The big difference between Momo and Carrot as leaders of their nations is that Momo wants to lead, he time and again stated that even though the task itself is much too big for him, whereas Carrot never showed interest in leading.
Adding the whole "you gara are carrying Pedro's will" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because I don't associate that with being the next leader of Wano.

Pedro set out to find more poneglyphes, so that he could help the person following in Rogers's footsteps and thus help bring the dawn.

But then again that whole "dawn concept" is so vague it could be many things.

The big difference between Momo and Carrot as leaders of their nations is that Momo wants to lead, he time and again stated that even though the task itself is much too big for him, whereas Carrot never showed interest in leading.
Adding the whole "you gara are carrying Pedro's will" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because I don't associate that with being the next leader of Wano.

Pedro set out to find more poneglyphes, so that he could help the person following in Rogers's footsteps and thus help bring the dawn.

But then again that whole "dawn concept" is so vague it could be many things.

No idea how it is in other countries but the german publisher, which publishes One Piece, hands out a mini poster of the covers 99-101 if you buy the first edition of volume 101

One of the reasons I have trouble with Yamato is the whole Oden identity debacle. I constantly wonder if something is Yamato's wish or a wish of Yamoden. As we met Yamato, we didn't know for how long this whole Oden-hero-worship-to-the-point-of-taking-on-the-idols-identity has been going on. (And I have to be honest at this point: the hero-worship to the point of denying their own identity was a huge turn off for me. It neither managed to make me like the character nor endear him to me in any way or form. Instead, it left a lingering bitter taste.) Chapters later we learn that Yamato started to identify as Oden as a child. So, it's safe to assume that it has going on for roughly 20 years now! That's a very long time. And I just wonder what behaviour we have seen of Yamato is Yamato and what is Yamoden.

Another issue I am wondering about iswhat Yamato's dream is supposed to be?
They want to protect Wano from Kaido and open Wanos border because of what is written in Oden's journal. Once the raid is over Kaido should be defeated and/or leave Wano giving whoever takes over as a leader - I will not participate in the discussion of who should be shogun - the change to open the borders of Wano. You could say: mission accomplished!

What does this leave to Yamato?
Leaving with Luffy? But why? Because Luffy is so similar in his beliefs and views to Roger, who's they learned through the journal? So they are following Luffy, because he is like a person they read about? For me, that's more than just a little shallow.
Or do they want to travel in Roger and Oden's footprints? Make the same journey? Visit the same places? See the same things? That's….lame? That's trying to relive another person's life for me.

If the Yamato under the Oden surface wishes to leave and have adventures on the sea Luffy and the Strawhats aren't needed. I don't see any reason, that says it must be the strawhats. Yamato can join up with anybody they want.

Maybe I am reading it wrong, but the whole reasoning behind why Yamato wish to leave with Luffy is up to two points:

1. Oden travelled with Roger -> Yamato is Oden -> should travel with Roger -> Roger is dead -> should travel with Ace because he was Roger's son -> Ace is dead -> travel with Luffy because he is Ace's brother. That's the explanation we got right in one of the first chapters with Yamato. I never liked that reasoning because it felt like Yamato didn't appreciate Luffy as a person, but he was more of a makeshift because the person he really wishes to travel with isn't available.
2. Oden wrote something about Roger in his journal and as Ace talked about Luffy they recognized the similarity between Roger and Luffy. But unfortunately, this once again makes me feel like Yamato doesn't see Luffy as his own person.

I know all of this is more or less based on my feelings and the bad first impression I got from Yamato as Oda introduced them. Because Oda really did butch the introduction of them for me. I couldn't feel the excitement others felt about this new character that appeared and looked like the perfect new and last crew member. Like I already said the Oden-imitation was a huge downturner for me. Neither design nor fighting style does anything for me. Devil fruit - with the whole "Oh, hey that's a deity of Wano" but we never heard of it - is just another mess. And the connection with Ace is nothing special in this arc. (Ace feels like glue for this arc with how often Oda uses him.) Do I feel sorry for Yamato because of what they went through as a child and later on… eh, maybe? I can't say it.
All I can say is that nothing Oda has shown of Yamato has been able to redeem the first impression and the resulting negative feeling I got for this character so far. It's a hard verdict, but it is how it is. I won't try to convince anybody to join my side.

Personal I would prefer it if Yamato first leaves and figures out who and what they want to be! Have some adventures on their own.
If they end up joining they will - probably - for the longest time be my least favourite Strawhat. I would even be willing to take Tama over Yamato, even though I stand by "No-children-on-a-pirate-ship". And that is just one of the many, many characters I would prefer over the new perfect crewmember Yamato.

Gosh, I already start to sound bitter.
I will stop now.
Take that however you will. Most of what I have written here are personal feelings and opinions.

Team "Hate it, horrible retcon!"

It was obvious from the ending of chapter 1043 that we would get the awakening. And the visuals of the fight was great; the Loony Toons effect made me laugh.
But -and that's a giant BUT - I hate the classification change of Luffy's devil fruit. Luffy's devil fruit powers are no longer special to me, even though the new class itself now is supposed to be super rare. I just hate it. I prefer good old, boring, useless gum-gum fruit snufflebecause Luffy managed to make it into something special. Luffy already had a lot of skills/abilities (special family with Garp, Dragon, Ace and Sabo; VOAT, all three hakis, being a D), which made him special. His devil fruit being so lame and seemingly useless was a good counter to all that. That's - for me - now lost. Now every aspect of Luffy is special, even his devil fruit we have known since the beginning. And after more than 1000 chapters into the story, it's also painful. I feel like I was lied to the whole time and that hurts.
I could have lived with a change to special paramecia like Katakuri got (and that was a blunder, too). At least it would still be in the paramecia category…

@astagadragon:

Agree with Solid. If it not for Tama, the alliance would be ganked by Grifters. It would be very bad.

But doesn't it show how arc-specific Tamas powers are?

Don't get me wrong, what Tama did was very important for the raid and reduced the number of enemies significantly. It would be foolish to disregard the impact of Tamas action on the future success of the raid. But that's it. Tamas powers are really useful for this arc. If Oda wants to use an animal as a supporter of the strawhats - well Nami, Luffy and Chopper did a quite good job at taming animals so far (and that without grey-brainwashing-letting-feelings-of-attachment-grow or however Tamas powers work).

And Solid does have a point by saying in any arc are animals which Tama could tame to fight with them.
But can somebody name one animal which in a serious fight didn't get fodderized?
Because of the top of my head, I can't remember any animal (and with that I mean a real-world animal and not something like an artificial dragon like the two back in PH) in the manga being shown as a dangerous opponent. If I remember it correct no animal has ever been portraited as a real threat in a serious fight. The big ones looked impressive, got a few good hits in but still end up getting beaten pretty easy.
So fighting alongside an animal won't help Tama much. She would still need more fighting prowess herself to stand a chance in a serious fight. Or does anybody want to see the probably only serious one-on-one fight of Tama to be a gag fight????

Of course, it would be something new if an animal turns out to be an actual threat and Tama could tame it for her fight. Oda has never done something like this. But after more than a thousand chapters the chances seem to be slim for something like this to happen.

But that's just my opinion on the matter…

@Captain:

Wasn't it stated that every one of the Tobi Roppo was once a captain? Drake's crew and Ulti and Page One's people are presumably out there as well.

I don't think we'll see much of any of them though. They would all probably just be assimilated into the fodder of the Beasts Pirates. I think that detail was just to show that Kaido's always tried to break and recruit his enemies like he did for Luffy and Kid, not set up a future plot point.

A good inclusion would be the mostly-unseen figure in the striped kimono who arrived with Marco and Izo. The one potentially seen drinking with Crocus earlier in the story.

I do wonder… will this end up being a SBS question, because there is a high possibility that figure was simply Izo and some people refuse to see it? I'm not saying that is a fact, but I believe it was Izo until proven wrong.

Funkfreed is 1st in Europe and Bourbon Jr. in LatAm&Caribbean:blink:

Shushu is first in Middle East and second in Japan. Furthermore, together with Robin (first) and Hancock he broke the hold Sanji, Luffy, Zoro and Law seem to have on the top 3 in Japan.

@auem:

Elizabeth from Knoxville would like a refund.:ninja:

https://twitter.com/holmescnn/status/1346987917273608194

I thought American history lessons cover revolutions and civil wars pretty well… did she sleep through these lessons or why is she so surprised for getting "maced" after trying to participate in a "revolution"?:ninja:

I feel sorry for the four people that died because of the delusion of one man and now there are four families that lost beloved ones. But I refuse to have even an ounce of pity for every person, who participated in this riot and got maced or something else. They decided to do listen to a lying, mad man so they can bear the consequences of their action.

On another note, because it is so horrible what has happened it is even more shocking that there are barely any arrests. This is shocking me right now nearly as much as that those people seriously tried to stop the count of the Electoral College, which wouldn't have changed anything because Trump fucking LOST!
And this is far from over... 20th of January will be another wild day. Hopefully, police forces will be better prepared than yesterday!

@wolfwood:

Feels weird that no one has been shot yet.

Appearently somebody got shot…