It would be funny if when the poles shift everyone loses their sense of direction except Zoro

rogers words "wana turn world upside down with me" make bit more sense now

What if Zoro is lost all the time because his internal compass is locked on the old one piece world

It would make sense why Toki got lost looking for Wano after time travelling. The place she left was Wano and she landed not on Wano. She assumed it had been moved or something.

In chapter 965, Toki draws Oden a map of the world and the Red Line runs horizontally while the Grand Line runs vertically. It's as of it was different for her in her time. Every other map is reversed.

I'm rewatching One Piece, and watching this video I can't help but think about how Luffy was desperately trying to get to the scaffold where Roger was executed so that he could "see what he saw"...

I love the sentence “However, fictional evidence suggest”

I know that every time someone comes up with a One Piece theory I go "Oh, yeah. That has to be it" but this time, I'm seriously considering this to be the case just because this sounds like the ultimate case of One Piece miscommunication and Oda wouldn't pass this up💀💀💀

Zoro is actually never lost; it’s the pole shift that made him took the wrong directions

Omg this Roger's line to Rayleigh makes so much sense now. "Let's turn the world upside down!". It's literal !

Fun Fact: On old maps, Up used to be EAST, not North. Look into why North became Up on modern maps. It's pretty mindblowing, and adds even more credibility to this theory. Short of it is that historically, East used to be Up on maps because people considered the place where the Sun rises to be up - which is East, not North. North only became Up on maps once compasses and other such magnetic instruments saw more use, and ultimately became the norm. And they were popularized by, funnily enough, sea travel - which gave birth to a certain pirate golden age. So... before we started using magnets for navigation, the Sun was what people look to for guidance. Hence why there are so many sun gods in mythology.

Something to mention that's somewhat unrelated, but at 4:54 you mention a cliff named Corkwood that's apparently as high as the sky islands, and it reminded me that back when the straw hats first entered sky Island, the sky knight/God mentioned that the correct way to reach the sky islands was not via the knock up stream but through a place called "The Peak of the High West". I always wondered what it could be and Corkwood or a cliff like Corkwood may be a good contender.

I mean Roger had two choices he would either get mad cause the treasure is right there and he can't reach it or laugh his ass off cause it's hilarious that the treasure he wants to find was on the island where he started he just can't reach it yet.

Not gonna lie, I'd be happy with this outcome and ending for OP. A lot of people would probably find a reason to be mad about it and would have wanted something more epic. It would be the most OP ending a true fan could ask for BECAUSE it didn't take itself seriously or is a joke ending. It would give value to all those adventures and experiences that the crew have gone on and make for quite possibly one of the most wholesome endings ever for an anime.

It would be a nice add to say that reverse mountain wasn’t there naturally at first in order for one the island to be connected and two for the whales trying to get through the redline make more sense. Also the one piece being under the reverse mountain has been a theory of mine for awhile simply because reverse mountain looks like a giant “X marks the spot”

I hope we get to see some of the surviving Roger Pirates (aside from Rayleigh, Shanks, Buggy and Bullet) reappearing after they found the One Piece and split off to their own respective paths prior to their captain's capture and execution.

This makes a tonne of sense, love it. The real life inspiration for Roger (a dude named Olivier Levasseur) more or less gave the exact location of his treasure to the people at his excecution too. Albeit in a cryptogram. That'd feel right for Roger to do the same haha.

Fun fact: Loguetown is spelled out like how prologue and epilogue is spelled out. Prologue is the beginning of the story and the straw hats started their journey into the Grand Line at Loguetown (or more specifically East Blue but Loguetown makes this make more sense and they also ended their East Blue journey at Loguetown making it an epilogue of that arc). Epilogue is the ending of the story. And as stated in the video, Loguetown is considered to be the town of beginnings and endings so I think it would be very cool if Oda used that to his advantage and made Loguetown the place where the One Piece was hidden. Makes the whole thing come full circle making the start of the journey also the end point.

This is most likely something that Nami will have to struggle with, considering her dream of making a world map, it's gonna be interesting how oda will present this later on

That's such a One Piece thing that I now want it to be the ending. Definitely explains the laughter.

I love this theory so much honestly. My personal theory is that in a subtle way that only oda knows, the entire story has been laid out in front of us pre timeskip. I believe he left himself hints to remember his plans in his own story. Stuff that to viewers just seem like fun world building or random lines, but comes back around to being something important

One thing that I’ve been wondering about ever since I first saw a map of the one piece world is whether we’re ever going to get an explanation of why geographic north and magnetic north are so far apart. Like the planet spins around an axis through the red line with the grand line at the equator but north/south blue are already off from that axis by 45 degrees. The idea that magnetic north has been steadily shifting would be an amazing answer to something I’d always assumed was just a quirk of how the map was drawn.

the thing about one piece theories is that going beyond the super intricate foreshadowing, the super well crafted storytelling, thrmatic relevance, i feel first and foremost they have to be funny. And Roger saying "i am literally looking at the one piece right now, its right there" feels like the kind of long running, absurd, joke that oda would love

The water level thing is getting a bit more interesting as of earlier today👀

I feel like an example that adds in to this theory is how Koby got his glow up so fast. Longer days means more training which means his glow up from ch 1 to end of enies lobby was only 40 odd days

Enis Lobby is the magnetic pole where the Sun never go down

We saw the actual journey of the grand line when Roger had to go backward through the grandline to find the ponyglyphs once he had Oden on his ship to read them. Go rewatch that complication again and it's a whole new meaning

I just now realize how a horrible time the navigator of the Kid Pirates must've had trying to figure out the way to go with Capt Kid around.

I think you just revealed the ending of one piece. Man, those Japanese sleuths are amazing for figuring this out. I enjoy most theories, but this is nigh on perfect!

I would like a breakdown on the feasibility of pluton being a giant transformer under Wano, and the reason Kaido was going to drop onigashima was to connect the head and activate it. Teaming up with big mom to add soul to it

This is probably the best explanation to Laugh Tale yet, was always weird to me how ppl couldn't find it without the Road Poneglyphs, that would imply that the Island is moving or something but Zou does the same thing and people could reach it? Also explains how Roger knew he was 20 years early. Roger setting off the worlds biggest treasure hunt/Great age of Piracy for something right infront of him is pretty funny too

And also, we find that elephant tuna fish from west Blue in Logue town only. That meand some where near the Logue town is a passage where fishes pass making all blue nearby to logue town. It all fits.

That's a funny theory. Imagine all your hardwork after all these years to find the hidden treasure, only to learn that it is just behind your house. No wonder Roger and crew laugh

Didn't white beard say when someone finds the treasure the world will turn upside down, aswell as Roger telling reighley let's turn the world upside down,shanks and buggy always arguing about north and south pole 😮 dang this is a good theory

great thing about the Roger Execution part of the theory is that on the way up to the platform he asked for the guards to take off the cuffs. I wonder if he would have pointed "there!" if they had of left his hands free.

I believe this so much cause of the foxy arc island. Oda literally told us that some islands are hiding under water. Makes such a weak arc so important

i love this soo much, I actually started laughing at the end which would be the perfect end to One Piece

It also fits with the theory that chapters actually mirror each other with mid point being marineford, the beginning would also mean the end.

10:03 So THAT explains why for instance when they were trying to stop the bomb in alabasta the countdown of only a few seconds felt like it took the entire episode. Their seconds are just longer. Makes perfect sense.

The only thing missing is this, there are two other strange phenomenon that I'm 100% sure are affected by the pole shift, aqua laguna/long ring long land, and the hole at Enies Lobby. I'm sure the polarity change would reveal what these two areas are hiding, but they are two completely separate areas of importance. Lastly, how did Roger make it to the final island if its still under the red line, isn't that why Luffy needs to break it with the ancient weapons? I also wonder- does the pole shift happen naturally with time on a certain day, or does it happen after a catalyst like the red line being destroyed? Rather than a cycle of pole shifting, my guess is that everything was hidden in the void century by making the red line and shifting the polarity of the earth, which would explain why the islands are stuck together with different climates. Then, breaking it would release that polarity effect, reveal the locations and the one piece. I also think the red line won't be broken by the ancient weapons, but by BlackBeard fighting with Luffy, hence why the Marine's said that Whitebeard has the power to destroy the world. I think Luffy will allow it to break but soften the blow with his fruit.

The reason Roger’s crew was laughing when they got there is because of how easily their curiosity fooled them when the end was right there the whole time. This “trick” played by the world on Roger’s crew caused him to play the ultimate trick on the rest of the world for decades to follow. Also, this makes me see Buggy and Shanks as extensions of Roger, just with his characteristics split in two. Buggy continues to not take things seriously but fail upwards, while Shanks is always grinding to uphold the balance of just about everything, despite just wanting to go barhop with the lads

This would explain why Zoro always gets "lost", he's just trying to go to Louge Town!

When whitebeard died he said "the world will turn upside down" well maybe it is

"hey guys, i left my treasure right over there if you want to grab it real quick." doesnt have quite the gravitas of the original speech, but i bet every former roger pirate has a chuckle any time someone says theyre searching for the treasure cause they know its like...buried under the floorboards of the roger bar in loguetown or something.

There's also that time when Nami said that the one bounty hunter with scurvy would be fine in a couple of days, If you google recovery time of scurvy it says that while you might start feeling better within 48 hours it usually takes about 2 weeks to fully recover from scurvy. The way Nami said it made it sound like a couple of days would be long enough for him to make a full recovery.

i just always thought that roger was "too early" because he needed the ancient weapons to do what joy boy wanted to do and shirahoshi was not born yet.

this would make so much sense. One of the biggest confusing mysteries to me in one piece is why people like Kaido/Big Mom and even Shanks really do nothing. They all have the power to find the one piece and take the mantle of pirate king but none of them did it for the majority of their lives until rather recently. Although Big mom does have that monologue that kind of dispells that when she falls in wano so idk. But its always been confusing to me why luffy and his crew in a very short time span could get this close and all these people with all this power for all these years did nothing.

My God, this is why this is my favorite KZfaq channel, I'm a natural skeptic myself, and Liam very rarely if ever embraces theory or gets on theory bandwagon, in fact he usually points out their flaws, inaccuracies, and blatant cherry picking and confirmation bias, I'll have to look into this myself and really put some exploring and thinking into this but this is one if not the first one piece theories I find DEEPLY intriguing. I'm sure we're missing some things, maybe got a few details in the wrong place and lack interpretation, but this is the first theory I can see being in some form shape or derivative having a real possibility of truth hidden in its layers and nuances.

The idea of roger being literal and telling everyone to look behind them then dying actually made me laugh.scary good

As soon as you mentioned Pole reversal, I thought of all the times characters literally said, finding the one piece will turn this world up side down.

This would mean that going back to see Laboon for Brook would be at the real end and not a postending thing, which works out fantastic Also, this could be why Luffy gets rid of the Red Line. Instead of going all the way back, he just busts it down because he's not gonna backtrack all that way. Not to furfill any prophecy or whatever, just because he didn't want to go around.

liam this has got to be one of my fav videos from your channel. this theory is mind blowing and i’m thankful that you brought it to my attention. keep up the amazing work :)

Shanks & Luffy having sexy time is the true goal of the pirate adventure? Great guess, we'll see if Oda can make it work out

This theory just gained a lot of new ground with the latest chapters confirmations.

Loadstar island is written as ロードスター島 (rōdosutā-tō, "tō" being the reading for the kanji for island at the end) where is literally how you would write road start if instead of the kanji for island you would have the katakana 「トー」 at the end since they are phonetically the same. Edit: polestar and lodestar are both references to the same star, Polaris, the north star. Lodestar is represented on the manga by the kanji's 水先星 ( I've never really heard the term in Japanese before and my japanese is still a bit rough) being roughly transtlated to guide star i believe, as in the star that seafaring men would use as a guide in their journeys, Polaris.

Lodestone (also spelled loadstone) is a special type of the mineral magnetite. All varieties of magnetite display signs of magnetism, but of them, only lodestone possesses distinctly north-south polarity. Lodestone and other magnetic iron ores often occur in igneous and metamorphic rocks found around the world.

This fits soo well! I love this. The tree at O'Hara kind of convinces me tbh. And the early map. Awesome!

I don’t speak Japanese, or read it. So I’m curious. Does anyone know if Rogers line to Rayleigh, “turning the world upside down,” is the actual translation? Would fit this theory better if it was actually, “turning the world on its side.” I ask since I know the translators often are wrong on little things like that. Or at least they seem like little things at the time.

Omg If you turn a Strawhat 90 degrees it becomes a D.

Drop the Pizza does say that the "Island" part in "Lodestar Island" is pronounced "tou" in Japanese so it would sound like Road Start. Honestly, I'm all in ! 😁

So if the red line was the equator that would make perfect sense for the lunarians to live because they'd be closest to the sun and they're able to thrive in that environment and the ultimate joke is that the celestial dragons time is limited until the pole shift and then it wouldn't be livable for them

Oh this is a rich one. It would explain so many things you haven't covered. For example, the Noah, an arc designed to survive a massive flood that was created during the void century, makes much more sense with this in mind.

I was just watching episode 794 (whole cakie island arc) and at the recap part theres a map of the kingdom and wouldnt you know it, theres a pole indicator with EAST facing up and NORTH facing left

It's like the Calm Belt is the center of an eventual storm and the three Ancient Weapons + Noah must be ways to counter or survive the pole shift (The Great Cleansing). This is crazy good.

finding out the world was once upside down sounds pretty funny and maybe when Roger said we came to early it was referring to the fact that they were to early to see the world turn upside down again and Rayleigh even said that if he were to tell the strawhats what the one piece is it wouldn't change anything because they still needed to wait for the world to be turned upside down. but that's just my theory

This is actually pretty rad for world building not gonna lie.

Lmao robot liam made me freak out

Rising water get more meaning after 1089

This reminds of an early SBS where Oda answered a question about Sanji‘s eyebrows and the importance of rotation

Love the intro and editing style, kinda has film/game theory vibe.

The one piece will never end

So Zoro has been going the right direction all along 😂

Maybe that's actually why its called reverse mountain. Because they're telling you to back up, you've already gone too far 😂

I love this. I think this the best theory video i seen yet

Would you consider making a video about devil fruit counters? Everyone thinks about luffy and enel or buggy and mister 1 but for a good example Kuma and his fruit are a perfect counter to whitebeard.

Love all the extra editing and graphics on this one, as well as the implication that One Piece will still be running in 2055

It was so long ago that i watched one piece, but i do remember a scene where sanji finds multiple species of fish as soon as they reach grand line next to the first island... As he was searching for all blue, maybe that was it all along?

3:24 If that clip is what happened to the one piece world, it really looked like the gomu gomu no mi, idk it might turn out to be the inspiration for it in the first place, which can further extend this theory and make it even more lengthy on why luffy significantly awakened it and why Roger was early. Cause that fruit hasn't gained it's user, Joyboy hasn't been alive to do the pole shift again and reverse it back to as it was. As he has been indicated to be the giant, and possibly even oars and the strongest of them , to atleast go toe to toe with prime imu and the gorosei(possibly). The only creature that can exist above continent shifters is the 'world shifter'. (But ik this theory is shrouded with buts and ifs lol)

If this is true then water seven is sinking because of the past axis shift as well.

I 100% believe Oda-sensei would reveal the ending on the very first page! This is a really interesting theory and it's gonna take up so much space in my brain for a while!

This is actually now my favorite one piece theory. This is really cool

I'm guessing Eneru and the moon will somehow play a part in all this wacky science stuff

i was always confused as to the timeframe of one piece, but the world rotating slower and days being longer makes it make sense now! oda never ceases to amaze me

The idea of the very first page of the manga that was our beginning but also the true end is mind-blowing. If that's true, then Oda is a genius

The One Piece planet also seem to be pretty small going by how fast the straw hats have been traveling through it + every island only contains 1 city (besides Alabasta which felt like a whole country in comparison)

Nice editing and music, you've captured the half-crackpot-half-sci-pop trending-video feel perfectly

I really like this theory. Logue Town could be Prologue Town and Epilogue Town, and in a way it was. Logue Town was the setting of of Roger's prologue since he was born there, and his Epilogue took place there as well since it was his final setting when his story was over. Like if Roger's life was a book his story ends when he disbands his crew and the Final Speech would be the hook for a sequel series that takes place in the Epilogue. It's the setting for the prologue/forward of the story and it's the prologue to the Grandline.

So did Kid just potentially become one of the most crucial and important characters??

Holy shit. When you mentioned そこ my mind was blown. Learning Japanese, this was one of the first stumbling blocks. They only ever use it when something is closer to the listener than themselves. For everything else that is far away from both speaker and listener they always use あそこ. It has been so consistent in my own experience that I’ve come to wonder if they are all equipped with magnetic compasses straight from the factory that was their mothers’ womb.

The intro was way different and pretty cool seeing Liam as a terminator like android also even better than the one Ohara borrowed and translated I gotta see this

"Where's the One Piece? Roger!" Roger: Fine, if you want it that badly I left it right there. "Yeah! It's out there let's set out to sea and search everywhere!" Roger: No! Guys, I meant it's literally right there down the stree- (gets stabbed and dies)

There is a problem with this theory. If the Red Line is the actual Equator, then Reverse Mountain/Polestar/Lodestar Islands cannot be on one of the poles since the equator is the circumference that is the furthest away possible from both poles. The Reverse Mountain is on both the Red Line and the Grand Line so the only way that that's where the pole was is if the new Equator runs perpendicular to both Lines. Also, if the Equator switches from the Grand Line to the Red Line, the places they have in common shouldn't actually see any difference in water level, as they would continue to be on the equator. If i'm not mistaken, the map of Skypiea with east pointing upwards is from like 200 years ago, well after the void century. Even if it was older, it could not be older than 400 years, which was when the Skypea/Jaya was shot into the sky, so the shift, and subsequent water level change would have to have happened after that. Not sure if that works with this theory. Also, people do know history from before the Void Century, right? There would be records/maps from before showing which way north used to be before it. With that being said, i do like the idea of the Pole Shift and water level change. We do know that the Red Line is a a bunch of islands strung together, so if the Red Line were to become the Equator and the water level were to rise around it maybe it would switch forms with the Grand Line, with the latter becoming a land mass like the current Red Line. Maybe halfway during the transition period the world would be just islands(all blue?). Idk, anyways, cheers.

Does anyone realise that If One Piece is in Lough Town then Smoker actually lost another big time.

Thank you for your work and the work of others which resulted in this exciting and wonderful theory!

I wanna know how do pirates leave the grand line just like how don krieg leaved it and mihawk followed him (the flow goes only into the grand line)

Cool now Oda will change the ending

I’m so beyond thankful for your videos. I always look forward to every time you post. It’s the sunshine my day always needs!

But Loguetown is in the East Blue so it can't be the start of Grand Line for everybody coming from West, North and South blue ?

This also reminds me of that one sbs answer oda gave when asked about sanji's curly eyebrows

Finally he’s covering this🤩