Monday 5 December 2011

Manga Review (One Piece vol 4)


(read: 3/Dec/11)
      The Black Cat Pirate

    Prod dets
OnePiece series, Vol 4
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback (mid); 189 pp w/ chapters 27 to 35
Age Range: YA

    Synopsis
Captian Kuro of the Black Cat Pirates was the most feared evil genius on the high seas...until he vanished. Most people believe he’s dead, but only his crew knows the truth: Captian Kuro has been lying low in a small seaside village, posing as a mild-mannered bulter until the time for pillage is just right. now that time has come, and the ruthless Black Cat Pirates are about to attack....

Unless, of course, Monkey D. Luffy can stop them! All Luffy has on his side are his sword-wielding first mate, Zolo; his thieving navigator, Nami; Usopp, a local kid with a knack for telling lies; and his own bizarre rubber-limbed powers. If these four amateur pirates want to stop the entire Black Cat crew, they’ll have to come up with a pretty slick plan....


    Catch up....Monkey D. Luffy started out as just a kid with a dream—and that dream was to become the greatest pirate in history! Stirred by the tales of pirate “Red-Haired” Shank, Luff vowed to become a pirate himself. That was before the enchanted Devil Fruit gave Luffy the power to stretch like rubber, at the cost of being unable to swim—a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog. Undeterred, Luffy sat out to sea and recruited a couple of crewmates: master swordsman Zolo and treasure-hunting thief Nami.

After stopping at a tiny seaside village for food and supplies, Luffy and his crew have landing at the centre of a pirate plot. For three years, the evil genius Captain Kuro has been posing as a mild-mannered butler to steal the fortune of a sickly girl named Kaya. At dawn, Kuro’s followers, the Black Cat Pirates, will invade the village, plunder it—and kill Kaya! Fortunately, a local boy named Usopp has learned Kuro’s plot. Unfortunately, Usopp is famous as the town’s biggest liar....

My thoughts....so this ones the middle of the battle—or maybe more so the start, being that Luff and crew along with Usopp wait for the pirates to come to land....only problem, they were waiting at the wrong one (I mention this bit, because it’s funny as hell and has stuck in my mind more than any part of the book.

So we start the beginning fight with both hypnotist and the cat brothers, which is more Zolo’s thing being that the hypnotist actually knocks Luff out for a huge chuck of this book—though saying all that Uposs does start the battle and ends up knocked the F out!

We end this one with Kaya showing up because that’s where Kuro—her butler is and she wants to off him, but she doesn’t have it in her so she ends up running with Usopp’s crew.

   When it continues....what does it mean to be a real pirate? That question will be decided once and for all as the battle for the village reaches its climax. Zolo duels with Butchie and Siam...Usopp’s pirates race to save Kaya...and Luffy, of course, goes one-on-one against Captian Kuro!

Series
Vol1, vol2, vol3, [tb] and 58 others....
☼☼☼

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