#chapter 450

Thoughts:

- We’re on Volume 47, folks!

- *looks at the cover* well, Luffy is having a grant time in that gold armor but everyone else… *cries* you are all so ugly

- I’m reading chapter titles and “Just not the afro!” and “Death doesn’t count as an apology” are next to each other. What a vibe switch, I’m scared

- Fpos/cs: Down the memory lane: Chibi soldier eats dinner with his dad and siblings :) aww

- ok, we’re with Scaredy Trio, everyone is yelling, Hogback is threatening everybody

- two points of interest: 1) apparently finding Cindry’s room is a big deal and 2) Shadow’s Guy with Sword’ name is Samurai Ryuuma (!!!)

- (3 points of interest, Cindry found some plates, probably to throw at our heroes. Is Cindry a horror play on sitcom wife?)

- Aww, Ryuuma is a zombie :(

- “Yohoho! There’s a really lovely princess over there! Perhaps you would be so kind as to show me your panties?” What the heck is wrong with dead people here

- Well, at least we know him and Brook are connected (Nami caught on that too, though villains probably didn’t?)

- “He’s a general zombie who holds a special body!!! A man who came from the country of Wano in the New World!” Wano? Isn’t that the Samurai Land in which One Piece has an arc running at the moment? Or at least did the last time I checked (it was 2 months ago)? That’s a good 500 chapters early story set-up. Damn. Sometimes I’m reminded that Oda actually has the whole story planned and I’m stunned at the genius of it all. Like, imagine the world if, let’s say, Kishimoto had Naruto all figured out at the beginning of the story. DAMN

- That samurai cut down a flying dragon? Respect

- …did he just ignore them

- …what

- Ah, classic shonen swordsmanship

- Change of scenery! The rest of Straw Hats is inside the mansion!

- Zombies are welcoming them in a truly zombie fashion

- Should I be worried Luffy actually looks enamored

- The other Straw Hats just don’t care. Good

- That’s how you beat up zombies, kids. Take notes

- Where the hell is Sanji

- He’s gone. AGAIN

- They’re not really worried he’s missing. Yeah, he does it frequently

- Zombies are trying to scare them off. They say Straw Hats will see their crewmates dying one by one

- Well, Luffy?

- “Go tell that Moria moron that… ‘if anything happens to one of my nakama, I’ll blow you off this island!’” Aye, aye, Captain

- …are zombies outside having a disco party?

(Don’t they know about Covid?)

- Absalom has really nice boots

- More of raising the dead

We got some elite here. Show me what you got, zombies.