One Piece Chapter 693 – The Ultimate Sacrifice

A well thought out chapter, starts with a bang and ends with a bang. My favorite part is that the Strawhats are finally together, well almost all of them. They are all together and as an audience we can recount the events that happened and see what led us to the finale. So without further ado, lets dissect this weeks chapter.

Franky Shogun Vs Baby 5 and Buffalo

A very entertaining but short lived battle. What was so interesting about the battle is that Franky was able to hold his ground against an assassin and the combatant of the Donquixote Pirates. While it can be assumed that they are powerful, but they are more like a retrieval team than a search and destroy team. Since Doflamingo (whom from now on I will refer to as Joker) did not account for Luffy and Law defeating CC and Virgo, respectively. But what shocked me the most is the teamwork between Baby 5 and Buffalo and the fact that Baby 5 was worried when Buffao was shot. This leads me to believe that the Donquixote Pirates care for one another and hold Joker in high regards. So far the only one who seems to hold a grudge against him is Baby 5, while the other crewmates refer to him as ‘Young Master’. Going back to the battle Franky does what Franky does best, make a great laugh. His bizarre yet effect fighting techniques are not to be underestimated, it seems like Franky always has great ideas but does not have the resources to brings these ideas to life. So he does with what he has at hand and creates these techniques that are meant to be robotic but ends up either throwing stuff or just using his real body to breath fire and etc. Though I would not count out the Franky Shogun just yet.

Together

Law was pissed off at Luffy for sending CC flying and than gets  further irritated when the Strawhats will not move until they are all together. This shows a side of Law I do not like. It seems that he is the type of person that will do anything and everything in order for his plan to succeed. Now I wont go as far as to say that he will abandon his comrades to get what he wants, but I think that he is putting to much emotion into this plan. You can see the contrast between how Law and Luffy are approaching this plan of theirs. Law is all seriousness and will not play around. While Luffy is a guff-ball and is not taking this serious and will not panic like Law is right now. Luffy knows that sometimes when things are out of your hands you cannot do anything so why not have fun instead of panicking and causing a fuss. But Law is right in this one, Luffy cannot go around changing the plan right in the middle. The most crucial part of their plan was capturing CC, which is not looking so good right now.

Die For Me

In his defeat, Virgo warned Law of Jokers ‘past.’ It could be that he is a noble or someone of that importance(mentioned by Tensa gizzla). Or it could be that he had a hard life and decided to rebel against society and create a better world. Which I highly doubt since he has shown no sign of ‘for the better good.’ Either way, his crew love and respect him, to the point that one of them is willing to die for him. Monet has been fallowing Joker out of her own free will, because so far she has shown no sign of being forced to go against her will. Same goes for all of his crew because like I said they all respect him for some unknown reason. But the fact of the matter is that Monet is calling her own death bed to satisfy Joker. But I highly doubt that Monet will succeed in Blowing up the island, because Law sabotaged that Bomb. Law plans for everything and a self-destruct button cannot be over looked. Like I said this chapter started with bang and ended with a bang, the only question is will the bomb blow-off or will our heroes once again escape death?

Side Notes:

• Ussop shows that he is no longer the useless coward he used to be. He by himself went out and organized the escape route for Chopper and the kids.
• It is funny how different Law and Luffy are. It is like ying-yang. Luffy all smiles and Law is all seriousness.
• I know that we said that the Strawhats are not ready for the New World except Luffy, Zoro and Sanji, boy were we wrong. Those three might be strong in their own rights but every other Strawhat has their own unique abilities. Take Franky for instance, so far he held his ground against two Donquixote Pirates, not an easy thing to do. While we still do not know if he is out of action or not, but from the look of things he and the rest of the Strawhats have shown that they are ready for the New World.
• Poor Monosuke seeing his father in that state must be heart-breaking, they both have something in common. Getting themselves in bad situations. So far the Son is a Dragon and the Father is a Frozen Corpse.
• Zoro was mean for think that Kinemon is out for the count. But than again he did not know Monosuke was right there.
• So Baby 5 can change any part of her body into a weapon and Buffalo can change any part of his body into propellers.