BTW people now speculate if Sanji someday might put his code about hitting women and using hands aside as well. What ya think?
OOP! Sorry!
Hmm….I don't think so only because at this point it would insult everything he's done to this point. (Kinda like the suit right? lol yeah iknowiknow but that's why my point about the suit was, he used it for a completely different purpose)
ESPECIALLY the Enies Lobby thing which I will defend to the last because of the faith he had in his crew.
If he does it....look for it to be potentially with okama or hormone-related ambiguity. (QUEEN-PAIRING!?) Or look for it to be a major end-of-story life sacrifice that Oda doesn't cheap out on it. Sure he'll be fine but he literally has to be willing to give up his manhood and everything he's sacrificed to do that and...I just don't see it.
IF it happens, he needs to make good on every threat made to him to that end unless Zeff forgives him.
As for batshit-crazy theories? What if he hits a female in a complicated way that makes her hit him for a reason? I don't like it and it still betrays his code but could be stretched to make sense.
Don't see Greg how it would make sense from a power balance standpoint if Luffy brings down both Kaido and Big Mom in the same arc.
I didn't elaborate on that did I. Apologies. That's something I've gone into in YouTube.
Options for Mom:
On Team Luffy
OP Problem: Makes Luffy side too OP.
The samurai are already ridiculously powerful. Add to that a squad of Sulongs, Team Law and the randos they will and have charmed along the way.
Solution:
She has no memory. She may be super tough. She may have primal urges. But it shouldn't be 'controllable'. If she was, this seems like everything would be far too weighted against Kaido (and they still are besides Kaido himself!)
THIS is what I was referring to. This is different from:
Against Team Luffy:
OP Problem: None! This would be fine. BUT…!!!
Story Problem: Defeat Mom (symbolically) AGAIN!? Then AGAIN at Elbaf? That's just not interesting. But let me play my own devil's advocate b/c why not? Asking what's impossible in OP is usually how to best predict what will happen.
Solutions:
1. Elbaf storyline…comes to Wano!?!? Giants come to Wano!? I don't like it. Not one bit. But similar to the Germa66 suit, if anyone can make it work, it's Oda.
2. Mom works against Luffy only to ally with him and her story-line/memory/Streussen/Pound issues are dealt with HERE and they end the arc on better terms. They head to Elbaf TOGETHER and find themselves in a world of trouble at Elbaf. FTR I don't like this either. It's certainly more palatable than the whole freaking Elbaf storyline being dealt with in Wano BUT it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too busy. Then again, maybe that's exactly what Oda needs for the chaotic climax of this arc.
So I think by removing Mom as a player AT PEAK he can get away with Luffy and Co. either cooperating with her now, duping her, or getting away without it feeling repetitive. It's such a great move and one I did not consider at all but answers so many questions of why he felt comfortable bringing her to Wano.
My question is: will the Beast Pirates find out?
I honestly hope they do. They should.
If they do, it doesn't detract from Sanji's actions here. He might not have been the most graceful about it, but he did what he could at the moment and that's what matters for the moment.
Greg I was wondering what you thought the final war will be like, the one at the end of the series
How will Oda do a war that engulfs the whole world
will there be multiple battlefields on different islands/continents? will the straw hats split up and fight there respective Black Beard member at different places? or will they all fight in one location, how many secondary characters will be involved? if every single character we've seen up to this point comes to fight how long will it laswt
same with the two different sides of the Marines, good guy marines vs absoulte justice, or the revolutionaries, I mean it's just mindboogling to think of how oda will handle so many people and a war that probably won't be restricted to just one place
didn't know if you had any insight?
Yeah, I've been saying both of those points (even here on this forum) for a good 10 years now.
Basically 10 simultaneous Marine Fords. sniffs & wipes nose