It Was Raining Just This Hard...

This blog will be talking about  my favorite manga One Piece and something that really touched me in the latest chapter, just a prior warning that this may be harder to follow than previous blogs.



 

















 So, a bit of background on the characters and story at this point...

Chapter 775: To Lucy Anne, With Love.
This chapter primarily focuses on a fight between two characters, a fight that started about a year and a half ago  that readers have been waiting to see for so long, and it didn't let down one bit.
The protagonist in this fight  is Franky a half man half robot who builds ships is the ship wright for the main characters.
The antagonist in the fight is Senor Pink a fat middle aged man who wears baby clothes, sucks a dummy, is introduced as a bit of a pervert and has a power that allows him to swim through solid objects.

I Hope you're following this as best you can, i know it all sounds weird but just hold on a little bit longer..

Both of these men claim to be the "Manliest of Men" and so their fight isn't all that action packed and serious but a battle of endurance, ending with  the protagonist Franky winning  and delivering his final attack as shown in the picture "IRON BOXING"  a flurry of punches at a speed that so fast it seems like he has multiple hands in the picture..

So whats the point of this blog?
Well senor pinks following words are;
"Thats right now that i think about it, Lucy Anne, The day i met you, and the day you stopped laughing, it was raining just this hard."
The thing is in the current story line it isn't raining, so what is he talking about?

It's a metaphor, he's comparing the punches being thrown at him, to the rain on the day he met the love of his life, rain so heavy that it almost knocked him out because he had met the woman of his dreams.
They had a child, he left to work as a pirate, he came home to find out his child had died, his wife found out he lied about his job and ran away during a storm, she got trapped in a landslide and ended up in a coma.

She could no longer smile, and Senor Pink had lost everything.
A love story started by the rain, finished by the rain,
Id like to point out he wasn't always a fat man wearing baby clothes, he used to be slim and handsome only wearing expensive suits.
But when one day visiting his brain dead wife in hospital, he decided to put on their dead childs bonnet in hopes of a reaction, which he got in the form of a small smile on the face of his wife, he carried on visiting her wearing less suits and more baby clothes till the day she died(and then afterwards in memory of her and their son), because the slightest smile was worth more to him than the most valuable of suits.


When i first saw this character i wasn't a huge fan he made me feel uncomfortable and was kinda creepy,
but then this chapter comes out a year and a half later and Senor Pink is of my favorite characters from this current storyline.


Because it was raining, just, this, hard