One Piece Every Day is a column where I read a chapter of One Piece every single day—more or less—and discuss my thoughts on it. Each entry will have spoilers up to the chapter covered in that day’s column.

Please keep in mind that many other readers are also first-timers. Do NOT spoil anything beyond this point in the comments!

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Once again, today’s chapter is very simple. Spare a thought for poor Mayor Boodle, though, who comes out of it looking a bit silly.

He opens the chapter up by continuing his blustering demand to fight Buggy. We return again to the ‘what is treasure?’ question here, and both Boodle and Buggy make their very different opinions on the subject extremely clear.

Initially, Buggy’s third-in-command, one Cabaji the Acrobat, offers to take care of the old man, but Buggy is having none of it.

Not one to respect other people or their wishes, Buggy zoops his hand down to strangle Boodle without even leaving the deck of his ship. The only thing that saves him is Luffy and the gang finally catching up with him.

Even after this, he still wants to fight. But Luffy isn’t going to let that happen. Understandably, he doesn’t really want to see an old man waving a spear around get himself killed, pride or not. So, in something he usually reserves for the villains, Luffy knocks him out cold. (There’s a fun parallel here between neither Boodle nor Cabaji ‘getting’ to fight. I wonder where, if anywhere, that’s going.)

He then insults Buggy’s nose, this time very much on purpose. Buggy’s crew launch a cannonball—sorry, Buggy Ball—at him in response, only for Luffy to do….this.

^{It’s a bit grotesque if I’m being honest.}

The chapter basically ends mid-faceoff. I feel a little silly for complimenting Oda’s ability to make every page count just a few days ago only to now be dealing with a chapter that very much just feels like 18 pages of scene transition, but hey, if that’s all it is, it’s still a pretty good one. I like the strong contrast drawn between Boodle, who is physically weak but morally principled in his own way, and Buggy, who is powerful but doesn’t care about anything but gold and jewels. Bits of characterization like that prevent any chapter of One Piece from feeling truly inessential.

(Which of course, isn’t to say I’m not eager to see the actual fight, but that’s tomorrow’s chapter! Probably.)

Tomorrow: The Straw Hat Kid vs. The Clown Prince of Piracy

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