Lon FUCKING Beruk

I've figured out what went wrong with Popp

"If your sword broke you probably suck at using it" "It broke against Hadlar's legendary demon blade" "What the fuck let me see that"

I was telling Holly a couple of days ago that we're far enough in that I'm mentally calculating the chances of survival for the various characters, and I was like, the one character I have at 0% is Lon Beruk because I see him fighting Mystvearn in the OP, that man is dead

I was a fool

Maam has been really nice to him lately and he does his best work when she's yelled at him enough to make him forget that he has anxiety

they should just hand the pendant to Crocodine

ok so Popp's green soul is courage, which means Dai's blue soul is the aspect that wasn't readable. what is it, wrong answers only

I vote "being a fucking dragon"

the Soul of Short

Asexual

Soul of breaking legendary swords

anyway Popp being courage is so choice

he's way braver than Dai because Dai isn't scared of things

Popp isn't a legendary dragon knight or secret princess or anything he's just some guy, fighting evil gods

and he still does it

yeah it rules

Popp "Do it Scared" Adventureofdai

Popp is the guy of ALL time

shonen battle animanga has been attempting to recapture popp's energy for literally YEARS

DECADES

and Usopp is I think the only guy who manages to come REMOTELY close

Popp is so good.... he's just like. He's got so many relatable traits that are kinda shitty like being internally relieved for a moment when Hyunkel went evil because that would mean that the plan failing wasn't his fault specifically

A lot of the imitators I think use the big flashy traits of his for pure comedic effect and don't spend enough time on the way that living that way can effect a person

Usopp but it's Water 7 time all of the time

it really is amazing watching or reading Adventure of Dai and just, realizing how long you've been standing in its impact crater

Popp is the absolute character of all time

also yeah Lon fucking Beruk

I told Holly like 30 episodes ago that the only reason I would not describe Adventure of Dai as altering my brain chemistry in real time is that my brain chemistry was already shaped by things that were, in retrospect, definitely influenced by Dai

It altered the brain chemistry of the people who wrote the things that altered your brain chemistry

Adventure of Dai is the missing link of shonen battle manga

it's a feeling I definitely had from watching other classics like LOGH but like... more of my habitat is within the Adventure of Dai impact crater