Anime Review: One Piece Episode 531 ‘Ryugu Palace! Journey with the Shark We Saved!’

I forgot all about Caribou and that the Straw Hats trapped him in a barrel, and we got a better look of his powers showing the he controls swamps. Now personally I find that ability to be pretty lame; compared to the other devil fruit powers I’ve seen, this one looks like it wouldn’t be difficult to defeat.

When Neptune is flying the Straw Hats to his palace I found it funny the chanting he did, he kept going jamon, jamon, jamon. Luffy said it best “it sounds so dumb.” I also liked the sounds the whale and the shark made too, especially the shark it reminded me of some sort of evil laughter.  I loved how after the Neptune describes a man who already arrived and Nami and Usopp thinks it’s Zoro, and then he says his name was Zolo, then Nami and Usopp fall of the shark out of shock of his mistake but more importantly it’s ironic how Zoro was the first to arrive when he used to have been so horrible with directions.

So the Straw Hats finally reach Ryugu Palace and of course Luffy wonders off because of his hunger, so he enters a room with giant plates of food. Which, so happens to be the mermaid princesses room, and she’s huge not weight wise but crazy tall, I found it funny how she was crying because she was afraid of tiny Luffy.

In all, this episode didn’t have all that much. Yes, there were some moments of comedy and such but I felt that it was a little boring. So I really hope a little bit more happens in the next episode, I’ve read the manga and I’m quite sure it gets much more exciting and I can’t wait.