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The one thing Shanks knows best is how to evade child support, because he possesses the Will of D-eadbeat.

I really like that theory that Shanks first wanted to give the Gomu Gomu no Mi to Ace, but Luffy ate it accidentally, but when he learned the kind of person that Luffy is, he was like "you know what? Maybe it was fate"

Look we all know Shanks went to warn them about Buggy, the most diabolical pirate in the world

If you reread the last chapter of Oden’s journey with Roger, you will see that Shanks went to Roger and asked him questions alone then cried. We don’t know Shanks’s history, so he might have asked Roger about literally anything. And Roger doesn’t mind saying what the “Will of D” is or where “Laugh Tale” is as we saw with him and Whitebeard

It's just so crazy how that Rayleigh probably knew about this things but Dark King just go along with Shanks plans.

Shank is probably one of the more mysterious characters in the world of One Piece, which is funny considering he was one of the first characters to be introduced into the story. Many people theorized about what pirate or mythological figure is he based off, but I think it's safe to say Oda had some inspiration from a character from the Book "Treasure Island", and the character is Long John Silver. Read about him a bit and you'll see too many coincidences and similarities between him and Shanks.

I love the fact that Yasopp wears a “No 1 Dad in the world” shirt

I love how this dude explain things in funny ways

Let's not change the fact that Shanks left his daughter and gave his straw hat to a random kid

I think Shanks is actually just an Irishman, more specifically Ned Kelly's father who everyone called red.

Smile fruits being artificial Zoen DF, and the one smile Vegapunk made was a mythical Zoen and the sun god nika is always smiling and makes everyone around him smile thus making the WG trying to recreate it via vegapunk

My theory: The amount of guards for Gomu Gomu fruit was because the WG leaders had classified intel on need to know basis which mentioned things like "Fruit that looks like *this* is secretly very important. GET IT! ...Also, don't let anyone outside the inner circle know that it is important and potentially disastrous." but did not include the most important details like "what the real name and powers of the fruit are." This would explain the amount of resources and time they spend on trying to get it. It would also explain why Luffy could then walk around as a rubber-man without raising attention. Most WG agents and Marines who saw him, had no idea of the potential threat in him. Like Liam mentions, the Gorosei finding out the complete truth only until Wano is the most likely explanation to plenty of odd actions. I am not 100% convinced that Shanks was the one who told them though, since that would not seem like something he would do, so Im is the one I suspect. And as for why Im didn't tell the whole truth immediately is (in my theory) that Im is so distanced from minor details of ruling the world that he didn't hear about Gomu Gomu fruit until the Reverie. After all, most of WG forces thought it was just a random paramecia of no particular worth. And even to Gorosei it would be "fruit that our predecessors wanted us to get, but keep it down low." But when he finally heard this minor detail, he had a freakout.

I've seen a few comments mentioning this but in Oden's flashback Shanks asks Roger a question and cries. From my perspective, I don't think this had to do with his disease. There wouldn't be a real reason to keep the question a secret if that was the case. Also- I'd like to say that Shanks was probably in the east blue looking for roger's son (ace) OR he was there because the ship with the devil fruit was there. Anyway, Shanks' bet is still a bet I think, because the Gorosei don't say no one's used the fruit in 800 years, they say no ones awakened it. So it's possible that the potential the fruit sees in it's chosen welders doesn't always come true. This could be why it's still a "Bet" for Shanks. He *could* kill Luffy and have Ace eat the fruit, but he doesn't. Probably because he likes Luffy and doesn't want to see him die. Also, you'd be hard pressed to get me to believe that Shanks saves Luffy because of fate or destiny. Shanks adored Luffy, and Luffy reminded him of his captain. All this to say I will be one unhappy camper if it comes out that Shanks is not on Luffy's side.

Wait, does the cardboard samurai Gandhi have pee in his pants? wtf hahaha

Luffy do be destroying kaido with big haki fist (Gomu-Gomu no Zunesha Pistol)

"With great fruit, comes great irresponsibility" - Shanks (probably)

Damn i really need more Shanks screentime in OP

Dragon knew. All the signs are there. From the beginning Dragon always said to Luffy to follow his destiny. He was on the island by the time Shanks was too. Dragon must be behind something.

You forgot the 6th decree in Shanksland... NO CLAPPING.

how are you so consistent with the best quality, humor, delivery, and everything else a youtuber should have you not being at 1 mil yet is criminal

Who else thinks that Shanks wasn't saving Luffy's life but instead was merely preventing the Devil Fruit from being reborn somewhere else in the world?

Theory: Considering luffy’s fruit had a name and a different type all along what is stopping other devil fruits. Imagine if blackbeard didn’t consume a logia with the yami yami no mi but a mythical zoan thats like the god of the moon or darkness something the complete opposite of the sun. Remember when he fought ace, “the sun or the darkness only one can prevail”. Hinting more as luffy and blackbeard being the final matchup. Sun god vs Dark God.

What shanks does not know is how many children think of him as a dad

My theroy is that the pirate kings crew found out the time line needed for the future, and Shanks was chosen to bring the fruit to Ace if he could get it. When he brought it to the island Luffy was chosen instead, and since you can't uneat the apple, Shanks went all in with Luffy being the chosen one instead of Ace. I only think this because if they knew they needed a D., Ace would be one, with both the inherited will of Roger and Joyboy.

If indeed Shanks knew everything about the future in regards to Luffy, it might explain the plot hole and his evasiveness throughout the story trying to avoid as much contact as possible with Luffy being afraid that his knowledge of the future might sabotage the actual order of events to occur perhaps?

My headcanon is that Shanks planned on giving Ace the fruit. He wasn't sure of where to find Ace but must have had some idea since he ended up on the same island Ace and Luffy lived on. Luffy just happened to get to it first.

Not sure you mentioned this or not: at one scene: Garp was told Luffy have 1.5 B on the bounty, and yet he said: he is still a fledgling. Which could suggest that he also knew the fruit hidden awakening

That big mom effed guys at the club joke was hilariously slid in😭😭😭

I want to point out the fact that *NOT ONCE* did Liam say anything personal postive about raid shadow legends. In fact, he *went out of his way* to avoid saying positive things about them

Of course he knew. I was even wondering for a time, if actually he wasn't looking for Ace but an accident happened. Then he just went with it.

Hellow GrandLineReview. Its always a treat to watch you talk about One Piece. Thank you. Love from Denmark.

"And the answer is reasons, but then the questions becomes... what are those reasons? " I don't know why but that joke got me so hard🤣

I've always loved your content and breakdowns of One Piece, but I can't help but feel your videos are containing less and less breakdown and more filler recently. Its not objectively bad, just not why I watch, would love to see some more videos that are more densely packed with analysis. Because recently it feels like you could reduce the run time by 75% and not lose any actual analysis. Just my humble opinion, take care

I'm still skeptical of the idea that Shanks told the Elders about Luffy's fruit. Keep in mind that scene took place well over a month before the raid on Onigashima, so it's really weird that the Elders only started panicking once round 3 of Luffy vs Kaido began.

the "scuffed" art youve got goin on always makes me chuckle, give ur artist a raise

Laws in shanksland: proper hygiene is necessary Also laws in shanksland: no bathrooms only bushes

I have a one piece theory.. What if luffy is the main character of one piece?

"The only thing that changed between Wano and not Wano was speaking to Shanks." True...unless you count Big Mom's fall and Luffy being in a legitimate position to put Kaido down, which would destabilize the current power structure of the sea, which the World Govt didn't want...But yeah, other than that, lol.

Really weird how technically luffy has eaten a “smile” fruit

Really like the art and presentation style. It's safe for you and fun for me. Always happy when I spot a new character being drawn in a new style. You guys are doing a great job.

AYY Wooahh first time being first, anyways excited for Film Red lol

Yknow, in retrospect it’s crazy how relevant Shanks is in the story considering how little he’s on screen

Loved the keikaku means plan that flashed on screen for a second lolololol

Jesus, the way you speak and support it with funny moving pictures is hilarious ❤️

I imagine Big Mom waking up at the end of this and questioning Luffy about his fruit, and it will be her that tells Luffy the true nature of his Devil Fruit. At least, if her information network is as good as she says it is.

Yes, Shanks knew and he totally got the 5 Elder Farts to do the thing Shanks knew Luffy needed to do to awaken his DF.

I've had some theories myself, a long with the OP subreddit, but have been waiting on youtubers to start doing videos on it to get some more research, so thanks for sharing :)

I love your script

One thing I've been thinking lately, is that Oden says something along the lines of "when we reached that island we learnt everything about the world", plus the laughing reaction. Reaction being the key word. It doesn't seem like they investigated, or even read a poneglyph. It almost seems that as soon as they saw the One Piece, they just... knew. And laughed. It really intrigues me. I don't think it was like a flood of information, but rather something so simple it was so overlooked that they laughted at how ridiculous it all was. Or how simple.

I can never get into “Shanks knew all along” because you have to make way too many assumptions to make it work.

the tiny "good boy shanks" clip was so traumatic to me i didnt hear the rest of what u said cuz it kept looping in my brain 😂

Apoo: "somehow worse than Foxy" Truer words were never spoken lmfaoooo

I feel like the whole act of shanks saving luffy becomes a lot less impactful if it was all about the fruit of destiny and less about shanks just seeing a bit of himself in the kid. I mean, the very key things that made luffy someone who follows shanks example as a pirate and someone who laughs off insults, cherishes his friends no matter what? no its just because he ate the fruit so shanks had so choice but to pick luffy. what a terrible reveal that would be. I can totally get on the fruit willing itself into their path, and them unknowing giving to luffy who is supposed to get it.

The elders are good guys. They needed Luffy to die, so he would awaken.

Its insane that he knew all along

The small character illustrations are so cute! Kudos to liam, editor and illustrator!!

You know at first I was sure that Luffy was “a certain pirate”. But now I’m starting to believe that Oda intended for us to go down that rabbit-hole. Shanks snitching on Luffy so that the Gorosei would kill him which would then awaken the fruit seems a bit.. absurd. I don’t think the prerequisite to awakening Luffy’s fruit was death, but rather the sheer willpower to continue. Which leaves me with two possibilities: Evil Shanks, or someone like Rocks D Xebec is still alive.

Unrelated but Doflamingo should've injected the mera mera no mi with poison. That way even if someone else wins it, they would eat it and die (I know he never anticipated someone else winning it). He could then simply scout out the fruit again lmao. This is truly doflamingo levels of evil.

Great video and great channel! Also I'm a new and satisfied member of grand line review

New member of the grand fleet! Love all your videos! Binging all of them has single-handedly gotten me through two days of being tattooed 😩

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Shanks made a deal with the Gorosei. He would maintain balance within the 3 powers. And the Gorosei would stay away from Luffy.

Hi! I like the way you tell one piece stories. You make the story telling interesting, well one piece is of course very interesting and the best and i am a die hard fan. Thats why im here. Subscribed!

Howdy, new member of the Grand Fleet here. Been catching up to One Piece recently and just found the channel a couple days ago.

With all the talk about Luffy's fruit, wondering what people are thinking about Luffy's bounty post-Wano. Personally, I think it won't go up. It'll could be removed entirely. The World Government decide that Luffy is truly too dangerous to be left alive and so what do they do? Erase him from history. Starting with getting rid of his bounty and they stop circulating his bounty poster; all while doing what they can to silently kill this massive threat to their status quo. If the Gorosei are involved, I can see them wanting to erase his existence. Luffy with his awakening is probably the most dangerous thing to the World Government right now and bringing more attention to him with a massive bounty increase probably isn't something they want given the nature of the awakening and the history of Sun God Nika, Warrior of Liberation.

I absolutely love the new art on the channel , Liam you have chosen great artists

The rhyming names matchups made me lol

I feel like Shanks knew that the awakening of the fruit is activated through "death", which means that he tricked the gorosei into killing Luffy so he can awaken it. Maybe.

Knowing that Shanks's crew was the one who stole the most precious and feared devil fruit why were the gorosei still let him in and talk to him, and not capturing him instead? So I have a very wild theory and just bear with me... What if the gorosei are actually conspiring with Shanks (or maybe even Roger) to overthrown Imu?

awesome job on the videos man

Tell your new graphics artist that they're doing a great job, and that we love them.

I'm honestly leaning towards Shanks wanting balanced control. Not a complete governed world, but a balance throughout the world. He realizes Luffy is getting too powerful, and although he doesn't specifically want to, knows Luffy needs to be stopped. I think Shanks isn't evil, just has ideals that don't 100 percent coincide with Luffy's complete freedom ideals.

You 4 got about the ripped out pages of the journal lol 😆 😂

Lol piano teeth and I was thinking apoo. Good one Liam.

The thing I love about this video is you refer to Shanks being like an Australian and heading to the pub after accomplishing a goal. I'm Australian and I do that all the time!

i really like what you've done regarding the Toei/Copyright issue. The whole, everything is drawn by oneself (or in this case a hired artist) is something ive seen from another channel years ago, that had a similar situation with unfair copyright harassment compared to what initiated this change here. in both cases i can say i enjoy the videos even more after introducing custom drawings of everything, it has alot more charm and personaliy than just showing a screencap or a video of something. very good change!

Those pictograms are really fun to watch! You must have made lots of them!

When Luffy is Harry Potter, his devil fruit is the speaking hat.

I absolutely loved the way you positioned the poster in the background, I know that wasn't intentional but they look like the five figures that appeared over luffy when kaido was hit by Luffy's red ROC for the first time

Glad to be welcomed to the subscriber gang ❤️❤️❤️💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

No. 1 dad shirt of yassop had me 😂😂😂

Really enjoyed this video, I'm so glad I've not been a follower for a long time - it means I get to binge watch them and explain the universe of One Piece to my partner while she stares are me with disapproval.

I love the new style so much, the drawings and editing is just fantastic

Thanks for the vid bro keep up the good work New member yeah

i pressed the subscribe button for the grand line review and have been getting consistent injections of one piece content administered directly into my youtube feed

New rule your hair hast to be tie-dyed red

I think Raoul knows more . You know how information gets gathered in a bar .

Hi I’m a new member, happy to have subscribed ✌🏼

Liam "No Knee son" Nice one!

Nice Video Liam!

6:05 and then after eating Luffy begins to maniacally laugh and say he wants to be a bandit like Higuma the bear 😂

Your vids are so funny and entertaining. I enjoy the humor combined w insightful OP content. Well done

The production, editing and artworks in this video are fantastic

So shanks is essentially Dr strange, knowing that the right outcome will occur if all the bad shit happens

"NO! Spit it out! You ate the Hit... I mean the Gomu Gomu no Mi!"

Crocus knows everything ಠ_ಠ

Just subscribed and joined the Grand Fleet! Great video btw

Thank you for mentioning my country in the video its always exciting to hear Nicaragua in any video

I'm so happy you put this out. I felt this way for awhile. I feel very validated.