It's not like he wasn't taking things seriously, he was just shaken.
Heroic Second Wind, except evil. Same thing happened with Luffy more than once: he lost his first fight against Lucci because his head wasn't in the game.
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They should be proud they got Kaido to take them serious I suppose.
You talking about Yamato ODEN?
So... anyone else think this cover page
might be a stylized depiction of the Ancient Weapons? There's a giant ship (Pluton) with sea monsters below it (Poseidon) and... something, hovering in the sky above (Uranus?).
Also, hm, even the people who aren't literally forced to smile all the time are forcing themselves to smile all the time. I feel like that's deliberate, especially since smiles are an Arc Symbol in this series and an Arc Word for the New World in particular.

Wow, that was a good one. Man with an entire gorilla growing out of his arm, yowza.
And I knew the Scabbards were going to lose, but did not expect their assault last chapter to do literally nothing, damn.