*gasp* this volume is due back in 6 daysmangarooJuly 19 2012, 23:32:21 UTC
it turns out Dorry wasn't really dead, just knocked out.
Yay! Hugs and bulging eyeballs for everybody!
the remains of Miss Goldenweek's rice crackers. (Nami: "Where did you get those…?")
Oh! Now I know. I am really inattentive.
Sanji's womanizing is kinda creepy, but his heart-shaped cigarette smoke = LOL
Totally loved everything about the giants' fighting origin flashback (the similarity to Zoro and Sanji, the nifty reveal of the caves' origins). Hey, do you think Dorry and Broggy now remember the story? They seemed to, when Sanji mentioned the hunting challenge to Zoro.
so Nothing Island is the goldfish's poop. (That was where Miss All-Sunday wanted to send the Strawhats.)
So then her offer of an eternal log pose there was…treachery?
Zoro is completely failing in the role of substitute navigator.
Dear heavens, why would they have let Zoro be navigator?? (Hee, cloud.)
Random and really not important, but... how on earth did they know how to find an island with a doctor? What navigation tool are they using?I thought the idea
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I would never have gotten Nami's 'cause to me that would be nana-mi.
Even though you got Sanji when "ji" isn't two? Anyway, it's not just you on this one: the Japanese number/sound thing is still confusing to me. That is, I know they have the ability to associate just about any sound with a particular number, but I am awful at guessing what number that would be.
Re: *gasp* this volume is due back in 6 daysprintfogeyAugust 3 2012, 11:49:59 UTC
not sure about Zoro (11/11) -- a man and three swords, maybe?
I was scrolling back through these cool re-read posts and saw this. I have no idea how authoritative this is, but I read somewhere that the Japanese word for a palindrome is zorome - and 11/11 is a palindrome both backwards and up-and-down.
Personally I find it ironic that the guy whose official position is "warrior" has his birthday on Armistice Day from the end of World War I.
Re: *gasp* this volume is due back in 6 dayswednesday_10_00August 3 2012, 22:29:13 UTC
Palindrome is actually kaibun (回文). I'm not familiar with zorome, but my dictionary calls it "matching dice" ("me" is eye, so like "snake eyes," maybe?). Oh, wait, a google image search suggests that it's any matching pair of numbers. (Interesting that that November example is 11/1, not 11/11. Huh?)
...Anyway, though that's an interesting bit of trivia, it doesn't really explain why 11/11 and not 12/12 or 7/7 or anything else. (Or maybe 11/11 is the "zorome-est" day, with four matching numbers?)
I find it ironic that the guy whose official position is "warrior" has his birthday on Armistice Day from the end of World War I.
Ha, good point. I wonder if that has anything to do with it, or is just a coincidence? I don't think Japan observes Armistice Day at all, since they weren't involved much in WWI.
Yay! Hugs and bulging eyeballs for everybody!
the remains of Miss Goldenweek's rice crackers. (Nami: "Where did you get those…?")
Oh! Now I know. I am really inattentive.
Sanji's womanizing is kinda creepy, but his heart-shaped cigarette smoke = LOL
Totally loved everything about the giants' fighting origin flashback (the similarity to Zoro and Sanji, the nifty reveal of the caves' origins). Hey, do you think Dorry and Broggy now remember the story? They seemed to, when Sanji mentioned the hunting challenge to Zoro.
so Nothing Island is the goldfish's poop. (That was where Miss All-Sunday wanted to send the Strawhats.)
So then her offer of an eternal log pose there was…treachery?
Zoro is completely failing in the role of substitute navigator.
Dear heavens, why would they have let Zoro be navigator?? (Hee, cloud.)
Random and really not important, but... how on earth did they know how to find an island with a doctor? What navigation tool are they using?I thought the idea ( ... )
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Even though you got Sanji when "ji" isn't two? Anyway, it's not just you on this one: the Japanese number/sound thing is still confusing to me. That is, I know they have the ability to associate just about any sound with a particular number, but I am awful at guessing what number that would be.
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BL influence. I learned the name countering thing early on, with Kiichi-sensei and Aoe Reiji in Love Mode. So to me, -ji is as much two as ni.
Ni! We want...a shrubbery!
I'm less likely to recall that zou = three.
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I was scrolling back through these cool re-read posts and saw this. I have no idea how authoritative this is, but I read somewhere that the Japanese word for a palindrome is zorome - and 11/11 is a palindrome both backwards and up-and-down.
Personally I find it ironic that the guy whose official position is "warrior" has his birthday on Armistice Day from the end of World War I.
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...Anyway, though that's an interesting bit of trivia, it doesn't really explain why 11/11 and not 12/12 or 7/7 or anything else. (Or maybe 11/11 is the "zorome-est" day, with four matching numbers?)
I find it ironic that the guy whose official position is "warrior" has his birthday on Armistice Day from the end of World War I.
Ha, good point. I wonder if that has anything to do with it, or is just a coincidence? I don't think Japan observes Armistice Day at all, since they weren't involved much in WWI.
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