One Piece. Omnibus, Vol. 18

One Piece 3-in-1 Omnibus #18

by Eiichiro Oda

Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece.

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He’ll never be able to swim again—a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog! Years later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world…

Stopping by the Sabaody Archipelago to get an expert varnish on their ship, the Thousand Sunny, Luffy and his Straw Hat crew run into trouble when they bristle at the local slave trade. Soon the Navy is hot on their trail, and due to the astounding powers of an animalian warlord, Luffy is spirited away to a distant corner of the sea! Will he ever make it back to his crew and achieve his dream of finding the “One Piece”?

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Adventure, Comics, Action, Humor, Graphic Novels

640 pages, Paperback

Published December 6, 2016

About the author

Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎, Oda Eiichirō) is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece.

As a child, Oda was inspired by Akira Toriyama's works and aspired to become a manga artist. He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled Vicky the Viking. He submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga Kinnikuman. Pandaman was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works.

Please also see:
尾田荣一郎 (Chinese, simplified)
尾田榮一郎 (Chinese, traditional)

Reviews

[Emily M · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5

“Luffy: Bon-chan! I thought you died that time!...
Bon Clay: Haha…We queers never die! (aside: Wait, is that really true?)”
(Lines based on anime original voice acting, because the standard translations, in the manga especially, don’t capture the full vibe Oda seems to be going for.)

First, though, a brief summary of events:

We follow up on Luffy’s decision to punch a Celestial Dragon – one of the noble class specially protected by the navy and world government. This leads to a scuffle that breaks up a slave auction and introduces our crew to “Dark King” Silvers Rayleigh, the first mate of the first “King of the Pirates”, Gol D. Roger. Their chat reveals many things, including that Buggy and Shanks were apprentices on Rogers ship (which neither ever mentioned to Luffy), and that Roger wasn’t ever captured. He had a terminal illness and, after they’d completed their journey, he gave himself up, telling Rayleigh on his way to his execution: “I won’t die, partner.” Behind this is the same philosophy as Chopper’s mentor’s statement that a man doesn’t die until he is forgotten – because, with his statement from the scaffold about the One Piece, Roger turned the event from the warning the government wanted it to be into the spark of the Great Pirate Age!
Rayleigh also asks Luffy: “Do you think you can conquer such powerful oceans?” To which Luffy replies: “I’m not going to conquer anything! The one who is the most free is the pirate king!”

However, the government crackdown on Sabaody Archipelago turns out to be more than our crew (and the other powerful rookie pirates who are also there) can handle. Those of us who enjoy “Zoro and Sanji actually care about each other” moments get quite a few here, as it is clear that Zoro is not at 100% after his encounter with Kuma, and Sanji is therefore trying to keep an eye on him.
“Sanji: Nami! I’ll protect you! Even if it kills me!…
Franky: If you’re prepared to risk your life, be the decoy for all of us.
Sanji: Ladies only, idiot!...
(Pacifista targets Zoro and Usopp)
Also Sanji: Franky! Take care of Nami!! Go on without me!!”
However, neither Sanji nor Luffy can save the wounded Zoro from being “disappeared” by that same warlord…who then does the same to the rest of the Straw Hats, one by one. Seeing Luffy weep and beat his head against the ground because he couldn’t save his crew is really heartbreaking…even with the hint that Kuma didn’t just murder them all being confirmed when he “poofs” Luffy too, and our captain ends up getting yeeted to the island of Amazon Lily, inhabited by the Kuja (“nine snakes”) warrior women.

I have to say, I was impressed at the variety of positively-portrayed female body types represented among the Amazons ( “Here, strength is beauty”)…and a little more annoyed, in that context, that the MAJOR female characters – Nami, Vivi, Robin, etc. - in ‘One Piece’ tend to look like the same person in different wigs! Their personalities are very different, of course, and they are well-written characters…but this ‘same face syndrome’ was clearly entirely avoidable!

Amazon Lily is ruled by pirate empress Boa Hancock, the eldest of the “gorgon sisters”. Boa Marigold and Sandersonia have snake powers, while Hancock can shoot her “love-love” beam and turn anyone who is attracted to her to stone – which, since she is incredibly beautiful, is basically every allosexual person in the ‘One Piece’ world! Now, for anyone who knows their Greek mythology (or at least Ovid’s version of it), this obvious medusa-theming might be raising tragic-backstory red flags! Hancock and her sisters were captured as girls and sold into slavery, and they still bear the mark of the Celestial Dragons’ brand on their backs. That, plus the fact that they came out of that experience clearly traumatized and hating men specifically has, uh, dark implications that mature readers will understand, even if Oda doesn’t spell it out in this PG-13 story.
There’s a great video essay called “The Beauty of Boa” that talks about how interesting her character writing is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HTi...

Hancock ends up falling for Luffy, partly because he has a strong sense of justice but, even more so, because he treats her like just a person. Some fans think Hancock and Luffy must be end-game, citing things like her name, which probably derives from Thomas Hancock, an inventor who more or less founded the British rubber industry. But I hope Oda sticks to the aroace version of Luffy he seems to be establishing (see below), not just because it would be a rare and wonderful bit of representation, but also because I think Oda is too good a writer to gift his protagonist the most beautiful woman in the world without building up to it more. Also, it would be sad if Hancock’s bar stayed so low that she takes some guy not objectifying her, finally remembering her name isn’t “Hammock”, and giving her a “thanks, bro!” handshake as a declaration of true love!

Which is something that happens after the smitten Hancock helps Luffy sneak into the prison of Impel Down to try and rescue his brother Ace before he gets executed! Impel Down is basically a cross between Alcatraz, Arkham Asylum, and Dante’s Inferno/Buddhist hell: an island/partly underground fortress housing all of the World Government’s most dangerous prisoners, with devilish-looking guards and multiple themed levels. For an analysis of Impel Down’s literary/religious inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPBEJ...
Here, Luffy reunites with quite a lot of characters we’ve met before, as well as several important new ones. Side note: I wanna know what prison hair-care routine Buggy develop that has his blue ponytail rivaling the lush glossiness of Princess Vivi’s!

Meanwhile, we get a glimpse of the various places to which the other Straw Hats have been sent: Zoro to the same gloomy island as goth ghost princess Perona, Nami to a sky island where people dressed vaguely like wizards research the weather, Robin to some kind of gulag, Franky to a frozen land of inventors, Usopp to an island of carnivorous plants, Chopper to a land where “birds rule over humans”, and Sanji to Peachy Island, AKA the Kamabaka Queendom, AKA…the island of transvestites. Which finally brings us to:



Queerness in ‘One Piece’, Part 2 (if my long discussion of Bon Clay is #1)
This set of volumes very much illustrates the complexity of talking about queer rep in One Piece. On the one hand, we have Amazon Lily, which gives us both strong confirmation of attraction between women being a thing in this world AND the best evidence yet for asexual and/or aromantic Luffy. On the other hand, there’s Peachy Island, which….OOF. The way that one plays out is not as bad as it initially seems if you take into account the full context of the story, especially Sanji’s even-more-binary-than-usual concept of gender and the fact that everyone on the crew got sent where they did for a purpose (not just a gag). However, I do wish Oda had drawn/written that bit differently, because it does initially seem really bad and I would not blame anyone who’d been protecting themselves from spoilers hitting this and going: “What is this transphobic garbage? I’m out!” - especially if watching the anime, which draws it out for 10 minutes vs. one page. And then on the gripping hand (see The Mote in God's Eye)…there’s Luffy’s joyful reunion with our first gender-queer character, Bon Clay, which will lead into some REALLY interesting stuff later. I will attempt not to write a whole thesis on this, but see the following spoiler section if you want more of my thoughts on each:
1. Boa Hancock and Sapphic attraction
Boa Hancock can turn anyone attracted to her (which she tellingly calls “having evil thoughts”) to stone. So, when we see that basically all her Amazon subjects – and many other women – get all the manga/anime symptoms of attraction such as blushing, heart eyes, and/or heart-throb noises when Boa so much as winks at them, and that they can be turned to stone when in this state…I mean, that confirms that the potential for Sapphic attraction is really widespread in this world, right? Some might argue against Amazon Lily as a Sapphic paradise by pointing out that the doctor doesn’t recognize Hancock’s symptoms of severe love-sickness, and we don’t see any couples. However, depictions of couples of any sort are actually bizarrely rare in ‘One Piece’, whether in the background or as part of the main story. And probably one of the reasons Hancock is reacting so strongly, and that the elder recognizes it as something suffered by former empresses, is that in Amazon Lily it is wanting to be with a man that is forbidden! To pursue that love, an Amazon would have to exile herself from her people, at least for a while, which immediately creates angst, especially for the ruler.

2. Aroace Luffy.
In contrast to the above, when Luffy accidentally falls into the Boa sisters’ bathhouse, the only thing he notices about the body of the most beautiful woman in the world…is that she has a brand on her back that looks familiar! She declares that all who see that must die and directs her “love-love beam” at him. Twice. And nothing happens. Everyone is confused, Luffy because the beam was clearly supposed to do something to hurt him, and the Boa sisters because “That’s impossible, sister! Your body is so beautiful that people of all ages and genders fall in love with you!” Luffy: “I don’t know what’s going on, but I’d better run!”
Indeed, he seems generally to not relate to the concept of acting stupid over love or giving people a pass on bad actions because they are pretty:
“Luffy: That woman turned your friends to stone!! Why are you laughing like nothing happened?!...
Hancock: No matter what I do, everyone will forgive me. Because – yes – I’m beautiful! (wink)
Amazons (heart-eyed): Aaah! Snake princess!
Hancock: Well, what about you?
Luffy: You make me sick!”
He also continues what I think of as his usual “walking ace garlic bread meme behavior” even as his relationship with the Boa sisters improves:
“Hancock: Come in here, man. Behind the curtain.
Luffy (drooling slightly):Hey! You have food?...(Pushes through curtain). Sorry for busting in. Where’s the food? Hey! How come you’re naked?”
In one of the Q&A sections of the manga, a reader asks why there were two scenes where Luffy seemed to react to Nami’s boobs but was unaffected by Boa Hancock. Oda replied: “Luffy reacted to Hancock as he normally would when he’s alone. But Usopp’s the same age as Luffy, so when he’s around, Luffy behaves like a schoolboy on a field trip…The problem is Usopp!” He actually said much the same at the time of those earlier scenes, adding that actually giving Luffy a nosebleed or heart-eyes would have felt out of character. Usopp and Luffy love doing impressions and goofing around…so I’d interpret this as Oda confirming that Luffy isn’t attracted to girls (and probably not anyone else either) – but if his buddy is acting silly because of that, he might copy his actions!

3. What’s up with Peachy Island?
OK, first the problematic bit (deep breath). The way we get introduced to Peachy Island in the manga is by seeing a very pink island island covered by blossoming cherry trees that is described as a place where all the human AND animal inhabitants “have the heart of a maiden” - but we are immediately given clues that not everyone would view them that way. So far, so interesting, right? Seeing a 5-o’clock shadow on a lion or a flamingo is odd…but not any odder than the pink coloring and/or long eyelashes usually used to code a cartoon animal as a girl (which they also have). But then we see Sanji getting chased down the beach by what looks like the worst possible caricatures of trans women as “predatory men in dresses”, who are insisting that he must be one of them. That’s real uncomfortable to look at. And I will definitely have more to say about the Kamabaka Queendom when we see more of it than this brief glimpse in the next set of volumes.
But it’s worth remembering that this is where Sanji’s 2-year training arc is going to take place…and Sanji has some really weird gender-related baggage. For one thing, if you look at Sanji when he’s fully relaxed with his crew or when he’s interacting with kids it is clear that his base character is “highly emotional soft boy who likes taking care of people”. However – as we’ll learn later - he wasn’t always treated kindly because of those traits…which is something he’d have in common with most of the residents of Peachy Island , even if you read him as not actually queer at all (as opposed to “so deep in the closet about SOMETHING that he probably found Narnia”, which is my interpretation!). And THAT seems to explain the two protective masks he’s developed. With men, especially those who most closely resemble the muscled stoic “manly man” his birth father would have wanted him to be, he’s extremely prickly and defensive: swearing more and ready to go into fight mode at the drop of a hat. With women…it’s like he’s learned about them mainly from stories (which, since he spent 10 years in a crew of macho sea-going cooks, is probably correct!) and is trying to do EVERYTHING at once to show he’s a suave chivalrous gentleman who is definitely 100% straight! The result is a disaster of negative charisma whenever he goes into this mode. This dichotomy also leads to him being over-protective of his female crewmates in a way that feels rather insulting – because they are powerful in their own right, and he’s acting like he doesn’t know that! Likewise, his insistence on never hitting a lady is maladaptive in a world where any seemingly delicate woman could be a powerful devil-fruit-using antagonist. Interacting extensively with people who DON’T fit his super-binary concept of gender would be good for him too, in terms of realizing the weird artificial way he’s been acting. Does he manage to learn from this? We’ll see!
A term used for multiple ‘One Piece’ characters, including the people of Peachy Island, is okama. This refers to AMAB people who present in a more or less feminine way, but who typically don’t pass as cis women. The anime subtitles translate it as ‘transvestite’, but that’s only one of the western categories that would be included under that heading. The manga is all over the place with translations but mainly fails to convey anything useful. I’ve seen it argued that “queer” or “gender-queer” are probably the best for capturing the vibe of a (partially) reclaimed slur that serves as an umbrella term. The way the Kamabaka Queendom residents are first presented is especially weird given that the other okama we meet in the series aren’t any weirder-looking than is typical for ‘One Piece’ and often get along better than average with the Straw Hats. Therefore – while, again, I wish Oda had made different artistic choices to avoid any confusion or reinforcement of harmful stereotypes – I think what he was trying to do here was reflect how Sanji was viewing the situation (with “trans panic”, which fortunately results in running away – possibly from himself! – rather than violence)…whereas we get a more accurate picture though the eyes of someone like Luffy. Which brings us to:

4. Welcome back, Bon Clay!
As Luffy works his way downward in Impel Down, with the unreliable assistance of former antagonists Buggy and Mr. 3, he enters a level that is a desert. This is interesting, because in Dante’s inferno there is a ring made up of burning sand, and among those punished there are the “sodomites”, who run around in circles. One of these is an old friend of Dante, who refers to him as “my fig”. And who do we reunite with in the burning sand level of Impel Down? BON CLAY! Who, to keep up their spirits, is twirling in circles doing ballet exercises and singing the theme song they’ve developed for themselves: “When you’re me, you’re a man AND a woman! That’s why I’m the strongest!”. Luffy, of course, is delighted to see the gender-queer shapeshifting trickster again, resulting in the heartwarming reunion hug shown at the top.
As mentioned, the manga still has some major translation problems with relating this part of the story, though the anime subtitles at least render okama as the closer-but-not-quite “transvestite”! And, sadly, neither captures the cutesy familiarity of the way Luffy and Bon Clay call each other “Bon-chan” and “Mugi-chan”; based on the way “-chan” is handled when attached to girl’s names, they could be “Little Straw” or“Straw-cutie” and “Bonny” or “Bon-honey”. In addition, the manga and subtitles keep calling Bon Clay and later Iva “he”, even though their 1st person pronoun in Japanese AND the way they describe themselves clearly indicates that that’s not the most accurate!
One thing that is notable is the way that Bon Clay and Luffy are genuinely happy to help each other out, whereas Buggy and Mr. 3 keep trying to backstab Luffy! Of course, Bon Clay also has a goal that makes going deeper into Impel Down with him make sense: They want to free someone that all the okama of the world look up to, the “miracle worker” and Queen of Peachy Island, Iva!
For more information: “One Piece: A Queer retrospective” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENc-B... ), “Not gay or trans, but okama” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8QS4... ), and “Luffy: the asexual hero we deserve”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS211...

As a final (I promise!) note: This set of volumes shows us more of Kuma (who is super important in the chapters that are still being written right now) - as well as introducing several other characters who will be very important for the future. These include Luffy’s fellow rookie pirate captains Trafalgar Law and Jewelry Bonny, both of whom have very interesting devil fruit powers, and the characters some have called “Martin Luther Fishman”: highly principled warlord of the sea, Jimbei.

[Sima ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ace is a well loved character and yet all that we see is little scenes of him suffering :')

And also I need the other characters to come back and please let us have more depth storylines about them too, not only Luffy like…😭

[Victoria brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just keeps getting better, so excited for Impel Down 🥳

[Citybones · Rating 5 out of 5]

El final de la derrota me dejó bastante fría, pero al ver que ya estamos dos arcos después y esto se ha convertido en las aventuras en solitario de Luff me hace ver las consecuencias importantes de ese final. El arco de la isla de las chicas es gracioso, pero este que empieza de la prisión me tiene leyendo sin parar. Increíble como pasamos de introducir nuevos personajes a reunirnos con viejos antagonistas.

[Shadowdenizen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This books to hold my interest after hundreds of chapters and thousands of pages!
A massive feat.

Not every character is my exact cup of tea (USOPP for the win!!), but I'm always intrigued to see how they grow and change as their story continues to deepen.

I've halted my viewing of the anime for the moment, in order to build up some more momentum and get a lead with the manga.

On to the next volume!

[Martina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it! Especially Luffy and Hancock’s dynamic. I am very interested in their future interactions. And we finally got to see Jimbei 🥰
Garp is killing me 🤣

[Beatriz Linares · Rating 5 out of 5]

amando cada arco <3 sdds do Bon Clay! diva demais

[Marcie · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 / 5 stars!

[Sophia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Feel like ive gotten to the REAL plot of one piece, shit is getting real!!!!

[Ryan David · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best arcs so far! Love the build-up of the stakes for the crew and equally terrified and excited to see what will happen next in the story.

[kthedestroyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

So these volumes were a few of the worst in a while now. And that's not to say they were bad because they weren't. But they were kind of mediocre. I am currently torn between 3 star and 4 star rating because the ending of Sabaody archipelago arc was good, the Amazon Lily arc was actually pretty bad and now the Impel Down one is good again.

The fact that we're mostly following Luffy is not okay with me because I would like to see more of the crew but I do like the characters that appear in Impel Down.

Overall, I will still give these volumes 4 stars because some really good things did happen but you have to know that the Amazon Lily part is considerably worse than everything else and I could honestly give that part 2 stars.

There will be SPOILERS ahead!

I will start with Sabaody archipelago since, you know, this is the arc that finishes in these three volumes. And, well, I liked it. There is this great moment where Luffy apologizes for punching that aristocrat and Zoro is like yeah no worries, I wanted to punch him too. The scene with Luffy, Law and Kidd that follows is also great and I love the banter between them. I have a feeling that this is not their last scene together. Law and Kidd's powers are really cool although I don't exactly understand them yet. I also like how Sanji is worried about Zoro and takes care of him because he's injured. And then they all disappear... yup, this is the moment since which the things got a bit worse. You know, cause Amazon Lily starts because of it and I now have to talk about it.

So yeah, Amazon Lily... ugh, I kinda hated this arc. Fortunately, it is just 11 chapters long but these chapters are pretty bad. For some reason we constantly talk about Luffy's penis and his balls which... no, please no. Sexualizing Nami is already too much... I don't need to hear about Luffy's penis. Boa Hancock was fine and I like that she manipulates everyone with her beauty. But I kinda hate her being in love with Luffy because I know it's never gonna happen and it's just cringe in my opinion. I think we also see what the other members of the crew are doing and I love Franky dancing on some winter island, Sanji running away from some girls and Zoro hanging out with Ghost girl.

Anyway, I don't want to spread negativity so let's talk about Impel down. We got a lot of Ace. And I mean a lot of Ace. And despite the fact that he's in prison, I loved all of them (aka he looks really hot, come at me if you dare). I love that he doesn't want Luffy to be caught as well and it's cool to see him hanging out with Jimbei. And then Luffy runs into who else than Buggy the clown, one of the most iconic One Piece characters. And then we get back Mr. 3 and they both want to betray Luffy but they can't succeed because they are too stupid. And now we have Bon Clay who actually helps Luffy... I love that they all came back. And I think that Crocodile is in the cell beside Ace and Jimbei so that should be fun. Can't wait for them to get him out.

[Cami · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the unexpected direction that the Sabaody arc is taking! I was hoping that Ace would factor into the story somehow, but I wasn't counting on Luffy going on a solo mission to rescue him. I'm intrigued by the Straw Hat crew being flung far and wide by Bartholomew Kuma, and I'm curious as to what structure the manga will take as it follows their individual adventures and eventual reunion.

I'm having a lot of fun with the character Boa Hancock. She has plenty of of unsavory personality traits, such as abusing animals and banking on her looks to avoid taking responsibility for her cruelty--not to mention the suspicions I feel when Oda introduces yet another hypersexualized female character. But she's also hilarious and a delight to see in action. I love how she literally throws back her head when she's looking down on people, and it's entertaining how she has fallen for such an unattainable protagonist. Luffy's brother may be the one called Ace, but Luffy seems pretty ace himself, as well as aromantic.

I also like how old characters are becoming relevant again in the prison of Impel Down, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this story arc continues! I've always been impressed (and a little terrified) of people who can name so many "One Piece" characters. But now I understand that Oda's writing style facilitates such memorization. He does a great job of making old characters relevant again in fun and exciting ways.

[Valeddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's nice to have these shorter arcs. It increases my reading stamina. This three-volumer, for example, has Sabaody, Amazon Lily, and Impel Down action - what more could you ask for? I love all three.

Onto spoilers:

It was genius of Oda to split up the crew at this point in the story - the precise part where one starts to feel that the crew interactions are getting a tad stale over 50 volumes in. Why does it work? Because Luffy is the type of person to pick up allies and enemies left, right, and centre wherever he goes. Therefore, when Oda rips Luffy from his crew and takes us to islands we've never heard of before, populated with a host of new and interesting character, we get so much freshness from the story (while the Ace stuff keeps a full-on sense of urgency in the background, even after learning that the rest of the crew are actually safe). When we meet them again, we will be so glad to see them again that what was becoming stale before will now resonate welcomingly as cozy nostalgia. And who knows? Maybe they will have all changed a little too for extra newness...

[Ashley (Red-Haired Ash Reads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Series: One Piece #52-54
Rating: 3 stars - I liked it

This one was a bit chaotic and all over the place. The Straw Hats and other members of the Worst Generation are causing chaos in Sabody. I enjoyed seeing Kid and Law show off their abilities. This also is the return of Warlord Kuma who basically decimates the Straw Hats by making them disappear from Sabody. Luffy finds himself on Amazon Lily where he meets Warlord Boa Hancock. Luffy finally learns what is happening with Ace and is determined to rescue him. Volume 54 is the start of the impel Down arc with Luffy trying to rescue Ace. While Luffy has just arrived, he is already causing Chaos and destruction. It will be interesting to see how much damage he does and who all he befriends along the way, because I don’t remember at this point.

[Nicolás Pinto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grandes revelaciones en estos tres tomos, dos de ellos dedicados al arco del archipiélago Sabaody. Aparecen muchos peces gordos que estoy seguro darán que hablar en el Nuevo Mundo, después del time skip que se viene en algunos tomos más. Después la separación de Luffy con sus nakama promete un salto de poder en cada uno, pues gracias al todavía intrigante Bartholomew Kuma los dejó en lugares idóneos para eso (al menos, a la mayoría... pobre Sanji ^_^). En fin, el tomo 54 termina con un sobrecogedor momento en la mirada perdida de Ace. ¡No puedo parar de leer! (maldición, necesito ir a la librería pronto).

[Dianelys · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every adventure just keeps getting better! The story continues to build excitement with nonstop action that makes it impossible to put down. I love how old characters and villains are brought back into the story, and how Oda proves himself to be an exceptional writer by skillfully weaving the threads together. I especially enjoyed all the clues and subtle hints from past volumes that are so easy to miss if you’re not paying close attention, and now many of those loose ends are starting to come together.. it’s mind blowing to see little details from the very beginning finally taking shape.

[Diogo Muller · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's so much happening on this volume. It feels the whole world built by Oda is finally coming together.

This volume has three main arcs: Escape from Sabaody, Amazon Lily and the Impel Down invasion. We gets lots of character moments, returning characters from past arcs, world development... and the hint that something huge is brewing.

This is not only exciting in a "shonen manga" action way, but also in a narrative way. Great volume.

[Undomiel Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely flew through Sabaody! Definitely one of my favourites so far! But also one of the most heart-wrenching sagas; to see the crew go through the absolute wringer, and to see Luffy borderline give up and admit defeat was such a powerful moment.

Also Brook, congrats, you're in my good books now.

[Andorinha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essa é uma resenha padrão para a minha leitura de one piece já que o app só conta como lidos os livros com resenha vou deixar esse texto aqui. Perdão a qualquer pessoa que queira ler uma resenha sobre o mangá, mas está sendo uma boa experiência e eu recomendo que leia, vale muito a pena.

Law meu amor comecei isso apenas por você.

[Varun Bhargava · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my opinion, One Piece as a manga is hugely popular compared to the anime since as a reader, one never has a moment to catch their breath. The story moves fast and with this omnibus volume, everything has heated up in the OP universe. A war is coming and this edition is a buildup to that.

[Luan Ramalho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finalizando a leitura de One Piece de 2023!

Andei até que bem, fui da edição 80 pra 533 através da linda coleção 3 em 1 e fechei o ano muito bem! Atualmente estou no meio da saga Impel Down e que loucura deliciosa que tá sendo ler isso aqui, mal posso esperar pra continuar!

[Jaime Guzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another epic volume starring Monkey D. Luffy and the Stawhat Gang!

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another awesome and exciting volume of one piece, everything about one piece is so perfect! The story is so awesome and has the best art and lots of awesome characters 😻😻👌⛵️🏴‍☠️

[Ronny Trøjborg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slutningen på sabaody achipealago 5/5
Amazon lily (3.5/5)
Første halvdel af Impel Down (3,5/5)

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I guess all my 5 star reads this year are going to be manga. One Piece is so much fun and I'm so excited to see what happens next. I'm loving all the tension. Perfect.

[Princess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bon Clay ❤ One of my fave characters outside of the SH crew.

[Tuni · Rating 5 out of 5]

ADVENTURE. FRIENDSHIP. TEARS.

[Thomas Koevoets · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5, volume 53 is meh maar de rest is top tier

[Alexandre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vol 52 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Vol 53 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Vol 54 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Christine Andersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every time I want to take a break from reading One Piece the volume ends on such a cliffhanger!