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ONE PIECE #602 - - Special Review
Maybe it’s because the notion of a WMD that’s essentially a colossal
grape Fruit Gusher absolutely tickles my black heart, but this episode
was very likely my favorite out of this whole “Punk Hazard” arc. At many turns,
ONE PIECE seems like a demented Saturday morning cartoon, so having Caesar’s
evil master plan look like something hatched from a commercial that’d
actually run during one of those toons seem perfectly fitting. I mean, we all
knew that shit would rot your teeth, sooner or later - - it only follows that
it’d bleach you out of existence on the macro scale, wouldn’t it?
(Just to run this train of a thought a little further - - anybody else
find it very easy to picture the Straw Hats running into Cap’n Crunch and aiding his war against the Soggies for an arc?)
That’s what this entire episode was focused on, wasn’t it? Our heroes manically
fleeing for their lives across the snow as they’re being chased by the products
of a giant pop rock experiment.
The only other notable thing that happened here
was that mysterious note getting chucked at Chopper’s face and confirming
all the hesitant thoughts he was just running through his head. It’s
exactly the sort of ‘plot development’ that would’ve happened in second grade,
come to think of it, so this episode was just pushing all sorts of buttons that made me think of that very specific time in my childhood.
At this point, I’m less curious about the identity of who was warning
Chopper and more hopeful that the next stage of the arc will see the Straw Hats
getting back at Caesar by slamming his secret Pog collection down.
Watch this
episode, "The Deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History! Shinokuni!” here and decide
for yourself, then read my comments about the previous episode here.
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 | Tom Pinchuk’s a writer and personality with a large number of comics, videos and features like this to his credit. Visit his website - - tompinchuk.com - - and follow his Twitter: @tompinchuk |
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