One Piece, Chapter 779: The Final Battle
Damn all these flashback and recap chapters, all I want
is to get to the damn fight against Doflamingo! This chapter sort of ties up a
lot of loose ends and basically just sets the stage for Luffy against
Doflamingo, but it’s kind of annoying since, y’know, this arc has been going on
for some time and a lot of the subplots – like the Tontatta or Princess
Mansherie or Kin’emon or, as cool as they were, Sabo and Big Mom’s men and Burgress
– felt really redundant and kind of led nowhere and could’ve been their own
little side-stories instead of bogging down this arc.
We get a bit of Zoro watching on his sword not having a
scratch and flashbacking to his training with Mihawk regarding coating his
swords with Haki, and how every one of Zoro’s swords can be a Kokutou (Black
Sword, which is Mihawk’s sword) and gets him to train and being forbidden to
drink alcohol until he masters it. The whole black Haki Sword is, I guess, is
how Mihawk is just so damn awesome and why he has a black sword… I honestly
have no idea if this has been planned since the beginning, but if it has, well…
We cut to some other characters. Fujitora apparently took
care of the rest of Pica’s giant golem body which was something I wondered
about last chapter, and other people react to Zoro’s awesomeness. I think
Bartolomeo just fangasms himself to death. Also, the Tontatta blew up the
factory, which is nice progression because the last thing we needed was another
chapter starring the bloody Tontatta. Trebol is just yammering about how
Mansherie (or however you spell her name) can just restore the factory, while
Mansherie and the other Tontatta catch up with Robin, Rebecca and Kyros and
talk a bit about Mansherie’s healing powers.
Also, apparently Koala and Sabo are heading up to the
castle, so Sabo I guess is going to, or at least trying to, fight Doflamingo? I
dunno, as much as I want to see Sabo do something,
I want Doflamingo to fall to Luffy and/or Law. Preferably Law.
And apparently in the time that Zoro, Kyros, Franky and
the rest took out their opponents, another battle has been decided. Thanks to Viola,
we know that Bellamy has been taken out, with his face caved into the shape of
Luffy’s fist just like their first battle. We then get a flashback of their
fight, which, again, ended like their first battle with Luffy delivering a
fucking epic punch to Bellamy and driving his head into the ground. I thought I
liked where they went with Bellamy’s characterization, how the obvious ‘he’s
going to change sides because his boss is evil’ trope actually gets subverted… I
liked that fact, and I liked how Bellamy is all ‘he’s scum but I’m scum too’
and all that, but I thought the way it played out was rather disjointed thanks
to the large gaps inbetween scenes of seeing Bellamy.
At least the next chapter will be Luffy vs. Doflamingo,
no holds barred… because apparently Doflamingo claims to have killed Law. Well.
Fuck that, if that happened, although if Law actually did die, I’m sure he’ll be
fine. Mansherie’s devil fruit or even Law’s on can probably get him back. I just
want to get to the final fight already and see the aftermath of this mammoth
arc.
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