One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

[Random Internet Person]

BEHOLD, THE LOKIJACK!

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I'm loving everything that's going on in this chapter.

I’m just shocked we’re getting Gear 5 Luffy vs Imu ahead of schedule.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I’m just shocked we’re getting Gear 5 Luffy vs Imu ahead of schedule.

It kind of makes sense for it to happen before the final battle. Now Imu gets to be like "NO IT IS YOU WHO IS A JOYBOY CHILD STALKER!" to Luffy

 

[whatever I feel like]

One thing that modern One Piece unfortunately lacks is the little character moments between the Straw Hats. Zoro and Sanji’s useless bickering being put aside for implicate trust when the situation demands it is always a hype moment, and it’s subtle in this chapter because we haven’t gotten much of the former in a while. Also Nami’s commentary on Brook and Franky being the extreme non-humans they are was peak; on par with Luffy not feeling cold because he’s made of rubber.

The depiction of layouts still suffers too. Like the Zoro moment you're talking about. I looked at the page for a solid minute and I still can't tell where the two characters are in relation to each other. Its solid dialogue but weighed down by them totally glancing over having the characters stand in front of one another.

 

[McMitch]

I looked at the page for a solid minute and I still can't tell where the two characters are in relation to each other.

Zoro is atop the ship figurehead that frames them within the panel itself with Sommers at the base (as evident by Sommers' black fire halo thing). Oda went with a panel break to establish their interaction in one go, which he's definitely done before. The page probably needed another panel showing the push in to better describe where Zoro is, but Oda clearly wanted to establish their fight in one spread.

I do like how Oda has been consistent that you need the drive to be the peak of something in order to actually use Conqueror's Haki, which Sanji lacks because his dream doesn't involve any such thing unlike Luffy and Zoro's.