Kaido or Blackbeard imo. Both have some sort of past connection to Whitebeard. If it's strongest to date then it's probably Kaido since it seems like he's up next.

Poun D. with the smile?!

@S.C.:

Shrugs

Still Paramecia…....somehow.

Gotta be awakening. But if that were true then why did Oda redact it from a Logia? Seems like something he would have had in mind when designing Katakuri.

@FelRes:

Has it been two weeks yet.

Ughhhhhhhh, gets me everytime. Prolly just anxious the arc is (hopefully) nearing its end.

Yeah, it seems pretty obvious for story and realistic reasons that heat is Pedospero's weakness.

While I don't have any concrete answers, I think it's definitely possible. I think it's next to impossible that Oda had all these ideas as unique story entities in the first few years of OP and more realistic that he is drawing on his past work to influence newer arcs.

That being said, I thought Zou was really well done, and "original".

@Maju:

I still wanna know how the hell nami knew that zeus would like her black balls..she says something like "thunder attracts thunder"..but it seems like something out of the blue with no real reason behind it.

Same here. Seemed pretty convenient, but there's probably some magical Weatheria explanation.

@Galaxy:

SBS Volume 85 addressed some of this.

Hmm, yeah I remember this. So Garp was nearing 40 by the time she started having kids. I'm sure she fought him and others at some point. Cool how most of her crew/kids barely played a part in her rise to emperor status.

I wonder how old the Charlotte kids are. Like when Mom mentioned Garp back at Fishman Island she was probably fighting him in his prime when he was like 40 or something, so if she had her first kid in her twenties then Perospero and the early ones were probably just kids. Kinda cool imagining Mom fighting off big names like Garp and Sengoku and establishing herself.

That being said, she would have been Pirate Queen by now if Katakuri was in charge from the womb on.

Pudding just grew 100% more annoying. Her character has been so erratic with minimal focus.

I always imagined a scenario where Vivi would take a "leave of absence" from Alabasta to join the strawhats. Maybe at the Reverie (during the eventual defence of the Straw Hat pirates by the notable members present) Vivi will declare her intention to join them until they find the One Piece. Perhaps we'll learn something about the World Government and an impending peril that Vivi thinks only the Strawhats are capable of solving/defeating.

Let me dream damn it!