 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review, your source for everything one piece. Today we have a manga review of chapter 936, The Great Sumo Inferno Tournament. And so I think the thing we mostly all predicted has come to fruition with a deathmatch of sorts being put into action by Queen, which is finally giving us a taste of his more sadistic side with the color and everything. And the best part of all of this was any time that Luffy interacted with Queen, because Queen is just ridiculous enough to get caught up in Luffy's idiocy, and I really really enjoyed when Luffy called him balloon guy. In doing so, Luffy also set his own victory conditions for The Great Sumo Inferno, even if it isn't set up to be a contest that one can actually win. It's more about delaying death or simply giving up. So it seems that we're going to send in wave after wave of increasingly stronger opponents of video game style for Luffy to trash, which is quite convenient really, because I imagine that after a certain amount of time pretty much every relevant officer figure within the prison of mine will be rendered out of action, thus making the eventual chaotic escape significantly easier. Realistically speaking though, without the Seastone Cuffs it's got to come down to Queen entering the ring himself, because surely there's nobody else here who could handle Luffy. And from there we have a few possibilities. The most likely one in my mind is that their conflict gets interrupted by the Big Mama escape team, although given how goofy Queen is, I also wouldn't put it past Oda to craft a more comical ending to the tournament, where Queen is accidentally forced out of the ring somehow in a shocking turn of events. But the tournament does begin this week, and there is an absolutely beautifully drawn panel of Luffy activating Konkurasaki, which seems so simple, you know, it's a straight on shot of just half of his face, but Luffy's expression is just terrifyingly perfect. Like if you ever see someone smiling at you like that, then you know you're in for a bad time. I guess the other thing to flag here is that Kaomatsu has a connection to Yogoro, so he is very potentially an Exyakusa himself. Once again he remains completely enshrouded though, and I find it quite interesting that Oda is going to such great lengths to keep him hidden. It's really building the anticipation for one hell of a big reveal of this character, which can go one of two ways really. Either we're going to be introduced to some tragically maimed and malnourished individual with some heavy, heavy shock value, or we're going to be introduced to another completely absurd looking citizen of Wano, possibly the most absurd looking we've seen so far. And I know that a lot of people are hoping for Kaomatsu to look like an incredible badass, but at this stage I can definitely see the latter option occurring. Another unexpected highlight of the chapter for me though was any time Raizo was present at all. I feel like I've said this before, but this ninja has really grown on me. When he was first introduced during Zo' I was pretty disappointed, but his comic value just cannot be denied. I loved the part in the beginning where he was stealthily speaking with Kaomatsu, but as soon as the cart behind him moved away, his gigantic and not at all classically ninja form was put on full display and immediately spotted by the guards. He also had another great moment where he claimed that he'd put in a lot of work to get the key to Luffy's handcuffs as they were being taken off him. So yeah, at the moment he is far and away my favorite member of the Kinamon gang, and the saddest stuff about the potential of the Prisoner Mind stuff ending is that we won't be able to see any more of Raizo's madness in there. Alright, on to the next half or so of the chapter though, and we are back at the bath house. I spent some time last week arguing that what we saw was completely unnecessary, as well as the fact that I'd gladly eat my words if Oda made it relevant to the plot. So I'm going to concede this week that the bath house, for better or worse, was very relevant to the plot. I am still really conflicted though. On the one hand I do make a point to defend wacky moves by Oda, because that really is the core fabric of One Piece. On the other hand I don't think what happened here was, you know, quite wacky enough to justify so easily evading two members of the worst generation. Like sure, Drake can't handle naked women, that's fine. That doesn't damage his character any more than it damages Saesange's character. In fact I'm quite happy that we finally actually learnt something about the guy's personality. Hawkins is very much a different matter though. I'm still not entirely sure what happened here to be honest, because he was on the verge of capturing or wounding or whatever in Nami, and then as soon as her towel slipped off he just disappeared. He doesn't seem to have been knocked out with the happiness punch, and it's just really unclear what happened from that point onwards until he reappeared when Drake came in. Initially what I thought had happened was that Saesange got sent flying back into Hawkins while he was still invisible, but yeah I just, I don't know and I think the whole scene in general is just a bit clunkily put together. Another example is that we immediately cut from Saesange on the ground in a bad situation to him skywalking with Nami, Robin, and Shinobu. And it's just like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, how did you escape both Drake and Hawkins? And yeah I'm sure that's something that the anime will expand on, but it felt a bit weird in the chapter. And I can't help but feel like these little oddities are all for the sake of a bathhouse scene, which you know, delivered on its promises I guess with a very, very naked Nami. But whether or not that was worth it, I'm not so sure. I did enjoy that both Drake and Hawkins were able to recognize stealth black though. They probably won't be able to put together that it's Saesange because they seem to have been fairly isolated as of late and they probably aren't aware of the whole Vinsmu connection. But it would be interesting if they say reported to Kaido that the German were present on Wano and then they got embroiled in everything just by association. You know, if they're I guess even still alive after Holkek Island that is. And the final piece of this chapter moves us to the mysterious wanderings of Zoro, which I quite like because when you think about it, the chapter mainly focuses on three characters, Luffy, Saesange, and Zoro. So it felt like a nice catch up with the Monster Trio. But in regards to the Zoro section there was a great panel on the last page where Zoro has his evil smile on. It's very reminiscent of Luffy's smile earlier in the chapter and it's how you know that shit is about to go down. But as suspected the Shusui has been taken. So for now Zoro is a neat audio user. Although I don't think that's going to last particularly long given that we have Mr. Weapons Collector over here. Although the interesting thing is that Zoro doesn't seem overly concerned with losing Shusui, which you know he's held and mastered for two years. So it may very well be much easier than expected to get the Nidaki Tetsu into his hands as well, which I'd be incredibly hyped for. Zoro testing out and getting to know new blades is always fun. Plus I should mention that Zoro's entire environment at the moment is just stunning. There is nothing more picturesque than a battle between swordsmen on a bridge in the snow. As a result I do hope that we see more of the fight, but this does seem set up so that we can just cut to the results of the conflict at a later chapter. Like Zoro rocks up to Kinamon with a sack full of weapons and casually states that he beat a dude sort of thing. But all in all this was a fairly solid chapter. Things are moving on Wano. In fact I didn't even mention the whole heart pirates being captured and that lore is about to be activated in a big way and there's also the idea that was suggested by Shinobu that their plan was leaked implying that there may be a traitor amongst the alliance which is incredibly intriguing so there is a lot going on here and I love it. Overall it was really enjoyable. Overall it was really enjoyable and I think it was very wise to put the bath house stuff in the middle of the chapter because it had a strong beginning and a strong ending with some clunky stuff in the middle which structurally leaves me with a very good impression of it. But that pretty much does it for chapter 936. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. 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