One Piece 16
Posted: November 23, 2007 Filed under: One Piece 1 Comment »I just can’t praise this series enough. It really is just one of the best, most engrossing, and nice series I’ve ever read and probably ever will read. There will just never be another One Piece.
In this volume, we stay on Drum Island and Luffy and Sanji try to climb a mountain to get to the one doctor on the island, who lives in a castle. They run into problems with Lapins, giant snow-rabbits, and Sanji injures himself, so then Luffy has to scale a mountain in his summer clothes while carrying both Sanji and Nami so they can get cared for.
Elsewhere, the King who ate the Munch Munch Fruit shows up with a squadron of Doctors and brings a lot of trouble for the town.
Most of the volume deals with the backstory for Tony Tony Chopper, who is a misfit reindeer raised by a crackpot doctor who was in direct competition with the Witch Doctor he lives with now as well as the King’s doctors. His dream was to make Sakura bloom on the winter island. Much like any of Oda’s backstories, this one made me cry, again, even though I’ve already read it twice. The man can really write great characters.
I like the explanation of Tony Tony Chopper’s name, too. Tony because he is a “tonakai,” or reindeer, and Chopper because of his magnificent horns. The crackpot doctor named him. At one point in the backstory, Chopper breaks off one of his horns trying to get a mushroom to save the doctor’s life. It’s very sad.
Chopper is standoffish and a little rude for various reasons here, which is odd because he later becomes a very nice, mild-mannered character.
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