User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 865: Mother, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit/@comment-31434191-20170511163820

Not gonna lie, I am more than a little disappointed with this one. I mean come on, everything is going perfect for the Straw Hats while Big Mom's forces continue to disappoint. Not only is Smoothie barely doing anything (as per Oda's tendancies ever since his daughter was born), but now all of Big Mom's crew (except Katakuri, who is the only one actually doing something) are incapacitated by her scream, yet the Vinsmokes (who are only a real threat to the Charlottes with their raid suits on, considering they couldn't do anything without them, epsecially Judge) are still moving, while people like Perospero, Daifuku and the rest are incapacitated (and where the heck is Oven? No way Pedro beat him offscreen).

And once again, people are hyping the Vinsmokes. Judge is worthless without his suit and human shields (even with them he barely did anything against Sanji that didn't involve his suit), while the rest barely do anyhting. Yonji was curbstomped by Sanji, Ichiji has yet to do anything (and is, at best, just at Sanji's level), Nichiji plays dirty (and yet didn't use his "stealth" to get an advantage when surrounded) and Reiju is, well, just there as a convinent means to encourage Sanji to rescue his family.

And the fact we are getting a flashback makes me feel like Big Mom is going down due to plot. Hopefully I'm wrong, but we usually get flashbacks before the defeat. Maybe it will be a brief flashback just to get us hyped for Elbaf, but I doubt it. Only way I can see the Charlottes turning this around is if they had some back-up cavalry that is just joining the battle. I mean, there is no way that is everyone, plus it would be cool for Cracker or someone else (the conspirasits would guess Snack) to be approaching right now with the with the ones that weren't already there (Randolph, Tamago, maybe Bobbin (I doubt his strength, but if a weakling like Pell can survive a bomb...) and possibly the whole chess army, and maybe whatever Biscuit soldiers that are lying around.

That said, the poison could not work and only slow her down enough for everyone to escape the immenint ass whopping, allowing Big Mom to pop-up later (possibly Elbaf arc, but not as the main antagonist, just a threat to overcome). Overall, disappointing enough that I don't even care about the flashback at the end.