- Snake-lady Gifter's torso seems to be attached to the tail end of a giant snake or lizard.
- You can just about make out that Viking dude's torso is attached to what looks like a giant tortoise. Beautiful.
- Those bug Gifters' similarity to Germa is an interesting comparison actually. This might have implications.
- Fuck it, I'm still going with Ulti being Queen's nemesis lol
- I also have no fucking clue what those two wind-up looking Gifters are supposed to be. If I had to take a wild guess ( and I always will ), I'd speculate they might be Mosquito or Crab or something SMILES that'll end up looking like classic Ultraman alien kaiju the Baltans or Zetton, pretty well recognized in Japanese public pop culture circles, particularly memorable for their distinctive design and iconic"hands/claws up" posture made famous by the show and often spoofed or referenced in other anime such as Big O
Oda is obviously familiar, as he once blatantly included a tribute to the Baltans when he drew Zoro as an alien supervillain in a Japanese scifi-inspired piece.
- Speaking of Eye emblems, here's Usopp's evil mad doctor alter-ego from the same comic strip, Dr. Usodabada.
They may just be another secret faction operating under the veil of the Beast Pirates. Said it before, but as many are probably aware, eye emblems tend to signal bad things being afoot. Ain't just Sauron, the Illuminati, and the Crimson King from the Stephen King universe rocking this popular motif; lotsa antagonistic forces dot that favor this powerful symbol the anime/manga landscape as well.
I've seen it mentioned that people think it relates to the 3 Eyed tribe. Perhaps.
Chances are good ( although as not definite, of course ) that Pudding might make her return to the story as a potential bride and plotmover. And I do believe Oda borrowed quite a bit of inspiration for her character and potential powers from the classic 3 X 3 Eyes manga, whose protagonist is herself a schizophrenic 3 eyed girl with special powers named
Pie Pai. And like I said, if events eventually end up leading the story to Kano as I've long believed to be the case, then it segues perfectly into readdressing the 3 Eyed Tribe plot thread in earnest, considering such characters tend to typically hail from Chinese regions ( and the overall broad Buddhist landscape that stretches throughout several other countries in the region ).
Regardless of any speculative connections to the 3 Eyed Tribes, I think it's a fair guess all these eye emblems are indicative of a united faction with ulterior motives of sorts, being they CP0, Neo Fucking Atlantis, remnants of some old Ancient Kingdom-era faction, or some other clandestine party. Either way, Kaido and Big Mom are boned.
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