Remember when Merphy said she wouldn't do weekly One Piece reviews? Yeah we all knew she would jump on board eventually 😂

The same phrase in Japanese that Brogy used here to say "we came to pick you up" 「迎えに来た（ぞ／よ）」is used by Merry when they came for the strawhats during the Buster Call at Enies Lobby.

This arc is peak One Piece. Absolutely unbelievable.

I saw this on X where someone pointed out that Dory and Brogy was introduced on chapter 116 and came back on 1106 but what's really cool was the chapter names 116 "Giants" and 1106 "On your side" "Giants on your side"

Your artist captured the emotion of Bonney's realization masterfully

I kind of love how Saturn had the arrogance to believe that Vegapunk couldn't go behind his back because "the 'mighty' St. Saturn knows science" and then Vegapunk went behind his back anyway...twice.

Your artist for the thumbnails is incredible! Her art continues to blow me away every single time! Stunning.

Okay now I'm convinced, your artist is officially top tier.

This might be one of my favourite chapters ever. Bonnie having control of the pacifistas. Bonnie seeing Nika, and Dory and Broggy. I was tearing up the entire chapter .

In regards to Lilith being "evil", keep in mind that the figure of Lilith in Abrahamic mythology was only labelled as "evil" because she refused to be subservient to Adam. Lilith in One Piece clearly isn't evil, she's just rowdy and rambunctious and is likely the embodiment of Vegapunk's rebellious spirit (which the WG would consider evil, but I don't).

I love that one piece turned you into a weekly reviewer despite your protests. That is the power of one piece!

8:10 Counter point. If Vegapunk keeps getting away with stuff that Saturn should have been aware of (due to him saying he'll catch it), that shows that Saturn isn't as great as he claims. So if Oda keeps doing it, then it's purposeful at showing Saturn's ineptness, which fits the general themes of One Piece being about how people in power who use it to control others are generally not that useful by their own means.

This simple move made me a fan of Vegapunk. A father's love is very seldom focused in media and I love that a father's love is getting some love in a media I love.

Okay now your thumbnail artist is just showing off.

The dichotomy of free will between kizaru and VP, dawned on me super hard this chapter.

We went from "We need to escape, quick before is too late" to "you're all trapped in here with me"

Wow the thumbnail is freaking gorgeous

Vegapunk's brain is literally not inside of his body. It actually makes less sense that he died from that attack, than the other way around lol

i attributed Vegapunk being able to go behind Saturn’s back to Saturn’s arrogance and underestimation of humans. He never considered that even the smartest man alive could outsmart him

17:15 There's a theory I've only heard from a Spanish content creator (who through his channel became friends with Live Action Sanji and Luffy, as both him and Taz are from Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and he is probably the biggest OPLA Spanish-speaking content creator, bastard even got Sanji to cook for him). We saw one of Blackbeard's ships, yes. The only members of the Ten Titanic Captains unaccounted for are Katarina Devon and Laffitte, so it could be them. But there are two more people unaccounted for, and they could've easily have stolen that ship: Moria and Perona. Koby freed Moria, as that was the condition for Perona to free him, and he was already free when Garp arrived in Hachinosu, but none of them were around when Garp arrived. If Moria stole one of Kurohige's ships this can be him. Now, Saturn is apparently immortal, BUT! If Moria were to steal his shadow, and Saturn was later exposed to sunlight? Ginny died because she was exposed to sunlight after Saturn experimented on her. Even Bonney inherited the disease and would've died if not for Vegapunk. Saturn dying for getting exposed to the Sun, both literally and metaphorically, as the Sun God is also there, would fit extremely well.

THE TEARS ARE MUSIC What a beautiful drawing

I was literally halfway through enjoying another video when I saw this thumbnail and I HAD to come in here to say how goddamn beautiful that art is.

I cannot give enough praise to the artist for these wonderful thumbnails. Also, it is insane that I had goosebumps twice while reading the chapter, Bonney seeing the savior Nika who she has been searching for all along and the Giants we met 24 years ago coming to save the strawhats again. The fact we are more than 1100 chapters in and the series can give us these incredible moments is testament to how good a storyteller Oda is.

I love listening to both Merphy and Melontee about One Piece, How they explain and really study the story and character brings a smile to my face. Please collab with melontee merph :)

I don't give a shit what anyone says or thinks - Kuma deserves to live SO much. More than anyone in the series. That man deserves happiness finally

This weeks artwork is actually insanely beautiful. Amazing work like wow

Nika in Bonney's eyes art? **chef's kiss** Your artist is fire!

Merphy cope-advocating for a Kizaru redemption arc for months and then forgetting his name out of sheer exasperation right at the beginning of this video is such a mood

Kizaru feels like he's getting weaker as his resolve wavers, which is perfectly in line with the rest of the story. The man is choosing his duty over his relations and it's showing the cracks in his armor

This time's art piece is absolutely gorgeous! Nika and Kuma as Boney's tears of hope, how perfect!

You're so right about Dorry and Broggy, everyone had a shortlist of options, and NO-ONE thought it would be Dorry and Broggy. The closest I got was thinking it might be Hajrudin and his New Giant Pirates (which actually includes Stansen, the Giant that noticed Rayleigh using Haki way back in slave auction house in Shabody - he has a full beard now!) who are now part of the Strawhat Grand Fleet, because Elbaf is *right there* after all, but no, not quite them.

These videos are the highlight of my monday. Your insight adds a level of depth to this story that I love so much. Thank you

Best artwork of Bonney you can literally see her feelings in her eyes 😊.

If Kuma genuinely is the last Buccaneer in the world then that makes the scene with Bonney even more emotional for me. She inherited the dream and promise of a now extinct people and she finally gets to see their promised liberator in the flesh.

16:00 Makes sense for the giants to remember, honestly. They live 3 times as long as a human, and Kureha is 141. For the giants, the void century was 2, at most 3 generations ago. Dorry's grandfather as a kid can have met JoyBoy, for all we know. Not to mention they worship the Sun God themselves

I don’t know who’s video I watched recently, either grand line reviews or tekking, but it talked about how the 3 admirals were supposed to represent Japanese work culture. They were modeled off actors, but each one shows how they are affected by office culture. Aokiji is the slacker who quits, kizaru is the guy who is defeated and doesn’t know anything else now, and Akainu is the one who fully embraces company culture.

Wow What gorgeous thumbnail art Instantly caught my eye

There were definitely a couple people who theorized it was the Giants coming. Though it was not a popular theory. And i don't think I saw anyone who said specifically those two.

Vegapunk putting one over on Saturn multiple times is appropriate because it reflects the absurdity of Saturn viewing someone like Vegapunk as an insect. The world government is, top down, holding a very distorted and inflated view of themselves.

I'm a fan of the idea that free will is a natural condition of anything that has a soul. And Vegapunk previously mentioned in this arc that the soul likely exists and weighs 21 grams, which may be connected to how he gave objects devil fruits. We saw the Going Merry have a soul after the love the crew gave it, and all the previous objects that had fruits seemed cared for by their owners, possibly related to the animism aspect of Shintoism (Many others have made this observation so I'll give credit to the Dawn & Dusk One Piece analysis videos since they are the ones I found most recently and the creator is a Japanese speaker that likes to address details lost in translation) So going off the detail that Kuma has his pads, I love the idea that the warrior of liberation could be able to free Kuma's soul from his condition at least enough to experience Nika and exercise his will at least temporarily. While I doubt Kuma's main body will leave Egghead without any consequences, I have more doubts that Bonney will leave this arc empty-handed of a guardian, whether it's Kuma's main body, a pacifista or the seraphim with Kuma's memories installed. Although, I don't want to kill Kuma but there's still an event that will shock the world, which means the world needs to be aware of what happens, and I think Vegapunk still has more means to broadcast a shock to the world, unless Kuma can transmit his memories around the world and shock them that way (like his attack, Ursa Shock. Or maybe its a team effort, with Vegapunk doing the transmission and Kuma doing the shock, before one is sacrificed). And I like the idea of Kuma's will and fruit being inherited by someone more than Vegapunk's (yes I am a Vivi-pawpaw-truther, let me have hope)

At the start of the chapter Dorry and Broggy say that they knew about Strawhat on Egghead from the newspaper. In the Mother Caramel flashback in the Whole Cake Island arc we found out that Elbaf worships the sun god. And Elbaf is close enough to Egghead that making it there in less than a day is no challenge for Giants.

It’s hard to explain, but there was a certain love that oda drew Bonnie with in this chapter. I think she grew on him in this arc She is definitely one of my favorites now 🩷

Was waiting for your take on the chapter because it was so emotional and cool and that last panel gives me so much hype

that thumbail of Bonney crying is absolutely breathtaking

All this time we thought we were going to Elbaf, turns out, Elbaf came to us 😂 I loved this chapter. It's exactly what I've been waiting for ever since we saw Kuma's flashback. Of all the g5 shenanigans, this chapter, my favorite was when Luffy turned all of Egghead Island rubber and bouncy. Even the marines were confused why the island was suddenly wobbly.

Your artist goes above and beyond once again Yay tissine!

The art in this chapter, especially on Bonney's panels, was so good. On Kizaru not turning - Assuming he has Observation Haki, maybe he saw that Luffy would punch him, and let it happen? I actually don't like Kizaru much, so I'm fine if he really is just committing to loyalty to Saturn. I think we're also gonna get the reveal that the Satellites titles "Good" "Evil" etc. aren't literally what they're programmed to be. Vegapunk just asked each of them to totally give in to a specific trait he assigned to them, to differentiate their fields and experiences. That, or Lilith really is "Evil" but will have to grow to be more then that to carry on Vegapunk's will. Hey, growing beyond being "evil" worked for Piccolo in Dragon Ball. :D Lastly, I think Lilith won't be the ONLY Satellite to survive. I think York will to, and end up escaping with the Blackbeard Pirates and that's why Oda's put them here. Though how that will shake down, I have no idea.

Nothing Vegapunk did was particularly personal against Saturn, it was just selfish, thats why Saturn ignored it, and later he just let Vegapunk live a little so he can see him suffer. Giving someone, anyone, higher authority over Saturn, was a personal "attack" on Saturn's pride, and that's when the "bug" must die instantly, and so he did.

Wow the art on your thumbnail is mesmerizing. So beautiful

I loved this chapter. It was my favorite in a long time. There was so many emotional punches in one chapter that i could barely handle it. I was so excited to see your reaction on it. I knew it would be awesome and I was right.

The artwork on the thumbnails is getting awesomer and awesomer. Love it!

Thank you for zooming in on the thumbnail art, I didn’t see the detail in the dancing homies in her eyes

Sending love to the artist!!

I like that when Vegapunk says the Buster Call is futile he's really saying all the Buster Calls we've seen were futile : you can't hope to snuff hundreds of years of hope when the sun is already shining over it

in my thought Kizaru is just waiting for Luffy to be back up to stop him and doesn't really want to do the bidding of Saturn without disobeying his order.

There was so much foreshadowing to it being the giants too and it went completely over our heads!! I was so excited when I saw their faces

For the artist that is an amazing thumbnail and to merphy what a great episode and lastly but certainly not least thanks to oda I feel like I have been spoiled with how many great chapters we have received as of late

This arc is quickly climbing the One Piece Arc tier list

Yes, Bonnie & Kuma finally got to see Sun God Nika luffy 😍💖🖤✨⚡🔥

I'm increasingly convinced Saturn's mythical Zoan has something to do with agreements or contracts, giving him power over people who break contracts with him. A deal with the devil gimmick. Vegapunk's phrasing of his willing sacrifice in openly breaking a contract wouldn't make sense otherwise, Saturn had already decided to kill him, but wasn't succeeding until the secret addition to Pacifista command hierarchy became clear. But then: Poof, stabbed through the chest. And Vegapunk knows that being caught in breach of contract with Saturn means placing himself under Saturn's Power of Punitive Clauses, and this is why he knows he's essentially saving Bonney at the cost of his own life. This would also explain why Kizaru might have fed Luffy, but still kept obeying Saturn's direct orders. He can't openly defy Saturn without instantly dying, but can undermine him on the sly to try and ensure he won't succeed in following orders. So, even if Kizaru's decided to switch sides, we won't see it happen overtly until he knows he can finish Saturn off or until he's forced to follow an order that he can't set himself up to fail at. At least that's why I think Garp refused promotion to Admiral and Sword task force members are all Marines who turned in their resignations. Something about the structure of the Marines puts them firmly under the Five Elder Stars' control.

great chapter. loved your review. easiest subscribe of my life!

What a thumbnail. Tissine outdid herself with this one damn.

Remember at Big Mom flashback, the giants where praying for "the sun god". And mother caramel let appear a sun and called him sun god to calm the giants.

MERPHY!! YOUR ARTIST OUTDID HERSELF TODAY!

I just re-read the arc last night, it's insane how quickly everything happened

Everytime Shanks shows up he doing gossip. Of course it was him, flip big news Morgans, Shanks is the Gossip Girl from the OP world.

Im at kumas appearance in thriller bark for my second run though the anime and this just makes me appreciate Oda even more for setting all this up

I'm so sad that there's a break next week D: First time I need to wait, since I caught up in the manga at the end of last year. Feels so bad not having a "next chapter" to read.

😂 I love Merphy's takes so much! LOL

The artist is going places with those drawings

got here almost immediately can't wait to watch

Oda is such a master. He is the best at setting up a mystery, letting everyone have their guesses, and then hitting us with an answer that NO ONE guessed, but it makes more sense than everyone’s guesses.

I always figured there had to be more to the authority chip than the information that we were given. There may even be more to be revealed later. One scene that stuck out to me ever since the heirarchy was revealed was the scene in Sabaody where Kuma was able to stop PX-1 from shooting Usopp. Kuma isn't an elder, Vegapunk, Sentomaru or even Cipher Pol, yet he was able to override Sentomaru's command to target the Straw Hats merely by saying "Stop, PX-1." I figured it means there's more to the chip, or Kuma is a secret Vegapunk satellite, and it looks like it's the former.

that art is AMAZING! 😢

One Piece “death” scenes have me so jaded I didn’t even think for a second Vegapunk could be dead lol, would be a nice surprise though

I've been waiting for this review. 😊

The art is amazing

That thumbnail whaaaaaaaaat?? Amazing!

Gorosei teleportation or summoning circles are distance bound. Because otherwise he wouldn't need a ship to travel

God damn the art this week is PEAK!

Lilith the Evil sort if fits the theme of leader,she's free-spirited like luffy too

Thumbnail is 🔥🔥🔥🔥.. Indeed it was another amazing chapter.

This chapter might be my favorite read of all time. Nothing like watching Merphy fangirling over OP.

The diagram when Vegapunk was explaining how Punk Records works puts his Body(Satella,Pride?) as a 7th Satellite Kaku's diagram has the 6 Satellites coming off Vegapunk which is isnt accurare My guess is,Since,Satella is already missing a brain, his body is more like a Cyborg/Puppet of Punk Records which is the real Vega Punk.....likely in a Hanger at a "Site B" Future City in Elbaugh the Civilians were fleeing Egghead for (Egghead Hanger Hanger just had a extender Router that got moved to the Sunny with a cloning bay and spare parts

beautiful

That art is so pretty 😍

There was DO MUCH HAPPENING in this chapter 🤯🤯🤯

I was sitting next to a friend of mine when this ch. came out. We immediately read it and were both ecstatic when my prediction of the Giants showing up turned out to be true!

Damn, I HAVE TO say, this artwork of Bonney is amazing...

Just came to say that thumbnail is amazing 🥲

God this chapter is so so good, holy hell

That artwork of Bonney is amazing!

Beautiful art

I laugh when you attack Kinemon at the end 😂 Btw I love your video, thank you!

I love when the Kentucky comes out of Murphy

My theory for a while now is that only York, Lillith and maybe Atlas will be the only Vegapunks to survive. I think its fitting for the master of science to not make it himself but for his clone ceeations to carry on instead. I like the idea of just two living, since if York is freed and taken to the WG and Lillith and/or Atlas escapes with the straw hats, it means both sides have access to Vegapunks knowledge of history, the mother flame, the seraphim, etc. The WG losing that is too huge, but them having it and knowing the straw hats have it too? Thats tension that pushes the two forces against each other on a faster schedule, as both know how dangerous a Vegapunk in your enemies hands could be.

HOW IS YOUR ARTIST SO GOOD

I never thought Vegapunk was going to die but it kind of settled it for me when Sanji said "I won't leave without him [vegapunk]". Like I don't think Oda would make Sanji a liar like that idk.

Jeeeeeeeesus that thumbnail is amazing

Great video... I really enjoyed it