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moveyourdeadfrosSo, I thought this would just be a single-chapter recap this week as I mistakenly believed One Piece would be on hiatus for another week… but here we are, and here I am. So no time to waste- let’s get this started!
We start off with a double page-spread I can only describe as ”Eichiro Oda zoned out to Owl City and dreamed this page-spread”. I can’t say I disagree with that kind of beauty and neither can Sanji! Who is having a most frabjous day, gyring through the waves all calloo callay and basically making an embarrassment of himself.
As can be seen here. Also seen here- foreshadowing. Luffy tells Keimi he wants to meet Jinbei as Oda shows us some awesome underwater architecture, but Keimi informs him that when Jinbei stopped being a shichibukai, he and the Fishman pirates he apparently led had to leave the island to not cause any major conflicts with the powers that be. I have to admit that I never thought Jinbei was a leader of anything but himself, but it kinda makes sense in hindsight that he’d lead the Fishmen pirates. But for those hungry for information on how the War on the Summit changed the socio-political situation on the island will just have to do without as the quintuplet mermaids come soaring along to notify everyone that a royal ship is arriving, and the mermaids decide to hide the Strawhats as they may be in trouble for their illegal entry with Sanji finding the best hiding place of them all... or DOES HE?
That was foreshadowing too by the way. The passengers of the awesome result of an eel and gondola mating turn out to be none other than the princes of the kingdom! Gee, considering how the mermaids look like, mermen must be these gorgeous, long-haired Fabios of the sea, real exemplary examples of male beauty-
Aaaand they’re virtually indistinguishable from Fishmen. On the one hand I want to go ”double standards!”, on the other hand I remember Kokoro (even if nobody else wants to) and on the third… they look more like fishpeople than merpeople, it just doesn’t match up. Hammond shows up again and witness the princes gondola with his other cronies, informing us that they can surely do nothing now as the princes are the three strongest fighters in the army! With such dangerous stakes at play, surely the Strawhats will exercise the utmost of care?
Ladies and gentlemen, I know what you’re thinking is about to happen. I’m here to tell you that it’s not just a cheap gag.
It’s worse. Ten or so gallons worse. I hereby dub this ”Sanji’s worst moment”, for it is the worst thing Sanji has ever done. Because of Sanjis massive boner, which is what the nosebleeds actually are, Sanji loses so much blood that HIS LIFE IS IN DANGER. The characters react to this as if he’s been shot in the head. I react to this with badly suppressed incredulity and dislike. The princes realize that the Strawhat pirates are in their midst and for some reason that will make no sense when you’re done reading this chapter send out their ammoknights. I choose to believe they just wanted to say ”ammoknights” because they think it’s a funny word. Ammoknights. Just try saying it to yourself a while, you’ll get it.
Shit continues to go down as Hammond wants to attack but can’t due to the army, and Chopper proceeds to plead with the fishmen to accept arrest if they simply donate blood of a very rare and probably made up blood type.
Usopp, you are a shining beacon of reason in this mess and I respect you for it. The gangs pleading falls on deaf ears as Hammond completely ignores his own statements and makes his presence known. Apparently there is a law saying fish and merpeople are forbidden from sharing blood with a human, made by racist human lawmakers themselves! Even though the species are capable of it they would face payback from racist fishpeople for helping a hated enemy, and that if that law hadn’t existed Fisher Tiger, the legendary hero from a few chapters back, would still be alive to this day as the humans he attacked refuse to donate their blood to him. Way to be with the logic, Hammond. He continues to win at life by trying to catch the Strawhats with a netgun, and Luffy decides that’s enough stilted exposition for one chapter.
And starts beating himself some asses, much to the astonishment of the assembled merfolk. He then stares down their searaccoon and appears to be unstoppable for all intents and purposes, though it’s worth noting that two of the fishmen crash to the ground as a third lands on his feet… Keimi hijacks the gondola-eel off panel and they drive it to the port where humans will be around to help.
Sanji continue his worst moment as Usopp continue to point out how amazingly stupid this entire thing is, as well as how deep the prejudices run in both societies. And even if they do make it to port they’re uncertain if they’ll find a way to help Sanji, as for some strange reason less and less visitors have been arriving lately… the last we see in this chapter are the princes admonishing the mermaids for hiding the Strawhats. Not because he wanted to arrest them, to the astonishment of the mermaids and one particular dude in a barrel, but because they had a message to deliver from Jinbei!
… I was willing to declare this the dumbest chapter I’d ever read in a bad way, but re-reading it took some off the edge off. Hammonds out of nowhere talk of how blood donations were illegal are a LITTLE bit easier to swallow now as it felt massively forced the first time, but re-reading it makes me realize that Hammond is a tool of his own rage and prejudice and that Sanjis worst moment makes me far more angry. Let’s move on and no longer think of this chapter, it is a silly thing.
We start things off with a drawing of Vivi that Oda TOTALLY didn’t do as a… ’personal request’ of one of the editors, who then thought it good enough to clean up, add animals to and then publish. Totally not you guys. Totally.
Sanji is slowly recovering from last issue which has left the other Strawhats emotionally drained and physically pooped from having roamed the city looking for a donor until they at last found one. Sanji looks properly dazed and out of it uuuuntil he found out who he got blood from.
Splash, Splatter. Darlings. I’m saying this to you straight and honest- you can do better. Usopp tries to make Sanji stop being a douchewaffle as Chopper examines Luffys arm and finds out he’s been poisoned, but that the deadly poison was defeated by Luffy’s own antibodies! Luffy flashes back to Impel Down and realizes that due to Magellans poison shower he must have developed antibodies to darn near everything by now. Luffy also realise that the one who poisoned him was the one who was able to block his attack…
This guy, who turns out to be more impressive than I gave him credit for. The girls who screamed? The missing mermaids last sighted near the now empty barrel… intriguing. Let us move on to woah.
Luffy and Usopp are unappreciative, as could be expected, and instead far more interested in a big pearl who we are told is used by madame Shirley for fortunetelling.
Fortunetelling.
I’m just going to believe that it is an extremely advanced form of mind reading Haki that absorbs multiple peoples thoughts and thus automatically sort out the most probable course of action when all those things are taken together and be done with it. Luffy asks if mermaids poop.
Shirley is less than amused and makes captain apologize. This amuses me. Keimi is given the day off and told to give her friends a tour instead which makes her remember she was supposed to go deliver clams to Pappug. Madame Shirley informs her that Pappug is already at the cafe with an old friend, and as they head there Keimi exposits that Shirley predicted not just the death of Whitebeard, but also the coming of the age of pirates. As such she’s come to fear her own ability and I only now notice now that Keimi is being propelled by some kind of bubble chair, which is a cool use of the bubble technology if there ever was one. As they arrive to the cafe, Luffy inquires if they have any meat. The answer is less than satisfactory.
Oh captain. You tell those nancy vegetarians what’s WHAT. And here we see who Pappug’s old friend is-
Why it’s Brook getting his mad game on, despite being dead! At this point I imagine Sanji suddenly starts weeping like a child, and he has no idea why. Pappug invites the gang to his luxurious mansion where there is plenty of sea beast meat to eat, as fishmen can apparently eat flesh which mermaids can’t… so wait, could Pappug be a seastar fish man, then? Brook spies a poster of Van Der Decken which makes Pappug and Keimi further exposit as they ride to Pappugs classy house that the real Van Der Decken sailed to Fishman Island and died there, and it is his descendant who now terrorize the seas around the island. Van Der Decken is apparently stalking the princess now and is the reason the princes are amassing an army- to kick ass and save their little sister, as soon as they find the creeper.
We are then given a brief lesson in how heredity works when fishpeople and merpeople have babies (the children can be either fishpeople or merpeople so there’s all kinds of crazy variety) and we then see the mark of Fishman Islands new protector- the Emperor Charlotte Linlin, aka Big Mam’s candy factory! She was the one who took up protecting Fishman Island after Whitebeard’s death in exchange for the fee of as many sweets as she could devour, and the fact that Luffy doesn’t even give a passing thought to Whitebeard reminds me that they essentially saw a passenger of their own crew, Brook, who is a devil fruit user reappear in their midst without even asking if he’s alright, if he knows where the others were or how he got there or, you know, any signal of caring for their lost comrade whatsoever.
Speaking of rushed and hackneyed sequences, we then see madame Shirley foretell that a human wearing a strawhat will destroy the island which feels like a blatant attempt at misdirection if I ever saw one, considering we also saw Van Der Decken wear something resembling a strawhat.
MAN Oda is rushing right now- busy busy and no time to stop to reflect or develop things, gotta go faster faster fasterfasterfaster! Geez Oda, we’re ON FISHMAN ISLAND. You’ve kept this place from us for years and now that we’re finally here it’s like you can’t wait to get OUT of it. Let us digest the scenery and see the wonders before you start throwing all this at us. Makes a guy wonder if he used up all his patience with the Impel Down arc and now we’re paying the price. Ach. At any rate, here’s to hoping we get to see more Strawhats next time.
Coincidentally- I’m twenty four years old today. And while I may not have many accomplishments to my name, I have many wonderful memories of this place, the people in it, and the players for whom I do this little shindig for. As time keeps on turning, I hope I’ll be able to share those turns with you for the foreseeable future as I plug away at what I do. Let’s make 2011 great fun, guys.
We start off with a double page-spread I can only describe as ”Eichiro Oda zoned out to Owl City and dreamed this page-spread”. I can’t say I disagree with that kind of beauty and neither can Sanji! Who is having a most frabjous day, gyring through the waves all calloo callay and basically making an embarrassment of himself.
As can be seen here. Also seen here- foreshadowing. Luffy tells Keimi he wants to meet Jinbei as Oda shows us some awesome underwater architecture, but Keimi informs him that when Jinbei stopped being a shichibukai, he and the Fishman pirates he apparently led had to leave the island to not cause any major conflicts with the powers that be. I have to admit that I never thought Jinbei was a leader of anything but himself, but it kinda makes sense in hindsight that he’d lead the Fishmen pirates. But for those hungry for information on how the War on the Summit changed the socio-political situation on the island will just have to do without as the quintuplet mermaids come soaring along to notify everyone that a royal ship is arriving, and the mermaids decide to hide the Strawhats as they may be in trouble for their illegal entry with Sanji finding the best hiding place of them all... or DOES HE?
That was foreshadowing too by the way. The passengers of the awesome result of an eel and gondola mating turn out to be none other than the princes of the kingdom! Gee, considering how the mermaids look like, mermen must be these gorgeous, long-haired Fabios of the sea, real exemplary examples of male beauty-
Aaaand they’re virtually indistinguishable from Fishmen. On the one hand I want to go ”double standards!”, on the other hand I remember Kokoro (even if nobody else wants to) and on the third… they look more like fishpeople than merpeople, it just doesn’t match up. Hammond shows up again and witness the princes gondola with his other cronies, informing us that they can surely do nothing now as the princes are the three strongest fighters in the army! With such dangerous stakes at play, surely the Strawhats will exercise the utmost of care?
Ladies and gentlemen, I know what you’re thinking is about to happen. I’m here to tell you that it’s not just a cheap gag.
It’s worse. Ten or so gallons worse. I hereby dub this ”Sanji’s worst moment”, for it is the worst thing Sanji has ever done. Because of Sanjis massive boner, which is what the nosebleeds actually are, Sanji loses so much blood that HIS LIFE IS IN DANGER. The characters react to this as if he’s been shot in the head. I react to this with badly suppressed incredulity and dislike. The princes realize that the Strawhat pirates are in their midst and for some reason that will make no sense when you’re done reading this chapter send out their ammoknights. I choose to believe they just wanted to say ”ammoknights” because they think it’s a funny word. Ammoknights. Just try saying it to yourself a while, you’ll get it.
Shit continues to go down as Hammond wants to attack but can’t due to the army, and Chopper proceeds to plead with the fishmen to accept arrest if they simply donate blood of a very rare and probably made up blood type.
Usopp, you are a shining beacon of reason in this mess and I respect you for it. The gangs pleading falls on deaf ears as Hammond completely ignores his own statements and makes his presence known. Apparently there is a law saying fish and merpeople are forbidden from sharing blood with a human, made by racist human lawmakers themselves! Even though the species are capable of it they would face payback from racist fishpeople for helping a hated enemy, and that if that law hadn’t existed Fisher Tiger, the legendary hero from a few chapters back, would still be alive to this day as the humans he attacked refuse to donate their blood to him. Way to be with the logic, Hammond. He continues to win at life by trying to catch the Strawhats with a netgun, and Luffy decides that’s enough stilted exposition for one chapter.
And starts beating himself some asses, much to the astonishment of the assembled merfolk. He then stares down their searaccoon and appears to be unstoppable for all intents and purposes, though it’s worth noting that two of the fishmen crash to the ground as a third lands on his feet… Keimi hijacks the gondola-eel off panel and they drive it to the port where humans will be around to help.
Sanji continue his worst moment as Usopp continue to point out how amazingly stupid this entire thing is, as well as how deep the prejudices run in both societies. And even if they do make it to port they’re uncertain if they’ll find a way to help Sanji, as for some strange reason less and less visitors have been arriving lately… the last we see in this chapter are the princes admonishing the mermaids for hiding the Strawhats. Not because he wanted to arrest them, to the astonishment of the mermaids and one particular dude in a barrel, but because they had a message to deliver from Jinbei!
… I was willing to declare this the dumbest chapter I’d ever read in a bad way, but re-reading it took some off the edge off. Hammonds out of nowhere talk of how blood donations were illegal are a LITTLE bit easier to swallow now as it felt massively forced the first time, but re-reading it makes me realize that Hammond is a tool of his own rage and prejudice and that Sanjis worst moment makes me far more angry. Let’s move on and no longer think of this chapter, it is a silly thing.
We start things off with a drawing of Vivi that Oda TOTALLY didn’t do as a… ’personal request’ of one of the editors, who then thought it good enough to clean up, add animals to and then publish. Totally not you guys. Totally.
Sanji is slowly recovering from last issue which has left the other Strawhats emotionally drained and physically pooped from having roamed the city looking for a donor until they at last found one. Sanji looks properly dazed and out of it uuuuntil he found out who he got blood from.
Splash, Splatter. Darlings. I’m saying this to you straight and honest- you can do better. Usopp tries to make Sanji stop being a douchewaffle as Chopper examines Luffys arm and finds out he’s been poisoned, but that the deadly poison was defeated by Luffy’s own antibodies! Luffy flashes back to Impel Down and realizes that due to Magellans poison shower he must have developed antibodies to darn near everything by now. Luffy also realise that the one who poisoned him was the one who was able to block his attack…
This guy, who turns out to be more impressive than I gave him credit for. The girls who screamed? The missing mermaids last sighted near the now empty barrel… intriguing. Let us move on to woah.
Luffy and Usopp are unappreciative, as could be expected, and instead far more interested in a big pearl who we are told is used by madame Shirley for fortunetelling.
Fortunetelling.
I’m just going to believe that it is an extremely advanced form of mind reading Haki that absorbs multiple peoples thoughts and thus automatically sort out the most probable course of action when all those things are taken together and be done with it. Luffy asks if mermaids poop.
Shirley is less than amused and makes captain apologize. This amuses me. Keimi is given the day off and told to give her friends a tour instead which makes her remember she was supposed to go deliver clams to Pappug. Madame Shirley informs her that Pappug is already at the cafe with an old friend, and as they head there Keimi exposits that Shirley predicted not just the death of Whitebeard, but also the coming of the age of pirates. As such she’s come to fear her own ability and I only now notice now that Keimi is being propelled by some kind of bubble chair, which is a cool use of the bubble technology if there ever was one. As they arrive to the cafe, Luffy inquires if they have any meat. The answer is less than satisfactory.
Oh captain. You tell those nancy vegetarians what’s WHAT. And here we see who Pappug’s old friend is-
Why it’s Brook getting his mad game on, despite being dead! At this point I imagine Sanji suddenly starts weeping like a child, and he has no idea why. Pappug invites the gang to his luxurious mansion where there is plenty of sea beast meat to eat, as fishmen can apparently eat flesh which mermaids can’t… so wait, could Pappug be a seastar fish man, then? Brook spies a poster of Van Der Decken which makes Pappug and Keimi further exposit as they ride to Pappugs classy house that the real Van Der Decken sailed to Fishman Island and died there, and it is his descendant who now terrorize the seas around the island. Van Der Decken is apparently stalking the princess now and is the reason the princes are amassing an army- to kick ass and save their little sister, as soon as they find the creeper.
We are then given a brief lesson in how heredity works when fishpeople and merpeople have babies (the children can be either fishpeople or merpeople so there’s all kinds of crazy variety) and we then see the mark of Fishman Islands new protector- the Emperor Charlotte Linlin, aka Big Mam’s candy factory! She was the one who took up protecting Fishman Island after Whitebeard’s death in exchange for the fee of as many sweets as she could devour, and the fact that Luffy doesn’t even give a passing thought to Whitebeard reminds me that they essentially saw a passenger of their own crew, Brook, who is a devil fruit user reappear in their midst without even asking if he’s alright, if he knows where the others were or how he got there or, you know, any signal of caring for their lost comrade whatsoever.
Speaking of rushed and hackneyed sequences, we then see madame Shirley foretell that a human wearing a strawhat will destroy the island which feels like a blatant attempt at misdirection if I ever saw one, considering we also saw Van Der Decken wear something resembling a strawhat.
MAN Oda is rushing right now- busy busy and no time to stop to reflect or develop things, gotta go faster faster fasterfasterfaster! Geez Oda, we’re ON FISHMAN ISLAND. You’ve kept this place from us for years and now that we’re finally here it’s like you can’t wait to get OUT of it. Let us digest the scenery and see the wonders before you start throwing all this at us. Makes a guy wonder if he used up all his patience with the Impel Down arc and now we’re paying the price. Ach. At any rate, here’s to hoping we get to see more Strawhats next time.
Coincidentally- I’m twenty four years old today. And while I may not have many accomplishments to my name, I have many wonderful memories of this place, the people in it, and the players for whom I do this little shindig for. As time keeps on turning, I hope I’ll be able to share those turns with you for the foreseeable future as I plug away at what I do. Let’s make 2011 great fun, guys.
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