Ch. 1114
I am incredibly, massively late here, but I could not bring myself to break tradition. Terrible side effect of the leak thread, just makes me often lose all motivation to repeat myself
- Still not much to say on this Yamato cover story until it's clear where it's going, had such a fascinating start with showing off underwater Wano, then it immediately became dull
- Mock Town really do be mocking everything... at least they're consistent I guess
- I glossed over Akainu in my initial reaction, I do wonder how all the Admirals are feeling about this news.
- As I said in the other thread, it was amusing seeing Doffy show up right after we were just talking about him, funny coincidence. It's also hilarious how it's just always a treat to see him even when he's just locked up, unable to actually do anything. I guess it's because we all know that given his Celestial Dragon background, he knows more than most characters in this series. It really would be fun to have him escape and see how he'd interact with the endgame characters.
- As others have noted, I find it interesting that Saturn seemed to have a visible negative reaction to the sight o the Mother Flame. Might this be a valid weakness? It's kind of funny seeing him transform back into his human form, just whacking shit with his cane. It was so unexpected for him to transform back in my initial read I didn't even fully grasp that was him at the time, thought it was just some rando Marine lol
- The Mother Flame is pretty much what one would expect, maybe a bit smaller. Hard not to look at it and assume its existence is related to Lunarians, but who knows, maybe Vegapunk got it from something else entirely.
- There is no way in hell Imu is going to forgive the Gorosei's failure here, so I wonder how exactly that will go when they eventually crawl back to Mariejois with their tail between their legs. Or maybe they wouldn't rest at all and would chase down the Strawhats to Elbaf, that could be interesting
- I found it fascinating that the Celestial Dragon woman (St. Shalria who we saw way back in Saobody, also Charlos' sister) seems to be implying that the Celestial Dragons don't actually know what the Void Century is. I mean it makes sense that Imu/Gorosei would keep secrets for themselves, or at least only let higher ups like the God's Knights in on stuff like that. But yea, just one of those things I never thought much about given we have barely ever seen how Celestial Dragons live. I can very easily picture them all having hedonistic lifestyles where they're never asked to think too hard on things, or that even they have information they're banned from knowing, including Imu of course.
- Warcury's durability surpassing Kaido's is insane. Although it is worth mentioning it hasn't really felt like Luffy has used Adv. CoC like at all during this arc...
- And then the big reveal, Joy Boy is the first ever pirate. Given Vegapunk making it clear he doesn't know the full picture (and us already getting a lengthy flashback beforehand), I definitely don't expect one now with them getting ready to leave Egghead. But I'm certainly in learning what he does know...
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Great chapter, shame about having to wait 2 weeks to learn more, but it is what it is