Awww, that was a heartwarming epilogue to the Syrup Village Arc.

Key Takeaways:
-A captain never betrays their crew!
-Our dreams may make us separate from our friends, but that doesn't take away from the love or time that we shared!
-Dreams define who we are as people. We may even lie to ourselves for our dreams to become true. We may find those who will support us. We even may find those to whom we empathize and share our dreams with them. But if you dream to be a pirate, then be a pirate!
-Respect food! ( )

This volume links the end of Usopp's arc with the Black Cat Pirates to Sanji's arc when Luffy deflects an attack from a temperamental marine and the cannon ball bounces into a sea restaurant. Luffy has to pay for the damages by working, but anyone who is familiar with Luffy can imagine how wrong all that goes--humor-wise and plot-wise. ( )

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Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Series: One Piece #5
Arc: East Blue Part 5
Author: Eiichiro Oda
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 200
Words: 8K

Synopsis:

From Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One_Piece_chapters_(1_186)

Chapter List:

"After Them!!"

"Captain Kuro, of the Thousand Plans"

"Pirate Crew"

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"

"Usopp's Pirate Crew

"To the Sea"

"Yosaku and Johnny"

"Sanji"

"Three Tough Cooks"

Django, ordered to kill Kaya after forcing her to write a will favoring Kuro, chases her through the forest; Zoro and Usopp are chasing them. On the shore, Luffy and Kuro fight one-on-one and the Straw Hats prevail. With Usopp the newest addition to the crew and a ship named Going Merry as a parting gift from Kaya, they leave the island. At sea they meet Zoro's former bounty-hunting partners Johnny and Yosaku, who tell them about a floating restaurant near the Grand Line where the crew might find a cook and (to Zoro's delight) "Hawk-Eye" Mihawk – the world's best swordsman – was reportedly sighted. When they arrive, Luffy accidentally damages the restaurant and injures its head chef. In compensation, he agrees to work there for one week. When he sees assistant head chef Sanji give free food to Gin, a starving pirate, he decides to persuade the cook to join his crew.

My Thoughts:

This wrapped up the little adventure of Luffy & Co facing off against the Pirate who wanted to go legit, by faking a will and murdering the girl. Captain Kuro reveals that nobody and nothing is worth his time and everything is simply fodder for him to use to advance himself. This rubs Luffy the wrong way and really winds him up. Luffy defeats Kuro in a typically zany One vs One battle. Of course, Nami has been robbing the pirate ship this whole time, ha!

Usopp officially joins the crew and Luffy is on the lookout for someone to be their chef. Man has got his priorities straight is all I can say. They meet Sanji at a floating restaurant and the book ends with Luffy telling Sanji he wants him to be their cook. During this whole time Sanji and the 2 other cooks have been fighting with a customer and with each other and it made me laugh. It was ridiculous and honestly, it really shouldn't have worked but some it did. I guess that is part of the mangaka's magic, he simply makes work something that shouldn't.

The little standalone pictures between chapters weren't random images this time. They told the story of what happened to Buggy the Clown after being defeated by Luffy. He chases a little bird to eat it and it runs to its parent, which then chases Buggy and when it tries to eat him, spits him out as being bad food :-D It was just amazing what Oda could express in Buggy's facial expression and no words.

★★★★☆ ( )

Løg, Gulerod, Paprika og Miss Kaya slås mod Django. Zorro og Ruffy slås mod Kaptajn Black og brødrene Mjav. De gode vinder. Miss Kaya skænker selskabet et skib, en karavel, Det flyvende Lam, designet af Lille-Lam, hendes tjener. Usopp opløser sin bande af smådrenge og tager med på togtet. Lille-Lam fortæller Miss Kaya at Usopp startede med at lyve fordi hans mor lå for døden. Usopp tegner Ruffy's sørøverflag efter at Ruffy først selv har lavet et dårligt udkast og efter at Usopp har tegnet sit eget flag. Nami, Usopp, Ruffy og Zorro fortsætter jagten på besætningsmedlemmer og møder Zorro's piratjægervenner Johnny og Yosaku. Senere kommer de til restaurantskibet Baratie, hvor de møder marineløjtnant Fullbody Pansernæve, overkok Sanji, chefkok Jeff med træben og kokken Patty. En af kaptajn Creek's mænd kommer om bord og Ruffy bestemmer sig for at Sanji skal være deres skibskok.

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