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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Today’s One Piece is a comedy of errors.
Something I suppose I should’ve picked up on by now is that there’s usually a little more time before the Big Climactic Battle in a given One Piece arc than you might expect. So today’s chapter is almost entirely setup, but it’s at least decently fun setup.
We open with a bit of half-character development for Usopp (PS: thank you guys for pointing out all the interesting literary references baked in to the character in the comments. To be honest, I’d never have picked up on those on my own).
It’s a start.
Our heroes prepare an ingenious trap wherein they coat the only passage leading from the island’s southern beach to the village with an oil slick. We’ll get back to the flaws in this plan momentarily.
Meanwhile, Captain Kuro lays his cards on the table, or at least he does for the other butler in Kaya’s employ (who I don’t think we’ve ever gotten a name for).
I absolutely love this; he has zero reason to do any of it and it ends with him killing the guy. Was the whole point of the long con here not specifically that he could do all this without having to commit any violence other than killing Kaya? What is the point of the pirate raid itself, actually, now that I think of it and on that note? Is it to create plausible confusion that Kaya might die in?
Whatever the case, that marks the end of Kuro’s nice guy act. Good riddance. In the sort of thing that seems counterintuitive only if you don’t know how stories work, he’s actually more likable as an out-and-out bad guy.
When we cut to the next day, Luffy and co. realize they’ve made a minor mistake. Namely; they’re on the wrong beach.
As the chapter ends, Luffy, Zolo, and Nami are two-for-three on being somehow unable to confront the pirates. Luffy runs off in the wrong direction, and Zolo gets caught in the crew’s own oil trap. (Which Nami accidentally pushes him into.)
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Tomorrow: Can our heroes overcome this comedic series of obstacles to stop the Black Cat Pirates, or will Usopp truly have to fend them off alone?
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Something that may not have been immediately obvious is that yesterday’s chapter was the end of its volume. To me, this is a little odd, given that that felt more like the dead middle of a story arc than the start or end of one. But on the other hand, maybe it’s building to something more. Certainly, the new volume has a promising title.
We open on a dramatic irony, Kaya buying a gift for “Klahadore”, to commemorate the third anniversary of his arriving at the estate. This sets a pattern that recurs throughout the chapter. Despite her warm feelings for Usopp, Kaya very much believes that her butler is a kind person who has only her best interests at heart.
Usopp, meanwhile, has predictably found his warning of the impending pirate raid to be met with incredulity, and, eventually, torches and pitchforks. Things do not go any better when he tries to convince Kaya that her butler is out to get her. In fact, they escalate quickly and unpleasantly.
And indeed Usopp eventually resorts to trying to physically drag Kaya out of her manor. This goes about as well as you’d expect, and culminates with Kaya—who, remember, has no context for any of this—slapping Usopp.
Driven farther out of town, Usopp deliberately drives off the three children who follow him around and pretend to be his “crew” by claiming that this pirate attack, too, is all a lie. He does this so they won’t get hurt, but it’s clear that the hit to his pride bothers him. Toward’s the chapter’s end it really does seem like he intends to face the incoming horde of the Black Cat pirates all on his own.
But, of course, One Piece is not that sort of manga. Don’t go expecting Usopp to die heroically alone here.
Tomorrow; Luffy’s crew vs. Captain Kuro’s.
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Erase, delete, eradicate, and beautify.
It opens like this; sunrise over a peaceful Tokyo, a gleaming monument to some sin or glory enshrined in the skyline. Our lead, Chisato Nishikigi (Chika Anzai), does stretches in front of her apartment window. A call comes in, and she’s out the door like a bolt of lightning. She monologues, extolling the virtues of Japanese politeness and the serenity of her hometown at dawn while the visuals supercut through scenes of high school girls packing pistols as they apprehend criminals. One appears to execute somebody. These are the Lycoris—named for the spider lily—agents who manufacture the peace that this Tokyo’s citizens enjoy.
Halfway across town, she arrives in time to see another such high school supercop toting a chain gun—that’s Takina Inoue (Shion Wakayama), our other lead—gun down a room full of arms dealers, and nearly hit one of her teammates in the process. Chisato, watching from a building over, whoops and cheers.
Takina’s stunt, meanwhile, gets her expelled from her department—the “DA”—and transferred to Chisato’s, LycoReco, which is rather inexplicably based out of a cafe. (This was the source of much of the show’s early promotional material.) There, she meets Chisato herself, the enigmatic owner Mika (Kousuke Sakaki), and alternately tries to adjust to her new role and openly wonders how she might find her way back to the force.
This, all of it, is Lycoris Recoil. This missile barrage of violence, cute girls, cafes, and tension-ratcheting authoritarian imagery is how it chooses to open. There have been anime somewhat like this before—Princess Principal, RELEASE THE SPYCE, to a lesser extent Assault Lily Bouquet—but of them, this might have the most openly bonkers, beat-your-fucking-head-in introduction of all. There is a sublime unease to the juxtaposition of Chisato’s cheery, upbeat narration and the blunt violence of what we see, even as all of the visuals have a sleek, modern edge that distantly recalls but does not actually look like its ancestors in the “girls with guns” boom of the 2000s. (Rest in peace, Bee Train.)
The episode’s second half sees some additional context. The Chisato and Takina’s unit handles what one might charitably call odd jobs. Chisato’s description is….vague.
They help out at a daycare, then a Japanese-as-second language school, and deliver rare coffee grounds to a mob boss. In the second half of the episode, they help a woman deal with a stalker. The woman’s stalkers turn out to be connected to the same arms deal that got Takina shunted over to Chisato’s unit, and Lycoris Recoil quickly establishes that in its world, everything is a connected, dizzying clockwork of interlocking plots and motivations. Coincidence is for suckers. That’s how we go from “three girls talking out a problem in a restaurant” to “hostage situation” in perhaps ten real-time minutes.
Takina actually intentionally lets the woman get kidnapped, to lure them out. Real piece of work, this girl.
This is all also connected to a mysterious hacker named Walnut—think The Laughing Man from Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex if he had a fursona1—and an eccentric, sinister billionaire named Allen Adams, who at one point we see cause an explosion in a building by remotely tapping a few commands into his Tesla’s touchscreen.
The inevitable and valid question is what all this adds up to, but the fact of the matter is that we simply don’t know yet. It’s clear that Chisato, despite her sunny front, has seen some things. The “symbol of peace” in Tokyo is evidently the result of some situation that she was involved with, and in deed, if not by name, she’s famous throughout the country. She lets a few remarkably cynical comments slip a couple times, and, frankly, given that supporting character Mizuki Nakahara (Ami Koshimizu) notes that Lycorises (Lycori?) are often recruited from orphanages, it’s not hard to imagine why. She and Takina’s original department also seem to have very different ideas of how to keep a place safe and worth living in; her narration—and her habit of helping out just about anyone—point to a belief in focusing on the community itself. And the DA, well, we see them shoot people. It’s not hard to draw a contrast, there.
That may well be the source of Takina’s already-established tendency to use violence as her first and only solution to any obstacle in her way. And this is to say nothing of the Lycoris Cafe’s owner, Mika, who himself seems to be an old hand in the field, the aforementioned villains, the DA’s director, who seems to have her own agenda, and on and on. There are a lot of interesting characters in Lycoris Recoil, and an absolute ton happens, even in its first 24 minutes.
No matter what happens from here on out; Lycoris Recoil should be remembered for a premiere that hits like information overload. Between the silenced pistols and shining city streets, conspiracies form in the broken glass on the floor. I won’t pretend to have all—or even any—answers, as this is clearly a series with a lot going on. But to me, that is part of the adventure. What’s next is unknown and unknowable, and for us to discover together.
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I have to be honest, until now I haven’t been entirely on board with this arc. “Guy with a big nose learns not to lie” is….well, it’s pretty far away from my usual interests as a manga reader.
Today, secret murder plans get involved. That is drama I’m here for.
No wacky misunderstandings here; Klahadore has been going deep cover for the past three years as part of a winding long con to bump his ostensible mistress off and take her vast fortune. That weird backwards-walking hypnotist guy from last chapter is, of course, also in on it. As for Klahadore; there is no Klahadore. It’s a persona. His real name? Captain Kuro.
Despite his protests, I will be calling him “Kuro” from here on out, because it is easier to spell than Klahadore. Kuro’s plan is rather elaborate. Overly so, I might even say, given that it also involves Django’s hypnotism powers.
This step seems a bit unnecessary to me. Maybe it betrays a lack of confidence on Kuro’s part in his own plan? Maybe he’s just paranoid. In any case, the predictable happens; Luffy shouts from atop the cliff that they can’t do this thing, because the Silly Putty Pirate has never met a knot of rope he wouldn’t try to slash in half with a cutlass.
Although in this case, he meets something that being made out of rubber can’t help with. As he rushes down the cliffside, Django hypnotizes him—and also himself—and the two conk out simultaneously. Leading Usopp to play the role of the boy who cried….well you know.
Predictably, nobody does believe him, other than his own three little buddies. Zolo, though, notices that Luffy’s gone missing, and I suspect that no matter what Kuro may have planned, he’s probably not accounting for a guy with three swords.
Tomorrow: A guy with three swords saves Luffy’s straw hatted hide. (Probably.)
Also this.
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I find it hard to imagine a more “oh fuck this guy”-inducing phrase that a character could use than “ruffian heritage.”
But, ah, this chapter also gives us his sympathetic backstory. So it goes. It’s a brief one, mostly boiling down to the revelation that Klahadore himself used to work on a ship, only to be marooned for making “a mistake.” The word “pirate” goes unsaid but is perhaps implied. Kaya’s father took him in, and his overprotective streak toward her—which eventually leaves Usopp, and then Luffy, to storm off in a huff—comes from a desire to not fail him. It’s not explicitly stated that Kaya’s father is deceased but, again, it’s pretty strongly implied.
Anyway, you know what’s more exciting than butler / heiress interpersonal drama? Guys who walk backwards.
Hahahahaha what the fuck.
We do not learn Django’s deal here. My guess is that he’ll end up being this arc’s antagonist? But a guess is all it is. He does pull of a pretty impressive “trick” where he hypnotizes Usopp’s three little buddies, only to also conk out himself. Still more compelling than most Penn & Teller specials, if you ask me.
Meanwhile, it turns out that Luffy kind of knows Usopp’s dad! Or knew, anyway. This is the sort of thing I could’ve seen coming if I were a bit more diligent with note-taking. We get a flashback to Luffy hanging out with Yasopp, who was part of Red Hair Shanks’ crew. He’s noted as an incredible shot (fair enough). And, despite Luffy and Usopp’s remarks to the contrary, he kind of comes across as a deadbeat.
My own father left my mother shortly after I was born for dubious reasons, so I will not pretend I’m free of biases here.
In any case, Usopp and Luffy happen to randomly spot “that butler” from their clifftop perch, which leads to the chapter ending on this note.
Tomorrow: Butler Betrayal! (Or perhaps just a wacky misunderstanding.)
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Why does Usopp tell so many lies? Well, today we find out; mostly, to entertain a pretty girl. There are worse reasons to just Make Things Up All The Time. That girl is Kaya, the rich, ill heiress alluded to but not shown in the previous chapter. We meet her formally here, as well as her butler Klahadore. Their dynamic—and their relation to Usopp—becomes clear pretty quickly.
What the hell is he doing with his glasses.
Usopp sits outside of Kaya’s window and tells her tall tales of his “exploits” as a “gallant pirate.” These are nonsense, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she knows they’re nonsense, but they make her happy, which is all that matters to either of them. Klahadore is having none of this, as he apparently thinks that…being excited is bad for Kaya’s constitution. I suspect there is more to it than that, but that’s what he claims his motive is, at any rate.
Luffy and friends learn about all this from Usopp’s “pirate lackeys”—a trio of kids with vegetable names who look up to Usopp because they like his ability to tell stories—and promptly decides that this, clearly, is where he and his crew should acquire their ship.
Thus, the final scene of the chapter is a big morass outside Kaya’s bedroom window. Usopp, who’s been telling her a story is confronted by her butler, and then Luffy and friends show up to make things even more complicated.
But things really heat up when Klahadore starts laying into Usopp about his father being a pirate. This, apparently, is 100% fact. And Usopp does not take having his missing dad spoken ill of kindly.
There’s an overtone of class tension here. Not that “working class pirate falls for rich girl” is anything new even if Usopp really were a pirate, but it’s interesting how Klahadore deliberately provokes Usopp and then blames him for snapping. A dynamic that is, unfortunately, quite true to life. (On a level more immediate to One Piece’s original target audience, I imagine it reminded no small amount of kids of their school bullies, too.)
The chapter ends here, quite literally mid-thought from Luffy. What does he remember? That’s a question for tomorrow.
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Oh boy.
Meet Usopp, the village idiot.
Every single day, Usopp runs around his village screaming his head off about an impending pirate invasion. Every single day, he is lying. Is he a mythomaniac and can’t help it? Is he just a dick, as teenagers sometimes are? Who knows. More pertinent to my personal experience is that this entire opening sequence made me want to go crawl in a cave and hibernate for three months. “Boy who cried wolf” situations just rouse some sort of deep, visceral nails-on-chalkboard feeling within me.
More to the point, what is this village anyway? It’s some place that Nami suggested the crew look for a larger ship, since going the Grand Line unprepared is likely to get them all killed. Fair enough, I say. That is the situation; they’re here on this island searching for a ship, and they have to deal with This Fucking Guy.
Who of course claims to be a pirate when he meets Luffy and friends. Nami does not really buy it. And no one buys it when Usopp tries to slide into their crew in a later scene.
I’m sure the character’s voluminous bravado will eventually get more endearing than embarrassing but—and maybe this is just because I’m rather sleepy as I’m typing this—in this moment, I am just a bit annoyed by him. Probably this will change, but that is how I feel in the immediacy of the now. (“The immediacy of the now” is one of my favorite overblown pretentious turns of phrase. I highly recommend trying to slip it into casual conversation sometime just to see what happens.)
More interesting than Usopp’s bloviating is the mysterious mansion, complete with an ill heiress, that he informs Luffy’s crew lies on the outskirts of town. The chapter ends on this note, a cut to said heiress (although honestly, she kind of looks like Nami. I suspect this will be a recurring pattern).
Tomorrow: We find out whatever’s going on here and hopefully I feel a bit more awake when I’m writing my next one of these.
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Chapter 22 is called “Strange Creatures.” Now, I wonder why it might have a title like that?
Do y’all think there are like ZooBooks about these creatures in the One Piece universe? Is my audience even old enough to remember ZooBooks? Did any of you have the Free Tiger Poster? If you still do, I would exchange an anime commission for it.
Feathered and crested foxes aside, this chapter is actually a mostly self-contained little story. Its actual events, at the moment at least, seem to me to be of little consequence. But, we get some important worldbuilding and learn a few other interesting things. That’s more than enough to justify the slightly-longer-than-usual page count here (30 vs. the usual 20-something).
The basic plot is quite straightforward. Luffy spots an island through his looking scope, he and Nami make landfall while Zolo rests in the ship, and they meet a bunch of weird animals. And also this guy.
This fuzzy gentleman is Gaimon. He was stranded on the island nearly 20 years prior while searching for treasure (as part of a pirate crew, natch). He fell in an empty treasure chest, got stuck, and no one has come back to help him in all that time. A sad story in its own way, maybe, but Gaimon is quite the comical figure, being mostly a waddling head with his entire body, sans feet and hands, stuck in the box. He’s a bit of a human hermit crab, one might say.
Luffy eventually helps the man find the treasure he’s been searching for all these years, only for it to turn out that the chests are empty. Easy come, easy go. (Gaimon declines an offer to join Luffy’s crew, staying on the island as the protector of the many tiankeng-worthy creatures that live there.) The whole misadventure is a little inconsequential, and the chapter itself might feel that way too if not for some interesting things we learn about the actual world of One Piece during it.
For instance. You, like I, may have thought “The Grand Line” was a slightly odd name for a stretch of ocean. As it turns out, it’s not a stretch of ocean, it’s a strait that links two of them. Think The Bosporus if, instead of linking two large, economically-important and well-traversed seas, it linked the only two major of bodies of water on the planet.
This instantly explains a lot about the world of One Piece, especially its generally nautically-focused nature. The Grand Line is dangerous, though, even Gaimon, who’s been stranded on his island for two decades, has stories to pass on of the souls who survive a passage through it.
But, Luffy’s casual but overwhelming self-confidence must be infectious, as it’s not long before Gaimon is wishing him good luck when he departs.
This was an odd little detour for the series, but I’m glad we took it, if only for the interesting tidbits about the world of One Piece itself. As for Gaimon, he’s not too banged up about the empty treasure chests.
I wouldn’t be too shocked if he shows up again someday. But for now, it’s farewell to the weird warden of the island of strange animals.
As for tomorrow’s adventure? Who knows?
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One Piece chapter 21 is a comedy of errors. The gist of it all; that Nami joins Luffy’s still-small pirate crew, and that our heroes cast off from the port town that Buggy and his men had invaded, is fairly simple. Scattered throughout, though, are some fun details.
Details like “booty is a funny word and it’s funny how everyone in this manga says it with a straight face.” There, you don’t get analysis like that from AnimeNewsNetwork.
Take, for instance, the townspeople. When they come upon the wreckage near the docks, and see only two people (Nami and Luffy) still conscious, they make the reasonable assumption that it’s Luffy who’s caused all this chaos. A notion Luffy seems to actively contribute to, rather than resolving.
They pose no real threat to Luffy, Nami, and the still half-conscious Zolo. Even if they did, their retreat is covered by the manga’s best character; Chou-Chou the dog.
Our heroes eventually encounter some familiar faces hiding out on Nami’s ship.
Which certainly seems like it could be a chapter all its own. But, harkening back to what happened to them all the way back when Zolo and Luffy were originally separated, the pirates bolt—not even leaving the ship properly, just straight up jumping overboard—as Zolo wakes up.
The Mayor eventually regains consciousness as well, and….well he actually doesn’t clear up the misunderstanding with the townsfolk at all, but he does see Luffy and co. off, thanking them as they depart. This is the second time now that Luffy’s crew has left a town that way, and I imagine it won’t be the last.
So, our heroes are +1 Navigator, +1 Map of the Grand Line, and +1 on Rollicking Adventures. What’s next for them? Well, I’ll let the narration boxes do my job for me.
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We return to the realm of the chapter-long action sequence here. At the end of the last chapter, Buggy popped the top half of his body off of his legs and chased down Nami, knives akimbo. Obviously, Luffy manages to save her right off the top, here. Because Buggy leaving the lower half of his body behind gives him a completely foreseeable weakness.
You Will No Longer Load The Buggy Balls
Thus begins the systematic dismantling—both literally and figuratively—of Buggy the Clown. Luffy kicks him between the legs, he bickers with Nami over whether or not his treasure is “hers” even if she hasn’t technically fully absconded with it yet, and he makes a desperate attempt to launch an all-out assault by flinging his limbs every which way. This does not go well for him either; Luffy happens to notice that even though every other part of him can fly around freely if he detaches them from his body, the same is not true of his feet, which must remain grounded.
Yes, I am about to post Buggy Feet. You’ve been warned.
Although maybe I should’ve warned you more about some of these facial expressions….
Having Luffy attack his other obvious humiliating weak point distracts Buggy long enough for Nami to round up the rest of his limbs and tie them up. Meaning that, when he does finally pull himself together, he looks like this.
And Luffy finishes off the Clown Prince of the High Seas with a “Gum-Gum Bazooka.” Which mostly just seems to involve chucking him as far away as possible. And with that, it’s bye-bye Buggy, at least for now.
To the victor go the spoils, of course.
Tomorrow: What will Luffy do with that marvelous map he’s found?
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