One piece manga 804 review

An Adventure one the back of an elephant

Well, a chapter coming off  after two weeks was quite a cracker, this week's chapter was quite amazing with introductions being made to the new arc, zou. Oda's clever,he made us say arc for everything bcz zou turned out to be an elephant and he wanted to reveal it by a surprise. this chapter included a lot of things to be discussed....lets have a look;

• The falling thing.(just to be precise :P)

It turned out that the flying thing wasn't raizou but a weird monkey kind creature making a ninja-ic sound, i guess it is related to Raizou, maybe a summoning of him, or he just did a tranformation-no jutsu. But, when we see the first(short) mink, she says," lesser minks have entered, did bariete lose?" the last letters are ete, the ninja sound, so bariete could be this creature..if so, then he's with the minks. we also came to know that the creature could speak human language, when franky said that he heard an unfamiliar tone. 

• Zoro and Trafalgers' stance

Both of them had a same attitude after reaching atop Zou, it could indicate that both the strawhats and heart pirates are well versed and aren't going to ditch one another...not atleast in this arc. the co-operation is apparent.

• The 'City-scape'

When luffy goes onto the top, we get to see the view of the apparently ruined city. One of the astonishing thing was that of a huge tree at the centre, it was actually a giant fish. Maybe it got all cyanosed and trees started coming off on it....at the end, the second mink(carrot) mentions Whale's forest , so maybe that spot is Whale's forest considering the fact that it looks like that...and the flowers here look like a disco ball, exactly spherical and shiny. I guess there is a good concept behind the formation of all these bcz, in the previous arc's like skypiea and sabaody, Oda has built the islands perfectly in accordance to the scientific line.....so this arc could also be explained in a similar way.

• Transport elements on Zou

The mode of transport here i guess, is the crocodile kind creature, we saw it twice, first when sheep-head confronted the curly hat pirates and now when carrot comes up. It was being foreshadowed by oda since long ago,,, on the colored cover pages wherein strawhats sit on the crocodiles...

• We see that the Gates were forced open and paths were wide

I guess that it was all a result of sheep-head's doings previously that lead to it being wide. probably by the crocodile kind thing used in transport, which are basically huge animals.

• Minks' jolly roger;

Last time, when sheep head got knocked out, we see a jolly roger on him, everyone speculated that it is of Kaidou(including me), but i'd consider it on a second preference. my first preference would be Minkmen..i guess the jolly is of minkmen bcz they live on elephant, hence the horns and if we observe it carefully, we see a 'M' written on it. M for minkmen ...maybe.

• And great Kudos to Luffy senpai for just wandering off.

Everytime luffy does this, it gets interesting yet humorous of what he might come across. maybe he discovers some-thing/one and gets to know of the place's history etc..or he comes across onikuu (Xd)

• Presence of poneglyph?

After watching all the ruins and considering the fact that zou has a history of 1000 years, there might well be a poneglyph here. probably revealing why the elephant ended up this way. Roger might have talked to it, in luffy's crew, chopper might be the one to do so.

• God Usopp's reaction on the weirdness of zou.

It was quite hilarious when usopp says," wont we ever end up at a peaceful place?" 

• Were those clothes nami's?

Absolotuly nope. because the last time we see her, she's in a completely different attire. Oda just had to find a way to end the chapter with the readers' jaw wide open, and hence this..i guess.

That brings an end to the review of this week's manga chapter, it was quite good, hope the next one's are going to be the same too.. and yeah, i guess jimbei will be joining the strawhats at Wano probably and so seriously, no new strawhats on this arc. Because on the cover story, we see jimbei say that he's got a new pain of Kimono. which probably highlights Wano's culture as seen through the colored cover pages. and i guess he's bringing the new found poneglyph too.(apparently). do feel free to let me know of what you feel about the 'happenings'. meet you next time.