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Chapter 510: Straw Hat Pirates vs. War Machine
This chapter's foreshadowing ledger — what it plants, what it pays off, and what debuts here. Locked seeds pay off beyond your ⚓ progress; tap one to reveal it anyway.
- Plants
- 2 seeds🌱 name-etymology🌱 visual-silhouette
- Pays off
- 2 chainsKuma - name foreshadows Saint Bartholomew flaying-as-sacrifice arcBasil Hawkins Today I Will Not Die Survival Power
- Firsts
- Bartholomew Kuma
- Franky identifies the war machine as 'just an ordinary human body, modified to carry weapons' — a cyborg like himself — but notes its skin still bleeds; a bomb fired into its mouth short-circuits and detonates it, exposing a destructible mouth-beam emitter (pp. 13-15).
- Kizaru's first NAMED technique: 'Sacred Yata Mirror' (Yata-no-Kagami) — a light-speed travel/strike that levels Sabaody buildings (pp. 3-5).
- Basil Hawkins
- Sentomaru
- Transponder-snail lore: Kizaru carries a 'miniature transponder snail' and a 'black transponder snail' (a wiretap variant worn on the arm) (p. 8).
Arc: Sabaody Archipelago · Saga: Summit War · Released:
Summary
Admiral Kizaru (Borsalino) continues his rampage across Sabaody, blasting buildings and unveiling his first named technique, the light-speed “Sacred Yata Mirror.” He corners Basil Hawkins, whose card / straw-voodoo-doll power redirects the killing blow onto his own crew so that Hawkins himself survives unscathed. A Transponder Snail call from Sentomaru (heard, not shown) informs Kizaru that the Marines have pinned the Sabaody incident on three rookies — Luffy, Captain Kid, and Trafalgar Law — and the Admiral sets to work. Cut to Grove 12, where the Straw Hats are pinned down by a “war machine” / “human weapon” built to look exactly like the Warlord Bartholomew Kuma. Franky recognizes it as a modified human body like his own cyborg frame; the crew throws everything they have at it — Robin, Chopper, Franky, Brook, Nami, Sanji (still hurt from Thriller Bark), Zoro’s Asura, and finally Luffy’s Gear Third Gum-Gum Giant Rifle — after discovering that a bomb down its throat short-circuits it and that its skin still bleeds.
New reveals
- The “war machine.” The World Government has a completed cyborg human weapon modeled exactly on a Warlord of the Sea (Kuma), fighting the Straw Hats at Grove 12 (pp. 9-19). First on-page completed unit of the program catalogued at Pacifista (the name “Pacifista” itself is not spoken this chapter).
- It is a modified human, not a true Logia/zoan. Franky: “He’s like me — just an ordinary human body, modified to carry weapons!” Its skin still bleeds, and a bomb in its mouth short-circuits/detonates it (pp. 13-15) — i.e. it has internal, destructible machinery and a mouth-beam emitter.
- Kizaru’s “Sacred Yata Mirror” (Yata-no-Kagami) — first named technique; light-speed mobility/strike (pp. 3-5).
- Hawkins’s survival power — a card draw + straw voodoo doll transfers fatal damage onto his crew; Hawkins is untouched (pp. 5-7).
- Marine target list: the three culprits are Straw Hat Luffy, Captain Kid, and Trafalgar Law (p. 8).
- Transponder-snail variants: a “miniature transponder snail” and a “black transponder snail” (wiretap model, arm-worn) (p. 8).
Foreshadowing seeds planted
Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)
Mentions / appearances
- Shown: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Nico Robin, Tony Tony Chopper, Franky, Brook, Kizaru, Basil Hawkins · the unnamed war machine (see Pacifista).
- Heard only (Transponder Snail, not shown): Sentomaru.
- Named, not shown: Eustass Kid, Trafalgar Law, Kuma (referenced as the Warlord the war machine resembles).
- Groups / lore: Straw Hat Pirates, Marines, Eleven Supernovas, Seven Warlords of the Sea, Marine Admirals, Cyborg, Den Den Mushi, Yarukiman Mangrove.
- Location: Sabaody Archipelago (Grove 12 — the Straw Hats; the city groves — Kizaru).
Notable panels
- p. 1 — Title page. Cover story: “CP9’S INDEPENDENT REPORT, VOL. 18: ‘CANDY PIRATES AT THE ST. POPLAR PORT!’” .
- pp. 3-5 — Kizaru’s “Sacred Yata Mirror”; his Marine coat reads 正義 (“Justice”).
- pp. 5-7 — Kizaru vs. Basil Hawkins; the straw-doll damage transfer (“PLOP” — crew collapse).
- p. 8 — Kizaru–Sentomaru Transponder Snail call; the three culprits named; black/miniature snail lore.
- p. 9 — Caption “SABAODY ARCHIPELAGO, GROVE 12”; Zoro down (“ZOLO!!!”), Sanji visibly hurt from Thriller Bark; “He looks exactly like one of the Seven Warlords!”
- pp. 10-17 — Full-crew assault: Robin (Cloven Cherry Blossom Blizzard / Spider Net / Ochenta Fleurs Cuatro Mano), Chopper (Rumble Ball transform), Franky (Strong Hammer / Franky Boxing / Atlas Comet), Brook (Swallow Bond En Avant), Nami (Thunder Lance Tempo), Sanji (Diable Jamble / Flambage Shot).
- pp. 17-18 — Zoro Asura (“Nine-Sword Style” / “Demon Nine Flash”) — Chopper: “So many Zolos!!!” (p.18’s back-view, radial sword-fan, demon-aura-bloom lunge is the seed composition restaged against the dragon Kaido Ch. 1010 p.9 — Zoro Asura Demon-Nine-Flash Composition Restaged From The Kuma War-Machine To The Dragon Kaido)
- pp. 18-19 — Luffy Gear Third → Gum-Gum Giant Rifle slams the war machine.
- p. 20 — SBS Question Corner: “Mayumi Tanaka, Voice of Luffy!” .
Open questions raised
- What is the war machine, who built it, and how many exist? (Completed unit shown; mass-production only implied.)
- Why is it modeled exactly on the Warlord Bartholomew Kuma — and what does that imply about Kuma?
- Can the Straw Hats actually destroy it, or is this a delaying fight while Kizaru closes in?