Reading One Piece pt 249: Bubbles
Chapter 496
Thoughts:
- Fpos/cs: “In St. Poplar, the town of the Spring Queen, without money for medical care” AND it’s raining. It’s horrible on all fronts
- Straw Hats are back on the sea!
- Food time! Luffy is getting his promised Takoyaki! And wow, even Sanji is praising them, it must be really something
- ! Nami|Hachi tense moment. I’m glad manga remembers they have history
- And that it handled it pretty gracefully! There’s no forgiveness! But past is the past and let’s keep it there
- Wait, what now
- DUVAL?????
- What is going with his face NOW? I would say he’s handsome but in a scary way
- “I changed his bone structure. Now he can’t complain” …Sanji, you did something similar with cook in Puffing Tom. Sanji, are you a plastic surgeon. These kicks are something else
- And now Duval is happy. Told you that Sanji is one kind bastard
- “Great, you’re pretty, now get out” – said everyone but especially Sanji
- Don’t hit on Nami if you don’t want your face reconstructed again, Duval. I don’t approve of that behavior but that’s how it is
- Ah no, he’s just being Narcissus reincarnated, fine
- Bye Duval, have bad time terrorizing villagers
- Haha, looks like that dinner defeated everyone :D
- (Good news everyone, Brook is finally at ease! Nami has another guy to yell at tho)
- Oh, looks like they need to go to Sabaody Archipelago, there’s technology that will let them get to Fishman Island
- Knowledge time
- So there’s two ways to get to New World. One is below the Red Line (Fishman Island) and other is above the Red Line (Marijoa). Marijoa is WG’s Holy Land so it’s closed for pirates
- To get through Marijoa people have to leave their ships behind and buy new ones on the other side? A) sad B) Marijoa gets nice money out of it, I’m sure
- But it’s easier and safer than Fishman Island route so people take it
- Fishman Island: “It’s directly under Marijoa. You dive and dive to the sea floor, about 30, 000 food down!” wait, how much it is in kilometers
- That’s over 9 kilometers! Mount Everest isn’t that tall! But Mariana Trench is 1 km deeper (around 36 000 feet) Wow
- “Wasn’t Sky Island about 30 000 feet up in the sky?” Zoro, my mind is already blown, you’re not helping
- They’re on the Island!
- Now this is what adventure is all about, it’s moments like this
- Look how small Sunny is
- Are you telling me they’ll put a bubble around Sunny and send it to the Mariana Trench no problem?
- Apparently that island makes bubbles itself
- And apparently that’s not an island, it has no magnetic field (log is safe)
- “Sabaody Archipelago is a collection of the world’s largest mangroves, the Yarukiman Mangroves” I kinda want to go there myself
- “There are a total of 79 trees. Each tree has a town or some facilities. There are 79 islands altogether, and they’re called Sabaody Archipelago. Travelers stop here on the way to the New World.” This is amazing
- Big trees indeed
- They docked on Grove 41, remember that Zoro :D
- The trees do, in fact, create bubbles
- It’s sticky business :D
- Now let’s bubble the ship
- Hachi wants them to promise him something before they’ll go to explore the island
The request is reasonable but I just can’t see that happening. Sorry Hachi.
rOP 248 rOP 250
