Thank you to Florian for commissioning this episode!

This episode we find out that the person everyone has been fighting isn't the real Kuma and doesn't actually have any devil fruit powers. While this is a good thing, as it makes him slightly less powerful, he's still a really formidable foe and gives our friends a hard time. Meanwhile, Kizaru is absolutely laying these pirate captains out right and left, and eventually our crew splits up yet again.

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Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode!

This is the section in which most of the gang ascends without Lindon, and I really didn't fully appreciate how this was going to go. They're held and questioned by the Abidan RE: becoming executors, and meanwhile Lindon is down with Orthos and Blue. He hosts a meeting with the Eight Man Empire and sets some restrictions in place to ensure Monarchs don't develop, and it's pretty fun to think how they'll handle stuff.

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Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode!

I'm so excited to talk about what might be one of the more brilliant episodes of the series, and that is the one that's a very long spoof of a home makeover show and ends ultimately in a stolen hat. I swear to god, this was SO good.

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Thank you again to Florian for commissioning this episode and for joining me!

These episodes are the ones in which we find out that Rayleigh used to be one Gold D Roger's crew! Not only him, but also Krokus who we met way back when. Turns out, Roger was ill and gave himself up...a SLIGHTLY different story than the one the Marines are circulated.

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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!

This is the one where the boys all head to a cabin in the woods with Shawn, and the girls stay home and have their own celebration. It turns out that not ALL the boys went to the cabin, and we get to meet Guillermo's family...who it turns out know he's gay already and are more concerned about the vampires.

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Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode.

These are the chapters in which Mercy winds up having to kill Malice. Despite being really relieved that Malice is no longer part of the equation, for Mercy's sake I appreciate the seriousness of the writing in this scene. It's a real testament to Will's ability to get me to care.

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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode!

This is the one where one of the horrible Celestial Dragons gets knocked out, and then his sister gets up on stage to kill the mermaid...only to ALSO get knocked out by someone's Haki. I'm so excited to see where this whole Haki thing is going.

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Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode!

In these chapters we have the final confrontation between Malice and Mercy, and it's truly a heartbreaking sequence of events. There's just enough humanity left in Malice that I have a moment of thinking she can be saved...but then she just does the thing she always does.

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Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode!

I am happy to report that while I didn't get the obsession with the aesthetic that I wanted in the episodes leading up to the club opening, I got just what I wanted in this one. In fact it's enough of a plot point that Nandor decides to change his wife's entire personality so that he can get the color of roses he wants. I really didn't think he was going to actually go through with the wedding though!

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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode!

This is the episode where we get to see the human market, and it's a sick series of depictions of the ultra-wealthy and privileged treating other human beings like furniture and other household objects.

In the end, we get a pretty solid payoff because Luffy punches a Celestial Dragon in the face, and it's everything I ever wanted.

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