Hahaha… So Luffy is going to eat the forts and avoid detection I guess?

So Luffy can barely recognise his father, sweet. Well makes sense really.

I hope that Burgess stowing away in the bile water at the bottom of the ship is true.

Very interesting. Who knows how many leaders Dragon has under him? I enjoyed him being a bureaucrat though at his desk but will be disappointed to see them wiped out this early if that is where it ends up going. Blackbeard is still a fresh, long game conflict. We don't need Luffy's family members to die quite yet.

I really like that the plot overall has picked up considerable pace over the last year or two, chapters like this really push it along.

I think the fight was just a baseline to show how strong Zoro's desire and confidence is. He essentially one shotted him without taking a hit. Most of this arc has been about fast forwarding the story than any buildup or creativity in the fights themselves (except for the gag fights).

I always believed the reasoning for Jozu dieing is because he has an extremely useful devil's fruit, leading a possibly fragmented crew in a very heated area. With fruit stealing explained to an extent (technique possibly sold on the black market is my gap filler here) he will be a sought after target.

Also I agree on the earlier point about their fruits not being 'theirs', as Blackbeard's crew has always come across as a collection of misfits around a loner rather than true Nakama. He dreams to be the pirate king but he doesn't care who gets in his way or what he has to do. This I'm still certain will be a central theme carried out to the bitter end and having two of his former leaders 'powers' with him will help exaggerate it.

Edit: Favourite old theory, one I liked, was Kaku for nakama. Sudden turn around and he wipes out CP9 and merrily goes on his way with the crew. What was I thinking..

Hahaha… I think it was the one where Zoro is stuck in the chimney on Water 7...

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Chapter 360, March 28 2005

@Hachibukai:

Yeah, cuffed an transported everywhere like an old suitcase haha, btw where is he now we don't see him in the last panels with the "army"
Very refreshing and fun chapter, gimmick gag stuff on every page

On the bull with Luffy facing the sky

I like the idea that Dofla has a 2nd.

Interesting marines and govt. officials were slaves (animals… ?! haha), as I have a feeling that the Admiral will try and protect the soldiers and civilians from rogue pirates and animals but be ordered to not interfere with the situation. There has got to be a point CP0 and Dressrosa being a Celestial Dragon homeland was mentioned - such a ruckus is a good front.

Next chapter… Zoro tears the place apart... But then Pica responds that his body only covers 4 or so yada yada's distance so he wasn't hit.

Also a revolutionary was in the Colloseum before Sabo?? nice.

Yeh I'm not expecting any love lost for Akainu.

Justice was a bad word. It's just that while Blackbeard and Luffy have the same greater ideal (dreams) they go about it in such obviously conflicting ways. It's heavily hinted Blackbeard has a tragic past like in the SBS where he was crying as a child but he took a path where he uses people instead of becoming their friends. Which somehow, I don't have any clue yet as to how, it will come off as some sort of rational way of thinking that led to his actions.

His crew is so pieced together by convenience (Impel Down?) instead of working together for mutually beneficial aims that I struggle to picture the crew introduced pre-Skypia coming together by any other way. From what has been shown, none were in Whitebeard's crew and surely something will have been mentioned if they were. He was a relatively old dude when he put his crew together.