A focused action chapter, what a treat. Jinbe sleeping with the jellyfishes. Jinbe is an undersea himbo.
Only Luffy knows about Wano's secret sauce. Luffy flooring Kaido like a pacifista last chapter leaves everyone shook about his new haki. While Luffy is riding Level 3 haki, everyone else appears to be hurting Kaido with level 2 like the Scabbards. Kid's master plan was indeed a bigger metal fist.
We get a beautiful shot of Kaido seeing all the ghosts who spanked him behind Luffy. Get this man a therapist, you can't be flashing back to all your previous beatings every time you bleed. Interestingly, the shadow of Shanks is there. Kaido and Shanks might have faced off before Marineford with Shanks making another fish swim away. The lack of marines there, especially with Luffy being Garp's grandson who fought Rocks, is not a good look for the Navy.
Zoro paying tribute to Kinemon and unleashing his flame sword has been a long time coming. Incredible seeing Luffy survive the partial Bagua then Zoro protect his captain from Big Mom's attack. Ever since Kin's formal introduction in 672, he's seen him use the flame sword multiple times. Whether they trained together or Zoro picked it up from enough observation, the result is the same. Zoro now at all full power with the bandana and Enma, which he sees as a power up he'll have to draw new strength from. Conversely, Killer sees not having his Punisher blades as a nerf. Oda assigns meito to characters for a reason and not all blades are interchangable even if equal in rank. Would love to see those two develop a Supernova bond. Still, it looks like they're doing no better than the Scabbards so far.
On a related note, since Zoro can already cut fire, only has his eyes on cutting Kaido with Enma, dare I ask what happens to that bundle of leather called King?
New game: whoever gets hit by Big Mom's attack is a fodder. Sorry Prometheus, the sickest burn of this chapter goes to Luffy.
Between all the serious and cool moments, I like that Oda still finds time to blend in comedy with the Supernova banter. My other favorite part of this chapter was of course their combined attack. Luffy delivering a Kong Gun Kaido looked prepared for this time. Law keeping it tame for now. Kid summoning a big scrap metal mech to sock Kaido, this man went full Bullet. Though I much prefer this mech's more piratey design with the skull, spikes, the levitating body and limbs. Kid looks like a mad scientist up there. Funny that Oda drew him as a child tinkering with robots.
Maybe the real the reason Oda named this character Kid is because....he's a huge Franky fan. Same logic behind Killer.
Kaido loving all the pain he's feeling right now. Exactly what the doctor ordered. That final spread may look amazing and scary, but Kaido transforming into L mode indicates he's not feeling very threatened. Kaido acting like a masochist finally in his element. The Yonko are barely feeling out their opponents as the match is just got started. Unfortunate that the Oda breaks lines up with two successive WSJ breaks. But no matter what Strawhats Oda cuts to next chapter, I'm thrilled for fights and more fights all over the place.