Both panels share the same wide-panel grammar: an entire inhabited island wrenched free of the ocean, big ocean waves anchoring the bottom of the frame, the landmass rising into a cloud layer above, debris/water trailing. It is not just thematically alike — the layout (sea-floor → rising-island → cloud-sky vertical stack) is the same staging, ~700 chapters apart.
The semantic rhyme is just as tight: in both cases a risen sky-island is immediately claimed by a conquering tyrant who intends to erase the people already on the land below — Skypiea’s self-styled Kami (“Drag them out!”) and Kaido (“Kozuki is finished… New Onigashima… World of Violence”). Skypiea was the arc that first established the “a populated island can be lifted bodily into the sky and re-named by its conqueror” rule via the Knock-Up Stream; Wano cashes that rule’s visual memory for Kaido’s flame-cloud levitation.
Watch-for lesson: when Oda lifts a landmass off the sea, look back to the Jaya/Skypiea staging — the wide sea-waves-below / island-rising-above panel, and the conqueror’s “this is mine now, remove the natives” beat that follows it. The mechanism is reskinned each time (Knock-Up Stream geyser → Kaido’s flame clouds) but the panel and the power-grab are the same.
