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moveyourdeadfrosAnd now for my SECOND two-chapters in a row review, because I am le suck at timing these days.
We open up with Chopper apparently taking a side job as a male model to finance his medicine school expenses. Hey, don’t be judging, we all gotta do what we gotta do man.
Luffy’s plan is to tame the Kraken. Usopp, brave warrior of the sea, chips in with his support and valuable, valued insight.
He is, however, largely alone in this reaction.
As Nami seems to be the only one who thinks this is a Bad Situation she argues with an unusually pissy Luffy on what to do, prompting Sanji (who has managed to overcome his newfound weakness thanks to Namis more modest clothing and a string of photos of pretty girls hanging around his waist) to agree with her, Chopper and Usopp to mil laround uselessly and Caribou to marvel at how he’s currently one of the most SANE people left on the ship But then! Rescue! His brother arrives as they have finally gotten their cow under control, and rush in to enact a daring last-minute res-
-cue…
… Wow. Way to be sensitive, Zoro. The cow escapes the Krakens reach which makes it turn on the Thousand Sunny. Zoro and Luffy prepare to fight but are held back by Usopp, as Franky executes some awesome maneuvers to dodge… however, the more Coup de Vents he uses the less air the ship will have in their bubble. Hearing this Luffy proceeds to be… pretty much useless actually, and Caribou is the one who has to step up and save the day. Gotta say guys, for a long awaited reunion Luffy sure isn’t painting a pretty picture of his supposed ’growth’ here.
Anyhow, I GUESS Caribou manages to divert some of the coating to cover Zoro, Sanji and Luffy in their own little minibubbles. I guess because we never see what happens, just the end result. Usopp freaks out and tells them they shouldn’t be fighting, which makes Caribou point out that Luffy is being a giant retard and that there seems to be no way to dissuade him from fighting… whereupon Usopp pretty much goes ”oh yeah he’s right well GOOD LUCK GUYS”, whereupon Luffy once again acts childish and starts arguing that the rope is in his way and not a vitally important lifeline. But never mind that now- BATTLE SCENE. The Kraken goes on the offensive, but Franky repels it with his new weapon-
Shouldermissiles! Man I feel like quoting Team America now all of a sudden. Another tentacle strikes, but this time it’s Chopper to the rescue! Want to see his updated Guard Point?
Hell yeah you do! But the blow sends the ship careening off towards a mountain! Who can save them now?!
Robin, motherfunksters. You wish your girlfriend had class like this. Luffy then joins the game and shows off HIS new move- he goes Gear Three with his arm and activates ”Armanent Vulcanization” according to Manga Fox, and ”Color of Armaments” Hardening in Mangastream. I guess that he’s either using Haki to strenghten his arm, or he’s found some way to actually turn his rubber into galvanized rubber, as one uses in tires, to harden his arm for extra smackdown strength.
However once again, Luffy doesn’t think things through- sticking his arm out into the water saps his strength, giving the Kraken plenty of opportunity to attack. So it’s up to Sanji to save the day!
Not only is he incredibly fast from all his fleeing exercise, he can now perform Diable Jambe without much trouble at all and lays the smackdown on the tenarmed fiend! This prompts Zoro to pick up the page as he dices the octopuses tentacle like fine-chopped liver, which makes Luffy so pissed that he finally musters the mangrit necessary…
To bust out HIS new move. Elephant Gun… don’t know why he renamed it that, but I suppose it will get an explanation sooner or later. Then stuff happens that I to this day frankly don’t get- a shark wearing a t-shirt comes out of nowhere, slaps the Kraken in the eye and makes it tumble down the downward stream, whereupon Luffy and the others are sucked down with it. Nami manages to maintain control of the ship and gets everyone in gear securing the sails and pulling the mizzenmast and swabbing the deck and flying the scabbersaw and other ship-type stuff while Franky takes the wheel, but try as they might they are unable to maintain control for long… and when they do come to, they find themselves in a whole new world.
But this is no Disneyworld, and they’re sure not on any magic carpet ride. This is the deep sea, which means deep sea monsters. Who’s excite? I’m excite.
Robin gets serenaded by a choir of canary-like birds on the opening cover. Not much else to say, really.
7000 meters below sealevel, the crew search far and wide for Sanji, Zoro and Luffy but without any luck. All they see as far as the Sunnys searchlights can stretch are seamonsters and darkness, and Chopper says the one thing that a small, moe thing should NEVER say in the context of being in a work of fiction originating from Japan-
Franky manages to save the day by propelling the gang forwards, as a giant fish bites down on the jellyfish the tentacle belonged to…. only to end up belly up as it dies from the venom. We then get to see Brook be tragically ronery and Usopp be mature and responsible.
Hint: only one of those things happen. The crew realizes that they haven’t seen Caribou since they got to the deep sea, but HE can see them- as he has turned into goop and is hiding inside a barrell on deck! Surely, now he can take his time and fight them at his leisure, no?
No. Franky deduces Caribou must be a Logia and suddenly it’s time to strip- because would you look at that, it’s an underwater volcano :D Never a dull moment around these guys. They are chased from the volcano by tube worms, crabs, those weird jelly blobs that look like depressed faces and eventually find themselves with critically low air levels in the bubble when they spot a mysterious light. Franky tries nipple-Morse, an accent of Morse that I until this day did not even know existed, and they finally find their way to Fishman Isl-yeah no it’s a gigantic angler fish. Not gonna get a picture man because fuck angler fish they are the most horrifying things in any ocean anywhere. But once they escape from THAT monstrosity…
They run into another one- an umibozou, some kind of mythical Japanese sea giant thing I guess. I think he kinda looks like the one from Blackbeards crew… at any rate, the umibozou punches the angler fish and tells him that he shouldn’t eat ships, they won’t get any treasure that way! But before we can ponder the meaning of his words…
Oh man.
Prepare our Dead Mans Chests- it’s the Flying Dutchman people! We’re neck deep in legend territory right here, as Brook recounts the story of the mad captain who killed his crew and spat at God, who was punished to become a cursed soul who wandered the seas for eternity… and now, he orders the umibozou (named Wadatsumi apparently) to knock the ship down and steal their treasure! But when they try to escape Franky says they’re out of air! However will they escape?
By means of tentacle fisting- a close cousin to tentacle rape, but not quite as tender. Because hold on to your asses, ass-holders- Captain is back in the game and bringing a giant freaking KRAKEN to the field! All three are chilling in Zoros bubble as Luffy and Sanji burst their own, and the crew happily welcome them back aboard the ship… but there is no time to celebrate. For Oda didn’t forget that underwater volcano, he just waited for the right time to let it go off! This has both Nami AND Van Der Decken worried… and on that exciting cliffhanger, we leave our pirate-friends.
Well, what to say? Save for Luffy’s behaviour, which I found weird and off putting, two solid chapters with adventure and awesome sights a plenty. I will subsist for very long on the image of an octopus punching a sea giant in the face, I will.
We open up with Chopper apparently taking a side job as a male model to finance his medicine school expenses. Hey, don’t be judging, we all gotta do what we gotta do man.
Luffy’s plan is to tame the Kraken. Usopp, brave warrior of the sea, chips in with his support and valuable, valued insight.
He is, however, largely alone in this reaction.
As Nami seems to be the only one who thinks this is a Bad Situation she argues with an unusually pissy Luffy on what to do, prompting Sanji (who has managed to overcome his newfound weakness thanks to Namis more modest clothing and a string of photos of pretty girls hanging around his waist) to agree with her, Chopper and Usopp to mil laround uselessly and Caribou to marvel at how he’s currently one of the most SANE people left on the ship But then! Rescue! His brother arrives as they have finally gotten their cow under control, and rush in to enact a daring last-minute res-
-cue…
… Wow. Way to be sensitive, Zoro. The cow escapes the Krakens reach which makes it turn on the Thousand Sunny. Zoro and Luffy prepare to fight but are held back by Usopp, as Franky executes some awesome maneuvers to dodge… however, the more Coup de Vents he uses the less air the ship will have in their bubble. Hearing this Luffy proceeds to be… pretty much useless actually, and Caribou is the one who has to step up and save the day. Gotta say guys, for a long awaited reunion Luffy sure isn’t painting a pretty picture of his supposed ’growth’ here.
Anyhow, I GUESS Caribou manages to divert some of the coating to cover Zoro, Sanji and Luffy in their own little minibubbles. I guess because we never see what happens, just the end result. Usopp freaks out and tells them they shouldn’t be fighting, which makes Caribou point out that Luffy is being a giant retard and that there seems to be no way to dissuade him from fighting… whereupon Usopp pretty much goes ”oh yeah he’s right well GOOD LUCK GUYS”, whereupon Luffy once again acts childish and starts arguing that the rope is in his way and not a vitally important lifeline. But never mind that now- BATTLE SCENE. The Kraken goes on the offensive, but Franky repels it with his new weapon-
Shouldermissiles! Man I feel like quoting Team America now all of a sudden. Another tentacle strikes, but this time it’s Chopper to the rescue! Want to see his updated Guard Point?
Hell yeah you do! But the blow sends the ship careening off towards a mountain! Who can save them now?!
Robin, motherfunksters. You wish your girlfriend had class like this. Luffy then joins the game and shows off HIS new move- he goes Gear Three with his arm and activates ”Armanent Vulcanization” according to Manga Fox, and ”Color of Armaments” Hardening in Mangastream. I guess that he’s either using Haki to strenghten his arm, or he’s found some way to actually turn his rubber into galvanized rubber, as one uses in tires, to harden his arm for extra smackdown strength.
However once again, Luffy doesn’t think things through- sticking his arm out into the water saps his strength, giving the Kraken plenty of opportunity to attack. So it’s up to Sanji to save the day!
Not only is he incredibly fast from all his fleeing exercise, he can now perform Diable Jambe without much trouble at all and lays the smackdown on the tenarmed fiend! This prompts Zoro to pick up the page as he dices the octopuses tentacle like fine-chopped liver, which makes Luffy so pissed that he finally musters the mangrit necessary…
To bust out HIS new move. Elephant Gun… don’t know why he renamed it that, but I suppose it will get an explanation sooner or later. Then stuff happens that I to this day frankly don’t get- a shark wearing a t-shirt comes out of nowhere, slaps the Kraken in the eye and makes it tumble down the downward stream, whereupon Luffy and the others are sucked down with it. Nami manages to maintain control of the ship and gets everyone in gear securing the sails and pulling the mizzenmast and swabbing the deck and flying the scabbersaw and other ship-type stuff while Franky takes the wheel, but try as they might they are unable to maintain control for long… and when they do come to, they find themselves in a whole new world.
But this is no Disneyworld, and they’re sure not on any magic carpet ride. This is the deep sea, which means deep sea monsters. Who’s excite? I’m excite.
Robin gets serenaded by a choir of canary-like birds on the opening cover. Not much else to say, really.
7000 meters below sealevel, the crew search far and wide for Sanji, Zoro and Luffy but without any luck. All they see as far as the Sunnys searchlights can stretch are seamonsters and darkness, and Chopper says the one thing that a small, moe thing should NEVER say in the context of being in a work of fiction originating from Japan-
Franky manages to save the day by propelling the gang forwards, as a giant fish bites down on the jellyfish the tentacle belonged to…. only to end up belly up as it dies from the venom. We then get to see Brook be tragically ronery and Usopp be mature and responsible.
Hint: only one of those things happen. The crew realizes that they haven’t seen Caribou since they got to the deep sea, but HE can see them- as he has turned into goop and is hiding inside a barrell on deck! Surely, now he can take his time and fight them at his leisure, no?
No. Franky deduces Caribou must be a Logia and suddenly it’s time to strip- because would you look at that, it’s an underwater volcano :D Never a dull moment around these guys. They are chased from the volcano by tube worms, crabs, those weird jelly blobs that look like depressed faces and eventually find themselves with critically low air levels in the bubble when they spot a mysterious light. Franky tries nipple-Morse, an accent of Morse that I until this day did not even know existed, and they finally find their way to Fishman Isl-yeah no it’s a gigantic angler fish. Not gonna get a picture man because fuck angler fish they are the most horrifying things in any ocean anywhere. But once they escape from THAT monstrosity…
They run into another one- an umibozou, some kind of mythical Japanese sea giant thing I guess. I think he kinda looks like the one from Blackbeards crew… at any rate, the umibozou punches the angler fish and tells him that he shouldn’t eat ships, they won’t get any treasure that way! But before we can ponder the meaning of his words…
Oh man.
Prepare our Dead Mans Chests- it’s the Flying Dutchman people! We’re neck deep in legend territory right here, as Brook recounts the story of the mad captain who killed his crew and spat at God, who was punished to become a cursed soul who wandered the seas for eternity… and now, he orders the umibozou (named Wadatsumi apparently) to knock the ship down and steal their treasure! But when they try to escape Franky says they’re out of air! However will they escape?
By means of tentacle fisting- a close cousin to tentacle rape, but not quite as tender. Because hold on to your asses, ass-holders- Captain is back in the game and bringing a giant freaking KRAKEN to the field! All three are chilling in Zoros bubble as Luffy and Sanji burst their own, and the crew happily welcome them back aboard the ship… but there is no time to celebrate. For Oda didn’t forget that underwater volcano, he just waited for the right time to let it go off! This has both Nami AND Van Der Decken worried… and on that exciting cliffhanger, we leave our pirate-friends.
Well, what to say? Save for Luffy’s behaviour, which I found weird and off putting, two solid chapters with adventure and awesome sights a plenty. I will subsist for very long on the image of an octopus punching a sea giant in the face, I will.
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:13 pm (UTC)Also hey there Squally Potters naked chest how I have missed that icon.
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:21 pm (UTC)I also misspelt that as norse nipple code at first, which I imagine is something quite different
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:29 pm (UTC)Also yes- one day Frankys nipples will save the day. I don't know when, I just know it WILL happen.
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Date: 2010-12-05 07:11 pm (UTC)>delay 2-year reunion with crewmates for a fishing trip
>mock a bunch of people that just drowned
I'M RORONOA MOTHERFUCKING ZORO AND I DO WHAT I WANT
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Date: 2010-12-05 07:13 pm (UTC)Besides maybe ~kyaaa~ Zoro-san so forceful.
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Date: 2010-12-05 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-05 08:43 pm (UTC)I admit that after the timeskip, I was a little worried that the core personalities of the Strawhats might change in two years. I'm glad to see that they're still mostly the same! I didn't find Luffy's behavior off-putting, but I might reread those chapters with an eye towards that.
In conclusion, I find that the genius of nipple lights trumps everything ever.
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Date: 2010-12-05 10:47 pm (UTC)I think that my main beef here is really how Luffy seems to value the possibility of snatching himself a Kraken more than the safety of his nakama. You know, the ones who are the SOLE REASON he didn't just bash his head open against the rocks of Amazon Island? It kind of feels a little bit too much like Oda having Luffy act like an idiot for actings sake.
But yes- nipple lights and a Kraken punching a sea giant is pretty much awesome enough to make it aaall worth it in the end. God I can't stop looking at that last image. It's just... it's golden shonen pirate glory immortalized. It's the kind of picture that SHOULD have a hundred macros of it already.
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Date: 2010-12-05 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-06 02:48 am (UTC)Possibly Luffy just trusts enough in his nakama's leveled up badassery to feel at ease acting like a reckless idiot again? After all the srs bsns that went on during the last major arc, I personally don't mind him messing around like this all that much.
I don't know whether to find that umibozou creepy or cute, though. What the what the hell.
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Date: 2010-12-06 03:42 am (UTC)8)a
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Date: 2010-12-06 03:44 am (UTC)i found a thing. and i'm sharing this thing with you, because i thought you would like said thing
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Date: 2010-12-06 05:33 am (UTC)