manga Review (One Piece vol 2)

(read: 3/Dec/11)

      Buggy the Clown

    Prod dets

OnePiece series, Vol 2

Pub: 1997, SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo

Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda

Cat: pirates

Format: graphic novel, paperback (mid); 193 pp w/ 9 chapters

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

As a kid, Monkey D. Luffy vowed to become King of the Pirates and find the legendary treasure called the “One Piece.” The enchanted Gum-Gum Fruit has given Luffy the power to stretch like rubber—and his new crewmate, the infamous pirate hunter Roronoa Zolo, strikes fear into the hearts of other buccaneers! But what chance does one rubber guy stand against Nami, a thief so tough she specializes in robbing pirates...or Captain Buggy, a fiendish pirate lord whose weird, clownish appearance conceals even weirder powers? It’s pirate vs. pirate in the second swashbuckling volume of One Piece!

    Catch up....It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Countless pirates sail the seas, searching for legendary pirate Gold Roger’s mysterious treasure, the “One Piece.” Among them is Monkey D. Luffy, who grew up listening to the wild tales of buccaneer “Red-Haired” Shanks and dreaming of becoming a pirate himself. Having eaten the fruit of the Gum-Gum Tree, Luff has the bizarre power to stretch like rubber—at the cost of being unable to swim!

Now Luffy’s quest to become the King of Pirates has begun. He’s found in unlikely friend and crewmate in the fearsome pirate hunter Zolo. But Luff and Zolo are separate Captian Buggy and his gang. Meanwhile, Luffy meets Nami the thief, who specializes in robbing pirates. With an untrustworthy thief at his side and enraged pirates on his tail, Luffy’s career in the height seas is already in big trouble. And he’s about to learn the terrible secret of Captain Bugg’s success....

 

My thoughts....shit its good! Really, we come into this book with a little bit of a who? What? and explanation that shows why he became the way he is—basically he also ate the Devil’s fruit and has abilities, thought they aren’t like Luff’s.

This one is mostly about Luffy’s battle with the Captain’s number 2 and Zolo with his 3^rd. Or are they actually the other way around? I’m not sure and can’t be bothered to flip through the pages until I find the right answer—so bitch if you have to, I don’t care.

This one we learn a little more about Nami, though not all about her, but more importantly we find ourselves with a navigator, because that’s what Luffy wants her to be and that’s what he will make her be. He’s kinda one tacked that way.

It’s a battle with a pirate and a small town that end up loving them even though they aren’t meant to because, well, there pirates—even if all of Luffy’s crew is against the idea that they are pirates. Funny. Still, it’s great, great, great!!!!

   When we continues.... “....Red Hair!?”

To be continued in ONE PIECE, Vol 3!

Series

Vol 1, [tb] and 58 others.

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