#chapter 1062

[naruzumakii]

everyone: genius scientist who creates dangerous weapons VEGAPUNK 👿🔪😡🔫😱🗡☠️🩸🙀🧬🦠

franky: genius scientist who creates dangerous weapons VEGAPUNK🥰🌺😍🐰😘🌸✨😻✨💋

[brave-symphonia]

The other Vegapunk makes good points, Lilith.

Like, they're literally an Emperor's crew, even if it's not the full crew, you won't be able to just rob them so easily.

[enthusiast-of-many-a-thing]

The bastards (affectionate) are BACK

[zonaenthusiast]

1062 is Zoro's number, manga and anime version. My man is GLOWING in both.

[joysstar]

Actually, I was glad to hear about Sabo in this chapter. We didn't see him since chapter 1060, so it's good. ^^ Perhaps, Oda will give hints about him.

We also had allusions about Lulusia and it's somehow connected to Vegapunk. I love how Oda reminds us of what happened to Sabo and this island.

Perhaps the weapon used is Uranus, perhaps Vegapunk found out how to use Uranus. Perhaps he got sight of very important files. People needed his knowledge about science to put it at full power.

In this chapter we are starting to see the connection between Vegapunk and Revolutionary Army. And of course, Oda had to link Vegapunk to Luffy before unleashing such an information.

(I'm crossing my fingers Dragon already knows Vegapunk personally. That man needs very strong people in the World Government to make it fall. I just don't want Dragon to be alone with his army, sounds impossible for me.)

It seems the Gorosei fears Vegapunk right now, otherwise they wouldn't send the CP-0 in order to kill him. Perhaps the Government didn't tell how they would use Uranus to the man.

(I'm also crossing my fingers the Revolutionary Army will have its opponents. Because right now it seems the military and the secret services target only the Straw Hats. It would be a shame.)

We also had an addition of Seraphim Kuma. Obviously Luffy's going to fight Lucci again, Kaku will fight someone but I want Zoro to have his rematch. I want to see Luffy's second-in-command vs who we called Dragon's former second-in-command. It's going to be very interesting.

I'm also glad to see Bonney as Kuma's daughter. It adds another connection between the Straw Hats and the Revolutionary Army. Maybe the girl is already a member. She met Sabo and she wants to tell about it to Luffy.

It's a story for another time. I'm just hoping we will get informations about him right after this arc or in the arc itself. It seems very important.

[curlybrow-kun]

Vegapunk out here pulling out some FMA Father tricks

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Holding Pattern

“There is no such thing as coincidence, only fate.” 

 ~ “Supersonic” Van Augur

We’ll dive into the heart of Cindry’s story starting tomorrow. I hope you enjoy, it’s been fun so far. Probably also start to see the first spoilers for 1064. I was in the mood for pondering One Piece today, seemed like a perfect chance to take a peek back in on the original reason for this whole blog. The shift in focus has been nice, but with a little distance looking back on the present story...I don’t feel any different. Something’s up.

To recap; Wano’s most beautiful flower was a mystery as the arc wound down. Most notably being the conspicuous absence from a late fight that made one explicit point out of not being there and another that makes a big bookend from her intro. Then Wano ends on a somewhat strange note overall and Egghead Island Arc found itself leaning on a lot of the same thematic threads that Kiku found herself tangled up around, while also generally fitting the narrative role of a soft “Act 4.” SWORD & Drake, Bonney & funky time. Doesn’t have to mean a lot, but it was already enough to ponder if we’re fully done with Big Mum here. If the trend persisted over the next leg of our journey then, what would that mean? 

Okay wow, even get them both neatly in one strip. Holy crackers. First off, if Drake floating around was worth noting...him plus CP0 heading this way? This is solidly the storyline from Wano bleeding over. Kiku & Izo were the locals tied up in it who just so happened to spend more time building around the wider world and the Straw Hats than leaving closure in Wano. Now add in this quirk of Vegapunk’s. Many faces, many forms. Kaido and Orochi both reflected it back and it was this huge running line of double identities for the Akazaya that Kiku’s the subversion of. It’s one thing to have a relevant thread in play. That can go a different way. But the more you check off the more you zero in to the point there are fewer who can thread the needle. 1062 leaves us there and then...

Huh!? This is breaking my brain. Not to say I don’t love it but huh? We’re in Egghead Island. Why are we randomly cutting away? This is all close enough I’m not ruling out it being more immediately relevant. Seriously though, what the hell? To quote a long time friend of the blog, this was a choice. A choice an author made. In a scene around Blackbeard. Blackbeard’s scenes are almost always some kind of foil to what’s going on for Luffy. This was a choice. A sudden, jarring choice to make. We’ve...done that before in this territory haven’t we? After all, which of the Titanic Ten did we flesh out after Act 1? 

“Crescent Moon Hunter” Catarina Devon. That lady with nearly the same fruit as Yamato. A many-faced shapeshifter strutting her stuff right after our intro to Wano where Luffy gets real close real quick with a naturally gifted actress. Who’ll go on to have some deep ties. And it’s all dunked in a Thriller Bark callback. Been sitting on that one a while, glad it found it’s way in eventually. It's not just the ability to find something that connects, right? Sure feels like its happening enough times and getting specific enough it's harder to ignore the undercurrent. All that remains is to see its purpose.

[cupofsorrows]

put it in a box