One Piece (current arc)

[sara_tanaquil]

The current arc is KILLING me. (It's Wednesday! Chapter 673 just appeared, and is full of plotfulness and hilarity.) It's so awesome, but I feel like no one else on my flist is caught up to the current raws/scanlations, so I can't squee about it here. Sure, I could go to one_piece or Arlong Park Forums and talk about it there, but... strangers!

If anyone is actually following the latest, take pity on me and comment here?

For the record, in case anyone's wondering: I subscribe to SJ Alpha and download all the latest chapters to my iPad, but SJ Alpha is two weeks behind the latest chapter in Japan (latest out: 671), and dork that I am, I can't bring myself to wait that long. The scanlations which come out as soon as the chapter appears in Japanese are mostly kind of horrible (badly scanned, often badly translated), but I'll do anything for my fix.

Lately I discovered that a site called Mangahead puts up the raws of the latest chapter for a very brief period (currently they're displaying 671-673), which makes me super happy, since I can at least try to read them in Japanese. (Badly scanned and annoyingly watermarked, but viz. fix, above.) It was driving me insane trying to guess what the Japanese was behind the English chapters I was reading.

I'm a bit behind on ordering from Amazon.jp -- Volumes 65 and 66 are out already in Japanese, 67 coming out on 8/3. I should wait until August to order... right?

All right, jeez, I have better things I should be doing.

ETA: the commentary on the current one_piece chapter 673 discussion post just keeps getting funnier.


Typical of Robin to bring up awkward subjects like 'HEY, SMOKEY, REMEMBER WHEN I LOCKED YOU IN A CAGE WITH YOUR NEMESIS BEFORE?' (pamplemose)

Is any one else amused by Sanji!Nami's face in that final panel? With the tears, the angle and the expression she reminds me of all of those terrible uke!Sanji shots from doujins. x3 (xarciel)

OH MY GOD IT WAS A HAMBURGER. Everything makes sense now. [...] Hah, oh Oda, only you would think it's a good idea to introduce a villain with his lunch still affixed to the side of his face. (xarciel)

I love the look Law's giving Luffy in the panel when we first see them in the cage. This is your life now, Law. (kala_aira)

I now ship Law with everyone, inside and outside of that cage. (nopejustme)


(And that's not even covering all of the interesting-actual-plot speculation going on.)

Comments

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Yeah, I can't imagine him leaving the Marines of his own accord (at this point), though I could imagine him being unjustly forced out. At which point, though, he'd probably still be a vigilante Marine in his own head. ^__^

(And Tashigi would never leave his side. Best team ever! I was super happy to see her referred to as "Smoker's right hand", even if the guy saying it was a jerk.)

the new Commander in Chief of the new government led by Iceburg, Vivi, and Dalton :p)

OMG yes! (And Shirahoshi!)