Thank you so much to Gabriela for commissioning this episode and joining me for the recording!
These episodes are the ones in which our crew finally leaves Alabasta to head back out for more adventures. Thankfully, Vivi does not come along, but they still wind up with a new woman in their crew after all. SURPRISE!
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Thank you to Andy for commissioning this episode!
These chapters are the ones in which Lindon has a chat with Subject One's echo, and finds out that the monarchs in Cradle are the ones that are keeping the Dreadgods bound to his planet, and I think I am in good company when I say that I'm disgusted by them. Then, Lindon has to face one of those monarchs, because it turns out that Reigan Shen has not left the labyrinth after all.
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Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this episode!
I'm finally starting the third book in the Dandelion Dynasty series, and it becomes very clear that I'm going to need to refresh my memory by revisiting the previous book so that I don't get too lost!
We jump back in time and meet a new character from the Lyucu people, and we get to see what it was like for her to experience colonization by Dara people.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
This episode is the one where what I've been dreading finally happens; Ed and Al find out that Hughes has been killed. And then, due to some meddling from Envy, Ross is arrested for the murder.
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Thank you very much to Lauren for commissioning this episode!
This episode is the one where our vampire friends think they're going to celebrate a Superb Owl, while Colin Robinson tries unsuccessfully to correct them. Nadja meets an old lady whom she used to know when the woman was a little girl, and their neighbor makes an unfortunate joke about them being vampires. Which leads to his brain being somewhat melted.
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Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode!
I cannot believe our friends still don't know that Hughes is dead. Like.
Also, there's a weird prince and a little girl who have suddenly popped up, and I really don't trust either one of them but I also can't figure out what their angles could be so I guess I just have to let it go.
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Thank you to Gabriela for commissioning this episode!
This trio of episodes is the one where we finally get to see Crocodile get defeated, and it's really quite a spectacle. While Luffy is busy kicking his ass into the sky, Vivi is being as ineffectual as ever by screaming from the clock tower at the unhearing crowd below.
Eventually, our friends get to rest and eat, and have a bath, and we get a pretty cringey scene with Nami flashing everyone that nobody asked for.
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Thank you to Yama for commissioning this new episode!
This chapter is the one in which our whole crew is gathered together again just in time for an attack from a bunch of Yaldiv warriors...an attack that was somehow overlooked by the powerful entity occupying Ronan's body. We also learn about the differences in the way the Choice went between the Yaldiv and dogs, and I really do love the dog version.
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Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode!
So this episode is the one where we find out what Bradley's connection is to all the shit that's been going on, and we also get to meet the Father and watch him kill his own...son? I guess?...so as to absorb his essence back into himself and hopefully create a new homunculus that functions a little more according to specs.
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Thank you so much to Florian for commissioning this episode!
So in these episodes, we've got Luffy finally catching up with Crocodile & Co. down in the hidden temple, and starting his fight with a bloody fist which apparently functions in the same way as water. Good thinking, dude!
Meanwhile our friends above ground are scrambling to get to the cannon that is poised to hit the square, and we unexpectedly meet Mr. 7 and Miss Father's Day, who may be the most bonkers so far.
So far.