- Sun God Nika doesn't have wings and is just a regular human. Luffy sailing the seas and liberating the islands on a Sunny. Luffy lights his fists on fire with Red Hawk and Red Roc while his antagonist Blackbeard has the power of darkness. This rabbit hole goes on forever.
- I prefer Nami calling Zeus a partner rather than a sidekick. At least he's been promoted from slave, Jinbe would approve.
- Daifugo now using armament haki when he was getting trounced by seastone-cuffed Luffy in Udon. The O-Tama power ups are real.
- It's such a cathartic feeling seeing the silly Gifter baddies that got one-shotted chapter after chapter all arc now back saving everyone in 1017 and 1018.
I was tempted to call it last week, but this chapter for me settles that Rokushiki is just haki. Who's Who uses Tekkai and just blackens his teeth, which would be as pointless as using Tekkai on a sword since Tekkai supposedly involves only muscles. Oda could easily emphasize that techniques are being stacked. Instead, we just get Jinbe pointing to his CoA-covered arm calling it Tekkai in jest.
The CP9 all had haki in the Vivre Cards because Rokushiki contains haki. Oda will take a vague idea from early in the story then develop much later, ignoring minor inconsistencies such as Lucci's Shigan not hurting Luffy's throat, but you only really need to understand the current context.
Interesting that the World Government thought covering their fists or weapons in haki wasn't good enough and created a much more complex fighting style for their agents with Soru for speed, Geppo for mobility, Rankyaku for range, Shigan for weapon-less assasination, etc. Rokuogan, the secret advanced form, certainly makes sense as the haki projection Luffy learned in Udon and Rayleigh/Boa sisters/Sentomaru showcased before. If Who's Who has one more final attack in him left, it will be a Rokuogan technique to prove he a genius like Lucci. At least he can move in Tekkai like Jabra.
I like the direction Oda went with Who's Who here that's not getting recognized much. He could have easily written WW as a human version of Hody given his past of being a WG agent presumably brainwashed like the EL CP9 members from chilhood into believing the WG ideology that Celestials are gods, Fishmen are monsters and slaves. But Oda took account of Who's Who getting humbled in prison and his current position as an executive in a crew of freaks. You can't tell me there was an ulterior motive behind Who's Who smile to purge Kaido's hierarchy of the non-humans:
Kaido is the strongest creature. King is a winged mystery, Jack is a fishman, Queen is a cyborg, Black Maria is a giant with Yamato horns. The Numbers are Ancient Giant-looking experimental freaks incapable of speech. The Gifters are a circus show and the Pleasures can't even express emotion. There is even what looks like a Mink in Who's Who posse running away this chapter. Yet the only one he was troubled by was the double crosser X-Drake.
Who's Who's angle is that he's sympathetic but ultimately ignorant of Jinbe and the Fishman. He calls him slow on land then quickly apologizes for it. Jinbe is not too bothered by the occasional insult like when Crocodile called his kind barbaric. It's only when Who's Who goes beyond the surface level and makes a derogatory comment about the history of the fishmen, trying it connect it all to Nika, that he steps on a landmine involving the Sun Pirates, Fisher Tiger, everyone Jinbe worked to protect in Fishman Island serving as a Warlord/along Whitebeard/under Big Mom. Jinbe was never a slave so it's not even personal. Whether Who's Who did it by accident or was trying to rile up Jinbe, I think it's great that big blue snaps thinking of everyone but himself.
I have to applaud Oda for combining a nice fight between martial artists Who's Who and Jinbe, a lore dump session involving the Gomu Gomu and Nika, and making it feel a bit personal for Jinbe on top of that. Usually we either get the fight or the story, but Who's Who really stepped up as a minor villain and we didn't even need to see his face. Jinbe's first 1v1 as a Strawhat will be a memorable fight for sure.