Greg, what do you think about the possibilities of a group based/inspired on the yakuza showing up?

Hi Greg!

In the 27th LOG of One Piece Said something that he never planned that never more than half of the worst generator would survive the New World.
Do you think it is still possible that he will still will kill of some of them? Personally I think it would be easier to kill of many of them since many of them does not seem like traditional allies for the end game.
Though many believe Law will die because of his life surgery ability.

@Chrior:

I haven't really seen that much disappointment with the current arc, except for a person or 2 here and there, mostly due to Greg's cake theory coming true and those people being butthurt that a freaking Yonkouuu!!1 is going down with a cake. There have been criticisms of certain specific points of the arc. Some people enjoyed the beginning more, others liked the wedding, while others prefer the chase (not many though lol). This is definitely most people's favourite post-TS asc, including mine.

You are right! I think I lumped in my disappointments to the rest on the fanbase without really thinking to much about it. Though even with these disappointments I think this arc is still one of my favorites and I am really excited how Oda is going to end this arc.

@Kai:

In fact, I strongly disagree with the idea that Big Mom will even show up again. I think once her top brass are defeated, Oda won't recycle villains as villains again. He might recycle villains as allies, but I think the only exception to recycling villains as villains are the Navy. Big Mom is a swordswoman anyhow, and Luffy seldom fights swordspeople. (Cracker was the exception due to the fact that he had shit durability).

First of I am 99,9% sure that it will not be the strongest giant who will be the main villain on Elbaph(who many assume to be Loki). That is because Hajrudin said the following in chapter 770 "It is my dream to be king of all the giants". Then Luffy/SHs beating the strongest giant would trample on the dreams to Hajrudin, something I am quite confident Oda will not do.

I do also have second reason for BM showing up in Elbaph besides her flashback. Check out:

In short this video explains why the ponegliff Jinbe brought to BM is the one to tell the location of Uranus. She also has Pudding that in the future potentially can decode the Ponegliff to tell her the location.
From the The One Piece Connection they say the following about Uranus "Moreover, in Greek mythology, Uranuss blood rained down and created giants" It really sounds like Uranus is going to be in Elbaph!
Could then Uranus be a weapon that creates giants? If so that would that not allign perfectly with BMs dream?!?!
If this happens to be true then BM not showing in Elbaph up would be super strange if you ask me.

P.S. Many believe Zou to be Uranus but if Uranus is able to make giants then Zou could easily be the product of Uranus since Zou is a giant elephant and all…

I think much of the disappointment of this arc stems from the fans expecting a shourt detour before Wano and Reverie and it did not turn out that way.
Many also wanted 1vs1 fights that still have not happened a part from Luffy vs Katakuri.(And kinda Cracker but not)
Personally I think Oda is hesitant to do so because most likely where Luffy will defeat BM mano a mano is in Elbaph and that would make many of the powerhouses to BM seem like a small threat if they already were defeated.
I am still hoping on Brook vs Pumpkin Head homie and Chopper vs Mont D'or.
Though I think Mont D'or somehow has to be defeated if not in a 1vs1, so the prisoners and animals in the books in the Whole Cake Chateu are able to escape. It would be really unlike Oda to not give the prisoners and animals their freedom.

It is heavily implied in this arc that Pudding have used her DF in a large scale before so I think we are bound for a huge twist.
I am not 100% sure it would end in good terms but there are hints pulling in that direction.
With this DF fruit in play I think we should be more open to different endings of the arc and not just think it is 0% chance for that the SHs and BM ending on good terms.

Just to add to the Nami + Zeus power up deal!
If the straw hats pirates end on good terms with the BM pirates it is also possible BM could create a whole new thundercloud homie for Nami.
She could potentially use the soul of Moscato, Opera or maybe even Perospero if she kills him.
Nami also has BMs vivre card that can be used to control the homie.
This homie would then most likely continue to exist even if BM dies, since the rule of her DF is that a soul cannot be inserted in a dead body.
Nami would then lose the vivre card but it is easy for Oda to find a reason why the homie would stay loyal.
This also fits the theme with Oda not killing characters since the whole soul of the dead continues to live on in the homies.

@Count:

I think that's just Oda really liking having a lot of his characters get lightning attacks the same way he really likes giving them fire attacks (Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, and Franky have all had fire attacks at some point).

That could easily be the explanation, but I think it is not out of the realm of explanations that he could have learned electro from the Minks.
He uses electricicity in his weapon just as the minks do it.
He is from the New World and we know for a fact that the Whitebeard pirates were on friendly terms with the minks.
Though I do not think Oda ever will explain McGuys ability unless he gets a SBS question about it.
But my point was more that if this guy could use something similar to electro, surely Chopper can learn it aswell.
Personally I think Oda has been setting up Chopper to learn a martial art before he learns electro.

Well on the topic if non-minks actually can use electro or not, be it with fur or not.
We actually had McGuy "Thunder Lord" using an ability that looks a lot like electro under the Marineford arc.
This guy had a lot of hair and a mustache that easily could be the explanation for why he could use this ability.
It is not a confirmed usage of electro but it looks very similar….

Hi, Greg!

In chapter 851 where Jinbei makes reappearance for Luffy and Nami, one can see in the first panel of the first page a "ice cone building" with the number 76(in the previous chapters it had BIG). 76 is also the two first digits of Jinbeis first bounty that was 76 million berries. Is there some significance or pun related to this number and Jinbei that you know about?

@FelRes:

Dang, some of that is pretty obscure but neat stuff to remember. Are you an ornithologist?

Sadly no :/ I work on a dairy plant though…

@maxterdexter:

Other than the south bird (the rest of the cardinal birds were revealed in a coverstory), I think that it's no coincidence.

Yeah, that is true! Also one could say that it even confirms it even more because he chose specifically the south bird in the story with the straw hats, but that again is kinda stretching it so it suits the rest of them ;)