On the cover page, Yamato reunites with Kikunojo! They look so happy to see each other. It feels like a fun sleepover is incoming. They could braid each other's hair, and tell scary stories, and talk about boys. Probably mostly about Oden. Yamato does talk about Oden a lot.
Lil' Harald hung out a lot with Lil' Dorry and Brogy! What mischievous adventures they could get into with each other. I wonder if they had a "Mr Wilson" to balance out their "Dennis the Menace" energy? But, we don't have time for that, now.
The deadly booger flick of doom. Truly a unstoppable technique.
The Kingdom of Bunt. I forget if we've heard of that place before or not. I'm pretty sure it's never been mentioned before? But, for all I know, it could have been mentioned once in passing 10 years ago.
D'aww...this is kind of a sweet meet cute. Harald saves Ida, but she doesn't want to be "saved" and tries to go back and rebuilt the town he wrecked. I could see why Harald got a crush on her, she's cute. No wonder she turns out to be Hajrudin's mom. I am curious about how they made the fake horns for her show, though.
Nika Dance! I guess that proves Harald is a good guy, deep down. No one who does the Nika Dance is pure evil.
The "Blood Soaked Serpent" that Dorry and Brogy mentioned back on Little Garden is finally confirmed to be the Red Line. We all kind of figured that's what it was, but it's nice to have it finally confirmed, after decades.
They make those feather pens in Giant size, too? And they were still being made 105 years ago? Okay, I'm oddly curious about these. Where do they come from?
D'aww, again. I'm glad Ida wasn't exiled from the village or anything. She seems pretty content, all things considered.
Lady Estrid, the future mother of Loki! She's a student of the Earth-Wind Arts. Whatever those are. From the context, I'm guessing it's a reference to Feng shui, which literally means Wind-Water. So, I guess "Earth-Wind" would be "Tu-Feng"? Is that a joke about Estrid being "two faced"? Or...maybe "Earth-Wind" is just a fart joke? Interesting that she mentions a "Lethal Five-Star Configuration". Kind of a hint about the Abyss Summoning Circles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui
Hey, there's Asura, the horse that Loki is destined to "kill". And it's a reference to Sleipnir, Odin's eight legged horse from Norse mythology!
Huh. This world has a Pole/North Star, too. Well, that's another hint that the One Piece World is actually a future Earth, I guess. Time will tell.
And we FINALLY get to see Loki's eyes! And...yeah, okay, they're freaky. And unique. I don't think we've seen eyes like this before. They don't look like the Ringed Eyes we see on other characters. And I don't remember any Ancient Giants having eyes like this either. In fact, the eyes that are closest to looking like Loki's eyes are probably the Gorosei's eyes when they're in their "Yokai" forms. (Chapter 1110). Interesting. Loki’s a Yokai?!
Don't throw the baby.
That's one tough baby! And this scene reminds me a lot of Luffy climbing up the Drum Island mountains to save Nami.
And Ida continues to be adorable! Even as a doting mom! Yeah...something bad's probably going to happen to her, since we haven't seen her in the present day. I'm guessing Loki will get blamed for that, too.