I still think with all Luffy has he would still lose to a fresh Kaido. Considering Kaido is the one on one king.

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@astagadragon:

Glad the fight is FINALLY over. Kinda weird that in the end I only want for it to end no matter what the process is… and well, it was very meh. For a god fruit with an imagination-based power the finisher is very lacking in creativity imo. Literally the same finisher as Doffy, but only BIGGER. Also the coreography is just... not there.

As for the flashback, it was VERY lacking imo. Big Mom had that 2 awesome yet disturbing flashback, and Kaido is... again, just there. Very disjointed all over, interceded by yet FILLER pages and people running around. I think Oda is forced to insert Kaido's flashback but he had so little pages to plan... which is easily avoided IF ONLY he cut unnecessary filler pages.

At least it's over, so thank every deity above for it.

All this Haki power up, speed with G4, future sight just for "Big Punch go brrr". Albeit with Ryuo but still same thing.

@hideoushorrendous:

The Black hole is supposed to suck/absorb everything

why should Haki be excluded ??

it sure had nice moments here and there but overall it's quite bad imo.

How should a black hole suck in willpower?

Holy cow, came to check for the release and to my surprise it's happened.

I feel like we got thrown in raw into this one. Maybe its something we grow onto. I fall under the indifferent, unsure.

@gyuukarubi:

If I’m to be honest, I’d rather it stay away for a long time. This hiatus might be the best thing to happen to One Piece. Let’s wait until August or even later.

I’m not impressed with Toei’s direction. So much of what I love from the manga is poorly translated on screen. Just… start all over.

To be fair the recent episodes of the past year or so haven't been that bad.

@King:

Well, the titles do use the Devil Fruit term for Awakening. And the significant use of drums is suspect.

@Captain:

Watch these be used for Luffy literally just waking up and getting back in the fight in the anime's version of chapter 1010 instead of meaning anything significant.

I guess I don't know enough about the scoring process to say if a composer would get that kind of info as far in advance as it would have to have happened to be on a CD published now, but it doesn't feel quite right that it would happen that way.

The OST's are definitely using the word "Awakening" in the title as in DF awakening. 覚醒 is the word Oda uses for awakening in the Manga.

This word is never used for when luffy comes back from being knocked out in the series, and it doesn't even make sense to use it for "waking up". It's 110% Luffys DF awakening OST.

@Jonke:

My theory:
Momo will eventually lose control of Onigashima and it will fall but not explode. The town will be all rubber and it will bounce back to the sky - the explosion will be key to defeating Kaido.

Not gonna lie, that's a pretty wild theory. It'd have to be a spectacular finisher and that might be it.

@Galleon:

We all know its going to be called "Color of the God King" all haki types in one! And only one person every 20 years is born with it.

Why I like Haki as a concept, it tends to be super dumb at some points, like referring that people who use it, have a limited supply of it. Which is pretty stupid, considering Haki is literally mental willpower and ambition given form. So does that mean that people have limited supplies of "willpower/ambition"?

Technically willpower can burn you out in real life.

F to all the Six-Eyes that got killed as a baby.

@wolfwood:

Those pages where Kaido is sent flying are beautifully drawn.

Yea, all those panels of Luffy using CoC feels different to what ive seen in a long time. Very nice to look at.

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@Shiebs:

I like the foreshadowing with White Beard and Roger

Yup, and now we really know why being a conqueror made the marines shit themselves.