Ah, the tail-end of Thriller Bark. I think it was here that I first started following the OP manga in earnest.
I remember only two things from Brook's past: baby Laboon (so adorable it hurts) and the Rumbar pirates slowly dying one-by-one as they play their last song. It was hideously depressing to see in the manga, and I don't dare imagine what it was like in the anime.
Zoro's encounter with Kuma is awesome. That is all.
Until now, I was confused as hell when Nami gave Lola all that treasure, and thought it was some kind of Chekhov's plotline that would be revealed 5 years down the pike. But no, it's just the resolution of an earlier plot point, apparently (I never did read the first half of Thriller Bark...).
That said, we still don't know what Moria's crew ran into in the fog, right?
I'm not particularly fond of Keimi or Pappag, but I was at the time duly impressed by how Oda folded a quirky little cover-story from years ago into the main narrative just like that. It was also at this point that I began thinking of EVERY cover-arc as being absolutely vital sooner or later.
(Dammit, where's my Wapol reappearance? Or my Gedatsu reappearance?)
The new cover-arc in this volume starring *spoiler* intrigues me the most, because out of all the cover arcs, it arguably tells the least. There's no clear character or plot progression here, and it just feels like setting the pieces into place for something bigger and better down the road.
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Date: 2014-09-07 05:44 pm (UTC)I remember only two things from Brook's past: baby Laboon (so adorable it hurts) and the Rumbar pirates slowly dying one-by-one as they play their last song. It was hideously depressing to see in the manga, and I don't dare imagine what it was like in the anime.
Zoro's encounter with Kuma is awesome. That is all.
Until now, I was confused as hell when Nami gave Lola all that treasure, and thought it was some kind of Chekhov's plotline that would be revealed 5 years down the pike. But no, it's just the resolution of an earlier plot point, apparently (I never did read the first half of Thriller Bark...).
That said, we still don't know what Moria's crew ran into in the fog, right?
I'm not particularly fond of Keimi or Pappag, but I was at the time duly impressed by how Oda folded a quirky little cover-story from years ago into the main narrative just like that. It was also at this point that I began thinking of EVERY cover-arc as being absolutely vital sooner or later.
(Dammit, where's my Wapol reappearance? Or my Gedatsu reappearance?)
The new cover-arc in this volume starring *spoiler* intrigues me the most, because out of all the cover arcs, it arguably tells the least. There's no clear character or plot progression here, and it just feels like setting the pieces into place for something bigger and better down the road.