User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 906: What is This, a Crossover Episode?/@comment-24850639-20180601152149

Love how everyone is jumping to the conclusion that a damn Straw Hat is the huge secret and national treasure that's going to shake the world to its core. C'mon guys. Just because Doflamingo happened to be talking about it before those panels doesn't mean that it's automatically going to be the next thing Oda shows. The Straw Hat has powers? Really? If ANYTHING, then I can get behind the theories that this Straw Hat may have belonged to Joy Boy, and Joy Boy was a former resident of Mariejois that sought to change the world for the better by righting some of the wrongs his people had caused. For this secret to be something that will shake the world, it has to be something that will paint the World Government in an incredily evil and sinister way. Not sure how a Straw Hat does that. The rest of the world's knowledge on the Void Century and ancient figures like Joy Boy or the original 20 Kings seems limited at best, so the reveal has to be something that is blatantly damning.

Rambled on that too long. We all knew the bonding between people that knew Luffy was bound to occur, no surprises there. What piqued my curiosity:

- There are large statues of people leading up to the steps. I'm assuming these people were significant figures in Mariejois' history. I hope we get some kind of history on the land itself. Why did the 20 Kings pick it? What was going on there before they picked it? Does Mariejois then techinically count as a Sky Island?

- We've seen Celestial Dragons bid for slaves at auction houses, but from what we've been shown, these bought slaves are for the personal residences of the Dragons. Where/how do they acquire the people that operate the Travelators? If this arc ends without the Revolutionary Army freeing these guys, I will be quite suprised.

- The CD eyeing up Shirahoshi, Charloss, is the one who got decked by Luffy on Saobody. Oda couldn't have shown us him for nothing. Since I'm sure that all the Luffy love will come to light in the worst way possible, I'm wondering if Charloss himself will play a role in the disciplinary action that will be attempted by the World Government.

- Didn't know the Reverie was a 7-day conference. I wonder then how Oda is going to treat the pacing of this arc. I heard it supposed to be short, so i wonder just how much detail Oda is going to cram in here. He can't tell it all, so we're still going to leave this arc with questions. Just wonder what will be revealed and what won't.

- The facial structure of the guy looking at the giant Straw Hat.....reminds me of Dr. Tsukimi from Enel's cover story, who created the automata. Dr. Tsukimi hails from Karakuri Island, which is where Vegapunk hails from. Could it be Vegapunk? Fujitora mentioned making quite a trip to go see him, but didn't end up meeting him for some reason. Is that reason because he was here in Mariejois?

I'm not a fan of Oda using panels of these past few chapters to tell us stuff about people's backgrounds that we should already now, but I suppose it has been quite a while since we've last seen some of these people in the actual story, as opposed to cover series. Exciting chapter though, keep the world-building coming!