This text was originally written for Arlong Park forums’ discussion thread.

This was a pretty great chapter. A little recappy in places, but it’s almost to be expected as it’s probably the first one of a new volume, but otherwise really solid. Robin’s been underutilised since the timeskip, and really just in general, so it’s great seeing put all her talents to use. I really hope that Komurasaki turns out to have coloured hair despite it being filled in black, like Tama did, just so future rereads in the colour version become a little less confusing than this was. I’m leaning strongly to the idea of her being Hyori at this point, but we’ll see.

I’m a big fan of Orochi’s design. I can’t decide if it’s too ridiculous to be intimidating, or just ridiculous enough to intimidate; pretty classic Oda work. It would be too on the nose for his devil fruit to be an “Orochi Orochi Fruit” or an “Orochi Model” of something, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Dragon Dragon Fruit: Hydra Model. Which does raise the question of where the ninth head is meant to be…