 Puma, Bonnie, Blackbeard, Seraphim, Devil Fruits, Sword, Mysteries and huge reveals. All of this will be the focus of Egghead Island. If you're not excited about this arc, trust me, by the end of this video, you will be. Egghead is a term used to describe a highly intellectual person. You know, someone who is very smart, big-brained, a brainiac, a fitting name for an island and an arc that will center around the scientific genius Vega Punk, a very island where massive forces are set to collide. Blast in your seat belts because this one is for the overthinkers. Twists and turns and one piece continue because the highly awaited island of Elbaf will just have to wait its turn. I actually quite like the idea of a new unfamiliar island as the stage of our next arc because Wana was based on Japan and Elbaf seems to follow Norse mythology. Having two heavily real-life-inspired islands back-to-back may seem a little too similar in a way. So you know, Egghead is looking like a good refresher, a palette cleanser if you will. Which is an arc that I highly anticipate to be a lot more character-focused, with a lot less time spent on getting to know the island's customs in exchange for big, fat, lore-filled info dubs. And I think that's a fair exchange. But if you ask me, an even fairer exchange is between you, me and the subscribe button. You press said button, I give you more one-piece content. Everyone's a winner. At the moment, there is no clear villain in this arc. I mean, it's only been two chapters after all. But based on what we've seen in those couple of chapters, the villain could be Vegapunk himself or an unseen baddie, or the nearby familiar marines who have had run-ins with the straw hats in the past. Which actually I highly doubt because none of those interactions have ever felt particularly antagonistic. The crew actually just always ends up helping Toshigi whenever they cross paths. So don't be surprised if that happens again. But happen means interesting happenings that is in fact what looks to be awaiting us in this next arc. I mean, it started with the reveal of Vegapunk. A character that's been hyped up for literal decades. A man whose technology is said to be way ahead of its time, impacting the entire story of one piece from the shadows and the person with the most imbalanced hype to appearance ratio. Because yes, at least Shanks has shown up every once in a while, even if we haven't seen him fully participate in actual combat. But alas, Vegapunk is here and so are his inventions. Which could actually include the very woman who has appeared in front of the straw hats. Apart from Vegapunk repeatedly being referred to as a man in the past, no official info box which customarily introduces us to a character was shown upon this lady's introduction. The lady who also happens to have a 0-2 Vegapunk on her overalls? Space suit? Similar to the other creatures we've seen so far on the island and most likely maybe a part of the Vegaforce, not to mention that that numbering system is a familiar mark that we've seen across all of Vegapunk's other inventions. Of all of Vegapunk's inventions in this arc, a big intrigue has been placed on the seraphims who were introduced at the beginning of the arc and has now almost been confirmed to be stationed at Egghead Island itself, drawing out immense anticipation for an upcoming face-off with the straw hats, whose reactions are guaranteed to be interesting due to the fact that the seraphims resemble other characters significant to their lives. So far only the seraphims resembling Boa Hancock and Mihawk were shown, so exciting interactions between them and Luffy and Zoro are guaranteed, but if we believe the idea that there are more seraphims, potentially all modeled after the former Shichi Bukai, you know the group that they were placed, then this potential clash is sure to be a cracker. Aside from the artificial human inventions, the thing I'm interested in seeing is how far Vegapunk's technology has come when it comes to weather manipulation. It's been said in the past that Vegapunk has toyed with this idea and that he created himself a weather controlling device but it ended up failing to work. Assuming that that was during Vegapunk's youth and that his inventions have since evolved, it'd be interesting to witness whether weather manipulation has since been perfected. You guys know what I'm trying to say. And obviously this is also an area where the straw hats can greatly benefit from this, having on board the greatest navigator that the one piece world has ever seen. More interestingly though, my intrigue about the weather actually lies with the various islands that Vegapunk has been associated with. His hometown, Baltimore, his old laboratory, Punk Hazard, and now the future island, Egghead. All three of these islands have had the characteristics of a winter island, although admittedly in Punk Hazard's case, the half and half situation was said to be the result of Akainu and Kizaru's battle on the island. But I will include it here because there's clearly a pattern being drawn and I want to know the reason for Vegapunk's affinity to winter islands, which may give us the answer as to why he wants to control the weather. I mean, we know how it started back in his hometown when he wanted to help his fellow countrymen, but controlling the weather has so much more potential usage than that. And so it'd be interesting to see whether that is something that plays a part in this story. Speaking of winter islands, I wonder whether Blackbeard is going to make an appearance in this arc. Look, I know Blackbeard is expected to be one of, if not the final enemy Luffy will face in the series, but there are a number of things that do tie him to a potential conflict on Egghead Island. Apart from hailing from a winter island himself, Blackbeard was shown at the beginning of the arc facing off against the seraphims which Vegapunk created. And we know he is always in search of powerful devil fruits and Vegapunk just happens to be the man able to understand and even has the ability to artificially create these devil fruits. So the incentive is there for martial detach to make an appearance. It may also really depend on how long we plan to stay on this island because another coinkydink is that all other winter islands that we've happened to visit have all been relatively short arcs. Drum Island and Punk Hazard have all been mini arcs that serve as a stepping stone where we get a lot of information and set up before we move on to the next major arc. So possibly this will be the arc that brings us a brief appearance of Blackbeard before actually focusing on Blackbeard in the next arc. There is also the matter of Dury Bonnie whom Blackbeard has fought, defeated and held captive. In the past, was now found herself on the Island of Egghead in search for Vegapunk for unconfirmed reasons, although those reasons are highly speculated to involve the current state of the former warlord of the seas Bartholomew Kuma. It's a well known fact that Bonnie has some sort of emotional connection to Kuma and is in fact the person who has the most emotional involvement out of all the characters that could potentially be the focus of this arc. Bonnie loves holding grudges and already has one against the straw hats for the shenanigans at Sabotee prior to the time skip and has a grudge against Blackbeard for triggering the paramount war which resulted in Whitebeard's death, a pirate that Bonnie admired resulting in her hatred for Blackbeard going deeper. She also appears to have a gripe against the marines and the world government and apart from the fact that she is on the opposing side as a pirate, I suspect that it all connects back to what happened to Bartholomew Kuma. Bonnie's appearance may also be able to shed light on what happened to Vivi, Sabo and Cobra since she posed as Connie, the Queen Dowager of the Sorbet Kingdom to infiltrate the reverie and may have come to hear or even witness firsthand what really went down. And of course Bonnie is now here and after answers from Vegapunk about one of the most highly anticipated mysteries in the series, a mystery that connects all the way back to Thriller Bark and once she gets her answers, so will we. What is Kuma and Bonnie's relationship? On Drury Bonnie's Vivricard containing her early sketches, it's also stated, let Vegapunk restore my father which could be implying a familial relationship to Kuma which I'm sure is the first thing that obviously comes to mind. Why was Kuma once called a tyrant? A contrast to his appearance carrying a bible and even his demeanor. The moniker he was given and the Kuma we see gives off the vibe of someone who once did rule with tyranny but then had a change of heart after witnessing something so gruesome or so confronting something big enough to change their fate. I mean this could be the reason why he allied himself with the Revolutionary Army. A group hell bent on changing the current system and order of the world. Is Kuma the previous king of Sorbet Kingdom? This could confirm his relationship to Bonnie who is said to resemble Connie. Are they actually the same person with very close ties to Kuma? Why did Kuma agree to be experimented on and get turned into a cyborg? What was his role for the Revolutionary Army? And why was it so important for him to protect the Straw Hats? Sending them off to different islands to hone their individual specialties and even going so far as to protecting the sunny so that their adventures could continue. Kuma knows something about the Straw Hats that even we don't know and we are so close to finding out this mystery that once revealed it is sure to create a ruckus in the fanbase. When it comes to imagining future scenarios Bonnie and Vegapunk's connection is quite frankly the most exciting part about this arc so it's looking great because they seem to be the focus of this next story. But this excitement that I talk of actually stems from the fact that the combination of these two characters could potentially allow the story to extend its history and its flashback as far back as it could possibly want due to the unique nature of these two characters. I mean we know that Bonnie is able to manipulate people's ages including herself meaning she herself could be a lot and I mean a lot older than we realize and that she also could have de-aged Vegapunk or it's not so out of reason to believe that Vegapunk is capable of transferring his brain into a new body and has created a number of different versions of Vegapunk. This being another possible explanation to the female Vegapunk we were recently introduced to just simply being a new host for the genius scientist. Due to the unconfirmed ages of these two characters and the nature of their powers or skills Bonnie with her devil fruit and Vegapunk with his unmatched work in science we have two characters who could very well be the oldest living people in one piece and as we know with great age comes great responsibility wait that doesn't sound right with age comes wisdom or at the very least with age comes knowledge knowledge of past untold events that we have yet to see revealed in the series. The void century was hinted as far back as skypeer and in the recent arc why not actually introduce us to someone who was alive during the void century and now we are in the presence of not just one but two characters who could have potentially experienced the true history of the world themselves but personally you know what else I have to be excited about it's the idea that Bonnie could join in the straw hat's journey through multiple arcs not too dissimilar to the crew's other companions and I'm sure this will excite many of us and certainly give right to the question of whether this partnership will end with Bonnie joining the crew which is something I'm going to have to say that I am all in for if only for the reason that in SBS volume 88 Oda revealed that if Bonnie were to live in our real world then she would be Australian and the straw hats don't yet have an Australian on the crew and hey what's a little representation huh but those are just my vain thoughts let me know what you guys think about the future of egghead island by leaving a comment below please subscribe for more one-piece discussions you can also join our joy fleet discord server or even become an executive officer of the joy fleet thank you to all our patrons and channel members for help supporting the channel this is joy girl and I'll see you again soon