The first act of the arc ended on a major cliffhanger in which Luffy met with Eustass Kid for the first time in hundreds of episodes, and the latest episode of the series expanded on this further.

Kid is one of the few characters in the series that could be viewed as Luffy’s “rival,” and now that the two have been reunited in the Udon prison, their loud personalities have made them ...

I put some pictures of Luffy in that book and I also put some pictures of me when I was a little kid because Luffy reminds me a lot of me when I was a little kid … I remember I did this thing ...

And there’s no better figurehead for this thematic throughline than Luffy, a kid who shuns any typical character arc through what seems like sheer force of will. His desires in the first episode ...