Ignoring notZoro fight, I just assume next week we're gonna see Peros get destroyed. Mom wanted cake, SHs were meant to have it, now the ship just flew off and it's gonna be just BM crew members left there. So first thing she sees is Peros standing right behind her, and as she said before, he's gonna pay for this shiz if she doesn't get her cake.
RIP Peros, love this char.
Ooo I love this. Feels like it's been forever since Oda did this kind of "flip our exceptations upside down mid-arc"-thing. Most of the New World has been fairly straightforward, the bad guys that were introduced were the bad guys. This feels like Water 7 all over.
I like the solution. Cracker got launched away from the island probably, so he's defeated, but not beaten as in KO'd. Keeps the commander level pirates looking strong!
11hours of Luffy fighting, eating, running away, repeating….
Since Cracker showed himself for real, they clashed once and then we then skipped elsewhere. And now we're back, and I doubt we get anything much. I fully expect next chapter to not show the fight continue.
This is just something that's been going on in OP since about the Marineford war. We frequently get two big characters who meet, clash, and then we move to another scene and never see any of the fight from there. We might see the conclusion at best. I mean I'd loved to see the part where Luffy turns the tables as he noms on a biscuit warrior and Cracker freaks out about it, maybe calling him a cannibal or something.
Altho I love that the fight is going on for ages like all the big fights we been hearing about that happened, it kinda bothers me that once again the majority of the fight is happening off panel. Seems to be a trend in OP for a good while now, and I really dislike it.
People seriously think a Yonko commander is going to get oneshotted? "I can't stand pain" doesn't necessarily mean that he can't handle it - he just dislikes it. Dude seems pretty straightforward lunging at Luffy at the end of the fight, I highly doubt he's never been struck in his life before.
Less than half the Straw Hats are on the island and they're right in the middle of Big Mom's main headquarters. Luffy's not beating Big Mom here, they're there to get Sanji and run for it, maybe pick with some big square rock too.
I wonder how Bege's ability works. Is it like if anything gets close to him, it shrinks down? The dudes who come out of him grow to normal size, so I'd assume it's like a radius around him where this happens. So if someone fires a gun at him, the bullet would just shrink and hit the walls of his "castle" doing no damage to Bege. People seem to think his ability is crap, but if it works that way he's pretty tough to deal with. You'd have to fight him from inside or somesuch.
I just hope his troops are semi-competent fighters. They got weapons made of seastone and such, so I'd assume these guys are above your average flunkies at least.
Caesar and Monosuke haven't been around at all, either? I recall Doffy having some orders regarding Monosuke in particular, so I guess the situation is that everyone worth kidnapping was kidnapped. I wish there were relevant bounty hunters in the New World who'd done it, but I'm guessing it's Big Mom / Kaidou.
I think Sanji being some royalty is the way this is building to. It makes sense, that way when the WG does get trounced at some point, there's also good guy royals to replace them.
Wait, what do you think surgeons do when they operate?
I think they have to see what they're doing, though - Doffy just lays there talking and patches cut up organs up like no problemo. At least Robin's DF had the requirement that she has to see where she's making stuff pop up at. I just don't like it how Doffy gets more and more additional throwaway tricks to his DF, and some of these feel really unnecessary. Puppetmaster who slices people was already cool and strong, but then he's flying across the ocean and duplicating himself and whatnot while at it.
Doffy's fruit is getting way2retarded. I thought clones that can travel around the island were crazy enough, but now he can heal internal injuries as well?
The gnomes fawning over a manly man fight initiating and the two of them starting it off with diaper and nipple attacks might be my new all time favorite page.
And god damn I hope we get to a point where some proper swordsmen show up; Zoro's act is starting to get really stale imo. I get that we'd need to drive home that he's all grown super strong now with the timeskip training, but I'd prefer to see the guy do something other than laughing at anyone that steps in his way.
People are seriously thinking Zoro's going to be taking down an admiral in this arc? The day the SHs defeat an admiral oughta be a huge moment in OPverse - not something Zoro does in the background of Doflamingo's arc.
I would assume the main reason Fuji is present is to arrest Doffy (probably for being Joker) after Luffy is done punching his sunglasses into his skull.
Something tells me that Moriah might have given up on piracy altogether.
Since Absalom is apparently a paparazzi now would love Moria to become some big shot media mogul. Sitting on his fat ass in his office with a cigar in his mouth shouting: "get me more pictures of strawhat, Absalom!".
Although the cover story seemed to keep spinning it's wheels forever, I do like the window it opens up. As this arc has been going on, it seems like Law just used promises of taking on Kaidou as a bait to get the SHs to team up with him so he could take his revenge on Doffy. I mean, there's not really much going on that makes things personal between Luffy and Kaidou. It's just "I've gotta surpass this guy I've only heard about, lets do it!". Same way early Grand Line started - Luffy heard of Crocodile, a big mighty famous Shichibukai, got all hyped up about fighting him, nothing personal was going on yet, but as the story went on the stakes got higher and it was no longer about Luffy just wanting to fight Croc, but he absolutely had to beat the guy's smug face in.
If Drake indeed works for Kaidou, they now got the guy who knows about Shirahoshi being an ancient weapon, and will most likely get this information out of him (probably Caribou just spewing it out in panic in hopes of being spared!). Last we saw of Fishman Island king Neptune was talking about potentially ditching Big Mam and being under Luffy's protection, soooo if they go on to do that, Kaidou would basically have free reign to go down there and lay waste to the entire island without even provoking another emperor in the process. And that'd piss off Luffy. Who'd maybe make it there to see the whole place in flames a la madame Shirley's premonition. Or maybe it's someone else wearing Luffy's hat after kicking his ass, which would be epic. Srsly, the hat hasn't been in any serious threat since back in East Blue. Kaidou could beat Luffy in their first match, then yoink the strawhat just in order to give a middle finger to Shanks if he'd know about all this passing the torch stuff (going borderline fanfic, better stop here!).
Anyway point is, despite how sluggish the coverstory seems, I do like where this is going. No way Oda had Caribou find out about Shirahoshi being Poseidon just for minor luls about him being casually booted outta the castle. It's gotta be leading up to something big.
Spoilers for Naruto:
! Kabuto has the ability of suigetsu and karin.
! What ability? I don't remember Karin doing anything but cowering somewhere saying "eek" whenever someone else did something.
Three-eyed girl is cute. The slime on her chair is probably significant. But who can say at this point.
Yar, on the page where BM is yelling and she's twitching a bit, the slime has the same twitch-motion going for it. I'd wager the slime is sentient!
Perspective. Shittily drawn perspective, but that's what it is. Notice the hollow edge on the right-hand side, that's the slanted edge where the cut was made.
I'd love to go "aahhhh" here and declare that I can see it now, but… The grid on the floor is probably to blame since it gives an idea of the dimensions, which doesn't work with the rest of the image.
Have to break lurker status for this:
http://mangastream.com/read/bleach/78742560/15
How can the door piece be shaped like a square when he cut the thing all the way from top to bottom? That panel is gonna keep me awake at night.
Gonna have to join the club that thinks of Hodi's gang being potential allies (like Wiper/Shandians). We've learned quite a bit more about fishmen since Arlong, so it's not so black-and-white anymore.
They got their reasons to hate the humans, like the slavery, the crap with Fisher King, and possibly whatever happened to Arlong too. I mean, doubt Luffy killed Arlong, and Hachi escaped from some ship that was taking Arlong's crew to wherever… But we never saw any merfolk in Impel Down (other than Jimbei, I think?), so it's possible they all get instantly shipped off to slavery or meat grinders or whatever. I bet there'll be plenty of reasons to symphatize with Hodi before this is all said and done.
Those suction cups in the floating thingy kinda look like islands to me. There's forest ontop of each of em!
Moria won't die, just because we have had two epic deaths recently doesn't mean Oda will go on a killing spree, this isn't Bleach. This will probably set up for Moria turning against the Government or going out for revenge on Kaido, he might even join forces with Luffy we have seen stranger things happen. As for how he will escape Donfla and the PXs, how did all the Supernovas escape Kizaru?? Who knows so I don't think it would be so shocking if he does escape because its happened before
He could just send doppelman off somewhere and swap places, akin to how he escaped Robin.
Unless this is just the last we see of him and he disappears like Bellamy. Poor guy doesn't really have much of a purpose left at this point, other than some miniscule cameo much much later. I think. ><
Well, if there is a timeskip, I assume the war will end with a serious bang. Like Blackbeard charging into Mariejoa and establishing himself as the king of the world or something. 
It could mean that the great age of pirates will be over, which could change things quite a bit.
I'd like it most if we'd get chapters dedicated to the SHs alone, as they'd work to put their pack back together. But being scattered around the Grand Line, I don't see how they'll be able to run into one another in any way other than following them vivrecards until they reach SA. Which could take a while, sure. But no more than a year, I'd assume.
Placebos don't work with a mind like Luffy's.
If he was able to get up and keep fighting he would have done it without asking for help.
Then again, in EL Luffy couldn't get back up until Usopp told him to do so.
Thank god there was none of that haki-aura nonsense appearing around Luffy.
Kinda hoping that Ace will be saved by Luffy flying on Buggy as in that picture some month back.
Clearly Usopp beat Luffy to this far sight -haki. He could envision his body being broken into bits if that Mega Hollow in TB would've blown on him. I say it's just Mihawk's murder-stare that scared the snot outta Luffy; that glare makes babies who pooped their pants suck the stuff back inside.. Some Zoro-style demon-stuff. If it were Luffy deploying haki-magic to see the next part of the battle, then the final fights in the series would essentially be two dudes staring at each other for 5seconds until the villain declares: "hey I just saw the whole fight of ours with my haki and you win with a haki giganto jet gatling gun… so you beat me and my plans are foiled, dangs and drats"
More importantly... Wonder what Sengoku's talking about? I can only imagine that they've cut a deal with Ace and he betrays WB in exchange of his own freedom or something. Aaand the Marines making deals with pirates would be such an outrage that they can't let the rest of the world know, while it'd secure them some form of victory as they'd take down the big bad WB. I just consider Ace to be so bleeding one-dimensional that I'm just itching to see him kick WB's mustache off, don a malevolent black hat and proceed to take over the world all while cackling maniacally.
Can't be merely the Pacifista that'd need to remain a secret from everyone. Those guys were running all over SA, so it's not like they're all too well-hidden or anything.
Blackbeard/Ace Alliance wins it! Marines are beaten, Ace is rescued, BB appears, Ace and him kill WB, and they ride off Stronger together into the sunset bursting out malicious laughter as Luffy goes "NUUUUUUU!!" with teary eyes. Thus is born a devious supergroup of villainy which goes on to conquer the Grand Lin- …no, the WORLD! Verifying that D stands for DOUCHEBAGS!
It'll be too awesome! And way better than any alternative where Ace is rescued and everyone goes on to celebrate before their next adventure. We had that at EL. This is supposed to be the an event that'll change the world, and BB won't be doing much of a change to anything whatsoever just by recruiting some warden (and perchance a few has-been/never-was -pirates) from Impel Down. >:o
Believe in the impossible! Believe in… BUGGY!
I was kinda leaning for Sanji, but after reading "SUPER CYBORG"… Srsly. SUPER cyborg? It's like a cyborg, but even more awesome!
All the talk about Moria's reaction is kinda silly. The guy's grin just flips upside down depending on the situation. He had that same expression when Luffy found him napping in Odz's freezer, and I doubt he was scared shitless then, either.
The future pirate king, Richie! The best vote you'll ever waste!
I'd assume Blackbeard's the one who opened the gates, dispatching Laffite to open the gates… probably. The guy did sneak into Mariejoa earlier, so why not into some gate control room? And BB probably has further intentions regarding this war than to just sit back at Impel Down. :X
Furthermore, I do hope that Buggy will actually become absurdly famous at the end of all this. Think of all the grandiose tales of his exploits later: "THAT EMPEROR BUGGY...!! I HEAR HE ONCE USED HAKI TO OPEN THE GATES OF JUSTICE!!"
Mr. Prince. In a pink satine dress, none the less.
Bah. If there were pictures of Goldenweek in some shadowed "seathing pencil after painting something"-pose, you'd be voting for her all over the place. >:o
Well, not particularly fond of Urouge… But in the interest of dropping some SHs (or THE SH), my insignificant vote goes for the winged man.
Keep in mind that Mr.3 allowed Luffy to reach the undisputed peak of awesome in the staggering form of champion-Luffy. Possibly the closest we'll ever get to Pirate Docking 6 Giant Robot Warrior Big Emperor (actual name??).
His/her name should actually be THE INCREDIBLE.
Joins purely for the awesome-factor.
Lame duck. Keep in mind that it opposed Bon-chan, the most lovable and heroic chara in recent memory. Vote goes for Dorry!
I like to think that there's something more to it than what meets the eye. Maybe ancient weapons and their island-destroying beam cannons are fueled by logias or something.
That, or we're hardly been provided with the full picture of how far BB can run with his ability. Which is naturally more likely.
Aww. Dang, Jimbei's such a goody-two-shoes that it's almost embarassing.
Meh, judging from the stuff back at the auction house, I'd say Arlong's racist crap towards human was just payback for what they did to him.
One thing you might want to notice is that Impel Down had no other fishmen visible there but Jimbei. I thought Arlong's entire crew was captured, so… Perhaps all fishmen are just killed right off the bat once caught? Hatchan said that Arlong was doing fine, but who knows... 
I say it's grudge all the way. Once the war is done with, Jimbei can go on to beat the daisies out of Luffy for what he did to his former first mate / nakama! Hopefully at Fishman Island in some grand and intoxicating undearsea battle made possible by, uh, magic air bubbles or whatever.
Think lil' Saldeath was last seen sending the bluegori to attack. After the lot were wiped out by Iva, he just sort of vanished. Which is a shame. I kinda hoped for something more out of the little guy. 
Ahhh, Inazuma started off cool kicking wolves and gaolers up to space while calmly sipping from his glass, but since then, he's been a bit generic the last few chapters, imo. Bon-chan for the win!
bounties are given by the level of threat one presents…
Buggys level of threat should not substantially rise, but he should get some friends at least
And yeah sure a man can dream, after all no matter how I say it, its only my opinion in this post as above as well, although I try to stay true to what facs we are given and what we already know concerning the issue
Well, generally I don't see how Luffy's level of threat would've risen when he received bounty increases, either. I mean, he went from 30 million to 100 million after beating Croc. The way I see it, that doesn't generally mean that Luffy became more dangerous overnight, but that the defeat of Croc simply had the WG realize that Luffy was a threat greater than they had evaluated, and thus they adjusted the bounty to be more accurate. It's sort of the same situation here with Buggy. The WG currently thinks he's 12 million East Blue trash, but after hearing all the (faulty) reports about what went down in ID, it becomes apparent to them that Buggy's capable of so much more than they had believed as of earlier. Hence the need for increase!
Well, then again, it sort of depends… I mean, we haven't been given any info regarding the possibility that Buggy has already received an increase since East Blue days. The guy's been travelling pretty much the same distance through the Grand Line as Luffy has, no? Naturally he'd have to have caught his share of trouble and fame. :X
That last panel has to be both the single most awesome and the most disturbing thing in the entire manga.
Presume someone's probably figured the same already, but… Yeah. ><
Bonney/Bonnie! The supernova, whom everyone apparently now deems fodder, since she announced that she'd "crush" the SHs in the New World. I for one beg to differ, if only because she sort of intriques me.
The whole business with Zoro mistaking her for a "brat" just stands out a bit. It seemed so out of place and irrelevant altogether, that I'd say, that in all the immense predictability, it means that Bonney/Bonnie has some sort of a devil's fruit which would allow her to alter her physical age. Sure, one could say "lol Oda wouldn't be that obvious"... But then again, there's Absalom with the whole invisibility-ability. Anyway, age fruit! It'd sound a bit limited if it just allowed her to look slightly different in occasions. So, one has to think up whatever else an ability such as that would grant. When Bonnie/Bonney was introduced, she was eating large amounts of food. Heck, her nickname was "Big Eater", no? If she's notorious of eating so much, obviously she'd have to grow fat at some point, and look like pre-rescue-Buggy-from-a-crab Alvida. So, what if she actually gains all the weight from eating all that stuff, yet due to her ability, could just keep in the same measurements? As in, that she'd be able to move about as agile as a cruiserweight would, although she would still weight a ton or so. Thus she could easily tackle Zoro away from a tenburrito (ha), if she was actually far more heavy than he is. :X
Then again, maybe I'm just still way too sour about the missed opportunities I saw in Miss Valentine's Day's DF. I would've wanted to see her leap about and suddenly alter between massive weight and little weight, thus pretty much causing huge craters around on landing. To crush the opponents - literally, without silly floating about in the skies.
Ok, this is just made of pure win and awesome.
Oddly enough, I find his face kinda scary. It's just so, uh, creepy looking. >.<
Obviously Luffy's going to have to throw a few punches at Sanji and thereafter explain that he can't tell which one is which.
Rofl, page 9 panel when Hachi offers em takoyaki is the best. As if the whole "what kind of a glutton do you take me for" wasn't good enough, but the pop-eye dude standing in the back drooling and having this "oh?"-look was pure win. xD