User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 912: A Futile Feudal Life/@comment-24850639-20180720161553

- Oda is intentionally delaying Luffy revealing that Ace is his brother, and I'm not quite sure why. When Hitetsu asked who he was, and when Tama asked how he can speak of Ace's death so casually, were both perfect moments for Luffy to reveal the connection. I wonder what deeper purpose the reveal is gonna serve then.

- The Kitetsu blades were all forged by the Kitetsu family, but it seems that they didn't all inherit the exact same family name. Hitetsu said his ancestor's name that forged the Nidai was "Kotetsu". Can't wait to learn more about this family. Speaking of, it doesn't surprise me that they hail from Wano of all places, but it seems his family may be outlawed in some kind of way as well. He said that he couldn't go into town for "certain reasons", and that he had "allies" who could help. Yet, he didn't expand on what these reasons were, or how Luffy would even recognize these allies. I'm sure as the reader we are supposed to imagine the resistance Kin'emon spoke of, but why exactly couldn't Hitetsu speak on these "reasons" he's in trouble? He's already made it clear that Kaido's a tyrant....maybe Tama will tell us.

- Oda's plans with the supernova are truly all over the place. Bonney is one heck of a curious case, but with how things have gone with Law and Bege, he made it seem as if they all didn't really care to fight each other for anything other than sport really. He also made it seem as if their morality wasn't too far gone. Kidd is the most extreme case we've had so far, but he still had his epic quote about the Tenryubito, which proves he isn't just completely batshit crazy. I suppose you can throw Bege in there too with his history of violence, but look at the guy now as a husband and dad. Diez Drake was on the completely opposite end of that spectrum, having been a Marine, and growing up with a father who was shitty to him after he became a pirate. I'm quite shocked to see him hurt innocent people all in the name of his boss, which is another thing - unlike the other Supernova that were forced into servitude, Drake willingly sought out Kaido to serve him. Sure there's a deeper story, but as of now he seems a willing puppet. Finally, to see them actually fight each other.....a big part of me thinks we're just getting our leg pulled, and Hawkins just wants to talk. Guess we'll see, but I'm quite positive he couldn't take Luffy or Zoro by themselves. He's about to get washed fighting them together.

- The Ace story confuses me quite a bit.....I can't tell if Ace visited as a Spade Pirate or a Whitebeard Pirate. We know Whitebeard visted because of Inu and Neko, but it seems odd that Hitetsu wouldn't mention Whitebeard if he did in fact visit their village. At the same time, I suppose he couldn't have visited as a Spade Pirate, because then he definitely would have come back with Whitebeard.

- Alas, we have Luffy's purely organic reason for wanting to beat the arc's main villain: food. Lol. There's always the deeper impact of him doing it, such as the liberation of a country, but usually it's tied to a simple request or favor for a friend. Ya know, in case the Momonosuke stuff wasn't enough.

- Tama rocking the Straw Hat was admittedly pretty cute, and also quite telling of her importance to this arc. Subtle Oda.

- I love how intentonal Oda is being about Zoro's appearance this arc. His samurai get-up is pretty damn epic, and I feel like he knows the fans have been clamoring for this. Looks like he did in fact manage to get Shusui, as well as the rest of his swords back. I wonder what's about to happen here with the Nidai Kitetsu. Luffy seems like he's actually about to use the blade which is peculiar enough (he's always loved swords and armor, but we've only seen him wield a sword as Nightmare Luffy), but he's using it right next to Zoro. I'm sure Zoro's gonna have something to say about it.