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The one that started it for so many people.
Slow, soft, and completely devastating in how real it feels — two girls in high school figuring out something neither of them has language for yet. Milk Morinaga wrote confusion and longing better than almost anyone in the genre. This one doesn't age. It just keeps hitting the same way every reread.
Why does the fandom keep underselling Luffy's current level? He's above every villain we've seen so far.
Gear 5 Luffy defeated Kaido — the "strongest creature" — while Kaido was explicitly at full power. He awakened his fruit, used advanced CoC, and fought without limit. Yet every powerscaling thread still argues whether he beats Akainu or Mihawk. At what point does the fandom accept where he actually sits on the tier list?
What's a small detail from an early arc that you only understood years later?
I'll start: in Loguetown, Buggy just happens to show up at the exact moment Luffy is about to be executed at the same scaffold Roger died on. At the time it feels like a gag. But Buggy was part of Roger's crew. He watched his captain die there. That scene hit completely differently on reread — Buggy wasn't just being Buggy, he was reliving something. Oda is insane. Drop yours below.