#1130 spoilers

[raconteur-wanpi]

One Piece 1130

Here comes another review / reaction!

Starting with the Yamato cover stories again, it seems whoever is the suspicious kidnapper is also trying to steal Yamato's katana! Or at least, I'm assuming it's the same person. I feel like this means we're going to find out who it is rather soon. Is my bet on Perospero going to be completely and utterly debunked? We'll just wait and see.

Franky and the rest of the strawhats remaining on the giants' ship seem to have decided to call off the search! It's certainly the right decision, because as we'll see later, the rest of the crew is indeed already on Elbaf. It's interesting to see Franky specifically showcasing determination and speaking out the decision, I kinda love it. You have to remember he was the leader of the Franky Family for a long while, nice seeing that element of his again.

The rest of the New Giant Pirates are starting to show up! I remember both Gerd and Goldberg, but getting more dialogue from them is nice, they seem like genuinely charming characters and I love both their designs. They even showed up in Vegapunk's flashback, helping out Saul pick up all the books in Ohara. They seem to not like Rodo very much, which is kinda funny but makes total sense. It's also worth mentioning that apparently, according to Linlin's childhood flashback, Loki, Rodo and Goldberg were all born on the same day, or at least very close to each other! (From chapter 866)

The strawhats unfortunately don't recognize these two, who are certainly their allies, so instead they hide away from them.

This panel of all of them making their escape from Rodo's weird creepy dungeon is pretty cute, I always love seeing the strawhats casually interact. Sanji saying he used to cross a rope bridge like this is very interesting to me, surely there was one in Germa, right?

* Edit: oops, turns out that's Chopper saying it! Big thanks for the corrections in the replies. It's really hard to tell, but that makes more sense, we do see that in Drum Island.

Anyway, Luffy seems to spot something that catches his interest during this walk-away.

Meanwhile, back on the ship with the Giant Warrior Pirates....

Dorry and Broggy have been framed for the Egghead incident by Morgans also! Well, they did go against the government, so it's to be expected. Their bounties increasing to such numbers seems to actually align with real life inflation rates, Oda did his research.

Aaaandd here it is, one of the biggest things in this chapter. Vivi left a message to the strawhats!!!!!!! Being with Morgans, she was obviously able to draw the marking on the photo before it started getting reproduced for publishing. Everyone predicting Vivi joining the strawhats this arc is probably correct, hopefully! Please let it happen. Go get your girl kids!!!!!!

OK, this is the other huge (pun unintended) thing revealed this chapter. More information on Loki and, well.... the revelation Harjudin might be his brother!? They're both the King's sons, right? They both get referred to as princes here, aren't they!?

King Harold is referred to as Loki's father here, so it's safe to assume he was Harjudin's father also. If this is the case, Harjudin going after the Flame Flame Fruit in Dressrosa makes more sense.

Hmm, this narrative is pretty interesting, Loki getting called things like "cursed", "the shame of Elbaf" "not right in the head" etc, it feels like pretty cruel words. Even if he is indeed a horrible and dangerous person, something tells me we're meant to be wary of people being spoken about that way, so it might be a case of the people of Elbaf taking their measures against this guy too far and pushing him into what he eventually turned into.

One Piece loves this narrative, when you have things like Wano's unjust treatment of the Kurozumi Clan or Doflamingo's treatment when he was a child. Yes, Orochi and Doffy did turn out into terrible, horrible people, but the implication of those narratives is that it's the systems that failed them that created those monsters. It's not to feel sympathy towards them or anything, they really don't deserve that at this point, but rather to understand how they were created, and that the people who unwittingly turned them into such dangers were in many ways in the wrong as well. After all, Tama is also a Kurozumi, for example, and Wano needed to get over their treatment of entire clans for the crimes of a few. We even see that with Yamato being hazed for his father being Kaidou in the cover stories, only for Denjiro to scold the younger generation for this behavior. Not to mention, "the shame of Elbaf" does immediately make me think of "the failure of Germa" and such similar things. In fact, if we wanna push that parallel further, Loki being almost married off to the Charlottes' in a similar way, might have in fact been an attempt at "getting rid of the failure" and letting someone else deal with him, rather than an attempt at making amends with Linlin. I do think it's most likely that Loki will be a bad guy, but I think there will also be a narrative on how cruelty breeds more cruelty. Oda's favorite!

And here he is, the "accursed prince". Wow, what a panel! This is such a good drawing in sense of scale and danger. Incredible artistic work. Immediately leaves such a strong impression on who this character is, it's quite the introduction!

[yamat0]

luffy starts ragnarok is like pretty much confirmed now right? he’ll release loki and like @swampstew and i were talking about the covering over his eyes probably holds back some sort of trickery power he has to where he has to see for his illusions/mischief to work

[benevolentcannibal]

I am far from immune to his aura.

[beaulesbian]

ch. 1075 // ch. 1130

[misqnon]

they seem closer lately. in like, a casual way. this is the second arc in a row sanji’s just manhandling zoro to keep him out of trouble and zoro’s just like ]:|

[joy-girl]

One Piece 1130 // Loki and Monkey D. Luffy

[theclearblue]

FUUUUUCCCKKKK DON'T DO THIS TO ME

NONE OF THE ALABASTA CREW HAS ACCESS TO THE NEWSPAPER IT'S VIVI SENDING A SIGN OH MY GOOOOOODDDDD

[ichigoginchan]

sanji really grabbed zoro and lowkey said "no, you're staying with me you're not getting lost this time" he's like zoro's babysitter 😭

[lavender-ages]

This is what the beginning of Elbaf looks like to me

[sabo-torao]

i'm doing so bad

[wingsofsong]

The chapter inspired me!

Watercolor, casein, and gouache on some 2.00USD Kraft paper from Daiso.

Edit: Please follow my new twitter in my bio!

[yamat0]

this probably means nothing at all bc oda never drew that tattoo on kid again as far as i’m aware and loki’s are definitely some sort of wings and not a spiral like that kid one or kalgaras but… what if

[krishneide]

Waifu says NO!!!

[mikey-ho]

[lightningbastard]

I'm pretty certain Luffy will set Loki free, unless Hajrudin or other Giants are nearby to prevent that from happening.

If Luffy does free Loki & essentially unleashes hell onto Elbaf I wonder what effect that will happen on Luffy and Hajrudins relationship.

Eventhough Luffy didn't want or care about the fleet swearing loyalty to him, he is now a Yonko and a rift in his fleet will have a wide effect on his reputation as an Emperor.

Likewise, Hajrudin already had infighting in his crew due to his decision to be a subordinate of Luffy, if it gets out that Luffy set Loki free this may force Hajrudin to either lose face among the other giants of Elbaf as thier Prince or have to fight Luffy. Either way he'll be caught in the middle.

It'd also be interesting to learn how the Giants reacted to the news of Luffy crashing Big Moms tea party and being part of her defeat at Wano and ultimately losing her Yonko title. Luffy is for sure a divisive public figure to the Giants and this is all excluding any Giants who would like him by proxy of stories told by Shank, Dorry, Broggy, Oimo & Kashi.

Regardless, despite the chaos Luffy will undoubtedly cause the citizens of Elbaf for the duration of the arc I do believe once it becomes known that he is Nika, I'm sure Hajrudin will gain some credit/forgiveness for bringing the true Sun God to Elbaf and finally become the King of Giants.

And outside of Luffy's relationship with Hajrudin & Big Mom, there's also Nami's friendship with Lola to consider and hiw that will play into Loki's character when he meets Nami. Has Loki even been able to keep up with the news of the world while he's been locked up?

[joy-girl]

Okay so you're telling me that Charlotte Lola rejected this man???

And on Thriller Bark she went after Absalom? Girl 😭😭😭