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May. 24th, 2010 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moveyourdeadfrosSo, a while back I completely skipped a chapter. Mostly this was because I was bombed from schoolwork on the weekend and just didn’t have the energy. THIS time however, I am prepared! I am ready! I… am writing. But first quick recap:
Mister 1 lights Crocodiles fire while the Hippo mafia looks on, and then Ace and Sabo turns out to be the most bad-ass little hoodlums EVER as they beat up Polchemy who kidnapped Luffy, saved him, and Luffy confessed that the reason he was always following Ace was because he literally HAD no one else to follow- Ace was the only friend he could see himself making. And our hearts broke just a little, and then Ace and Sabo and Luffy became best of buds and had tons of adventures and life was super-cool. Then Dadan read something about, dun-dun-dun, Heavenly Dragons (or Divine Dragons or Tenryuubito or what have you) coming to visit the kingdom, and we all know THAT never ends well…
So, let’s get on with-
We open up with Magellan and Hannyabal hanging out and being bros while fishing. Then a giant fish comes up behind them, and it’s either there to eat them or because Magellan told it they were going to fish there and that it had goddamn better get out and stop eating all the fishies. And the fish obeyed, because you do not fuck with Magellan.
We start off with Captain winning at life.
Apparently, Luffy is only allowed 100 fights per day, fifty with Sabo and fifty with Ace, and he keeps losing because he has no idea how to use his rubber-power. Luffy swears he’ll be ten soon and kick their asses, to which Ace replies that when that happens he’ll be thirteen and still kick Luffys ass. Oh captain. Those funny numbers are hard to keep track off, aren’t they?
We then move back to the Grey Terminal, where we learn that a huge, walled-in city lies to the North of it. Those who live in the Grey Terminal subsist from the trash tossed out by this city, and occasionally people go in there to sell stuff they’ve recycled, however they apparently don’t want to move in there because they would be miserable in civilization… right-o, moving on.
Beyond the wall lies Edge Town, where various scum and villainy eke out a living, and we see a familiar figure wandering into town looking to sell things. Who are they?
LEADFARMERS MOTHA- no wait wrong canon.
Anyhow, deeper into the city one reaches the cleaner Center Town, and deeper still, beyond a huge wall lies the poshest and cleanest of towns… High Town. Where royals and noblesse stays. All of this is part of the Kingdom of Goa, said to be the cleanest, most beautiful kingdom in East Blue and a major model example of segregation. We even get a nice map explaining how the geography of it all works out.
Anyhow, we then cut to a restaurant-owner crying about bill jumpers! And true to their word our heroes (who else) jump out of a window and down on the nearby street instead of paying their bill, rushing out of the city and towards freedom. Luffy, ever the dutiful chap, leaves an I.O.U that says he’ll totally pay them back when he finds treasure. Oh captain… I wonder what the odds are that he remembers that I.O.U today. But all is not fun and Huckleberry Finn-esque hijinks: someone recognizes Sabo and calls out for him, but Sabo ignores the man and tells Luffy and Ace to keep on running…
Luffy and Ace confront Sabo about it, and it turns out that Sabo was in fact NOT an orphan but the son of two wealthy nobles! Yup, he was living the high life… of douchebaggery, that is. His parents cared less about him than how they could use him to climb the social ladder if he married into the royal family, and he promptly decided to get while the going was good. And I have to say that I find it pretty impressive that he managed to go from riches to rags and still be alive- guess the boy really is a badass!
Luffy and Ace say they don’t really give a poop, and Sabo is so overwhelmed by emotions that he starts talking about how it’s his dream to set sail and write a book about the world! And Ace is going to set sail and kick ass EVERYWHERE and be so famous that nobody will ever be able to deny he existed, and he’ll never ever run away from a fight, and he’ll never let anyone challenge him and get away- OH GOD MY HEART WHY ODA WHY STOMP ON IT WHEN YOU’VE ALREADY RIPPED IT OUT- pardon, just had to get that off my chest, and Luffy…
Well. I don’t think I need to tell you what captains dream is.
After a short discussion of ”wait who will be the captain if we all want to be the captain?”, Ace says ”Screw it, let’s booze!” He magics up a bottle that he stole from Dadan and says he heard people who drink together will be brothers, and as such, no matter if they split up later on they’ll always be together as brothers. And cue the Lovely Montage! It is a Montage. And it is Lovely. And everyone is smiling and happy and Luffy invites the mountain bandits down to Windmill Village and Garp beats up children and they move out to live in a treehouse and eat giant caterpillars aaaaand things go to hell.
Because daddy dearest wasn’t about to just let Sabo go when he had found him again, and apparently got in touch with Bluejam who was still smarting about Ace and Sabo stealing from him. Seeing the Bluejam-pirates treatment of children, Sabo-daddy shows what a kind and caring soul he is:
Lovely. In a desperate attempt to save his brothers from Bluejam, Sabo tells his dad that he will do anything he says, live however dad tells him, if he only allows Luffy and Ace to leave. And so the chapter ends, with Sabo preparing himself to return to a life of golden cages…
I must admit- despite my fervent desire to see the story get back on track, Oda is doing a good job with this flashback. We still don’t know how the Divine Dragons are going to play into the story (I doubt Oda brought them up last chapter just to drop them immediately), and whether Sabo will or will not be the obligatory Flashback Casualty is keeping me on the edge of my seat… my prediction: two more weeks, three tops, of flashbacks. Then it’s back to regular story… hopefully.
Mister 1 lights Crocodiles fire while the Hippo mafia looks on, and then Ace and Sabo turns out to be the most bad-ass little hoodlums EVER as they beat up Polchemy who kidnapped Luffy, saved him, and Luffy confessed that the reason he was always following Ace was because he literally HAD no one else to follow- Ace was the only friend he could see himself making. And our hearts broke just a little, and then Ace and Sabo and Luffy became best of buds and had tons of adventures and life was super-cool. Then Dadan read something about, dun-dun-dun, Heavenly Dragons (or Divine Dragons or Tenryuubito or what have you) coming to visit the kingdom, and we all know THAT never ends well…
So, let’s get on with-
We open up with Magellan and Hannyabal hanging out and being bros while fishing. Then a giant fish comes up behind them, and it’s either there to eat them or because Magellan told it they were going to fish there and that it had goddamn better get out and stop eating all the fishies. And the fish obeyed, because you do not fuck with Magellan.
We start off with Captain winning at life.
Apparently, Luffy is only allowed 100 fights per day, fifty with Sabo and fifty with Ace, and he keeps losing because he has no idea how to use his rubber-power. Luffy swears he’ll be ten soon and kick their asses, to which Ace replies that when that happens he’ll be thirteen and still kick Luffys ass. Oh captain. Those funny numbers are hard to keep track off, aren’t they?
We then move back to the Grey Terminal, where we learn that a huge, walled-in city lies to the North of it. Those who live in the Grey Terminal subsist from the trash tossed out by this city, and occasionally people go in there to sell stuff they’ve recycled, however they apparently don’t want to move in there because they would be miserable in civilization… right-o, moving on.
Beyond the wall lies Edge Town, where various scum and villainy eke out a living, and we see a familiar figure wandering into town looking to sell things. Who are they?
LEADFARMERS MOTHA- no wait wrong canon.
Anyhow, deeper into the city one reaches the cleaner Center Town, and deeper still, beyond a huge wall lies the poshest and cleanest of towns… High Town. Where royals and noblesse stays. All of this is part of the Kingdom of Goa, said to be the cleanest, most beautiful kingdom in East Blue and a major model example of segregation. We even get a nice map explaining how the geography of it all works out.
Anyhow, we then cut to a restaurant-owner crying about bill jumpers! And true to their word our heroes (who else) jump out of a window and down on the nearby street instead of paying their bill, rushing out of the city and towards freedom. Luffy, ever the dutiful chap, leaves an I.O.U that says he’ll totally pay them back when he finds treasure. Oh captain… I wonder what the odds are that he remembers that I.O.U today. But all is not fun and Huckleberry Finn-esque hijinks: someone recognizes Sabo and calls out for him, but Sabo ignores the man and tells Luffy and Ace to keep on running…
Luffy and Ace confront Sabo about it, and it turns out that Sabo was in fact NOT an orphan but the son of two wealthy nobles! Yup, he was living the high life… of douchebaggery, that is. His parents cared less about him than how they could use him to climb the social ladder if he married into the royal family, and he promptly decided to get while the going was good. And I have to say that I find it pretty impressive that he managed to go from riches to rags and still be alive- guess the boy really is a badass!
Luffy and Ace say they don’t really give a poop, and Sabo is so overwhelmed by emotions that he starts talking about how it’s his dream to set sail and write a book about the world! And Ace is going to set sail and kick ass EVERYWHERE and be so famous that nobody will ever be able to deny he existed, and he’ll never ever run away from a fight, and he’ll never let anyone challenge him and get away- OH GOD MY HEART WHY ODA WHY STOMP ON IT WHEN YOU’VE ALREADY RIPPED IT OUT- pardon, just had to get that off my chest, and Luffy…
Well. I don’t think I need to tell you what captains dream is.
After a short discussion of ”wait who will be the captain if we all want to be the captain?”, Ace says ”Screw it, let’s booze!” He magics up a bottle that he stole from Dadan and says he heard people who drink together will be brothers, and as such, no matter if they split up later on they’ll always be together as brothers. And cue the Lovely Montage! It is a Montage. And it is Lovely. And everyone is smiling and happy and Luffy invites the mountain bandits down to Windmill Village and Garp beats up children and they move out to live in a treehouse and eat giant caterpillars aaaaand things go to hell.
Because daddy dearest wasn’t about to just let Sabo go when he had found him again, and apparently got in touch with Bluejam who was still smarting about Ace and Sabo stealing from him. Seeing the Bluejam-pirates treatment of children, Sabo-daddy shows what a kind and caring soul he is:
Lovely. In a desperate attempt to save his brothers from Bluejam, Sabo tells his dad that he will do anything he says, live however dad tells him, if he only allows Luffy and Ace to leave. And so the chapter ends, with Sabo preparing himself to return to a life of golden cages…
I must admit- despite my fervent desire to see the story get back on track, Oda is doing a good job with this flashback. We still don’t know how the Divine Dragons are going to play into the story (I doubt Oda brought them up last chapter just to drop them immediately), and whether Sabo will or will not be the obligatory Flashback Casualty is keeping me on the edge of my seat… my prediction: two more weeks, three tops, of flashbacks. Then it’s back to regular story… hopefully.
