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I’m severely disappointed from a couple of things.
Why is Luffy still taking so much damage and shrugs it off ? What’s the point ? It just makes his future fights even less interesting if he can take this amount of punishment and still keep going like he’s Kaido
Where is Kaidos backstory and awakening ? Did Oda just don’t give a f ? Having Doflamingo and Katakuri show awakening while Kaido doesn’t is stupid
Enough with Orochi. He and Kanjuro really took a big portion of the raid while Oda could just show other things. Kanjuro should have stayed dead the first time and Orochi should have been dead when all the scabbards cut him.
Also is Oda gonna keep his word that Kaido losing to a strong punch doesn’t make sense ? Because right now he’s certainly losing to a big strong punch
When Luffy got TB´d, he is upside down and his LEFT arm is shown to be prolonged, but it´s actually the RIGHT hand that grabs Kaido.
In the cloud, we see Luffy still having his LEFT arm stretched when Kaido attacks him with cuts and a beam. Luffy is not letting go.
Last page, Luffy prepared a larger than life RIGHT fist to finish this, while still holding onto Kaido.
Does One Piece even have editors?
Fight turned to complete shit since Luffy´s awakening.
Just let it end, please.
Robin and Jimbei fights were amazing, 5 Supernova vs BM/Kaido on the rooftop was epic, this 31st Luffy vs Kaido comeback is so bad, I feel like Oda is purposely trolling.
I'm having so much fun with this fight I don't want it ever to end. Both Bugs D. Monkey and Kaido are shining. No notes.
When Luffy got TB´d, he is upside down and his LEFT arm is shown to be prolonged, but it´s actually the RIGHT hand that grabs Kaido.
In the cloud, we see Luffy still having his LEFT arm stretched when Kaido attacks him with cuts and a beam. Luffy is not letting go.
Last page, Luffy prepared a larger than life RIGHT fist to finish this, while still holding onto Kaido.Does One Piece even have editors?
Fight turned to complete shit since Luffy´s awakening.
Just let it end, please.Robin and Jimbei fights were amazing, 5 Supernova vs BM/Kaido on the rooftop was epic, this 31st Luffy vs Kaido comeback is so bad, I feel like Oda is purposely trolling.
It looks to me like he's always holding on with his left, his knuckles are just facing outward
Chapter was a little bit slow this week, but I enjoyed every time Luffy and Kaido were drawn.
The last page is amazing! That massive fist would look impressive under any circunstance, but Oda drawing it emerging from the clouds makes it ten times more awesome.
@Sibersk:
It looks to me like he's always holding on with his left, his knuckles are just facing outward
Second and third drawing after Thunder Bagua.
That is a right hand, if you have trouble visualizing, just grab your own chest/belly with your right hand from a higher position instead of from the side (naturally).
Oda has clearly drawn the thumb on the right side, which is the right had if you grab down from above like Luffy did.
Fifth picture as well, the one with only Kaido´s head and Luffy´s right arm.
I got the impression that this is it, this is the final attack. Or, at least, Oda is counting on us believing it is.
The elements for the finale are all there:
However, this is supposedly the second chapter of Volume 104, this being the final strike would mean the conflict ending in 1-3 chapters, so very far from Volume end, which happens around around chapter 1055 or 1056.
It's possible that this is the end of Luffy v Kaido, but not the end of Kaido. He may pull his last trick after he seems defeated. Or maybe there's his flashback or some final display before he falls.
OK, so as I am to understand it, we will get spoilers for Ch. 1,048 next week, but it won't come out until the week after that, correct?
Well I love the RS and hope it will return somehow.
Bit after Kaidou and his comment I am glad Oda pointed out Sanji and his haki training getting rid of the suit
@Johnny:
OK, so as I am to understand it, we will get spoilers for Ch. 1,048 next week, but it won't come out until the week after that, correct?
The spoilers are a possibility, yes. But never assured.
Wano predictions: There will be 5 acts; All Straw Hats will get fights, some in Act 4; Big Mom Pirates will arrive; Carrot will have her moment, but won't join; Yamato will be a Kouzuki samurai and Wano's Guardian; Shanks will visit Luffy in Act 5; Next arc is Mary Geoise.
The fight has been awesome since the G5 reveal. I especially love how Kaidou is more than keeping up with the crazyness of G5.
The fight ending without the people at the festival noticing the danger they were in is basically guaranteed IMO (that Otoko panel sealed it). I can see a magnificient spread of the final hit happening in the middle of the lanterns flying in the skyes. It will be glorious.
Besides Denjiro finishing the last head of Orochi and some pages explaining how Hiyori came to the island, all is left is the final fight sequence and Momo making his clouds to prevent the crash (I'm still holding some hope that that will somehow revert his aging).
No idea if we'll actually get more from Kaidou (awakening and/or flashback). I'll enjoy the ride and see what happens.
Kaido's talk about Devil Fruits is the biggest counter-argument to anyone complaining about lack of Awakenings.
The fight has been awesome since the G5 reveal. I especially love how Kaidou is more than keeping up with the crazyness of G5.
The fight ending without the people at the festival noticing the danger they were in is basically guaranteed IMO (that Otoko panel sealed it). I can see a magnificient spread of the final hit happening in the middle of the lanterns flying in the skyes. It will be glorious.
Besides Denjiro finishing the last head of Orochi and some pages explaining how Hiyori came to the island, all is left is the final fight sequence and Momo making his clouds to prevent the crash (I'm still holding some hope that that will somehow revert his aging).
No idea if we'll actually get more from Kaidou (awakening and/or flashback). I'll enjoy the ride and see what happens.
I disagree, I think the lanterns are setup to let them see what's happening
Definitely the best color spread yet for Jinbe. Almost makes up for no cover story update. Although the dragon feels more like a generic dragon rather than Momo, which is kinda weird.
As far as Luffy's part in the fighting; gear 5 is supplying way more entertainment than he was earlier. As much as understand feeling the fight has dragged on too long, I personally wouldn't trade this final stage of the fight away. If anything, I'm gonna be more critical of earlier portions of the fight, cause this is shaping into everything I wanted out of the ending.
However, most of the Momo stuff in this chapter feels pretty tone deaf. More blaming Momo for being the only reasonable person around, flashback and in the present.
I don't actually believe Momo's gonna suddenly awaken to the power to fully control the island and move it away fast enough. The island has moved slowly this entire time, so I really don't believe yet the speed will drastically change under Momo's control. Unless Oda plans to make kaido and Luffy's giant fist clash for an hour ( or Kaido just bats it away), I think Momo's finding a new option.
And between the samurai discussing their ultimatum, I believe we have our 3rd option. If the island can't be moved horizontally in any direction fast enough, and it can't stay in place (or go higher), there's only 1 option left: Down.
The drawing is correct. Just raise your arms upwards to the ceiling vertically, with the palms of your hands facing to your front, and imagine your hand is grabbing something in that position. That's Luffy's posture there but upside down while grabbing Kaido, like you can see in the picture below. You'll notice that, in that position, it's only the left hand which could show the thumb in that direction in the panels after the Thunder Bagua.
You linked a picture which showed the left arm being streched, I do not disagree there.
I was talking about this right hand grab earlier.
https://imgur.com/9x9dyD1
If this was the left hand, the thumb would´ve been on the other side.
It is wrong.
That will be fixed in the volume, no big deal. That wouldn't be the first time at all that Oda mistake left/right (think of all the many panels were Oda messed up Zoro's earrings).
At least we got confirmation Roger didn't have a fruit power.
You linked a picture which showed the left arm being streched, I do not disagree there.
I was talking about this right hand grab earlier.
https://imgur.com/9x9dyD1
If this was the left hand, the thumb would´ve been on the other side.
It is wrong.
Yep, you're right.
I'm having so much fun with this fight I don't want it ever to end. Both Bugs D. Monkey and Kaido are shining. No notes.
Come on, bro. They are both basically stuck in a Looney Tunes world where no attack has a meaning or effect a second later.
The beam burned him it instantly goes away, the other guy punches through his head and nothing happens.
Then he gets slammed with a bat and he bounces back off the ground.
I also enjoyed something like this years ago with Tom and Jerry and Road Runner etc. but this is One Piece ffs.
I understand it might be entertaining if you forget the story itself and everything that happened in the 1000+ chapters beforehand.
But this fight lost all sense of urgency.
Well, until this crazy-eyed Luffy guy (supposedly a "good guy") just created a mass murder situation by threatening tens of thousands of fighters in the castle with his next attack.
This is absolutely batshit crazy. In this very moment, Luffy is the villain!!!
Why doesn´t he simply pull Kaido away from the castle and punch him there?
I am seriously concerned about Oda, if he´s still sane and not doing cocaine or something (like other "larger than life" celebrities, recently the Depp/Bettany/Manson clique).
Didn´t one mangaka die to rupture of an aorta recently? I read that can be caused by doing hard drugs…
EDIT: If Oda is just having a blast going all out trolling, then well played. He got me good.
I don't get the complaints about Luffy shrugging off Blast Breath when he already did that twice in Gear 4…
I hope Kaido saying haki is where it's really at is just set up for him getting ultimately owned by pure devil fruit power. I like haki as far as it allows characters to stand a chance against powerful devil users they would otherwise not stand a chance against, but it is just so fucking boring compared to devil fruit abilities. If haki was initially the main power system of one piece and not devil fruits, I don't think the story would have hooked me.
I don't get the complaints about Luffy shrugging off Blast Breath when he already did that twice in Gear 4…
Shrugging off once doesn't mean it's now a breeze and it can't hurt him anymore.
Plus. he shrugging it back then was portrayed as quite a feat. Now, it has been downgraded into a gag.
I don't get the complaints about Luffy shrugging off Blast Breath when he already did that twice in Gear 4…
I might be wrong, but he didn´t look like a burned to a crisp caricature back then, next drawing it´s gone. That is what I meant, it´s a gag fight now, zero tension.
I am sorry for being too negative. I should stick to my own internet rule, that if you´ve got nothing positive to write, don´t write anything. I totally failed at this the last couple of chapters.
But wait, I liked the cover, especially Robin was super sexy.
Either way, I´m done for the day. I wish Momo turns into a human next chapter to show the middle finger to Luffy and tell him to get his act together and not threaten the lives of their friends and allies.
I don't get the complaints about Luffy shrugging off Blast Breath when he already did that twice in Gear 4…
He had already done it once in his gear 5 giant form… Some people have really bad memory or they just like complaining.
LOL do ppl still think Luffy is going to turn the capitol into rubber?
I think it's very clear that Luffy's strengthened body after awakening can withstand much higher temperatures. I guess this was already a feature of his rubber body since he started to use fire attacks and such (Gear 2nd was steaming too), but now he can take a Blast Breath without much risk of being truly burnt or melt. And I think this plays into the idea that Luffy will wield more fire (besides lightning bolts) in the future to play the "Sun God" epithet.
And, again, I just don't follow the idea that everything happening is inconsequential. Clearly, everything is still intense and high level fighting.
Come on, bro. They are both basically stuck in a Looney Tunes world where no attack has a meaning or effect a second later.
The beam burned him it instantly goes away, the other guy punches through his head and nothing happens.
Then he gets slammed with a bat and he bounces back off the ground.
I also enjoyed something like this years ago with Tom and Jerry and Road Runner etc. but this is One Piece ffs.
I understand it might be entertaining if you forget the story itself and everything that happened in the 1000+ chapters beforehand.
But this fight lost all sense of urgency.
Well, until this crazy-eyed Luffy guy (supposedly a "good guy") just created a mass murder situation by threatening tens of thousands of fighters in the castle with his next attack.
This is absolutely batshit crazy. In this very moment, Luffy is the villain!!!
Why doesn´t he simply pull Kaido away from the castle and punch him there?
I am seriously concerned about Oda, if he´s still sane and not doing cocaine or something (like other "larger than life" celebrities, recently the Depp/Bettany/Manson clique).
Didn´t one mangaka die to rupture of an aorta recently? I read that can be caused by doing hard drugs…EDIT: If Oda is just having a blast going all out trolling, then well played. He got me good.
Half of that stuff was happen before gear 5 .
Early parts of the fight the beam was not even hurting luffy .
Or when base luffy was taking crazy attacks and got some blood then went away just like this chapter .
I can understand if you don't like fight now since it goofy but luffy tanking stuff he was doing even before gear 5.
Also i doubt luffy could pull Kaido any where , it taking all he got just to hold on to him .
Shrugging off once doesn't mean it's now a breeze and it can't hurt him anymore.
Plus. he shrugging it back then was portrayed as quite a feat. Now, it has been downgraded into a gag.
Truth is bolo breath never seem like big deal lol
Like the second time luffy shrug it off it while flying seem to have no effect , hell kaido getting hit by it seem to be whatever .
My guts are telling me that Kaido is going to prevent Wano's dawn.
Why are people acting like Luffy only took blast breath ?
Luffy in a single chapter took a couple of blows from Kaidos club, Demolition Gust and Kaidos strongest bagua to date and he fought back right away without an repercussions. He just straight up forced himself through these attacks to pull his biggest attack to date.
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I mean it’s atrocious that Luffy now is just shrugging off every attack the strongest creature is throwing at him. And he is supposed to be nearly dead. Imagine if he was fresh. I love how the fight looks but Oda has dropped the ball on what Luffy can possibly take if the strongest guy in the series can’t even push his shit in now
@Joy:
Why are people acting like Luffy only took blast breath ?
Luffy in a single chapter took a couple of blows from Kaidos club, Demolition Gust and Kaidos strongest bagua to date and he fought back right away without an repercussions. He just straight up forced himself through these attacks to pull his biggest attack to date.
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I mean it’s atrocious that Luffy now is just shrugging off every attack the strongest creature is throwing at him. And he is supposed to be nearly dead. Imagine if he was fresh. I love how the fight looks but Oda has dropped the ball on what Luffy can possibly take if the strongest guy in the series can’t even push his shit in now
Long time .
you see the attacks base luffy was getting back up from with out problems and that was before his power up .
Every power up just seem to add to luffy tanking power lol .
TLG , FFVIIR and Shenmue 3 2015 the E3 of dreams .
Long time .
you see the attacks base luffy was getting back up from with out problems and that was before his power up .
Every power up just seem to add to luffy tanking power lol .
Luffy didn’t take Kaidos attacks that well. At least Kaidos high end ones. Horai Hakke nearly wrecked him twice. Now Kaido does an even stronger Bagua and Luffy completely shrugs it off in a cartoonish way.
Also if Kaido loses to a punch, Oda goes back on his word
Come on, bro. They are both basically stuck in a Looney Tunes world where no attack has a meaning or effect a second later.
The beam burned him it instantly goes away, the other guy punches through his head and nothing happens.
Then he gets slammed with a bat and he bounces back off the ground.
I also enjoyed something like this years ago with Tom and Jerry and Road Runner etc. but this is One Piece ffs.
I understand it might be entertaining if you forget the story itself and everything that happened in the 1000+ chapters beforehand.
But this fight lost all sense of urgency.
Well, until this crazy-eyed Luffy guy (supposedly a "good guy") just created a mass murder situation by threatening tens of thousands of fighters in the castle with his next attack.
This is absolutely batshit crazy. In this very moment, Luffy is the villain!!!
Why doesn´t he simply pull Kaido away from the castle and punch him there?
I am seriously concerned about Oda, if he´s still sane and not doing cocaine or something (like other "larger than life" celebrities, recently the Depp/Bettany/Manson clique).
Didn´t one mangaka die to rupture of an aorta recently? I read that can be caused by doing hard drugs…EDIT: If Oda is just having a blast going all out trolling, then well played. He got me good.
If Momo doesn’t move Onigashima, everyone in the castle and the capital are dead. If Luffy could yank Kaido up he would but clearly he couldn’t after being knocked for a loop and Kaido still attacking him.
@Joy:
Why are people acting like Luffy only took blast breath ?
Luffy in a single chapter took a couple of blows from Kaidos club, Demolition Gust and Kaidos strongest bagua to date and he fought back right away without an repercussions. He just straight up forced himself through these attacks to pull his biggest attack to date.
–- Update From New Post Merge ---
I mean it’s atrocious that Luffy now is just shrugging off every attack the strongest creature is throwing at him. And he is supposed to be nearly dead. Imagine if he was fresh. I love how the fight looks but Oda has dropped the ball on what Luffy can possibly take if the strongest guy in the series can’t even push his shit in now
Demolition gust is basically sharp wind gusts so besides cutting him it’s not a big deal. Should also note that Luffy got his guard up against the Thunder Bagua so really the only clean hits Kaido got were when he knocked him away to the lightning bolt and when he intercepted the kick, which are unnamed swings. Which are all clearly hurting him, just not enough to get him to let go.
@Joy:
Luffy didn’t take Kaidos attacks that well. At least Kaidos high end ones. Horai Hakke nearly wrecked him twice. Now Kaido does an even stronger Bagua and Luffy completely shrugs it off in a cartoonish way.
Also if Kaido loses to a punch, Oda goes back on his word
Guess we see things differnt like luffy taking Lightning Hammer ragnaraku to head without haki that destroy the roof .
Yeah he said it hurt but got up a few seconds later and was taking more hits .
He in gear 5 which make him stronger plus he was also blocking Kaido strongest Bagua and it did damage him .
Guess we see how things go from here after this punch .
To be completely fair, it is not the end of the world if a being labeled as "Sun God" is resistant to fire ("blast breath").
I guess that the complaints are still what they were a month ago: this powerup is out of nowhere, feels weird, is unclear both in scope and mechanics… and we just don't get it. Let's keep waiting!
If Luffy was actually trolling Kaido and letting him hit him ala Majin boo, I would have no problem, that would actually be cool. The problem is that we really don’t know. We see Luffy’s blood coming out of his body after hits but he keeps trying these dumb moves that Kaido easily avoids while at the same time he’s not avoiding any of Kaido’s attacks. It’s hard to enjoy the fight because you really don’t know what’s happening.
Are we close to an ending?. The supporting storylines outside of the fight say Yes, but the fight itself says I don’t think so, I don’t know, don’t ask me.
Who’s winning?. It seems to be Kaido but I don’t know. Luffy is a wildly Coyote. He’s clearly losing but he keeps coming back on the next scene kind of unfazed. I’m waiting for Luffy to say “hey Kaido” and for Kaido to respond “ hey Strawhats” just as they’re checking in their work hours sheet. Anybody remembers that cartoon scene of the wolf or coyote and the sheep dog checking in for work?.
Kaido is already in his awakened form: basically the hybrid one with rounded eye pupils (just like Luffy), sharpen tooths, swirly eyebrowns, a longer tail and a different structure for arms and legs.
He's showing this form sometime during the battle already starting from dozen of chapters ago.
If Luffy was actually trolling Kaido and letting him hit him ala Majin boo, I would have no problem, that would actually be cool. The problem is that we really don’t know. We see Luffy’s blood coming out of his body after hits but he keeps trying these dumb moves that Kaido easily avoids while at the same time he’s not avoiding any of Kaido’s attacks. It’s hard to enjoy the fight because you really don’t know what’s happening.
Are we close to an ending?. The supporting storylines outside of the fight say Yes, but the fight itself says I don’t think so, I don’t know, don’t ask me.Who’s winning?. It seems to be Kaido but I don’t know. Luffy is a wildly Coyote. He’s clearly losing but he keeps coming back on the next scene kind of unfazed. I’m waiting for Luffy to say “hey Kaido” and for Kaido to respond “ hey Strawhats” just as they’re checking in their work hours sheet. Anybody remembers that cartoon scene of the wolf or coyote and the sheep dog checking in for work?.
Luffy always tanks attacks that is part of his fighting style .
He trying to attack Kaido he just getting outclass sometimes.
We seen it every time he get a power up that while he get in some hits Kaido still more that ready for him .
The whole unfazed aspect is the same as was before gear 5 , Luffy and Kaido take hits , get knock down and see some blood etc etc .
Then the back up again like usual , aside from maybe swinging around lightning he not do any dumb moves this chapter to tell the truth .
That huge haki fist is one helluva way to end the chapter, i don't want to use the word 'epic' because… yuck but something like that. mythical? lets go with that.
Someone made an interesting point about Kaidou and Awakening in the Spoiler-thread. Apparently, the azure dragon, which Kaidou is suppossed to be is a "protector deity". Kaido absolutely not being about that is thus unable to reach the phase where "Body, Mind and Fruit come together" meaning that he is unable to awaken.
Personal theory from here in: Luffy defeats Kaido without him awakening. Clear victory but Luffy is down afterwards. In sweeps the WGs new "weapon", about to rain down on Wano, take out the crew and take over the country. Kaido sees this and decides that, now that he already lost, he will at least make sure that the WG does not get to take over "his" country. He decides to "defend" it. This allows him to awaken (insert flashback here, maybe with some extra explanation how he turned into what he is now, bonus points if he started off wanting to be a "protector")
New superweapon still takes him out but has to retreat, after. This gives Kaido his Awakening, his "glorious death" (without Luffy having to kill) AND paints the new super weapon as a very, very credible threat, even for the newly baked emperor of the sea and his crew.
I’m just glad this is still a fight, and that Luffy didn’t just roll over Kaido because of his new power up
We're back with a gorgeous, summery colour spread. Wish I could be there, but it's only getting older where I am. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole spread grew from Oda wanting to experiment with those palm frond shadows, but I think the effect paid off.
We reiterate the pressure on Momo, which I think is something more for the weekly readers than those of us who've known this since Zou. Kin'emon feels uncharacteristically harsh on Momo here - and I don't know if his comment suggesting shame is the worst thing that could happen holds water following Oden submitting himself to public humiliation for a worthy cause (even if the outcome of that was pretty bad for everyone).
Kaido: Abilities alone cannot conquer the world! … Roger didn't have any fruit powers!
Me: Yeah!
Kaido: Only Haki can transcend all!
Me: No!
It's a fun action back and forth between Luffy and Kaido here, but I hope Kaido isn't being Oda's mouthpiece on Haki. I don't think any singular ability should be the one on top. It should be about how a fighter specialises, and how they use what they've got to get around their enemy's specialties.
Is Kaido launching his breath attack directly onto his spinning body to catapult it upward? For a moment I thought he was just throwing slashes directly out of his spine, but I think he's actually just bouncing it around.
Back in the capital, the lanterns are finally going up, which means the end must be close. If I had to guess at their purpose at this stage, I'd say they'll give Momo the final boost he needs to properly move the island. Maybe they all press up against the side and get him thinking all the people of Wano are behind him, pushing as well. It has the potential to be a really nice moment.
The scenes with the samurai on the Performance Floor are a much better version of the "place to die" philosophy we've been going back and forth on in this arc. No one here wants death as their conclusion, but they're at peace with having put their lives on the line for the people they love back home. It's a subtle difference from the resignation Usopp called out from the Scabbards, but it makes all the difference in the world.
Orochi continues to not surprise at all, coming loose from Hiyori's trap and having only one head left. The island's shaking dislodging the nail feels like a weaker reason than the water would have been, but I can hardly complain when his flaming hydra form looks so damn cool. Next chapter, I assume, Denjiro finally finishes the job. The beats of the Orochi subplot all make sense, but for the life of me I can't see what's been gained by making it last all the way to the end like this. Hoping for a good reason he didn't go down around the same time as King and Queen at the latest.
Luffy really seems to have set up his final final final attack in the closing spread. The giant fist coming down on Kaido's snaking dragon form looks absolutely incredible and makes a fun bookend with the first attack Luffy hit Kaido with all the way back in act one. I think he'll feel this one a bit more though.
The pieces of the finale are all in play - Kaido takes dragon form and becomes untethered from the island. Momo moves the island out from under him. Luffy dunks the dragon. I'm expecting one last clash, or a short delay to wrap up the Orochi stuff and let the water finish flowing through the castle, and then it all ends. But where does Kaido land? We seem to be a little way back from the capital still, as nice as it would be for him to land in the streets or crash through Orochi's palace for all to see. Maybe into the pit with Big Mom? There'd still be room to drop Onigashima on top of it to seal them in, if Oda wants to go that way.
It's good being able to feel like the end is so close after all this time, even if it might be another two chapters before we actually get there. Add another chapter to properly land Onigashima, wherever that ends up happening, and the fight is done by the halfway point of volume 104, leaving the back half of the volume open for the rollercoaster of post-battle reveals and lore dumps.
@Joy:
Instead he just shrugs off every attack Kaido throws at him like nothing
Nika> Azure Dragon. 
If Luffy was actually trolling Kaido and letting him hit him ala Majin boo, I would have no problem, that would actually be cool. The problem is that we really don’t know. We see Luffy’s blood coming out of his body after hits but he keeps trying these dumb moves that Kaido easily avoids while at the same time he’s not avoiding any of Kaido’s attacks. It’s hard to enjoy the fight because you really don’t know what’s happening.
Are we close to an ending?. The supporting storylines outside of the fight say Yes, but the fight itself says I don’t think so, I don’t know, don’t ask me.Who’s winning?. It seems to be Kaido but I don’t know. Luffy is a wildly Coyote. He’s clearly losing but he keeps coming back on the next scene kind of unfazed. I’m waiting for Luffy to say “hey Kaido” and for Kaido to respond “ hey Strawhats” just as they’re checking in their work hours sheet. Anybody remembers that cartoon scene of the wolf or coyote and the sheep dog checking in for work?.
He's taking the attacks because he doesn't want to let go of Kaido and risk him avoiding the the super duper giant fist attack.
Wow, the Wano fatigue has made people convinced that
Fatigue doesn't justify such assumptions LOL
Made the week without reading spoiler, who hoo!!
The chapter itself is… eh...
Flashback to the things we already know (again), filler panels (again), and cliffhanger (again). Luffy grabbed lightning, making the fans went wild... and it missed lmao. And then he proceeded to make a giant fist which maybe finally enough to defeat Kaido...
Wait,.wasn't Oda said that he doesn't want to make Kaido lost with a strong punch?
I didn't see anyone commenting on this, but Luffy's attack is visually similar to Enel's. It's just that instead of an island-sized ball of lightning falling from the clouds, it's an island-sized fist.
I’m surprised people are actually expecting Kaido to show some awakened ability since it was already stated back at impel down that awakened zoan types have enhanced strength and regeneration, so i’ve been assuming that Kaido and the calamitieswhere already awakened and that zoan types simply don’t affect their surroundings so it doesn’t show as easy, luffy being a ridiculous exception as his fruit is stated to be unique, for the same reason I don’t know why people are so upset with luffy tanking so many of kaido’s attacks in his awakened form, to begin with luffy has always taken a lot of hits in his fights and he just gets back up and keeps fighting, now that his awakened , being a zoan his strength and regeneration are boosted making it easier fot him to tank attacks, plus his fruit being unique he can affect his surroundings and is probably able to affect the attacks themselves( something like turning the kaido’s weapon to rubber when its about to hit minimizing the damage).
