One Piece Vol. 63: Otohime and Tiger
- ISBN
- 9781421543079
- Publisher
- VIZ Media
- English release
- Pages
- 192
- Chapters
- 615–626
- Anime
- Season 15: Fish-Man Island ep. 517–578
Most of this book is a flashback, and it is not the reason anyone buys One Piece. Chapters 615 to 626 pack twelve chapters into 192 pages, the densest volume in this stretch, and the run from chapter 621 to chapter 625 leaves the present-day story completely for the history of Fish-Man Island: Fisher Tiger, the Sun Pirates, Queen Otohime and the politics that produced Arlong. The Straw Hats spend the rest of it separated and regrouping. Nobody should start here and nobody should stop here. What the book is for, if it is for anything, is that it supplies the reason an East Blue villain behaved as he did, and that argument is in the section below. Season 15 covers all of it.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The flashback is the best material in the book and it is still a flashback. Fisher Tiger takes a freed slave named Koala back to her village, is caught in a Marine trap, and dies after refusing a blood treatment, a refusal the book records and never explains. Jimbei inherits the Sun Pirates, Arlong walks out over it, and Jimbei is the one who later turns Arlong loose in the East Blue, which makes a Warlord retroactively responsible for the crew's first serious fight. Otohime, campaigning to end the segregation of fishmen and humans, is assassinated, and her children are left holding her petition. So the volume is an origin story for a grievance, delivered hundreds of chapters after the grievance mattered. Inside the run from Vol. 62 to Vol. 65 it lands. Alone it is a history lecture.
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