One Piece, Chapter 708: The Right Belly Fort
More buildup, which is great! One Piece has always gotten their buildup chapters right. We get
some more information about this exotic Zo country atop an elephant’s back. The
elephant’s apparently called Zunisha, and it periodically shoots up water up to
bathe itself, causing a crap ton of water that runs down some channels and even
brings up fish for the Mink people to fish. It’s a cool concept. We also find
out that the Mink people aren’t racist, going all ‘we hate who you are, not what you
are’. Which is nice, since after Mermaid Island and Skypiea the whole race-that-hates-humans
thing has gone a bit old.
Kanjurou and Kin’emon and the monkey that may or may not
be Raidou are climbing up on Nekozaemon the painted cat, but they get knocked
back down by the water. Good thing they only took up like three panels.
Bepo and the rest of Law’s team had to stay in the forest
because they’re still pirates, though they’re under the protection of the boss
of the forest or something. Interestingly, though, the Straw Hats are
absolutely welcomed by the Mink living in the city, with practically the entire
population hailing Luffy’s group as heroes and benefactors… so whatever Sanji’s
team did in Zo (maybe protecting the little deer-tanuki girl?) probably
impressed them a fair bit. We see at least Nami and Chopper, the former decked
out in a sexy, sexy black dress whereas Chopper’s dressed like a freaking king.
They’re definitely not prisoners, since Nami’s just hanging out with this big
sheep dude that acts like a bed and is pretty popular with the Mink there.
There’s also them going all “Sanji’s…” and Nami cries,
and Wanda looks away. Wanda did say the ‘corpses of your friends’, and Brook’s
not around, so maybe she just mistook Brook as a corpse… but what about Sanji
and Momo? Okay, I mean, what about Sanji? (Fuck Momo)
We also get some new information here, where Captain Jack
is presumed dead after engaging in a battle to reclaim Doflamingo. Jack managed
to sink two of the Marine ships, but considering he went up against Fujitora
and Sengoku, plus Tsuru and Bastille and whoever else was there… Wanda, like us
readers, don’t buy that Jack is quite dead yet, though. Also, whoever Jack
tortured on that random torture cross we saw last episode is apparently important
to Wanda that she gets a short flashback to Jack whipping the dude (all in
shadows, of course). Did Sanji get
tortured?
So many questions. But at least Nami and Chopper are
alive and reunited, which is cool – Sanji’s disappearance is definitely
something that’s probably going to be a major plot point… Brook, I think, is
just a red herring for the ‘corpses’ line a while back. Which leaves Momonosouke
and Caesar Clown… which would be the two
main objectives that Jack (or Kaido) would want. I dunno. We’ll see, I guess?
This arc definitely is building up to be very, very interesting. I just hope it
lives up to all the hype.
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