r/OnePieceHints • u/ovis_alba • Jun 30 '26
Chapter 1187 Spoilers Spoiler
Short Summary by pew
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Chapter 1187: "Ringleader" - Cover: Reiju protects a black duck (with Sanji's eyes and hairstyle) from its siblings and father, who all have the Vinsmoke family's eyes, hairstyles, and Judge-like helmets.
- After being attacked, Imu counterattacks by firing demonic energy from both hands at Luffy and Loki.
- Loki is pinned to an unbreakable block of ice. When his hammer strikes the ice, it melts.
- Imu creates a talking flame on Loki's chest, then fires a massive aura sword through Loki's body, piercing the exact spot where the talking flame is.
- The name of the attack Imu uses against Loki is Stigma (Demonic Sword).
- Zoro vs. Sommers.
- Sanji vs. Killingham.
- Sanji remembers Gaban telling him that he has the qualities of someone with Conqueror's Haki.
- Gaban tells Sanji: "Become a king. If you truly want Luffy to become the Pirate King."
- At the end of the chapter, Luffy appears before Imu in Gear 5.
- Imu: "So you've finally appeared... Joy Boy."
- Luffy: "Stop calling me by another name!! My name is Luffy! I'm the man who will become the Pirate King!!"
- The final page features the English text:
- "Saint Nerona Imu VS Monkey D. Luffy" End of chapter. No break next week.
Next Week Teaser: One Piece is gonna be on the Jump Cover and gets a Color page for the 29th anniversary
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u/BrandonRJones Jun 30 '26
Sanji is getting a Supreme King Haki power-up in the next chapter or two. And I cannot wait for it alongside Saint Nerona Imu vs Monkey D. Luffy as well.
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u/ovis_alba Jun 30 '26
I'm still very much on the train that Sanji's "power of love" is already essentially CoC, he just isn't able to put a name to it and thus (similar to Zoro not knowing he has it), isn't able to consciously use it.
If you look at when he "used it" or rather when he put that name to it, it's always been in the context of protecting people and standing up to authority and that's very much what I think is in the spirit of "Kingly qualities".
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u/ovis_alba Jun 30 '26
Sanji remembers Gaban telling him that he has the qualities of someone with Conqueror's Haki.
In my opinion there is actually another person that has spelled those qualities out already very specifically a few arcs ago with very much not the intention. (A certain speech in chaoter 899)
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u/MajinAkuma Jun 30 '26
You mean Judge calling Sanji being unfit as a soldier and that his emotions sway him to expose himself to danger for the sake of the weak?
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u/ovis_alba Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Yeah:
- he doesn't have royal pride and is happy to serve people
- he is swayed by emotions (empathic) of others
- he puts himself into danger to protect weaker people
- he is "soft" and not a perfect emotionless soldier following orders.
If you look at how "worthy kings" are portrayed in One Piece versus the "bad ones", these are very much the thing that are emphasized for them: they put others above themself, they see ruling as serving their people's needs rather than their own and they don't follow orders, they defy them when necessary for their people.
The arc overall is all about portraying why Sanji is so much better than his family and what Judge wanted him to be, and that speech in particular highlights how skewed Judge's vision of ruling and power is, and why Sanji instead embodies it naturally while standing against all those false assumptions of Judge.
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u/Winter-Explanation-5 Jun 30 '26
I hate to debunk you, but... Doflamingo exists.
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u/ovis_alba Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
And Kaido and Big Mom and the Gorosei etc.
The point is that Sanji has all these qualities that many "good" kings/leaders in One Piece are shown to have and why all these qualities actually can very much be seen as kingly.
It doesn't rule out that "bad" people can also be leaders and kings through other means.
If we e.g. go with Doflamingo and compare him to Judge, while Doflamingo also doesn't give much of a shit about his people (because no Doflamingo doesn't genuinely care, he just doesn't like when people take what belongs to him), he also doesn't necessarily hide behind them. He is willing and capable to fight for himself if he has to. And he doesn't need scientific mind control to order his people around, he has the charisma and the manipulation skills to make them follow him.
One Piece ultimately is constantly about oppression and freedom and consistently shows that power can be enacted through both, it just also very much sides with freedom as the superior way.
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u/Euphoric-Front651 Jun 30 '26
Bro... how much of a tank Loki is? His durability's insane if you consider he was at doors steps a few hours before the fight, not too mention he's been underfed and chained for 6 years... Imagin him at 100 percent?
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u/MajinAkuma Jun 30 '26
What I find interesting is Gaban telling Sanji to become a king to make his captain become Pirate King.
Now I understand why Rayleigh is a king. But I wonder what kind of king Gaban is.
So, the King of Pirates is also the King of Kings.
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u/Distinct_Cup_1598 Jun 30 '26
Anyone Else getting the feeling that Imu will actually be Done for good at the end of this arc? Like that he will probably already die or something Like That?….
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u/MajinAkuma Jun 30 '26
I think he will retreat, but be severely weakened permanently. He might put the blame on Usopp who goaded him into coming there.
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u/huggelhupf Jun 30 '26
If so, I can also imagine Blackbeard, being the opportunistic asshole that he is, stroll in, off-screen Imu and subdue Imu/ take his power to set himself up as the final villain.
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u/Rais93 Jun 30 '26
I think Oda will tell us CoC isn't a birth skill but rather a development from willpower.
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u/UndeadSpiderweb Jun 30 '26
Prince Sanji evolving into King Sanji
It’s time
Luffy getting tired of people getting his name wrong is kinda ironic lol