Is this the greatest chapter in OP history?
Not for me to say, but also, yes. A Garp/Blackbeard Pirate/Marine chapter, following on from last chapter’s glorious destruction of Kid? Oda is spoiling me.
Appreciate the coloured scans but did have to go back and look at the raws to try and get a better idea of what everything was to look like.
First up, the BB fruits. Excellent. That thread about Sanji vs Pizarro last week was very timely. A superior version of Pica’s fruit- I liked making the skull talk. Fits very well with a corrupt King, you can imagine him using this to keep an entire island hostage, plus testing Sanji’s CoO as Sanji tries to naviagate his way around an ever changing island that is also trying to kill him.
We pretty much knew Wolf’s fruit.
Shot’s also fitting my Brook vs Shot agenda. It’ll be an entertainment battle of some kind, where Shot is trying to get everyone drunk as hell while Brook is using his power of music. Also, if Shot has arsonist tendencies, Brook has freezing powers to battle it.
For the Sword squad, amazing how one simple chapter gives them that bit of hype. Do I think they are super strong, no. But I can see them as the young future of the Marines. They’re interesting. Oda should have done something like that for Kid and Law’s crews years ago, as it is, the attempt with Law’s crew came far too late and no one will ever care about Kid’s after what happened to them.
Plotwise, two very interesting things- Blackbeard’s plan, and SWORD. SWORD first, thing they will have been inspired by Garp, not directly led by him. Don’t think he has the attention span or desire to actually set up a thing like that. But a squad of semi rogue Marines picking fights with Yonko outside the command structure, that has Garp all over it.
Also, bold of Kuzan to reveal that to Blackbeard…
Blackbeard’s plan is also very interesting. Seems he’s trying to replicate what he did as a Warlord, on a grander scheme. Get accepted by the WG. Why? Because, like Rocks, he wants to be King of the World. And I think he’s trying to manoeuvre a situation where he gets an invite to Mariejois. Easier to get invited than to break in. And he’s got a crew that are designed to wreak havoc when they get inside the place. Think his overall plan is a grand coup, killing Imu, the Gorosei and the Celestial Dragons and plonking himself on the Empty Throne.
Also, if Lafitte and Devon are still unaccounted for… kill Saturn, get Devon to take his place, hypnotise anyone who witnessed it? Has potential, but I think it’ll just be Kuzan solo going to Egghead.
And for the main event, my man. Garp. That’s how you make a fucking entrance. Drop a nuke of a fist the enemy island. Probably has blown up all his allies. Who gives a fuck, Garp doesn’t. The real Hakiman of the series. Even in his old age this man still has it. Imagine this guy before he started getting old, two years ago? No wonder the Celestial Dragons couldn’t fire him, they’d be shitting themselves that he’d casually wreck Marijois for his severance package.
… now, where the hell is Smoker?
Not for me to say, but also, yes. A Garp/Blackbeard Pirate/Marine chapter, following on from last chapter’s glorious destruction of Kid? Oda is spoiling me.
Appreciate the coloured scans but did have to go back and look at the raws to try and get a better idea of what everything was to look like.
First up, the BB fruits. Excellent. That thread about Sanji vs Pizarro last week was very timely. A superior version of Pica’s fruit- I liked making the skull talk. Fits very well with a corrupt King, you can imagine him using this to keep an entire island hostage, plus testing Sanji’s CoO as Sanji tries to naviagate his way around an ever changing island that is also trying to kill him.
We pretty much knew Wolf’s fruit.
Shot’s also fitting my Brook vs Shot agenda. It’ll be an entertainment battle of some kind, where Shot is trying to get everyone drunk as hell while Brook is using his power of music. Also, if Shot has arsonist tendencies, Brook has freezing powers to battle it.
For the Sword squad, amazing how one simple chapter gives them that bit of hype. Do I think they are super strong, no. But I can see them as the young future of the Marines. They’re interesting. Oda should have done something like that for Kid and Law’s crews years ago, as it is, the attempt with Law’s crew came far too late and no one will ever care about Kid’s after what happened to them.
Plotwise, two very interesting things- Blackbeard’s plan, and SWORD. SWORD first, thing they will have been inspired by Garp, not directly led by him. Don’t think he has the attention span or desire to actually set up a thing like that. But a squad of semi rogue Marines picking fights with Yonko outside the command structure, that has Garp all over it.
Also, bold of Kuzan to reveal that to Blackbeard…
Blackbeard’s plan is also very interesting. Seems he’s trying to replicate what he did as a Warlord, on a grander scheme. Get accepted by the WG. Why? Because, like Rocks, he wants to be King of the World. And I think he’s trying to manoeuvre a situation where he gets an invite to Mariejois. Easier to get invited than to break in. And he’s got a crew that are designed to wreak havoc when they get inside the place. Think his overall plan is a grand coup, killing Imu, the Gorosei and the Celestial Dragons and plonking himself on the Empty Throne.
Also, if Lafitte and Devon are still unaccounted for… kill Saturn, get Devon to take his place, hypnotise anyone who witnessed it? Has potential, but I think it’ll just be Kuzan solo going to Egghead.
And for the main event, my man. Garp. That’s how you make a fucking entrance. Drop a nuke of a fist the enemy island. Probably has blown up all his allies. Who gives a fuck, Garp doesn’t. The real Hakiman of the series. Even in his old age this man still has it. Imagine this guy before he started getting old, two years ago? No wonder the Celestial Dragons couldn’t fire him, they’d be shitting themselves that he’d casually wreck Marijois for his severance package.
… now, where the hell is Smoker?
