It's out!
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1009218
https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/one-piece-chapter-1013/chapter/22496?action=read
Comments, guesses and predictions:
! I've been expecting for this chapter for a long time!
! For those who want Usopp vs. Page One: Ulti is all but confirmed to fight Nami. Her defeat here signals that both her and Page One can still get up, but it will probably happen much later than expected. I feel both Nami and Usopp will get upgrades in preliminary fights before they are able to take on the dino bros.
! BTW, who's the Big Meme now?
! I feel it will be either Law's crew or a newcomer that will save Luffy: Moria or, far less likely but still possible, Capone. But we will probably not know how he's saved or by who until much later.
! Pure guess here, but I think Act 3 ends with Volume 100. So, either in 1,014 or (more likely, if the volume has 11 chapters) in 1,015.
! It's interesting that both with or without flashback Act 3 is near a natural progression of the Acts. With flashback, it's close to 60 chapters (58 if I'm right). Without it, it's close to 45 chapters (44 chapters if I'm right).
! I expect the Act 3 tragedy to be a sequence of unsurmountable challenges appearing.
! - Luffy being defeated
- Each Straw Hat that is fighting gets a set back.
- Marco is taken out by a dirty attack from Perospero
- Neko attacks Perospero, but the Big Mom Pirates arrive
- Some terrible revelation that ups the stakes
Chapter break next week! :sad: