00:00:00 ⟾ Intro & Overview 00:00:30 ⟾ Plot begins, Ace, Rouge, Roger* 00:01:12 ⟾ Garp, Dragon* 00:02:24 ⟾ Hancock - comedy, personality, chaos 00:03:50 ⟾ Impel Down, sea prism stone, Calm Belt, levels 00:05:48 ⟾ Oda balancing dark themes & chaotic/light humour 00:06:23 ⟾ Oda solidifying Luffy's character, morality, single-mindedness 00:09:41 ⟾ Buggy, humour, map to Captain John's treasure?, Buggy-Luffy moments 00:12:55 ⟾ Magellan, poison 00:13:23 ⟾ Hannyabal 00:13:38 ⟾ Other temporary partners 00:13:46 ⟾ Antagonists - Magellan, Hannyabal, Sadi, Saldeath, five Jailer Beasts, Domino 00:14:35 ⟾ Jinbei, moral code, joining crew 00:16:28 ⟾ Galdino/Mr. 3 00:17:11 ⟾ Sphinx, fight scenes, Buggy and Galdino 00:17:52 ⟾ Level 3: Starvation Hell 00:18:02 ⟾ Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay, pace of reading, impersonating Zoro (also Nami) 00:20:50 ⟾ Luffy and the gang, unexpected team-ups 00:22:23 ⟾ Minotaurus fight, Ace, themes and motivations 00:23:20 ⟾ Chaotic gang 00:23:35 ⟾ Magellan, powers, fight, defeat 00:25:06 ⟾ Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay - abandoning, Galdino/Mr. 3 and Buggy - abandoning, capture 00:25:46 ⟾ Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay - fight versus Hannyabal, rescuing 00:25:57 ⟾ Ivankov, Level 5.5: Newkama Land*, Inazuma 00:26:45 ⟾ Luffy recovering, Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay moment, Luffy moment 00:27:35 ⟾ Dragon, Revolutionary Army*, Theories - Garp and motivations* 00:29:14 ⟾ Level 6, Jinbei, Crocodile 00:30:13 ⟾ Shiryu, chaos, Blackbeard's crew, power* 00:31:45 ⟾ Chaos, Motivations and Setups - Magellan, Blackbeard, Shiryu, Whitebeard, Crocodile, Jinbei, Hancock, Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay, Buggy, Galdino/Mr. 3, Ivankov, Revolutionary Army 00:34:11 ⟾ Fights - Hannyabal, Blackbeard - motivations, plans (also Jinbei) 00:35:53 ⟾ Galdino/Mr. 3 freeing prisoners 00:36:03 ⟾ Battles - Ivankov, Magellan, Luffy, Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay 00:36:14 ⟾ Stealing Marine ship - Jinbei, Buggy, Crocodile, Daz Bonez/Mr. 1 00:37:12 ⟾ Luffy and Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay vs. Magellan 00:37:22 ⟾ Low moment, Going Merry rescue parallel 00:39:13 ⟾ Gates of Justice, Bentham/Mr. 2/Bon Clay 00:40:28 ⟾ Fish-men, Jinbei 00:41:31 ⟾ Comedy moment 00:41:38 ⟾ Emotional scene with Ace & Flashback 00:42:00 ⟾ Overview - plot, story, setup, Ace, Luffy without (?) crew, Whitebeard, Revolutionary Army 00:45:52 ⟾ {Merphy dons the tinfoil hat} 00:45:57 ⟾ Predictions - Will Luffy still fail?, Revolutionary Army, Navy, Whitebeard, Warlords, Blackbeard 00:47:20 ⟾ Predictions - Shiryu, Blackbeard's plan, 3-way War 00:49:34 ⟾ Predictions - Balance of power, countdown 00:50:22 ⟾ Predictions - Cover Stories - crew, final momentum? 00:51:44 ⟾ Predictions - Buggy, powerful positions, King of the Pirates, Luffy's lifespan 00:54:47 ⟾ Wrap-up, future video 00:55:30 ⟾ Final Thoughts - gang dynamics, crew, Oda 00:55:59 ⟾ Outro 00:56:15 ⟾ [Promo]

I was physically in pain every time you called my boy Bon-Chan stupid swan guy

"Buggy will be the pirate king" You're now one of us

You can’t disrespect my boy like that. Bon clays most famous quote when he briefly first met the stawhats and becomes buds with them before they even arrived at Alabasta: “To true friendship, how long you've known each other means nothing.” Ends up sacrificing himself TWICE for Luffy. He is a real one.

I died inside when she referred to Bon Clay as "stupid swan guy". THE AUDACITY!

Bon chan is in impel down because he sacrificed himself so the straw hats could escape the Marines at the end of Alabasta. You'll love him much more on a re read.

Oda's so good that he even had Merphy go through character development. From Stupid Swan Guy to just Swan Guy. Love to see it.

“My staff and I often go to a very noisy Japanese restaurant where a lot of people take their children. There are TVs at each table. If you go there on Sunday nights at 7:30, you’ll see the children staring at the TV screens with their mouths wide open, looking silly. They’re watching One Piece. When I see that, I never want to let them down.” - Eiichiro Oda, 2001

Merphy: "... gathering humans as he goes.. " Jimbei:

“And then a head comes crashing through the wall, because that’s the story I’m reading “ lmao 🤣

Merphy: ...unnecessarily long discussion... OP Fans: No, no, gush some more. More tinfoil hat time pls

To be fair, Boa's misunderstanding of Luffy is funnier and makes more sense in the original Japanese. When he says "Thank you", in Japanese that would be "arigatô", which sounds somewhat close to "ai shiteru" (very strong expression of "I love you" that only romantic partners use). And when he calls her by her name, "Hankoku" (her name spelled in Japanese) sounds somewhat similar to "konyaku" (engagement - which said on it's own can mean something along the lines of "let's get engaged" or "we are engaged now"). So the humor here is in her wanting to hear those words just sliiiighly wrong :D.

The great thing about Blackbeard is that he’s basically Dark Luffy, he believes in the power and importance of dreams just as much as Luffy does it’s just that his are a lot darker, he’s a lot smarter and much more willing to do awful shit to achieve them

You know your a true one piece fan when you meet a good character and automatically think they need to join the straw hats.

Fun fact: Impel down is based on the depiction of hell in dante´s inferno.

One thing I love about how Luffy reacts to the villains in this arc is that he is perfectly fine with forgiving Buggy and Mr.3 simply because he himself never took them seriously as villains since they never did any lasting damage as no one died during their attacks. But he is NOT fine with setting Crocodile free as Crocodile has done stuff that even Luffy doesn't forgive. He even had to be convinced to let Crocodile on the team to escape.

Damn I’ve never met someone that is so harsh on Bon-Chan especially while and after reading impel down. He does so much for Luffy and truly truly cares as much as any straw hat does that he forever became one of my very favorite characters. He’s one of the best friends you could ever ask for.

Fun fact: we first learn of Jinbei's existence back in the Arlong Park arc as a passing mention by one of the two bounty bros

"Poison poop guy" "Paw Paw" "Bible guy" All these nicknames 😂😂😂 Beginning to sound like Luffy 😅

Fun fact: all the 7 Warlords have a connection to animals. Crocodile, DoFlamingo, HawkEye, Gecko Moria, Boa with her snake and medusa motif, Kuma is bear in Japanese, and Jimbe is literally a Wale Shark.

Dragon was never going to bust Iva chan out, he was always capable of doing that on his own. He was waiting on Dragon’s signal to escape, but Luffy and and Ace needing help prompted him to act.

Oh no, she didn't remember the last scene with Bon Clay at the end of Alabasta, that would explain many things 😂

Fun little fact about the "treasure marker" that luffy wears: He has been wearing it since thriller bark where he takes it from the treasure pile. It belongs to captain John who buggy had been searching for a while and u can actually see captain john's zombie amongst the special zombie that fight franky. Fun little detail oda often likes to encorporate which makes rereading very worthwhile.

Merphy really gave herself a raise when she decided to start covering One Piece.

Stupid Swan Guy?!?!?!?! I am offend! For real though, Bon Chan is a real one. I absolutely love and respect that Okama.

“Poison poop guy” Me: *looks around for 4 seconds confused about who poops poison* Also me: oh Magellan.

I do think Jinbei's reply to Crocodile was more of "I shall avoid being offended by your racism because we need to be allies right now" than agreeing with him x'D

"First son of the Sea" is Jimbei's pirate epithet, same as how Luffy is called Straw Hat, Zoro is Pirate Hunter, Shanks is Red-haired, Newgate is Whitebeard, Teach is Blackbeard, Ace is Fire Fist and so on. The Japanese wording could also (and maybe more properly) be translated as Knight of the Sea, or even Chivalry of the Sea (which sounds off). There's probably some idiomatic thing going on with the phrase as for why it would get translated that way, but I can't tell you what it could be as I have no clue.

im kinda sad you dont like bonchan 😭 literally one of everyone’s favorite characters

I love how Merphy has started referring to the Straw Hats with "our crew" and "us" and "our side." It's adorable.

Hey Merphy! Here's a fun fact. Jinbe was first mentioned as a character in chapter 69. But it wasn't until Impel Down that we really saw what he looks like.

So you don't remember that bon clay was in prison because he fought the marine so the crew could see vivi one last time? And he did that because Luffy saved his life in a funny moment?

I haven’t seen anything “about the thing she said that’s clearly supposed to be corrected” and it makes me super happy you guys are trying to keep her from being spoiled. You’re all Bon Chans to me!!!

Black Beard really got shut down trying to monologue at Magellan, shit had me dead.

Luffy was delighted to see Bon Clay again because he was the one who helped the Strawhats escape Alabasta after the Marines arrived. The important part of his first introduction was when he told the crew that "Friendship has nothing to do with the length of time spent together." He proclaims that he already considered the Strawhats as his friends despite being with them for just like 5 mins and being an enemy in disguise. We thought those were all just antics until he actually proved the validity of his quote when he showed up when the Marines arrived and sacrificed himself to let the Strawhats escape Alabasta.

What I like about One Piece is that the treasure marker that Buggy was interested in was planted way back in Thriller Bark with captain john's corpse being among the corpse Moria robbed. Related to those are these minor side story with Buggy looking for captain john's treasure that was also way back in chapter 233, in Skypiea Saga That is just simply... incredible. Oda already had Impel Down in mind at least since Skypiea, or even since Alabasta if you consider the fact that Mr.2 was so fittingly designed as a side character that values friendship since Alabasta! He didn't need to be an antagonist that values friendship in Alabasta, but because Oda has future plans for him in Impel Down... he went the extra mile of planting this friendship focus to Mr.2 since Alabasta!

How can you not love Bon-chan from the start? 😢 Bon-chan is the best friend anyone can have. Nobody is a better person ❤️

The marineford review is gonna be like 2 hours long, i can’t wait!

"Friendship has nothing to do wisth how long we have known eachother" thats why we love Bon-chan

Garp is definitely an interesting character. I believe he does believe in what the Navy is supposed to be such as defending people from pirates but he also doesn’t agree with the bad stuff that the world government decides to do….. I think that’s non spoilers enough. So he’s like a conflicted idealist.

I love Blackbeard so much. He comes off as such a goofy guy when he is really a master planner who has plans on top of plans on top of plans.

I think Impel Down expands on an interesting part of Luffy's morality. We've already seen in the Enies Lobby quote you mentioned that he doesn't really concern himself with the state of the world, so it makes sense that he wouldn't really see value in a prison because it protects the world from criminals. He also doesn't really seem to care about prison as a way to punish criminals, the way many people do. In his mind, he already punished people like Mr. 3 and Crocodile when he defeated them and destroyed their plans (ie. dreams). So even though he doesn't like or trust Crococodile, he's not invested in keeping him in prison, and as soon as it is revealed to him that Crocodile can help their cause he has no problem working with him. It's just so purposeful and interesting and I love Luffy's character! (and LONG LIVE THE TINFOIL HAT!)

"Buggy is gonna end up as the Pirate King" LMAO, that actually caught me off-guard :D

oh man, if she does a top 10 moments BEFORE Marineford, she's gonna have to do another one after just to see the differences

“Natural ability to make people follow him.” Hell yeah. One of the reasons I love Luffy. He affects the world around him without even trying nor caring. You’ll see a lot more of that going forward.

Hannyabal's defiant, hopeless last stand against Luffy is one of the most underrated moments in the arc (or series?) imho He is portrayed as such a joke character for most of the arc, but then Oda flips that on its head for that one perfect moment where he stands up for his ideals and vision of justice at great personal cost, while directly calling out the moral ambiguity of Luffy's actions in a way where even the reader has to stop and say "hmm, he's... kinda got a point there? 🤔" Sure Hannyabal is working for a corrupt/evil organization, and _we_ know Luffy isn't a bad guy. But there's a difference between how we see him and the general public's perception of him, and what he's doing here by freeing all these prisoners _will_ put innocent people in harm's way (or at the very least, have them living in fear) But just like Luffy does, we as a reader justify/excuse his actions because of our personal connection to the characters and how WE NEED TO SAVE AAAAACE 😭

Merphy is spiralling into One Piece insanity and It's so beautiful.

She doesn't like Bon Clay, uhh the slander.

“I love how Luffy takes in Jinbe just because he wants to help. He truly has no idea just how helpful he will be.” Yep.. that is incredibly accurate.

I mean Luffy calling somebody by their correct name is basically a proposal lol

Un-necessarily long ?? I'd listen to this for 3 hours straight without getting bored

Bon-chan suffers from chronic self-sacrifice disorder. He acted as a decoy to help the Straw Hats escape Alabasta. He caused the distraction to ensure Baroque Works could escape. And now this.

Blackbeard was after luffy because he needed someone with a 100million bounty or higher to make him a warlord. When Ace caught up with Blackbeard, Blackbeard wanted Ace in his crew but because Ace refused and wanted Blackbeard for betraying the whitebeatd crew. Blackbeard used ace instead of Luffy as an offering to the world government to become a warlord.

Bon chan the MVP of Impel down, his sacrifice for me is easily up there with The NOTHING HAPPENED sacrifice

-tinfoil hat- “Series ends with Buggy as a Pirate King” On of us! One of us! One of us!

Merphy: puts on tin foil hat trying to figure oda plans Me: this is an almost fruitless endeavor as few have succeed. Not only is it like playing 5d chess without the rules, he's a cheater and his most annoying trait is his patience to wait years to actual decades to give you the context for past events to make sense. Also me every week: ha you may have fooled me a thousand times but ill really think I figured it out this time.... probably... damn fooled again

Bon-chan saving Straw Hats and gets imprisoned for it *Merphy: sleeps* One pervy joke *Merphy: real sh"t*

Merphy: "Here's how one piece is gonna end." Me: Believe me we have done that.🤣

5:00, that is one of One Piece's greatest strengths to me. It is wild and crazy and out there, but soooo internally consistent. The world has its logic, and it makes sense and sticks to it. It makes the world building so legitimately magical.

Buggy's Voice Actor deserve an Oscar btw. You should watch the anime too.

Merphy loves him already and she have only seen the tip of the badassary and kindness iceberg that is Jimbei.

Since impel down is called hell all the time luffy literally went to hell and back for his brother.....nice.

Out of all the allies that meet Luffy for the first time, I feel like Jimbei is the one who adjusts the most quickly to Luffy being …. well Luffy.

As short as this arc was, this is honestly one of my favorites, the absolute nonstop chaos and entertainment, the pacing and the constant bombardment of twists and turns was so incredibly fun to read

Even after over a decade and MANY rereads, Impel Down is probably still my favorite arc. It feels so unique and really showcases the best aspects, especially how well Oda incorporates past characters back into the story in ways that feel perfectly natural and logical.

BON-CHAN BEING CALLED "STUPID SWAN GUY" HURT ME SO MUCH HDKSHSDHHSSH

Time for another edition of One Piece Friday’s! Impel Down time, LETS GOOOOOOOOO!

I can't wait till she puts out the marineford review

Murphy: * Calls Bon Clay, “Stupid Swan Guy” * Everyone: You have genuinely angered me!

So nice to hear you loving Jimbei so much. He is one of my all time favorite characters.❤

When Murph called Bon-chan 'Stupid Swan Guy' Me: Please don't....

It's always fun to watch someone go through this for the first time.

Bon Clay briefly flashes Nami’s body for a couple seconds. Merphy: Holds grudge. Nico Robin blackmails Franky into joining the crew by torturing him via sexual assault for an extended period of time. Merphy: Laughed.

Blackbeard: "This is what I call a pro-gamer move".

Magellan literally just went up and down floors wrecking everybody, lol he was such a cool character.

You should really re-read/watch (watching is faster) the sections of Alabasta that have Bon Clay, because I think you must have forgotten that this is the second time he sacrificed himself to save Luffy. That's how he ended up in Impel down. He is an amazing character.

Murphy: "I'm planning on taking my time, maybe if it's fast paced we'll see what happens." Literally 1 week later: Marineford arc video

Dang! We're really 4 sec short to reach 60 min mark. I'm positive the next arc will hit that one for sure. Enjoyed your review as always and I can't wait for the next one.

What amazes me the most about this arc is Oda's consistence with his characters. They feel alive and have a place in this world. Most of them aren't just throwaway characters for a single purpose. They influence other characters and impact the world just like everybody else. This is what seperates the world building from so many others.

To paraphrase from Naruto: “From here on out, [Merphy] shall know pain!” 💔 And Bon clay is an amazing character. He is forgiven by most fans for everything he’s ever done. He’s a true hero.

let someone who doesnt know One Piece understand this: "Warden Poop Guy easily defeats Blackbeard and his team, but then new warden kill for fun comes in"

It's cute to see that she thinks she'll be able to put marineford down. She's probably already finish reading it. 😄

Impel Down is my favorite arc for spoiler reasons but one thing I find fascinating is how Oda makes something so dreary like a prison so fun and comedic while on the other hand Sabaody is such a cheerful place that has a really dark, corrupt tone

Bon clay one of the best characters please dont hate him because of a joke...

"This is how One Piece is going to end." One Piece ending, lol.

The reason why Blackbeard cheers on Luffy getting the One Piece while still wanting to kill him is simply because despite being enemies, they both have similar dreams and philosophies and he understands that. He wants to kill Luffy because they're enemies but he also respects Luffy's dream and determination.

I like Merphy. FIrst question to Jinbei - "Would you like to join the crew?" Yes. Please.

I love watching these videos because 1) you can feel the genuine love she has for the series, and 2) her theories are always right but wrong at the same time 😂 makes it always funny to see her reaction the next episode

Buggy has been looking for Captain John's treasure since volume 25. Here he finally mangaed to find a treasure mark that may lead to the treasure he is searching for, after all this time lol

Merphy last week: won't do an arc review, Gon be busy Me remembers impel down was next: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? Merphy this week: I was not sure

From what I recall Ivan said they are just waiting for Dragon to make a move, they’re always ready and capable to break out of that prison anytime once they are ordered to. Ivan wasn’t going to go with them until he learned that Luffy is their leader’s son. Only after that revelation that he thought he can’t let Dragon’s son die, so he decided to go accompany Luffy that instant.

You got me. Back tracking over really amazing moments in the series and ahhhhh. My heart. I love so much of it but yes the length of this series intimates me entirely. Reading along with you like this is amazing. I really hope you can great through the next few parts as best as we can together.

The warden and the vice warden are like Michael and Dwight from The Office.

Our boy the tinfoil hat appears :luffyrise:

Tinfoil hat prediction: We WILL see another arc review next week. 😏😏

>Buggy was the first antagonist we met in the story Sad Alvida and Axe hand Morgan noises

i just cant wait for the marineford war video

Blackbeard is one of the most dynamic characters I have ever read But he is truly terrifying

I just love how Luffyesque your reviews are: kills people for fun-guy, stupid swan guy, wax guy, etc. Screw the names, just like Luffy.

I wish these were longer. It's so nice to experience this series again through you Merphy!