One Piece 900 Review: Pet Cemetery

One Piece, Chapter 900: Bad End Musical

Huh. That happened. I'm not as enamoured with this chapter as the internet happens to be? I guess it's my own fault for sort of hyping myself up for the Big Nine Hundred, but at the same time... I sort of expected more. I guess the big twist at the end of the chapter is still kind of a big event in a way, so it's not just a procedural chapter... but I dunno. I expected something slightly more, I guess? It's still a good chapter. It's just not as "WHOA" as I hoped it would be. 

The first chunk of the chapter is just Big Mom eating the wedding cake and being super-duper overwhelmed by how good it is, which, of course, is to be expected. It's what we've been building up to for a while, and to have that moment not happen for a somewhat extended amount of time would be poor writing. So yeah, we've got Big Mom eating, we've got Perospero and the rest reacting in happiness to Big Mom calming down... but of course, they only credit Pudding with the construction of the cake. 

Meanwhile, the Straw Hats and the Sun Pirates are escaping, but Oven and Brulee pop out of the mirror, with Brulee apparently bringing Anti-Germa bullets... And then Oven just COOKS the ocean and goes Hot Sea Hell, essentially cooking Wadatsumi and the rest of the fishmen and presumably sinking them? We get to see Wadatsumi sinking, but the rest of the Sun Pirates aren't seen for the rest of the chapter. That's actually pretty goddamn badass. 

We get Big Mom eating the cake again, and then we get a weird, psychedelic Disney acid trip as we zoom into her mouth, and apparently there's a "Pet Cemetery" within Big Mom's mouth? With... more of those dancing trees and flowers with eyes? And the second half of the chapter is essentially a back-and-forth cutaway from Big Mom's wacky reality and the flight of the Thousand Sunny as Big Mom's big ship, the Queen Mama, shows up and just launches cannonballs. And it's... it's weird. Big Mom's pretty much hallucinating in his scenes, reverting back to her fat form and seeing all the children from the orphanage that she "ate" in her flashback, while in the present day the Germa 66 siblings get gunned down and Judge faces off against... Snack, I think? The last couple of pages is what appears to be the Sunny exploding, with the final panel being the Straw Hat flag on the water...

And, of course, we're led to believe that the Queen Mama just shot the Thousand Sunny and blew it apart. Obviously the characters are save somehow -- via Fishmen interference or if it's actually not even the Sunny at all, but I am curious if the Sunny actually did just "die" at the end of the chapter. Comparing it to how the Going Merry was destroyed it certainly felt abrupt and callous, though. Again, an interesting chapter. I'm just unconvinced if it's worth all the hype and the padding out of the story for.