WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING? ODA, PLEASE, WE NEED ANSWERS.
Welcome back sunlight alliance, this is your captain speaking.
It is not an understatement to say, we have more questions than ever with the
events currently unfolding on onigashima. Spoilers ahead you have been warned.
Can someone please explain to me what is that? What fruit were they talking about?
What is going to happen to Izo? What happened to Germa and the Sun Pirates? How are Raizo
and Fukurkujo paralyzing each other at the same time? How is the fire demon talking?
And is Law's sword extending??? Or is it just excited to see big mom?? Okay real speculation
only from here on out, cause I have A LOT of questions regarding all these questions.
The chapter is titled, law and kid versus big mom, which definitely was a highlight of the
chapter, but sooo many other things happened that we need to talk about.
Let’s start with Izo. Let me know what you think, but for me Izo is about to get crushed.
Let’s think about this for a sec. Izo has fought against Kaido, and been holding his own for a
while now during the raid. He’s already down bad with multiple injuries. X-drake, even though
it was off-screen, got brutalized by CP0. Now this doesn’t mean X-drake is weak by any means,
quite the opposite in fact. The X-drake versus CP0 fight just speaks to how strong these people
actually are. It’s safe to say that X-drake was in better condition than Izo when fighting CP0,
and I think most would agree that X-drake is around the same strength or stronger than Izo. So
logically, unless someone else steps in, Izo is in some serious trouble. Currently Robin and
Brook are fleeing CP0, Franky is preoccupied with zoro, which we will get into later,
and luffy is fighting kaido. Ussop and nami probably wouldn’t be much help,
and chopper is also preoccupied. The two people, or rather straw hats that I could see stepping
in to help is either Sanji, or Jimbei. We see Jimbei in this chapter helping people escape,
so he might help Izo to help the rest of the straw hats escape.
On the same note, how in the world is everyone going to get off this burning island? At this
point the whole place is practically on fire, and we can see multiple people completely out
of commission. If Yamato is able to defeat the fire monster, will the fire go out? Or will we
need something else to blow out the fire? Another option, as bleak as it may seem,
is that onigashima will continue to burn, and the last resort will be evacuating as many people as
possible. To avoid more casualties. Unfortunately, there will be many many casualties this way,
unless by some miracle they manage to find a way to evacuate everybody.
Speaking of the fire demon, why does it have arms and a voice? One theory that’s
been floating around the community is the idea of souls and their connection to devil fruits.
We've been seeing a lot of representations of this in the raid. Let’s consider the idea
that everything has a soul. If this fire conjuring is the final remanence of kanjuro
and his devil fruit power, maybe a part of his soul still resides within his creation.
Maybe his “voice” or his “soul” is what we see manifesting within the fire monster in this
chapter. I saw an awesome theory this week that really extends this idea of the connection between
the voice of all things, soul, and devil fruits by the hidden island, which i highly recommend
checking out if u have the chance, I’ll put a link in the description below.
Okay, let’s talk about zoro. What In the world is this? Seriously. When I saw this
panel for the first time, I almost thought I was reading a different manga. And no,
I do not think this is brook playing a sick joke on zoro.
Remember he is currently with Robin helping her get away. Book would be out of his mind
to pull this kinda thing during such a serious moment… There's a skull joke there, somewhere.
In all seriousness, I think it’s most likely a manifestation of the drug administered by
chopper and the other doctors. Consider this: He was already near death after his fight with kaido.
He literally deflected combined attacks from two of the strongest people in the One Piece world.
It was stated that his damage would worsen many times over after the drug wore off, plus he got
way more messed up during his fight with King. So what’s many times worse than being close to death?
Confronting death itself. This ominous grim reaper is like him having to “conquer” death
with his willpower, thus making him the true king of hell and the conquer of death. I don’t think we
have ever seen zoro in such a critical state before, and like many others have speculated,
I believe that this will have serious ramifications post-raid, and even post-wano.
It looks like Franky is coming to his rescue, so we should see soon whether or not this grim
reaper figure is an actual, physical being, or if it’s what I stated above,
that it’s an internal manifestation of Zoro's extremely dire situation.
Quickly I want to bring up something that honestly confused me, and something I didn’t
consider before this chapter. The reason I didn’t put so much thought into it before,
is because I’m not super invested in raizos fight. However, i think its weird that they
are both paralyzing each other. Because I’m my mind, it’s like, if you paralyze someone,
they wouldn’t be able to paralyze you back, and even if you paralyze each other at the same time,
how can you break the paralysis if your paralyzed already? Is it a mental thing? I think a small
explanation is probably due for this situation just to explain how this power really works,
since it’s clearly not a devil fruit power if they both have the same power. As confusing as that is,
it’s still cool to see Raizo have his own hour of legends moment,
very reminiscent of Odens final act. You can tell he’s thinking something along the lines of,
“this is nothing compared to the head Oden experienced”, which is extremely admirable.
Alright let’s talk about the main event. Kidd and Law versus big mom. So big mom is a monster. I
don’t think it’s ever been more evident. She is absolutely terrifying. Like every panel of big
mom when she is serious, is the kind of thing that haunts my dreams at night. Oda could make
a one off horror manga of just big mom. Sp Kid and Law are getting crushed, or at least that’s
how it seemed. Both of them looked like luffy after he tried to fight kaido for the first time,
and the second time, and the third time. They're completely destroyed But In classic luffy fashion,
kid and law get up, and they are stronger than ever, pulling out moves that are definitely,
wearing big mom down. You can literally see her panting in this chapter,
showing that she is starting to tire out. Law again uses his awakening, kroom,
and extends his sword through big mom's head. The fodder mentions how law killed big mom, which
it really looks like for a sec, but in reality, he is once again attempting to attack her from the
inside. Correct me if I’m wrong here, cause I’m honestly still trying to wrap my head around laws
awakening. But it seems like he is placing the internal properties of physical objects within
his kroom space, which gives him the ability to warp whatever is in that space. That would explain
the sword extension, but it doesn’t explain the insane amount of power coming from the injection.
Now maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but as cool as the paneling is for kidds move is,
I was a bit underwhelmed by the attack. For me i it just seems like kidds “getting
stronger” moments have just been, how much bigger can I make the metal thing
that I hit the emperor with. Which just seems a bit off. Don’t get me wrong,
I love kidd. But since how impenetrable the yonkos exterior is supposed to be, I feel like there
should be a bit more impact here. The one thing that could explain why big mom felt this so much,
is that law affected her internally, leading to her defense, her external being compromised,
which in turn allowed for kids attack to cause some serious external damage. I still really
want to see more from kid, he was one of my favorite characters introduced during sabody.
I still think we have some more to see from this fight, I don’t think big mom is down completely.
So there is still room left to see something crazy from kid, but I’m definitely managing
my expectations at this point. Either way, I still loved this fight. And it is evident
now that not just luffy, is planting their foot in the top tier spots after this arc.
Finally, I have a couple quick idea to throw out there regarding the cover story.
From what we can see, Niji and Yonji have been captured. Now I’ve always been under
the assumption that Germa will have a role in the final war, since it is my belief that the
final war will be like stampede on crack, with nearly all the characters we've come to know
fighting alongside luffy to topple the world government. Also if some of Germa
has been captured, I don’t think it’s out of the question to say some of the sun pirates
might have been captured as well. Now there are multiple things that could happen, but two more
likely possibilities that I see happening is either the big mom pirates, led by Katakuri,
joining the alliance against the common enemy, the world government, by the final war,
which in turn would lead to the sun pirates and Germa reuniting for the battle. Or,
someone else invades the big mom territory, which gives them the opportunity to escape again.
If it’s the latter, who do you think it would be that invades
big moms territory? Go ahead and let me know in the comment section below!
This chapter was definitely a top tier chapter for me, and I am so excited to get some answers,
hopefully sooner rather than later. If your interested in learning all there
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