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Finally time for the inevitable Wano Cover Story. It's unfortunate, but I guess the logic is that the people of Wano just wanted to be rid of the big skull base and the memories of Kaido. It's a shame. It would've been more impressive to see Momo and co come up with a plan to use the base for something actually useful. But the land of Wano isn't exactly mature enough to come up with a solution like that. Oh well. My original expectations for a cover story in Wano was to first see all the scabbards split up to become the "Guardians" of each region as Yamato visits each one. Time to wait to see if we head that direction.

There are lots of fans out there that still can't seem to accept that Vegapunk isn't the perfect genius schemer that had everything go according to Keikaku. This video is the real Vegapunk. The fact they never even bothered to go back and edit or redo the start of the video to make it more professional just feels so natural and right. No doubt the punks rushed off to return to work as soon as they finished this recording.

It was fun seeing all the counts around to the world having to prepare for the message. This is exactly what I had issue with last week, and Oda solved it perfectly.

So Luffy's getting annoyed that Saturn doesn't take damage. Well, the same could be said about your new Nika form, you giant nutcase. I wonder if Oda realizes that. I don't know what's more annoying, having Gear 5 tank hits and shake off the damage, or having Luffy dodge everything with laughing ease. Having a time limit doesn't excuse pure invincibility. I'd also argue that Kizaru really should've been able to get away from the cymbol slam, but I'll excuse it just cause the attack was legitimately amusing.

Attack of the Old People! This should hopefully be the hype tool this siege desperately needed. Going by their habits, I can't help but think the Elders will stand around and waste a good couple minutes talking before they actually spring into action. Maybe they'll only waste 5 minutes, or maybe they'll waste the whole 10 and they'll be moving to out-speed Vegapunk's own pre-recorded ramblings.

Dorry and Broggy should jump in and join Luffy asap. Maybe they even have some knowledge of the elders, given how old they are. Maybe the giants getting so close to Nika that there will be enough energy to awaken the Robot finally and that'll be another blockade for the elders. I don't know how that thing's supposed to finally work. Either way, the chaos should be sweet. The blackbeards could choose to either leave in a panic, or stick around to hear the message and see if they can't touch a few other elders. Kizaru could return right away, or maybe he'll be forgotten for a few chapters, allowing him to be the one to run through the barrier and take down the message.

Finally, with Bonney having made it to the Giant's ship, and Bluegrass heading there... it's almost inevitable that Bonney's gonna turn her young and hot at this point.

Happy to see I was right about Augur and Devon being suspicious of Caribou. He's gonna have to spill a little more info to convince them to drag him along. I won't be surprised if our final cut to them leaving later will see Caribou tied up and being tortured.

Hopefully the vice admirals getting on the move can get some time to shine against the collective of fodder giants we've got now. I'd really rather not see more of them get one-shot like Tosa, but I'll give this one a pass. The sneak attack getting sneak attacked by giants is chuckle worthy.

Oda's definitely gonna go ham with having Dorry and Broggy reunite with giant Nika-Luffy. They'll probably get to share an attack on our good punching-bag Saturn, but Saturn just recovers again like always. Perfect excuse for pure fan service. I wonder if they'll hang back to try and hold Saturn and Kizaru off, or if we'll actually start running away together. Don't really know how they're supposed to survive Saturn's poison for long.

I get that Bluegrass' plan is more or less to use a sea beast to damage the giant's ship, but I can't help but feel she'd be more useful keeping some of the pacifista busy. She could easily just take control of 1 and then either get the troops to restrain it or just walk it into the ocean to be recovered later. Then move onto the next one. Eventually using a pacifista would probably do more damage to the giants and their ship too. Oh well, I guess Oda doesn't want the marines to look for any potential options besides just killing Bonney.

I wonder where Saturn's poison falls on the potency scale. Luffy may have a really strong constitution, but he's still not outright immune to the stronger stuff, like that poison fish and Queen's plagues. Also I just kinda realized... shouldn't the poison have gotten into VP and Kuma in their earlier stabbings? Maybe when we finally get to Chopper, we'll learn that both their bodies are already too gone to fix.

I'm a bit curious as to how much of the world is actually going to get this message. The people of the one piece world don't have smartphones or personal TVs for VP's message to hack into everywhere. The only time we've even seen long distance displays was when the government specifically setup for Ace's public execution in advanced, or when Ceasar made a stream to show off his new weapon to the underworld. Maybe instead it'll just hack into some nation's sound systems. When you add in all the damage that's happened, I could actually see this only reaching a few nearby nations or connections, like Morgans and Dragon. Of course, Morgans will edit and spread the word himself, but that makes more sense than all the world suddenly getting this auto-prepared message with nobody at the console.

Whatever comes next, hopefully it leads to Saturn snapping the rest of the way and just going total annihilation alongside Kizaru.