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Gaimon really should have tried harder to escape. However, it is surprisingly realistic that his body would have fused to the chest after even just a few years. Fun fact: There was once a lady who stayed on a couch for a few years and she legitimately ended up fused to the couch and died when rescue crews tried to remove her. There are other similar stories. If humans stay connected to a piece of furniture or a toilet for long enough their body will grow around and into that thing.
You know if Gaimon had joined the crew he would have been useless until Franky Usopp and Chopper got together. If all 3 of them put their mind together Gaimon would have become a cyborg like Franky. Imagine if they created multiple "bodies" for Gaimon, with him and the treasure chest as the head. They could use a docking system to allow Gaimon to change bodys depending on the situation (like how the liger zero could transform in Zoids) I could 100% see Oda as well as Franky, Usopp, and Chopper doing that.
@@rachel_v_kHe meets a girl trapped in a barrel named Sarfunkel. You see her in a cover and in Film:Red. We don’t know if they’re married. But, they appear to be together. Also Gaimon and Sarfunkel = Simon & Garfunkel
@@boxxylegoplaymobil8906 My bad then, for some reason I thought he got a cover story, though I might have been thinking about how Jango and Fullbody got one.
@@Helia-_ He didn't really get a cover story of his own but he was a part of others covers like in Buggy's grand voyage so he is a canon character at least
I love this story arc because it's one of the few times that Luffy tries to be a "Bad,Vile, Evil Pirate!" and like every other time he tries to do that, he fails almost immediately.
Remember when he tried to steal the golden pillar from Sky Island, and they chased him yelling, "Come back! We have more gold and treasure for you!" but Luffy was having too much fun stealing their "Sacred Monument" to realize that they wanted to give him even more stuff?
@@ray-raypacheco276 lol it's the other way around. Whilst Luffy and the gang scavanged Nola for treasure the shandians offered them one of the gold pillars and they just went "nope"
Thank you! I read a lot of fan translations back in the day, and my memory is not so good. I remember the gold pillar being important to the joke, but got confused as to who had it. Yo.
@@tobiaswedinIt's a little of both. The Straw Hats "rob" the Skypeians. INDEPENDENTLY of that decision, the Skypeians decide to give their saviors a big pillar of gold as thanks. They even gift wrap it for them. So while the Skypeians are running up to the Straw Hats, carrying this MASSIVE object on their backs, the Straw Hats see them and go "Look at the size of that fucking cannon! They must've found out we're robbing them? Everyone, run with your small bags of gold!"
@@ray-raypacheco276 Yeah Luffy and his friends thought the Shandians have noticed them stealing crowns and idols from the snake and thought the massive pillar was some sort of cannon because they covered it up in fabrics. And since the stuff they stole was already worth 300 million we can assume that this pillar would have made the economy crash.
Just one of the many dichotomies that make me love this series. In the same series that has deep seated hatred between races, and planet half demon elites, there are stories just about a guy in a box
He's met and hung out with 2 Yonkos, and even managed to get married. All while in a wood box. I'm calling it now, Gaimon either knows EXACTLY where the One Piece is......or he IS THE ONE PIECE!!!!
The most hilarious part is that Gaimon went through enough effort to break his feet out the bottom of the box and just decided “yeah that’s enough of that”
I think my assumption with Gaimon was "he broke all his bones when he fell into the box" and so he couldn't really pull himself out of the box because too much pain. And then after a month or so, his bones healed but now set in an all crumpled and fucked up way.
Him fusing with the box honestly isn't all that far fetched when you've heard of stories of people fusing to their couches after not getting up for years
To be fair, the dragon was 100% filler from back in the old days before they had figured out that you can't actually put filler into one piece without messing up a story or plot element Somewhere, lol.
@@MrVoyeurific and then Nami fucking kills him 😂 straight up. He can't swim, and they were going up reverse mountain. No way in hell he survived that 🙂
To be fair, the only thing they 'mess up' story wise is the fact that Zoro can't yet cut through steel, which I think was an easy mistake to make at the time. And also the fact that 'dragons exist' but I can chalk that up to the goofy ass cartoon dragon later vs this feathery, anchient dragon with the voice of god. All things considered, without the knowledge of what was coming up, I think the story fits it fairly painlessly.
@@timothywilcox1539 Those aren't the only things. A big one was when they showed off a poneglyph in Alabasta (not the royal one, just another one out in the desert that Luffy and Zoro found in an underground cave). This led to a lot of confusion for anime watchers because it convinced them that the Straw Hats would eventually have to return there to find it when it didn't actually exist. There are a number of other minor details that aren't too hateful but don't make a lot of sense if you stop to think about them.
@@kylepessell1350 As an anime only, I never felt confused on this front, and of course I am not the universal experience, but I felt like that was excellent foreshadowing for the poneglyphs actual tole, not leaving one to suggest that they needed to come back. I can easily rationalize it being one Robin has already found, considering she and Crocodile have been in Alabasta for a while, and it's already been shown that she is working a little behind his back even at that point.
A crew of pirates break into the most impenetrable Marine fortress this side of Impel Down (some witnesses claim their ship literally dropped from the sky, but what does that mean, did the pirates set up a huge trebuchet or something? that'd be absurd even by the standards of Grand Line pirates), and then over the next 24 hours they proceed to constantly tag in and out of a prison cell, subvert your most experienced shipwrights, upstage the entire kitchen staff, traumatize an inspector from Mariejois, untraumatize the current head doctor, nearly escape by the skin of their teeth only to say "wait a minute, y'all confiscated our gold!" (which is very weird for them to have in the first place given that it's very old and none of the experts you have on staff can recognize where it might have come from), jump right back in, grab their gold, then peace out by using a giant octopus as a hot air balloon
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He is also friends with Buggy. I really want a cover page story about Buggy sending Cross Guild agents to go pick him and the animals up so they can party together. It ends with him being photographed sitting at the same table as Buggy, Mihawk, and Crocodile and he ends up being declared the 3rd lieutenant of the organization.
Buggy with the power of box man and barrel woman, his new furry crew and a crocodile/hawk would then go out to create the worlds best circus and zoo and conquer the entertainment world.
I'm pretty sure Gaimon said himself that his spine was damaged during the fall and if he didn't stay in the box it could've left him paralyzed. As to the attempt to get him out by the Strawhats his reason to stay in the box is that he's been trapped in there so long his body can't handle the lack of support.
East Blue really was just a wild era of One Piece... Hell, a lot of pre timeskip OP really just felt like random side quests that the Straw Hats stumbled into. Like, how tf do you end up in the middle of a desert kingdom's civil war that was orchestrated by a sand guy, in your FIRST WEEK IN THE GRAND LINE??? THEN THEY WENT TO THE DAMN SKY BC THEY WERE BORED!
Your comment of, "He's 'Stoop Kid' from 'Hey, Arnold!'" comment got me good! That being said... You forget that in the world of "One Piece" you need to be a full "Individual" in order to survive. Average people are just disposable cannon fodder. Gaimon got a glimpse of some boxes that might have some treasure in them and then fell into a box on an island of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" animals, then decided that this was his path to follow. "I guess that I'm the 'Treaure Chest Guy who is also a Conservationist".
I honestly think Captain Kuro is hilarious, more so in hindsight. He is basically trying to pull the Crocodile gig but loses his patience just days before pulling off his plan after years of working on it. It's so pathetic and I love it.
Now that I think about it, there are 3 different one piece arc villains that had basically the same evil plan, but each one was a serial escalation on the previous, 5 if you are willing to stretch things. Kuro's plan- Become trusted by a small island's richest family and take all the money and position for himself by using his crew to stage a pirate attack leaving him to inherit all the money, and then live comfortably in retirement Crocodile's plan- Become trusted by the people of a large Island nation, while using an extensive criminal empire to not only gain wealth and power, but set of a revolution on false pretenses, leaving you to come in and save the day and take full control of the county, simultaneously finding a powerful superweapon to presumably use for grander evil schemes later Doflamingo's plan- Stage a pirate attack, or rather threaten one, to set up a king so you can make him look like a monster, then defeat him and become a hero, letting you take over the country while everyone adores you. Then run the world's largest criminal empire from said kingdom, using some fruit powers to unperson people to keep things going Arlong and Kaido both had set ups that were similar in the whole take over an island/country bit, but they didn't bother with faking being the good guy... Arlong just straight up took over an island (a decent escalation over Kuro) and Kaido was basically the perfect storm of remixing Arlong and the other three along with big mom via his working with Orochi, Orochi did all the tricking the populance bit for a while and then just relied on Kaido to step in and be the muscle and rule by force by proxy, while Kaido was Arlong's rule by force on a much larger scale, while sharing Big Mom's nature as more of a natural disaster than an opponent you could fight.
and then you as gaimon end up meeting a dwarfish clown that can detach his limbs who tells you that he looking for the same magical stretchy crackhead you just saw last week
Nah, he hit puberty inside the box, him bones got too big and box-shaped inside the box for him to leave it without exploding from the pressure difference like a blobfish that's been brought to the surface
@@thunderspark1536 nah, he's like one of those square apples they grow by putting them in a box while they're small and letting it grow into the boxes shape
@@boltx1831 Maybe lol, though I don't think humans can normally do that, or all those kids playing minecraft on their chairs would end up chair-shaped.
The treasure chest could’ve been made out of Adamwood making it super tough like the weak points on that chest might actually be the steel/metal so I genuinely think Gaimon was stuck and couldn’t break out of the chest
You are so lucky that i am too high to argue that point beyond the question of, "Why would treasure chests made of Adamwood be in the East Blue?" I mean, unless the treasure chests were the actual treasure...Well... F@€#.
@@ray-raypacheco276The correct answer to your question of "why would they be made like that?" Is actually "why wouldn't they be?" Because to that, I simply point to a well known fact, Oda likes to make people have tragic backstories. And what's more tragic than a guy getting stuck in a box for 20 years?
@aaronwishard7093 It's basically a metaphor for "Otaku" types, isn't it? Also, i would argue that the reason all treasure chests aren't made of Adamwood is because of how rare and expensive it is.
@@ray-raypacheco276 Well, devils advocate: Treasure chests being made of Adam Wood would be relatively cheap to make (rather than an entire ship), would survive pretty much all attacks in the paradise side of the grand line. If it takes 1 full chest of gold to buy 10 chests of adam wood, that means you have 10 safes for basically a very low investment
0:20 idk if that dragon arc was in the manga or if it's filler, but that and a couple other filler arcs early on (not including the superior G8 Base filler arc after Skypiea) have some of the funniest crew interactions. The rainbow bridge filler arc i think has the scene with Luffy almost reading a book, along with Sanji annoying Zoro doing dishes...
The dragon arc is definitely filler. It also messes with the canon because it’s later stated that dragons are extinct, that’s why Vegapunk made a couple of clones on Punk Hazard or whatever they where.
@@jagkopp tbf the dragon arc was suuuuuper early on, and iirc Oda had originally planned to only have the series run for 5 years, if that puts any context on it for ya c:
The last 10 chapters of one piece should include the strawhats going on more unexplored, random islands, for early one piece nostalgia (for the crew and the viewers)
Gaimon has Bombadil energy from Lord of the Rings the books. Just a guy in the beginning who is like spoiling the whole plot but at that moment in the story you don’t know it yet
Luffy probably rationalizes that “stealing” the empty treasure chests would’ve inspired Gaimon to leave the island-and the box-by giving him a new dream to chase. Inspiring people to chase their dreams is kind of his thing! It’s a really clever metaphor, too. Gaimon put himself in the box by being “greedy”, but then stayed _in_ the box because he couldn’t accept his greed was for _nothing_. So Luffy “stealing” the treasure gives Gaimon a “something” to chase after-because, even if the treasure is empty, if Gaimon catches Luffy? Well, there’s even *more* treasure in that, right? 🎶 Drums of liberation wherever he goes 🎶
I interpret this whole story with Gaimon as a bit of a metaphor for life. Yes, I know, laugh all you want, but hear me out. Gaimon failed to accomplish something (reach the treasure), and it left him in a bad state, being stuck in the box. He lived like this for 20 years, making due with what he had, until Luffy comes along and allows him to get the treasure, only for it to be empty. He chased after something for years, which brought him a lot of misfortune, only for the thing he was chasing turn out to be literally nothing. I say it’s a metaphor for life because that’s kinda what life is, especially if you look at it from a nihilistic perspective. We seek things like wealth, fame and power, often going through misfortune because of it, but in the end, none of it really matters. Borrowing a line from Bink’s Sake, _“It doesn’t matter who you are, someday you’ll just be bones.”_ So Luffy attempting to steal the empty boxes is a Luffy way to make Gaimon see that his life wasn’t meaningless. I don’t think Luffy was trying to “protect” Gaimon from the truth, but to give him a new purpose by chasing after him or something like that, similar to what he does to Laboon. He does this kinds of things a lot, actually. He really is a warrior of liberation and a bringer of hope, even though he still refuses to be recognized as a hero. Fortunately he doesn’t need to go on with his ridiculous plan, as Gaimon is able to see that, even though there was no treasure waiting for him at the end, his life wasn’t meaningless. He still had all the weird animals, and those made life worth living. It’s another major theme of One Piece, the idea that the journey is more important than the destination. Gaimon’s life with the animals while he tried to reach the treasure is more important than the treasure itself. Luffy’s adventures with his friends while they search for the One Piece is more significant than whatever the One Piece is. Any person’s life, how they spend it and who they spend it with matters more than any achievements they accomplish, as ultimately, the road to those achievements is what makes the bulk of their life. I’m no philosophy expert, but I find the themes and ideals of One Piece very similar to those of existentialism. One of the key words of existentialism is in fact freedom, and how essential it is in creating the meaning of one’s own life. The absurd is also a key concept, and if there’s one word I’d use to describe One Piece, it’d be absurd. This is a very surface level reading of existentialism (like I said, I’m no expert), but I find its similarities to One Piece fascinating. I just wrote an essay about how a story of a guy in a box is a metaphor for life and connected it to existentialist philosophy.
Recently started a reread of the manga, and I was surprised when I got to Gaimon, because I could have sworn he was an anime filler character. And then I remembered being surprised about the exact same thing on my first readthrough. The character so bizarre he makes you convince yourself he doesn't actually exist
I miss the charm of pre-time skip too, but Oda did make Luffy's ultimate power incredibly goofy "because he didn't want to make the stakes high and everything too serious like every other shonen" and we know for a fact the one piece makes people laugh. So I feel positive about the future, I think there are still a few goofy adventures waiting for us even if it gets mixed up with the state of the world every now and then
Yeah the passage of time should have actually made it more likely that Gaimon could escape the box since either he would have ateophied enough that he would have lost weight and could have more easily slipped out, or the wood would have gotten old and began to weaken or rot. So one can only assume that as you say he was just intentionally not trying. And what i find funny about early One Piece in retrospect is that Luffy pretty much shares the backstory of that one Pearl guy from Don Krieg's crew of living in the jungle and having to fight animals to survive as a kid, except where that guy eventually picked fire as a weapon of choice Luffy just kept up his strategy of blunt force trauma via either his fists or a pipe he found in the trash. And also occasionaly just swallowing things whole like a snake, i am pretty sure.
I recrntly started rewatching One Piece, and I got to the dragon episodes not too long ago. Grandpa Ryu was just a sweet old dragon, and I deadass feel like the anime unintentionally hinted at Luffy having the Voice of All Things in that mini arc.
I fully believe we will look at Gaimon after One piece ends and say "Omg the one piece mystery was foreshadowed/spoiled here all along". Not sure what it will be, but i'm willing to put money on it
Ok but that fused with the box thing is possible Ive heard stories of people whose skin fused with their couch from not moving for ages. Most of these cases died after they got "unfused" Pretty sure Justin Whang made a vid about this once
What I love about Gaimon is that he's not filler, he's from the manga, like it's an important part I think, it show the goofiness of the world. And even Better he's got a barrel wife (woman in a barrel) now !!!
I'm pretty sure the old Dragon is from a filler episode isn't he? The one with the girl who can talk to animals? I never watched the episode but I remember seeing pictures of the dragon and being super confused and looking it up to find out it's filler.
Awesome video mate. Hope you make recaps about the One Piece Movies as well. Especially ones from the perspective of money bags Gild Tesero and High as a Kite Shiki ( his party consisted of himself, a clown, and a pink gorilla).
The chests are left over from another Celestial Dragon rabbit hunt (like God Valley), and the animals are people that were affected by one of the prize Zoan devil fruits
ngl i was not expecting to see a hey arnold reference in the year of our lord 2023, but i am very thankful for the fact i did. "box kids afraid to leave his box", i got the stoop kid reference immediately. quality content from mugiwara no goofy as always
Been watching your videos for a while, and they are endlessly entertaining, youre easily my favorite one piece youtuber 💜 keep doin ur thing, ur killing it 🙌
Funnily enough he definitely is fused with the chest. There reports that people live on there toilets and their skin fused with the seat. He’d probably die of an infection if they broke the treasure chest.
This is one of those things i point to when people say gear 5 is too cartoony. They used to pull these episodes out of their butt like every third episode.
Love Gaimon & he had a great time on the island of Rare Animals during the time-skip because he got a love interest with a woman in a barrel named Sarfunkel (both names are a reference to the singing group Simon & Garfunkel), & I can see at the end of the series both the box & barrel will break
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I interpret this whole story with Gaimon as a bit of a metaphor for life. Yes, I know, laugh all you want, but hear me out. Gaimon failed to accomplish something (reach the treasure), and it left him in a bad state, being stuck in the box. He lived like this for 20 years, making due with what he had, until Luffy comes along and allows him to get the treasure, only for it to be empty. He chased after something for years, which brought him a lot of misfortune, only for the thing he was chasing turn out to be literally nothing. I say it’s a metaphor for life because that’s kinda what life is, especially if you look at it from a nihilistic perspective. We seek things like wealth, fame and power, often going through misfortune because of it, but in the end, none of it really matters. Borrowing a line from Bink’s Sake, _“It doesn’t matter who you are, someday you’ll just be bones.”_ So Luffy attempting to steal the empty boxes is a Luffy way to make Gaimon see that his life wasn’t meaningless. I don’t think Luffy was trying to “protect” Gaimon from the truth, but to give him a new purpose by chasing after him or something like that, similar to what he does to Laboon. Fortunately he doesn’t need to go on with it, as Gaimon is able to see that, even though there was no treasure waiting for him at the end, his life wasn’t meaningless. He still had all the weird animals, and those made life worth living. It’s another major theme of One Piece, the idea that the journey is more important than the destination. Gaimon’s life with the animals while he tried to reach the treasure is more important than the treasure itself. Luffy’s adventures with his friends while they search for the One Piece is more significant than whatever the One Piece is. Any person’s life, how they spend it and who they spend it with matters more than any achievements they accomplish, as ultimately, the road to those achievements is what makes the bulk of their life. I’m no philosophy expert, but I find the themes and ideals of One Piece very similar to those of existentialism. One of the key words of existentialism is in fact freedom, and how essential it is in creating the meaning of one’s own life. The absurd is also a key concept, and if there’s one word I’d use to describe One Piece, it’d be absurd. This is a very surface level reading of existentialism (like I said, I’m no expert), but I find its similarities to One Piece fascinating. I just wrote an essay about how a story of a guy in a box is a metaphor for life and connected it to existentialist philosophy.
i do this shit all the time. (make essays on one piece) One piece pre time skip is goated with all these deep shows of grounded real life struggle through an absurdist medium. giving Laboon a new purpose was heart warming. I bet many relate to laboon and gaimon, doing a shitty job for a chunk of their lifespan and in a way saying that they fused with their box. some people even though they hate their lifepath some times, will still say that theyve sunk so much into this investment, that changing things up is too much. some would really rather die than take their uniform off, or say “the only time this is coming off is if I die” type of thing with their title and position. and not always out of their volition, but rather a stockholm syndrome relationship with themselves. “ive only ever been this. how could i possibly be something else” type of dilemma
What Mugiwara's confusedly recollecting in the beginning is actually a favorite early One Piece arc of mine: Warship Island. Goes down like this: the then five-strong band of Straw Hats find and help a girl who can talk to animals bring an old dragon named Grampa Ryu (I know he's called something else in the Japanese, I'm just going off of what I know), all while being hunted by Marine Commodore Nelson and his sneaky assassin agent Eric the Whirlwind. It's technically filler, but it's filler that could technically exist in the main canon given how it doesn't really interfere with continuity.
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Gaimon really should have tried harder to escape. However, it is surprisingly realistic that his body would have fused to the chest after even just a few years.
Fun fact: There was once a lady who stayed on a couch for a few years and she legitimately ended up fused to the couch and died when rescue crews tried to remove her.
There are other similar stories.
If humans stay connected to a piece of furniture or a toilet for long enough their body will grow around and into that thing.
You know if Gaimon had joined the crew he would have been useless until Franky Usopp and Chopper got together.
If all 3 of them put their mind together Gaimon would have become a cyborg like Franky.
Imagine if they created multiple "bodies" for Gaimon, with him and the treasure chest as the head.
They could use a docking system to allow Gaimon to change bodys depending on the situation (like how the liger zero could transform in Zoids)
I could 100% see Oda as well as Franky, Usopp, and Chopper doing that.
You know in the manga Gaimon got a wife after the time skip. It was in one of the cover stories.
@@josephreagan9545 Why do people keep saying wife? I don't even see any confirmation that they view each other romantically
To think Gaimon actually found himself a wife. Incredible.
Bro is literally stuck in a chest and still has more game than me
@@jonaz7312 so devastating u had to post it twice
@@obaidxl8950 Lmao. Apologies, should be fixed now
What? Who? I don't remember that part.
@@rachel_v_kHe meets a girl trapped in a barrel named Sarfunkel.
You see her in a cover and in Film:Red. We don’t know if they’re married. But, they appear to be together.
Also
Gaimon and Sarfunkel = Simon & Garfunkel
The best part is Gaimon isn't filler, he was part of the manga, Oda even wrote a whole cover story dedicated to Gaimon.
i mean not really he just had a single page in the decks of the world cover story showing that gaiman got married to sarfunkel
@@boxxylegoplaymobil8906 My bad then, for some reason I thought he got a cover story, though I might have been thinking about how Jango and Fullbody got one.
@@Helia-_ He didn't really get a cover story of his own but he was a part of others covers like in Buggy's grand voyage so he is a canon character at least
@@KingPOTB Yeah duh he's canon? He's introduced in an actual manga chapter.
I love this story arc because it's one of the few times that Luffy tries to be a "Bad,Vile, Evil Pirate!" and like every other time he tries to do that, he fails almost immediately.
Remember when he tried to steal the golden pillar from Sky Island, and they chased him yelling, "Come back! We have more gold and treasure for you!" but Luffy was having too much fun stealing their "Sacred Monument" to realize that they wanted to give him even more stuff?
@@ray-raypacheco276 lol it's the other way around. Whilst Luffy and the gang scavanged Nola for treasure the shandians offered them one of the gold pillars and they just went "nope"
Thank you! I read a lot of fan translations back in the day, and my memory is not so good. I remember the gold pillar being important to the joke, but got confused as to who had it. Yo.
@@tobiaswedinIt's a little of both. The Straw Hats "rob" the Skypeians. INDEPENDENTLY of that decision, the Skypeians decide to give their saviors a big pillar of gold as thanks. They even gift wrap it for them.
So while the Skypeians are running up to the Straw Hats, carrying this MASSIVE object on their backs, the Straw Hats see them and go "Look at the size of that fucking cannon! They must've found out we're robbing them? Everyone, run with your small bags of gold!"
@@ray-raypacheco276 Yeah Luffy and his friends thought the Shandians have noticed them stealing crowns and idols from the snake and thought the massive pillar was some sort of cannon because they covered it up in fabrics. And since the stuff they stole was already worth 300 million we can assume that this pillar would have made the economy crash.
Just one of the many dichotomies that make me love this series. In the same series that has deep seated hatred between races, and planet half demon elites, there are stories just about a guy in a box
You said it buddy
He's met and hung out with 2 Yonkos, and even managed to get married. All while in a wood box. I'm calling it now, Gaimon either knows EXACTLY where the One Piece is......or he IS THE ONE PIECE!!!!
He is the one piece oda revealed
More like goatmon
The most hilarious part is that Gaimon went through enough effort to break his feet out the bottom of the box and just decided “yeah that’s enough of that”
I think my assumption with Gaimon was "he broke all his bones when he fell into the box" and so he couldn't really pull himself out of the box because too much pain. And then after a month or so, his bones healed but now set in an all crumpled and fucked up way.
I like this theory
Gaimon meeting buggy was hilarious
Him fusing with the box honestly isn't all that far fetched when you've heard of stories of people fusing to their couches after not getting up for years
To be fair, the dragon was 100% filler from back in the old days before they had figured out that you can't actually put filler into one piece without messing up a story or plot element Somewhere, lol.
Yes it’s more like anime only content like that sickle fruit user shows up as they enter the grandline
@@MrVoyeurific and then Nami fucking kills him 😂 straight up. He can't swim, and they were going up reverse mountain. No way in hell he survived that 🙂
To be fair, the only thing they 'mess up' story wise is the fact that Zoro can't yet cut through steel, which I think was an easy mistake to make at the time.
And also the fact that 'dragons exist' but I can chalk that up to the goofy ass cartoon dragon later vs this feathery, anchient dragon with the voice of god.
All things considered, without the knowledge of what was coming up, I think the story fits it fairly painlessly.
@@timothywilcox1539 Those aren't the only things. A big one was when they showed off a poneglyph in Alabasta (not the royal one, just another one out in the desert that Luffy and Zoro found in an underground cave). This led to a lot of confusion for anime watchers because it convinced them that the Straw Hats would eventually have to return there to find it when it didn't actually exist. There are a number of other minor details that aren't too hateful but don't make a lot of sense if you stop to think about them.
@@kylepessell1350 As an anime only, I never felt confused on this front, and of course I am not the universal experience, but I felt like that was excellent foreshadowing for the poneglyphs actual tole, not leaving one to suggest that they needed to come back. I can easily rationalize it being one Robin has already found, considering she and Crocodile have been in Alabasta for a while, and it's already been shown that she is working a little behind his back even at that point.
Gaimon has a special lady friend named Sarfunkel. The best 12 year pun in One Piece.
had to do a wiki search to get the Joke😂😂😂😂😂 Gaimon and Sarfunkel
What’s the joke?
@@ktrip2804Simon and Garfunkel. That's it that's the whole joke
The SPITTAKE I just did when I figured out the pun
@@deebo429__I don't get it ._.
G-8 is probably the most hilarious from the marine's perspective.
A crew of pirates break into the most impenetrable Marine fortress this side of Impel Down (some witnesses claim their ship literally dropped from the sky, but what does that mean, did the pirates set up a huge trebuchet or something? that'd be absurd even by the standards of Grand Line pirates), and then over the next 24 hours they proceed to constantly tag in and out of a prison cell, subvert your most experienced shipwrights, upstage the entire kitchen staff, traumatize an inspector from Mariejois, untraumatize the current head doctor, nearly escape by the skin of their teeth only to say "wait a minute, y'all confiscated our gold!" (which is very weird for them to have in the first place given that it's very old and none of the experts you have on staff can recognize where it might have come from), jump right back in, grab their gold, then peace out by using a giant octopus as a hot air balloon
Oh ABSOLUTELY.
@@AttentionDeficitGuy I laughed way too much reading that. G8 is goated.
Fam, we gotta run the likes up for this comment! G-8 was MADE for the “…Is Hilarious” series. How do we tell Goofy’s mama that we need her son to get us this asap?
The whole filler is just the crew messing with the marines. Absolutely comedy. Even with luffy breaking the 4th wall in that one scene
He is also friends with Buggy. I really want a cover page story about Buggy sending Cross Guild agents to go pick him and the animals up so they can party together. It ends with him being photographed sitting at the same table as Buggy, Mihawk, and Crocodile and he ends up being declared the 3rd lieutenant of the organization.
Wait rlly? 😂😂 I love this sm
And for some reason they keep him in the box. It's part of his style and you can't just take that away from a man.
Buggy with the power of box man and barrel woman, his new furry crew and a crocodile/hawk would then go out to create the worlds best circus and zoo and conquer the entertainment world.
I'm pretty sure Gaimon said himself that his spine was damaged during the fall and if he didn't stay in the box it could've left him paralyzed. As to the attempt to get him out by the Strawhats his reason to stay in the box is that he's been trapped in there so long his body can't handle the lack of support.
East Blue really was just a wild era of One Piece... Hell, a lot of pre timeskip OP really just felt like random side quests that the Straw Hats stumbled into. Like, how tf do you end up in the middle of a desert kingdom's civil war that was orchestrated by a sand guy, in your FIRST WEEK IN THE GRAND LINE??? THEN THEY WENT TO THE DAMN SKY BC THEY WERE BORED!
After the celestial dragon hunger game that obviously took place on that island Gaimon made that place a paradise
Luffy: *sees dude in a box* OUR CREW NEEDS THIS ONE!
Luffy, months later: *sees wizard of Oz Tree and ICU unicorn* OUR CREW NEEDS THESE ONES!
I realized one piece was going to change my life when I finished reading Gaimon and realized it had an emotional impact on me
Your comment of, "He's 'Stoop Kid' from 'Hey, Arnold!'" comment got me good! That being said... You forget that in the world of "One Piece" you need to be a full "Individual" in order to survive. Average people are just disposable cannon fodder. Gaimon got a glimpse of some boxes that might have some treasure in them and then fell into a box on an island of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" animals, then decided that this was his path to follow. "I guess that I'm the 'Treaure Chest Guy who is also a Conservationist".
There was also the story of him becoming friends with Buggy and him marrying box-girl during the time skip.
I honestly think Captain Kuro is hilarious, more so in hindsight. He is basically trying to pull the Crocodile gig but loses his patience just days before pulling off his plan after years of working on it. It's so pathetic and I love it.
Now that I think about it, there are 3 different one piece arc villains that had basically the same evil plan, but each one was a serial escalation on the previous, 5 if you are willing to stretch things.
Kuro's plan- Become trusted by a small island's richest family and take all the money and position for himself by using his crew to stage a pirate attack leaving him to inherit all the money, and then live comfortably in retirement
Crocodile's plan- Become trusted by the people of a large Island nation, while using an extensive criminal empire to not only gain wealth and power, but set of a revolution on false pretenses, leaving you to come in and save the day and take full control of the county, simultaneously finding a powerful superweapon to presumably use for grander evil schemes later
Doflamingo's plan- Stage a pirate attack, or rather threaten one, to set up a king so you can make him look like a monster, then defeat him and become a hero, letting you take over the country while everyone adores you. Then run the world's largest criminal empire from said kingdom, using some fruit powers to unperson people to keep things going
Arlong and Kaido both had set ups that were similar in the whole take over an island/country bit, but they didn't bother with faking being the good guy... Arlong just straight up took over an island (a decent escalation over Kuro) and Kaido was basically the perfect storm of remixing Arlong and the other three along with big mom via his working with Orochi, Orochi did all the tricking the populance bit for a while and then just relied on Kaido to step in and be the muscle and rule by force by proxy, while Kaido was Arlong's rule by force on a much larger scale, while sharing Big Mom's nature as more of a natural disaster than an opponent you could fight.
and then you as gaimon end up meeting a dwarfish clown that can detach his limbs who tells you that he looking for the same magical stretchy crackhead you just saw last week
You'd think he'd have slipped out of the box as he lost weight from not being able to eat as much due to being stuck in a box.
Nah, he hit puberty inside the box, him bones got too big and box-shaped inside the box for him to leave it without exploding from the pressure difference like a blobfish that's been brought to the surface
@@boltx1831 Damn man ate the bone-adapting devil fruit or some shit
@@thunderspark1536 nah, he's like one of those square apples they grow by putting them in a box while they're small and letting it grow into the boxes shape
@@boltx1831 Maybe lol, though I don't think humans can normally do that, or all those kids playing minecraft on their chairs would end up chair-shaped.
@@thunderspark1536 Well it's a good thing that chairs are generally human back and leg shaped
The treasure chest could’ve been made out of Adamwood making it super tough like the weak points on that chest might actually be the steel/metal so I genuinely think Gaimon was stuck and couldn’t break out of the chest
You are so lucky that i am too high to argue that point beyond the question of, "Why would treasure chests made of Adamwood be in the East Blue?" I mean, unless the treasure chests were the actual treasure...Well... F@€#.
@@ray-raypacheco276The correct answer to your question of "why would they be made like that?" Is actually "why wouldn't they be?" Because to that, I simply point to a well known fact, Oda likes to make people have tragic backstories. And what's more tragic than a guy getting stuck in a box for 20 years?
@aaronwishard7093 It's basically a metaphor for "Otaku" types, isn't it? Also, i would argue that the reason all treasure chests aren't made of Adamwood is because of how rare and expensive it is.
That being said, i am very much a "Narrative over Logic" type person. It doesn't matter if it would make sense in our world, they're not in our world!
@@ray-raypacheco276 Well, devils advocate: Treasure chests being made of Adam Wood would be relatively cheap to make (rather than an entire ship), would survive pretty much all attacks in the paradise side of the grand line.
If it takes 1 full chest of gold to buy 10 chests of adam wood, that means you have 10 safes for basically a very low investment
Looking back at it, Gaimon's story starts pretty sad, but has a such sweet ending.
0:20 idk if that dragon arc was in the manga or if it's filler, but that and a couple other filler arcs early on (not including the superior G8 Base filler arc after Skypiea) have some of the funniest crew interactions.
The rainbow bridge filler arc i think has the scene with Luffy almost reading a book, along with Sanji annoying Zoro doing dishes...
The dragon arc is definitely filler. It also messes with the canon because it’s later stated that dragons are extinct, that’s why Vegapunk made a couple of clones on Punk Hazard or whatever they where.
@@jagkopp tbf the dragon arc was suuuuuper early on, and iirc Oda had originally planned to only have the series run for 5 years, if that puts any context on it for ya c:
Gaimon: the original mosshead
I need these videos dam near weekly man. Your take on the series is MAD REFRESHING in the OP RUclips community.
GO CWAZY BIG DAWG ‼️
Ayee preciate you my dawg for real!!!
U have easily become one of my favorite one piece RUclipsrs at a rapid pace keep up the great work💪🏻‼️
The last 10 chapters of one piece should include the strawhats going on more unexplored, random islands, for early one piece nostalgia (for the crew and the viewers)
Gaimon has Bombadil energy from Lord of the Rings the books. Just a guy in the beginning who is like spoiling the whole plot but at that moment in the story you don’t know it yet
5:38 Jesus, I just thought about how terrifying a gorilla hippo would be
The most hilarious part is that this arc is canon to the story
1:53
Everyone says "supports healthy lifestyle" but do they support an unhealthy lifestyle too?😂
Luffy probably rationalizes that “stealing” the empty treasure chests would’ve inspired Gaimon to leave the island-and the box-by giving him a new dream to chase.
Inspiring people to chase their dreams is kind of his thing!
It’s a really clever metaphor, too. Gaimon put himself in the box by being “greedy”, but then stayed _in_ the box because he couldn’t accept his greed was for _nothing_.
So Luffy “stealing” the treasure gives Gaimon a “something” to chase after-because, even if the treasure is empty, if Gaimon catches Luffy? Well, there’s even *more* treasure in that, right?
🎶 Drums of liberation wherever he goes 🎶
I interpret this whole story with Gaimon as a bit of a metaphor for life. Yes, I know, laugh all you want, but hear me out.
Gaimon failed to accomplish something (reach the treasure), and it left him in a bad state, being stuck in the box. He lived like this for 20 years, making due with what he had, until Luffy comes along and allows him to get the treasure, only for it to be empty. He chased after something for years, which brought him a lot of misfortune, only for the thing he was chasing turn out to be literally nothing.
I say it’s a metaphor for life because that’s kinda what life is, especially if you look at it from a nihilistic perspective. We seek things like wealth, fame and power, often going through misfortune because of it, but in the end, none of it really matters. Borrowing a line from Bink’s Sake, _“It doesn’t matter who you are, someday you’ll just be bones.”_
So Luffy attempting to steal the empty boxes is a Luffy way to make Gaimon see that his life wasn’t meaningless. I don’t think Luffy was trying to “protect” Gaimon from the truth, but to give him a new purpose by chasing after him or something like that, similar to what he does to Laboon. He does this kinds of things a lot, actually. He really is a warrior of liberation and a bringer of hope, even though he still refuses to be recognized as a hero.
Fortunately he doesn’t need to go on with his ridiculous plan, as Gaimon is able to see that, even though there was no treasure waiting for him at the end, his life wasn’t meaningless. He still had all the weird animals, and those made life worth living. It’s another major theme of One Piece, the idea that the journey is more important than the destination. Gaimon’s life with the animals while he tried to reach the treasure is more important than the treasure itself. Luffy’s adventures with his friends while they search for the One Piece is more significant than whatever the One Piece is. Any person’s life, how they spend it and who they spend it with matters more than any achievements they accomplish, as ultimately, the road to those achievements is what makes the bulk of their life.
I’m no philosophy expert, but I find the themes and ideals of One Piece very similar to those of existentialism. One of the key words of existentialism is in fact freedom, and how essential it is in creating the meaning of one’s own life. The absurd is also a key concept, and if there’s one word I’d use to describe One Piece, it’d be absurd. This is a very surface level reading of existentialism (like I said, I’m no expert), but I find its similarities to One Piece fascinating.
I just wrote an essay about how a story of a guy in a box is a metaphor for life and connected it to existentialist philosophy.
Recently started a reread of the manga, and I was surprised when I got to Gaimon, because I could have sworn he was an anime filler character. And then I remembered being surprised about the exact same thing on my first readthrough.
The character so bizarre he makes you convince yourself he doesn't actually exist
The dragon was a filler
I know alot of people dislike that filler but I loved it
The fact Zoro just goes to sleep I can't
The fact he's canon is the strangest part
I miss the charm of pre-time skip too, but Oda did make Luffy's ultimate power incredibly goofy "because he didn't want to make the stakes high and everything too serious like every other shonen" and we know for a fact the one piece makes people laugh. So I feel positive about the future, I think there are still a few goofy adventures waiting for us even if it gets mixed up with the state of the world every now and then
Yeah the passage of time should have actually made it more likely that Gaimon could escape the box since either he would have ateophied enough that he would have lost weight and could have more easily slipped out, or the wood would have gotten old and began to weaken or rot. So one can only assume that as you say he was just intentionally not trying.
And what i find funny about early One Piece in retrospect is that Luffy pretty much shares the backstory of that one Pearl guy from Don Krieg's crew of living in the jungle and having to fight animals to survive as a kid, except where that guy eventually picked fire as a weapon of choice Luffy just kept up his strategy of blunt force trauma via either his fists or a pipe he found in the trash. And also occasionaly just swallowing things whole like a snake, i am pretty sure.
I recrntly started rewatching One Piece, and I got to the dragon episodes not too long ago. Grandpa Ryu was just a sweet old dragon, and I deadass feel like the anime unintentionally hinted at Luffy having the Voice of All Things in that mini arc.
Glad you're doing these smaller earlier arcs. More plz
The strawhat grand fleet at the final battle when they see a bunny snake and gaimon pull up
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO that would be SO fucking hype!!!!
Kaido was never an ancient nor a mythical Zoan.
Merely a "could have run into one last tuesday" zoan.
Bokksu sponsorship would have gone crazy on this one 😂
Waking up to this video is awesome especially on a Monday. Thank you for the laughs.
I think the old dragon you are thinking about is a filler arc, called Warship Island arc.
The carti in the corner the whole time lmao
I'm so Glad I'm normally in the car when I see these come out Because I Yell YEAAAAAH like Lil Jon with every Goofy drop
Bro got the dispo cart on the right
I fully believe we will look at Gaimon after One piece ends and say "Omg the one piece mystery was foreshadowed/spoiled here all along". Not sure what it will be, but i'm willing to put money on it
Ok but that fused with the box thing is possible
Ive heard stories of people whose skin fused with their couch from not moving for ages. Most of these cases died after they got "unfused"
Pretty sure Justin Whang made a vid about this once
Stoop Kid. Now that's a reference I haven't heard about for the longest time.
These are way better than they have any right to be LMAO keep em coming my guy! You got the sub from me!
Its even more hilarious when you consider the empty chests hes after may have been the ones from god valley
What I love about Gaimon is that he's not filler, he's from the manga, like it's an important part I think, it show the goofiness of the world. And even Better he's got a barrel wife (woman in a barrel) now !!!
I'm pretty sure the old Dragon is from a filler episode isn't he? The one with the girl who can talk to animals? I never watched the episode but I remember seeing pictures of the dragon and being super confused and looking it up to find out it's filler.
Davey Back! Also a little disappointed you didn't cover Buggy and Gaimon.
Keep up the great work man you became one of my favorite RUclips channels faster than anyone!
Awesome video mate. Hope you make recaps about the One Piece Movies as well. Especially ones from the perspective of money bags Gild Tesero and High as a Kite Shiki ( his party consisted of himself, a clown, and a pink gorilla).
I wonder if it's possible to make a funny video for the 6th movie that's effectively a horror movie.
@@greenapple9477 Maybe
The chests are left over from another Celestial Dragon rabbit hunt (like God Valley), and the animals are people that were affected by one of the prize Zoan devil fruits
ngl i was not expecting to see a hey arnold reference in the year of our lord 2023, but i am very thankful for the fact i did. "box kids afraid to leave his box", i got the stoop kid reference immediately. quality content from mugiwara no goofy as always
It is great to go back to early One Piece. Loved this.
Been watching your videos for a while, and they are endlessly entertaining, youre easily my favorite one piece youtuber 💜 keep doin ur thing, ur killing it 🙌
Thanks so much!! We just getting started!!
can see where goofy gets his extra goofy in the bottom right lmfaoooo
love ur vids brah
i think gaimon is living out a sick fetish that he tells NOBODY about
so true midget masher
soy fucking true
Funnily enough he definitely is fused with the chest. There reports that people live on there toilets and their skin fused with the seat. He’d probably die of an infection if they broke the treasure chest.
This is one of those things i point to when people say gear 5 is too cartoony. They used to pull these episodes out of their butt like every third episode.
i completely forgot about that dragon
Love Gaimon & he had a great time on the island of Rare Animals during the time-skip because he got a love interest with a woman in a barrel named Sarfunkel (both names are a reference to the singing group Simon & Garfunkel), & I can see at the end of the series both the box & barrel will break
I think that fall broke his back. And that's why he could not leave that. That served as a crutch for his broken back.
bro that cart on your desk always hits. LMAO
Why did I know how this episode would start before he started talking. I knew he would bring up a fever dream
"Stoop kid’s afraid to leave his stoop! Stoop kid’s afraid to leave his stoop!"
The cart chillin on the bottom right
A hey Arnold reference, truly a cultured man.
I feel like gaimon just went through enough in his life that after the treasure chest he just said "it is what it is"
The dragons are a filler arc called Warship Island Arc. It was added becuase Toei would have caught up to the manga in less than a year.
Yup, I do enjoy Factor. I also stab it a few more times as I'm a perpetual child lol.
When gaimon I the normal one. You know one piece is crazy
Gotta love the urb in the bottom right 😂
Dab pen just chillin the the corner, respect lmao
I really wish Gaimon would have joined the straw hats
FINALLY! Someone acknowledged the Goatmon
Can't wait for Gaimon is hilarious pt. 2 lol
This man getting sponsors like crazy 🤯, congrats fella
We getting a new One Piece anime done by studio wit who did attack on Titan first season and is doing spy x family
And our magical glasses wearing RUclipsr is creating masterpieces
This is the golden era of piracy indeed
I think he injured his back in such a way that he needs the chest for the lumbar support
Greatest thing to come out of a root canal appointment to
Hearing someone say " fighting kaido for 80 episodes on his roof" is the funniest thing I heard in ages
Just the fact he only lost 1 tooth is quite impressive.
GAIMON THE GOAT!!!!
"Hey look, it's the Crackhead!"
"Ah-ah-ah. That's Captain D. Crackhead, to you"
I NEED THAT SHIRT NOW also make sense that the king of the dinosaurs was a nika too
I interpret this whole story with Gaimon as a bit of a metaphor for life. Yes, I know, laugh all you want, but hear me out.
Gaimon failed to accomplish something (reach the treasure), and it left him in a bad state, being stuck in the box. He lived like this for 20 years, making due with what he had, until Luffy comes along and allows him to get the treasure, only for it to be empty. He chased after something for years, which brought him a lot of misfortune, only for the thing he was chasing turn out to be literally nothing.
I say it’s a metaphor for life because that’s kinda what life is, especially if you look at it from a nihilistic perspective. We seek things like wealth, fame and power, often going through misfortune because of it, but in the end, none of it really matters. Borrowing a line from Bink’s Sake, _“It doesn’t matter who you are, someday you’ll just be bones.”_
So Luffy attempting to steal the empty boxes is a Luffy way to make Gaimon see that his life wasn’t meaningless. I don’t think Luffy was trying to “protect” Gaimon from the truth, but to give him a new purpose by chasing after him or something like that, similar to what he does to Laboon.
Fortunately he doesn’t need to go on with it, as Gaimon is able to see that, even though there was no treasure waiting for him at the end, his life wasn’t meaningless. He still had all the weird animals, and those made life worth living. It’s another major theme of One Piece, the idea that the journey is more important than the destination. Gaimon’s life with the animals while he tried to reach the treasure is more important than the treasure itself. Luffy’s adventures with his friends while they search for the One Piece is more significant than whatever the One Piece is. Any person’s life, how they spend it and who they spend it with matters more than any achievements they accomplish, as ultimately, the road to those achievements is what makes the bulk of their life.
I’m no philosophy expert, but I find the themes and ideals of One Piece very similar to those of existentialism. One of the key words of existentialism is in fact freedom, and how essential it is in creating the meaning of one’s own life. The absurd is also a key concept, and if there’s one word I’d use to describe One Piece, it’d be absurd. This is a very surface level reading of existentialism (like I said, I’m no expert), but I find its similarities to One Piece fascinating.
I just wrote an essay about how a story of a guy in a box is a metaphor for life and connected it to existentialist philosophy.
i do this shit all the time. (make essays on one piece) One piece pre time skip is goated with all these deep shows of grounded real life struggle through an absurdist medium.
giving Laboon a new purpose was heart warming. I bet many relate to laboon and gaimon, doing a shitty job for a chunk of their lifespan and in a way saying that they fused with their box.
some people even though they hate their lifepath some times, will still say that theyve sunk so much into this investment, that changing things up is too much.
some would really rather die than take their uniform off, or say “the only time this is coming off is if I die” type of thing with their title and position.
and not always out of their volition, but rather a stockholm syndrome relationship with themselves.
“ive only ever been this. how could i possibly be something else” type of dilemma
For the longest time I was convinced Gaimon was going to either be or have some connection to Vegapunk.
What Mugiwara's confusedly recollecting in the beginning is actually a favorite early One Piece arc of mine: Warship Island. Goes down like this: the then five-strong band of Straw Hats find and help a girl who can talk to animals bring an old dragon named Grampa Ryu (I know he's called something else in the Japanese, I'm just going off of what I know), all while being hunted by Marine Commodore Nelson and his sneaky assassin agent Eric the Whirlwind. It's technically filler, but it's filler that could technically exist in the main canon given how it doesn't really interfere with continuity.
I remember this mini arc's story differently. Wasnt a snuff flim filmed where Ussop was the editor?
Early one piece really was a fever dream. As always fun content mate thanks for that.