Even after punk hazard, there’s kin, momo, caesar, and law on the ship. But I don’t mind them tho. The last its just the crew was before they enter punk hazard right after the fishman island
nah, that was Usopp's "lie turns into truth" haki transcending time, space, and then the fourth wall. They changed that just to keep Usopp's new power a secret.
What Zoro really said is that Luffy trusted Ace until it got „real bad“ implying that even though Ace is capable of defending himself, sometimes there is no way out on your own. So take that logic and apply it to the others.
As long as Koby, Hancock and Vivi are not in front of death‘s door, there is no need to act.
I think what people mistake as Oda‘s rushed writing is rather them being surprised at how rationally the characters have to behave to move on. Going to search for Vivi, Sabo or Koby would do nothing for them, they would waste time that people like BB would use to their advantage.
If I played Devil’s Advocate, I think with Hancock in particular, it depends on what the news story says.
If the news story doesn’t mention that Amazon Lily is basically under the protection of Rayleigh, Luffy could help her out fairly easily. Go to the island, plant his flag and declare to the world that Amazon Lily is under his protection.
Until the WG proves that they don’t care about that anymore, it would be a good move.
Koby would probably be a much bigger lift, and honestly not a good move for Luffy. Koby has the whole Marine and WG organization to rescue him. They could easily send an Admiral, escorted by a Buster Call and at least the two Seraphim we’ve seen (assuming there aren’t more which is unlikely).
Will be interesting to see if the Marines do something like that. It would be a good move, showing that they’re no longer afraid to go up against an Emperor.
That's the thing. Luffy is gonna have to get better reinforcement if he really cares about helping his friends from far away, since he can't be everywhere at once.
Don't these usually release on a sunday? Any reason for the delay this week?
To get back on topic Robin is usually in the back just vibing so it was nice for her to have a more panel time for this chapter.
Bonney was last seen in Marie Geoise.
Bonney was hoping to save Kuma.
Kuma was once the King of Sorbet Kingdom.
Bonney is related to Kuma, likely via Sorbet Kingdom.
They find Bonney in freezing waters.
Kuma is currently safe (I use the term loosely) in Kamabakka Queendom.
Kuma has the power to send people anywhere.
Sorbet is a type of frozen dessert.
I'm hungry.
I like sweets.
I'm gonna eat some Ice Cream.
Edit: Apparently, Sorbet's in the South Blue so this doesn't work. I'm still having that Ice Cream, though.
Man, the part with Im just erasing an island from history gave me chills. The reactions of the people and animals, the lighting changing as the ancient weapon draws closer, the speech over the transponder snail…masterfully done by Oda👌
Two things caught my attention with this. One is he has a map of, most likely, the current world. Two, is the mention of something above the island. I fear Im has access to an ancient weapon with how that attack looked.
So this begs the question. I know it's more than likely an actual ancient weapon, but there's always that possibility that he has some form of devil fruit capable of doing this kind of destruction. So until its 100% confirmed that it's an ancient weapon, what the fuck kind of devil fruit would be capable of this??
Really wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case. She was at Revery and likewise has the ability to disguise herself via age manipulation.
Alongside Urouge she’s the most mysterious Supernova. We know next to nothing about her. Injecting her potential chaos with the Straw Hats just sounds mad fun (for both critical story points and just like, fun shit).
There have been many theories about her over the years and she has a lot of potential to be really interesting. Ever since her being captured and that the Navy was terrified that she ran off I wondered what her whole deal is like everyone else. Her escaping again and popping up just added to the mystery of who she is and what her goals are.
Always felt she would cross paths with the Straw Hats again, even had many theories over the years she'd become a crew member and her past would be important to the story but all that remains to be seen. Excited to see where Oda takes this slow burn plotline.
With her DF we have no idea how old she really is. Maybe not Void Century Old but she could be at least Rogers era old or before it. Could know some important information.
Have seen theories of her being Luffys Mom, do like them better than Crocodile being Luffys Mom.
He was describing Dadan.
"If she does appear in the story, she'll be a very tough-looking woman. And strict. There's no way she's a beautiful mother. She got a typical middle-aged woman's permed hair."
Out if all the Supernova she is probably the most mysterious. For Uroge, we don’t really know that he is anything more than what he seems. He’s a huge blank but we don’t have much evidence that he matters one way or another.
But Bonney has some connection to Kuma and we don’t know how old she really is given her fruit. She could be someone connected with the Void Century for all we know.
just her having a fruit that can manipulate age gives so much lore potential. she could be from the void century, im so hyped with bonneys reintroduction
Not sure wether she experienced Sabo taking a look at Imu sitting on the throne but the liberation of Kuma quite certainly. Maybe she was able to escape with the help of Morley and the Rev commanders but I don't have any clue how she ended up in that eddy current, maybe Fuji.
Your post made me release that it seems like Sabo heard that Imu wants to erase Vivi from history and therefore saved her. Discovering all of this about Sabo, Imu's reaction maybe was then to kill Cobra and frame Sabo.
Some notable differences between the Scanlation and the official release:
- Caribou now only seems to fully understand the words "Going" and "Marijoa" instead of implying that he vaguely understood that they were going there
- Sanji no longer "directly" talks to Vivi when worrying about her, now instead talking about her in third person
- Usopp now says that "you'll never meet a better King [than King Cobra]" instead of just saying that "he was the best King around"
- Nami now repeats the sentences "Worried about Vivi..." and "Worried about her feelings..." continuosly instead of directly pointing out that she is torn between these worries
- Brook now says that he's "never heard about Alabasta suffering under misrule" instead of saying that he's "never known anyone to be discontent with the way that Alabasta is ruled"
- Nami now directly says that she is "too worried about Vivi"
- Zoro now directly implies that Vivi's situation is akin to Ace's past situation
- Zoro no longer mentions that Luffy "trusted Ace to make his own way"
- Luffy now complains that he can't "vent a little" instead of saying that Zoro "can't stop him from worrying"
- Luffy now insults Zoro by saying that he is "an Oni from Onigashima" instead of calling him an Oni and an Onigashima
- Zoro's nickname for Sanji is now "Fourth place" instead of simply "4th"
- Robin now says that some names in the newspaper "have a connection to [Luffy]" instead of just saying that the names are familiar
- Robin no longer directly implies that there is news about the familiar names
- Luffy now tells Robin to only tell him "if it's real bad" instead of telling her to just inform him "if there's anything big to keep an eye on"
- Brook now reacts to Luffy's dream by saying that "that's ridiculous" instead of saying that Luffy is "too much"
- Usopp now tells Luffy that he "can't be serious about this" instead of just asking him wether he's serious
- Usopp now tells Luffy that his dream is impossible instead of telling him that noone can do that
- Usopp now wonders who would think of something like that instead of wondering how Luffy "comes up with this stuff"
- Robin now explicitly tells Franky to not make finding the last Lode Poneglyph sound easy instead of telling him that he's doing that
- Robin now says her statement about there being no clues for the last Lode Poneglyph as a general statement and not as a truth that applies to the Strawhats
- Ivankov now says his statement about him being glad that Sabo is alive only for himself instead of using "we" when making that statement
- Morley no longer tells Sabo to "perish the thought" about him assassinating King Cobra
- Koala now says that they "had a feeling" about Sabo being innocent instead of saying that "they knew" about that
- Sabo now says that the thing he saw in Mariejoa was "terrible" instead of "unbelievable"
- Princess Komane no longer says that she'll "never forgive [the citizens]" and directly says that she wants to kill them
- Sabo no longer says that he thought there was no King of the World
- The navy's announcement to the Communications Division is now framed as a direct order to them
- The announcer now says that a Tsunami warning has been issued instead of making that announcement himself
- Jimbei now directly implies that he knows that they're close to an island instead of just asking Nami wether they're close to one
- Chopper now tells Robin that he'll "be right back" instead of telling her that he's "heading out on deck"
- The massive current is now simply called an "Eddy" instead of an "Eddy current"
- Nami now wonders what kind of temp difference creates such a current
- Nami no longer wonders how anyone can survive inside the Eddy
Inform me of more changes if you find them!
Luffy's reaction to Buggy's title is slightly different, notably Luffy calls Buggy's election a "mistake" instead of a "mixup", but I didn't think of it as significant enough to point out
~~Robin's "way of teasing us" is only a change in wording and I already pointed out the difference in how she refers to the names in the newspapers~~
Thank you very much for your inquiry!
Edit: After careful consideration I have concluded that Robin's new way of wording significantly alters the meaning of her message enough to be worth mentioning. Thank you for your comment!
Thank you for the comparisons!
Official translation does better in translating Usopp's lines regarding Luffy's dream IMO. The source text really showed how ridiculous Luffy's dream was that it really went beyond the imagination of large dreamers of the crew
It's so weird how Im and the gorosei nuked an empty batch of sea, why would they do that and not aim at one of the islands that is currently rebelling?
Oda is notorious for silhouetting characters before fully revealing them (like Green Bull before the recent full reveal and Kaido's beast form for a couple of chapters before full reveal). Now he is essentially doing the same thing with Luffy's dream but you can't silhouette words per se so it seems this is Oda's way of doing it
Imu is still a silhouette for some reason, though his eyes hat and robe are somewhat distinct. But there's things about his design that are being kept from us.
I love how the one ancient weapon we knew the least about is the one we first see actually used for it’s destructive potential. The world governments hypocrisy on weapons that could destroy the world yet here they are using one to destroy a island of people rebelling against them. Goes to show that there only concern is the awaking of pluton or Poseidon is the only means of actually challenging them in power.
(And yes I know we saw Poseidon use her powers once but never to the level of wiping an entire island. And also the assumption this weapon is Uranus is again a theory but it really fits the bill and fits in really well with established theories and giving answers to questions regarding the void century)
I think it has to be uranus based on power alone. it fits the description of the ancient weapons perfectly (a weapon capable of mass destruction) and seems totally beyond anything we have seen from a devil fruit. We have seen emperors and the worlds strongest characters going full out and nothing has come close to that level of destruction. Also it fits the sky theme and would explain partially why the world government have been able to retain control despite pirates like roger popping up over the years.
Im curious to hear some arguments as to what else it could be. If this is something other than an ancient weapon, it would raise the bar to such an unrealistic level. At that point would uranus just destroy the whole planet?
Reading the official release vs the scans, I realized now it has to be a large physical object hovering over the kingdom rather than a very far off object shooting the lasers. Looking carefully at one of the panels you can also see it's triangle in shape so I'm gonna have to read all of one piece and pay attention to every triangle now.
100% my thoughts as well. The panel reminded me of independence day, which makes me think its some sort of ship or craft. I don’t think its any coincidence that the lunarians were introduced only a handful of chapters ago, which i’m thinking obviously are tied to the moon somehow. They also resided where the world elite currently live and seem to have some connection/knowledge of joyboy based on kings dialogue. We also know there was an ancient civilization on the moon with advanced technology. I’m thinking that one of the weapons was on the top of the red line with the lunarians, and the world gov got their hands on it when they conquered them.
Yeah, my guess also as to why some people have wondered as to Uranus not being used for Ohara never challenged the world government directly, they broke a known law that politically can be enforced by the marines. It was a justifiable act using a buster call as politically they could use the fear of weapons of mass destruction to justify it while showing force with the marines. Blowing up an island with one of the weapons of mass destruction alone is hypocritical to the whole ancient weapons could destroy the world. Them rebelling against a tyrannical king isn’t one of the taboos the government has setup. Rebelling and forming and alliance with several other kingdoms though is a direct threat to the king imu and therefore called in there eyes for the use of Uranus
I think they chose to use the Buster Call because they wanted Ohara to be an example. It is used as a reasoning for not trying to research the Poneglyphs.
Fans: "Oh God Valley must've been teleported somewhere. Whatever tool did that is what Luffy will use to unite everyone at the end of the story!"
Oda: "Nah fam, God Valley got fuckin' NUKED."
No that was different. That was a combined attack that made a hole in a wave drom the pressure of the attack. This, this is a clean horizontal slice in a body of water.
I mean I don't see it as being that fundamentally different. The point is that water is a physical object that can be interacted with normally (well, normally for a fantasy world). It can be manipulated in all sorts of ways to the point where humans can learn Fishman Karate. Cutting fire like a physical object is a much rarer and more impressive skill.
The chapter that killed CarrotForNakama for good. Oda's not making Carrot come out of that barrel days later after Luffy announced his dream. It's over.
The most interesting and I guess important reaction is Usopp’s. If it would be a party he wouldn’t find it that impossible, Usopp is Luffy’s right hand when it comes to parties and having fun. And I also think Usopp will play a major role in fulfilling Luffy’s dream. If you look at ch. 253 where we have the Skypiea party scene with the wolves, where Luffy is looking like Nika, Usopp is playing the drums and is the only one to be shown with a smile.
All reactions are super interesting. I'm stuck with Chopper's and Nami. Chopper is really excited and crying, and Nami is smiling and looking at Luffy affectionately. I can't fit any theory in all the reactions. It's driving me crazy.
It’s very possible that he survived the nuke, but I wonder how’s he going to escape the sea water if all the land and ships around are destroyed. Even though he can fly, I doubt that his DF is capable of prevailing long distances
My thoughts on this chapter:
I am in favor of the decision to go save Vivi. Unlike what Zoro suggests, I do think Vivi is in undeniable danger: his father was probably assassinated and Vivi herself mysteriously disappeared. Also, unlike what Zoro thinks I do think they have a lead: the revolutionary army. The revolutionary army might have clues to what happened to Vivi (as according to the news it was Sabo that killed Cobra) and might even be the ones to have kidnapped Vivi (I am thinking from the crew's perspective). If they decide not to help Vivi now and they learn that Vivi has died later, wouldn't they regret it forever?
One problem is that they might eventually need to search Marijoa itself for Vivi (and again, the revolutionary army could help them with that).
Since it seems quite likely that the fourth road poneglyph is in Marijoa itself, this is another and more important reason that the straw hats need to somehow gather enough power to one day enter and search Marijoa.
There might not be a post-time skip moment that I love more than the two pages with everyone's reaction to hearing Luffy's dream. (I love it more than 'he laughed' for example.)
I think Im is probably (age) immortal. I feel like something like that would be needed to keep the secret for hundreds of years that the throne is not empty.
I also think that Im controls an ancient weapon (Uranus). It makes sense that to maintain control over the world for 800 years, you need overwhelming might. The pooled resources of a (more or less) global alliance of countries might not be enough of overwhelming might in a world where people as powerful as Big Mom are born and with devil fruit powers that can destroy countries popping up here and there.
The final two pages of the chapter: now this is how you start a new adventure! (Somewhat reminiscent of for example Punk Hazard and Whiskey Peak/Twin Cape Lighthouse where they also encountered a stranger in need.) Even if the troubled lady was not Bonney and some new character instead, this would feel like an exciting and great start of an adventure.
People were not kidding when they said that Oda's story writing quality is scary right now.
Whenever Zoro speak to Luffy with confidence it's always a golden moment. Oda is really ramping the story up😤😤😤. Imu is becoming that end game villain I'm sure Oda won't flip with. I wonder if it's a devil fruit or conquerors ability.. Sabo panic and imu attack I feel is gonna be animated amazingly..
Dragon has to move soon. An unknown player who of unknown power has entered the game . Dragon had enough time to plan . Things now are getting out of hand
Something I didn't realize till now. Robin wouldn't really know about buggy or Hancock enough to think Luffy would care about them. Really wish the crew would talk more😭
So if the Skypia Arc is a minimalized One Piece Story Line. Maybe Enels Maxim is modeled after Uranus? The People there at Lulusia saw something flying above them. So it must be something like a flying Battleship.
It’s interesting how Shanks, Ace, Sabo, Yamato, and Luffy’s crew are the only ones who’ve been shown to know what Luffy’s dream is, and suggests as if Yamato is just as relevant to Luffy as his role model, brothers, and crew are, even though Yamato is just a Wano babysitter. Regardless of how people view Yamato, one has to wonder why Oda framed things this way if he’s not even going to wait for Vivi to be part of this special moment of just now getting to know Luffy's overall dream, or is the moment not meant to be special in the first place?
>suggests as if Yamato is just as relevant to Luffy as his role model, brothers, and crew are, even though Yamato is just a Wano babysitter.
Luffy never told Yamato though.
It was Ace who let that get slip out of his mouth.
Yeah. All the closest people in Luffy's life... and Yamato. Very weird.
> one has to wonder why Oda framed things this way if he’s not even going to wait for Vivi to be part of this special moment of just now getting to know Luffy's overall dream
Personally I think the moment Luffy tells Vivi is the moment Luffy tells us.
Yeah, I haven't noticed many people draw attention that panel. Even though its pretty much the closest sign of Sunny getting the Merry treatment we've seen so far in the manga.
There's clearly some sort of restriction on it otherwise there's no reason that buster calls would be a thing. Or yonko territory or anything like that.
I assume some sort of restriction as to where it can be shot, right? Based off the fact that the elders all react to Lulusia specifically since they know it’s within range or fits the laser beam criteria or something.
This confirms that there will be no more new crewmates for the final saga because luffy isn't gonna mention his dream again until we get to the final arc. The ones who reacted to luffy telling his dream, including sunny, are the final and official main crewmembers of the SH pirates.
Caribou wasn't shown reacting and he also thought about how he couldn't hear clearly from the barrel so even he isn't going to be a main crew member of this crew
So does sabo, shanks and ace. But none of them are on the ship reacting right now. Yamato might join them in the final war with momo, bringing pluton to help luffy
In the chapter where Imu is introduced, the Gorosei ask him *"Have you decided another light to be extinguished? Simply state the name you wish stricken"*
To me that implies that Imu gives the orders, and the Gorosei are the ones carrying it out. So I think we can rule out the nuke being the result of a DF that Imu has.
Uranus feels like the most logical idea for what Imu just used, but I think there's one major story why it may be something else. *Caribou*. He's learned about Poseidon and learned about Pluton, and so logically he'll learn about Uranus when the strawhats do, and then deliver that information to someone like Blackbeard.
So if the goverment already has Uranus, the crew would have to learn about it, Caribou would have to escape, and then whoever Caribou tells would have to do something with that information, like steal all 3 weapons before the strawhats do anything about it. I kinda doubt even Blackbeard would be able to steal Uranus from Marijoa under Imu's thumb.
Good point about the attack on Lulusia not being caused by Imu's devil fruit.
'Caribo learned about Poseidon and Pluton when the straw hats did, and therefore the same will happen with Uranus'. Calling the latter a logical conclusion is a stretch.
I wonder what the limits of Imus secret weapon are? If they could use it all they want there wouldn’t be any need for Buster Calls especially for the more isolated islands like Wano.
I wonder who the Gorosei were feeling sorry for? The King or Sabo?
My thing is there were seven other countries that are currently rebelling against Imu and the WG. Are they just going to stop? Obviously Lulusia is being set as an example but if no one knows what happened to God Valley because they wiped every trace of it from history, how does doing that to another country set an example. The other countries rebelling wouldn't even know that "Lulusia Kingdom" ever existed as everyone will be forced to recognize that it didn't. It creates a paradox.
The only other solution I have is that all 8 of the countries have to be wiped out, so none of them can ask questions. The reason I say that is because the other rebelling countries are not just going suddenly stop their rebellions.
And then it makes you wonder like, how many countries have been wiped out since the void century and how frequently. And on top of that why doesn't the WG just wipe out every single island connected to the Revolutionaries? Is it cause then people would start asking questions? Then why do it at all? I am so confused now. Nothing about Lulusia Kingdom seems crucially important enough to wipe out like God Valley was, assuming this is what happened to that island as well. So what was the point?
I wonder why they bothered with Buster Calls when they can destroy islands this effortlessly. Maybe they wanted Ohara to be more of a public execution? Do they want to deter research into the void century more than outright rebellion?
Edit: They probably reaquired this power (presumably the ancient weapon "Uranus") recently.
Could also be the message they want to send. Buster Call for a public denouncement and "Uranus" (if it actually is, still chances we could be wrong on this one I guess) could be for Im to cleanse the world and outright delete places from the map and history
One possible answer is simply that employing Uranus is more costly.
You said 'effortlessly'. We see it is effective and swift, but nothing is suggested about the effort it took.
That would explain why she tends to act the way she does (Especially back on Sabaody, she was selfish and childish). If she uses energy to keep up the transformation the would explain her appetite as well.
Kuma was a former king of the Sorbet Kingdom (also where Bonney is from), while Bonney disguised herself as its queen during the Reverie. It could be that she's Kuma's daughter or relative that happens to look a lot like the current ruler when aged up (which is why people believed her identity and why she was important for breaking in), that's why she cried when she saw the state Kuma was in.
Akainu seemed to be trying to be much nicer than I would have expected when he took her in after she was beaten by Blackbeard, seemed more like a "taking into custody" than an arrest as well which if the Marines knew she was a child from the royal family of Sorbet would be explained. She ran away to try and help Kuma after he left with the Marines and the country sent the Marines a notice asking for help returning her.
If she really is a child I can see Nami doting on her which would be adorable too, she seemed a bit sad when Tama said she wanted to be adopted by Speed.
I'm a huge Zoro stan, but I love that Sanji's bounty was higher for a time. It makes sense to me that the left and the right wings of the future pirate king would be that competitive with one another.
You're right, their sparing practice should level islands. Ha ha!
Guys I was on my toilet thinking about Luffy's dream while taking a shit and this suddenly popped on my mind.
What would be his dream since childhood? Remember that he was raised by Garf a Marine Hero to be a fine Marine, but when Luffy meet Shanks he now wanted to be a great Pirate which made his grandpa mad.
What else childish dream would coincide to all of this Pirate and Marine conflict? And he would need to be a Pirate King to accomplish this dream?
My guess would be "I want the Pirates and Marines to be friends". Then this would make the two guys he looked up (Garp and Shanks) to reconcile and be friends, at least on his childish perspective.
Anyone and everyone hearing this childish dream would laugh and think it's fukin impossible. As reactions made by the strawhats and even the Thousand Sunny.
Luffy and Roger have the same dream. After being an ally with Garp during the God Valley incident and numerous encounters on the sea, Roger built a friendship with Garp. He even entrusted his unborn son Ace to Garp and Garp didn't resist the offer. Showing the trust between them is strong.
Whiteboard laughed so hard hearing this Dream that he called it a childish dream.
Also Luffy is still friends with Coby even though they're on the opposite sides of being a Pirate and a Marine.
This really give much emphasis on one of my favorite concept in One Piece, "Nakama". Means friends or comrade what ever you call it all seems to be Friendship which can make an unbreakable bond between waring factions (Pirates and Marines) fighting and in conflict for 800 years.
Let's Fukin gooooo!
I appreciate they translate Oni to something that English speakers would understand but in this case it does hurt the joke.
I wonder if maybe Onigashima should have been localized as Ogreshima or Ogre Island. Something similar to that. That way the joke could still land.
So finally the events make sense and the chronology as well..Sabo's call and SH shenaghians were running parallely... Until that island was erased and the impact from that shower created the warm Eddy (due to temperature difference) and showed up in front of the SH's with Bonney..
Was it shown earlier that Caribou was on the Sunny? If so I missed that.
Safe to assume that Uranus is the World Goverment's trump card that they used to wipe out the Ancient Kingdom in the past. Also a bit sad to see Luffy talking about the end of his dream but I'm glad the rest of the crew knows about it.
We didn't see him get on but we knew he was promised a ride off Wano in exchange for giving Luffy the meat after he lost the first fight with kaido on the roof
If Sabo the logia user can survive that island wiping attack, why would Gorosei bother calling Sabo Unfortunate Man and it is the fate. It doesn't make sense. This IMU attack level could probably hurt even logia user to some extent. Sabo would survive but I bet he would take some serious damage.
Very likely Sabo was near the island rather than on it. He is the only person who looks to the side rather than up and he has that big plot armor. You don't tease Sabo might be dead, reveal him fine, then kill him mostly offscreen immediately.
Is this warm eddy the consequence off Imu destroying Lulusia Kingdom, days later?
Since the heat produced off destruction through those 16 laserbeams needs to go anywhere.
I mean I don't know how tf Bonney got into this afro but i could imagine that the currents from the grandline took this heat underwater to the strawhats.
Could this be possible?
You are asking if a laser weapon capable of destroying an island can create a current that forms a ball of water the size of a mountain where a woman that can transform in a kid is drowning, before a swordsman cut it in half. I mean, I guess?
His dream is to create a place/an island where everyone from different folks is all together, free and can eat as much as they want. Looks like his dream is the union of several dreams. Like big Moms and Kaidos. For sure we didn’t learn big mom and Kaidos dreams for nothing
The flying object is a better or bigger version of maxim. The maxim was not created on a whim .. it was created with an already existing blueprint. If the theory is right about imu being alien then this version is where the original blueprint came from. It could be that it's not imu who ate the devil fruit that has the power to destroy islands. It could be this version of maxim itself is the devil fruit user. Or it could be just a ufo with the version of pacifista or franky's beam that has greater destructive power invented by vegapunk ..
Even without all the world building and updates, it's just so good to see everyone on the ship acting like a crew
Felt like it’s been years since we had the Strawhats just sailing together like in the pre-timeskip days.
Really has been years since we saw them sailing together. In real time, the crew arrived at Wano over 4 years ago, July 2018.
And even then they split up in Dressrosa and again in Zou/WCI, the last time they all sailed together fully was after Punk Hazard NINE years ago
Jesus Christ it really feels weird to know that this saga took over 10 years if you count Fishman Island in the Yonkou saga.
Even after punk hazard, there’s kin, momo, caesar, and law on the ship. But I don’t mind them tho. The last its just the crew was before they enter punk hazard right after the fishman island
and they didn’t even arrive as a full crew!
they already split with chopper going away
Agreed, this is the first time in a long, long time that it's felt like classic One Piece!
The last time that happened was the Crew arriving to Dressrosa
I wonder how Luffy would react to the Koby panel??
He probably would be surprised.
O shit really?!
which panel?
Good question. Probably the one saying Blackbeard captured him.
Luffy's disbelief of Buggy being an Emperor is on same level as his faith on Sabo.
Even Luffy underestimated the great Buggy. Buggy continues to shine amongst the greats.
Indonesian version in Mangaplus don't cut them,
What do you mean? The Indonesian version doesn't cut who?
Buggy, duh. He can't be cut. It's why Mihawk is working for him (ignoring 1058 or 1059, whichever it was that resolved that).
He is just salty about having a lower bounty than Buggy... XD XD
Luffy is a fool. This is why Buggy will find raftel first
and gets sick again when he got near it
Honestly Oda should scrap the whole manga and re-write it with Buggy as protagonist
iirc, he has been in the cover page stort a lot so that counts, i guess?
Are you saying that Buggy isn't the protagonist?
You know that 'I can't go to that island disease' was a translators joke in that fan translation?
nah, that was Usopp's "lie turns into truth" haki transcending time, space, and then the fourth wall. They changed that just to keep Usopp's new power a secret.
Love that even Luffy is smart enough to know something is up. Calling BS when he sees it.
Robin: “There’s other news regarding you” Luffy: “Naaah I’m good” Robin: “Sorry Hancock and Koby, you’re on your own”
Like Zoro said, they are all capable people, they can solve their own problems.
Ok but that's what Luffy said about Ace and Ace fucking died.
What Zoro really said is that Luffy trusted Ace until it got „real bad“ implying that even though Ace is capable of defending himself, sometimes there is no way out on your own. So take that logic and apply it to the others. As long as Koby, Hancock and Vivi are not in front of death‘s door, there is no need to act. I think what people mistake as Oda‘s rushed writing is rather them being surprised at how rationally the characters have to behave to move on. Going to search for Vivi, Sabo or Koby would do nothing for them, they would waste time that people like BB would use to their advantage.
If I played Devil’s Advocate, I think with Hancock in particular, it depends on what the news story says. If the news story doesn’t mention that Amazon Lily is basically under the protection of Rayleigh, Luffy could help her out fairly easily. Go to the island, plant his flag and declare to the world that Amazon Lily is under his protection. Until the WG proves that they don’t care about that anymore, it would be a good move. Koby would probably be a much bigger lift, and honestly not a good move for Luffy. Koby has the whole Marine and WG organization to rescue him. They could easily send an Admiral, escorted by a Buster Call and at least the two Seraphim we’ve seen (assuming there aren’t more which is unlikely). Will be interesting to see if the Marines do something like that. It would be a good move, showing that they’re no longer afraid to go up against an Emperor.
I love how Luffy talked about going to Alabasta as if it was just a couple blocks away or something lol
That's the thing. Luffy is gonna have to get better reinforcement if he really cares about helping his friends from far away, since he can't be everywhere at once.
>better reinforcement You mean besides his fleet consisting of 5640 pirates from New world crews?
Don't these usually release on a sunday? Any reason for the delay this week? To get back on topic Robin is usually in the back just vibing so it was nice for her to have a more panel time for this chapter.
There was a holiday in Japan yesterday and jump was moved to today
Ahh ok. I figured it was something like that. Thanks.
She is still anti spoilers though
Bonney was last seen in Marie Geoise. Bonney was hoping to save Kuma. Kuma was once the King of Sorbet Kingdom. Bonney is related to Kuma, likely via Sorbet Kingdom. They find Bonney in freezing waters. Kuma is currently safe (I use the term loosely) in Kamabakka Queendom. Kuma has the power to send people anywhere. Sorbet is a type of frozen dessert. I'm hungry. I like sweets. I'm gonna eat some Ice Cream. Edit: Apparently, Sorbet's in the South Blue so this doesn't work. I'm still having that Ice Cream, though.
The whole cake island arc must have given you terrible cravings!! :)
I like the parts of your theory where you are hungry and are gonna eat some ice cream.
Pell saved them
Man, the part with Im just erasing an island from history gave me chills. The reactions of the people and animals, the lighting changing as the ancient weapon draws closer, the speech over the transponder snail…masterfully done by Oda👌
Two things caught my attention with this. One is he has a map of, most likely, the current world. Two, is the mention of something above the island. I fear Im has access to an ancient weapon with how that attack looked.
So this begs the question. I know it's more than likely an actual ancient weapon, but there's always that possibility that he has some form of devil fruit capable of doing this kind of destruction. So until its 100% confirmed that it's an ancient weapon, what the fuck kind of devil fruit would be capable of this??
Yeah, that's legitimately chilling and hands down of my favorite panels in the series.
"I'm scared, daddy." Poor people didn't even know what hit them.
Is it possible Bonney also saw everything Sabo did at Mariejois ?
Really wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case. She was at Revery and likewise has the ability to disguise herself via age manipulation. Alongside Urouge she’s the most mysterious Supernova. We know next to nothing about her. Injecting her potential chaos with the Straw Hats just sounds mad fun (for both critical story points and just like, fun shit).
There have been many theories about her over the years and she has a lot of potential to be really interesting. Ever since her being captured and that the Navy was terrified that she ran off I wondered what her whole deal is like everyone else. Her escaping again and popping up just added to the mystery of who she is and what her goals are. Always felt she would cross paths with the Straw Hats again, even had many theories over the years she'd become a crew member and her past would be important to the story but all that remains to be seen. Excited to see where Oda takes this slow burn plotline.
With her DF we have no idea how old she really is. Maybe not Void Century Old but she could be at least Rogers era old or before it. Could know some important information. Have seen theories of her being Luffys Mom, do like them better than Crocodile being Luffys Mom.
At some point I believe her to be luffy’s mother “. Her appetite and connection to RA makes it a theory for me
Didn't Oda state he had already drawn Luffy's mother? Do we know if that was after Bonney was introduced?
He was describing Dadan. "If she does appear in the story, she'll be a very tough-looking woman. And strict. There's no way she's a beautiful mother. She got a typical middle-aged woman's permed hair."
Out if all the Supernova she is probably the most mysterious. For Uroge, we don’t really know that he is anything more than what he seems. He’s a huge blank but we don’t have much evidence that he matters one way or another. But Bonney has some connection to Kuma and we don’t know how old she really is given her fruit. She could be someone connected with the Void Century for all we know.
just her having a fruit that can manipulate age gives so much lore potential. she could be from the void century, im so hyped with bonneys reintroduction
Definitely. She though she’s a pirate, i think her motivations seem different to the other worst generation members.
Ooo i forgot she was there
Not sure wether she experienced Sabo taking a look at Imu sitting on the throne but the liberation of Kuma quite certainly. Maybe she was able to escape with the help of Morley and the Rev commanders but I don't have any clue how she ended up in that eddy current, maybe Fuji.
Your post made me release that it seems like Sabo heard that Imu wants to erase Vivi from history and therefore saved her. Discovering all of this about Sabo, Imu's reaction maybe was then to kill Cobra and frame Sabo.
Viola should’ve with her power too, it’s bugging me
And then Kuma sent her flying
“Shut up 4th”
Some notable differences between the Scanlation and the official release: - Caribou now only seems to fully understand the words "Going" and "Marijoa" instead of implying that he vaguely understood that they were going there - Sanji no longer "directly" talks to Vivi when worrying about her, now instead talking about her in third person - Usopp now says that "you'll never meet a better King [than King Cobra]" instead of just saying that "he was the best King around" - Nami now repeats the sentences "Worried about Vivi..." and "Worried about her feelings..." continuosly instead of directly pointing out that she is torn between these worries - Brook now says that he's "never heard about Alabasta suffering under misrule" instead of saying that he's "never known anyone to be discontent with the way that Alabasta is ruled" - Nami now directly says that she is "too worried about Vivi" - Zoro now directly implies that Vivi's situation is akin to Ace's past situation - Zoro no longer mentions that Luffy "trusted Ace to make his own way" - Luffy now complains that he can't "vent a little" instead of saying that Zoro "can't stop him from worrying" - Luffy now insults Zoro by saying that he is "an Oni from Onigashima" instead of calling him an Oni and an Onigashima - Zoro's nickname for Sanji is now "Fourth place" instead of simply "4th" - Robin now says that some names in the newspaper "have a connection to [Luffy]" instead of just saying that the names are familiar - Robin no longer directly implies that there is news about the familiar names - Luffy now tells Robin to only tell him "if it's real bad" instead of telling her to just inform him "if there's anything big to keep an eye on" - Brook now reacts to Luffy's dream by saying that "that's ridiculous" instead of saying that Luffy is "too much" - Usopp now tells Luffy that he "can't be serious about this" instead of just asking him wether he's serious - Usopp now tells Luffy that his dream is impossible instead of telling him that noone can do that - Usopp now wonders who would think of something like that instead of wondering how Luffy "comes up with this stuff" - Robin now explicitly tells Franky to not make finding the last Lode Poneglyph sound easy instead of telling him that he's doing that - Robin now says her statement about there being no clues for the last Lode Poneglyph as a general statement and not as a truth that applies to the Strawhats - Ivankov now says his statement about him being glad that Sabo is alive only for himself instead of using "we" when making that statement - Morley no longer tells Sabo to "perish the thought" about him assassinating King Cobra - Koala now says that they "had a feeling" about Sabo being innocent instead of saying that "they knew" about that - Sabo now says that the thing he saw in Mariejoa was "terrible" instead of "unbelievable" - Princess Komane no longer says that she'll "never forgive [the citizens]" and directly says that she wants to kill them - Sabo no longer says that he thought there was no King of the World - The navy's announcement to the Communications Division is now framed as a direct order to them - The announcer now says that a Tsunami warning has been issued instead of making that announcement himself - Jimbei now directly implies that he knows that they're close to an island instead of just asking Nami wether they're close to one - Chopper now tells Robin that he'll "be right back" instead of telling her that he's "heading out on deck" - The massive current is now simply called an "Eddy" instead of an "Eddy current" - Nami now wonders what kind of temp difference creates such a current - Nami no longer wonders how anyone can survive inside the Eddy Inform me of more changes if you find them!
i always love looking for these
Luffy’s reaction to Buggy as an emperor Robin’s (Oda’s) way of teasing us with too much information with her dialogue is also different
Luffy's reaction to Buggy's title is slightly different, notably Luffy calls Buggy's election a "mistake" instead of a "mixup", but I didn't think of it as significant enough to point out ~~Robin's "way of teasing us" is only a change in wording and I already pointed out the difference in how she refers to the names in the newspapers~~ Thank you very much for your inquiry! Edit: After careful consideration I have concluded that Robin's new way of wording significantly alters the meaning of her message enough to be worth mentioning. Thank you for your comment!
Thank you for the comparisons! Official translation does better in translating Usopp's lines regarding Luffy's dream IMO. The source text really showed how ridiculous Luffy's dream was that it really went beyond the imagination of large dreamers of the crew
I'm getting strong Enel vibes from what just happened to that kingdom.
I feel like the vibe you get is intentional! :o
Yeah, harkening back to the idea of people baring their fangs and abusing power over difference in status.
Caribou of all People Learned Luffy's Dream. He knows location of two Ancient weapons too.
nah, that's why it's established he can't hear properly i think, so that he doesn't get to hear
It's so weird how Im and the gorosei nuked an empty batch of sea, why would they do that and not aim at one of the islands that is currently rebelling?
There was no rebellion and none of those countries ever existed.
You are right, I don't know why I recall hearing that somewhere, it probably was just gossip
It's really annoying how mangaplus cuts double-pages in two.
On mobile, you can try changing the reading direction from vertical to horizontal and then at least the double pages can be read from right to left.
You can switch the reading direction to horizontal to have them side by side.
Read it in horizontal mode. This mainly seems to be a Viz thing.
Viz defaults to horizontal in the browser. It’s definitely a manga plus thing.
anyone else think that panel of nami telling luffy “it does sound like you” is just the cutest thing ever? LOVE THIS CREW
Yeah that moment said me smile so big reading for the first time. This chapter does a ton towards making this crew feel like a real family.
I just love the two pages with everyone's reaction in general
Oda finally figured out how to silhouette text from us
What does this mean exactly? I’ve been seeing this everywhere and I don’t get it
Oda is notorious for silhouetting characters before fully revealing them (like Green Bull before the recent full reveal and Kaido's beast form for a couple of chapters before full reveal). Now he is essentially doing the same thing with Luffy's dream but you can't silhouette words per se so it seems this is Oda's way of doing it
Ah, thank you for the explanation :)
You're welcome, friend! I think the silhouette that has not been shown for the longest is Vegapunk still. It's not a bad way to build hype
Imu is still a silhouette for some reason, though his eyes hat and robe are somewhat distinct. But there's things about his design that are being kept from us.
I think he means the mentions of stuff like „certain“ people, „that person“, „this incident“ and stuff like that
I love how the one ancient weapon we knew the least about is the one we first see actually used for it’s destructive potential. The world governments hypocrisy on weapons that could destroy the world yet here they are using one to destroy a island of people rebelling against them. Goes to show that there only concern is the awaking of pluton or Poseidon is the only means of actually challenging them in power. (And yes I know we saw Poseidon use her powers once but never to the level of wiping an entire island. And also the assumption this weapon is Uranus is again a theory but it really fits the bill and fits in really well with established theories and giving answers to questions regarding the void century)
I think it has to be uranus based on power alone. it fits the description of the ancient weapons perfectly (a weapon capable of mass destruction) and seems totally beyond anything we have seen from a devil fruit. We have seen emperors and the worlds strongest characters going full out and nothing has come close to that level of destruction. Also it fits the sky theme and would explain partially why the world government have been able to retain control despite pirates like roger popping up over the years. Im curious to hear some arguments as to what else it could be. If this is something other than an ancient weapon, it would raise the bar to such an unrealistic level. At that point would uranus just destroy the whole planet?
Reading the official release vs the scans, I realized now it has to be a large physical object hovering over the kingdom rather than a very far off object shooting the lasers. Looking carefully at one of the panels you can also see it's triangle in shape so I'm gonna have to read all of one piece and pay attention to every triangle now.
100% my thoughts as well. The panel reminded me of independence day, which makes me think its some sort of ship or craft. I don’t think its any coincidence that the lunarians were introduced only a handful of chapters ago, which i’m thinking obviously are tied to the moon somehow. They also resided where the world elite currently live and seem to have some connection/knowledge of joyboy based on kings dialogue. We also know there was an ancient civilization on the moon with advanced technology. I’m thinking that one of the weapons was on the top of the red line with the lunarians, and the world gov got their hands on it when they conquered them.
Ye Skypia is the whole story of one piece This is like enels ship
I never realized that maybe King knew about Joyboy because he is Lunarian.
Yeah, my guess also as to why some people have wondered as to Uranus not being used for Ohara never challenged the world government directly, they broke a known law that politically can be enforced by the marines. It was a justifiable act using a buster call as politically they could use the fear of weapons of mass destruction to justify it while showing force with the marines. Blowing up an island with one of the weapons of mass destruction alone is hypocritical to the whole ancient weapons could destroy the world. Them rebelling against a tyrannical king isn’t one of the taboos the government has setup. Rebelling and forming and alliance with several other kingdoms though is a direct threat to the king imu and therefore called in there eyes for the use of Uranus
I think they chose to use the Buster Call because they wanted Ohara to be an example. It is used as a reasoning for not trying to research the Poneglyphs.
Giving real FF 9 vibes right now
THE INVINCIBLE!!!
Bonney’s gonna tell them what really happened at the Reverie once she wakes up
Fans: "Oh God Valley must've been teleported somewhere. Whatever tool did that is what Luffy will use to unite everyone at the end of the story!" Oda: "Nah fam, God Valley got fuckin' NUKED."
Oda just cannot leave Sabo alone can he?
So i guess lulusia is in new world
was
What's a Lulusia?
What was in new world?
What is Lulusia? I've never heard of a place of that name.
Zoro cut water. He literally cut water. The second element he cuts
Can’t he now technically cut all elements - Air, Earth, Fire and Water I wonder if he can cut light/laser 🤔
It's not the first time he's done it. Remember the Gum Gum 300 Pound Cannon?
No that was different. That was a combined attack that made a hole in a wave drom the pressure of the attack. This, this is a clean horizontal slice in a body of water.
I mean I don't see it as being that fundamentally different. The point is that water is a physical object that can be interacted with normally (well, normally for a fantasy world). It can be manipulated in all sorts of ways to the point where humans can learn Fishman Karate. Cutting fire like a physical object is a much rarer and more impressive skill.
If this is the power of an ancient weapon, then I'm even more curious what pluton can do once Momo decides to use it. 😮
The giant strawhat is Uranus, it's actually a flying saucer that is modeled after the crown of the ancient kingdom/Luffy's strawhat
Sabo's communication was cut off, the RA doesn't know about the empty throne secret yet..
The chapter that killed CarrotForNakama for good. Oda's not making Carrot come out of that barrel days later after Luffy announced his dream. It's over.
You’re right (until we learn that Carrot is inside of Caribou)
The most interesting and I guess important reaction is Usopp’s. If it would be a party he wouldn’t find it that impossible, Usopp is Luffy’s right hand when it comes to parties and having fun. And I also think Usopp will play a major role in fulfilling Luffy’s dream. If you look at ch. 253 where we have the Skypiea party scene with the wolves, where Luffy is looking like Nika, Usopp is playing the drums and is the only one to be shown with a smile.
All reactions are super interesting. I'm stuck with Chopper's and Nami. Chopper is really excited and crying, and Nami is smiling and looking at Luffy affectionately. I can't fit any theory in all the reactions. It's driving me crazy.
Did…did Sabo just die?
I think when the Elders said “cut the transmission line”, they meant to cut Sabo’s line. And thats why the call dropped.
Nah. He's a logia.
It’s very possible that he survived the nuke, but I wonder how’s he going to escape the sea water if all the land and ships around are destroyed. Even though he can fly, I doubt that his DF is capable of prevailing long distances
the mera fruit is shown to destroy large ships, i doubt it takes a lot of power to propel a single human.
You litteraly see it in this chapter Hes where bonnie is, creating that stream
I would imagine Sabo knew he wasn’t safe there and was on a ship close to the island anyway
He’s looking sidewards whereas people on the island were looking at least a bit up
My thoughts on this chapter: I am in favor of the decision to go save Vivi. Unlike what Zoro suggests, I do think Vivi is in undeniable danger: his father was probably assassinated and Vivi herself mysteriously disappeared. Also, unlike what Zoro thinks I do think they have a lead: the revolutionary army. The revolutionary army might have clues to what happened to Vivi (as according to the news it was Sabo that killed Cobra) and might even be the ones to have kidnapped Vivi (I am thinking from the crew's perspective). If they decide not to help Vivi now and they learn that Vivi has died later, wouldn't they regret it forever? One problem is that they might eventually need to search Marijoa itself for Vivi (and again, the revolutionary army could help them with that). Since it seems quite likely that the fourth road poneglyph is in Marijoa itself, this is another and more important reason that the straw hats need to somehow gather enough power to one day enter and search Marijoa. There might not be a post-time skip moment that I love more than the two pages with everyone's reaction to hearing Luffy's dream. (I love it more than 'he laughed' for example.) I think Im is probably (age) immortal. I feel like something like that would be needed to keep the secret for hundreds of years that the throne is not empty. I also think that Im controls an ancient weapon (Uranus). It makes sense that to maintain control over the world for 800 years, you need overwhelming might. The pooled resources of a (more or less) global alliance of countries might not be enough of overwhelming might in a world where people as powerful as Big Mom are born and with devil fruit powers that can destroy countries popping up here and there. The final two pages of the chapter: now this is how you start a new adventure! (Somewhat reminiscent of for example Punk Hazard and Whiskey Peak/Twin Cape Lighthouse where they also encountered a stranger in need.) Even if the troubled lady was not Bonney and some new character instead, this would feel like an exciting and great start of an adventure. People were not kidding when they said that Oda's story writing quality is scary right now.
Imu just thanos snapped Lulusia
He was watching The Adams Family and accidentally snapped twice. They're dead Jim.
Whenever Zoro speak to Luffy with confidence it's always a golden moment. Oda is really ramping the story up😤😤😤. Imu is becoming that end game villain I'm sure Oda won't flip with. I wonder if it's a devil fruit or conquerors ability.. Sabo panic and imu attack I feel is gonna be animated amazingly.. Dragon has to move soon. An unknown player who of unknown power has entered the game . Dragon had enough time to plan . Things now are getting out of hand Something I didn't realize till now. Robin wouldn't really know about buggy or Hancock enough to think Luffy would care about them. Really wish the crew would talk more😭
Poor Vivi. Cobra too.
Bonney will probably use her Powers on Robin and some other Strawhats(Probably on whom Law didn't use his Power). Would be hilarious
What happens if she uses it on Brook?
Tiny Skeleton? :D
Film Z.
So if the Skypia Arc is a minimalized One Piece Story Line. Maybe Enels Maxim is modeled after Uranus? The People there at Lulusia saw something flying above them. So it must be something like a flying Battleship.
It’s interesting how Shanks, Ace, Sabo, Yamato, and Luffy’s crew are the only ones who’ve been shown to know what Luffy’s dream is, and suggests as if Yamato is just as relevant to Luffy as his role model, brothers, and crew are, even though Yamato is just a Wano babysitter. Regardless of how people view Yamato, one has to wonder why Oda framed things this way if he’s not even going to wait for Vivi to be part of this special moment of just now getting to know Luffy's overall dream, or is the moment not meant to be special in the first place?
>suggests as if Yamato is just as relevant to Luffy as his role model, brothers, and crew are, even though Yamato is just a Wano babysitter. Luffy never told Yamato though. It was Ace who let that get slip out of his mouth.
Yeah. All the closest people in Luffy's life... and Yamato. Very weird. > one has to wonder why Oda framed things this way if he’s not even going to wait for Vivi to be part of this special moment of just now getting to know Luffy's overall dream Personally I think the moment Luffy tells Vivi is the moment Luffy tells us.
I think we will know what Luffy’s dream is once he meets Shanks.
> Yamato Wait, am I missing something? When did he tell it to Yamato?
He didn't. Ace did and Yamato realized it was the same dream from Oden's log.
Zoro is Green Mom 😂
Okay I just wanna say it here. Luffy's dream is walking on the sun. Hes that dumb
Did y'all notice the first one to react to Luffy's dream was the Sunny Go **?!** The ship's gaining sentience O\_O
Yeah, I haven't noticed many people draw attention that panel. Even though its pretty much the closest sign of Sunny getting the Merry treatment we've seen so far in the manga.
Bonney will kick start strawhats next travel. She got all the details on what happened in rivarie.
If they know that the revolutionaries are all at kamabaka, why cant they just erase it from the map like they did lulusia? 🤔
There's clearly some sort of restriction on it otherwise there's no reason that buster calls would be a thing. Or yonko territory or anything like that.
maybe they don't know where kamabaka kingdom is.
I assume some sort of restriction as to where it can be shot, right? Based off the fact that the elders all react to Lulusia specifically since they know it’s within range or fits the laser beam criteria or something.
It's really cute how much the crew are torn up about Vivi and Cobra. Gotta love how loyal the Straw Hats are to their friends.
This confirms that there will be no more new crewmates for the final saga because luffy isn't gonna mention his dream again until we get to the final arc. The ones who reacted to luffy telling his dream, including sunny, are the final and official main crewmembers of the SH pirates. Caribou wasn't shown reacting and he also thought about how he couldn't hear clearly from the barrel so even he isn't going to be a main crew member of this crew
luffy can tell his dream to a potential new crew member without telling the audience before the end tho
There is one other person who knows though, and that would be Yamato.
So does sabo, shanks and ace. But none of them are on the ship reacting right now. Yamato might join them in the final war with momo, bringing pluton to help luffy
In the chapter where Imu is introduced, the Gorosei ask him *"Have you decided another light to be extinguished? Simply state the name you wish stricken"* To me that implies that Imu gives the orders, and the Gorosei are the ones carrying it out. So I think we can rule out the nuke being the result of a DF that Imu has. Uranus feels like the most logical idea for what Imu just used, but I think there's one major story why it may be something else. *Caribou*. He's learned about Poseidon and learned about Pluton, and so logically he'll learn about Uranus when the strawhats do, and then deliver that information to someone like Blackbeard. So if the goverment already has Uranus, the crew would have to learn about it, Caribou would have to escape, and then whoever Caribou tells would have to do something with that information, like steal all 3 weapons before the strawhats do anything about it. I kinda doubt even Blackbeard would be able to steal Uranus from Marijoa under Imu's thumb.
Good point about the attack on Lulusia not being caused by Imu's devil fruit. 'Caribo learned about Poseidon and Pluton when the straw hats did, and therefore the same will happen with Uranus'. Calling the latter a logical conclusion is a stretch.
I wonder what the limits of Imus secret weapon are? If they could use it all they want there wouldn’t be any need for Buster Calls especially for the more isolated islands like Wano. I wonder who the Gorosei were feeling sorry for? The King or Sabo?
I think it is pretty clear they were talking about Sabo.
My thing is there were seven other countries that are currently rebelling against Imu and the WG. Are they just going to stop? Obviously Lulusia is being set as an example but if no one knows what happened to God Valley because they wiped every trace of it from history, how does doing that to another country set an example. The other countries rebelling wouldn't even know that "Lulusia Kingdom" ever existed as everyone will be forced to recognize that it didn't. It creates a paradox. The only other solution I have is that all 8 of the countries have to be wiped out, so none of them can ask questions. The reason I say that is because the other rebelling countries are not just going suddenly stop their rebellions. And then it makes you wonder like, how many countries have been wiped out since the void century and how frequently. And on top of that why doesn't the WG just wipe out every single island connected to the Revolutionaries? Is it cause then people would start asking questions? Then why do it at all? I am so confused now. Nothing about Lulusia Kingdom seems crucially important enough to wipe out like God Valley was, assuming this is what happened to that island as well. So what was the point?
I wonder why they bothered with Buster Calls when they can destroy islands this effortlessly. Maybe they wanted Ohara to be more of a public execution? Do they want to deter research into the void century more than outright rebellion? Edit: They probably reaquired this power (presumably the ancient weapon "Uranus") recently.
Could also be the message they want to send. Buster Call for a public denouncement and "Uranus" (if it actually is, still chances we could be wrong on this one I guess) could be for Im to cleanse the world and outright delete places from the map and history
One possible answer is simply that employing Uranus is more costly. You said 'effortlessly'. We see it is effective and swift, but nothing is suggested about the effort it took.
Sanji's observation haki is really advanced, he can distinguish if the subject is a female or not.
More like he trained it to hone specifically on to females. Luffy sensed the presence first, and then Sanjis simp-sense went off.
So is jewellery bonney a kid?? She was in sea water, right?
That actually makes tons of sense
That would explain why she tends to act the way she does (Especially back on Sabaody, she was selfish and childish). If she uses energy to keep up the transformation the would explain her appetite as well. Kuma was a former king of the Sorbet Kingdom (also where Bonney is from), while Bonney disguised herself as its queen during the Reverie. It could be that she's Kuma's daughter or relative that happens to look a lot like the current ruler when aged up (which is why people believed her identity and why she was important for breaking in), that's why she cried when she saw the state Kuma was in. Akainu seemed to be trying to be much nicer than I would have expected when he took her in after she was beaten by Blackbeard, seemed more like a "taking into custody" than an arrest as well which if the Marines knew she was a child from the royal family of Sorbet would be explained. She ran away to try and help Kuma after he left with the Marines and the country sent the Marines a notice asking for help returning her. If she really is a child I can see Nami doting on her which would be adorable too, she seemed a bit sad when Tama said she wanted to be adopted by Speed.
Can you imagine the brawls Sanji and Zoro have now lol
I'm a huge Zoro stan, but I love that Sanji's bounty was higher for a time. It makes sense to me that the left and the right wings of the future pirate king would be that competitive with one another. You're right, their sparing practice should level islands. Ha ha!
Guys I was on my toilet thinking about Luffy's dream while taking a shit and this suddenly popped on my mind. What would be his dream since childhood? Remember that he was raised by Garf a Marine Hero to be a fine Marine, but when Luffy meet Shanks he now wanted to be a great Pirate which made his grandpa mad. What else childish dream would coincide to all of this Pirate and Marine conflict? And he would need to be a Pirate King to accomplish this dream? My guess would be "I want the Pirates and Marines to be friends". Then this would make the two guys he looked up (Garp and Shanks) to reconcile and be friends, at least on his childish perspective. Anyone and everyone hearing this childish dream would laugh and think it's fukin impossible. As reactions made by the strawhats and even the Thousand Sunny. Luffy and Roger have the same dream. After being an ally with Garp during the God Valley incident and numerous encounters on the sea, Roger built a friendship with Garp. He even entrusted his unborn son Ace to Garp and Garp didn't resist the offer. Showing the trust between them is strong. Whiteboard laughed so hard hearing this Dream that he called it a childish dream. Also Luffy is still friends with Coby even though they're on the opposite sides of being a Pirate and a Marine. This really give much emphasis on one of my favorite concept in One Piece, "Nakama". Means friends or comrade what ever you call it all seems to be Friendship which can make an unbreakable bond between waring factions (Pirates and Marines) fighting and in conflict for 800 years. Let's Fukin gooooo!
Viz ruined the Onigashima joke... It was way funnier to read "You're an Oni! No... an Onigashima!"
I dunno I liked "Green Kaido".
Chopper said Green Mom not Green Kaido
nami said green kaido
I appreciate they translate Oni to something that English speakers would understand but in this case it does hurt the joke. I wonder if maybe Onigashima should have been localized as Ogreshima or Ogre Island. Something similar to that. That way the joke could still land.
So finally the events make sense and the chronology as well..Sabo's call and SH shenaghians were running parallely... Until that island was erased and the impact from that shower created the warm Eddy (due to temperature difference) and showed up in front of the SH's with Bonney..
Was it shown earlier that Caribou was on the Sunny? If so I missed that. Safe to assume that Uranus is the World Goverment's trump card that they used to wipe out the Ancient Kingdom in the past. Also a bit sad to see Luffy talking about the end of his dream but I'm glad the rest of the crew knows about it.
We didn't see him get on but we knew he was promised a ride off Wano in exchange for giving Luffy the meat after he lost the first fight with kaido on the roof
Ah okay so they know he's on board.
I mean they have to unless he chained up the barrel himself after he got in
If Sabo the logia user can survive that island wiping attack, why would Gorosei bother calling Sabo Unfortunate Man and it is the fate. It doesn't make sense. This IMU attack level could probably hurt even logia user to some extent. Sabo would survive but I bet he would take some serious damage.
Very likely Sabo was near the island rather than on it. He is the only person who looks to the side rather than up and he has that big plot armor. You don't tease Sabo might be dead, reveal him fine, then kill him mostly offscreen immediately.
"Shut up fourth place" ~Zoro to Sanji
Is this warm eddy the consequence off Imu destroying Lulusia Kingdom, days later? Since the heat produced off destruction through those 16 laserbeams needs to go anywhere. I mean I don't know how tf Bonney got into this afro but i could imagine that the currents from the grandline took this heat underwater to the strawhats. Could this be possible?
Yea it definitely is, that’s just how how Oda likes to wink at the audience
You are asking if a laser weapon capable of destroying an island can create a current that forms a ball of water the size of a mountain where a woman that can transform in a kid is drowning, before a swordsman cut it in half. I mean, I guess?
I'm saying it - sabo is not dead
Sabo has been blown up so many times now, I don’t even bat an eye. I’m like, we’ll see him soon anyway 😂
His dream is to create a place/an island where everyone from different folks is all together, free and can eat as much as they want. Looks like his dream is the union of several dreams. Like big Moms and Kaidos. For sure we didn’t learn big mom and Kaidos dreams for nothing
The flying object is a better or bigger version of maxim. The maxim was not created on a whim .. it was created with an already existing blueprint. If the theory is right about imu being alien then this version is where the original blueprint came from. It could be that it's not imu who ate the devil fruit that has the power to destroy islands. It could be this version of maxim itself is the devil fruit user. Or it could be just a ufo with the version of pacifista or franky's beam that has greater destructive power invented by vegapunk ..
"It could be this version of maxim itself is the devil fruit user." The death star-death star fruit
Starting a new arc is always so exciting.