One Piece 49

Jul 31, 2014 14:47

A day later than I had hoped, but on with Volume 49! A lot of shounen fighting to get through here. I'm looking forward to getting into Volume 50 and the transition to one of my favorite arcs coming up next ( Read more... )

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mangaroo August 8 2014, 04:30:00 UTC
Robin's sudden but inevitable betrayal.

Dead from laughing

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sara_tanaquil August 11 2014, 21:45:12 UTC
Hee! Did you manage to finish 49 in the end before the books had to go back to the library? I was figuring you wouldn't have much time for commenting.

Have you requested 50? Alas, I didn't manage to wrap up 50 before leaving for GenCon (departing tomorrow), so you have a bit of a breather, but I'd like to get right on it after I get back next week.

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printfogey August 13 2014, 17:26:40 UTC
The team-up fights here were so great - it's been a while since I last read it, but from what I remember, each and everyone except perhaps Luffy got their turn being 1) nearly killed, and 2) saving someone else from getting nearly killed. This is how big team-up fights should be done!! Plus, it all did a very good job of [I forget if we count this as a spoiler]cementing Brook as a future member in the crew. I think the very first time I read the part where he shows up saving Usopp at the nick of time while wearing a huge bag of salt, I cheered out loud. :D

I also really like how Lola takes her stand at the end.

And I'm particularly taken with how, when they are all knocked out one by one before Nightmare Luffy comes in, it happens in reverse crew order from Franky to Sanji, until we're just down to the first three members of the crew not counting Luffy. At which point the order breaks down, because Zoro isn't going to let Nami and Usopp get taken out before him. So the two most fragile members [*]or maybe not in the case of Usopp: I'm not sure we've ever seen Robin exposed ... )

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