Think about it. Rocks being a liberator like Luffy would be a great plot twist. But why would Roger and Garp fight Rocks in the first place?

Garp definitely made a deal with the celestial dragons to never conduct a god valley event again. That's their deal in garp saving the celestial dragons from the rocks pirates.

Whoever makes these little popstick characters needs an oscar😂 Edit: IM FAMOUS

Knowing Oda, if we do see Rocks, he's almost certainly going to be somewhat goofy

Dragon was probably in the marines, but if anything Garp insisting that Luffy and Ace become marines seems more like a consequence of his son being the most wanted man in the world rather than Garp telling all of his descendants to become marines from the beginning

Can I just appreciate that whenever Queen shows up in that stupid Zoom Zoom pose, he's animated. As opposed to everyone else in the same scene just standing static. It's just such a wonderful small touch. Also, what if Kuma gets his fruit on the Island and that's how he escapes? Maybe it is given to him as mentioned in the video, but I feel that he, Iva and Jinny stumbling on it when all hell breaks loose on the island when the clash between the different factions occurs - with their DESIRE to escape their fate being so strong - it finds its way to them is much more appropriate for the whole "Devil Fruits sometimes have their own wills" and "Devil Fruits are born out of desire". So Kuma eats it and zooms them all off the island and to safety.

One thing I saw being hypothesized was, what if Gaimon's island used to be one of the islands that had Celestial Dragons' version of The Dangerous Game? In the manga chapter, we see six treasure chests. In the chapter with Gaimon, Luffy climbs up to the top of the cliff face and there are six empthy treasure chests. We have no idea how long they've been sitting there for. One thing that we're probably not going to get any time soon is the bridge town that Robin was sent to. We know that hundreds of years ago the Celestial Dragons wanted it built. We still don't know why or for what purpose. Probably not going to be brought up here, but there are definitely a lot of Celestials who could bring it up for some random reason. I am curious to see when the Devil Fruits are introduced to Ivankov and Kuma.

I'm so hyped that Roger is going to show up with the strawhat

We see some treasure chests along with the CD introducing the tournament: potentially we could have Kaido's, Ivankov's and Kuma's DF theres as trophies. And of course the chest where baby Shanks was hidden in.

I swear, ever since Iva mentioned Crocodile's secret he's been a part of EVERY theory.

I think Dragon is going to be on God Valley. As a World Noble, I think Garp's wife/partner is/was a Celestial Dragon, who may have temporarily lived with Garp on Dawn Island (how Dragon wad born there as he told Sabo) but they were invited to the "hunt", possibly not knowing what it was, and Dragon witnessing this atrocities of the Nobles causes him to abandon his status. This betrayal of a Celestial could be why Dragon is so despised by the WG, more so than Ivankov or Kuma who are co leaders with Dragon of the Revolutionaries.

I wonder if Rocks D. Xebec claimed/thought he was JoyBoy and thus was treated as the world's biggest threat to the World Government. That could be how he got all of those big shots to follow him and he maybe sparked Kaidos obsession with JoyBoy.

joyboy was most definitely a buccaneer. the large straw hat that emu has and the fact that the tale of sun god nika has been past down through the buccaneers for most probably 800 years, it makes perfect sense to me lol

I don't think Dragon completely abandoned Luffy, but he knew his family would be hunted down like Rogers so he likely had some eyes on Luffy watching at points. Likely also why he was there and able to save Sabo, he already knew Sabo was Luffys friend, and how he knew his son was in Loguetown so he could show up and stop Smoker.

This chapter was crazy

I liked the idea that the chests we see that are the prizes for the hunt could be all devil fruits that eventually end up in the hands of various people in One Piece. It’s probably where Kaido’s fish fish fruit came from eh.

Rocks D Xebec = Monkey D dragon...Rocks was originally written as Rox which in japanese is also a chinese word for Hei Long which means Black Dragon...so Rox Xebec could mean Black Dragon Boat, which dragon has...also their appearances are very similar and fans have always tried to connect them in some way

It's hard to pin down how human Garling is. On one hand he doesn't think twice about killing slaves and probably enjoys it since he's in the killing game, but on the other hand, Shanks was put in that chest most likely to keep him safe. Granted it could have been his mother that did that, not Garling. Garling could even be an uncaring older brother instead of a parent, he looks pretty young in the flashback after all

1. St Saturn hasn’t been on the surface in a long time 2. St Saturn mentioned with surprise that Luffy’s crew work together 3. They were on god valley 38 years ago. 4. God valley is attached to Rox intimately. 5. I genuinely believe we’re going to see a bit of history here that defines Kuma’s life, the god-valley incident, and solidifies the World Nobles as the true bads of the series

In the grand scheme of things, I think, we are getting the Roger's flashback as chunks of story relevant flashback from Wano and out. First, it was Oden's tale, which told us the most we knew about Roger to date, then, we have Kuma's story, which will expound on the God Valley incidence of Roger's story. Perhaps another grand story in Elbaf, and then, the final leg of Roger's journey told as back story at Laughtale. If that is Oda's plan, it is brilliant storytelling.

you bringing up the idea of Joyboy having a buccaneer & lunarian in his crew made me think...what if he had a buccaneer & lunarian as vice captains in roles similar to sanji & zoro

In this most recent chapter is really stood out to me that when Saint Saturn was holding Bonnie. He said something along the lines of "why do Human Beings try so hard" and I think it's super important he said Humans as if he isn't one

I have 2 predictions for how Bonney will be saved from Garcia/the firing range. My softball guess is that Kums will arrive on the island and save her somehow. My bigger, "all-in" guess is that he will specifically do this by landing directly into Garcia, bodily, like a meteor, freeing her from his grip.

This God Valley Flashback gonna bomb so hard. Potential god tier Flashback incoming

Most Dangerous Game is a bit different than God Valley, that book, for anyone curious, is more about a man that has reached the peak of hunting and danger. He’s hunted every big game you can think of so now he is left bored with life, deciding to reclaim that feeling of danger by hunting humans. If anything he’s more like Aizen from Bleach or a dark version of Saitama from One Punch Man

My theory is Rocks came to God Valley to kill the Five Elders (not knowing Imu existed) to become king of the world. Rocks had the dark-dark fruit and the Celestials couldn't fight him because all their warriors used Devil Fruits to fight and they are powerless against Xebecs. Meanwhile, Roger lands on God Valley opposite the Celestials and Xebecs merely to try to escape Garp's harassment, or maybe he was planning to steal from the Celestials, but find themselves dragged into the battle because they are the only experts at Haki.

i have another theory, Maybe the Rocks pirates came there to hunt the celestial dragons instead of the celestial dragons hunting the people and their slaves, dragon was on the crew of rocks pirates like a young shanks and a young blackbeard. But rocks wanted to take the slaves for himself which lead garp and roger to defeat the rocks pirates. Dragon on the other hand recruited the slaves on his team and guided them as a leader and being with the rocks pirates he had the same goal of defeating the celestial dragons for his companions as well as for some other reason.

What if Monkey D Dragon was considered the most dangerous man alive because at first they thought he had eaten the Nika Nika fruit besides also knowing secrets about the Marines, God valley and the World Nobles.

There is one panel in the chapter at the start of the flashback. Kumas parents hold their hands over the new born Kuma, who raises his right hand to them. His baby hand is definitly smaler than his mothers, so I would guess that at birth Kuma was fairly normal human-baby sized but becuase he is half Bucaneer he grew exponatioally fast. As to how his parents did the deed, you see, penetration is optional.

The Buccaneer thing has caused me to reevaluate a number of super strong characters. Like Whitebeard. Could he have been part Buccaneer? Or even Big Mom? She was a huge, powerful child just like Kuma was. Could there be other Buccaneers or other tribes too?

Love my little routine, scans on Wednesday, read the official translation while GLR plays in the background on Sunday

It makes sense if dragon was a marine, then it explains why garp didn't go for a higher status because of 'the atrocities'

I think there's more to Buccaneers than just "big" - note that both Kuma and his dad specifically have enormous, stocky bodies on comically thin and short legs. Bonney also assumes a similar look when she uses her "distorted future" form on Vegapunk (maybe an alternate timeline where she inherited more of the Buccaneer genes from her dad?).

Rocks turning out to be a luffy like character someone that just randomly shows up no nolage of enything and then tried to save the hole contry because some random little girl gave him food

I think the "proportion don't match" argument could be explained with Hierarchical proportion (wikipedia for reference), wich is something Oda did since early stages of the manga, especially in panels depicting warlords and the earliest blackbeard appearences

I think given the Kuma and Ivankov situation, AND SABO, and the fact that Dragon talks with Garp frecuently (Dragon told him he met Luffy at Logue Town without delay) and based on the very words he has said in reference to Luffy, he clearly, without doubt knows about Luffy having the Nika fruit

I've always thought Rocks was the father of Dragon and that Garp adopted Dragon after killing his dad. This would explain why Rocks looks exactly like Dragon smiling and why Dragon went for the revolution. It would tie everything together. This would mean that Luffy is actually Rocks grandson, being the legacy of all 3 legends (Garp's education, Rocks' blood, Roger's dream).

Pretty excited to see whether this lives up to the hype,so many characters are going to clash 💔🔥🔥

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My brother in one piece, I cannot explain to you how you always make a video on things that I actually think about while watching/reading OP.

I would finally like to find out in this flashback why Kuma carries a Bible all the time(when we first met him), as it was initially the only distinguishing feature between him and the Pacifista, in fact, I don't think he's had a Bible in his hands since Thriller Bark... Maybe he brought it for protection against the supernatural?

Oda never ceases to amaze me

Something I noticed a while back, we know that laugh tale is located at the spot where the 4 road poneglyphs locations intersect. The symbol of the world government as I remember it is 4 dots with 2 lines and 1 dot at the intersection. I feel like this is not just coincidence.

I'm thinking Rocks will show up either because he knew about the manhunt or he will learn about it upon his arrival and think the person who kills the most on the island will own God Valley so he will just start slaughtering celestial dragons. The marines(garp) and Roger will show up to save people like luffy would.

God valley seems chaotic asf and I can’t wait to see how it plays out. All these characters in one place.

My current theory is, and we will see how future chapters pan out, The Rock Crew was the OG Strawhat crew and Rocks had the Nika fruit. After the God Valley incident, he, as well as the rest of the crew, were vilified, and some (Kaido and Big Mom) went down a darker path as history was changed to make the World Nobles seem like the victims and the Rocks Pirates the villains. Kinda like how the government might spin vegapunks death if he does indeed die on Egghead.

I was waiting for next vid to drop, the timing is unreal.

This could be the event Fujitora witnessed, and then took away his eyesight to stop seeing the victims faces, hence his desire to see Luffy's

I am not sure the extent of what is going to happen but I think the God Valley incident is going to show exactly why Garp refuses all promotions and is reluctant to talk about everything that happened. I think the world nobles convinced him to do something that he deeply regrets and part of it may even be stopping the Rocks Pirates.

I think the Bonnie ages luffy to his peak is much less likely than for her power being used to de-age old man Luffy.

So I never realized it till you mentioned Kuma's child picture in this video but Kuma's picture is almost certainly referencing a japanese statue you'd see at schools of Ninomiya Kinjiro. A man carrying a bundle of sticks and reading a book. I'm sure heaps of people were already aware but it's a neat detail that I'm glad I now notice. Not sure if that bears (haha) much meaning here but I think it likely points to Kuma's drawing as a child be more a representation of his character rather than an actual image of him as a child.

To my mind, that Marine's head exploded with a really powerful burst of Haki. If you think about it, the leaders of the WG exerting their tyrannical rule over the world are literally "conquerors" so it would make sense to have extremely powerful Haki. Also the panels where, Saturn does that thing with his eyes, especially the panels where he speaks and tells the Marines to shut up is reminiscent of luffy "stop" haki burst, and then you see Bonney kinda fainting and falling before he catches her, and how Sanji was knocked back.

My prediction about god valley is that Rocks probably wanted to take the slaves for himself while harming/overthrowing the celestial dragons (basically taking their place). And Roger and Garp worked together to stop him from taking slaves. Also, Dragon may have been a young Marine at the time (~17 or luffys age) and saw the atrocities that the celestial dragons are doing for the first time with extermination of populations and hunting slaves. He probably can’t forgive the marines for protecting them this whole time, which is why he left. He probably also recruited a bunch of slaves and god valley citizens while harming some celestial dragons in the process. This is probably why he was at Rogers execution because he respects Roger for protecting the slaves from Rocks.

“Just encountering this ushi-oni would result in catching an illness” Do you think Gol D Roger got his illness from the Ushi Oni?

It's interesting that shanks and Blackbeard are only a year apart in age. Blackbeard is probably a baby/toddler at this point. Potentially with an origin connected to god valley as well.

"I'm Rocks D. Xebec, and I'm gonna be king of the world!"

I dont think buccaneers was one of the 3 races Big Mom was missing. Because if she somehow gets the giants to forgive her, then eventually a buccaneer will be born in her territory

I think the twist is that Rocks wanted to indiscriminately attack the Celestial Dragons (including their children), and that pushed Roger to intervene and help Garp.

I was waiting for a princess bride reference with that "you killed my father"

Rocks is certainly the villain here but just with a different role than we originally thought, every character talks about him in an unpleasant way and I’ve never been so excited for a character introduction since Kaido!

Garling doesnt wear the bubble because his hair doesnt fit in it

Dragon is a good father. Dragon is the most wanted man on Earth, but he made sure that his son wasn't going to be found and used as a hostage. Dragon gave Luffy the ability to decide how he wanted to live by not being there. And when Luffy did decide how he wanted to live his life, Dragon was there to protect him and see him off. Dragon believes in his son and kept track of all Luffy's adventures, which is why he know how to find him.

I'm not seeing anyone mention how crazy this makes Sabo's feat of escaping ALL 5 elders. This either is a great feat for Sabo or maybe they let him go on purpose🤔. A very interesting situation to look back on nonetheless...

Kuma's memories and even will(?) Being able to paw paw into a big bubble makes me question: Is The One Piece Joy Boy's memories? A recording of the only 100% speedrun of a perfectly joyful life? Making anyone who "saw it" burst with laughter and uncontrollable joy.

Something to remember is that both Whitebeard and Big Mom were a part of Rock's crew. Coupled with what the Celestial Dragons were doing, he is really looking like the good guy in this situation.

Ive been saying for years I think Rocks is more of a peacemain than a morganeer! It seems more and more like thats the case, i cant imagine someone with enough will to put together a crew of those legends thru will alone losing a fight. Homie has to have hella charisma

The low detail crying pictures are my favorite jokes in your videos.

"Its like fitting sealing through a screen door: i laughed and was in pain.😅😮

My predictions for god valley: The rocks pirates show up on god valley to claim the ‘prizes’ from the hunt, which are devil fruits. While simultaneously taking revenge on the world nobles for all of their collective suffering. They all get their devil fruit powers there, and then disband once they get what they wanted/when rocks in defeated. Gold D Roger and his crew are there for the same thing potentially, to claim the Nika nika fruit. Rocks pirates begin to overwhelm the marines and nobles so they turn to the Roger pirates and give them a vital key to finding laughtale in exchange for their help.

I've had this illogical idea stuck at the back of my head for years that maybe Luffy and Bonnie are secretly siblings, but biological siblings. I mean, we've already gotten all kinds of absurd family reveals from Luffy, like a grandfather who's part of an enemy faction, a father who's a notorious criminal, a badass older brother, and a returning sibling that was believed to be long dead. So why not a previously completely unknown sister? I feel like that's all Luffy needs to hit "Secret Family Bingo". Seriously though, I can almost see this being a thing. Like Dragon has two kids, separates them from himself for their safety, gives one to his father and another to his trusted friend and insists neither tell his kids about him. His dad ends up being a real hands off father figure so the son ends up latching onto the coolest guy he meets while the daughter ends up growing really attached to the friend and she ends up seeing him as her real father. I know there's almost no chance this pans out, but I've never been able to shake the idea that Luffy and Bonnie are connected in some way beyond their dads just working together.

So crazy theory i just came up with. The ringed eyes could be an effect of Imus fruit on people. Like shes capable of ordering you to do certain tasks and while your being controlled you have the ringed eyes. Going with the devil theme perhaps its a pact/deal with the devil type scenario. Might explain the weird situation with cavendish.

I feel like Dragon, having the title of most wanted man in the world, is probably gonna have some massive role in the God Valley incident that was covered up. Maybe not, but either way dudes bounty is probably like 999 trillion and theres no way he couldve kept a child with him and raised it while sights were on him at all times

I think what really happened on GodValley, is that Imu didn't actually destroy it, but instead it was the powerful shockwaves of the fighting from Rocks, Garp, Roger, Big Mom, and Whitebeard. I mean when you think about it, they are incredible powerful in their own rights, so imagine putting all of these powerful monsters together and allowing them to go all out on each other, this would have been powerful enough to make the entire island unstable, maybe even unstable enough that it could just fall over on its own and get destroyed completely. Or the other possibility is that it was caused by Whitebeard's Gura Gura fruit, remember what Sengoku said? "His Devil fruit is strong enough to destroy the entire world". So it's also possible that the cause of disappearance of God Valley is that Whitebeard may or may not have over done it, But its also possible that was caused by a Buster call as a last resort to whip out the Rocks pirates, combine that with unbelievable strength of the ones fighting on the Island, the results would be phenomenal.

My question is, Why is Oda showing a flashback now? Unless he wants us to forget that the bloody BLACK BEARD Pirate are on the damn island!!!

Plot twist: Gini IS Bonny and was using her aging devil Fruit later on when we met her

13:01, and we have examples of this in pretty recent history. Carrot refers to Chopper as Choniki, and I think Tama referred to Luffy as Aniki. Probably best to assume it's similar here too.

Dragon can't be ex-marine, our first introduction to Reverie back in Drum had everyone talking about him has if he sprung out of nowhere with a super mysterious past (and if he was a marine everyone would know that the son of the hero had joined). And didn't he form the revlutionaries *after* the destruction of Ohara? That's quite some time after God Valley so my guess is that Dragon isn't part of this flashback. And sure we all know that the Figarland family, at least as far as Shanks' dad goes, work with the upper echelon of the world nobles but has it ever been stated that they are world nobles themselves? They might just be servants, maybe as you said due to being "mere" half noble.

What do yall think Ch 1100 will be ?

Crazy that once the straw hats are all powered up to their fullest potential the one thing that could still easily bring them down is failing to keep working together as a team, which if true, is what happened to the rocks pirates.

There is probably a special trait that the buccaneers have that separates them from the larger humans. Near the end of 1095 its mentioned they have giants blood, which is interesting point to make. Also I think Bonney is Kuma's biological daughter in some way, but she didn't directly inherit the buccaneer gene, hence why she appears like a normal human. Although when she used distorted future her body warped into what I now believe is a timeline where she did inherit the buccaneer gene.

I think Rocks and his crew showed up to God Valley, decided to spitefully enter the hunt, and added their own point system for Celestial Dragons. Wouldn’t be surprised if Rocks propositioned it as “winner takes all”, and the full of themselves Celestial Dragons accepted.

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Garling couldn't have given Whitebeard those scars that ache, because the Oden flashback takes place after God Valley and he didn't have any scars then.

Speacking about Celestial dragon I realised we had similar kind of people used to live in our country. Who said that walking the same path they do is a sin, if we touch them it is a sin, and if we drank the same water from the common water bodies it is a sin 😂😂😂😂😂😅

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here is a dumb thought, what if Dragon is Rocks? figure we have Bonnie's fruit in play somewhere on God Valley, Rocks attacks and is seriously wounded and because he liberated them the fruit holder regresses him back to being a child to save his life, Roger takes Shanks and Garp takes little Rocks.

When I look at Oden and Toki and remember that they had two kids, I don't think "how?" I think "OW!"

I now relise that dalton (That guy in drum island arc wity bison fruit) is prabobly a bucunear He has the exact same body type

It's either Dragon was Marine Admiral or Vice Admiral during the god valley incident and was possibly the one that saved Ivankov and Kuma as kids 😅

As soon as they labeled Luffy as a terrorist I figured good and evil were flipped and those labeled as "terrorist" were really people trying to liberate others from the tyranny.

Just feels good to wake up to GLR finally getting to address a god valley flashback

Basil Hawkins's sword is missing the red ribbon around rhe hat. Very important. The sword has to look dapper, too. lol

The more I think about what Doflamingo said. About the Op-Op No Mi, the nature of the Five Elders, The Heavenly Tribute, and just how things are at the top of the world gov now with these new chapters. I can see where he was going by him saying the combination of it all would allow someone to take over the world. I do not believe he even knew about Imu. Which means...there must be more to the highest levels of the World Gov't that we just HAVE NOT seen yet. Truly terrible things we have not fathomed.

I think Elbaf's gonna be the next island for the Celestial Dragon's competition. If that's the case the next arc's gonna be freaking crazy

Knowing what we know now about shanks it’s makes it far more scary that BB gave him those scars

I've suspected for ages but what if God Valley was Brook's hometown in West Blue? While he was already a pirate for at least 14 years before The Incident, and so it wouldn't involve him, it could still be his first home...

I think now would be the perfect time for an “everything we know about Xebec” Video

I have a theory, What if dragon was part of rock's pirate group and when the god valley incident happened, he saved ivankov, kuma and jinny and after discussing the atrocities that the world government does to commonners, they started the revolutionary army

11:38 My favorite answer to this question is that somehow, it would use a bathtub

I am starting to think that maybe the best of the best are occasionally invited to join the World Nobles. That might be what they are doing with York. A warrior ascending to the level of God. This could be what the intention with York was. Maybe York knew it was possible if you provide them something valuable enough. If this is the case, they may have slowly bred families of the strongest warriors in the world.