#chapter 1040

[everypageofnicorobin]

Big Mom plunges to the floor!! And yet, we can hardly say the battle is won yet.

[marcy-rangel]

VICTORY!!!

I AM SO PROUD OF THESE TWO, HOLY FUCK, YOU GO BOYS!!! 😭😭

[chromatic-lamina]

chapter 1040 spoilers–double wordplay (kid & law edition)

What a title, amiright? Falling on deaf ears and falling on deaf ears, cos’ Big Mom is of course falling, and if she hadn’t landed in the ocean, then she surely would’ve fallen on the deaf and unaware ears of the citizens of Wano.

BUT, more importantly, her soul pocus is not working on the members of the Hearts, Kid and Beast Pirates (although it initially was)

because

Law’s got a R (oom) within a Room. That’s how I’m interpreting it at the moment, anyway 😉

which makes everything that Big Mom (Misery, Law’s crew mate) say fall on deaf ears, and it looks like Law’s in danger, but never fear cos his observational haki and awakened state is obviously something else:

And don’t think I’ve forgotten whose Room inspired this one:

Okay, that’s out of the way! I like that Mama does not give up. She’s great.

I think she’s out for the count for this particular battle, and probably for the rest of Wano, but you can’t keep a good woman down. And so it seems that Kid and Law have more strength than Germa 66 or than Niji and Yonji, although we don’t know the whole circumstances of their capture (see the cover below).

Seems that Big Mom isn’t keen on wiping out the Vinsmokes any more, and would rather keep them pinned like butterflies.

Makes you wonder what kind of slaves she would’ve made Law and Kid if she’d won, if that came about, and the 50 years she threatens to take of their lives is the same amount she took of Pedro’s, I think.

She took all of Zepo’s lifespan, because he only had 30 years left to live (it’s via Mama’s roulette wheel, and it’s a bit complicated, so best to read Zepo’s and Pedro’s wikis if you’re curious). Zepo was Bepo’s brother, so it’s probably just as well that Bepo doesn’t seem to be an onlooker here. 

AND Kid’s attacks 

by their nature

are bigger than him, so we don’t get so many cool shots of him in action, but more so of his devices (which are also very cool). 

There are so many side by side shots of Kid and Law, with their dialogue more levelled at Big Mom than one another (I think), and the back in forth is great.  These chapters animated should be golden. 

The battle ends, not surprisingly, like this:

with Kid and Law’s crews and the Marys (I think) declaring victory.

Love that equal time and respect is given to each crew. and that we get to see all these new faces.

What do you think? Devo vs Scissor Sisters? 

And surprisingly in the final scene, or second to final is Law sitting there on a rock (see two panels above) which is a fairly common pose for him by now. I think the nodachi might play into it). And Kid is perhaps slumped back, but the picture quality is too bad too determine. 

It is just that Law was about to be pulverised last week (two seconds ago in the battle) after he lost stamina from using the puncture/shock wille move and 

From chapter 1039 (above).

his crew were warning of imminent death, but they were worried this week too. Both crews were.

The R.Room doesn’t look as if Law would have to exert as much energy (but he’s gotta keep it in place until Big Mom crashes into the ocean, right? Cora keeps his ‘room’ active until Law survives. Law keeps his active until Big Mom is defeated. Maybe. Just musing).

Anyway, there was some other cool stuff going on, and I’ll write a separate post for it. I never dreamt that Oda would give us so much Kid and Law (and glimpses of their crew). Yay! But Big Mom is an emperor. A good battle is her due.

[mastomysowner]

The latest chapter was one of the best in a long time. It would look really bad if Kid and Law just somehow managed to defeat Big Mom with no basis for it, but Oda found a way to both give victory to the Supernovas and not tarnish the Emperors’ reputation. You can’t have your cake and eat it too? Well, Oda proved you can.

And in addition, with this, he at the same time completed the most boring subplot. The end was quick and extra thicc.

[jad3scorner]

OH MY MFJDHDBF THE NEW CHAPTER WAS SO GOOD IM LITERALLY SCREAMING WITHOUT THE S

SPOILERS FOR ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1040

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[goingsunnies]

listen. it's possible that joyboy was just a regular sized human guy but considering the size of the hat at marie geoise and the fact that he supposedly traveled with zunesha..... hm

[testingcheats0n]

Not powerscalers maulding over the big mom vs law and kidd fight. Does it matter one way or another, champ? Unless Oda pulls something out of his sleeve her narrative value is at 0 anyway, who cares if the powerups were complete bs??

[chromatic-lamina]

chapter 1040: spoilers, extras, stuff that is not kid, law nor big mom

So my main observations on Kid and Law are in this post here. But, let’s look at the stuff that ain’t the two supernova or yonkou.

Guess it wasn’t Brook standing over Zoro making a joke last week. Ah...I’m hoping Chopper’s on his way to find him (or Franky. Frank y was wandering the halls a few chapters ago, calling Zoro’s name). But Chopper and Doctor Miyagi (or his nurse) are a bit topsy-turvy

so maybe they are taking a shortcut through the floors to land just near Zoro. Robin’s with Brook, which is good. CP0 haven’t caught up with her yet then, but then where is Izou? (we’ll find out. Or Marco).

It looks as if Raizuo

has won his battle, and it does seem that water is needed in general (there’s a dire need for it), but why does Fukurokuju need it in particular. Interesting to know the history between these two.

And as @ninhaoma-ya​ pointed out in her great analysis, Komurasaki/Hiyori has the fox mask back on and is very stable while Orochi is tumbling about with everyone else as the whole of Onigashima is affected by Big Mom boring a hole through the castle and the island (well, that was Law’s work, but she’s helping out).

All of those speech bubbles are Big Mom’s by the way. Also, remember how

Orochi told Kanjuro that the crypts of the Kurozumi were buried at the bottom of the castle?

(Chapter 1030), and so he drew Kazenbo

I think there’s going to be something about the current form of Kazenbo (below discovering that there are no crypts, no bodies, no bones

that brings us back to this stage of Kanjuro from chapter 974:

Where better for Kanjuro, or the dark ink (Kurozumi means dark charcoal, but sumi is often made from lamp soot) of his soul, to bury his bones than the burial crypt of the Kurozumi at the bottom of the castle on Onigashima? Kanjuro’s one wish since the trauma of his childhood has been to find a place to die, and look at the wording.

This is gonna come back and bite Orochi on the ass (also, def gonna get up a small meta on this. Sorry if it will be repetitive).

Oh, there was also that stuff about Zunesha, Momonosuke, Joy Boy and Oden’s logbook.