One Piece, Vol. 61: Romance Dawn for the New World: Volume 61 Paperback – 15 Mar. 2012

One Piece volume 61 contains chapters 595 to 603 plus an interview with the voice of Franky, Kazuki Yao!It is rated T for teen (13+) due to fantasy violence and tobacco usage.This book marks the end of the first half of One Piece and the start of the New World!There is a chapter less than normal in this volume because before the start of the new arc, there is a letter from the author Eiichiro Oda and lots of fan art!I love the cover on volume 61. If you put it next to volume 1, you can compare the 2 and see how much the crew has grown!(Spoiler warning)The volume starts off with a short catch up with the The Eleven Supernovas and the Straw Hat Pirates receive a message from Luffy in the newspaper!Cue a timeskip! It's finally time for the crew to get back together! You would think that there would be many chapters telling us what the members did during the timeskip but Oda-sensei must be saving those epic stories for later! I can't wait to find out what they have been up to!Unfortunately, during the time that they were apart, a fake "Straw Hat Crew" had appeared! Using their fame, this crew are trying to gather many strong pirates to join them and cause more trouble!The volume ends with the crew setting off for Fishman Island!!

This is a really momentous book in the series, as it starts the second half! I really enjoyed it.

This volume of onepiece starts from chapter 595 and goes up to 603.SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!! <<<<<<<At the start of the volume we have a little catch up with some of the 11 super novas and we see 'Law' sitting on his submarine telling his crew that he doesn't want to rush into the new world and that he will just wait patiently. We see 'X-drake' talking to a guy about one of the 4 emperors and we see another panel of his awesome DF power!! Then we catch up to one of my least favorite rookie 'Scratchmen apoo' and he is just running away from some wild boars but we get a sneak peak and what some of the island could hold in store for luffy and his crew because Scratchmen tries jumping off a cliff but he ends up running in the air?!? o.O and finally we see 'Bonny' and the black bear pirates and sadly black beard has captured bonney and is trying to strike a deal with the navy like he did with Ace but things dont go the same way as they did back then as he wants a ship because as we all know he's been sailing around on a make shirt raft, which i just find hilarious but Akainu is on the ship and he is ready to capture black beard but they ran away before he could.after this we see the rest of the straw hats and we see how they take the news that luffy has left for them, and how they plan to try and improve so that they can help luffy in his never ending quest to be the king of pirates, i find it funny that brook and robin don't actually intend to do anything that we could see as benefiting the straw hats for example robin is heading off with luffy's dad to see the world through his eyes as she puts it and brook does his 45 degrees thing and but he does 40 degrees and slips but he says if he can do this then he will be stronger.then we see luffy with rayleigh and rayleigh is showing luffy the types of haki there is and where they will be training then the time skip comes......after the time skip we see the team and how they have changed and improved zoro has a slighly new hair style a scar on his left eye oh and his outfit has changed too, usopp has muscles a new hat and some earphones i think, nami has long hair and is wearing a bikini top, chopper has a new hat, franky well franky has went through a dramatic change just see for yourself, sanji has a new suit and his hair is covering up his other eye, robin is wearing a long skirt and a mini top oh and her hair is longer too now and brook well looks like brook apart from his outfitwe leave the straw hats on their way to fisherman island, sorry for the long review there is just so much to talk about in the volume buy it now oda shows his sketches for the character changes.THIS VOLUME IS WELL WORTH IT A FULL 5 STARS FROM ME!!

..start to the new world, good quality and a very good read.It's good to see the difference between this book and romance dawn, One piece forever!

incredible condition and arrived speadily. one of my favourite books in the series. would recommend to any one who wants to add to there collection

Overall this was a fairly simple volume, they ran into a few impostors and the world knows that Luffy is back but other than that it was pretty straight forward. I hope to see more of what happened in the two year gap throughout the other volumes.