2012-02-01, 09:31 PM
I like how Zoro has no clue what a "samurai" is. He names his move after jidaigeki and samurai movies and plus, 4kids is all like, "HIS NAME'S ZORO, HE'S JUST LIKE A SAMURAI."
Solid exposition chapter, though. The first thing is that there's intrigue to the setting. The log pose not pointing to the island, "the incident from 4 years ago", the fact that it appeared to be a volcanic and flaming island but didn't realize that it's winter on a different side of the island, why the island is locked up, etc. The second thing he does well is initiating the action: the distress call and the samurai, how legitimate the call is, and the crew now being split up right now. Next, he also makes the plot more complex by adding other points: Smoker being on his way and the fact they're split up and possibly might be split up for a while during the arc. And of course, he winds up leaving good suspense at the end of the chapter by revealing the dragon. It's also worth praising him for the fact that the whirlpool served as an interesting plot device that sent them off on a really different path.
Solid exposition chapter, though. The first thing is that there's intrigue to the setting. The log pose not pointing to the island, "the incident from 4 years ago", the fact that it appeared to be a volcanic and flaming island but didn't realize that it's winter on a different side of the island, why the island is locked up, etc. The second thing he does well is initiating the action: the distress call and the samurai, how legitimate the call is, and the crew now being split up right now. Next, he also makes the plot more complex by adding other points: Smoker being on his way and the fact they're split up and possibly might be split up for a while during the arc. And of course, he winds up leaving good suspense at the end of the chapter by revealing the dragon. It's also worth praising him for the fact that the whirlpool served as an interesting plot device that sent them off on a really different path.