One Piece Vol. 13: It's All Right!
- ISBN
- 9781421506654
- Publisher
- VIZ Media
- English release
- Pages
- 192
- Chapters
- 109–117
- Anime
- Season 2: Entering into the Grand Line ep. 62–77
Chapters 109 to 117, and the least essential book in the Grand Line's opening stretch. Zoro is still outnumbered in the bounty hunters' village when it opens, and that skirmish is settled early. The rest of the volume is administrative: it names the organization behind the village, gives one of the crew's passengers a real identity, and points the story at a country several books away. Chapter 112 is titled 'Luffy vs. Zoro', and the fight it names is between two members of the same crew. This is not the reason to buy the run and it is not a volume to own on its own: it is connective tissue, and it reads better inside the sequence than out of it. Chapter 113, 'It's All Right', gives the book its title, which adds an exclamation mark. Season 2 of the anime covers chapters 101 to 128, so all of it is adapted.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
Vivi is what the volume is for. Miss Wednesday, who arrived in the previous book as a gag, is Nefeltari Vivi, princess of Alabasta, and Baroque Works wants her dead. Once she is out of reach she names the man in charge: Mr. 0, who runs the organization, is Sir Crocodile, who holds the same government-sanctioned rank the story gives Mihawk, the swordsman who beat Zoro in Vol. 6. That single piece of dialogue converts a comic village of bounty hunters into the opening of the Alabasta arc, and it arrives in the middle of a book that is otherwise mopping up. One of the agents turns out to be Igaram, captain of the Alabastan Royal Guard, and Nami, who had only pretended to be asleep, makes the deal that keeps Vivi alive before forcing Zoro back into the fight. The last chapters reach Little Garden, where two giants, Dorry and Broggy, have been fighting each other for a hundred years. The setup is better than the book it sits in.
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