One Piece, Chapter 808: Duke Inuarashi
The cover story shows the three kids in Usopp's village and the rich girl that Usopp is sweet on being super-dramatic because, well, they probably didn't realize that Sogeking was Usopp! And now he's, well, God Usopp! The chapter itself is decent, a followup to the previous chapter, showing us a bit more in detail about Jack's assault on the Mink people, and exploring a bit about the present-day Mink civilization.
Sheepshead shows up again and basically acts as Jack's announcer, dramatically announcing Jack as Kaido's right-hand man. Well, damn, that just make Jack a crapton more relevant. He's the captain of the Mammoth, presumably the name of his ship. Sheepshead calls Jack one of the three beings called the 'Calamities'... interesting. Was Whitebeard one of those? And his nickname or epithet or whatever is "Jack the Drought", because anywhere he passes looks like as if it had experienced a drought... most likely because of him rampaging and destroying everything and not some actual Groudon power thing. All the Minks try to reason like nice, decent people, but Jack isn't interested in talking with anyone, not the leaders, not the civilians when they give the excuse that they have no fucking idea who Raizo is. We get a one-and-a-half page splash of him punching a street-worth of buildings with his mammoth nose, and both Sheepshead and Ginrummy talk about how 'samurai' is a catch-all phrase for all Wano warriors.
Also, so I guess he was Kaido's answer to the government capturing Doflamingo. Which means that the Marines knowingly engaged Kaido's forces when they were kinda scared shitless before in anything Yonko-related. But they've got Fujitora and Sengoku on board, so I guess...
We see the Mink people at least attempt to fight back with their mysterious electrical power (Enel?), beating back the Pleasures, who are just mooks... then Jack refuses to parlay and sends in the gifters, who I'm assuming are the people who ate Caesar's artificial devil fruits. We see at least a crab guy, someone with horns, someone with what appears to be mouse ears and a couple of others with generic fangs and horns. And, y'know, rampage and destroy the city.
In the present day Brook tries to get Luffy to not talk about the samurai, so of course he immediately says it. Usopp, Nami and Brook utterly beat Luffy up and Brook makes some excuse about how Luffy is talking about the '...inja... injured' which was probably a pun better translated in its original Japanese.
We then meet Lord Sicilian, the lion Mink who we were kinda heard about before, and he kinda looks like Absalom with a crapton more hair. He's apparently a dude that does things to extremes, be it apologizing or being super-manly which means nothing sweet. We then see Duke Inuarashi, who, well, is a dog-man. And bandaged up a lot. Inuarashi is also apparently the country's strongest warrior, though he apparently didn't quite last against Jack and his secret weapon... Caesar's poison gas weapon.
So, um, where's Caesar Clown now? We're still kind of figuring out what happened during the short time-jump in-between the end of Dressrosa and now, and next chapter seems to be more exposition. As much as I want some actual progression in the story and it's kind of overdue for one, it's still awesome to just learn all about Jack.
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