User blog comment:AYET/An ante up over the DEATH game/@comment-3119203-20121231001846

For all the love Monet had, there are a surprisingly large amount of people happy that she's dead. Can't say I disagree.

I think that as much as we hope him to be, Kinemon's not dead. That death was simply too rushed and had too little emotion to be an Oda death. Seriously, even Monet, who was a villain and arguably had less character development than Kinemon, had a few seconds of mourning. Kinemon had none of that. No, my bet's that Law or Momonosuke's gonna do something. Did anyone else forget that Luffy's hands were gassed in Gear Third, but he was perfectly fine a few seconds later?

As AY mentioned, if Kinemon doesn't die, then Shinokuni is pretty lame. Well, I think it's been pretty lame from the beginning, especially for a weapon of mass destruction. Gaseous weapons have always been temperamental, slave to the winds and weather, and Shinokuni seems to take an especially long time moving. Not to mention it is highly visible and easy to run away from, and does not kill its opponents immediately. Hell, it doesn't even appear to damage those it touches at all unless it completely envelops them (Luffy's Gear-Third hands). Why not just invent a weapon that poisons through ingestion, kills much quicker, and ends the battle as soon as it is inhaled? Or something acidic that burns skin? Since the gas actually solidifies to damage things, it loses mass the more damage it does, severely limiting its range. The only way Shinokuni can possibly be effective is in a huge mass, as Smiley was. Not easy to transport (and therefore threaten with) at all.

Whenever I think of weapons of mass destruction, I think of nuclear warheads, which I don't think are going to be introduced anytime soon. Still, Caesar has a weapon in his arsenal strong enough to damage a large part of Punk Hazard, so why not sell and use that? The only way I can see Shinokuni being useful is in a sort of invasion, where an attacker wants to have something left after everyone is killed. Still, you would have to scrape the shit off of everything, and a lot of people probably escaped since the gas was moving so slow.

/rant