me thinking about how Luffy would have surley died from Magellan’s poison in Impel Down if Zoro hadn’t taken his pain in Thriller Bark as he was still seriously injured weeks after the war only from that alone
I didn’t remember this at all, thanks. Imma be real with you, I remember jackshit about Skypiea, so I might be wrong but I seem to remember that his priests’ haki could also cover a suprisingly large area, even if not the whole island? That’s still not typical, even if Enel’s insane haki abilites are explained with his fruit.
Aslo there was that little girl, Aisa, who could also sense the “voices disappearing” as the fights went on from a large distance, so the Skypiea people’s haki really seems to be heavily area-focused to me.
There was also Koby’s case where he sensed everyone on the whole battlefield, which was also basically the whole island.
When I started this reread I had forgotten that Morgan was actually extorting the townspeople. I make these posts basically as I go with very little reading ahead. So when I made noted the cracks and other signs of disrepair around the city
and wondered if Morgan was somehow funneling all the money to himself I didn’t realize that was actually what he was doing.
I’ve said this before on my main blog, but I hesitate to assign authorial intent when I don’t know for sure any is present. However, a diligent reader could potentially see panels like the one above along with how the people of Shells Town react to even the mention of Captain Morgan and come to the very reasonable conclusion that he was somehow taking money from them. Especially when the establishing shots at the beginning of chapter 3
Show infrastructure more advanced than our only other point of comparison thus far–aka Fusha Village–which indicates a relatively recent change in prosperity.
Again, I don’t know if that was what Oda was trying to do. Maybe he just added the cracks to make the panels more visually interesting. But regardless of intent, the visual world building makes sense and is consistent with what we’re told through dialogue. That’s one of, if not most, important thing for a comic to accomplish, and too often I see it neglected.
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