Another fun one, similar to the last one mostly either showing or confirming things we already knew/thought to be likely with a lot of interesting/emotional/funny bits in between.
the highlight of this chapter though:
Another fun one, similar to the last one mostly either showing or confirming things we already knew/thought to be likely with a lot of interesting/emotional/funny bits in between.
the highlight of this chapter though:
Really dug this chapter. We'll see how Oda handles it in the coming weeks, but I'm glad not much more time was spent on the York stuff, but even more exciting to me was to see all of the different places and characters again like Sai's former fiancee (would've liked Ippon Matsu or his Wife in Loguetown).
Not sure if it's possible to determine which island we see in South Blue but it could be Baterilla, the island where Ace was born. Solely based on it looking tropical, so hardly conclusive.
But the North Blue island appears to be Rakesh (only named in the anime), but I wonder if the anime made up their own stuff cause I feel like it's just Spider Miles, where Doffy's base was at the time and the reason they only blew everything up then, was because they were intending to leave. Either way my point is, they do look very similar, but maybe it's just two cities on the same island so it's probably either Spider Miles or Rakesh.
What also stood out to me, was that a lot of characters were eating. Kizaru, Saturn, the random marines, Sentomarou, Luffy, Jinbe, Bonney and Franky. Even the sea beast was taking a chomp out of the ship. Was Oda hungry when he drew this?
Just a lot to look at this chapter, and those are always some of my favorites.
Welp, so much for my hope that we could get some 3 chapters/break cycles. And only 13 pages as well.
Don't think this one's quite as exciting as the last 3, but still had some good stuff.
Stussy - Edison was a pretty sweet interaction. CP9 were close to one another as we've seen in the Cover Story, and even with CP0 we had Joseph (totally had to look that name up) tip his hat to Guernica when he was (supposedly) killed by Kaido, so Stussy being friends with Kaku makes perfect sense.
It's fascinating how just from Imu saying "Lily...." in chapter 1084, so many of us theorized that he could've been in love with her. Still far from confirmed of course, but if that is where we're going than Oda really conveyed a lot with just eyes and one name + ellipses.
Kudos to the people who theorized that the snail would be inside the robot, I personally do not think it's a curveball. Let's see what it can do.
It appears Fleet Admirals are at least somewhat filled in on the true history, this was already implied back in Dressrosa when Law talked to Sengoku, but curious if/when we learn about that.
But the biggest question this chapter has me asking is this: Now that Lulusia is gone, who is supplying Vice Admiral Comil with milk for his coffee?
Just stumbled across this, don't think it's been posted here yet:
The pirates on the bottom of the first page are designed by Oda, Nobuhiro Watsuki from Rurouni Kenshin and Hiroyuki Takei from Shaman King as part of a reader contest held in 2000.
https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Endurance_Curry_Pirates
What a wild reference, and respect to whoever found this.
@Deicide @Ivotas said in Official Wano Thread:
Saying that Fishman can be quite barbaric/wild (latter is the word is a fan translation) doesn't make any statement about Merfolk though. Merfolk could be barbaric too and Fishmen is often used as a blanket term for both anyways. In Fishman Island Jinbe says "every time our race has attempted to make peace with humans". In WCI he says joining Luffy will bring true freedom to the Fishman race, does that mean he doesn't want freedom for Merfolk? It's Fishman island, not Fishman and Merfolk Island, and we've known Merfolk live there since Baratie.
But even if you are interpreting the Crocodile/Jinbe conversation as definitely saying: Fishmen are inherently more barbaric the Merfolk, I just don't see how that means they can't be the same society and race.
Like, Oda clearly believes Women and Men are inherently different in nature. If there are two siblings, one male, one female. The man will like robots and ninjas, and the woman won't. But obviously they are still the same race and live in the same society. Now, on Fishman Island if there are two siblings, one a male Fishman, the other a female Mermaid, they'd just be a little more different. I don't think we've seen enough about Den to talk about his personality compared to Tom's, but maybe Tom did seem a little more eccentric, a little more 'wild'.
First set of Season 2 Casting revealed:
I don't think Saul being alive ruins Robin's story, still not sure if I like it, though. Depends how his story goes I guess, if he is the man with the burn scar that's already intriguing.
I'm also a little biased regarding his survival cause I really disliked the theory about him being alive cause it was mainly based on something that's just not true. ("Ice Time Capsule" is the attack Kuzan uses to immobilize Saul (chapter 397, p 13), the attack he uses to 'kill' him is "Ice Time" (page 15). He uses that attack vs Luffy for example. Of course Luffy survived it as well, and the Island being literally on fire makes it entirely possible that the ice melted and he survived. But I don't like that the Ice Time Capsule people turned out to be right about his survival.
Other than that, 10/10 chapter.
The fake Straw Hats in G4 in 1115 got me thinking if there is a method to the numbering of the marine bases and I believe there is. I think it is based on the distance to Mariejoa/Marine HQ.
G1 (both new and old) are very close to it as we know.
G2 is close to Lulusia, which is said to be close to Mariejoa.
G3s location we know nothing about.
G4 is where the fake SHs are and since we've last seen them in Sabaody it's not unreasonable to assume they wouldn't have made it too far, they aren't the real Straw Hats afterall.
G5 is Smoker's base, that's not too far from Mariejoa either.
G9 we only know is in the New World, and probably not super far from Egghead, since ships took off from there.
and then there's G14 which is close to Egghead, so that's a fair distance away.
Don't think it's enough to confirm, but would be a neat little bit of world building if that was the case imo.
@electricmastro I mean they could be alive if Oda really wants it, tho I hope not, but the tree and most of the interior of the island is already on fire before Kuzan even freezes Saul, by the time he got thawed they might already have been dead. Both were also injured even before the Buster Call (Clover was shot and Olvia got Fingerpistol'd.)
What I'm more curious about is Saul's connection to Elbaf, since he previously made it seem like he wasn't from there.
@StrawHatJedi My least favorite "translation" is the use of "El Dorado" instead of "City of Gold" for Shandora. Feels so out of place to just bring in a real life legend, pretty 4kids like honestly. Might as well take "Water7 - The City of Water" and translate it to "Water7 - Venice"
@access-timeco Was he escorting her or was he watching her? Vivi clearly didn't trust him and she was on her way to get Garp, so someone either ordered or Lucci made the call himself, that it was better to capture her to prevent that from happening.
We don't know the full story, but I think we have enough to make sense of the situation at least.
@One-Piece-Fan-0 Van Augur has the Warp fruit. Law was carried off by Bepo.
There's the explanation for why Dorry and Brogy left Little Garden! It...could be better, considering we saw them still fighting on Little Garden during the Post-Timeskip Decks of the World cover story so I guess it took Oimo and Kashi two years to get there from Water7? I suppose they aren't the smartest, given that they were fooled for 50 years by the WG, so maybe they got sidetracked somehow. That Dorry and Brogy just wanna pick up weapons and then continue their fight is really cool though, so satisfying conclusion, how we got there could've been better.
I have no clue what Oda is doing with Shanks honestly, I'm sure Barto is fine but what annoyed me with the Kid scene was that it felt like Oda kept hyping up a character who in my opinion didn't need it at all. Even Imu couldn't stop Sabo from escaping, Blackbeard couldn't stop Law/Bepo and he didn't really get a complete victory in Amazon Lily either, while Shanks gets to look perfect at all times as a protagonist. And usually it even makes sense to make the villains seem insurmountable, because it makes it more satisfying when the protagonists eventually do. But this scene isn't even hype, and makes me question if Shanks is indeed a protagonist which despite Luffy wanting a crew that surpasses the Red Hairs since chapter 1 and "I want to take down all of the emperors" and Shanks showing up in Marijoa I never actually questioned. Mainly, I thought Blackbeard would just kill Shanks and that'll be that, but I'm not so sure anymore. I don't think Shanks has done anything outright "evil", but it certainly doesn't feel like he's set up to be on the Straw Hats side in the same way that Dragon and the Revolutionary Army is for example. So if anything, this scene has made Shanks more intriguing for me, after I was pretty down on him after the Kid and Ryokugyu scenes.
Blackbeard pirates remain highly entertaining, not much more to say.
Looks like we're in Elbaf, agree with what I've see people speculate that it's a toy castle of a giant (maybe Loki?) and with Lego being a Danish company and vikings coming from Denmark (among the other scandinavian countries ofc) that checks out.
I wonder if the fact that we did not get more around the world chapters means Oda will continue with the cutaways like he did in Egghead, which would be great. Despite the many breaks and 68 chapters not exactly being short, Egghead did still feel short to me, and I think that's largely because of the cutaways keeping it fresh every week, but we'll see.
Oh man what a chapter, assuming this is truly the last we see of Egghead this has been a very satisfying conclusion to the arc (we could get more around-the-world chapters, but I guess that's always kinda ambigious to which arc they belong to). Agree with most people that Stussy is probably alive, I hope Doberman will be too, I like his design. So Emet was saved by Saturn, it already seemed pretty safe to assume that the Five Elders weren't from the Void Century, but I'm definitely courious what their actual ages are and when they became elders and if there were previous generations of elders. Never feels that great when a characters role changes, before we've really seen them in their old role like what happenend with Garling here, on the other hand from a Five Elders perspective it's of course better to replace him with someone we kinda know than with St. Whatever who we've never heard of before. Definitely dig how Oda sequenced it though, "If Garling is in, what does that mean for Saturn" and oh boy that might very well be the most brutal death scene in the series. I was disappointed that we didn't get a final confrontation between Kuma and Saturn, but I don't think leaving it for a future arc would've been the right move either, this way it concludes Saturns story and further hypes up Imu.
Vegapunk-Edison joining up with Haredas on Weatheria seems like a perfect fit, makes sense that they would know each other too.
I wonder if Imu just kills the random CDs if they are unable to restore their supply lines so that there's enough resources for the ones who can actually fight. It would also solve the issue of what the good guys are meant to do with them after they eventually win. As many predicted, Tequila Wolf's construction is related to the coming flood, excited to learn more about that and the other Wolf structures and also cool to see that Oda is paying attention to the rising levels:
Kamabakka pre-rise from ch904 and from this chapter:
Dragon's comment got me really hyped for the endgame, civil wars breaking out between people living in coastal areas and people living on higher ground, fleets of ships arriving on neighboring lands, people attempting to climb the Red Line. Should probably manage expectations, obviously won't be the main focus, but it sounds so sick.
To me the hype is not comperable to Wano. Wano's hype came not from being mentioned long ago, but from the actual story (mainly Zou). We knew that it was gonna be about Kaido, the Shogun, Momonosuke, Kinemon, the Minks, Law, Kid, Hawkins, Drake, Apoo, Oden who was on Rogers and Whitebeards crew, Marco, Poneglyphs, Big Mom etc. Wano was definitely set up to be the biggest arc in the series yet, In comparison Elbaf is more like Fishman Island, just a place that we knew we'll eventually go to. We have no idea what the arc is gonna be about, we know a few characters; Dorry, Brogy, Loki, Saul, Hajrudin, maybe Shanks, maybe Kid again but no story, It could be a 30 chapter arc or a 100 chapter arc we just have no idea. There's an inherent hype from being in the final saga, but overall I'm pretty relaxed until we learn more honestly.
I'd say the only other place with Wano-level hype is Laugh Tale, which is kinda similar to FI and Elbaf as just a place that we know we'll go to, but with the major distinction of being THE place that we know we'll go to.
Someone on Reddit counted the panel time:
THE TOP 30 CHARACTERS IN THE EGGHEAD ARC! (Chapters 1058 - 1124) (in terms of panel time):
TOP 10:
Monkey D. Luffy - 599
Jewelry Bonney - 576
Bartholomew Kuma - 494
Vegapunk - 491
St. Jaygarcia Saturn - 297
Sanji - 240
Franky - 238
Usopp - 219
Nami - 208
Borsalino (Kizaru) - 197
RUNNER-UPS:
Tony Tony Chopper - 191
Roronoa Zoro - 177
Rob Lucci - 174
Thousand Sunny - 169
Jinbe - 167
THE REST:
Punk-02 Lilith - 151
Punk-01 Shaka - 146
Nico Robin - 145
Punk-05 Atlas - 143
St. Marcus Mars - 114
St. Topman Warcury - 107
St. Ethan-Baron V. Nusjuro - 105
Koby - 104
Monkey D. Garp - 104
Kaku - 102
Emet - 99
Sentomaru - 96
Stussy - 92
St. Shepherd Ju Peter - 88
Brogy - 85
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR:
Brook - 84 ()
Punk-06 York - 84
Sabo - 83
Dorry - 81
S-Snake - 80
Marshall D. Teach (Blackbeard) - 75
Monkey D. Dragon - 74
Punk-04 Pythagoras - 72
Buggy - 70
Ginny - 69
og post: https://yy.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1f0yc41/i_counted_every_panel_in_egghead_these_are_the/
Brook ranking lower than Brogy is crazy. Kinda weird that Sanji had so much focus this arc, Franky 3rd among Straw Hats seems fine. Flashbacks are so OP for panel count, getting just a few chapters of (near) exclusive focus and Kuma is ending up close(ish) to Luffy and Bonney who have been present for the entire arc. Other than that, nothing really stands out to me.
Feel like for the last 6 chapters or so my opinion has been alternating between "lukewarm" and "absolutely love it" each week, this one I loved even though it was short. For starters, any chapter with Morgans in it, is already an 8/10 at least, but the highlight of the chapter was definitely Kizaru for me. I'm a huge sucker for tragic friendships (Noland/Kalgara is my favorite story in the whole manga) so that scene even made me tear up a little. Showing us a rare moment of Sakazuki's human side as well, I wonder if he was thinking about his fight with Kuzan and how he ended up sparing him or if there's another backstory we are yet to learn.
Good to see Luffy mourning Vegapunk, definitely would not have felt right if he didn't acknowledge that he failed. Seeing the giants cabin was really fun, I imagine that's gonna be a pain in the ass for Oda (and the anime staff later) in Elbaph, having to draw everything huge and then the regular sized straw hats next to it, bound to mess up the scale here and there (not that that's Oda's strong suit anyways).
No idea about the silhouette character (or the one in the cover story if that's important), but excited to see what's coming next.
Wow, Volume 100 is already translated (using viz) on nyaa!
Just stumbled across this, don't think it's been posted here yet:
The pirates on the bottom of the first page are designed by Oda, Nobuhiro Watsuki from Rurouni Kenshin and Hiroyuki Takei from Shaman King as part of a reader contest held in 2000.
https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Endurance_Curry_Pirates
What a wild reference, and respect to whoever found this.
@Dahaka there are more panels per page today, though.
I once counted 5 random chapters from 100 chapter stretches and during Alabasta (the 100s) there were 4.48 panels per page, where as in the 900s it was 6.40 panels per page.
For anyone curious:
1-100 4.73
101-200 4,48
201-300 4.58
301-400 5.65
401-500 5.56
501-600 6.03
601-700 5.46
701-800 6.25
801-900 6.02
901-1000 6.40
Obviously significant margin of error with the small sample size, but I think to prove an increase it's good enough.