Momonosuke Became A Little Dragon In Punk Hazards Secret Room
Status: confirmed · Technique: chekhov-explicit
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(TBD.)
Why this matters
Oda plants the report of Momonosuke’s dragon transformation (dialogue from the rescued children) one beat before the dragon-child is shown on-page — the classic “name the impossible event, then reveal it” structure. Cross-link Momonosuke, Kin’emon.