Spoiler One Piece Chapter 997 Spoilers Discussion

[Bounty]

Oh all of this totally plays into my confusion as to how it all is supposed to pan out.

Its like the whole "New Onigashima" speech. Oda would not have let Kaido make that speech if he wasn't going to show us some iteration or version of that plan coming to fruition. Here we are 12 chapters later with the entire island flying to Wano for that exact reason.

Yes, then you have Bakkin/Weevil, or Rocks himself, or a variety of other characters supposedly tied to the event, but none of the actual presence of any outside of BM/Kaido. Even the ancient weapons, at least 2 of them, are beyond the reaches of Kaido/BM in Wano (Poseidon and Pluton; we technically have no idea who or what Uranus is)

The only thing outside of this arc that may extend or tie the Rock plot past Kaido/BM is possibly Shanks and Blackbeard. With Blackbeard seemingly becoming the living will of Rocks (even his Ship is named after him) and Shanks being as old as the God Valley incident, there is potential that the Rocks storyline only begins with Kaido/BM, but continues until the conclusion of the story.

Oh god how I'll love if the overarching Rocks plotline continues till the end of the series. The biggest thing holding it back is how Oda will portray the typical country liberation part of the arc without Kaido getting defeated. In fact there are many more like-

Oden's claim on how the protagonists of future will defeat him which is kinda lining up neatly now, the question of opening Wano's borders and it would feel awkward if the scabbards' endeavors and struggles were only for Kaido live through this arc lol.

The other side of me thinks how it would be weird if Big Mom would potentially get 3 arcs dedicated to her and Kaido, who I would argue is built up to be the bigger villain in new world perishes in Wano.

His character arc seems to have barely scratched the surface and I'm not even touching upon other aspects like his demonic lineage or him potentially being a dragon.

In my opinion there's an overarching lore surrounding dragons involving the presence of literal dragons in the past, Kaido and Yamato potentially being dragons, celestial "dragons" -their obsession with having them as pets and using their hoof as their symbol. To some extent I would say Monkey D Dragon ironically having that name can be added to that list too. The bottom line is that Oda wants to explore more of this and Kaido could be a central figure in this later

 

[Shiroyru]

- Kaido destroying the scabbards singlehandily
- Kaido being recognized by multiple people as stronger than everyone
- Kaido casually lifting an island when Fujitora was panting from lifting rubbles
Things aren't looking good for the admiral squad

This is what happens when you place your bets on guys who will be nothing more than background characters until EoS, in which they will only be upgraded to secondary antagonists for Luffy’s underlings, being just as strong as Luffy’s future final pirate opponent, Luffy’s inspiration and the “Roger” of the mid generation, and the two main antagonists of a majority of the New World.

Yonko have much more story importance than the Admirals, on top of having better feats and portrayal

 

[MugiwaraMaster]

Now that the Gorilla Girl Gifter has a name, here comes the Rule 34.

 

[Kromage911]

It's different.
The Imo stuff is hype about the story and the mysteries left for us readers.

The Kaido stuff is about powerlvls. Kaido's fanboys and fans were hyped and saying that he has the best feat and is the strongest, etc, etc because of this lifting island stuff.
So the point here is, is that lifting island relevant for combat? Can he apply all that force to a small target like a person? Or can he uses it against a person in general? If the answer is not, then the hype is not really hype.

I mean, isn't vanishing an island off the map is a big deal in itself? God Valley vanished and it was considered a very big deal.

 

[Esc]

I wonder if Onigashima is going to be the ticking bomb of the arc? I can't see how this island can be lay down on the flower capital without killing everybody.

 

[imacub]

He turned around to attack. That would slow anyone down.

Apoo was attacking in mid air so it doesnt necesarily slowed him down, running is like fly land fly land and goes on, Apoo simply used the advantage when he's in midair to attack

 

[PurpleSwordsman]

I mean, isn't vanishing an island off the map is a big deal in itself? God Valley vanished and it was considered a very big deal.

Since we don't know how that happened, why that should be a big deal?

 

[Esc]

Oda probably decided to troll Sanji after seeing Sanji fans trolling the forums

Sanji getting captured by gifters and not even Black Maria herself really feel like Oda saw all these beetle man trolls lol

 

[Gon’s Missing Arm]

wtf Oda 🤦🏾‍♂️ yesterday Sanji fans were all set to LAUGH us off the stage swearing translations would show that Zoro was talking to Queen about LUFFY will be the man to take down Kaido.

This guy Zoro straight up put it out there in front of god and everyone, "I'M HERE TO CUT DOWN KAIDOU, the strongest guy in the world!!"

ZKK evolving like:

 

[Seth]

Oda probably decided to troll Sanji after seeing Sanji fans trolling the forums

He just realized that i's finally time to get serious.

 

[Broreo]

will sanji fans ever recover from this chapter

 

[Bounty]

I wonder if Onigashima is going to be the ticking bomb of the arc? I can't see how this island can be lay down on the flower capital without killing everybody.

I really don't see the point of it being a ticking time bomb when Kaido himself said that he would use the residents of the capital as a source of labor

 

[Fn Lucci]

page one > Apoo
Base Kick RS < Named cutting Zoro


peace

Zoro didn't use a named attack unless you mean the cutting slash last time

 

[PurpleSwordsman]

wtf Oda 🤦🏾‍♂️ yesterday Sanji fans were all set to LAUGH us off the stage swearing translations would show that Zoro was talking to Queen about LUFFY will be the man to take down Kaido.

This guy Zoro straight up put it out there in front of god and everyone, "I'M HERE TO CUT DOWN KAIDOU, the strongest guy in the world!!"

ZKK evolving like:

Yesterday people thought Zoro defeated Apoo alone and made 200 pages of this thread with it.
Today was proved the opposite.
I wouldn't say that was a L, au contraire my friend, a nice W.

The L in any case is the stuff about Sanji getting a Califa 2.0 treatment again. Which is not really a surprise since it was something expected if women are involved.

 

[Seth]

will sanji fans evern recover from this

They barely started to recover from WCI let alone this

 

[Esc]

I really don't see the point of it being a ticking time bomb when Kaido himself said that he would use the residents of the capital as a source of labor

Yeah I guess I'm gonna need to see what Kaido intend to do on pictures.

 

[Seth]

Yesterday people thought Zoro defeated Apoo alone and made 200 pages of this thread with it.
Today was proved the opposite.

Stop acting like you are from church of Ndule.

Zoro one shotted Apoo broke his tonfas and Drake only watched how real boys do things

 

[KINGKONGGUN15]

i have a lil theory:

so a few chapters ago when queen was looking at the bounty posters he said ''best to take out their 2nd and 3rd strongest first''. what if queen ordered bm to take out sanji?

 

[PurpleSwordsman]

Stop acting like you are from church of Ndule.

Zoro one shotted Apoo broke his tonfas and Drake only watched how real boys do things

Sure bro, I would like to live in that imaginary world as you where all that headcanon is true xD.

 

[EmperorKinyagi]

This is what happens when you place your bets on guys who will be nothing more than background characters until EoS, in which they will only be upgraded to secondary antagonists for Luffy’s underlings, being just as strong as Luffy’s future final pirate opponent, Luffy’s inspiration and the “Roger” of the mid generation, and the two main antagonists of a majority of the New World.

Yonko have much more story importance than the Admirals, on top of having better feats and portrayal

The admirals also aren't popular in Japan (like other than Kuzan, they're not in the top 70). Other mangaka (Kishimoto) have shown a tendency to build more hype for more popular characters than less popular characters (which is a good business move). Why would Oda be different.