One Piece 836 Review: Convenient Introdump

One Piece, Chapter 836: The Vivre Card that Lola Gave

Well, that was disappointingly short. We get several pages of just a flashback to catch readers up on Lola -- which, to be honest, has been quite some time since she has been relevant -- so yeah. We also get confirmation that Lola's father, mr juice dude, is called Pound. There's a bit of random internal conflict between Randolph, Brulee and Cracker, all of whom had gathered around... and Randolph's just weird because he kind of disappears from the plot after his re-introduction. There was a weird bit where the tree homies are apparently scared to death (literally to death) by Cracker? We got them introdumping about the whole Vinsmoke thing and the whole 'I've captured your friends' thing to Luffy and Nami, before Brulee transforms... some... things into animals? I honestly didn't follow some of the events and sequences in this chapter. 

Oh, and Nami's vivre card (that definitely belongs to Big Mom) drives the Homies away because it marks her as untouchable. Raise your hand anyone who didn't see this coming the moment Lola was brought back into the story. No one? Good.

Apparently Brulee's mirror doesn't kill the people it traps if it shatters. Also, Cracker can split his arms apart if he knocks on them, so he faces luffy with eight sword arms and a shield made up of a cracker. "Thousand Arms" Cracker has a bounty of 860 million... which is quite high. In comparison, Luffy and Law are both 500 million, Ace was around the 500 million ballpark too, Doflamingo was 350 before the bounty was frozen by the government... But bounties aren't really indicative of strength, because Luffy did a lot of things the government isn't aware of and Doflamingo has had his bounty frozen for a long, long time. So I dunno. Cracker doesn't look like he's going to be a big threat.

Regardless, the fight will be definitely more interesting than this chapter.