Previously, Kami Eneru predicted that within three hours from the start of the battle game there would be only five people left standing. Now, as the battle game comes down to the last few minutes of Kami Eneru’s prediction, there are still six survivors. The six survivors are Kami, Ganfor the Sky Knight, Nico Robin, Nami, Zolo, and Wyper. Because six is one too many, Eneru tries to decide who to remove, but to everyone else it is obvious who should go. They choose Eneru to be eliminated. With them all attacking him at once, except Nami who just watches, it makes it easy for Eneru to do away with one of them. It is whoever got in his way first and that is Wyper. Yet the other three continue to attack anyway, but they are quickly defeated.
The whole point of the survival game is to find the the four strongest or luckiest people to accompany Eneru on his journey in the amazing flying ship, Ark Maxim. He plans to leave Sky Island and go down to the blue sea in order to become the god of that sea. In fear for her life, Nami, being the last survivor, goes with Eneru, unaware of his plans. On his way to the blue sea, Eneru plans to destroy Sky Island, but there is still one man who can stop him. Earlier, there were really seven people left in the survival game and not six. Luffy was still trapped in the belly of the Sky Snake, but now he is out and on his way to defeat Eneru. Due to the fact that rubber does not conduct electricity, Luffy may be Eneru’s only natural enemy.
Overall
The battle between Eneru and Luffy is nothing more than grade school science, rubber beats electricity every time. Yet considering that lighting is 3x hotter than the face of the sun, you also need to remember another thing you learned in grade school, rubber melts. So the fight almost even outs, right? Wrong, Eneru can also use his powers to turn himself into an electromagnet and control the movement of metal, and he can also reforge his staff into a spear, so that kinda gives Eneru the advantage. These final battles between Luffy and the final villain is one of my favorite things about One Piece because it’s never really about Luffy being stronger than his opponent but it’s about him being clever and thinking on his feet and having the will to survive. Now, he may not always know exactly what he is doing or why it works, but that's the fun of it.
Previously, it was obvious that Eneru was a cruel and horrible leader, but it was also believed that he was the guardian or god, so to speak, of Sky Island. It’s shown that he is the ultimate evil, which reminds me of the previous arc, when they were in the desert. Last time it was the Straw Hat crew in a foreign land fighting a evil power, trying to restore the rightful ruler and having to deal with a rebel army, then the evil tries to kill both the rebels and the rightful ruler. This time it is the Straw Hat crew in a strange land fighting an evil government with the rightful ruler, and having to deal with an army of men trying to reclaim their homeland. I did notice the similarities from the start, and at first that wasn’t so bad, but as time went on, the two stories just blended together too much. Even though both stories did have their distinct differences, I feel that this story was introduced too close to the other one, but out of the two stories I prefer this one. This one just seems lighter and happier but still intense, and with the other one, the setting made it seem drier, and quite depressing.
ComicsOnline Gives One Piece Volume 30, 3 out of 5 Shandians
