Also, I put it as an reply/reblog of another person’s post, but remember that the servants and slaves are starving too. They would have been malnourished, regardless, if we go by Kuma and Ginny's story, but if the food supplies to the Celestial Dragons have been cut, then you can believe that those to their workers are disrupted too. And they'll die for it. Whether from a bullet or lack of food. Oda is good with his layers.
Hey hey, 1125 gave us a lot of fun stuff to ponder. Starting with this. Here, we don't need to overdo it...
Is Lucci Telling the Truth?
Clearly the fuck not
Yes, there is nothing suspicious here at all
I'm bald
Voting ended onSep 15, 2024
I'll let that speak for itself, certainly leaves us with a lot of nice intrigue around Stussy going forward which I am in favor of. There's one key thing about this chapter I have to get to and she surprisingly ain't it. Though I still love you Stussy, enjoy your ambiguous fate after an arc of a divided heart. Let's get to the main attraction:
Well well old friend, we meet again. For a good time, and a great taste...slap Garling into the open Gorosei slot. This presents a great opportunity to learn about both him and the elders. We still don't really have a clear picture of how much the average citizen really knows about these upper echelons of the government. Like...do you know who Christine Lagarde is? It's public knowledge, she's a powerful global figure. Head of the International Monetary Fund. Just because there is a fair amount of info about her available doesn't mean most people really think about her much. You probably didn't even know or consider the possibility when reading the previous sentences that...not who's in charge anymore. Her successor took over five years ago.
Point being, Garling represents an interesting shakeup. Most importantly that I will get to pester y'all with Mac Tonight jokes for many chapters to come. Emplemon has a great video on YouTube about the former MacDonald's mascot, he's a treasure that we can hopefully pull out of his brief corruption by internet racist dweebs...or make a lot funnier if Garling predictably ends up a genocidal maniac. Which, in conjunction with Dragon puts forward a really good note on Vegapunk's broadcast. This has a high likelihood of kicking off a lot of conflicts over higher ground. Speaking of Vegapunk...
It was a choice between badass Edison and the hall of Vegaparts. A very tough choice. Gets us to the title, a callback to a motif for our humble genius. What does death mean for him? Turns out not a whole lot. They don't mention Lilith having a connection like York still would, so I do wonder if hers has been fully cut. Either way, very cool final flourish for Punk Records. It floats away to go dormant until it's needed. Honestly...not unlike Toki's plan with the time fruit. And that gets me to the other big connection to those core aspects of Wano.
This fascinates me. The spoilers obscured how active Saturn was in this decision. But that's what makes it interesting. A last note of how our decisions ripple. Even ones that made perfect sense at the time.
Ultimately, hard to tell what this chapter represents. We cut away from the main cast, but that's normal to see one or two between arcs. We're still unpacking Egghead though so I can't fully say it feels finished here. If nothing else, we could bring it home by ending with SWORD finally getting to Drake. Who knows? But I'll see you next week, thankfully we won't have to wait long.
Nice to see the revolutionary army!!! But where is Usopp :(
Hum what is Shadow Guy power
I don't like the Vegapunks survived, more people need to die for real in one piece
Who are those saints and how are they chosen
Those guys have been preparing for a new flood for 700 years??????? This has been planned for so long??????
Also hilarious to see those losers complaining about lack of good what do you think will happen when 99% of the world is gone? How do you guys will change slaves?
This panel is incredibly important, because Koala is making a record of what was not permanently recorded with Vegapunk's transmission and it fills in
the sections of the transmission that were disrupted. Although it hedges ("They'll likely get to wield that...power for themselves!") How deeply the Revolutionaries (and others, including Morgans' media) lean into the idea that the one who finds the One Piece will also have access to the weapons, and will want to use them for nefarious purposes will shape a lot of things.
Aside from that, Koala, like Nefertari D. Lili, is preserving what needs to be known. It's ink and paper, so not necessarily as permanent, but it is there.
Did this feel like a weird jump for y'all too? I wasn't exactly expecting a full story around the lady and the foiled pervert, but it felt like there was a part 2 to that right? I guess we do need to get Yamato's overall point here moving but it seemed odd to me. Anyways, we do move right on to a new mystery of the missing Minatomo. The carpenter Franky worked with who's a callback to an old SBS joke about a continuity error.
Wonder where he turned up? You know, this could actually tie into the last scene with the girl on the road to Kuri. Do we have some Beast Pirates remnants kidnapping people? A spooky monster? Will the actual problem have been quietly solved by Kiku in the background by the time Yams gets there? I'm honestly curious the direction this is headed now.