I went into this chapter pretty skeptical about the eating thing, the design, and the kick.
First off, Katakuri's design was hilarious. That transition of the Elephant Gun to Katakuri laying on the ground esctatic over donuts was so ****ing funny. I enjoyed it, but I'm sure that moment is gonna unveil all of the people who loved Katakuri only cause he looked like a cool Mad Max villain.
The eating thing, to me, makes sense, but highlights the main issue with this arc, and that's that a lot of the things could have been better with some more build-up. Things like hints and clues to them before. Katakuri running out of patience so he leaves Luffy underneath a pile of shit-shaped Mochi so he can have snack time makes sense, it just wasn't set-up properly and alluded to within Katakuri's character, so it's inclusion is really jarring. Something like Katakuri or Perospero saying/thinking "They're interfering with snack time" would have been perfect foreshadowing to Katakuri dropping the guard.
The chefs thinking about how people are most vulnerable when eating should have been dialogue that would be included way earlier in the arc. Putting that during the wedding would have been excellent build up to Katakuri's snack time, but including it in this very chapter while it's happening just seems like Oda is shoehorning in a justification for why Katakuri would leave Luffy open.
Katakuri had no way of knowing Luffy would be able to eat his way out of that Mochi wall anyways. Yeah, confirming the kill is always better and it's cliche, but it's also understandable why he left him there. I'm glad Luffy was able to figure out a hole in Katakuri's ability as opposed to just suddenly powering-up magically in the middle of the fight. With Gear Fourth out, we'll be able to fully see if Luffy stands any chance, but if Cracker is any indication, he'll still end up being below Kata and will probably have to rely on exploiting this weakness.
Chap was a 3.5-4/5 to me.
> Katakuri dodged anything luffy brought (faster than Gear 2)
> Can see future with haki
> Overpowered gear third Luffy attack
Instead of Luffy intelligently countering katakuri speed + haki, the n#gga gets a nerf for Luffy to connect. I mean dafuq Oda
>Luffy figures out Katakuri's ability and the hole/weakness in it
"Ermahgawd, Oda nerfed Kata"