One Piece Chapter 818: Inside The Whale (Summary)

Read the spoilers last week, just before school ----> Mind = Blown

Woke my brother up just to tell him what was revealed - I've never done this before.

When I left home and was on the bus, I was thinking of what was just revealed in the chapter, and the future of the series.

What was revealed regarding the Road Poneglyphs and their being with the Yonko seemed like a novel idea; it seemed like a race to collect all Poneglyphs. 

With two of them being in the hands of powerful (in all ways) pirates and one of them's location being 'lost', having to be found.

Plus it was convenient that the RPs are with Kaidou and Big Mom, seeing as how the Straw Hats plan on defeating or meeting them either way.

But damn, the first few hours of learning of these revelations were sick.

Then after school on that day I read the chapter, which had a poor translation. Re-read it after.

Even today I decided to print an image of the same exact 'X-Marks-The-Spot' Map to put in my art collage.

That's how amazing the chapter was. Never has Oda revealed so much in just one chapter.

http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_818

Revelations of the chapter:

• The Red Poneglyph speaks of a map to Raftel​

Damn we haven't seen Raftel for time.

• The Red Poneglyph is actually called a 'Road Poneglyph'​

• There are 4 Road Poneglyphs in total​

The 4 Road Poneglyphs lead to four different locations.

• One is in Whole Cake Island with Big Mom, one is in Wano with Kaidou, and the last one is 'lost'​

• The Kouzuki Family were master stonemasons who created the Poneglyphs 800 years ago​

• The Kouzuki Family could read & write in the Ancient Kingdom's language​

• Kouzuki Oden was the last generation of the Kouzuki who could translate the Poneglyphs; the others can't translate it at all, not even Momonosuke​

• Lord Oden was executed by Wano's shogun and pirate Kaido​

• Oden landed on Raftel with Roger, and discovered the 'secrets of the world'​

Damn. Oden. Roger. Damn.

I'm calling it, the Kouzuki were a clan of the Ancient Kingdom, similar to the D.

Either that or they're D. themselves.

Momonosuke is a descendant of the Ancient Kingdom.

Dragon Ball Z Kai Stopped Airing On British TV (Kix)

Dragon Ball Z Kai Doesn't Air On Kix Anymore

Every single time, in the few months before the New Year, I went on Kix, they constantly replayed the Cell Saga.

.Now every time I go on Kix it seems like Inazuma has replaced Dragon Ball Z Kai's regular airing (10-30PM-12:00PM).

Realised this since a few months

It's permanent.

Nah, it doesn't air any other time of the day either. Checked already.

:/

Guess people got tired of seeing re-runs of the same thing, so the views went down.

We won't be getting a Buu Saga Kai dub anytime now since FUNimation's focused on the latest DBZ films & other content (like Super) - guess that's one reason they stopped airing Dragon Ball Z Kai.

Hopefully they start airing it again one day in the future.

Studio Ghibli Films Playing Everyday On Film 4, Even On Weekdays (December 2015)

Forgot to rotate the images - posted in order of time from latest.

At 12:30 today I went on Film 4 to find Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind playing. 

Today's Tuesday - so it's fair to say that Studio Ghibli films are playing everyday, not just on weekends, but also on weekdays.

But I'm still unsure of whether this is for a short time only since it's Christmas, or if its generally going to repeat everyday.

Sunday Today: Porco Rosso On Film 4 (British TV)

At 12:00 I randomly tuned in to Film 4 to suddenly see Porco Rosso playing, already 4/5 into the film.

My face suddenly lit up, it's one of my favourite Ghibli films - I didn't watch it, but I took these three images.

Reminds me of back in late March/Early April when I first watched it on Film 4. Ahh...

Studio Ghibli Films Airing On Film 4 Every Weekend: Arrietty Today

For the past couple of weeks I've noticed that Studio Ghibli films have been playing on weekends - though I'm not sure if they play during weekdays too, as I'm not home during these days; with the coming holiday, I'll be able to confirm whether they do play on weekdays or not, though.)

Today Arrietty is playing again - and damn, the memories coming from it are great.

Whenever I hear the memorable music, I constantly get chills and get reminded of the magic of it from when I watched it back in late March/early April during the Easter Holidays this year.

Then I get reminded of when I watched it back when I was 11/12, of how I didn't manage to complete it (I think) and yet I still remembered it.

Those were the days!

Here's three screenshots I managed to get - I'm not watching it though, only listening to it while I type this:

You gotta love this song.

But I had to watch that ending again: as soon as I heard the goodbyes, I went straight to the TV to But I had to watch that ending again: as soon as I heard the goodbyes, I went straight to the TV to watch it. Memories man, I wonder where the Borrowers went to next. I wonder if Sho's still alive, or if he passed away because of his heart condition.

EDIT (16/02/16): Turned out that this was a Christmas Studio Ghibli Season. Ghibli films stopped playing after the New Year, far as I know.

Rewatching The Castle Of Cagliostro On My 15th Birthday

Back on Friday the 13th this November (terrible day!), I bought "The Castle Of Cagliostro" for £6, straight after school.
Not a bad price considering it's a great film.
But what disappointed me was the DVD disc itself.

When I found it on the shelf for the first time (among countless other anime films and collections including "Spirited Away", "Naruto Unleashed" and "Bleach"), I was excited.

The first time I'd watched it was 7 months ago, back in early April, when it was playing on British TV as part of a Studio Ghibli marathon on Film 4 (even though TCOC was created before Studio Ghibli was created).
I was captivated by it. Lupin was such a sick main protagonist, reminding me a lot of Yusuke Urameshi (wouldn't be surprised if it inspired him).
I liked it because it was so 'typical'; it was like a classic.

Ever watched Johnny English? I wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired by TCOC.
That's one of my favourite childhood films, so obviously I would really like TCOC due to it having similar 'feelings' or 'ideas' to Johnny English.

After I'd first watched it I felt a very, very slight bit of nostalgia, seeing how I wouldn't see any of the characters again.

Anyway, this all combined made me really want to buy TCOC, seeing it right in front of me, its DVD case cover reminding me of the action-packed film it was.
Trouble was that, for some reason, I couldn't buy it and had to wait until Friday.

So on Friday, straight after school I went to Cex, searched the 'anime section' shelves to find an anime film or episodes collection I could buy.
I wasn't sure whether to buy The Castle Of Cagliostro or any of the other anime DVDs I'd found and picked, since I'd already watched the former and wanted something new.

So suddenly I was like "Flip it", bought The Castle Of Cagliostro, and went home excited.

But that excitement didn't last long when I opened the DVD case to find a 'plain-looking' disc and a pure-black 'background' (no extra booklets or 'sheets', no background designs, nothing!).

Sure, it's not that big of a deal, but I wanted more out of the inside of the DVD case, out of the disc.


I decided to return it, or exchange it for something else - so straight after school, I went to Cex again, spent 10 minutes searching for any other DVD I could exchange it for.
I found One Piece Movie 7 again, standing there - I opened the DVD case so I wouldn't be disappointed if I bought it... and I loved it.
The background was different to the case cover, and is one of my favourite One Piece scenes; the disc was just as exciting as the case cover.

So I went to the counter to return TCOC, full of excitement.

Turns out that you can only return DVDs within 2 days, and it'd been 3/4 days since I'd bought TCOC. I asked if I could exchange it for something else instead, but a "Would you like to sell it?" replied to me, to which I said "Nah, it's fine".

Sad, I spent a few minutes around the 'anime section', staring at the One Piece Movie 7 DVD in disappointment - and then left.

I honestly felt hateful towards Cex for its return policy, and I was afraid that I'd start to hate The Castle Of Cagliostro too - so I decided to, out of disappointment and wanting to enjoy the film, and for the 'wait factor', wait a week and half, on the 24th, today, to watch it. My birthday.

The Castle Of Cagliostro is a special film for me, a film I can always watch several times much like Johnny English - so it'd be fitting to watch it on my birthday.

Today I came home after school, did my usual stuff and then went to watch The Castle Of Cagliostro as soon as KFC dinner was being served.
Surprisingly my 'slight hate' for it had disappeared, and I watched it with excitement, awaiting the scenes still in my mind from 7 months back.

While eating the chocolate cake, I was around halfway through the film. It was great.

Anime On UK Television!

Anime rarely comes on British television compared to, say, the US, in 2015.

Years back, several anime series/films would play in a few channels (around 5 channels?), but now it's been reduced to 2 (sometimes 3) channels, and the two channels only play a few anime series.


There's CITV which sometimes plays Pokemon episodes and in some occasions air the latest Pokemon films as well.
Currently the 28th of October, I noticed weeks back that Dinosaur King plays regularly on CITV, and still does, which is a good thing. Hearing Ash's voice actor in it really frightens me lool.


There's Kix which shows only one anime series, the legendary Dragon Ball Z Kai.
It plays starting from 10:30pm and ending at 12:00pm - three episodes every day.
Currently it's replayed the Cell Saga like three times, since the Buu Saga hasn't been dubbed yet.


The third channel isn't really a children's/cartoon channel - it's mainly a film-channel which plays several films every day, at times cartoons but most of the time 'latest' American films.
I'm talking about Film 4, which plays one or two Ghibli films everyday for around 20 days, thrice a year (or more). EDIT: These past few years they've only aired Ghibli marathons once a year or none at all in a year.


A couple of years back, Pokemon would play regularly on Disney XD and CITV, but now -XD no longer plays it and CITV's episodes of it have reduced.
Scratch that. I think that it's been completely wiped from CITV since I've been searching for it for a few days but haven't found any Pokemon episodes.