link to read the chapter

Apparently the chapter hasn't really been finished and it was published with some pages in rough draft? I don't know anything more about it. Anyway, what did you all though of it?

Also the chapter deserves a CW for

CW

mention of SA

  • AsLeftAsTheyCome [they/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    I really agree, especially about the art style. I've had some mixed feelings about the direction the art style started to take in Wano. Sometimes it worked for me, but other times it just felt a bit wobbly and rushed. Here, the actually unfinished work makes the story feel more intense and uncompromising, especially given the subject matter. I wouldn't mind if Oda leaned into this style a bit more, though I doubt that'll happen. It is always incredible that One Piece can handle so many drastically different tones so well and I'm not sure that anything approaching this style would be workable for the majority of the story.

    CW: SA, CSA

    It's been a while since I read Amazon Lily, but the differences in how Oda handled allusions to SA in Boa Hancock's arc are kind of interesting (though I do think they make sense, at least narratively). Boa Hancock is probably my favorite Medusa allusion in fiction. I love how Boa refuses to compromise until Buffy earns her trust and I really liked that she was the one that got to tell her own story. This isn't really possible in Ginny's case so it makes some narrative sense that her story was told from Kuma's perspective. I do appreciate that she freed herself, I think that factor helps to establish her agency as a character for me. I'm also glad that Oda focused the rest of the chapter on Kuma and Bonney's relationship, rather than exploiting the tragedy of Ginny's enslavement and death.