User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 902: I Don't Wano More Cake/@comment-24287735-20180420141454

To be honest, it's the first time I read a narration in the manga. Sheeeeeee-yeeeett, mate. It feels really comfortable and relaxing to read this chapter especially Katakuri's part although I do agree with you that this is not the way we all wanted this arc to end. We all know that Big Mom will soon be defeated because plot armor, nibbas. Plot armor.

But I'm gonna give a great standing ovation for Oda not using it to make Luffy defeat his first Yonko. We're in fact not that far from the Battle of Marineford (which is just a couple hundred chapters ago) where the entire Marine officer force as well as some Shichibukai just to defeat one of them. So it kinds of reasons out the strategic retreat because how come a crew of 10 that is considered "weak" by New World standards defeat the one of the four strongest pirates and candidates to the Pirate King? Luck? Nah. Zoro ain't there.

Katakuri is by far the greatest character in the arc. I enjoyed the little backstory of them in this arc. I loved how Luffy and Katakuri fought to exhaustion and the clash of identical powers are stellar. But what I loved the most about the fight is Luffy still respecting Katakuri's personality of hiding his jaws with some hat. That's the nicest thing I've watched in One Piece since the Post-War Arc or probably since the first time I binged-watched One Piece in Japanese four years ago. This is a nicely-done fight among men that can only be done with a few talented storywriters in manga like Oda or Sorachi.

Everything else is great. The food and fairy tale theme on a land led by manga's biggest Social Justice Warrior. The Devil Fruits and the plot twists like how come a Paramecia can have the intangibility of a Logia. A little shoot of Elbaf where Big Mom used to grow. Charlotte Pudding. The female Bartolomeo.

And so far, the only problem I can see now during this arc is Cracker cecause he was easily defeated with a few spouts of Gear Fourth unlike Katakuri.

I'll hope it'll really be greater the second time around when the Straw Hats return to fight the Big Mom Pirates. I just wonder why everyone wants Carrot to be the 11th (possibly final) Straw Hat. I just picture the next Straw Hat to be a Logia-type although sure, Electro roughly grants the same thing and Carrot's still young and has a lot of potential. I'm just looking for more answers than that.