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Chapter 590: My Little Brother

Arc: Post-War · Saga: Summit War · Released: Vol. 60

Summary

Two weeks after the Paramount War, the world processes its grief on three fronts. At Windmill Village (Kingdom of Goa, East Blue), Vice-Admiral Garp returns from sinking a pirate ship and is set upon by Curly Dadan, who blames him for failing to save Ace; Garp absorbs the beating without resistance, and Makino tells the village that Garp — and Luffy most of all — is hurting more than anyone. Garp reveals Luffy survived (‘he fled in a submarine’) and pledges to back his grandson no matter what. Far away in the New World, Shanks keeps vigil at the graves of Whitebeard and Ace; Marco thanks him, and the two reflect that Whitebeard, like Roger, would never run or weep. On Amazon Lily, Jinbei refuses to let the rampaging, self-loathing Luffy keep hurting himself — he fights him down, forcing him to accept that what’s gone is gone, and to remember what remains. Luffy finally names his eight crewmates one by one, screams ‘I HAVE MY CREW!! I want to see them!!’, and weeps — fulfilling, unknowingly, Ace’s dying request that Jinbei look after his little brother.

New reveals

• Garp is grieving and self-flagellating: he returns to Foosha after sinking a pirate ship and lets Dadan beat him without defending himself.
• Makino’s thesis: Ace and Luffy were ‘within his reach but he couldn’t save them’ — Garp is hurting more than anyone, and ‘Luffy is the one hurting most.’
• Luffy is confirmed alive and escaped Marineford ‘in a submarine’; his body was never found.
• Garp’s pledge: ‘No matter what kind of pirate that idiot Luffy becomes, I’ll be on his side!!’
• Shanks personally tends the graves of Whitebeard (‘EDWARD-NEWGATE’) and Ace (‘PORTGAS-D-ACE’) in the New World; Marco thanks him on the Whitebeard Pirates’ behalf.
• Shanks’s code: ‘enemy or not, Whitebeard was a man who commanded respect’ — and ‘even Sengoku felt that way.’
• Jinbei is staying with Luffy on Amazon Lily expressly to fulfill Ace’s request to take care of him.
• Luffy’s recovery pivot: he still has his crew, and he resolves to see them.

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Shown present-day: Garp, Dadan, Makino, Woop Slap (Foosha Village); Shanks, Marco (New World graves); Jinbei, Luffy (Amazon Lily).
• Shown as grave / memorial: Whitebeard (‘EDWARD-NEWGATE’), Ace (‘PORTGAS-D-ACE’).
• Shown in memory / flashback: young Ace & Luffy (Foosha childhood, p.6); the Straw Hat crew in Luffy’s mind (Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, Brook, p.16); Ace’s Impel-Down request to Jinbei (p.18).
• Named / referenced: Sengoku (p.9); a submarine (Luffy’s escape vessel, unnamed — p.7).
• Crews: Marines, Whitebeard Pirates, Red Hair Pirates, Straw Hat Pirates, Dadan Family.
• Locations: Foosha Village (captioned ‘Windmill Village, the Kingdom of Goa, the East Blue’), Goa Kingdom, Amazon Lily (captioned ‘the Island of Women, the Calm Belt’), New World (unnamed graveyard island).

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title-page illustration: two unidentified figures (a large heavyset bald man, drooling, and a lean man in a wide-brim cowboy/bounty hat smoking a cigarette, a cross-hilt sword propped behind) seated before an octopus/tentacle backdrop. Melancholic, sea-themed.
• Page 4 — Dadan attacks the returning Garp: ‘You got some nerve coming back here!!’
• Page 6 — Makino: ‘Luffy is the one hurting most!!’ over a childhood flashback panel of Ace and Luffy.
• Page 8 — The New World graves: marble headstones reading ‘EDWARD-NEWGATE’ and ‘PORTGAS-D-ACE’, banked with flowers under Whitebeard’s jolly roger; Shanks present. ‘I don’t know how to thank you, Red-Hair.’
• Page 12 — Jinbei’s silhouette ‘THOOM!!’ as he downs the rampaging Luffy.
• Page 16 — Crew splash: Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook framed around ‘I HAVE MY CREW!!’ (mirror candidate).
• Page 17 — Full-page close-up of Luffy weeping.
• Page 18 — Ace’s flashback request to Jinbei: ‘TAKE CARE OF HIM, OKAY?’
• Page 20 — Vol. 60 SBS Question Corner (volume paratext bundled with the capture, NOT chapter narrative): canon birthdays — Buggy Aug 8, Mr. 60 SBS refresh).

Open questions raised

• Where exactly is the New World island where Shanks buried Whitebeard and Ace, and why did he take personal custody of the bodies?
• Now that Luffy resolves to reunite with his crew, how does he intend to reach Sabaody / regroup?