One Piece 775: Backstory. MANLY Backstory.

One Piece, Chapter 775: To Lucy Anne, With Love

Pretty good chapter, though compared to the last one with the rather uninteresting Tontatta stuff anything's going to be an improvement. We get a bit of the Tontattas and some tsundere moments or whatever on Leo's part... and Leo is apparently the one that's being an oblivious little dick while Mancherie is just a normal, kind person who gets normally offended to Leo's insulting remarks. Jora's still alive, and thinks to herself how she needs to tell Doflamingo about what's happening, and apparently Mancherie's Heal Heal Fruit is able to 'restore' in addition to heal, and Doflamingo is planning to use it on the Smile Factory if it's destroyed. But restoration apparently takes chunks out of Mancherie's life, which isn't nice.

Despite my general disdain for anything Tontatta related, I guess I like Mancherie? She's kinda cute and she's got an interesting fruit.

We cut away to Franky and Senor Pink's fight, the last (and manliest) of the fights not involving the Executives. And it's been going on for quite a while, kind of an on-off battle thing with Franky and Senor Pink that never gets resolved. And they kind of lampshade it, how Senor Pink's constant swimming suplex attack (named Nyan Nyan Suplex, apparently) has been done so many times, like 30 times in a row, and Franky has never dodged it. Kind of a lampshade on just how many times we've seen that, isn't it? But apparently whether it be Franky's punches or Senor Pink's suplexes, neither one of them is going to dodge because that wouldn't be the manly thing to do.  That's kind of hilarious, actually. Franky talks about how his 'Strong Style' means that he'll take on Senor Pink's attacks head on because his opponent is as manly as him.

Y'know, even if they fight with nipple lights and diaper bombs.

Franky talks about how he's going to protect the Tontatta, and Senor Pink goes on about how he's going to make the next attack his last. He tells Franky to take his strongest attack, and swims really fast towards Franky -- which is apparently why he's randomly standing so far away. Senor Pink charges at Franky while swimming, and swims up a building straight into the sky. While in mid-air, Senor Pink kind of mutters about how he's closer to Lucy Anne (or Lucian as some has translated her name) and his son Gimlett, before focusing on the fight. Senor Pink reveals that Franky's back is still flesh, and drops down in his ultimate Nyan Nyan Suplex attack, which is named 'Baby Buster'.

Franky, of course, gets up and that lower-right panel of his eyes and mouth glowing with Terminator robot fire is pretty scary yet awesome at the same time. Senor Pink just stands there as Franky unleashes 'Franky Iron Boxing', which is basically a shit-ton of punches.

And then we get a flashback for Senor Pink... which is one of the most fucking sad backstories in One Piece history. Like, ever. Apparently back when he's still a smartly-dressed gentleman, Senor Pink fell in love with this woman, Lucy Anne, who hated pirates, so Senor Pink (who is, of course, a pirate) lied and said he was a banker. They eventually get married, have a kid, and all that... and naturally, Senor Pink is still off doing pirate stuff while working. And one day Senor Pink comes back home to be told that Gimlett's dead thanks to a fever, and when Lucy Anne tried to contact the bank, the little ruse is discovered.

Lucy Anne runs out into a stormy night in anger and the next page shows her in a vegetable state, apparently caught under a landslide during the storm. That would be horrible enough in and of itself, how Senor Pink is just crying and being all sad and stuff, but at one point he brings in their dead son's bonnet and fools around with it, wearing it and making him look like Gimlett... and the vegetative Lucy Anne smiles a bit. And ever since that happened, Senor Pink began dressing like a baby, with the bonnet and the sucker and the diaper. We see a bit of the doctors, the people in the street, Diamante, Trebol and a bunch of people who call him a pervert all react to his new fashion, but he doesn't give a shit, simply because this getup gets his vegetative wife to smile for him.

That is fucking sad. Also makes Senor Pink's ridiculousness feel absolutely sad. Like Baby 5, I'm pretty sure that if I ever read the Dressrosa arc their antics won't feel as ridiculous and random as they initially did. Man, Senor Pink.

Of course, Senor Pink in the present day falls down, and Franky wins... no surprise there, but that backstory kind of made me really feel for Senor Pink. Franky wipes away Pink's tears and promises to drink with him the next time they meet each other while he advances on the factory... well, after so long of having Franky and Pink's fight be interrupted and/or just shown glimpses of, it's kind of a pretty satisfying conclusion.

One Piece's on a hiatus next week (and there aren't any cover stories this chapter) and we're going to enter the final stages of the arc. Zoro vs Pica. Kyros, Robin and Rebecca vs Diamante. Luffy vs Bellamy. Law vs Doflamingo. And Trebol's somewhere in that fight too. Also interested to see how Fujitora and Sabo and their respective factions react to the whole thing. Not to mention the whole CP-0 and Big Mom things that's been kind of placed way in the sidelines.