I like the idea that it only took the strawhats three days of flight to reach their destination because Kuma was careful not to push them so fast that they would be hurt by the landing, but doesn't take the same considerations with his own transportation.
One of the nicest things about Bonney seeing Kuma memories is the fact she knows that Kuma was always writing to her like he promised and that it was just being ripped up without her knowing and so she knows how much Kuma cared and loves her from that memory flashback.
She just knows he sent the letters, but neither of them knows they were ripped. We got privileged pov during the flashback because we saw outside of what Kuma experienced, Bonney instead knows only what herself and Kuma did. Meanwhile we saw Alpha destroying the letters, the warlords reacting to Kuma joining them, Dragon preparing to go to Loguetown and so on
@@lordfreezer5631 Considering you have profile pic of Frieza, I quote Vegeta from DBZ Abridged about those events Bonney saw from the memories of Kuma. "How did you know the parts you weren't there for?"
@@lordfreezer5631she know that kalifa was a government agent being close to her in case the contract wasn't followed,so isn't difficult to put piefe toghether
Moria and Hogback were evil. Enel seems to be evil as well. They just aren't as imposing. Hell, Doffy seems to be genuinely evil through and through. Even as a small child.
Yep, doffy is still the best villian in one piece for me. He reminds me of joker from DC. They are chaotic evil. You can see it in their face. Lucci and Saturn seems to be lawful evil
To be fair Moria mostly stole shadows from his enemies. He was unironically the most efficient warlord as he stopped numerous pirate crews from reaching the new world. Though he has random shadows of one marine and the girl cindry's shadow is originally from. Hogback is more twisted and his actions are immoral but technically he is not hurting anybody by sperimenting on dead bodies. Enel and Doflamingo I agree, they are rotten inside. We can also put axe hand Morgan, captain Kuro and Caesar in the same category. They are just evil bastards
The agreement between Saturn and Kuma was broken the moment Bonney popped the bubble because they agreed she'd never know the truth behind what happened, but that's exactly what happened and she learned everything. I'm hoping that's what set off any back door contingency for Kuma's memory to be restored.
"The agreement between Saturn and Kuma was broken the moment Bonney popped the bubble" No, it was broken the moment bonnie escaped. Saturn said that if there was disobedience from either kuma or bonnie then she'd be enslaved.
I'm pretty confident it has something to do with his will being unerasable, earlier when we meet lilith she talks about how the weaponized seabeast's instincts always breaking through their programming. This is Vegapunk trying to overwrite their will, it's gotta be something pretty hard to crack if he can't do it after all this time.
I like the idea of Kuma being able to control their speed, but when Luffy landed on Amazon Lily, at least in the anime, it was a relatively soft landing
Also with the s-snake her love for luffy was not programmed but was just her lineage factor so I feel like we can just say that the desire to protect Bonney never went away
If you dont remove everything but the frontal lobe (that 10% controlingof the bain that is the controling part with the self,Ego,and personality) a copy of the personality and ego can upload into the frontal lobe from the Subconscious, or Deep Subconscious of the Brain They've made a cyborg mouse with only 3 mouse brain cells in the CPU that can Navigate mazes and access computer memory to "remember" things so keeping the extra meat is uneccessary and leads to unpredictable cyborgs that shouldn't have memories,egos,or personality after daily mind wipes or whatever 😒
The thing about the idea that Bonney experienced all those years in Kuma's memories is that it only holds water if you assume that time effectively stopped for Bonney and she experienced a 1:1 replay of every second of Kuma's life. It could also be that she touched it and the memories just popped into her head, and now she knows. Bonney could just remember Kuma's life in the same way that we all remember what happened in One Piece - as a story that was being told to the one viewing it.
Not to mention that the only showing of Bonney experiencing Kuma's memory showed her witnessing it third person. The flashback we received was a proper flashback. Bonney probably saw the same thing and maybe more. But somehow it was from a perspective outside of Kuma
One Elder Star being taken down could be the trigger for the Revolutionary Army to attack Marijoa directly, just like the Shandians attacked Upper Yard as soon as they knew Satori was defeated.
can i just raise a point about loki king of the giants that's been mentioned, coz everyone has been assuming its loki like marvel loki, odin's brother, but surely its Utgard Loki i.e. the actual king of the jotuns in norse mythology
Just gonna throw this silly theory out there: The iron giant is not a robot but a mech. Luffy checked the head for a cockpit and it wasn't empty. But all mechs, Franky Shogun, Vegaforce 1(which was designed after the iron giant) and even Oars (which it reminds me a lot of) are controlled from the chest. And it's powered by unbelievable power/the power of the sun. What I am saying is, the Giant Luffy Bomber is real!
I’ve always thought Ceasar Clown was a character that’s done irreparable damage. Scientist experimenting on children always just hits the right emotional triggers for me. Ironically we can say the same for Saturn. Yea Ceasar is a victim to the world government like everyone else. But he still _knew_ exactly what he was doing. Even Orochi has an _excuse_ when it comes to hating Wano citizens. Cesar has nothing. He’s just an evil gas clown. And I love his character.
Most of the villains would be selfishly or arrogantly evil. Like what Doflamingo did to Baby 5 was horrible, but he did it to have her be loyal servant to him, Lucci is murderous psychopath, Enel like celestial dragons didnt value others at all Saturn seems to be relishing in the sadism, like evil itself is the purpose he serves. Though, to be fair, Crocodile seemed like that too and things might change
I am quite confident the punch will land as a conclusion to the suffering that Kuma has gone though at the hands of Saturn. It would be a wonderful book end to deal a blow to the very top of the people that have made Kuma's life nothing but misery since the day he was born, and it would be one of the most satisfying moments in One Piece for us readers as well.
Jaygarcia Saturn always looks down below him as "insects" and he will soon learn the hard way that even insects can bite hard. In form of Kuma using Armament Haki-enhanced Paw-Paw Fruit fist to deliver an island-shattering blow on Saturn's schnoz.
1) can he apply Haki to his Paw-Paw power 2) What happens if Kuma uses smaller paws to teleport body parts to the "4 Winds" (like how they used to tie up prisoners to 4 horses to execute them when the whip was cracked)?
Except the bubble is just a copy of Kuma's memory. He kept his memories until Vegapunk activated the "will-removing machine". Also Kuma himself said, once someone touches the memory bubble, it just disappears. That's why Vegapunk developed a machine to study the bubble without touching it
I'd say it's still at least possible the memories were returned though. Kuma never "lost" his memories before, so he never would have noticed that his memory copies return to him because he still had the memories anyway
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I wonder... When Kuma made his memory bubble, he specifically noted that the bubble was a copy. What if he also made a copy of his personality as well, allowing Vegapunk to erase Kuma's personality while still having a way to return it and also ellude Saturn.
I have another idea for why Bonney was not able to de-age Saturn. Saturn stated that the fruit user has to be able to picture and believe in the possibility they want to create. But Bonney has seen Saturn in Kumas memories as an old man that hasn't changed in the last 30 or so years. So maybe in her mind she can't picture him as anything but an old man who never changes.
I guess how Law taught as that you can break paramecia effects with Haki, I assume that the Gorosei has immense Haki and that's why Bonnie couldn't use her devil fruit
I could see that, but I will agree to the fact we haven't seen another Devil Fruit that was summoned through a circle have we? So it's likely some legendary or some other God/Demon DF with some powers we don't know about currently.
@@Pickn4Gold totally agree, I think Im has something like a Mythical Hito Hito model King of Hell, and the Gorosei sealed a deal with the "devil" (Im) to obtain Yokai powers and eternal youth in exchange for eternal loyalty and obedience. So the Gorosei might even not be fruit users at all, but real life demons, used as puppets by Im.
Kuma returning to his former self without the ability to speak to me sounds like they never truly erased Kuma's memory. Either his memory was suppressed or Dr. Vegapunk took only his ability to speak away because he felt sorry for him, telling him to be obedient so nobody notices. When he realized Bonney was in danger, his father instinct kicked in and he moved to Egghead Island to save her. What really struck me as odd in this latest Manga was that Kizaru feels like he's on an extremely thin line between betraying the Marines and staying loyal to them. SOMEBODY gave Luffy food and it was not disclosed who, when or how. Now who could've done so, knowing that everybody was frozen in place except for the Marines and THE LITERAL PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH LIGHTSPEED? I think we're approaching the arc of a morally dubious Kizaru like people predicted. He cares about Vegapunk and he cares about Bonney and Kuma and he doesn't agree AT ALL with the World Government on the decision to murder Vegapunk. Closing words, I seriously hope they let Kuma's hit connect next chapter. I don't care if it doesn't hurt Saturn that much, but PLEASE don't do this damn thing you always do Oda where a character finishes the Episode with an intense attack and the next chapter opens with "...Owchie. That hurt a little... now I will crush you". Let Saturn fly. Let it really show that Kuma can fight the World Government when it comes to saving his daughter.
Okay, I just realized that Oda's shoe designs had changed a lot, Kuma's went from having a goofy wide point to being somewhat normal shoes. Kinda makes me think of DB Super designs that changed DBZ pointy shoes for rounder designs.
It fits with what Vegapunk said at the start of the arc no matter how much mechanical enhancements he adds he can't remove the instinctive desires of living beings from his experiments. Kuma's gone but his insinct to protect Bonney is still there.
Objection! Kuma stated that the memory bubble was a /copy/ so he's always had them within him, I bet the personality switch is rather what determines if he has access to them or not
Kuma knows Luffy and been logging Dragon's,Garp's,and Shank's lazy asses in taking care of Luffy,though😹 For recent reference Kinemon and Kiku knew Luffy, Izo,Asura,and Yasue never met Luffy🌈⭐ 😏
Maybe it was a translation error, but I'm pretty sure Saturn directly stated his experiment was to create a new kind of devil fruit, namely the one Bonny has, which is why she has one without actually eating a fruit. Since he never got close to Bonny as a child she must have inherited it from her mother, or he experimented on her before she was born... which is even more horrible so that probably happened. Edit: Almost forgot, but maybe the reason Kuma is acting the way he is has something to do with the same phenomenon that creates klabautermann like Merry, or even give will to swords like the Kitetsu blades.
I am not sure if we know when/where Bonny was born for certain so Saturn might have interacted with bonny after she was born as for his experiment to give someone a devil fruit power without eating the actual fruit, might have been Saturn trying to find a way to have 2 or more users of the same devil fruit power at the same time or have the user gain the powers but not the weakness cause Saturn did state that while Bonny got the powers without having to eat the devil fruit, the fruit became useless anyways so I assume Saturn's experiment was still regarded as a failure
I don't think Saturn said anything about a "new" Devil Fruit, only feeding Devil Fruits to infants. He harvested the juices from the fruit and presumably made Bonney drink them, and the actual Age-Age Fruit is just a dried-out husk now.
When Vega punk was introduced, he mentioned that it's impossible to over ride one's primal instincts when commenting on the robot shark eating everything despite it being programmed to only shoot. I think that was foreshadowing that Kuma's primal instincts are still in there and that instinct is to protect Bonney. Parents have been said to be able to sense when their children are in danger which I think was the trigger for Kuma and how Kuma's instinct kicked in now instead of any other time. That's my interpretation of what's going on with Kuma.
I just realized, Kuma punching a World Noble (if memory from Sabaody serves) would probably shoot his bounty up millions, also probably getting every admiral ever called in. It'd be like role reversal of Luffy and Kuma from Sabaody in a way.
If the Strawhats got a hold of S-Bear could they theoretically copy Kuma's memories out of Bonnie, implant it into S-Bear and have a relatively exact copy of kuma after all? Except for the Lunarian traits and a younger body I mean.
Theoretically yes, but that wouldn’t make much sense considering OG Kuma & Bonney’s relationship. It’s more likely Vegapunk will use that bubble Kuma created before his memory got wiped as a way to restore his original self
Thsts pretty messed up, considering that we have seen other Seraphim show signs of being entirely sentient individuals. 😅 Kinda doubt Kuma would be down for functionally murdering and possessing someone, you know?
Luffy's and Bonney's powers seem oddly related. The power to make everything imaginable possible and the power to make everything you think possible reality makes a worldchanging combination. I wonder if Bonney's DF is really the age-fruit...
There are several cases where 2 different DF has simillar power or theme, but one seems to be a nerfed version or a different version of it. For example: basically, Ope Ope no mi and Bara Bara no mi has the same power. But one can also affect other stuff inside its area of effect (room), while other can only split its own body. And since Buggy never really invested into his DF, the fruit might have some kind of hidden power that is similar to Ope Ope no mi, but only affect the user themself
I like this theory. If you think about it, why would Saint Saturn need to grant someone the powers of a devil fruit without eating it? If Bonney's devil fruit power was taken from a fruit like the Nika Nika (that had a mind of its own), it makes sense that this devil fruit would oppose the WG and evade their attempts to eat it. Thus, Saint Saturn would need to develop some other way to get its power, resulting in his experimentation on Bonney.
Those fruits are 2 completely different things. Ope Ope is short for operation, and all of Law’s attacks are based off of procedures. Injection shot, Scan, Gamma Knife etc. Buggy’s fruit has no properties like that. He can’t even remove his own heart if he wanted. A better example would be Mr 5’s bomb fruit & Gladius’s rupture fruit@@justawanderingoldman7699
@@ForNarniamon When was she ever "part of the government" though. She had a bounty since she was 8 and before that she lived on a random island in west blue
I like to think that Vega Punk put in a link to the snails in Kuma so if he ever needed to know what's going on. It reminds me of Jenny hacking the snails.
Kuma traveling faster makes a lot of sense. The strawhats got one big smack each, Kuma can smack himself away from things as often as he has things to smack.
The only weakness to Kuma’s DF is that if something is blocking the path of the destination he chooses there’s no work around for that. Kuma tried to warp himself to Egghead, but since the Red Line was in his way he ended up crashing into it
I am hoping for an island-shaking punch, that would even put Garps' Galaxy Impact to shame. What I expect is that blow to make some damage to Saturn but not enough to take im out. We might have a line like 'Huh, so this is what pain feels like. It has been centuries, I had almost forgotten this sensation.'
I appreciate the length of this video. You can tell you've slowed down and wanna actually discuss the chapter with us and not just put out content.(its your job no shame) I like this style please do again!
Oda might be blueballing us with the cliffhanger but I feel like that is just leading up to the best satisfaction when Kuma lands that punch. Unfortunately I do believe that while Saturn will knocked back, lasting damage is probably not in the cards
I'll tell you what I want to see, though: Kuma repelling all the pain from his body - two whole years of the stuff - and forcing it all onto Saturn. It would be glorious!
also I definitely think what Bonney experienced was much akin to what we did as readers -- a flash-by of the most important, impactful moments of Kuma's life that was over within hours even from her own perspective, not literally living out her dad's entire existence like what happened to Picard. (Also you bring up such a good point, TNG is a god-tier show but the biggest problem it has for breaking immersion and such is that it's episodic and most its stories are written to be self-contained, even though there's every reason in the world for them to continue to affect the characters past their one-episode confines but they just don't... still though it comes with my highest reccommendations to anyone who hasn't seen it)
I feel there are definitely other evil characters in one piece but st. Saturn is unique in the fact that he has no redeeming or relatable qualities like loyalty to his crew, respect for comrades or rivals, has no tragic circumstance or trauma that pushed or developed his evil, no dark naivete fostered through generational caste systems that dehumanize certain groups ( i.e. world nobles, he was there at the beginning so he knows the distinctions are arbitrary.) He has everything he wants and has ultimate power but continues to exert snd exact immense evil pain punishment and torture on innocent individuals not bc theyre in his way or opposed his will or get caught in the crossfire, but for no other reason that he likes to. To the point where he created a disease where the extreme agonizing pain could be captured and perserved forever with the saphire disease. Evil with a purpose can be argued over, measured against other crimes eye for an eye style, said to be necessary to prevent worse evil, it can be related to or see as appropriate justice from certain perspectives and situations. Hiwever Evil for purely just the sake of evil is far more sinister and horrid, bc it cant be rarionalized or measured, indeed often its depth cannot even be fathomed, there is no exchange rate or calcuated retribution. Thats why St. Saturn is so forboding and alien, he doesnt seem to be a man or even a beast. Just an endless resevoir of malice hatred and evil with infinite depths and capacity and energy to inflict on the people of the one piece world.,
He's got a "devil" fruit... like a devil type mythical zoan I mean so yeah he's alien but that explains his logic devils raising humanity as property is what the 5 elders and imu are so if he's a devil with no humanity to him and lives are meaningless that explains the experimentation and overall disregard for humanity and emotion and the manipulative nature I'm guessing they're probably literal invaders to this world considering enels cover story of going to the moon and all that ancient tech from the lost civilization they were definitely exploring space I'm betting they're invaders and it was a battle of freedom vs subjugation and the freedom side lost due to betrayal by other inhabitants of the world i.e. the 20 kingdoms because they were jealous of the ancient kingdom and wanted its strength for themselves i.e. the devils took advantage of the greed of the kingdoms and the elders and imu made a contract to make them the celestial dragons after the war we see what looked like an ancient weapon of the kingdom used by imu to wipe out a whole island so they got the tech and the 20 kingdoms descendants became lazy inhumane slobs over time under the "devils" mentality of superiority over humans this is my current head canon explanation
14:20 , he doesnt need to stand there, he goes, press button, go back at light speed looks like he didnt move, machine finishes a food, repeat the process
When using his powers for travel, Kuma probably transports other people at a lower velocity than himself for safety reasons. He's a big durable Buccaneer and can safely handle the higher speeds, but he's pretty sure other people can't.
That Star Treck episode is one of my favorite episodes and having just watched it recently, his time in that life is shown in the episodes that follow. He learned to play that alien flute and even shared his experience with another officer.
For lack of anything better, I see Saturn being dragged in to a a dog fight with Kuma until the strawhats recover. Still being beaten in the end, but with Bonnie having a final request from her father to join the strawhats. Also with the Saturn being evil, he was the one to order O'Hara to be destroyed by buster call if memory serves while the others looked hesitant to do what was always meant to be. On top of having an inherently evil devil fruit and being basically immortal why not grab for power under the most powerful and evil force known as imu
As far as the anime voices go, I'm pretty sure it was St. Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro giving the order to kill Prof. Clover and St. Marcus Mars regretfully ordering the destruction of the island, as well as holding that whole conversation. As the Godhead of environment, he must have regretted the destruction of the Tree of Knowledge, which predated void century by 4 thousand years. St. Jaygarcia Saturn was never shown to take an active part in the Ohara conversation
@@sinancothebestIt's not only that if you look close to the mouth delivering the line , the chin is clean shaved.Which means it's either Nashjuro or Warcury but the voice mostly matches Nashjuro's i think.
3:34 When Kuma repels someone else, they have to get to their destination solely based on that initial paw pop, but when he is flying he can adjust direction and add speed as desired by repelling the air around him!
About missing Kuma’s foot. I think you are misreading it. All scenes in Mary Geoise will take place after EggHead incident, that why we can see both legs in 1103 EP. It would be aligned with that what Ivakov said about Kuma travel destination. It looks like in Mary Geoise Kuma is continuing the robot mission. Maybe robot’s mind was transferred to Kuma’s body by vegapunk. Just guessing
Kuma being able to use Haki which comes from the will of the user and it means the final operation didn't really snuff out his humanity. Just heavily suppress it... Until Saturn hurting Bonney made Kuma go on an UNYIELDING RAGE at him.
i really was assuming that the necklace that vegapunk gave bonney was the trigger for the awakening of kuma. he called it a protective charm and what can protect you better then a buccaneer robot enhanced to no end
I wanna point out Bonny doesn't actually experience Kuma's memories as Kuma. We may have seen those memories from Kuma's POV, but Bonny is there in the memories as herself watching them play out.
@@G4m3b0y I don't remember exactly which chapter it is, but we see the first time Bonny enters the memory bubble. She's there as herself seeing Kuma as a slave, and is ejected when she sees him get beat up. When we see her at the end of the flashback it's the second time she enters the bubble.
@@G4m3b0y its shown near the end of chapter 1074. she watches the experiences from a distance and wasn't able to psychically get closer or interact in any way
@@othmangebara6786 Said crew was made up of her dad Kuma's friends and they helped her escape from Alpha and join her pirate voyage. It feels jarring Bonney left them behind after escaping capture post-defeat by Blackbeard and Akainu meeting her at that island of flames.
One thought that occurred to me about the sapphire necklace was that it could be a trackin device. If so, that might be why Kuma knew how to get to Egghead
11:25 great insight! Who knows what Saturn has been up to! Also I like that Saturn is being presented as on Vegapunk's lv of anime science intellect, makes him even more of a threat. VP made a way to transfer df powers w out eating a fruit, and so has Saturn. 2 geniuses, 1 super old geriatric spider demon genius, one super old geriatric creepily long-tongued genius; who wins!? 🤯 Next week on 'Super old man that is also a genius Death Battles!'
bonny now has those 40 whatever years that she experienced but i feel like because she knew she was about to experience someone else's life while that info flooded into her brain then it may have been viewed like a movie. while shes getting a "you lived this." experience its interpreted by her brain as something like a found film where you watch events from someones view but actively still know its another persons view of an event. thus keeping her full self without any major or outright personality changes until but still now having all that knowledge.
One thing: magma reaches temperatures of 1200°C and 1400°C at most for certain types, others reach the modest temperatures of 500 to 700 , it may that kuma robotic parts are made of heat resistant metals, we have Titanium, a very durable metal that can endure temperatures of up to 1600, with its melting point being 1668, so whilst kuma may have had felt pain in that fight, the foot and face may have had been made of a tiranium like material
I’m so glad you didn’t forget about the shadow figure cuz I keep thinking about it lol I think the punch will land, overall won’t do any significant damage, but it’ll be that one piece (hahaha) of random convenience that snowballs into helping the straw hats get off the island
Reminding me about Bonneys light sword that attracts bugs makes me think of the Tontatta bugs that some Straw Hats used to jump across Dressrosa. Which makes me hope that could set up a future scene where the Straw Hat Grand Fleet appears first in the form of flying bugs attacking Saturn the spider. Like maybe the sword is broken after the first swarm and in come the Tontattas to everyone's surprise because the sword is gone, and who announce the Grand Fleet caught up with Luffy on Egghead who they had just seen what like a couple weeks or months ago? Which could be a reason the Narrator warned us about the next 24 hours about what about 22 hours ago?
Love this video, thank you so much for making these and inspiring other anime creators like me to continue making videos. I think Vegapunk did have a "personality switch" built in
2:04 Imma let you have that one, though I was gonna say something about it bugging me - not spidering me. Also, I think Dragon should leave the winechoosing to Inazuma while they're all at Kamabaka Kingdom if he's not too busy staring east.
It's awesome to see gratitude and promotion for the artist's who directly support you and your ideas! Thanks for acknowledging their talent and sharing their style :)
The last part of your video made me think: What if Black Beard is one of the Elder Stars or has a different connection with them? I don't mean like exactly the same as them, but maybe like a first and failed version of them that escaped? BB was hinted at that his body is different. "A monster that doesn't sleep", "You mean they" Yes it's a silly idea yet but Saturn's immunity to dmg could be a good clue to BB body
If you pay close attention to the panel where Luffy was fed, you see a strange goop along the bottom border. The one who fed Luffy was Caribou, our forgotten swamp nakama
There's an in universe video game in Rick and Morty (Roy, I think) where you live a VR life with full memories, but only takes a few real world minutes. You remember the experience, but it's like a movie.
I think there are a lot more secrets to Luffys DF that we still don't know and the WG or at least the five nobles do know. Saturn had a very immediate reaction to Luffy eating food and IMO the only time he seemed worried since we've seen him. And there was also his comment about Bonny believing in Nika but she doesn't truly know what he is.
Also certain that the punch lands and sends saturn flying through buildings. Albeit he has high speed regen. Its basically in line with Luffy punching a celestial dragon, Kuma is one upping him by decking a Gorosei. I think Oda pointing out when Kuma reads the paper about Luffy punching a celestial dragon, kind of foreshadowed this happening.
The memory thing is probably gonna be dealt with like Picard's, I'm sure. Oda would have to drastically divert the tone to some manner of existential horror if he wanted to explore that fully, and that would probably add years more to the story. It's a DEEPLY philosophical question of nature vs nurture and how much seeing someone else's experiences literally through their eyes could actually change a person, enough so that one could make an entire feature-length series about on its own.
About Kuma´s wounds, could be that Kuma went first to Egghead then for wherever reason he went to Mary Geoise after, maybe something happened between Kuma and the Iron Giant. That would explain that Kuma has not those wounds in chapter 1103.
Maybe saint saturn's body is more machine/technology and or high speed regeneration negates an aging effect. Haki is also a factor as we have seen it confirmed haki can resist the effects of devil fruit abilities when Doc Q tries to inflict law and his crew with a variety of diseases.
I like this interpretation. It is similar to the back thrust ability performed on VegaPunk prior. In fact, I am starting to notice more and more indication of other Bonney's ability being applied. Firstly, let fixate Saturn's power to that of a Japanese Ushi Oni, that means giant spider that catches your gaze, paralyze you, and drain your life, but otherwise totally lack offensive power. Secondly, establish that Bonney cannot be paralyzed but her life force is still being drained. Thirdly, a matter of personal preference, I prefer my protagonists to be smart rather than otherwise. This means Bonney actually knows Luffy is the current Nika. Shanks knows from day one. Dragon probably. Kuma maybe. VegaPunk definitely knows (see chapter 1069, page 8-9). Notice that VegaPunk promised to tell Bonney everything at the beginning of the current chapter. Lastly, notice the contrast between what was written and what was shown. i. From the moment Saturn said "look at it from my perception", it might be possible that everything else onwards is indeed from Saturn's perception. Bonney may had transported Saturn into a near distorted future. ii. Bonney said she can't force herself to speak anymore, so she begin shrieking, why? To prolong some distraction? iii. Why is she apologizing to her dad?
I believe it has something to do with the necklace: 1. Vegapunk said Kuma said to tell her it will keep her safe. 2. Vegapunk said he can make a flip switch in which one doesn’t have any personality and other he gets personality back. 3. It was showed Kuma got triggered when Bonney was in trouble. 4. Necklace was given before she got in trouble. So I think Vegapunk installed that “switch” in necklace on maybe Kuma’s request that his personality will come back and will know exactly where Bonney is, and has tracking on it too.
Things that would be predictable & Not the outcomes that I would like: - Saturn gets defeated or dies - Kuma dies - Luffy is the one who defeats saturn - Kizaru turns good or anti-hero
Another possibility would be something that has been alluded to multiple times. It could be Kuma’s buccaneer blood that somehow is triggered by Drums of liberation.
Unless it was done after vegapunk wiped his memories, bonney would see the memories of a personality switch being implanted in kuma; I don’t think vegapunks reaction to Bonney or the memories being gone reads anything of a personality switch either Either the bubble popped and returned his memories to him,(although I feel like this Is kind of a cop out because it’s just a “hey we can do this and explain it later”) or it has to do with the instinct fragment dragon was talking about, which is probably in the necklace Bonney had
Smoker brought all that food and was the shadowy figure messing with the video feed He as in the flashback and oddly absent when Garp recruited helmepo
The Dune books tackle the idea of taking on multiple lifetimes worth of memories and knowledge, the fact Bonny already had a personality in place would help limit the influence of Kuma's memories. the different memories are like oil and water in a container, both present but never mixing. Or not, Oda be wild.
Scan readers, use TCB scans. They used "Shake" as the translation for the recent chapter. Not promising 100% accuracy but they do a tremendous job of it.
the one thing that sold me on kizaru being the uber eats driver is the ramen bowl on the left, it has the exact same design as the ramen bowl kizaru was eating from in 1089, meaning the food luffy got is 100% from a marine ship. the only person known to be fast enough to go to a marine ship and come back with shittons of food without being seen is kizaru, plus he'd know where its all stored away
