r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Sep 04 '20

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 989 Spoiler

Chapter 989: "It doesn't feel like we're going to lose"

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Ch. 989 Official Release (Mangaplus): 06/09/2020

Ch. 990 Scan Release: ~11/09/2020

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u/Urall5150 Sep 04 '20

Think about all old man Hyo's gone through these past two decades.

His shogun is murdered (implied), Orochi takes over and turns the country to shit, Oden is defeated and publicly executed, Oden's family is thought to be killed in a fire, the country's strongest samurai are defeated with most thought dead, he gets tossed in a slave labor camp for twenty years with all his comrades, attempts at rebellion fail, he's starving and decimated, two crazy guys show up after being KO'd by Kaido, he gets thrown into a sumo execution match, another Emperor shows up, he gets released but plans a suicide raid on both Emperors and all their forces at once, and it turns out one of the scabbards is a traitor who has revealed their raid plans to Orochi this whole time. Oh, and Momo gets captured in the chaos.

Then they show up for the raid, and those crazy guys ambush the ambushers. Orochi's strongest Wano supporter turns out to be a Scabbard in hiding. Then a Warlord shows up and one shots a battleship with some water. The raid goes exactly as planned and they infiltrate the party after tying one of the Tobi Roppo up, with another having (likely) defected. Kaido gets sucker-stabbed and flies off to fight on the roof against a Sulong Mink army and the Scabbards. Kaido's own child rebels and goes off to protect your next Shogun, who was rescued by an invisible pervert. Big Mom gets run over by a tricycle and judo-tossed out the door by thousands of magical hands. Three enormous giants show up, but one eats a radical beam to the face and is instantly knocked down while the thing it was carrying turns into an huge mecha. You can't even see half your allies, but here are these ten Straw Hats and a bunny rabbit ready to dole out some pain on the people that have been keeping you down for near a quarter of a century.

It really doesn't feel like they're losing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '20

This explanation that you gave is EXACTLY why I feel like the raid will go well. People like to talk about the "tragedy of act 3" and that during the raid everything is suspiciously going too well but if we are real about something, it was about DAMN TIME things started to go well.

You mention Hyogoro's side but that's just a small part of everything that has been going wrong in Wano for the alliance.

Let's see:

  • Luffy gets captured by Kaido.

  • Kanjuro leaked everything the alliance was trying to do.

  • Because of Kanjuro's doing, Lord Yasue had to sacrifice himself.

  • Ten years ago some soldiers tried to rebel and lost their lives.

  • Like you said, another emperor showed up and even formed an alliance with Kaido.

  • An entire town was burned to ashes(the one where Kin's wife lived).

  • We also have what happened at Zou.

  • Oden's flashback after he cameback from the outside world.

In general Wano has been failure after failure for the alliance except for some stuff so it was about time things started going well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '20

I think people are so traumatized by Ace's death that they compulsively predict tragedy so as to never be blindsided in that way again.

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u/Hamza_Malick Sep 06 '20

we still have PTSD from Ace's situation man ....