One Piece 33
Posted: January 26, 2010 Filed under: One Piece 3 Comments »Eiichiro Oda – Viz – 2010 – 56+ volumes
This volume asks the important questions. Questions like “Do champions wear afros, or do afros wear champions?”
We get almost the entire Davy Back fight in this volume, with only the conclusion to Luffy and Foxy’s fight as holdover to the next volume. It’s filler, but it’s very entertaining filler. The Davy Back Fight itself, a kind of pirate game you win new crewmates with, is well-constructed and has the proper pirate spirit and history behind it. Cheating is not allowed, but it happens anyway on the sly, interference is allowed during certain matches, beating each other up when you aren’t participating is not against the rules, stuff like that. Of course devil fruit powers enter into the picture, but I was pretty bummed that Foxy knew Luffy’s devil fruit power before the fight. It’s entirely possible that Luffy used it last volume and I’ve completely forgotten, but I assume that it’s mostly because Luffy’s reputation is more known at this time. They are, of course, completely oblivious to Foxy’s power until it’s too late.
There are lots of good scenes, and lots of good jokes. One of my favorites involves Zoro making the most sincere face he’s ever had when trying to convince Sanji to wear a ball hat. But… you know, it’s always better to read the book rather than have me explain. It’s totally worth it for all the afro jokes alone. I mean, afro Luffy. Come on.
Basically, Davy Back Fight is good stuff, but there’s not much to discuss since it’s just a game played for one volume. More serious stuff will be coming up, and since I haven’t read the Water 7 arc and know nothing of Buster Calls and whatnot, I’m excited to get started next volume.
This whole Davy Back Fight and the conclusion to Skypiea and rereading the beginning and the awesome stuff that’s going on in the current chapters caused me to re-read quite a bit of it over the weekend. One Piece really is one of the greats, and I’m still totally pumped for all these volumes coming out. I will never complain about anything again now that Alabasta is over. I think.
This was a review copy provided by Viz.
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-but I assume that it’s mostly because Luffy’s reputation is more known at this time. -
Well if you think about it, they are only two islands away from a pirate-town where Luffy beat the strongest person who lives there in front of tons of witnesses. I wouldn’t be surprised if Foxy’s acquired some crew who were in town at the time and saw the wanted poster.
True, that makes a lot of sense. I guess I probably shouldn’t worry about details like that when I gripe so much about other stories spelling too much out to the reader.