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On this weeks chapters cover image- pleasant friendly behaviour. This is, as all cover-images during this arc have been as preparation for the chapter ahead, a big fat lie.

We open up with the citizens of Shabondy celebrating the news: the Marines are victorious! The legendary pirate Whitebeard is defeated! But not all celebrate this event: Yes sirs and madams, it’s the remaining eight Supernovas, here to exposit and foreshadow! Drake states that changes are on the horizon for both pirates and Marines, while Capone muses that without Whitebeard the seas will run red with blood. Uruoge who needs to lay off the nitrous oxide believes Blackbeard will become the center of the coming age of chaos while Apoo balks at why Law, a man known for his cruel nature went out of his way to save Luffy and I just have to take a moment to point out: FEMALE. THERE ARE OTHER GIRLS IN THE SUPERNOVAS CREWS BESIDES BONNEY. Seriously it’s like everyone on the Four Blues except Crocodile and Ruffy are afraid of letting people without two X-chromosomes onboard. Bonney sets sail for the new world to hunt ”him”, whoever he is, down while Hawkins cards lets him in on a little secret: Luffy is the main character, and as such he has plot armor that protects him from death!

Meanwhile, onboard the Insane Clown Posses personal cruiser Kids crew believes their laughing days are over. Kid is not nearly as convinced: having seen Blackbeards boasts and the fall of Whitebeard, he believes that a power vacuum will now form between the remaining emperors ”Kaidou”, ”Redhair” and ”Big Mum”, and that the future is unwritten right now.

And he couldn’t have a bigger boner about it even if he tried. Somewhere on the internet there is a fangirl writing Teach/Kid right now because of that face, and if you find proof of this please keep it to yourselves.

The people rejoice around the world for many reasons: some hope for an age of peace, others for adventure upon the high seas in search of the One Pieced and others still in the hope that one day, they too will bravely prove themselves as defenders of justice in the navy. Yet Capones predictions are proven true as we see one village named Foodvalten, previously the protectorate of Whitebeard ransacked and plundered by the up-and-comer Brownbeard, who proclaims that with Whitebeard dead his flag has no power. And so, the world further descends into the new age of Chaos…

But we’ll ignore that for the moment, because now it’s time for BEPO! WHOO’S THE MOST ADORABLE LITTLE BEAR EVER OH YES YOU ARE and he’s getting stepped on by Hancock already. Well. At least it’s not kicks this time. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Boa Hancock managed to trace the submarine with Salome, her swimming snake, stoned all the marines on board her vessel and made the Yellow Submarine emerge, somehow. Law shows up looking mighty shaded, stating that he’s done all he’s can and that the rest is… up to Oda. Hancock barely has time to sigh dramatically before Iva turns up, healthy and hale and displaying one of the WEIRDEST damn perspective in One Piece. I mean, the ship Boa is sailing on is much bigger than Laws ship, but in the next panel it’s somehow much lower?


Weird stuff. Boa tells us the Newkamas stowed away on the ship she commandeered and that they will now take it to Kammabakka Island to live gaily and straightly and poly ever after. Iva flips down on board the sub and tells us nothing we don’t already know, while Boa finally cries dramatically and Iva asks Law if he’s a friend of Luffy. Law says no, and that he had no reason to help. Iva understands: Luffy’s abs are pretty fantastic so charging into the middle of a humongous warzone so you can cop a feel while doing medic-work isn’t entirely unreasonable.

Anyhow, Jimbei appears and says that he can’t rest, because his heart will not give him any peace which I’m not surprised at all about since HE PROBABLY DOESN’T HAVE ONE ANYMORE SINCE AKAINU LAVAPUNCHED IT OUT. How is this man even moving? Boa decides to bully Bepo some more and decides she’s going to call for the Kuja pirates and have Luffy and Law transported back to her home, since if she’s still a shichibukai he can be treated there until he wakes up again. Yyyeaah Boa, honey… that’s a pretty big if. You kind of attacked the nephew of an admiral, a commodore, several Pacifista and now you have commandeered a vessel that is about to disappear of the marines map… I don’t think they’re gonna be very happy about that.

However, Boa might just be in luck. Not because Sengoku is happy, oh no, he’s probably genetically incapable of smiling, but because what is about to make him unhappy THIS time is enough to take his mind off a silly little amazon princess in love. We learn Magellan has been beaten within an inch of his life off-panel, How? Because of the method Blackbeard used to pick his new crewmembers.


However not everyone who participated died: some evidently made it out alive, but not with Blackbeard, and proceeded to pretty much wreck Impel Down utterly. Sengoku makes a mental note to order five truckloads of Tylenol as he orders the placement of wanted posters on every square inch of W.G controlled territory, buuuut… there’s a catch. The World Government believes that since they’ve got such good PR going on what with Whitebeard dead and all, there’s really no reason to torpedo it all and make everyone feel unnecessarily nervous about escaped convicts who each and everyone is probably a walking genocide-factory, so they’re gonna hush the whole matter up. Sengoku takes it with his usual grace and poise.



Charming.

Meanwhile, someone is shown the negative side of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil, as Gecko Moria is cornered in a back alley in Marineford and gunned down by Kuma-bots, led by… DoFlamingo! DoFlamingo cheerfully offers the dying shallot the consolation that while he may be too weak to be a shichibukai, he’s at least going to get a nice eulogy and a pretty headstone as a fallen hero of war!~ Moria asks if Sengoku ordered the hit, but he is not villainous enough to wack someone because they’ve served their purpose according to DoFlamingo… oh no- the order comes from higher up…

And there we end for now. Who is DoFlamingos boss? Will Law and Hancock have catfights over Luffys comatose body? Is Jimbei so badass he can live without a heart? Find out next time on One Piece: The Recap-ition!

Comments

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Luffy’s abs are pretty fantastic so charging into the middle of a humongous warzone so you can cop a feel while doing medic-work isn’t entirely unreasonable.

*dies laughing* Oh Law, we have your number now.

Also, I lost it when I got to that Sengoku panel when reading the chapter for the first time. Goddamn, I think I love him for that exclamation despite what just went down in the war.