In regards to Zoro's reaction to the events of this chapter, or rather his lack thereof, I wonder if it could have anything to do with his only having one eye now. He's really go to be more alert to potential dangers now than ever since he's got a large new blind spot to cover for. And I'm sure his alertness level must already be cranked to eleven anyways, since Luffy is fond of both Law and Smoker, which means that he's that much more likely to walk everyone into something dangerous.
One Piece has always been one of the very few series where I love (or at least love-to-hate) virtually every character. I actually find it very hard to play favorites among the main characters, and, as such, my "favorite character" is normally whoever is being either the most awesome or the most failtastic at the time. However, following the time skip, I'm finding it a little hard to like Sanji as much as I do everyone else. I just sort of feel like his character is developing backwards.
His inability to fight a woman is something that has put his nakama in danger in the past, back when he couldn't put up any sort of fight against Kalifa, and two years later his issues have just gotten worse, what with the whole actually needing medical attention to cope with his nosebleeds back at the start of the last arc. Now, since I don't think that I've ever truly been disappointed in Oda, I'm still hoping that Sanji will become more nuanced in his attitude towards women (thought, really, one would think that his time with Iva and company might have been the place to start making things better instead of letting them get worse...)
His actions in this chapter are a little confusing to me, honestly. He goes on and on about respecting women and wanting to protect them, and I don't see how his actions in Nami's body have been either. Fondling Nami's body, and doing so for the world to see, is hardly respectful and, as you said, smoking in her body is anything but healthy which means that he is, at the moment, the biggest threat to Nami's safety. And it isn't even like he's physically craving nicotine since Nami isn't a smoker. (To be fair, Smoker puffing away at those two cigars in Tashigi's body really put me off too.)
Other thoughts:
I'm pretty thrilled to have an arc taking place on a (half) winter island again. I love the way that everyone looks in cold weather clothing and I like Chopper's brief moment of pleasure last chapter at being back in an environment similar to that which he grew up in before everyone got body swapped. (It made me seriously consider writing something about all the time he must spend grooming his fur after time spend in weather which reindeer aren't built for.)
Luffy asked about the whereabouts of Bepo, who, if I recall correctly, has always been pretty much glued to Law's side. Now obviously this could be nothing (and, in fact, I'm basing it on virtually nothing), and I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it if Luffy hadn't asked about the bear, but I wonder if Law's thing he wants to get back could be his crew.
For some reason, I don't think this arc feels like the place for an Aokiji and Akainu flashback. I think we'll have to get at least some background on Cesar Clown (and likely Vegapunk) and possibly something to do with Law and this thing that he wants to get back.
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Date: 2012-04-16 06:03 am (UTC)One Piece has always been one of the very few series where I love (or at least love-to-hate) virtually every character. I actually find it very hard to play favorites among the main characters, and, as such, my "favorite character" is normally whoever is being either the most awesome or the most failtastic at the time. However, following the time skip, I'm finding it a little hard to like Sanji as much as I do everyone else. I just sort of feel like his character is developing backwards.
His inability to fight a woman is something that has put his nakama in danger in the past, back when he couldn't put up any sort of fight against Kalifa, and two years later his issues have just gotten worse, what with the whole actually needing medical attention to cope with his nosebleeds back at the start of the last arc. Now, since I don't think that I've ever truly been disappointed in Oda, I'm still hoping that Sanji will become more nuanced in his attitude towards women (thought, really, one would think that his time with Iva and company might have been the place to start making things better instead of letting them get worse...)
His actions in this chapter are a little confusing to me, honestly. He goes on and on about respecting women and wanting to protect them, and I don't see how his actions in Nami's body have been either. Fondling Nami's body, and doing so for the world to see, is hardly respectful and, as you said, smoking in her body is anything but healthy which means that he is, at the moment, the biggest threat to Nami's safety. And it isn't even like he's physically craving nicotine since Nami isn't a smoker. (To be fair, Smoker puffing away at those two cigars in Tashigi's body really put me off too.)
Other thoughts:
I'm pretty thrilled to have an arc taking place on a (half) winter island again. I love the way that everyone looks in cold weather clothing and I like Chopper's brief moment of pleasure last chapter at being back in an environment similar to that which he grew up in before everyone got body swapped. (It made me seriously consider writing something about all the time he must spend grooming his fur after time spend in weather which reindeer aren't built for.)
Luffy asked about the whereabouts of Bepo, who, if I recall correctly, has always been pretty much glued to Law's side. Now obviously this could be nothing (and, in fact, I'm basing it on virtually nothing), and I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it if Luffy hadn't asked about the bear, but I wonder if Law's thing he wants to get back could be his crew.
For some reason, I don't think this arc feels like the place for an Aokiji and Akainu flashback. I think we'll have to get at least some background on Cesar Clown (and likely Vegapunk) and possibly something to do with Law and this thing that he wants to get back.