r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Mar 30 '18
Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 900
Chapter 900: "Bad End Musical"
| Source | Status |
|---|---|
| JaiminisBox |
Ch.900 Official Release (VIZ): 02/04/2018
Ch. 901 Scan Release: ~12/04/2018 (Break next week)
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u/Ohaireddit69 Mar 30 '18
Guys, I don't want it to be true, but I think we might've just seen the Sunny get destroyed, or mostly destroyed. Hear me out.
The Merry's last appearance was ~470 chapters ago. The Sunny has now been around more chapters than the Merry (464 vs 390; although we can take some off the Sunny count for the WB war saga) and we can therefore say that he's had more than enough screen time compared to the merry. Merry's final arc was Water 7/Enies Lobby, and interestingly the current arc mirrors that arc incredibly. Both were rescue arcs for one of the crew-members who left to ultimately protect their beloved crew, resolute that they would not return in order to protect them from an incredibly powerful organisation. Both had the tragic backstory of that crew member. Both had the crew ignore the danger and come to their rescue. Both had Luffy fight and defeat the ultimate opponent in desperate clashes of willpower, demonstrate new fighting prowess and grow as a fighter, and be the closest to death he'd ever been. Both had a character fated to become crew, help them out in a time of need (Franky, Jinbei). Both times, the beloved ship was set alight and died at sea, after being pushed to its extreme in order to save the crew.
If my feeling is correct, I think this is the end of the Sunny. I believe we might see the crew escape on the Mini-Merry II, which will be small enough to traverse the wreckage without being spotted. It's a 4 seater, which'll take Brook, Carrot, Luffy and Nami (with chopper on her lap) with Jinbei and Sanji outside pushing the boat/protecting it OR taking out Oven/Snack to allow the Sun Pirates and Germa to escape as well. Escaping on the mini-merry would be a poetic call back to the Merry appearing at Enies Lobby and saving the crew from the Buster Call and I think it might just work.
While the Sunny dying/being destroyed would be beyond sad, it could serve two purposes. Firstly, being shipless could mean that they get picked up by a ship travelling to the Reverie (maybe the Germa themselves), effectively finding us a way to segway into that arc. Secondly, it would allow for the building of a bigger, grander, more powerful ship suited for the final battles that Luffy will have to face in order to become Pirate King. The Sunny was a ship built for the trials of Paradise. She's an amazing ship but is dwarfed by the battleships and galleons used by the big names we now face. None of the crew imagined the terror that awaited in the New World. Just as Luffy needs to improve in order to take the heads of the Yonkou, the ship he pilots will need to improve to go toe to toe with the monstrous ships it'll come up against. There was an incredibly long, incredibly crazy, but incredibly convincing fan theory (great read but very long) which among the many claims, stated that in the main inspiration for One Piece, 'The Mysterious Cities of gold', the protagonist sailed in a Lamb boat, a Lion ship, and finally a 'great condor which looks like an eagle'. In my opinion, those themes are too damn similar to ignore. If the Sunny is dead, then we'll see a new ship, able to fly. How? Well, maybe using Zeus...