@King:
The previous cover was pretty much that. Aside from Sai and Hajrudin, it had all people who fought officers.
But oda has shown to only ever do two covers before this where Luffy wasn't on it, Both were Baroque works and CP9, and were then followed up by two opposing covers of the straw hats side, that looked identical in structure to the one before it
so now we have for the third time bad guy cover, which if it repeats the pattern means similar layout and structure to the cover before (but with probs law and luffy in the chair) top subordinates behind them (probs most loyal, strawhats and maybe Kinemon) and then lower ranking subordinates (or in this case newly found allies like sai, kyros, Leo cavendish and bartolomeo)
the cover that came before this one did not follow a similar structure in layout and it came before not after
so as weird as it will be to get a second giant group pic, I think that's what we are getting
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@dropper:
Does no one else think the next volume will feature Riku, Rebecca, Viola and Kyros. Then with a row at the bottom featuring everyone fighting for them? Could work.
that's what I think were getting