Solid chapter all around.
• Thought the colorspread was great. The variety and imagination of them is always good, and I loved seeing Jinbe in another one. So cool that he’s now going to be a regular fixture in them.
•Luffy can Kaido is awesome, and Luffy hasn’t even used anything other than base and Advanced CoC. When that gets to its climax, it’s gonna be epic. Loved Kaido’s assessment of Luffy. “The more risk, the wider your smile.” That’s such an perfect way to describe Luffy. Kaido genuinely respects him now.
• Big Mom is just a walking natural disaster. Good lord, she hit Page One back to the Cretaceous period. Hera is no freaking joke, either. I like the consistency with Big Mom, it makes perfect sense for her to take issue with Kaido’s subordinates given the premium she puts on food. It’s not about morality in the same sense as the navy’s “morality,” as pirates make their own. We’ve seen this from Luffy and company time and time again. They all determine what matters to them, and that matters to Big Mom. Simple as that. Whether this turns into a betrayal against Kaido, which I thought would be the end result (with us getting Luffy/Law/Kid vs Kaido vs Big Mom) remains to be seen.
• With Killer out of the picture (Hawkins vs Killer will be an interesting matchup, their dialogue was pretty good), I might have been wrong about Law going back up to fight Kaido, as Kid is going to need help with Big Mom. So we might actually get a full 1v1 between Luffy and Kaido, and get Law/Kid vs Big Mom, which would be cool too. People would finally have to stop pretending Law isn’t as much Luffy’s rival as Kid is, and puts them solidly on their own teir, close to Luffy, above everyone else in the Supernova, which has been obvious to anyone who was remotely honest about it.
• Nami vs Ulti is creeping closer and I’m hyped! Zeus is not going to be happy at all that Big Mom created Hera, I think, and is about to revolt. Unless he develops a crush on Hera (plausible, given the name), which would be pretty funny. But regardless, he’s ending up in the same place Nami is, which means they’re about to be a duo again and put Ulti down, which would be *great* for Nami. So excited to see it.
• Speaking of Nami, she was hilarious this chapter (Uncle Usopp lol), though she rarely isn’t.
• Love Tama! More Tama is always a good thing.
Pretty good chapter heading into Golden Week. A shame that we’re already at that time, but looking forward to the next chapter.