Luffy vs Don Qinjao!

One Piece Manga chapter 716 review

Rating: 3.5/5

So another chapter of One Piece was out today and to be honest it wasn't the greatest. There were a few good things but overall I didn't enjoy it as much as I did when we were at the Green Bit. Having said that, I doubt we will get a chapter like that in a while. 

Anyway, the chapter starts off with the Brother's fighting and something happened to them which is revealed later in the chapter. It makes sense to be honest but for me fodder means nothing. In this Block, all I care about is Luffy and Don Qinjao. No one else. I think it would've been better if Oda showed only the fight between Luffy and Don Qinjao and skipped everything else because fodder doesn't interest me and it just wastes panels that could be used for better things such as Luffy fighting. 

We find out the one of the brothers has a Devil Fruit; the Jake Jake fruit (Jacket Jacket fruit). This lets him control anyone who wears him. The other brother wore him and now they are 2 in one basically. They're strong but we see the current leader of the Happou Navy defeats the brothers in one kick.

Now, we see Luffy and Don Qinjao talking. Don gives us a few hints of why he hates Garp and why he wants to take revenge. He says that Garp stole his power and his memories of youth but the main thing that makes me wonder is the huge fortune that Don mentions. The obvious answer would be that Garp stole his money or stole someone he caught who had a big bounty since he was the leader of another Navy. I think what happened was that Don caught Shiki and asked for the bounty from the Navy but Garp refused and they fought. I know the Navy can't refuse to give the reward for catching them but it could be that the Happou Navy and the Navy had past problems or it could be that Garp had a problem with Don himself. I say he caught Shiki because we know that Shiki has been in Impel Down and he was the first one to escape it. Obviously, Shiki must've had a big bounty on his head since he was a famous pirate that tried to kill Roger. 

Jean the robber has Luffy's helmet as we know from the last chapter and we see the typical Luffy. As Jean the robber throws the weapons towards Luffy, Luffy uses Observation Haki to avoid all that but unfortunately for Jean all the weapons hit Don Qinjao and that made him very angry. We see Don Qinjao defeat him in a single strike. 

Then we see Sai and the boxer, Ideo, fighting and it's a very close fight but then Don Qinjao and Luffy fight it out but on the way they knock both Sai and Ideo out of the ring and we finally get the fight that matters in this block. Luffy vs Don Qinjao. 

They both attack with Haki infested fist and then they both use Conqueror's Haki. This was the epic moment that made the chapter for me. Luffy and Don Qinjao defeat everyone in a flash. They are the only 2 left now and the next chapter will end this block. Finally!

I gave this chapter 3.5/5 because this was mainly fodder fighting fodder. At the end we see Luffy fighting and that's the only reason this chapter got as much as 3.5. if it weren't for him then this would've been 2 or 2.5. Hopefully, next chapter we also get to see what's happening at Green Bit.