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One Piece 853 thoughts

After the long pause, having two chapters in a row is something I’m strangely unfamiliar with O.o though, as you may know, Oda’s frequent pauses - added to the regular ones of Shounen Jump - are due to his health: so it’s a good thing he takes them, we need him alive and well to finish the manga - so for at least another 20 years. Stay healthy, Oda-sensei, please. The good thing though is that on the cover they seemingly announce they’ve set a twitter account for the “behind the scenes” of One Piece drawing? Great! I’m looking forward to see whose desk is messier, if Oda’s or mine XD

For what concerns the cover... after the last few covers with Robin’s art and Brook’s love song and so on, this one’s a bit disappointing for not having any particular hints at something, as it simply shows something we already know so well: Barto’s love for the mugis.

So Brook was defeated - or did he let Big Mom defeat him? - I was a fan of the “Brook-won’t-defeat-Big-Mom-at-most-tie-with-her-barely-escaping-with-his-soul” club since the day of its foundation, and I’m glad today to celebrate with its members. Honestly: IMO it’d be a stretch if Luffy defeated BM now, not to mention Brook...! But his ability let him:

1. survive - as the piece of a collection, but beggars can’t be choosers

2. hold his ground against her for a while

3. possibly* steal the poneglyph anyway - *whereas by possibly I intend “almost certainly”, or he wouldn’t have made that big speech in not one, but even two chapters, about the courage of Pedro acting as decoy, Luffy becoming Pirate King and etc etc all of that heroic stuff - I don’t know how, but his fruit must have come in handy

We also learn that not only Zeus and Prometheus, but also the Big Mom’s hat, which has a name - technically it has a soul, so I shouldn’t freak out, but still, a hat with a name... -, have a part of Mom’s soul, and therefore are stronger than all the iother homies. From the looks of it, it could be that they act sort of as clones of hers, and of her power, and by that her power is multiplied. I don’t know what kind of abilities a hat - ???? maybe it makes her smarter, - could have, but Zeus and Prometheus have their weather power and so they are already pretty strong. For now, this is the overview of Mama’s powers.

So someone else “stole” Mama’s poneglyph before. It isn’t clear how, if Roger did indeed steal or copy them, or he simply “perceived” them or their translation - he must have perceived thier translation, since, as we know from Silver Rayleigh’s story, they didn’t have any Ohara scholars with them who could translate it - unlike our Mugis, who conveniently have Robin with them.

What is certain though is that Roger’s ability must be linked to the ability of this so called Three-Eyed tribe, from which Pudding’s unknown father must hail from. Mama evidently hoper for her to be able to translate them for her one day.

Getting to the Die Hard movie part of this chapter, Pedro is fighting Baron Tamago’s evolution

I beg your pardon, Viscount Chick.

Tamago, or Chick, whatever, seems so well fused with his devil fruit ability that I’m suspecting he might have been an object that ate a devil fruit, originally - it wouldn’t be strange to introduce such things, which we know can exist in-universe, in this specific arc where everything and everyone has souls*

*where by “souls” I mean “life”. Not souls souls. They all are pieces of s***.

I don’t know why but these two panels are hilarious to me. Look at him, the poor thing on the ground. A omelette.

And another Alice in Wonderland reference, as when Humpty Dumpty fell of the wall... yup. And then...

BADASS MODE

Yup. Who doesn’t appreciate a nice explosion every now and then?

Carrot and Chopper save Pedro from becoming a kamikaze - not so fashionable in these geopolitical period, you know - by oulling him in the Mirror World with them, where they move around in a merry company holding hostages Brulée and a train dude.

On a side not, it may be my having watched too many idiot animes in my teenage years or just the meme, but Carrot has the “Senpai” mode on. It’s all the memes’ fault. Gettin to the very hightlight of the chapter, because f*** BIg MoM, f*** the poneglyphs, Roger, the third-eyed tribe revelation, Pudding, her power, Luffy, Sanji...

THIS

is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life.

Just kidding, just since Oda started being so lovey-dovey, so around the time of Babt 5 and Sai and then Praline and Aladdine. Because when you start moving around the genre, you also have to parody it, and here we are, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, in all its glory, the shoujo parody.

It reminds me so fricking much of “The rose of Versailles”, though I never watched it - too many ribbons honestly - the style is just that. Funny also because both Luffy and Sanji look like females just as much as Nami. Also, kudos to Carrot for even finding the time to draw additional around roses around. These are the little things that make me say Sensei’s a genius. For the big things, we got Rafter and co., for all the rest, this.

From the Mirror we also learn thet Jinbei and Nami are moving around the castle, probably planning something big - or at least that’s what I hope, we’re not getting out of here without a very good plan and a certain number of side plans.

In the meantime, Luffy’s making a ruckus - no surprise here - trying to find Sanji. Things are getting bad though, because a “Minister class backup” has been requested, meaning someone other than Cracker and Smoothie but just as strong as them will come for his head - which is still missing a teeth!! Someone fix it already! Bropper ! Where are you when we need you?

Confirm that Reiju’s strong above - second confirmation, she did bend jail bars as a kid.

Also Oda’s making her stay almost naked just casually like that, lol, okay.

That’s lovely of you, Luffy, but East Blue is not literally around the corner.

...Just a little more of Luffy being the sweetest cinnamon roll to be ever baked in the whole Grand Line...

...A random close-up of Reiju cause she’s pretty and has a big heart, though she says she doesn’t..

And then... here we are now.

Sanji’s been smelling the inviting fragrance of freedom for a while now. Last chapter even Reiju supported him and the list of pros for him playing the sacrifice gets thinner every second. Though he still appears upset, I don’t think he’s being weighed down by remorse anymore, has instead finally started devising a fricking plan. I cannot express into words how much I hope he has. Why else leaving Reiju’s side or reflecting yet again on all the pros and cons?

There’s no going back now... Luffy...

Here I don’t think he’s referring to himself not going back - though we should wait for other translations to confirm it -, but to the situation that they, collectively as Mugiwaras, have come to. They have not only angered a yonkou, Sanji’s murderous family, risked a ton of lives other than their owns... they have done all of this in one moment and in one place: now, they can either submit to eveything or rebel to eveything, therefore they must bet everything in order to achieve it. And that resolve has now been made by the cook as well.

He will try and find a way to make everything work as a whole: save his crew, his true father back in East Blue, his sister - I’m not bettin he’d save the brothers and father too, but we’ll see -, himself. Since Jinbei and Nami are now free to act and Bropper and Co are being productive as well, a masterplan could come out of what had started as a total disaster - something like the plan in Gold, though that is not canon, a plan that includes arriving to the Spannung moment, which is the wedding ceremony, and then turning things upside down, using the enemies abilities against them. And that is why I’m thinking Mr. Prince, not Sanji the Cook, steps in on the wedding day.

Finally: will Luffy be a part of said plan? Does he really intend to wait outside in that place until Sanji finishes things off in front of the altar? We’ll see. Apparently the Captain trusts the Cook enough to let him deal with it himself.

And now, if you excuse me, I’ll go cry over the beauty of this.

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One Piece 855 - ‘Grrrrrooowwwlll!‘

I know it’s late as hell and that no one will be interested in last chapter’s (OP 854) super late review/comment, but I’ll probably publish it anyway, ‘cause last week I could only make half of it on time, so I left it unpublished but I DO want to finish it because I had a few things I wanted to point out and couldn’t because life got in the way.

So in this chapter, just like in the last one, we have four main parts/events going on. On one side, Bobbin and his resolve to fix his blunder before Big Mom hears about it (1). On the other side, the ‘Brook Rescue Team’ needs to come up with a plan to rescue our beloved skeleton from the clutches of Charlotte Linlin (2) and finally, Brook’s big reveal (3) and Sanji’s whereabouts (4).

Let’s start from the beginning, shall we?

First we have the cover page showing Cora-san and Law having some baked sweet potatoes. Of course, Cora is being Cora and has managed to light himself on fire. No surprise there. I have to say the request says Law should look worried but he looks more annoyed than worried to me...

With this Oda ripped my heart out and stomped on it. Seriously, Law needs Cora back. Better yet, we ALL need Cora back. Petition to bring Donquixote Rocinante back from the dead. Who’s with me? Oh well, moving on.

The chapter starts with Bobbin rocking from one side to the other as if he were a pendulum while he claims he will fix his mishap with Sanji, making all the guards that have come to his aid fall asleep. He seems to be some kind of hypnotist; whether it’s a devil fruit or just normal hypnosis skills - like Jango’s - we still don’t know.

We jump to the Brook Rescue Party‘s whereabouts. They’re in front of the mirror that leads directly to Big Mom’s sleeping chambers. The group looks aghast and in Pedro’s case, relieved at the same time.

Nami, darling, a piece of advice: do NOT word it like that in front of Mama, it’s not going to end well considering her apparent aversion to giants.

Big Mom’s sound asleep with Brook in her arms and Brook, in turn, is making use of the ‘I fall sleep anywhere’ ability grandpas all over the world seem to have, meaning he’s sleeping like a log too.

Brûlée explains there’s no way Mama would let a unique creature like him go and then she tries to get Big Mom to save her by screaming her lungs out, but the BRP (Brook Rescue Party) gag her and Diesel too, for good measure. It’s impossible to determine whose idea was it to gag them (maybe in the raws you can, sadly I cannot read Japanese), but from what we’ve seen so far, I have a feeling it was Pedro’s suggestion. Remember when he was all in for kidnapping Pudding when she revealed she’s Big Mom’s daughter?

I always thought they should have done as he suggested to be honest, even back then. They would have had a huge leverage against Mama that way.

Anyway, back to the chapter. There’s quite a tense moment when Linlin wakes up for a sec and they think they’re done for, but it turns out it was just a fly or at least that’s what Big Mom thinks woke her up. She slams her hand on the floor in an attempt to kill the fly while she falls back asleep, waking Zeus, Prometheus and Napoleon in the process. The three go crazy on the ‘perpetrator‘. The BRT are terrified by what they just witnessed.

So we already knew what Zeus (lightning) and Prometheus’ (fire) powers were, but what’s up with the freaking hat? Did it pick up a sword? Does it transform into a sword? What the effing hell is going on with Napoleon? I personally think it transforms, but you never know.

Scene cuts to Sanji who is running towards the site Luffy vowed to be waiting at. A dog attacks him, because apparently OP world dogs are all super hungry and violent and attack anyone they come across who is carrying food. Sanji should seriously stop going anywhere near dogs while delivering bentos on rainy days.

And after this short three panel interlude, we’re back with the BRP who have stolen a skeleton - they sound like grave robbers now even though, technically speaking, they found it laying around - to try and pass it for Brook while they rescue the real one. Shout out to Jinbe for revealing all the small tricks to bypass everyone’s devil fruit abilities and use them to their benefit (See the image below). The attemps are broken into different ‘challenges‘.

Challenge 1

Chopper is the first to try and sneak up to Big Mom’s bed. He suddenly has the urge to sneeze and Mama tries to squash the ‘disturbance’ while she’s still asleep.

Challenge 2

Carrot’s turn. She manages to go all the way to Brook’s side, but he won’t wake up and Big Mom’s giant snot bubble ‘chases‘ her away. Her startled exclamation wakes up Zeus enough to discharge a lightning bolt while still keeping him groggy enough to think he’s still dealing with the fly.

Challenge 3

Pedro’s situation is pretty much the same as Carrot’s. He manages to get to Brook but he’s driven away by Big Mom’s tossing and turning while she sleeps. The good thing that comes out of this is that she’s let go of Brook which makes things easier for Cat Burglar Nami.

Nami manages to get to Brook and wake him up, but when he sees his fake self, he screams at the top of his lungs (yes, you can insert a skull joke about not having lungs here). Big Mom is annoyed by the ‘fly’ and intends to use Prometheus to get rid of it.

And of course, Jinbe to the rescue! He grabs both, Nami and Brook and plunges back into the Mirror World.

Back to Sanji again. He has already reached the promised spot but can’t see Luffy anywhere, only the high number of soldiers he knocked out before being taken away by the army. I’d like to point out just how much Sanji believes in Luffy and trusts him to keep to his word. He knows that, if his captain makes a promise, he’ll do everything in his power not to break it. That’s honestly one of the best parts of the entire arc, seeing just how deep Sanji’s devotion for Luffy is. It’s beautiful.

And scene change again to see what’s going on with the BRT. Nami’s already lecturing him for nearly killing them because of his scream. Pedro just apologises for putting their lives in danger, even though we all know it wasn’t his fault and that the Straw Hats would have done all this anyway. Have I ever mentioned just how much I love Pedro?

Aaaaand there it is, the Big Reveal! Brook HAS the rubbings of the three Poneglyphs inside his skull.

I. Freaking. Called. It.

Well, I and a thousand other people, but that’s beside the point.

Pedro is VERY impressed and Brûlée, Diesel and everyone else (including the readers) are too. Jinbe praises him by saying that it’s already hard enough to get into the treasure room, even when you’re a family member.

Brook, you just had to ask about her panties, didn’t you?

Now that they have a copy of the Poneglyphs, the only thing they have left to do is get Sanji back, which is no easy task but at least they have half the job already done.

The scene cuts back to Sanji again. He’s heard a rather familiar growl and finds Luffy nestled against the remains of King Baum’s trunk, looking like he hasn’t eaten in a month. Personally his current ‘mummified’ appearance reminds of Slayers whenever Lina and/or Gourry didn’t have anything to eat and they ended up looking like that.

End of Chapter.

My God, that was long!

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