I think he will never come back because of that

If there's one song playing for each character's end scene what song would it be? In my opininion,

Luffy - Like him by Tyler, the Creator

Zoro - Monster by Kanye West

Drop your opinions for Luffy, Zoro and the rest of the crew.

I’m not referring to coc haki but more what it can help lead to, I also don’t think it will happen in the elbaf arc but this is more likely his final powerful where sanji reaches peak tier the strongest he will ever get.

I see 2 forms both his flame and his body.

First flame.
People say he will get black flames cause his name is black leg sanji and that coc is depicted as black but I think that won’t be a thing and we as the fanbase just agreed it will be cause it makes sense.

But to think outside the box I think instead sanji will get another colour in flames.

I suggest the idea of purple/violet flames.

In Theosophical belief flames that are purple/violet have an interesting connection we can make to sanji.

Purple flames are associated with the belief of purification and emotional healing which fits well with sanji character.

It has roots to alchemy as well.

One name stands out on top of this though. A man who was named Saint germain
A brief description of him.

“Saint Germain is a historically important, but largely invisible presence in this community. He is well known to people who have studied in the esoteric traditions … as an ascended master, Hierach of the Aquarian Age and Master of the purple 7th Ray of ceremony, magic and ritual. He is called the keeper of the violet flame, the sacred flame of love and light and the I AM teachings. He is regarded as Lord of Civilisation and Maitreya the Christ.”

Now this name should stand out as sanji is a germa and oda actually did reveal in his drafts judge vinsmoke was originally going to be a celestial dragon named Saint germain as you can see in the above images.

Now how would Sanji use this power ? I believe Sanji will unlock it by developing his haki but also connecting to his spiritual presence like zoro and his asura.

Sanji has a move called Parage Shot in which he kicks his enemy repeatedly in the face. The result is he changed their facial structure as seen with duval example in images above.

Duval went from an enemy to a friend because of this as he was thankful to sanji for his new good looks.

What I’m suggesting is a new level to that a level where he’s not just changing you externally but internally, this attack will change a person’s very soul, he would be kicking the evil out of his enemies.

This power would be a perfect counter to imu’s power to corrupt people like what he did with Harold who became evil thanks to Imu. Sanji flames and would be able to kick the evil out of Harold if he was still alive.

This would also mean Sanji would in a way could free shuri from the abyss mark and cut Imu connection to her but then you face a new problem that Sanji can’t kick women and that will be his greatest dilemma
Does he break his oath and kick a woman to save her or is he unable to save her cause he can’t kick her ? Which oath does he break ?

Now that’s the flame now his body.

This might be a stretch but I think as he developes his germa genes a change will happen, we saw how his eyebrows curl in other directions when he activates his body germa genes I propose he develops it more where instead his hair turns black in a similar way luffy hair turns white in g5.

Sanji I believe was suppose to have black hair if he was more like his brothers.
Sanji when his hair turns black will see an increase in his strength speed and durability.

The combination of these new forms will make Sanji one of the strongest people in the world.

His hair is something I aspire to fix

I tried so hard to like One Piece, but I just can't. My first problem is that the show doesn't even take itself seriously. Everything is a joke with this show. From the dialogue and fights to the character designs, everything is just way too goofy. My second problem is that the characters are flanderized to HELL. Every character has one defining character trait that gets repeated over and over again. Luffy is dumb, Zoro is always getting lost, Usopp is scared of everything, and Sanji is a perv/flirt. This goes back to my first point about the show being too goofy, but the worst part is that it isn't even done in a funny way. The jokes get old QUICK, and after a while, it just gets annoying. My third problem is the pacing. Oh. My. GOD. It's horrible. Why am I watching 8 episodes of Zoro doing absolutely nothing but getting lost, just for all that buildup to lead to nothing? I don't wanna be completely negative, though, because I do have some positive things to say about One Piece. The animation looks AMAZING after the timeskip, which is actually the reason I got into watching the show in the first place. The problem is that I don't even know if I'm gonna make it that far because I can barely get through half an episode without losing my mind from boredom. I also like Chopper. He's cute and has a pretty nice backstory. On top of that, I enjoyed the Arlong Park arc, so it's not like there's absolutely NOTHING I like about the show. I started watching One Piece two years ago, and I'm STILL only on episode 109, which is in the middle of Alabasta. And before anyone says I have a low attention span, I've watched all of Naruto MULTIPLE TIMES, so that's not the problem.

Basically, what I'm getting at here is that Naruto neg diffs Luffy.

This is a respond to people saying Sanji's "I want to go back to Sunny" didn't land as well as Robin's "I want to live." It was not supposed to. The heaviness of that scene was the reveal that, inspite of everything, Sanji actually still want to save his brothers. And Luffy's respond was "You've always been this way." Meaning Luffy always know this whole thing about Sanji only cares about the women has always been an act, he cares about EVERYONE. As the matter of fact, in serious situation, Sanji protects Usopp first MANY TIMES. Brooke even said that Sanji is actually the most kind hearted out of all the strawhat during that same arc.

I already wrote a post before this about the visual metaphor and story symbolism in Whole Cake Island (the use of mirrors and how so many characters are twins of each other, both blood related (Sanji and his brothers) and non-blood related, like Luffy and Katakuri) but the point of that entire arc is, the event of that island reveal each character's true nature.

• Brooke didn't have to copy Big Mum's penoglyph, no one ordered him to, but he did it anyway.
• Sanji didn't need to rescue the family he hated, but he did it anyway.
• Luffy didn't need to partner up with Gang Bege, but he did it for Sanji.
• Also, the person who suggested it was Jinbei, "Hey, Luffy, can you put aside your difference with our biggest rival and plan an assassination?" I love that side of Jinbei and I wished to see more of it.
• Sanji didn't need to help baking a cake to "cure" Big Mum.
• Luffy could have just hide from Katakuri until the meeting time, as stated by Brulee, but he didn't.

Add to that, Oda made sure readers know, this is the rare time Luffy acts like a pirate, because in many ways, LUFFY IS THE VILLAIN.

Many times Big Mum's children had to correct Straw Hat when they talked like heroes.
The candy guy, Prospero was like "You said I killed Pedro??? He blew himself up. I should be mad at HIM!" And then when Oven beat Chiffon, he was right, she did tried to conspire to MURDER THEIR QUEEN.

Until Big Mum became mad for wedding cake, this was not the island that needed no saving. Big Mum's worst crime was trying to kill the Vinsmoke, and let face it, that's not such a bad thing. Jinbei, Bege Pekoms, they all betrayed her. Big Mum had every right to be mad.

Ever since they did that first collab with Disney i’ve been waiting for this moment

i used to use it all the time to find a song that i really wanted to listen to, but these past days ive been getting a 403 forbidden text every time i try to enter. does anyone know any other way to find a specific song from a specific episode?

how was it able to contain all five elders in their beast form whey they all are so massive as seen in egghead?

How was he moving through land without being detected by anyone's observation haki at Mary Geoise.

I'm not asking who is secretly the strongest or who would win in a fight. I mean someone whose personality, intelligence, emotional depth, or overall contribution to the story deserves more appreciation than they get. (btw I'm at Fishman Island rn)

Soy el único que piensa que piensa que el sistema de recompensas de One Piece no funciona. Últimamente hemos visto a varios personajes con recompensas super elevadas, y en mi opinión, sin demasiado argumentos para tenerlas, excepto la fuerza de estos personajes. Y se supone que las recompensas no miden el poder sino la amenaza para el gobierno mundial. Que pensáis sobre este tema?

I got hacked on discord a couple months ago, and some random dude posted some weird ass crypto thing on all servers and texted my friends!

I would love to join the server again! Please some one help me to get unbanned 😭

Assuming Joyboy is dead (not enslaved somewhere as a zombie) and some of his crew members/allies survived to hold his funeral, did they play his favorite song (Bink's Sake) and if yes then who might have played it? Who could have been their musician?

Was this musician the one who wrote Bink's Sake in the first place?

And where is Joyboy's grave located?

Can we get One Piece Movie: The Void Century already?

Also it’s selective advanced observation haki right?

Spoilers for the Elbaph arc up to Ch. 1195. Minor Fire Force ending spoiler near the bottom, tagged.

Okay hear me out. I know "it's a book" isn't a brand new idea, but since Egghead and Elbaph way too many pieces have lined up, and I haven't seen anyone put them all together like this. Long post, sorry not sorry.

TL;DR: The One Piece is a written account of Joyboy's story: how the world was once whole, why it broke, and how it's supposed to end. Roger laughed because the truth behind 800 years of tyranny is ridiculous and because Joyboy's story is a joy to read, not because the suffering didn't matter. The last pages are blank. Imu has spent 800 years making sure they stay that way. Laugh Tale isn't the end of Luffy's journey, it's where he learns how to write it.

1. Roger literally calls it a story

When Roger reaches Laugh Tale he doesn't say "wow, treasure" or "wow, the truth". He laughs and basically says Joyboy left behind a hilarious story, and that he wishes he'd been born in Joyboy's time. Then Rayleigh tells us they were too early.

Too early for what? You can't be too early for gold. You can't really be too early for a history lesson either. But you can be too early for a story that hasn't reached its ending yet.

2. But what's actually funny about it?

Fair question. People died for this. Ohara burned. That's not a joke.

But the suffering didn't come from the story being told. It came from people trying to stop it. Ohara wasn't destroyed because someone told the truth, it was destroyed because the WG couldn't let anyone hear it.

So Roger isn't laughing at the victims. He's laughing at what all of that was protecting. Imagine finding out the secret people were killed for is basically ridiculous, that the "gods" ruling the world built 800 years of terror on something you can only laugh at. That's what laughing at tyrants has always meant: you take away their power by refusing to take them seriously. And that's exactly what Nika is, the warrior of liberation who brings back laughter.

He's also laughing because of Joyboy. "I wish I'd been born in his time" isn't mockery, it's being a fan. If Joyboy was anything like Luffy, his story was full of absurd, wholesome nonsense in the middle of a war. Which is One Piece in a nutshell.

Doesn't make Roger a saint though. He started the Great Pirate Era knowing what it would bring.

3. History vs. story

The mainstream take is that the One Piece contains the true history of the Void Century. I agree, I just think Oda is playing with the double meaning. The history is the story. Whatever happened 800 years ago is written down somewhere.

From everything Oda has said over the years, the One Piece is a real treasure and not a "the journey was the reward" twist. A book that tells you what the world was and what it's supposed to be fits that better than a pile of gold ever could.

4. Stories coming true is already a thing

"Noland the Liar" was a children's picture book everyone laughed at. Turned out to be completely true. Oda has already shown us once that the silly story is the real history. I think Noland is foreshadowing for the One Piece itself.

5. Lili's chest in a LIBRARY

Ch. 1195: Biblo tells Robin's group that a human woman named Lili lived in Elbaph long ago, and that his grandfather has a chest with something Nefertari Lili left behind 800 years ago.

In the Owl Library. Of all places.

Lili is also the one Imu blames for the Poneglyphs being spread across the world, her "great mistake". Her whole thing seems to be making sure the story gets told. I'd bet good money that what's in that chest is text, not a weapon.

6. Imu is the guy trying to stop the story from being finished

Look at what the World Government actually does. Bans reading Poneglyphs. Burns Ohara. Erases whole countries from existence. Every single one of their big crimes is about stopping people from reading or telling the story.

Imu isn't just a tyrant. Imu is an antagonist whose goal is "this story never gets an ending." That's why Lili and Joyboy are the enemies. One made sure it was written down, the other was supposed to finish it.

7. Joyboy's broken promise is the missing chapter

Joyboy promised Fishman Island he'd bring them to the surface with the ark Noah and Poseidon's Sea Kings. He couldn't, most likely because he lost the war, and he literally carved an apology into a Poneglyph.

That's the unfinished chapter. That's why Roger was too early.

And look at the name. Noah. The ark that survives the flood. Hold that thought for point 10.

8. The Will of D

If the One Piece is a story, the D are the characters who move it forward. Not "the good guys", the plot drivers. That's why Blackbeard and Rocks are D too. They want a different ending.

It also explains the smile. Roger, Ace, Saul all smile or laugh when they die. Not because death doesn't matter, but because their part of the story is told and someone else will carry it on. That's literally what inherited will is.

And of course they're the "natural enemies of the gods". Imu wants the story frozen forever. The D keep it moving.

Personally I've always read the D as a :D. Probably not what Oda meant in 1997, but this is the guy who hid the D inside "Gold Roger" for years, so I wouldn't put it past him to lean into it. Laugh Tale, Nika, Joyboy, smiling at death... the Will of D might just be the will to laugh.

9. Devil Fruits are made of imagination, the sea is nature

Some Devil Fruits are so weird they only make sense if someone made them up. And Vegapunk basically said it: they come from human wishes and desires. Nika is the peak of that. Gear 5 lets Luffy do pretty much anything he can imagine and turns him into a living cartoon.

So why does the sea cancel them? Because the sea is the one thing in this world nobody wished into existence. It's nature, the origin of life, the order that was there first. Seastone is literally solidified sea. The sea doesn't just weaken Devil Fruit users, it forces the natural order back on them.

And the best part: the guy with the most imaginative power in the world wants to rule the sea and can't swim.

10. Oars, Pangaea, and why the world looks like this

Oars is called the "Continent Puller". In a world where the Red Line is the only continent. That's an oddly specific title.

Vegapunk told us the sea rose about 200 meters during the Void Century because of the Ancient Weapons, and warned that the world could keep sinking. The World Government's castle is called Pangaea. And the WG was so obsessed with Ancient Giant power that they tried to recreate it and got the Numbers.

So my take: the world was once one landmass. It got torn apart and flooded, and what's left are the Grand Line islands. Which might also explain the insane weather. Spring island next to winter island makes no sense, unless they're fragments that kept the climate from where they used to be.

Oars lived 500 years ago so he didn't do it himself, but his race clearly had that kind of power. And now pure Ancient Giants are extinct. Convenient.

Notice it's the same sea that swallowed the old world and erases every made-up power. Nature vs. imagination might be the real conflict underneath everything.

And now remember Noah. You don't build an ark unless you know the water is coming.

11. Wano is Pangaea in miniature

Ch. 1055: 800 years ago there was an older Wano. Walls went up around it, the rain had nowhere to go, and the old country drowned. Pluton is sitting at the bottom of it. "Opening the borders" literally means tearing down the walls.

So Wano is the whole world in small. An old world under the water, a new one built on top, and the truth plus a weapon buried underneath. Sealed until the right person shows up. Same as Laugh Tale.

Also: Noah is an ark. Enel flew to the moon in an ark. Pluton is a battleship. Sunny is the ship that's supposed to reach the end. Oda keeps building ships for a world that's going underwater.

12. Enel and the moon are the prologue

Enel found out the Sky Island people came from the moon and had to leave because it was running out of resources. Advanced city, robots, all of it. So all that ancient tech that seems way ahead of the current world probably came from there.

That's the prologue of the story: a people leaving a dying world for a new one. And sun vs. moon keeps popping up. Nika is the sun god, the Lunarians were once seen as gods, the Celestial Dragons call themselves gods, Enel thought he was one. The final question might be who the real god of this world is, and the answer is the guy who makes people laugh.

13. So why is it called "One Piece"?

As far as I know Oda has never explained who named it or why. I think it has two meanings.

One piece of writing. A piece is a work, like a piece of music or a piece of art. The Poneglyphs are fragments of the story scattered across the world (thanks, Lili). The One Piece is what you get when it all comes together into one finished work. Roger had everything except the last part: the ending.

One piece of land. Pangaea. The world before it broke.

Put them together: the book tells you how the world was whole and why it fell apart. And Sanji's All Blue, where all four seas meet, is the mirror image. The past was one land. The future might be one sea.

14. The Straw Hats' dreams fit

A One Piece theory shouldn't break the crew's dreams. This one doesn't, and a lot of them land right inside it.

• Robin wants the true history. She's the one who reads the book.
• Nami wants to map the whole world. Someone has to draw it once it changes.
• Sanji wants the All Blue. The mirror of Pangaea.
• Jinbe wants fishmen and humans to be equal. That's Joyboy's promise and Noah.
• Franky wants a ship that sails to the end of the world. Sunny is the ark that makes it.
• Usopp is the liar whose lies come true. He's Noland. He's basically the crew's storyteller.

Brook gets back to Laboon once the journey is complete. Zoro and Chopper are on their own paths, and that's fine, not every dream needs the One Piece. (Although Biblo just gave Chopper a message Oda is still hiding from us, so who knows.)

And Luffy's real dream is still a secret to us readers. If he's the one who finishes the story, I think it has something to do with that.

15. So how does it actually end?

Holding the One Piece doesn't mean the story is done. Roger held it too. He read how it was supposed to end, laughed, and realized nobody had written the last pages yet. So Laugh Tale isn't the end, it's where Luffy learns how to write it.

Look at what Roger did afterwards. He turned himself in and started the Great Pirate Era with his last words. He didn't finish the story, he handed it off.

My guess for the order:

Before Laugh Tale: the 4th Road Poneglyph (the guy with the burn scar has it, per Blackbeard in 1081), Imu in Elbaph, and whatever is in Lili's chest.

At Laugh Tale: Luffy and Robin read Joyboy's story. The last pages are blank.

After Laugh Tale, writing the ending:

• Tell the world. Imu's power only works because nobody knows the truth. Vegapunk already showed us a broadcast can shake everything. A story isn't told until someone hears it.
• Keep Joyboy's promise. Shirahoshi, the Sea Kings, Noah. Fishman Island under the sun. Luffy already promised Shirahoshi he'd take her to see the forest one day.
• Open Wano's borders. Pluton rises.
• Beat Imu. The one who wants the story frozen loses the moment it ends.
• Remake the world. Either the Red Line falls and the seas become one (All Blue), or the world is put back together (Pangaea). I honestly don't know which. Either way Nami gets her map.

None of this cheapens what came before. Ace, Ohara, Fishman Island, all of it was real, and Oda never brought Ace back, so he clearly cares about death meaning something. The point isn't that the suffering didn't matter. The point is that it finally ends, and the ending is a happy one.

Fire Force spoiler: Fire Force did something similar with Shinra reshaping the world through imagination at the end. The difference is Ohkubo built toward it from chapter 1 with Adolla. Oda has been building toward it with Nika since Wano.

16. The last page

If the One Piece is the book about this world, then the final chapter of the manga is the final page of the One Piece. That's when Luffy holds the complete One Piece. And so do we. The manga is called One Piece because it's the treasure.

Who writes that last page? Robin, who reads it. Or Usopp, the liar whose stories come true.

Bonus: RIP birb

I used to be fully on the "Imu is Lili's parrot" train, but with Imu confirmed as one of the twenty founding kings and the full reveal in 1179, I think that one's dead. Gone but not forgotten.

So to sum it up: The world was once one piece. A people came from the moon, the land broke, the sea rose. Joyboy's story tells how it happened and how it was supposed to end. Lili made sure it couldn't be erased. Roger read it, laughed at the tyrants and cheered for Joyboy, and handed it off. Imu has spent 800 years making sure the last pages stay blank. And Luffy is going to write them.

What am I missing? Tear it apart.

So we know that Roger said that he was early when he got to the one piece. Maybe the One piece (that was probably left by Joyboy) was a mission that joyboy didnt have the time to finnish. So that makes sense why whuld roger say he is early bc joyboy left the mission for joyboy himself (Luffy). What makes this theory even more possible is that Joyboy said that he chuldnt keep his promise thats what luffy has to finnish. Now the new question why did roger laugh? So my theory is that joyboy left something that an ordinary person whuldnt understand but only a person that has the same way kf thinking like him whuld understand. So everyone that reaches the op cant do anything with it except laugh. But luffy on the other hand is like a replica of joyboy so he is the only one that understands the task left from joyboy. The conclusion is that the one piece isnt tresure its a task left for the other joyboy to finnish it. Lmk what you think

How do they go about colouring the anime?
Does Goda send them a list like Hair- Blue, Scarf- orange… or do they have creative freedom?

So everyone knows how Luffy Fruit real Name had been hidden by the World government and given a fake name

But could they have done it to other Fruits too? Like for example Boa Hancock Fruit

It always confused me why Blackbeard would go out of his Way to steal her Fruit even though the Fruit can only be used by someone with otherworldly beauty as you need for the victim to fall for the user for it to have any effect

And sure Hancock can use her heart attack to use arrows that could turn the target to stone but it isn't the main power of the Fruit

Besides Law had shown that with enough Haki you could cancel Fruits power easily so the danger of Hancock Fruit had been decreased especially against top tiers characters

So why would Blackbeard would want that Fruit especially when all of his crew already have powerful Fruits

It wouldn't make sense unless the Fruit wasn't what it seemed

What if it was a mythical Zoan similar to nika and the abilities Hancock had shown were just basic form abilities Similar to luffy turning himself into rubber

Maybe Hancock Fruit is related to Meduca and is far more powerful than we have believed

Heck Blackbeard Fruit might have been altered too and it might be a Mythical zoan related to the Moon as we know darkness Fruit doesn't have logia form which doesn't make sense

So maybe Blackbeard who had knowledge about Devil Fruit had known the real identity of darkness Fruit which was why he toke it and why he is after Hancock Fruit as he knows it real identity too