Spoilers

“Big Trouble in Little Garden”

“Wax On, Wax Off”

Last season, One Piece was cruising along and then, suddenly, they had a two part episode. Season two has copied that idea as episodes four and five are a two part episode on the island in the Grand Line called Little Garden.

The Little Garden had all kinds of things we had not seen before such as dinosaurs, giants, and David Dastmalchian. Dastmalchian joined the roster of the Baroque Works as Mister 3, an assassin who can create wax.

This was an excellent pair of episodes that featured some awesome things:

• One of the key storylines over theses two episodes includes trying to give Usopp an arc. He came through big time in these episodes.
• The two giants and their century long duel was great and I loved how these giants were not the stereotypical giants one would come to expect.
• The big fight with Miss Valentine and Mr. 5 at the giant wax cake was awesome, and, as I said, Usopp came through like a boss.
• I love how the giants survived, even after it seemed as if they were dead.
• Miss Goldenweek was perhaps the scariest of the Baroque Works assassins we’ve met so far. She caused a lot of suffering to Luffy.
• We get our first interaction with the mysterious Mr. Zero, via a phone conversation between Mr. Zero and Sanji (who was pretending to be Mr. 3). I think he was being played by Joe Manganiello.
• The two giants work together to help Luffy’s ship to get past a giant goldfish.

Three episodes remain in season two and I expect it to be awesome.