 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today we have review of chapter 961 The Mountain God Incident. And this week primarily presented a nice piece of action resolving the mountain ball business that was set up during last chapter as well as a bit of intrigue towards the end. However I do think that the biggest takeaway from 961 is that Odin is more than likely an individual targeted by circumstance. Chapter 960 went to a lot of effort to let us in on Odin's so-called exploits but I think that this chapter provides the element of truth behind most of if not all of those events because it doesn't feel to me like Odin is some delinquent who goes on to recklessly cause all of these incidents. However he is there to resolve them and take responsibility for them which is what has led to his poor reputation up until this point. That and the fact that Odin's honorable actions are not generally seen as such by the public case in point last week when he was introduced dining atop the remains of an acquaintance. But like every case of misunderstanding there are always first-hand witnesses who do know the truth of the matter. In this case being Kinamon, Dendro and a selection of other members of the capital. And I feel like that is going to be a very key aspect going forward. And you know when I think about it right now Odin kind of mirrors Luffy somewhat with his ability to charm people and make allies through his actions. At the same time Luffy can also put a lot of people off with his more unconventional moves and is perceived by the world as a terrifying pirate threat. Having caused a series of incidents of his own garnering a reputation just as bad if not worse than Odin. They also have very similar desires of setting out to the open seas and adventuring across the world. You know I feel like if Luffy had been born on Wano then this is more or less exactly how he would have turned out. Brash powerful and with a strong sense of desire to see the world outside of its borders. So with that in mind I'm having a very good time getting to know Odin because of that sense of familiarity and the knowledge that characters like this seem to go on to have a profound effect in the world which we are already seeing in the current timeline. Plus the entire sequence with him in the mountain god was wonderfully drawn as well with the big focus being on the moment where he cut it down and saved the residents of the capital. But my favorite panel of the chapter was actually when Odin first jumped into the fray and was holding the young boar above him with one hand. I love the depth of the shading on Odin's semi-silowetted figure as well as the mountain god itself which had such a wonderful side glance of sheer rage directly at Odin. And then to contrast all of that you have the baby boar drawn perfectly normally like it's in way over its head in this situation. I really appreciate this panel though because I feel like every other shot of the mountain god lacks that sense of fear that we should be feeling in regards to a creature of this size. In the other panels the mountain god is drawn fairly flatly and it does look like just a big ol' pigum. However this one panel thanks to fairly simple shading and composition does wonderfully to convey the threat that this creature is and why it is called the mountain god. And while the god would appear to be disposed of it does make me wonder what happened to the younger boar and if it will be at all relevant in the future. Like when we come back to the current timeline is it going to make an appearance in its adult form. Now the size of the mountain god we saw in this chapter and play you know a small part in future events. It might seem like an odd thing for me to focus on but Odin does do that sort of thing with animals. The best example I can think of off the top of my head is Nola who appeared in the Noland Calgara flashback during skypear and who was revealed to be the lord of the sky in the current timeline. Nothing major but just a nice little piece of connectivity. Like I wouldn't be surprised to see another mountain god popping up down the line. Now with all this focus on Odin I also don't want to forget Kinamon. Odin got all of the glory here but Kinamon holds the emotional weight of this chapter. Which is once again surprising because well it's Kinamon. It was fantastic to see him hopeless going up against the mountain god though and I really could feel his sheer determination to get Surubak. I think the last handful of wano chapters have really shown me a new side to Kinamon that I never would have thought possible when we first encountered him. Well well when we encountered parts of him during the punk hazard arc. He's becoming a much stronger presence to me and a better character in general so I'm quite excited to see him continue to grow even though it will probably be in a most tragic manner. Actually maybe not because he and Suru do get married eventually so maybe we'll see that in this flashback. That would be a nice jolt of joy. Now the other undeniable presence in this chapter is that twist of intrigue I mentioned before with the introduction of a young orichi who rather sadly fits into all of this as Yasu's manservant and actually just on that it was a bit of a hit in the gut to see Yasu again especially immediately followed by orichi. You know just knowing how he met his demise and everything it was just ah but it is interesting to see how orichi is beginning to fit into all of this because it would seem that he has a proper rags to riches story going on starting from humble beginnings as one of society's lowest ranking members rising all the way to the shogun of the entire nation. Now knowing orichi we know that this journey will be much less earned then it will be a result of foul play that's almost certain but I guess the thing about placing orichi here is that he has access to the inner circle of the kozuki clan so that perhaps when this whole kaito business does eventually drop he will be pretty fantastically positioned to betray the clan just due to the level of access he has but what I'm most interested to explore is if Oda was going to try and redeem orichi at all or just leave him as a bad guy for the sake of being a bad guy and right now I'm honestly not sure which I would prefer at this very moment because yeah there is a chance that he becomes a more empathetic antagonist as a result of this flashback with a little seed being planted here of Odin calling him a creep you know this could be the beginning of a very toxic association for orichi who perhaps after many years of being berated over and over by Odin just breaks and decides to betray the kozuki clan like yes he is an undeniable twisted little shit in modern day but he doesn't necessarily need to start out that way here it would be very interesting to see him start out with legitimately good intentions in life and to then see him being corrupted into the vat of scum that he is today but I don't know that that is the direction Oda's going to take a much more likely scenario in my mind is that orichi goes through this flashback always possessing a more sinister and ambitious mindset but we'll just have to see I guess as for other miscellaneous parts of the chapter I've seen a few people pointing out just how similarly that priest who appeared randomly looks to hold him in fact their similarities are almost impossible to deny with the exception of the whiskers which would have been devil fruit inflicted other than that they have a practically identical face with that said I highly doubt that it is hold them because that would surely make hold them like 60 to 70 years old in the modern timeline which I don't know I just don't see him being that old the other option of course is that he is a relative of hold them which I'm very much on board with because this isn't like a dendro kosher o comparison these facial features are pretty much exactly like and that is most certainly intentional so yeah I guess of all the characters we could be exploring hold them also has some stake in this flashback oddly enough and I also want to mention dendro briefly once again he despite being a popping element of the last chapter didn't really have a presence here whatsoever to me which isn't to say that he needs one what this chapter did was fine and I understand how dendro ended up following odin etc but immediately after finishing the chapter I forgot that he was in it all together going back on things dendro did have that nice moment of admiration for Odin with that starry gaze and everything so that is most certainly a sign that wherever or whoever dendro is he is 100% on the side of the kozuki clan so you know if say kyo shiro is just dendro wearing a wig or something then he would most certainly be joining the side of the scabbards and I both love and hate that idea because I quite enjoy kyo shiro as an antagonistic element in the series but there's just too much about him that flags ally in disguise especially with the whole hiori event whatever the case by the end of this flashback I guarantee that we'll have an answer regarding dendro in the current timeline and finally as I do like to do these days let's briefly examine the cover story because we are getting closer and closer to finding lola vito and godi have stumbled upon the victims of some sort of assault conducted by wildly large lips and you know it would seem to obviously be lola but perhaps that's a bit too obvious because odin takes some very weird directions in these cover stories and often sets up red herrings like this like I can see a situation where we get to the cover story of chapter 962 and it has vito and godi finding the perpetrator and it's a no karma or something who has been rampaging through dress rosa and then the fire tank pirates will get caught up in a separate mini event to stop that whole thing and this sort of misdirection is actually incredibly common like it happened during ace's cover story when he was searching for blackbeard and found dr blackbeard instead but hints have also been shown of it happening in this very cover story last week when beige himself found two people who looked exactly like lola from behind and we're also very early into this story so he don't expect us to find lola quite this quickly but even so the story continues to be a lot of fun nonetheless and I love that godi has to cover up his gigantic arm to try and blend in with polite society but that pretty much does it for chapter 961 if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general and please do consider donating to the ground line review 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information would have been discovered by now but I do have to admit that discovering it on the battlefield would lead to one hell of a huge reaction if one pieces are great why isn't there a two piece you know what fair criticism though