One Piece 870 Review: Fighting Big Mom

One Piece, Chapter 870: Farewell

Cover page... Bartrolomeo straight-up shanked a dude to death with a wooden stake! Yeah, he's the "Cannibal" and don't you forget. I do like that the manga, while mainly portraying Bartolomeo as a Luffy fanboy, doesn't completely forget that the dude was initially introduced as a psychopath who cuts off people's tongues. Even if he's on the side of our heroes it's not like that automatically means he's a good guy, he's still a psychopath.

So the chapter was pretty cool. Big Mom's forces are arrayed out, and they promise to massacre every single person in the castle as Big Mom herself rampages. Everyone stops Luffy from going out, because they're a strike team that's there to get Sanji and the poneglyph, and it's time to bug out... it's not like they have their full force (well, mostly Zoro) with them. Bege then gives this speech about how he doesn't give a shit about the Straw Hats, but he's going to stand firm for his own family (Chiffon's basically disowned by Big Mom at this point, too) and crew, and decides to dispel his Big Father form, allowing Caesar to fly him out of there while everyone else is still within his body.

Caesar shoots the plan down and while he's a pussy he's also got a point -- everyone there can use Haki, so they'll get shot down pretty easily.

At which point Judge confronts Sanji and asks him why he saved them, and Sanji's answer is pretty cool. His boss, Zeff, wouldn't have liked it, and Sanji talked about how he's never going to live in a way that will make him too ashamed to see Zeff in the eye, and Sanji laughing at his family's death is something that Zeff will be ashamed of. He then goes on a rant to Judge, saying that Vinsmoke Sanji is dead, and demands Judge quite confrontationally to "TELL ME YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER!" Judge decides to never approach Sanji or East Blue, and decides to have the Germa be the scapegoat to hold off Big Mom, because he 'won't be indebted to a failure'.

Caesar and Capone barely make it away from Big Mom's sun fire attack when the castle mode is released. Ichiji's a gigantic dick who tells Niji that he's a fool for showing concern to a wounded Reiju... but of course, while Capone and Caesar make a getaway, Luffy and Sanji jump out  and unleash a Diable Jambe/Elephant Gun combo that blocks Big Mom's lightning strike... yeah, these guys are too stupid and bullheaded to obey orders. Well, one thing that's for sure... next chapter's going to be hella interesting.