User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 865: Mother, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit/@comment-24850639-20170511144457

Elbaf looks interesting. I always imagined it sat atop a giant beanstalk. Doesn't look like that'll exactly be the case, but there is for sure some kind of very large structure in the center. I had suspected for a while that Big Mom had some kind of connection to the giants, possibly as part of her heritage, but it'll nice to find out for sure in the coming chapters. No villian's role in the story is complete without us getting SOME kind of backstory on them, but I suspect that this one will actually be pretty deep. Oda has to paint the picture of just who Carmel is as a person and what makes her significant to story, her relationship to Big Mom, their connection to Elbaf, the context around why she actually left, and characterize Big Mom further through these details we learn of her background. And this may or may not even include the story of how her own family came to be, so I expect this to be one of the deepest backstories we've gotten so far.

I am curious to see how the Vinsmokes will be bouncing back, it doesn't make much sense for them to do anything else but fight. I'm not gonna hold my breath for some kind of heartfelt conversation between father and son, but I definitely expect some humility towards their new savior. You people that seem so confident that they will continue to be jackasses seem to forget that the Straw Hats literally hold their lives in their hands. It'll probably have some comedy, or at least I'm expecting so with Nami involved, and his Sanji having to react to his brothers fawning over her.