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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I hope you’re paying attention to the chapters’ cover art, because increasingly, they feel like foreshadowing, as much as telling a story all their own. But if you’re not, that’s okay, because from now on, we’re going to have a little additional segment to kick off each, or at least most, columns. Sometimes a whole paragraph, just a few sentences, it’s –

The Cover Issue: Here we’ve got the still-stranded Buggy being recruited by the woman we first saw back in issue 51. She seems to be a pirate-hunter of some sort, based on her wanted poster of—who else?—Luffy. This also lets us know that Luffy is getting a bit of a reputation. A well-earned one, I’d say.

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“All right, ye sea wolves. Let’s capture that fish!”

The Baratie. The restaurant? It transforms.

There’s other stuff that happens in this chapter, sure. Krieg explains his master plan for returning to the Grand Line, for example.

But as another “20 pages of action” sort of deal, I’m just awestruck by how wonderfully ridiculous the transforming restaurant boat is. Krieg and his pirates raid the ship, hoping to capture it, and the mackerel head on the restaurant pops off, revealing that it’s an autonomous submersible with a cannon mounted in its mouth. Just truly top-of-the-line absurdity, here. I marvel at it.

Also; the ship has a second deck that rises up so that way the cooks can fight on it instead of damaging the restaurant. Again, just absolutely peak Anime Engineering going on here.

If you think that this is going to make Krieg’s crew pushovers though, think again. Krieg might be in over his head when it comes to Hawkeye, but he’s no lightweight, and he proves it by simply picking the Mackerel Head up and tossing it back at the restaurant.

Where it is promptly deflected.

With a single kick.

By Sanji.

^{Manga is the only valid form of art.}

Tomorrow: who the hell knows?! But in a good way.

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