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Miscellaneous Notes About OPLA Buggy Because I Adored Episode 2:

  • The "knows-nose" homophone joke?? So good (not really important i just loved it ok)
  • I love how OPLA played into Buggy's crew being more circus than crew; the manga has them just.... hanging out on a rooftop LOL. The new theming added so much immersion!!!
  • Jeff Ward has the standout performance of this season imo. It feels different than Buggy from the source material, but in very good ways; Buggy usually gets upstaged in a very goofy manner, but here, it's clear that Buggy's failure stems from insecurity leading to incorrect assumptions.
  • Buggy never believed Zoro and Nami would come back to help Luffy because of his own trust/abandonment issues. (His logic reads borderline delusional: "Shanks abandoned me, and he was my friend.. so why would they come back for you?")
  • Buggy offering Luffy a place on his crew?? YES. Yet again, Jeff Ward really sells this version of the character -- he is so incredibly frustrated by rejection. Why would a "freak" like him choose to be hurt by others who let them down? (As viewers, we know Nami and Zoro are fighting to get back, but Buggy truly believes they'll leave Luffy behind.)
  • "You can't make people love you." AAHHHHH!!! Luffy's emotional intelligence strikes again!!!!!!!! It hits the nail on the head. Buggy so desperately craves acceptance/love that it makes him illogical and causes him to have a short fuse.

AND LOOK. OH MY GOD HIS SUBTLE REACTION...... my heart breaks for him

tldr; Buggy's big mistake in Orange Town is his overwhelming greed, which causes him to underestimate and undervalue others. In OPLA, it is his paranoia and insecurity getting in the way of logic. Both are major aspects of his character, but I love that the live action went a different route, while still staying true to his nature!

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okay i love zoro so much, he's my favourite fr, but lately i cant help but think how cool it would have been for kuina to have been the one to live and join the strawhats?

like, the idea that she thought she could never become the greatest swordsman in the world bc she's a girl, only to find this rival who always believed in her and tells her that gender doesnt matter bc she's the best right now and zoro will always use her as a goal post. and then zoro dies, and instead of thinking, "well that's it now, i've lost my rival and im going to watch all these men become better than me," she takes their dream and goes forward with it and eventually beats mihawk and really does become the greatest swordsman in the world. her! a woman!

and she could do it because of the boy that believed in her so long ago and told her she had the right to have confidence in her own abilities, and she could prove to herself that gender doesn't matter, and she achieved the dream that the both of them had with her sword + the two swords she took with her and learned to train with. idk im obviously biased bc i too am a woman but i feel like as a character arc there would have been that extra oomph, even if the "i cant do it cuz im a girl" arc might be getting tired. idc. i still love to see it.