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[Shiebs]

@Lord-Gaimon they really should have though, 4 Villages outside of Konoha to explore and we only ever went to one, if it was Oda we would have ventured to all of them, given all of the kages epic entrances, built up the most powerful members and clans of each village and done a better job with “the next generation always surpasses the old” with some epic rookies like the Supernova, plus there was mention of tons of other villages that weren’t as powerful as the big 5 but also had an axe to grind with them, which could have set up cool characters and story arcs

In all I wish Oda had done Naruto and not Kishi

[Lord Gaimon]

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@Lord-Gaimon they really should have though

not really , Naruto at it's core is about two people and their relationship not the world, I think the structure Kishimoto chose fits better with that.

[wolfwood]

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

I wish Oda had done Naruto and not Kishi

It would be so weird, i can't imagine it without remodeling the whole thing from the ground up.

[Ghost of Laugh Tale]

That almost sounds like the Naruto that got set up in the early chapters with inter village politics and taking on missions you might not agree with.

[Shiebs]

@wolfwood said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

I wish Oda had done Naruto and not Kishi

It would be so weird, i can't imagine it without remodeling the whole thing from the ground up.

Tell me it wouldn’t be awesome though

[wolfwood]

Would be interesting. But i dunno if even Oda could salvage something useful from sasuke. Like could he pull Robin level emotions from a rock?

[SirCaesar]

@Shiebs 4 seas outside of East Blue and we only ever went to the Grand Line

[Shiebs]

Greg it was stated that pirate island was where Davy Back Fights were invented, which is now Black Beards territory

Is this Oda setting something up in the future or is it just a random tidbit of info

[Sun. D.]

After reading the latest chapter Oda keeps getting worse with his gags for Sanji.

[electricmastro]

@Seafarer33 said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@Daz completely agreed. As many problems with Wano, it always comes to the same conclusion: the arc lacked an extra 5-10 chapters to expand Kaido's flashbacks (plural) and the epilogue. So many rushed plots, or threads that were left hanging, or ignored entirely, could have been settled in a more satisfying manner, it would have avoided the bitter aftertaste.

@TLC said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Yamato's character was a complete betrayal of everything the series once stood for and it's what finally broke me of any hope and optimism I once had for the story. It's what opened my eyes and made me see how burnt out Oda is and how incapable he has become of steering this massive ship he's created. This isn't me just being salty, regardless of how you feel about the character, whether you loved or hated him, it all comes down to a simple fact. A character gave up their dream to explore the world. Yamato spent a decade on that island, starving and freezing and being tortured. It is nothing but a stew of bad memories and trauma, people he cared about died trying to protect him. He was always trying to run away and explore the world so he could finally be free and emulate his idol. But when the time came to leave, Yamato was not allowed to by the flimsiest of writing excuses.

@zeltrax225 said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Why is people still defending Yamato NOT joining the straw hats? I thought it was clear that it was a very business-like reason and that Oda simply don't want more work.
And I thought there was this entire speculation that having another straw hat would mean a lot of cost for the merchandise side of things + the entire media monster that One Piece is.

No matter how you cut it, Yamato not joining is terrible writing and Oda has lost control and seemingly his love for good writing in the later half of Wano. I'll even add that he's more concerned about One Piece as a brand more than he cares about the quality of writing nowadays. The plot for OP is never going to be a classic to rely on for consistent good writing, not now and never in the future. Maybe in the past, yes. For worldbuilding and character writing how-to, probably. But give it enough years and even that excellent record is showing cracks.

Honestly, the last chapter of Wano was one of the worst and if that was not a foreshadow (heh) of how Oda is not going to deliver the final arc, I'm not sure what is.
Hey, I'm sure it will still be good because you'll get excited and in glee because X character shows up during X moment and he'll rinse that a few time along with some worldbuilding twists, but as a whole his track record of managing multiple plotlines suck ass.

Oh right, Yamato. Yeah, that was whatever. Honestly I don't even find the energy in me to care after that level of disappointment. I don't even make an attempt to be disinterested in the plot nowadays, I just am. Why do I have to bother about the characters when the author isn't even invested in them and make them either tropes, plot devices, or just another checklist to tick off. Did everyone forgot how Shanks and Green Bull encounter was actually stupid? Or how Carrot was handled, so, so terribly. Oh god, I'm getting flashbacks. I'll stop now.

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

We can at least hold on hope that Yamato will join the crew in the epilogue, or some sort of alternate universe take on what happens if the crew disbands since regardless of what Oda has in mind there’s no way Shonen Jump and Toei will actually let this series end forever, they’ll make movies and mini series and all sorts of adventures with the Straw Hats since One Piece is a money making machine

@Dragon-D-Luffy said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

So my initial reaction of Yamato was thinking he was super cool, definitely a top candidate. Then the arc moved along and I keep waiting for that amazing character arc, and it never came. Instead, Momo was the one getting all the characterization. And people in the forum became more convinced Yamato was joinging, but meanwhile I was like "no, this doesn't make sense, where is the arc? where is the conflict? where is the emotion?" And when Yamato finally announced he was staying, I felt relieved. Not satisfied though, because I agree you the whole structure of Yamato's plot was just not great. Yamato was removed from the crew through a cop out. But he was never properly added to the crew either. He was never a protagonist of his own arc, someone really emotionally involved in it.

@andre said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

I don't think Oda handled Yamato well, but the potential of The Oni Princess is obvious to me. I just don't think Oda hit the mark on his overall characterization and narrative goals with him. I can see what he was going for, but I don't think he nailed it. The only aspect he "seemingly" nailed was the desire to sail to sea, which I firmly believe was always a red herring of sorts (at least towards joining the crew after Wano), which the reveal of flattened the character. I wish Oda had leaned more into the idea of an Oni princess and actually revealed something about Oni at large instead of putting it off or never developing at all, which could also be the case.

If I'm allowed to talk about this on here. Thinking back to how character focus like Robin's were handled, it's notable how he didn't explain Ohara, Saul, and Robin's overall feelings at Alabasta, even though Oda easily could have when Robin joined in that arc.

I see Wano in a similar way. If one takes the view that Luffy's battle and Momo's position were the two main priorities, then it would make more sense why the arc turned out the way it did. Any plot point not directly relevant to those two priorities couldn't be given more focus at the risk of taking focus away from Luffy and Momo, so all of them are met with a teaser for later at best. For as much as I wish more things could receive focus, I still understand the rationale behind it.

That's probably how all the kinds of responses like the ones above can most satisfyingly be answered at this point:

"It wasn't relevant enough."

[karubiDON]

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Greg it was stated that pirate island was where Davy Back Fights were invented, which is now Black Beards territory

Is this Oda setting something up in the future or is it just a random tidbit of info

Don’t you think it likely that once Luffy and Shanks reunite, Shanks will come for both the hat AND Luffy’s Jolly Roger? The “Straw Hat” Crew wouldn’t make much sense without it.

[Chams 0]

@electricmastro said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

If I'm allowed to talk about this on here. Thinking back to how character focus like Robin's were handled, it's notable how he didn't explain Ohara, Saul, and Robin's overall feelings at Alabasta, even though Oda easily could have when Robin joined in that arc.

The way Robin joined was specific to her and her character. She was supposed to be a misterious woman, with her own unknown agenda. We were supposed to thinks she was hiding something, and when Ao Kiji mentioned her past, we were meant to find her suspicious. When CP9 arc began that mistery was fully explored by the story, in a narrative sense: the fact that Robin was hiding things was a main theme of the conflict.

I don't think that same thing applies to Yamato and Carrot. But I agree that Yamato had lines at the epilogue that make me think she will come back to the story and be further explored. I will wait anxiously for that. But a character can have room for more development and backstory exploration in the future and still be a satisfying piece in a current story. Robin had a perfect role for her as an archaeologist in Skypiea, even if we knew there was more to her than what we knew.
For me, Yamato has room to grow as a character AND wasn't well developed for the arc they appeared in.

[electricmastro]

@Chams-0 said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@electricmastro said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

If I'm allowed to talk about this on here. Thinking back to how character focus like Robin's were handled, it's notable how he didn't explain Ohara, Saul, and Robin's overall feelings at Alabasta, even though Oda easily could have when Robin joined in that arc.

The way Robin joined was specific to her and her character. She was supposed to be a misterious woman, with her own unknown agenda. We were supposed to thinks she was hiding something, and when Ao Kiji mentioned her past, we were meant to find her suspicious. When CP9 arc began that mistery was fully explored by the story, in a narrative sense: the fact that Robin was hiding things was a main theme of the conflict.

I don't think that same thing applies to Yamato and Carrot. But I agree that Yamato had lines at the epilogue that make me think she will come back to the story and be further explored. I will wait anxiously for that. But a character can have room for more development and backstory exploration in the future and still be a satisfying piece in a current story. Robin had a perfect role for her as an archaeologist in Skypiea, even if we knew there was more to her than what we knew.
For me, Yamato has room to grow as a character AND wasn't well developed for the arc they appeared in.

Nobody definitely has to be the same as Robin for things to get expanded on. There’s also Sanji’s case where we never even saw his mom, along with his dad, at Baratie, and it was only later Oda decided to expand on that. So going by Kaido talking about Oni heritage, Oda could have some story to tell with Yamato’s mom for all we know for example, who Kaido possibly could have even met when he was with Rocks.

Any idea Oda could have had though, once again, was most likely put in hold for now since Oda presumably accomplished his two main priorities with Wano and felt to move on for now. That’s all in addition to Yamato’s feelings on how she’ll come to terms with her own identity now that she has freedom like she wanted. So there’s definitely potential.

I suppose I just wish Yamato could have at least gotten to interact more characters with interesting personalities than Momo. Vivi got to interact with many interesting people all around her, so for as much as I understand Wano’s ending, I think it also really serves to make Alabasta’s ending look better. lol

[Shiebs]

@karubiDON never even thought of that to be honest

I assumed that if a Davy back fight happens again on Black Beards home turf, you know the place where Davy back fights were made it would be between Luffy and BB

I still think Shanks gets killed by Black Beard later on in the story

[electricmastro]

@Shiebs said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@karubiDON never even thought of that to be honest

I assumed that if a Davy back fight happens again on Black Beards home turf, you know the place where Davy back fights were made it would be between Luffy and BB

I still think Shanks gets killed by Black Beard later on in the story

Only a matter of time before Blackbeard runs into more trouble even he can't handle if he's going to keep going around and poaching from anyone he comes across. I wonder how far that will go.

[Shiebs]

I would love to know where Greg thinks Jewelry Bonney’s story is going

[Johnny B. Decent]

So, about that whole thing about the art quality:

Poor guy.

[The Light of Shandora]

New Greg Column is up, it’s been a few days though.

https://one-piece.com/special/greg/detail/20230224_1311.html?l=en

[Cockycent]

As far as specialties, I think Gastino is about making anything. I'm using the synthetic diamonds as a reference. I think it's interesting that Nami was insulting his name, then she runs into that section with Edison and Brook. DF, diamonds, anything can be made from scratch. He wants money. It's been his thing post MADS anyway.

For Judge, it's weapons. Weaponizing anything to return to his ancestor homeland. His kids are no exception.

Queen seems like he gets a thrill pricking, poking, and looking at what people are capable of. How far can he take it. Mummy, Ice Oni, and dunking the Kid Pirates. The human condition appears to be his territory. Not just virus, but the organs that Chopper got excited over and Atlas said it's for the future of medicine. Possibly going from medicine to going to an extreme is why they are dub MADS.

A feasible fate for Chopper and Franky. Becoming monsters for their captain.

[.Nonsh.]

@The-Light-of-Shandora said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

New Greg Column is up, it’s been a few days though.
https://one-piece.com/special/greg/detail/20230224_1311.html?l=en

Thanks!!

Now I want one of them to be Jolenon Mars

[Shiebs]

I wonder if Greg will ever talk about Bonney’s distorted future ability she used it to make herself all buff and what’s that about, I know he mentioned it when talking about her making Luffy old in an alternate timeline version of him, but the ability to do it to herself and possibly use different variants of her from different realities is pretty crazy, I wonder if that’s how she fights regularly now

[Greg]

@Johnny-B-Decent I have some comments for after the volume is officially out. For the time being, if you have enough free time, sifting through some of my pasts comments on it may prove enlightening.

"I wonder if Greg will ever talk about Bonney’s distorted future ability she used it to make herself all buff and what’s that about,"

A case of me being right and them letting it through. Was super happy about that.

[Sun. D.]

@Greg do you think one piece will have become monthly? I feel like with Oda's current age the weekly grind is to much and it would benifit his art and possibly story telling.

[Shiebs]

@Greg I’m really looking forward to seeing the different ways she can use that ability

It should make for an insane and versatile fighting style

[Greg]

Daaaaaaaah ＦＩＮＡＬＬＹ ！！！！

Zoro is only 1/4 Wanoese.

So the 'Zoro has to be pure Wanoese!' BS Express can finally cease operations.

That was the bit of info I had years ago that made it clear how Zoro's lineage played out.

And yes, Oda's astigmatism is pretty nasty which contributes a great deal to artwork from recent years. When I found out I couldn't really critique the art the same way, nor could I just out and say that without him bringing it up. Health is health so, it is what it is. We're lucky we can still enjoy the manga!

[Seafarer33]

@Greg Please excuse my ignorance, but isn't astigmatism something that is easily compensated with glasses or contact lenses nowadays? I have a mild form of it and with the appropriate correction it has no consequence whatsoever on my daily life. Or am I thinking of a different eye problem here (not a native english speaker)?

Not that I claim to have a say in Oda's health. Being subject to the thing myself I had always thought it to be relatively benign, so I had no idea it could develop to the point of being a hindrance for someone who likely has access to good medical services.
Either way, it's definitely harder to criticize the scribbly art in light of this.

[Greg]

Corrective lenses can improve eyesight in many cases of astigmatism, not all of them.

[FolhaS]

I have astigmatism too, and I've used glasses since I was 2 years old and I also draw and work with art every day either on my personal life or work, so from my experience:

1- it gets worse with age
2- yeah glasses are a necessity for the daily life but with them navigating the world is as easy as it should be
3- complex pieces of art are not "daily life" its a very specific task and you do need good eye sight

If anyone here has read Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck stories drawn by Don Rosa, with a great and very detailed art style, should also know that the reason he retired was because he couldnt see as good as he used to and didnt want to compromise the art.

Oda has said many years ago that he drew everything that moves, i.e. the characters, the animals, the clouds, so if he sticking to that method and not letting anyone help with smaller background characters or correct his art a bit, we gonna keep getting a few scribbles here and there.

It also doesnt help that Oda now draw pages with many more panels and stuff going around in the background than in the beggining of the series.

Btw, for anyone wondering whats astigmatism like, there was a portuguese artist, Luís Noronha da Costa, who painted things as he saw them for real, instead of the corrected version he saw through his glasses.

[Razh]

Yeah, Oda's workload would likely mess up someone with perfect eyesight, let alone a person with existing condition.

[Robby]

@FolhaS said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Btw, for anyone wondering whats astigmatism like, there was a portuguese artist, Luís Noronha da Costa, who painted things as he saw them for real, instead of the corrected version he saw through his glasses.

Yeah that's a pretty accurate representation of when I take my glasses off.

[Zanze]

I have mild astigmatism (-3 degrees, though in only one eye) as well, in my case I'd say glasses mostly fix it but if I'm particularly tired or if I'm doing some activity that requires me to squint my eyes a lot, at one point my sight goes all blurry anyways. Like, lines and even colors blend with each other and "dance" a little and all that kind of stuff, even with glasses on. Then it's break time.
With Oda's schedule and his work requiring his eyes to always be focused on something I can see how that would be a problem for him. Plus every astigmatism is probably not the same.
In fact I'd say his astigmatism has gotten bad way later than it could have, given his lifestyle.

Although to be honest, I hadn't even noticed the art becoming more scribbly...

[Shiebs]

This is probably a really dumb question but…. Greg do you think the giant egg on Rogers Ship has anything to do with Egghead?

[JustaGuy]

There was a huge push on One Piece this year, and it seemed like a multicompany push. Bandai certainly was making a big splash at the summer shows with those huge figures. There was a takeover in Times Square during New York Comic Con. It's definitely finally breaking into mass consciousness a little bit. Where did that push originate? What were the companies involved? What are you seeing, in terms of the response?

It was Toei, the licenser and the company that made the movies and the anime, and then Bandai with all the consumer products, and then we have the manga. It all happened around volume 100, and then the movie, One Piece Film: Red came out and did quite well worldwide.

I did hear that worldwide, viewership is up on the anime. I'm seeing One Piece merchandise everywhere I go. Our sales have been incredibly increased since Vol. 100, and people are going back and starting the series. We've had to reprint all 104 volumes and all the three‑in‑one editions.

It is in the mass merchandisers now, and that contributes to the increase in sales. Even Indigo, and BAM!, and Barnes and Noble are all seeing increase in sales products. I don't know if it's generational, or if it's because of COVID people finally got into it, or all of that, but it's nice to see.

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53415/icv2-interview-viz-medias-kevin-hamric-manga-sales-trends-supply-chains-best-practices-more

Think it’s safe to assume increase is sales anything One Piece related has generally increased across the board all over the world.

[andre]

I think Red definitely helped.

[electricmastro]

@Greg said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Daaaaaaaah ＦＩＮＡＬＬＹ ！！！！

Zoro is only 1/4 Wanoese.

So the 'Zoro has to be pure Wanoese!' BS Express can finally cease operations.

That was the bit of info I had years ago that made it clear how Zoro's lineage played out.

Yeah, it helped enhance the hype with Zoro's new sword Enma I guess, so that was nice.

[Kdom]

Greg how do you imagine Shanks met Dorry and Brogy ? People find that a bit weird in the spoiler thread discussion

[electricmastro]

@Kdom said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

Greg how do you imagine Shanks met Dorry and Brogy ? People find that a bit weird in the spoiler thread discussion

I think it comes from how Shanks would have had to have met them while they were dueling on Little Garden, since they dueled for 100 years and Shanks is 39. Yet I suppose it's his line of saying "suddenly" which may be taken as how he has just reunited with them after thinking they were dead, but didn't think to check on them this whole time.

[Johnny B. Decent]

Also, Giants live for really long, so their perception of time is probably different then humans.

[FolhaS]

This could be a Mandela effect but didn't characters in the series claim that the Pirate King was the only one to have seen every island of the Grand Line?

Now even if we take such a statement with a grain of salt we're left with the impression that Roger and his crew sailed most of the Grand Line and during their final couple of years they did go back to the entrance at Reverse Mountain to pick up Crocus and then went to Skypea, so unless eternal log poses where used he went the same route as Luffy:
Grand Line entrance -> Whiskey Peak -> Little Garden -> Drum -> Arabasta -> Jaya.

That's my bet on when they met.

[Chams 0]

@FolhaS Not necessarily. In fact Drum is not even part of that "magnetic route", it was a detour to find Nami a doctor. And everything after Little Garden was changed because they didn't wait the 100 years for the log pose and took and eternal pose to Alabasta. So we don't know the complete route from start to finish.

[Cockycent]

I don't remember that line. If it was said, probably early in the series, but it's hard to see Oda writing himself into such a corner.

I think Shanks has been to Sabaody at least 4 times. As a Roger Pirate, possibly twice. He went to the New World before meeting Luffy, so while that's not a guarantee, it most likely happened. He went there after meeting Luffy and met Rayleigh to talk about Nika Man.

So he's been up and down the GL a bit.

[crlsdc]

@Chams-0 said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

@FolhaS Not necessarily. In fact Drum is not even part of that "magnetic route", it was a detour to find Nami a doctor. And everything after Little Garden was changed because they didn't wait the 100 years for the log pose and took and eternal pose to Alabasta. So we don't know the complete route from start to finish.

I recalled that Drum was a sort of detour as well. But maybe it was considered a “detour” because they were following the Eternal Pose pointing to Arabasta, not the ordinary Log Pose.

In chapter 130 it is also said to head “towards the south” (in search for a doctor), which would make Drum likely to be the third island in the central route (highlighted in the map of chapter 105).

( this however would be inconsistent with the rule, which Oda almost never respected, according to which islands should be ordered in a seasonal fashion, so that Little Garden should have been an autumn island)

[FolhaS]

@Cockycent said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

I don't remember that line. If it was said, probably early in the series, but it's hard to see Oda writing himself into such a corner.

I think Shanks has been to Sabaody at least 4 times. As a Roger Pirate, possibly twice. He went to the New World before meeting Luffy, so while that's not a guarantee, it most likely happened. He went there after meeting Luffy and met Rayleigh to talk about Nika Man.

So he's been up and down the GL a bit.

Yeah, I remember it as part of the Gold Roger myth, before he was Gol D. Roger, he conquered the grand line and sailed to every island, he was the pirate King.

But it may have been a translation choice to phrase it like that.

[Greg]

@JustaGuy

The interviewer really loads and leads that question while also aiming it in somewhat the wrong direction since it's really a Toei question (or a media editor-specific question for Shueisha) but it's good to see that Viz is seeing an uptick thanks to RED!

[Greg]

There's a bit of mystery about the 'old friend(s)' statement.

Namely, while it may refer to D&B, is it possible (given the lack of a specific subject) that they're talking about Saul?

While I think it's safe to assume they're talking about each other and, thematically with the chap title it fits, there's still room for an eyebrow raise.

Re: Roger and every island.

I'd suggest it's more a case of Oda not being entirely clear.

I vaguely recall the line and if it's what I remember it as, it's not expressing that he stopped at each and every island that exists, it's saying that he visited every island 'along the route' to the end.

I could easily be wrong! But just thinking about that line and what Oda wanted to express to the readers at the time ('every' = accomplishing a goal/task) I think that's probably what was intended.

[electricmastro]

So although the "Kurozumi Tama" detail was revealed in SBS instead of in the manga itself, I suspect this will play a bigger role in the future of Wano in light of Oda emphasizing on how discrimination persists in society even to this day. How would you guys think this would affect Tama and those around her?

[crlsdc]

In Chapter 117, Dorry seems to imply that every human who has reached Little Garden is dead, but maybe another translator could read it as “most humans died”, which would leave room for the red hair pirates to having been there and having survived

[cavendishsama]

@crlsdc I mean, there's Louis Arnote who wrote Brag Men and named the island, so we know that's already one person who made it off.

[Ryuga-san]

@electricmastro said in Greg: Teacher of SUPER " OP " course !:

So although the "Kurozumi Tama" detail was revealed in SBS instead of in the manga itself, I suspect this will play a bigger role in the future of Wano in light of Oda emphasizing on how discrimination persists in society even to this day. How would you guys think this would affect Tama and those around her?

Personally, I don't think this point will be important in the story. I assume that the next time we see Wano, it will be attacked by someone who's after Pluton. So I don't think Tama's true name will matter if it's a war context.

By the way, I don't think the heroes will blame Tama for being a Kurozumi, even though Hiyori said hm..what she said. The Kurozumi clan used to support the Kozuki clan for centuries until one of them decided to betray them. Orochi, Kanjuro...they all turned totally evil because of that, but now this is history, and I'm pretty sure Kin and the others will never blame Tama for what happened in the past.

To me, it seems like everything is back to order.

The fact that Tama is a Kurozumi or not doesn't matter, and I think it may be why Oda decided to reveal that detail in the SBS instead of the main story. It's a way of telling us : "look, Tama might be a Kurozumi but she suffered like all the other people. Her parents died not because of the Kozuki, but because of Kaido and Orochi's tyranny. Whatever her name is, she had all the reasons to hate Orochi for what she had to live, so the fact that she's a Kurozumi is a detail now, and she's free to live her life without having to carry the weight of the past".

[Gizmo]

Hey Greg. Having one of those insomnia nights so thought I’d ask about this (and if you answered this in your column before sorry).

Who do you think healed the Scabbards when they left the roof after their battle with Kaidou? Do you think it was intentionally not addressed and something that will be addressed down the line? I’ve seen speculation it was Hiyori in places but usually Oda makes things clear when something like that happens and I don’t recall it ever being stated or hinted at in a way for young readers to catch on. At this point I’d accept the Zou medicine just to wrap it up in a neat bow but then there’s still the question of who fed it to them?