My first thought for Kamazou was that he's Killer unmasked given the choice of weapon and the fact he's one of the Kid-Hawkins-Apoo alliance not accounted for post-Kaido suicide attempt.

@SunnyBlue:

I can understand Chopper facing discrimination among the human population.
But Pudding being discriminated in WCI where everyone look bizarre & consist of different races? What? And she was one of Big mom daughter & people still dare to bully her? A third eye is apparently too weird in WCI??
Feel like forced drama where Pudding will really fall in love with Sanji & turn good. It's the Viola situation again. Oda will probably spin it to show how Sanji's kindness was a good thing.

We've not had much information on the Three Eyed Tribe yet, so possibly there's a historical reason (justified or not) for the discrimination.

Favourite moment this chapter was Katakuri at the end being paralysed into inaction by the absurd future he's foreseen over the next page.

That final splash panel is a bit Dr Snuggles - particularly the trees and buildings.

@Teclo:

Either way, it does seem likely that it's either a gender thing (though that does seem really outlandish, even for One Piece) or that his reaction is revealing something about his relationship with Roger.

Given that naval & pirate history has plenty of tales of women pretending to be men (Oda himself brought it up either some of those early bits of backmatter or an early SBS), Crocodile secretly being a woman isn't too far out there. Particularly as that particular element of pirate history hasn't been given a One Piece twist yet in the book.

I wonder if casting Akemi Okamura as Aphelandra is an in-joke on her playing Rise Koizumi in Lovely Complex?

@MagneticMonkey:

i caught him waaaaaaaa:
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Argumenting "i believe i am the wall between the bad pirates and the humans out there and i'm torturing them because i believe i am on the right side" doesn't work since it is based on beliefs. I never wrote "the ID staff are nazis"….
If you think this argumentation is right then you would say the psychopath who killed that little girl cause he believed god told him to sacrifice her for him is right. That's what i'm saying here.

OK you've completely lost me now. You do know this is a comic we're talking about here don't you? You seem to be missing my point (and everybody else's) on such a consistent basis I suspect you're doing it on purpose.

@MagneticMonkey:

So believing you are doing the right thing justify torturing? What do you think the nazis believed when they built the concentration camps? Would you use the same argumentation based on beliefs with the nazi case?

YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!

Seriously, the Impel Down staff aren't Nazi's, they aren't the Spanish Inquisition, they are fictional Medieval/Renaissance-era gaolers. Now it might not have been that great an idea to give some of them those particular uniforms, but they have more in common with something like this:

than anything from actual history.

@MagneticMonkey:

And i asked Brack if he thinks that Hannyabal joking with Magellan forgives him all the horrible things he is reponsible for in ID?

Well the point of my original post was to affirm the idea that Luffy has been selfish and compare that Blackbeard's own selfishness, rather to argue your particular point on the Impel Down staff's morality.

My second point was that I don't believe Impel Down staff have been presented to the reader as being as being villains. They are opponents, they are enemies, but essentially they are doing their jobs and, in the case of Magellan and Hannyabal, have been presented with a degree of humanity (unlike Shiryuu, who is, in part, there to provide some perspective on Magellan and Hannyabal's merits as people).

They believe they are doing the right thing, that they are making the world a safer place by keeping all these "evil" people imprisoned and made to pay for their crimes.

That argument doesn't even enter Luffy's mind until Hannyabal makes his speech, which Luffy then dismisses, essentially saying Ace's life is worth more than peace. We then get Blackbeard, crushing Hannyabal's position even further (and Hannyabal himself), with his dismissal of the idea of good and evil.

Oh, and I have no idea where you got "joking" from, as I never mentioned it in my posts.

@Stylishman:

Although I overall agree with your post, I think Luffy saw the Impel Down guards as being in on Ace's execution. From his POV, they are evil dont you think?

Yes, but I think Oda did a great job of portraying them as not being out and out villains, in part by the relative ease Luffy cleaved through them, and by the relationship between Magellan and Hannybal. They come across more as men and women having their worst day(s) at work ever.

@NuFiasco:

^ Wow thats so damn lazy. One thing I hate about all anime. They reuse the same animation for convenience.

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Great post flyingeye, always love to see frame by frame breakdowns like that.

Apart from a few misfiring forced perspectives and choppy walk (run?) cycles, I thought this was a great episode, with lots of loose fluid action.