User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 957: More Info on Rocks/@comment-108.83.222.210-20190927162633

Well this chapter was in a word insane. Seeing the bounties of the world's greatest pirates was certainly a highlight of this. Luffy has a long way to go before his bounty matches those ones. The marines had rather unlucky timing to end the warlord system although I suppose possibilities like this are why Akainu wanted the system in place even though he clearly despises pirates. Better to have strong people to sacrifice then to have to lose marines. They had best hope that this group they are putting so much faith in can rise to the challenge or they are going to miss having the warlords around.

As for Issho, I must have missed the signs of him getting hit but then I was focused on a bunch of other things. As for the other revolutionaries, I cannot expect that Ivankov and Imazuma have been doing nothing for the past two years. I imagine the other officers must have their own skills as well, although whether the revolutionaries will decide to fight the world government power against power is questionable.

I will say it right now, Rocks crew appeared to be a rather dysfunctional one. Based on what we can tell it seems that the crew members were at each others throats all the time, so I suppose they didn't exactly get along even then. Individuals don't need to like each other to work together, but it certainly helps. I express a curiosity as to their captain, he seems like quite the character and apparently he knew far too much of the world government's dirty laundry. As for Garp working with Roger, we know that at the end the two respected each other, I think that this would certainly explain part of the reason for that. Now we also know why Garp refused the admiral position time and again. As good a reason as any.

The marines staying out of this makes sense because they have far too many things to worry about and attacking Wano would not be prudent given the current circumstances. I was admittedly hoping that they could cause some chaos in this whole thing and inadvertently help the Strawhats, but this way we don't need to worry about them causing issues so I suppose that is also a good thing. I find it unlikely that the alliance knows, but even if they do, they cannot cancel things now. They have been working for years to prepare for this day and one way or another they are going to see this through to the end. I hope that between Luffy, Zoro and everyone else they will be prepared to push their limits and beyond because it is going to take a great deal to weather this storm.