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Title: The City of Water, Water Seven
Series: One Piece #34
Arc: Water Seven #3
Author: Eiichiro Oda
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 230
Words: 10K
The Straw Hats win the Davy Back Fight and sail on to the island of Seven Waters where there is a whole city of shipwrights to work on the Merry Go. The shipwrights show their power and the Straw Hats convert all the gold into ready cash and immediately start having robbery attempts on them.
While the end of the Fight was stupid, the introduction to the shipwrights was as madcap as I could want in the One Piece world. And Luffy’s response was just what I would expect from him, as evinced by this panel:
I now have higher hopes for this Water Seven arc than I did when it started out. That makes me happy.
★★★✬☆
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Are the water seven like the WP4?
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I think so. Probably not as good though, as it takes 7 of them to make up a group. But not everyone is awesome as the WP4…
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Seems to make sense that there’d be lots of shipwrights on an island. Beyond that I couldn’t understand what you were talking about. But . . . onward!
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That is one of the issues with reviewing a long series of manga. I either have to recap the whole book and hope the readers remember enough from my last review of a One Piece volume, or I do like this and pretty much ignore you all.
If my goal was to get you to read the series or discuss it with you, I’d probably try the recap route. But since these are for me and the me I’ll be in a decade, well, you all get the shaft…
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Yeah, I know there’s a guy named Luffy and he powers up with magic fruit and gets in fights with crocodiles and plays at being a pirate. So it’s a Manga Peter Pan or something. Most comic plots just repeat a cycle anyway.
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That’s pretty much a concise sum up. You’ll go far if you want to start reviewing manga 😉
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Something along those lines is coming . . . but maybe not in 2023.
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Eh, at this stage in my life years are pretty much feeling like months now, sigh…
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Jeepers Booky, I thought you were the youngest of the WP4!
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I am. Life is just tough right now and it colors everything.
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I know how that is, hope things improve soon Booky.
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What’s going on in that picture? Who are those people clowning in the background?
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Luffy is asking the leader of the ship builders, ie, a very skilled and important man, to come be a pirate with him.
The clowns are the man’s underlings who take his “position” way more seriously than he does 🙂
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Glad you’re back on track with One Piece lot, it’s been a bit up and down.
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Yes it has. I am hoping this is just a fun story arc.
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I had to google “shipwrights.” I feel shame. On another front, who wouldn’t want to be a pirate?
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Well, considering this is manga, I wouldn’t feel TOO much shame. Because shipwright could mean just about anything in a world where people eat devil fruits and get super powers, hhahahahaha 😀
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Glad it’s still fun! This arc does stretch out on a lot of volumes but there are some neat moments later on. I’m now 30 volumes ahead of you and things are getting wiiiiild and insaaaaaane where I’m at! I’ll be curious to see what you’ll think of upcoming arcs. 😀
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Good to know this is a long arc. I’ll try to mentally prepare myself and adjust my expectations accordingly…
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Hi there ^^
So, you are at Water Seven now… (and probably soon at the second volume of this, since I comment so late this time ^^”)
I am glad that you seem to like this arc, this is one of my more favourite ones – and the plot is not repetitive to the arcs before, I can assure you ^^
And again you chose a panel that describes Luffys character perfect xD His habit to ask everyone to join his crew will become even better in future arcs ^^
~ Misaki
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Welcome back Misaki.
So far, Water Seven is proving quite interesting. Knowing that others like it too means I’ll be able to hang tough in regards to any volumes that might fall flat for me.
Yep, next review goes up tomorrow 😀
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