Horrendous chapter from a writing perspective.
With that whole Lillith-Stella-Kuma scene Oda managed to completely destroy three (!) major dramatic scenes in Egghead and quite frankly heavily dragged down this arc in retroperspective.
Not only is Stella dying/Kizaru crying now almost meaningless, the "death" of all other sattelites is just as meaningless.
But even worse - Kuma's entire dramatic character arc and sacrifice is just utterly destroyed by Vegapunk seemingly being able to bring him back just like that.
On top of that it once again 100% supports every single critic that says that One Piece has zero stakes and lost it's thrill a long time ago.
Horrible, horrible writing.
With that whole Lillith-Stella-Kuma scene Oda managed to completely destroy three (!) major dramatic scenes in Egghead and quite frankly heavily dragged down this arc in retroperspective.
Not only is Stella dying/Kizaru crying now almost meaningless, the "death" of all other sattelites is just as meaningless.
But even worse - Kuma's entire dramatic character arc and sacrifice is just utterly destroyed by Vegapunk seemingly being able to bring him back just like that.
On top of that it once again 100% supports every single critic that says that One Piece has zero stakes and lost it's thrill a long time ago.
Horrible, horrible writing.