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.

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The Cover Issue: You know who can beat both an acrobat and a lion tamer in combat? An actual lion.

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I like chapters like this that are defined by a couple of solid “WTF” moments. Selfishly, that’s partly because they’re easy to write about, but also I just think it’s fun when a chapter is wholly built around one or two big punches like this.

The fight on board the restaurant’s secondary battle deck continues as the chapter opens. Sanji makes a very brave and spirited showing that he isn’t about to let anyone just walk all over the deck of his beloved ship, not with himself still in debt to Zeff for saving him.

Just one problem; Luffy is also still on board, and he has other ideas.

^{I do so love Luffy’s habit of just calling all of his moves Gum-Gum Whatever.}

Yeah he shatters the battle deck into splinters. Because um….to be honest I’m not totally sure what Luffy’s plan is here? Something about sinking the ship so that Krieg’s men won’t get their prize? He does have some good points about Sanji’s recklessness, though.

In any case, it doesn’t actually matter, because Luffy’s little plan is interrupted by the other big “who did what now?” of this chapter.

^{Normally I’m not super keen on “this character we’ve introduced as a villain is secretly a decent person” as a development, but I make exceptions for characters who are based as fuck.}

And the chapter basically ends there! With Gin betraying his boss and with Krieg saying this.

Tomorrow: The battle for the restaurant rages on.

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