@Razh:
Maybe, or maybe he also added to the exchange Usopp and Momo had.
No it's very obviously the ending comment on the entire conversation sequence that had been going on. That's the last panel in that particular scene. Also why would you even think this? He's saying (to everyone) that they can talk more about Oden's adventures later. How the heck is that an addition to Momo's aside?
Why does it have to be either time travel or Ace?
It doesn't have to be Ace. It just has to be something within the realm of sense and not some left field kookiness like time travel.
There are numerous posibilities. He saw a snail recording of Roger, he saw a play about Roger's adventures as a child,
Why would Oda set up alleged suspense and have either of these be the payoff. There's an actual payoff to it being Ace or someone like that, it could lead to a later scene where that Ace meeting serves some quick purpose. What purpose do either of these serve?
his growth was suspended or he was in some sort of cryostate for a couple of years for whatever reason. The Ope Ope was used on him causing him to stop growing or to growing a lot slower…
That's extremely farfetched at the moment. The government seems to constantly keep track of the Ope Ope as much as they can. How would it make it's way to Wano of all places? Why? Why would Momo be frozen in time or age?
Until you can think of some reason for any of this, don't suggest it.
Some kind of variation of the original Momotaro story, but with egg instead of peach.
Nothing you're talking about has anything to do with the Momotaro legend.
Visual similarities between 17-20 hairless faced man and 40-50 year old mustached man a small child would pick up on? Stretching it thin there.
Yeah actually I'd imagine a child simplifying things rather than obsessing over details.
Roger seems to be a pretty big part of Momo's family history, so I imagine he'd know some stuff. Enough to not confuse things that bad.
He's a kid.
I'm more inclined to believe it would have been someone else connected to Roger.
Sure fine. Point is this is a basically reasonable general idea. Whoever it might have been.
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@kcity:
I kinda feel the same way, though that doesn't mean I know for sure it will be true. Feels to me like Blackbeard will be Luffy's ultimate opponent towards his goal to become Pirate King, but as the story is laid out the WG, Celestials, Void Century, Revolutionaries, Ancient Weapons etc seem to be things that are meant for after that journey is completed.
So you don't see the really glaring connection that Blackbeard has with the Void Century plot? (Hint: It's in his name).
Also let's see.
We have the government/marines…and we have the good guys like the Strawhats and allies and likeminds....
We have three ancient weapons.
Hmm...
2 =/= 3
Hmmmmm...
The continued inability of people to widen their imagination to the idea that a huge mega super war at the end could involve more than one side will never cease to baffle me. Christ even the Marineford battle had that be the case, and it was even literally Blackbeard who was the third party there. But the huge mega war? People cant' seem to see more than two sides. No idea why folks.
Becoming a Pirate King and ruling the seas going up against the marines and BB seems to be a tier below.
What part exactly of Blackbeard and his presentation throughout the series leads you to think of him as in middling plot tier solely involved in the vanilla journey to the end plot alone? What part? A guy who at an almost preview of the mega war on Marineford crashed in and made all sides freak out as he wrecked shit and performed horrible miracles. This guy is just gonna exist as a obligatory fight before Raftel? Really?
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@Sephi:
I've been thinking it'll be some sort of Meiji Era inspiration coming up myself. At minumum it definitely mirrors the ideas of Japan opening it's borders. Btw, due to Rurouni Kensington this tends to be my fav Era of Japan…especially with how it lead to Imperial Japan and WWII. So I'm definitely excited!
Kinda sorta…kinda not. It's very sanitized understandably. The Shogun was partly fought against because he was starting to open the borders (granted he was doing so submissively). But the reality of needing to wake up and smell the new reality meant that the revolutionaries realized they had to also follow such procedures even if it was really not popular in such a xenophobic insular nation. They were very smart to do so. But really opening the borders was a total survival and pragmatic matter to most of these guys, not a realization that it's good to join the world. And that's because the reality of the time was European empires rampaging around gobbling up territory anywhere they could, and Japan had to catch up and play ball or become a victim.... which ended up meaning they became a bully themselves.
The Meiji restoration got some really really great progress done in Japan on lots of levels, but the nature of it also planted the poison seeds that eventually flowered into the monster of WW2 Japan.
Oda is naturally presenting the equivalent as the Meiji restoration opening the borders in more the sense of modern Japan's relationship to the world. I don't blame him for this. Things would get way too heavy and complex (and probably controversial for that matter) for a rubber pirate cartoon to touch on any of the dark sides of that era.