#chapter 948

[secretuncle]

TRANS RIGHTS BABY!!!

[staticgriffon]

So Kiku’s getting quite a lot of attention since the new chapter came out, and honestly good for her. She deserves it. But this post isn’t going to be about her, mainly because of all of the attention she’s getting.

I think the person who was finally introduced deserves at least a mention. So I guess I’ll talk a bit about him.

The cage that was holding him in was broken by Big Mom in previous chapters, but he has yet to emerge. He’s still cuffed up in the cell.

It’s hard to say if these are just regular handcuffs or sea stone handcuffs. To which I’m extremely interested in knowing if this guy’s a devil fruit user or not. I would also like to know if smile fruits have the same reaction to sea stone as devil fruits. (If this has already been shown I don’t remember it) The comment one of the jailers gives him is very rude, but also makes you question what he is or if the jailers don’t see him as an individual anymore.

Still unable to see his face, he yet again attacks the jailers using fish bones, allowing Raizo to return his sword and give him the key to his cuffs.

With Raizo giving over the key to the cuffs, one of The Red Scabbard’s is free and able to join the cause. We finally start to see what this guy looks like, through a panel of him grabbing the key. And from the looks of it, he’s a fishman!

He’s free and about to murder all of the jailers in the prison. And more of his appearance is shown through outlines. Also I like the fact that he out right said the name of his sword, we don’t see that much.

To me the statement on the right just furthers the fact he’s a fishman. But it’s interesting to me that his sword style is named after a monster until this panel…

You find out that he, himself is a kappa. And with Kawamatsu’s entire reveal, I’ve gained a lot more questions. Such as the smile fruit vs sea stone as mentioned earlier and a whole lot of other questions, like ‘Is Kawamatsu a devil fruit user/smile fruit user and this is the outcome?’, ‘Will Jinbei be okay without disguising himself when he gets to the country?’, and ‘Is Kawamatsu the only fishman on the island?’.

There’s for sure more questions I have, but they’re not coming to mind right now.

[ginkovskij]

friendly reminding that Kiku being a trans woman doesn’t invalidate her status of strong female character because guess what she IS in fact a fucking woman you absolute morons

[algumaideia]

I didn't get the thing of the woman samurai

A big fight will begin

[fallensnowfan]

Thinking a bit more about chapter 1114.

I love how Joyboy failing in the past reinforces that a person having the Nika fruit isn't something that guarantees success, highlighted by Luffy's attack being fully ineffective here.

And how one of Luffy's best moments of leadership occurs before his devil fruit's awakening. Luffy in chapters 948 & 949 is possibly my favorite of him in this regard.

[lpninja]

Luffy got so buff, he‘s Buffy

[backtodc]

Chapter 948

Hell yeah BACKSTORY TIME

Haneda Kohji’s murder would come to his attention, seeing as he’d have been Akai’s stepbrother too (maybe he’s the one reuploading the case information instead of Shuukichi?). This could be how he got mixed up in the BO in the first place. (I mean what I REALLY want to know is what went down between him, Bourbon and Scotch, but this’ll do for starters.)

[backtodc]

Chapter 948

This... sounds kinda stalkerish, really. Did he hurry over because he heard about the case? How? Did Conan text him to invite him to get in on this? Or is he listening in on the household somehow? It sounds like he’s turned up out of the blue before, using cooking as a pretext, so is he closely monitoring Ai somehow?

I’m still kinda unclear why Ai apparently doesn’t know anything about Okiya yet, also. Even if telling her that he’s Akai seems to be opening a can of worms, couldn’t she be informed that he’s an FBI agent or something? The girl is rightly suspicious of mysterious, mildly stalkerish people, what with the whole Black Organization thing--surely she at least has the right to know who’s being weird because they’re secretly protecting her rather than secretly trying to kill her? I mean, she’s visibly highly suspicious of Okiya. Why is she being left this far out of the loop on his motivations? (I’m still annoyed by how far out of the loop she was left on the Bell Express plans, too. What exactly are they trying to accomplish by leaving her in the dark like this?)