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That does not really check out, does it? The events of the void century are unknown to the people of Wano (Oden's dad only knew about the stuff recorded on the Poneglyph he had access to) while Ryuma's exploits are fairly well documented to the point where his lineage can be accurately traced...

Think it's pretty clear that he fought them by himself at least for a little while. The scene of the face off straight up ends with Akainu going "discussion is pointless" and launching a huge attack. The panel that immediately follows has the marines reporting that Akainu has engaged the...

Note that Apoo was also doing crowd control while fending off Zoro and Drake. The entire live floor was going after him. :myman:

Went back to check the chapters and injured Izo 1v2ed them for the entire last stretch of BM vs Kid and Law on top of other events.

HIM for a reason.

Injured Izou was able to take on Mr. Go (stronger than Lucci) backed up by Maha 1v2 for a respectable length of time and straight up outpace Mr. Go to put him on the floor. The Whitebeard pirates were truly in a class of their own. :finally:

I think there is an interesting dynamic being set up here between Imu and the Gorosei. Imu most likely knows Emeth personally and has had to deal with him alongside Joyboy back in the void century war. It's normal for him to be vary of anything and anyone directly linked to those events let...

Persians had been there centuries before Turkic migration. There has been intermixing since then but the Persian culture and identity clearly persisted. It would be easier to claim that the Turkish people are descended from Greeks.

They secured York, Punk Records and the Mother Flame so can guarantee future uses of their ancient weapon, but beyond that things really aren't a clear cut victory. Their other primary objective was the elimination of Vegapunk which, for all intent and purposes, they failed to do. Lilith still...

Not really. There has to be a good reason for him to show up at this stage and I honestly can't see any particularly compeling one. As a vehicle for a full God Valley flashback maybe?

My interpretation is that he straight up didn't want to follow through with what the message he wrote told him to do. He was quite simply scared of dying at first and saw the SHs' arrival as a way to possibly escape. Took him some time to come to terms with it and trust in his pre-memory wipe...

That would be the sensible takeaway imo. He's joining Smoker and Vergo in the hall of fame.

Absolutely this. Honestly very surprised that people still think these characters' ultimate role will only end up being classic obstacles for the SHs to beat up. Between what happened with Kizaru here and Akainu's growing frustration with being sidelined and kept in the dark for the benefit of...

Kizaru scene was great. It's really rare to see characters in this manga interacting in a way that's so down to earth but can't deny that Oda can pull it off when he wants to. The framing of the scene was fantastic. Sentomaru rowing away on his boat, Kizaru walking among the sea of fallen...

Luffy was so desperate to find a way to deal with the Gorosei that he ultimately decided to go with a technique that involved him getting attacked by his allies (the Mars situation). It really wouldn't make much sense for him to openly complain about how nothing works and end up relying on this...

The plot looks absolutely nonsensical with what we've learned this chapter in mind. The memory wipe was pointless and idiotic, it only served to give the WG the initiative when the Vegapunks were the ones with all the cards in their hands. They've known that York leaked their void century...

Think One Piece's problem with bloated arcs starts right there in Dressrosa and mostly due to everything surrounding the Grand Fleet's build up and creation. Trimming the fat leaves us with the single most charismatic and fleshed out villain in the series as antagonist, the introduction of one...

Tbh, Oda just isn't particularly good at writing mastermind type of characters. Both Crocodile and Doffy had extremely simplistic (and very similar) strategies to achieve their goals. Trick the people of Dressrosa into thinking the king was a bad guy by parasiting him on one hand and trick the...