#one piece 1138

[otakuradiance97]

Ripley: Oh that’s the mural from the void century

Franky: The wha-

[firefistacesfreckles]

guys idek what to say i'm speechless,,, only thing i can say right now is that i'm so glad that i'm caught up with the manga because it's only going to get crazier from here on out and i'm all for it

i'm also going to drop this here very casually...

[mugiwarafan]

bro i don't even have words right now i need to lie down

[karinzany]

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1138 OF ONE PIECE

@shishishi-sunny @wyvernslovecake @theheybarrel

I'm basically going to write what I understood from the last panel.

"The First World", ended 900 years ago - beginning of the Great War and to what we call "the Void Century", and "The Second World" - 800 years ago - the end of the Void Century and the beginning of the World Government rule.

The first world was a technologically advanced world, symbolized by the factory. Humanity used the "Mother Flame" - the "forbidden sun" (represented by the balls of energy carried by the slaves) in their industry. The slaves wished upon their liberation, and from what Vegapunk told us, akuma no mi are the materialization of the wishes of humanity. So the Hito Hito no mi: model Nika came to be. A man-made God was born. The "god of earth" Pluton, a ship that moved using the energy of the Mother Flame caused the big earthquake that sank the world 200 meters (chapter 1115), and only the islands we know today remained. To survive the flood, people and animals got on the Noah ark, just like it happened on the Bible passage that inspired the manga.

I'm also curious about "Vearth", the god of earth in Skypiea.

The serpent of hell can be a reference to Jormungandr or the Leviathan. Maybe in the context of One Piece it is Nerona Imu themselves. Maybe it is a former user of the Yami Yami no Mi that brought darkness and death... Maybe it is just the serpent of Skypiea.

"The god of the forest sent forth demons" - the Devil Fruit tree created an army of Devil Fruit users. "The sun merely spread the embers of war" - Nika/Joyboy/The Sun God lead that army into war, his companions of the Ancient Kingdom: Nefertari Lili, Emet, Zunisha.

"The people of the half-moon" - Kozuki and Minks? - and "the people of the moon" - Shandorans, Birkans, Skypieans? - dreamed of a new Dawn. But humanity, the alliance of the 20 kingdoms, killed the sun, Joyboy, and began their reign of terror.

The God of sea became enraged - the Mermaid Princess Poseidon, Joyboy's dear friend, brought destruction after his passing.

"They could never meet again" - Poseidon was exiled in Fishman Island and Pluton buried under Wano. What about Uranus? I don't know, maybe the Mother Flame itself is Uranus and Pluton is "just" the warship.

About the People of the Moon:

Enel's cover page story is now more important than ever. His ark Maxim is depicted on chapter 1138, since it was probably used by the first moon people to come to the blue sea. It has also been a famous theory that the first Joyboy might have been one of them.

Who is that big Dragon in the middle of the page? I'm not sure. Is that the Forest God? I was reminded of the current Gorosei, and it vaguely looks like Markus Mars, just like the serpent resembles Ju Peter.

"The Third World" is about to end right now. It is a post-apocaliptic world where most people aren't aware of the events of the Void Century. We can see a bunch of characters that are well know to us readers and are destined to bring the End of Times and the Dawn of the New World (which we now now it's is going to be the Fourth): Luffy as Nika, Shirahoshi as Poseidon, Loki representing the Giants apparently, Emet the robot who was a companion of Joyboy, a Tontatta, a Mink, and a series of ships with what we assume have the Ancient Kingdom flag:

I would like to bring attention to a character that was highlighted in a previous moment of the chapter. It looks like a Mink, but I think he is a Zoan User - Yamato in his Okuchi no Makami form, the Guardian Deity of Wano.

Finally the big Demon holding the Sun is Imu, next to a ship with their Holy Knights / the Navy. The world will end with the ultimate battle against the Darkness that wants to extinguish the light of the Sun. And the Sun will emerge victorious and bring a new Dawn.

The drums of liberation will play to the rythim of Nika's heart. The will of D. will be fulfilled at last.

As the late Tom would say:

D. = Don = Dawn

Note: Eiichiro Oda studied about the biggest pirates and navigators in the world, which includes the Portuguese, like Fernão de Magalhães (Magellan) or Bartolomeu Dias (Bartolomeo, Bartholomew Kuma). In Portugal, when we refer to a lord or a lady, we put a D. next to their name, short for "Dom" - Sir/Lord or "Dona" - Dame/Lady. For example, Portugal's first king is called D. Afonso Henriques.

I think Oda did a play on words with Don and Dawn, meaning both the sound of a drum and the Dawn of the New World. So the D. clan are the real "lords" of the world.

[jinxisgaming]

Me after reading one piece 1138

There was so much that happened in one chapter. Holy God....literally. what the hell is 1139 gonna be like! I'm both scared and excited.

[joy-girl]

"We gotta show Robin! She'll be thrilled!" 🥹❤️

[lgbtiba]

GOOD LORD WHAT A CHAPTER

[sapphicfandompirate]

WHAT?!

[sabo-torao]

this panel feels so... real.

i don't really know how to explain it; it feels like she's telling us a fact even though us readers should know she's most likely wrong. it really makes me think

[shishishi-sunny]

Oh my gosh

[beaulesbian]

ONE PIECE CH. 1138 SPOILERS

i can't stop looking at it. i can't stop thinking about this.

so specifically i love seeing how the Sun symbol changes throughout the three parts of this mythology mural:

in the first world we see the sun symbol as part of the factory (the advanced technology of the pre- void century world) - it looks more like cogs of a wheel, working together - meaning the work of the slaves, who were praying for the freedom. praying for the sun god.

it's both depicting symbol of sun but also the power they were harvesting from the sun, the forbidden star, into the weapon (possibly to the mother flame - could it be already something like a celestial dragon - the fire breathing figure/'weapon' in the background?, powered by the sun which then caused the sinking of the world lower)

in the second world, the sun god nika was killed (Edit: meant Joy Boy), and only few of his allies remained, hiding or scattered around the world - that only ship amongst others who carries his symbol of the sun.

the adam tree and franky are interestingly placed in the middle of this mural (actually, it might not be the adam tree, only a tree with the devil fruits, but with franky connected to it, it could be really the adam tree, also for elbaf it's the most important tree, and is the equivalent to the yggdrasil tree from the nordic mythology - connecting all the realms). the tree dividing the history in half, almost like the red line on the one piece map being in the centre. i wonder if the devil fruit's came from the adam tree - the forbidden knowledge apple - devil fruit that gives powers, etc etc bible, adam and eve, gods and devils.

(that other fire breathing creature could also be symbol for the lunarians, the race which King the Wildfire is part of, that were said to live on top of the red line. black wings and fire are their known features, plus it looks like it's fighting against the mother flame, against the WG, which was keeping King captive..)

in the third world the sun motif is both on Nika's shield, but also clutched in the large figure's hand, it looks very similar to jimbei's tattoo he changed after he escaped slavery. it feels like this figure could be holding in their hands the concept of freedom, of power, of life - hording it only for themselves, and the nika figure is going straight against their hand to free it - fighting for freedom.

(the figure's other hand literally looms over nika, like the shadow mentioned in the text above, and 'the voice of the half moon echoes through the agees' speaks of toki, who carried the prophecy throughout centuries to the future, believing in the sun god to reappear)

if imu is the darkness and holding onto the life itself for themselves (immortal), then luffy/nika would be their biggest enemy because it would mean they're grabbing the light and life from others, and nika fought for freedom, and luffy wants everyone to be able to live like they want to.

[firefistacesfreckles]

so it is confirmed that shamrock is, indeed, shanks' twin brother (i mean, it was obvious atp).

what i'm mostly curious about is WHEN did shanks go back to mary geoise? after roger's death??? and WHY? so many questions omg

and the fact that he hated it and preferred to go back and form a crew of his own 😭😭

[mugiwarafan]

i fucking love lore piece

[raconteur-wanpi]

Does anyone see the through-line here or am I insane. Am I making sense. Does anyone else See It.

Children's dreams. Children's imagination. Nika's imagination. Nika is the imagination of the oppressed, their dreams for freedom. Nika is a child's idea of joy and liberation, like Kuma's dreams of freedom as a child slave.

Luffy's dream, Roger's dream... Luffy is Oda's idea of the "ideal child", the mural in Elbaph depicts everyone coming together no matter their origin, Otohime warns of the children being the future against separation and hatred. Ripley says these ideas on the mural must be the dream of a child, the mural depicts Joyboy's efforts along with all his allies etc etc.

I can't articulate myself so I hope people Understand. This is incoherent, I am aware. Can anyone hear me.

[mjrtaurus]

That mural really has all of us acting like bible scholars comparing any and all possible translations, and any and all possible interpretations of each of those possible translations.

[crocsanddocs]

One Piece, chapter 1138 "That's why I think... it was probably just some kids dream."

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