Tag: One Piece

Captain Koby, you dumb mother—

It’s you fault Vice Admiral Garp’s gonna die! Wait? Will he die? Sure, Garp’s death will help solidify the Blackbeard Pirates as a genuine world threat but that can happen just from Garp losing. And it won’t even be Blackbeard himself doing the deed, but Kuzan killing Garp would be impactful too. In any case, Oda’s got to take Garp off the fighting board and this battle will do it.

Decades after their visual introductions, we have the Five Elders’ names.

Was it worth the wait? Heck no! But I guess Oda wanted to keep their celestial names a secret—Wait! The Five Elders are Celestial Dragons and planets are a type of celestial body. …That took longer to connect than I care to admit.

Another connection that may seem obvious that I wasn’t sure about until now are the Five Elders being Celestial Dragons. Can you blame me? The only other CDs we’d seen were immoral bubble helmet elitists who thought the entire world revolved around them. Sure, the Five Elders are dicks but not on that superficial level (that we’ve seen so far). And after meeting St. Figarland Garling this chapter, I’ve come to the conclusion that their are basically two types of Celestial Dragons: Those who put in the effort and those who don’t.

I doubt the original 20 kings who made up the OG Celestial Dragons were weak nor stupid. But over the centuries my guess is most of them just wanna have fun. Those types of CDs don’t care about anything but their own self-amusement, usually at others’ expense (Rosward’s Family, for example). Then we have the CDs who put in the work. The ones with ambition. The ones who want to do more with their life than torture slaves and eat bon-bons on the couch all day. They are the Garlings, Imu, and Elder Stars of the group. So, yeah, this chapter really hit home for me that the Celestial Dragons control the world and aren’t simply mooching off it.

Goodnight, sweet prince—erm—king.

Gum-Gum Gonna miss ya, Cobra Commander. Or should I say Cobra D. Commander? The Nefeltari Royal Family carry the D. name. Princess D. Vivi being so important to the series is making more and more sense. I’m guessing she’s the one who will unite the Pro-Luffy kingdoms in revolt against the World Government. Oda’s definitely gonna do some sort of badass parallel between Vivi and her descendant, Queen Lily.

Queen Lily, what a homie! She’s responsible for the spread of Ponegiffs around the world. Her actions sparked of revolution 800 years in the making. Yeah, she outplayed King Imu. Not by winning, Imu won that war. But by sowing the seeds of the World Government’s downfall for future generations to, um, harvest? Cultivate? Grow? I’m not a farmer, Y’all. You get what I’m saying, I think.

Watch out for falling lore!

King Nefeltari Cobra fed us hungry One Piece nerds well this chapter. No Void Century information, of course (probably get that on Laugh Tale), but we get a little more info about the formation of the World Government 800 years ago. My question is: Why is Cobra Commander bringing this up now? Sure, there’s definitely something fishy going on given what he knows about the beginnings of the WG, but what’s motivating him to confront the Elder Stars? Could his declining health put him in a do or die mental state in regards to learning the truth before dying? Could Monkey D. Luffy’s actions be another? Hmm…

Here’s another question: Who are the Elder Stars? If the 19 Celestial Dragon families are supposed to be equal, aren’t having five CDs ruling the World Government a direct violation of that rule? That is IF they’re Celestial Dragons at all. The Elder Stars’ backstory must be linked to very formation of the World Government. I wonder if we’ll at least get more on their origin during the flashback. Especially, with Saint Saturn on his way to Egghead.

Demolish the Celestial Monarchy! We want a democracy!

Things are heating up between the World Government and Revolutionary Army. The R.A. destroying the Celestial Dragons’ food supply while declaring war is a smart move. Just giving those elitist, tax exempt bastards a taste of wanting for bare necessities is something short of impossible without some of the strongest Revolutionaries working together. And good on them for freeing as many slaves as they can too! Where’s their Nobel Prize, huh?

We get confirmation Jabra and the rest of Lucci’s CP9 crew we haven’t seen lately are also members of CP0. Not sure why they’re there. They’re just standing around giving commentary. That’s what happens sometimes. Someone gets promoted and they do as little work as possible. Cipher Pol bastards!

I guess Buggy’s Cross Guild really is becoming a Warlord crew.

Cross Guild needs heavy hitters if it wants to compete against Shanks, Blackbeard, and Luffy’s crews’ in reaching Laugh Tale first. Not to say Buggy, Sir Crocodile and Mihawk aren’t already a powerful “team” but Oda’s seems to be setting up all the major pirates to be in the race for One Piece, either still in the running or failing to achieve it. Gecko Moria’s given. He’s got nowhere else to go. I was hesitant about Boa Hancock joining but if Crocodile wants to establish a nation where they’re safe from the World Government then I can see the Snake Princess joining for that reason. Edward Weevil’s a wildcard. Especially since he’s been captured by the Navy, but who knows? If he escapes his travels could lead him to Cross Guild.

Still not convinced Blackbeard’s tenth captain, Kuzan, is completely on ole Teach’s side.

I just feel like it’d take more than Blackbeard’s conversation to bring a former admiral over to the dark side. Either Kuzan’s leaving out a very important detail that caused him to waver during or after his match with Akainu or he’s simply doing things his own way AKA being a Sword agent. Seriously. Wouldn’t there be more panic from the Navy if Kuzan really joined the Blackbeard Pirates? Some scene with Fleet Admiral Akainu cursing him or the Elder Stars wanting him dead? Nope, Oda’s never shown the big dogs talking about it. Yeah, there’s more going on here we don’t know. And something tells me Kuzan isn’t making it out of this series alive.

Remember when I basically said last chapter only Kuzan and Blackbeard had enough power and narrative prowess to kill Garp? I’m not saying is a done deal but the death flag is a flappin’ in the wind. Would Kuzan kill Garp? Maybe not, but he could unintendedly distract Garp long enough for the other Blackbeard captains to come in a do the deed. Captain Kid, defeated. Captain Law, defeated. If not outright killed, then defeated could be on Vice Admiral Garp’s menu. Not to mention, the Blackbeard Pirates inevitable release of a Garp diss track with their new album releasing soon. How they got Timberland to produce it I’ll never know.

Will Vice Admiral Garp die?

Are we witnessing the galaxy expanding beginning of the end of our favorite fisting Navy officer? Well, I doubt anyone other than Kuzan or Blackbeard himself is powerful enough to take him down. So, unless Kuzan’s on Fullalead (Blackbeard’s still fighting Law, I assume.), Monkey D. Garp’s not dying today.

Also, Garp’s the Leader of Sword, right? It can’t be anyone else I suppose. Sure, let’s go with that.

Wowser! That was harsh, but deserved.

This chapter was so insane I need to post two chapter soundtracks. One for Captain Kid fans, and one for Emperor Shanks fans.

You tried, Eustass Kid. Here, have a cookie. Oh? You’re not well enough to eat solid food? Bummer. But, just think of the character development you’re gonna get from this lesson. Ever since you showed up, you’ve been a pompous ass thinking you could beat anyone who came across your path. You helped defeat Big Mom and thought you could take an Emperor solo, huh? Well, it’s okay. What’s important now is where you go from here.

And I’m not talking about Elbaph (Even though that’s where you’ll have to go given your ship is destroyed). What I mean is are you gonna serve Emperor Shanks from now on? You lost your Road Poneglyphs. What else can you do expect ask Luffy for a copy of his Poneglphs when he enviably arrives at Elbaph too? Nah! That won’t happen, I think. But whatever you decided to do from here on out, one thing is clear: You’re no longer in the running to become Pirate King. It’s now down to Luffy, Blackbeard, Shanks, and Law. And I’m being reeeal generous adding Law to the list.

You no-good bikini bottom bastard!

A greedy, apathetic doctor who doesn’t care about anyone but themself? Impossible! Well, not today because we now know which Dr. Vegapunk is the traitor: York The Greedy. She wants to become a Celestial Dragon. Hmm… I guess that makes sense with her being “greedy” and all. Honesty, it doesn’t really matter who the traitor was, as long as it moves the story forward. Props to Oda for not dragging the mystery out too long. Just long enough for us to learn the truth along with OG Dr. Vegapunk.

I don’t think the mystery itself matters much anyway. It was simply a tool to breakup our heroic cast of characters and give reason to why the World Government’s now Vegapunk’s enemy. The real fun comes from what York has in store for everyone. What? You think her whole plan is just turning the Seraphim on her fellow Vegapunks? Nah! Her goal is to keep all the other Vegapunks on Egghead Island until the Navy shows up. Everything from the Seraphim, to shutting down the dome barrier, to kidnapping Vegapunk Stella is to ensure that happens. Did she secretly complete more Seraphim in case she needed them? Can she override the Mk. III Pacifistas? There’s so much bullsh*t York can throw at Team Luffy I’m excited to know what’s next.