Another awesome volume...
Enjoyed it very much, with the humorous and exciting fight between Luffy and Buggy the Clown, and the introduction of another impending crisis that will be solved in the next volume, I think...
Saw Luffy's new move, Gum-Gum bazooka...!
In between these two major parts of the volume, there's a little and weird adventure in an island, with of course, a lesson in context...
Finally, we get to know what exactly is the "Grand Line", thanks to Nami for explaining(she really is going to become a valuable member of this crew, apart from her talent of thievery- with her knowledge of the sea and beyond and with a sensible nature unlike Luffy who's unbelievably straightforward and wreckless); it sounds scary enough, and our heroes are far from entering it...
Then we see Luffy and his crew entering a village, and "the boy who cried wolf"...
I could vaguely, at the very first moment, guess that Usopp's doings might be resulting from a tragic past or something he's incapable of sharing and expressing; up until now, I'm not sure if that's the case... he seems proud of his past, and his identity...
That's no reason to cry wolf like that every now and then, just a youth with nothing more amusing to do than bothering the villagers I guess!
And he has his own crew of three local kids, with names of spices and vegetables...!
Usopp's very good at knitting up tall tales, and he does it out of a good heart to help the sickly mistress of the mansion, to color her days full of boredom and help her to have a good time...
Still, he is after all "the boy who cries wolf", so no one takes him seriously.
But one day, the wolves really are about to show up, and the boy is no more a liar...
But no one really judges the boy, do they?
I judged mistress Kaya's butler too quickly; Oda has brought out an exceptional character in the line of as-usual antagonists up to now...
Usopp has fooled the villagers many times in the past, but now, the situation is ironically "don't get fooled again", except in this case Usopp isn't fooling them, irony is...