One Piece, Vol. 47 continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next ten chapters (450–459) of the on-going manga series.
This tankōbon continues the Thriller Bark Arc. Geckō Moria mobilizes his zombies to capture the Straw Hats, who in turn try to reunite their two boarding parties. However, when they begin to engage Moria's forces in an effort to accomplish this goal, members of the crew mysteriously disappear.
Brook explains this is Moria's doing. He captures those who enter Thriller Bark, removes their shadows, and inserts them into patched-up corpses in order to reanimate them and create his own zombie army. The shadowless individuals are forced to stay out of the sunlight or risk their own destruction, so that most stay within the impenetrable fogs of Thriller Bark.
With Sanji, Roronoa Zoro, and Monkey D. Luffy having lost their shadows and Nami similarly unaccounted for, the Straw Hats become determined to defeat Moria.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Eiichirō Oda. For the most part it is written and constructed rather well. The mystery deepens as the Straw Hat Pirates finds out that Geckō Moria, the captain of the island-sized ship Thriller Bark and a former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, who has eaten the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, which grants him the ability to control his shadow, allowing it to act completely independent from his body, and to control the shadows of others, which he does to create a zombie crew.
All in all, One Piece, Vol. 47 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.