one piece: wano country arc — act two

2024-09-25

ch. 925–955

Fuck it we ball

AA: Pog

925
Oh shit this isn't Wano! Moria's alive???

Okay, Perona is going to go find Moria and Mihawk is leaving because "an odd subject has arisen at the reverie" which idk if that means he's going to the reverie or what

Oh!? Moria is going after Blackbeard?

Oh shit Shiryu of the Rain has Absalom's invisibilty power... that means Absalom is dead, yeah?? I don't feel sorry for him. At least this Shiryu guy is likely not a perv (or at least as much as one)

"Crescent Moon Hunter" Catarina Devon can...coincidentally look like Absalom??

Yep Absalom is dead, they have the body for Moria lmao

Goddammit Teach! I wanna see that fight between the revolutionary army captains and the marine admirals so fucking bad!! But instead I just have to hear you talk about it >.< Also like, did they win??

It's true, this war for the throne of Pirate King has already begun. Three of the five emperors are convening in one place, and the other two are Blackbeard and Shanks...

Alright, Wano Act 2, here we go!

Who is this lady playing the music in front of these curtains?

Huh, Dogstorm is fighting Ashura! I wonder what's going on here!

OTAMA I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE OKAY!! ODA HAD ME SCARED EARLEIR

Raizo's helping Luffy break out of prison, cool!

Yeah that makes sense, it's been a really long time for everyone else, some of them have accepted how things are now and moved on

Oh my goodness!! I didn't think of Jack's name that way!! I love that!! His brothers are "King" and "Queen" so they are face cards!

And they are "King the Wildfire", "Queen the Plague", and "Jack the Drought"!! That's so cool!!

926
Man I LOVE the way the Flower Capital looks! The like, hooked cherry blossom tree with the traditional Japanese architecture just ASDADGADG

Oh my gosh it's really cool seeing all the folks with waning crescent moons get the secret message! I really like their different reactions, whether they are all in right away or feel like they are too old, or worry it'd be for naught.

LOL "Newbie Kunoichi Onami"!!!

LOL!! SANJI- SANGORO, SORRY, HAS A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WANTING TO GET HIS SOBA NOODLES!! THAT'S SO GOOD!

Okay okay so this labor camp is an "excavation labor camp"... I was gonna ask why they were excavating, but actually it's probably to collect materials used to make weapons in the factory.

LMAOOO LUFFY AND KID ARE TAKING THE LABOR SERIOUSLY LMAOOOOO

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO THEY ARE DOING IT IN COMPETITION WITH EACH OTHER!!! AHAJGHJAGH THAT'S SO GOOD!!!!

AND THE COMPETITION IS KEEPING THEM WELL FED AND OCCUPIED SO THEIR SPIRITS WON'T BREAK ANYWAYS LMAOO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH FUCKING DOBON!!!! THESE SMILE FRUITS MAN!!!!!

Oh Caribou's here? I didn't notice/remember that before!

LOL OF COURSE THEY BEAT DOBON IMMEDIATELY EVEN WITH THE HANDCUFFS

found the sbs haha

927
Hahaha Otoko is so cute!!! I'm glad she got her bowl of noodles!

OH NO WANO'S "PERFECT" WOMAN IS COMING BY AND SANJI IS GONNA BE THERE TO SEE IT OH FUCK

THE FUCKING SHOGUN WANTS (ew) KOMURASAKI!?!?? Plots just keep on piling on

928
Aww! Luffy gave the old man a bunch of food tickets!!!! I love him so much!!

I love Raizo! He's just this big guy who goes somehow completely undetected! He just describes a pretty much worse case scenario for what it'll take to break him out and then is like "have no fear, I WILL procure the key, but it will take time." so good!!!

I'm honestly super excited to get more Kid! I love his rivalry with Luffy here so much, and I just know we're gonna work together to take him down in the end!!!

Aha!!! Komurasaki is the one in the act beginning/ending sections! That's super neat!!

Lol of course she's a con!

Yeah, I thought Hiyori would be alive. That'll be an interesting interaction when they meet again!

929
Oh shit Franosuke quit his job!!

HAHAHA I LOVE THAT THE MANSION PLANS WENT THROUGH SO MANY PEOPLE OVER ALL THESE YEARS! Makes for a great scene!!

OH NO IT ENDS WITH THEM GETTING STOLEN BY A GUY WHO'S FACE WAS HIDDEN FROM KURI

Wow this Shogun guy suucks

930
The people of Ebisu are delightful!

HERE COMES BIG MOM!!!

UHHHH??? RIP BIG MOM??????? SHE JUST FELL INTO THE WATER!!!!

AYYE!! SANJI'S STILL GOT THE GERMA SUIT THING!! Honestly great idea for a disguise!!

931
Stealth Black huh? There's a cooler name out there somewhere. It might be Soba Mask!!

God fucking dammit... Sanji can turn invisible now... I do love that Law knew Sanji's power (even though he never used it) from that book!!

Hell yeah!! We're gonna get to change the design!!!

OH NO ROBIN'S BEEN CAUGHT

WAAAIITTT WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?! BIG MOM HAS AMNESIA IAJFO:AEGHOAGH:OAE ODA YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE WTF

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AA: :)

932
Oh shit! Robin used a "clone" of herself! That's so clever!!

The Shogun's gathering is not going well...

933
Oh no!!! They killed Komurasaki!!! I'm glad Robin's saving Otoko though!!

Hell yeah Nami, fucking LIGHTNING BOLT straight to that mother fucker!

I can't believe Big Mom lost her memory... that's a RIDICULOUS turn of events!! I still can't get over it!

AA: gotta love convenient plot devices

934
Lol I love Robin complaining about not finding out any information and then immediately listing all of the information she learned!

SMAIL??? SMAIL??? SMAIL?????? "WANO'S VERSION OF TRANSPONDERS"???

Kid got away??? Huh!!

Poor old man Hyo...
It's getting late...unfortunately, I think that's all I can do for the night

Okay okay okay! Home again! I've been dying to read more so here I go!

935
AYYE RAIZO GOT THE KEY! HELL YEAH!

Luffy training with the seastone cuffs on so he'll be stronger without them reminds me of (mild naruto spoilers) rock lee's weights coming off

Queen doesn't know Komurasaki died it seems...

Oh lol his lackies are just scared of telling him

LOL I love that Queen is super shocked by all three of the "top 3 things they are worried about"

Is, somehows, Hyogoro the Flower actually Old Man Hyo? Considering our straw hats chose psuedonyms in a similar style, and Hyo could be a nickname...I'm gonna say probably

The bath boys look JUST like the octopus we saw on the ship a while back

Totally right about Hyogoro!

So the mysterious jailed guy is Kawamatsu, someone Raizo knows...I don't think I recognize that name? Presumably someone related to the Kozuki clan

936
It was definitely a mistake taking Luffy's seastone cuffs off. Even with the collar, he's got this

I still hate the weaponizing women's bodies and the nosebleeds and all that. It makes me so upset and fully takes me out of reading

Oh no! Bepo has been captured (as well as the rest of the Heart Pirates minus Law)!

937
I LOVE that Luffy is just using this as an excuse to perfect his moves hahaha!!

Lol! I love that Big Mom is expecting oshiruko (but Chopper intended it to be a lie so he's worried), and there actually WILL BE oshiruko when they get there because of Queen!!

Also it's gonna be so funny when everyone's freaking out (I assume Queen knows who she is?) because Big Mom is here and that can only mean bad things but she has no clue lol

Oooh the Shusui backstory is super cool!

Uhhhh Komurasaki??? I thought you were dead!!! Why are you not dead???

938
Okay I don't think Komurasaki possibly could have lived in that scene and got away with the girl when she didn't even leave the building with her. I'm gonna propose 2 possibilities. I think either 1) Komurasaki knew something was up and sent a look-a-like to the thing or 2) She is actually secretly a twin. I'm probably totally wrong but until they tell me how she escaped I'm gonna have fun with my crazy theories

Okay, apparently it's Hiyori??? Did she really somehow fake her death and escape and is also secretly Hiyori or are the look-a-likes or wtf??

939
Oh goodness! Kawamatsu is who raised Hiyori!! That's the person in the jail cell, that's super neat how that ties together!

Oda better not deprive me of a Hiyori and Momonosuke/Kozuki clan reunion...

Hell yeah!! Old man Hyo is helping Luffy learn!!

940
HAHA OF COURSE OTOKO IS FROM THIS LAUGHING VILLAGE

LMAO RAIZO'S USING CARIBOU

I'M CRYING AT RYO FINDING OUT THAT "THE FIRE OF REBELLION STILL BURNS"

Hell yeah!! Free the slaves!!! We can do it!

941
Ookay.... this "witching hour boy" apparently is someone who was believed to be dead, but we don't get to find out who! I can't think of anyone that jumps out at me...

Oh goodness a public execution. We're obviously crashing that

They are really treating this like Komurasaki and Hiyori look identical but are different, but maybe she's actively trying to hide that. It would make perfect sense for Komurasaki to have been her alias, considering she couldn't publicly say she's Kozuki clan without major consequences

OH NO IT WAS TONOYASU NOOOOO

Oh shit and he was using an alias too! Lord Yasui is an old Kozuki clan ally!

942
This fucking speech by Tonoyasu/Lord Yasui is golden! It's really getting to be Roger/Whitebeard death levels of motivating for the people here!

Taking credit for the secret message is smart! That will at least hide the survivors of the Kozuki clan's existance, and just maybe might release the people with the tattoo!

RIP Tonoyasu!!

Oh shit? The reason the people of Ebisu have permanent smiles is the smile fruits??? How?? Why??

943
I can't help but notice the people with the smile fruit powers are not the people of Ebisu town so...what's the connection?

Woah... this smile fruit stuff is crazy. Only a 10% chance of success? It forces the user to smile even if they don't get the fruit's power? Wow...

LOL Zoro and Sanji both jump in to save Otoko together and look at each other like "dammit this was my job"

944
YEAH RAISE HELL EVERYONE!!!

Oh? Kid seems to know Kamazo the Manslayer... Was he on his crew before he clearly ate a smile fruit??

OH SHIT KAMAZO IS KILLER?

945
They now officially know that all of the Straw Hats are here in Wano!! At least the Kozuki clan is still hidden

AYYE BIG MOM TIME!!

Big Mom is so powerful, it's good to have her on our side, if only briefly

946
I knew Big Mom would come in here and fuck things up... the cell holding Kawamatsu just got busted open too!

Wow... Luffy just ripped those collars off!! That should be impossible right? I wonder how he did that!

947
Oh hey! I didn't remember that Rayleigh did that way back when! That's a really cool explanation of that use of haki! It's so cool that there's still so much power left Luffy can still achieve

QUEEN BONKED BIG MOM ON THE HEAD AND SHE GOT HER MEMORY BACK THIS IS GONNA BE SOMETHING

LOL AND THEN SHE IMMEDIATELY FALLS OVER

Wow... Queen's taken Big Mom captive... that's uhhh absolutely crazy!?!?!?!?!?

HELL YEAH LUFFY! I LOVE THIS PANEL SO MUCH

The "I've always been free" is so damn good. He values freedom more than anything! Seastone cuffs is not enough to take away his freedom!!

948
Aww hell yeah!! Cover serial with Bege and Chiffon!!

I LOVE Kawamatsu's design oh my goodness!!!

Oh shit Okiku trans??

949
Chopper without his hat is kinda cursed lmao

Lol Kid is not gonna like being called "sir Luffy's friend"

FUCK YEAH LUFFY! GETTING THE VIRUS AND WINNING EVERYONE'S HEART ASUADGDASDGDSG

950
(Cover story) YEAH CHIFFON YOU GO SEE LOLA!!

Wow Kid's mechanical stuff arm is so cool! He doesn't want to work with Luffy, which makes sense, but I bet anything they will end up working together by the end of this

951
Wow Law gave himself up so his crew can go free. I'm kinda impressed that Basil kept his word and LET them go free honestly

LMAO USOPP AND ROBIN MADE THE FACES TO AVOID BEING CLOCKED

Oh shit!! Kaido had Big Mom freed and now they're dueling! This is gonna be a big deal!!

952
LMAO OTAMA CAN TAME ZOAN USERS (and by extention smile fruit users) HAHA!!

Ayye!!! It was Ashura who stole the mansion plans!!

I see where this is going. They need Katanas for all the people who want to fight... and the monk Zoro is fighting collects Katanas!!!

953
I must say I'm really glad Hiyori and Kawamatsu got to reconnect!

Oh the monk guy is the fox, huh. I'm curious about that explanation. I did suspect it this chapter

Interesting, I wonder if Zoro actually is giving up Shusui for Enma!

954
Oh shit Scratchman Apoo is a Kaido guy? I didn't expect that honestly...

Oh my goodness Big Mom and Kaido have actually teamed up FUCK! I love that they're like "let's take over the world and THEN we can fight to the death!!" So good haha

955
Well fuck. The Shogun knows about the change in port. This is going to be a wild battle

Cool. I'm glad I got to the end of the act. I stayed up to try and do just that because I'm behind schedule!! I'm really trying to catch up by October 2nd!

I have classes starting then and I don't want to be tempted to read One Piece instead lol

I think I can do it!!!

More tomorrow for sure lol

AA: Pog

AG: Ariah dont read this until You finish 976 i'm writting this in advance in case of me missing when You read this chapter
[spoiler tagged]

lmao posting something in advance

AG: Cant blame me for calling My shot

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