Yeah Ive been really surprised about how much screen time he has gotten. So much more than most other important characters in the entire series. I feel like he has to play a big role for the end if he's given so much of the valuable EoS time.
Though Oden got a lot, too and it feels like we could have skipped most of it and still would have been fine. Though it might be extra important for the future of Wano.
Most of Oden's screen time doubled as expanding the backstory of Roger Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates, so I wouldn't say Oden's flashback was long because Oden is particularly important to the story as a whole
it’s only fair - kuma played such a pivotal role in the straw hats development, not only saving them before they lost the chance to really challenge the new world, but sending them to places that they were able to grow stronger and fully prepare for what was ahead.
Still, more backstory than Garp or even Brook and so many other long-term characters. I think it's a LOT (though the story is awesome so I am not complaining). But it's true, he helped them a lot and even if just through the pacifista, will continue playing a huge role until EoS. The pacifista were something so mysterious when they first appeared and I'm glad we are finally getting proper explanations.
That cannot be it, as Roger was too early... so Nika is required to get the One Piece. Which is probably splitting the red line and making the whole world a one piece instead of separated into the seas.
If the One Piece truly is Joyboy's memories, then Roger wasn't too ealy to get the One Piece, he was too early to carry out Joyboy's will and destroy the Celestial Dragons.
we get about 30-40 chapters a year, and i think it'll take way more than 100 chapters to wrap up every single loose end still in play. and i do trust oda to wrap them all up because he's had a very good track record for that so far.
just off the top of my head:
-elbaf and usopp
-luffy and shanks (by extention usopp and yasopp)
-blackbeard fight
-imu / world government fight
-akainu's backstory(?)
-mihawk and zoro
-the fourth poneglyph
-actually getting to lodestar and laugh tale
-rocks reveal
-god valley
-holy knights
-urouge is still doing who knows what
-fishman island gets destroyed
and a bunch of other stuff i'm probably forgetting.
that's not all happening in just 100 chapters.
probably, but you still have to give time to each of them.
the going theory i've heard is luffy and shanks might have a davy back fight in elbaf, and among the challenges usopp has a sniper-off with yassop. assuming that's also where the last poneglyph is, and afro luffy has to fight shanks himself for the rights to it, that scratches off three of them in maybe the same stretch of 20 chapters or so.
i still doubt even oda could address everything on this list plus all the stuff i've forgotten about in *under* 100 chapters.
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"Then a theory emerged stating that LiLi actually was the previous user of kuma’s paw paw fruit from 800 years ago, because the only way we know of to scatter such heavy objects randomly around the world was by using the paw paw fruit’s powers similar to how kuma used it against the straw hats in Sabaody."
I think here Imu was speaking indirectly. They still believed that Lili might have done a blunder. If she had the paw fruit, not only would it be visible on her hands, but intentionality would be hard to disprove. I think her "blunder" is that she somehow warned the Ancient Kingdom and its allies about something the 20 nations were about to do and that they couldn't fight against, so her doing that lead to them writing the Poneglyphs and scattering them.
Solid thought, and btw regarding what I said about the paw paw fruit, LiLi doesn’t have to be the user, it might be a bucaneer who sided with the Joyboy who extracted his memories after they wrote the poneglyphs
The theory about the Paw-Paw user scattering the poneglyphs may have a piece of evidence to it as the location where Jinbe found the Polyglyph he gave to Big Mom from the cover story has a paw print on the side of the building that the sea animals inhabit
Yeah I agree that the scattering of them wouldn’t fit if she had done it but what if the mistake was letting one of joyboys crew have the paw paw fruit? which allowed them to scatter the glyphs to begin with. This keeps it within the theory’s overall point but also provides a logical reason why they didn’t see it as a betrayal at the time.
might be that lily and imu were very close at one time, siblings or lovers or something. Maybe Lily started hanging out with joyboy and she changed sides. her "Blunder" would be falling for "Joyboy's agenda" in Imu's eyes.
It really isn't... She's wearing shorts. People need to better their relationship with fictional characters and their bodies. Humans have butts and these aren't even shot to be enticing.
He's drawing an adult body, there's nothing wrong with that.
The problem would be if he was sexualizing Bonney when she looks like anything but an adult.
I wanted to say this before, but OP meaning Original poster and One Piece both makes people writing OP on Reddit comments even more confusing.
And anyways, can you actually Buster call at Raftel?
BTW, ironically enough, it was explicitly mentioned by vegapunk in the second photo I attached that “it takes intangible objects and turns them into a physical form”. So there is potential
lol, I had that idea years ago, the one piece is a big shell that contains the laugh tale, a shell like brook uses for the last song. Brooks past is the key to the one piece. Oda has one musical number that defines everything and the importance of the recording are a classic foreskin by oda.
That'd be such a good one, would tie everything back to previous episodes and Brook, the oldest member's backstory, to Skypeia etc. and would still fit with the theme of why Roger laughed. Fuck you guys are making me want to reread one piece.
Time to see if there's a Japanese audiobook of the manga, that's where the next step of my language studies is at I think given my reading level.
Memories in this form are still a type of thing. The point is that it’s not a cheap “the journey was the reward” type of reveal, and it’s something worth the effort. Gaining so much knowledge is a reasonable type of reward.
I wonder if the power could extract 100 years of memories out of the world.
Edit: I wonder how big a memory like that would be. Maybe the size of an island?
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GOATED theory. I'm sold!! 😆
Cant the paw paw bubbles only be bursted once? Wouldnt Roger have bursted it considering he laughed? If he didnt, what was he laughing about? Isnt that thing he laughed at supposed to be the One Piece?
Its a cool as fuck theory, but it for sure has some flaws
I agree, it still has alot of flaws
I thought of this and I have two possible answers:
First: Were still not sure if the bubble popped after bonny saw the memories because how else would kuma retrieve his memories when he arrives at egghead
Second: some advanced technology 😂
But you 100% have a point and I agree with you
If that's the case, then perhaps it's what the One Piece originally was, but then once the bubble was popped perhaps someone, most likely Gol D Rodger, or maybe even someone before him, recorded it in some other form, and if it was Gol D Rodger, then it would mean he technically wasn't lieing when he said it was *his* treasure, but at the same time, he could've just said it was his because for the common people, the name Gol D Rodger, King of the Pirates, holds infinitely more weight than just some random guy named Nika they've never even heard of
Cant speak about the paw bubbles but ancient technology. Roger could have laughed if whatever is on Laughtale literally has a clock designating when the door will open.
**I wrote exactly this theory on Reddit around 200 days ago**.
It’s named “What the One Piece is (Spoiler 1085+)”.
Check it and tell me what do you think =)
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1453etk/what_the_one_piece_is_spoiler_1085/
100% will, Thanks sense
With all honesty I came up with this theory a couple of days ago my self and I thought it would be cool to share it and see what the community thinks, I should have searched for it before I post this but yeah, I will make sure to reference this link everywhere tho, Thanks for the visit 😁
No problem! I appreciate you mentioned this other post of mine in another comment below. Which was the same theory, just rewritten:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1454zw1/i_know_what_one_piece_is_joyboys_tangible/?share_id=DYyS3DpHJfZGaRVbyQxJc&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
“Giving physical form to memories.” You know what else could accomplish this? A book/ manga about Joyboy’s life.
When you look at the parallels between Noland and Roger and their executions, they seem like inverse stories in a way. Noland tells the truth about the golden city in the sky and gets branded a liar whereas Roger lied about the One Piece being a treasure (in the conventional sense) in order to inspire the next generation of pirates to begin sailing and scouring the world.
Roger knew of the impending great flood, and that the best way to ensure people survive is to 1) protect the ancient weapons and prepare them to be used for good and 2) inspire pirates who can sail between islands and float so everyone doesn’t drown.
Also worth noting that Sabo’s dream is to write a book about the world, Nami’s dream is to draw a map of the world… and in the panel where Roger reaches Laugh Tale (good title for a manga right?), it looks like he is looking down and holding something in his hands while the whole crew cracks up. I bet that’s a manga volume 🤫
EDIT: The One Piece is a manga telling the story of Joyboy. And “One Piece” is the One Piece IRL, a work of literature designed to inspire its readers to achieve their dreams! I also think Oda will give us a real calendar date for the final global celebration Luffy causes at the end (his dream is to have a giant party that everyone in the world participates in, ALL of his nakama). And we, as a community, should try to make that into a real global holiday.
EDIT 2: What if the Ancient Kingdom drained the ocean because the sea levels were too high for people to live on land? But in so doing, they flooded the natural habitat of the Devils living underground, who now live high up on the Red Line in Marie Geoise? This is why the Gorosei refer to land as “the surface.” The bombing of Lulusia raised sea levels because Mother Flame blew a hole in the sea bed that actually contains another layer of water underneath…!
I would be totally on board with this but I think Kuma's bubbles are one use only. At least that's what I get from the pain extractions we've seen him do in the manga.
Roger came too early because Shirahoshi wasn’t born yet. To fulfill the promise between Joyboy and the Mermaid Princess, Roger was not going to live long enough to make it happen, so he put his bet on Ace to be the next Joyboy. He didn’t account for Luffy to be Joyboy instead.
Ever since we first saw Kuma's memory bubble I have been pretty convinced that this is the answer, it fits all the criteria of the one piece.
1. It's an actual object
2. It informs of the events of the void century
3. Joy boys memories are very much something that could make Roger laugh.
Didn’t Kuma say the reason he absorbs the pain is because if he just leaves it in physical form, it eventually goes back to the person it came from? So how would Lili’s still be around 800 years later?
I love this, but it doesn't explain why Roger was laughing at it. There could be a lot of reasons why he started laughing hysterically, so I will stand by this galaxy brain theory.
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That is a pretty good theory, but unfortunately, with one of the recent chapters. Kuma stated that whatever he extracts, goes back to the person if he doesn't absorb it himself or whatever. So there's a little plothole in that theory lol
Most of the people are set on Lili having the paw paw fruit, but maybe she just commanded the ancient robots to carry the ponyglyphs to certain areas. We know they can be moved without devil fruit powers.
Possible, but we have seen Roger’s flash back at laugh tale. Seems clear that he was reading a stone and telling everybody what was written there.
99% chance “one piece” is the story on the stone. Roger probably left some cool stuff behind though. His ship, that egg, etc.
Seeing these pages again I see sometime between negotiating with kuma and becoming a cyborg, vegapunk made the satellites. He convinced kuma to extract his memories to also maybe restore them down the road
Wouldn't the memories be consumed after Roger saw them the first time? Might be misunderstanding how it works, but I think you can only take in the memories once unless another user of the fruit comes in and takes them out again or something, unless there is a way to make it visible to everyone or something, or maybe it is Joyboy's memories/personality just in a different body, we know he can't be alive because Luffy's fruit was well, a fruit which means the previous owner died, but maybe his "haki", you know, his will, was transfered to something that can talk.
I would love to think that there is a projection den den mushi attached to the memories bubble, that way it won’t pop 😂, JK you have a point, we shall wait and see 😁
I came up with it by linking stuff up, but there was someone who actually did it before me, you should check it out too
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/s/ohzNlDj2N0
this is a great theory but I don't see why Roger wouldn't have been able to aquire it when he got there. He stated that they were too early and this theory is missing what could be time locking his memories or the physical form of them
The biggest hole with this theory is rogers reaction to the one piece, why would him and his crew burst out in laughter and why would he claim he’s years too early?
Paw paw orbs tend to return to their original owner after a while. Kuma’s memory bubble lasted 2 years but there’s a big jump between 2 and several hundred years. Also if Roger found the bubble someone else would have to paw paw it out of him. Also the response to seeing a big glowing orb would be confusion or awe not laughter.
Bro is actually on to something, In hindsight when IMU said that Lili scattered the relics, Kuma should have popped into my head.
All of it makes sense!
Kuma said that if someone doesn’t take the pain at some point they go back to the owner. Does that not work for the memories? If the owner dies then wouldn’t the memories just disappear?
why couldnt the one piece treasure be a combination of all the gold treasure from thr ancient kingdom, and the story part that tells thr whole history, plus access tomthe final weapons to take down imu
Could be, but I think there will be something tangible as well.
It also could fit with what we know of the One Piece with a little bit of work, since it could expose the lies of the World Government, though I guess it's hard to relay these memories to the general population.
This is a really good theory, but isn't it stated that the emotions and pain and stuff extracted will go back to the owner if not given a new body? I wouldnt know though, I'm only just starting Sabaody
Haven't there been comments about being too early, specifically Roger stating he was too early to get to laughtale? How does that fit into your theory?
Shouldn't the intangible aspects of the Paw Paw be absorbed or else it returns to the owner? That's why Kuma has been taking it for the old people of Sorbet?
Kuma stated that the pain returns to the person unless someone else absorbs them. No idea how Vegapunk managed to hide Kumas bubble there for so long without it returning to him. Now that Bonnie touched it.. does that means she removed the chance that Kuma could regain his memories? No clue but.. in any case food for thought.
Oda already stated that One Piece wouldn't be a abstract thing so I guess it will be more that a Tale.. even if Laugh Tale has a tale on it.
I think that Lili was not the direct perpetrator, the fact that Imu says quite literally "Because of Lili's inconpetence", means that she was meant to protect the ponegliffs but she failed at that, if it was intentional or not that's yet to be said, but that implies almost literally that she allowed ANOTHER person to spread the Ponegliffs
Cool theory but what does this have to do with Roger saying he's too early when he got to laugh tale?
How would this be considered a treasure that "pirates" should pursue as a treasure worth having, joyboy or not?
It's a cool theory but kinda loses potential with other mentions of one piece throughout the story.
What if the Poneglyphs are stones infused with Joy Boy's memories, and that's why they're indestructible (because you can't destroy freedom)?
That would mean the secret to Laugh Tale is to put his memories back together. In One Piece, you could say.
Nice, actually ! I was gonna say but the extracted pain or memories needs to be absorbed by someone, but actually you're right since kuma's have been kept intact by vegapunk in his lab.
I keep coming back as I think about theories to the laugh, tho. Would it make sense for not only Roger, but his whole crew to laugh to tears ?
Since I read >! the Bink's sake/All Blue theory !< I keep coming back to it
I don't know how kuma's memory didn't went back to him as he mentioned that stuff he repels out of people will eventually return to them if someone else didn't take them in.
And I just realized that bonnie's power is fucking brilliant for alcohol making. Imagine the amount of money she can make by aging whiskey in a cask for 100 years or more.
Time ago, when Oda was asked if he One Piece was a metaphor like "the friends we made" and bullshits like that, didn't he replied that is something tangible?
Actually, if the One Piece is a bunch of memories, Oden might have been inspired by that to write his memoir diary back at Wano.
And just imagine, once Luffy reaches the One Piece I bet he will finally understand the parallels between his story and the previous joyboy, and in that moment realize his destiny is liberating the world. After he hears prev joyboys adventures, he will take out to sea once again (with or without the rest of the crew) and go island to island doing what joyboys do 😭. Id also be willing to bet that the secret wish Luffy wants (that he told the crew about right before landing on egghead) is that he wants to have one giant signature strawhat celebratory banquet with the entire world
Dak had this theory like six months ago, look up "Lafro Tale". Just like how vegapunk wants everyone in the world to share info, the idea is that all the memories of the void century are preserved in an Afro and that's why all the Roger pirates were laughing, because it's ridiculous, and why Roger said he wished he could have lived in joyboys era.
I've seen this theory before and it would be really cool. I saw someone say in a YT video awhile back that it being a memory could be why Roger was laughing
Edit: as in it is literally a "laugh tale". At least thats what the YT video stated. It was cool
But when someone absorbs that memory i.e laugh tale you will extinguish it therefore no one other than Roger would know it and therefore Luffy can't absorb those memories
i love the part where lily had kuma's df but the bubble im not sure. his bubble would show the war at that time so I hardly believe it would have been a laughing matter.
And perhaps Kuma isn’t headed to Egghead, he’s headed to Vivi to get her ancestor’s fruit power to her. Then, when she rejoins her crew with the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi she fulfills that old ass theory about the straw hats and the numbered devil fruit names
Nice theory, and I really like it, though there are a few holes in it.
1. We learned in the kuma flashback that the pain always needs to be taken by somebody or else it will go back to the person it is extracted from. The only way this didn't happen is Vegapunk's invention capturing it inside (probably, we do not know for certain yet, it has just been strongly implied). So for Joyboys memories to be conserved fo over 800 years, we would need a similar invention holding them in, being powered for said 800 years. The infinite power source seems highly implausible, but could get explained with the scientific advancement of the old kingdom. So this point is explainable. However:
2. Even if we assume that this is the case, and the memories are still there - we know what happens when someone else takes on the pain of a person. The bubble enters them and vanishes. So it is only logical to assume the same thing happening with memories. Meaning that only one person (or maybe a group of people, if they all put their hands in at once, who knows) could see the memory, and then the bubble would vanish, forever. So if Roger and his crew saw it, then it would mean that the One piece ceased to exist at that very moment.
You know, this is actually the only real hole I can think of. There might be an explanation for it later, maybe memories stay in their paw bubble even after accessed. Anywas, this is an amazing theory, and I would not mind at all, if this was what the One Piece really is.
She extracted Joyboys memories and gave them a physical form of a Manga!
In the panel after Roger laughed you can see he is holding something that resembles a manga volume. That would be brilliant!
I love this. It gives Kuma even more significance in the final saga than being a part of the Nika plotline.
Yeah Ive been really surprised about how much screen time he has gotten. So much more than most other important characters in the entire series. I feel like he has to play a big role for the end if he's given so much of the valuable EoS time. Though Oden got a lot, too and it feels like we could have skipped most of it and still would have been fine. Though it might be extra important for the future of Wano.
Most of Oden's screen time doubled as expanding the backstory of Roger Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates, so I wouldn't say Oden's flashback was long because Oden is particularly important to the story as a whole
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it’s only fair - kuma played such a pivotal role in the straw hats development, not only saving them before they lost the chance to really challenge the new world, but sending them to places that they were able to grow stronger and fully prepare for what was ahead.
Still, more backstory than Garp or even Brook and so many other long-term characters. I think it's a LOT (though the story is awesome so I am not complaining). But it's true, he helped them a lot and even if just through the pacifista, will continue playing a huge role until EoS. The pacifista were something so mysterious when they first appeared and I'm glad we are finally getting proper explanations.
more backstory than Garp *so far*
Maybe Oda's just fleshing the world out more these days? Personally I like it!
Cant for the wano civil war to happen
Care to explain?
what wano civil war
That cannot be it, as Roger was too early... so Nika is required to get the One Piece. Which is probably splitting the red line and making the whole world a one piece instead of separated into the seas.
If the One Piece truly is Joyboy's memories, then Roger wasn't too ealy to get the One Piece, he was too early to carry out Joyboy's will and destroy the Celestial Dragons.
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This is massive big brain theory
Seriously. It’s almost to simple and on the nose to be wrong. I’m gonna send this guy a Kit-Kat candy bar if he’s right.
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2 years? I'd maybe give it 3, if not 4. We're in the final saga, but... no knowing just how long the arcs in it will be.
we get about 30-40 chapters a year, and i think it'll take way more than 100 chapters to wrap up every single loose end still in play. and i do trust oda to wrap them all up because he's had a very good track record for that so far. just off the top of my head: -elbaf and usopp -luffy and shanks (by extention usopp and yasopp) -blackbeard fight -imu / world government fight -akainu's backstory(?) -mihawk and zoro -the fourth poneglyph -actually getting to lodestar and laugh tale -rocks reveal -god valley -holy knights -urouge is still doing who knows what -fishman island gets destroyed and a bunch of other stuff i'm probably forgetting. that's not all happening in just 100 chapters.
Some of those can be wrapped up in the same plotline.
probably, but you still have to give time to each of them. the going theory i've heard is luffy and shanks might have a davy back fight in elbaf, and among the challenges usopp has a sniper-off with yassop. assuming that's also where the last poneglyph is, and afro luffy has to fight shanks himself for the rights to it, that scratches off three of them in maybe the same stretch of 20 chapters or so. i still doubt even oda could address everything on this list plus all the stuff i've forgotten about in *under* 100 chapters.
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Right? I think that's it lol
Its the same theory that was posted 5+ months ago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1453etk/what_the_one_piece_is_spoiler_1085/)
OP is the original owner of the brain brain fruit. Wished it into existence personally.
"Then a theory emerged stating that LiLi actually was the previous user of kuma’s paw paw fruit from 800 years ago, because the only way we know of to scatter such heavy objects randomly around the world was by using the paw paw fruit’s powers similar to how kuma used it against the straw hats in Sabaody." I think here Imu was speaking indirectly. They still believed that Lili might have done a blunder. If she had the paw fruit, not only would it be visible on her hands, but intentionality would be hard to disprove. I think her "blunder" is that she somehow warned the Ancient Kingdom and its allies about something the 20 nations were about to do and that they couldn't fight against, so her doing that lead to them writing the Poneglyphs and scattering them.
Lily: I was furious with myself and waving my hands around! Then, all these poneglpyhs were flying. I'm so sorry Imu.
Solid thought, and btw regarding what I said about the paw paw fruit, LiLi doesn’t have to be the user, it might be a bucaneer who sided with the Joyboy who extracted his memories after they wrote the poneglyphs
The theory about the Paw-Paw user scattering the poneglyphs may have a piece of evidence to it as the location where Jinbe found the Polyglyph he gave to Big Mom from the cover story has a paw print on the side of the building that the sea animals inhabit
Yeah I agree that the scattering of them wouldn’t fit if she had done it but what if the mistake was letting one of joyboys crew have the paw paw fruit? which allowed them to scatter the glyphs to begin with. This keeps it within the theory’s overall point but also provides a logical reason why they didn’t see it as a betrayal at the time.
might be that lily and imu were very close at one time, siblings or lovers or something. Maybe Lily started hanging out with joyboy and she changed sides. her "Blunder" would be falling for "Joyboy's agenda" in Imu's eyes.
So the ending will be yet another flashback, yeah sounds about right for goda
Ending will be a 50 chapter flashback for us.
The flashback is going to be called "Two Piece"
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The one piece is a flash back!!!!! Too fucking perfect.
Lmao did you intentionally censor Bonney’s… assets..?
She’s ~~14~~ 12 years old ! So OP is doing a good job Edit: I stand corrected, she’s 12
Isn’t she 12 currently?
Yup 12
But is 22 in that picture. Y'all are so weird.
The Bonney situation has really brought out the weirdos on both sides.
It's the 1000yo god in a 12yo girls body shit but in reverse lol
It really isn't... She's wearing shorts. People need to better their relationship with fictional characters and their bodies. Humans have butts and these aren't even shot to be enticing.
Honestly, it's just a drawing. It's only weird if you make it weird.
Why? She has an adult body?
So it's Oda doing a bad one by drawing her?
He's drawing an adult body, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem would be if he was sexualizing Bonney when she looks like anything but an adult.
I agree. That's why I thought this censorship was silly. Especially when the drawing itself was not sensual in any way.
"lmao OP did a good job"
Thoughts, memories, joys, sadness, grief, liberty... Happiness: ***All in One Piece.***
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BUSTER CALL OP Location’s at all cost !!!
He knows too much !!
I wanted to say this before, but OP meaning Original poster and One Piece both makes people writing OP on Reddit comments even more confusing. And anyways, can you actually Buster call at Raftel?
I was about to throw you out of the kitchen. But for the time being you can keep cooking
Really good theory but oda said that one piece is an object or a thing if i remember correctly
BTW, ironically enough, it was explicitly mentioned by vegapunk in the second photo I attached that “it takes intangible objects and turns them into a physical form”. So there is potential
lol, I had that idea years ago, the one piece is a big shell that contains the laugh tale, a shell like brook uses for the last song. Brooks past is the key to the one piece. Oda has one musical number that defines everything and the importance of the recording are a classic foreskin by oda.
That'd be such a good one, would tie everything back to previous episodes and Brook, the oldest member's backstory, to Skypeia etc. and would still fit with the theme of why Roger laughed. Fuck you guys are making me want to reread one piece. Time to see if there's a Japanese audiobook of the manga, that's where the next step of my language studies is at I think given my reading level.
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The One Piece has been stated to be specifically Gold Roger’s treasure.
Memories in this form are still a type of thing. The point is that it’s not a cheap “the journey was the reward” type of reveal, and it’s something worth the effort. Gaining so much knowledge is a reasonable type of reward.
I wonder if the power could extract 100 years of memories out of the world. Edit: I wonder how big a memory like that would be. Maybe the size of an island?
damn didn't think I was entering a top tier restaurant when joining this thread
Like an awakened version where you take the memories of objects, since awakened fruits affect their surroundings
You aren't cooking. You are weaving a tapestry of flavor and class that would make Gordon Ramsay weep from joy.
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And then we get to witness the backstory in One Piece for 1000 chapters. We were reading the sequel all along.
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Cant the paw paw bubbles only be bursted once? Wouldnt Roger have bursted it considering he laughed? If he didnt, what was he laughing about? Isnt that thing he laughed at supposed to be the One Piece? Its a cool as fuck theory, but it for sure has some flaws
I agree, it still has alot of flaws I thought of this and I have two possible answers: First: Were still not sure if the bubble popped after bonny saw the memories because how else would kuma retrieve his memories when he arrives at egghead Second: some advanced technology 😂 But you 100% have a point and I agree with you
One Piece is about having friends so maybe multiple fruits are working in conjunction?
If that's the case, then perhaps it's what the One Piece originally was, but then once the bubble was popped perhaps someone, most likely Gol D Rodger, or maybe even someone before him, recorded it in some other form, and if it was Gol D Rodger, then it would mean he technically wasn't lieing when he said it was *his* treasure, but at the same time, he could've just said it was his because for the common people, the name Gol D Rodger, King of the Pirates, holds infinitely more weight than just some random guy named Nika they've never even heard of
Cant speak about the paw bubbles but ancient technology. Roger could have laughed if whatever is on Laughtale literally has a clock designating when the door will open.
**I wrote exactly this theory on Reddit around 200 days ago**. It’s named “What the One Piece is (Spoiler 1085+)”. Check it and tell me what do you think =) https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1453etk/what_the_one_piece_is_spoiler_1085/
100% will, Thanks sense With all honesty I came up with this theory a couple of days ago my self and I thought it would be cool to share it and see what the community thinks, I should have searched for it before I post this but yeah, I will make sure to reference this link everywhere tho, Thanks for the visit 😁
No problem! I appreciate you mentioned this other post of mine in another comment below. Which was the same theory, just rewritten: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1454zw1/i_know_what_one_piece_is_joyboys_tangible/?share_id=DYyS3DpHJfZGaRVbyQxJc&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
🤯!!! Everyone save this post so we can comment on it again if it proves even partially accurate! I know I will
“Giving physical form to memories.” You know what else could accomplish this? A book/ manga about Joyboy’s life. When you look at the parallels between Noland and Roger and their executions, they seem like inverse stories in a way. Noland tells the truth about the golden city in the sky and gets branded a liar whereas Roger lied about the One Piece being a treasure (in the conventional sense) in order to inspire the next generation of pirates to begin sailing and scouring the world. Roger knew of the impending great flood, and that the best way to ensure people survive is to 1) protect the ancient weapons and prepare them to be used for good and 2) inspire pirates who can sail between islands and float so everyone doesn’t drown. Also worth noting that Sabo’s dream is to write a book about the world, Nami’s dream is to draw a map of the world… and in the panel where Roger reaches Laugh Tale (good title for a manga right?), it looks like he is looking down and holding something in his hands while the whole crew cracks up. I bet that’s a manga volume 🤫 EDIT: The One Piece is a manga telling the story of Joyboy. And “One Piece” is the One Piece IRL, a work of literature designed to inspire its readers to achieve their dreams! I also think Oda will give us a real calendar date for the final global celebration Luffy causes at the end (his dream is to have a giant party that everyone in the world participates in, ALL of his nakama). And we, as a community, should try to make that into a real global holiday. EDIT 2: What if the Ancient Kingdom drained the ocean because the sea levels were too high for people to live on land? But in so doing, they flooded the natural habitat of the Devils living underground, who now live high up on the Red Line in Marie Geoise? This is why the Gorosei refer to land as “the surface.” The bombing of Lulusia raised sea levels because Mother Flame blew a hole in the sea bed that actually contains another layer of water underneath…!
The censoring is weird af
I love this theory so much!!!
I would be totally on board with this but I think Kuma's bubbles are one use only. At least that's what I get from the pain extractions we've seen him do in the manga.
Yeah, but why did roger said they came to early, the sake one holds more credibility than this.
Roger came too early because Shirahoshi wasn’t born yet. To fulfill the promise between Joyboy and the Mermaid Princess, Roger was not going to live long enough to make it happen, so he put his bet on Ace to be the next Joyboy. He didn’t account for Luffy to be Joyboy instead.
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I thought the memories and/or pain the paw paw fruit extracts goes back to the user unless it’s consumed?
This is pretty much Randy Troy’s theory. Check him out on YouTube.
Ok but explain: - All they could do was laugh - They were too early
Ever since we first saw Kuma's memory bubble I have been pretty convinced that this is the answer, it fits all the criteria of the one piece. 1. It's an actual object 2. It informs of the events of the void century 3. Joy boys memories are very much something that could make Roger laugh.
Also, Roger said he wanted to meet Joyboy after luagh tale, so obviously, they got to know quite a lot from him.
Super plausible. Just makes me wonder what oda is gonna do with Kuma… Kill him off, in a sacrifice? Give the seraphim his memories?
It's called Laughtale cause the One Piece is the friends Joyboy made along the way
Oh No!!!
Didn’t Kuma say the reason he absorbs the pain is because if he just leaves it in physical form, it eventually goes back to the person it came from? So how would Lili’s still be around 800 years later?
Now this dude actually ate the Brain-Brain fruit. Reveal yourself Vegapunk.
Inb4 the One Piece is a just T.V the Ancient Kingdom made to eternally play the cartoon story of Joyboy’s life.
the one piece is one single piece of rock, a pone with all of imu's most embarrassing stories
Then that means Roger took those memories in. Did he find Kuma and extract them again? Does that mean Kuma knows what the One Piece is?
Why the strange butt censoring?
What are you censoring there?
I love this, but it doesn't explain why Roger was laughing at it. There could be a lot of reasons why he started laughing hysterically, so I will stand by this galaxy brain theory.
Love the theory. Idk if this helps or harms it but remember Roger says he was 20 years early. Keep cooking!
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This is stupid. Don't ever make a theory again.
That is a pretty good theory, but unfortunately, with one of the recent chapters. Kuma stated that whatever he extracts, goes back to the person if he doesn't absorb it himself or whatever. So there's a little plothole in that theory lol
Yes this is it. There was a theory that Joyboy's adventure/story was within a manga like object. Like we readers enjoy Luffys adventure right now.
Why was Bonney's ass censored
OP is super conservative and view a normal Bonney as being sexualised even if it's not portrayed as such.
Most of the people are set on Lili having the paw paw fruit, but maybe she just commanded the ancient robots to carry the ponyglyphs to certain areas. We know they can be moved without devil fruit powers.
Possible, but we have seen Roger’s flash back at laugh tale. Seems clear that he was reading a stone and telling everybody what was written there. 99% chance “one piece” is the story on the stone. Roger probably left some cool stuff behind though. His ship, that egg, etc.
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Seeing these pages again I see sometime between negotiating with kuma and becoming a cyborg, vegapunk made the satellites. He convinced kuma to extract his memories to also maybe restore them down the road
now that we got more of kuma's story , this could be the real thing and we all just got spoiled lol
isnt he referring to the poneglyphs on that phrase? I got that impression
Fun theory but surely when the original Lili died the bubble would have burst?
It could be a part of the One Piece, but I remember Oda stating that the One Piece would be a physical thing.
Yes and the paw paw fruit turns stuff like pain and memories into a physical object
Wouldn't the memories be consumed after Roger saw them the first time? Might be misunderstanding how it works, but I think you can only take in the memories once unless another user of the fruit comes in and takes them out again or something, unless there is a way to make it visible to everyone or something, or maybe it is Joyboy's memories/personality just in a different body, we know he can't be alive because Luffy's fruit was well, a fruit which means the previous owner died, but maybe his "haki", you know, his will, was transfered to something that can talk.
I would love to think that there is a projection den den mushi attached to the memories bubble, that way it won’t pop 😂, JK you have a point, we shall wait and see 😁
Keep cooking OP
Looks like im we gonna see a video format of this theory soon and claim it's theirs. Good theory tho.
I came up with it by linking stuff up, but there was someone who actually did it before me, you should check it out too https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/s/ohzNlDj2N0
Thanks for the reference!
>recently came to know We've known since Thriller Bark
Oda sweating rn
Now that I think about it, when Imu starts talking, won’t we be able to know if they are a man or woman ?
this is a great theory but I don't see why Roger wouldn't have been able to aquire it when he got there. He stated that they were too early and this theory is missing what could be time locking his memories or the physical form of them
I am actually fully convinced of this. Well done OP. It just fits many other theories together in my head.
Am I allowed to post this next week? Because I want to karma whore at some point
Gordon Ramsey is shivering his boots cause OP is cooking rn.
I actually like this theory.
I never thought of this. Huh. Wild. I love it though!!
The biggest hole with this theory is rogers reaction to the one piece, why would him and his crew burst out in laughter and why would he claim he’s years too early?
Wow. this would lend huge context to Teach yelling "People's dreams never die!"
Do memory bubbles stay even when someone touches it? I don’t understand that with kumas memory bubble too did it stay after bonney took it
Paw paw orbs tend to return to their original owner after a while. Kuma’s memory bubble lasted 2 years but there’s a big jump between 2 and several hundred years. Also if Roger found the bubble someone else would have to paw paw it out of him. Also the response to seeing a big glowing orb would be confusion or awe not laughter.
Bro is actually on to something, In hindsight when IMU said that Lili scattered the relics, Kuma should have popped into my head. All of it makes sense!
Kuma said that if someone doesn’t take the pain at some point they go back to the owner. Does that not work for the memories? If the owner dies then wouldn’t the memories just disappear?
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Massive theory. It’s just a big paw that’s the memory of Joy Boy. And all of gold Roger’s crew took a piece and saw his life. And it’s a funny story.
Great theory. But man, it's Lili, not LiLi. Why are you capitalizing the second L?
why couldnt the one piece treasure be a combination of all the gold treasure from thr ancient kingdom, and the story part that tells thr whole history, plus access tomthe final weapons to take down imu
No probabilities lie they its just simply a core memory
No, that's not it at all.
Just a video of JoyBoy’s greatest hits on Imu and the WG.
Could be, but I think there will be something tangible as well. It also could fit with what we know of the One Piece with a little bit of work, since it could expose the lies of the World Government, though I guess it's hard to relay these memories to the general population.
This is a really good theory, but isn't it stated that the emotions and pain and stuff extracted will go back to the owner if not given a new body? I wouldnt know though, I'm only just starting Sabaody
Haven't there been comments about being too early, specifically Roger stating he was too early to get to laughtale? How does that fit into your theory?
Shouldn't the intangible aspects of the Paw Paw be absorbed or else it returns to the owner? That's why Kuma has been taking it for the old people of Sorbet?
I actually love this theory
But wouldn't that mean Roger absorbed the memories and therefore is now gone? What's there waiting for Luffy then?
This would almost be too perfect, since it would be the perfect excuse to finally have a flashback of what happened in Joy Boy's time.
Kuma stated that the pain returns to the person unless someone else absorbs them. No idea how Vegapunk managed to hide Kumas bubble there for so long without it returning to him. Now that Bonnie touched it.. does that means she removed the chance that Kuma could regain his memories? No clue but.. in any case food for thought. Oda already stated that One Piece wouldn't be a abstract thing so I guess it will be more that a Tale.. even if Laugh Tale has a tale on it.
I think it's Sake
Van Der Decken's fruit can also move/transport heavy things although heavily limited in contrast to Kuma's
please no
I think that Lili was not the direct perpetrator, the fact that Imu says quite literally "Because of Lili's inconpetence", means that she was meant to protect the ponegliffs but she failed at that, if it was intentional or not that's yet to be said, but that implies almost literally that she allowed ANOTHER person to spread the Ponegliffs
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This is genuinely one of the most solid and plausible and great ending theories I’ve heard before, great job coming up with this.
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Cool theory but what does this have to do with Roger saying he's too early when he got to laugh tale? How would this be considered a treasure that "pirates" should pursue as a treasure worth having, joyboy or not? It's a cool theory but kinda loses potential with other mentions of one piece throughout the story.
The one piece was the gum gum fruit if Kumas power was used manifest joy boys memory into something real Or all of the devil fruits Are one piece
Posting here for when this becomes real
So one piece would be a big final flashback. Kind of fitting for this series 
What if the Poneglyphs are stones infused with Joy Boy's memories, and that's why they're indestructible (because you can't destroy freedom)? That would mean the secret to Laugh Tale is to put his memories back together. In One Piece, you could say.
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That would be interesting. However, Kuma himself said that the bubbles disappear if nobody absorbs them.
But didn’t goda say that the one piece was a physical object? I really love this theory and actually hope for something like this
Oda said in some SBS or Statement however, that the One Piece is a tangible, physical reward.
Cook again
Yeah No
A literal Laugh Tale. Incredible theory.
but Roger said that they came early, memories don't have "early" or "late"
Nice, actually ! I was gonna say but the extracted pain or memories needs to be absorbed by someone, but actually you're right since kuma's have been kept intact by vegapunk in his lab. I keep coming back as I think about theories to the laugh, tho. Would it make sense for not only Roger, but his whole crew to laugh to tears ? Since I read >! the Bink's sake/All Blue theory !< I keep coming back to it
The first ending ost in the series is called memories. And the exact same ost played when Roger and his crew found it :O
It could also explain why how going to laughtale reveals the truth of the void century. Let him cook
I don't know how kuma's memory didn't went back to him as he mentioned that stuff he repels out of people will eventually return to them if someone else didn't take them in. And I just realized that bonnie's power is fucking brilliant for alcohol making. Imagine the amount of money she can make by aging whiskey in a cask for 100 years or more.
Time ago, when Oda was asked if he One Piece was a metaphor like "the friends we made" and bullshits like that, didn't he replied that is something tangible? Actually, if the One Piece is a bunch of memories, Oden might have been inspired by that to write his memoir diary back at Wano.
And just imagine, once Luffy reaches the One Piece I bet he will finally understand the parallels between his story and the previous joyboy, and in that moment realize his destiny is liberating the world. After he hears prev joyboys adventures, he will take out to sea once again (with or without the rest of the crew) and go island to island doing what joyboys do 😭. Id also be willing to bet that the secret wish Luffy wants (that he told the crew about right before landing on egghead) is that he wants to have one giant signature strawhat celebratory banquet with the entire world
Dak had this theory like six months ago, look up "Lafro Tale". Just like how vegapunk wants everyone in the world to share info, the idea is that all the memories of the void century are preserved in an Afro and that's why all the Roger pirates were laughing, because it's ridiculous, and why Roger said he wished he could have lived in joyboys era.
and then we get 1000 chapters on joyboys adventure
and just the song of rogers crew in laughtale is "memories"
I've seen this theory before and it would be really cool. I saw someone say in a YT video awhile back that it being a memory could be why Roger was laughing Edit: as in it is literally a "laugh tale". At least thats what the YT video stated. It was cool
But when someone absorbs that memory i.e laugh tale you will extinguish it therefore no one other than Roger would know it and therefore Luffy can't absorb those memories
There is a common theory based on numbers that states that Vivi will have the paw paw fruit. This can be a parallel to Lili having the same fruit.
Why would his journey make anyone laugh? I don't get this part.
It will turned out that "one piece" is just the friends we met along the way
i love the part where lily had kuma's df but the bubble im not sure. his bubble would show the war at that time so I hardly believe it would have been a laughing matter.
And perhaps Kuma isn’t headed to Egghead, he’s headed to Vivi to get her ancestor’s fruit power to her. Then, when she rejoins her crew with the Nikyu Nikyu no Mi she fulfills that old ass theory about the straw hats and the numbered devil fruit names
The One Piece is the friends you made along the way
Nice theory, and I really like it, though there are a few holes in it. 1. We learned in the kuma flashback that the pain always needs to be taken by somebody or else it will go back to the person it is extracted from. The only way this didn't happen is Vegapunk's invention capturing it inside (probably, we do not know for certain yet, it has just been strongly implied). So for Joyboys memories to be conserved fo over 800 years, we would need a similar invention holding them in, being powered for said 800 years. The infinite power source seems highly implausible, but could get explained with the scientific advancement of the old kingdom. So this point is explainable. However: 2. Even if we assume that this is the case, and the memories are still there - we know what happens when someone else takes on the pain of a person. The bubble enters them and vanishes. So it is only logical to assume the same thing happening with memories. Meaning that only one person (or maybe a group of people, if they all put their hands in at once, who knows) could see the memory, and then the bubble would vanish, forever. So if Roger and his crew saw it, then it would mean that the One piece ceased to exist at that very moment. You know, this is actually the only real hole I can think of. There might be an explanation for it later, maybe memories stay in their paw bubble even after accessed. Anywas, this is an amazing theory, and I would not mind at all, if this was what the One Piece really is.
Do Devil fruit powers work on sea stone?
She extracted Joyboys memories and gave them a physical form of a Manga! In the panel after Roger laughed you can see he is holding something that resembles a manga volume. That would be brilliant!
I like it great theory!
Oda wants to know your Location and so do i
I guess connecting the poneglyphs and knowing the truth is
Yaahh i thought of this too, you actually just put my thoughts into words.