One Piece Vol 3: Don't Get Fooled Again

Volume 3 of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece wraps up the crew's clash with Buggy the Clown and opens the next arc. Monkey D. Luffy, the rubber-bodied boy who dreams of finding the legendary treasure called the One Piece, is still locked in a fight with Buggy, a pirate captain whose Devil Fruit power lets him split his body into pieces. Roronoa Zoro fights beside him, and the battle ends only when Nami, the thief who has been travelling with them, joins in and the two of them defeat Buggy.

The crew then sets a course for the hometown of Usopp, a boastful teenager known across the village for his tall tales. There they overhear the butler of a wealthy young woman named Kaya plotting with a partner to kill her and take her fortune, and learn that the butler is really a pirate captain in disguise. The crew has to decide what it owes a village that does not believe a word its loudest resident says.

The book is early, broad adventure with slapstick, fights built on odd powers, and the first signs of the loyalties that drive the series. It is the third book of the East Blue saga, so readers who want to follow the characters from the start should read volumes 1 and 2 first. The Viz Media Shonen Jump edition reads right to left, as the Japanese original does.