One Piece, Chapter 905: A Beautiful World
Well, this is a cool chapter. We start off with a bit of a information dump about the New Marineford and how the World Government is able to go back and forth through the Red Line and into Mariejois via these bubble boat-lifts. Akainu's apparently throwing a hissy fit over Fujitora's presence in Mariejois because he's been sort of exiled from all marine lands until he brings the head of Luffy and Law, and apparently everyone's favourite blind samurai gave a great reason as to why he's able to hang out in Mariejois -- it's not a marine base. Man, I miss Fujitora.
Also, is that T-Bone reporting to Akainu? I like it when minor characters from the past show up in cameos. Speaking of cameos, Sengoku also pops up for a while cracking jokes about how hard it is to become Fleet Admiral.
We get to see a bunch of kings and queens from a "totally not based on a real world" series of countries we've never heard before. We get to see Beer VI and the Matryoshka Princess from Russia Russuan, Uncle Sam King Hamburger from USA Ballywood, and King Taco from Mexico Shishano. Also, Queen Mororon from Tajine. Stereotypes are funny! We then get to also see King Neptune, Shirahoshi and the fishman princes with a narration reminding us just how significant the fishmen arriving on a Reverie really is. Garp is with them, and Big News Morgans is present to report on things.
And then, One Piece's newest and easily biggest hate sink character, Sterry, a.k.a. Sabo's brother, shows up and starts trying to throw his weight around and acts all super-flustered, and of course Garp doesn't give him the time of the day and keeps calling him a shitty brat. We also get the implication that Sterry, who married the princess, apparently is the cause of the death of the previous king and prince. The manga makes Sterry extremely unlikable pretty quickly, be racist, ignorant, act obnoxious and generally make an ass of himself.
Meanwhile, Fujitora meets with Admiral Ryokugyu, marking his first real appearance in the story. Of course, he's in full silhouette, but it's still interesting. Even with Akainu telling Ryokugyu to find and beat up Fujitora, the two are just having dinner in some random courtyard. We learn that Vegapunk has created something incredible that causes Fujitora to claim that they no longer need the Shichibukai (not that the Shichibukai has really been relevant recently). Also, Ryokugyu has apparently fasted for the past three years.
We then return to Kamabakka, where Betty and Koala talk about taking down the Celestial Dragons as opposed to the entire World Government, and then we cut back to the kings riding the gondola up the Red Line. Sterry talks shit about seeing some crazy giant with a harpoon peeking out of the tree, something that everyone dismisses as a hallucination. Of course, we all know it's Marley, one of the four Executive Commanders introduced last chapter. Everyone else sees a swarm of birds which, of course, is Karasu, while one of the soldiers that tries to reassure Sterry that birds can't pop a bubble gets a close-up... and of course, it's Sabo.
So yeah, the Revolutionaries are already around, infiltrating the Reverie. I am sort of curious why they are attacking the kings when the missions statement is to take down the Celestial Dragons, but maybe they're going to take the kings hostage? It's interesting to see how far the Revolutionaries will go in order to get their goals. Certainly a great chapter to tell us a lot of information and give us a fair chunk of development at the same time.
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