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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 52

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Zolo isn’t really dead. You’re probably not shocked! I know I’m not, because he’s one of the franchise’s main characters. How is he still alive? Well, Hawkeye just….uh, cut him in a way so he won’t die. Look, just roll with it.

More than that, most of this chapter is about Zolo redoubling his oath to become the world’s greatest swordsman (it’s even called “The Oath”). Hawkeye—who gives us his improbably cool real name here—finds Zolo too strong in spirit to kill, and that’s why he’s spared him. He gives Zolo a pretty awesome speech here, actually. I really like this guy!

Zolo vows not just to eventually defeat Hawkeye, but to never lose again. Not just for himself, or for his late friend, but for Luffy’s sake, too.

All told, this is a pretty excellent scene, and Hawkeye caps it off by leaving as dramatically and mysteriously as he came. Or at least, he goes to do that, but there’s one person who still has other ideas.

Yes, Krieg makes the astounding decision to try to kill Hawkeye, despite the man single-handedly wrecking his entire fleet before, and despite what he just did to Zolo. It goes about as well as you’d expect, and our story here splinters in to as Hawkeye once again unleashes his sword techniques to completely mulch a boat Krieg is on.

And Luffy, in the final piece of this particular puzzle of timber and saltwater, vows to drive off Krieg’s pirates, who are now swarming the oceanbound restaurant en masse, in exchange for being able to ditch his choreboy obligations.

Tomorrow: one sea, two ships.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 51

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Before we even start talking about today’s actual chapter, turn your eyes up to that cover.

I’ve been basically just letting the whole Chibi Buggy Saga play out without much commentary in the headers of these articles (always cropped, to make them not look absolutely awful on desktop) but this one actually introduces a new character! A mysterious lady-pirate rocking a cowboy hat who seems to have taken in Buggy as her pet short king. Good for him, I guess?

As for the chapter itself, this is the first one in a while to basically be pure action. An honorable duel between the villainous Hawkeye and the heroic Zolo (eh, more or less, on both counts). I also want to highlight Zolo’s quip here off the top, because, yeah, I am also surprised that we’ve gotten to actually meet Hawkeye this early.

Part of me wonders; was One Piece being allowed to publish basically indefinitely not a sure thing yet this early on? That would make sense, we’re 50 chapters in, but given that as far as I know One Piece has always been a weekly, that only represents around 2 1/2 months of publishing time. Maybe it was not yet the utterly massive hit that it would later become, and Oda wanted to start bringing some plot threads to a close, or at least moving them closer to a conclusion, just in case? This is all speculation, if I’m wrong and 1P was a total smash basically right away feel free to correct me in the comments.

In any case, much of this duel is devoted to showing how much better at Sword Hawkeye is than Zolo. Zolo hasn’t really had a proper challenge in this series yet, and Hawkeye less gives him one and more completely wipes the floor with him.

Did I mention, he doesn’t use that big fancy cross-shaped sword across his back with the black blade to do it? No, he uses a little dagger. Like a really little dagger.

I bet people ship these two really hard.

Spoiler alert; he does not need anything bigger than the dagger.

This sends Zolo into a bit of a spiral, with Oda again deploying his technique of “fading” memory panels in and out to create a flashback that’s actively weaved with the manga’s present-tense. (It’s worth noting that alongside all the memories of his late friend to whom he promised to become the world’s greatest swordsman is a memory of Luffy recruiting him to his crew.) Zolo refuses to believe that they could possibly be this mismatched, but they are, and Hawkeye cuts his belly open to prove it.

Hawkeye is, at the very least, impressed by Zolo’s bravery as he manages to spit out that to him, death would be better than defeat. Hawkeye, out of a sense of honor, makes him stick to that, and the second slash he delivers to Zolo’s frame is a lot more lethal.

Tomorrow: How will the swordsman survive?!

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 50

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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 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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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 35

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Hello folks! You’ll have to forgive the late upload today, I thought I had one in the tin for this morning already only to wake up and realize I did not. Hence; this one coming to you a bit late. (Don’t worry, I’m going to be penning a couple this afternoon, so this shouldn’t happen again. At least not for a while.)

Something I like about One Piece, and I’m not sure if I’ve outright said this, is the amount of weight it gives its battles. In modern shonen, even the very best fight scenes can sometimes feel over too quickly owing to the rather brisk pace of most modern TV anime and the manga they’re adapted from. (A particularly bad offender here, because I never miss a chance to take a shot at it, is the anime version of God of High School.) This isn’t to say the opposite is inherently a good thing, as someone who grew up watching a lot of Dragonball Z with my stepfather I am well aware that a single fight being doled out across weeks or potentially even months can be on the draining side, but still, I think so far, One Piece strikes a nice balance. (How this goes in the show I couldn’t tell you, given that I’m not watching said show.)

Not a ton actually happens in this chapter from a “narrative perspective.” Basically it boils down to “Luffy and Zolo cover for Usopp’s little ‘crew’ of kids as he orders them to flee the battlefield with Kaya.” But everything has a nice sense of solid urgency. That it manages to convey that in the still rather economical space of just 20 or so pages is pretty impressive. (Get used to that observation, I don’t think it’s the first time I’ve made it here and it will almost certainly not be the last.)

Take for example, the mostly-comical Butchie getting a chance to slam into the ground with enough force to do that “rocks and terrain explode everywhere” thing that people (including myself) are so fond of.

“What happened to the ground?!” “My parents took it down because I’m grounded :/”

Or even this on-its-face silly scene where the pirate kids wail on a still-laid-flat Captain Kuro with sticks. Sure, it’s funny, but he could straight-up disembowel those children if he wanted to. That’s a scary notion!

Especially since Kuro is only wounded to the extent of feeling the need to remark that Luffy slugging him in the face “smarted.” (What is he, a British schoolboy?)

Usopp certainly knows the score, as he spends several pages trying to get the kids (and Kaya) to run away.

Eventually, he convinces them to by framing it as an order from their ‘captain,’ which is pretty clever. I don’t know if I’ve properly conveyed this but I really have come around on Usopp since his introduction, it’s clear he cares a lot for these people and (spoiler alert here) I know from prior knowledge that he joins the main cast eventually, so I’m interested to see what he adds to their dynamic when he does. (He also gets an amusing and very literal cheap shot at Django, here, which is mostly worth noting because it literally makes the big bad hypno-pirate say “owie.”)

None of this is to say our other heroes don’t get a minute to shine here, though, because they do. Specifically, Luffy and Zolo pull off a pretty badass “you shall not pass” sort of moment when intercepting Django, who’s been ordered to pursue Kaya and the kids.

And the chapter ends there, leaving what will become of the heiress and Usopp’s little buddies a question for tomorrow. See you then, pirates.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 33

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Today, Captain Kuro joins the fray directly. He is not happy about the dillydallying his former crew have been engaging in. That is to say; he really thinks they should’ve killed Luffy and friends by now.

Some of the Black Cat Pirates, namely the catboy brothers (whose actual name I have decided is irrelevant), don’t take kindly to this, and wonder if perhaps their former captain is only being so commandeering because he’s gone too soft in the past three years to finish his foes off himself. In the process, they make some fun faces.

But as it turns out, Kuro really is the monster heel the arc has hyped him up to be, and he’s not to be taken lightly. He instantly outmaneuvers the brothers, and threatens them pretty plainly.

What is the name of this masterful piece of footwork?

You will never guess.

No seriously, guess.

Yeah.

We also get an explanation for his weird habit of pushing up his glasses with the palm of his hand. Little details, people, they make the world go ’round.

Feeling at least a bit merciful, he gives the catboy brothers five minutes to finish off Zolo. Instead, Nami tosses Zolo his swords, and he takes the two of them out with a single slash, in one of Oda’s full-page action panels. I quite like these.

But he really has no time to bask in the victory. Nami tries to wake Luffy up as well, only for Django to grow tired of her interference. He attacks her, and the chapter ends here, on that particular cliffhanger.

A cliffhanger to be resolved tomorrow, certainly.

I quite liked this chapter, although I’m not sure how well it showed. (I’m in a bit of a sour mood for unrelated reasons.) Interested to see what exactly Kuro brings to the table, fight scene-wise, with those big kitty claws of his.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 32

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Today’s chapter continues basically directly on from yesterday’s, forming a clean continuation of the battle between Zolo and the Meowban Brothers, one of whom, Siam, has stolen two of Zolo’s three swords, as Nami so helpfully recaps for us with a zippy one-liner.

I kind of love this line, and to be honest there’s quite a bit of fun dialogue scattered (cattered?) throughout the chapter. I’m not sure how much of it is a faithful conveyance of Oda’s original dialogue and how much of it is the translator having a spot of fun. I suspect it’s a bit of both.

A “pirate-flavored pancake.” That’s poetry, right there.

Siam continues to make me slightly uncomfortable, but Butchie is a decently fun character, “cat-a-pault” shouts and all. Zolo gets some good moments here too, including one where he deliberately takes one of Usopp’s slingshot bullets to the back so that way the cat brothers don’t turn their attention on him and Nami.

Of course, there’s really only so much the guy can do. Django steps in when Nami tries to return Zolo’s swords to him, injuring her what looks to be rather badly.

And not long after that, Captain Kuro arrives, and he’s more than a little angry that the Black Cats have been dragging their feet.

The chapter ends there. Tomorrow, we learn what becomes of Luffy and friends.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 31

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Right at the top of today’s chapter, Kaya awakes from a nightmare, only to discover another in her living room; her butler, the sheep-man Merry, lying half-dead on the floor. That he’s still alive at all is a bit of a surprise to me, when we saw Kuro fuck him up I really thought he was done done, but I guess the guy’s a survivor.

A man of character—and of being beaten within an inch of his life by a traitorous jerk—he sets Kaya straight pretty quick, informing her of “Klahadore”‘s betrayal and of the impending pirate invasion.

With Merry wounded and the rest of her staff on holiday, Kaya, in spite of her grave (but vague) illness, sets off into town to try warn the townsfolk of the pirate attack that must surely, if Usopp was telling the truth after all, be coming. Who should she run into along the way but Usopp’s “crew”?

Back at the beach, Django calls in the Black Cat Pirates’ ringer; a pair of the most absolutely vile-lookin’, ragged, fucked up catboys you’ve ever seen.

the catboys i signed for my all-catboy pirate crew dont know what piracy is and theyre actively loudly sobbing whenever they miss a swing of their cutlass and whenever they try to load a cannonball they drop it and it bonks them on the head and they go “uweh” and our first mate closes his eyes whenever he fires his flintlock because hes scared and we’re beating every other crew on the Blue Line

The two initially seem to really live up to that horrible caption I just put under the above image, flailing about and crying as they confront Zolo. Only for them to reveal that—gasp!—it’s all a ruse! In the confusion, Siam there is able to jack two of Zolo’s swords.

That’s where the chapter ends, so how Zolo gets his swords back, what happens to Kaya and Usopp’s little buddies, etc., are all tomorrow’s questions.

To raise a question though; do the designs of these two cat-men make anyone else vaguely uncomfortable? Mostly Siam’s? He looks like a grandmother cosplaying Cure Black. There’s something vaguely not-quite-transphobic-but-definitely-in-that-same-general-area about it, to me. Maybe I’m reaching, feel free to tell me if you think so in the comments.

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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 28

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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.)

Is this girlboss behavior? Vote now in the comments below.

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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ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 17

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Something I like about One Piece is that it has a certain “ah, just one more chapter” quality to it, at least in the format I’m reading it in. As I write this it’s a few minutes shy of 2AM local, and I should really probably be in bed, but I seriously want to know how this fight between Zolo and Cabaji went, so here I am, reading another chapter at two hours past midnight.

My utterly dreadful sleeping habits aren’t the focus of this column, though. Watching Zolo fuck Cabaji up is.1 And to that end, we get a really great page right near the top of the chapter here, complete with Cabaji dropping an old-timey pirate insult.

To be fair it’s not literally all about these two. Somewhere in here, Nanami sneaks off, assuring Luffy that she’s happy to team up with him….if he can get ahold of Buggy’s treasure and the map of the Grand Line, that is.

Far be it from me to criticize perhaps the most successful mangaka of all time, but what’s going on with Nami’s hand there?

But apart from that little aside, this is very much the Cabaji and Zolo show.

Buggy’s second mate leads with a bunch of crazy, vaguely “circus”-themed bullshit like this.

And Zolo counters by being a much better swordsman than Cabaji is. Eventually, Cabaji has to resort to cheating, and Buggy tries to ‘subtly’ help out his third-in-command. A classic heel move, but it doesn’t work. Luffy is still around, after all.

The trickery doesn’t help, and despite literally bleeding out the entire time, Zolo trounces Cabaji. Eventually finishing him off in what is probably the single best page of the whole chapter.

No, not that onigiri.

Proving that he isn’t actually an immortal sword demon and instead just fights like one, Zolo collapses from blood loss shortly thereafter, leaving Luffy and Buggy to finish the fight on their own.

And then, just as Volume II draws to a close, Buggy drops this particular bombshell.

And much as I am genuinely dying to know what’s up with all of that, it’s probably time for this old sea hag to turn in for the evening. (Besides, I’m leaning a little too heavily on screencaps, which is always a sign that it’s probably time to stop here for the day.) Before I do though, now that we’re two volumes and a couple weeks deep, I just wanted to ask how you’re all feeling about the project so far. Please sound off in the comments (or on my Retrospring) about any thoughts you might have; positive, negative, whatever they may be.

I look forward to hearing from you. See you tomorrow for the start of Volume III, pirates! 🏴‍☠️

1: A danger of late-night writing: I forgot the “is” in this sentence when I first wrote it and only noticed it later. This would be a very different kind of column if that were what happened in this chapter!

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