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One Piece chapter 1158 review
Mmmmm okay, one more week. It’s looking more and more likely this flashback is going to fill most if not all of volume 114, with God Valley, Harald’s fate and Loki’s rampage and capture to still to cover. This is a very transitional chapter though, a little unfortunate to return to after a break week.…
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One Piece chapter 1157 review
Okay so we’re definitely doing God Valley, huh? I wonder if it’ll be the full story, or if there’ll be one last POV to go through to find out how baby Shanks ended up in that chest. It’s agonising to have another setup chapter to get the pieces aligned to do that, but given the…
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One Piece chapter 1156 review
Were we premature talking about 28 years with the last chapter? Because this week’s colour spread feels a lot more like an anniversary celebration piece than the previous one. The parallels with Roger’s crew. The whole gang together in Luffy’s backpack. It cuts a lot closer to the core of the story than last chapter’s…
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One Piece chapter 1155 review
Twenty-eight years. Ain’t that something. Makes you wonder what you could achieve working nonstop on one project for that long. As is traditional, we get a Jump cover and a colour spread. The sense of scale and level of detail in the cityscape for the colour spread is awesome even if there’s not a lot…
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One Piece chapter 1154 review
We’re truly moving into the endgame with this one. This is the first possible end point for volume 113, and while that would make a pretty short volume, it’s a huge reveal to use for the final cliffhanger. Even the cover story is building into something promising with (maybe) the long-awaited reveal of Ryuma’s shrine.…
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One Piece chapter 1153 review
Our flashback is chugging a long at a fairly pleasing pace. Harald’s story plays out fast enough that we didn’t have to wait long for the real key figures of Hajrudin and Loki to turn up. The same can maybe not be said for Yamato’s cover story, which now feels like it’s running down a…
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One Piece chapter 1152 review
Oh damn, flashback’s on! And sooner than I expected. Let’s take a minute to think about why it’s been placed like it is. Oda likes to use flashbacks to build into a moment of catharsis or emotional payoff, and usually that means setting them up at the darkest hour. Right when Bonney’s about to be…
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One Piece chapter 1151 review
Alright, slightly softer week following two big ones. That’s fair. With maybe three or four chapters to go in volume 113, it’s worth taking the time to get everyone aligned and where they need to be for the climax. Yamato’s cover story lingers, but at least it means we get a Kawamatsu cameo. Given Yamato’s…
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One Piece chapter 1150 review
I said I couldn’t wait, but now that I have this chapter, there’s an oddly bittersweet about something as endgame as a prospective final boss’s powers being revealed. Not just because it means the ending is creeping closer, but because how risky this kind of escalation ends up being. There’s an obvious storytelling need to…
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One Piece chapter 1149 review
Wow, hey, I didn’t see that coming. And in fairness, I play it fairly safe as far as theorycrafting goes. The conventions of storytelling – the structure of rising and calling arcs of action and character growth, the long and short term pacing, the way foreshadowing is doled out – all are the way they…
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