Let's appreciate the hungry smile Sanji gives to the Zoro shark. It gives me ideas.
Nami fighting is always good , but Big Mom is a fucking savage. It shows how the emperors are on a different level.
I like how deranged she is , just following her own agenda. But the part were Zeus was almost consumed by hera , terrifying. Then he gets sniffed out and mama goes even wilder.
Kidd comes to save the day !!!.
O thought this was going to be the final fight , but luffy is k.o apparently ?. I like how kaido is almost tired of all of this shit.
First of, "Nami vs. Ulti", aka the fight most of us were looking forward to-
On one hand I'm living for Big Mom once again proving that she's a major threat and should not be taken lightly, but on the other hand I am super disappointed that Oda ended the last chapter with hyping up Nami only for her to be,,,, almost instantly fodderized. Put some respect on my girl's name, for crying out loud😫
...I'm guessing Ulti will somewhat 'recover' at a later point (and come back incredibly nerfed) and that's when Nami gets to fight her. Idk how I feel about that portrayal, but welp. Moving on-
...Zeus getting vored is already in my top ten most uncomfortable OP moments
Ok but not Zeus the Thundercloud having a better redemption arc than Pudding...😂 I actually feel sad for him here lol. Him saying that he understands if Nami doesn't want to forgive him but still choosing to sacrifice his life for her... I legit did not see it coming, but I'm pleasantly surprised at that development!
Man, fuck Hera. All my homies (except Prometheus and Napoleon) hate Hera.
Aaaand this is why Big Mom's "mother mode" is bullshit. She wasn't happy to see Tama again because of any 'motherly feelings' she suddenly had for the child but because Tama was her friend. Big Mom with her childlike personality was excited because she saw her friend again, not because there was a kid under a certain age that magically activated her Fairy Godmother side!
And now that Tama seems to leave her she gets angry like a little kid. Prolly 'cause it reminds her of when she was small and Mother Caramel + her friends at the orphanage "abandoned" her. This is... who Big Mom is. A dangerous, overgrown child (and I'm saying this as a stan ok lol). I really don't get why Oda even decided to come up with that mother mode explanation, the scene where she reunites with Tama would have been completely fine without it, but he just had to go on and turn it into a inconsistency with Big Mom's character (she paid Caesar to experiment on little kids, would have killed Chiffon along with her baby son, has been shown to be very cruel to her own children when they were young, laughed her ass off when Momo was being tortured...) "If you're a child under a certain age you might be able to activate Big Mom's special mother mode!" is just the dumbest and most nonsensical plot convenvience and I'm still kinda mad about it existing xD
Finally, the confrontation I've been waiting for👀 Not gonna lie, in my opinion Kid has been... sorta underwhelming since the raid started. But he has history with Big Mom and I'm hoping this face-off is finally gonna give us some more insight on his shenanigans during the past two years. Kid is due for some interesting character development if you'd ask me, so I'm looking forward to this👌🏻
And last but not least-
If you'd ask me, this would have been the perfect end to the third act, but oh well. Anyway I'm guessing Luffy will land close to the Flower Capital and this concludes the build-up phase for the war🤔
I went back and re-read the raid from the beginning and yeah... all the match-ups, all the teasing of plots, it was really just build-up. I'm 90% sure once we reach the Flower Capital is when the real war will begin and we'll finally get to see some pay-off. Everything that has happened so far was just set up for the next, big act. Which, admittedly... was a choice. The raid has lasted over a year and the pacing ranged from alright to atrocious. I'm really hoping that Oda is done teasing now and will finally start resolving plotlines and actually concluding fights, otherwise Wano might take another 5 years...
