One Piece, Chapter 794: Sabo's Adventure
Well, we didn't pick up at all on the freaking cliffhanger with Fujitora and Akainu's conversation from last chapter, because god damn it One Piece. But what we did get in this chapter is relatively interesting, so it can be partially forgiven for that.
Also last chapter I didn't quite catch that apparently Capone Bege is on a Big Mom ship. The flag was kinda small, but I guess Capone's just helping them out in hunting down Team Sanji and Caesar Clown.
Apparently the Straw Hats, Kyros, Law and Bellamy have gathered in Kyros' house, and Sabo has shown up to look at a sleeping Luffy before going off. Sabo and Robin apparently know each other, though it isn't quite clear whether Robin is keeping this information a secret from Luffy or she just doesn't know Sabo all that well.
Franky is doing some self-repair on his face which looks hella uncomfortable.
Sabo, then, does a bit of an exposition to Zoro and Robin about how he's been "dead this whole time" and a short recap of their childhood adventures and the unfortunate incident with the ship. Apparently Monkey D. Dragon found Sabo right after he got shot to hell by the Tenryubito ship. Apparently the shock of the explosion gave Sabo amnesia! And memory loss is kind of lazy writing when it comes to explaining character motivations, but it kind of makes some sort of sense because it's in the past -- a lot more stomachable than random amnesia in the present (RE: Nanatsu no Taizai). They know he's called Sabo because of the name on his belongings, and the only thing Sabo remembers is to run away from that city, so yeah, the dickishness Sabo's parents transcend amnesia.
We also get a couple of speaking lines from Ivankov, a cameo from Imazuma, and a couple of interesting-looking Revolutionaries who I bet will get names and whatnot in databooks and stuff.
We also get a bit of a little 'I'm trapped in a birdcage' moment from Sabo. Get it, birdcage? Yeah, it's kind of weak.
Apparently Ace "filled him in", but in a tragic way -- Sabo's memory of everything was jogged after Ace's death was broadcasted in the news all over the world, which neatly explains why Sabo wasn't around kicking ass during the Whitebeard War. It truly is sad and the art and mini-flashback panels really capture Sabo's state of mind as it pieces together just what is happening. Apparently the shock put him in a fever for three days, because manga logic.
And apparently Sabo targeted the Dressrosa Coliseum for the express purpose of obtaining the Mera Mera no Mi. We get a recap of Luffy's meeting with Sabo, but instead of seeing it from Bartolomeo's point of view with Sabo and Luffy's side of the conversation being left unspoken, we now see it from the brother's side of the conversation and Luffy basically freaks out in a really cliched but still heartwarming moment .Nothing much to say here... it's a good scene, let's leave it at that.
Present-day-Sabo talks about how CP0 is probably returning to Dressrosa so we are going to get them, which is good. He leaves a Vivre Card with Zoro, and despite the similarity with their last meeting with Ace, Zoro actually lampshades this which makes me think that they're not going to pull the same thing and make this be a bad omen for Sabo or anything.
Sabo heads off and after a quick report to Hack and a unfunny running gag with either Hack or Koala getting angry at the person holding the snail phone thing when Sabo hangs up, apparently Sabo is sitting on an army of flying crows... and the lead crows tells Sabo that he can bring out these crows whenever. So a Devil Fruit user... but what? A Zoan? An Awakened Zoan who can create more crows? Or just a weird Paramecia?
Either way Sabo is hurrying off somewhere, maybe to fight CP0? Please don't let Sabo's fight be interrupted like his fight against Fujitora. And his fight against Jesus Burgess.
And One Piece is on break next week whyyyy
Overall it's pretty interesting. We could've done with some trimming, but I personally felt that those scenes were pretty emotional, even if the amnesia thing is still a bit iffy. But oh well.
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