Crimson_Echidna
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Around the time her "true" nature was revealed, people started propping her up as this unredeemable Big Bad because they didn't believe her initial sweet and innocent act.
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Around the time her "true" nature was revealed, people started propping her up as this unredeemable Big Bad because they didn't believe her initial sweet and innocent act.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
That Pudding change suuuuucked.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
We have a character here who has shown nothing but active and mocking disdain for Sanji, focused largely on his moronic attitudes around and weaknesses for women, and here she is undone by the very thing she hates and mocks so much. It's kinda stupid. Or poetic? Maybe both.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
She went from thrilled to bathe in Sanji's blood to falling on the ground because Sanji said she was pretty. This plot point would get rightly mocked in pretty much any other form of media.
Big Mom is going down this arc, her crew is such a mess right now.
Pudding will probably be considered a traitor now and she was her key to raftel. Her other children aren't sure if they're still following through with the plan to kill the Vinsmokes. Obviously we already know about Capone. Katakuri is the only one that kinda has an idea of what's going on and he's panicking. Big Mom just witnessed her cake being destroyed and she's about to go into rage mode, attacking everyone.
It seems obvious that none of her children actually like her. Even Brûlée is probably pretending to be against all this and actually hopes the plan works out. This will be like in The Wizard of Oz where everyone celebrated after the witch was killed. Big Mom will be the first Yonko victim of the throne wars!
Pudding will probably be considered a traitor now and she was her key to raftel. Her other children aren't sure if they're still following through with the plan to kill the Vinsmokes. Obviously we already know about Capone. Katakuri is the only one that kinda has an idea of what's going on and he's panicking. Big Mom just witnessed her cake being destroyed and she's about to go into rage mode, attacking everyone.
It seems obvious that none of her children actually like her. Even Brûlée is probably pretending to be against all this and actually hopes the plan works out. This will be like in The Wizard of Oz where everyone celebrated after the witch was killed. Big Mom will be the first Yonko victim of the throne wars!
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Yeah, pretty much. It's just too sudden of a change.
BobTheFork
Member
Sanji dodged the bullet but one he wasn't expecting instead.
Sanji has his own future-tech haki?
Maybe just playing on Sanji being forward thinking, like knowing to open the Enies Lobby gate before trying to leave.
Sanji has his own future-tech haki?
Maybe just playing on Sanji being forward thinking, like knowing to open the Enies Lobby gate before trying to leave.
We do know Sanji is good at observation haki
gundamkyoukai
Member
Her whole plan was a fail anyway .
She went to troll him with one of her faces and it backfired .
Her whole plan was get him off guard because she think her third eye is ugly etc etc.
It's not like pudding can get the jump on Sanji with his observation haki .
They didn't kiss yet to be married.
To be fair I can understand even with an island full of weird people and races, that people would pick on one trait of a person that seems odd and either be weird out by it or disgusted and torment someone. Kinda like how Sanji was bullied for the persevered weakness of having emotions and being weaker in Germa (But in the end those emotions and his way make him stronger), while Pudding was tormented for a perceived difference on an island full of wonder.
Reminds me of stories from my sister, and how at least in the Marvel Universe in NY they love Spiderman, F4, Avengers yet will throw trash at mutants.
I still think the kiss will happen.
Reminds me of stories from my sister, and how at least in the Marvel Universe in NY they love Spiderman, F4, Avengers yet will throw trash at mutants.
I still think the kiss will happen.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Definitely sometime in this arc
I don't find it lame for one reason:
It came off as genuine. It wasn't like those scenes where he's fawning over Robin and Nami, bringing them drinks live a slave. "HAAAAAAAAIIIIIIII, ROBIN-CHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN~ *heart eyes*" It wasn't like the previous panels this very chapter where he was all goofy-faced over Pudding's looks in the wedding dress.
It was treated as a serious moment, where he removed her veil, saw an unexpected, previously unknown physical feature of Pudding's, and was legitimately, seriously captivated by it, without a moment's hesitation or shock or surprise. It wasn't played off as sanji gushing over a woman, he was captivated by the eye and felt a bit flustered and embarrassed over it, even. Legitimately.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
Her plan succeeding isn't my point. The fact that "you're pretty" was enough to stop her when we've seen quite literally no doubt from her is idiotic.
Even her own family told her the eye was hideous. She's never even considered the possibility that someone could find it appealing. It's a complete shock
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
I'm gonna play devil's advocate just for a minute here, despite having just said I think this was stupid. But this is at least a little better than a girl being won over and becoming a weak ineffectual mess by being called beautiful, which we've seen variations of in One Piece before. Mainly because Sanji has been fawning over her for ages now, and she's reflected 100% of it. It's not just a "womanly weakness" moment I don't think. Or at least, not too severe of one.
If we take the flashbacks at face value, unflinching acceptance of the third eye is probably enough to indeed give her pause. This is the first person in her life to give her this kind of validation, but I think the exact circumstances of the moment probably play into the severity of her response. If Sanji had said this to her elsewhere, I bet she'd be shook, but maybe not collapse-in-a-fit shook. Because right now she's having to process this while literally SECONDS away from having planned to blow his fucking brains out, with everyone watching expecting it to happen. It's a short-circuiting of expectations, she can't just process it at her own pace, she has to process it AND fight with the fact that she's expected to be killing him right this instant.
It was supposed to be so easy to just kill him right then and there, and then he had to go and do that. It's not just tears from "oh man he's validating my fundamental flaw," it's ALSO tears from "why now, why does this have to become difficult at the last second."
If we take the flashbacks at face value, unflinching acceptance of the third eye is probably enough to indeed give her pause. This is the first person in her life to give her this kind of validation, but I think the exact circumstances of the moment probably play into the severity of her response. If Sanji had said this to her elsewhere, I bet she'd be shook, but maybe not collapse-in-a-fit shook. Because right now she's having to process this while literally SECONDS away from having planned to blow his fucking brains out, with everyone watching expecting it to happen. It's a short-circuiting of expectations, she can't just process it at her own pace, she has to process it AND fight with the fact that she's expected to be killing him right this instant.
It was supposed to be so easy to just kill him right then and there, and then he had to go and do that. It's not just tears from "oh man he's validating my fundamental flaw," it's ALSO tears from "why now, why does this have to become difficult at the last second."
TheGreatDirector
Banned
Lmao I kinda expected something like this to happen.
Shit is going to go down now.
Shit is going to go down now.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
QUEEN PUDDING YASASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Byakuya769
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I like the twist. Her failing her lame plan that Sanji knew of wasn't going to be interesting anyway.
GOda.
GOda.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Sanji used his very one unique Haki
Cindi Mayweather
Member
PUDDING CONFIRMED FOR STRAWHAT
The Lovers haki
Cindi Mayweather
Member
I have to re-read this chapter immediately. Too good!
Loved that in the panel Big Mom was channeling Lucille Bluth, having a pretty face on while telling Pudding to grow out her bangs throwing in a snide remark.
That and the art was really good, love the skulls on the cake.
Anime better turn the whole song into a sequence in the anime.
That and the art was really good, love the skulls on the cake.
Anime better turn the whole song into a sequence in the anime.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
In hindsight, Sanji and Pudding are made for each other. Sanji managed to escape his awful family but Pudding had to bear with it and it made her into who she is now. She's a naturally sweet person, who was forced into awful positions and had to become what she is for survival. Both families hated them for just being who they naturally are, except Sanji managed to escape.
This is why Pudding will become a Strawhat: because Sanji will help her escape her family and they'll both have escaped their pasts - together.
It's so sweet!
The anime looks for any excuse to add minutes to a sequence. You'll get your song. They added a whole animatic about Sora (the in-universe fictional hero who fights Germa 66) last week.
It was dope as fuck too.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Pudding also has a spare bullet. Who will she use it on?!
TheGreatDirector
Banned
Either Big Mom herself or Sanji's dad.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
When I saw that song in the panel I immediately thought "thank god I don't watch the anime any more." I do not need to ever hear that shit strung out.
You articulated what I was trying to say way better; agreed
Cindi Mayweather
Member
She's sweet and then they turned her psycho.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
We never actually saw her do anything sweet in that flashback, she coulda been a psycho from the start.
Omnistalgic
Member
Cool chapter
Cindi Mayweather
Member
true
MugiwaraCole
Member
Sanji might've finessed the draws off a woman who wanted him dead seconds before, and then dodged a bullet from a man who can see into the future.
His year has begun.
His year has begun.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
If this is a faceturn for Pudding, then Katakuri.
If it isn't, then one of the strawhats, or Vinsmokes.
Monochromaticx
Member
Sanji stealing puddings heart! and dodging that "bullet" like the matrix!
What did he mean by this?
Member
Mr. Prince is finally back after 15 years
"It doesn't fit my preconceived notions of what is possible! The author made a mistake." - fans of a manga in which the hero ate a fruit that turned him into rubber
SaniOYOYOY
Member
forget pudding guys, katakuri yoo he has joker's smile, fab as fuck eyelash, cool tats. im 100% fanboy. And boy if that staff(?) he is holding is a some kind of scythe, im creaming myself
btw I think katakuri can no longer predict a future in which he interfered, he predict luffy coming out from cake, pudding going down, father misses his shot but he doesnt predict sanji dodging his shot.
btw I think katakuri can no longer predict a future in which he interfered, he predict luffy coming out from cake, pudding going down, father misses his shot but he doesnt predict sanji dodging his shot.
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