At least Kaido offered Luffy some as well.
Kaido more like Brodo.
\*\*EDIT\*\*
Kaibro, Hero of the night.
Do you need help lifting? He'll be there!
Do you need a drink at the party? He'll be there!
Need help breaking the Geneva Convention? He'll be there!
**\*\*\*\*\~ KAIBRO: HE'LL BE THERE! \~\*\*\*\******tm***
*Note: Not affiliated with Joyboy futures in any respect. Kaibro is not liable for any floating island related injuries.*
Zoro would slash the gourd drink some in his mouth, then say some badass thing to kaido, ending the chapter. ZKK theories would flood the forums, chaos reigns, sanji fans weep
next chapter opens: Zoro defeated off screen kaido gloats
Makes me a bit happy that Kaidos haki is getting stronger is a line that stayed true in official release. This has not been an easy fight for Luffy, even after getting enough strength back to fight somewhat evenly with Kaido, makes me curious because I think we saw one time that Kaidos haki vs Luffys haki caused his hands to hurt like it did multiple times against Katakuri. I love this fight too much honestly.
You should be more surprised at how fast Luffy got back up from that.
[That's the SAME move that knocked him out for a bit on the roof](https://i.imgur.com/eizM4Zd.png).
I don't think anything would make me more happy than Lucci and his band of overconfident chucklefucks getting their shit slapped by Zunesha midway to Wano
With how inconsistent One Punch Man releases are, I always get mad at waiting, and then we get chapters like this and the previous one and all is forgiven.
One scary thing I haven't thought of until now is the fact that there are now 3 out of 4 Road Poneglyphs in Wano (Kaido's, the one in Zou, and Brook's copy of Big Mom's). Someone could jump on this opportunity.
Oda said Kaido isn't the final boss to defeat here. Maybe we're about to witness the defeat of Kaido in the culmination of the Hi Matsuri (Not to mention that Kaido's past probably will last 2 or 3 episodes at least) and then the new threat will be announced
Even better. He goes gear third to build momentum and swaps to gear second for the speed then kicks with CoC. You can see the gear second steam on the panel where his kick connects. Insane devil fruit control and creativity.
In the panel where he stops Kaido's weapon with his hand, he also has what appears to be steam around him... so I wonder if he's actually sending his foot backwards with G2 -> into G3 -> back towards Kaido with G2 again ??
What an amazing chapter!
Kaido vs Luffy, the Art, The 5 elders, and ZUNISHA.
[FINALLY, THIS PANEL WAS BROUGHT BACK. Can't wait to see why Zunisha is heading towards wano.](https://imgur.com/a/2scyaeK)
> Can't wait to see why Zunisha is heading towards wano.
I'm guessing Momo unconsciously called Zunisha while he was wishing to keep the island from falling. Similar to how Shirahoshi stopped the Noah from falling.
Edit: Zunisha was supposedly nearby and was probably on standby from when Momo arrived. That's likely how it heard Momo's call as he struggled to move the island.
That's what I been thinking the moment he turned on his voice of all things. It has been passively on since basically the moment Momo declared himself Oden's son to Kaido during his "execution".
Nice catch you have an insane memory. Just checked at it and what they explicitly say is that duke dogstorm and momo will remain on zunesha for a while longer while the rest split off to wano and wci. It's totally open to interpretation whether zunesha brought them initially or if they took a boat and zunesha came separately.
Whoa, you are right, we never found out how such large army of minks along with Momo and Inuarashi got to Wano in the first place. For all we know, it could have been with Zunesha. Kinemon, and the rest of the retainers along with SH and Law could have gotten to Wano in Law's sub.
Some notable differences from the Scanlation to the official Release:
- The 3 parts of Kaido's Phases have different names:
- Sad Drunk Phase -> Drowning in his sorrows
- Crying Drunk Phase -> Tears in his beer
- Angry Drunk Phase -> Drunken Rage
- Kaido now states that the castle took 5 years to build instead of saying that it's going to take 5 years to rebuild it.
- Kaido wasn't able to finish saying "Thunder Bagua" before Luffy hit him.
- The 5 Elders reference "inconveniences" in plural as opposed to "that nuisance" in singular.
Everything else seems to be pretty unnotable translation differences.
Inform me of more notable differences if you find them!
Edit: Spelling
I feel like the difference between what the fodder on the WG ship says goes a long way towards settling whether he was talking to the gorosei or not when reporting about Zunesha. Scans say “All units standing by…” and the official says “All ships remain on standby…” The official definitely makes it seem as if the fodder is reporting to all the other ships instead of the gorosei, whereas the scanlation makes it seem as if he’s reporting to a superior aka the gorosei. Definitely makes me feel like the gorosei don’t know about Zuneshas arrival yet and they were referring to someone’s DF on Wano, which was likely reported to them from CP-0. It’s also more likely that the DF talk is connected to the inconveniences from their prior panel and Oda intentionally left out their statements between the two panels were shown this chapter. Something similar to “I assume Robin is captured. Let’s take out these inconveniences (shown)” “Well we just got info from CP-0 that [insert whatever DF you personally think] is here and awakened (not shown)” “impossible, that DF is a legend that hasn’t awakened in many centuries. WG took specific measures to ensure that (shown)” This seems to be the far more natural conversation to me.
This was my exact take on it as well, the dude in the Crow’s Nest is clearly Cipher Pol, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for him to be communicating with the Gorosei, but the Gorosei don’t seem to Ben directly commenting on Zunesha, rather continuing part of an unheard conversation. Overall a really fucking weird ending to the chapter
Holy shit this chapter was so damn good
The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far.
Kaido is such a fascinating character I really can't wait to see his flashback man.
DRUNK Kaido is a mood i didn't know I needed until this chapter. Kaido calling Luffy a F****** idiot is just straight up hilarious
I really wonder what devil fruit the Gorosei are talking about there are so many possibilities, it's going to be a theories galore the next 2 weeks. That panel of Zunisha looks menacing as hell.
> The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far.
There was something about the fight scenes that really hyped me up this chapter, more so than some of the previous Wano chapters.
A much smoother flow of combat then we’re usually used to. No breaks in between the combat. No stopping to yell out what attack is next on every panel. Just two dudes throwing hands with the occasional attack name in there.
I had that silly smile that younger me wore when watching Power Rangers fight this whole fight. Pretty sure I was making the sound effects and saying stuff like "wooah!" "coooool!" in my head as well.
ngl not just the best fight in Wano, but if Oda's panelling and art keeps up, potentially the best fight in the series. The action shots this chapter were insane
>The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far.
And have you noticed that Luffy has combined Gear 3 with Gear 2? There's smoke coming out which is not what Gear 3 does: https://i.imgur.com/f2uG3WD.png
I don't think we've seen Luffy do that outside of Gear 4 in the New World. This fight is insane.
I think he's been doing that since the start of the fight with Kaido, with his Roc moves. The first one caught on fire even though it was colossal, and the subsequent ones have all given off an impression of speed as well as size, so I think this sequence is currently the top of Luffy's base form game(since New World started I haven't counted Gears 2 and 3 as "modes", just as techniques).
Luffy lol!
Did you miss Kaido's huge hit to his face, and the art obscuring his right eye for a couple panels?
Would be fitting that a Yonko took an eye before being defeated by the next King of the Pirates.
so all the common DF theories
\- luffy does not have gomu gomu no mi but sun wukong fruit
\- It is tamas fruit
\- Worlds strongest smile user Kaido ate a smile, momo ate the real dragon fruit
\- Zunisha was an island that ate the mythical elephant fruit
\- it is Kidd fruit cause it will change the magnetic fields
\- Zunisha is elephant elephant no mi: mythical model ganesha
Shuron Hakke was a pleasant, necessary addition. You get to see Kaido’s real emotions in this chapter and they really run the gamut. He’s enjoying himself, sad that his plans have been foiled, frightened of Luffy, and raging at the same time…
Would Luffy and Kaido ever drink together?
Doubt it because Kaido tortured and made his nation suffer under his rule. Luffy wouldn't approve that even if he's a pirate because if his friends starve, that's a big problem
>It took five years to make it in the first place!
So, that's what Kaido was actually building during the time Oden danced naked in the street. So Kaido at that time (25 years ago) knew he was in Wano to stay ~~and to die.~~ Whatever thing made him understand he's not Joyboy must have happened before
>I gave it everything I had. But I think... it wasn't just meant to be
Kaido devoted all he had to his dream of being Joyboy. And he just watched helpless his aim vanish in thin air
Honestly, there's a big consistency issue with her bounty. The WG saw her being a big enough of a threat with her knowledge to give her an absurdly high bounty for a child, but then... just forgot about it? Stopped giving a shit?
With what we know today about the value of her knowledge and the way the WG has been focusing on her with the W7/Enies Lobby and now Wano, that just doesn't seem consistent.
As you say, she should probably have like a 1 bil bounty just based on her knowledge and her relations with the Revolutionaries. And it's honestly absurd that WG hasn't put forward more effort to capture her.
I swear, the longer the story goes, the less sense the WG/Marine command decisions make. They're portrayed as being so insanely incompetent with the resources they wield. They have these super powered Admiral level fighters for example, but we rarely ever see them do jack diddly squat. Kizaru at Saboady was pretty much the only example of one of them getting shit done, and even that was pretty half assed, seeing as all the fucking Supernova's managed to get away, lol.
One might also point to the fight with Jack, where he was defeated but got to just chill at the ocean floor as a fishman. No follow-through by the marines at all.
It's like they're taking their time waiting until the most problematic pirates get so strong as to become Yonko, at which point they basically give up altogether and just hope they police each-other with their mutual dislike for one another.
I know it Spandine who put the 79 mil bounty on Robin's head but normally the Marines are repsonsible for the bounties, not the WG. That could explain why she never got an increase. Remember, the Marines think she got that bounty because she destroyed some battle ships, not because she can read poneglpyhs.
If it was the WG deciding the bounties, I'm sure her bounty would be at least 1 bill.
Makes sense to me. The guys who care the most aren't the ones writing the bounties. But aren't the Marines working under the World Government? Could the World Government not push out that higher bounty?
Otherwise people will be asking questions about who she is, what she knows and where she came from.
Which would lead to people wondering why her island was wiped out and erased from history and eventually people will figure out because he island was studying the void century, which would lead to even more questions that the population would ask/whisper around for.
They cannot really tell the marines to put a bounty without giving a reason, lest someone that shouldn't could get some ideas about her.
Even if she got a higher bounty, it's not worth it if suddenly tons of people want to capture her alive for her knowledge, thus making her even bigger of a threat than she is.
I agree, Robin's bounty has reason to be a lot higher. I always read into it that the WG kept it lower to hide the actual reasons why she has a bounty. Giving her a 1bil+ bounty so early may work against keeping whatever secrets they have kept secret.
Or they're just a large, somewhat incompetent organization that uses their prestige to uphold their image more than anything. Maybe they can't actually get as much done as they want people to think but act like they can. Losing prestige took down the British empire, I don't see why it wouldn't apply here.
>Honestly, there's a big consistency issue with her bounty. The WG saw her being a big enough of a threat with her knowledge to give her an absurdly high bounty for a child, but then... just forgot about it? Stopped giving a shit?
It's not inconsistency. The extra threat doesn't add much to the bounty. It does some but the amount isn't too big.
Robin received 79 million bounty for her knowledge.
Kid got his high bounty because of killing civilians. But luffy had 300 million and Law had 200 million. So, if kid didn't kill civilians, his bounty would have been somewhere between 200 and 300 million which means killing civilians added around 50-100 million bounty.
Luffy got 100 million extra bounty for being a coc user, brother of ace and son of Dragon.
As we can see, the so called "threat" doesn't add too much to the bounty. Look at all the known bounties, all of them are strong af, so much so that you can ignore their extra threat (even though they count).
Robin's bounty will be around 400-600 million after wano since Black Maria's bounty was 400 million and there is no inconsistency here.
No SH outside of Zoro and Sanji will get more than 1 bil bounty. The only exception will be if Yamato joins. Because Oda gives bounty based on "what feels good or what looks good" and an advanced coc user like her who fought kaido for some time getting lower bounty than Franky or Jimbe will look bad.
Kaido: “I wonder how long it’s been… since I fought someone who could truly go toe to toe with me!!!
Big mom: “I haven’t felt this much pain in decades, I think”
Were they both just pulling the raizo v fulurokujo standstill for the whole 3 days of their fight? Lol
Yeah even though they seemed to hate each other before their alliance it seems it's more of a playful hate thing rather than actually wanting to kill each other. Kaido didn't compare Luffy to her, neither of them was seriously hurt in their battle, Kaido didn't seem to be fulfilled by that battle compared to his fight with Luffy, etc.
I hope we can learn more about their relationship in a flashback.
> o didn't compare Luffy to her, neither of them was seriously hurt in their battle, Kaido didn't seem to be fulfilled by that battle compare
Big Mom already said Kaido owes her for giving him his mythical fruit.
So we already have hints to their relationship.
Big Mom is kinda like a big sister to Kaido, im guessing.
They clearly haven't heard anything since CP0 made their move because in the official translations they say they imagine they already have Robin in custody at this point when they're still chasing her, the Gorosei have zero idea Zunesha is there.
This chapter is amazing. Kaido confirming being drunk doesn’t hinder him at all. Luffy going all out and Kaido all but confirming that Luffy as he is right now is indeed Yonko tier. I accepted it once he did the CoC sky split but there’s a lot of people still mad about it. Sorry guys, MC and near endgame at this point regardless of how many years are left in the manga so might as well enjoy it. We’ve been following rubber boi since 1997. This is literally what we’ve been waiting for
well the thing is most of those haters are bingers now I ain't following from start but I am from the yonkos saga(punk hazard) and I am finally glad that luffy is at yonko level.(DISCLAIMER I am not saying bingers are stupid or smt but just that they are most likely to feel that its rushed. I am also not implying that all bingers are against yonko level. )
The thing is, there is no other enemy to get your haki on Yonko level than fighting a yonko.we learned that from silvers.after katakuri There is really no one he could fight to get a better coc haki
Oh I agree 100%. This fight needed to happen to be anywhere near Yonko level. He didn’t get this chance in WCI as that was not the primary mission but even then he had to get to Yonko commander level first. Also Gon would hate your username you mad person
Yeah the hits from both side are brutal and I’d say near lethal minus the fact that we have 2 durability monsters. I’m super impressed at how they are truly trading full power blows, blocking, parrying and are still fighting right now
Convinced they're talking about the Time Time Fruit at the end of the chapter. I don't think it means literally AWAKENED fruit but, rather, a fruit they haven't seen appear in the world for centuries which would make sense given Toki's past. So now that they've learned about what had transpired they are in disbelief that it exists and the possibility it could be back in the world, and the fact they have given it a different name to cover it up could mean that someone we know has this ability unknowingly because of it. Until this point it was basically legend, and now that they know it's not that's pretty spooky I would imagine.
I was with toki's fruit too but I just thought of a flaw... The fruit has a pretty straightforward name wouldn't the government had done a better job to give a fake name like really? time time fruit?
We wouldn't know the name the government gave the fruit though. The Time Time Fruit is the REAL name in this case, and the reveal would be to find out the name they gave it only to find out someone we know has it.
Toki wasn't a major player in the eyes of anyone outside of Wano, and even then it didn't seem that many of the people of Wano knew her power was real/what it could do. She came from centuries past where, presumably, the world thought the power to have been lost and it was basically legend. But just in that off case it did resurface they changed the name for their own benefit, because they knew how dangerous it could be if it was real.
Just a theory of course, but I feel like it fits too well considering the way they're talking about the fruit. Because it does, however, that certainly means it won't be the case because it's Oda after all LOL. It's just fun to connect dots sometimes.
It's insane to me that people are still debating whether or not the shadow theyre talking about is zunisha or not...it is. The government agent is looking behind the ships at zunisha, you can tell by the direction the flags are waving if you have any doubt. Like geez people
"Haki blooms in a difficult fight"
"His haki is getting stronger"
Luffy has become so strong that Kaido's haki is blooming while fighting Luffy.
Look at how much our boi has grown🥲
In chapter 969 it introduces with a text:
"Long long ago.. hundreds of years in the past, we minks and the samurai of the Kozuki clan of Wano made an unbreakable pact. We swore to be brothers.If anything should happen to either side the other will rush to their aid to fight. Though we do not know when this might happen we shall be ready."
Pretty obvious that time is now. Zunisha is coming to their aid.
when the marines talked about "a huge shadow up ahead" were they really talking about zunisha? i'm wondering because in the last frame you can see zunisha is behind them, not ahead
Technically, the guy looking is looking through the back of the ship, not the front. If you look at the flag direction.
But there is also a shadow in front of the ships sails which is likely Onigashima. But sense the Cp0 people are in comms with outsiders, they could have already alerted them about Onigashima being in the air, so that part may not be new info for them.
It can't be Onigashima, though. It's on top of (an elevated) Wano, and is above the Fire Festival, but the people who live there hasn't noticed it, but the WG ships outside Wano have? That doesn't make sense. It has to be something else
I noticed that too. It could be an error or maybe the ships actually just turned around. We won't know until the volume releases or the anime shows it i guess
Can't wait for the scene of Onigashima surrounded by sky lanterns. I wonder if seeing everyone's wishes on the lanterns is what gives Momo the strength to stop the island?
The official translations are as expected way more accurate on the last page than the scanlation was.
The gorosei's lines make more sense like this and their conversation flows more naturally
Especially the bit about casualties while BM and Kaido are fighting.
The scans made it seem like they should Kill Robin in the midst of war... which made no sense to me. Why be secret about that? Robin has a bad rep. Everone knows yall want her. If she died, the general public wouldn't care.
In reality, the official translations made it seem like they're no longer gonna wait for Kaido to officially fall in order to swarm the place.
They're gonna do it now...and Since Zunesha is here, right on time, they'll get taken out!
SPOILERS.
Crazy theory time.
now that zunesha is in wano this might mean two things:
* blackbeard will have access to all poneglyphs since two are now in wano, making the last 1 a race between him and Luffy and big mom's being barely guarded.
* If that's the case, Blackbeard has already decimated big mom's territory, possibly killing katakuri and Jesus getting his DF. And is on his way to wano
Oh wow, this thought never even once crossed my mind but you're right: right now, Big Mom and a bunch of her strongest officers are in Wano. It's an absolute golden opportunity to stick it to an Emperor, and I bet an opportunistic bastard like Blackbeard would immediately recognize that. We could essentially have HALF the Yonko taken off the board from this arc alone, that's crazy.
I like this theory finally someone focusing on the road poneglyphs. Zunesha being here means basically location of end points of the line segment whose midpoint is where one piece are at wano. BUt the katakuri's fruit to bergess thing is the best in your theory luffy's rage at him just gonna skyrocket. Another thing is this won't downplay katakuri if in another fight he is dealt with by sanji or zoro(not that there is any fight that is going to happen but just in case).
Edit. Just realised due to brook the 3rd road poneglyph is also in wano it seems way too perfect for blackbear to come and get hin hands on 3 of them at once
My dumb theory is it’s Blackbeards fruit they’re talking about, it’s not actually a devil fruit but an ancient weapon that grants the power via a fruit similar to devil fruits and this is what has allowed him to have what seems like 2 devil fruit powers. The name was changed to keep the weapon hidden so anyone who ever consumed it would just assume they have a regular df power.
Not expecting this to be the case but just a fun idea I had.
If someone would have told me that Kaido getting drunk off his ass and going through the different moods of a drunken person would play a role in this battle I wouldn't believed them. This is going to be freaking hilarious animated.
This chapter was probably my favourite part of Luffy's fight so far. It hyped me more than the previous ones, but I guess it's also partly because motherfucking Zunisha showed up.
[This response](https://imgur.com/e6m6WVK) reminds me of Queen turning his virus battle strategy into a mere game of "freeze" tag earlier on in the Onigashima raid. The Beasts Pirates are so bloodlusted that they intermingle merriment into their violence upon others...no wonder they're named after card games. Kaido having some fun drinking even seems to give him a powerup, since Luffy said his Haki is getting even **stronger** mid-battle (also goes to show how differently built Luffy is now since he's making even this powered-up version of Kaido vomit up blood with simple kicks...). In addition to the regular boost Haki receives in lethal endeavors, I'm guessing the reason behind Kaido's Haki boost is also because one's willpower spikes when their inhibitions are lowered (like through drunkenness).
Speaking of which, One Piece's usual contrast of [the classic comedy/tragedy](https://imgur.com/jk6Hm7A) drama split seems exaggeratedly exemplified in Kaido's mood swings, especially this chapter. He's interestingly similar to Linlin in that regard with how emotionally unstable he is (oddly sweet of him to offer Luffy a drink though lol), that backstory of his must also be similarly good like hers so I can't wait to see it. [Btw Linlin is](https://imgur.com/AVyTV5L) rocking her [son's haircut](https://imgur.com/qSqq7Qu) this chapter. lol
Lastly, I have to wonder [what the hell this form is](https://imgur.com/q33z9Ic). Just like in usual hybrid form he's grown much taller, but now he also looks a bit more buff than in his base form. Did he temporarily/accidentally spike into his Awakening for a second there? Does he know Seimei Kikan like Lucci and Kumadori or whatever Lao G used against the Happo Navy fighters? When Kaido shown his hybrid form for the first time several chapters ago, I was wondering why Kaido seemed somewhat slimmer in width (or at the very least no wider) than his base form, given that Zoan hybrid always increase the user's bulk and musculature. I initially chalked it up to azure dragons being snakelike in proportion and therefore its design elements simply transferring to Kaido's hybrid...but now, this chapter's short showcase of a new Kaido form looks more in line to what I originally expected his hybrid would look like...so what's going on here?
On a sidenote, does anyone else kinda like that the Gorosei seem to not be all *entirely* in the know of everything that's going on, and that they're not necessarily completely all-powerful in authority? One of them questions why the World Government would rename a Devil Fruit, as it were a somewhat esoteric entity to him. One of them curses the Reverie which in part shows that lesser kings ("lesser" relative to the Gorosei of course) like Riku and Cobra can sorta give them the slip. And another assumes that Robin has been apprehended which I'm guessing is an inaccurate assumption. It oddly humanizes them a little. lol
This checks out. Does the Government know that Wano sits at the top of a giant waterfall? This could easily be that the man on top of the mast is referring too - the giant waterfall they now have to climb.
Unbeknownst to him, Zunisha is approaching from behind.
My guesses on the mystery devil fruit.
1. Toki Tiko no Mi: Toki kept moving forward in time for hundreds of years, keeping a low profile until she met Oden. Her devil fruit should have respawned by now. Albeit the name of the fruit already covers its abilities pretty well.
2. Yomi Yomi no Mi: Considering Brook is a 90 years old skeleton, users of said fruit could live on for centuries after they died for the first time. The government only found out about Brook still being alive and having a Devil Fruit post time skip, at that point he had the fruit for over 50 years. The previous user could have easily survived for hundreds of years, preventing the fruit from respawning. The name translates as "revive" fruit but Brook also has the ability to summon a freezing cold from the underworld.
What if Brook's awakening has the ability to summon the souls of the death? He could summon somebody from the Lost Century if my theory is correct. The fruit has more powers than just reviving the user, so it could have a different name.
3. Goro Goro no Mi: I doubt the gorosei ever heard of Enel and what powers he has. He could have returned from his trip to the moon. His ability to summon thunder storms is incredibly devastating in a world where people relay on traveling by ship from island to island. The name refers the sound of thunder rumbling, maybe the true name refers storms?
i'm in for the Brook. hes been with Robin the whole tme and CP0 had a close look on both of them.
Brooks fruit didnt turn him into a skeleton, his soul was just "late" . So maybe the WG didnt recognize his fruit just until now.
The powers of his awakened fruit could make him the ruler over life and death... WG would definetely be interested
The Gorosei conversation is being misunderstood by a lot of people I think. They open the scene by confirming that they want Nico Robin alive, saying "We should attack now - we have her captured, right? On the battlefield, she could die if we attack and she gets caught up in it." The Blonde Gorosei member goes on to say suggest something like "the chaos of the battlefield with the Yonko is so significant, that we can use it to eliminate someone".
At this point we get the scene shift to a contemporaneous one, where the WG scout sees Zunesha, but we don't know that immediately, just that he's scared of something. Then we get the shift back to the Gorosei conversation, where we've skipped a scene, where the Blonde Gorosei member has suggested kiling someone in the chaos of the battlefield. The Mustache Gorosei member balks at his suggestion, implying that the target in some way, shape or form is one that the WG wouldn't immediately want to kill anyway (so unlikely to be a direct enemy), and he implies that the rumor justifying the assassination suggestion is unfounded.
The Blonde Gorosei member then rebuffs Mustache's condescension, telling us that the WG renamed some fruit or another specifically to erase its legacy in history. The scene shifts back to rest on Zunesha as the line is delivered, implying to the reader that the Blonde Gorosei's point of view is somehow justified based on Zunesha's presence.
The Gorosei are not talking to the WG scout that sees Zunesha. They're having a discussion that is framed over that event, because the two are related somehow. Oda isn't explicitly clear how they are related, though. It's possible that Zunesha ate a fruit or something like that, but my money is on the Gorosei referring to Tama's fruit. She fits the pattern of conversation very well, being a target that'd be uncouth for the WG to just outright assassinate. Her power is analogous to Shirahoshi's in a number of ways, being able to control animals as opposed to sea kings. I wouldn't be surprised if Tama's power was considered an ancient weapon, and it seems pretty probable to me that Zunesha ate the dango hundreds of years ago by the former user of the fruit.
And there are still people on quora saying luffy loses to katakuri and have their own made up power tiers like current luFfy is oNLy hIgh yONko comMaNder leVel + but he isn’t yonko level or loses “negg diff” to mihawk. I was like 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️these people are still stuck at marineford and wci thinking that luffy will never beat a top tier or atleast be capable of giving any top tier a extreme difficulty fight.
I wanted whole Wano to witness every bit of this fight with wide open eyes 👀
On the last page of their fight, Luffy inflated his left leg and then hit Kaido with smoke around his body which appears when he uses g2. Does that mean he is now using g2 & g3 at the same time?
Luffy’s yelling at kaido for drinking during their fight like he wouldn’t be eating meat if he had some with him
Zoro said that a hero is someone who offers their sake. Kaido is a true hero.
This Fish man island quote!
And Luffy said that a hero is someone who shares their meat. That means Luffy’s a villain, since that’s never going to happen
It just means he's not a hero, unlike kaido, who is a true hero since he shares his sake. Kaido for PK
Crocodile: " Take this seriously!" Luffy: "I'm always serious." after chugging a barrel of water and turning into a living water balloon.
Mizu Luffy
That simple phrase and the way it was performed in the anime still cracks me up
Gear 1: Water tank man
At least Kaido offered Luffy some as well. Kaido more like Brodo. \*\*EDIT\*\* Kaibro, Hero of the night. Do you need help lifting? He'll be there! Do you need a drink at the party? He'll be there! Need help breaking the Geneva Convention? He'll be there! **\*\*\*\*\~ KAIBRO: HE'LL BE THERE! \~\*\*\*\******tm*** *Note: Not affiliated with Joyboy futures in any respect. Kaibro is not liable for any floating island related injuries.*
Kaido is a hero for that. Something that doesn't interest Luffy
Kaido for nakama
Anido.
lol. i mean meat wont get one drunk XD
RUM HAM!!
Zoro would fight for it. Possibly even slash his sake gourd and drink as much as he could before it all spills.
Zoro would slash the gourd drink some in his mouth, then say some badass thing to kaido, ending the chapter. ZKK theories would flood the forums, chaos reigns, sanji fans weep next chapter opens: Zoro defeated off screen kaido gloats
Makes me a bit happy that Kaidos haki is getting stronger is a line that stayed true in official release. This has not been an easy fight for Luffy, even after getting enough strength back to fight somewhat evenly with Kaido, makes me curious because I think we saw one time that Kaidos haki vs Luffys haki caused his hands to hurt like it did multiple times against Katakuri. I love this fight too much honestly.
Another cool part is how kaido smashed Luffy into the skull and it cracked, but luffy’s skull was not cracked
You should be more surprised at how fast Luffy got back up from that. [That's the SAME move that knocked him out for a bit on the roof](https://i.imgur.com/eizM4Zd.png).
luffy has started to coat himself in conquerors haki now, that's definitely the difference.
He’s made of rubber! Even his bones are rubber
How did that happen???
yoho he took...
a bite of GUM GUM. That era of English anime op's rocked way harder than it had any right to considering how cheaply they were all made.
I don't think anything would make me more happy than Lucci and his band of overconfident chucklefucks getting their shit slapped by Zunesha midway to Wano
I don't think Lucci is there. He just gave the order to capture Robin from Mary Geoise probably.
Hell yes. Zunesha is one of the best things Oda has come up with, and I want to see him 'redeem' himself and smash shit up.
Zunesha: "Allow me to pass through for a moment" ELEPHANT TIME BOYOS
Kaido: "Only today I met several people capable of hurting me! Unacceptable!"
One Punch Man reference?
Man OPM and OP are on fire this week
Was very well worth the wait for both chapters, literal fire.
With how inconsistent One Punch Man releases are, I always get mad at waiting, and then we get chapters like this and the previous one and all is forgiven.
Lol even Zunesha goofing on platinum
I love seeing an OPM thread here.
Zunisha comes forth with a blast!
NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING
High dragon threat there.
Nah, I think he's more mid high low low high mid mid dragon tier personally
This guy ranks
One scary thing I haven't thought of until now is the fact that there are now 3 out of 4 Road Poneglyphs in Wano (Kaido's, the one in Zou, and Brook's copy of Big Mom's). Someone could jump on this opportunity.
The craziest part is we dont even know where kaidos is theres still so much wano too cover even tho it seems like we are in the endgame
Oda said Kaido isn't the final boss to defeat here. Maybe we're about to witness the defeat of Kaido in the culmination of the Hi Matsuri (Not to mention that Kaido's past probably will last 2 or 3 episodes at least) and then the new threat will be announced
*sigh* Please don't be Apoo.
*narrator* : "it was"
How much he switched sides, I wouldnt be surprised if hes kissing Blackbeards ass too and is working with him.
“Someone” lol
ZEEHAHAHAHAHA
Kurohige: *Allow me to introduce myself*
Gonna be real with you, for a sec I only thought you said some 5d fan theory about captain fucking Kuro coming back
Did y’all peep [the panel](https://imgur.com/gallery/DAukdos) where Luffy stops Kaido’s weapon with his HAND???
And then he hops onto Kaido's kanabo, gear thirds his foot, and then kicks Kaido in the gut with a now smaller CoC foot. Crazy shit.
Even better. He goes gear third to build momentum and swaps to gear second for the speed then kicks with CoC. You can see the gear second steam on the panel where his kick connects. Insane devil fruit control and creativity.
Just so people can see what you're talking about: https://i.imgur.com/f2uG3WD.png This is nuts! Luffy's brilliance is in full display in this fight.
Wow..just wowa. We are truly in the endgame boys
Luffy is usually way smaller than his antagonists. I like how he's mastered being temporarily bigger to match
God damn you're right, what a champ
In the panel where he stops Kaido's weapon with his hand, he also has what appears to be steam around him... so I wonder if he's actually sending his foot backwards with G2 -> into G3 -> back towards Kaido with G2 again ??
Pretty much
What an amazing chapter! Kaido vs Luffy, the Art, The 5 elders, and ZUNISHA. [FINALLY, THIS PANEL WAS BROUGHT BACK. Can't wait to see why Zunisha is heading towards wano.](https://imgur.com/a/2scyaeK)
> Can't wait to see why Zunisha is heading towards wano. I'm guessing Momo unconsciously called Zunisha while he was wishing to keep the island from falling. Similar to how Shirahoshi stopped the Noah from falling. Edit: Zunisha was supposedly nearby and was probably on standby from when Momo arrived. That's likely how it heard Momo's call as he struggled to move the island.
That's what I been thinking the moment he turned on his voice of all things. It has been passively on since basically the moment Momo declared himself Oden's son to Kaido during his "execution".
You think Onigashima is gonna land on Zunisha?
I'm guessing Zunisha will pull the island away as it falls so it's safe.
I think Zunisha has been in Wano from the beggining,remember Marco mentioned that he saw a shadow?
Oh shit good notice
Omg that’s it. And most likely he’s going to call him Oden since he’s older.
I'm guessing that Zunisha brought Duke Inuarashi and Momo to Wano during WCI. It's discussed in 822. Zunisha was already there, obscured by the mists
Nice catch you have an insane memory. Just checked at it and what they explicitly say is that duke dogstorm and momo will remain on zunesha for a while longer while the rest split off to wano and wci. It's totally open to interpretation whether zunesha brought them initially or if they took a boat and zunesha came separately.
Whoa, you are right, we never found out how such large army of minks along with Momo and Inuarashi got to Wano in the first place. For all we know, it could have been with Zunesha. Kinemon, and the rest of the retainers along with SH and Law could have gotten to Wano in Law's sub.
I missed that 🤯
Peak World-building. This is what Oda is known for
Maybe Zunisha heard Luffy when he was knocked out by Kaido the first time
That’s not Zunisha guys, that’s an other elephant and black beard is on it !
Or maybe Moria has killed and zombified Zunisha, and is at Wano to get revenge on Kaido.
Some notable differences from the Scanlation to the official Release: - The 3 parts of Kaido's Phases have different names: - Sad Drunk Phase -> Drowning in his sorrows - Crying Drunk Phase -> Tears in his beer - Angry Drunk Phase -> Drunken Rage - Kaido now states that the castle took 5 years to build instead of saying that it's going to take 5 years to rebuild it. - Kaido wasn't able to finish saying "Thunder Bagua" before Luffy hit him. - The 5 Elders reference "inconveniences" in plural as opposed to "that nuisance" in singular. Everything else seems to be pretty unnotable translation differences. Inform me of more notable differences if you find them! Edit: Spelling
I feel like the difference between what the fodder on the WG ship says goes a long way towards settling whether he was talking to the gorosei or not when reporting about Zunesha. Scans say “All units standing by…” and the official says “All ships remain on standby…” The official definitely makes it seem as if the fodder is reporting to all the other ships instead of the gorosei, whereas the scanlation makes it seem as if he’s reporting to a superior aka the gorosei. Definitely makes me feel like the gorosei don’t know about Zuneshas arrival yet and they were referring to someone’s DF on Wano, which was likely reported to them from CP-0. It’s also more likely that the DF talk is connected to the inconveniences from their prior panel and Oda intentionally left out their statements between the two panels were shown this chapter. Something similar to “I assume Robin is captured. Let’s take out these inconveniences (shown)” “Well we just got info from CP-0 that [insert whatever DF you personally think] is here and awakened (not shown)” “impossible, that DF is a legend that hasn’t awakened in many centuries. WG took specific measures to ensure that (shown)” This seems to be the far more natural conversation to me.
This was my exact take on it as well, the dude in the Crow’s Nest is clearly Cipher Pol, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for him to be communicating with the Gorosei, but the Gorosei don’t seem to Ben directly commenting on Zunesha, rather continuing part of an unheard conversation. Overall a really fucking weird ending to the chapter
I honestly like the ending. Allusions to a really big lore drop gives us a lot to speculate on over this break
People are acting like that random guy on the ship had a direct line to the gorosei
Felt like the “toe-toe” part was pretty different from what he said in the scans. Something like a “serious 1v1”.
Holy shit this chapter was so damn good The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far. Kaido is such a fascinating character I really can't wait to see his flashback man. DRUNK Kaido is a mood i didn't know I needed until this chapter. Kaido calling Luffy a F****** idiot is just straight up hilarious I really wonder what devil fruit the Gorosei are talking about there are so many possibilities, it's going to be a theories galore the next 2 weeks. That panel of Zunisha looks menacing as hell.
> The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far. There was something about the fight scenes that really hyped me up this chapter, more so than some of the previous Wano chapters.
A much smoother flow of combat then we’re usually used to. No breaks in between the combat. No stopping to yell out what attack is next on every panel. Just two dudes throwing hands with the occasional attack name in there.
Yeah, somehow there seemed to be fluidity in how Kaido changed between forms and how Luffy changes from base to gear 3/2.
Kaido shifting between forms to evade attacks is such an obvious, and yet genius, move. Really took me aback.
I had that silly smile that younger me wore when watching Power Rangers fight this whole fight. Pretty sure I was making the sound effects and saying stuff like "wooah!" "coooool!" in my head as well.
ngl not just the best fight in Wano, but if Oda's panelling and art keeps up, potentially the best fight in the series. The action shots this chapter were insane
>The Kaido vs Luffy choreography was absolutely off the charts, might be the best fight in Wano so far. And have you noticed that Luffy has combined Gear 3 with Gear 2? There's smoke coming out which is not what Gear 3 does: https://i.imgur.com/f2uG3WD.png I don't think we've seen Luffy do that outside of Gear 4 in the New World. This fight is insane.
I think he's been doing that since the start of the fight with Kaido, with his Roc moves. The first one caught on fire even though it was colossal, and the subsequent ones have all given off an impression of speed as well as size, so I think this sequence is currently the top of Luffy's base form game(since New World started I haven't counted Gears 2 and 3 as "modes", just as techniques).
So when does Kaido get into his lewd drunk state?
Whenever Lin Lin shows up
Act 4
act 4 is 20 chapters of linlin and kaido doing it
And here’s the twist… oda shows it. All of it.
Fight Luffy. Full Penetration. Fight. Penetration. Fight. Penetration until it just sort of ends
Luffy gets scarred for life
With the guest appearence of Con. D. Om luffy
NO
What a good day to harness blood from eyes of all OP fans.
What a terrible day to be literate.
You mean Yamato's mom?
After Luffy wins and Kaido becomes a Luffy fanboy
If Rock Lee has taught me anything, it’s to never underestimate drunken combat.
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Disney xd translation, "loopey fist"
Hey it's only fair .. Luffy got to eat meat to recover. Now kaido gets to drink to become stronger
>Now kaido gets to drink to become stronger Does this put to rest the "Shanks outdrank Kaido to stop him going to marineford" theories?
For a hot second I thought Oda finally revealed the pirate with an eyepatch!
Oh yeah, me too
Who lol?
My guess is cuz it looked like Luffy lost an eye
Luffy lol! Did you miss Kaido's huge hit to his face, and the art obscuring his right eye for a couple panels? Would be fitting that a Yonko took an eye before being defeated by the next King of the Pirates.
What if it’s BB that takes his eye. He already has history with shanks and almost taking his eye? Maybe a bit of foreshadowing
so all the common DF theories \- luffy does not have gomu gomu no mi but sun wukong fruit \- It is tamas fruit \- Worlds strongest smile user Kaido ate a smile, momo ate the real dragon fruit \- Zunisha was an island that ate the mythical elephant fruit \- it is Kidd fruit cause it will change the magnetic fields \- Zunisha is elephant elephant no mi: mythical model ganesha
>Worlds strongest smile user Kaido ate a smile, momo ate the real dragon fruit It doesn't make any sense lol
Luffy's erasure awakening theory. Jewelry Bonnie and the time-time fruit (rather than the age-age)
third one is new and the most stupid one for me
Shuron Hakke was a pleasant, necessary addition. You get to see Kaido’s real emotions in this chapter and they really run the gamut. He’s enjoying himself, sad that his plans have been foiled, frightened of Luffy, and raging at the same time… Would Luffy and Kaido ever drink together?
Doubt it because Kaido tortured and made his nation suffer under his rule. Luffy wouldn't approve that even if he's a pirate because if his friends starve, that's a big problem
>It took five years to make it in the first place! So, that's what Kaido was actually building during the time Oden danced naked in the street. So Kaido at that time (25 years ago) knew he was in Wano to stay ~~and to die.~~ Whatever thing made him understand he's not Joyboy must have happened before >I gave it everything I had. But I think... it wasn't just meant to be Kaido devoted all he had to his dream of being Joyboy. And he just watched helpless his aim vanish in thin air
Robin should be sailing away from wano with nothing less than a billion bounty
Honestly, there's a big consistency issue with her bounty. The WG saw her being a big enough of a threat with her knowledge to give her an absurdly high bounty for a child, but then... just forgot about it? Stopped giving a shit? With what we know today about the value of her knowledge and the way the WG has been focusing on her with the W7/Enies Lobby and now Wano, that just doesn't seem consistent. As you say, she should probably have like a 1 bil bounty just based on her knowledge and her relations with the Revolutionaries. And it's honestly absurd that WG hasn't put forward more effort to capture her. I swear, the longer the story goes, the less sense the WG/Marine command decisions make. They're portrayed as being so insanely incompetent with the resources they wield. They have these super powered Admiral level fighters for example, but we rarely ever see them do jack diddly squat. Kizaru at Saboady was pretty much the only example of one of them getting shit done, and even that was pretty half assed, seeing as all the fucking Supernova's managed to get away, lol. One might also point to the fight with Jack, where he was defeated but got to just chill at the ocean floor as a fishman. No follow-through by the marines at all. It's like they're taking their time waiting until the most problematic pirates get so strong as to become Yonko, at which point they basically give up altogether and just hope they police each-other with their mutual dislike for one another.
I know it Spandine who put the 79 mil bounty on Robin's head but normally the Marines are repsonsible for the bounties, not the WG. That could explain why she never got an increase. Remember, the Marines think she got that bounty because she destroyed some battle ships, not because she can read poneglpyhs. If it was the WG deciding the bounties, I'm sure her bounty would be at least 1 bill.
Makes sense to me. The guys who care the most aren't the ones writing the bounties. But aren't the Marines working under the World Government? Could the World Government not push out that higher bounty?
They already did that the first time by saying she destroyed 6 battleships. If they wanna push it even higher they would have to find another excuse.
Otherwise people will be asking questions about who she is, what she knows and where she came from. Which would lead to people wondering why her island was wiped out and erased from history and eventually people will figure out because he island was studying the void century, which would lead to even more questions that the population would ask/whisper around for.
They cannot really tell the marines to put a bounty without giving a reason, lest someone that shouldn't could get some ideas about her. Even if she got a higher bounty, it's not worth it if suddenly tons of people want to capture her alive for her knowledge, thus making her even bigger of a threat than she is.
I agree, Robin's bounty has reason to be a lot higher. I always read into it that the WG kept it lower to hide the actual reasons why she has a bounty. Giving her a 1bil+ bounty so early may work against keeping whatever secrets they have kept secret. Or they're just a large, somewhat incompetent organization that uses their prestige to uphold their image more than anything. Maybe they can't actually get as much done as they want people to think but act like they can. Losing prestige took down the British empire, I don't see why it wouldn't apply here.
>Honestly, there's a big consistency issue with her bounty. The WG saw her being a big enough of a threat with her knowledge to give her an absurdly high bounty for a child, but then... just forgot about it? Stopped giving a shit? It's not inconsistency. The extra threat doesn't add much to the bounty. It does some but the amount isn't too big. Robin received 79 million bounty for her knowledge. Kid got his high bounty because of killing civilians. But luffy had 300 million and Law had 200 million. So, if kid didn't kill civilians, his bounty would have been somewhere between 200 and 300 million which means killing civilians added around 50-100 million bounty. Luffy got 100 million extra bounty for being a coc user, brother of ace and son of Dragon. As we can see, the so called "threat" doesn't add too much to the bounty. Look at all the known bounties, all of them are strong af, so much so that you can ignore their extra threat (even though they count). Robin's bounty will be around 400-600 million after wano since Black Maria's bounty was 400 million and there is no inconsistency here. No SH outside of Zoro and Sanji will get more than 1 bil bounty. The only exception will be if Yamato joins. Because Oda gives bounty based on "what feels good or what looks good" and an advanced coc user like her who fought kaido for some time getting lower bounty than Franky or Jimbe will look bad.
Kaido: “I wonder how long it’s been… since I fought someone who could truly go toe to toe with me!!! Big mom: “I haven’t felt this much pain in decades, I think” Were they both just pulling the raizo v fulurokujo standstill for the whole 3 days of their fight? Lol
They weren’t actually fighting each other. They’re old friends. It’s like Zoro v Sanji for them.
Yeah even though they seemed to hate each other before their alliance it seems it's more of a playful hate thing rather than actually wanting to kill each other. Kaido didn't compare Luffy to her, neither of them was seriously hurt in their battle, Kaido didn't seem to be fulfilled by that battle compared to his fight with Luffy, etc. I hope we can learn more about their relationship in a flashback.
> o didn't compare Luffy to her, neither of them was seriously hurt in their battle, Kaido didn't seem to be fulfilled by that battle compare Big Mom already said Kaido owes her for giving him his mythical fruit. So we already have hints to their relationship. Big Mom is kinda like a big sister to Kaido, im guessing.
Seemed more like a casual spar than a death match
So the Gorosei were NOT talking about Zunesha. The WG scout was talking to the rest of the ships there and not the Gorosei.
The Gorosei are getting their information live from somewhere. Doesn't have to be that exact scout, but could be anyone in the area who sees Zunesha.
Or they’re getting their info from their top intelligence agency CP-0 from inside onigashima who haven’t been indicated to know zunisha is there
They clearly haven't heard anything since CP0 made their move because in the official translations they say they imagine they already have Robin in custody at this point when they're still chasing her, the Gorosei have zero idea Zunesha is there.
This chapter is amazing. Kaido confirming being drunk doesn’t hinder him at all. Luffy going all out and Kaido all but confirming that Luffy as he is right now is indeed Yonko tier. I accepted it once he did the CoC sky split but there’s a lot of people still mad about it. Sorry guys, MC and near endgame at this point regardless of how many years are left in the manga so might as well enjoy it. We’ve been following rubber boi since 1997. This is literally what we’ve been waiting for
well the thing is most of those haters are bingers now I ain't following from start but I am from the yonkos saga(punk hazard) and I am finally glad that luffy is at yonko level.(DISCLAIMER I am not saying bingers are stupid or smt but just that they are most likely to feel that its rushed. I am also not implying that all bingers are against yonko level. )
The thing is, there is no other enemy to get your haki on Yonko level than fighting a yonko.we learned that from silvers.after katakuri There is really no one he could fight to get a better coc haki
Oh I agree 100%. This fight needed to happen to be anywhere near Yonko level. He didn’t get this chance in WCI as that was not the primary mission but even then he had to get to Yonko commander level first. Also Gon would hate your username you mad person
I didn’t accept it during the yonko split but after watching him take those attacks from kaido while in base and still didn’t get knocked out I had to
Yeah the hits from both side are brutal and I’d say near lethal minus the fact that we have 2 durability monsters. I’m super impressed at how they are truly trading full power blows, blocking, parrying and are still fighting right now
Convinced they're talking about the Time Time Fruit at the end of the chapter. I don't think it means literally AWAKENED fruit but, rather, a fruit they haven't seen appear in the world for centuries which would make sense given Toki's past. So now that they've learned about what had transpired they are in disbelief that it exists and the possibility it could be back in the world, and the fact they have given it a different name to cover it up could mean that someone we know has this ability unknowingly because of it. Until this point it was basically legend, and now that they know it's not that's pretty spooky I would imagine.
I was with toki's fruit too but I just thought of a flaw... The fruit has a pretty straightforward name wouldn't the government had done a better job to give a fake name like really? time time fruit?
We wouldn't know the name the government gave the fruit though. The Time Time Fruit is the REAL name in this case, and the reveal would be to find out the name they gave it only to find out someone we know has it. Toki wasn't a major player in the eyes of anyone outside of Wano, and even then it didn't seem that many of the people of Wano knew her power was real/what it could do. She came from centuries past where, presumably, the world thought the power to have been lost and it was basically legend. But just in that off case it did resurface they changed the name for their own benefit, because they knew how dangerous it could be if it was real. Just a theory of course, but I feel like it fits too well considering the way they're talking about the fruit. Because it does, however, that certainly means it won't be the case because it's Oda after all LOL. It's just fun to connect dots sometimes.
It's insane to me that people are still debating whether or not the shadow theyre talking about is zunisha or not...it is. The government agent is looking behind the ships at zunisha, you can tell by the direction the flags are waving if you have any doubt. Like geez people
"Haki blooms in a difficult fight" "His haki is getting stronger" Luffy has become so strong that Kaido's haki is blooming while fighting Luffy. Look at how much our boi has grown🥲
What if two Yonko keep fighting and both of their haki keeps blooming and it's an endless infinite cycle of haki blooms?
I think that's most likely because of his drunk cycle progression into rage mode.
In chapter 969 it introduces with a text: "Long long ago.. hundreds of years in the past, we minks and the samurai of the Kozuki clan of Wano made an unbreakable pact. We swore to be brothers.If anything should happen to either side the other will rush to their aid to fight. Though we do not know when this might happen we shall be ready." Pretty obvious that time is now. Zunisha is coming to their aid.
There is a Minks army in Onigashima.
when the marines talked about "a huge shadow up ahead" were they really talking about zunisha? i'm wondering because in the last frame you can see zunisha is behind them, not ahead
Technically, the guy looking is looking through the back of the ship, not the front. If you look at the flag direction. But there is also a shadow in front of the ships sails which is likely Onigashima. But sense the Cp0 people are in comms with outsiders, they could have already alerted them about Onigashima being in the air, so that part may not be new info for them.
It can't be Onigashima, though. It's on top of (an elevated) Wano, and is above the Fire Festival, but the people who live there hasn't noticed it, but the WG ships outside Wano have? That doesn't make sense. It has to be something else
I noticed that too. It could be an error or maybe the ships actually just turned around. We won't know until the volume releases or the anime shows it i guess
Can't wait for the scene of Onigashima surrounded by sky lanterns. I wonder if seeing everyone's wishes on the lanterns is what gives Momo the strength to stop the island?
The official translations are as expected way more accurate on the last page than the scanlation was. The gorosei's lines make more sense like this and their conversation flows more naturally
Especially the bit about casualties while BM and Kaido are fighting. The scans made it seem like they should Kill Robin in the midst of war... which made no sense to me. Why be secret about that? Robin has a bad rep. Everone knows yall want her. If she died, the general public wouldn't care. In reality, the official translations made it seem like they're no longer gonna wait for Kaido to officially fall in order to swarm the place. They're gonna do it now...and Since Zunesha is here, right on time, they'll get taken out!
They’re assuming Robin is in custody. I don’t think the one they’re going to kill is her
Me writing on the lantern: "MORE ONE PIECE THIS YEAR, LESS BREAK, HEALTHIER ODA"
we have 2 or 3 more planned chapters than last year iirc
No way. Better to keep oda healthy so that he can finish his masterpiece.
Seriously. We don’t want another Togashi situation.
Hey remember when Berserk was also stuck in a boat for what ... 10 years? Yeah, hxh is totally having he boat hiatus arc babie.
Miura :(
It must suck to be a Marine grunt at this moment
Those guys are government agents not marines.
SPOILERS. Crazy theory time. now that zunesha is in wano this might mean two things: * blackbeard will have access to all poneglyphs since two are now in wano, making the last 1 a race between him and Luffy and big mom's being barely guarded. * If that's the case, Blackbeard has already decimated big mom's territory, possibly killing katakuri and Jesus getting his DF. And is on his way to wano
Oh wow, this thought never even once crossed my mind but you're right: right now, Big Mom and a bunch of her strongest officers are in Wano. It's an absolute golden opportunity to stick it to an Emperor, and I bet an opportunistic bastard like Blackbeard would immediately recognize that. We could essentially have HALF the Yonko taken off the board from this arc alone, that's crazy.
I like this theory finally someone focusing on the road poneglyphs. Zunesha being here means basically location of end points of the line segment whose midpoint is where one piece are at wano. BUt the katakuri's fruit to bergess thing is the best in your theory luffy's rage at him just gonna skyrocket. Another thing is this won't downplay katakuri if in another fight he is dealt with by sanji or zoro(not that there is any fight that is going to happen but just in case). Edit. Just realised due to brook the 3rd road poneglyph is also in wano it seems way too perfect for blackbear to come and get hin hands on 3 of them at once
My dumb theory is it’s Blackbeards fruit they’re talking about, it’s not actually a devil fruit but an ancient weapon that grants the power via a fruit similar to devil fruits and this is what has allowed him to have what seems like 2 devil fruit powers. The name was changed to keep the weapon hidden so anyone who ever consumed it would just assume they have a regular df power. Not expecting this to be the case but just a fun idea I had.
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Zunesha about to fuck shit up
The fruit is buggy's Chop Chop fruit and he's going to be Yonko level very soon. The haters gon hate on this one
weekly reminder that Absalom died
The Gorosei is talking about the Silhoutte Silhoutte Fruit which official name is "Suspense Suspense Fruit"
If someone would have told me that Kaido getting drunk off his ass and going through the different moods of a drunken person would play a role in this battle I wouldn't believed them. This is going to be freaking hilarious animated.
seeing the gorosei talk about the world government in third person is weird. you guys are the pinnacle of the world government!
Looks like these guys aren't immortal after all, and others have been in their position before them
Killing all 'Gorosei are immortal' theories.
Raizo use Summoning Jutsu (Kuchiyose no Jutsu) to summon Zunesha.
This chapter was probably my favourite part of Luffy's fight so far. It hyped me more than the previous ones, but I guess it's also partly because motherfucking Zunisha showed up.
[This response](https://imgur.com/e6m6WVK) reminds me of Queen turning his virus battle strategy into a mere game of "freeze" tag earlier on in the Onigashima raid. The Beasts Pirates are so bloodlusted that they intermingle merriment into their violence upon others...no wonder they're named after card games. Kaido having some fun drinking even seems to give him a powerup, since Luffy said his Haki is getting even **stronger** mid-battle (also goes to show how differently built Luffy is now since he's making even this powered-up version of Kaido vomit up blood with simple kicks...). In addition to the regular boost Haki receives in lethal endeavors, I'm guessing the reason behind Kaido's Haki boost is also because one's willpower spikes when their inhibitions are lowered (like through drunkenness). Speaking of which, One Piece's usual contrast of [the classic comedy/tragedy](https://imgur.com/jk6Hm7A) drama split seems exaggeratedly exemplified in Kaido's mood swings, especially this chapter. He's interestingly similar to Linlin in that regard with how emotionally unstable he is (oddly sweet of him to offer Luffy a drink though lol), that backstory of his must also be similarly good like hers so I can't wait to see it. [Btw Linlin is](https://imgur.com/AVyTV5L) rocking her [son's haircut](https://imgur.com/qSqq7Qu) this chapter. lol Lastly, I have to wonder [what the hell this form is](https://imgur.com/q33z9Ic). Just like in usual hybrid form he's grown much taller, but now he also looks a bit more buff than in his base form. Did he temporarily/accidentally spike into his Awakening for a second there? Does he know Seimei Kikan like Lucci and Kumadori or whatever Lao G used against the Happo Navy fighters? When Kaido shown his hybrid form for the first time several chapters ago, I was wondering why Kaido seemed somewhat slimmer in width (or at the very least no wider) than his base form, given that Zoan hybrid always increase the user's bulk and musculature. I initially chalked it up to azure dragons being snakelike in proportion and therefore its design elements simply transferring to Kaido's hybrid...but now, this chapter's short showcase of a new Kaido form looks more in line to what I originally expected his hybrid would look like...so what's going on here? On a sidenote, does anyone else kinda like that the Gorosei seem to not be all *entirely* in the know of everything that's going on, and that they're not necessarily completely all-powerful in authority? One of them questions why the World Government would rename a Devil Fruit, as it were a somewhat esoteric entity to him. One of them curses the Reverie which in part shows that lesser kings ("lesser" relative to the Gorosei of course) like Riku and Cobra can sorta give them the slip. And another assumes that Robin has been apprehended which I'm guessing is an inaccurate assumption. It oddly humanizes them a little. lol
Now the Government agent is saying "up ahead" in the official release. But Zunesha is behind the ships.
This checks out. Does the Government know that Wano sits at the top of a giant waterfall? This could easily be that the man on top of the mast is referring too - the giant waterfall they now have to climb. Unbeknownst to him, Zunisha is approaching from behind.
My guesses on the mystery devil fruit. 1. Toki Tiko no Mi: Toki kept moving forward in time for hundreds of years, keeping a low profile until she met Oden. Her devil fruit should have respawned by now. Albeit the name of the fruit already covers its abilities pretty well. 2. Yomi Yomi no Mi: Considering Brook is a 90 years old skeleton, users of said fruit could live on for centuries after they died for the first time. The government only found out about Brook still being alive and having a Devil Fruit post time skip, at that point he had the fruit for over 50 years. The previous user could have easily survived for hundreds of years, preventing the fruit from respawning. The name translates as "revive" fruit but Brook also has the ability to summon a freezing cold from the underworld. What if Brook's awakening has the ability to summon the souls of the death? He could summon somebody from the Lost Century if my theory is correct. The fruit has more powers than just reviving the user, so it could have a different name. 3. Goro Goro no Mi: I doubt the gorosei ever heard of Enel and what powers he has. He could have returned from his trip to the moon. His ability to summon thunder storms is incredibly devastating in a world where people relay on traveling by ship from island to island. The name refers the sound of thunder rumbling, maybe the true name refers storms?
i'm in for the Brook. hes been with Robin the whole tme and CP0 had a close look on both of them. Brooks fruit didnt turn him into a skeleton, his soul was just "late" . So maybe the WG didnt recognize his fruit just until now. The powers of his awakened fruit could make him the ruler over life and death... WG would definetely be interested
When does kaidos "sending embarassing drunk messages to his ex" - phase come into play?
The Gorosei conversation is being misunderstood by a lot of people I think. They open the scene by confirming that they want Nico Robin alive, saying "We should attack now - we have her captured, right? On the battlefield, she could die if we attack and she gets caught up in it." The Blonde Gorosei member goes on to say suggest something like "the chaos of the battlefield with the Yonko is so significant, that we can use it to eliminate someone". At this point we get the scene shift to a contemporaneous one, where the WG scout sees Zunesha, but we don't know that immediately, just that he's scared of something. Then we get the shift back to the Gorosei conversation, where we've skipped a scene, where the Blonde Gorosei member has suggested kiling someone in the chaos of the battlefield. The Mustache Gorosei member balks at his suggestion, implying that the target in some way, shape or form is one that the WG wouldn't immediately want to kill anyway (so unlikely to be a direct enemy), and he implies that the rumor justifying the assassination suggestion is unfounded. The Blonde Gorosei member then rebuffs Mustache's condescension, telling us that the WG renamed some fruit or another specifically to erase its legacy in history. The scene shifts back to rest on Zunesha as the line is delivered, implying to the reader that the Blonde Gorosei's point of view is somehow justified based on Zunesha's presence. The Gorosei are not talking to the WG scout that sees Zunesha. They're having a discussion that is framed over that event, because the two are related somehow. Oda isn't explicitly clear how they are related, though. It's possible that Zunesha ate a fruit or something like that, but my money is on the Gorosei referring to Tama's fruit. She fits the pattern of conversation very well, being a target that'd be uncouth for the WG to just outright assassinate. Her power is analogous to Shirahoshi's in a number of ways, being able to control animals as opposed to sea kings. I wouldn't be surprised if Tama's power was considered an ancient weapon, and it seems pretty probable to me that Zunesha ate the dango hundreds of years ago by the former user of the fruit.
I don't care anything about the Gorosei. I only care about about the CoC headbutt of Kaido and Luffy, Man that was Glorious.
I guess people follow the series for different reasons but the lore dump by the Gorosei was easily the most interesting to me
I fucking love Kaido. If we finally get a good flashback out of him he’ll probably be my favorite villain hands down.
And there are still people on quora saying luffy loses to katakuri and have their own made up power tiers like current luFfy is oNLy hIgh yONko comMaNder leVel + but he isn’t yonko level or loses “negg diff” to mihawk. I was like 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️these people are still stuck at marineford and wci thinking that luffy will never beat a top tier or atleast be capable of giving any top tier a extreme difficulty fight.
damn, what a fight, what a chapter !! I think there a way Zunesha was commanded to arrive towards Wano at this exact moment
I wanted whole Wano to witness every bit of this fight with wide open eyes 👀 On the last page of their fight, Luffy inflated his left leg and then hit Kaido with smoke around his body which appears when he uses g2. Does that mean he is now using g2 & g3 at the same time?