To preface, I don’t mean to demean Luffy’s happiness at all when I call it childish, he just found out his brother was alive. His happiness is understandable. And, in fact, this “childish” side of Luffy where it’s no longer his innocence which feels such, but his overflowing happiness are some of my favorite moments of his. I recall him playing with his hat when speaking about shanks in Sabaody and seeing Luffy get watery eyes and cry non stop thinking about how Ace was right gave me the same vibe. It’s so sweet and contagious. I am so freaking happy for him. :)
As for the factory plot, it has moved along! Firstly, the team has split because “ore-land” couldn’t fit into the passage. Yet he made the best out of it, inspired to help, as bombastic and loud as ever, he will go and create hella havoc and distract everyone so his allies can take on Sugar with less stress. Gosh I love Franky, although he does tend to end up in outrageous situations. Last situation this odd was the confrontation with Don Quixote executive Baby 5. She turned into a giant sword while being helicoptered by a weirdo and Franky used a giant samurai sword in a mech suit to fend her off and sang while he was at it. This time, the speedo wearing, triple point chinned, combat hair Franky has met his match with a badass with a baby outfit, a pacifier in his mouth and underwear to rival the cyborg. “Who is this pervert?!” This baby man has a harem of boys and girls and he has a fly theme song. He also didn’t flank Franky because that’s not what a man does I suppose. What’s actually bad is that the Diamante four that normally dominate in the colosseum should be here together. He may need some help.
Back at the ride to the underground we got a Baroque Works-esque run down of the executives now that we know how they all work for the most part. Don Quixote Doflamingo is the head, and under him is three armies: - The Trebol army which is the special ability unit: Sugar the toy maker, Violet the clairvoyant, and Giolla the artist.
- The Diamante army of fighters: Lao G who looks intriguing, Machvise who we still know little about, Senor Pink the baby mafioso, and Dellinger the pretty psycho who doesn’t seem to have a power. This army is the most unknown and we’re going to learn about them soon!
- Lastly, the Pica army which is a Commando unit: Gladius, Buffalo, and Baby 5. Gladius is a little mysterious and Pica comes off to me as a secret final boss due to their subdued role in all of this.
- There were two overseas units we already knew, Vergo and Monet. I suppose Vergo would have had his own family if he wasn’t always working as a double agent away from Dressrosa.
From these, we also know that Violet has changed sides, and Vergo and Monet should both be dead by Law’s plans, and Baby 5, Buffalo and Giolla have been defeated before but will most likely still be relevant.
For the last piece on the factory attack; Usoland and Robiland have arrived at the underground port town and we got a good view on the awful treatment of toy slaves, fighting for their lives, exhausted, and wanting to see their families. Their life is a living hell with no breaks, even their toy bodies get worn out. Outside of that we got two other notable and small moments, Rebecca is facing off against Suleiman the beheader and Fujitora didn’t answer Doflamingo’s words on defending his people from the Straw Hats. Lastly, I was giving it more thought and the colosseum definitely got more interesting. 3 winners, Sabo, Bartolomeo, and probably Rebecca are all friends of Luffy, and if so, the only threat to the flare flare fruit is Burgess. He is no joke, he is one of the original members of an emperor’s crew. Yet, if there’s no dirty play involved, the mission to get that fruit doesn’t seem so bad anymore and if Diamante is tricked by Sabo then Luffy can give Doflamingo a great surprise! |