As Someone Simultaneously Watching Egghead And Dressrosa It Really Cannot Be Overstated Just How Much

As someone simultaneously watching Egghead and Dressrosa it really cannot be overstated just how much One Piece animation has stepped up.

Like y'all were in the gutters before but now? Toei heard WIT was coming in for the reanimate and said we gotta show em something.

This. is . not . a . fucking. game.

Wouldn’t it just be fun if the marines sent S-hawk after the Red Haired Pirates? After all Hawkeyes used to duel regularly with the Red Haired Emperor why not send his clone. Wouldn’t that just be amazing? I think that’d be amazing.

Shanks would finally get to duel with Hawkeyes again , albeit a much littler( figuratively speaking that is) one.

Imagine if just like s-snake and luffy, trusting Shanks is so ingrained in Mihawk’s DNA that it can bypass any previous orders giving to him. Imagine if that happened and that actually killed me.

One thing I do know for a fact is that Shanks, the man notorious for trolling children in bars, would bully him relentlessly.

El clássico with Donquixotes

I don't know which is more devasting. The idea that Mihawk and Shanks didn't see each other for a decade after thier breakuptm (which giving that they dueled almos daily for years someone had to have drastically changed their habits to avoid seeing the other)

or even despite all that and not for a lack of trying they just keep running into each other. That their fates are so horrribly enterwined, their yin and yang so bound to the other that despite their best efforts to the contrary it always brings them together again. On the same island in the same know nothing town pretending the other doesn't exist. Because Shanks is a captain on the come up he has a whole crew a burgeoning fleet and territories he can't just drop everything to chase after a petulant swordsman. And if Mihawk can't fight shanks then he can't see Shanks.

And god the tragedy of that of knowing that they are there on the other side of this island because you've known from the moment they arrived. But knowing better/refusing to do anything about it.

On the other hand I do also love the idea that whenever they do run into each other they get into these intense arguments and Mihawk and Shanks have always been prone to fighting but not like this. Because at the end of the day Mihawk and Shanks are both very immature people Shanks is prone to deflecting and distracting to avoid the problem while Mihawk is prone to just completely shutting down when any strong emotions are involved or when he feels like he is not being understood, until he just bursts out in a flurry of rage filled meanness and wrath with a body trail a mile long. And so they just go at each other and the situation is too delicate to thorn filled for Beckman to mediate and so he separates them at least to preserve the integrity of the island they are all presently on.

And then Mihawk goes off and takes his anger out on a marine base cause the pirates have all learned to steer clear of him.

I just think it brings new meaning to Shanks posturing when Mihawk first pulls up on him a decade later. That "you come here for a fight" is a real question and not just playful banter because obviously Shanks doesn't like fighting with Mihawk but why else would he be here? It's why mihawk's little comment doesn't diffuse the tension until he mentions luffy's poster. He is literally and figuratively extending an Olive branch and Shanks couldn't be happier to take it

The fact that all three of them now have face scars 😭😭 my beloveds.

Also I've heard some interesting theories about Megumi's face scars. But to me they honestly look like he got grabbed by the head by someone really strong with long nails like sukuna. They just look like finger indents to me which would be insane seeing as all this was started by those same fingers and now Megumi will always carry that around.