#one piece book club

[nhi-theuser]

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!

[grechsblog]

okay girl!

[acelvrr]

Book club

y/n: okay guys lets start reading

Luffy : *just walking by* Read!! what? I wanna read

y/n: no you don't

Luffy: no I don't *shakes his head*

[i-am-vita]

Shanks Bodice Ripper

The more I look at number two from the poll, the more I think it fits more Shanks than Beckman.

Except Shanks would totally be cracking up, having just take his girl by surprise and bring her closer to him.

Reader: Ehhh... what are you doing?

Shanks: Just posing, love. Feel THE POSE... and make that face you had last night after...

Reader: Bye... 😑

Shanks: But... the pose! 🥺

I mean, come on! The man it's all for looking cool as a cucumber just to mess with everyone.

Exhibit A:

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[liznfin]

Every knight needs a noble steed, Orion Fowl is no exception.

[communistkenobi]

another very silly writing rule I remember from high school english class was the idea that you should not repeat yourself in essays. books and essays that restate their main argument each time they present new evidence has always been very effective for my own learning, especially when the topic is complicated. the “no repeats” rule makes sense when it’s used to discourage students from trying to beef up word count and encourage students to properly synthesise their own arguments, but it was never explained to me in those terms, it was all just these writing axioms you had to follow to produce a “good” piece of writing

[yayotalkshow]

LISTEN NOW!

Captain Molly was real excited when we decided (after much coaxing) to read the #OnePiece Ace Novels.

Listen on your podcast platform of choice!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Wna6eYhjqcnJEHbUdUmBN

[manzis-world]

If you guys can have a fictional creature as pet or fictional character as a friend but they can only use their power for good who will it be and why

Mine are

1 slime - can help by digesting all the plastic waste in the world

2 venom (MCU) - as it can eat human organs it can also eat cancer cells

3 Nico Robin (one piece) - uncovering the history of the world

4 infinity stones (mcu) - instead of erasing half the population of the universe to balance with resources creating more of resources to balance with the population

5 Resurrection stone ( Harry Potter) - to have chat with famous research and scientists

[sandwichhour]

Strange parasite

Redraw of an older piece (og under the cut)

[hmsmilkbone]

honestly. I don't really have a lot of interest in jjk anymore, which is super frustrating as the story foundation is really interesting. I have my favorite characters, and I'm not really interested in reading beyond this point.

As a whole, I'm not a huge fan of dropping stories just because they don't go the way you want. In general I personally try not to do this, but stories where the author clearly hates the material or the audience so much they're willing to destroy the story to do so are not enjoyable. I really don't think gege even really likes writing jjk anymore.

There may be some change that I hear about months from now where something worked out one way or the other, but in general I feel like this story is not going to resolve in a way that feels like reading it was a worthwhile experience. And like, for good OR bad. Not every story has a happy ending, but this is really not particularly interesting and I don't feel the need to continue a story where the writer isn't even interested in what happens or how it advances anything outside of their personal pettiness. Feels very much like grr Martin. All the meaningless death and abuse without any real redeeming qualities.

I'm trying to remind myself that not every author wants to be a storyteller. Not every story is good. It's ok to read stories that aren't the best simply because you want to see where it goes, but gege isn't superior in some way, and i dont 'trust that he's cooking'. Even if the story turns around in an interesting or strategic way, I really am not particularly impressed. Ordinarily I would stay along for the ride, but I can't bring myself to care about something even the author doesn't care about. :/

[nhi-theuser]

One Piece Book Club: Chapters 16-21

Damn bro I’m getting tuckered out reading allat😭💀

End of an arc though!

Chapter 16:

Luffy did a balloon thing last chapter which, again, not possible so he’d die but you go king

Buggy and some used crewmates as meat shields, which, uh, been a hot minute idk what they defended against but I think it’s a toss up and slightly survivable, though if you have to use a human shield that usually means it’s not a fun attack

Guy is beating on Zoro and I’m ngl I think that’s not very good maybe that’s just me😁😁

ZORO FUCKING STABS HIMSELF???? INCORRECT BUZZER THAT IS NOT SURVIVABLE WITH BASE WOUNDS DURING A FIGHT SORRY GUY BUT THATS BOT SMART

Chapter 17:

Guy and Zoro fight some more and buggy tries to hold Zoro down except Luffy stops it cause it’s Zoro a fight so that’s a neat show of character

Zoro beats guy up and immediately passes out from probably blood loss, again, normal people don’t quite survive that sort of thing but like have fun w it I guess😭

Chapter 18:

Luffy and Buggy start scrapping!

Buggy gets pissy cause it turns out Luffy got his hat from shanks, who buggy says used to be a cabin boy with him when they were on a different pirates crew together

Buggy beats up the hat and Luffy is the pissed one now😬😬 have fun with that zamn

Chapter 19:

Neat cover art! Love watching this little guy do idiot stuff

Flashback!! Shank stole something from buggy apparently.. them as little guys is silly though!

New guy: unnamed older crewmate with interesting beard that gives gyro.. though this guy did it first I think, can’t imagine sbr preceded one piece lol

Ah, looks like buggy was trying to get the fruit by eating a fake and accidentally ate it fr cause shanks shocked him,, and the one map he had fell in the ocean.. man id have beef with him too for that one lol

Chapter 20:

Ah! Buggy is trying to fly at Nami after spotting her with his treasure.. and Luffy kicked him in the balls since he left his bottom half hanging out on the ground though lmaooo

Luffy got his hands on a map of the grand line!!!! Yippie!!!!

Damn they launched buggy into space like team rocket😭😭

Chapter 21:

Big tiger! Yay!

Dog reappears for a minute!! Love that little guy

Mayor pops back up one last time to say thank you and it’s very cool!

Reading summary:

+ Nami (temporary?)

- Buggy defeated!

Fun time over all, looking forward to what comes next from here!

[every-sanji]

[detectivereads]

Manga Series Master List

Hi everyone, Ok I know If you go through this list a lot of these series has a 5/5 score. That's because these series are some of my favorite's series. I love these series a lot. I really wanted to share these series with others as well.

I do love My Hero Academia, SpyXFamily, One Piece and Komi Can't Communicate, I LOVE Case Closed. I might do reviews for the whole series for these one because these series are either still ongoing or they are massive.

Lately I have been finding some weird manga, but I am ok with it.

New Manga/Future Reads:

Detective/Mystery Manga

Horror/Mystery:

The Strange House

Food/Cooking/Cozy:

Delicious in Dungeon/ Dungeon Meshi:

Click here to see my Delicious in Dungeon Idea page.

Delicious in Dungeon vol 1

Delicious in Dungeon vol 2

Delicious in Dungeon vol 3

Delicious in Dungeon vol 4

Delicious in Dungeon vol 5

Delicious in Dungeon vol 6

Delicious in Dungeon vol 7

Delicious in Dungeon vol 8

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu:

Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu vol 1

Restaurant to Another World (Manga)

Restaurant to Another World vol 1

Toriko:

Toriko vol 1

Toriko vol 2

Superman Vs Meshi:

Click here to see Batman/Dc comic/Comic Heroes list

Superman Vs Meshi vol 1

Superman Vs Meshi vol 2

Superman Vs Meshi vol 3

One Shots (Series that only have 1-3 volumes):

One Piece Shokugeki No Sanji

Giant Spider & Me

Slice of Life:

Mr. Villain's Day Off:

Mr. Villain's Day Off Vol 1

Mr. Villain's Day Off Vol 2

New Game:

New Game vol 1

Light Novels:

The Hero and his Elf Bride Open a Pizza Parlor in another World

Restaurant to Another world (Light Novel):

Restaurant to Another world vol 1

Adventure:

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun:

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun vol 1

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun vol 2

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun vol 3

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun vol 4

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun vol 5

Romance:

Let's Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World:

Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World vol 1.

Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World vol 2.

Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World vol 3.

Let’s Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World vol 4.

Let's Buy the Land and Cultivate it in a Different World vol 5.

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-be Wife:

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-be Wife vol 1

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-be Wife vol 2

The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-be Wife vol 3

The Savior's Book Cafe:

The Savior’s Book Café Story in Another World vol 1

The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World Vol 2

Love's in Sight!:

Love's in Sight! Vol 1

A Sign of Affection:

A Sign of Affection vol 1

[i-am-vita]

Beckman Bodice Ripper pt. 4

It's finished!!! As far as my current abilities go. Not gonna lie, I'm mighty proud of that background 😂

Follow the process: 1, 2, 3, Final Cover

(Sorry, I couldn't resist 🤣)

But Designer Brain needs to turn it into an actual book cover:

Now it just needs a catchy phrase that fit those four lines to sum up the story of a widow who pays passage at the Red Force to start a new life somewhere else and fancies the First Mate during the voyage 😉

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[wrishwrosh]

crushed beneath the tyrannical weight of a book club book i dont really like that much

[rofax]

nothing has ruined my faith in people's reading comprehension, media literacy, critical thinking, etc like joining discussion groups