One Piece Vol. 32by Patti MartinsonReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk. Publisher
Credits Grade: 5 I was vaguely familiar with One Piece as an anime a while ago and only remembered the funny looking/acting boy who wanted to be a pirate.Reading volume 32 didn't change my mind all that much on Monkey D. Luffy. He is still a funny-looking pirate boy, but he also can stretch his body like rubber. A useful trait, given the odd aventures he and his crew go through. In this volume, Luffy and his pirate gang are in Skypeia, an island in the sky. There is a battle to ring some ginormous bell. The gang get a lot of gold, fall off the island and then later land on an island with creatures with extra long bodies. I didn't understand most of the plot set in Skypeia, but once out of that country, it was a bit more comprehensible. The only character that made any kind of impression on me was Nico Robin, a young female archeologist. She was the only one who looked normal as well as attractive. She looked like a very well-drawn character compared to the other characters, who were easily forgettable. Robin seems quite mysterious, and I was more interested in her and her story than anything else in this issue. While a good chunk of this volume was incomprehensible to me, I understood it better than I had expected. I later realized this may be because it reminded me of Gulliver's Travels, where a man goes from one strange seeting to another. One Piece is certainly not up there with Gulliver's Travels, but it didn't suck as much as I had expected. Written: February 14, 2010
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