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The First 5 Minutes Of One Piece Season 2 Is Peak Aura Farming

By Jonathan Klotz
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If there’s one thing anime has always been able to do better than any other medium, it’s making new characters look like the most dangerous, most powerful, and above all, the coolest, part of the story. Aura farming is what it’s referred to when someone is intentionally trying to look like the coolest person in the room, but anime fans have known about it for years as simply “new character introduction.”

One Piece Season 2: Into the Grand Line keeps the anime trend alive with the introduction of Miss All Sunday and her effortless takedown of a group of Marines while oozing confidence. If you needed a visual as to what aura farming is, this is it. 

One Piece Live Action Nails The Anime Character Intro Trope

Miss All Sunday is played by Lera Abova, in only her second series role after Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, which in any other anime adaptation would be cause for alarm among fans. Someone with that little experience attempting to bring a fan-favorite character to life could be a disaster, and yet, Oda, creator of One Piece, selected the entire cast. He knew what he was doing. The character, powered by the Flower-Flower Devil Fruit, has the ability to spawn duplicates of her limbs on any other surface. Within 20 seconds, the live-action series lets her show what happens when this nightmarish power is unleashed. 

Fittingly considering Abova’s background, Miss All Sunday treats the Marine-filled corridor as a fashion runway. Bright pink flower petals are a gorgeous harbinger of arms sprouting out of soldiers and forcing them to stab and shoot themselves, which again, is truly horrifying to think about. The thing is that One Piece makes it look so damn cool.

One Piece Gets The Little Things Right

For decades, the gold standard for live-action adaptations of powers that are super cool in print has been Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) in the opening scene of X-2. The German mutant’s teleportation is on full display as he easily rips through the Secret Service and is only stopped from assassinating the President thanks to a lucky shot. The only part of his powers that can’t come across in that opening scene is the smell of brimstone. 

The first season of One Piece is the greatest live-action anime adaptation of all time, and Season 2 is picking right up where it left off. Miss All Sunday’s introduction may seem like a small moment in the grand scheme of the series, but this is the type of sequence that makes the series feel like a live-action version of the anime and not another Dragonball Evolution. Getting the little things right, from Luffy’s infectious smile to the bizarre outfits of everyday citizens, and even the aura farming character introductions, has to be done to win over the fans of the original. 

One Piece Season 2: Into the Grand Line has only been out for a few days now, and if you’re binging, you know there’s a lot more of Miss All Sunday to come, and anime/manga fans, well, they know the treat ahead in Season 3. If the series can nail Miss All Sunday’s introduction and powers like this, then how awesome will the Warlords of the Seven Seas be? Will the series even get to Blackbeard? 

One Piece Season 2, streaming on Netflix, has raised the bar for anime fans, and all it took to prove it was one 60-second walk down a hallway.


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5 Things That Surprised Me About Having a Third Child

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Hello beautiful people! How are you? I’ve missed you all so much. I’ve spent the past six months on mat leave snuggling with the newest member of our family, Evelynn. After having my son, Emiliano, I wrote four things that surprised me about having a second child. So, I thought it would be fun to now share five things that have surprised me as a new mom of three

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1. The random milestones are just as beautiful as the big ones. With my first daughter, Ella, I couldn’t wait to see her hit her first few milestones, like rolling over or sitting up on her own. Now, as a mom of three, I still get the excitement for those moments. But you know what’s equally amazing? Seeing their startle reflex for the first time — when they wiggle their tiny arms like they’re trying to grab the air, as I gently lower them onto the changing table. I love listening to their snort-like grunts while they nurse. And once they get the hang of walking, I cherish their footsteps pitter-pattering down the hallway. With each baby, I’ve noticed new milestones that melt my heart.

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My mat-leave uniform: oversized T-shirts, maternity leggings, and a baby on my boob 🙂

2. The urge to feel like I have it together has dropped significantly. As a recovering people pleaser, I’ve always struggled to ask for help. With my first baby, I did everything on my own. With my second, I started accepting help whenever family and friends offered. But during my pregnancy with Evelynn, I quickly realized that Max and I would need all the help we could get. So, I actually reached out to my mom with a list of chores I was struggling to get done before going into labor — including washing our bedroom sheets and cleaning the toilets (!). Part of me felt nervous asking because the chores felt so personal (again, the toilets!). But I imagined what it would feel like coming home to a disheveled home two-days postpartum, with a newborn, toddler, and four-year-old all vying for parental attention — and the anxiety I felt outweighed the embarrassment of asking. When I returned home from the hospital, my mom and grandma had knocked everything off the list – and coming home from the hospital to clean sheets was BLISS. You can always count on women to get shit done.

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My aunt Annette, a true saint who always offers to help with my kids!

3. My desire to help other moms out has risen significantly. Last month, I texted a new friend who has a toddler and five-year-old. She mentioned she was sick, and without skipping a beat I offered to drop off soup for dinner. Now I’m not sharing this to brag, just to say that I felt an immediate need to help because I know how bone-achingly hard it is to be sick with two little kids. Over my five years as a mom, I’ve been so lucky to get support from other moms — by putting away a load of clean dishes when they stop by, or taking one of my kids to the potty at a restaurant so I can finish dinner. Paying these good deeds forward feels like an easy way to honor all of the women who have helped me.

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4. The more kids you have, the more clearly you realize how you want to spend your time. Having three kids under five leaves me with around 30 minutes of personal time during the day. I’ve realized I like to be outside working in our veggie garden, or lying in bed reading funny novels (I flew through this one). It feels satisfying to know exactly what brings me energy and joy during this busy season.

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5. Seeing the similarities between all your kids is a whole new high.
Seeing your new baby make the same eyebrow smirk that their two older siblings made as babies is magic. (Of course, you can experience this with two kids or if your kids have cousins, too.)

Now I’d love to know, what surprised you after having your first or second or third (or fourth??)? Please share below, I’m all ears! And sending love to those who are wishing or trying for a baby. xo

P.S. Three word that changed how I parent, one thing that surprised Joanna about parenting, and what’s the best age gap between siblings?

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