One Piece, Vol. 21: Utopia

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Awesome

Best manga artist and storyteller. If you want the*spoilers* famous zoro cutting steel artwork, this is it. Love you oda

A MUST READ FOR ALL MANGA FANS, ONE PIECE FANS, ANIME FANS... btw I started watching One Piece anime before reading the Manga... I then decided to get the manga and read them. They are amazing :D

Love this series

my sons loves this book series. I will buying more of it in the future definitely! Great book at a great price.

We get an awesome Zoro fight, a fun Sanji fight, and a hilariously entertaining Nami fight.

In the latest volume of Eiichiro Oda's epic manga, One Piece, three major battles are chronicled, as well as the motives of the big bad of the Alabasta arc, Crocodile.In the first third of the volume, Sanji, the Straw Hat crew's chef and martial artist, battles Mr. 2 Bon Clay, the cross dressing ballet-fighter.(With hilarious facial drawings as Mr.2 transforms into Nami).In the second third, Nami, the Straw Hat's navigator, battles Ms. Doublefinger, a sly woman with the lethal ability to produce spikes all over her body.(With hilarious deadpan as Nami's new weapon isn't all that much of a weapon).And in the final act, Roronoa Zoro(known as Zolo in the Viz Media manga) battles Mr. 1, an assassin who can sprout bladed edges along anywhere on his body. One of the best fights of the entire series.(Not funny, just pure awesome).Oda really thinks up some interesting fights here, with Mr.2's ballet-based fighting style, Nami's weather controlling weapon, the Climatact(called the Climate Baton in Viz's manga), and Mr.1's inventive blade powers.Not a lot can be said about depth, though, seeing as this volume is all attitude and combat, filled with bodily impact and buildings crashing about. However, as per the previous Alabasta-based volumes, Lance Caselman has adapted a respectably tense and exciting script. It still has its blunders of "Darn that creep!" and the like at points, but such moments are far and few between in this volume.As for the character's moves, Viz has kept all of Sanji's French named attacks, and Nami's "Tempo" names(rather than 4Kids' "Tempest"), but for some reason, Viz kept all of Mr.1's attacks as their 4kids monikers. Odd, considering Mr.1's original names are mostly based off English words. Fortunately, none of 4kids' monikers for him were all that lame sounding. Just under-creative.(Such as Mr.1 creating whirling curved blades on his arm. Japanese: Spiral Hollow. 4kids: Buzzsaws.)All in all, this volume if one of the series' style-over-substance entries. Fortunately, the style is very, very entertaining.Recommended.Also, why on Earth has Viz slowed One Piece's release schedule? It used to be four volumes every year, now it's only three! One has more volumes than either Bleach OR Naruto, so why slow the production of the volumes? One Piece has gotten more popular with the new Funimation dub of the anime, so one would think Viz would speed up with releases a bit.EDIT!!! It has come to my attention, and upon further research, confirmed, that Viz Media wisely listened to the wants of One Piece fans, and are going to engage in their most ambitious speed-up release in their entire run. Volumes 22 and 23 will be released in 2009, but from January 2010 until June 2010, volumes 24-53 will be released.FIVE VOLUMES A MONTH.Major props to Viz. I hope they continue the Alabasta arc's more serious dialog than some of their previous volumes.

Loved reading it

One Piece ist für mich der beste Manga, ich kann es jedem nur empfehlen. Die englische Übersetzung finde ich bei allen Mangas deutlich besser und angenehmer zu lesen.

One piece volume 21- Chapters 187 up to 195The straw hap pirates have began to engage Baroque works on all fronts with each member of the crew taking on a member of the organisation, Sanji has a hard trial ahead, Zoro faces off against Mr 1 a powerful enemy with a strong devil fruit suitable to be his opponent.This has to be one of my favorite volumes in the series because it shows so much growth in the group as well as the strength of their enemies they are against making this an iconic arc.

Item arrived perfectly on time, but there was basically no package, just the cardboard around and two of the four mangas that arrived with this one were indeed a bit ruined on the edges.

Each of Sanji, Nami and Zozo comes out of his/her battle victorious.Good for you, guys. Sanji’s reason for faltering at first was preposterous, though.I hope that Chopper does not turn big from here on out.