Thank you Aohige and CCC for the translations and clarifications.
My impressions.
1. Coverstory: Difficult to predict where this is going. Caribou knows about Poseidon and he has to tell someone, eventually.
2. So beside previously running the Human Auction House, now the SMILE production, Dofla is a weapons dealer. Quite the businessman.
3. Bonney is free and on a winter island. Only Capone Bege, Urogue and X Drake left unrevealed after the timeskip.
4. Jimbei reads the news, good.
5. Who´s the pirate on the pic beside Jimbei? He sits, reads the paper and smokes. Seems to to be quite big, I would´ve said it´s Urogue but he didn´t smoke before, did he? Maybe just a random pirate.
6. Good catch with the Thriller Bark ship leaving Kid´s hideout. It´s not visible on mangareader. So Absalom spies and writes articles? Interesting. Wonder what Moria/Hogback/Absalom are up to now that they´re in the New World.
With the reveal that Kid sunk one of Big Mom´s ships, people thought that that alliance would face her. But now with the reveal of Moria´s ship and his history with Kaidou, I´m not that sure anymore. Oda still hasn´t outright said who they were targeting and he´s keeping us guessing (also the two alliances are guessing which one the other is targeting). Based on this, it can very well be all of them vs Kaidou…and then Luffy just has an eating contest with Big Mom to save FI or whatever.
7. The drawing with all the ringing Den Dens that are not being answered is impactful, followed by Dofla picking up the one and only. This is a signal that Dofla really stopped his business for now and only cares about the deal with Kaidou.
8. Damn I love Luffy and his "whenever there is a call, I´ll properly introduce myself" tick :)
9. Interesting is that Luffy said one more time and I´ll kick your ass (as a warning) so he doesn´t plan to do so now. This is an important motivational factor for Luffy fighting.
10. Why no "Rayleigh trained me to kick all your NW asses" response? Why is that a secret all of a sudden?
11. As many of us predicted, Caesar will be left somewhere to be picked up (decoy) so that they have enough time to destroy the SMILE factory. Problem is Mr.Perfect doesn´t even know where it is lol.
I have a bit of a problem with the whole "kidnap Caesar" plan PH was about...I mean he simply gives him back. Was Dofla giving up his title really so important? I guess yes because he doesn´t want the NW underground (his potential oponents) to continue buying weapons.
12. Bwahahaha Law´s already broken hahahahaha and goes with the crew´s flow. Priceless face. He even put dow his hat while eating. No way he´s betraying Luffy in the future. I´m glad Bepo is alive.
13. We get Kinemon/Momo backstory, good.
14. Marines meeting time. Just as predicted, they´re uneasy about losing Schichibukai. Buggy confirmed, no surprise there, cool epithet. Oh come on, not revealing the last one? Oh I guess Oda thinks the Buggy confirmation was enough :/
15. This is one of the most important reveals. Sakazuki´s beard...I mean that he still loathes Luffy and already sent Purple Tiger (new admiral) to deal with the situation (so Kuzan´s warning got through to Sakazuki, that´s good).
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16. Omg a snot logia/paramecia? That´s hilarious. His trait seems to be getting too close to people (invading space). He even made fun of Baby5, great.
17. OK what´s the Colosseum? With the whole Spanish theme, it could be bulffights/torreadors, which is more likely than gladiators hmm.
18. Diamante´s trait seems to be refusing positive feedback until it´s taken back. LOL. Oda really creates unique personalities here, which means there will be some sort of clash.
19. Ace´s devil fruit...not sure if that is motivation enough for Luffy, are you sure Dofla? You want to break up the alliance with this? Huh, you´d have higher chances with meat...
20. The seats!!!
The Clubs Seat: Trébol (Trevor). Notice he sits down after handing over the DF to Dofla.
The Heart Seat: Was obviously reserved for Law. The others are taken.
The Diamond Seat: Diamante, what a surprise.
The Spades Seat: A wide-armed, spiky-shouldered (armored) guy.
I guess these guys are the strongest among Dofla´s underlings. We´ll definitely get fights now it seems.
21. Arrived at Dressrosa. New adventure is about to begin.
Solid chapter. Lots of information, although I secretly hoped for more reveals but of course, Oda adds new questions instead.
I think pretty much the same way as you about this chapter, the bolded statement: Dont u think it looks like crocodile?
I thought that was him as well, but after looking carefully, nah.