Oda Drew The Darkest Backstory In The Series Kuma’s story might be the single bleakest backstory Oda’s ever written. This backstory is highlighting the cruelty of the Celestial Dragons over again. Kuma’s entire life has been cursed by these demons. Him and his parents became slaves, his father was relieved at the death of his […] More
Vivi will rejoin the Straw Hat Pirates as a permanent member Nefertari Vivi is the princess of the Alabasta Kingdom. Vivi traveled with and assisted the Straw Hat Pirates for almost the entire Alabasta Saga and strongly considered joining their crew after Crocodile‘s defeat. Though she ultimately declined their offer in favor of working to […] More
The Distance between Mihawk and Whitebeard I think I finally understand what Mihawk said about Whitebeard, something about measuring the “distance” between them. I think Mihawk’s isolation and absolute power make him almost clueless about his own strength. If you really think about it, he sort of lacks any real rival. Gol D. Roger had […] More
The 10th Member who joins the Straw Hat Pirates This post is to discuss why I think we’ll get a final crewmate and who that crewmate will be Nine Senior Officers Currently the Straw Hats have Luffy and 9 Senior Officers. Chapter 1058 highlighted this aspect and what the roles for each on the crew […] More
Crocodile’s Past and The Truth Behind His Shame Crocodile – till he became a Shichibukai Crocodile was 22 years old when Roger the Pirate King died. As was the case with his death, many who bore witness were inspired by Roger and aspired to become great Pirates or Navy Solders. It only took him a few years […] More
Is Figarland Garling the one who gave Whitebeard the scar? Since his introduction, Saint Figarland Garling has been associated with Shanks. Many have also theorized that Figarland is the one who scarred Whitebeard. In Chapter 434 when we see Shanks meet Whitebeard for the first time, Whitebeard says “When I look at your face, it makes […] More
Akainu vs Dragon is Imminent Some may have already picked up on this, but it seems that this arc has set up the Original Admirals Trio vs the Monkey D. Trio. Firstly, we had Aokiji (and part of the Blackbeard Pirates) against Garp and the new age marines. Then we have Kizaru attempting to assassinate […] More
What Does the “D” Stand for in One Piece? The “Will of D.” is a mystery surrounding some people who have the initial “D.” in their names. Let’s see the possible meanings of D.: 1 – Dawn It’s the most obvious one, a lot of people already thought about it since the first chapter of […] More
The first time Whitebeard was introduced in the story, he was an old man attended by nurses and attached to medical support. We immediately get told he is sick, considering Shanks says he brought healing water as a gift to their meeting, but at first we think it’s just his old age making him weak. […] More
This is what Oda has set up since the start. On the last page spread, it seems it’s set up who will be in the final fight. Also interesting that Luffy and Blackbeard are next to each other. Any bets on alliances? Surely they won’t go free-for-all, but there are also so many of them […] More
Who is the shaded character in the final spread? And can any parallels/connections that can be drawn between mirrored characters be treated as intentional? THE FIGUREAs others have pointed out, the figure’s sword is very similar to Shanks’ Gryphon. Further than that though, it is one of a very short list of swords that appears […] More
There has been a long-standing theory that Shanks has a twin. To recap. In this 2019 interview, Oda was asked about there being “two of Shanks”. He could have said no… but instead he left it up to interpretation. Question: “You might’ve been asked this thousands of times already, not sure, but is Shanks two […] More
