 Hello and welcome to the ground line review your source for everything one piece and today we're going to do something a little unusual for this year channel, but I thought why not because Act 3 of Wano is incoming and I thought it would be a bit of fun to provide some predictions and I have chosen seven arbitrary things to talk about bear in mind that I don't take any of these too seriously it's more just whatever popped into my head as what I see being a strong possibility given the information that we have from acts one and two and of course Oda being Oda he's likely to do something completely different to what every other person in the world would expect anyway. However before we move on for those of you who are not margaritas this video may possibly contain spoilers or illusions to spoilers so do proceed at your own peril but for everyone else let's jump straight into it and first up I would like to submit that Act 3 will be the longest act in the entirety of Wano. I've arrived at this conclusion because after two acts and despite the fact that a war is about to begin thus potentially signifying some sort of climax I don't think we are anywhere near ready for some sort of conclusion Wano still has far too many mysteries at play and Oda is still very much setting up this chess board albeit in a more action based setting now. I think we have a lot of complications to work through during Act 3 and I would say that it will take the better part of an entire year of publication to get through. So for some context Act 1 of Wano consisted of 16 chapters while Act 2 almost doubled that number with 30 chapters and for Act 3 to be shorter than Act 2 is almost inconceivable given the sheer amount of characters and plot to work through especially if there's large amounts of action involved because those scenes take up a lot of page space and generally don't progress the plot too much. And for a direct comparison let's also remember that the entire climax of Whole Cake Island once Big Mums started chasing the Straw Hats took just about 30 chapters as well and there was significantly less to deal with on Whole Cake Island than we have to look at at Wano. So as it stands I'm also leaning towards Wano having a total of five acts placing three smack bang in the middle dealing with alliances strategies complications and story whilst Act 4 will be where the big action occurs and potentially hold the defeat of Kaido. Whilst Act 5 will exist as more of an epilogue to wrap up the great adventure on the land of Samurai. But we are nowhere near that stage yet and in fact I'd like to point out that I bet we aren't even halfway through the Wano arc. So Act 3 has a lot of work to do and I think we should all get very very comfortable because we may be here a while. Next up for Act 3 of Wano I predict that we will see a round two of Luffy vs Kaido and yes I say round two implying that there will be a round three as well. Now look despite apparently having become somewhat proficient at advanced arm that doesn't quite close the gaping chasm of power between Luffy and Kaido nor do I think any amount of training of a will. However that certainly isn't going to stop a man as driven and as optimistic as Luffy so I think that much like his three round bout against Crocodile Luffy is going to need to take another loss before he realizes the true path to victory whatever that is. Speaking narratively it would also be good to show some progress on Luffy's part as the first engagement ended in him being one-shot. So if he just leaps into a much more even fight against one of the four emperors I think it's going to be you know just a little bit learning advanced arm and Taki is great and all but I don't think that that is the solution here and if anything it's more along the lines of teaming up with the rest of the worst generation to pull off some sort of stunning effort of teamwork but I don't think that will happen in Act 3 just Luffy and possibly even Kid trying against stubbornly and getting wrecked in the process and that feeling of defeat also very much lines up with my next prediction being that the allied forces on Wano will be absolutely decimated and perhaps even left on the verge of complete defeat. Now a lot of my thinking here has to do with where I believe we are in the structure of the story so if Wano is a five act piece as I suspect then that plonks us straight in the middle of the half portion of the Johaku model of storytelling which was applied to traditional Japanese plays and one common feature about the third act of those plays is that they contain a moment of great drama or tragedy. Narratively you could say that this is where the story reaches its lowest point then going on to use act 4 to rectify and act 5 to conclude swiftly and I don't really think that there is any greater potential for drama than having all of the efforts of the allied forces nullified and on the verge of annihilation. Although I should say that this doesn't necessarily need to be the case and a moment of great tragedy could be achieved otherwise like it was in Act 2 with Yasu's death. However I think that in order to hit the readers that tragedy is going to have to strike a little closer to home this time around like yes Yasu's untimely demise was incredibly sad but we really hadn't had that much time to bond with him as a character however that is not the case for all of the main players participating in this battle. So along with Luffy facing off against and losing once again to Kaido I believe that act 3 will leave the allied forces at the complete mercy of the beast pirates requiring rescue by the inevitable force that will show up. Speaking of inevitable forces act 3 also seems like about the right time for Dendro to either show up or to have his fate become known to us. Of all of the red scabbards this is the only one who still remains a mystery and there's no way that this mystery can go on into the action based climax. To be honest though this prediction is probably low hanging fruit because narratively even if I'm wrong about the five act structure that just gives him all the more cause to be revealed in act 3 here. So for example if Wano ends up being a four act arc which is entirely possible and would also adhere to the traditional Japanese narrative structure known as Kishotenketsu then there's no room for Dendro to be a plot point in the fourth act because that would be the conclusion and in that case we are going to find out about our final samurai in this portion of Wano. On a similar note act 3 is also going to put this traitor business to rest and inform us of exactly how Kaido and Orachi always seem to know vital pieces of information regarding the allied forces. Now this whole talk of a traitor began way back in the Zo'ak when Jack was able to find the roaming island on two occasions causing the minks to speculate that he may have a viviacard leading them to the island meaning that somebody Onzo was leading Jack directly to them. Now if that is indeed the case then that person is almost certainly a mink and there is a very popular theory out there that Karat is the traitor which while I do find intriguing I'm not entirely on board with. Due to how act 2 ended it would also look like Oda wants us to believe that lore may be a traitor if not the traitor but he wasn't Onzo when Jack founded initially although I guess lore could have given Jack Beppo's viviacard although I think that's an incredible stretch, even more of a stretch than the Karat idea actually. Still there is an undeniable air of ominicity and act 3 is going to settle this for us by having whatever traitor there is reveal themselves and so it may be a huge revelation like Karat or one of the red scabbards or it might be something much much smaller like a background mink character who is caught passing on information we shall see. Another thing that act 3 is practically begging for is the incoming flashback featuring Kozuki Oden. As it stands now we still know next to nothing about the tragedy that took place on Wano and we haven't seen anything but silhouettes of the key figures being Oden and Lady Toki. Now there's no way we can get into a proper action-based conclusion without seeing this flashback because this is an established one-piece storytelling device. We need to see the heartfelt flashback so that the eventual moment of victory has more emotional resonance. Think back to lore's flashback on Dressrosa, Robin's on any slobby, Nami's on Arlong Park and even Nolan's in Skypea. In each and every case the big emotional story needed to play out immediately before the significant action began and regardless of whether this is a four or five act story this is the time to do it and I am very much looking forward to it because every time we get a new piece of information regarding Oden it makes me more and more excited to see him. Oh and as a sub prediction I also think that we should expect this flashback to last quite a while in the grand scheme of things similar to lore's I suspect which was just over six chapters long because anything less is unlikely to be able to do this grand story that Oda has set up here much just as at all. And finally my seventh prediction for act 3 of Wano will be that Jinbei finally makes an appearance. Now Oda has been very tight-lipped about what has happened to our favorite whale sharks since the end of Whole Cake Island but he has said in an interview that despite being an official member of the straw hats he does not want to draw him in color spreads as it would spoil an upcoming surprise most likely meaning that he has had some sort of change in appearance and while many including myself are going to assume the worst there like a missing arm or some sort of rapid aging by the hands of big mom act 3 feels like the right time for him to get back into the game because here's the thing about Wano this is going to be the first time that the entirety of the straw hats are going to be fighting together since punk has it and without having Jinbei there it just would not feel complete and this also may be the reason why we still haven't seen a full straw hat reunion on Wano despite everyone having been on the island for a year of publication now so it would make sense for the first proper reunion to occur with Jinbei there and to then take him into whatever the final climax is but that pretty much does it for an arbitrary seven predictions of events to occur in act 3 of Wano. 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So this whole thing comes from a comedy group that visited Otis home studio and one of the members asked when Otis was looking to finish the series and now while it is true that Otis said that he wanted to finish it in the next five years you cannot take this as any sort of set in stone response. We need to remember that anything Otis says in terms of timeline is guaranteed to be wrong because hey originally he wanted to have one piece last for five years total but here we are 22 years later and uh yeah what I won't deny is that we are definitely getting into the end game of one piece. Wano is going to be a massive arc so there's a lot of time to be taken there but after that Luffy will have three of the four road ponder glyphs ready to set off to Raftel so maybe there's another big arc to find the final one like Elba for something to do with the marines but we are in the end portion of our journey with the series I just suspect the finishing it will take a bit longer than five years hopefully anyway so let's not all go crazy with putting a five year timer on one piece because it just may surprise you I'm hungry what should I eat oh good question well if it was I who were hungry what I would do was weigh up my cooking skills as well as how much time I could be bothered to dedicate to making a meal against the amount of money it would take to have something delivered right to my door like honey chicken for example so you know what it's settled you're having honey chicken no I don't care if you're gluten intolerant you really should have thought of that before asking someone else to pick your sustenance for you enjoy