The backstory started by introducing Brook, the irritating morning person, waking up the Rumbar Pirates on their ship with a song. Brook’s past is different, though, because his journey started out full of hope and friends but the cruel vagaries of life ground him down until all that remained was the living hell of loneliness.
I’d say Brook’s past is up there with Robin’s and Chopper’s. In true Strawhat style, they banded together to help Brook honour their memory.Īs I suspected, the backstory itself was a multi-car pile-up of tragedy, made worse in an odd way by intervening stretches of happiness and false hope. They listened to Brook story and recognised how much the Rumbar Pirates and Laboon meant to Brook. What was really lovely was that the Strawhats who had gathered around the piano listened. He let Brook remember them and grieve so he could move on and look forward to a wonderful new life with his new friends to whom he owes so much already. Oda had the patience to allow Brook to let the Rumbar Pirates go gradually, with dignity. Brook did not abandon his memories and his love for his old crew when everything was done and dusted and the offer to join the Strawhats was again extended. I love how Oda treated Brook’s transition from lonely, drifting survivor clinging to the memories of his past, to shiny new addition to the Strawhat crew with a bright future. What a peaceful, elegant and respectful way to end an arc. I’m so glad I made myself sit down at watch them.
You may have realised but I was putting off watching the last three episodes of the Thriller Bark arc because I knew from the preview that 379 dealt with Brook’s past and it would therefore contain Sad Laboon. Our days are but a passing dream, everlasting though they seem.īeneath the moon we’ll meet again, the wind’s our lullaby.’ ‘Wave good-bye but don’t you cry, our memories remain.
379-381: “Brook’s Past! A Sad Farewell with His Cheerful Comrade!”, “Bink’s Booze! The Song that Connects the Past with the Present!” and “A New Crewmate! The Musician, Humming Brook!”
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