One Piece Discussion Thread

Glad Loki’s finally gonna be let free soon. He’s the most hyped character of this whole arc and he hasn’t been able to do anything besides start a fire till now

@theemperor95: I said they most likely learned it there. We know the crew disbanded after Roger found the one piece so it's the only time that fits based off what we currently know

Chapter out

(Updated) Holy Knights abilities so far:

Gunko

The core aspect of Gunko’s attacks are arrows that have a determined course, they are her confirmed path of the future her attacks will take and it is only possible for her to change it, effectively qualifying as a fate manipulation hax. You cannot escape it as they will simply follow you. Upon essentially marking you with these arrows that will follow you, she can use them offensively to:

• As mentioned, she marks you with her arrows and sets a determined path her arrow will take, meaning her kicks and punches are unavoidable by her own words and demonstration.
• Wrap it around you and force you into the direction her arrow is pointing, it can detach from her, ultimately levitating.
• She can use it to stab the opponent.

• She can increase the weight and size of her kicks or punches with it.
• She can make animal-like creations out of her arrows, enabling flight.
• Her arrows can directly manipulate the path someone will take as well, just not herself. She showed doing this to the giant kids and redirecting energy-based attacks like Zeus, a lightning embodiment back at her opponent, including Jinbei and Brook’s attack.

• She restrains Nami, Usopp, Brook and Jinbei, while also showing she can make a sword outta her arrows.
• She’s fast enough to outpace Gaban with her ability.

Essentially, Gunko’s powers incorporate both fate manipulation due to her attack following a determined path created by her arrows and vector manipulation as she controls the direction her arrow marks, so redirecting attacks.

Killingham

Killingham has a Mythical-Zoan and he utilizes imagination for his powers. Simply, ideation is all that’s necessary for Killingham to utilize his powers such as when he bought the imagination from the kids of Elbaf as super giant creatures easily bigger than your average mountain in One Piece to life. Killingham quite literally brings imagination to reality. He puts people to sleep and utilizes what they’ve imagined, straight digging into their thoughts and forcefully pulling it out once manifested, doing so to people as competent as Sommers.

• Killingham has sleep paralysis to directly down people and restrain their movement

Nightmares

The Nightmares manifested by Killingham have no concept of death, due to them being abstract, which Killingham says once again. The Nightmares are made of pure malice:

And he can revive them at any given moment, as well as being able to spawn more through Nightmare portals that manifested from the kids hearing “demons” and imagining them.

Essentially, Killingham’s has reality-warping shenanigans, being able to manifest thoughts into reality and Sleep Manipulation, being able to use his powers without even directly being remotely in the vicinity mind you.

Sommers

Sommers uses thorns and he can make them invisible to competent Haki users like Saul. Whatever it’s wrapped around, touching it will result in the thorns inflicting damage.

• Sommers can cover the battlefield in them and make spiked weapons out of the thorns.

• Sommers can make thorn-creatures
• Sommers can spread thorns out from his body, it can also be used to latch onto things.
• Sommers can use his thorns as shields
• Including using his thorns to wrap around and restrain his opponent.

Essentially a guy who just manipulates thorns with certain twists to it.

Shamrock

Shamrock can summon a Cerberus that forms from Shamrock’s blade and also make blades themselves from their mouth, three heads which can separate from the body and fly in the air as well as target the opponent.

Immortality

@pics: nice.

This is sort of old news but I only just recently noticed something. I want to share it in case other people also somehow managed to gloss over this the same way I did.

Many people have already pointed out that "Domi Reversi" seems to draw inspiration from the game Reversi. In said game, once a piece is caught in-between two opposing pieces, it flips over and changes to the opposing team. We see this illustrated in Chapter 1151.

However, outside of the name and this illustration, I didn't see much parallels with it yet. But upon revisiting Chapter 1150, I picked up something that seems so clear now that I can't believe I skimmed over it the first time. Again, a piece will be flipped over and join the opposing side once caught in-between two opposing pieces. I didn't catch that we actually see this happening with the technique itself in 1150.

Three Giants standing in-between Dorry and Brogy get flipped and turned into demons, seemingly without Imunko's direct input (a Giant literally questions if it was because they were standing in-between them so I don't even know how I missed this the first time).

So it seems to be that Imunko doesn't have to manually turn everyone into demons, they just need two. Once someone is surrounded, it's pretty much a done deal given that the Giant in the first scan claimed to be stuck in place.

@twothousand3702: Funnily enough, I was going to write up on how Imu’s ability seemed like to work like a board-game, but I figured I’d wait until next chapter just to see if anything adds to it, but yeah, I think it’s a literal thing. Imu probably legitimately turned it into a game and imposes rules similar to the game it basis itself on, which makes what Killingham said about “The playing board is entirely in our color” consistent with what we see and what happens.

@pics: Yeah that's interesting. I saw a theory that Luffy and Loki as the two 'Sun Gods' would have to replicate the process in order to reverse the transformations. I'm unsure whether or not this is simply because they would naturally counter Imu's abilities or because Imu's "games" do actually have a set of rules to follow and as such, possible counters to each ability.

Episode about one of the greatest dad in fiction comes out on Father's Day. How appropriate. *claps*

Spoilers out

Yep. Conquers haki is the key

@edgelord91: so like haki just bypasses hax period? Lol.

@ecoblitz: never said that. Just that gaban confirmed higher level conquers is needed. Now we know why the gorosei don't pick fights with emperor's normally

@edgelord91: I never said you did, im asking a question. Hence the question mark.

Elbaf is shaping up to be one of my favourite arcs.

@ecoblitz: ah okay my mistake. It depends on what The source of Imu's abilities is.

One Piece Chapter 1152 "A Terrible Day" Summary from Redon

• Gaban tells Luffy to "pay attention to how you use Conqueror's Haki" and that their enemies are not truly immortal. He then looks towards Zoro and Sanji and says "It seems that more than one person here has Conqueror's Haki".
• Sanji approaches Gaban, believing that he is the one being referred to. However, Gaban ignores him, saying "Swordsman over there! Looks like your body is used to it."
• Zoro confusedly asks if he truly has Conqueror's Haki and Luffy tells him that he's surprised he didn't already know since it's been leaking for a while.
• Gaban tells them that Haki is only useful if one can recognize and control it. He then asks if he truly intends to support his captain, who is an Emperor, when his Haki mastery isn't up to par.
• Sanji tries to ask if he too has Conqueror's Haki but is interrupted by Loki and Hajrudin's argument. Loki is criticizing Hajrudin for allowing outsiders to defend their homeland but not him, calling Hajrudin disgraceful. Hajrudin responds by saying that there's a chance Loki chooses to help the invaders, and that he can't be trusted since the day he murdered Harald.
• Luffy suddenly asks Loki to become his crewmate, figuring that Hajrudin will have to release him if that's the case. Zoro and Sanji tell Luffy that's not a good idea due to his size and Hajrudin considers the fact that Luffy believes Loki can be trusted, but still refuses. Loki also declines, saying that he won't follow anybody.
• Zoro and Sanji depart to the Sun Realm with Gerd and Goldberg, leaving Loki, Luffy, Gaban, and Hajrudin. Gaban reveals that both he and Shanks were present on the day of Harald's murder but didn't witness the whole thing. Hajrudin asks Loki to tell him the truth and Loki finally agrees to, saying "It was one really terrible day."
• 14 years ago, Loki and Jarul were called to the castle. Loki looked to be quite friendly towards Jarul. He tells him that he hates the World Government because they killed Rocks, so he wanted to have a talk with his father.
• When they arrived to the entrance, Loki kicked a soldier into the door to open it. Upon entering the throne room, they were shocked to discover Harald being stabbed by several of his soldiers. Harald is silhouetted, but appears to have had horns and wings.
• Meanwhile, we see Gaban and Shanks having a bath outside Gaban's house. Only half of Gaban's hair was gray at the time and he had a black braided goatee and a mustache. We discover that Shanks had a tattoo on his left arm. We don't get a close look at it, but it does appear to be somewhat similar to the tattoo that Sommers has.
• Gaban and Shanks reflect on the past. Gaban remarks on how long it's been since they relaxed like this, thinking it must've been about three or four years. Shanks corrects him, saying it's been about a decade since the Roger Pirates disbanded. Shanks then expresses that he wished he could just live a jolly life as a pirate with Buggy and how there are so many things he wants to know about Elbaph. Gaban replies by saying that Shanks is the "Child of Destiny" and says that he doesn't want to talk about such complicated things today. The duo then continue to talk about past adventures, like meeting Dorry and Brogy on Little Garden when Ripley appears and greets Shanks. Shanks finally explains his reasoning for coming to Elbaph, saying that he wanted to talk to King Harald about something.
• At the same time, we see a mysterious silhouette in the treasure room of the castle where the "Legendary Devil Fruit" is being held. It is then, that ANOTHER flashback starts, this one taking place 109 years ago.
• Narrator: Going back even further in time...109 years ago, in a time where if you asked anyone who sailed the seas what they feared the most in this world, everyone would say "The Giant Warrior Pirates".
• We see the Great Eirik chasing a ship on the sea with a very young Dorry, Brogy, Oimo, and Kashii. We also see another giant ship that's docked at a human kingdom.
• Narrator: At the same time, an official ship coming from the "Kingdom of Giants" acts as another reason as to why the name Elbaph is associated with absolute terror.
• We see a young Harald, who remarks that he heard there's a beautiful princess inside the castle as the townspeople run in fear. One of the Giant soldiers that's accompanying Harald looks through a castle window, but Harald knocked him into it, destroying it. He smugly claims that he accidentally slipped and we get our first good look at him. He looks similarly to Loki, but had short, spiked hair instead of longer hair.
• He laughed and asked "Who's your god now?" to the townspeople, as the Narrator formally introduces us.
• Narrator:King Harald of Elbaph, who ascended to the throne at the young age of 45 (15 in human years)...was a real jerk.

End of Chapter. NO Break Next Week.

So the theories about time being dilated on Elbaph might be true after all. Gaban thought only a few years had passed but it'd already been a decade.

Prime King Harold used a sword... You know what that means.

Another Mihawk victim in the history books just like Roger!

Yeah. A lot to dissect here.

This strengthens the argument that time moves slower in Elbaph..

I wonder why Gaban looks so old then. Rayleigh looks like he aged better imo.

Must be that giant pootang. Like mowing lawn every single day.

@wushu59: her squirting probably like a waterfall lmao.

Sanji's taken a bigger L than Drake. What a glorious time to be a Zoro fanboy. I wouldn't fret over Sanji not having CoC. His power progression going forward is h getting more stat boosts + advanced CoA and CoO, so there's nothing to be worried about for his fans. What's more, he could learn ACoA infused + Ilfrit Rankyaku to have ranged options.

@wushu59: Whats up with the recent influx of Mihawk memes lol

Recently every other reddit post is some version of that Mihawk meme.

One Piece Chapter 1153 "The Birth of Loki" Full Summary by Pew

Ok, so with the diplomacy between Elbaph and Ryugu Kingdom thing, I am now 99% positive that Mosa/Shaggy is Shirahoshi.

Loki aura farming even as a newborn baby

hahahahaha

@wushu59: bro design looks heat idk why his mom tossed him

It's confirmed that Red Line is a giant serpent.

@mortein: with all the Norse homages I'm starting to think Luffy will destroy fish man island by releasing the world serpent

@mortein: Why are you assuming it’s a literal serpent and not just a metaphorical description by these Viking/norse-based dudes?