One Piece 830 Review: Big Mom's Fish Daughter

One Piece, Chapter 830: He Who Gets Bet On

That flashback early in the chapter with Jinbe telling everyone in Fishman Island that he's going to quit Big Mom's pirates and join Luffy is honestly not that necessary, neither is the montage of the random fishmen all going 'yeah, Jinbe, you rock, follow your own dreams for once'. It's a cool, heartwarming moment, though. We also get a bit with Aladdin Aladine, who apparently has married one of Big Mom's children, and the other Fishmen note that if Jinbe leaves the crew and brings Big Mom's wrath upon the Fishmen, it'll put Aladine in an awkward situation.

Aladine is married to Charlotte Praline, who's a hammerhead shark mermaid and a pretty cool-looking design at that. Despite everyone being scared shitless of Praline (and the readers probably being surprised that Big Mom got it on with a Fishman) she makes it clear that she's totally in love with Aladine and will probably side with Aladine if it comes to it... but she's also scary enough. She's Big Mom's daughter, after all, and she notes that Jinbe isn't the first person to leave, but no one has survived uttering such words before.

We cut back to the present day, in Whole Cake Island, where the other children of Big Mom are dealing with Moscato, the son whose 'years' were eaten by Big Mom last week. Two of Big Mom's children, Mont D'or and this big melting dude, as well as weird shadowy blob creatures, are cleaning things up, not leaving behind a 'single second'. What this means about Big Mom's powers, I don't know.

Big Mom and Jinbe are in Big Mom's chateau, and Big Mom eats her sentient cake buddies, and is actually a lot more reasonable (as far as a psychotic monster can be reasonable) than I thought she would be. Big Mom notes that being pirates, living freely and leaving her is Jinbe's own call... but because Big Mom loses such a valuable resource, it's fair that Jinbe loses something valuable as well, and Big Mom brings in a roulette with heads and limbs on it. Jinbe's not going to die, so maybe we'll have one of his arms or legs chopped off? It's a pirate setting, after all.

We get Pedro's backstory while the Straw Hats deal with a bunch of monster ants (a reusal of the model from One Piece: Strong World) and Pedro is a former pirate that fell in battle near Whole Cake Island, who went around trying to find poneglyphs. Pedro offers his services in stealing Big Mom's poneglyph for Luffy, because that's going to be useful to Luffy in the future. Brook is all mysterious and shit, laughing about Luffy 'being born with this kind of fate'. Oh, Brook, you mysterious undead pervert, you. I really want a long Brook arc exploring all the cryptic shit he's been saying all throughout the Zou arc. 

The final two-page spread happens after a quick timeskip where the Straw Hats reach Whole Cake Island, and they see someone on the coast. Jinbe? Sanji? Who will it be? It's overall a pretty decent setup chapter, with clearly the meat of the chapter being the Jinbe scenes. It's honestly a bit anticlimatic for Jinbe to join up after so, so long and I think it would've been better if the Straw Hats actually met Jinbe first (armless/legless) before we see the flashback to the events that led to Jinbe's defection. Would've had better pacing that way, I think. But oh well.