One Piece
Ohmylanta, you mean a chapter that has revelations on what is happening outside shitman island makes for a more interesting chapter that gets people excited about where the series is going? Who'd have thought! Seriously though, I enjoyed this chapter but before I get into that, I have a few big disappointments about a few of the revelations.
First off, I gave Oda way too much credit on story building. I predicted way back that the 'candy' was really the drugs Hodi's gang was using and that would have been a nice involved tie-in for Big Mama to FI and purported some notoriety and intrigue to Big Mama's character for supplying and endorsing said drug. Instead, it turns out to be actual candy. FI citizens are under the impression that Big Mama would wreck their land over fucking candy....are you kidding me? Who came up with this? A five year old? It sure makes Big Mama sound like a freakin moron and douche of a character. Yes, I know she will most likely take a liking to Luffy and won't end up all bad but I really feel Oda dropped the ball on this portion of the plot. If it wasn't for the Poseidon thing, FI arc would have been completely pointless, no ties to anything outside of it's realm. A racism plot, nothing more. At this stage in the game, a place that delays them getting to the New World better have significance but that Poseidon plot just might do it, we'll see.
Other complaint: Black Beard. I don't know why I thought his ability would only allow him to steal one other. Maybe because he will otherwise be broken beyond all measure and I thought Oda couldn't possibly go there. If BB can absorb any and as many powers as he wants, he's god. No one can touch him. Eventually, all the SH's admirals, Dragon, whoeveryouwant could fight him all at the same time and it wouldn't matter. WTF is Oda thinking? The one thing that could save this is if BB indeed can use his power to transfer a new ability onto another person and is only getting abilities for his crew, sticking with the two powers we last saw him with. I'll wait and see how it really turns out before I assume Oda just killed the endgame battles but it's not looking good after the revelation this chapter.
Now for the good, I too enjoy the world building and it was pretty cool to find out Akainu and Iceman fought each other. BB becoming an emperor was obvious and a good development. It's fun to speculate as to who the new Admirals will be as well. I would think Smoker has to be one of them. Magellan is a cool character but I don't think he'll get a nod. Mudman finally showed up and the chapter ended with a nice cliffhanger. Hopefully Big Mama arriving will tie-in with the SH's leaving for the NW. Thank god the Hodi crew shriveled up, now we don't have to worry about them shitting up any more of the series.
Bleach
Was over in the blink of an eye. Looks like Kubo didn't prove me wrong, Ichigo vs Aizen 2 was a shit battle. The only good thing to come out of this whole chapter is the flashback. I'm actually interested in seeing the two Aizens interact and how they met.
Naruto
Kishi actually remembered Seuigetsu and Juugo? Guy and Kakashi stalling a few of the jinchuriki seems like a plausible thing for them to pull off that would actually help Naruto and Bee take out a few of the bastards. The best thing that came out of the chapter for me was the development for the bijuus. I too was annoyed at how easily the nine tails just started catering to Naruto but the comments by the 8 tails about how they all have emotions and contact each other, etc. gives more credence that the nine tails could be turned. It makes him a little more humanized and gives him character. Sure it's nice having an uncompromising monster full of hate but let's get real, he was going to have to work with Naruto to the degree the eight tails does Bee for Naruto having any chance of coming out on top. I think fleshing out the bijuus a little bit is a decent way of achieving this. Better than a full bijuus have feelings arc! I'll actually enjoy the nine tails fully cooperating with Naruto at last, their life force is tied together, they should fight as one.
HxH
Can't wait for this dumb election to end but awesome cliffhanger! Can't wait to see Kalua and Illumi fight next week.
Fairy Tail
Face Palm! I would have much rather had the vastly overused cliche of a time chamber than this bullshit. Ultear has time powers, so make a fucking hyperbolic time chamber! That would make a trillion times more sense than her triggering some random magic reserve no one in the entire planet knew about. Did I say face palm already? face palm.
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