Rejoyce, for at last we're getting a cover story with a Donquixote Family member. We can put the old debate to rest forever: yes, Kuween made it out of there alive. It's One Piece, what did we exect? Glad to have all the loose ends from that crew tied up. Let us never speak of them again.
This was a short chapter but it really didn't feel like one. Every page was stuffed with detail and it got through a good amount of story and ended on a decent cliffhanger. You have to wonder if this actually was a case of Oda's time or energy levels affecting the pagecount, or if this is just all this one needed.
Oden continues to entertain and impress, although the backstories for some of the Scabbards are surprising. Kanjuro as a hair-eating monster? Ashura eating raw blood? Like a Jojo villain turned ally, they abandoned their creepy traits immediately the moment they were beaten and recruited.
The idea of an Oden logbook is neat. I wonder if it'll turn up in the present. I didn't like how abruptly it swapped from Oden's first hand account back to the normal third persion narration right near the end though. I thought it might have been a translation mistake before I flipped back to the start and saw the narration leading into the logbook. Could have used at least some kind of visual clue like a font change, I think.
And so the flashback goes on. Initially I expected it to timeskip over Oden's time with Roger and just focus on what he did in Wano, but after recent interviews, I'm not so sure of what we'll see next week. Only a couple of chapters left for volume 95, so there should be a big development or reveal coming in soon.