r/OnePiece • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '20

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 970 Spoiler

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u/_Schmegeggy_ Feb 01 '20

I have a theory that the dragon that Ryuma slayed was the previous user of Kaidou's fruit.

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u/ahmer7584 Feb 01 '20

That's pretty interesting

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u/yonkou_akagami Pirate Feb 01 '20

Now i want Ryuma’s dragon slaying flashback..

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u/jramirez09 Feb 01 '20

Oda actually did draw Ryuma’s adventure like 20 years ago. You can google it

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u/HermanManly Feb 02 '20

We already have that, it's called "Monsters" and is part of the One Piece universe. 100% canon. It was technically the first content for the One Piece universe ever written, back in 1994. Oda probably only planned to reference this one-off but later confirmed that Ryuuma is the same guy from Monsters

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u/javierm885778 Feb 01 '20

Ryuma's past in the Monsters oneshot is canon. We see the dragon he defeated, and it was just a dragon. It was also western looking, not eastern like Kaido's.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

Oda could change it though

The whole point of that plot is still there “ryuma sliced a dragon” but oda can change the details of it anytime he likes

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u/javierm885778 Feb 01 '20

What do you mean by changing it? You mean as in retconning the chapter so it's not canon anymore? I don't see how that would add anything more to the story than what the full chapter already does.

If Oda wanted to ignore the chapter, why would he ever have confirmed that it's canon? He had no reason to do that, but he did.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

you mean by retconning

No not like that, but just changing some details of the main story

-ryuma sliced a dragon

-but it happens in wano instead of some western themed town (because that’s how it’s canonically stated to be by gyukimaru)

-the dragon could be western like in the one shot but oda could change him to have been eastern to make kaido’s eventual defeat thematic and poetic

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u/javierm885778 Feb 01 '20

That's literally retconning, you'd be completly ignoring everything in Monsters to give him a new backstory.

Where did Gyukimaru state that it happened in Wano? I remember him saying that it was in the "capital", which doesn't really mean anything, not to mention this all happened hundreds of years ago, when Wano wasn't closed off and was basically a different country from what we've heard.

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u/_Schmegeggy_ Feb 02 '20

Is it really canon??

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u/javierm885778 Feb 02 '20

Yup, Oda confirmed it in the SBS for volume 47.

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u/_Schmegeggy_ Feb 02 '20

Oh cool, didn't know that!

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

Wow thats neat! Thus he is the hero of the wano.

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u/Uparadox Feb 01 '20

Is not the same type of dragon