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One Piece Re-Read Notes Volume 6
Volume 6 – The Oath
This volume is basically a beginning look at Sanji’s characterization as well as a major source of Zoro’s motivation as a character along with a smidgeon of the Nami backstory plot. That is to say, there’s A LOT happening in this volume. The volume title itself is the same as that of chapter 52, which is where Mihawk challenges/promises with Zoro and Zoro in turn makes his vow/oath to Luffy. I want to briefly go on in a bit more detail about their battle before getting back to the overview of the volume.
Here is where we see Zoro’s ‘oath’ to Luffy supplant his promise to Kuina in terms of priority. I hadn’t always viewed it as specifically starting here but given the way Zoro flashes through his various memories and ends on his discussion with Luffy when he originally shared his dream and how much Luffy approved, I now do think it is appropriate to mark this as the turning point. Zoro still wants to keep his promise with Kuina but he also has come to the realization that accomplishing this promise is going to be harder than he initially realized. Even though his dream hasn’t changed, it has to become BIGGER. And the only way he has to do that is by hitching his boat to Luffy, who has the craziest and (by other people’s standards) biggest dream of them all. Zoro’s eyes have been opened, a challenge/invitation has been given, and he can at last see the true scope of what he wants to accomplish along with an acknowledgement of the one who’ll get him there (note that Zoro had already called Luffy captain by this point but it is here where I think the full weight of that sinks in).
Anyway, to get back to the volume itself, what’s really happening is that the true peril of the Grand Line has been revealed and yet all of Luffy’s crewmates (at this point technically just Usopp and Zoro) and he himself are bound and determined to go there and achieve their dreams. Sanji, too, has a dream but it’s been kept hidden from us. The red herring is that he wants to inherit the Baratie but that will be revealed as false in upcoming volumes. We can see that Sanji has his own ‘oath’ of sorts, the allegiance he owes to Zeff and why he refuses to leave despite the abuse heaped upon him. And Zeff and Sanji have an agreement of sorts as well in the matter of feeding those who are hungry. Finally, even though there aren’t any major details, we can see that Nami is trapped and cannot vow yet to go to the Grand Line with Luffy and company even though she desperately wants to.
This is pretty good volume. I’d probably put it as my 4th favorite in East Blue. There’s a LOT of exposition and not as much action or comedy but I love Oda’s world building so that doesn’t bother me. Additionally, I feel like Oda’s art really hits its stride by these chapters and things get really fluid and nice. Finally, as I mentioned in the special notes post earlier, I am NOT delving into the Sanji->Zoro antagonism since I already did that but I AM trying to be charitable and relate what we now know about Sanji’s past to what we see in these chapters and hopefully that comes through in my notes.
Chapter 45 Key Observations
-Luffy invites Sanji to join the crew as the cook
-Sanji turns Luffy down and Luffy turns down Sanji’s declination
-Gin warns Luffy away from the Grand Line (Gin is Luffy’s sort of pirate…too bad he’s with Krieg but that’s also why he’s Luffy’s sort, he’s loyal)
-Patty reveals his pride by talking about how he isn’t afraid of Krieg (also his talk ran the waiters off)
-The complications in Sanji /Zeff relationship are revealed when Zeff doesn’t yell at Sanji for feeding Gin
-Luffy is THE WORST chore boy in Baratie (or any other restaurant) history…does this go with his ethos? A point to explore in more detail in the East Blue wrap up.
-Luffy tries to get Zoro to drink a booger but Zoro catches on and makes Luffy drink it instead
-Sanji declares his love for Nami (heart eyes!) and Zeff tells Sanji he is free to go
-Gin tells Krieg about the Baratie
Chapter 46 Key Observations
-Sanji and Zeff’s complicated relationship; It’s okay to insult Sanji but not his cooking
-Zeff is fabulous in terms of his design. Oda did a really nice job on him. I love his sidelong glances.
-Usopp is annoyed at Sanji’s doting on Nami and Nami is happy to take advantage of Sanji
-Usopp’s super-bendy nose! The art really does step up a notch…I feel like Oda’s hitting his stride.
-By the time Krieg arrives, 2 more days have passed, meaning Luffy’s spent 3 as a chore boy
-Krieg and his humble routine just to see if Gin’s words about the kindness are true (he’s the worst!)
-Carne serves as exposition dump for how dangerous Krieg is but Sanji feeds him anyway
-Krieg repays Sanji with a clothesline (wrestling move) and Gin freaks out since Krieg lied to him
Chapter 47 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Buggy and Gaimon getting along. Buggy has a fairly easy time of making friends in spite of himself. You can see why Roger had him aboard despite him being an antagonist in the series.
-Krieg wants the Baratie to replace his flagship. He only has about 100 men left out of his 5,000 men and 50 ship armada
-The cooks rebel and draw pistols on Sanji to stop him from preparing the meals and he has a really good line. S: I know…they’re unredeemable villains. But my job is to feed people, not to judge them. It gets too complicated. If a man is hungry, I feed him!!!! That’s a cook’s job. Luffy is very interested in what Sanji says here (ethos again?)
-Patty would rather fight. He fires a mini cannon and it only reveals Krieg’s Wootz steel armor. Krieg then reveals his multiple hidden weapons and fires on the cooks.
-Zeff has the 100 meals made but he also gets in a dig about Krieg and his men being losers who couldn’t hack the Grand Line, revealing his own time there and his past as a dangerous pirate
-SBS reveal of Pandaman’s existence
Chapter 48 Key Observations
-First hint that Zeff’s missing leg is related to Sanji
-Emphasis on hands as being the important element needed for cooking
-Zeff kept a year-long log of his Grand Line journey (how the hell does Krieg know this?) so he definitely had skills as a pirate whereas Krieg crashed and burned within a week
-Krieg said he had strength, ships, men, and ambition and only lacked knowledge to succeed on the Grand Line. As Luffy will prove, this is the wrong type of thinking
-Zeff’s crew of cast-off misfit cooks is so adorable! Why aren’t there more pre-Luffy Sanji stories?
-Luffy challenges Krieg because each wants the One Piece and to be Pirate King
-Zoro and Usopp have made their appearance and are ready to back Luffy up but Luffy says he can handle it
-Zeff sides with Sanji over the cooks a la feeding Krieg and his men. This all comes down to starvation
-The cooks and Sanji prepare to fight against Krieg as does Luffy
-Gin hints at Mihawk, a man with a piercing gaze who destroyed 50 ships by himself
Chapter 49 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Nami hugging the giant seagull with ‘Marine’ on its hat, a hint to her past?
-Zeff names Hawk-Eye and Zoro explains that he’s the man he’s been looking for,
-Cooks make a weird joke – 1:Don’t know about old “Hawk-Eye”… 2: …But “Old Red-Eyes” was here. 3:Aye, he drank so much wine his eyes turned red. 4:Then the fool caught fire and exploded! 5:Yeah, what a sight! – Who the hell is this?! At first blush, it could be Shanks but that honestly doesn’t make sense the more I think about it. Is this someone we’ve met? If so, who? Another shichibukai?
-Zoro and Luffy express desire to go to the Grand Line and Sanji calls them fools (he does give Zoro the side-eye first…is this the first time anti-Yonji feelings surface? Could be!)
-Z/L/U response and Sanji’s reaction to that make Zeff see how much Sanji really likes them
-Krieg, even more than Kuro, uses violence and the threat of it to keep his men in line (so far all the BAD people have done this – Alvida, Morgan, Kuro, Krieg….Buggy to a lesser extent but usually only about his nose so it’s for comedy more than for real)
-Mihawk’s arrival is broadcast by his slicing of Krieg’s flagship entirely in half. It’s pretty epic!
-Reaction from L/Z/U is to check on Nami and J/Y but it becomes clear that Nami took the ship
-SBS: Sanji tells readers Nami’s ‘measurements.’ Nami hints that they may change by saying the opposite
Chapter 50 Key Observations
-Nami remains interested in J/Y bounty info. She takes their treasure and then distracts them by saying she’s changing clothes then knocks them off the Going Merry so she can sail off with it
-Nami’s face does reveal some regret and she asks J/Y to tell L/Z goodbye and that she hopes to meet them again someday. Also, she calls the Going Merry ‘her prize’
-Z/U react as if Nami has betrayed them. Luffy is undeterred and spots the Going Merry on the horizon. He tells Z/U to chase after her in J/Y’s smaller ship and Zoro agrees while Usopp is happy about getting Merry back (first time he’s shown as being protective/possessive of the Going Merry)
-Mihawk is so....he’s impressive and ridiculous at the same time for his character design but he does feel very pirate-y in a different way from the more raggedy pirates we’ve had up until this point.
-This plan is borked by Mihawk’s arrival and Zoro’s need to challenge him asap
-Z: No. Shooting at him is useless. He deflected the bullets with his sword. I’ve never seen such subtle sword-work. M: Without subtlety, a sword is but an iron bar. (foreshadows the sword that can cut nothing?)
-LOL even Krieg’s men know of Zoro’s reputation. He really is (in)famous in East Blue.
-Usopp is still desperate to chase Going Merry but Luffy and J/Y are very intent on Zoro/Mihawk situation as it has now taken precedent
-Mihawk reads Zoro easily but Zoro wants to fight because of ambition and a promise (Kuina)
-Nami name-drops Bellemere and we can really see how much she wanted to stay with Luffy and crew
Chapter 51 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Alvida’s new form 1st appearance and her alliance with Buggy starts
-Mihawk uses his cross knife and tells Zoro he’s just a little frog in the weak puddle of East Blue and has a lot to learn about the true strength of the world
-Zoro’s onigiri attack is easily countered by the knife point – 1st time it’s ever been blocked
-Zoro starts to get the big picture about how wide the gap is between him and Mihawk but he won’t give up or back down (M: Such heavy-handed sword play…) and that intrigues Mihawk
-Luffy won’t let J/Y interfere when they freak out over how Zoro’s doing badly but his own face is tense
-Z’s last memory before getting stabbed is of Luffy liking his dream and how it suits his own
-Z: I prefer death to defeat! Mihawk is impressed, asks his name, & draws Kokuto Yoru for the last round
-Zoro’s final move (Three Thousand Worlds) intrigues Mihawk and he breaks Zoro’s two extra blades and gets him across the chest before Zoro stands up to take the final blow, refusing to take it on his back.
-Luffy loses it in the final panel of the chapter as Zoro takes this seemingly killing blow
Chapter 52 Key Observations
-Sanji says Zoro should have given up his dream rather than die
-Zoro falls into the sea from the blow and Luffy lets J/Y free as he slingshots over in outraged grief to Mihawk (Mihawk is impressed by Luffy’s initial restraint) but Mihawk reveals that Zoro still lives
-Mihawk makes his promise? to Zoro and Zoro makes his own promise in response to Luffy
M: My name is Dracule Mihawk!! It’s too soon for you to die. Discover yourself. See the world!! And grow strong, Zoro!!! However long it may take…I shall await you at the top. Strive with your whole heart and mind to best this blade, fierce one!!! Strive to surpass me, Roronoa Zoro!!!
Z: Lu-Luffy? Can you…hear me? Were you worried? If I fail…to become the world’s greatest swordsman…you’ll be disappointed, right!!? Never again! I will never lose again!! From now to the day I beat him to become the greatest swordsman…I will never…lose again!!! Got a problem with that…king of the pirates!!?
-Mihawk inquiring of Luffy’s dream and noting it’s even more perilous than trying to beat him
-Last time Zoro cries that I can remember off the top of my head (we only ever see him cry otherwise in flashbacks to his childhood)
-Usopp takes his leave with J/Y and Zoro. He tells Luffy to recruit Sanji while they get Nami and then they’ll all go to the Grand Line
-Luffy asks Zeff if he can be released from Chore Boy if he drives off Krieg and his men
Chapter 53 Key Observations
-Krieg says the Baratie would make the best disguise for the kind of treacherous piracy he prefers
-Krieg thinks Mihawk used a devil’s fruit power to destroy his ship and his armada
-Zeff has agreed to Luffy’s deal and Sanji gets a cook to set out the fins to protect the main boat body
-Luffy is particularly put out with Krieg because he sees him as ungrateful
-Krieg is aware of Luffy’s weakness to water (first time this comes into play)
-The Baratie is, frankly, an engineering marvel! Franky would probably love to see it (or maybe Zeff was inspired by a Battle Franky?)
-Krieg’s men kinda suck but Krieg shows his power by tossing the Mackeral head boat piloted by Patty and Carne with one hand. Sanji then shows his power by deflecting the boat with a single kick
This volume is basically a beginning look at Sanji’s characterization as well as a major source of Zoro’s motivation as a character along with a smidgeon of the Nami backstory plot. That is to say, there’s A LOT happening in this volume. The volume title itself is the same as that of chapter 52, which is where Mihawk challenges/promises with Zoro and Zoro in turn makes his vow/oath to Luffy. I want to briefly go on in a bit more detail about their battle before getting back to the overview of the volume.
Here is where we see Zoro’s ‘oath’ to Luffy supplant his promise to Kuina in terms of priority. I hadn’t always viewed it as specifically starting here but given the way Zoro flashes through his various memories and ends on his discussion with Luffy when he originally shared his dream and how much Luffy approved, I now do think it is appropriate to mark this as the turning point. Zoro still wants to keep his promise with Kuina but he also has come to the realization that accomplishing this promise is going to be harder than he initially realized. Even though his dream hasn’t changed, it has to become BIGGER. And the only way he has to do that is by hitching his boat to Luffy, who has the craziest and (by other people’s standards) biggest dream of them all. Zoro’s eyes have been opened, a challenge/invitation has been given, and he can at last see the true scope of what he wants to accomplish along with an acknowledgement of the one who’ll get him there (note that Zoro had already called Luffy captain by this point but it is here where I think the full weight of that sinks in).
Anyway, to get back to the volume itself, what’s really happening is that the true peril of the Grand Line has been revealed and yet all of Luffy’s crewmates (at this point technically just Usopp and Zoro) and he himself are bound and determined to go there and achieve their dreams. Sanji, too, has a dream but it’s been kept hidden from us. The red herring is that he wants to inherit the Baratie but that will be revealed as false in upcoming volumes. We can see that Sanji has his own ‘oath’ of sorts, the allegiance he owes to Zeff and why he refuses to leave despite the abuse heaped upon him. And Zeff and Sanji have an agreement of sorts as well in the matter of feeding those who are hungry. Finally, even though there aren’t any major details, we can see that Nami is trapped and cannot vow yet to go to the Grand Line with Luffy and company even though she desperately wants to.
This is pretty good volume. I’d probably put it as my 4th favorite in East Blue. There’s a LOT of exposition and not as much action or comedy but I love Oda’s world building so that doesn’t bother me. Additionally, I feel like Oda’s art really hits its stride by these chapters and things get really fluid and nice. Finally, as I mentioned in the special notes post earlier, I am NOT delving into the Sanji->Zoro antagonism since I already did that but I AM trying to be charitable and relate what we now know about Sanji’s past to what we see in these chapters and hopefully that comes through in my notes.
Chapter 45 Key Observations
-Luffy invites Sanji to join the crew as the cook
-Sanji turns Luffy down and Luffy turns down Sanji’s declination
-Gin warns Luffy away from the Grand Line (Gin is Luffy’s sort of pirate…too bad he’s with Krieg but that’s also why he’s Luffy’s sort, he’s loyal)
-Patty reveals his pride by talking about how he isn’t afraid of Krieg (also his talk ran the waiters off)
-The complications in Sanji /Zeff relationship are revealed when Zeff doesn’t yell at Sanji for feeding Gin
-Luffy is THE WORST chore boy in Baratie (or any other restaurant) history…does this go with his ethos? A point to explore in more detail in the East Blue wrap up.
-Luffy tries to get Zoro to drink a booger but Zoro catches on and makes Luffy drink it instead
-Sanji declares his love for Nami (heart eyes!) and Zeff tells Sanji he is free to go
-Gin tells Krieg about the Baratie
Chapter 46 Key Observations
-Sanji and Zeff’s complicated relationship; It’s okay to insult Sanji but not his cooking
-Zeff is fabulous in terms of his design. Oda did a really nice job on him. I love his sidelong glances.
-Usopp is annoyed at Sanji’s doting on Nami and Nami is happy to take advantage of Sanji
-Usopp’s super-bendy nose! The art really does step up a notch…I feel like Oda’s hitting his stride.
-By the time Krieg arrives, 2 more days have passed, meaning Luffy’s spent 3 as a chore boy
-Krieg and his humble routine just to see if Gin’s words about the kindness are true (he’s the worst!)
-Carne serves as exposition dump for how dangerous Krieg is but Sanji feeds him anyway
-Krieg repays Sanji with a clothesline (wrestling move) and Gin freaks out since Krieg lied to him
Chapter 47 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Buggy and Gaimon getting along. Buggy has a fairly easy time of making friends in spite of himself. You can see why Roger had him aboard despite him being an antagonist in the series.
-Krieg wants the Baratie to replace his flagship. He only has about 100 men left out of his 5,000 men and 50 ship armada
-The cooks rebel and draw pistols on Sanji to stop him from preparing the meals and he has a really good line. S: I know…they’re unredeemable villains. But my job is to feed people, not to judge them. It gets too complicated. If a man is hungry, I feed him!!!! That’s a cook’s job. Luffy is very interested in what Sanji says here (ethos again?)
-Patty would rather fight. He fires a mini cannon and it only reveals Krieg’s Wootz steel armor. Krieg then reveals his multiple hidden weapons and fires on the cooks.
-Zeff has the 100 meals made but he also gets in a dig about Krieg and his men being losers who couldn’t hack the Grand Line, revealing his own time there and his past as a dangerous pirate
-SBS reveal of Pandaman’s existence
Chapter 48 Key Observations
-First hint that Zeff’s missing leg is related to Sanji
-Emphasis on hands as being the important element needed for cooking
-Zeff kept a year-long log of his Grand Line journey (how the hell does Krieg know this?) so he definitely had skills as a pirate whereas Krieg crashed and burned within a week
-Krieg said he had strength, ships, men, and ambition and only lacked knowledge to succeed on the Grand Line. As Luffy will prove, this is the wrong type of thinking
-Zeff’s crew of cast-off misfit cooks is so adorable! Why aren’t there more pre-Luffy Sanji stories?
-Luffy challenges Krieg because each wants the One Piece and to be Pirate King
-Zoro and Usopp have made their appearance and are ready to back Luffy up but Luffy says he can handle it
-Zeff sides with Sanji over the cooks a la feeding Krieg and his men. This all comes down to starvation
-The cooks and Sanji prepare to fight against Krieg as does Luffy
-Gin hints at Mihawk, a man with a piercing gaze who destroyed 50 ships by himself
Chapter 49 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Nami hugging the giant seagull with ‘Marine’ on its hat, a hint to her past?
-Zeff names Hawk-Eye and Zoro explains that he’s the man he’s been looking for,
-Cooks make a weird joke – 1:Don’t know about old “Hawk-Eye”… 2: …But “Old Red-Eyes” was here. 3:Aye, he drank so much wine his eyes turned red. 4:Then the fool caught fire and exploded! 5:Yeah, what a sight! – Who the hell is this?! At first blush, it could be Shanks but that honestly doesn’t make sense the more I think about it. Is this someone we’ve met? If so, who? Another shichibukai?
-Zoro and Luffy express desire to go to the Grand Line and Sanji calls them fools (he does give Zoro the side-eye first…is this the first time anti-Yonji feelings surface? Could be!)
-Z/L/U response and Sanji’s reaction to that make Zeff see how much Sanji really likes them
-Krieg, even more than Kuro, uses violence and the threat of it to keep his men in line (so far all the BAD people have done this – Alvida, Morgan, Kuro, Krieg….Buggy to a lesser extent but usually only about his nose so it’s for comedy more than for real)
-Mihawk’s arrival is broadcast by his slicing of Krieg’s flagship entirely in half. It’s pretty epic!
-Reaction from L/Z/U is to check on Nami and J/Y but it becomes clear that Nami took the ship
-SBS: Sanji tells readers Nami’s ‘measurements.’ Nami hints that they may change by saying the opposite
Chapter 50 Key Observations
-Nami remains interested in J/Y bounty info. She takes their treasure and then distracts them by saying she’s changing clothes then knocks them off the Going Merry so she can sail off with it
-Nami’s face does reveal some regret and she asks J/Y to tell L/Z goodbye and that she hopes to meet them again someday. Also, she calls the Going Merry ‘her prize’
-Z/U react as if Nami has betrayed them. Luffy is undeterred and spots the Going Merry on the horizon. He tells Z/U to chase after her in J/Y’s smaller ship and Zoro agrees while Usopp is happy about getting Merry back (first time he’s shown as being protective/possessive of the Going Merry)
-Mihawk is so....he’s impressive and ridiculous at the same time for his character design but he does feel very pirate-y in a different way from the more raggedy pirates we’ve had up until this point.
-This plan is borked by Mihawk’s arrival and Zoro’s need to challenge him asap
-Z: No. Shooting at him is useless. He deflected the bullets with his sword. I’ve never seen such subtle sword-work. M: Without subtlety, a sword is but an iron bar. (foreshadows the sword that can cut nothing?)
-LOL even Krieg’s men know of Zoro’s reputation. He really is (in)famous in East Blue.
-Usopp is still desperate to chase Going Merry but Luffy and J/Y are very intent on Zoro/Mihawk situation as it has now taken precedent
-Mihawk reads Zoro easily but Zoro wants to fight because of ambition and a promise (Kuina)
-Nami name-drops Bellemere and we can really see how much she wanted to stay with Luffy and crew
Chapter 51 Key Observations
-Cover Page – Alvida’s new form 1st appearance and her alliance with Buggy starts
-Mihawk uses his cross knife and tells Zoro he’s just a little frog in the weak puddle of East Blue and has a lot to learn about the true strength of the world
-Zoro’s onigiri attack is easily countered by the knife point – 1st time it’s ever been blocked
-Zoro starts to get the big picture about how wide the gap is between him and Mihawk but he won’t give up or back down (M: Such heavy-handed sword play…) and that intrigues Mihawk
-Luffy won’t let J/Y interfere when they freak out over how Zoro’s doing badly but his own face is tense
-Z’s last memory before getting stabbed is of Luffy liking his dream and how it suits his own
-Z: I prefer death to defeat! Mihawk is impressed, asks his name, & draws Kokuto Yoru for the last round
-Zoro’s final move (Three Thousand Worlds) intrigues Mihawk and he breaks Zoro’s two extra blades and gets him across the chest before Zoro stands up to take the final blow, refusing to take it on his back.
-Luffy loses it in the final panel of the chapter as Zoro takes this seemingly killing blow
Chapter 52 Key Observations
-Sanji says Zoro should have given up his dream rather than die
-Zoro falls into the sea from the blow and Luffy lets J/Y free as he slingshots over in outraged grief to Mihawk (Mihawk is impressed by Luffy’s initial restraint) but Mihawk reveals that Zoro still lives
-Mihawk makes his promise? to Zoro and Zoro makes his own promise in response to Luffy
M: My name is Dracule Mihawk!! It’s too soon for you to die. Discover yourself. See the world!! And grow strong, Zoro!!! However long it may take…I shall await you at the top. Strive with your whole heart and mind to best this blade, fierce one!!! Strive to surpass me, Roronoa Zoro!!!
Z: Lu-Luffy? Can you…hear me? Were you worried? If I fail…to become the world’s greatest swordsman…you’ll be disappointed, right!!? Never again! I will never lose again!! From now to the day I beat him to become the greatest swordsman…I will never…lose again!!! Got a problem with that…king of the pirates!!?
-Mihawk inquiring of Luffy’s dream and noting it’s even more perilous than trying to beat him
-Last time Zoro cries that I can remember off the top of my head (we only ever see him cry otherwise in flashbacks to his childhood)
-Usopp takes his leave with J/Y and Zoro. He tells Luffy to recruit Sanji while they get Nami and then they’ll all go to the Grand Line
-Luffy asks Zeff if he can be released from Chore Boy if he drives off Krieg and his men
Chapter 53 Key Observations
-Krieg says the Baratie would make the best disguise for the kind of treacherous piracy he prefers
-Krieg thinks Mihawk used a devil’s fruit power to destroy his ship and his armada
-Zeff has agreed to Luffy’s deal and Sanji gets a cook to set out the fins to protect the main boat body
-Luffy is particularly put out with Krieg because he sees him as ungrateful
-Krieg is aware of Luffy’s weakness to water (first time this comes into play)
-The Baratie is, frankly, an engineering marvel! Franky would probably love to see it (or maybe Zeff was inspired by a Battle Franky?)
-Krieg’s men kinda suck but Krieg shows his power by tossing the Mackeral head boat piloted by Patty and Carne with one hand. Sanji then shows his power by deflecting the boat with a single kick