Is this Minatomo's first appearance in the manga? I know Oda made him up way back in volume 5 to explain a mistake he made drawing.
What's Oda's plan for this cover story? Orlumbus' story has been twice the length of the other grand fleet members, which leads me to believe as the last one, it's supposed to be leading to something larger.
Doesn't look like Marco will join the wano group, unless there's some sudden change. The additional backstory on whitebeard was nice. It looks like this heavenly tribute and poor countries is going to be a big point moving forward as it's now been mentioned a few times. Twice in the past 10 chapters.
The shift to wano was unexpected. If we do in fact stay in wano going forward, it may mean Wano will take place over the course of 7 days, and will end with the end of the reverie or right before, allowing the post arc to go back to the reverie.
More mentions of piracy from 40 years ago. I wonder if Brook could shed some light eventually. I wonder if Whitebeard was in this Rox crew too or if he was in a separate crew. We know players from 40 years ago include, Whitebeard, Bakkin, LinLin, Kaido, Shakky. I guess all of this will converge sooner rather than later.
Wano off to a strong start, I wonder if Oda will be able to keep up this level of art throughout. I hope we get some great Robin moments, since it looks like she's trying to position herself to infiltrate the Shogun. We already know we're getting tons of great Zoro moments. It makes Sanji look awful honestly. I like how Oda has Wano open like it was the opening sequence of a Japanese play. We know Kaido is in a winter area of wano, probably north wano or in the mountains, while the straw hats appear to be in a spring region of wano. I wouldn't be surprise if Wano is an island broken into areas with 4 distinct season because for some reason some Japanese people used to and may still pride themselves on being a country with 4 seasons. It's weird.
Law appears to be absent or Oda didn't show him this chapter, but he wasn't there for Kinemon's education session. Maybe he's just handing on his submarine or is still on Zou. We knew Ryuma's sword was going to get Zoro in trouble, but it look like it's kicking off the trouble and will accelerate the meeting with Kaido, though it'd be interesting if he sent one of the calamities or X Drake to deal with things. We'll probably also see Caribou this arc now that I think about it.
