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| All these years people were like if there's a Cerberus Fruit it gotta belong to Blackbeard. Oda read these theories and was like "nah, I'm gonna give to the sword of Shanks older twin brother" 😂 Fitting that we're in the underworld of Elbaph. And the guy who drank with Crocus gotta be a Roger Pirate after all. Gaban seems likeliest. Then again, he looks too much like Shiki. You have the Strong World like animals and him drinking with Crocus would fit too. The lore was hype this chapter. Pretty damn epic to have a mural of the war with Giants, ancestor of Oars, Samurai, Minks, Shandia, Skypieans and Co. to fight alongside Nika. There's also the Noah on there, "Laboon", Zunesha and something looking like the Maxim. History will repeat itself of course. So better be ready for Enel to join the final war when he will fight at the side of an actual God. I can also see Oda tie in the shadows we've rhen at the omnious ending of Thriller Bark. One of the best aspects about One Piece is that due to it's sheer length and size of it's world and lore it will feel a lot more rewarding to see all these elements come into play when it's time for final war. Peak. |
FMmatronFeb 2, 10:43 AM
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Based on the leaks it's crazy that we're NOT having a break week next week. Bless Oda fr, it'd be dope if he locks in and delivers 4 chapters in a row before a break every so often throughout the year as long as he feels up to it and doesn't compromise his health in the process. HOLY SHIT SO MUCH TO UNPACK THIS WEEK. So yea, no brainer that Shamrock is Shanks' twin brother. I've seen predictions of him being a "clone" but best not to overthink it, twin brother just always made the most sense lol. Also it seems we're getting closer to learning the identity of the mystery individual whose back we saw when Luffy mentioned the Roger Pirates. I could see his identity being revealed next chapter as the cliffhanger before a break week. Let's see if the Gaban theories end up being correct (realistically idk else who it could be lol). But holy shit, THAT FINAL SPREAD. Clearly the left side is foreshadowing the final war of the series. A lot to unpack just on that page alone, along with the text regarding the three worlds. God once all of this is explored in detail and begins to make more sense it's gonna be so satisfying. |
thebrentinator24Jan 30, 1:30 PM
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Final page is amazing, lots and lots to theorise over and dissect. Oda really cooking here with these chapters.. |
| Penguins are funny |
| Oda spoil the end of the story lol |
| This is easily a top 3 manga panels in One Piece. We finally got what we wanted and it leaves more questions then answers. What a madman Oda is. |
| Absolutely an ALL timer. Is this End Piece? Man, what a reveal, what an absolutely magical double spread. |
| if people arent making 3 hour long videos on the last panel alone... |
| THAT LAST DOUBLE PAGE PANEL TOOK MY BREATH AWAY |
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| I wonder how and to what extent Garling fits into all of this. 🤔 Weird that a break week is not upon us given the bombshell of a last page (of this chapter) would be perfect for just that. But hey, I'm definitely not complaining. 🔥 |
| This chapter was amazing on so many levels. I cannot wait to get more information on the meaning behind that mural. I do hope that the VC flashback is setup like a Alma Torran (magi) or Noland and Calagara flashback style arc. That is what I am wanting for the VC it will provide so much information that it needs its own world, characters, and conflict rather than just an information dump. |
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Lore coming i mean Elbaph is likely to be the OP version of the 4th great Ninja War: Countdown or 5 Kage Summit, we prepare for war by building military.
| @28012001 I sure hope not....the 4th great ninja war was a mess and when Naruto really started to go downhill. |
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| Man, chapters like this are the reason I love this series so much. I feel like that final double page spread will go down in history, it's probably been brewing in Oda's head for decades now. A top chapter for sure |
This is the best chapter of 2025. I'm calling it right now.  So the devil fruits and the non-human races were created during the Second World.  Ripley's reaction is so sad. The world is really that divided that she can't imagine all the different races ever teaming up like this 😥 |
All those different gods already mentioned in the Noland Montblanc fb. It was the first time we got the "don do to to" sound for the drums. The god of Earth in the first world = created red line + Grand Line = Serpent of hell that enveloped the world in death and darkness. The god of the Forest sent demons = Devil Fruits ? The monsters in the drawing ? I don't get that one (Must be something in the big drawing which concerns the void century, drawn by giant kids. Maybe the big tree in the center ?) The god of the Sea became enraged = The lever of the sea rised The four seas never met in the first and second worlds. But they will surely meet again in the third world. |
monkeydsukandaruJan 30, 6:36 PM
| This chapter was too crazy, I need more brain juice to re-read this chapter! AND IS THIS HIM?? THE ONE WE THOUGHT ODA FORGOT ABOUT?  (the image doesn't load, but the guy on the cover of chapter 631) |
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This chapter was too crazy,
I need more brain juice to re-read this chapter!
AND IS THIS HIM??
THE ONE WE THOUGHT ODA FORGOT ABOUT?
(the image doesn't load, but the guy on the cover of chapter 631)
I need more brain juice to re-read this chapter!
AND IS THIS HIM??
THE ONE WE THOUGHT ODA FORGOT ABOUT?
(the image doesn't load, but the guy on the cover of chapter 631)
| @PirateHasan Yes it appears to be the same guy. Many believe that it is Shiki or Scopper Gaban. Your thoughts? |
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| lore piece does it again, oda is on another level. i'm glad we're finally learning even little bits about shanks, a proper timeline of his travels throughout his entire life would be very interesting. damn shamrock somehow has me feeling the tiniest bit of sympathy for loki, that's a celestial dragon for you. final page goes crazy, let's see how oda cooks up a 5 course meal with this. also yet again we hear about dreams in this series. and even with all that going on, we still got a bit of comedy with luffy getting bellmere's name wrong lmao insane chapter. |
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@PirateHasan Yes it appears to be the same guy. Many believe that it is Shiki or Scopper Gaban. Your thoughts?
| @logic340 Highly unlikely that it's gonna be Gaban because we saw an old dude who resembles him during the Marineford saga. Chances of him being Shiki is pretty high, no clue who's it going to be but I'm excited af! P.s. Him being Shiki would be a bummer because I don't really like the dude ._. |
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@logic340 Highly unlikely that it's gonna be Gaban because we saw an old dude who resembles him during the Marineford saga.
Chances of him being Shiki is pretty high, no clue who's it going to be but I'm excited af!
P.s. Him being Shiki would be a bummer because I don't really like the dude ._.
Chances of him being Shiki is pretty high, no clue who's it going to be but I'm excited af!
P.s. Him being Shiki would be a bummer because I don't really like the dude ._.
| @PirateHasan I personally hope that it is Gaban. I doubt that Crocus would be that friendly with Shiki but stranger things have happened. A vote against it being Gaban is he had black hair in flashbacks and this guy appears to have blonde hair. Whoever he is, he is likely Ripley's husband and the father of Collon. I doubt |
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@PirateHasan I personally hope that it is Gaban. I doubt that Crocus would be that friendly with Shiki but stranger things have happened.
A vote against it being Gaban is he had black hair in flashbacks and this guy appears to have blonde hair.
Whoever he is, he is likely Ripley's husband and the father of Collon. I doubt
A vote against it being Gaban is he had black hair in flashbacks and this guy appears to have blonde hair.
Whoever he is, he is likely Ripley's husband and the father of Collon. I doubt
| @logic340 Yeah, a 15 year old character to be a father/husband of newly added random villagers seems unusual. We've waited so many years, a couple of months more for this reveal. I'm also hyped about Elbafs reaction to Luffy transforming into Nika, I can't wait to shed tears with them. |
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| damn lore goes crazy this chapter. stared at that last spread for like 10 mins. there's our preview for the final war right there. all tribes/species united against big bad imu/WG. nice shots of what looks like noah, uranus, pluton, poseidon etc too i wonder if shamrock and garland are as strong as shanks. hopefully not but ya never know shamrock's cerberus sword pretty cool ouch poor loki. i'm sure he'll survive but that hurts i guess we'll meet another of the god's knights soon again i'm wondering where they were during the reverie LOL not luffy forgetting bell-mere's name bro is that gaban approaching luffy. mysterious man we saw ages ago think i prefer 'doom dut da da' for nika sound but still cool |
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| My God. First we start off with Shank's twin (confirmed without doubt) bringing out the Cerberus which came strong with the Hellsing vibes. Loved that, would have been happy if that was the whole chapter. But no, that ain't it. Now, we have the HOLY GRAIL of mythology lore piece. |
| Lore drop bomb, damn, we've got so much to unpack here.. and no break next week!? Oda is spoiling us this new year!! |
one of the best chapters. an extremely detailed page that you can't share your ideas just by typing. still I want to share my thoughts. It would take too long to analyze the motifs in the panel, but it's very clear that on the left side there are living beings from every race in the one piece universe, there's also a big figure holding a small sun, for some reason it seems right to think that this is imu holding the mother flame. and it mentions about the great war that hapenned in the past or maybe will happen in the future(?). on the right side we see a kingdom that is advanced enough to industrialize, probably the ancient kingdom, we see people touching the forbidden sun(most likely some kind of energy source), if I'm not mistaken some of them have halos on their heads. we see the serpent of hell and the flame coming out of its mouth merges with the flame coming out of the mouth of another figure, so we can say the winged figure on the tree is the god of the earth but I'm not sure. there is also a ship that looks like Enel's ship Ark Maxim trying to get to the moon through the flame coming out of the mouth of the serpent of hell and the winged figure. the design of the other ship below is similar to Noah from fishman island. just like in The Deluge, we see each animal being taken to the Noah in pairs. before we talk about the other figures i am adding this image  doesn't the figure next to Noah look like Zunesha? I would like to say that the person wearing the crown is Joy Boy, thinking that it is Zunesha, but I can never be sure because Nika doesn't give the impression of someone who would wear a crown. it could be Imu too now chill, it has very logical reason we also see a lightning striking to Zunesha and Noah i said it could be Imu too because it could give us a clue about the great sin that Zunesha committed there is another figure that we see that his race is from the sky island people. that i have no clue whats it means. THE FIRST WORLD the first point I want to draw attention to is the lines that say that the god of the earth and the god of the sea are enraged. maybe that's why the sea level is high in the world of one piece and the land is underground. i also want to mention that the phrase that says humanity succumbed to desire and touched the forbidden sun probably refers to the tragedy named prometheus bound. also the serpent of hell in the first world reminds me of the world serpent jormungandr in norse mythology which is also being portrayed in the current arc. the world serpent is big enough to surround the world and there is something huge that surrounds the one piece world and that is the redline. if this is true then the place where you enter the grand line is where the serpent is beaten but it could be just an allegory of course. THE SECOND WORLD as for the second world, the first thing to mention is the line where it says that the god of the forest sends his demons. there are 2 speculations here. 1. the idea that the devil fruits are meant. 2. the idea that the god of the forest is imu and the demons are the god's knights and the gorosei, which makes sense because we can say that the gorosei get their transformations from the beasts of japanese mythology known as yokai. The other verse is where they say that the half-moon and the moon people say that they dreamed something, and the only thing I can think of about it is that the half-moon people are related to ones that have D. in their names. source of my thinking is the shape of the letter D can be likened to a half-moon. if we come to moon people, my own thinking would be shandians, bilkans and skypeans, shortly people who live on the sky island. THE THIRD WORLD I think most people understand what's going on in the third world. what I want to draw attention to is why half moon people and moon people are referred to as fractured moon in the third world and not in the same way. i think it's because the people who now have D. in their name are separate from each other, not grouped and have become fractured as example blackbeard and luffy. I might be wrong and there may be details I have missed, feel free to share your own opinion. I also avoided sharing my thoughts on verses that were too open-ended. |
AdralonceJan 31, 1:44 PM
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| MIND BLOWN! My analysis and predictions: The 1st and 2nd Worlds explained the Lore behind the devil-fruits, Sun-God and void century, I can also see from the painting the Noah and maybe the maube Enels ship that went to the Moon, it would be cool to see Enel come back in the future! The 3rd World seems like a prophecy/prediction of the fight to come toward the end, we have . Super exciting developments are yet to come! |
GeoRushJan 31, 12:18 PM
| Better lock in, 2025 gonna be crazy. |
| this lore is completely and utterly absurd. I don't even know where to begin? Are we going to see the origins of DF finally? It seems like it with the big tree in the middle of the mural. And now its finally confirmed Shanks if a CD. What a time to be alive, One Piece fans. |
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| What is this madness. Peak fiction. |
| Amazing chapter. This is what keeps me alive. (Roger slander memes are killing me haha) |
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| Imagine rereading One Piece after it’s finished, in 5-10 years, getting to such lore-heavy chapters like these, while knowing all the context already |
| Ahhhh this is what I've been waiting for. It's been a slow 2 years for this manga, but this chapter was well worth that wait. |
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| the first few chapters of Elbaf have been a drag not gonna lie, but the wait is starting to pay off, to think there was already timeframe beside the void century is monumental |
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| I'm finally back to weekly chapters! I hadn't read it since chapter 1105 until now. Oda simply elevated the lore of One Piece in a surreal way to this present moment, I feel happy to be a fan of this work. One Piece is incredible!  |
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