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Was the beginning of the Year of the Monkey like, two days ago? Dangit, must've missed it lol. Ah well, I... guess Luffy's enough of a Monkey from a certain perspective, so there's that

One Piece is one of my favorite manga of all time, and I hope to start watching the anime soon, but given how my life is I can't promise the latter. Still, I'm midway through the Water 7 arc in the manga, and goddamn, the whole thing is fantastic and definitely worth a read if you can spare a weekend at your local bookstore. I've wanted to draw a tickle pic involving a certain Straw-Hat captain for a while and I eventually did with this piece, but looking back, I guess it's kinda half-baked. I could try to whip up something to do Luffy better (and more ticklish) justice, and probably some things with Nami and Nico Robin as well, but again, no promises. :/

Funny story: I actually used to hate Luffy as a kid . I think this was back during the 4Kids anime boom in the early 2000's or so, when One Piece stuff was stocked in shelves in almost every store my family frequented. That kid was everywhere, and he got annoying pretty fast at least in my opinion. I eventually stopped caring for the show in general after the craze died down (partly because, thankfully, I've never seen the terrible 4Kids dub of the anime). However, my frequenting the Internet in more recent years led to me discovering tons of awesome fanart of the series, including and especially more than a few tickle pics involving a certain pair of bigfooted pirate ladies - and later on, Luffy himself! - I decided to check out the manga and see if it really was as frivolous as child me made it out to be. And wouldn't you know it, I absolutely loved it, and in so doing, I learned to love Luffy as well.

Long story short, I cannot recommend this manga enough. My biggest regret with respect to it is that I didn't get to access it earlier in my dark and troubled youth, because my subjective dislike of it has evaporated completely now that I've come to appreciate it for what it is.

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Was the beginning of the Year of the Monkey like, two days ago? Dangit, must've missed it lol. Ah well, I... guess Luffy's enough of a Monkey from a certain perspective, so there's that

One Piece is one of my favorite manga of all time, and I hope to start watching the anime soon, but given how my life is I can't promise the latter. Still, I'm midway through the Water 7 arc in the manga, and goddamn, the whole thing is fantastic and definitely worth a read if you can spare a weekend at your local bookstore. I've wanted to draw a tickle pic involving a certain Straw-Hat captain for a while and I eventually did with this piece, but looking back, I guess it's kinda half-baked. I could try to whip up something to do Luffy better (and more ticklish) justice, and probably some things with Nami and Nico Robin as well, but again, no promises. :/

Funny story: I actually used to hate Luffy as a kid . I think this was back during the 4Kids anime boom in the early 2000's or so, when One Piece stuff was stocked in shelves in almost every store my family frequented. That kid was everywhere, and he got annoying pretty fast at least in my opinion. I eventually stopped caring for the show in general after the craze died down (partly because, thankfully, I've never seen the terrible 4Kids dub of the anime). However, my frequenting the Internet in more recent years led to me discovering tons of awesome fanart of the series, including and especially more than a few tickle pics involving a certain pair of bigfooted pirate ladies - and later on, Luffy himself! - I decided to check out the manga and see if it really was as frivolous as child me made it out to be. And wouldn't you know it, I absolutely loved it, and in so doing, I learned to love Luffy as well.

Long story short, I cannot recommend this manga enough. My biggest regret with respect to it is that I didn't get to access it earlier in my dark and troubled youth, because my subjective dislike of it has evaporated completely now that I've come to appreciate it for what it is.

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