R: Are the Den Den Mushi series animals, or machines?

O: They’re animals. Insects.

• Baby Den Den Mushi: Its small size makes it portable. However, its signals are weak, and cannot reach over the sea to another island.
• Den Den Mushi: Too big to carry around, but its strength makes it useful for talking to far-off islands. Can also act as a fax machine if the accessory is attached.
• Black Den Den Mushi (different species): They do not grow as they age. They enjoy eavesdropping, and dislike communicating with others. Used as listening devices, or “wiretaps”.

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***SPOILER ALERT***

What a great chapter came out today, am I right?
Well, during that chapter we have seen a dialogue with non other than Yonko Kaido himself.

So let’s examine, Kaido, his crew and X Drake are in the icy island we have seen a while back both in Caribou’s cover story and also even before that when X Drake challenged Scotch to a fight.

Now, you’d think that this shadow is Kaido, right? Well wrong- they note- “Lord Kaido! Where are you?”, which means that I don’t think it’s the shadow that’s Kaido- but HIS PALACE- notice the architecture, doesn’t it look a bit like buildings with east-asian, most specifically Chinese like that:

Look at those “spikes”, but I think that Oda did it on purpose to make it look like Kaido’s huge, when it’s in fact just his palace, another thing is that he specifically also doesn’t give us people in the same panel as the “palace” so we won’t be able to assume how big it is.

I think many of those things together also make me think- is Kaido small? It definitely seems like something Oda would do, there is nearly no character who does not have a single comedic quality to him, so the fact that Oda might mislead us like that it’s because of the size.

ALSO, the house can also prove, the icy island is KANO, which I believe is based on China, and considering how big China is- I think this island would be massive as well.
Well- it could be China, but it could also include central-asia as well, because, as noted many times in the past, Kaido has a near-identical name with Central-Asian ruler Kaidu.
So, this “Icy” part of the island? Well, there’s the Himalayas, mountains that span over Tibet (Which is ruled by China), Nepal and even parts of India and perhaps a bit of central Asia, that makes me think that indeed Kano could be based on all those parts of Asia, with Wano near it being it’s own thing, a different island that’s obviously representing Japan.

So, my conclusion:
Kaido is indeed in Kano, which spans over several climates and geographic topography, and is based on mostly China but also the rest of East and Central Asia.
Kaido is smaller and very different in appearance than we expect him to be.

This might also solidify the fact that he is indeed the Emperor of Kano.

So, what do you think?

*Theory by Jewish Kaizoku

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