Luffy when he gets up and sees Kaido's b**** ass tryna drop Onigashima

Love that panel of Yamato staring at Momo after telling him that she'd rather die together than surrender

My theory is luffy bring joy boy is based on his personality and something his devil fruit allows him to do once he awakens it. But most people don’t have the details on what exactly that ability is, they just have the ability to become joy boy by accomplishing X task.

I could be wrong but some ancient reincarnation literally possessing luffys body seems like the wildest most inaccurate way to interpret what we’re seeing

I am fully onboard with luffys fruit bring misnamed now which kinda sucks from a naming convention sense lol but that last panel wasn’t giving son Wukong vibes at all

I think I give the edge to best villain to Kaido

Doffy had the swagger, but this nigga kaido said I DONT CARE IF WOMEN AND CHILDREN DIE. F\*\*\* EM. AND IF THEY LIVE CALL ME CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS CUZ THEY GOING IN CHAINS. FOR LIFE.

this is wild, I just hope Oda can pull this one off

He wasted no time taking out the CP0 agent, realized that didn't satisfy him so now he's taking out the rest of his vengeance on the country

I'm thinking that the Gorosei wanted this to happen. Whatever is to come from this must correlate with Imu, whom we don't much about, but it wouldn't surprise me if he's just as old as joyboy. Where we go from there is beyond me tho

And this is the part that trips me up, when the Gorosei told the agent to eliminate Luffy, is it BECAUSE they wanted this to occur, or because they were trying to PREVENT it? With how old all these niggas are they surely must have some knowledge behind this, just how much knowledge is still ambiguous.

ALL THIS WITHOUT A BACKSTORY!

We getting backstory when he starts losing

Doubt it’s possession and I don’t think joy boy is a person, more so a title, and I guess it might be linked to luffy’s devil fruit

what a crazy twist that would be. And the info would likely come from shanks or be confirmed by shanks.

I’ve been leaning towards the “luffy must not be allowed to awaken” camp but you might be on to something. Also what do you think his fruit is? From what I’m seeing he’s still literally just stretching (melting) so I doubt it’s something zoan related. If they never had that whole conversation about a fruit being renamed I’d literally just think oh yea he’s a different form of rubber like gum or sap

at this rate elbaf might be one pieces final showdown. We need answers to Xebec, JoyBoy, Uranus, IMU and Dragon EXPEDITIOUSLY

Shout out Luffy stills mans was literally killed and still won’t give up

Kaido soon as he saw the agent

Gotta remember that at meeting with 5 elders and Imu, they had Luffy's poster crossed out like it was for elimination. So they had to have been had this in mind. Also remember that Blackbeard was on there for elimination too, so what's the correlation between them two. What blackbeard gotta do with all this? We know they want the weapons of destruction too. I feel like Imu is going to represent a parallel of Joyboy or something and he just straight evil or some s\*\*\*

I remember I seen king of lightning I think say he believes Luffy's true fruit is that it's a giant fruit, and that he'll be able to turn into a giant or some s\*\*\*. Which maybe make sense, if Zuneisha which is a colossal thing, a giant in its own rights has a connection with joyboy. Elbalf has been hyped up too, we have to get an elbalf arc at this point. I feel that giant theory could make sense, especially when Kaido noted that rubber shouldn't be able to move or hit like it was.

Giant mugiwara in Marie Jois too

Kaido really the strongest beast. Love him so much. He literally just killed the main character lol
And we still didn't get a flashback or awakening from him. Don't know if and how oda will pull of awakening for kaido since he should be invincible then

Aint see anybody post this but toei got hacked so the anime on hiatus till they fix whatever got hacked apparently

I'm on board with a misnaming but I really hope it's not that because I love the gomu gomu no mi and that would really mess with what we've learned about devil fruits to this point in a way that doesn't seem like it could mesh with the rest of them - I know there's still a lot we don't know about devil fruits

Your first paragraph is along the lines of how I'm hoping this goes because I love the concept of Inherited Will and what you described in that part feels along those lines

Hell nah

There was some thought that he might already be awakened because of some changes people were noting in his hybrid form and that would make sense with how he's tanked everything so far and kept getting back up but on the other hand he's really been made to be that strong and delivered on that

How was the reception to ch 957? Heard that one was crazy hyped but was still anime only at that point