Okay, so this was a pretty influential arc in One Piece that changed the landscape and pillars of power like nothing before it. But we still aren't 100% sure of the motivations of some of the major parties involved around the edges of the conflict.
Whitebeard Pirates and most of the Luffygumi: Save Ace.
The Marines and most of the Shichibukai: Fight off the Whitebeard Pirates and the Luffygumi to they don't stop Ace's execution.
Kaido: What the fuck was he doing going to intercept Whitebeard? To help him or attack him?
Shanks: Why did he route Kaido? Where did he do this?
>Kaido: What the fuck was he doing going to intercept Whitebeard? To help him or attack him? Help him
>Shanks: Why did he route Kaido? Where did he do this? He wanted the fake Joyboy (Ace) to die
Jayden Peterson
Reminder that Shanks defeated Kaido without taking a single wound himself. >b-but Cope.
Brayden Wood
>reminder that [headcanon]
Jaxon Butler
Or he told him that Ace wasn't Joyboy and to just go home as the real Joyboy wasn't ready yet. At this point Shanks didn't know Luffy was at Marineford.
Kaido just wants a grand stage to die a cool death and watch everything burn, the war sounded like the place to be. Shanks routed him because he plays mediator all the time and Kaido being at Marineford would have made it a disaster.
Caleb Hughes
Kaido would have likely helped him since it was the grand scale war he wanted. Shanks knew two yonkou teaming up to fight the marines would have caused unfixable damage to the world so he stopped Kaido
Christopher Ramirez
Shanks is evil
Andrew Ross
Can you imagine Whitebeard going nuts with the Gura Gura and Kaido in his Blue Dragon form?
Then again, Kaido killed Oden...
Marineford would have been so chaotic if the Beast Pirates showed up...
If it was Whitebeard, Kaido, and Shanks (and their crews) versus the Marines and Seven Warlords... that would have been the final battle right there.
Asher Thomas
Kaidou was trying to finish his Royal flush. Jack, King, Queen and he was just missing the Ace. He likely wanted to recruit him possibly using his participation in the rescue as leverage. Maybe he believed he could have been Joyboy due to being Roger's son.
Cameron Sullivan
Kaido wanted to fight Whitebeard before he died, and then he wanted to kill Joyboy Ace himself. Shanks told Kaido the real Joyboy wasn't Ace and teleported him out of the way with Lucky Roo's fruit.
Julian Ross
Why would Kaido help him?
Christopher Ortiz
It's just some random name dropping with zero consequence to the story bro do you even wanpiss
>the chapter will be luffy's really big fist knocking Kaido out >everyone on Onigashima will witness it somehow >luffy will still be in the sky >the lanterns will reach him and cast a huge shadow of him into the clouds >everyone on Wano will see the Nika silhouette
this shit is so predictable at this point lol >luffy and I will have to think of something!! btw
JACK JAAAAAACK GET UP JACK, IT'S TIME FOR AN INTERMISSION THERE'S ALWAYS AN INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACTS, JACK THAT MEANS YOU CAN GO TAKE A WEE AND HAVE A SNACK BRING BE A BURRITO
What even is a Zoan awakening anyway? The jailer beasts just looked and acted like beasts. If the awakening is just going full retard + stats boost then why is Luffy's fruit a Zoan at all?
Adrian Ward
Jailer Beasts were so fucking irrelevant during Impel Down, faggots obsess over them for no reason
Christopher Harris
I hope Oda actually retcons them being awakened Zoans because if that's all it is, then its pretty pathetic
James Butler
Are you retarded?
Hudson Wood
Maybe because the Jailer Beasts had regular zoans while Luffy's fruit allows him to retain human intelligence? Chopper original Monster Point left him retarded because he achieved it through rumble balls, which just mess with his transformations rather than allowing him to reach true Awakening
Julian Cox
>1 year and 4 months for Act 4 >6 months for Act 5
I think theres another level to this >Kaidos knocked through Onigashima and lands smack dab in the middle of the festival, creating a hole in the ground reminiscent of the hole he made in his first appearance >Emerges beaten down but still blood thirsty >Luffy loses G5 >Wanonese flee in terror as the light in the skies fade, and dawn approaches >Momo berates the Wanonese for running and commands everyone who can fight, even a little, to jump Kaido >They hesitate until Momo puts his foot down and gives a big motivational speech >Kaido finishes resting up and attempts to fly back up to finish Luffy >Wanonese jump Kaido and beat him down enough for base form Luffy to fly down and knock his ass out
Eli Jenkins
>Two more years in Wano
I cant...
Nicholas Jenkins
WHERE ARE THE SPOILERS. YOU FAGGOT SAID REDON HAS IT. HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE IT.
Nathaniel Bell
>Kaido with skin so tough most fighters can't even bruise him >he thinks some random citizens beating Kaido makes any sense Retard
Christian Rodriguez
The whole Joyboy shit got dropped really quick.
Benjamin Scott
Dropped?
Jordan Butler
Kaido is a Joyboyfag, he probably learned about Ace being Roger's son and wanted to save him to keep the Joyboy dream alive. Shanks knew full well Ace wasn't Joyboy because he invested entirely on Luffycoin so he only intervened after Ace died and Luffy was in danger.
Ian Torres
Rodent sucks
Leo Ross
CoC armor makes Kaido’s skin tough, retard, the scales the fighters kept referring to weren’t his literal dragon scales If he’s temporarily too weak to use Haki or his DF properly, the citizen’s have a pretty good chance of scoring some hits on him
Luke Myers
>headcanon
Hudson Green
Black Bear will appear at Reverie to enslave more princess and princes. screencap this
Isaac Myers
Read slower and maybe you’ll stop saying retarded shit CoC as armor is a thing
Ryder Price
wasn't around here when I first read this chapter, how did people react when luffy jobbed again?
>RAID FUCKING FAILED MORJ WAS RIGHT >No retards this isn't it >t. Morj >But why didn't we see it happen?!?! Oda better fucking show us a flashback NO TENSION this isn't what the pajeet wanted HACKDA
Isaac Sullivan
>People still think that jailer beasts mean anything Why are One Piece fans this retarded?
Logan Clark
Kaido has stated that he wants a world war. Marineford would have been the beginning of one if Shanks hadn't stopped it. Shanks prevented Kaido and Blackbeard from throwing the world into chaos before Luffy finds the One Piece.
Dominic Reed
>Wano is too long >Nakamafags >Just finish this already >Raid failed >ZKK
Basically, everything that you read in these threads right now
Nicholas Powell
pretty much
Gabriel Torres
Here's what happened with Yamato's introduction:
Oda had her planned since Alabasta, Thriller Bark and Kaido's first mention (Ace's vivre Card, chapter 489, and Kaidu the mongol and his warrior daughter). However Naito prevented Oda from showing her earlier, convincing him that it would surprise people and that it would be great to reveal her face in chapter 984, the opposite of chapter 489 when Brook joined and Ace's vivre card became a plot point, due to number autism. Naito had ulterior motives, he was really trying to sabotage Yamato to favor Kekrot. Naito then went on to rig the poll for Carrot when his plan didn't work in hopes of changing Oda's mind, and when he realized it might have been too obvious he botted Nami twice as hard to deflect attention from his shit furry waifu. Rigging the poll had the opposite effect and Oda took it upon himself to delete Carrot from the manga in order to teach Naito a lesson. Naito didn't learn his lesson and out of petty revenge he still pays Carrot shills to derail all anime forums that talk about One Piece. Be it in Japanese or in other languages. They coordinate through discord and other means.
Thankfully Megumi Ishitani, Ryota Nakamura and Tatsuya Nagamine are here to correct Naito's mess.
Liam Thompson
Luffy, Kaido, Whitebeard,(Shanks), crocodile, Doflamingo, Moria, Buggy, Travestite, etc.
This fight would be bigger than boahankocks farts BRAAAAAAAAP
Nicholas Hill
compare this to crocodile, no steaks
Easton Torres
I'd have put money on the Pirates over the Marines with 7 Warlords... depending on which side Garp decided to fight for.
I swear this mother fucker is a double agent since day one... and he's strong as fuck. I know a lot of it is the "hero of the marines" wankery, but him siding with the Roger Pirates was enough for them to defeat the Rocks Pirates at God Island. It appears he's on at least the same level as Prime Roger and Prime Whitebeard. Now that he's old he's probably at least as strong as a Yonko.
