Yes you see. Hehe. You are starting to sence that there is somewhat of a pattern here. Something that you can't quite put a word on.
Well, once upon a day, I read a One Piece chapter and I had that same feeling around a line of dialogue. I started to wonder, wait.. I know this feeling, why does this feel "wrong"? Then I started searching, on this internet and book..
Nothing, not a scratch of that things I couldn't put a word on, it was like a dialogue that was "wrong".. then I started searching in stories and in One Piece.
Same feeling..
Same feeling...
So I started to wonder.. "What is the common denominator between those lines of dialogues ? I want to understand this feeling"
I searched, and I came to this conclusion:
EACH time, the premisse of EACH lines were
corrupted. For example on the first pic, Vivi is a princess, she has responsibilties, on this second image, Sanji is actually not happy at all.
And I started seeing them more clearly..
Same feeling, here the Samourai NEVER told the crew that they would behade samourais
I didn't have a name for this concept. So I created one.
I first called this "Subversion Dialogue" Dialogue because its about lines of dialogues and subversion because its meant to subvert expectations. Then I changed it to something more appropriate, all the lines are actually affirmations so "subversive affirmation" it is.
Here is why I can tell you now that what is used in all those occurence is also what is used here.
Same feeling. What is the corruption here ? Simple: Yamato is affirming something without any consent of the protagonist.
This simple line of dialogue made me realize that no.. Yamato was not meant to join, Oda was just playing with our expectation here.
... just a two days after the release of the chapter.
Storytelling is not science. but with a little bit of logic and some research, we can actually predict some pretty interesting things.