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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The Cover Issue: A lionizing figure leads a revolution, it would seem. I really, really want these guys to show up in the main story now. There is nothing on Earth funnier to me, in this moment, than a lion leading a pirate crew.

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In today’s chapter, the battle for the hull and soul of the restaurant ship continues, but not without an interesting new wriggle. Yesterday it seemed like Gin might be betraying Don Krieg outright. Today’s chapter makes it clear that’s not true, he just feels honor-bound to kill Sanji himself. A peculiar buccaneer’s honor, if ever I’ve seen it.

Another important thing happens; Don Krieg reestablishes his bad guy bonafides. How? By tricking Luffy into almost wrecking the rest of the ship. He makes a huge show of firing a “poison gas cannonball” (yes) at the rubber pirate, but surprise, he actually filled the cannonball with shrapnel.

No, sorry, with shuriken. My mistake.

There’s also a fun small detail here, where Krieg tells his men off for letting the fact that Luffy called them “wimps” get under their skin. He says that being bothered by it only proves Luffy’s point. Not ten pages later, he absolutely seethes over the fact that Luffy won’t acknowledge Krieg as proper King of the Pirates material. Some pirates are just always telling on themselves. Things don’t get immediately resolved here, and we can assume that the battle for the oceangoing restaurant will continue well into the next chapter.

See you then, pirates. But before I do, here’s an intriguing bit of cultural flotsam included at the end of this chapter.

The very first One Piece popularity poll, so far as I can tell. I’m a little sad that Nami ranked behind Red-Hair Shanks, who hasn’t shown up since the prologue, but eh, young boys, am I right?

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