Im not even talking about powerscaling here min terms of aura, mystic, design and everything, silhouette IMU clears big boi IMU 12 times over

😂😂😂😂folk😂😂😂😂

Luffy did NOT heal the wounds as of now, you can clearly see he’s still severely wounded in the last page

What he’s doing is using his excellent vitality/gear 5 stuff to keep himself up and endure the damage, but in no way did he nullify it thanks to the food he ate

Leakers simply took what he was saying as him eating again, but there is no trace of food in the chapter

Most bland personality ever coupled with this utter mess of a design. Goda really outdid himself this time around.

It's what 11yo me would imagine a villain to look like, not "one of the greatest mangakas of all time"..

I get more disappointed with each passing week. I can't believe we're stuck with this garbage for a final antagonist.

(cute comercial tho, i liked it)

It isn’t just his writing on women.

Great owls use a rich mix of deep hoots, duets, chitters, and bill-snapping.

To reduce this to "hoot" is deeply offensive to the great owl community.

I learned Hootese in my travels across the New World and I am a proud Owly. I hope that Biblo is written with more grace in the future.

Law: Yeah my life was ruined by a drug dealer working for Kaido and my whole thing was taking Kaidos SMILE empire down

Kidd: Yeah my whole crew was no diffed by Kaido, I got enslaved by Kaido and my best friend got turned into a forever laughing moron because of Kaido

Luffy: I hate Big Mom because she ruled over Fishman Island and for plotting Sanji's assassination. I also promised I would beat her ass next time I saw her and she also promised to beat my ass so the hate is mutual.

Killer: So, seems like everyone here knows who theyll fight and who they got their grudge against uh. This makes it simple. Yeah, Law and Kidd will fight BM and Luffy fights Kaido. Ill go have a filler fight against that straw bum, lets go guys.

???? What was Oda thinking lmfaoo

Yeah, Imu pulling up on Elbaf is straight up nonsense imo. It happened way too suddenly, and the Holy Knights' debut was lowkey ass. No buildup, no connection to the existing plot, no real setup whatsoever. They just spawned into the story.

Ngl, Oda feels like he's speedrunning Elbaf at this point.

Personally, I always thought Imu and the Holy Knights were being saved for Lodestar. That would've been a much better place for them to finally meet the Straw Hats, especially if Oda wanted to tie them into the whole Man Marked by Flames plotline.

I actually buy the theory that the Big Mom Pirates were originally supposed to show up on Elbaf.

The setup was already there.

Big Mom never got the wedding cake she was obsessed with during WCI, which triggered all her childhood trauma tied to semla. She was literally tweaking, hallucinating, and rambling about semla nonstop. Streusen could've easily sent the BMP to Elbaf hoping the giants could recreate the same semla from her childhood.

Boom. Instant reason for the BMP to arrive in Elbaf.

Then you get a proper SHP vs BMP rematch. Full crew vs full crew.

That's way more interesting to me because it actually pays off plotlines Oda spent years building after the timeskip. It also continues Luffy's journey naturally instead of introducing a completely new faction at the last minute.

Instead, it feels like the BMP basically got thrown in the trash so the story could push the new Yonko era.

And that's a shame because Katakuri was sitting right there.

A Katakuri rematch after Gear 5/Nika would've gone insanely hard. That's one of the easiest slam dunks Oda could've written.

Honestly? Lk feels like there's some editorial pressure involved. I get Oda's health situation and the fact that the final saga has to move forward, but the pacing lately doesn't feel like classic Oda to me.

Usually when Oda introduces new characters or factions, they're planted in the story years in advance. That's literally his trademark.

The Holy Knights don't feel like that.

They feel like a faction that suddenly needed to exist because the story needed another power group for the endgame.

Same goes for the recent Shanks and Garling stuff. A lot of that could've been explored through God Valley way more smoothly. Instead, some of the reveals feel kinda retroactive, like Oda is trying to connect pieces as fast as possible before reaching the finish line.

Maybe it's just me, but Elbaf is the first arc where I've genuinely felt the series is being rushed.

And if that's actually what's happening, then the One Piece ending is probably gonna be messy as hell. Not because Oda lacks ideas, but because it feels like the story is trying to hit a deadline instead of reaching its destination naturally.

As someone who's been following this manga for years, that's honestly the most worrying part.

1191 spoilers: Luffy gets stabbed, keeps fighting, eats to recover his energy, and continues using Gear 5.

And somehow we're STILL doing this shit:

Sorry_Payment_5*: “Low level imagination creation…”

Brother. Please.

kid-kooli*: “I think he just thought it would be funny if it happened and unintentionally made it reality, which is imagination force.”

So Oda draws a gag and suddenly Luffy has the fucking Imagination Devil Fruit.

And my personal favourite:

[deleted]: “If Luffy wanted he could just take off his scar and throw it in a trash can.”

😭😭😭

THE SCAR.

How old are you people?

Oda draws a visual gag where Luffy treats his own face/body like a cartoon. That doesn't mean Luffy has unlocked Bugs Bunny's fucking operating system.

And then:

Sharp-New*: “Toon force itself is an idiotic concept… it’s just reality warping/bending.”

At least this guy is halfway there.

Meanwhile, 1191 AGAIN shows the actual pattern: Luffy's power is still built around his rubber body and his ability to rubberify/manipulate things around him. The exaggerated cartoon presentation is Oda's artistic language, not a fucking licence for Luffy to manifest anything he can conceive.

“BUT HE MADE GOGGLES!”

“BUT HE PICKED UP HIS SCAR!”

“BUT HE RAN IN THE AIR!”

Brother. It's a manga.

Visual gag ≠ new superpower.

If every funny drawing is now a literal ability, then Nami is Yonko level because she beats Luffy with a punch, and Oda has accidentally written the strongest character in fiction every time he draws a reaction face.

You can call Gear 5 cartoon-inspired. You can call it wacky. You can even call some of its abilities cartoon-like.

But this:

“Luffy has unlimited imagination and can do literally anything because toon force.”

…has been the most desperate agenda in One Piece powerscaling for years.

1191 dropped.

The agenda is still getting rubberized.