User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 864: You've Never Had an Enemy Like Me/@comment-24850639-20170502152326

Glad I stopped typing my review blog to check to see if someone else had finished first. For starters, I'm happy we're finally moving away from those damn fan requests on the cover page. Its nice moving back to a canon cover-arc, even if it might mostly be silly. Those cover stories always helped me feel like there's a much bigger narrative going on than just where the protagonist is currently situated, which is something I've always felt One Piece had on all the other shows I watch/read. Excited to see where they are headed.

As far as the photo goes, I'm not surprised in the least that we didn't get Big Mom going apeshit. From a writing standpoint we still don't really understand WHY she'd go crazy, so to me it makes sense that part didn't go down as expected. I'm expecting us to get that story in the next 5 chapters probably. Some of my favorite parts of the chapter was Brook doing Scorpion's Fatality, and Morgan's "This is Big News!" with that coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs look on his face. Love that guy already.

The Vinsmoke portion was probably my only disappointment. I didn't expect to see Judge go bitch-mode, after what we've come to learn of him. I feel like that last thing anyone expected from that guy was for him to be THIS naive about possible duplicity from the enemy. As someone who's spent a nice chunk of his life as an assassin and warrior, I was sort of hoping that he'd be halfway expecting Big Mom's betrayal, especially with it being revealed that he was prepared to kidnap Pudding. This part of the story never had a good ending for him to begin with, but I was sort of expecting him to go down with more pride and defiance. "There is no honor among thieves" is a rather common and well-known saying, he of all people should know that statement better than anyone. Yes, I was very adamant about hoping that Judge would find his more human/fatherly side by the end of all this, but I wasn't expecting to come in response to him having a gun at his head.