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One Piece Chapter 1013 - Initial Thoughts

And we're back a week later, this time around at least

New Chapter drops and we're here to see what happened after Nami decided to stand her ground So let's not stand around and wait shall we?

Spoilers for Chapter 1013, Support the Official Release

Careful Sanji I think that cover page Shark would give you a fight

Most times when Usopp suggests running he's wrong but here he's kinda on point. It's true what Nami says about them being relentless but with only one of them it's a lot more manageable than Ulti AND Pay-Pay AND potentially Big Mom...

Wow, it's been a while since we saw a SMILE abomination and just...wow

Ulti dodges Nami's attack, but before she can hammerhead Nami she gets struck by BM's Homie Combo

Also noting that this is the second time she's been wasted after she was about to headbutt someone after pinning them down

We get a proper look at Hera as well, she looks pretty regular

Unfortunately we have to leave the pupper, sad times

Prometheus wanted a girlfriend? Sucks to be him because Hera's not buying, then of course there's the third wheel of Zeus watching how he's been replaced

Nami giving him the cold shoulder too

BM has spotted Zeus though and intends for Hera to just eat him, draining Zeus of any power he'd have

I feel like Oda specifically made BM say 'why would I let you run off with a portion of my soul?' solely to slight us for thinking that she'd just let Nami have Zeus

Then she just plucks Tama from Usopp's arms so she can attack Nami and Usopp

Zeus though decides to go out swinging, pulling a 'Witness Me' for Nami's sake, and then get's grabbed and his soul taken by BM anyway

Nami tries to save him with some weather balls but Zeus can't grab them, and they all get eaten

Tama's suddenly alive enough to encourage the duo to run, but now BM has little qualms with killing Tama for not listening either

Fortunately, out comes the Metal head, Kid has arrived on the scene

But back with Kaido no longer in Hybrid form and he laments that Luffy got cocky, but that he also didn't take a 'trophy', because Luffy is now KO'd and falling from the island!

But another break? Come on!

Hum...

Okay so this was not a bad chapter, it just was a little deflating, it felt really short and some bits I kinda felt were hyped up only to end with 'is that it?'

Last week we set up Nami to stand her ground and get a proper fight with Ulti and then...Big Mom just did it for her... We hoped Nami would get a power upgrade from Zeus and then...Hera ate him... We hoped Luffy would last long enough to at least be there when Yamato arrives and then...he's falling off of Onigashima...

Oda's done a lot of expectation subverting this chapter, and it'd probably have worked better if there hadn't been 3 breaks within 5 chapters disrupting the pace.

As I said though, this is not bad, I still trust Oda's system, it just means we have to think differently on the outcome. I sincerely doubt that Kid can handle BM on his own but Law has teamed with him before, could the two do it? Maybe not either

Is Ulti done? Maybe for a bit but she's resilient enough to get back up after a rest. Still makes you wonder what Nami and Usopp's fight will be though or how Nami intends to get stronger now that she's lost her OP cloud - she may feel rather guilty now though since she could've saved him had she not given him the cold shoulder.

And Luffy's falling off the island. Does he make it to ground or does someone pluck him from the air? I mean we still haven't seen Caribou, Hitetsu, Onimaru or Hiyori show up yet, we don't know Yamato's beast powers and BM's remaining crew is still at base level - on the other hand there should be plenty of flying SMILEs under Tama's control now, Sanji can sky walk and Carrot hasn't been seen in a while so there are options. And how is this not the end of Act 3? This act has been going for yonks and we're still not at the tragedy? Cause for alarm.

This being said I'm not too worried about Luffy losing, he never really gets round one right, this is basically just Crocodile again only this time Kaido acknowledges that he should've confirmed the kill. We haven't really seen Luffy push his gears either so there's plenty left to see with him.

Another week break is gonna be rough, but this time I feel like Oda's getting ready to start the phase where Wano 'puts Marineford to shame'