User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 852 - Oh The Humanity/@comment-53539-20170114030432

I find it pretty interesting in the end this entire arc is about family and how it can fail. We have the Vinsmokes and them not caring about the soft human core, then we have Big Mom who cares only for the marriages her children bring.

In both cases, their using children as a weapon... The one I feel most sorry for is Riki in all of this. Having a sense of self and yet being trapped inside of them like a prison... Unable to be herself, only what her father wants... At least her 3 brothers have their own minds despite being twisted. :-/