I kind of view them as his children. They are varying degrees of alive (some are robots, some are robots that look human, some are humans that look like robots).
I love how Luffy poison immunity came back, its a thing he's always had in his pocket that enemies never expect because really nobody other than Ivankov knows about it
He has some level of immunity, but he's not completely immune to poison.
I was under the impression that he was aware of Vegapunk's message, and was intentionally triggering it.
Is Oda himself creating it? asking because already the manga has been taking more breaks because of Oda overworking himself and getting health problems, meaning the novels could slow down the manga even more.
Lucci had always been a pile of contradictory actions and behaviors. Starting from the time he worked undercover for years as a peaceful shipwright, despite supposedly being a thrill killer (and also supposedly being a compulsive thruth-teller who needs to use his ventriloquism psychological trick to avoid saying exactly what he thinks about any matter discussed at the moment). Then he honors the promise to Robin until the declaration of war moment, even though from the moment Robin is put into seastone cuffs he has no reason to, this goes against his supposed principle of Dark Justice, and Straw Hats just keep insisting on fighting CP9. Then he and his team outright defect after getting blamed for Enies Lobby and he personally promises Spandam to murder him. Then he not just accepts WG's apology and promotion, but cranks worship of them to 11 in his next appearance, and in that appearance he also intentionally exacerbates a situation polically problematic for them. And this is before the current arc.
Just checked…and he’s not. Just some more stuff not released in the west.
I honestly just think that the CP9 cover story is just non-sense in general and should be ignored entirely anyways. CP9 didn't exactly seem all that warm and friendly towards each other.
Haven’t all the cover stories just been some fun filler? That sometimes can serve as some development? Didn’t the Koby and Helmeppo Marine training play a big subplot in the live action series?
Some matter and some dont
The Jimbe one also explained how BM got a regular ponegylph, but that's not as narrative shaking.
I'm always fond of how somewhat significant Luffy almost dying to Magellan is, even at this point. The early stages of Post-Timeskip feature characters with poison abilities.
You and the Thunderdome.
Ah, yes, my favorite Jew...
I think there's an argument to be made that most of them have at least some effect, though some are greater than others. Like how Hatchan's story sets up his role in Sabaody or Caribou's leads into his appearance in Wano.