One Piece 861 Review: NOT THE DOOR

One Piece, Chapter 861: Good Acting

Gonna be a bit late on other kinds of reviews. I haven't watched any of the superhero stuff for this week, and Hearthstone's Un'Goro card talk is going to take a fair amount of time to write. But hey, that was an absolutely fun stream.

Enough about site stuff, though -- One Piece! Which is going to be on hiatus next week. Aww. This one's more of another 'set the mood' chapter. The Fire Tank Pirates are looking into what's going on in the party, Luffy and company are sleeping (of course), and the living door that's just looking at them increasingly grows more and more flustered every panel when she puts together that Capone Bege and his people are planning to do something dastardly. I'm not sure if Big Mom already knows or if she has some kind of telepathic connection to her Homies or whatever, but she's definitely not talking to anyone. Been lots of deaths of minor nameless characters in One Piece lately -- that panel with the sliced-up halves of the door's face clattering to the ground is uncharacteristically graphic, even if it is just a door. Capone's cool, isn't he? He even gets a pretty cool one-liners. "Of course they're talking. They've got ears and mouths, don't they?" "Loose lips sink ships."

We also got a couple of other characters, like the first daughter, the Minister of Fruits, Compote -- who looks like a female Igram and definitely takes on her mother's appearance. Other children that are apparently are comparable to the other strong dudes we've seen before like Katakuri and Smoothie are the third son, Daifuku (we don't get to see much of him) and the 4th son, Oven, whose hair is splayed out around his head like a cross. 

We also get to see the picture of Mother Carmel, who's literally just an ornate photograph with a nun holding a cigarette with a wild grin. Big Mom notes how Carmel is their mother. One unfortunate dude asks the question we're all begging to know -- who is this mother fellow? Big Mom gets absolutely pissed off and we get a nightmare face from her, and the dude just gets Conqueror's Haki'd the fuck out. 

We've also got the Tamatebako brought in by Big Mom alongside the large amount of dowry presents in treasure boxes. Jinbe's betrayal or not, Fishman Island is well and truly fucked, isn't it? Looks like the shark lady's prediction is going to come true, albeit in a pretty roundabout way. 

Capone, as flustered as he is with Luffy's sleeping, discusses things with Caesar "Gastino" Clown about how the Straw Hats are troublesome. Caesar is in charge of supplying the mirror for Luffy's getaway, so, uh, we're going to have some Starscreaming going on.

Oh, and I can't believe that I missed last week that the leader of the news organization, which employs News Coos, is a giant News Coo himself. Whoops. 

Meanwhile, Pudding and Sanji. We actually don't get any monologues on Sanji's part, but some on Pudding's part where her thoughts to herself establishes that she, at the very least, hates Sanji and wants to stab him in the face and it's not just a super-elaborate ruse playing both Big Mom and the Straw Hats -- which would be my preferred choice simply because it'd be interesting especially for someone with such a uniquely powerful memory memory fruit. Sanji is in full pervert-gentleman Sanji, although it doesn't hurt that Pudding is acting like ultra-waifu material. Sanji makes such hilariously stupid faces, and Capone's taken aback, noting how much 'into the role' Sanji got into.

The two big two-page spreads at the end are ultimately just mood-setters, just this whimsical wacky weird tea party with flying clouds and animal people and talking food, but we all know things are just waiting to blow up. Literally, in the case of the Tamatebako. Shame next week's on break -- really curious to see what the Straw Hats have got planned.