshadowing of what's gonna happen though.
He might lose that eye.
Even when Zaro stopped using his left eye because it's so constantly closed, he didn't
even put an eye patch on it.
No.
Did they ever give a reason for him doing that?
Still no.
Huh.
They don't even know if his eye must be fine.
For all we know.
We don't know.
Don't you just fight him with one eye closed?
Yeah, like you know.
Like a fucking handicap?
Maybe his other eye is so strong compared to that one.
He had the strength in the other one, right?
And that's why he's been so misdirected his whole life.
Because you can't see half of the time.
They're trying to give a nod to Kenpachi's Araki.
I don't know.
From Bleach where he wears the patch all the times.
With his bells in the hair.
No idea.
Maybe.
Thought they didn't like each other.
But you never know.
You never know.
Guess we'll find out.
Chapter 2 is slower.
But there's little hints everywhere.
There's hints everywhere.
And then Oda seems to love to give a punch of foreshadowing to everything.
Yeah.
That takes some true dedication to what you're doing.
Yeah.
Or at least when you do make an original idea to carry that story to the very end.
Yeah.
Because imagine how many times, every time you do something like that, you lock yourself
into more and more of what is going to finally be at the very end.
And just make sure you don't tell enough that people are like, oh, so it's going to be that.
And he's like, well fuck.
Kind of like how J.R.R.
Martin fucked himself.
Because everyone knew that, spoilers, but everyone knew that fucking Jon Snow was the
daughter of Rhaegar and.
It was way too easy.
Yeah.
And he's like, damn.
And everybody knew that Bran was going to do what he ended up doing.
The only thing that nobody thought was going to be so stupid was Hodor.
Hodor.
It's like, what?
So yeah.
Never thought I'd see Hodor's dick.
But here we are.
It's like episode two chapter or season two, apparently.
I'm fucking dick flapping.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Only you would know that.
I know everything.
I miss your skin in human form.
All right.
Anything else to add before we head out today, then?
No.
Just keep on watching One Piece.
All right.
I'll keep on reading it.
We'll see you guys on the next one.