Bonjour

Je vous souhaite à tous de joyeuses fêtes pour le réveillon et une bonne année 2019. Qu'elle vous donne bonheur, joie et felicité (à Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsD9_RMlago/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18tx5ry195dv1

I've seen some takes about the one piece live action and I'm about to defend some visual choices:

"Roger doesn't look cool enough" he's literally sick and dying at this point. And even then they made him look like a pirate. I 1000% believe the Roger we see would be thought of as the most dangerous/evil man.

"The fishmen look weird" "arlong looks lame" the issue with one piece characters is that a lot of their visuals would have a hard time translating properly to live action. Oda even said things had to change. He has a very cartoonish style that makes his designs unique (with exceptions). They translated them all the best they could, I'm so insanely happy they're doing practical as much as they can.

"Luffys power looks creepy" that is the point. He's a freak. He's a man who shows up and stretches his body in impossible ways. We just now have a good visual of how uncanny and terrifying that is to behold. The devil fruits are called devil fruits for a reason. They clearly put care into making it look as realistic as possible which I'm so thankful for.

I will say my one wish is that the season was a full 10 episodes instead of 8, because one full episode in Logue town leading into the grandline would be fantastic. Especially since we'll get those reaction shots for luffys first bounty. But I'm very happy with what I've seen so I'll let the show runners do what they do and form opinions once I've seen it.

Pendant que les fêtes approchent, allumons les bougies.

Bien arrivée à disneyland (à Disneyland Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6h_9oqiwse/?igshid=12hfdcfqt60c1

Best boisson forever (à Maison des Projets) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wTLpVCRAA/?igshid=1hh1j6jbg1f5t

Plaidoirie pour la paix

Envie de s'évader, de me libérer de cette haine, de cette violence qui nous entoure et nous submerge jusqu'à nous emprisonner. Je veux la paix! Je veux que l'amour triomphe de la haine et que le pardon soit la religion.

Une rue protégée par des parapluies :-)

Passation de pouvoir entre le taulier Jean-Pierre Foucault et l'étoile montante de TF1 Camille Combal

Cérémonie des vœux (kagari biraki). Fin. (à Liévin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B73_08QC4yv/?igshid=efxzbxf99e0t

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.