#ch 1094

yeah! the kanji here are 一百三情飛龍侍極/ippyakusan-jou hiryuu jigoku. it's the japanese subtitle of the MONSTERS anime adaptation released in january of this year, translated for the english release as "103 mercies dragon damnation." hence why this colorspread shows ryuuma and all his descendants!

Sanji’s been so good in the past few chapters and here’s another example of him kind of…bringing back the more logical side of his personality because even though he’s doing the heroic princely saving thing he’s always dreaming about, he’s more focused on getting Bonney out of danger and--more than that--being sympathetic to her situation while also plainly telling her that now’s not the time to get lost in her emotions. It’s really nice.

Vegapunk going against all known laws of science to believe Sanji here is great, but then again Sanji’s proven over and over again that he can tell when people are in trouble so I’d believe him, too.

I guess it’s nice we get a full-color cover page with all of Zoro’s family if it’s not going to be explained fully in the story itself (even if it is a tie-in for another project) but what I love the most about this is that Oda’s original sketch just kind of shows Zoro sitting on a rock in the middle (fully-clothed) and at the last minute he changed it so that Zoro’s half-naked instead.

Bonney’s extremely fearless for this, though.

Well that’s a design, all right! I like the idea that I’ve seen floating around about how all of the elders are based on different oni because it makes sense and it allows Oda to be really creative when coming up with their (I assume) hybrid forms.