My thoughts:
- what are the chances that Queen gets sent to the Germa Kingdom? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Queen gets sent flying off the island the same time the Germa cover story begins lmao
- This was probably my favourite choreographed fight in the Raid. Zoro’s been a shining star ever since it begun, love seeing him rack up Ws after hard earned battles the most. I loved how Zoro really used his brain for once this timeskip instead of unga bunga-ing King.
- 103 Emotions looked incredible. The black lightning just adds aesthetic seasoning to his attacks now. I need this and Ifrit Jambe on the cover of the next volume, same way we saw Snakeman in the final WCI volume.
- A shoutout to my other boy Sanji. I was expecting Beef Burst to send Queen to the Live Floor, I never could have imagined he’d launch him off the island like fucking Wapol lmao. I can’t imagine a cyborg brachiosaurus is light 💀 And it doesn’t even seem like that’s the strongest move in his arsenal, it looks more like a souped up Mouton Shot than anything.
- Sanji passing out isn’t nearly as bad as people are making it out to be? Zoro passed out from an empty stomach and a stab wound from a gimped Killer, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s an endurance god. That’s just down to Oda being inconsistent with previous showings. From Black Maria to Queen, to King AND Queen and back to just Queen, Sanji’s been accumulating fatigue without any rest up to this point. Just because he has an accelerated healing factor now doesn’t mean he can regenerate stamina necessarily, he’s still a human for the most part.
- who’s really stepping up to Zoro at this point outside of an admiral or Mihawk? I know that the BB pirates are meant to mirror the SHs in terms of development, but man I just can’t imagine Shiryuu pushing him that far without invisibility cheap shots. But knowing Oda he’ll make him exponentially stronger by the time we see him again.
- King probably has my favourite design of any character post timeskip. A black Targaryen?Brother Geralt? Gimme more Lunarians, Oda. He has an amazing fighting style too, right down to his weaknesses.
- I genuinely think Sanji could give King a high end fight at the minimum at this point. Their move sets are incredibly similar and both have their own sets of exploitable weaknesses. I still give the edge to King because I think King’s versatility and Zoan endurance would give him the edge but Sanji’s really come into his own in a big way.
- tbh now that Zoro and Sanji are done i don’t care much about what happens next lmao, my boys got shine let’s wrap this arc up 👏👏