Great chapter this week. Filled the void of last week's, haha. I was relieved when the monster trio came back; I was afraid there was gonna be an even longer time to get to FI because they had to look for them, but I guess it's still gonna take longer because of the Flying Dutchman and such.
Dude, that Franky/Caribou bit scared the hell out of me, and I DON'T KNOW WHY. I was reading this at 5 in the morning when it was still dark, and I had my lights off, and when I got to those panels, I was like "HOLYWTF." XD But after I got over the shock factor, it was fucking hilarious and I laughed my ass off. XD
Good thing Sanji wasn't there when they encountered the first hydrothermal mineral deposits. Seeing Nami strip would kill him, man XD And it's been mentioned before but I found it absolutely hilarious in the panel with the blobfish and all the speech bubble said was "I DON'T GET IT!" Also, on page 9, in the panel right next to Franky's "Oh crap!", I'm having a hard time figuring out who's eye that is. Is it the anglerfish's? If it is, it seems out of place…
The other thing that creeped the shit out of me was the Umibouzu. It's gotta be the eyes that are freaking me out, man. I mean, Franky's and the Umibouzu's just stare into your soul...
The revealing of the Flying Dutchman really reminded me of Thriller Bark. So now, we've seen elements of Skypeia and Thriller Bark. I'm hoping there are some elements of Alabasta too :O That'd be awesome...
And I agree with Surume for nakama! Nah, I'm kinda iffy on that, but it could be pretty cute for him to follow them around. He's so... squishy... and cute. But I must say, he's pretty happy and well trained to someone who just kicked his ass.
Also, on the Flying Dutchman: I think that it might be fishmen on the ship, and as the manga says, they control the Umibouzu as well as the anglerfish. But I believe that the three ginormous things there are kind of like the kraken (or not, since he is an arctic kraken who might've just migrated there for a while), who has been put there to scare and/or kill anyone who tries to go to FI. Idk, it's most likely not, since they didn't know that the undersea volcano was gonna erupt.