Aaaand… Issho’s retcon is not only continuing, but accelerating, and has gone from disappointing to revolting.

He’s already so grossly sweet that if he’d been up on stage instead of in the audience, I would’ve expected him to pat Kouragi on the head.

I’m sort of looking forward to seeing what Akane’s going to do with the rest of her performance (I would definitely be looking forward to it if I thought I was actually going to see it, but mostly what we’re going to see is other people providing droning commentary on what we’re not seeing because we’re stuck looking at them instead), but beyond that, I find I just don’t care. One way or another, they’re going to end up handwaving the entire thing about Akane striving to achieve rakugo success so that she can confront Issho and get justice for her father, so that it can instead settle down into an endless series of challenge arcs, with Akane actually becoming a top ranked rakugoka at about the same time that Luffy actually becomes the Pirate King.

Ah well…