One Piece, Chapter 864: The Vinsmoke Family Slaughter Plot
Another mini-review. I promise after May I'll be more consistent on the amount of stuff I dole out. Don't blame me that Shonen Jump chapters show up on absolutely fucking busy days! We'll see if I manage to get to Boku no Hero Academia today, or if I'll conk out completely after this review.
We get a new cover page series, which focuses on the Straw Hat Grand fleet, and we get to see the Beautiful Pirates -- Cavendish's crew, for those who aren't obsessive manga nutjobs like me -- and the huge, huge horse figurehead. They stuck a little Straw Hat flag next to it.
Basically, Big Mom has kind of shut down mentally for the entirety of this chapter, and in Perospero's words, her 'anger barometer' has reached its limit and she's actually super confused who to be angry at right now. It's all chaos everywhere. Brook reveals himself, Capone is caught between being confused that Big Mom's not unleashing her haki and being forced to pretend to fight Luffy, and it's basically chaos everywhere. Some points of interest include Sanji and Pudding -- the latter, thankfully, doesn't randomly become and ally and still tries to shoot Sanji in the head, but she's clearly more confused than anything.
We also get the debut (sort of, they cameo'd in previous crowd scenes) of several other high-ranking members of Big Mom's family. We have the third son, Charlotte Daifuku, the Minister of Beans. He is a huge man with a belt... from which comes out this genie decked out in Armament Haki with a huge spear. Apparently Daifuku is a Lamp man of the Hoya Hoya no mi (roughly billow-billow fruit) And the genie is strong enough to whack Sanji around. Daifuku's pissed that Pudding basically fucks up, knocks her away and handles Sanji by himself.
Jinbe and Pedro are fighting a lot of randoms, and Pedro gets knocked away by this dude whose hair is shaped like a huge cross, the fourth son Charlotte Oven, who is a high-heat man of the Netsu Netsu no mi... and netsu's just heat. So Oven can literally unleash oven powers. Yeah, not the most exciting power ever, especially when compared to Katakuri's time-seeing and Daifuku's fucking belt genie.
What else? Oh, there's the scene where Judge actually blubbers into tears while Perospero mocks him. Yeah, it's one thing to be outwitted, but apparently for whatever fucking reason Judge never, ever thought that Big Mom would betray him. Are you fucking kidding me right now? He's not naive like Luffy, he's not bereft of healthy and actual emotion like his hellspawns (the three boys are actually laughing, not actually comprehending the emotion to fear death). Judge is just crying, while Perospero mocks how he's just a cow being turned into a steak, and all his aspirations means nothing to him. Yeah, fuck you, Judge, piece of shit. You're certainly not getting any sympathy from me.
Overall, a pretty eventful chapter, I think? It's mostly just chaos and people fighting each other and some introductions of characters, so yeah.
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