 So just a reminder that this kid here this kid right now basically grinding up against Yamato's but he's he's one of the most important characters in the entire series. A lot rides on him whilst he's riding on him. Hello and welcome to the groundline review your source for everything one piece and today we have a review of chapter 1006 which all in all was a pretty fun catch-up of all of the lower level stuff happening right now on Onigashima. Mostly centered around the performance floor of the Skull Dome there was a very interesting pattern in that most of the characters featured in this chapter are either already there or converging very closely to that very location. So even though it may seem like a random scattering of catch-up scenes here and there there is a general thread here I think which is good because to be honest chapters like this they can be a bit difficult the ones that focus on pretty much as raw action as well as the secondary and even arguably tertiary characters to which I'm very specifically referring to Yogoro and we will get to him but there was plenty to grab on to and speaking of grabbing on we'll start with that Yamato segment eh. This is probably my least favorite group to be following on Onigashima right now I mean I do quite like Yamato and Shinobu and even Momonosuke he has he's grown on me but this feels like the group with no real mission I get that the idea is to protect Momonosuke because he's the chosen one and everything gonna bring about that new dawn and stuff hmm so just a reminder that this kid here this kid right now basically grinding up against Yamato's but he's he's one of the most important characters in the entire series a lot rides on him whilst he's riding on him but basically they're just running and that's all there really is to them right now there's no goal destination or like a person to reach it's just a giant game of a keep away really so I feel that very little if any progress gets made when we see their actions however I do think that this was definitely more of a setup for Sanji and to jump quickly to Sanji I am pretty much 100% convinced that Sanji has chosen to go downstairs in order to find Momonosuke it's just very hard for me to see a situation where Oda carefully crafts this whole interaction of Sanji discovering this information just for him to immediately abandon that idea and then continue upwards to Kinamon which is quite unfortunate for the whole Sanji potentially taking on Jack idea I did very much like that but it does bring up a whole lot of other potential though like I said before most of this chapter seems to be focusing in on that performance floor which is very vaguely near the area of the forbidden store room and happens to be where King Queen and now even Paris Barrow and while it's nice that we have Drake and Hyogoro they're holding the fort alongside Mr. Marko it could definitely probably use some extra Sanji infused power so this perpetual game of who Sanji is going to face will continue but once again I will say they think there's a lot more potential for cool Sanji moments heading in Yamato's direction than I think there is continuing in Jack's direction upstairs you know it would be really cool if Sanji made a decision he's kind of like me trying to write videos but getting distracted by very shiny objects speaking of getting distracted this video is actually sponsored by the Kingsguard project funky youtube channel designed to chronicle one man's quest to become a real life superhero and as part of that he recently made a video where he lit his feet on fire I repeat lit his feet on fire in order to mimic Sanji's diaboljamba technique and it looks like he did it in his living room as well which is a some bold choice sir but I do wish you the best of luck on your journey and you guys can turn fantasy into reality by checking out the Kings guard project through a link in the description below but it's getting to that point where I really do wish that Sanji just had you know one solid direction it's at the point where his focus seems to change every couple of chapters you know at first he was fighting on the performance floor then he was escorting Luffy to the roof then he went to save a woman and got trapped and started heading back up to the roof and now it looks like he's heading right back down to the performance floor which is exactly where he started and just the idea of mapping out Sanji's path during a raid is quite an exhausting thought something very interesting to think about however is that Sanji does not know Yamato that was one of those fun oh yeah moments because we've all known Yamato for what like a year now but within the story Yamato actually hasn't met many of our characters aside from Luffy, Shinobu, Momo and Frankie I think that's it I might be wrong I'm sometimes wrong wrong is me but Sanji is probably one of the more interesting figures to stumble upon due to a bit of a clash of ideals Sanji with his whole little chivalry business and Yamato currently identifying as a man a very specific man but still so it makes me wonder how that interaction would go down though but at the same time I think we'd almost be guaranteed to get that Momonosuke gag I talked about in the last review I just have this incredibly strong feeling I think I stated that either Sanji or Brooke would catch him within Yamato's clothing and get all jelly whilst Momo makes his momosleazy face I would definitely bet on that exact scenario occurring at this stage so if you're a Sanji fan who doesn't like him being in a clowned around or someone like me who was hoping that Momo gags would perhaps come to an end at least during the raid I wouldn't bet on it oh it's gonna happen isn't it Sanji's gonna see Momo he's gonna do the jealous eyes and he's just gonna lament that he is not the one within Yamato's clothes elsewhere on Onigashima we also got to catch up with Karat and Wanda versus Paris Barrow and well that's already over quite a close call though allegedly it would seem that Paris Barrow is quite beloved by fate having survived both Pedro's suicide explosion and a full on assault from two Sulong minks which is very notable because two is more than one but it makes me really interested to see what Otis plans for Paris Barrow are because as the Karat fight started I thought that this was going to be his whole jam like he was brought here very specifically in order for Karat to exact revenge and bring this whole Pedro thing full circle and to be fair I suppose that may still happen I'm sure that that moon will pop out again say hello eventually but Paris Barrow is just such a cool wild card in this raid he has no allegiance to the beast pirates nor the allied forces so he holds a lot of that lovely chaotic potential at any given moment Paris Barrow could be used against anyone or anything and I really like having that more random factor involved but I'm also quite curious to know how people feel about the Paris Barrow Karat fight being conducted off-screen I personally hold the stance that I usually have I don't really care in fact I think it might have definitely been for the better it's the smaller scale battles like this that would really severely throttle the series if we had to explore each and every one of them so I'm pretty satisfied with just seeing that cool opening exchange and then cutting to the outcome I guess it gives the anime something to play with in the future if they need some film material and I think we all know that they most certainly will just like you will most certainly need to subscribe to the ground line review which will result in consistent injections of one piece culture being uploaded straight into YouTube feed please make sure not to off-screen your pressing of this button also in this chapter absolutely brilliant Paris Barrow moment which was when he was lifting up Karat by the neck very very small thing here but I like the deliberate choice to have Paris Barrow lift Karat up with his prosthetic arm oh Paris Barrow is holding Karat with his his candy hand candy handy if you will although actually just having thought about that a bit further and maybe we probably shouldn't but I love it because it's just such a vengeful thing to do there's this whole feel of look what you did to me this is the arm that your precious Pedro stole from me and now it's being used to utterly humiliate you it was a great character moment and Paris Barrow is just such an awful yet surprisingly captivating dude bro with every subsequent chapter he appears in I feel that both my like and disgust levels for him go up completely in tandem especially because he's not entirely wrong in his thinking either Pedro and Karat were the ones who invaded their territory like did you really really expect to stroll on into the base of an emperor of the sea and just not face any consequences I mean maybe Karat actually did she's all young and innocent after all but what do you do if your Paris Barrow just let them do and steal and fight and destroy whatever they want but this brings us properly to the performance floor where we have two main points of interest the first of which is a pineapple named Marco and I think that he is something of a saviour of this chapter having gone and said that I'm all right with skipping Karat's action I did very much enjoy seeing Marco single-handedly holding off both King and Queen but having those single hands being simultaneously quite full mostly because I love seeing Marco's Phoenix powers on page they're very eye-catching the way in which Oda draws these specific flames and there was also some great choreography where King sliced through one of Marco's wings and just Marco conjuring that cool flame attack lots of generally enjoyable stuff that happens with upper fights like this but probably wouldn't have happened with something like Karat versus Paris Barrow also Queen what are you doing mate did you just shoot it has he always been able to do that just like shoot a beam out of his mouth like a Queen beam Queen is a stupidly interesting figure I mean there was that one panel in chapter 999 where he just had a gun pop out of his mouth which was weird and fun but this is some full on pacifista stuff now which is kind of mind boggling because it's one thing to modify your body but when you really think about it Queen needs to modify two bodies because how does he keep everything in check when Queen has to consistently switch back between his human and beast forms like what happens to these huge guns when Queen reverts back to his small but still kind of huge human form is that why he's so massive because he's just stuffed himself with weapons whatever the case I like it a dinosaur shooting a laser beam is pretty much everything that my child self was looking for in life so sure give me more of the Queen beam but as for our main focus of the chapter we do come to Hylgora so this was something that I noticed but quite frankly couldn't be bothered to talk about in the last chapter review but Hylgora did indeed resume his more chonk form in chapter 1005 and I assumed it was some sort of invocation of Sameik Ikan which is life return or the same sort of thing that Algi did on Dress Rosa I think that was called Geo Ken or Geophist in English but it was a martial art style that amongst other things allowed him to somehow literally conserve and store muscle power from his youth in order to call upon it in his old age quite a cool idea actually and I do wish we got and see a bit more of it the Hylgora situation is quite different though it's nothing that he seems to have really done on purpose more the results are being infected by Queen's ice demon shenaniganry but Hylgora serves as the key thread of this chapter which is potentially problematic to me because it requires me to care about him in any way for that to work and look harsh personal truth here I just don't feel strongly in any way about Hylgora he's a kind of cool old man guy but I know very little about him and I have even less of a connection to the Ark as a dude bros that he is admittedly beautifully asking to end his life for him what I will say is it would be interesting if he died though having earlier stated that you really shouldn't expect a waltz into the territory of an emperor and come out unscathed well Hylgora would serve as a good Pedro towards that idea and when you think about it Wano is actually going very very well at the moment despite the fact that we are dealing with double emperors surely someone's got to permanently go down at some stage and an actual casualty would probably help that feeling of desperation to emerge but I just don't know if that's what's going to happen here because it's one piece and we could easily open up on chapter 1007 with Chopper finishing the antidote saving his life and making this more or less you know false drama I wish I cared more about Hylgora but I just don't and look it is a sweet moment there's definitely a somber feeling attached to seeing this old man look back on his life as well as appreciate the future whether he's in it or not I just don't think that we or I guess I should more accurately say me know enough about Hylgora for this to really hit hard let me know if it does hit with you guys though I'm very curious to hear what you all think of it but some pretty cool stuff happened with chapter 1006 outside of the chapter as well firstly one piece was on the cover weekly shonen jump and it's a pretty damn cool cover a truly superb shot of the monster tree of the worst generation very much echoing the whole when you're at sea you fight against pirate scene and this is a cover that I really want to pick up actually I've had to force myself to stop collecting jumps years and years ago actually because they're pretty massive and they just take up far too much space but I may very well need to make an exception because that's not all we also have one of the most interesting color spreads I think this series may have ever seen this is a full-on image of the top players of the beast pirates which is pretty wild because I think this may be the first time we've had a color spread in the series that features no straw hats whatsoever I might be wrong in that but I can't think of any other off the top of my head even the promotional one film said which featured every marine in the series to that point it still had the straw hats in it I do really like it though especially getting see the toby ropa because it's still quite a novelty to have them in color I always forget that who's who has this crimson red scheme going on and he definitely has my favorite design of the six ah so who's who is literally satan and just on a minor artistic note I've pointed this out using a similar spread on this channel before but this is a very basic but effective technique just observe the gaze of all of the characters kaito and king are acting as the central pillar of the spread looking right at you but the characters to the left and to the right are either looking or facing in their respective directions which is a major aspect of why this image is so well balanced and a pure pleasure to look at it's also a legitimately fantastic color spread and it makes me wish that we got more like these for the other antagonistic crews but if you are interested in some more antagonistic emperor action and please do check out this video which ranks each one of our glorious emperors plenty of kaito so I look forward to seeing you there