I’m more interested than I’ve been before I love the crossguild development. Before Mihawk was sitting around doing nothing while we had no info on how he attained his status as WSS, the most impressive thing we knew was him rivaling Shanks before they hit their peaks. In retrospect Marineford is really annoying in terms of Mihawk because of him constantly getting halted by yc caliber folk but then he’s never presented w a situation to dominate or overwhelm them like the admirals did, even the iceberg feat isn’t the most impressive thing these days. What makes things worse is when Shanks who is supposed to be seen as beneath him to some degree is always portrayed as like such an untouchable figure while Mihawk never gave off the same aura because Oda never has him doing anything or he gives people fuel to question him. Only so long can I talk about his personality or him not trying or other swordsmen’s showing boost him in which these statements are true but why can’t we see something special from him, are we really just going to wait until Zoro fights him to see his overwhelming strength? It’s hard to even be excited for that. Now in the Crossguild era at least we finally get a really nice bounty, we learn he used to hunt marines as a lone wolf and we will learn more eventually, but finally something. Crossguild forces the character to actually be involved in the plot now he is in the pirate king race so now him and Zoro actually have a reason to be rivals and if paths are crossed they will finally have their setup to fight each other again outside of some weird scenario where it’s the final fight of the series or Mihawk somehow ends up being a villain in the final war none of that made sense. Crossguild is like being apart of the warlords, and they for sure will recruit more, but just higher status and freedom from the WG and he isn’t forced to soak up the spotlight like he wants it. This faction also enhances Croc and Buggy’s characters but this isn’t about that rn. All that I need to see now is some updated feats and preferably a good fight/ clash to make the guy feel unquestionably wss before Zoro faces him and also more backstory but that will all come in due time. Crossguild reinvigorated my interest in the character.