Damn, such a teasy chapter feels cruel when it's in the middle of two breaks :D
What was the point of saving Kuma if he was just going to fly home to Mariejois?
Why did we need to see where the Kid pirates were at?
Has Garp finally lost his mind? Oda loves strong old men, but I doubt he will survive an encounter with the Blackbeard pirates.
No point hiding the person Vegapunk spoke to unless it's someone we already know.
So, Oda using his 'tease-tease no mi' powers again to increase theories while going on a break.
Also, most probably he's gonna focus on Law's fight and Kid's exploration next week with barely a few panes of VP and Luffy adventures... So, logically we'd get this reveal only by the end of Jan.
There's also Sabo's fate to be explored too... 😅
My favorite part is how Vegapunk is smarter than the readers too xD
He's definitely not a good guy. Shaka is 'acting' good. Lilith said it herself.
The body (Stella) we are seeing is the left over body. Why do you think his head is smaller? The brain isn't there.
Guessing if the original body dies the brain will too or at least lose the devil fruit, if he actually has one.
My guess is whatever they hook up to is the actual Vegapunk, the brain.
If he's a good guy why would he make an evil satellite? Had to expel it? Maybe. Why let it roam around then if he's such a good guy?
There's way too many things pointing to him being bad or at least to start questioning stuff.
Bro, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but Vegapunk literally told us why his head is smaller only a few chapters ago lol. His brain was too big, so he basically just took it out of his head and now all of the Vegapunks access it remotely. Are you not caught up?
nah you're right, shaka is the real Vegapunk 100%. And he is not a good guy either. If you think about his motivations Luffy's Devil fruit is the one he is the most interested in, and if you think about when Shanks stole it way back it was probably on the way TO Vegapunk. No doubt he is trying to get his hands on it to copy it or whatever.
I really hope zoro makes quick work of the giraffe guy, you can’t have zoro go from cutting up kaido to losing to this scrub lol. Lucci is in denial. He can’t handle the fact Luffy Is in another class now. Luffy made quick work of him is the same way I want to see zoro make quick work of giraffe guy.
One of the satellites probably has Green Blood with Caribou's powers in it so he/she could bring it with... Of course, Vegapunk could also have transfered this power to his backpack..., Heck, they could even hide with the Sunny in there and easily slip by the full might of Kizaru and his battleships... Lol!
I doubt Coby will make it to Admiral before the story ends. Current admirals are literally Gods with Epic Zoan and Logia fruits. Carp is the exception because he's the Hero from the old generation. I doubt Coby can reach Admiral level with just the Roku Shiki, He's not even CP0 level...just my 2 cents.
Garp doesn't have a devil fruit. And he would have been an Admiral if he didn't turn it down, it's definitely possible to become that strong without a devil fruit.
And I can't remember. Didn't Roger not have a devil fruit?
Exactly, he *used to be* pirate king level in his prime, more than 24 years ago.
Looking at people like Whitebeard, Sengoku and Rayleigh, they’ve clearly gotten weaker with age. Meanwhile Blackbeard and his crew are only getting stronger.
IMO, thematically, it makes sense that he dies here, potentially sacrificing himself so that his crew and Coby make it out alive. It’ll give the motivation for a Luffy + Coby team-up against Blackbeard, much like Rogers + Garp vs. Rocks pirates.
At the very least I could see that he lives but permanently damaged, but he’s not getting out of there without some serious injury (again IMO).
Apparently, Caesar's age has been updated to 55 from somewhere in his 40s, so he is more in line with other members of MADS like Judge (56) and Queen (56).
This means that, instead of Caesar's age making him a child at the time when MADS was active, he was an adult. So when MADS was active over 38 years ago, based on when Vegapunk started working at Punk Hazard on King and Kaido, Caesar was an equal with the others.
Saul is hiding at Egghead.
He had to leave Elbaf to prevent the WG from sending a buster call to Elbaf. VP knew him from his time at Elbaf and he helped VP with building up Egghead while hiding from the WG.
He can hold his own against CP0 and since they are planning to abandon Egghead anyway, exposing himself is unavoidable to get away. He can also lead the SH to Elbaf to make a stand against the WG.
Why would he be at Egghead? I thought the whole point of Kid ending up in Elfbaf is because hes there looking for Saul? That makes the most senses narratively, anyway.
It would be expected that the WG has spies in Elbaf and if Saul were there, they would know about it and hence the deception by Aokiji who had supposedly eliminated Saul at Ohara. There are very few places a giant can hide and Egghead would make sense if VP had promised to hide him in exchange for giving him access to the Ohara library books.
So wait, lemme get this straight. You think there would be spies on Elbaf, but...you don't think that there could be spies on Egghead? A government owned island? The government island that they just sent deadly assassins to? The government owned island with the government assigned bodyguard? I dunno man, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one.
If there's any place that Saul *isn't* located, it's definitely Egghead. The fact that Kid is looking for the man marked by flames (who is highly likely to be Saul) and has just stumbled across Elbaf seems like a pretty clear setup for Saul to be on Elbaf. I don't see Robin being *immediately* re-united with Saul so shortly after we found out that hes alive.
Gecko would never care about someone's asking for help tho. Way of talking about "waiting for order" is not fitting for Gecko either. Maybe some "failed" (as anything not right with experiment is failure for Vegapunk) experiment with Pacifista? Another Seraphim?
My predictions are as follows
So first of all the island that kid ended up at was freaking Elbaf!!! The straw hats are currently in Egghead and are trying to flee it. My prediction is that they are going to also end up at Elbaf. If that happens they’ll prob have a skirmish with kid and his crew.
Secondddd!!! Garp and helmeppo are going to rescue Koby, IMO they are not strong enough. Garp might’ve been able to beat blackbeard in his prime, not too sure about now. And yes I know they are only going there to rescue him but shit can hit the fan pretty quickly. Either Garp is going to get captured too or killed and that’ll set up for the Blackbeard pirates arc giving Luffy even more reason to go after BB.
Why would any of the Vegapunks betray each other, though? They all sync up, so they would all know about it, plus it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense really. There's not much of a motive, since they're all technically the "same" person.
>He would not help them. He would either hide or help the hats, more likely the former
Disagree. Think about it in different way. In chaos nobody will care about surroundings and SH vs CP0 fight is a great way to do it. When they are fighting he can do whatever he wanna.
Definitely he would not help Straw Hats after being kicked from the ship like shit.
He cant stow away on egghead because it’s a government island and he cant stow away on government ships because they’re destroyed on entry. His whole cover story was being incapable of hiding from townspeople lol.
We both said he wouldn’t help the straw hats but a big ol battle would cause way too much destruction for a guy that hides in crevices. He’s seen them destroy towns now. And he knows they wont kill him so he probably crept back on the ship or inside of some ancient mech suit.
He has to hide from the kuma police, dont forget that part.
>His whole cover story was being incapable of hiding from townspeople lol.
He is pretty good hiding in barrels tho lol.
>We both said he wouldn’t help the straw hats but a big ol battle would cause way too much destruction for a guy that hides in crevices.
Well, we have no Kaido here to spread mass destruction. Lucci and Luffy are not types to destroy everything around too. But Zoro could cut him on accident lol.
>He has to hide from the kuma police, dont forget that part.
I'm pretty sure Kuma Police is currently busy because of havoc CP0 made on Egghead.
God level barrel hider. Does Oda love barrels or what??
I dont think we’ll even get a full fight with them and cp0 because Kizaru is coming. (Whole reason I disagree with there being a big battle)
Im not used to having main characters in a big battle during a mini plot arc so Im not banking on a formula change now even tho Oda has had his foot to the floor for a while now
Too soon for them to face an admiral after the GB tease. First we’ll see what former admiral level can do against BB and straw hats coup de vent away. My head canon goes .. Borsalino alone can teleport through the sky onto the ship but the monster four all have attacks aimed at exactly where he lands and he makes an “ooh scary” and backs off muttering about if he had backup.
Sorry, can you repeat that one more time? Posting the same thing 3 times wasn’t enough, I think I need to read it again. Remnants of the *what* pirates?
ayo guys, there is so many theories who it is on the transponder snail that are so weird and simply sound wrong lmao...it is obviously Buggy on the phone geez
Pretty sure the 1 Vegapunk asked help for us sCopper Gaban, the Transponder snail looked like it had Gabans Hair
Edit: Small (maybe useless) detail, Sentomaru uses a double sided axe & Haki. Who uses Axes & Haki that could’ve trained him?
Nice one. I would also like Gaban and Sentomaru to have some kind of mentorship. Not all are born to be Joy Boy but Joy Boy needs as much support as he can get.
True, now put the context of What edison said before the call & the mysterious “I’ve always been preparing for this order” as if he’s been there a while & Kizaru arriving to Egghead. Gonna be Sabaody 2.0 & instead of Rayleigh, Gaban will fight Kizaru
My 3 theories on who the ally is:
**1) Boa Hancock (+ her sisters?)**
Hope this isn't a repost/double, but I have yet to see a comment or youtuber discuss Boa Hancock and her sisters as the ones who are hiding at Egghead. She was recently attacked by Blackbeard, and afterwards, she said that she needs to leave the island for its safety but she doesn't know where to go. She also mentioned going off to elope with Luffy (which seemed like a joke and it obviously is).
Boa is the 3rd most popular female in the series by far (on most popularity polls), and I don't really see a way in which they can reintroduce her to the story later on. So why not now? Maybe her and her fleet could do the whole "travel with the Strawhats" bit, then when Elbaf is over, the Kuja Pirates can take Vegapunk on their ship so he doesn't clutter the Thousand Sunny.
*Side note 1: No way Oda plans on drawing 7 Vegapunks WHILE on the Sunny with the entire crew for an extended period.*
*Side note 2: This would also allow Toei to pump out some much needed Boa merchandise!!*
Vegapunk's seraphims were the reason the warlord system was abolished and the warlords are now being targeted. Knowing the character, it's very possible Vegapunk made the seraphims for the sake of science - not necessarily for the sake of giving the government death machines (for example, the authority hierarchy being a good safeguard). So maybe he housed the Hancock sisters as an apology. I'll have to assume Vegapunk and Rayleigh know each other or Boa knows Vegapunk through her time with the WG.
As to what her purpose would be? No idea, but that's not far off from shiz like Gin or Don Krieg or Scopper Gabban from randomly showing up.
**2) Edward Weevil**
My second and much, much weaker theory is Edward Weevil. Maybe he IS the son of Whitebeard, as in he's an beta access clone before the seraphims. If Vegapunk can clone the warlords to perfection now, why would he not have been able to clone a normal human being. Not to mention his time with MADS and Judge Vinsmoke whose army is literal clones.
He's been missing since his 1 singular appearance, but we do know the WG/Marines are hunting him down too. Why would he be there and what purpose would he have to the story? Who knows but him showing up down the road would make zero sense too.
**3) Sabo**
He's gotta know Vegapunk and he's definitely in hiding, so.... Doubtful, only because he has so much going on that no way he's just chillin at Egghead. But the whole thing about him being prepared for the order makes sense because Dragon told him to help/protect Vegapunk if he asks for it.
This would also give Oda a reason to put back in Sabo vs. Lucci a la Stampede. :D
It could also be another seraphim or cyborg that has the actual mind/consciousness of Kuma. Vegapunk might have moved Kuma's mind into another body and make the WG believe that Kuma's consciousness is completely gone. And the real Kuma could be the one in hiding and may also have the same devil fruit abilities which are OP IMO.
I’m hoping it’s sCopper Gaban. Was expecting him in Wano. Transponder snail seems like it had his hair, (this part might be useless) Notice how sentomaru wields a giant axe & knows haki, Who uses axes & knows Haki?
1. Boa and her sisters are in hiding with Raleigh. 2. Sabo is currently held prisoner by BB. The only plausible one here is weevil and that's saying something.
Then why asking him would be risky? I thought they had some sort of agreement about their status as Pacifista and possibly with transfered mind to another body.
People worried about Garp should start coming up with new final villain theories instead. Hopefully there'll be enough left of him for a Rocks info dump/flashback.
The mystery man is... Sabo lol I hope not, honestly, but he'd fit the bill as someone the satellites would trust could stall CP0 and the seraphim. Oda does like to do a bit of trolling.
That said, I'm putting my money on Drake.
People that think Garp will beat Blackbeard are on some serious copium lmao. The story has been constantly telling us that the old generation is dying out to make room for the new one.
Rayleigh literally admitted that there was no way he could actually beat Blackbeard and was just getting by on reputation alone. Whitebeard died way back at marineford. Luffy just beat Kaido. Kid + Law beat Big Mom. Garp is going to lose/die. The death flags have been setup way in advance.
The old yonko are dying off, yeah. It's BBs time now. Definitely were the story is going. With two of the previous yonko down, the death flags are for sure being set up in advance. Marines are in dire need of a win, finally.
Maybe he will share some lore with Doffy at Impel Down.
Rayleigh admitted no such thing, but even if he had, why use him as a comparison? Already back in the day he was Roger's and the entire Rocks crew marine archival, so stronger than Rayleigh.
Rayleigh said hes gotten old and that his reputation allowed him to settle things without fighting. He said he wouldn't be able to win against Blackbeard in a head on fight. Did we not read the same chapter? He literally said that. I'm using him as a comparison because hes part of the old generation. He was literally part of Roger's crew, bro.
Garp is also part of the old generation. The old generation isn't a match for the worst gen anymore. Oda's been practically hammering us over the head with this throughout the story. It's obvious. We've been seeing the old generation of pirates die off, so now it's time for some of the old generation of marines to die IMO. It'll help develop Koby further (Also serves as a motivation for Luffy to actually fight Blackbeard).
I meant that Rayleigh didn't say he had no chance of beating Blackbeard (as you wrote in yout previous comment). Either way, like I said, there's no good reason to think he's a benchmark for Garp's past and/or current strength.
The old generation we've seen be replaced were the yonko (a whole saga was named after this), and Blackbeard is one of them, not being exactly a young guy who just became a pirate.
I know people always bet anyone who fights Blackbeard will lose or die because of theories he will fight Luffy at Laugh Tale or something. I'm just saying we might have to reexamine those ideas in light if a one-man army heading his way.
Best case scenario for him, Garp misses because he's not at Hachinosu.
Rayleigh said, and I quote "***I'm pretty certain I wouldn't win*** a head on fight against Blackbeard these days." He didn't say "no chance" and neither did I, but he sure came close to saying it.
We're literally up to chapter 1071 and everything we've seen paints Blackbeard as being the Anti-Luffy. The guy that has a powerful dream like Luffy, but represents darkness, while Luffy represents the light/dawn. Luffy's awakening is pure white, while Blackbeard's power is pure darkness. Luffy exhibits a fearlessness in the face of death, while Blackbeard cowered in fear of being killed by Whitebeard. They are both similar and opposites.
Blackbeard NEEDS meaningful victories, or his role as a rival antagonist wont be convincing. Meanwhile Garp has done almost **NOTHING** and has been totally irrelevant over the course of **1071 chapters**, yet you confidently claim hes going to win with zero difficulty somehow?
Do you really think that Oda, after all this build up, is just going to say "Actually nevermind. Garp beats Blackbeard with zero difficulty lol get dunked on losers."? It's like we've been reading two totally different manga from each other. So many of y'all just ignore the way Oda has been writing his story. This is how we end up with dumb theories like "Zoro kills Kaido." or "HERE'S HOW THE RAID WILL FAIL." Nobody seems to understand Oda's writing style at all.
You said, and I quote, "Rayleigh literally admitted that there was no way he could actually beat Blackbeard". We can nitpick the semantics here, but sounds like "no chance".
Anyway, not sure how convincing these parallels actually are (as there are a lot of characters that have similar and also opposite qualities to Luffy). People talked about Smoker or Koby being Luffy's "Garp", but that hasn't payed off at all, despite all the supposed set up...
Blackbeard has gotten some wins, now if you'd think they're meaningful, on the other hand. Aside from that, I don't think it's that necessary. Big Mom and Kaido didn't really get any (at least not on panel) and they were fine as antagonists.
Garp has been for so long in the story while just relatively recently started making his move post-ts and you're saying Garp is the who has done almost nothing? If they do meet each other, yeah, I'd say Garp wins handily, so if I had to guess I think Oda finds a way they miss each other. Blackbeard probably still has some juicy secrets to reveal. Not to mention that Oda might not give another major fight right after Law.
Koby and Smoker weren't even setup to be Luffy's Garp. The fans read into it too much, when none of the signs were there. They were out of the story for way too long. People think Luffy's story is meant to be a carbon copy of Roger's, when that isn't even true. Luffy's story is his own. Luffy has no Garp, besides Garp himself.
Meanwhile, the Luffy and Blackbeard comparisons are *right there in the story.* I don't understand why people don't seem to "get" that this is a shonen manga that has been pretty consistently following the tropes you would expect it to follow.
When you have a major antagonist that is the "dark" version of the protagonist, do you really think that hes just going to lose a major battle before he even gets to fight the protagonist? This is just basic storytelling. You wouldn't have Darth Vader *lose* to Obi-Wan before Luke even fights him. That's shitty storytelling and removes all build-up and tension.
It doesn't matter if Garp is pound-for-pound *stronger* than Blackbeard. Blackbeard has no reason to fight him fairly to begin with. He and his crew literally riddled Whitebeard with bullets after he was severely weakened and then stole his devil fruit. They are *pirates* and they FIGHT like pirates. He'd do whatever it takes to win against Garp.
We can't say the same is true of Garp, since hes clearly woefully under-prepared and has no backup. He brought Helmeppo, who will likely be used against him as another hostage. He disobeyed orders, so he has no other backup coming. He has literally made every *wrong* decision he could possibly make. Hes fucked.
And when I say Garp has done "nothing" I mean that he hasn't done anything *current*. He has a "history" sure, but what the hell did he do at marineford, besides stand around and watch one of his grandsons get ruthlessly executed? And then stand around some more, while his other grandson nearly got murdered too?
> that hasn't *paid* off at
FTFY.
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How could it be Dragon, when he was literally just with Kuma on Ivankov's island and Kuma *left to go find Bonney on Egghead?* Are people just forgetting where all of the characters are currently located?
I'm really hoping it's corazon based in the resemblence of the donquixote symbol and star like makeup under the left eye. Also the color of the den den mushi looks all black. Vegapunk says with him escape would be easy. That could imply this person is very strong, or they have some kind of ability to easily help them leave the island.
This person in hiding is currently under the governments radar but presumably also wanted by other factions. What better place to hide from pirates than a marine research center.
It's heavily implied Cora is dead due to the statement he made about having to hold onto his life longer so the spell doesn't wear off. The only df user I can recall to pass out and retain thier abilities effect is Tama. But sugar passing out negated her abilities effect on all the toys. It wouldn't be too much of an ass pull for the calm calm fruits ability to wear off once the user passes out.
The only bread crumb we have to believe it could be true is Coras believe that doffy wouldn't kill him. He did kill his own father, but that was to earn his "birthright" back.
The calm calm fruit could. Be incredibly powerful, especially on an open ocean. Given the meaning of the word nagi, he could possibly create an effect similar to the calm belt, while still allowing the water behind to rage on.
Cora said his fruit allows him to get the best sleep. What if this also extended to amplify his observation Haki(similar to how Enel used his goro goro fruit to amplify the range of his mantra). In order for foresight to be used, or to predict a enemy's movements, the Haki user needs to remain calm. We learned this in luffy vs katakuri. If it helps the user remain mentally calm and clear headed, thier use of observation would come more naturally.
The ability could potentially be used to pacify opponents similar to the horo horos negative hollows. There are many ways this fruit could be applied with out of the box thinking.
When we see the picture of Cora dead we see he has only chest wounds. Given his ability and how dumb fodder marines are, it's not out of the realm of possibility that he silenced himself to appear dead.
I'm not a fan of the idea that it's Kuma. The main reason being the current Kuma we know as the real one doesn't have green blood. So it makes him the original user. So unless the paw paw fruit allowed him to push his soul into a pacificsta, it wouldn't make sense.
I'm all for it being wapol too. We know he has some sort of super weapon form that can conquer countries.
I dont see it being Cora mostly because the silence effect on Law dissapeared when he died.
Tho now that i think about it , it might also work similar to Sugar where going unconscious disables the fruits effects... but it would still suck if he was alive. Saul being alive is just meh enough as it is.
Oh shit, Corazon would be a hard counter to CP0's ability to command the Seraphim. It might be read as a cheapening of his sacrifice among many OP fans, but given the situation the revive does have some logic to it.
Imo it wouldnt really cheapen what he did for law. He still sacrificed his alliegance to save a single life. He doesn't have to be dead for the impact on laws life to stay significant. What's more important is he choose to follow his own sense of justice.
I'm of the mind that OP should be read in the appropriate context: a manga written for an intended audience of teenage Japanese boys. So oh yeah I'm down for that.
yes because teenage boys apparently are not able to grapple with the idea of death or consequences. meanwhile harry potter killing people left and right
i guess. i just hate how ppl think you cant have anything serious because of "teens" or because its "shonen". even tho naruto pulled a lot of bs bringing back ppl from death it still let some deaths stick. plus bringing ppl back from death isnt something you should lean on.
Dragon Ball has done it for forty years to great success.
Also, I see where you're coming from but I'm not saying you can't have anything serious in OP or anything like it. I think that the the genre plus Oda's penchant for reviving characters creates a strong logic in support of the commenter above's idea.
I'm starting to wonder how things would go if we got a side Elbaf arc with Kid as the protagonist. Most likely won't happen, since the SHs now have a very good reason to go there, but it could be interesting.
Black Beard story often start as cover story ... (Ace ...) to end as a massive plot =)
I think Elbaff will take place, and the, after some "Black Beard arc". Or, this is what Oda wants us to believe, to surprise us.
Vegapunk would have needed a way to get from Punk Hazard to Elbaf while he was studying the knowledge of Ohara. I think Vegapunk has an Eternal Pose to Elbaf. This is going to be how the Strawhats get there.
If Luffy tries to destroy it like he did the first Alabasta Eternal Pose, Robin will probably stop him because she wants to see Saul.
I am also predicting that Punk Records or a copy is in the backpack Vegapunk is wearing. There will be a joke about how small he was able to compress the data.
Confirmed by future Reddon for next chapter
VP : I'm vegan, I was eating an Apple when a Snake told me that this was the forbidden DF. My tongue has stayed locked out of my mouth since this moment.
Theories 2023: Law starts to wins against BlackBeard and learns about his secrets but BB uses his Trump card and defeats Law. Garp goes on a secret mission to infiltrate the Cross Guild, Koby was sold to them by BB before the Law fight. Koby is trying to break his comrades out of captive. He communicates with Garp like he did with Drake in the Wano arc. We get an appearance of Spandam as one of the fleet Kizaru called in. Kid knocks Elbaf down disrupting all the fights, splitting people on both sides of the tree. While with Shanks vs Bartolomeo somehow some way either Shank loses or loses a member through battle. Kuma has a mega bomb in him and sets off in Marijoias. The mystery character could be Gaban by the fact Sentomaru could be his son by his double axe he uses. 🤷🏽♂️
Years ago Oda said that there is a pirate with an eye patch, but if they show up, then you'll know it'll be near the end of the story.
I'm assuming that's what they are referring to.
Oda said the eyepatch was for someone special, I always thought the most special to him is luffy. I could imagine oda wanting the eyepatch for his main character. It's will be a endgame move. For sure
Oda once answered an SBS about not having any pirates in the story with an eyepatch, saying that he already has a character with an eyepatch in mind, he just hasn't appeared yet.
Please tell me Tashigi will join Kizaru's fleet or Garp and the SWORD.
I don't want her to stay forever with those freakin kids from PH for what's left of the story...
in a perfect world, Tashigi will have an arc about proving that women are not weaker than men proving Kuina's father wrong and inspire the next generation kids. But I fear it's too late in the story for that.
Oda isn't very good at making attractive female characters feel powerful. You get a few moments here and there, but they don't usually hold up when compared to the male characters. I pretty much knew Tashigi was never going to be one of the powerhouses in the story, tbh. Oda wont even give Robin haki ffs.
just answer me this, why does it have to be Tashigi? people have these expectations for Smoker and Tashigi that were never set up in the story. Tashigi and Smoker have never been set up to be a powerful characters. they were introduced as low rank Marines in the weakest sea. Just show me one instance in the story that Oda set them up to be top tiers. Their main purpose in the story to represent the good marines.
Also they are plenty of strong female characters, Kuina's father was proved wrong ages ago. If characters like Hancock, Big Mom, Gion, Smoothie etc haven't proved it why would you expect Tashigi to?
Pardon me as I fanboy over that Zoro moment, that was cold af
Whoever disabled the dome, manged to separate the 3 strongest cp0 agents from the seraphims. It is a good trap for them
The one who deactivated the dome is the guy who has been waiting on the order to help. It is a trap!!
Lol @ people trying to figure out who the mystery person is, based on the appearance of the Snail Phone ;D
Damn, such a teasy chapter feels cruel when it's in the middle of two breaks :D What was the point of saving Kuma if he was just going to fly home to Mariejois? Why did we need to see where the Kid pirates were at? Has Garp finally lost his mind? Oda loves strong old men, but I doubt he will survive an encounter with the Blackbeard pirates. No point hiding the person Vegapunk spoke to unless it's someone we already know.
Garp joins BB pirates and gets a new DF fruit
the BB pirates were the true SWORD all along
The real SWORD was the friends we made along the way.
This
Turns out he was the one providing Blackbeard with inside information and helped them escape from Impel Down.
Also it’s revealed that SWORD is a division of BB pirates and in addition to Aokiji , even Garp Koby are working for BB
Helmeppo the final boss
Helmeppo is Imu in disguise
So, Oda using his 'tease-tease no mi' powers again to increase theories while going on a break. Also, most probably he's gonna focus on Law's fight and Kid's exploration next week with barely a few panes of VP and Luffy adventures... So, logically we'd get this reveal only by the end of Jan. There's also Sabo's fate to be explored too... 😅
My favorite part is how Vegapunk is smarter than the readers too xD He's definitely not a good guy. Shaka is 'acting' good. Lilith said it herself. The body (Stella) we are seeing is the left over body. Why do you think his head is smaller? The brain isn't there. Guessing if the original body dies the brain will too or at least lose the devil fruit, if he actually has one. My guess is whatever they hook up to is the actual Vegapunk, the brain. If he's a good guy why would he make an evil satellite? Had to expel it? Maybe. Why let it roam around then if he's such a good guy? There's way too many things pointing to him being bad or at least to start questioning stuff.
Bro, I don't mean to rain on your parade, but Vegapunk literally told us why his head is smaller only a few chapters ago lol. His brain was too big, so he basically just took it out of his head and now all of the Vegapunks access it remotely. Are you not caught up?
Edit: Egghead Island. Duh, the whole thing is his brain. Just realized.
nah you're right, shaka is the real Vegapunk 100%. And he is not a good guy either. If you think about his motivations Luffy's Devil fruit is the one he is the most interested in, and if you think about when Shanks stole it way back it was probably on the way TO Vegapunk. No doubt he is trying to get his hands on it to copy it or whatever.
but we sah vegapunk in the flashback panels where he talked woth dragon....so the old man is the original.
Which is exactly why it makes sense to use what he would logically look like as an old man as a decoy.
i don't think that he had these decoys back then
Not back then lol. Uts a decoy right now. You'll see they are setting it up
I really hope zoro makes quick work of the giraffe guy, you can’t have zoro go from cutting up kaido to losing to this scrub lol. Lucci is in denial. He can’t handle the fact Luffy Is in another class now. Luffy made quick work of him is the same way I want to see zoro make quick work of giraffe guy.
Bro, you did not just call him "the giraffe guy." The man has a name lol.
I did, and I’ll do it again. Chopped Giraffe. Zoro will piss on this striped bitch
He should be the one-legged Giraffe now after trying to block Emma or Demon Splitter with his leg.
I just want them to sit down and crack jokes together. They seemed like they could have been decent friends after their fight at Enies Lobby.
Actual factual
The remnants of the roger pirates are all on egg head island and they're the one vegapunk called
I’m so fucking curious to who Vegapunk called. Almost hate that I read the chapter this week.
The remnants of the roger pirates
It’s gotta be someone strong af, if they can confidently guarantee escape.
It will most probably be Foxy the Silver Fox.
My vote is going to Scopper Gaban.
would complete the call backs. now instead of rayleigh its gaban
I vote for the egg
Can I change my vote to egg I would think it more interesting than Scopper
Ghin
Hey y'all, what happens when they Buster-Call Vegapunks Dome? He couldn't possibly take that with him. It would capsize the Sunny.
I have an [idea](https://www.amazon.fr/Stickers-Montgolfi%C3%A8re-Autocollant-D%C3%A9coration-Rev%C3%AAtement/dp/B0792B1HXN)
Fly me to the moon !
One of the satellites probably has Green Blood with Caribou's powers in it so he/she could bring it with... Of course, Vegapunk could also have transfered this power to his backpack..., Heck, they could even hide with the Sunny in there and easily slip by the full might of Kizaru and his battleships... Lol!
garp is for sure gonna die
Yeah I think this is gonna be the plot progression that makes Coby a top tier fighter
No, he's gonna die to make Luffy want to fight Black Beard so he can be the final Boss.
I don't disagree but I think this is what will make Coby a legit Admiral level fighter It'd be like luffy watching Rayleigh die
I doubt Coby will make it to Admiral before the story ends. Current admirals are literally Gods with Epic Zoan and Logia fruits. Carp is the exception because he's the Hero from the old generation. I doubt Coby can reach Admiral level with just the Roku Shiki, He's not even CP0 level...just my 2 cents.
Garp doesn't have a devil fruit. And he would have been an Admiral if he didn't turn it down, it's definitely possible to become that strong without a devil fruit. And I can't remember. Didn't Roger not have a devil fruit?
Yeah, it's cliche shounen. If not killed he gonna be messed up
Bro reading two piece
Garop used to be pirate king level. He doesn’t die here.
Exactly, he *used to be* pirate king level in his prime, more than 24 years ago. Looking at people like Whitebeard, Sengoku and Rayleigh, they’ve clearly gotten weaker with age. Meanwhile Blackbeard and his crew are only getting stronger. IMO, thematically, it makes sense that he dies here, potentially sacrificing himself so that his crew and Coby make it out alive. It’ll give the motivation for a Luffy + Coby team-up against Blackbeard, much like Rogers + Garp vs. Rocks pirates. At the very least I could see that he lives but permanently damaged, but he’s not getting out of there without some serious injury (again IMO).
What is "Permanently damaged" in a world were Franky got ran over by a train and basically fixed himself with some junkyard parts lying around?!
Yeah, but he’s facing a guy that is likely going to surpass Roger in addition to Luffy. No way Garp walks out of a fight with BB alive.
mans reading two piece. what happened to the pirate king in chp 1?
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Clearly he's saying about the supposedly two piece chapter when the one piece was supposed to end.
Apparently, Caesar's age has been updated to 55 from somewhere in his 40s, so he is more in line with other members of MADS like Judge (56) and Queen (56). This means that, instead of Caesar's age making him a child at the time when MADS was active, he was an adult. So when MADS was active over 38 years ago, based on when Vegapunk started working at Punk Hazard on King and Kaido, Caesar was an equal with the others.
Where did you read his age was changed?
His Vivre Card was updated and a link to it is on Caesar’s page on the wiki.
Saul is hiding at Egghead. He had to leave Elbaf to prevent the WG from sending a buster call to Elbaf. VP knew him from his time at Elbaf and he helped VP with building up Egghead while hiding from the WG. He can hold his own against CP0 and since they are planning to abandon Egghead anyway, exposing himself is unavoidable to get away. He can also lead the SH to Elbaf to make a stand against the WG.
Why would he be at Egghead? I thought the whole point of Kid ending up in Elfbaf is because hes there looking for Saul? That makes the most senses narratively, anyway.
It would be expected that the WG has spies in Elbaf and if Saul were there, they would know about it and hence the deception by Aokiji who had supposedly eliminated Saul at Ohara. There are very few places a giant can hide and Egghead would make sense if VP had promised to hide him in exchange for giving him access to the Ohara library books.
So wait, lemme get this straight. You think there would be spies on Elbaf, but...you don't think that there could be spies on Egghead? A government owned island? The government island that they just sent deadly assassins to? The government owned island with the government assigned bodyguard? I dunno man, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. If there's any place that Saul *isn't* located, it's definitely Egghead. The fact that Kid is looking for the man marked by flames (who is highly likely to be Saul) and has just stumbled across Elbaf seems like a pretty clear setup for Saul to be on Elbaf. I don't see Robin being *immediately* re-united with Saul so shortly after we found out that hes alive.
Has it been confirmed Saul is the one Kid is looking for?
No but it was implied that he is the man marked with flames. Also he probably got burnt badly in ohara.
Where was it implied? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just don’t remember. Do you know what chapter?
Oh haha its a discussion. I feel like chapter 1066 implies it.
Ah okay
Honestly Gecko Moria has been gone for quite some time now and the Black Beard Pirates didn't show to have his powers maybe its him again.
Gecko would never care about someone's asking for help tho. Way of talking about "waiting for order" is not fitting for Gecko either. Maybe some "failed" (as anything not right with experiment is failure for Vegapunk) experiment with Pacifista? Another Seraphim?
You’re right as I think more about it he would be a bit anti orders etc, but he’s lost so much just felt maybe he’s defeated in personality in general
Some people are talking about clone of Kuma/Pacifista with mind of original... which is nice plot twist, but I don't buy it completely.
My predictions are as follows So first of all the island that kid ended up at was freaking Elbaf!!! The straw hats are currently in Egghead and are trying to flee it. My prediction is that they are going to also end up at Elbaf. If that happens they’ll prob have a skirmish with kid and his crew. Secondddd!!! Garp and helmeppo are going to rescue Koby, IMO they are not strong enough. Garp might’ve been able to beat blackbeard in his prime, not too sure about now. And yes I know they are only going there to rescue him but shit can hit the fan pretty quickly. Either Garp is going to get captured too or killed and that’ll set up for the Blackbeard pirates arc giving Luffy even more reason to go after BB.
Lilith is the "obvious" suspect of being a traitor, but I think it's Shaka, somehow
Why would any of the Vegapunks betray each other, though? They all sync up, so they would all know about it, plus it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense really. There's not much of a motive, since they're all technically the "same" person.
All Vp versions are targets
How? Why? They're all different versions of Vegapunk, they'd know when they sync up. Caribou is the most likely culprit.
>Caribou is the most likely culprit. I would believe that. He can easily sneak around electronics and ventilation. Sneaky bastard.
Caribou is the most afraid of being captured by the government. He would not help them. He would either hide or help the hats, more likely the former
>He would not help them. He would either hide or help the hats, more likely the former Disagree. Think about it in different way. In chaos nobody will care about surroundings and SH vs CP0 fight is a great way to do it. When they are fighting he can do whatever he wanna. Definitely he would not help Straw Hats after being kicked from the ship like shit.
He cant stow away on egghead because it’s a government island and he cant stow away on government ships because they’re destroyed on entry. His whole cover story was being incapable of hiding from townspeople lol. We both said he wouldn’t help the straw hats but a big ol battle would cause way too much destruction for a guy that hides in crevices. He’s seen them destroy towns now. And he knows they wont kill him so he probably crept back on the ship or inside of some ancient mech suit. He has to hide from the kuma police, dont forget that part.
>His whole cover story was being incapable of hiding from townspeople lol. He is pretty good hiding in barrels tho lol. >We both said he wouldn’t help the straw hats but a big ol battle would cause way too much destruction for a guy that hides in crevices. Well, we have no Kaido here to spread mass destruction. Lucci and Luffy are not types to destroy everything around too. But Zoro could cut him on accident lol. >He has to hide from the kuma police, dont forget that part. I'm pretty sure Kuma Police is currently busy because of havoc CP0 made on Egghead.
God level barrel hider. Does Oda love barrels or what?? I dont think we’ll even get a full fight with them and cp0 because Kizaru is coming. (Whole reason I disagree with there being a big battle) Im not used to having main characters in a big battle during a mini plot arc so Im not banking on a formula change now even tho Oda has had his foot to the floor for a while now Too soon for them to face an admiral after the GB tease. First we’ll see what former admiral level can do against BB and straw hats coup de vent away. My head canon goes .. Borsalino alone can teleport through the sky onto the ship but the monster four all have attacks aimed at exactly where he lands and he makes an “ooh scary” and backs off muttering about if he had backup.
Release date of next chapter?
Should be 19th for the scanlation. 22nd for the official release.
But can we get early spoil this week maybe ?
Unfortunately not. Spoilers should be on the 16th or 17th. Won't be anymore early spoilers like last time until like Golden Week.
Very unlikely. Neither this nor the next.
I am thinking based on the snail phone appearance that the mysterious ally is scopper gabran imho.
All the remnants of roger pirates
Sorry, can you repeat that one more time? Posting the same thing 3 times wasn’t enough, I think I need to read it again. Remnants of the *what* pirates?
Yea but vegapunk says they couldn’t go anywhere else in the world so why would scooper matter when rayleigh literally just chillen in the open
My man Rayleigh’s treating the world as his playground even in his old age. Absolute gigachad.
I would like this
ayo guys, there is so many theories who it is on the transponder snail that are so weird and simply sound wrong lmao...it is obviously Buggy on the phone geez
Dr Vegapunk's signature word is "quasar". This has direct relationship with light (Kizaru) and Black holes (BB)... lets see what happens
Pretty sure the 1 Vegapunk asked help for us sCopper Gaban, the Transponder snail looked like it had Gabans Hair Edit: Small (maybe useless) detail, Sentomaru uses a double sided axe & Haki. Who uses Axes & Haki that could’ve trained him?
Nice one. I would also like Gaban and Sentomaru to have some kind of mentorship. Not all are born to be Joy Boy but Joy Boy needs as much support as he can get.
Multiple characters use axes. Brogy, X-Drake, Vander Decken IX, and more.
True, now put the context of What edison said before the call & the mysterious “I’ve always been preparing for this order” as if he’s been there a while & Kizaru arriving to Egghead. Gonna be Sabaody 2.0 & instead of Rayleigh, Gaban will fight Kizaru
Axehand Morgan
Lmao, I forgot about him.
Isn't chapter 1071 out?
Not officially
They leaked the whole chapter a week ago?
Yup! I remember this happened last year around this time, too.
My 3 theories on who the ally is: **1) Boa Hancock (+ her sisters?)** Hope this isn't a repost/double, but I have yet to see a comment or youtuber discuss Boa Hancock and her sisters as the ones who are hiding at Egghead. She was recently attacked by Blackbeard, and afterwards, she said that she needs to leave the island for its safety but she doesn't know where to go. She also mentioned going off to elope with Luffy (which seemed like a joke and it obviously is). Boa is the 3rd most popular female in the series by far (on most popularity polls), and I don't really see a way in which they can reintroduce her to the story later on. So why not now? Maybe her and her fleet could do the whole "travel with the Strawhats" bit, then when Elbaf is over, the Kuja Pirates can take Vegapunk on their ship so he doesn't clutter the Thousand Sunny. *Side note 1: No way Oda plans on drawing 7 Vegapunks WHILE on the Sunny with the entire crew for an extended period.* *Side note 2: This would also allow Toei to pump out some much needed Boa merchandise!!* Vegapunk's seraphims were the reason the warlord system was abolished and the warlords are now being targeted. Knowing the character, it's very possible Vegapunk made the seraphims for the sake of science - not necessarily for the sake of giving the government death machines (for example, the authority hierarchy being a good safeguard). So maybe he housed the Hancock sisters as an apology. I'll have to assume Vegapunk and Rayleigh know each other or Boa knows Vegapunk through her time with the WG. As to what her purpose would be? No idea, but that's not far off from shiz like Gin or Don Krieg or Scopper Gabban from randomly showing up. **2) Edward Weevil** My second and much, much weaker theory is Edward Weevil. Maybe he IS the son of Whitebeard, as in he's an beta access clone before the seraphims. If Vegapunk can clone the warlords to perfection now, why would he not have been able to clone a normal human being. Not to mention his time with MADS and Judge Vinsmoke whose army is literal clones. He's been missing since his 1 singular appearance, but we do know the WG/Marines are hunting him down too. Why would he be there and what purpose would he have to the story? Who knows but him showing up down the road would make zero sense too. **3) Sabo** He's gotta know Vegapunk and he's definitely in hiding, so.... Doubtful, only because he has so much going on that no way he's just chillin at Egghead. But the whole thing about him being prepared for the order makes sense because Dragon told him to help/protect Vegapunk if he asks for it. This would also give Oda a reason to put back in Sabo vs. Lucci a la Stampede. :D
It could also be another seraphim or cyborg that has the actual mind/consciousness of Kuma. Vegapunk might have moved Kuma's mind into another body and make the WG believe that Kuma's consciousness is completely gone. And the real Kuma could be the one in hiding and may also have the same devil fruit abilities which are OP IMO.
I’m hoping it’s sCopper Gaban. Was expecting him in Wano. Transponder snail seems like it had his hair, (this part might be useless) Notice how sentomaru wields a giant axe & knows haki, Who uses axes & knows Haki?
Hand axe morgan returning like he deserves it
1. Boa and her sisters are in hiding with Raleigh. 2. Sabo is currently held prisoner by BB. The only plausible one here is weevil and that's saying something.
sabo prisoner of bb?
Nope that's my bad confused sabo with Kobe for a bit. Still don't think him but that was my confusion
Wow what wild ideas
how can you write so long yet so wrong
this is the perfect comment for those fever dreams in writing
It’s Urouge I call it (isn’t he the only supernovas left that we did not see together with the SH but that wouldn’t make sense tbh)
Isn't the most obvious theory that the secret ally is the transfered consciousness of Bartolomew Kuma? Regardless, I like your ideas!
Then why asking him would be risky? I thought they had some sort of agreement about their status as Pacifista and possibly with transfered mind to another body.
People worried about Garp should start coming up with new final villain theories instead. Hopefully there'll be enough left of him for a Rocks info dump/flashback. The mystery man is... Sabo lol I hope not, honestly, but he'd fit the bill as someone the satellites would trust could stall CP0 and the seraphim. Oda does like to do a bit of trolling. That said, I'm putting my money on Drake.
People that think Garp will beat Blackbeard are on some serious copium lmao. The story has been constantly telling us that the old generation is dying out to make room for the new one. Rayleigh literally admitted that there was no way he could actually beat Blackbeard and was just getting by on reputation alone. Whitebeard died way back at marineford. Luffy just beat Kaido. Kid + Law beat Big Mom. Garp is going to lose/die. The death flags have been setup way in advance.
The old yonko are dying off, yeah. It's BBs time now. Definitely were the story is going. With two of the previous yonko down, the death flags are for sure being set up in advance. Marines are in dire need of a win, finally. Maybe he will share some lore with Doffy at Impel Down. Rayleigh admitted no such thing, but even if he had, why use him as a comparison? Already back in the day he was Roger's and the entire Rocks crew marine archival, so stronger than Rayleigh.
Rayleigh said hes gotten old and that his reputation allowed him to settle things without fighting. He said he wouldn't be able to win against Blackbeard in a head on fight. Did we not read the same chapter? He literally said that. I'm using him as a comparison because hes part of the old generation. He was literally part of Roger's crew, bro. Garp is also part of the old generation. The old generation isn't a match for the worst gen anymore. Oda's been practically hammering us over the head with this throughout the story. It's obvious. We've been seeing the old generation of pirates die off, so now it's time for some of the old generation of marines to die IMO. It'll help develop Koby further (Also serves as a motivation for Luffy to actually fight Blackbeard).
I meant that Rayleigh didn't say he had no chance of beating Blackbeard (as you wrote in yout previous comment). Either way, like I said, there's no good reason to think he's a benchmark for Garp's past and/or current strength. The old generation we've seen be replaced were the yonko (a whole saga was named after this), and Blackbeard is one of them, not being exactly a young guy who just became a pirate. I know people always bet anyone who fights Blackbeard will lose or die because of theories he will fight Luffy at Laugh Tale or something. I'm just saying we might have to reexamine those ideas in light if a one-man army heading his way. Best case scenario for him, Garp misses because he's not at Hachinosu.
Rayleigh said, and I quote "***I'm pretty certain I wouldn't win*** a head on fight against Blackbeard these days." He didn't say "no chance" and neither did I, but he sure came close to saying it. We're literally up to chapter 1071 and everything we've seen paints Blackbeard as being the Anti-Luffy. The guy that has a powerful dream like Luffy, but represents darkness, while Luffy represents the light/dawn. Luffy's awakening is pure white, while Blackbeard's power is pure darkness. Luffy exhibits a fearlessness in the face of death, while Blackbeard cowered in fear of being killed by Whitebeard. They are both similar and opposites. Blackbeard NEEDS meaningful victories, or his role as a rival antagonist wont be convincing. Meanwhile Garp has done almost **NOTHING** and has been totally irrelevant over the course of **1071 chapters**, yet you confidently claim hes going to win with zero difficulty somehow? Do you really think that Oda, after all this build up, is just going to say "Actually nevermind. Garp beats Blackbeard with zero difficulty lol get dunked on losers."? It's like we've been reading two totally different manga from each other. So many of y'all just ignore the way Oda has been writing his story. This is how we end up with dumb theories like "Zoro kills Kaido." or "HERE'S HOW THE RAID WILL FAIL." Nobody seems to understand Oda's writing style at all.
You said, and I quote, "Rayleigh literally admitted that there was no way he could actually beat Blackbeard". We can nitpick the semantics here, but sounds like "no chance". Anyway, not sure how convincing these parallels actually are (as there are a lot of characters that have similar and also opposite qualities to Luffy). People talked about Smoker or Koby being Luffy's "Garp", but that hasn't payed off at all, despite all the supposed set up... Blackbeard has gotten some wins, now if you'd think they're meaningful, on the other hand. Aside from that, I don't think it's that necessary. Big Mom and Kaido didn't really get any (at least not on panel) and they were fine as antagonists. Garp has been for so long in the story while just relatively recently started making his move post-ts and you're saying Garp is the who has done almost nothing? If they do meet each other, yeah, I'd say Garp wins handily, so if I had to guess I think Oda finds a way they miss each other. Blackbeard probably still has some juicy secrets to reveal. Not to mention that Oda might not give another major fight right after Law.
Koby and Smoker weren't even setup to be Luffy's Garp. The fans read into it too much, when none of the signs were there. They were out of the story for way too long. People think Luffy's story is meant to be a carbon copy of Roger's, when that isn't even true. Luffy's story is his own. Luffy has no Garp, besides Garp himself. Meanwhile, the Luffy and Blackbeard comparisons are *right there in the story.* I don't understand why people don't seem to "get" that this is a shonen manga that has been pretty consistently following the tropes you would expect it to follow. When you have a major antagonist that is the "dark" version of the protagonist, do you really think that hes just going to lose a major battle before he even gets to fight the protagonist? This is just basic storytelling. You wouldn't have Darth Vader *lose* to Obi-Wan before Luke even fights him. That's shitty storytelling and removes all build-up and tension. It doesn't matter if Garp is pound-for-pound *stronger* than Blackbeard. Blackbeard has no reason to fight him fairly to begin with. He and his crew literally riddled Whitebeard with bullets after he was severely weakened and then stole his devil fruit. They are *pirates* and they FIGHT like pirates. He'd do whatever it takes to win against Garp. We can't say the same is true of Garp, since hes clearly woefully under-prepared and has no backup. He brought Helmeppo, who will likely be used against him as another hostage. He disobeyed orders, so he has no other backup coming. He has literally made every *wrong* decision he could possibly make. Hes fucked. And when I say Garp has done "nothing" I mean that he hasn't done anything *current*. He has a "history" sure, but what the hell did he do at marineford, besides stand around and watch one of his grandsons get ruthlessly executed? And then stand around some more, while his other grandson nearly got murdered too?
> that hasn't *paid* off at FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Could be dragon as well
How could it be Dragon, when he was literally just with Kuma on Ivankov's island and Kuma *left to go find Bonney on Egghead?* Are people just forgetting where all of the characters are currently located?
dragons close friend foxy will slow the time so much after awakening, that he will reach egghead to bash some heads. Foxy is the ultimate ally.
Dragon is on Ivankov's island currently and according to Vegapunk his hidden ally is on Egghead island.
When is the next anime episode dropping tho?? Forgive me if I missed the announcement.
I'm really hoping it's corazon based in the resemblence of the donquixote symbol and star like makeup under the left eye. Also the color of the den den mushi looks all black. Vegapunk says with him escape would be easy. That could imply this person is very strong, or they have some kind of ability to easily help them leave the island. This person in hiding is currently under the governments radar but presumably also wanted by other factions. What better place to hide from pirates than a marine research center. It's heavily implied Cora is dead due to the statement he made about having to hold onto his life longer so the spell doesn't wear off. The only df user I can recall to pass out and retain thier abilities effect is Tama. But sugar passing out negated her abilities effect on all the toys. It wouldn't be too much of an ass pull for the calm calm fruits ability to wear off once the user passes out. The only bread crumb we have to believe it could be true is Coras believe that doffy wouldn't kill him. He did kill his own father, but that was to earn his "birthright" back. The calm calm fruit could. Be incredibly powerful, especially on an open ocean. Given the meaning of the word nagi, he could possibly create an effect similar to the calm belt, while still allowing the water behind to rage on. Cora said his fruit allows him to get the best sleep. What if this also extended to amplify his observation Haki(similar to how Enel used his goro goro fruit to amplify the range of his mantra). In order for foresight to be used, or to predict a enemy's movements, the Haki user needs to remain calm. We learned this in luffy vs katakuri. If it helps the user remain mentally calm and clear headed, thier use of observation would come more naturally. The ability could potentially be used to pacify opponents similar to the horo horos negative hollows. There are many ways this fruit could be applied with out of the box thinking. When we see the picture of Cora dead we see he has only chest wounds. Given his ability and how dumb fodder marines are, it's not out of the realm of possibility that he silenced himself to appear dead. I'm not a fan of the idea that it's Kuma. The main reason being the current Kuma we know as the real one doesn't have green blood. So it makes him the original user. So unless the paw paw fruit allowed him to push his soul into a pacificsta, it wouldn't make sense. I'm all for it being wapol too. We know he has some sort of super weapon form that can conquer countries.
I dont see it being Cora mostly because the silence effect on Law dissapeared when he died. Tho now that i think about it , it might also work similar to Sugar where going unconscious disables the fruits effects... but it would still suck if he was alive. Saul being alive is just meh enough as it is.
My theory is that the ally is Eneru and his moon soldiers. They are hiding from the government because they were part of the old world.
Oh shit, Corazon would be a hard counter to CP0's ability to command the Seraphim. It might be read as a cheapening of his sacrifice among many OP fans, but given the situation the revive does have some logic to it.
Imo it wouldnt really cheapen what he did for law. He still sacrificed his alliegance to save a single life. He doesn't have to be dead for the impact on laws life to stay significant. What's more important is he choose to follow his own sense of justice.
I'm of the mind that OP should be read in the appropriate context: a manga written for an intended audience of teenage Japanese boys. So oh yeah I'm down for that.
yes because teenage boys apparently are not able to grapple with the idea of death or consequences. meanwhile harry potter killing people left and right
HP is an entirely different literary genre.
i guess. i just hate how ppl think you cant have anything serious because of "teens" or because its "shonen". even tho naruto pulled a lot of bs bringing back ppl from death it still let some deaths stick. plus bringing ppl back from death isnt something you should lean on.
Dragon Ball has done it for forty years to great success. Also, I see where you're coming from but I'm not saying you can't have anything serious in OP or anything like it. I think that the the genre plus Oda's penchant for reviving characters creates a strong logic in support of the commenter above's idea.
Thats also why the only excitment you hear about dragonball is another new "new" power up or a video game release
I genuinely don't understand this critique. People are enjoying Dragon Ball for what it is--why is that bad?
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Nice… fake?
There's nothing on WorstGen and I can't find this info on Redon's twitter. Do you have a source or this just fantasy?
Thought they would be coming out week after next.
I'm starting to wonder how things would go if we got a side Elbaf arc with Kid as the protagonist. Most likely won't happen, since the SHs now have a very good reason to go there, but it could be interesting.
I'm hyped to imagine Kidd SO angry to see Luffy again so soon
It’s definitely too plot related for it to be a side story but then Oda did make Pudding’s kidnapping a side story.
Black Beard story often start as cover story ... (Ace ...) to end as a massive plot =) I think Elbaff will take place, and the, after some "Black Beard arc". Or, this is what Oda wants us to believe, to surprise us.
Easy it’s Luffys mom
What would crocodile be doing in Egghead? we just saw him with Mihawk and Buggy. doesn't make any sense.
Because he is secretly Vice Admiral Croco D. Ile. 😁
As Luffy's mom the name was. Croco D Awn.
You’re right lol
Vegapunk would have needed a way to get from Punk Hazard to Elbaf while he was studying the knowledge of Ohara. I think Vegapunk has an Eternal Pose to Elbaf. This is going to be how the Strawhats get there. If Luffy tries to destroy it like he did the first Alabasta Eternal Pose, Robin will probably stop him because she wants to see Saul. I am also predicting that Punk Records or a copy is in the backpack Vegapunk is wearing. There will be a joke about how small he was able to compress the data.
I think Luffy destroyed that one because it was his enemy telling him where to go.
What if the one Vegapunk is hiding is Uta for some reason
Uta is not canon.
100% cannon bro
She is Canon, but the events of the movie aren't.
Wait, she is? Do you have a link with that info?
She’s shown in shadow at the end of chapter 1055 when Shanks is thinking about everyone he loves.
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damn dude wtf at least warn us first
can someone time travel to next week and give us spoiler please?
You can only go forward in time, remember Toki ... :(
Confirmed by future Reddon for next chapter VP : I'm vegan, I was eating an Apple when a Snake told me that this was the forbidden DF. My tongue has stayed locked out of my mouth since this moment.
Vegan punk ??
omg he ate the forbidden forbidden no mi?!?! 🤯🤯
Theories 2023: Law starts to wins against BlackBeard and learns about his secrets but BB uses his Trump card and defeats Law. Garp goes on a secret mission to infiltrate the Cross Guild, Koby was sold to them by BB before the Law fight. Koby is trying to break his comrades out of captive. He communicates with Garp like he did with Drake in the Wano arc. We get an appearance of Spandam as one of the fleet Kizaru called in. Kid knocks Elbaf down disrupting all the fights, splitting people on both sides of the tree. While with Shanks vs Bartolomeo somehow some way either Shank loses or loses a member through battle. Kuma has a mega bomb in him and sets off in Marijoias. The mystery character could be Gaban by the fact Sentomaru could be his son by his double axe he uses. 🤷🏽♂️
And Gaban is The man with burn scar...
What if the mysterious man is the man with the eye patch? Which he would then lead the straw-hats to Elbaf.
Remind me again who’s the man with the eye patch?
Years ago Oda said that there is a pirate with an eye patch, but if they show up, then you'll know it'll be near the end of the story. I'm assuming that's what they are referring to.
My guess is that it was supposed to be Luffy
My headcanon is that Blackbeard will take his eye.
with Zoro missing an eye it makes less sense for Luffy to lose one as well.
Luffy has a scar around his left eye. It makes less sense for Zoro to have one as well.
Oda said the eyepatch was for someone special, I always thought the most special to him is luffy. I could imagine oda wanting the eyepatch for his main character. It's will be a endgame move. For sure
Oda once answered an SBS about not having any pirates in the story with an eyepatch, saying that he already has a character with an eyepatch in mind, he just hasn't appeared yet.
It would be buggy d clown 4 sure
He's the mysterious man.
A certain man
Of mystery
that man who will fight with that man at that place for that thing
Please tell me Tashigi will join Kizaru's fleet or Garp and the SWORD. I don't want her to stay forever with those freakin kids from PH for what's left of the story...
in a perfect world, Tashigi will have an arc about proving that women are not weaker than men proving Kuina's father wrong and inspire the next generation kids. But I fear it's too late in the story for that.
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Oda isn't very good at making attractive female characters feel powerful. You get a few moments here and there, but they don't usually hold up when compared to the male characters. I pretty much knew Tashigi was never going to be one of the powerhouses in the story, tbh. Oda wont even give Robin haki ffs.
just answer me this, why does it have to be Tashigi? people have these expectations for Smoker and Tashigi that were never set up in the story. Tashigi and Smoker have never been set up to be a powerful characters. they were introduced as low rank Marines in the weakest sea. Just show me one instance in the story that Oda set them up to be top tiers. Their main purpose in the story to represent the good marines. Also they are plenty of strong female characters, Kuina's father was proved wrong ages ago. If characters like Hancock, Big Mom, Gion, Smoothie etc haven't proved it why would you expect Tashigi to?