Another fantastic chapter! This is naturally going the way that it was obvious it should. A lot of people doubted Oda or were worried about what he was doing, but this makes perfect sense plot-wise for Luffy to have faced Kaido early on, get stomped and then end up meeting Kidd in prison.
Now we are in the second act of the Kabuki play, this will be the 'break' where everyone regroups and decides how to proceed after this upset. The advantage now is that they can continue their plans in secret without having to worry about Luffy running all over the place and getting them all noticed!
How they will actually defeat Kaido is yet to be seen, but I'm subscribing more and more to the theory that Big Mom will turn up and cause some havoc. My issue is that there is no way that Luffy can spend his time training before facing Kaido again, because he's in jail - so I don't see it being as straightforward as 'Gets beat - trains and powers up - beats enemy' It would be more plausible that someone turns up and causes a skirmish, and Luffy + Kidd are broken out of prison in the confusion. But I'm sure that they will then join in the fight - no way is Luffy gonna walk away from this one. The fact that he was glaring at Kaido while unconscious says it all really!
The faces of Franky, Robin and Usopp are just priceless! I tried to look up if this was related in some way to the Kabuki theme, and I found something called 'Mie' - a type of pose that Kabuki actors adopt during the climax of a particularly important part of the performance, with exaggerated facial expressions.
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I could be wrong though, as the SH's faces are waaay more exaggerated than a standard Mie pose but that could just be Oda doin things his way as usual haha!
Really love the way that this arc has played out so far - honestly it's a real work of art! Shame that Toei will screw it all up once it's animated.... I'll still watch it anyway though lol.