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#ONE PIECE VIZ SERIES#

While One Piece has, so far, felt like a narrative for children, the ensuing fight has some surprising gouts of violence. Soon enough, Luffy is taking on the mountain bandits singlehanded, at least until Red-Haired and his pirates return from their latest excursion. Viz Media / ONE PIECE © 1997 by Eiichiro Oda/SHUEISHA Inc. 'One Piece' is cartoonish from the start, but Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit powers sends its soaring into Looney Tunes land. While Shanks is furious, Luffy is ecstatic, showing off his new stretchy powers at the fish market and refusing to give up his dreams of piracy ("If I sink like an anchor, then I'll just be a pirate that never falls overboard!"). We learn that this fruit is "the fruit of the devil" and "one of the secret treasures of the sea." The person who eats it becomes like rubber and, for some reason, will never be able to swim. Looking for a snack, Luffy had eaten the Gum-Gum Fruit Shanks and his pirates captured from an unnamed enemy ship. When Shanks tries to convince Luffy that there's more to piracy and being a man than "needless killing" he grabs Luffy's arm, but Luffy keeps on walking and the limb stretches like a rubber band behind him. But even after taking a sword swing at Shanks, the pirate captain responds with apologetic submission, leaving Luffy unimpressed and in search of a new role model.

He brags of killing 56 people and an 8,000,000 "berries" bounty on his head. In "The Dawn of Adventure," the pirates even pay their bar tab-the proprietor, Makino, is happy to serve them and lug up fresh barrels of beer.īut where "Red-Haired" Shanks wears a straw hat right out of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and treats waitstaff well, Higuma the Bear, leader of the mountain bandits, is downright louche, with bedroom eyes and a ratty goatee (and he keeps touching his face!), who resorts to threats of violence as soon as he shows up at the tavern. Specifically, whether or not One Piece will ever address how much piracy depends upon victimizing other people. It will be interesting to see if piracy ever becomes more than symbolically liberating. We're not breaking new ground here-this is classic swashbuckling, distilled to manga form-but it's obvious from the start that One Piece is conscious of these specific appeals, rather than just picking them up incidentally in the process of telling an adventure story. Other pirate duties, we learn, include "pillaging, hostage-taking, heavy drinking and swimming." Instead of a crime of desperation, as it is in its modern day realities, piracy in One Piece means freedom, exploration, having a good time, camaraderie and the power to create for yourself a colorful new identity-a life apart from the circumstances of your birth. It's not just Luffy's character that comes across in the first issue of One Piece, it's also the meaning of piracy to these characters. Monkey is enthusiastic, determined, unflagging and unembarrassed about declaring exactly what he wants and his determination to get it. I haven't read ahead, but the first issue contains clear, appealing goals and a character with obvious and enduring attributes.

#ONE PIECE VIZ SERIES#

While we're only at the very beginning of a long saga, there's a lot in the first issue of One Piece, "The Dawn of Adventure," that's likely to animate the manga series moving forward. But while he's won over the crew, Pirate Captain "Red-Haired" Shanks just laughs at the boy, who, we learn, can't even swim. "I wanna be a pirate too!!!" Luffy says, "I'm not the least bit afraid of getting hurt!!"īut while the pirates are horrified, they are also impressed, and bring Luffy along to the village tavern, where they toast his courage. Luffy, who stands on the bowsprit of a pirate ship docked in his seaside village harbor, where he attempts to impress the pirates with his toughness by stabbing himself in the face with a stubby sword. More important to One Piece is who we meet next, a small boy named Monkey D.