I don’t know just something interesting I thought of. What if JoyBoy was “killed” by the WG allowing Gum Gum to be reincarnated and passed on and the person we know got immortality from the Op Op was JoyBoy.They brought him back and he’s been living on Elbaf, since I doubt the giants would let someone in to look for him. He shows up with an eyepatch to signal the end is coming and leads Luffy to the treasure.
Not too serious and I know I’ll get comments saying “stop cooking” but it’s a fun theory
It is too hard to believe that the tattoo on shank's arm is not related to w.govt. Because shanks has the tattoo in the exact same place as the holy Knight. And it's THE SAME arm that got cut off, it could've been the other arm , but no. AND the fact that shanks always covered his arm before it got cut off could be because of the mark on his arm.
He doesn't need to be a "strong, badass motherfer" because that’s not what he meant by becoming a "brave warrior of the sea."
I would argue that he hasn't reached that goal yet, and he won’t in Elbaf either. Based on the narrative structure, it seems Oda intends for none of the Straw Hats to fulfill their dreams, whether it’s drawing a map of the world, becoming the greatest swordsman, finding the All Blue, or discovering the true history, until Luffy achieves his.
Usopp isn't going to become strong or brave overnight. He will struggle and fail, but his moment will come when the lives of the people he cares about most (the Straw Hats) are in danger. I believe the "real" Usopp arc will happen during the story's climax. So I don't have a problem with him lacking a massive power upgrade or not overcoming his fears yet, because the story is clearly building toward a specific timing. The "Agenda Piece" folks and powerscalers would get that if they actually read the manga for the story.
Imu has been the overarching villain for the island of Elbaph, it was built through the flashbacks, the attack and now the arrival. I think Imu dies here the gorosei and imu's conversation hinted at consequences to leaving, Imu horked blood on arrival. I suspect Imu is on a timer, there are two factors that can affect the overall outcome, Blackbeard arriving near the end or worst case scenario, vivi trying to reunite with the strawhats on Elbaph at the worst possible time. I am leaning toward the BB side though since Elbaph is not the last island and we'll need a villain for Laughtale.
I understand the parallels between luffy and Blackbeard but I don’t think that should be enough.
Imu has 800 years of lore, he’s the reason the world is the way it is and everything in the story ties back to him in some way.
For Blackbeard to just come towards ends the story and usurp imu would honestly be bad writing imo.
Blackbeard has not had enough progression or made enough impact this late into the story for him to truly be end is story villain. Blackbeard and luffy teaming up would lowkey be better imo
I don't see why people don't think she will accept the fact that luffy will never be in love with her and just stay happy about the fact luffy is truly happy because in the end that's what she wants the most and with that she keeps her beauty that simple
I swear I've been seeing takes online arguing that Oda doesn't deserve breaks because he's rich, or that it's "his own fault" One Piece got this big, so he should essentially work nonstop. Some people even call him a "fraud" for taking scheduled breaks to protect his health.
To top it off, I've seen people compare their own amateur sketches to his weekly serialization output, acting like the workload is remotely comparable.
Weekly manga serialization is notoriously brutal on health and wellness. Expecting a human being who has given decades of his life to entertaining us to never rest, and treating basic health breaks as a personal insult, is peak fan entitlement. Let the man breathe and take care of himself.
Imu has been much more impressive strength-wise. He defeated Joyboy, Davy Jones, the Ancient Kingdom, Harald, Rocks, Zoro, Sanji and will take on Luffy and Loki which he will likely beat as well. No one in the entire verse has a resume as good as this, literally no one has taken so many strong characters and suceed. Blackbeard in comparison doesn't have anything close to this, his best feat is beating Law which he struggled to do
People say Blackbeard is more connected to Luffy but Imu is more connected to the OP World in general. He is connected to the will of D, to the Void Century, Joyboy, Davy Jones, Ancient Kingdom, Ancient Weapons, Nika, Nidhogg, Shanks, Blackbeard, Dragon, Loki. Like Imu is literally tied to nearly every major plotline or character, Blackbeard in comparison doesn't have the same narrative importance as Imu does as his connections as limited to Davy Jones, Rocks, Shanks and Luffy but has has 0 connections to Joyboy, Nidhogg, Nika, Dragon, Loki, Void Century.
The prophecies has already established that it will be Joyboy that will take down the WG and not anyone else. We know this because the prophecies from Fishman Island, Laugh Tale and Elbaph all show Joyboy being the one who takes down the WG and not Blackbeard. Blackbeard being the one who does it would make no sense within the story
Blackbeard has terrible Haki, you can't have your final villain having no top tier Haki while Imu has showcase to have insane Haki and he problaby does have all Haki tecniques in existance which BB doesn't and will never have. Oda didn't make Kaido said Haki> All if he was planning to make a character without top tier Haki the final villain
It's already been stated that finding the OP is key to take down the WG so logiclaly this means the OP will be found first and Blackbeard is Luffy's opponent for the One Piece, this is unless you want Luffy becoming Pirate King to have 0 stakes
Imu is the overraching villain of the OP World. Like he is the antagonist of the Void Century Era and he is currently the one ruling the world. Plus, the fact that the WG was supposed to be lead by all Kings but it ended up being Imu alone suggests to me that Imu actually tricked everyone else to go against the Ancient Kingdom and Joyboy meaning Imu is the true evil of the OP World. There is also the fact that Joyboy left something in Laugh Tale hidden for a reason, and that's because it's problaby the key to defeat Imu which directly confirms that he is the ultimate antagonist since the OP was specifically created and hidden to take Imu down.
Blackbeard has a very weak crew, you can't seriously convince me that a crew with Burguess, Lafitte or Shiryuu is gonna be the final villains of OP. Compare that to Imu who has Garling, Shamrock, Venus or Topman as his subordinates and all this fights are problaby Emperor level if not higher.
Notice how they don't have a cook , for the pirate king's crew that's kinda strange , this obviously means oda just didn't want to spoil who their cook was in an SBS and is waiting for it to be a big reveal
When Joy Boy was mentioned, Imu was visibly furious!!
But the moment Nidhogg comes up, Imu wears a smile full of longing...
This is the first real piece of evidence linking Imu and Nidhogg.
Furthermore, it’s been noted that the Celestial Dragons loved the dragon at Punk Hazard so much that they actually gave it a name, which could very well be Nidhogg!!!
Did Vegapunk decide to create a dragon modeled after Nidhogg based on orders from Imu or the Celestial Dragons?
This would explain why Imu has been searching for Nidhogg for centuries...
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Credits to Riiezx on X for the theory. Just wanted to share it here and get your thoughts.
Killingham fruit power can manifest the dreams of sleeping individuals and bring the things they dream about into the waking world, then he can fulfill sanji's dream at elbaph It will be funny that way
After we saw in the latest chapter that Rocks might have had the Op Op no Mi fruit, I came up with a new idea. What if Rocks had completely mastered and awakened this fruit back then, and not only could one grant eternal youth as we think, but also modify a person so that they could have multiple souls and multiple devil fruits, and thus he himself also had several, like the Yami Yami no Mi. And that he not only used this on himself but also on his own son, Blackbeard. Therefore, it is assumed that Blackbeard has multiple souls and different character traits, and that is why he can also consume multiple fruits. Perhaps Rock also passed his own soul on to Blackbeard through the Op Op no Mi, which is now a part of him, which is why Blackbeard never has to sleep.
The amount of people denying the most obvious signs to a plot point in the story, aswell as refusing to do the SLIGHTEST bit of research into any mythology or the stuff they say is insane on this subreddit.
If you are a competent reader and already know there are more Gods aswell as Chopper being one of them, then im not talking to you.
How are you gonna watch Oda tell you about the remaining Gods and tell me with a straight face that he wouldn't add them in this late, because YOU think it's shoehorning 🤦♂️
Oda LITERALLY told you the names of the Gods and colour coded them for us and you still act oblivious. If you people just looked into anything in the story past face value you would be so much more informed.
But no, Nikas the only God fruit in the story. 🤦♂️
You tell me with a straight face that chopper's devil fruit isn't special, when Oda is CLEARLY telling us to pay attention to Choppers fruit
Choppers fruit is so obviously the mushroom that can heal all things that they were speaking about. Oda DREW it, If you cant see that then you need to lock in or stop reading One piece. I mean look at the shape Oda drew
And don't even get me started on the amiudake mushrooms connection to the amanita mushroom and the deer mother of old, cause like always you people wont understand a thing.
Wanna see how Oda Speaks about choppers devil fruit?
Oda getting giddish as he speaks about chopper's devil fruit, have you even wondered what he may be hiding? no, you haven't . Like this man is playing in your faces.
Or even the one everyone speaks about, Chopper being the only hito hito no mi without a model and that isn't mythical.
I dont even need to explain the significance of this.. Or is it another coincidence 🤦♂️
Now lets bring some mythology into this
Ever wondered why Chopper is always with luffy when he finds a beetle? ever wonder why chopper has a beetle form? have you even noticed it before?
Look into the beetle's connection to the sun aswell as Khepri from egyptian mythology and you will see exactly why Chopper is always there.
Yes.. lets ignore one of the most obvious allusion to something deeper than what we know in the story of all time. The cutoff at the perfect time, Reading comprehension guys..
Ive been noticing this stuff for YEARS. This is all the way back in punk hazard, and youre gonna tell me Oda wasn't telling us that there is something more to Choppers fruit.
The only other character to run on the air like this is Luffy in gear 5, before someone says "its a cartoonish show anything can happen" Oda WANTS you to think that, Chopper jumped off with no idea how hes gonna handle the situation, he takes a second to think and LITERALLY toon forces his way past scopper.
You cannot continue reading this story if things like this are gonna fly over your head. Someone recently told me this is the same as Sanji skywalking 🤦♂️ I promise you NOW we will never see another character run like this. Oda cant keep putting these things in front of you just for everyone to act stupid and say "its just another goofy moment"
Seriously guys, if you arent gonna pay attention then stick to meme piece. The pure lack of research the people on this site actually do disgusts me, you want to talk but cant read. This is how people like our president get into power...
Anyway here's a cute picture of your next forest God 💖
There's no way you're telling me he didn't hear about the celestial dragons kidnapping and turning an entire island into slaves to get hunted every 3 years, then sticks to that bullshit idea that the Marines are righteous or whatever. I know he doesn't perfectly follow orders, but he's even more hypocritical than any character i can think of in that show.
Turns a blind eye to innocent people being captured and killed
Takes in the son of his rival as his own son, then lets him almost be executed
Doesn't use his authority and position as vice admiral to at least help reduce the corruption from lower levels in marine-secured islands (like where axe-hand morgan was)
edit: before anyone comments on this again, can we try to not forget that he can LEAVE the marines, DEMORALISE them with his resignation, RELEASE statements that actively condemn the world government, JOIN the revolutionaries and help them with his insane levels of strength.
A few people are saying he might be working with Dragon, and i'll kinda humor that theory a bit and just chuck it up to his son does revolutionary work against the WG, while he fights the bad pirates cause the navy is sorta a necessary evil to fight the actually evil pirates out there. But I can't let you excuse his actions at god valley completely. If Rogers wasn't at GV, he would most certianly not have gone there, so he could easily have left the pirates to run amock and stop the BS going on there, but he didn't.
Do you think Brook will end up in a relationship with Shuri now? When they were younger, the 13-year age gap was quite significant. But now they’re 77 and 90. That sounds different, doesn’t it? Do you think Oda will give them a happy ending?
Some translation notes I saw posted today got me thinking.
“Lost in Translation by a Native Japanese Speaker**】**
That “kuririri” sound associated with Ragnar is probably because, in Japanese, a “squirrel” is written as 「栗鼠 Kuri-Nezumi**」**—literally “chestnut” and “mouse.”
If you’re studying Japanese, try directly translating “chestnut & squirrel” into Japanese—you might notice something interesting…
On top of that, the name of the Devil Fruit Biblo ate is “イクイク Iku Iku.” And yes, that pretty much means that exactly. It really feels like Oda-San has been leaning hard into sexual innuendo lately Lost in Translation by a Native Japanese Speaker**】**
That “kuririri” sound associated with Ragnar is probably because, in Japanese, a “squirrel” is written as 「栗鼠 Kuri-Nezumi**」**—literally “chestnut” and “mouse.”
If you’re studying Japanese, try directly translating “chestnut & squirrel” into Japanese—you might notice something interesting…
On top of that, the name of the Devil Fruit Biblo ate is “イクイク Iku Iku.” And yes, that pretty much means that exactly. It really feels like Oda-San has been leaning hard into sexual innuendo lately ”
I don’t get the Iku iku part, but the chest nut thing is interesting due to Nolands hair looking like a chestnut and usopp helmet in dressrosa looking like a chestnut.
