One Piece Re-Read Notes Volume 7
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dethoratsVolume 7 - The Crap-Geezer
Finally getting back to these after 6 years, lol. Partially due to wanting to reference the manga again before I watch more of the Netflix Live Action adaptation and partly because I felt like it.
I'm torn on the ranking for this volume within East Blue. On the one hand, Pearl is my LEAST FAVORITE character in all of East Blue. He's even more insufferable in the anime, but I find him incredibly stupid and tedious. On the other hand, Sanji's flashback along with all the drama with Gin is remarkably well done and definitely the best flashback thus far (I adore Luffy's flashback with Shanks MORE, but in terms of writing and event sequencing, I think this one's better). The anime also adds a bit more to the initial flashback; I'm recalling some underwater bits specifically, but it's been a while since I actually watched it, so I'm not sure how much that part actually adds.
I don't like the Krieg fight overall, so that is definitely coloring my impression of this volume (and the next one), but I also love Zeff, so it's a hard one to figure out.
I will say that the volume title is very fitting as just about every action in this chapter until the last 2 revolves around Zeff, either directly or indirectly, and how Sanji feels about him, along with Gin's actions in the last 2 chapters and how that relates to his loyalty to Krieg.
Chapter 54:
- showing off various levels of strength...most of the chefs lose to the Krieg pirates but Patty and Carne are effective against them.
- Patty:"We've been cooks for more'n ten years! We worked in 300 restaurants! But we always got fired for fighting. Those were hard times!"
- Carne:"And after wandering for years, we finally found a home here! Here you can cook and fight to your heart's content!"
- Then Pearl shows up and they get sneak attacked by him and brought down
- one of Krieg's men tries to steal Patty's knife and Patty grabs it even though it makes him bleed. Sanji intervenes to get it back.
- S:"A chef's knife is his soul." He gives it back to Patty and tells him to hold onto it while he dies, lol
- Sanji's pride, he is unhappy that the Baratie guys are called 'lousy cooks' and does a multi-attack to kick a bunch of dudes at Pearl
- S:"A cook's hands are his life. I can't risk damaging them in battle. I'll finish you with just my feet, too."
- Pearl's been in 61 battles to the death and never lost, not even a drop of blood
- Luffy gets hit by Don Krieg's morning star and goes flying into the back of Pearl. Pearl faceplants into his own armor and gets a bloody nose. All of Krieg's men, and Krieg, look concerned.
- first appearance of carpenter Minatomo in the SBS.
Chapter 55
- Lol cover page is Buggy's crew holding a funeral for his middle body as they think he's dead/missing
- Pearl goes crazy (almost looks like a form of PTSD) over his bloody nose and starts a fire with his armor while all of Krieg's crew freak out
- Pearl lights Luffy's shorts on fire and tries to belly flop on him and Sanji and then sets a wall of flames on the Baratie fin
- S:"Moron. You can't be a cook...if you're afraid of fire!"
- After Sanji kicks him in the face, Pearl sends fireballs towards the galley and Zeff kicks the fire out with his peg leg
- Krieg was going to take out Pearl himself with his morningstar, but Luffy leaps the wall of flames to block it. It ricochets off the mast of the flagship, breaking it so that it falls on Pearl's head and knocks him out
- Gin holds a gun to the back of Zeff's head
- in the SBS, Oda notes that he has 4 assistants that come and stay for 3 days and 2 nights each week
Chapter 56
- Not sure if this is Sanji's first cover page...It's him riding on a smoking buffalo with Luffy coming up behind
- Gin broke the peg leg, which is how he got ahold of Zeff
- Sanji and Zeff's interesting relationship; Sanji knows the ship is Zeff's dream so he won't abandon it, even to save Zeff's life. They insult each other, but it's very familial.
- Sanji tells Gin to point the gun at him instead.
- Pearl gets back up and attacks Sanji, telling him not to move or he'll strike Zeff instead. He gets in a massive blow
- S:"This ship...is the geezer's pride and joy!!!"
- S:"I took everything that old man had. His strength!! His dreams!! So I'll never...I'll never let anything else be taken from him!!!"
- All the cooks are surprised Sanji feels this way towards Zeff given they've only ever seen the arguing side of them
- Pearl hits Sanji again and then leaps up to splat him.
- Gin (to Luffy): "We fight for keeps, kid!!! You brought this on yourselves!!!"
- Sanji takes a massive hit to his spine (foreshadowing his back damage on Drum?) after he sees he can't move because of the gun still pointed at Zeff
- Sanji flashback part one and he is telling the chefs on the cruise ship (he's 10) about his dream of All Blue. The other chefs think it's not real.
- They are annoyed at the food waste of the customers and eating off the plates but Sanji thinks that's gross (Vinsmoke holdover?)
- Zeff and his Pirate Cooks attack
- SBS is all about Panda Man
Chapter 57
- Entire Chapter is part of the flashback. Nice use of black paneling to denote the flashback time
- People on the cruise ship recognize Zeff and that he's returned from the Grand Line
- Zeff kicks one of his own men for stealing food. They take everything they want BUT that. He refers to that crewmate as a 'stupid eggplant' so that's an old insult for him.
- Sanji holding his own with two knives. Zeff wasn't going to kill anyone but Sanji doesn't know that
- Sanji tells Zeff he's gonna find the All Blue while he's biting his leg.
- The storm gets worse and Sanji gets washed overboard. Zeff kicks down the cruise ship's mast, grabs onto it, and jumps in after Sanji (his crew doesn't understand why)
- A giant wave immediately appears and sinks Zeff's ship and the cruise ship
- Sanji awakens on the rocky bluff with Zeff. Zeff's only comfort is that he hasn't seen any corpses.
- No way to get food on the rock. Zeff gives Sanji a small bag with food and takes a larger bag for himself. They sit on opposite ends to watch for ships. Zeff clearly recognizes how dire the situation is.
- Chapter ends with Zeff using a big rock to sever his own leg at the knee. It appears to be his primary kicking leg.
- SBS: Patty's name comes from Patissier
Chapter 58
- Chapter title is the same as the volume title
- Name of Sanji's cruise ship was 'Orbit'
- Sanji initially plans for 20 days of food, able to drink water from the rock depressions
- Day 5, Sanji sees a ship but it's raining so he can't light a fire or be heard over the thunder
- Day 25, Sanji is down to his last piece of moldy bread, flashes back to the food conversation with the other chefs, loses the last bit of food over the side
- Day 70, Sanji gives in to his hunger and sees that Zeff still has a big bag that he thinks is food. He goes to cut it from the bag and finds it to be all treasure.
- He sees Zeff's amputated leg and then he understands what Zeff did but not why. Zeff says it's because they share the same dream of "All Blue."
- Zeff says he doesn't want to go back to the Grand Line to keep searching for it without his crew.
- Zeff states his new dream, that of a restaurant in the middle of the sea
- Day 85, they are found. The ship came partly because someone thought they had heard Sanji shouting from day 5
- Back to the present, S:"That fool sacrificed himself to save a worthless boy. So I'll defend him with my life...and pay my debt to the crap-geezer!!!" (calling himself worthless, a carryover from the Vinsmokes)
Chapter 59
- All the other cooks marvel at this revelation of Zeff and Sanji's past
- Luffy's had about enough of Pearl bullying Sanji so uses Gum-Gum Battle Axe to detach the fin from the Baratie so Pearl can't catch it on fire or make it into a pirate ship
- Luffy wants to sink the ship, Krieg wants Gin to shoot Zeff. Zeff is smiling.
- L:"So you're gonna die for this ship? That's stupid!! Getting killed is no way to repay your debt!!! He didn't save your life so you could throw it away!!!" (Interesting contrast with Sanji's comments during Zoro's duel with Mihawk. Sanji's basically doing the same thing here, but for someone else's dream, not his own! Also, brief flash of Shanks missing his arm as Luffy says this)
- Gin can't take it anymore and drops his gun to attack Pearl. He says he and Krieg owe Sanji a debt so he'll be the one to kill him, not Pearl. Also, Gin was the Battle Commander of the armada
Chapter 60
- Cover spread, Ritchie becomes the replacement Captain after knocking out Cabaji and Mohji in his sleep (Not important but I think it's funny)
- Zeff is amused by Luffy continually insulting Krieg's men. Luffy thinks they're not strong, there's just a lot of them
- Luffy tells Krieg he's the best material to become pirate king, pissing off Krieg. The panel of him posing is vaguely JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-esque.
- Krieg says winning is everything, no matter the means. He pulls out what he says is his poison gas cannon.
- However, it's a trick and he hits Luffy with a cannonball that bursts into shuriken and damages Luffy.
- It will be Krieg v Luffy and Gin v Sanji. Gin pins Sanji to the deck.
- SBS is the popularity poll. LOL only time Benn is in the top 10 (50?, 100?). He's number 6, ahead of Buggy and Usopp. Shanks is 3. Luffy and Zoro are 1 and 2 respectively.
Chapter 61
- Peaceful Colorspread of Luffy, Usopp, Zoro farming, Nami napping. Squid also farming
- Krieg has faith in Gin's ability to win - weird implication that Gin is both cool-headed in battle but also bloodthirsty or battle hungry in some way
- Krieg uses pointed stakes against Luffy as well as trying to knock him into the water
- Luffy is hot mad rather than cold mad at Krieg, Krieg keeps needling him and insulting him
- Gin is having trouble actually finishing Sanji due to his guilt but Sanji is not appreciative of that fact but he also can't keep fighting.
- Gin really can't do it and calls out to Don Krieg. Sanji's kindness means too much to him. (another major Sanji trait coming in to bear fruit)
Chapter 62
- Gin:"I'm sorry. I would never betray you. And I don't regret anything I've done in your service. I respect your strength and I thank you. But...this one person I cannot kill!!!"
- Krieg is super pissed and doesn't care that Gin reminds him that the cooks saved them all for nothing. He is going to use his MH5 poison gas for real this time. All his men have gas masks.
- Krieg orders Gin to drop his mask and tells him he's no longer part of the crew.
- Gin still respects Krieg and won't hear of Luffy criticizing him. He throws his gas mask into the sea.
- Luffy steals two of Krieg's men's masks and tosses them to Gin and Sanji. Zeff, Patty, and Carne retreat to the rear of the Baratie. Luffy seemingly finds a mask to put on at the last minute, but it was the one he threw to Gin.
- Krieg laughs at Gin's suffering from the gas and now Luffy is cold angry. Krieg is mistreating and mocking his crew, his own most loyal man.
Finally getting back to these after 6 years, lol. Partially due to wanting to reference the manga again before I watch more of the Netflix Live Action adaptation and partly because I felt like it.
I'm torn on the ranking for this volume within East Blue. On the one hand, Pearl is my LEAST FAVORITE character in all of East Blue. He's even more insufferable in the anime, but I find him incredibly stupid and tedious. On the other hand, Sanji's flashback along with all the drama with Gin is remarkably well done and definitely the best flashback thus far (I adore Luffy's flashback with Shanks MORE, but in terms of writing and event sequencing, I think this one's better). The anime also adds a bit more to the initial flashback; I'm recalling some underwater bits specifically, but it's been a while since I actually watched it, so I'm not sure how much that part actually adds.
I don't like the Krieg fight overall, so that is definitely coloring my impression of this volume (and the next one), but I also love Zeff, so it's a hard one to figure out.
I will say that the volume title is very fitting as just about every action in this chapter until the last 2 revolves around Zeff, either directly or indirectly, and how Sanji feels about him, along with Gin's actions in the last 2 chapters and how that relates to his loyalty to Krieg.
Chapter 54:
- showing off various levels of strength...most of the chefs lose to the Krieg pirates but Patty and Carne are effective against them.
- Patty:"We've been cooks for more'n ten years! We worked in 300 restaurants! But we always got fired for fighting. Those were hard times!"
- Carne:"And after wandering for years, we finally found a home here! Here you can cook and fight to your heart's content!"
- Then Pearl shows up and they get sneak attacked by him and brought down
- one of Krieg's men tries to steal Patty's knife and Patty grabs it even though it makes him bleed. Sanji intervenes to get it back.
- S:"A chef's knife is his soul." He gives it back to Patty and tells him to hold onto it while he dies, lol
- Sanji's pride, he is unhappy that the Baratie guys are called 'lousy cooks' and does a multi-attack to kick a bunch of dudes at Pearl
- S:"A cook's hands are his life. I can't risk damaging them in battle. I'll finish you with just my feet, too."
- Pearl's been in 61 battles to the death and never lost, not even a drop of blood
- Luffy gets hit by Don Krieg's morning star and goes flying into the back of Pearl. Pearl faceplants into his own armor and gets a bloody nose. All of Krieg's men, and Krieg, look concerned.
- first appearance of carpenter Minatomo in the SBS.
Chapter 55
- Lol cover page is Buggy's crew holding a funeral for his middle body as they think he's dead/missing
- Pearl goes crazy (almost looks like a form of PTSD) over his bloody nose and starts a fire with his armor while all of Krieg's crew freak out
- Pearl lights Luffy's shorts on fire and tries to belly flop on him and Sanji and then sets a wall of flames on the Baratie fin
- S:"Moron. You can't be a cook...if you're afraid of fire!"
- After Sanji kicks him in the face, Pearl sends fireballs towards the galley and Zeff kicks the fire out with his peg leg
- Krieg was going to take out Pearl himself with his morningstar, but Luffy leaps the wall of flames to block it. It ricochets off the mast of the flagship, breaking it so that it falls on Pearl's head and knocks him out
- Gin holds a gun to the back of Zeff's head
- in the SBS, Oda notes that he has 4 assistants that come and stay for 3 days and 2 nights each week
Chapter 56
- Not sure if this is Sanji's first cover page...It's him riding on a smoking buffalo with Luffy coming up behind
- Gin broke the peg leg, which is how he got ahold of Zeff
- Sanji and Zeff's interesting relationship; Sanji knows the ship is Zeff's dream so he won't abandon it, even to save Zeff's life. They insult each other, but it's very familial.
- Sanji tells Gin to point the gun at him instead.
- Pearl gets back up and attacks Sanji, telling him not to move or he'll strike Zeff instead. He gets in a massive blow
- S:"This ship...is the geezer's pride and joy!!!"
- S:"I took everything that old man had. His strength!! His dreams!! So I'll never...I'll never let anything else be taken from him!!!"
- All the cooks are surprised Sanji feels this way towards Zeff given they've only ever seen the arguing side of them
- Pearl hits Sanji again and then leaps up to splat him.
- Gin (to Luffy): "We fight for keeps, kid!!! You brought this on yourselves!!!"
- Sanji takes a massive hit to his spine (foreshadowing his back damage on Drum?) after he sees he can't move because of the gun still pointed at Zeff
- Sanji flashback part one and he is telling the chefs on the cruise ship (he's 10) about his dream of All Blue. The other chefs think it's not real.
- They are annoyed at the food waste of the customers and eating off the plates but Sanji thinks that's gross (Vinsmoke holdover?)
- Zeff and his Pirate Cooks attack
- SBS is all about Panda Man
Chapter 57
- Entire Chapter is part of the flashback. Nice use of black paneling to denote the flashback time
- People on the cruise ship recognize Zeff and that he's returned from the Grand Line
- Zeff kicks one of his own men for stealing food. They take everything they want BUT that. He refers to that crewmate as a 'stupid eggplant' so that's an old insult for him.
- Sanji holding his own with two knives. Zeff wasn't going to kill anyone but Sanji doesn't know that
- Sanji tells Zeff he's gonna find the All Blue while he's biting his leg.
- The storm gets worse and Sanji gets washed overboard. Zeff kicks down the cruise ship's mast, grabs onto it, and jumps in after Sanji (his crew doesn't understand why)
- A giant wave immediately appears and sinks Zeff's ship and the cruise ship
- Sanji awakens on the rocky bluff with Zeff. Zeff's only comfort is that he hasn't seen any corpses.
- No way to get food on the rock. Zeff gives Sanji a small bag with food and takes a larger bag for himself. They sit on opposite ends to watch for ships. Zeff clearly recognizes how dire the situation is.
- Chapter ends with Zeff using a big rock to sever his own leg at the knee. It appears to be his primary kicking leg.
- SBS: Patty's name comes from Patissier
Chapter 58
- Chapter title is the same as the volume title
- Name of Sanji's cruise ship was 'Orbit'
- Sanji initially plans for 20 days of food, able to drink water from the rock depressions
- Day 5, Sanji sees a ship but it's raining so he can't light a fire or be heard over the thunder
- Day 25, Sanji is down to his last piece of moldy bread, flashes back to the food conversation with the other chefs, loses the last bit of food over the side
- Day 70, Sanji gives in to his hunger and sees that Zeff still has a big bag that he thinks is food. He goes to cut it from the bag and finds it to be all treasure.
- He sees Zeff's amputated leg and then he understands what Zeff did but not why. Zeff says it's because they share the same dream of "All Blue."
- Zeff says he doesn't want to go back to the Grand Line to keep searching for it without his crew.
- Zeff states his new dream, that of a restaurant in the middle of the sea
- Day 85, they are found. The ship came partly because someone thought they had heard Sanji shouting from day 5
- Back to the present, S:"That fool sacrificed himself to save a worthless boy. So I'll defend him with my life...and pay my debt to the crap-geezer!!!" (calling himself worthless, a carryover from the Vinsmokes)
Chapter 59
- All the other cooks marvel at this revelation of Zeff and Sanji's past
- Luffy's had about enough of Pearl bullying Sanji so uses Gum-Gum Battle Axe to detach the fin from the Baratie so Pearl can't catch it on fire or make it into a pirate ship
- Luffy wants to sink the ship, Krieg wants Gin to shoot Zeff. Zeff is smiling.
- L:"So you're gonna die for this ship? That's stupid!! Getting killed is no way to repay your debt!!! He didn't save your life so you could throw it away!!!" (Interesting contrast with Sanji's comments during Zoro's duel with Mihawk. Sanji's basically doing the same thing here, but for someone else's dream, not his own! Also, brief flash of Shanks missing his arm as Luffy says this)
- Gin can't take it anymore and drops his gun to attack Pearl. He says he and Krieg owe Sanji a debt so he'll be the one to kill him, not Pearl. Also, Gin was the Battle Commander of the armada
Chapter 60
- Cover spread, Ritchie becomes the replacement Captain after knocking out Cabaji and Mohji in his sleep (Not important but I think it's funny)
- Zeff is amused by Luffy continually insulting Krieg's men. Luffy thinks they're not strong, there's just a lot of them
- Luffy tells Krieg he's the best material to become pirate king, pissing off Krieg. The panel of him posing is vaguely JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-esque.
- Krieg says winning is everything, no matter the means. He pulls out what he says is his poison gas cannon.
- However, it's a trick and he hits Luffy with a cannonball that bursts into shuriken and damages Luffy.
- It will be Krieg v Luffy and Gin v Sanji. Gin pins Sanji to the deck.
- SBS is the popularity poll. LOL only time Benn is in the top 10 (50?, 100?). He's number 6, ahead of Buggy and Usopp. Shanks is 3. Luffy and Zoro are 1 and 2 respectively.
Chapter 61
- Peaceful Colorspread of Luffy, Usopp, Zoro farming, Nami napping. Squid also farming
- Krieg has faith in Gin's ability to win - weird implication that Gin is both cool-headed in battle but also bloodthirsty or battle hungry in some way
- Krieg uses pointed stakes against Luffy as well as trying to knock him into the water
- Luffy is hot mad rather than cold mad at Krieg, Krieg keeps needling him and insulting him
- Gin is having trouble actually finishing Sanji due to his guilt but Sanji is not appreciative of that fact but he also can't keep fighting.
- Gin really can't do it and calls out to Don Krieg. Sanji's kindness means too much to him. (another major Sanji trait coming in to bear fruit)
Chapter 62
- Gin:"I'm sorry. I would never betray you. And I don't regret anything I've done in your service. I respect your strength and I thank you. But...this one person I cannot kill!!!"
- Krieg is super pissed and doesn't care that Gin reminds him that the cooks saved them all for nothing. He is going to use his MH5 poison gas for real this time. All his men have gas masks.
- Krieg orders Gin to drop his mask and tells him he's no longer part of the crew.
- Gin still respects Krieg and won't hear of Luffy criticizing him. He throws his gas mask into the sea.
- Luffy steals two of Krieg's men's masks and tosses them to Gin and Sanji. Zeff, Patty, and Carne retreat to the rear of the Baratie. Luffy seemingly finds a mask to put on at the last minute, but it was the one he threw to Gin.
- Krieg laughs at Gin's suffering from the gas and now Luffy is cold angry. Krieg is mistreating and mocking his crew, his own most loyal man.
