One Piece knows how to do post-arc episodes. The amount of information and changes in the world that start to occur end up having me pause the episode every two seconds. So much so that I think I’ll write only about what I found most interesting because otherwise I’d be here all day. Firstly, CP9 is back and they’ve been promoted!! The guys who lied to the world, who walked by Robin wearing their creepy masks, were personally close to her and I presume she didn’t even know that. From what we saw for sure, there was Usop- I mean Kaku, Lucci, and Spandam, with Spandam now being Lucci’s henchman. This does make sense because beating people connected to the government doesn’t send them straight to Impel Down like it does with Doflamingo. They know of the revolutionaries actions and they are keeping tabs on Luffy. What I love about this is that coincidentally, I have reached Water 7 in the manga and had just met them as shipwrights so it should help jog my memory.
Doflamingo is being transferred by a high security navy formation letting us see even more of Sengoku, Fujitora, and Tsuru, a group of marines which make me genuinely love their party. Tsuru, having always babysat Doflamingo, sat with him as he spoke to her about what it means to take him down. Through his connections to those with power, taking him out of the picture is going to create a power struggle bigger than anything before it, especially because Whitebeard is no longer defending the throne. When expressing this, he gave us an outline of the major parties that will be present in such a conflict: the emperors, the navy, the warlords, the worst generation, and the revolutionary army… What is going to follow these events is: alliances, betrayals, the family of D’s will come out of hiding, the Celestial Dragons will be dragged down… It appears that the post time skip, now having built up all the powerhouses of the world, is about to start using them all more than ever. Further, with Fujitora’s conversation about disbanding the warlords back when he met with Doffy, it seems the gambler in him is fully aware of this all and wants to risk everything to reach an uncompromising outcome!
However, what I found interesting here beyond that, was that in the silhouettes that Doffy imagined as the faces of each party, there were a few characters we do not know. In specific, we can see the seventh warlord that was kept from us. They look a bit like Shiki the Golden Lion from behind. Further, we can see what is likely a third admiral and like with the warlord, one whose design was kept from us. This answers any worries we had about there only being two admirals as I honestly didn’t know if there would be a third! Lastly regarding the revolutionaries, one of the faces that Doflamingo imagined was not someone I recognized, yet they were pictured alongside Dragon, Sabo and Ivankov. Is that perhaps the illustrious Vegapunk? After this, we got another character that was built up to be important back in episode 619. Captain Jack, only mentioned in name at the time, looks to fly under Kaido’s flag and is willing to crush the navy ships escorting Doffy.
At the Barto Club ship, unsurprisingly but hilariously a nerdy Straw Hat paradise, we saw that the fleet has hold of Luffy’s vivre card. Even tsundere Bellamy. This means that if one day, Luffy’s paper starts burning, we may have them break him out of Impel Down!! But more importantly, Bartolomeo showed the bounties the gang has amassed! With new pictures on each, all looking quite great, and Sanji’s no longer being drawn Duval style, there were a few notable details. “God Usopp” no longer has the disguise of Sogeking on his wanted poster and he is now, what, the third highest bounty on the Straw Hats crew? I would expect nothing less, just as the Tontatta kept the promise and made Usoland a huge statue with the face of his war cry, enough to make a little girl faint, alongside the other greats Lucy and Kyros. Meanwhile, Sanji’s wanted poster went up and now has a unique change. Those who want Sanji, only want him alive. This is different from the living or dead order for the others. This no doubt is linked to Sanji’s mysterious childhood in North Blue before he became a chef in East Blue if you ask me, and it denotes an intriguing focus on Sanji going forward. As he slowly grew over time for me, becoming one of my favorites, I am excited for what this foreshadowed.
ruffymaru said:The Arc has ended and I still don't know why Rosinante hated children and used to threw them in trash. I mean the whole story of him and Law is based on that premise.
It was stated, in a call with Rosinante and Sengoku if I remember correctly, that Rosinante was treating the children so badly to scare them away from the Don Quixote family. He didn't have any issues with them, it was just ironically his way of trying to keep them safe. |