Chapter 1082 is finally officially out.
The wait for this one felt like an eternity, lol.
Chapter 1082 is finally officially out.
The wait for this one felt like an eternity, lol.
Holy shit, that chapter was worth the wait. PLEASE REVERIE FLASHBACK
Opening the chapter to the news of T-Bones death was a shock, I'm a sucker for side characters, and T-Bone was a memorable one for me ("I hate crooked sword play", "right angle slash", that was just gold), but so much happened this chapter, by the time I got to the end I had forgotten all about it.
Wonder if we'll get to see Imu next chapter? That would be fun.
I think this chapter really summed up why I dislike the Marines.
"We are the protector of the people!
....Well, except when our horribly corrupt government taxes said people into poverty to give our insanely decadent nobility all the wealth they want, that is. Then we can't do anything for you. Sorry".
Thinking about the days were T-Bone was a meme in this site.
Just saying... Spoilers are out... But not from redon but others
Can we soon get information on why the World Government/Im decidedly destroyed Lulusia?
@joekido-the-Second Because they know Sabo saw IM on the Empty Throne.
Buggy just ending Croc and Mihawk with his speech is still so beatiful.
@Johnny-B-Decent said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
@joekido-the-Second Because they know Sabo saw IM on the Empty Throne.
So they decided to destroy the entire island just to kill one person who is not even confirmed to be on that island and the Elder Stars has the attitude of "Meh whatever" instead of going crazy. They could've just cut off the transmission instead.
However they decided to destroy the island just to say it never exist to begin with just to kill one person? They should use the Buster Call for that. I think there is more to this then what we thought.
@joekido-the-Second No, they were destroying the island anyway. Sabo was a bojnus, or so they thought
@Johnny-B-Decent ah uh well um points at outside
@ea77 said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
@joekido-the-Second No, they were destroying the island anyway. Sabo was a bojnus, or so they thought
I think you misquoted me because I literally said they destroyed the island for other reasons and also Sabo was not even on the island to begin with and could not confirm that.
@joekido-the-Second Yeah, they did all that just to kill one person, because they are a bunch of crazy-asses who are losing their grip of control over the world.
The chapter really makes us ask a few questions about Shanks, such as: why is he going after the One Piece only now? Why did he give up when he was younger? We can speculate that it had something to do with whatever Roger told him that made him cry. What if he knows more about Lost Century than it seems and he was waiting untill the Nika fruit user was strong enough…
Man, I really wish Shanks became a villain. Roger laughed and he cried, such an interesting paralel
Apparently it took me a whole week to figure out that the crossing line is T-Bone's pic is his mustache and not a folding mark of the newspaper, lol.
Kudos for Stephen, his translation made Tsuru's lines more naturally delivered. Buggy's "champion of evil" line, Ushiano's and Ahiru's gags are quite better to understand, too.
I really hope the Crocohawk daddy duo can undo that ship's head in the close future. It's painfully unsettling.
Buggy discourse is just so good. It brings back the Romance Dawn vibes from the start and briefly touched upon in Jaya.
@Kishido Life's hard out here for us official-only readers. I was kinda spoiled on this one by Uzumaki Khan of all people. He who has mods hide the title of chapters cause he thinks they are too spoiler-y and covers the left side of the page with his hand.... He released video few days ago with the title "He's worthy of a yonko! 1082 review" or something. I checked today and it has Buggy in the thumbnail, fortunately didn't have that when I saw it. I thought it was either about Luffy or Blackbeard, so that was lucky.
Been a Khan follower (and even sometimes twitch subscriber) for years, but now I had to unsubscribe and block his channel so it wouldn't show up on my yt reccs. Still gonna watch his videos when I know it's safe, cause I do really like the guy and his reactions, but still, made me sad.
Not that anyone cares, but I needed to vent a bit.
Wonder how much time passed between Imu's unfortunate missed nuke on Sabo, Kuma blasting of again and this chapter awkward reunion, and how it syncs up with everything else.
Whatever the answer, I'm amused at Dragon seemingly just sitting there all the while, mildly confused and annoyed by the events unfolding around him.
Buggy putting those fake self important pirates with their eyeliner and their fur coats back to their place is probably my choice for peak post time skip moment.
Only Blackbeard riding an hobo riding a Pegasus down from the heavens to murder Law comes close.
smokes a cigar
missing a hand
has facial scars
themed after a reptile
wants to create a nation of soldiers
Is Crocodile Big Boss?
Oh hey, this is the first time we've seen Shank's face at Roger's execution. Oda was always careful to hide it before so we couldn't tell if he had his scars yet or not. (and similarly we've only seen Croc from the back during that era)
So... the fight he had with Blackbeard was after that point.
I'm really digging Ushiano's design. It's so silly, but the more that I look at it, the more endearing it gets.
@joekido-the-Second yeah I misread, sorry
@cavendishsama The aversion to spoilers to the point of covering the chapter titles is a mental illness at this point.
That's offensive and ahistorical. The conversation about chapter titles as spoilers has been a thing for a long time. I definitely has since chapter 574.
Well this is embarrassing. I always thought the "co.jp" link lead to a in-Japanese release of the chapter, and I would wait for the Viz Media link to get it in English.
I'm on around my third chapter's worth of saying let's get back to Egghead already, but Oda keeps giving me things I'm not asking for that manage to greatly entertain me regardless. I'm starting to wonder how much of volume 107 we're going to spend away from the main plot at this point. If volume 106 balloons to 12 chapters we could see this one having a single chapter of Egghead for the York reveal, followed by at least half a volume's worth of the rest of the world.
How typical of Oda, to tease at Jump festa this idea of "I hope no one dies!" as he starts setting up this huge endgame with big name characters making their moves, and the first one to bite it is... T Bone! I don't think anyone could have seen that coming. It has a similar energy to Ashura and Izo's deaths, but feels like far, far less of a copout. Still, T Bone was pretty likable as Marines went, and a long-haul character who's kept making cameos past his first appearance for longer than I've been reading the series. I appreciate Sengoku and Tsuru's conversation on the topic, with the self-awareness about the purpose of bounties inspiring betrayal by the common folk, especially in impoverished areas. What they miss is the high likelihood of the World Government's Heavenly Tribute creating so much of the poverty that made this tactic so effective in the first place. But if they could connect those dots they might stop being Marines, right?
What's with the black line across T Bone's pic in the paper though? I could see it being just a weirldly drawn fold in the page, and it's not really how I think Oda would depict an attack happening in a still photograph.
The man we see with Cross Guild in the next scene doesn't look like a match for a Vice Admiral in regular circumstances (which I know has some thinking T Bone faked his death to give him the reward, but that feels cheap to me) but Sengoku alluded repeatedly to backstabbing before, and it would be just like what we know of T Bone to trust in the good in people and let his guard down. I'm inclined to think he really did it, but the line about the cause of death being withheld early in the chapter gives me pause. Perhaps they just didn't want it to get out that he'd been assassinated by a civilian and give Cross Guild the advertising. If it did happen, the method would have to have been completely without honour, but when you look at the panel of his starving family, you can see how much of a hard choice that would make for the guy.
It's very interesting to me that Buggy says the guy who killed T-Bone has made himself into a "champion of evil" (or "charisma of evil" if you want a more awkward translation that I don't think uses the word 'charisma' properly in English but whatever), which you might remember being the same thing Trebol claimed he and the other executives raised Doflamingo to be after they recognised his potential as a boy.
You have to wonder where Buggy picked up the phrase from.
The Buggy gags are fun, but they lead into a pleasantly surprising moment of character growth for the guy as he, out of all the pirates present, becomes the one to remember the importance of ambitious dreams. We see explicitly that despite all the bickering Buggy's affection for Shanks was genuine, which led into real disappointment when their pirating goals diverged. And I think he actually does prove himself as the leader he's been made out to be in this way that he manipulates the far stronger former Warlords into following his agenda instead of their own using his sway over the crew. Very piratey move.
I feel as we get further in that Oda is using these cutaways to set up each of the Emperors' runs at the One Piece. Shanks and Blackbeard get decisive wins over the captains with the Poneglyph rubbings. Buggy gets to renew his determination and get us all thinking about how much second-hand info he might have picked up from being so close to the last guy who claimed the throne. This is Oda putting pieces where they need to be for the final race to the treasure.
The question becomes if the Egghead Incident will give Luffy his own chance to fully declare his candidacy to the world, or if we're taking the defeat of Kaido to be that moment for him.
The newly named Revolutionaries (only newly named, they've been hidden in the background of older chapters) are a set of fun designs. I think Ahiru is my favourite. You have to wonder what kinds of weapons are in that arm. And if maybe Lindbergh built it for her, despite her not being his subordinate. Jiron is seen literally eating a telescope, which makes me wonder if he's got a Devil Fruit power to be revealed at a later date. Something similar to Wapol's powers, apparently. Far from the first adjacent ability.
Sabo's reunion with Koala is a sweet moment, and I'm happy to see poor Moda made it out alive. That Lulusian explosion was big enough I was actually wondering if the bit parts from the island were gone forever, but Oda will do as he does.
It took me a bit of looking to find the "three noise" signal Sabo references here. I was expecting to find it floating through the air like normal sound effects, so the first couple of times I scoured chapters 1058 and 1060 for it I totally missed it being right there in Sabo's speech bubble, with Dragon reacting to it and everything. The official release's typesetting also makes it look more like two noises than three, but the original Japanese has the sounds looking more intentionally distinct from each other.
I've given up on trying to say with any confidence where the story is headed next week, but I know I'm not holding my breath for Sabo's full Marijoa explanation right away. It sure could happen, I'd love to see it after having this event sitting in the background for so long, but it would be very like Oda to leave us hanging again. But even if we are cutting back to Egghead, that's still giving me something I've been wanting, so that's cool too. We've been getting the Reverie in drips and drabs since 2018, we can wait another few months to get back to this scene if we have to.
Looks like Oda is showing us what all the major powers are up to, we saw Shank and Kidd, Black Beard and Law, Cross guild and now the revolutionaries, wonder who’s next
@Shiebs Grand Fleet hopefully.
@All-Fiction they did say that they would reappear at a big event, not much bigger event than an admiral leading a buster call to destroy a Yonko crew
I would guess the 4/5 of the Gorosei, and maybe these Holy Knight figures?
@Chams-0 said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
The chapter really makes us ask a few questions about Shanks, such as: why is he going after the One Piece only now? Why did he give up when he was younger? We can speculate that it had something to do with whatever Roger told him that made him cry. What if he knows more about Lost Century than it seems and he was waiting untill the Nika fruit user was strong enough…
Man, I really wish Shanks became a villain. Roger laughed and he cried, such an interesting paralel
Because Joy Boy came back.
Maybe Roger told Shanks he wasn't Joyboy, therefore he could not gain the One piece
@Alfiere said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
Buggy putting those fake self important pirates with their eyeliner and their fur coats back to their place is probably my choice for peak post time skip moment.
I legitimately got more hyped by that moment than Shanks' own "let's go for the one piece" moment.
It's amazing how Buggy went from a minor villain to this. This is the most hype I've felt since the reveal of Kaido and Big Mom.
Having T-Bone be the one who died (if he really is dead) was a good move. On one hand I feel sad that he's gone, he was one of the better marines, but I also feel sympathy for the guy who did it. Much more interesting than either having a scumbag citizen kill a good marine, or a sympathetic citizen killing an evil marine.
@andre a chapter title is part of the presentation of the work. As is a volume cover. As is an episode title. It is absurd to the max and fetishises surprise over storytelling.
@kevo_koma said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
@Chams-0 said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
The chapter really makes us ask a few questions about Shanks, such as: why is he going after the One Piece only now? Why did he give up when he was younger? We can speculate that it had something to do with whatever Roger told him that made him cry. What if he knows more about Lost Century than it seems and he was waiting untill the Nika fruit user was strong enough…
Man, I really wish Shanks became a villain. Roger laughed and he cried, such an interesting paralel
Because Joy Boy came back.
Maybe Roger told Shanks he wasn't Joyboy, therefore he could not gain the One piece
In a suprise twist Shanks angle is to nurture a chosen one "key" to crack the lock at raftle and then rob them on the way in. A peak pirate move if i may say so myself. Almost as good as Buggy telling Croc to act like a pirate instead of retirement planning with leisurehawk.
@kevo_koma said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
@Chams-0 said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
The chapter really makes us ask a few questions about Shanks, such as: why is he going after the One Piece only now? Why did he give up when he was younger? We can speculate that it had something to do with whatever Roger told him that made him cry. What if he knows more about Lost Century than it seems and he was waiting untill the Nika fruit user was strong enough…
Man, I really wish Shanks became a villain. Roger laughed and he cried, such an interesting paralel
Because Joy Boy came back.
Maybe Roger told Shanks he wasn't Joyboy, therefore he could not gain the One piece
Roger did say in chapter 968 they (the Roger Pirates) had come too early but he said the one who will find One Piece and surpass him was going to be his son and we all now how that panned out. So Roger probably knows jack all about who Joy Boy is.
@Captain-M said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
if you want a more awkward translation that I don't think uses the word 'charisma' properly in English but whatever
It doesn't; I think Stephen once explained that Japan adapted the word to mean someone famous mainly for their talents like a celebrity or an idol, you know a someone who has a lot of charisma. Celebrity would be the better word in this context but I remember reading Stephen's reasoning why he chose champion (in the context of Doflamingo) and thinking his logic was solid.
I don't expect to have Sabo's explanations anytime soon. That way, I won't be disappointed...
As long as we have nice surprises like Buggy being cool, I'm happy
@Bugs I hadn't heard the explanation before, that makes a lot of sense. Champion is a pretty fair choice in that context. I might have considered 'the face of evil' as a way to lean a little harder on the celebrity aspect of the original.
I'm going against the current and say that we will probably get more out of Sabo in the next chapters.
The things he is going to reveal are already known to us in it's broad lines: Im exists and the empty throne isn't empty at all. The great reveal for the readers is about Kobra's assassination, and what part did the Gorousei played in it. And that might be important for Egghead:
A lot of what happened in the Reverie is bound to crash into Egghead: maybe Vivi and Morgans are headed there? Kuma and his Revos. connection will obviously play a part. Bonney was there and had something to do with Sabo.
Also, Oda is setting up the big players for the final fight: Cross Guild, Teach and Shanks (while Law and Kidd are out). Just like they were all presented or teased at the end of Wano, Sabo was also being shown as a big player, being called an Emperor and all. So we need to see what Sabo and the Revos are going to do. Just like we saw Shanks making his move, we are going to see the Revos making theirs, depending on what happens to Kuma and what Sabo has to tell.
@Chams-0 My guess is that even if we don't get a full Reverie flashback, it will probably have Kuma and Bonney's escape from Mary Geoise as the end note. It would be an organic segway back into their situation on Egghead, as well as the Kuma flashback that feels to be right around the corner.
Call me crazy, but the constant focus shift between unrelated events in Egghead is making me lose interest.
I’m just not that pumped up for next chapter.
This is something that would be better to read in the collected volume or after a few chapters have been released.
Halting the main storyline for an event elsewhere is strange, but fine.
Doing so for 5+ chapters would be fine if they all covered a single event in full.
But halting the story to cover 3+ events, with any of them being halted midway as well, it’s just too chaotic.
For instance, I see no reason why the Buggy/Croc/Mihawk part from 1082 couldn’t have happened between arcs, in Ch 1059 just after Cross Guild introduction.
It would just push 1059+ content. It wouldn’t have halted any storyline.
@ea77 Sometimes storytelling is a part of surprise and at the end of the day how someone prefers to consume media is up to them.
It is absolutely not mental illness to prefer complete surprise, especially toward something like Manga, which is often written with surprise and cliffhangers in mind in the first place. And even if it wasn't, again, it's not mental illness. That's offensive and ridiculous.
@Deicide said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
Call me crazy, but the constant focus shift between unrelated events in Egghead is making me lose interest.
I’m just not that pumped up for next chapter.
This is something that would be better to read in the collected volume or after a few chapters have been released.
Halting the main storyline for an event elsewhere is strange, but fine.
Doing so for 5+ chapters would be fine if they all covered a single event in full.
But halting the story to cover 3+ events, with any of them being halted midway as well, it’s just too chaotic.
For instance, I see no reason why the Buggy/Croc/Mihawk part from 1082 couldn’t have happened between arcs, in Ch 1059 just after Cross Guild introduction.
It would just push 1059+ content. It wouldn’t have halted any storyline.
If Oda really felt he had to focus to cutaway from Egghead constantly, he could have at least done what's he doing now after immediately after Chapter 1071, when the Aegis were subdued and we got the Saturn reveal. At that point, Egghead was calm and it would have been "okay" to do some other things. It doesn't fix a number problems with the previous chapters (we didn't get to see Teach knock the stuffings out of Law and the meat of the Kuzan vs. Garp stuff is going to get cut, that the Shanks vs. Kidd was boring because the former one-shots the latter and we don't see his crew do anything, Sabo is still alive etc.) but it wouldn't have been as intrusive. And thus we could have gone back Egghead with the traitor plot line getting started up.
Instead, he chose a really inopportune time to do so; we're invested in the action going on at Egghead with a new plot thread still going on but we're going to potentially skip that for other things. It's a bad move on his part.
@Bugs Another thing I feel Oda could have done was show the Cross Guild and Shanks/Kid scenes before Egghead started.
Like, let's go back to Chapter 1060. After Lulusia is bombarded, instead of us meeting Bonney, we get "a few days later" with Kid reaching Elbaf. 1061 would have Shanks revelaed in Elbaf, and Kid/Shanks about to clash. 1062 would have the clash, with the Kid pirates "annihilated". Then 1062 would have the current Cross Guild update, and the last few pages of the chapter would have the Straw Hats meeting Bonney at sea.
This would better convey the small timeskip between Lulusia's destruction and Egghead's start, as well as reduce the cutaways to just Blackbeard/Law/Garp/Revolutionary stuff, all of which are at least somewhat linked to the events in Egghead.
Maybe Oda wants those stories to be told in parallel, so the cutaways are not something he is doing out of necessity but because that’s he designed those events to play.
Could he show all that at once and then focus only on Egghead? Sure. But maybe that’s not how he wants to tell this story and instead wants to show the Four Emperor moving at the same time.
Showing Teach, Buggy and Shanks moving during the arc instead of encapsulating them in an interlude changes entirely the perspective of what roles they are playing. We feel the Four Emperors are the agents moving the story, instead of forces on the background while Luffy is moving.
@access-timeco I do think everything relate to Blackbeard has sync'ed somewhat well with Egghead. Also, Revolutionaries have some relationship with the main plot.
It's just the Cross Guild and Shanks/Kid stuff that feels really really out of place, IMO.
With my suggestion, we'd be right now with just 2 chapters of cutaway rather than four on a row. Also, the chapter with Shanks/Kid about to clash could have had more Egghead in it, making the cutaway even less jarring.
@Deicide I would have suggested Oda set up a big cliffhanger for Egghead besides York, like the Marine fleet on the horizon, perhaps, then the cutaways. Or something with all 4 Seraphrims going to hunt Luffy.
@Johnny-B-Decent said in Chapter 1082: Let's Go and Take It!:
like the Marine fleet on the horizon
I feel a lot is yet to happen in Egghead before the marine fleet actually arrives, thought, which is why it couldn't be a cliffhanger now.
There's too much to explore in Egghead's plotlines before we deal with the marines nuking the place.