r/OnePiece Jul 01 '24

Analysis Today or 2001?

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2001 solos imo.

r/OnePiece Mar 11 '24

Analysis The Percentage of the Story that each Straw Hat has been a member

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r/OnePiece Aug 14 '24

Analysis The WORST [Strawhat V Blackbeard] Match up

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r/OnePiece Aug 12 '24

Analysis Just noticed something in this scene

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After nothing happened to Zorro and Nobody left the scene, he kept standing there bleeding heavily until Sanji showed up. I always thought the fact that he kept standing there (menacingly) was for Oda to deliver a badass moment or because Zorro just wanted to prove a point. However, It‘s not been mentioned how long the others were knocked out but considering the damage that they took it was probably quite a while. So Zorro just kept standing there with a focused look on his face and I asked myself why didn’t he just lay down or something. Then I realized that he was probably still on guard, protecting everyone else who were still unconscious. Because if a Shichibukai can just randomly show up, attack, nearly wipe out the crew and capture the captain, then it can happen again at any given moment that someone with hostile intention shows up like that. They were still in enemy territory and Zorro knew that as long as everyone else is unresponsive someone has to be on guard. Even if he‘s at deaths door he has to be locked in. The crew just cannot afford being exposed and vulnerable like that. To be the last man standing to protect his crew is his responsibility, and he is going to fullfil it no matter what. I think that’s what Oda tried to show us in this scene.

r/OnePiece Feb 16 '24

Analysis Laser feat explained [1107] Spoiler

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UNBLOCKABLE

Lasers in One Piece are not possible to block. That's why no one else in One Piece ever done it.

This is why Zoro compared King's attack to a laser beam, which he cannot block

This is why Marco when trying to block with his shield was still full of holes. The only reason he could do this is because he had regeneration

For comparison, Kaido's attack could not get through the shield so Marco himself was fine

And no, Rayleigh did not block a laser, he kicked Kizaru's leg in order to redirect the laser

BYPASS DURABILITY (mostly)

Seraphim who can tank pretty much anything, were still not prepared for lasers.

Which means only adult Seraphim could possibly tank a laser

Big Mom who pretty much tanks everything with her body, was also somewhat afraid of a laser that she had to grab a homie in front of herself in order to defend herself

SANJI

In this chapter Sanji did both

Not only did he block a laser and even split it into pieces, he also took no damage

This is why Franky and Kizaru (laser users and scientist) are shocked by it.

This feat breaks One Piece world's physics, that's why Kizaru questions physics.

EDIT:
Stop talking about the boots.
Only Atlas has the gloves for her JOB needed to punch holograms. She did not mention any boots.

Kizaru who knows all the Vegatech, did not mention any boots and was questioning Sanji's physics.
Sanji already answered that he did it because of his power.

r/OnePiece Nov 13 '23

Analysis Straw Hat Luffy’s Grand fleet structure

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This is how powerful Monkey D Luffy is now since he’s one of the four emperors

r/OnePiece 3d ago

Analysis The impact frame of 🐐piece

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The greatest dapped in history 🔥

r/OnePiece 3d ago

Analysis Who is the guy one the Berries currency?

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r/OnePiece Sep 11 '23

Analysis Why are there no fishmen in the Marines

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They have giants and normal humans but no fishmen?, and yes I know there's a lot of different races in OP but fishmen standout and they are very powerful especially at sea so why not have fishmen work for them Jimbe is the only exception but he no longer works for them

r/OnePiece Jul 10 '24

Analysis The Most Bizarre thing I've seen

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I mean, the whole one piece world is one of the weirdest bizzare concept about size's... I mean Garp, Kizaru, Akainu, then Oden and adult Momo, then Roger & Newgate... I mean they are not Giant, not Oni like Kaido, or Lilian, then the fuck r they so big??? Akainu is 10 feet, Newgate is 22 feet... How man, how??? but this has to be the most weirdest and bizzare... how that giant man and this liliput make 3 child together??? and why and how is Yowahoshi so freaking big!!!

r/OnePiece Aug 17 '24

Analysis I made a summary of Vegapunk's speech Spoiler

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Had to repost because duplicate images.

All images and manga panels are edited by me. I didn't use anyone's work.

r/OnePiece Aug 13 '24

Analysis Which episode did you think was better?

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Divine Departure or Galaxy Impact.

r/OnePiece Mar 31 '24

Analysis Was Vegapunk inspired of this photo

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VEGAPUNK PERFECTLY MATCHES THE TONGUE AND THE EYEBROWS

r/OnePiece Aug 27 '24

Analysis I Just Read the Recent 41 Chapters of One Piece and HOLY SH!T NSFW Spoiler

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I dont know how he does it.. Every few years., I come back to catch up on One Piece, where I watch the Anime First until i have to switch the manga.. AND HOLY SHIT.. Every Time this MOTHERFUCKER OF A MANGAKA manages to BLOW MY FUCKING MIND... ONE PIECE IS BETTER THEN FUCKING DRUGS..

I don’t care how it ends, I don’t care how many plot holes or mistakes this series has(does it even have any?).. ITS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN/READ..

Even if it all goes downhill from here...

r/OnePiece Sep 04 '23

Analysis How did Luffy do this??

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One Piece Anime : Timing 10:55.

How did this happen?? Did Luffy created the Lightnings with his Nika powers?? Or was it because the natural lightning bounced off the rubbery surface, so Luffy was able to grab it??

And there were literally no lightnings before Gomu Gomu no kaminari attack, but too much of lightnings kept striking often afterwards, did I miss something??

Drop your thoughts.

r/OnePiece 18d ago

Analysis [ 1127 ] Strange mistakes Spoiler

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Sanji charged his right foot but kicked with his left foot Luffy said gear 4 but he used gear 3 Zoro Wado Ichimonji in his mouth was pointing to his right but then it was pointing to his left side It’s probably nothing but I thought it’s strange coincidence for a lot of mistakes to be in one page

r/OnePiece Jun 02 '24

Analysis Which one of these trios are the best and coolest?

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Luffy, Sabo and Ace; Zoro, Luffy and Sanji or Law, Kid and Luffy?

r/OnePiece Oct 13 '23

Analysis Oda once again proving he’s the goat Spoiler

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God Valley IS in the west blue which confirms shanks wasn’t just making something up/Oda did indeed have this planned all the way back then and doesn’t need to retcon anything

r/OnePiece May 27 '24

Analysis Between these 4, who would be the last one standing?

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r/OnePiece Jul 12 '24

Analysis Egghead map of chapter 1120 Spoiler

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r/OnePiece Jan 18 '24

Analysis Kizaru was nerfed [proved by the manga] Spoiler

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Uncertainty/ doubt/ guilt/ wavering/ hesitancy

All of these things play a major role in making a person significantly weaker in One Piece. It's a rule well established in One Piece manga but readers overlook it or downplay it as if it's not that important.

That's the very first lessons Rayleigh taught Luffy when he was training him

Gan Fall says basically the same thing.

Garp said the same thing to Kuzan, who was obviously wavering between being "good and bad" and Garp knew it.

But the biggest proof was Water 7/Ennies Lobby.
When Nami learned the truth about Robin after they were easily beaten by CP9

she confirms that the only reason that they were beaten the first time was because hesitation about Robin made them weak

but now that they are no longer hesitant, they will beat CP9

People say Oda asspulled powerlevels in Ennies Lobby because they skipped/ignored this part.
Uncertainty/ doubt/ guilt/ wavering/ hesitancy is a real power in One Piece world that makes a person weaker.

Hesitation made a massive difference from Luffy getting easily beaten by Lucci to Luffy beating Lucci.

Now, let's look at Kizaru in Egghead

If these don't prove that Kizaru was very nerfed while fighting Luffy due to being hesitant/ doubtful/ guilty/ wavering about killing his friends, then you are just being ignorant to manga facts on purpose.

Even Saturn noticed that Kizaru was sluggish.

r/OnePiece Aug 22 '23

Analysis Marco literally lost everything....EVERYTHING. Spoiler

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If you think about it, Marco really did lose EVERYTHING.

Just 2 years ago. The Whitebeard Pirates ruled the waves and oceans. They were the strongest pirate crew in the world. Nobody could even dare to think of challenging them. The world shivered upon hearing their name.

Marco was the right hand of the STRONGEST man in the world. He was on top of the world, full of blessing and living his best life.....that is, until Teach made his move. Then Marco went through all this:

- Marco had to deal with betrayal of his "friend" Teach.

- Marco lost his dear friend Thatch.

- The war happens, Marco goes to fight.

- Marco loses Ace gruesomely, in front of his very eyes.

- Marco loses his long time captain Whitebeard, to the man he thought of as a friend, Teach.

- Marco and WB pirates lose their status, lose ALL territory in the New World....When they once ruled the waves.

- Marco begrudgingly goes to fight Teach, loses a CRUSHING defeat.

- Marco goes alone to Sphinx, lonely and far away from his friends.

- Marco then reunites with Neko and Izo. Goes to help Luffy in Wano. A sprinkle of hope...

- Marco loses Izo :(

...And marines raid his Captain's homeland while he's away. The place he was protecting.

He's hurt :(

He is the embodiment of the song "Viva La Vida". He once ruled the world, the endless seas and oceans, enemies feared him. He was on top of the world.

Now he is an old retired lonely man. He can't even catch a break. Bro he got even PULLED out of retirement to go save Weevil. Probably setup to fight Ryokugyu.

Maybe its all uphill from here? Who knows.....Hope Oda gives my boy justice! :(

...and a damn break.

r/OnePiece Mar 26 '22

Analysis The latest development in ch.1044 has been planned since the beginning (Oda appreciation post from a native Japanese speaker) Spoiler

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All the reveals in the last chapter blew my mind on so many levels and I wanted to share my reasons so you can have your mind blown as well. (and perhaps appreciate Goda for his creativity some more) In this post, I hope I can show you that Oda takes full advantage of the Japanese language and the manga format to imbue multiple layers of meanings and symbolism to enrich his story and the payoff when everything comes together is simply mind-blowing.

TLDR: I am fairly certain Oda has been planning for Nika, aka sun-god, aka Joyboy, who has the most ridiculous/silly power since the very beginning, and he's been dropping hints in plain sight since page 1 of chapter 1. In fact, I'm fairly certain Oda has been trolling us all this time and we are all in a big joke years in the making.

Significance of Nika. For this to make sense, keep in mind that in Japanese, Nika (ニカ) is the sound effect of someone smiling.

  • Nika and Rodger. Look at page 1 of chapter 1, where Roger is smiling before his death.

Roger smiling during his execution.

At the time, most people thought he smiled with sfx ニヤ (Ni-Ya). It's more of a sly/cunning smile or a smirk, but is it too far-fetched to read it as a stylized ニカ(Ni-Ka)? It's ambiguous but it's also something an author trolling the readers would do. And remember, Oda is someone who names characters like Imu-sama (イム) to simultaneously symbolize Buddha/God (仏) and the antithesis of the sea(reverse of Imu is Umi or also 海).

  • Evolution of Luffy's laugh. Luffy smiles a lot but the SFX actually evolves over time. During chapter 1, it went from Haaaa (はーっ) to Shishishishi (しししし) pre-devil fruit to Nihi (にひ) post devil fruit, then to Ni (にっ) post his growth.

evolution of Luffy's smile over the course of chapter 1

In chapter 2, when he says he'll become a pirate king to Coby, the smile's SFX is Nii (にいっ), which is also the same sfx when luffy accepts his fate as Buggy tries to execute him. But wait, there's more.

Luffy smiles with Nii (にいっ) during significant moments

Oda's wordplay on Nii (にいっ) actually symbolizes Nika (にか)?

Because Oda likes wordplay, what if you put っon top of い to get か. Suddenly Nii (にいっ) becomes Nika (にか)!? It definitely feels like Devi's fruit meaningfully changed Luffy's smile and Nika side of Luffy started to show more, especially during moments of significance. Ok, I know this still feels like a stretch to say that Oda planned for Nika since the beginning. but, wait, there's more.

  • Nika and Luffy's birthday (5/5). It's pretty well-known that Oda likes Japanese number based puns, which is why Nami's birthday is 7/3 (Na = 7 and Mi = 3) or Sanji's birthday is 3/2 (San=3 and Ji = 2). So why is Luffy's birthday 5/5 (SBS from chapter 130)? A lot of people were puzzled at the time. Shouldn't it be 5/6 since he's Gomu-gomu (Go=5 and Mu=6)? Yes yes, 5/5 is the official Japanese Children's Day and Luffy's like a child (and Usopp's birthday is 4/1 so that could make sense), BUT in retrospect, 5/5 is also 五/五 (remember, Japanese uses Chinese characters also) and as many Japanese readers have been pointing out, 五 is actually what you get if you put ニ and カ right on top of each other. So Luffy's birthday is Nika-Nika. Just to make this point a bit more convincing, remember Rodger's bounty is 5,564,800,000 bellies, which is 55億6480万. 6480 is a pretty straightforward wordplay on Rodger or ロジャー (ロ = 6, ジ = 4, ャ = 8), but why 55, when any number would do?? Because it's also for 五/五 or Nika Nika.

ニ カ=五??

Edit: For those who think the letters overlaying on top of each other is too much of a stretch, remember that kanji (Chinese characters) are often put together to form new words (eg. tree(木)+tree(木)=forest(林), field(田)+force(力)=man(男),100(百) - 1(一) = white(白) and that's why someone's 99th birthday is called "age of white"(白寿)) and it's even done with Kana and Kanji (e.g くノ一 = 女 has been around since Edo era (ty /u/Gottagoplease))

These all appear early enough in the story that at this point, I'm convinced that Oda has been planning for Nika since the beginning.

Significance of the Sun and Dawn. There are so many sun symbolisms littered throughout One Piece, from Shandia's Sun God to Alabasta's Sun Flag to Sun Pirates to Chapter 1 being called Romance Dawn that you think Oda's been a bit on the nose about the whole Sun thing. But Luffy being the sun god has been foreshadowed since chapter 1 as well. When he is introduced for the very first time, the sfx reads DON!!(どん!!). When he smiled after eating Gomu-Gomu fruit, the sfx reads Dooon(どーん). In Japanese, "Dawn" can be read phonetically as "Don" or どん. But wait, Oda uses Don quite a bit when introducing new characters, like Shanks or even Higuma the bandit leader. True, true. But I would argue that the ambiguity is a sign that Oda is trolling us.

Luffy with sfx symbolizing Dawn in chapter 1. The panel from after he eats the devil's fruit where he's smiling is especially sus.

To add to this significance of the "Don" sfx. Oda has later decided to call the island Luffy is from yeah and the island Luffy is from Dawn Island. (ドーン島). Tom says to Franky "do it with a DON!(ドン)". It clearly has a special meaning to Oda.

Tying Sun with Joyboy and Drum. So, the drum's SFX is also "Don" (ドン). It's the beginning of Drum of Liberation ( ドンドットット" ), which accompanied Joyboy imagery in chapter 253 and it's also the beginning of the more popular party SFX "Donchan" (ドンチャン).

Drum of Liberation sfx Don-do-tto-tto ( ドンドットット" )

Party SFX SFX "Donchan" (ドンチャン)

And Drum is important to the deity Joyboy (ty, /u/BlazingPhoenix223)

Joyboy made people dance with drum

More interestingly, "Donchan" (ドンチャン) is made by the sound of a drum "Don" and bell "Chan". Luffy obviously brings dawn/Don and bell/Chan together when he parties, but also, the title of Volume 5 (remember 5 is a symbol for Nika) is " For Whom the Bell Tolls " (誰がために鐘は鳴る). In other words, in volume "Nika", we have Luffy, the person of dawn/"Don", ringing the bell "Chan", leading one to connect Nika and Don-chan/party. (sure it could also be a reference to the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls). However, Luffy rings the bell in Skypia, fulfilling the promise of Kalgara and uniting two people, and rings the bell 16 times in Marineford to signify the end of an era and beginning of a new one. Clearly, there's some symbolism to sun-god at play here when drum/luffy and bell come together (Don-Chan)

Most ridiculous power in the world = silly cartoon power. ( u/cocadew is a prophet) Oda has clearly had this in mind since the beginning. "The most ridiculous power in the world" is translated from 世界で最もふざけた能力, but personally, I think the translation fails to capture some nuances. The word Oda uses is ふざけた, which has the meanings of ridiculous, silly, jokingly, merry, playful. For example, In SBS, Oda has said he "picked the most ridiculous ability... he(Luffy) always gives me (Oda) a chance to fool around " (一番ふざけた能力を選んだのです... いつでもふざけるチャンスをくれま) ". And to fool around, he picked a fruit inspired by rubber hose animation. Our rubber boy literary has the power of rubber cartoon as an anime character. Btw, it's also probably why some people can't get over the "art syle" of one piece because it's basically a fusion of Japanese anime-style art and Western cartoon-style art. Personally, I think Oda is a freaking genius for doing that because it created something truly unique.

Just look at chapter 1, when Luffy eats Gomu-gomu fruit. everyone reacts in a very cartoon-ish way.

Everyone reacting very cartoony in chapter 1

I mean, look at this. Luffy literary does the same thing Bugs Bunny in chapter1

Luffy and bugs bunny. Gomu gomu = cartoon ppower. It's literary right there.

I don't know about Gear 2nd but look at Gear 3rd and Popeye.

resemblance is uncanny

the aftereffect of Gear 3rd is also very carrtoon-ish

Gear 4th and Bugs Muscle Inflation. Bugs bunny gets bigger by inhaling air, lol. In the same panel, Doflamingo even says, "What kind of joke is this?" in response to Luffy.

Gear 4th and Bugs Bunny

This power is truly ridiculous and silly (ふざけた) and I'm so thankful for Oda's creativity. Water Luffy was peak comedy and Crocodile got so mad he shouts to Luffy "don't be so ridiculous!!!" (フザケてんじゃねェぞ) ( Japanese phrase here mixes up Katakana and Hiragana to show how pissed off and unhinged Crocodile was. A bit like him shouting "Don't be so RiDiculOus!!" with crazy spellings.)

Water Luffy was an amazing example of Oda being ふざけてる

Thank you for reading my long post. In conclusion, Luffy being the Sun-God "Nika", aka Joyboy with Drum-of-Liberation, aka rubber boy with cartoon powers, has been planned and foreshadowed since chapter 1 in both obvious and not so obvious ways. Oda is a genius storyteller and artist and I am absolutely blown away by the multiple layers of meanings and foreshadowing he manages to wave into the story. As I said in the beginning, Oda takes full advantage of the Japanese language and the manga format to imbue multiple layers of meanings and symbolism to enrich his story and the payoff when everything comes together is simply mind-blowing. I am so happy I'm in Oda's longest-running Joke.

One bonus factoid. It's obvious that popeye has some influence on Oda's art style. But the fact that Luffy's wearing an anchor t-shirt signifies that he can't swim (ty ppl for reminding me about the most obvious reference, haha) but also hints at the fact that he is the last person in a relay to carry the will of Joyboy across the finish line. Yup, that's also from chapter 1. Is your mind blown yet? 🤯

Edit: To all the ppl arguing with me, it's ok, I get it. I'm the first to concede that this post read like a conspiracy theory post, lol. But with a bit of imagination, it's not too hard to see how even the smallest details sometimes contribute to an overall narrative. Lastly, I'll just leave this here.

“Anything that people can imagine can happen in reality” – Physic Scholar, Wiley Gallon

r/OnePiece Sep 21 '23

Analysis This show is messed up Spoiler

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I just got to water 7 and until now the shows been relatively happy and fun but usopp getting jumped and then luffy beating him up is so fucked up lmao i didnt realize how emotional this show got

r/OnePiece Feb 26 '24

Analysis Vice Admiral "Doll" is most likely a mistranslation. Her name is supposed to be Dhole, a type of dog.

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With the reveal of some Vice Admiral names in the recent chapter, a lot of them has a dog adjacent name.

Vice Admiral Hound.

Vice Admiral Dobberman.

Vice Admiral Pomsky.

Vice Admiral Tosa.

Vice Admiral Dalmatian also exist, though I believe he is not in the war.

As you can see, a lot of them uses a dog adjacent name. I believe Doll name supposed to be Dhole, to fit this theme.

Though I do not blame the translation team, Dhole and Doll has the same Japanese writing [ドール](Dōru).