One Piece Chapter 1047: The Sky Over the Capital

Marco Polo

One Piece Chapter 1047

"The Sky Over the Capital"

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seiryu

I wonder if Oda is trying to hide Zoro and Momo getting along in the color spread. All signs indicate they will be relatives in the epilogue aspects of the plot. The only other weird part for me is where Chopper fell from. Either he fell from the coconut tree, or he got thrown up into the air from Luffy doing a gomu gomu no rocket-o from the the hotdog grill.

Minor mistake, but there shouldn't be smoke with Jinbei doing what he did the last chapter. There might be some steam, but the constant wall of water would create a gap. Plus, the flashback of Oden's castle implies Onigashima is still on fire since the designs are for flames and match what's on Onigashima.

Man...I can't remember unnecessary filler/fluff in One Piece and the Momo pages are this. Literally every single point has already been previously mentioned directly. At worst, people complained about boring conversational pages/panels, but even Toki being proud of Momo halfheartedly wanting to take on responsibilities left upon Oden's death has already occurred.

I guess all of this is to tease us about the future upgrades Luffy will go through but Kaidou's comments are 100% true but just piss me off...Kaidou is the strongest in the world and will have potentially the weakest haki of all the current Yonkou. He used foresight kenbunshoku when it was completely useless, he has the most astronomical decrease to the haki reserves/amount of haki energy he displays (despite having the most stamina of anyone with an awakened legendary zoan). And biggest of all, if he has this much haoushoku haki energy left, he could just win with a single attack of haoushoku coating. Because Oda didn't plan this out (he already showed that Luffy is at his limits of stamina), Kaidou has to be weakened to Luffy's level. And this was already with the literal god-fruit that self-upgrades (independent of the user).

And Kaidou is suddenly not ruthless? He uses minimal haki to attack Luffy's arm? He doesn't just cut Luffy's arm off? Yonkou immediately kill others, but suddenly get soft against Luffy? The fluff of the climax fight only creates more contradictions.

And this makes me realize the biggest contradiction. Because Kaidou is proficient enough with a "blade", he has already shown to create projectile blade attacks at least once (I don't think it was against Luffy though). If Kaidou wanted to win, he just spams these against Luffy with foresight kenbunshoku. If Oda followed what was logical, Luffy while still fresh could have legitimately fatigued Kaidou having him spam haoushoku coating projectile attacks even with foresight kenbunshoku (Luffy's foresight offsets Kaidou's and Luffy is faster than Kaidou with his god mode). Considering the most legendary of the already legendary zoans/B.S. half zoan half paramecia (it's a paramecia with a zoan awakening transformation technically), Luffy taking the rational path to victory is minor compared to the existing cheat code already applied.

Hopefully the lanterns are a physical and or emotional bridge that allows Momo to activate his ability to generate additional flame clouds. At least that gives some meaning to the fluff.

Crap...I'm forgetting the names of Zoro's bounty hunter friends, but one of the new samurai looks quite similar.

Wait...how is the basement flooding but the main dome isn't? I haven't bothered to pay attention to the details of the displayed layout, but it skipped a level above? They showed the water filling all of the top floor, so everything looks like things are out of place.

REALLY? We can't have Orochi die? With the kairouseki nail out, it will be Luffy's attack that only KOs him.

Speaking of which...Oda's showing haoushoku black lightning...so unless Joy Boy took over partially/gave haoushoku energy/haki energy to Luffy, then Luffy just magically created greater haoushoku energy than he ever displayed before. I can understand the need to overkill for a legitimate win (which this definitely does), but whatever. It is what it is at this point and it definitely could have been even worse.

I guess this will explain Momo being able to save everyone since he only needs to create potentially 1/6th of the flame clouds Kaidou is creating subconsciously. Luffy can't pull back excessively so he has to follow through and destroy a chunk (and presumably the majority) of Onigashima.

weebywitch

I’ve been enjoying this arc/fight. Though I’ve been away. I haven’t had a chance to post since the Nika/Joy Boy reveal but it seems so clear now that it’s been shown. I mean didn’t he say in interviews that Luffy’s power was ridiculous and he wanted to play with it, its limits as much as possible? As such, this really works. Watching Kid and Law destroy Big Mom was satisfying even as it went against what I thought would happen with her. Like she did still recognize OTama and like her but that didn’t lead to a change in heart with regards to Luffytachi. Is Hiyori going to be the one to take Orochi down for good? Her character just keeps pleasing me. Luffy destroying half of onigishima and saying Momo has to come thru as a result is so him. I laughed so hard at the end of the chapter.

magicalmelancholy

FINALLY WE GET CONFIRMATION THAT ROGER DIDN'T USE A DEVIL FRUIT! Hopefully this will stop that annoying debate.

Also lol Luffy's gonna punch through the fucking island.

weebywitch

magicalmelancholy the confirmation was in his vivre card, wasn’t it? Like I don’t think this is anything new… I think I have Roger’s vivre card unless I’m mistaken. I’d have to double check though.

I could be thinking of someone else, I’m not going to lie. My head has been a bit loopy as of late. Either way, it was nice to see Yamato’s face when Luffy made that announcement. So awesome. I want Hiyori and Momo to come thru at the same time with big wins for the Kozuki family. It’ll make me really happy. I feel like Momo will be able to hear her “voice” at a critical moment and gain strength. Maybe that’s just me.

Marco Polo

Completely forgot about all this because of all the Roof Piece excitement…

They’re giving Momonosuke his (Teen) Gohan moment here. He’s the only one that can help and he’s got all the tools to do it, he just hasn’t overcome the mental barrier, as expected of someone who is still cognitively 8 years old. I’m sure he’ll step up.

I still don’t feel like Luffy vs Kaido is anywhere near over, but surely it’s got to be coming soon. Once Onigashima is safe and Orochi is gone there’s nothing left but that…

magicalmelancholy

weebywitch the confirmation was in his vivre card, wasn’t it?

Personally I thought the confirmation was that literally nobody brought up Roger's Devil Fruit at any point (you'd think they'd at least be vague about it).

stormchaser

weebywitch Momo will be able to hear her “voice” at a critical moment and gain strength.

This would be really cool honestly

weebywitch

magicalmelancholy I checked. The vivre cards make it clear.

On Luffy’s there’s Haki listed but in that spot on Roger’s, there’s none.