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holy fucking Dragon batman. Showing the entire revolutionary arc of Kuma is basically insane. considering the lack of bonney at the end of the chapter, which is situated 14 years before present, i'm starting to think it's possible that she's a clone of ginny, that kuma got to raise in exchange for getting experimented on by Vegapunk to develop the pacifistas
YOOO AND THERE'S NO BREAK EITHER.
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I don't know how to feel about Kuma's whole thing with taking people's pain. We now get why Kuma was so impressed with Zoro's ability to take all of luffy's pain back in Thriller Bark, but I feel like Oda's going to challenge Kuma's personal ideology in the next chapter big time.
Also to the extent to which Kuma is willing to use his devil fruit abilities is interesting. I'm guessing he doesn't wipe out the king of Sorbet kingdom immediately because it would alert the WG, but also the fact that no one can actually defeat Kuma on a one on one (including Sakazuki).
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Kuma seems like he has some kind of martyr complex. Like he earnestly wants to help people but doesn't know how to do it without shouldering all the burden himself. That might come in to play when he tries to rescue Ginny
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the most tortured man in literature, i love kuma so much. which says mostly that i can't get the protestant brainworms out of my bones but yknow.