© Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha, Toei Animation
This episode ruined me.
One Portion is a super action-breeze series. It has a total lot of characters with extraordinary powers who fight every other and make silly faces. It has wacky clowns and talking gorillas and snail telephones.
It additionally has coronary heart and pathos. It paints a prosperous portrait of emotional reality on a backdrop of cartoonish absurdity. It is a online page online where human truths can even be expressed in exaggerated proportions (or, perchance, merely as a reflection of our present actuality).
Kuma’s memoir is told in episode 1136 with a grandiose aplomb that it deserves, handing over an emotional punch to the coronary heart finest One Portion would possibly perchance well; an agonizing but fully gratified fist that slams into your coronary heart after a twenty-plus-year windup.
The Toei group pulled out the total stops to portray this memoir, and or no longer it is riveting tv. The gradual motion tragedy of Kuma’s existence comes beefy circle, and he becomes the machine that we first met him as all those years prior to now. Yet this flashback – in the colossal custom of One Portion flashbacks since time immemorial – has positioned him in a brand unusual mild. There used to be repeatedly something a tiny off about Kuma, larger than the mere robotic warrior that used to be introduced to us. Nonetheless watching his memoir unfold has taken that exiguous uneasy feeling and turned it into an emotional avalanche.
The colossal finale of the episode is Kuma running via his reminiscences. Staring at him bound past the total connections in his existence as the lighting fixtures and filters shift the emotional mood and tenor of every memory sooner than it fades to nothingness… Or no longer it is extremely effective stuff. Perchance the most extremely effective tournament in One Portion alongside Robin shouting “I must live!” Episode 1136 would possibly perchance well unbiased very effectively possess cemented Kuma as undoubtedly one of – if no longer the – most tragic figures in the total series.
And that makes the hope he keep in Luffy the total more special.
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