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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 50

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 water around the ocean restaurant is a wooden graveyard as chapter 50 opens, with the splintered tatters of Don Krieg’s flagship littering the ocean.

This chapter is mainly about two things; for one, we see that yes, Nami really did make off with the Merry-Go and all the treasure on it. Most of Luffy’s meager remaining crew are willing to write her off, but not the captain.

To that, he sends Zolo and Usopp after Nami while he stays to help the ocean restaurant fend off the attack from Krieg’s pirates. But, before that can even be acted upon, the other person this chapter is about shows up. Someone I’m very surprised to see so early, given the nature of the foreshadowing just a few chapters ago.

I’d introduce the man, but that’s kind of the sum of it right there, isn’t it? “World’s Greatest Swordsman” is not a title that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. This is, in fact, the man Zolo’s been looking for, and it doesn’t take long for the two of them to start doing the whole “circling each other menacingly while talking shit” routine. The fight doesn’t actually happen here—that’s next chapter, presumably—but the tension is palpable. (And marginally homo-erotic. Par for the course for this sort of thing.)

As for Nami and her floating trove of stolen treasure, well, that’s a bit of a mystery for the time being as well. The chapter closes on this page, and this particular note. Much is in the air, just waiting to fall down.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 49

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Gonna just warn you ahead of time here, folks. Today’s chapter and tomorrow’s are going to be covered by a decidedly tired Tired Jane. What is the main distinction between regular and Tired Jane? Well, mostly, the tiredness. But a general laxness of grammar, tendency to fixate on minor details instead of actual plot developments, and an increase in profanity are some of the common symptoms. Just a heads’ up if the next two columns are a little looser than usual.

The main thing we learn in chapter 49 is that the guy who wrecked Krieg’s fleet is not just some random background character. No, he’s a specific background character.

This Hawkeye fellow seems pretty darn important. He’s both the man who wrecked Krieg’s armada and the guy that Zolo’s been after. (Or at least, Zolo seems pretty sure that he is.) There’s a fairly lengthy scene after this about the various dangers of the Grand Line that mostly rehashes things we already know or could easily infer.

Meanwhile, back on Krieg’s ship, his pirates return themselves to health, and he announces his plan to hijack the oceangoing restaurant and then return to the Grand Line. One of his crew objects to this plan, and is promptly dealt with in, ah, pirate-y fashion.

But before Krieg’s men can actually launch their attack….well, something happens. To be honest, the art gets a little difficult for me to parse here? It seems to be that Krieg’s flagship is suddenly rocked by an explosion or similar force, and promptly sinks like a stone, leaving the pirates to distribute themselves between the restaurant ship and Luffy’s ship. Except that’s not quite right either, because Nami seemingly takes the ship and runs as the chapter comes to a close!

What just happened? Questions for tomorrow, one supposes.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 48

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Battle shonen is a bit like wrestling. For instance; you can usually divide the characters firmly into faces (good’ns) and heels (bad’ns), the storylines are usually fairly over the top and dramatic, and everybody’s got a gimmick. Yesterday we learned that Don Krieg’s is that he’s a god damn cyborg. Today, we learn Zeff’s. Krieg is evidently knowledgeable about this kind of thing. (Though not about the Grand Line, as we’ll get to.)

But Krieg’s no fanboy. He uses this knowledge of Zeff’s past to make an interesting—and correct!—deduction, that he must still have his logbook somewhere. Naturally, he demands that, in addition to the ship.

Krieg leaves with the sinister warning that, after he feeds his crew, he’ll be back to take the ship and the book, and that anyone who’s not gone by then will be “buried at sea.” Rough guy, that Krieg.

But the chapter’s truly interesting revelations come from Gin, who is still a bit in shock that Krieg turned on the ocean restaurant’s cooks so quickly. (I’m not sure why, given everything we’ve learned about Krieg over the past few chapters. Maybe Gin is just a terrible judge of character, or maybe Krieg didn’t used to be like this. Who knows!)

Gin says that, yes, he and the rest of Krieg’s men were, in fact, at the Grand Line, but the things they saw there went well beyond anything we’ve seen in the story so far. Consider this a kind of far-foreshadowing, I doubt we’ll see the Grand Line ourselves ‘in person’ for many, many chapters yet. (I’m betting at least 100, absolute bare minimum. Even that’s probably very low.)

The chapter ends there, with Zolo’s knowing (?) / shocked reaction, and the threat of Krieg hanging in the air.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 46

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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AHOY!

Yes, after a long time being—ahem—lost at sea, we’ll say, the column is back. In the grand scheme of how long this is going to take us, a week-ish off is not that much time to be away from One Piece, but I did miss the series while I was gone, and I’m excited to see where this whole thing with the Dread Pirate Don Krieg is gonna go. So, without further do, we return to the ocean-going restaurant ship, Baratie.

As we do, we open on a fight between Sanji and the head cook / captain. The chef wants him gone; Sanji’s a lousy cook, flirts with women, and gets into fights. He has no reason to want Sanji on his boat, and because of that actively tries to get him to leave with Luffy. Sanji, of course, refuses. Although, even as he goes back to work, he spends a fair amount of time flirting with Nami (who is entirely willing to take advantage of his weakness for women).

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen the noun “digestive” in a comic of any kind. Also isn’t it actually “digestif”? Whatever.

In any case, Luffy must spend quite a while washing dishes here, because shortly after this scene, he’s hauled off to do more chore boy work, and we promptly get perhaps my favorite transition panel in this entire manga so far.

This is how I feel whenever I get a letter from the government.

You can probably, and properly, guess that the thing that comes “out of nowhere” is Don Krieg and his flagship, flying a jolly roger flanked by hourglasses (which a pair of randos helpfully point out symbolizes that his enemies’ “time is up.” Thanks lads). However, not all is as it appears, because Krieg’s ship is in bizarrely bad shape.

Sanji (correctly?) guesses they were caught in a typhoon, and soon, Gin returns, quite literally propping his captain, who is on the brink of death, up on his shoulder.

The restaurant’s other patrons—and for that matter, the cooks themselves—are pretty unwilling to feed and house a notorious pirate. Over the course of a brief page of exposition, we get a sense of why. This dude is bad news!

It’s almost like he’s a pirate or something.

Sanji is more than willing to feed him, though. And surprise surprise, as soon as the dread pirate is finished chowing down on some white rice that Sanji whipped up, he decks the cook right in the face and says this to close out the chapter.

It’s good to be back.

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ONE PIECE EVERY DAY – Chapter 45

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In another more setup-y chapter, we open with Luffy and Sanji still on the deck. How will Luffy try to entice Sanji to join his growing crew of vagabonds and pillagers and oh who are we kidding here? He just asks him. Sanji says no.

The reason, as given a bit farther in, is that Sanji wants to make head chef someday despite not getting on with the current head chef. (The head chef actually tries to get him to go with Luffy at one point. Simply blowing him off or something more?) This is fair enough, but it makes Luffy’s ambition of getting him aboard the Merry Go difficult. How he might eventually change Sanji’s mind isn’t really addressed here. In fact, a pretty big chunk of the chapter is dedicated to Hijinks. Since Luffy’s been drafted as a choreboy, the restaurant employs him to undertake various tasks, almost all of which he fails comically at. (Favorite bit for me here; when one of the chefs asks how many plates he’s busted and he admits that he’s lost count.)

Elsewhere, conversation turns to the dreaded Don Krieg, the pirate who is apparently the “most ferocious” in the local waters, and I imagine will be this arc’s actual, eventual antagonist.

You see, Gin—the pirate Sanji rescued by giving him some rice—doesn’t take a directly antagonistic role here, and he’s even very friendly to both Sanji and Luffy, showing genuine gratitude to the former and being yet another in the growing list of more veteran sailors trying to wave Luffy away from the Grand Line. But he does take an indirectly antagonistic role, because when he heads back to Krieg’s ship, he finds the don pirate’s vessel in what looks to possibly be disarray. And there, he promptly, and conveniently, forgets all that kindness he showed to Luffy and especially Sanji earlier, promising to take his boss right to the oceangoing restaurant.

Such is the way of pirates! Perhaps a clash of crews here is inevitable. I look forward to finding out tomorrow. I have to admit that the stuff with Kuro and Kaya was solid but it took a while to really grab me. With this arc I’m invested straightaway. I hope this Krieg fellow is as fearsome as his name (literally just German for “war”!) and reputation suggest.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 44

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We open today immediately after the conclusion of yesterday’s chapter, on Luffy and the floating diner’s head chef arguing over whether our boy will work for the chef for a week, a year, or if he’s willing to pay a different sort of price.

I am reasonably sure that this is not how that works.

This actually isn’t the main plot of the chapter though—it’s more a humorous B-side, as the whole thing is played pretty goofy—instead, the real Point A to Point B here comes from a conflict between Sanji and a new character, a surly cook with a….Brooklyn accent? I think that’s what they’re going for? Named Patty. Patty is not a very good cook apparently, and he frequently minces common customer service sayings (there’s even a ‘monsieur’ -> ‘mon-sewer’ bit straight out of Looney Tunes). But he does very strongly believe that the customer is king, which puts him into conflict with Sanji who, you’ll recall, is beating the shit out of that Fullbody fellow because he didn’t like Sanji’s soup. There’s some pretty great dialogue here and, honestly, all throughout the chapter. Lots of little bits of wordplay and double meanings and stuff like that, it’s fun.

This continues even after the chapter socks you with its main twist; one of the captive pirates from Fullbody’s ship has escaped and, oh no, he’s on the restaurant boat.

Despite this colorful introduction, the fellow isn’t actually much of a threat. Patty, who is apparently crazy strong because of manga reasons, knocks him in the head and tosses him out onto the deck. Here we get the chapter’s actual twist, which is that Sanji, despite absolutely ripping Fullbody earlier, is the kind of guy who’ll give some rice to a starving man even if that man might not necessarily “deserve” it. (Everyone deserves food whenever they need it, in my world view, but Patty does not seem to agree.)

The chapter—and the volume!—end here, with Luffy observing Sanji’s act of kindness and thinking that just perhaps, he’s found his cook.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 43

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Today on One Piece; a lesson in not wasting your food.

It starts off simple enough; our heroes pull up to the oceanbound restaurant mentioned last chapter, a magnificently goofy thing that is shaped like a fish.

But we’re introduced in short order to the guy who I was pretty sure was going to be this arc’s antagonist, but I’m actually not so certain at the moment for reasons I’ll get to in a bit. In any case, he’s quite the character.

Yes. A Navy Lieutenant. Named Ironfist Fullbody. I imagine in the dub they had someone do a really gruff and low voice for him for maximum impact. Again, I think this is a slight bit of misdirection, but he does make quite the first impression here. Almost immediately after this, he orders one of his cannoneers to sink the Merry Go.

Now, our heroes’ ship is fine, because Luffy blocks the cannonball with his, ahem, ‘gum gum balloon.’ The restaurant on the other hand, is not, because it turns out that Luffy doesn’t have great finesse as to where the things he deflects with that little trick end up.

Cut to the inside of the restaurant—the main body of the ship has thankfully not been hit by the deflected cannonball, evidently—and we get to see Fullbody trying to impress his, one assumes, fiancé, by dazzling her with his knowledge of wine.

Yes, Ol’ Ironfist here is a sommelier. But it’s actually worse than that, because as we soon learn, he’s a wannabe sommelier, as shown when he asks the restaurant’s ‘waiter’ if he’s right about the wine.

Sanji here—one of those rare few One Piece characters I knew by sight before reading this—basically clowns Fullbody’s entire existence. He denies his attempt at coming off as a Cool Wine Guy, and when Fullbody finds (or, I think, plants) a bug in his own soup, Sanji tells him to just pick it out. Which hey, fair thing to Fullbody here; that’s fucking gross. But on the other hand, you’re in the middle of the ocean. Perhaps you don’t get to be picky, navy boy.

Things keep escalating like this, but eventually Sanji’s had enough, simply because he can’t stand to see good food wasted, and the end result is that the big invincible monster heel we’ve been building up all chapter ends it looking like this.

That’s not quite the end of the story, though. While all this is happening, Luffy is taken aboard the restaurant. This leads to some further, ah, interesting conversations.

Thankfully Luffy is misunderstanding this whole scene and he did not actually blow off a guy’s leg. But still, you can see why he’d think that. Luffy is here drafted to work aboard the ship without pay for a year to make up for the damages incurred by his, you know, blowing a hole in it, and the chapter properly ends there, leaving the whole rest of this to be resolved tomorrow.

Hopefully you’ve enjoyed this slightly-longer-than-normal column, pirates. I’m hoping it makes up for my absence yesterday. See you all tomorrow!

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 41

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Did you think we were done with our big emotional climax after last chapter? Well, we mostly are, but not quite yet.

Two things happen in this chapter; for one, Kaya gifts Luffy’s crew a caravel, which I and any other former Civilization III players reading this will recognize as a mid-sized vessel common in the 16th century. It’s hardly the Queen Anne’s Revenge, but this ship, the Merry Go, is the first proper vessel our heroes have ever had. 41 chapters in, we’ve already covered a lot of ground (even if we’re still very early on in the greater scope of things), so it’s nice to see them tangibly upgrading to something bigger and better.

Secondly, Usopp says his last goodbyes to Kaya. Granted, not before overpacking to the extent that his comically large backpack causes him to topple over and role down a hill in true slapstick fashion.

Other than a few other jokes (including a great bit where Luffy has to be told not to eat the entire bones of a fish), the main takeaway here is that Kaya will be just fine, and that Usopp’s chronic lying actually has a reason behind it. A pretty sad one! Although you could probably guess that much.

To be honest, this strikes me as a little unnecessary? The simple fact that Usopp’s mom isn’t around kind of makes it obvious from the start that something’s happened to her. That said; the target audience for this manga is, or at least was at the time, kids, so maybe being a little obvious is fine.

As the chapter ends, Kaya talks to Merry—her actually loyal butler—about her dreams for the future, while Usopp’s former “crew” gallavant through the town, continuing his, ahem, sacred work.

Usopp himself and the rest of Luffy’s crew? They’re gone, back on the deep blue sea.

Tomorrow: new adventures.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 40

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In today’s chapter: farewells and castings-off.

The defeated Captain Kuro is batted out of the series with one final panel of Luffy piledriving his head into the ground. I actually particularly like this because we also see his glasses bounce away, crushed. It’s fun to see a character’s personal symbol of sorts destroyed as a visual metaphor for their defeat.

And Luffy manages to get off one last bit of “I’m gonna be king of the pirates” chest-puffing before promptly collapsing from exhaustion and/or blood loss. (Don’t worry, he’s fine. You know how shonen protagonists are.)

But for the most part, this chapter is about Usopp, who decides to swear his “crew”—as well as everyone else—to secrecy, so that the people of his town don’t worry about the pirate raid that they only just avoided being caught up in.

I remain rather averse to the “boy who cried wolf” trope, but I like Usopp basically twisting it inside-out here, relying on his own bad reputation to protect the townsfolk’s peace of mind. One can understand where he’s coming from in a very immediate way, that’s a nice thing in a story like this that more or less lives and dies on the readership being able to connect to the characters in an immediate, intuitive way.

At the end of the chapter, he strikes off on his own, now dead-set on becoming a real pirate, rather than simply a teller of tall tales. Of course, in order to do that, there’s a group of people he has to bid farewell to.

As he leaves his “pirate crew” behind, Usopp makes the boys swear to keep pursuing their own dreams. It’s genuinely really sweet.

All this to say; Usopp is a good lad, my initial impression of the character wasn’t terribly favorable, but hey, that happens sometimes.

Now then, before I bid you all farewell for the day, I’ve decided that fielding y’all a question every ten chapters or so will be a fun way to keep things fresh.

Last time I asked you what manga you were reading other than One Piece itself (and hey, if you’ve picked up something in the interim, feel free to share). Today I’ll ask what anime you’re watching this season, if any. Y’all can reasonably intuit from my anime columns that I’m watching Lycoris Recoil, Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (the recap for which I’m slightly putting off by writing this first, in fact….), and Call of the Night. In addition to that I’ve been keeping up with Smile of the Arsnotoria, Teppen (although it actually skipped its second episode for absolutely wild reasons I won’t go into here), YUREI DECO, Tokyo Mew Mew New, the RWBY anime Ice Queendom, and carrying over from last season, Summertime Render (don’t tell Disney). What about you?

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 39

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I like the way today’s chapter is put together. Functionally, you’ve got two fights; one between Luffy and Kuro and another between Kaya, Usopp’s ‘crew’, and Django (which later gets two extra participants as the chapter comes to a close). The chapter keeps up the tension with the fairly simple trick of swapping between them, so there are no real “dead moments” at any point.

One Piece is good about this in general, but I find chapter 39 fairly exceptional in this regard. Basically everybody—at least, all the ‘good guys’, excepting Nami—get a solid badass moment. In something this long, you cannot expect every single chapter to have major story revelations or anything like that, but it’s good one when can make an exceptional showing on the Cool Points front, if nothing else.

It’s Luffy who gets the bulk of them, as despite Kuro’s techniques, he’s not much of a match for the rubberband pirate (assuming he doesn’t have some other secret trick up his sleeve anyhow), and Luffy is able to lay him flat without too much trouble over the course of the chapter.

Kuro of course panics about this, and we get one of those huge open-mouthed hollers that Oda seems to love drawing.

Meanwhile, Kaya is willing to sign the will without being mind-controlled, if Django will just leave Usopp’s little friends alone. The hitman hypnotist is having none of it, though, and Kaya actually has to threaten to hurt herself in order to get him to even consider it.

And Usopp’s crew promptly get their moment a few pages later when they charge him from behind and knock him on his ass. Which buys all involved just enough time for Zolo and Usopp to show up.

It’s actually Usopp himself who gets the final blow on Django, hitting him with some sort of exploding projectile via his slingshot.

And meanwhile, back at the beach, Luffy seems to put Captain Kuro down for good. Look at that neck; I don’t know if he’s coming back from that one.

Tomorrow: Is the battle over, or just beginning?

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