Sanji is fighting with his feet because he doesn't want to damage his hands. He also gave Patty his knife back and to hold on to it tightly while he died. Sanji is a hoot. I just got the ick from Invicible Pearl. He is monologuing and saying that he is the Iron Shield of Kriegs crew and that he has never spilled any of his blood, and oh that he is handsome too. YUCK!
Luffy shows up and Sanji gets a kick in on Pearl. His nose starts to bleed and he freaks the fuck out. He thinks he is back in the jungle where he grew up and he makes flames to keep the animals at bay. This guy is nuts. Sanji jumps the wall of fire while everyone else is panicking because they are afraid that the Baratie will burn down. Sanji basically says you cant be a cook if you are afraid of fire.
Chef Zeff puts the fire out with his peg leg. Krieg sends a fire ball towards Sanji and Luffy jumps in front of it with a gum gum bazooka. Gin has a gun to Chef Zeff's head. The fuck!!!! He also broke Chef's peg leg. The Bastard! Really love the question corner and Eiichiro Oda comparing the end of Sanji's eyebrows to the sun, moon and Earth because of circles.
Sanji is trying to patronize Crap Geezer and Chef Zeff calls Sanji an eggplant head and Sanji loses it...lol. Sanji is refusing to leave the ship because it is Zeff's pride and joy. Pearl got a hit on Sanji and Gin is wondering why the hell he wont leave.
We get a back story on Sanji when he was nine and a apprentice cook. He was talking about the legend of All Blue and he hated that the cooks ate the scraps that the customers didn't eat. Chef Zeff ends up boarding the ship Sanji is on and takes everything. One of his pirates starts eating food, and Chef Zeff gets pissed and tells him that they don't eat other peoples food. Little Sanji attacks Zeff and mentions the All Blue and calls them crap pirates. Zeff continues to kick his little ass. The storm knocks Sanji into the ocean and Zeff ends up jumping in after him. They get stranded on a rock and have some food to last them 5 days. The end of the chapter has Zeff taking a massive rock to his leg and saying it is the end of him. Why did he do that???
Sanji ends up portioning his food to last him 20 days. He gets to day 70 and the poor kid is starving which makes his whole plot make more sense and how he hates seeing people go hungry. He goes to Zeff and sees that he still has a whole bag of food. Sanji rips open the bag and instead of food, finds treasure and now it all makes sense in why Zeff cut off his leg, which is gross. Zeff tells Sanji he had the same dream of the All Blue and that he wants to make a restaurant in the middle of the ocean and he'll do it if they get rescued. I love these backstories!!!! Sanji is fighting for the ship as a repayment to crap geezer for saving his life with the food.
Luffy ends up involving himself and he and Sanji start yelling at each other. Krieg is over it and Pearl tries to do one of his special moves, and Gin stops him, confusing the hell out of Luffy and Sanji. Turns out Gin wants to kill Sanji and Luffy. Luffy calls them all wimps, and that they are not tough, just that there are so many of them.
Don Krieg is getting fed up with all of the sentimentality and wants to fight to prove who is worthy of being king of the pirates. Luffy immediately shouts that he will fight. Don Krieg gets pissed and pulls out an MH5 which has all of the pirates freaking out. The MH5 is a poison gas cannonball that Luffy bounces off of himself. Don Krieg tricked everyone into thinking it was the MH5 when it was really the Shuriken bomb. While Luffy is fighting Krieg, Sanji is fighting Gin, the demon man. They are going at it, and Gin is yelling die and hitting Sanji and Sanji gives hime one good kick, and Gin admits defeat and that he can't kill Sanji.
Krieg is fed up with Gin and removes him from the pirate crew which surprises the rest of the pirates because Gin was the most loyal to Don Krieg. He shoots the MH5 and Luffy finds a mask. When the fog clears, Gin is on top of Sanji pressing a mask to his face while he remained maskless. Gin sacrificed himself.
Volume 8 starts off with Krieg still dissing Gin about disobeying him and that he deserves to die. Sanji asks Patty for the antidote and Patty says that it is for food poisoning and not for enemies. Patty needs to resolve his issues and prioritize current moments. Krieg is fighting with Luffy and he turns his cape on Luffy when he comes at him and it is covered in spikes. Luffy punches him anyway and knocks Krieg on his ass. Sanji and Zeff are impressed and Zeff tells Sanji to keep an eye on him. The coooks are trying to get Gin conscious and they are fighting because they are bad mouthing each other's cooking....lol.
Krieg has pulled out his mighty battle spear and is going to town trying to hit Luffy. Luffy keeps dodging and standing up and Krieg is getting pissed. Sanji is screaming chore boy over and over and Zeff is just standing there watching. He knows what is up. Luffy broke the spear. Luffy and Krieg are still trying to kill each other and Luffy is doing Gum Gum bazooka and bullet. Luffy is all bloody. Krieg traps Luffy in a net and throws him towards the ocean. Smart Luffy finds a way and does a gum gum giant gavel and Krieg. Luffy then falls into the ocean and starts drowning until Zeff tells Sanji and he has to jump in after him.
Gin tosses Krieg over his shoulder and tells him that they have to start at zero since he is no longer the strongest man in the world. Gin tells Sanji that Krieg's dreams have now become his and that he hopes to run into Luffy again one day on the Grand Line. Luffy is still trying to get Sanji to join his crew, but he refuses to leave the restuarant to those crap cooks. He tells Luffy about the All Blue who has never heard of it.
All of the cooks are eating and they start spitting out and dumping Sanji's soup. That pisses him off and then crap geezer joins in and punches Sanji. Luffy says that the soup is really good, and all of the cooks admit that it is tasty, but that Chef Zeff made them bad mouth it to get Sanji to leave and go to the Grand Line because that is his dream.
Yosaku gets saved from the ocean and says that he tried to chase Nami's ship, but that she is headed toward an impossible place. Luffy wants to leave and Sanji agrees to go with him. We get more flashbacks of when Zeff bought the Baratie and Sanji started smoking and when the crap cooks started showing up. Sanji is leaving and he starts to tear up as he is telling Zeff that he owes him is life and then everyone starts crying. Yosaku starts telling Luffy and Sanji that the Grand Line is not paradise and that they have to get through the three main powers of the sea. The seven warlords of the sea, who are pirates that are recognized by the government. Mihawk is one of the seven warlords.
Yosaku is telling them that Nami was looking at the bounties and saw the one for Arlong Park which is in Fish Man territory. Luffy is drawing weird looking fish and Sanji is fantasizing about mermaids. We meet Saw tooth Arlong and he is giving a cut of his treasure to the marines.
HOLY SHIT..... NAMI IS AN OFFICER IN ARLONG'S PIRATE CREW!!!! What....how... why???
Zoro, Usopp and Johnny spot where Nami docked the Merry Go. Zoro plans to go in swinging, and Johnny and Usopp tie him up because he is still recupriating. Usopp's ego gets the better of him and he takes command as captain. He and Johnny then encounter the fish men and freak out. A ship from Arlong's crew shows up and Johnny and Usopp abandone ship leaving Zoro tied up and yelling. I honestly cannot wait to see this in the live action. I am still watching the first season.
The little boy Chabo, who tried to fight Nami, ends up tripping Usopp thinking he is a fish man who helped destroy his village and killed his father. A girl stops Chabo and says that Usopp looks like a human, which is very funny. I do not like the anime Usopp because he long nose freaks me out.
Nojiko knocked Usopp out when he tried to fight the fish man. She took him and Chabo to her house. She gets really pissed off at Chabo because he wants revenge and doesn't care if he dies. Najiko tells him to get the hell out and if he doesn't care about his life, then why should she continue to care about it as well.
Nojiko tells Usopp that Nami is part of Arlong's crew and that she is also her step sister. Zoro is tied up in front of Arlong and Arlong is going on and on about how superior the fish men are because they can breathe underwater. Zoro sees Nami and hears that she is the surveyor in Arlong's crew. Nami and Zoro have words with each other and Zoro throws himself into the water tied up and Nami jumps in to save him. Then someone in the crew tells Arlong that the one with the long nose got away and headed for coco village. We learn about the tribute system. Everyone in the village has to pay Arlong and if one person can't pay, then the whole village gets destroyed.
Volume 9
One of the men in the village, Mr. Genzo has a weapon and that is against the rules because Arlong sees that as rebellion and now he has to die. Arlong is seconds away from killing Genzo in front of the whole village and then Usopp throws an exploding star. He tries to act brave and exaggerate how many men are ready to fight. Arlong recognizes that Usopp is a human and he gets pissed.
They start chasing him back to Arlong park and then Nami walks into Coco village. All of the villagers hate her and slam the door in her face. We learn that the reason she wants the berries is so she can buy the village. Zoro is chilling in Arlong Park and he hears the dinner trumpet. He meets Hachi the fish man octopus who offers to take him to Coco Village.
Luffy, Sanji and Yosaku are eating in the boat and they see a Grand Line monster who is part of Arlong's Crew. It's called MooMoo the Sea Cow and it is a literal cow that likes roast pig. Luffy does a gum gum pistol and then Sanji thinks it is hungry. He gets pissed when the sea cow tries to eat him and they fight it. The sea cow goes away and they continue to eat.
Arlong gets back to his base to see his men sprawled out on the ground. He then realizes that the man he has was Zoro and that Nami must be behind it. Nami is pissed because Zoro is fucking up her plans on buying the village. Arlong has a 20 million berry bounty on his head which is the highest in the East Blue.
Nami fights Usopp to prove that she has betrayed the pirate crew and to keep her 8 years of work from being ruined. Arlong tells Nami that he won't go back on the deal and that he would slit his belly before going back on a promise. Luffy, Sanji and Yosaku make it to the island and they learn from Johnny that Nami has killed Usopp. The village elders of Gosa got a message to the government and they have sent a ship to evacuate the remaining villagers.
The marine ship fires on Arlong park and Lord Arlong catches the cannonball in his mouth and chews it up. Arlong sends two of his crew to bust up the marine ship and they succeed. Nami confronts the straw hat crew and Sanji is so love struck. He is begging Nami to come back to them and Zoro wants to fight. Johnny is screaming and calling her a witch because she killed Usopp. Nami tells them to get lost and to go find another navigator. Luffy then decides it is the perfect time to take a nap.
Yosaku and Johnny decided to split from the crew because they dont want to die. Usopp is walking through the village and thinking that Nami isn't a witch because she didn't kill him. He goes running on the beach to try to find Zoro and he finds everyone. They come to the conclusion that Nami isn't a witch...duh. Nojiko finds them on the beach and tells them they have to leave. Another marine ship shows up and is asking about Nami.
We get Nami's past where Genzo kept catching her stealing books and her foster mother Belle-mere flirting with Genzo to get Nami out of trouble. Nami stole the book because she didn't have money, but she really wants to be a navigator and sail the whole world and make a map. Belle-mere isn;t eating and she says that it is a diet. Nami says that she will stop eating and Belle-mere gets scary face.
Nami hates that she gets hand me downs from Nojiko and she starts fighting and says that they aren't real sisters and that they aren't related by blood. Belle-mere gets furious and slaps Nami. Nami ends up running away to the center of the village. Genzo tells Nami the story of how Belle-mere ran away and came back a fighting sailor, and she brought two little girls with her, Nami and Nojiko.
We get the story of when Arlong and his crew showed up and demanded 100,000 berries from each adult and 50,000 for children and that it supposed to be every month. Belle-mere is clueless to what is happening in the village and then her house is spotted. She tries to fight and Arlong takes her savings. He doesn't know about the girls. Belle-mere ends up paying for the girls and sacrificing herself. She gets shot and Arlong's pirates find Nami's drawn maps and takes her away.
Nami comes back to the village and finds the villagers gathering to go and look for her. She tells them tearfully that she has joined Arlong's crew and shows them the tattoo and that they gave her money. Genzo is pissed that Belle-mere's sacrifice was thrown away and he bans her from the village. Nojika tells Luffy that Nami made a deal with Arlong and to buy the village back.
The navy ship that showed up looking for Nami was called by Arlong and for them to confiscate Nami's money. The villagers tell Nami that they knew of her deal and they tell her she has to leave the island and that they are going to fight to death because it is what is right. Nami cries and she starts stabbing her tattoo. Luffy stops her and she asks him for help. This is the part that made me cry, he puts his straw hat on her head and goes to look for Arlong. He tells Zoro and Sanji to get ready and Yosaku and Johnny show back up to help because they heard the story while hiding in the woods. The volume ends with Luffy confronting Arlong.
