A fun chapter of amusing chat and running and shouting and punching. Sanji and Luffy’s priorities are wonderfully predictable. And in Luffy’s case, wholly inappropriate. In fact, their inappropriate priorities and those of a number of the villains is making this such a fun arc. Oh, and there’s one of those cute little maps showing the characters movement again.
The art highlight is another gob smacking splash page. I do hope when they get to animating this arc they are working with a better staff than the latter part of Enies Lobby. Given the huge amount of character designs and neat gothic architecture they aren’t going to be able to use the shortcut of identikit marines. That was the problem they ran into when they had to animate the captains’ attack, everything looked a lot more sparse than the manga did.