I was wondering how the situation on Fishman Island would be. We heard it was in tons of danger until Whitebeard took it under his name and now he's gone. However, outside of some class diversity, poor and rough areas mixed with rich ones, it doesn't seem horrible. Hammond and the New Fishman Pirates along with their boss are definitely interesting! Hammond looks like a punk and his crew seems to hate humans, they were all for Arlongs 'ambition' and called the Straw Hats foolish humans, disparaging the Kraken for helping them. Then a demand came, die or join us. Yet they understand that Luffy has helped Hachi and fought a Celestial Dragon for a fishman and a mermaid’s sake, the same thing as their hero Fisher Tiger- did so it's not fully black and white. Another interesting piece of information is how Hammond mentioned the Neptune army. Perhaps they are the law here.
Speaking of the Hammond pirates, the interaction they had with the crew at the start of the episode was incredible!!! The Straw Hats seem famous with fishmen to a degree but more than all the information we got, it was how the crew reacted that spoke to me. With everyone assuming "Luffy will not agree with them so get ready to blast in there" it created a super intriguing situation. With the suspense before Luffy's answer I think the situation was exploring how Luffy has changed, or how he hasn't. If they fought here under the sea with sea monsters and fishmen who could pop the bubble and crush them with the seas pressure, then as Nami said, they had practically no chance of survival. Luffy learned the hard way that believing isn't enough, I wondered, would he say yes to not risk his crew losing brutally like 2 years ago and potentially dying like Ace, even if it was to get their guard down and he had no intention of joining them? But nope! As if it was the same Luffy as always he stuck his tongue out, called them idiots, and said no way! All that said, despite the crew not knowing Luffy's new fighting capabilities, if he could just haki knock them out or use observational haki to absolutely dismantle them, then rather than them having no chance I think Luffy could have won, and I think he knew that. So if anything, I think this situation was showing that Luffy hasn't changed too much, perhaps we will see him back down or not take such a straightforward approach later, perhaps he will decide if he fights the way he normally does he will risk his crew dying and he'll back off. This time was not that though, so we don't have to worry about the Luffy we know and love being less bombastic than we're used to.
The way we had Lion versus Lion as the Sunny dodged out of the seakings way and blasted into Fishman island was so cool and the way Hammond planned to immediately head to the boss got my energy pumping.. Because of the coup de vent they broke into the second bubble and got sucked away by a strong current, separated into at least two groups! Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, Sanji & potentially Brook, Robin, Franky, Zoro, Nami. The casual crimin outfits were adorable and great, and further crimin is the design that the shark they saved had and thus it's probably Pappug's design!
Lastly, the actual landscape and residents of Fishman Island do not disappoint, the adorable sisters with Camie, the water tubes and turtle transportation for non Fishmen, the fact that there's a sky inside this bubble creating a super interesting level of verticality- underwater and overwater regions. And we must not forget the mermaids. Sanji starved of real women and finally having a dream he's had forever come true has sent him into a state of disbelief, crying and screaming, infact I think it's the second time he's ever cried maybe outside of his backstory and as Luffy said, it's more than when he thanked Zeff and left the Barotie. Sanji had me laughing so hard... |