One Piece 800 Review: In Which Luffy Is Forced To Get An Army

One Piece, Chapter 800: Exchanging Sakazukis

This week’s One Piece is honestly a bit underwhelming. For chapter 800 which we seem to have been building up to, it ends up being nothing but a small continuation of 799. No Akainu, no Kaido, no Kidd or anything really like that. It literally just is a continuation of the exchanging sakazuki cups scene from last chapter, drawn out with Luffy being his usual ‘I don’t wanna do this it’s so cramped’ self while the seven captains basically just forcing themselves on Luffy, responding to Luffy’s troll logic with one of their own – basically since Luffy tells them to be free and they’ll be buddies nonetheless, they also want to be free to choose to become Luffy’s subordinates. At the urging of Cavendish, Hajrudin and the others, Bartolomeo gives a speech about how they are ‘free’ to exchange cups with Luffy even if he refuses.

And, y’know, Zoro being hilarious and sneakily drinking the wine by himself probably doesn’t hurt either.

The image of Hajrudin holding a tiny cup and Leo holding a comparatively oversized cup is funny.

They come under attack by the dudes that are upset that Doflamingo is taken down and have ruined their respective agendas, but Orlombus tells his fleet (apparently one of his inferiors is called Colombus?) to handle it… and the Fujitora gives his own farewell gift of launching the rubble onto the ships of the Straw Hats’ enemies and somehow missing all the Straw Hats.

Anyway they’re Luffy’s fleet whether he likes it or not, since they’re gonna be Luffy’s fleet even without his permission, and then Luffy gets distracted by the feast. Bartolomeo can die happy now. Meanwhile we get a short scene of Fujitora thinking that he doesn’t have the right to go after the Straw Hats, and after what they did to clean up the World Government, he does a bow to thank the Straw Hats witnessed by no one but Sengoku, which causes Fujitora to pull off a hilarious face.

We get a short scene with Rebecca and Kyros which is short and sweet and didn’t take up an entire page, and then we get the obligatory party beer drinking time scene, and we close off with ‘the seven oddballs that called themselves Straw Hat Luffy’s subordinates will continue to grow on their own and make their mark on history, leading to a big incident… in a story that is still untold.’

Which is epic and all, but considering it’s in a sense an extension of last chapter not really much happened in the big Eight Hundred beyond just a confirmation and honestly I do find it rather underwhelming. Definitely a good chapter, but for all the buildup, it is underwhelming.