One Piece 28
Posted: December 13, 2009 Filed under: One Piece 1 Comment »Eiichiro Oda – Viz – 2010 – 56+ volumes
Here’s the grand tournament I remember liking the Skypiea arc for. It’s set up like a survival tournament, with 81 or so contestants, including Eneru, his vassals, his soldiers, the Shandian army, and the Straw Hats. The elimination goes pretty quickly, including parts where Eneru takes out 20 of his own men, so with a few matchups between Shandians and Straw Hats, along with a few general skirmishes to give us an idea of how the battles go in the Sky Islands with the combat dials they use (they do things like absorb an impact and throw it back, throw fire, mimic an axe hit, et cetera). By the end of the book, we’re down to 25 people, including a couple hits to the Straw Hat force. One hit is unaccounted for, unless they count the obligatory Luffy incapacitation, sidelining him until it’s time for he and Eneru to face off.
The scope of Eneru’s power is unveiled here, and I recognized immediately why the battle between he and Luffy was going to be something special. That’s not until much later, though.
What else… there are a couple amusing battles this time around. The Nami and Chopper fights are also taken care of early. Nami’s fights almost always feel like accidental and/or quick victories, but Chopper’s are usually much more hilarious. He gets the privilege of fighting Gedatsu, which is both good and bad since he’s one of the more amusing enemies.
Lots of fighting, and a bit of a minor theme about driving the native population out of their homeland at the beginning of the volume, too. Not too much in the way of story progression, but the battles are pretty awesome.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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