Atten-hut! Time to read your One Piece from Weekly Shonen Jump!
Summary
Jimbei encounters a figure that is standing besides a pile of offerings.
Bellamy strikes Luffy with an Armament Haki embedded Spring Hopper.
Zoro continues his battle with Pica.
Hajrudin defeats Machvise.
Thoughts
I hope we don't have to sit though too many chapters dedicated to each Doflamingo Officer defeat by a non-Straw Hat.
Oda can make very interesting characters so that isn't the problem. The problem is that not all of them seem as interesting as others. It is nice to see characters like Hajrudin getting more depth. That was a common complaint for the coliseum characters that were introduced in this arc. We now have a better idea of what he is fighting for. It just that if I had a choice between watching Hajrudin or Bartolomeo and Cavendish fight then I will go with pair of misfits over the giant.
This does have something to do with how much investment I have into the characters but the fact that we spent half of a chapter devoted to a minor coliseum character while spending some time in this chapter devoted to Zoro felt uneven.Then we only got two page for Luffy getting punched in the gut by Bellamy. Clearly those who wanted an exciting chapter with characters that are well liked didn't get that with this chapter.
Welcome to Mount Pikamore
Maybe Oda has a plan that ties in all the coliseum characters together in order to give them all a purpose but a part of me is wondering if Oda is including conclusions for these fights simply because he has to. He started fights for these characters so why not just give them all a conclusion for the readers at home. That is nice but I am sure I am not the only one who forgot the name of the giant that is on Luffy's side and lifted Usopp up.
I do not feel like there is much to say about this chapter. It was noble to see Hajrudin's resolve push though to defeat Machvise. It was nice for Zoro to give Hajrudin the time to actually do something. It was just things that we didn't want to see at this moment.
Here is an interesting thought that has nothing to do with what I wrote. Bellamy had given Luffy an Armament Haki infused blow. This was able to strike though Luffy's rubber attributes and actually make Luffy bleed. Now, lets take a look at Luffy. The part of his body that was hit with this attack was darken. Is that the darkening of Armament Haki in order to defend against Bellamy's attack or just strange shading? If it was Armament Haki then that means Bellamy was able to break though Luffy's Armament. It won't be the first time somebody was able to break Armament Haki as we saw Law accomplishing this back at Punk Hazard against Vergo. Bellamy was going pretty fast and Spring Hopper is his most powerful attack.
Also to note: This is the first time that we have seen Bellamy pull off this attack on screen. Funny seeing that Bellamy used this attack over 400 hundred chapters ago only to be interrupted by Luffy with a simple punch.
So how about I give you readers a question: Did Luffy use Armament Haki which got broken by Bellamy's own Armament Haki embedded attack? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Until next time, true believers!
RIGHT IN THE GUT!
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