- Never hesitate on your dreams. Even if the competition has everything you don't, if you hesitate on your dream for even a moment, you will lose.
- Never forget your friends or the things they've done for you
- If you're frustrated by how you lost something or someone, think of what or who you still have and tend to that.
- You cannot be born superior. That is ignorant. ( )

Sanji's arc concludes with Luffy finally stepping in and Nami's real arc begins. Because Luffy can't possibly be around when backstory slowly reveals itself, he and Sanji take their time following Zoro and Usopp who followed Nami to her home island after stealing their ship--because she's Nami, and this isn't the first time she's done this. ( )

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Title: I Won't Die
Series: One Piece #8
Arc: East Blue Part 8
Author: Eiichiro Oda
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: Manga
Pages: 192
Words: 8K

Synopsis:

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

"I Won't Die"

"The Mighty Battle Spear"

"Prepared"

"The Chewed-up Spear"

"The Soup

"The Fourth Person"

"Arlong Park"

"The Great Adventure of Usopp the Man"

"Lords of All Creation"

While the cooks (ordered by Sanji) tend to the poisoned Gin, Luffy charges at Krieg. Although the commodore uses his many weapons to severely injure him, Luffy wins; with his debt repaid, he is free to go. However, Sanji still refuses to join Luffy's crew. Only after an attempt by the cooks to convince him he is unwanted does he finally agree. Nami is welcomed back to Arlong Park, the base of Arlong's pirates (a crew consisting, aside from Nami, only of fish-men – beings who are half fish and half human. Zoro and Usopp learn separately that Nami is one of Arlong's officers – Usopp from Nami's adoptive sister Nojiko, and Zoro from Nami when he is captured and dragged into Arlong Park.

My Thoughts:

Luffy ends up beating Krieg and getting Sanji as part of his crew. Of course, it's immediately revealed that Nami double crossed them and sailed off to another pirate crew run by a guy named Arlong, who is part fish and his entire pirate crew is part fish part human. Making them very powerful. They run a protection scam on about 20 villages and have visions of becoming even bigger.

With Zoro captured by Arlong, Nami revealed as one of Arlong's crew and Usopp hiding out in on of the tribute villages, you know Luffy's going to follow them and there's going to be a big fight, just like this one. Part of me is already rolling my eyes and the other part of me is hoping the story gets better than that.

I do suspect I'm going to have to be patient and let Oda tell the story at his own pace and in his own way though.

★★★★☆ ( )

Really glad to get to the Arlong arc. ( )

Slagsmålet mellem Ruffy og Don Creek fortsætter. Don Creek besejres og Gin trækker sig tilbage og tager Don Creek med sig. Sanji blev imponeret af Ruffy under kampen og beder om at komme med som skibskok. Restaurantejer Jeff, indvilger selv om der er et kraftigt bånd mellem ham og Sanji. Yosaku bliver fisket ud af en haj og fortæller at Nami, forfulgt af Johnny, Zorro og Usopp, er på vej til Arlong Park. Her har Jimbei, der ligesom Mihawk Falkeøje, er en af de syv samuraier givet fiskemennesket Arlong magten over øen. Vi møder nu Arlong og Okta, der bestikker Kaptajn Rotte fra 16. marine-enhed. Nami er i virkeligheden kommandant på Arlong, så hun er lige så meget sørøver som de andre.
Nojiko, som avler appelsiner, og den lille dreng Chabo møder Usopp og redder ham ved at slå ham ned. Chabo vil hævne sin fars død, men Nojiko overtaler ham til at gå hjem til sin mor i stedet for at dø i kamp med fiskemenneskene. Nojiko og Nami er stedsøstre og voksede op sammen. Fiskemændene har taget Zorro til fange (Johnny og Usopp stak af). Arlong truer med at udslette byen Goza (hvis politibetjent hedder Genzo), hvis de ikke alle sammen betaler tribut til ham. Imens forsøger Nami at overtale Zorro til at flygte.

Godt tænkt og skrevet mangategneserie ( )