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We open up this chapter with some fiiiine MAN-service. Chaka and Pell are being fitted for the upcoming Reverie, and we get a look at them sans shirts- which apart from plenty of manflesh also gives us a look at Pell’s massive chest-scar, Igaram’s new mustache and Chaka’s adorable jackal-print boxers. Also, I see you there sewing maid. I see what you’re looking at… and I’m not judging.
Hody and Vander Decken’s working relationship hit a bit of a snag last week, as Hody impaled him on his trident. To Decken’s apparent surprise, failing to kill Shirahoshi and then trying to crush her AND the island AND Hody has gotten Hody’s dander up something awful, what is UP with that? Hody’s response is measured and polite as they always are.
So sacrificing every one of his henchmen AND crushing the island is apparently acceptable losses if the Strawhats die. On the ONE hand, that IS probably the best shot he’s ever going to get at killing them. On the other hand this goes beyond roid-rage into pants-on-head stupidity the likes which the world has seldom seen. But Decken isn’t about to take this lying down, and literally steps up to Hody and adds a boomerang-axe for extra injury!
Which turns out to be a spectacularly bad idea.
Decken is however not dead yet- just unconscious. But without his conscious control the ship loses it’s tracking ability and starts to sink, leaving Hody free to tear through Manboshi and Ryuuboshi like they’re naught but a pair of ancillary characters who’s only purpose is to job for the villain! Who could POSSIBLY save her now it’s Luffy.
Who’s apparently learned some interesting applications of his haki-powers.
And learned how to leak real crazy when he wants to. But since we can’t spend too much time on one scene alone, it’s time to see what’s happening down at the plaza where a no doubt earth-shaking, incredible battle is taking place!
Wow. The Kraken hasn’t even thrown a single punch… and honestly, I can’t blame him. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think there’s anything sadder than a crying giant. It’s just so SAD. He’s so big that there is no way for him to cry discreetly or hide it- everyone can see him. Zeo tries a desperate gamble to make the undignified scene end and thus bluffs the giant into thinking Vander Decken left him there to guard the plaza, handing him an energy steroid to up his powerlevels… which makes him deck Surume with a SINGLE punch. But when he tries to do the same to Jinbe…
The whaleshark demonstrates the difference between giant sea beast and a goshdarn SHICHIBUKAI, baby. The punch only serves to break Wadatsumi’s hand and sends him toppling down so hard, the force from the shockwave trips up Nami. CAN YOU SAY WHITE KNIGHT ON THE SCENE?
And so the stage is set for Jinbe and Sanji versus Wadatsumi, while the rampaging octopus swordsfishman Hyodo, now sporting a similarly pale hairdo as Hody, sets his sights on Robin! But since having a swordfighter fight someone who doesn’t use swords would only result in chaos, anarachy and cats and dogs living together-
It’s up to Zoro to step in and defend traditional values and make us all swoon at the sight of his back muscles. Enjoy, for however long it will last.
We start off this chapter with Vivi, Carue and the camel… doing nothing exciting whatsoever. Except Vivi is 18 which warrants notice for some reason, I guess? Whatever, on with the fray!
Nami, not satisfied with being felled by something as insignificant as a hundred-foot or so tall man bodyslamming the plaza, decides to step up her game. She creates what looks like a long chain of miniature clouds from the tip of her staff, and shows the mooks what happens to fish struck by lightning-
-All you can eat fish-be-que. Icaros freaks out over the heat and demands Zeo take care of Nami, whereupon Zeo surmises that if they can kill her they will throw off Sanji’s game and get two flies in one strike! He turns invisible and grab Nami’s feet to hold her still so that Icaros can one-shot her with his moisture sucking spears, presenting Nami with a choice. She can a) summon a tornado to blow herself free from the battle zone, b) shoot a lightning bolt at her feet since she can clearly feel SOMETHING grabbing them, or c) stand around and do nothing like a dumbass.
Oh well- at least option C gives us a slightly funny bit with Brook jumping in to take the hit, even if it’s not half as noble as I make it sound. Icaros is astonished that someone can survive his spears (because Brook is already BONE-DRY), and asks for someone, anyone, that he can actually FIGHT.
Franky gladly obliges. But all is not well, as Brook has stepped into a trap most vicious as Zeo unleashes his most powerful attack!
… Okay, that does it- Zeo and Kaku need to have an excellent adventure where they learn to overcome racial prejudice and childhood indoctrination, all while deadpanning the silliest imaginable lines, all the time. But they are in no way the only villains around, as Daruma chase Chopper around in the tunnels and Dosun is about to strike Usopp from behind! But Chopper, who apparently upgraded his sense of smell to a radar-nose sniffs out the attack and warns Usopp to duck as he shoots out and clocks Dosun right in the face, whereupon Usopp uses the freshly dug tunnels to his advantage, causing a literal…
Fire in the hole. *Cue shades and The Who-clip.*
Thus the stage is set for three new battles- the raging Daruma versus the wily Usopp, underhanded Zeo versus the noble Brook, and Dosun versus the increasingly cockier Chopper! Which is bad news for Usopp, who thinks Chopper’s got his back. And as that battle rages on Shirahoshi swims away from the island as fast as she can as Luffy stretches his abilities to the limit to keep Hody from chasing her down. For as long as Vander Decken is alive and conscious aboard the Noah, it will remain on course! Then the boats makes an abrupt turn.
Aaaand we end on a cliffhanger as it starts a-sinking…
So… anyone else but me hoping we’ll get to see Nami and Robin fight Caribou? The girls got to have SOME fight to themselves, because it would be pretty darn lame to have them be the only ones NOT to get a big boss-fight to strut their stuff.