*Contains Spoilers*
Premise
We follow Monkey D. Luffy as he sets off to fulfill his dream of being a pirate and go on a high seas quest to build a pirate crew and find the legendary treasure “One Piece” and become the Pirate King. In this volume, we meet Nami, the thief and Buggy the Clown. We get to see how Luffy and Zoro work together on a new conflict.
My Review
I immediately jumped into this volume once I was done with the first. I am obsessed with One Piece and Oda’s writing and drawing style. This volume was a whirlwind with twists and turns. The absurdness just keeps coming and I love it.
We are in the Orange Town Arc and officially meet Nami, who is a thief who steals from pirates. Nami has a lot of feelings toward pirates and initially hates Luffy. HOW? Luffy is a cinnamon roll. Nami does show that she is one that plans and uses her common sense. She is a a complex character who doesn’t quite know how to deal with a person like Luffy. She and Luffy have a rocky start and she turns on him, only to save him and it is very confusing.
We meet another pirate crew that I like a lot more than Alvida’s. Buggy the Clown is definitely a bigger fish than Alvida and it shows that the conflicts are going up in difficulty as Luffy goes on his adventure. I feel like there is so much more to Buggy that we don’t know and I hope we get more of his backstory. His devil fruit power is amazing and I love that he uses knives and daggers as his main weapon of choice.
My favorite character of this volume is definitely ChouChou. He is such a good dog, protecting what’s his and his owners.
The panels have so much going on in them. You can easily miss a clue that is foreshadowing. I am reading the colored version and it makes the characters and setting more real and more like I could reach through the page and touch things.
This is such a good volume and it and the cliffhanger is top notch and Buggy has to know what he is doing by mentioning who he mentions. I want to know more! I think that sentence sums up how I feel: I want more!
That’s all for now, ’til next time.
Happy Reading!
Lily
