One Piece, Vol. 19

by Eiichiro Oda

Book Overview

Pirates and treasure in one of the wackiest comedies in manga

Rebellion Luffy and pals are headed for the fabled Rainbase, the town of dreams. There they accidentally attract the unwanted attention of the Baroque Works security as well as their old pal Captain Smoker While beating a hasty retreat from both, Ms. All Sunday invites the crew to the casino's VIP room, which turns out to be a trap. To make matters worse, Vivi gets separated from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142151513X
• ISBN13: 9781421515137
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

I love the story, since I already read it, but when I bought the book, it was in Chinese, and I can't read that. Very disappointing.

Still awesome.

Eiichiro Oda, One Piece: Rebellion (ViZ, 1997) Head off the rebellion or get rid of the source of the problem? The crew head for Rainbase, where Baroque Works are headquartered while carrying out Operation Utopia. With Smoker and the Navy behind them and Baroque Works' best fighters ahead of them, are the Straw Hat gang going to get squashed like a bug? The storyline is building to its climax with nonstop action and a lot of fun. One Piece continues to be strong in its nineteenth volume, long after many other manga series have gone south or ended entirely. ****

Again, pretty well translated.

In this latest volume of One Piece, Luffy, Vivi and co. head towards Rain Dinners, the casino run by Crocodile, the leader of a crime syndicate focused on taking over Vivi's kingdom of Alabasta. On the way, they run into trouble as the Navy Captain Smoker pursues them, and following that, the Straw Hats are captured by Crocodile himself. The volume ends with their moment of escape, and Luffy being dragged into a fight with Crocodile, allowing his crew to reach their next destination. I'm glad to see that the current English language adapter for One Piece is wise enough to make good decisions regarding the seriousness of the dialog in the Alabasta arc. I've watched the subtitled anime for a while now, and I can say that the writer knows how to convey the emotion of One Piece with accuracy. That is not to say that the entire volume is perfect. Viz media, for some reason still clings to what little 4kids Entertainment did in the anime two years ago, and they made the decision to call the Devil Fruit that the character Pell ate(Tori Tori no Mi: Moderu Farukon, Bird Bird Fruit: Model Falcon) to its 4kids translation of "Tweet Tweet Fruit", only with the words "Falcon Type" after it. I wish they didn't do that. Another nitpick is that all of Luffy's outbursts against Crocodile(commonly translated as "Yeah, let's kick his a**!!), have the three-letter a-word replaced with "butt". This in itself isn't too bad, but given some of the situations in this volume where he says that, "butt" isn't the best choice of words, neither is the three-letter a-word, but that isn't the point. The last nitpick is when Crocodile chides Luffy for saying that he can beat him, their next exchange is as follows: Crocodile: Don't be full of yourself. Fish bait. Luffy: What are you talking about?! You're the one who's a minnow!! This doesn't convey the same seriousness that the rest of the volume succeeded in doing. However, as I said, these current volumes have a more mature adaptation writer, and if he were to continue translating the series, I wouldn't mind at all.