wano & egghead spoilers (up to current chapter 1108)
there's some interesting connection between the eyes of zunesha, luffy/joyboy and the iron giant on egghead
in the zou arc with zunesha's first introductions, each time they were on the page their eyes were big black holes, seemingly empty or hollow:
in wano arc, when zunesha got the first feeling that joyboy could appear, and was on the way to wano, their depiction was in inverse - which could still mean hollow black eyes and lighter color body, but in the shadows:
and then, when it seemed luffy died, his own eyes were very similar - black and hollow, dead and still, like zunesha's.
(this similarity especially here between them is very interesting (dead and still), and i hope we learn more about the 'crime' zunesha did, if i remember correctly, around 900years ago? and what exactly was their punishment, beside to wander around the world forever, and who were they in relation to joyboy..)
UNTIL !! luffy came back to life! not only as luffy, but with something of joyboy's spirit alongside him and unlocking/awakening his gear 5 of the sun god nika devil fruit. zunesha's eyes began almost glowing. bright and light (with hope and sun!):
and in this panel above was also another interesting thing - since then for a few panels/pages, we didn't see luffy's eyes - he had them covered, first with his hair, then even with his hand! (so much that the pose also ended up on his new bounty poster):
(when i first read it, it made me think as if he was getting used to the light/sun again after a long time, and had to shield them to protect them)
it feels that maybe the focus somehow shifted from his usually determined eyes - to his smile when he's fighting in gear 5, to give even more emphasis on him bringing laughter, joy and freedom to the people he's fighting for, so much that many times he's having his eyes closed or covered, even on egghead:
(there's still many panels where they eyes aren't covered, but it's even more curious when they are, especially on purpose, like with that bubble text above^)
even this last page of 1108, first we get to see a very intense look of luffy/nika being serious, angry and even terrifying with his power to grip both saturn and kizaru at once, and then a huge smile with eyes of similar intensity as saturn, still with something terrifying in that expression:
now with the zunesha and another connection - the iron giant on egghead.
when luffy went into gear 5 against kizaru, for few pages he was fighting in his giant form, and two times in those chapters it goes to focus right on the iron giant, who's eyes started to glow, as if he was waking up, as if he started to come back to life:
(again, looks really similar to zunesha)
i really want to see what exactly is connecting them, these beings over 900years old (with the iron giant even attacking marijoa 200years ago) very possibly it's the feeling of joyboy's presence, so i hope there could be more exposition on who exactly joyboy was.
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and then there's another connection with different looking eyes, and that's of the gorosei/five elders, in their awakened devil fruit state:
and especially, since he's been there more than the others, with saturn having these eyes when he gets very angry. (glowing? fire? poison - as there was mention the ushi-oni he's based on do have poison, and in the new chapter it was also mentioned that he's covered in poison.):
(I'm very curious how this will be animated/what colors. if it's gonna be differenciated from those of zunesha/iron giant/luffy, or if they will keep these similarities. i always love to find how luffy can resemble someone he opposes (kaido & big mom especially) bc he might be chaotic/having fun and be selfish, but never in the way his enemies are. he's always looking after the people who were kind to him/helped him, and doesn't want anyone to suffer. so it's always great to see how he use their similarities against his opponents to bring them down and win).
how is that saying, eyes are the window to the soul?
in the eye of the hurricane? or-
"the D will always cause another storm?"
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Status: CLOSED (but little nudge for Jay Park @tctteredwings)
Location: Fifth Avenue Record Shop in Brooklyn.
Fifth Avenue was definitely Charlie's favorite of all the record shops she has been visiting in Brookly for the last couple of weeks. The owner, an older man named Joe was always cheerful and showing her the latest gems either that he found or that someone brought in recently. The shop was never too crowded and the best part was that Joe let her bring Freddie with her.
"Hi Joe." She says softly to the man as she walks in with her dog and closes the door behind her. "Anything new today?"
"No darling, I'm sorry." The man answers, looking at her over the frame of his glasses and continues whatever it is she just interrumpted.
"It's all right. I'll still have a look."
Charlie lets Freddie off his leash and the dog sniffs around before he settles in his favorite corner near a small fan and lays there. She's so into her own world that she doesn't notice there's someone else in the shop besides her.
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