User blog comment:Roranoa Drake II/Episode 739 Review: A Sign of Good Things To Come/@comment-24850639-20160511145313/@comment-24850639-20160511194337

That's a valid point. Even with the SH Grand Fleet and the Mink-Samurai alliance Law and Luffy aren't guaranteed a victory, so I can agree that the Kidd-Apoo-Hawkins Alliance definitely isn't ready. I just don't like how much the anime focused on them being scared shitless. Like in the manga, you could tell that there was definitely some fear and apprehensiveness, but at the very least the way they stood shoulder-to-shoulder in front of him made you feel like they weren't going out like bitches. The anime made it seem like they were ready to bow down from him simply looking in their direction. 821 and 824 had come out by the time they made this episode, so I kinda figured if they were going to play around with this scene, they'd probably have Kidd grow some balls. Making him look as scared as everyone else brought him down a few notches in my book, especially after we see him execute a pirate group for being scared of the New World.