One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

[Snake of Diamond]

So now all that’s left is for Roger to find baby Shanks and for Dragon to fuck off and become a revolutionary and I think that’s everything with God Valley. Just gotta get back to the present day now and figure out how Elbaf is going to finish without Luffy learning about Imu or Imu powers so the endgame can still be set up without folks connecting the dots too early.

We at least finally get to see that big team up and fight. I've been ok with these chapters since they're serving as some nice "oh that is who that is/why that is like that now" but yeah now we can get back to what is really going on.

 

[Ainchiemi]

Unsurpisingly it's a disgusting tranny playing bon clay.

One can only hope Netflix makes it that far. I have some doubts though.

I just tell people they are dumb for liking this vegan diet version of the show.

Audience for the series and the LA.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Unsurpisingly it's a disgusting tranny playing bon clay.

Let's be honest, it was bound to happen.

I just tell people they are dumb for liking this vegan diet version of the show.

Aside of casting a pooner for young Koby, the live action adaptation was nice.
The only thing netflix has to do for their own anime adaptation is to stick to the manga and avoid any weird addition, I doubt they can do it without Oda holding a shotgun behind them, but there will always be the original regardless of how bad they fuck this up

Audience for the series and the LA.

Should be paler.

 

[Random Internet Person]

i mean it could be especially if imu is based on the umibozu at all. though i seem to recall big mom and kaido both being shadow figures for a good while until they got revealed later on and of course there is rocks as well. part of me wonders if imu even has a real body. maybe he has taken control of someone else's body and the reason why we he is being hidden is because its a huge spoiler. like maybe he killed joy boy and stole his body and over time its been warped to become his own.

Didn’t Green Bull have a bunch of shadows before he was properly revealed during the Wano arc? Rocks only had that face of him in space for the longest time , and only now are we learning about God Valley, though I may have to go back and see when Rocks was first brought up. Also, only now have we started to learn about Joy Boy after Robin read about him at Fishman Island, and the only thing we’ve seen about him is some silhouettes that show just enough to show how he looks like Luffy.

So it’d make sense Oda is using the shadows to hold off on the Imu reveal.

 

[Trombonista]

Today is- or was, given the time of this post- Roronoa Zoro's birthday!

 

[retartedconspiratard]

Has anyone in this thread played any of the One Piece Games? As you can tell by my pfp, I play them often.

 

[Incecticyder]

Has anyone in this thread played any of the One Piece Games? As you can tell by my pfp, I play them often.

I have played Red and PW4.

 

[Mr. 0]

this thread sucks and is now about the Godzilla Cinematic Universe

Has anyone in this thread played any of the One Piece Games? As you can tell by my pfp, I play them often.

Played Grand Battle/Grand Adventure, have Unlimited World Red, Unlimited Adventure, and World Seeker (and maybe Pirates Carnival) in the queue.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

Has anyone in this thread played any of the One Piece Games? As you can tell by my pfp, I play them often.

Grand Battle and Adventure, the Unlimited series, Burning Blood, the Pirate Warriors series...
Yes, I've played a good number of them.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

this thread sucks and is now about the Godzilla Cinematic Universe
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l5lmdEWj9mc

Holy-fucking-based. Rag on the anime all you want, Toei knows how to hit it out of the ballpark when they put their minds to it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Holy-fucking-based. Rag on the anime all you want, Toei knows how to hit it out of the ballpark when they put their minds to it.

Moving to seasonal is gonna be a huge boon to the anime.

 

[Mr. 0]

Toei knows how to hit it out of the ballpark when they put their minds to it.

Moving to seasonal is gonna be a huge boon to the anime.

Should've done it years ago, tbh. Or at least took their lumps and get cancelled for trying to overtake the manga like Rurouni Kenshin did

 

[Disc]

So, I was thinking about the whole Davy D Jones thing, and it lead to a theory about what the One Piece really is.

Spoiler: Mostly But Not Entirely Baseless Speculation Follows

- Rocks claims that Davy D Jones was the King of the World. Imu says that he was never king, not even for a moment.
- While it definitely feels like sour grapes from Imu, it also feels like there's some actual reasoning behind it. Like there's some sort of qualifications one has to meet to be considered 'King of the World', and Imu did his best to deny Davy ever having the opportunity.
- Perhaps, then, it is that certain physical things either had to be owned by or pledged to you? Once you had all of these things, you could be considered the King Of The World.
- One thing that comes to mind is the Three Great Weapons, each named after one of our solar system's outer planets. For example, Poseidon allows the user to control Neptunians to do their bidding. If one wants to tame the calm belt's residents, poseidon feels almost necessary.
- And something else that spawned from that is the Gorosei's names being based on the Inner Planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Interestingly, the Weapons use Greek names (Pluton, Poseidon, and Uranus is technically roman but close enough) while the gorosei use Roman ones.
- Why would these two seemingly unrelated groups connect together so well?
- Perhaps it's because each of the Gorosei are responsible for bringing Imu one of the proverbial Keys to the Kingdom. Perhaps the ancient kingdom had powerful artifacts for each of the celestial bodies, and getting one of them allowed a regular World Noble to become a proper Gorosei.
- Which would mean at this point in time, Imu has at least five of these keys to the kingdom, and the remaining three have eluded his grasp.
- ... but is it just three?
- There's no proof that Davy D. Jones was the rightful ruler of the land. perhaps he sought to claim these keys for his own reason.
- He either managed to claim them all for a short while, or claimed the last as imu captured one from him, meaning that his time as 'king of the world' was heavily contested. As his kingdom fell, he chose ot hide the weapons, so Imu couldn't claim he was the ruler of the world either.
- But perhaps there's more than eight pieces.
- In theory, if there's a ninth piece - perhaps a proverbial Sun, Moon, or Earth analogue - which has been deliberately taken from play...
- As long as it's part of the set, neither collection can be considered Full until it's collected
- Meaning that by keeping One Piece for yourself, you effectively prevent any one person from claiming all the requirements to be King of the World.
- In short, by denying the complete set, it makes you free - no person can claim complete sovereignty over the world, so no-one can be considered it's King.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

So, I was thinking about the whole Davy D Jones thing, and it lead to a theory about what the One Piece really is.

i like that theory it also works since nika is considered the sun god. the empty throne may represent that one piece missing to declare someone king of the world. this is where joyboy comes in i think he hid the thing imu needed and as a result made it so he could never become king of the world.

davy d jones comes into the picture because i think he was actually king of the world like rocks says and at some point he decided to go out to sea and see the entire world. eventually something happened and his kingdom was attacked and records of him being a ruler were erased and replaced with him just being a pirate and nothing else.

i think the one piece originally belonged to davy jones but at some point joy boy got it and was told to hide it somewhere which he did. but while doing that his side lost the great war and the world government was formed both as a means for imu to assert control over everything but also as a way for him to try and find the thing he needed to become king of the world.

 

[Random Internet Person]

@Disc

i like that theory it also works since nika is considered the sun god. the empty throne may represent that one piece missing to declare someone king of the world. this is where joyboy comes in i think he hid the thing imu needed and as a result made it so he could never become king of the world.

davy d jones comes into the picture because i think he was actually king of the world like rocks says and at some point he decided to go out to sea and see the entire world. eventually something happened and his kingdom was attacked and records of him being a ruler were erased and replaced with him just being a pirate and nothing else.

i think the one piece originally belonged to davy jones but at some point joy boy got it and was told to hide it somewhere which he did. but while doing that his side lost the great war and the world government was formed both as a means for imu to assert control over everything but also as a way for him to try and find the thing he needed to become king of the world.

Makes sense, but Luffy wouldn’t care about being king of the world, since being king of the world means responsibilities and Luffy wants to be free. Since the value of The One Piece is what can be done with it, it has to be something where the importance can be acknowledged despite Luffy probably not caring and being super casual about it and only seeing it as finding Roger’s treasure. And then there’s the part where it’s found either before or after the final war/Marineford on steroids . That before or after will really play a factor in what The One Piece is IMO.

 

[warhammerautist]

I rather think Davy Jones or Joyboy were just rivals sort of like a counterpart of Luffy and Teach being shown as rivals over some disagreement on eating cherry pie. Xebec stated who Imu was scared of more between Joyboy and Davy Jones which implies that either of them could have marked Imu's end which is the reason Imu feared both of them. I am going to take a wild guess and assume that the 2 DFs that Xebec believed was needed to defeat Imu was the strongest Logia and Zoan fruit in the series which is the Nika and Yami DFs which Joyboy and Davy Jones might have used before in the past. Maybe Xebec believed that Harold could use the full potential of one of two the DFs such as the Yami because he can cast a giant shadow from his size casting more darkness on the ground since him and Loki are the only horned giants in the series. Yami has the capability to weaken other DF's, and I think chances are high that Imu's capabilities are all from his/her devil fruit. Nika is based off imagination that allows the user to nearly do anything in combat and one of those anything in combat capabilities might inflict damage to Imu and his/her capabilities.

I am sure the remaining questions are if Davy Jones or Joyboy were so strong in the past and Xebec believed that Imu feared either of them then how come neither stopped Imu and Imu was shown with Joyboy's straw hat in the past chapters? I am sure that explanation would be explained later and I might take a lucky guess and assume that Jones and Joyboy got into a conflict with one another in the past which both ended up really weak from Imu's manipulation of both being used which allowed Imu to take care of them and rule the world to make sure that neither a Davy Jones or Joyboy comes back.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I am sure the remaining questions are if Davy Jones or Joyboy were so strong in the past and Xebec believed that Imu feared either of them then how come neither stopped Imu and Imu was shown with Joyboy's straw hat in the past chapters? I am sure that explanation would be explained later and I might take a lucky guess and assume that Jones and Joyboy got into a conflict with one another in the past which both ended up really weak from Imu's manipulation of both being used which allowed Imu to take care of them and rule the world to make sure that neither a Davy Jones or Joyboy comes back.

I'd say it's probably that, or Imu did some moves in order to use the demon powers Imu uses, and the straw hat is some kind of war trophy/spoils of war.

Yami has the capability to weaken other DF's, and I think chances are high that Imu's capabilities are all from his/her devil fruit.

Again, there's the chance that there's some alternative.

Nika is based off imagination that allows the user to nearly do anything in combat and one of those anything in combat capabilities might inflict damage to Imu and his/her capabilities.

That makes sense considering Nika is all about freedom. And since it's a showdown of absolute control vs absolute freedom, I can see that explanation being explored if The One Piece isn't something to counter Imu's powers.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

Makes sense, but Luffy wouldn’t care about being king of the world, since being king of the world means responsibilities and Luffy wants to be free. Since the value of The One Piece is what can be done with it, it has to be something where the importance can be acknowledged despite Luffy probably not caring and being super casual about it and only seeing it as finding Roger’s treasure. And then there’s the part where it’s found either before or after the final war/Marineford on steroids . That before or after will really play a factor in what The One Piece is IMO.

luffy not caring about being king of the world is exactly why he is the one who has to find the one piece. he is the living representation of the empty throne. people already pledge their loyalty to him despite him wanting nothing to do with it unlike imu he would never sit on the empty throne i would not be surprised if we even get a part down the line where he smashes the throne in front of imu.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I like how Harald marrying a foreign whore who subverts the country and Loki’s incel shit are proven to be correct. It feels nice when the paranoid Xenophobic racist is somewhat proven right, there are demonic monsters who want to enslave you out there.


Also, in regards to the protests using Luffy. I’ve trolled a fan discord by saying that Lufty is Franco-esque.

 

[Cryogonal2]

I like how Harald marrying a foreign whore who subverts the country and Loki’s incel shit are proven to be correct.

Harald is basically the One Piece equivalent of the "wild and crazy biker yankee meets a tough gal that sets him straight" trope. All he was missing was the ridiculous pompadour.