One Piece Chapter 1147 Review/Recap
Of all the enemies that the Straw Hats have faced over the years, the God’s Knights might be their most dangerous to date. Despite only three of them being present in Elbaph, they’ve managed to nearly cripple the nation of Giants. Their children have been captured and are being marched towards slavery. Half of the crew has been beaten by Gunko alone. And to make matters worse, the adults either have their hands full with Sommers or Qillingham or their nightmare monsters. In their arrogance, though, they have managed to make an enemy out of the last people they would ever want to tick off. Immortality or not, the Straw Hats are not going to let the God’s Knights get away with their heinous actions!
Recap
Despite wanting to get out and help Saul, Robin and Chopper obey his orders to stay hidden inside his hair. Elsewhere, Gunko and Sommers have captured Nami, Usopp, Jinbei and Brook. The former Knight even demands that Brook only make her music from now on, and when he refuses, she proceeds to beat him up. As this is happening, Summers begins to broadcast a message to Warland. They announce they have kidnapped ten children, now including Colon, and are marching them back to Mariejois as their hostages. Elder Jarul must decide if his people will bend the knee and serve the World Government, or refuse and allow the kids to die one by one. Furthermore, the Knights order the Giants to destroy their schools, their libraries, and everything about their history, or each kid will die.
Everyone is outraged at these demands, but none more so than Gaban and Robin. Immortality or not, the former will not allow let his son be enslaved by the evil Celestial Dragons, and the latter will not let the knowledge of her people be destroyed. Separately, the two take a stand and prepare to fight to protect Elbaph!
Review
You know, it’s funny. As bad as things are looking for Elbaph right now, and they are bad, I cannot help but laugh at what’s going on. Yes, the God’s Knights might share the Five Elders’ immortality and will no doubt be some of the strongest enemies the Straw Hats will ever face. Yes, they have taken the kids hostage to blackmail their families. And yes, they have taken half of the Straw Hats captive. Yet I still can’t help but laugh at how things are going. And it’s all because they’ve managed to do the one thing that they shouldn’t have done. The one thing they weren’t supposed to do: they picked a fight with Luffy.
For all their posturing as gods, the God’s Knights are as arrogant as they are ignorant. They want to avoid angering Luffy, one of the Four Emperors, yet every single one of their actions thus far has done exactly that. They attacked his crew; they took kids hostage, which is something that none of the Straw Hats loathe. They are trying to force their friends to do something they don’t want, which is also a big mistake on their part. Lastly, the God’s Knights openly declared their intent to burn the knowledge of Ohara, Robin’s destroyed homeland, to ash. It is for all these reasons and more that the Straw Hats are going to fight them. And when Luffy arrives with Zoro and Sanji, they are going to regret their immortality.
Immortality won’t save the God’s Knights
We saw during the Egghead Island Arc that Luffy and others near his level are more than capable of putting beings like the Five Elders down. If they didn’t possess some sort of immortality, it’s likely the Straw Hats would make sure they stayed down. Even then, though, Luffy and Bonney proved that this immortality doesn’t stop someone from being knocked out of a fight. In other words, Luffy and the others need to hit so hard, they will be down for the count. And given all the pain the Celestial Dragons cause, this will end up being absolutely cathartic to watch.
Sadly, we won’t get to see how the protagonists attempt their counterattack for another two weeks. With Golden Week set to kick off in Japan, Shonen Jump will be on break for a week. However, it will be worth the wait to see karma catch up to the so-called gods soon!
I Give “The Things We Find Scary” a 4/5
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