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!
The Cover Issue: It would seem that some of Buggy’s crew are figuring out who’s going to take up the captain’s hat the old-fashioned way. I don’t remember these twos’ names, but I do remember that Lion Tamer Boy here was a dick to that dog, so I’m rooting for the acrobat guy.
Today, we learn how Sanji and Zeff went from being on opposite ends of a pirate raid to having the complicated relationship they do now. Spoiler alert; Zeff’s pirates’ raid on the Orbit does not go as planned.
Most of the Orbit’s crew are willing to roll over for Zeff, but not Sanji himself. Convinced his life is in danger, he attacks not just the pirate crew in general but Zeff himself with a pair of kitchen knives, wounding the captain notably badly.
Despite this, when the cook-to-be goes overboard, Zeff is the one who kicks down the ship’s mast in order to give him something to hold on to.
When the storm clears, Sanji finds himself washed up on a deserted island with no one but Zeff himself for company, the splintered wood of the Zeff’s own ship filling the water as the two try to survive for as long as possible.
More than most, there’s a real sense of the nautical to this chapter; sheets of at-sea rain, thrashing, wild waves, a gorgeous, fading island sunset, and so on. It’s definitely one of the best-looking One Piece chapters so far. If more of this is in store for us, I really can’t wait.
In any case, the chapter ends with Zeff taking a sharp rock to his leg. (Presumably it was infected.) Thus providing some context to Sanji’s earlier statement. Irony is a real jerk, isn’t she?
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@momomanamu Yeah! I’ve really loved the surprisingly realistic angle to his backstory in that regard. One Piece is pretty cartoony so it’s a cool change of pace.
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Yeah, Sanji’s back story definitely focuses on the realities of sailing during the Golden Age of Pirates. Like one storm could take down a really powerful ship and sometimes you just got stranded and it could be a really long time before anyone found you, because the oceans are really big!
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