ONE PIECE #1030 - Part Two
Let's just go ahead and talk about Law and Kidd now,
(part one is on my blog, and I just talked mostly about Kinemon and Kanjuro)
We start off with Kidd getting hit by Big Mom's Ikoku Sovereignty and not to be completely biased her, this just showcased to me how absolutely strong Zoro was on the roof when he took both Big Mom's and Kaido's Sovereignty and held it off for a few moments.
Now enough of that... Kidd getting hit by the Sovereignty sends us back to a flashback (as it often does) where Kidd and Law (probably moments before this) discuss their devil fruit awakenings. Very... casually.
Kidd asks Law if he can "awaken his abilities" and apparently, yeah, he can.
I knew that Kidd and Law had to get some sort of power-up since Luffy got Conquerors coating, and since they definitely can't get I was wondering what they would get... I wasn't expecting this to be honest. I knew it would come up somehow, ever since Doflamingo showed us his awakening, but I'm not sure I like the way it was revealed.
It seemed to casual? As a flashback, and a normal conversation too. Just a simple "can you do this" and "yeah sure, it's a lil hard tho." I wouldn't call it an ass-pull because it's definitely something they need at this stage of the show, and I think I understand Kidd having it more than Law. Kidd we haven't actually seen too much, certainly not as desperate as this (you could argue up on the roof versus Kaido and Big Mom but that was at the beginning of battle, and so to pull out a "last minute act" wouldn't make sense). Of course I won't argue with this, because we've seen the strawhats pull out moves from out of nowhere midbattle, I just hoped the reveal wouldn't have been this anticlimactic. (and I mean them revealing that they can use it)
The powers on the other hand...
I absolutely loved Law's power, where he could stab Big Mom and then affect her insides with the incision of the blade. Kroom was the name of the move, and I can't wait to see that animated.
Kidd on the other hand...
I really liked the idea of him making big mom some sort of magnet and drawing all the steel boards, and other iron in the area to her and creating this big crash (because now we see that he can affect other people's bodies too, rather than drawing everything to himself, which is actually really cool and new) BUT it just wasn't a very interesting (for lack of better words) finishing blow (for this chapter, I definitely don't think BM is over yet, it would be too easy). Because in the end it's just "let me crush her with a lot of metal again" so I wasn't too impressed by that, personally...
Best part of the chapter? No break next week!