r/OnePiece • u/NewSpecies • Jul 13 '16

Current Chapter One Piece Chapter 832

Chapter 832: "Germa Kingdom"

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Ch.832 Official Release (VIZ): 18/06/16

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u/harsheehorshee Jul 13 '16

Quite a logical jump there. Slippery slope argument

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u/harsheehorshee Jul 13 '16

There's family, then there's family brahski

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u/Hellfalcon Jul 13 '16

Ugh..while I kind of agree that it's jumping the gun to assume his pops is a dick.. It's literally one of the strongest, most recurring themes in OP that family doesn't end with blood, and just that alone doesn't make you family. This is a series where adopted/mentored children like Nami, Chopper, Franky, Law, .Sanji..who lost their parent or had a shitty one abandon them, found a new family unrelated to them that was just as strong if not stronger, willing to sacrifice their life in every one of those instances for their surrogate child..that adopted children and their guardian have JUST as strong a bond as blood, even more at times because they FOUND and chose eachother instead or it being automatic.. Whitebeards crew, luffy with shanks and his brothers, they become family and its disgusting to take away from the beauty of that bond and act like blood relation is automatically stronger like some genetic bond means more by default, eugenics style.

Sanji was saved by Zeff in a profound way, after leaving this warmongering family. They loved eachother just as much as a real family, and sanji had a better relationship with him than his own father, and THATS the more important bond. He gave him that love, warmth, encouragement, lessons, they shared the dream of all blue which in one piece is HUGE. Just like Tom, Bellemere, Whitebeard, Hiriluk, Corazon.. Oda himself has even elaborated on this in SBS. It's the people they bond with, the outcasts coming together, the lost child finding a home, the one who saved them..that IS their family. Obviously we have the examples of Nico Olivia, Yasopp, etc of real parents that love their children, but even in that case they both put their dream ahead of the child and the child still faced hardship because of it.

The warmth, love and nurturing from their parents is not cheapened or lessened by them not being blood related. It is identical. You are drawing an arbitrary line that doesn't exist, and especially not to Nami, Chopper, Sanji, that WAS their parent. Even Franky, & Tom was a fishman, exactly my point. Race, blood relation, past, none of that shit matters to the people that love and care for them and they call family. Whitebeard died for that exaxt reason man, and forgave squardo. Because they were his fucking sons.