One Piece 696 Discussion / 697 Predictions

[alisdfd]

I cannot imagine Luffy really trying to wipe the floor with Shanks. I think he might want to fight him man to man (a friendship battle) but not to beat him badly.
Either way, Shanks wont survive the manga. I think he will die sacrificing himself for the strawhats. But thats another story.

luffy is strong enough to defend himself this is the new world

[Lord Rayleigh]

Karibou has been given by the grandma the commander's coat and he is now mistaken for him. See how he's got the same star badge than the soldiers on their beret. I wonder who these guys are, maybe they are part of some New World revolutionary group : the five points could represent the four Blues and the Grand Line.

Did anyone notice that Sanji and Brook were bulding an igloo on the background ? Brownbeard and some of his men are getting captured when they could just have waited for Law to take the poison out... Does that not sound stupid ? Oda may have some plans for BB with the Marines - some testimony against CC ?

Sanji's recipe will make them ready for some clash with Doflamingo. Mononosuke will have to tell his dad that he actually ate a Devil Fruit during his own journey. Oda is teasing us with Kinemon and Mononosuke's story : Sanji's said that something happened and that is probably why they are crying after Kinemon said "let us live".

Finally, it's awesome how the two serious people here are still on the background each being on his own camp's lines. They have not been drawn by the party and they are still thinking about what will come next. By the way, the mysterious person may be Kaido's broker since he is almost confirmed to have the smile army.

[molecularpepsi]

Did anyone notice that Sanji and Brook were bulding an igloo on the background ?.

i saw that, but i don't think it's an igloo, but rather the brick oven/stove that sanji cook's the stew on.

[Ledoke]

I must say I'm a little disappointed by this chapter, it's my fault because I saw a spoiler pic and misinterpreted it but still... how more cool it would be if Law and Smoker were sharing a cup of sake instead of just drinking some soup? I know it would be totally OOC for them to do so but I still can't help feeling a little sad that that was not the case ^^

[Josef K.]

all i'm saying is that this chapter was the calm before the storm.

Well, that was said about the party chapter on FI, though the end of the FI arc it self was a calm before the storm in terms of setting up the whole New World, where it seems Luffy continues his trend to "beat them all".

Favorite part for me was the LINE OF JUSTICE, and when Sanji relied what happened to it, ah, Oda can make even the most simple things funny, when THE STOMACH IS EMPTY there is no pirate, no marine.

[McNuss]

Did anyone notice that Sanji and Brook were bulding an igloo on the background ? Brownbeard and some of his men are getting captured when they could just have waited for Law to take the poison out... Does that not sound stupid ? Oda may have some plans for BB with the Marines - some testimony against CC ?

I think Brownbeard is just mentally broken. He is someone who was not ready for the New World. First his legs are cut off, then his mysterious savior turns out to be a madman who was just using him as a guinea pig, then he had to run from an apparently deadly gas cloud and in the end he was brutally beaten to the ground. Prison is going to be paradise for him compared to the hell of the New World.

[matzik1212]

LMAO seriously this chap was so very funny , especially that time with Kinemon . Loved Sanji's reaction The SH's are the best , there can't be a funnier crew than them out there

Also quite surprised the Yonkou was Kaidou . I mean 1st Big Mom , then Kaidou . Luffy is getting himself into big s**t not that i don't like And what was with Luffy's answer lol He's gonna wipe the floor even with Shanks , that's a reply fitting a careless guy like Luffy
As i was saying some time ago , Oda is really betting a lot in this NW saga . Looking forward to see his next step

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I'm not sure that He remembers that Blackbeard was recently called a Yonkou.

I bet he doesn't . He doesn't care about anyone after all.

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Kinemon said that it's alright and he is sure that evryone is alright. Does that mean Wano country is in some trouble? If so, will the straw hat make it their next destination and help Kinemon's country and its people?[/B]

Nice theory . Seeing their reaction i have to agree with you . It may be possible something is happening in Wano Kuni atm

I really wanna see that country And i bet Oda will show it to us Luffy is weak to people in trouble after all !

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I think that Monet is Dead... Ceasar pierced her heart
Vergo is only cut up into pieces... so i would say a living comatose state... (till someone fixes him up) not gonna be soon...

Seeing Kinemon alive after being broken in pieces i'm starting to think Monet is alive as well even though her heart was pierced by CC

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So, will the Straw Hats be leaving Punk Hazard on the Sunny or the tanker?

There's no way they will leave Sunny there Franky will go crazy and not only that , everyone likes Sunny . We're talking about their 10th crew member after all

[k-dom]

Hey, Uriel said the shadow was off topic. If you still think we don't have overdiscussed it last week, you can create a thread.

As for the fact that the yonkou is Kaidou and not Big Mum, I'm not that surprised. When everything points toward one thing is always suspicious and mangaka are big trolls. In fact it may even happen that the 2 yonkou stories will interact each others. If Luffy can take down 2 at the same time, that would be really good since defeating them one after the other will take forever. That's not an easy task though since one is already scary, so I wonder how Oda will pull that up.

And like some said, Law remark when he suggests that he is in fact the one used by Luffy is interesting. I fear that he would betray the Strawhat one day when he created this alliance, but after this the probability has become low. And his face each time that Luffy doesn't listen to him are always funny.

[MBVC]

How can we be 100% sure about Kid, Hawkins and Apoo target BM? Before this chapter, I only thought about L+L vs BM and Kid & others fighting another yonkou who could be either Kaidou or Shanks but not BB. However after this chapter, we know L+L vs Kaidou and there is a very high probability that Kid & others fight BM. Still, we can't be 100% sure about that; just like that mysterious shadowy figure, most of us thought he would be shown and DD would arrived to PH in this chapter but none of these happens.

[Razh]

Hey, Uriel said the shadow was off topic. If you still think we don't have overdiscussed it last week, you can create a thread.

The character could appear next chapter so it's not really offtopic. Besides, I was just reacting to the Kaidou/Kaidou's henchman theory. I'm not going to post photos here.

How can we be 100% sure about Kid, Hawkins and Apoo target BM?

We can't be sure, but the fact that Kid destroyed 2 of BM allied ships is a pretty compelling evidence. Here - http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/651/16

[vagabond87]

So whats up with Sanjis leg?
Vergo cracked it with his hardness(not strenght, he didnt blow Sanji away with his kick- VA hardness was real problem) and now Sanji seems perfectly fine. He kicked G5 marines to help them escape "killer" gas using leg Vergo cracked just moments after "cracking" lol happened.

Now after making new kind of food and eating it he has fully healed his leg???

[k-dom]

Sanji's leg was never really a problem in my opinion. At least it didn't prevent him to run with all the others.

[vagabond87]

Well I dont know why but it somehow looks like Sanji can recover really fast, I mean here
http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/678/12 we can see him badly damaged after Nami was defeated by Cesar in Sanjis body, here he has well lots of blood on his face and looks beaten up http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/678/14 then he fights Vergo for a moment, get his shin bone cracked(comments after "fight" that it would be bad if he keeps fighting- probably Vergo- like this), continues to run around with G5 Marines. Now he seems perfectly fine, its somehow strange to me pointing to his very fast recovery rate but maybe its only me.

[chess4]

Just read the chapter. A few key takeaways from this chapter

1. Everyone is going to be saved from the gas(no big shocker there). So that means all the marines, Vergo, Monet, and the Yeti Cool Brothers.

2. From all the hints with Kinemon and Momonosauke, seem slike Wano Country is in trouble and the next arc will be there.

3. Luffy wants to take down all the Yonkou. Seems like the Strawhats will have different allies each Yonkou they take on. I think when the Strawhats fight the
Redhairs, It will be the the Strawhats vs just the commanders. I dont think it will be a fight to the death or anything, just a good clean hard fight. Luffy did tell him his crew was going to be better one day.

Doflamingo is coming and is super pissed, but I think that Aokiji(yes he is the man at the end of the last chapter) will show up after a bit of fighting, and he will put a stop to the fighting. Doflamingo wil gather his downed crewman, the Strawhats will go to Wano Country with the 2 samurais, and everyone else will wait on G5 to come pick them up. Hopefully the Yeti Cool Brothers want to join Law since Ceasar is going to jail, hell maybe the marine make an exception and let Brownbeard go, and since he has no more comrades, joins Law as well. If they are going to take on Kaidou, they are going to need all the help they can get.

Aokiji will proably be a bounty hunter, and he will have casual coversation with the Alliance and go on his way. Maybe he wants to help Luffy take down one of the Yonkou to get the reward. Kaidou of the Hundred Beast is such a great name, I love it. This arc has maybe 4-5 chapters to wrap up everything, then on to the next.

http://mangastream.com/read/one_piece/75355832/15

best page of this arc........HOT DAMN

[M3J]

Knew Law suggested Kaidou. Did not see Luffy wanting to take down Shanks too coming. But it makes sense, Luffy would want to fight Shanks out of respect. He probably doesn't want to fight Kaidou out of respect, and he's fighting Big Mama for Fishman Island's sake.