User blog comment:Fliu/Thoughts on the Reverie Arc and Expectations for the Wano Arc/@comment-30406526-20180626223356

There's a ton to unpack here.

-Vegapunk's invention will have to be insanely strong and useful, considering that the current Shichibukai won't just fade out of existence. They'll still be around and could possibly turn on the WG, so they'll have to be dealt with (possibly with the invention).

-I think Mjosgard is going to be taken out soon. He represents a rare roadblock for other world nobles and I imagine they won't stay content about it for very long. His death could set off a larger chain of events. Perhaps the other world nobles will assassinate him and blame it on someone else? Do they even have the foresight to plan ahead like that?

-That brings me to my next point: I think it's becoming clear that the world nobles are a scapegoat for anything the "real" WG (IM and the Elders) does. It's the perfect cover. You give a group of spoiled, gluttonous oafs anything they want in exchange for near-total anonymity while you secretly run the entire world. I'm sure the world nobles will be stripped of their "power" and cast aside, only to have their redeeming moment somehow and celebrate with the world after the collapse of the WG.

-Rob Lucci.......oh Lucci, so much potential lost. Well, kind of. When he was betrayed by the WG, I envisioned he would turn against them, but in a subtle way. I didn't expect him to jump at the chance to join up again. However, as many on the forum have noted, it could be that serving the WG is all he knows how to do. He'll have some bad-ass moments before getting thrashed by Sabo or maybe even one-shotted by Dragon? As long as he gets dick slapped.

-I want to believe that Shanks was reinforcing his position on Blackbeard to the Elders, but I also think he's not one to make a lot of statements twice. Back when he was warning Whitebeard, he could've confronted Ace himself or intervened against Blackbeard directly in some way, but he chose to stay more or less neutral. Which brings me to a more interesting point: If he is in fact coming to talk about Blackbeard again, why hasn't he made any moves with his crew? Wasn't Shanks listed as one of the only people who could stop Blackbeard? Maybe he's already tried and failed, but that would've been very big news around the world. As many have noted, we still don't know very much about Shanks, so there could be other things at work here. I'm very interested to see Shanks' role in everything that comes up and even though I'm hoping he'll stay alive to the end, I doubt that will happen.

-At the risk of making her (and perhaps even the Yonko as a whole) increasingly a joke, I think Oda needs to keep Big Mom out of Wano. I know it's been WELL established that BM is a massive power-house, but she's been tripped up at almost every corner, so to bring her into Wano to be somehow defeated again would be a mistake. The Yonko are supposed to be the strongest pirates in the world, with each of them rivaling or surpassing the Fleet Admiral (in this case, Sakazuki) on an individual basis in terms of power. To set two of them up to be defeated, even by the main character, would leave the Yonko position up in the air. Honestly, I want to see Luffy get obliterated by one of them. I know he's made incredible strides and is an unofficial Yonko himself, but he's knowhere close to a Yonko's power. We saw BM take Gear 4th head on with zero difficulty. I'm fine with the Yonko's subordinates being defeated because that's what they are....subordinates. I'm also all for Sanji getting a gorgeous feat of bad-assery in the coming arc because IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME. I mentioned in a comment below that maybe Oda was just trying to break the mold with the Whole Cake arc and give Sanji a "symbolic" victory rather than an outright combat victory, but the fact of the matter is Sanji looked so weak in that arc. Every single time a big combat moment looked like it was rearing it's head for him, it was smashed to pieces. He was named as one of the SH crew's top 3 fighters and, while I know that Jinbe joining the crew means everyone else is bumped down one peg, he's still a power-house in his own right and needs to be displayed as such. That bounty increase he was given at the end of the arc was basically for being a Vinsmoke, which in my opinion he shouldn't take as an increase in his threat level. He needs a redeeming fight soon.

-Jinbe will definitely make it to Wano along with the Sun Pirates. I'd be surprised if the Sun Pirates didn't join the SH Grand Fleet by the end of Wano. Vinsmokes won't make an appearance, but I'm sure we'll see a news article about their escape from BM.