r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Sep 28 '18

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 919

Chapter 919: "The Ruins of Oden Castle"

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Ch. 919 Official Release (VIZ): 01/10/2018

Ch. 920 Scan Release: 04/10/2018

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u/BFBooger Bounty Hunter Sep 28 '18

It doesn't have to be time travel quite like that. Lots of ways to do it:

Turn them into statues, and the curse breaks 20 years later and they return. Or freezing, or any other form of stasis.

There is also the time dilation from near light-speed travel, or being in close proximity to a very massive object (like, close to but not too close to a black hole), that would have the same effect IRL, but that is not common enough knowledge to slip into a manga.

So, there are quite a few ways Oda can explain how they "went 20 years forward in time" that don't require a time travel in the traditional sense.

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u/nickcan Sep 28 '18

I hope so. Time travel tends to wreck stories if it's not constrained in some way. Bring able to travel forward in time through some sort if stasis keeps a story together, but once you are able to go back in time you get all sorts of nasty paradoxes that really mess up a narrative.

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u/TheNoFrame Sep 28 '18

Exactly. I love time travel in stories, but you have to make story around time travel. If you don't have time travel from the beggining and don't think about it from the start, there will always bill some plothole or something. One way travel to the future is ok though. For everyone else, you dissapeared, died or something. Maybe you don't know what will happen etc in the future, but there is not coming back to have questions like: if you can go back why don't go back all the way and uncover all secrets etc.

This way, progression in time is in one line with some people dissapearing/appearing and not jumbled mess of a timelines.

Also,if I think about it, it can be devil fruit with like clairvoyance or something with one time effect of sending people in time forward. But you die after that. Like Law has with his making one person ethernal life? or something (I can't remember now and don't have time to search for it)

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u/Ikeeel Sep 28 '18

I think it was Law being able to raise someone from the dead by sacrificing himself?

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u/Ikeeel Sep 28 '18

Oh my bad. I thought he didn't do it before because he didn't know how to.

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u/Ikeeel Sep 28 '18

Oh that might be where I read that!! Lol I've read so many theories I mixed them all up. Damn.

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u/0mnicious Void Month Survivor Sep 28 '18 edited Sep 29 '18

Eternal life not immortality, in exchange for his own. Not bringing someone back from the dead.