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“The Man in the Straw Hat”

I think I love this new series. A lot.

Buggy the Clown made his presence known this week with an over-the-top excellent performance by Jeff Ward.

Again, the episodes center around how amazingly charming and engaging the main cast is. Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Emily Rudd as Nami, Mackenyu as Roronoa Zoro are all huge winners and are so wonderful and easy to cheer for. Even though we see this episode that there is something we do not know about Nami, who looks to be ready to betray the other by stealing the map from out under them. That will be troublesome, especially after Luffy specifically trusted her with the map since she was “the Navigator.”

The flashbacks to young Luffy with Shanks are always great, as we see why Luffy has such a connection to the straw hat that he wears. Not to mention the apparent ability Shanks has to control sea creatures?

The parts of the story with Buggy the Clown was awesome. Jeff Ward did a fantastic job as this character, who I was afraid was just going to be a Joker rip off when I first saw him at the end of the first episode. That was not the case at all, although there are certainly some new and spectacular powers from baggy, who is another person to have eaten the Devil Fruit. It was hilarious when Buggy called out his finishing move, as Luffy always does.

Zoro has come around fairly quickly. From loner to someone willing to help Luffy under any circumstances. It might have been too quick to be honest as I wondered this as he was tied to the circus wheel. Still, that is a minor complaint (more of a critique, really).

I think I said that it was 8 episodes last post, but it looks like there are 10 actually. That makes me happy. I would watch 100 of these.