One Piece — Robin Reunites With Saul After 22 Years: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "Please, Praise Me for Staying Alive"
ワンピース ロビンとサウロ22年ぶりの再会、日本のファンの反応
“"I want you to praise me for staying alive" — that one line carries everything Robin is. She became a target of the whole world as a child, and from that moment on she had to crush her real self and couldn't even be a kid anymore. So the fact that she's finally reunited with the one person she's allowed to be a child around… I'm so glad.”
「生きたこと、褒めてほしい」って端的にロビンの思いを全部表してて最高のセリフだな。子供の時点で世界から狙われる存在になって、その時からロビンは素の自分も押し殺して子供ですらいられなくなっただろうから、ロビンが子供でいられる相手に再会できてほんとよかった。
One Piece's anime finally adapted the moment a generation of fans had waited 22 years for: Nico Robin reuniting with Jaguar D. Saul, the giant who died — or so everyone thought — buying her escape from the destruction of Ohara when she was eight. The most-liked Japanese reactions almost never talk about the spectacle. They fixate on one thing: the always-composed, always-guarded adult Robin completely dissolving back into a child the instant she sees him — the cracking, sing-song voice, the unguarded grin, and above all the line "I want you to praise me for staying alive." From there the thread becomes a study in detail only Japanese viewers caught: how voice actor Yuriko Yamamoto pitched Robin higher to sound like a kid, how the childlike rhythm of "Hey — Saul!" was clearly obsessed over in the booth, that the scene got its own original insert song, and how Saul holds back his own tears until Robin breaks first. Running underneath it all is a second realization — that Saul's old promise ("there's no such thing as being all alone in this world") and Luffy's "say you want to LIVE!" are the two threads that kept this woman alive for two decades. It closes on the kind of full-circle gut-punch only a longtime One Piece fan would land.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 593)
- @パンプキンナイト-w4o👍 3,454
There really aren't many characters Robin could say a clear, out-loud "praise me!" to like this.
ロビンがこれだけハッキリ『褒めて欲しい！』って言えるキャラ少ないよな。
- @瑠依RuI-l8c👍 39
She's basically older than everyone around her, so she ends up being the one doing the praising. The only crewmates old enough to praise HER would be Jinbe or Brook — but neither knows her history (Ohara, Enies Lobby), so it'd be a bit off the mark… He's the one who told her to live, so the only person she can really say it to — "I lived, all the way until I found people I could trust! I did it — praise me!!" — is Saul.
周りはほぼ年下だし、褒める側にはなるかもしれんが、ロビン本人が褒められるってなると、年齢的にはジンベエとかブルックだけど、どっちもロビンの事情(オハラ然り、エニエスロビー然り)は知らん組だからちょっとお門違いだし（…）生きろと言ってくれたから信用できる仲間に会えるまでちゃんと生きたよ！って事を伝えた上で、生きたよ！褒めて！！って言えるのはサウロぐらいだろうね〜
- @うぇふたー99-t1g👍 3,236
The part where she's wrapped in a hug and smiling — she turns back into the little kid she used to be, and it's genuinely adorable.
ロビンが抱きしめられて笑顔のとこ昔の子供みたいになっててがち可愛い
- @塩わさび-h8m👍 1,967
She's been this composed, grown-up woman this whole time, and seeing her go childlike the moment she meets Saul absolutely wrecked me.
ずっと大人な女性の感じだったのに、サウロに会って子供みたいになるのマジ泣けた。
- @ゼオン22👍 18
In front of Saul, Robin is forever a child!! Because he's both her friend AND a father figure. I'm genuinely so happy she got to see him again!!
サウロの前ではロビンはいつまでも子どもだよ！！サウロが友達であり、お父さんみたいな存在だから。マジでサウロに会えてよかった！！
- @msea-j5t👍 691
You can tell they obsessed over the delivery of "Hey — Saul!" — it has that rhythm that only a kid would use.
「ねぇっ サウロ！」が子供特有のリズムですごいこだわったのがわかる
- @shimaenaga913👍 2
Yamamoto (Robin's voice actor) pitching her voice up to play it a little childlike — that's the detail that gets you.
由里子さん声高めにしてちょっと子供っぽく演じてるのがまたええんや
- @随行悠希👍 32
Relieved Kusao (Saul's voice actor) still sounds exactly the same after all these years.
草尾さんも変わらないのかまだ良かった
- @ずるむけ-q8k👍 284
The fact that they wrote an original song just for Robin in this episode goes so hard. And it's sung by Maki Otsuki, of all people.
この話のロビンのためだけに曲が作られたのも熱い。歌が大槻マキだし。
- @Renniiと主兎👍 1,862
"You're born into this world — there's no such thing as being all alone!" That's gotta be one of the top-tier lines in all of One Piece.
「この世に生まれて！ひとりぼっちなんてことはないんだでぇー！」ワンピースの中でもトップクラスの名言だろ
- @homura0306👍 846
This is a 22-year reunion with the one person who stood by Robin back when she was completely alone…
ずっと孤独だったロビンに寄り添ってくれてた恩人とは22年ぶりの再会だもんね…。
- @ササキン-m4u👍 249
Us fans too — it's been 20 years. Long time no see, Saul.
俺らだって20年越し、久しぶりだねサウロ
- @tao.aka.kibachiyo👍 138
You have NO idea how long we've been waiting for this reunion!!!
俺たちはこの再会をどんなに待ち望んでたか！！！
- @塩塚進👍 3,015
Saul, thank you for being alive too 😭
サウロも生きててくれてありがとう😭
- @ナイキ粋な👍 16
Gotta thank Guzan.
グザンに感謝
- @早朝大阪の2畳👍 24
It's not "Guzan," it's KUZAN. There go my tears, sucked right back in.
グザンやない、クザンや、涙引っ込んだわ
- @NNN-i1w👍 1
Cried regardless. But honestly — Aokiji never even let Saul actually die, AND he quietly watched over Robin all those years. He's just a good dude.
取り敢えず泣いたわ、てか青キジはサウロ死なせてもないのにロビン見守ってたの普通に良いやつだよな
- @azma-h-wood👍 172
Meeting Luffy and the crew matters, of course — but before that, it was Saul's words and her mother's wish that let Robin survive at all. Otherwise she'd have chosen death long ago (she actually had given up and was ready to die back in the Alabasta days). Saul probably heard about everything she went through afterward too, so he must have been worried sick this whole time…
ルフィ達と出会えたのは勿論だが、それ以前にサウロの言葉と母の願いがあってこそ、ロビンは今まで生きて来られたんだろうな。でなきゃとっくに死を選んでた(実際、アラバスタの頃にはもう全てを諦めて死のうとしていた)。サウロもその後のロビンの事は聴き知ってはいただろうから、きっとずっと心配だったんだろうな…。
- @tanohara👍 1
Realizing this scene connects all the way back to Luffy's old "SAY you want to live!" makes me tear up.
このシーンに、過去のルフィが言った「生きたいって言え！」が繋がってくると思うと泣ける
- @minatoROCK12👍 1
Reminds me of what Sabo said to Luffy: "Thank you for being alive." Robin and Saul both — thank god they're both still alive.
サボがルフィに言ってたこと思い出すなー。「生きていてくれて、ありがとう」って。ロビンもサウロも、本当生きていてくれて良かったよな。
- @あずき-0👍 8
They finally met…!!!! Finally…! THAT'S why she wore her hair the way it was back when she'd just parted from Saul…!! And earlier, on the government island before the Elbaph arc, Vegapunk's Shaka had hinted he was alive without naming him — I can't believe it actually paid off into a real reunion 😭
遂に会えたんだ…！！！！遂に…！だからあの時ブルックに「サウロと別れてしまった」時の髪型にしてたんだ…！！エルバフ編が始まる前に行った政府の島の所でシャカから名を伏せつつも生きていることを伝えられてたのがまさか本当に再開するなんて😭
- @brownjackson2335👍 1
Saul holding back his own tears as hard as he can until Robin breaks down first — THAT'S what gets the waterworks going. Knowing his personality, he should've been sobbing from the second he hugged her.
サウロもロビンが泣き出すまでは涙を出来るだけ抑えてたのも涙腺にくるんですわ サウロの性格なら抱きしめた瞬間から涙が止まらないはずなのに
- @こんぺい糖-w2b👍 40
Him forcing out that "dereshishi" laugh of his — that broke me——
デレシシって無理やり笑ってたのがほんと泣けたーー
- @oissu2763👍 2
Neither Robin nor Saul would cry, and I was sitting there going "oh, this is gonna be one of those no-tears endings" — while already crying — and then the final ugly-cry scene completely shattered me. God-tier episode. Thank you for animating this.
ロビンもサウロも、なかなか泣かなくて、泣かないで終わるパターンかな、って思いながら泣いていたら、最後の号泣シーンで涙腺崩壊した。神回。アニメ化ありがとう。
- @あおさ-k9c👍 1
The second this reunion happened, every One Piece fan on the planet had the exact same thought: "I'm so happy for you, Robin!! (floods of tears)"
この再会の瞬間世界中のワンピースファンが「良かったねロビンちゃん！！（滝涙）」って絶対同じ思いになったはず！！
- @まいゆーすちゃん👍 1
One silver lining of fewer episodes per year: every single one now has the density of a movie. This episode and its ending were so good I felt like I was sitting in a theater. Crying.
1年間のアニメの量がへったことにより、1話1話が映画並みの内容になったのは良かったよな。もうこの話は私映画館にいるのかってくらい素敵な内容とエンディングだった泣
- @田所浩二-k7x👍 1
The Elbaph arc is pretty divisive right now, but the Saul–Robin reunion? No notes. That was flawlessly perfect.
現状エルバフ編は結構賛否分かれてるけどサウロとロビンの再会は文句なしに最高だったと思う
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