#op ch91

[salteytakesonmanga]

I love covers where the crew gets to be fashionable.

Diving into some fun details, Oda did a neat thing where all of the crew share something with some of the others but nobody has all of them. It gives the cover a cohesive feeling without it being too matchy-matchy.

Zoro and Nami share a color scheme. Zoro also shares the turquoise accessories with Usopp and Sanji, and the plain accessories with Luffy. Luffy shares the floral print with Nami and Usopp. Sanji’s turquoise shoes match Nami’s nail polish. Everyone except for Usopp has something in their hands.

Someone please get the Live Action cast to recreate this cover.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

This situation comes up in a lot of One Piece fights. If you hesitate or retreat, if you let fear determine your actions instead of persevering through pain, the situation would have been worse. Here, if Luffy had tried to pull away from Arlong he would have lost his arm. Instead he used the fact that Arlong was basically immobilized to attack him.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

Luffy never is fooling around. Having fun and taking things seriously aren’t opposites. Luffy’s weird attacks actually do manage to damage Arlong. Coming up with crazy and improbable ideas and trying them all is just how Luffy fights.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

What’s with the dog motif for Garp? I guess not every captain necessarily has a ship that strictly matches their theme, but Garp’s dog thing is pretty consistent across everything he touches for these early appearances, and then completely disappears.

Oh god, is it a Big Dog reference? This was exactly the era of peak Big Dog. I don’t know if Big Dog was a thing in Japan but it combines a few characteristics of things that I associate with Japanese fashion of the 90s, which is animals, character goods, and clothes with odd slogans.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

Another close shave.

So far all of Arlong’s attacks have been just him using his own natural abilities as a Fish-man. It’s helpful for creating drama, since it lends truth to Arlong’s claims that Fish-men are the superior species and raises the tension for this fight. It also helps to introduce more about Fish-men to readers who have never seen this fictional race before.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

I can’t give it a dishonorable mention because the translation is… fine… but I just want to acknowledge the missed opportunity to make Luffy say, “Aargh, shark attack!” It would be a more accurate translation, for starters, and the stupidity of the joke would sell the rest of the scene.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

Luffy only got clipped here, you can tell because he’s spinning instead of getting flung straight backwards. Which means he managed to partially dodge Arlong’s attack. Pretty incredible to think he was able to do that from such a short range.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

Oh Sanji, my sweet summer child…

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[salteytakesonmanga]

Sanji is starting to learn.

You could make a case that this technique, if you can call it that, ties in to some of the larger themes in One Piece. But I think Oda mostly just wants to show that Luffy is a crazy bastard who is totally unpredictable and also Oda loves to reuse a good idea.

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[salteytakesonmanga]

The longer I look at this panel the weirder it gets.

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