Around all this, Austin Wintory’s score swirls and eddies ominously, with odd atonal stabs that add a disturbing note of hysteria to an already chaotic mix. That’s partly thanks to some typically masterful use of sound: Arberrang is a relentless cacophony of bassy rumbles, cracks and shouts, while echoing howls, eerie whistles and distant screeches are your soundtrack in the world outside. Whichever group you’re currently following, the atmosphere is consistently, oppressively unsettling, the tension so thick you can practically taste it. The visuals are still arresting, but more abstract: at times you’ll swear the abundance of jagged edges is going to puncture your shimmering bubble, which appears ever more fragile with every step.

And you don’t get to gawp at the pretty scenery so much as shudder at the fate of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the darkness. But the penny has to drop soon…Īs it turns out, you’re not the only ones out there, but you shouldn’t expect the cast to grow much beyond the small handful of newcomers introduced at the outset.

Of course, when the episode begins, they don’t know that yet. Trapped within a bubble of light magic are one-armed Varl giant Iver, spellweavers Eyvind and Juno, and the Ravens, episode two’s mercenaries who aren’t just minus a leader but have effectively been tricked by a mind spell into helping out. It’s a deeply distressing scenario, even before Rugga starts spouting off about “the will of the people”, and making populist speeches riddled with the kind of lies that frightened citizens are only too willing to believe.Īnd if one pressure-cooker environment wasn’t enough, the potential world-savers of the piece have been forced into the uneasiest of alliances. And now here come the dredge-your former enemy suddenly vulnerable and sympathetic-begging to be let in, before they can be consumed by the poisonous fog that has choked the rest of the world. Arberrang was already in a bit of a state upon the caravan’s arrival now, with its king at death’s door and irredeemable bastard Rugga having successfully sown divisions among the populace, the city is a powder keg, waiting for the tiniest spark to make it explode. Onigashima is the point where Jimbei can officially be called a Straw Hat in every sense of the word.“Despite everything that’s going on, it’s still mankind that worries me the most,” says Rook astutely, moments before things go from bad to disastrous. He's even with them in the latest movie, One Piece Film: Red. Not only did he start being regularly featured in the color pages, but he was also in all the material featuring the Straw Hats as a whole crew. This small-but-important change in the crew's dynamic is probably why Jimbei started being treated differently out-of-universe, too. With this arc, he actually started to feel like a Straw Hat. This will also likely be the first time he follows the Straw Hats to their next destination aboard the Thousand Sunny.

On top of that, he was interacting more with the crew and really getting to know them he even posed with them in their big group shot at the official start of the raid. When he reunited with the Straw Hats for the raid on Onigashima, it was his first time being on their crew and participating in one of their major battles. An ideal entry point for Jimbei into the main cast would be in Wano.

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