HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NIKOLAAAIII!!

Controversial Opinion.

The One Piece Anti's are actually CORRECT about One Piece having a bunch of overly-convenient powers being held by ladies, lately.

And I love it.

I love Tama and her ability to mind control literally ALL of Kaido's gifters, making her an unexpectedly central part of the protagonists' victory.

I love Jewelry Bonney and her ability to imitate Gear Five Luffy and help turn the tide of the current arc, and also control all Kuma-Fistas

I love Boa Hancock having just the right mix of powers and attractiveness that lets her Insta-KO entire armies, as well as some of the setting's most powerful characters.

Hell, if they're doing what I think they're doing with Catarina Devon, I even love that.

Powerful Mary-Sue-ish Ladies Sweep!

One piece is a story about healing your inner child but it takes the interesting approach in directly acknowledging that children are…weird, violent, and annoying most of the time.

Luffy is telling his crew mates to allow themselves the opportunity to get the experience that they’ve always wanted growing up while allowing for them to be every bit mean and violent and selfish that normal kids are allowed…in conjunction with normal happy situations.

Like yeah they build pillow forts on the deck and eat as a family BUT kid Zoro would have loved a violent competition of who can beat the most marines…kid Robin would just yearn to stare at a corpse with those big blue eyes…kid Nami would want to rob the place blind…kid Franky would want to build something big and scary…kid Usopp would want to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk…

So they all get to. This is not a picturesque childhood where every just needs a good cry and a big hug. Most of these kids were weird from the get-go and were not given the proper environment to foster that type of necessary enrichment.

Welcome aboard the ship of dreams where you’re gonna heal your inner child by competing with everyone else in deck to see who can be the biggest bitch (spoken with love).

Happy Birthday

Kyūsaku Yumeno (4th January)

Bungou Stray Dogs

Loki really is the princess of the arc, isn't he?

If we adopted children into the mafia would that be fucked up or what

my question is why is naomi’s past relevant NOW of all times….like is she gonna defeat fyodor or what

Bsd doodles part... uhh

Though the latest chapter was relatively short and rose more questions than it gave answers, I believe Fyodor's speech about the "dimensions" is hinting Atsushi's role in the upcoming fight against Amenogozen.

In this panel, Fyodor is clearly talking about Akutagawa, who is able to block Amenogozen's space and time attacks. What's interesting here is the choice of words.

The individual inhabits "the paper world".

Ofc, this could only be a callback to the paper that magically popped out of thin air right into Fyodor's hand, and which he stabs to demonstrate that a two-dimensional character cannot escape an attack coming from someone outside the paper.

But! It is interesting to note that it can also call back the The Book, which Fyodor referred as "our origin" in chapter 119.

Akutagawa, like any other character in BSD (minus some exceptions), is part of the Book. Therefore, that would mean he is a two-dimensional character, since his life is part of a piece of paper. Now that Fyodor controls Amenogozen a singularity which defies the logics of the BSD world, he is "a dimension higher" than the Book. Which allows him (through Amenogozen) to land attacks that seemingly "come out of nowhere" (in the panel below Amenogozen's arm comes from Aku's belly instead of piercing it from side to side)

Now, back to Atsushi. In chapter 119, Fyodor said something that I believe is the hint for Atsushi's role in the fight against Amenogozen.

Atsushi is a bookmark. Therefore, that means he's not completely part of the Book, but outside the Book. Thus, a dimension higher than the Book, on par with Gozen (dimensionally speaking, at least).

It's also interesting to note that, in the panel below, Fyodor says "us three-dimensional beings", which could mean he's including Atsushi in this label - but this is kind of a stretch imo, since he could also just be referring to Gozen and himself.

At any rate, Atsushi's role as a "bookmark" has to be relevant for the upcoming final clash against Gozen. Especially if he fights alongside Akutagawa (forget that the latter has been stabbed. He is fine. The anime says sskk will fight together and I believe it. RYU IS FINE 🥲🥲)

After all, chapter 119 has already showed us that Aku can fight on equals terms with Gozen in terms of space and time (the first two dimensions).

All he lacks is the ability to counter the thrid dimension, "depth", that only the people "outside" the Book possess. In other words, people like Atsushi. We already know that the tiger's claws can erase abilities, so I think Atsushi is able to counter Gozen's 3D attacks... theoretically speaking.

So in conclusion, I think that chapter 119 and 120 gave us the hints of what the cast needs to defeat the divine being: someone who can counter him in the two dimensions of space and time (Akutagawa), and someone who can block the attacks coming from the third (Atsushi). Which would eventually lead to the final clash the anime has teased, with sskk facing Gozen, and this famous sentence finally taking on its full meaning:

No. Technically, there is no need for more than Atsushi and Akutagawa.

Technically. As long as they manage to complete each other's weaknesses with their own strengh.

Please note that this post is merely my own interpretation of the recent chapters, from which I've built my theories. They could be a total stretch and be proven wrong in the upcoming chapters. But I firmly believe that the elements from Fyodor's villain monologue have to be relevant at some point in the future. Hopefully chapter 120.5 and its successors will provide more answers than questions...

Fun fact! Did you know ch117 didn’t happen?