One Piece Chapter 1001 Review
-Palindromic numbers, y'all!
-Always nice to see Jinbe on a cover page request
-Big Mom is angy
-Zoro, Kid, and Killer are surprised by Luffy's new haki
-Law wants to say something
-Kaido thinks about those who can hurt him... Rocks, Roger, Whitebeard, Oden, Shanks. It's probably not intended as an exhaustive list of who could fight Kaido, but as an illustration of who comes to Kaido's mind. It's probable that there are others who could fight him but they do not come to his mind or they have not fought him
-Kaido with that cheeky grin, he wants to have some fun with this
-Luffy almost dodges Thunder Bagua but is still partially hit
-Big Mom comes in, Zoro then cuts Prometheus with Kin'emon's technique. He says he stole it, I wonder if he observed Kin'emon in a similar way to the Scabbards observing Oden
-Zoro tells Luffy not to lose focus, causing him to lose focus
-Law wants to make a point that he is no-one's subordinate, Luffy doesn't see why it matters, and Kid brushes them both off as losers
-Luffy comes up with a stupid contest, and while at first Law and Kid have none of it, Luffy's taunt is all it takes for them to indulge him
-The following faces are funny at first read, but the before and after make the scene to me
-Kid drips from a different nostril than Luffy and Law
-Zoro scolds the captains for messing around
-Kaido wants to see what his opponents can do
-Killer and Zoro bicker over their capabilities
-They dent the skin without any serious damage
-Kid, Luffy, and Law unleash attacks
-I don't care what Kid calls his mecha, I call it "Branky"
-Kaido actually acknowledges Luffy, Kid, and Law
-Kid tries to crush Kaido, Luffy attacks as expected, Law delivers a speech about being surgical
-Luffy strikes with Kong Gun, Kid smashes with Punk Vise, Law... crushes Kaido with rocks? Not exactly what he said, but the fight's only just starting, he can deliver on his word later
-Big Mom is laughing, presumably because she knows their attacks did nothing to affect Kaido
-Kaido's back in his dragon form, and making threats against the captains
A very action-oriented chapter, yet somehow it feels very eye-of-the-storm as opposed to beginning-of-the-end. Perhaps that has something to do with the other fights having yet to be resolved, but it seems like whatever happens next will determine the course of this arc. I wonder where the fight goes from here.
This was more or less my review of One Piece Chapter 1001, thank you for reading if you chose to do so.