The 3:1 week format used for Oda should really be the standard for every weekly manga. With a simple schedule every issue would have most titles and you could avoid the heavy hitters’ break to overlap.
Plus January or July should be a month-long break (since we know week breaks don’t really allow for the mangaka to rest, it only gives them a bit more time to work around the deadlines).

Law never intended to take down Kaido, though. In Dressrosa he revealed that was a lie to bait Luffy into helping him.

His only plan was to screw Doflamingo so Kaido would kill him (Law didn’t even expect to bring Doflamingo down himself, he was expecting to die just in an attempt to make him in bad terms with Kaido so Kaido would finish the job).

I would say the fact Law sticked around after Dressrosa to help take down Kaido was already a huge show of gratitude, because he was carrying down his (originally false) promise to repay Luffy for taking down Doflamingo.

Any explicit show of gratitude would have come back then in Dressrosa (I don’t remember if it happened), not now.

As for Kid, you can see the change through his actions. There’s a point in the fight against Big Mom when he and Law say they are intending to die there only to prevent her from going help Kaido (so basically admiting Luffy was the strongest there and their place was to do what was in their power so he could succeed). I don’t think a bigger show of acknowledgement of Luffy can be given without betraying his personality.

Big Mom + Kaido = 8,999 billion
Luffy + Law + Kid = (8,999 + 1) / 3.

The logic the WG deployed was clearly that. They won't go around analyzing footage to determine who is stronger, feats, etc. etc. before issuing a bounty. A bounty raise is not an award that has to be rightfully earned.
All the WG care is the three of them took the 2 Emperors out, so they equally share a bounty that is immediately above the 2 Emperors combined.

This is not even the first time. Both Luffy and Law left Dressrosa with the same bounty - 500 billion - even though Luffy was the one to take Doffy out (because all the WG care about is that their alliance defeated Doflamingo, not who did 70% of the work and who did 30%).

@zorosempai said in Chapter 1079: The Emperor's Crew, the Red-Haired Pirates:

And now shanks goes greenbull on them rookies....

There is a slight difference between “go after the rookie while he is recovering” and “be minding your own business and the rookie starts attacking you”

I don’t mind Haki being left untranslated. But when Kaido said that Haki is above all, I couldn’t help but think a deeper meaning was lost due to that.

Loved the ending. Luffy's VA being amazing as always.

And sadly that's it. I felt like the animators were trying to outshine the actual content of the scene and pretty much ruined it. A prime example of why "SAKUGAAAA" is not necessarily a good thing when not properly used. Hopefully in the next chapter things are more contained so I can appreciate the stupidity of G5 more. The portion when Luffy bounces the Boro Breath back has to be the worst part: I couldn't even understand what happened and the portions that should be funny like Luffy plucking his eyes back were so fast I could barely register without going back and pausing...

The flashbacks I had no problem with (... because I skipped them).

I think the idea is that Mihawk is already regarded as an Emperor-level threat. I don't see his absurd bounty diluting the importance of the Emperors, but rather a sign that there was this 5th pirate that was already on that level but never cared about ruling the seas so never got the title.

Buggy's bounty is too high when you consider Teach and Luffy, but his is not meant to be taken seriously.

My opinion is the same I had when Wano started: that arc was the last chance for anyone to join the crew. So I stick to Jinbe being the last crewmember.

We are on the final saga, the final push where everything will converge towards the ending. The crew crossed every checkpoint on their way towards Laugh Tale, both the SH and Luffy reached the maximum status they could get before the final goal that is "Pirate King".
Anyone joining now would have missed everything, making their place in the crew undeserved, not to mention they probably would never truly feel part of the crew. I mean, just look at Jinbe, a character who was meant to join at the eve of the final saga and Oda made sure we would have multiple arcs with him interacting with Luffy and the crew before that.

An already familiar character could mitigate that, but even people like Hancock and Smoker are only familiar to us as "individual characters", not as characters that have a place within the crew and have interacted with them. Say next arc is a Hancock rescue, how long it would take into the arc until she had a chance to start interacting with the crew?
Carrot is probably the only familiar character that we know more as "part of the group" than as a character alone and she would have the advantage that, if she were to appear in the next arc, she would appear at the very beginning and already at the Sunny. But unfortunately for her, Oda showed absolutely no interest in her character for the entire Wano arc, showing he had no intent to sell her to us as part of the main cast.

Vivi rejoining the crew is the only thing I can see happening, since she technically already is a SH. But honestly, I can't see what she could add to the crew in any aspect, except pander to our nostalgic side.
So I hope she comes back temporarily simply as a nod to the old times, but then leaves at the end of the arc again to do her own stuff.

Great chapter, Oda seems to have a renewed vigor since the end of Onigashima.

• The little flashback covered up something that desperately needed to be shown. I just think it would have been much better to see this talk when it actually took place rather than through a flashback, even the goodbye scene would hit differently if we had seen this talk before (things like Luffy saying he would come back as soon as Momo's group wanted to leave Wano now sound like carrying a hidden message to Yamato).
  The flashback also adds a certain tenderness to Yamato's character that makes him a lot move loveable in my eyes. It's interesting to see how in his quest to become Oden, he is actually becoming the great person Oden is seen as, but never really was. Instead of someone who used his freedom to leave behind any sense of responsibility, only to come back and find it was too late to fix the consequences of his absence, Yamato is using his freedom to uphold his duty to friends and motherland.
  A lot of people are pissed about this scene, but I think it is one of those small bits that add so much to a character. Now I actually want to see Yamato back.

• The fact this flashback was prompted by Marco, who wasn't even there during the dialogue and was shoehorned at the end only strengthens my impression that Oda intended to include this scene before, but only realized he forgot to do so after it was too late to change chapter 1057.

• Not a fan of the new Pacifista. One: it drinks from the trope of "dark evil version of the good characters", which I absolutely hate. Two: it makes me worried about how much this army of cloned characters might expand and end up being OP's equivalent of Naruto's disastrous zombie army.
  The fact they seem to be all children might help, though, since I doubt Oda would make any of the good guys beat a child-looking character in an actual fight, so maybe they are never meant to be actually fought onscreen.

• A bit salty we didn't got a clear full-body look at Vasco and we got so little from him and Devon. At least Teach was the amazing POS we all love, amazing how he never fails to deliver. His new bounty seems a bit weird since it doesn't seem like anything that would warrant a 2.6 -> 3.99 billion raise happened since chapter 957, so my best bet is that his previous bounty was already heavily outdated - maybe Rocky Port wasn't even included in it.

• I guess Rocky Port Incident is going to become something we'll have to visit, now that on top of Law and Koby, Oda linked a former Rocks Pirates and Teach to it. Like I mentioned in the spoiler thread, I suppose this is something I wouldn't mind if it was relegated to a movie (a "Law focused" movie would probably sell even if the SH weren't there).

• We are almost rounding up all the big names. My guess for next chapter is: Weevil (that much seems obvious), Issho and finally Vegapunk's debut.

Obviously there is more. We only got the first bit of information about the origins of the DF, this is not the entire stuff. We don't know how literal the explanation is, nor anything behind how those desires became fruits and how that ties in with the OP world.
We are not supposed to think we are seeing the full picture, just a tease.

@trollatron786 said in Chapter 1093: Luffy vs. Kizaru:

@danie said in Chapter 1093: Luffy vs. Kizaru:

Sanji taking the bubble gun to encase a helpless Kaku instead of attacking a guy who just stabbed a lady was just hilariously out of character

Is it though? Sanji has always been a pragmatic character, so I thought him doing that was perfectly in character.

I find it hard to imagine anything less Sanji than “be able to disregard the endangered woman in favor of sticking to the more pragmatic and rational course of action”.

And that’s while pretending that he did favor a smart course of action, something really questionable when he used his one chance to incapatitate an enemy by surprise on the enemy that was already incapacitated instead of he one attacking them

Is that Cosmo on a new body? Should I have recognized the body?

I really hope this "service renewal" (what a weird expression, considering it's an open free website) doesn't mean the titles will be restricted to certain countries like VIZ website. I was forced to stop reading Witch Hat Atelier since Kodansha opened their own "Manga Plus" because of that.

Btw, useless detail, but I just noticed the order the chapters are shown on Manga Plus' main page is the same as they are on JUMP.

It was a nice action chapter, always good to have some of those, particularly when Gear 5 antics are included. I am getting a bit annoyed by the overuse of the eye-pop visual gag, though.

Nothing really came out from the Zoro x Lucci scene (and I suspect nothing will, this fight being just Oda's way of keeping them busy for the time being), but there's something about Lucci's Awakened form that makes me love just seeing it. His regular hybrid form is probably the best of all Zoan (when Kaido's was revealed, my disappointment took form instantly as "this is so inferior to Lucci's and its reveal"), but I find the Awakened form just so cool and pleasant to look at. The same feeling I get from Grimmjow's resurrección.

I won't make any guess for the next developments based on the current groups configuration. The crew already split and rejoined so many times this arc, I just gave up on assuming any configuration is the final one.

Tried it last week just because the thumbnail caught my eye, but I went in not because I was hoping to like it but because I wanted to check the obvious new terrible generic battle shonen that will be canceled in less than 20 chapters. So I was just wanting to revel in that weird pleasure of watching a train wreck.

Turned out it was surprisingly good! Nice art, very good aesthetics (I know I want to see a dozen other spreads with those fishes), likeable characters, even the way it introduces the plot elements feels fresh.

I usually dislike OP's anime, but damn if they didn't elevated every single one of these final Onigashima chapters.
At a certain point during Wano I felt like Oda was relying on the anime and instead of developing the stuff he was just throwing pointers here and there, after these past episodes I am more sure that was what was going on. A shame for the manga, but the anime is really shining.

Nice addition in the anime showing how Yhwach acquired Pernidas.

Also good to see people behind the animation have more common sense than Kubo and removed the "Schutzstaffel" name. Now I am reminded of that Burn the Witch character with a logo that was obviously based on the SS logo as well and it makes me wonder... we really are way too lenient with Kubo, aren't we? He keeps asserting his sympathy with the nazi (at least from an aesthetic POV) and we just look away.

@PatTraverse said in Chainsaw-man:

It just seems to be that people that have some disappointment with part 2 just miss the crazy pace of part 1 and balls to the wall action. Fujimoto said that part 2 would be different.

I still very much enjoy it as i am a fan of Tarantino or a series like Mad Men where things take shape slowly until they come to a crescendo. Of course it will be disappointing if all the build up leads to nothing and we end up trolled but i doubt that Fujimoto would to this.

My problem with Part 2 is precisely because I don’t feel like anything is building up, but instead they are just accumulating? My feeling is we just have a shapeless pile of stuff that keeps being added to it but nothing really is communicating anything and it just gives Part 2 a feeling of lack of substance (and I end up not finding the funny bits funny, just forced; nor the touching bits touching, just empty).

I like Dragona making an effort to explain what they will do is "definitely not stealing" as if that was beneath them or something.

@zeltrax225 said in Chapter 1092: Kuma the Tyrant's Holy Land Rampage:

@Deicide I don't think the red line is higher than sky islands though. Like, at a certain altitude, obstacles doesn't matter because generally there isn't any. And he sent Nami from ground that is near sea level, so while it isn't "up" nor "straight", it could be very well be diagonally. Which meant that he could send himself diagonally in an incline towards a sky island altitude over the red line.

Yeah, but he was not sending himself to or from a sky island. It was from an island at sea level to another at sea level, so the Red Line blocked his path and he had to climb it before resuming it.
Could he send himself to a point above Egghead instead? Maybe if it was the old thinking Kuma, but this one is a barely sentient being so I don't think it's reasonable to expect that kind of planning.