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Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1102 Spoiler

Chapter 1102: "The Life of Kuma"

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There is a break next week technically

Ch. 1102 Official Release (Mangaplus): 24/12/2023

Ch. 1103 Scan Release: ~30/12/2023

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u/Pizzaplan3tman Dec 21 '23

The Page of Kuma running and growing up showing how much he’s fought, survived, and grown was beautiful. Then the follow up of how heartbreaking it is to see Bonney sobbing. Kuma one of the best characters. Seeing him too see Luffy hit the Celestial Dragons and realizing he is NIKA in that moment was awesome. What a chapter, what a character, hats off and salute for Kuma lads! 🫡

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

That page broke me. He went through so much, and was always selfless and hopeful. He was indeed a hero for everyone he met.

And the final page with the message reveal finished me. I'm sobbing so hard right now.

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u/Dodoma22 Dec 21 '23

This chapter (this entire flashback I would say) broke my heart in pieces

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u/Mawnix Dec 21 '23

Yeah I don't know the last time I cried with One Piece. Something about this flashback just fucking.. hit.

I think it's the heaviest one we've had, even when we consider Nami or Robin's.

When Vegapunk brokedown I legit teared up. There was something about seeing this scientist no longer logical, or using scientific terms. He just.. had spent the past 2 years getting to know a genuinely good person, and he was basically responsible for his 'death'.

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u/Lombricien Dec 21 '23

Lots of people want to see Akainu dead but honestly… he did his job (too much but still)

Saturn on the other hand… this bastard needs to die. Him and every goddamn celestial dragons have to rot in hell

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u/Mawnix Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 23 '23

Yeah there's a difference between someone in a position like Akainu, who has a radical, hard stance of justice, when most pirates in the world are scum and bastards.

vs. someone like Saturn whose entire motivation is oppression because, for some reason, the Ancient Kingdom, Nika, and the One Piece were "evil" enough from their point of view to completely suppress anything/everything concerning it, regardless of the choice.

The big difference though is the fucking callousness. Akainu isn't going around telling slaves they're worthless. Akainu is a means to an end that even he's aware of, regardless of how he conducts himself to enact his version of justice.

Saturn is just a straight up stone cold fascist bastard that needs to fucking die.

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u/Savagevandal85 Dec 21 '23

Next chapter is the climax . I hope we get Luffy gear 5 fistinv him into oblivion

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u/Throwawayalt129 Dec 21 '23

I genuinely don't think Akainu is a bad person per say, just a man with a hard-line sense of justice that views the horrible actions he takes to uphold that justice as necessary. And I ascribe to the theory that Akainu is eventually going to turn on the CD and the Gorosei specifically because of his sense of justice. He's eventually going to realize how they're just using him to keep their agenda in place, it'll clash with his sense of justice, and he'll attempt to betray or arrest them in the final acts of the story. Akainu has too strong of a sense of justice to be a true lapdog, and if and when he discovers the full extent of Imu and the Gorosei's actions he'll realize they need to be stopped.

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u/PalazzoFC Dec 22 '23

Akainu did murder a literal boatload of innocent people. He is, definitionally, completely evil to the core; there's no real redeemable trait about him. He is less vile than the celestial dragons, but basically everyone living is anyway.

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u/Throwawayalt129 Dec 23 '23

What chapter is this in? I'm not doubting it, I'd just like more context around it. A lot of innocent people have been killed by the WG for "associating with pirates" or other such "crimes." In that context I could see Akainu feeling justified in killing innocents.

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u/jkghiep3 Dec 23 '23

ohara buster call

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u/Throwawayalt129 Dec 23 '23

Wait a minute? Ohara? Ohara absolutely wouldn't have been innocent in the eyes of the WG, they were researching the Void Century. Akainu would've had no problem mercing the people of Ohara.

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u/PalazzoFC Dec 25 '23

397, Akainu goes beyond just letting the buster call happen and takes it upon himself to kill the innocent civilians that the Navy was giving safe passage.

Akainu doesn't view them as innocent (even though the government was allowing the civilians to escape), but obviously by any reasonable standard they are noncombatants and should not be targeted. Akainu considers what he did necessary but the point of this is that there could never be any reasonable person who could view such an act as necessary under any conditions.

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u/Traditional_Art3928 Dec 21 '23

Now you said about POVs,

Is it the devil fruits were called "devil fruits" because it was from those celestials' pov ?

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u/tokyogodfather2 Jan 01 '24

Genius. Never thought of that and I’ve been reading this for more than 20 years.

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u/stiveooo Dec 21 '23

Akainu prob didnt went 100% vs kuma cause he likely has a daughter too (koby's girl)

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u/Yorha-with-a-pearl Dec 21 '23

He blew off half of his face and a leg lol. Kuma's devil fruit is just pure hax. He didn't hold back at all.

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u/tokyogodfather2 Jan 01 '24

are you talking about Akainu? And vs Aokiji??

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u/tokyogodfather2 Jan 01 '24

I don’t understand what you’re saying?

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u/Savagevandal85 Dec 21 '23

Oda you are a true artist . I never thought I’d be so sad for this flashback . Unlike odens I’m sad then mad at. Bastard Saturn

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u/MilkyAndromedaWay Dec 23 '23

They're both fucking monsters.

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u/CelioHogane Dec 21 '23

Kuma leaving this world with a smile, thanking the person who is, alltough unwillingly, killing him, it's... very hard to handle.

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u/Silent-Breakfast-906 Void Month Survivor Dec 21 '23

Same here. When VP said Kuma’s life didn’t cause trouble or harm, but his death would bring pain, and him crying, that started my tears. I was sobbing by the time I got to Bonney crying. Haven’t cried in a while for one piece either…

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u/NeverFreeToPlayKarch Dec 21 '23

I always cry at the same parts during re-reads, but just going by chronological chapters count it has definitely been a long time since I was this moved.

Kuma's story hits all my tear triggers though. You've got a big strong dude with a soft heart. He's extremely sacrificial; practically to the point of divinity. You have a little girl who just wants to be with her dad but can't. Hooboy.

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u/TheOriginalChode Dec 21 '23

Having to explain to the wife why I was sobbing at 2am was going fine until she found out it was over a boat...

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u/HulklingsBoyfriend Dec 21 '23

I mean the chapter confirmed he's dead. His personality and identity are gone for good, his bear paw floating was just a bunch of memories that are disappeared. That was pretty much his last will and testament for Bonney. :(

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u/cmitchell337 Dec 21 '23

Cmon grow up a little

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u/Mawnix Dec 21 '23

Bro showing emotion doesn't make you lesser.

Get the fuck over yourself.

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u/Mawnix Dec 21 '23

Honestly I was gonna make more of a comment but seein apparently this shit upset you enough to come out of your hole is enough for me.

Best to you man. Hope you grow.

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u/Mawnix Feb 19 '24

Got whiplash having a notification from a post from 3 months ago. I’m sorry you’re like this.

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

Indeed. It made me weep a bit, and everything slowly built up to those last pages.

I don't remember the last time I sobbed so hard to a chapter.

It is so tragic, sad, and still so beautiful how the only thing he wanted to leave behind was a "Happy Birthday"...

Gonna keep crying for a while.

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u/aleksandd Dec 24 '23

Oh man. Can't imagine how my heart will break again once they anime'd up

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u/rsatrioadi Explorer Dec 21 '23

Then the One Piece is… your heart, back in One Piece!

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u/Die4Gesichter Church of Buggy Feb 12 '24

Yeah my heart isn't in One Piece anymore

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u/TheIncredibleNurse Dec 21 '23

That last shot of Bonney… Holy Fuck , my heart hurts. Fuck you ODA

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

More like thank you Oda... For me it's always beautiful when someone creates something so engaging and moving, that makes me hurt and cry for it. He's amazing.

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u/TheIncredibleNurse Dec 21 '23

True, but holy shit does he has to keep making me feel sad week after week for what feels like months now. To then build up to that last panel, that while I was expecting it , I didnt realize how raw it was gonna be

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u/Sallad4ever Dec 21 '23

Same, seeing him run as he age really put into perspective how he really struggled hus entire life

The page already broke me, imagine it on anime my heart will shatter no doubt

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

I can already picturing on my head, with a very melancholic song in the background

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u/madjupiter Dec 22 '23

i’m not prepared for the animated version with Megumi Ishitani directing. guaranteed gut wrecking tears

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u/Soul699 Explorer Dec 22 '23

Doubt Megumi Ishitani will direct this. But whoever is in charge will still manage to tap on our heart.

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u/endy903 Dec 21 '23

The fact that Kuma acted as a mindless robot from the moment he was introduced and seeing that in reality he was suppressing all his emotions until he was away from our current mcs is the saddest thing I’ve ever read. He is the embodiment of most of us men who suppress our feeling and do what we have to do to keep moving forward. Hats off to oda 10/10

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u/YaIe Dec 21 '23

I am so happy that Vegapunk told him that he was indeed a hero because he himself would not admit it. His train of thought always was "i should have done more", so somebody straight up telling him was so important

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u/hussefworx Pirate Dec 21 '23

3rd time I’ve cried reading one piece

2/3 have been so awkward since the people around me noticed they must’ve thought I was being broken up with or something

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

My heart was breaking up to be fair :D

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u/Kopitar4president Dec 21 '23

Yeah, it's 9 in the morning and I'm tearing up.

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u/DriedSquidd Dec 21 '23

And the final page with the message reveal finished me. I'm sobbing so hard right now.

I know, man. Break week always makes me cry, too.