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East Blue Saga; Chapter 16
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One Piece Book Club: Chapters 12-15
Chapter 12:
Damn😭
+ Mayor guy
+ chouchou what a little guy
+ Richie&Mohji
Chapter 13:
DAMN THEY BEATING THE DOG
“Next time that lion will eat you alive!!” Guys wait till she hears about—
What is with the ABUSE these poor animals are going though 😭😭
AUGHHHH THIS DOG. I’m ngl watched some of the anime a long while ago did Not care about the dog but reading the manga hits different, got me all sad😭
“That’s all I could save!” AUGHGGGHHH
I want to mention the shit they did to that poor dog does not seem like a survivable thing, and also what Luffy did to Richie and guy is like very bad I can believe they survived but also me personally I’d die
Chapter 14:
Buggy nuked the damn town😭😭😭
Zoro should NOT have survived that shit
Mayor is standing up to buggy!!
In this chapter I want to bring up that Luffy severely supports people wanting to chase and fight for their dreams but I think he also simultaneously doesn’t give a shit about those people/the specifics of their dreams. Obviously he cares a great deal about freedom, and by extension using it to chase your dreams, but I feel him finding some things just a little silly sometimes is also something that can coexist with his respect for people’s dedication to chasing dreams
Chapter 15:
(Zoro fighting with those wounds is NOT a healthy thing I think it’s absolutely something that could kill you)
YO A GUY PULLED A SWORD OUT OF HIS THROAT!!! SICK!!
That’s actually something that can be safely done and has been done as party tricks and shit, though I don’t quite believe it’s safe to use yourself as a sheath so… 1/2 point both ways for and against survivability
Yeah this is slightly what I meant about Luffy and his level of care for peoples dreams, cause he’d literally die fighting for his dreams but sometimes he just does stuff like this and I’m curious is it’s the level of care thing I mentioned or him taking a sort of analytical view and understanding there are better ways to go about it without, yk, suicidal and reckless pursuit.
“Why’d you do that to the mayor?!!” “He was in the way!!😼” Yes king, so sorry for doubting you king!!🙏
Also obligatory “that guy should be dead” moment cause that guy is probably pushing 60 if not already in or after his 60s so like punching someone hard enough to make them pass out means you have them a pretty hard head wound/hit
Luffy deflected a buggy ball w/ his gum gum balloon move,,, again, do I need to say it?
“Made me worry for nothing…” AWWW ZORO YOURE SO SWEET<3
Post read summary:
I LOVE YOU DOG<3
I LOVE YOU LUFFY<3
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One Piece Book Club: Chapters 8-11
Officially finished the first arc! On to a new one!
Chapter 8:
+ Nami
+ Buggy mention
Chapter 9:
Oh buggy… you could have been so good if you were competent. Fandom is so real for making you act like that but in a calculated way.. kind of future talk given he was just introduced but like,, literally I’ve seen such interesting stuff, one fic I read gave you(buggy) bastardized logia healing, that’s literally so baller..
Anyways:
+ Buggy
+ Zoro lands on the island
Chapter 10:
“For that, you die!!!” “Yes buggy.” Buggy enjoyers say in unison.
Luffy is (successfully) trying to eat his way through the metal bars of the cage he’s in. This is bad for your dental health, someone get this boy a glass of milk.
Zoro pulls up and slices buggy into (one, two, three…) four completely separate pieces. This is not something a normal person would survive
Chapter 11:
Buggy ate a devil fruit and very easily survives that last attack. Stabs Zoro… vaguely in the back and front?? Through him?? Either way, normal people would die, but it’s one piece so whatever. Maybe it’s lore like that (murmurs, gestures at 1113(?)) yk like it’s a long time coming and nobody will know until it’s literally right there
Dialogue between them goes hard even though me personally I’d die (in any of those positions)
The three escape and buggy declares that this is an act of war!
Honestly genuinely like reading one piece but this whole blog thing takes a lot of work… current pace of ~4 chapters a day means it’ll take around 280 days,,,.. sigh gotta lock in
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Writing reviews/recaps as I read one piece instead of just livetweeting was an oversight on my part😒 turn a hobby into a task to instantly stop yourself from enjoying it😭
(This is me declaring that I am instantly going to degrade the quality of my reviews for my own sanity. Trying to read one piece over a single summer is crazy enough it ranks among Luffy’s crew)
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One Piece Book Club: Chapters 4-7
Chapter 4:
Yknow how people are always wondering how Luffy found Zoro’s swords?
Turns out Luffy just slightly kidnapped Helmeppo and forced him to tell where they were!
New guy: Captain Morgan is officially introduced, really is a piece of work imo, the way he acts and treats Helmeppo(his son!!) parallels how Koby was being treated by Alvida, though more in the way they treat people in general
Zoro has a quick chat with koby before koby,,, gets shot?? Cliffhanger😒
Chapter 5:
Koby got shot😟
I knew the violence got dialed back a bit when they animated one piece but I didn’t quite realize how much…
Ah,, on the other hand Luffy goes to Helmeppo’s room to pick up Zoros swords, which is actually where they were in the live action! Heavy props to the LA, even if people don’t like it you gotta give it credit for the general quality and dedication put into it
Quick flashback:
We meet Kuina and see the dojo Zoro grew up in, as well as meeting her father who is the guy that runs the dojo!
Kuina dies the day after she and Zoro promise to become the best swordsmen☹️
Flack back to present:
Koby and Zoro are about to be shot when Luffy jumps in the way with Zoros swords!!
And, as this seems to be a running bit, I’d like to mention based on my count, Luffy blocked seven-ish bullets, three collectively in his arms, three in the general main body, and one in the thigh area, which, you know, isn’t something somebody can survive under normal circumstances. Getting shot in the arm is surprisingly lethal by the way! (Well, mostly the shoulder region but being shot in general is usually easily lethal under a variety of circumstances)
Zoro joins Luffy as the swordsman/first mate!
Chapter 6:
One of the unnamed marines calls the devil fruit “the secret treasure from those seas”, some kind of lore? Or maybe emphasis on the part where devil fruits are actually super rare
You know what there are kind of a lot of references to him being some kind of devil and stuff, including a line in this or the previous chapter calling him son of the devil… I know it’s about devil fruits but also…. Future stuffs..
HOLY SHIT HES ORDERING HIS MEN TO SHOOT THEMSELVES FOR NOT WANTING TO FIGHT?????
Some fighting stuffs some some… Zoro calls Luffy captain!! Yippie!!
Chapter 7:
So people hype up Oda as a genius and I’m not disputing the fact that he’s smart with his writing but it feels like a reach to consider so many little things as foreshadowing.
On that note, is this foreshadowing?
Anyways.
Marines and townfolk: You saved me😊 the evil is defeated👍👍
Luffy(+Zoro): oh sick
Marines: gtfo of here you’re pirates😡😡
Anyways Luffy and koby beat each other up to show they aren’t allies or anything, but it’s kind of a one sided beat down lmao.
Chapter closes with another cliffhanger lol “one serious mistake” okay so tell us what it is🤨
Anyways: summary!
+ Zoro
- Koby
Setting sail once again, but they deffo need more crewmates lmao. Keeping this one brief as I have a headache😞😞 see you all in the next reading😼
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One Piece Book Club: Chapters 1-3
Chapter 1:
Yippie!!!! One Piece begins with everyone’s favorite execution😁😁
New guy: Gold Roger, who is instantly executed lmaoooo
Our first look at Luffy!
New guy: Red Haired Shanks, who, presumably, has red hair
Luffy wants to be a pirate but he’s a little goober who can’t swim yet, approx 7 years old I think
New guy: Shanks’ first mate(unnamed so far)
They’re all pretty cool so far ngl
New guy: Makino! She’s the barmaid!! And Luffy puts everything on a treasure tab it seems. Also! Makino is very strong!! Look at that barrel of beer! (She’s holding a barrel labeled beer when introduced) A barrel of liquid is Not light
LUFFY YOU IDIOT WHAT ARE YOU EATING <- (i know exactly what he ate)
New guy: Higuma, some kind of bandit who loves terrorizing normal civilians
I think this line is really funny given Luffy exclusively has like crazy ass people as role models(to me)
I wanted to mention really quickly—but shanks got hit over the head with a glass bottle, which in real life is typically a life threatening attack. Realism is irrelevant given that this is one piece, but things like this are too common and underemphasized in media, so I wanted to bring it up in the off chance someone got the bright idea to recreate that move irl. Be careful not to kill people!!! It’s worryingly easy!!
Rest of the chapter goes something like this: Luffy defends shanks and his crews honor against higuma and gets beat for it, and the shanks and his crew pull of to stop that!!
Luffy gets snatched and eventually dropped into the sea, about to get eaten by a sea monster when shanks turns up and quite literally glares at it until it fucks off. Unfortunately, shanks lost an arm during the ordeal. Fortunately, Luffy gains a hat!
Ten year timeskip finds Luffy sailing away to become a pirate in his own!
Chapter 2:
Ah.
LUFFY ARE YOU ACTUALLY TWEAKING RN THATS GONNA KILL YOU
New guy: Lady Alvida of the… pirate ship. I’ll get back to you when I find out the name of the crew
New guy: Koby! My traumatized little guy!! No spine whatsoever but I think that’s a trauma response😁
New guy mention: Roronoa… Zolo. Because the translation hasn’t been updated I guess. Like, you know, just the official translation that I’ve been reading legally.
KOBY WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU😭 YOURE TOO TRAUMATIZED TO USE YOUR OWN GETAWAY BOAT😭😭😭
Luffy they’d never make me hate on your dreams (doesn’t mean I won’t hate on you though be prepared <3)
Rest of chapter is Koby being like “I wanna be a Marine!” And alvida pulls up like “🤨😡you wanna do what?? You said you were gonna capture ME?!” And then luffy punches her and makes the other crew give him and koby a little boat to sail away (we also get quick lore that to get/find the one piece you gotta go to the grand line, which people refer to as the pirates graveyard)
Chapter 3:
Luffy and koby pull up at the marine town where ‘zolo’ is located, and have a quick meal cause food is important yeah.
This combination of panels is insane😭
“Maybe they just got carried away” listen little bro(this statement is funny for meta reasons) but that is a crazy ass assumption😭😭 like the thought process is genuinely interesting though yk like “oh, they reacted like crazy when hearing about the scary guy! Maybe they went overboard and also reacted hearing about the captain morgan guy”
New guy: Captain Morgan!! Some random guy that’s running the show in this town apparently
New guy:(officially) Roronoa Zoro! That very first panel of him the page before his full body that’s a partial side profile goes hard as hell, super menacing frfr
Also he’s like strung up like a more normal (“normal”) version of like idk jesus getting crucified?? I don’t know why I was thinking of it but??? Something about it feels like it’s supposed to be symbolic of something but I have a hard time displaying media literacy during first reads so let me come back to this one after witnessing parallels or something thanks gang
Zoro says he’s been up there for nine days!😟 which would kill a normal person I’m pretty sure because dehydration kills after like three days.. I’ve heard of cases where people can survive longer under very specific circumstances but that’s neither here nor there, bro looks like he has a head wound and a line of blood out the corner of his mouth so like realism for the loss lmao
New guy: little girl! Who I don’t know the name of, but she’s trying to feed Zoro and has a very kindness aura, though I would probably use a different word if I could recall a better one
New guy: Helmeppo, some guy with like an evil version of a Karen cut and the son of captain morgan. Bro is an ass stomping on that little girls food just because she made it weird😭😭
Yk what I AM seeing parallels but between all these panels where the background whites out and its two people (one of which is always Luffy) let me cook real quick I’ll come up with something later on trust trust
Also Luffy is wild, it’s so so interesting that he’s trying to decide if Zoro should join or not due to his having a bad reputation, makes it interesting to see his psychology regarding life as a pirate. He sees piracy as freedom to chase dreams and happiness and stuff, while most others perceive it as the ability to evade the law and do illegal acts/crime as you please
Zoro displaying good character as Luffy casually is so funny for no reason—though quick mention it’s pretty interesting that to me from my general perception of Luffy is that he’d like to eat anything, though food stomped into the ground is a reasonable line, just interesting given, again, his I’ll eat very many things attitude
Luffy tells the little girl Zoro ate the food she made for him and has a quick chat with her and koby about being good and stuff, and Luffy later punches Helmeppo after he(helmeppo) declares he was super lying about making a deal with Zoro to free him
Luffy declares he wants Zoro on his crew!!
Chapter 1-3 summary and thoughts:
- Luffy backstory where he gets devil fruit powers and how he got his hat from shanks
- Luffy meets Koby(wants to be a marine as his dream), saves him from alvida, and pulls up at a marine town
- Enter Zoro! Luffy decides he wants Zoro on his crew after judging him to be a good character and witnessing what it’s like in the marine town
Not much to say that I haven’t already, but I like it a lot! Pacing is pretty fast given the reputation regarding the length of one piece, if I had no clue what was to follow from this point, I’d claim it(the pacing) similar to that of CSM, but, yeah we all know lol.
Be back next time to commentate on the next couple chapters!
#I reenacted the shanks and Luffy hat scene with an upperclassman today lmao#because he’s graduating and it’d be the last time I’d see him assuming I can’t find him at the actual graduation#anyways!!#chapter-review.nhi#OP-bookclub.nhi#Chapter 1-3#one piece#One Piece Book Club#<- in case others are actually reading along—this tag can be used for general purposes#Romance Dawn Arc
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GUYS WHO WANTS TO READ ONE PIECE WITH ME
I am about to yap so hard skip to the end to hear about the book club tldr
One Piece is a very cool series, but it’s also very long, so why should YOU read One Piece?
- One Piece(at the time of this post) seems to be about five years out from completion
- Geographically speaking, the Strawhats are about 95% of the way to the one piece
- One Piece has themes of freedom, happiness, and chasing your dreams, something pretty fun and optimistic for when you’re feeling down imo
- Reading One Piece after the one piece is revealed won’t be the same, that’s just the facts, me personally I want to follow their journey and be there when it ends
How long does it take to watch or read One Piece though?
Anime:
- The current anime is 436.8 hours long, or 18.2 days
- If you skip the opening and endings, it ends up being around 393.09 hours, or 16.38 days
- ONE PACE! For those of you who’d prefer to watch the series, but don’t like how long it is, check out One Pace! It’s a fan run version of the series where they cut out all the filler and extra scenes that aren’t present in the manga, as well as shortening scenes that have long paused
- One Pace is, as far as I’m aware, not completely caught up the the current anime, though it’s pretty far! 40% faster than the original anime and cuts out ~150 hours of watch time
- Disclaimer about that though, the filler and original scenes are very cool! Based on what I’ve seen, people like to watch One Pace when doing rewatches, and other times people like to watch the original show after watching One Pace to still see the original as is.
- You can watch the original series on most major streaming platforms like Netflix, Crunchyroll, Hulu, and a bunch of others, though some platforms don’t have the whole series
- To watch One Pace, just look up ‘One Pace’ and the website should be at the top, just click the watch tav and they’ll have the series organized by arc!
Manga:
- The manga is currently 1111 chapters, and Oda is currently on an extended break (3 months iirc) after the passing of Akira Toriyama, so it should stay that long up until around early summer
- “1111 Chapters?!” 1111 chapters! If you read 10 chapters a day you’d be caught up by August, though for future reference, it would take about 3.7 months from whatever day you started
- One Piece averages about 20 pages a chapter, which is actually on the lower end of the average range of 20-30 pages a chapter. Attack On Titan averages 50 pages a chapter iirc, and JJBA is actually longer than One Piece in terms of how many pages it is, though the manga is currently around 960 chapters, so pretty close that way as well!
- The average speed it takes to read a standard 22 page comic is a range of 5-10 minutes, which basically means 5-10 minutes a manga chapter
- Based on your reading speed and how much time you have on your hands, here are some ranges of how long it would take to read one piece:
50 chapters a day would take 22.22 days, with a range of 4.16-8.33 hours a day spent reading
25 chapters a day would take 44.44 days, with a range of 3.7-7.4 hours a day spent reading
10 chapters a day would take 111.1 days, with a range of .83-1.66 hours a day (~50-100 minutes)
- If you lead a busy life, try a chapter a day! It’ll take 3.04 years, and there’ll be new chapters for sure by then, but it’ll get you significantly far just by reading one or two chapters a day!
- To read the manga, you can purchase physical copies, though it’s pretty pricy even when you get the box sets, but you can find it in person at bookstores and online on Amazon and other websites, probably on the official Viz or Shonen Jump pages as well
- You can read the manga legally for free online as well! The Manga Plus app has One Piece an a whole lot of other series on there free to read. The first three chapters and the most recent three chapters are always free to read and re-read, and you can read everything for free if it’s your first time.
- What does that mean exactly? Every chapter in between has a first time ticket! You can open the chapter exactly once and read the whole chapter for free, but once you close it, you lose access unless you purchase a subscription, so be sure not to accidentally close it before you’re done!
- Of course, if you’re not interested in using Manga Plus, there are plenty of websites available at your disposal for re-reads and other such things, though be careful of suspicious websites and viruses, One Piece is long enough that it’s difficult to find the whole thing in one spot online without it getting shot down
**About OPLA (the live action)
- OPLA covers a big chunk of the East Blue Saga, and for those who don’t know, the One Piece arcs are grouped up into Sagas. If you watch/watched the LA, it reaches around episode 45 of the anime, and I believe it stops right before the Loguetown arc
- Please decide if watching the LA to get through the start of the series faster is worth it at your own discretion. (OPLA is ~8 hours, while the original anime up to episode 45 is ~16 hours.) People will always have things to say about adaptations, but as far as I’m concerned, OPLA is actually pretty well received.
- The LA has made changes to the series, but none are major or detrimental to the story. By nature of being an adaptation, some things will be missed or skipped over, so again, determine on your own what you want to
“Why do you want ME to read with YOU!?”
- I’m actually insane and am in the One Piece fandom without reading or watching!
- I’ve actually watched the LA and that one episode in August (1071), ever since that joyous episode I’ve been using OP like a crutch for my mental health, I have absolutely read well over a million words on the absolute lowest end of the range. Kind of ruined my ability to blind read haha
- That being said, I’ve only read fanfiction. There’s going to be a lot of nuances, characters, and even entire arcs that have been lost in translation that I haven’t experienced yet, so I’ll be acting as if I’m a blind reader when discussing how far I’ve gotten
“I’ve already read/watched One Piece!”
- Perfect.
- Join me on my little adventure and drop suspicious hints about what’s coming my way, I know what’s coming in theory but you know what’s next for real.
- Read/Watch it again too! If you’ve watched it, read the manga to see what got changed, and if you’ve read it you can watch it to see how the anime handles your favorite arcs and scenes!
How will we read together?
- It’s pretty simple! My goal personally is to follow the ten chapters a day pace, though I plan to bump it up when summer comes around as I’m currently a student.
- The idea isn’t that we’d all be reading at the exact same pace, but that we’re committed to something fun to do in our spare time. I fully expect that nobody will be sitting down and spending nine hours a day reading One Piece like it’s a full time job, that’s not fun, which is crazy because, how do you make One Piece not fun, how do you make a time passing hobby out to be like that??
- I’m personally going to be posting in a vaguely similar fashion one would livetweet their reactions while reading/watching something and will be tagging appropriately so that way I don’t spoil anyone I’m ahead of
- At the end of each arc/saga I think I’ll do a little summary about it and what I liked, occasionally I might drop a quick PSA on certain topics and maybe discourse?? Within the fandom??? I don’t like discourse but I can handle a couple intelligent and respectful discussions about opposing topics. Idk we’ll get there when we get there
- I’ll be making specific tags for certain things to keep it all organized as well!
TLDR; One Piece Book Club
Completing One Piece is not, in fact, an impossible task. Me personally I’m gonna try for ten chapters a day, but the goal is to go at your own pace and have fun.
Askbox is always open unless stated otherwise, and tag appropriately to prevent spoiling others.
Have fun!!
(Also I have some big fat exams this month so me personally gonna start reading sometime post May 10)
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It seems everyone else has a 27 year head start reading OP,, I will definitely catch up before the one piece is revealed though😼
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