In my previous post I mentioned that the true friend of Straw Hat Pirates is the sea, because I may thought as a writer without totally involving my self in the story.
But after watching Season 8 Episode 29 “Thank You, Merry! The Snow on the Sea of Farewells”, I then could ‘understand’ (I have to bring my self into this anime). And what was presented in it could really influence my view on who are proper to be their true friend. I was really swept into the atmosphere of that episode. The theme song, at the moment of their Going Merry farewell, is really going together and bring my feeling in. At the time, I even did not take my idea any more. It can be said that the episode has changed my view. Whereas it “just” showed us a deep sorrow of their closeness, between Straw Hat Pirates and Going Merry, and their consciousness on a farewell they should face.
When I was ‘immersed’ in that episode, I then thought that the episode takes second place of the best sorrowful scene I’ve ever watched, be under of a sorrowful scene presented in the series of Hikaru no Go, surely in my opinion.
