One Piece Volume 106 will be on sale next 4th July 2023!!!
Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion
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My guesses:
- I have two guesses for cover: seven Vegapunks, probably Bonney and Kuma as well; or the Four Seraphim, Bonney, and CP-0 (Lucci, Kaku, Stussy).
- Title: either "A Genius' Dream" or "All Things Are Brought Into This World With Hope", if the first cover idea; or "The Strongest Form of Humanity", if it's the second.
- 11 Chapters (1066-1076); ends with Kid/Shanks about to clash.
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Luffy, Chopper and VP taking off with the satellites in the background.
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Title:
Labophase Death Game (2nd - All things are brought into this world with hope)
Cover:
6 Vegapunks + 4 seraphins + luffy + bonney
Content:
1066-1075 -
Great, thought we were due for this announcement!
Cover wise, I think this one has to be a Vegapunk ensemble shot, especially having had no Egghead at all on the last cover, maybe with Luffy and Lucci striking fighting poses or clashing at the front. Bonney and Kuma probably deserve to be featured as well at some point, but seven Vegapunks already would make this one busy, so maybe save them for whichever volume gets the full Kuma flashback.
For content, chapters 1066 to 1076. The team-up battle makes a better climax than it does an opener, and hyping up Shanks is a better cliffhanger than the team-up offer. Plus Sentomaru's bits in 1077 will be good for laying out the stakes for the start of a new volume.
I don't have a strong guess for the title. All three from 1068 to 1070 are good contenders, as is Labophase Death Game from chapter 1075. Emphasising Punk Records (chapter 1076) now could also work depending on how much of a role Oda wants its protection/destruction to play in the arc's finale.
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Most of the chapters in this volume came out during the Christmas and New Years break period, which made them feel extremely slow and spaced out at the time. But looking back over them now it's amazing how much gets done in a very short pagecount. In a single volume we go from first meeting Vegapunk and seeing him drop lore bombs about Ohara, to completely handling CP0's invasion of the Fabriophase from start to finish, fit in a cooldown where it seems like the crew and the punks might be getting ready to leave, to initiating the Labophase battle royale and getting Lucci and Kaku on board. All without even mentioning the cutaways.
After there being like seven straight Wano volumes that could be summarised with "the battle on Onigashima rages on" with no real change to the overall stakes or direction of the story, this arc is flying.
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Cover is the Stella with Luffy and Chopper, all floating and in their Egghead outfits. In the background in their own boxes are the 6 satelittes.
Title is "A Genius' Dream" or "Labophase Death game"
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@Captain-M said in Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion:
Most of the chapters in this volume came out during the Christmas and New Years break period, which made them feel extremely slow and spaced out at the time. But looking back over them now it's amazing how much gets done in a very short pagecount. In a single volume we go from first meeting Vegapunk and seeing him drop lore bombs about Ohara, to completely handling CP0's invasion of the Fabriophase from start to finish, fit in a cooldown where it seems like the crew and the punks might be getting ready to leave, to initiating the Labophase battle royale and getting Lucci and Kaku on board. All without even mentioning the cutaways.
After there being like seven straight Wano volumes that could be summarised with "the battle on Onigashima rages on" with no real change to the overall stakes or direction of the story, this arc is flying.
Oda prob could have cut away from Wano more like he's doing with Egghead, but I guess that would have taken too much away from Momo's story in rising up.
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@electricmastro Were the intermissions between the acts not exactly that? A smaller, more structured version of what's happening now? There wasn't much more that he could have cut away to at that point, given that most of the current ones launch off from the fallout of both Wano and the Reverie.
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@Captain-M said in Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion:
@electricmastro Were the intermissions between the acts not exactly that? A smaller, more structured version of what's happening now? There wasn't much more that he could have cut away to at that point, given that most of the current ones launch off from the fallout of both Wano and the Reverie.
I'd say those intermissions weren't enough then.
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An intermission between Oden’s flashback and their arrival in Onigashima would be good. Maybe showing Blackbeard in Amazon Lilly, to separate it from his fight with Law (it raised a lot of questions about fastravel)
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I feel like that would've broken the pacing somewaht. A better spot for that would've probably been after the raid but before the party, during that week when Luffy and Zoro were sleeping.
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There were two moments that could have act breaks/intermissions.
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After Luffy and Momo fell off Ongashima, and Yamato confronts Kaido: could be end of Act 3/intermission with Elders talking about fruit/Zunisha appproaching Wano/Start of Act 4
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After Momo’s victory speech/adult face reveal: end of Act 4/could cover outside stuff or have the Elders or other stuff/Start of Act 5.
These would actually fit the kabuki theater pattern better than how Oda split the acts/interrupted Onigashima for Elder talking.
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This cover's likely to feature Vegapunk and the satellites, as many have pointed out, and while I'm very excited to see it, this one is inherently kind of a bummer for me. The Stella's proper reveal is in Chapter 1066--the first chapter of Volume 106--meaning his design is going to be spoiled on the cover for any one who has yet to read the chapter. I know the number of volume-only-readers is low, but it always irks me when big reveals get spoiled on a volume cover. They did it with the Nika fruit awakening, which is still a wild choice to me, especially considering the fact that Gear Fifth Luffy appears on three back to back covers, and there was really no reason that Oda HAD to put it on the Volume 103 cover. I understand it a little more in the case of 106, since it's the first chapter of the volume and Oda's not going to want to compromise the imminent big Vegapunk color spread opportunity for a single chapter's lateness, but that just makes me wish that Volume 105 contained chapter 1066. It's a greedy desire, I know, since that would make Volume 105 an eleven chapter volume, but we've had plenty of those in the past, too.
But I'm expecting a really good cover. Now I sit back and wait for the details.
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Since Vegapunk was in the cover of WSJ's magazine, I believe most fans (even non-weekly readers) are already spoiled - sadly.
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This kind of spoiler talk always rings hollow for me unless it's coming from someone actually in a position to get spoiled by the covers.
I think anyone so spoiler paranoid they think a character design alone to be a big spoiler probably switched to weekly reading long ago. And even if they haven't, I've never seen one of them complain. I've had friends and partners who've read huge chunks of the series primarily through my set of physical volumes and there was never a single complaint about seeing a design on a cover before it was in a chapter, or a cover giving away in advance that a big-name character would be making an appearance in the book.
And it seems weird to me to decry volume cover spoilers in the same way you would an untagged social media post. This isn't some random throwing unwanted info in a new reader's face, this is the actual author deciding on a reading experience. Yes, it's a different one to the weekly read, where almost nothing is seen for the first time in any way other than its canonical introduction, but I don't think it's an inherently less valid one. The series is full of hints towards future characters shown in silhouette and situations where we get to see some of the outcome or fallout before flashing back to get the full story. Those aren't spoilers, they build anticipation. When the guy doing the story makes the covers, he can use them to that end as well.
Are you guys actually picturing a totally new reader's response to Vegapunk Stella (hypothetically) being on the cover being 'I can't believe Oda would ruin the reveal of what I know for sure to be the real Vegapunk for me!' and not 'ooh, then that guy's probably the Stella they were talking about in the last volume, I was looking forward to meeting him!' or even just 'haven't met that guy yet, wonder what his deal's gonna be, better start reading.'
Have you all ever had the experience of watching an anime as a new viewer and starting to formulate an idea for yourself about where things are building to based on both the story content and the flashes of climactic moments in the opening, and you're anticipating and hyping for yourself what it seems to be setting up, and you feel clever for catching the clues enough to predict what's coming... and then you go online to check out the discussions after and see manga readers complaining for you that the opening gave too much away and ruined the experience. Or on the other end the spectrum, you find the same complaints happening, but the spoiler is a detail so minor you could never in a million years guess what it signified without already having the context, or could not possibly have picked it from the dozen red herrings that are just there to look cool unless you already knew.
(Despite all the above I actually do agree that Gear Five on volume 103 was a bit much. Probably should have saved that one for after the reveal. Not how I would have played it if I was writing the story, anyway. Vegapunk is not on the same level though.)
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lol that seems a bit unprovoqued. anyway, I do agree with you! I just put "sadly" in my post because I didn't want to sound rude to the previous poster.
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@puffing-cinema Sorry, didn't mean to come across like a rant directly at anyone in particular. It's a kind of spoiler talk that's come up a lot across a few different fanbases for a long time. I had the thoughts ready to go, you and Labmate's posts (much more Labmate) were just a jumping off point.
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It wasn't my intention to equate the Gear Fifth cover reveal to the potential Stella reveal--I was just using it as a recent example--nor was anything I said in relation to social media spoilers. I do hate that BS, but I fail to see the relevance in this situation.
But that's a very valid train of thought, Captain M. No, I'm not imagining a new volume-only reader being disappointed after seeing the Stella on the cover before his introduction (though it's certainly possible), but I'm also not trying to speak for volume-only readers in the slightest. My previous post is from the perspective of someone who's been reading weekly for a very long time, and nothing about my thought is necessarily meant to sound otherwise. This kind of thing irks ME, personally, because I fancy the idea that the book itself wouldn't spoil me in advance, whether I've already read the contents or not. I don't watch much anime in the first place, but when I do, I never watch the intros because I don't want an accidental spoiler. You could certainly argue that, in a way, those scenes in the intro aren't spoilers, and that instead, they're deliberate foreshadowing placed there by people who already know how the story goes who want to set up certain ideas or imagery for a newcomer to this story in a different or more thoughtful way. I can definitely see that. I'm just a very no-spoilers kind of person. I don't watch movie trailers, read synopses for books, look at any spoilers for One Piece, etc. I like the fresh experience 'cause I like to form my own opinions. So I'm not trying to say that my not-so-hot take is or should be how those few and far between volume-only readers see the situation: it's just my thoughts.
Just wanted to further elaborate on that, 'cause I do agree with puffing.cinema that the post seemed a little unprovoked. But I appreciate your thoughts, really! It's good conversation.
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@labmate I'll apologise again. I had a little rant that had been simmering for ages over spoiler discussions and dropped it into a smaller discussion that didn't warrant it. Honestly wasn't out to attack anyone. And I do appreciate the response, it's always interesting hearing the perspective of the other side. (How do you find new things to read/watch/whatever without trailers and intros and blurbs though? Is it purely recommendations from people you know? I don't like committing my time unless I can get a little taste that what's coming will be worthwhile and personally appealing.)
I used to care a lot more about spoilers until I realised how many of my favourite stories I'd ended up reading or watching again and again while having just as much or more fun than the first time. Big fantasy epics like One Piece especially, can even be better the second time around because you're no longer trying to keep your heading among all the new names and concepts being thrown around and can take the time to zero in on the details and appreciate build-up and foreshadowing you completely missed on the first go.
Outside of some fairly specific kinds of mysteries/whodunnits and puzzle games, a good story's gonna be a good story whether you know the ending or not.
I don't go out of my way to get spoiled on something I'm catching up for the first time, but it's never been the end of the world when it does happen. So it's seemed wild to me how vast and fundamental spoiler culture has become to online discussions and fan spaces over the past decade or so. The delicate balance of keeping things avoidable for people who don't want to see them while letting up-to-date fans talk without having to step on eggshells. Maybe the social media algorithms that uncontrollably serve up up-to-date discussions for the engagement after you post once you've just started a series are to blame.
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I am actually on the opposite side of Labmate when it comes to OP: I'm completely addicted to OP spoilers! My ritual goes something like this: I read the barebone spoilers but I don't read Redon's summary until after the chapter is out. I prefer my spoilers as short sentences just to get to know a bit of who is going to star the chapter. So I go live my life and go back to it 2-3 days laters, when the raws are out and I first try to make sense of it by myself and only then I go check out what really went on (I can't read japanese at all). I've discovered that I quite like the way Oda creates dialogues to give characters personality, so reading the official release doesn't feel redundant even after reading Redon's summary or trying to make sense of the images by myself.
regarding entertainment beside OP, I tend to avoid big spoilers but I find it impossible to navegate an unkown piece of midia (tv shows, movies, books, whatever) without knowing at least a bit about it. I imagine that Labmate either has a very active group of friends that suggests him what to read/watch, oooor that he is watching some quality of content creator (directors, artists, writers) and everytime they announce something he goes in blind.
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@puffing-cinema
Completely agree. Read only a few sentences and waiting for the chapter is the best way to read it. Specially in an arc like Egghead it’s fun to see what next chapter is about: Shanks, Garp etc. But wait for the chapters to have full buildup of the revelations -
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Spoilers for One Piece are definitely kind of a unique case. The series became such a hyperfixation that I wanted to learn everything about its world and story that I could as soon as possible, and after a certain point that one sentence of upcoming chapter summary was the only new thing left so I jumped on it as soon as it was available. I've got as much OP info as it's possible for me to have at any given time. I still try to save my serious writing and analysis until the full picture of the official release is out though; a spoiler isn't worth much unless you can put it in context.
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I love this kind of discussion. I'll respond in turn, but I understand if this isn't the proper thread to continue the conversation at any great length.
One Piece is my special interest, to use a proper term. It's what I think about when my brain isn't required for anything else, and even when it is, the One Piece obsession is still churning in the background. (I'm sure that isn't unique to a forum dedicated to One Piece, but it's very true for myself. ) I've been weekly for a real long time. And I love that different people can get different levels of enjoyment out of the same story, too. I couldn't care less if someone likes to read spoilers: go for it. Read it whatever way makes you happy. I don't enjoy my stories as much, though, when I get the details outside of the actual thing, hence my intense avoidance of spoilers. (The end matters far less to me than the means. I'm here for the journey, to say it the cheesy way. I care less about how One Piece ends than I do about the years of weekly enjoyment I've gotten out of it.) I don't use any social media, so those weekly spoilers for One Piece aren't really an issue for me, but I really go out of my way to avoid anything that isn't the manga itself.
I have no real interest in the One Piece films from the get go, but I make it a point to especially avoid them more in recent years knowing that they reveal pertinent information that has yet to drop in the story. I think Kuzan having an ice replacement leg was dropped first in a film like a decade ago, right? I haven't seen the film, but that's something I happened to find out by accident. And that piece of information was only revealed in the manga last week! That's crazy! And while this is certainly a less impactful example (I'm using it 'cause it's recent), I still wish I didn't know about that leg until chapter 1080. I think it would have been cool to learn it there. I'd say, Holy cow! We're still learning stuff regarding the aftermath of Kuzan and Sakazuki's fight! That's wild! That one ain't a big deal, but I know there's some BIG info in Film Red and I avoid that stuff like the plague.
This is where I probably differ from most people who like to know what they're getting into when starting a series or a book or a movie. I like to go into everything blind, like I said: no blurbs, no trailers, no nothing. But I consume a LOT of stories. Like, seriously a lot. I typically read about two books a week, watch one or two movies at home, and go to the theater to see two or three movies as well. That's on top of keeping up with new chapters of One Piece and Chainsaw Man (I've read other manga to completion, but those are the only two I keep up with now). The best way I can put it is that I intentionally "judge a book by its cover." I look at the title of a book or the poster for a movie and check out what I think might be good. It's not so much a quantity-over-quality as it is a desire to consume a ton of stories. And heck, I read and watch things that I HOPE are bad, too. I love consuming what I find to be bad stories just as much as I love the good ones. It can be a slog sometimes, but I love seeing a bad movie or reading a bad book. And I don't mean hilariously bad. I mean a thing that's genuinely terrible. I get a lot out of pulling things apart, writing my thoughts, critiquing them, etc. The good stories shine brighter when they're pitted against the awful ones. And I totally do have directors and writers that I love and will voraciously consume anything they put out there. A lot of my reading and watching comes in this form or from something that seems similar to those I already love. But that's enough out of me. :^)
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@labmate (I'm sure no one's going to complain too hard about the thread going slightly off-topic. It's gonna be like seven weeks minimum before the cover drops and the only other thing that gets revealed before that is the pagecount, so it'll be quiet here otherwise.)
I feel the same way about One Piece as a special interest. It's a great thing to mentally go over in a quiet moment or while waiting to fall asleep because there's just so much of it and there's basically always more coming out. I've had other big media loves but none are this consistent over this long. Other things end, or go on extended hiatuses, or dump a huge novel only once every other year. But One Piece is perpetual.
Totally get the frustration with the movies. They're a lot more actually watchable than the normal OP anime, but don't have the benefit of simultaneous global release and it sucks to feel like you're missing out in the months it takes for a translation to reach local theatres. At least the manga hasn't ever treated the trivia from the movies as foregone knowledge, it still gets revealed in a way that makes sense if you're not super online and chasing up the multimedia experiences. The Laugh Tale name is the best example of something that caused a bit of chatter when Stampede revealed it, but became an explosive moment when the manga finally got there, giving readers the version of it they deserved.
All I can say is that I'm so jealous of your reading/watching time. I'd love to be getting through half that much stuff in a normal week haha. I definitely go into things I expect to be bad for a variety of reasons, but getting caught off-guard by a bad thing you expected to be good feels a lot worse when you're squeezing it into a limited media time.
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So if the satellites are on the cover, does anyone have any predictions on what their color schemes are going to be?
Because these would be my votes:
Shaka: Black with white accents or purple
Lilith: White/Silver with black accents or yellow
Edison: Blue/Cyan or green
Pythagoras: Orange
Atlas: Red
York: Green or yellow -
Oda love the good old rainbow colors, so I'll be lazy and just asign them in light spectrum order by clone number:
Shaka - 1 - Red
Lilith - 2 - Orange
Edison - 3 - Yellow
Pythagoras - 4 - Green
Atlas - 5 - Blue
York - 6 - Violet -
I wouldn't exactly put money on any of these, but my gut feelings/mental colours...
Shaka - gold and/or yellow to keep the look of the Daft Punk helmet
Lilith - White or pale grey for the bodysuit, contrasting the black jacket
Edison - No strong feelings, maybe blue
Pythagoras - Red and silver, like Robocon
Atlas - Purple/pink, couldn't say why, just feels like a good look for her two-tone hair in my mind
York - Bright yellow or orange, because I get a high-vis vibe from her jacket -
The volume will have 208 pages
This more or less confirms 11 chapters, from 1066 to 1076, using Kid's challenge to Shanks as the cliffhanger ending.
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Nice. Is it possible we’d see the cover sometime this week or next week?
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@electricmastro Normal timeframe I'd say give it another week at least, probably two. They're usually twoish weeks before the actual release.
But we've got that unexpected colour spread coming up to hype this year's One Piece day, so maybe they'd make a cover reveal part of that. I'm not holding my breath though.
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Shame not to see any of the Vegapunks, but I guess we were due a full Strawhat one now that Jinbei's full on board and the 99 - 101 three-parter just isn't the same. Love seeing the futuristic environment getting shown off though. This one's going to look great in its final colours!
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Wow, just the crew. No Vegapunks, no enemies. Unexpected!
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I did not expect this, wow. This is beautiful. Might put it in my top 20 volume covers.
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This cover alone makes me think there's a lot for us to yet see on the "Land of the Future". Egghead arc must be far from over!
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@Deicide Next cover could be a big decider for that. The Vegapunks remain undepicted, are numerous enough to fill the space, and with the York reveal in the opening chapters it's a good time for them. But you could also get a full cover out of just the major figures of the cutaways. Will it be the Vega group, the cutaway stars, or half and half? What does Oda think he's got room to show?
Of course, by the time that cover is coming out we might have enough weekly chapters to get a good idea of the arc's structure anyway...
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@Deicide said in Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion:
Wow, just the crew. No Vegapunks, no enemies. Unexpected!
I think the first cover for an arc usually has the Straw Hats "jumping" into the adventure. Volume 91 was like that, at least.
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I was hoping Jewelry Bonney or Vegapunk would be on the cover
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@Shiebs said in Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion:
I was hoping Jewelry Bonney or Vegapunk would be on the cover
Covers tend to be indicative of the most relevant characters in each arc. If what Bonney went through in this volume wasn't enough to include her on the cover, then I can only imagine her becoming her more relevant in the following chapters so as to warrant a cover appearance more.
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@Captain-M Perfect. I got Astro Boy and Pa-Man vibes from this.
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@electricmastro I think volume 91 mostly for the full crew treatment because it was the first time they were all on the same island since Dressrosa. And even then, Tama was there so it wasn't exclusively Strawhats.
A mix of the more prominent crew members for the volume and members of the new arc's supporting cast is more normal. You definitely see a few playing up the new environment like this one does though.
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Overall, very nice colorful cover.
But ya know, I can't help but feel bad somehow. Luffy and the others get to fly around in a super cool futuristic society full of robots and all that, and meanwhile, Yamato is stuck in a mostly barren, cramped Wano being guard dog to a shogun who wanted her to be free to explore at sea, with citizens who might just reject her for being Kaido's child.
But ah well, still hope she's just as happy.
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I think next Volume York will be on the cover, maybe the 5 Elders.
But with Vol. 107 not focusing on Egghead, I do wonder if its a vertical/horizontal split cover like we had for Vol 92, though this time showing us the different locations. Maybe something like the Reverie, Law, Kidd and Blackbeard, Kuzan and Garp.
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I really dig the cover, and would love to see the strawhat-spotlighting adventure arc it suggests
But...I don't really fit the actual Egghead arc fits that bill. This reminds me a lot of that "All the SH's (+Tama) in Wano!!" cover, which felt like borderline false advertising
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@Captain-M said in Volume 106 Predictions/Discussion:
@Deicide Next cover could be a big decider for that. The Vegapunks remain undepicted, are numerous enough to fill the space, and with the York reveal in the opening chapters it's a good time for them. But you could also get a full cover out of just the major figures of the cutaways. Will it be the Vega group, the cutaway stars, or half and half? What does Oda think he's got room to show?
Of course, by the time that cover is coming out we might have enough weekly chapters to get a good idea of the arc's structure anyway...
Unfortunately it's defo gonna be the cutaways because a cover with Law, Kidd, Sabo, Shanks, Blackbeard and Garp is gonna draw more people to buy it than a cover with just the vegapunks and Luffy.
A little disappointed that the Vegapunks won't get a full cover for all 7 of them, but I gotta admit this is a really nice cover. Probably one of my favourite covers in a while.
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I didn't expect the egg to be [ a e s t h e t i c ], but it's a nice choice!
Cool cover. Just like the first Egghead chapters, it perfectly captures that exciting "And now, for something completely different..." feeling after so much time spent in Wano.Too bad we'll probably never get all the Vegapunks in a single cover though
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I love the cover! Maybe he'll just depict the Vegapunks on a color spread instead.
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@Captain-M Volume 107 spends at least 8 of (presumed) 11 chapters away from Egghead, so I feel the cover will focus on the various events, showing popular characters like Shanks, Garp, Sabo, Vivi, Buggy...
And, by 108, showing the Vegapunks is unlikely because (at least) 2 of them will be already "dead".