One Piece Book Club: Chapters 1-3
Chapter 1:
Yippie!!!! One Piece begins with everyone’s favorite execution😁😁
New guy: Gold Roger, who is instantly executed lmaoooo
Our first look at Luffy!
New guy: Red Haired Shanks, who, presumably, has red hair
Luffy wants to be a pirate but he’s a little goober who can’t swim yet, approx 7 years old I think
New guy: Shanks’ first mate(unnamed so far)
They’re all pretty cool so far ngl
New guy: Makino! She’s the barmaid!! And Luffy puts everything on a treasure tab it seems. Also! Makino is very strong!! Look at that barrel of beer! (She’s holding a barrel labeled beer when introduced) A barrel of liquid is Not light
LUFFY YOU IDIOT WHAT ARE YOU EATING <- (i know exactly what he ate)
New guy: Higuma, some kind of bandit who loves terrorizing normal civilians
I think this line is really funny given Luffy exclusively has like crazy ass people as role models(to me)
I wanted to mention really quickly—but shanks got hit over the head with a glass bottle, which in real life is typically a life threatening attack. Realism is irrelevant given that this is one piece, but things like this are too common and underemphasized in media, so I wanted to bring it up in the off chance someone got the bright idea to recreate that move irl. Be careful not to kill people!!! It’s worryingly easy!!
Rest of the chapter goes something like this: Luffy defends shanks and his crews honor against higuma and gets beat for it, and the shanks and his crew pull of to stop that!!
Luffy gets snatched and eventually dropped into the sea, about to get eaten by a sea monster when shanks turns up and quite literally glares at it until it fucks off. Unfortunately, shanks lost an arm during the ordeal. Fortunately, Luffy gains a hat!
Ten year timeskip finds Luffy sailing away to become a pirate in his own!
Chapter 2:
Ah.
LUFFY ARE YOU ACTUALLY TWEAKING RN THATS GONNA KILL YOU
New guy: Lady Alvida of the… pirate ship. I’ll get back to you when I find out the name of the crew
New guy: Koby! My traumatized little guy!! No spine whatsoever but I think that’s a trauma response😁
New guy mention: Roronoa… Zolo. Because the translation hasn’t been updated I guess. Like, you know, just the official translation that I’ve been reading legally.
KOBY WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU😭 YOURE TOO TRAUMATIZED TO USE YOUR OWN GETAWAY BOAT😭😭😭
Luffy they’d never make me hate on your dreams (doesn’t mean I won’t hate on you though be prepared <3)
Rest of chapter is Koby being like “I wanna be a Marine!” And alvida pulls up like “🤨😡you wanna do what?? You said you were gonna capture ME?!” And then luffy punches her and makes the other crew give him and koby a little boat to sail away (we also get quick lore that to get/find the one piece you gotta go to the grand line, which people refer to as the pirates graveyard)
Chapter 3:
Luffy and koby pull up at the marine town where ‘zolo’ is located, and have a quick meal cause food is important yeah.
This combination of panels is insane😭
“Maybe they just got carried away” listen little bro(this statement is funny for meta reasons) but that is a crazy ass assumption😭😭 like the thought process is genuinely interesting though yk like “oh, they reacted like crazy when hearing about the scary guy! Maybe they went overboard and also reacted hearing about the captain morgan guy”
New guy: Captain Morgan!! Some random guy that’s running the show in this town apparently
New guy:(officially) Roronoa Zoro! That very first panel of him the page before his full body that’s a partial side profile goes hard as hell, super menacing frfr
Also he’s like strung up like a more normal (“normal”) version of like idk jesus getting crucified?? I don’t know why I was thinking of it but??? Something about it feels like it’s supposed to be symbolic of something but I have a hard time displaying media literacy during first reads so let me come back to this one after witnessing parallels or something thanks gang
Zoro says he’s been up there for nine days!😟 which would kill a normal person I’m pretty sure because dehydration kills after like three days.. I’ve heard of cases where people can survive longer under very specific circumstances but that’s neither here nor there, bro looks like he has a head wound and a line of blood out the corner of his mouth so like realism for the loss lmao
New guy: little girl! Who I don’t know the name of, but she’s trying to feed Zoro and has a very kindness aura, though I would probably use a different word if I could recall a better one
New guy: Helmeppo, some guy with like an evil version of a Karen cut and the son of captain morgan. Bro is an ass stomping on that little girls food just because she made it weird😭😭
Yk what I AM seeing parallels but between all these panels where the background whites out and its two people (one of which is always Luffy) let me cook real quick I’ll come up with something later on trust trust
Also Luffy is wild, it’s so so interesting that he’s trying to decide if Zoro should join or not due to his having a bad reputation, makes it interesting to see his psychology regarding life as a pirate. He sees piracy as freedom to chase dreams and happiness and stuff, while most others perceive it as the ability to evade the law and do illegal acts/crime as you please
Zoro displaying good character as Luffy casually is so funny for no reason—though quick mention it’s pretty interesting that to me from my general perception of Luffy is that he’d like to eat anything, though food stomped into the ground is a reasonable line, just interesting given, again, his I’ll eat very many things attitude
Luffy tells the little girl Zoro ate the food she made for him and has a quick chat with her and koby about being good and stuff, and Luffy later punches Helmeppo after he(helmeppo) declares he was super lying about making a deal with Zoro to free him
Luffy declares he wants Zoro on his crew!!
Chapter 1-3 summary and thoughts:
- Luffy backstory where he gets devil fruit powers and how he got his hat from shanks
- Luffy meets Koby(wants to be a marine as his dream), saves him from alvida, and pulls up at a marine town
- Enter Zoro! Luffy decides he wants Zoro on his crew after judging him to be a good character and witnessing what it’s like in the marine town
Not much to say that I haven’t already, but I like it a lot! Pacing is pretty fast given the reputation regarding the length of one piece, if I had no clue what was to follow from this point, I’d claim it(the pacing) similar to that of CSM, but, yeah we all know lol.
Be back next time to commentate on the next couple chapters!
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