One Piece Episode 1170: Japanese Fans React — "No Matter How Much Haki You Train, Shanks Just Shuts It Off"

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 309)

• It's a must-have skill against literally everyone else, but the second he fights Shanks it just gets one-sidedly shut off. Brutal.

  他の奴らと戦うのに必須スキルなのにシャンクスと戦う時だけ一方的に封印されるのクソすぎる

  — @相澤ヤドン11 likes

• No matter how it plays out, apparently you can't escape being fated to look incompetent.

  どう転んでも無能な運命は変えられないからな

  — @iwashi-san-i2u33 likes

• "I surrender" 🖐️😎🖐️

  降参だ🖐️😎🖐️

  — @なんでもいいだろ別に10 likes

• "I surrender" 🪓🖐️😎🤚

  降参だ🪓🖐️😎🤚

  — @yoshikung13 likes

• And right after that... ✋😎🤚

  この後に､､､✋😎🤚

  — @あかさたなはまやらわ-u2r3p2 likes

• The anime's "nursing him back to health" game is way too strong... "I surrender" 🪓...✋😎🤚

  アニメの介護力が高すぎる…降参だ　🪓…✋😎🤚

  — @康太新井-e2n2 likes

• "Eighty Owl General" — the technique name is genuinely hilarious.

  八十梟帥(はちじゅうふくろうそつ)ほんま草

  — @pippippi-w7d69 likes

• I lost it when they mispronounced it as "hachijuu fukuroosochi."

  「はちじゅうふくろうそち」で吹いた

  — @ほええい9 likes

• When I read the manga I assumed it was one big full-swing hit, so seeing it animated as a combo of strikes actually got a laugh out of me.

  原作読んだときは一発フルスイング技かと思ってたのに連撃で笑った

  — @Kuchan_051825 likes

• Rayleigh's Conqueror's Haki still seems stronger than this, though.

  覇王色はレイリーの方が上そうだけど

  — @kamakiri-35285 likes

• Honestly, I want him to be stronger.

  上であってほしい

  — @abcxpg-k6g27 likes

• There's no way a guy who says "please stop, I surrender" is actually strong.

  辞めてくれ、降参だ、とか言うやつが強いわけがない

  — @Summer-c1t4v23 likes

• The second he showed a pathetic side like that, any coolness Gaban had left just vanished completely.

  あんな情けない姿見せた時点でギャバンのかっこよさなんて微塵もないわ

  — @チック症です10 likes

• Rayleigh sees himself purely as a survivor of a bygone era — he doesn't push himself forward, just quietly watches over the younger generation. And yet when they're in real danger, he steps in and teaches them exactly what they need to know. Gaban, on the other hand, still seems to think he's active duty, picks fights with juniors to test them and lectures them — but the moment he actually has to fight himself, he embarrasses himself, loses, ends up near death, gets nursed back to health by the very crew he lectured, and just keeps mouthing off from his sickbed ever since. Couldn't they have written him a character arc that let him come across as straightforwardly cool for once?

  レイリーはあくまで自分を先の時代の生き残りとしていて、でしゃばらず静かに見守ってくれる。 それでいて後輩たちの危機ではしっかり助けてくれたし、必要なことも教えてくれた。 一方のギャバンは今でも自分を現役と勘違いしてて、後輩に絡んで試す様な真似をしたり説教したりするクセにいざ自分が戦う場面になると醜態を晒して敗北、瀕死になったところを説教かました後輩の一味に看病され以降ずっと病床からやいやい言ってるだけ。 もうちょっと素直にカッコいいと思えるキャラ付けや展開を作れなかったのかね？

  — @島-e3z0 likes

• The animation staff are really pulling their weight here... putting this godly animation into service of such rough source material... please put this talent toward Kagurabachi instead.

  アニメのスタッフはよく頑張ってるよ…ひどい漫画のためにこんな神作画を…ぜひカグラバチに使ってくれこの実力

  — @ハッティー-j4s1 likes

• Dragging Kagurabachi's name into a complaint like this just makes it look bad by association — if you're going to complain, keep it to One Piece. If you actually like Kagurabachi, you're better off leaving it out of this.

  わざわざこのコメントにカグラバチの名前出すと漫画の印象悪くなるから文句言うならワンピだけにしとき。ほんとに好きならカグラバチの話は出さない方がいい

  — @山本アルファ1 likes

• Rayleigh drove off an Emperor-class opponent using nothing but Haki, no techniques at all.

  レイリーは技も使わず覇気だけで四皇退けてる

  — @hon973226 likes

• Surely that was just old trauma being dredged back up, not raw strength.

  あれさすがに過去のトラウマが掘り起こされただけでしょ

  — @南蛮チキン-h8k5 likes

• More like the aura of his own legend than plain trauma, I'd guess. Normally that alone wouldn't be enough to make someone flinch, but given that a monster like Whitebeard still went on a rampage even half-dead, that legendary buff must carry real weight.

  @南蛮チキン-h8kトラウマってより過去の伝説補正はあるだろうね。普通はそれでも引かないかもしれないけど、白ひげっていう化け物が死に損ないでもあれだけ暴れたってのがあるから補正は強そう

  — @pdgwpd11 likes

• Or maybe it just looks that way because the animation quality has gone up — back at Marineford, the Conqueror's Haki depiction was barely even there.

  ていうか作画が良くなったからそう見えるって話では マリンフォードの時点なんて覇王色の描写なんてあってないようなもんやし

  — @shimaenaga9130 likes

• Rayleigh's opponents were Kizaru and Blackbeard, so you really can't compare him to Gaban.

  レイリーの相手黄猿と黒ひげだしギャバンと比較できないよね

  — @ベンベベン-j6q0 likes

• Oden's actually the one who fought this old man in his prime and it ended in a draw. I get that the adventurers out there are strong, but why is some bigwig from an isolationist country a monster on that level...

  このオッサンが全盛期の時に戦って決着がつかなかったのがおでんなのよね。 冒険してる奴らが強いのはわかるけど、何で鎖国国家のお偉いさんがあんなモンスター級の強さなのか…。

  — @yoshii-b4h0 likes

• Honestly I don't get even a millimeter of "strong" vibes from that... Am I the one who's off here??

  強い印象なんて1ミリもないんだけどアレ…。俺がズレてる？？

  — @-GZ-.6 likes

• Wait, he's strong enough that Zoro had to seriously guard against him.

  え、ゾロが本気でガードするくらい強いだろ

  — @anndookraa4 likes

• Exactly. The sheer presence alone was insane — overwhelming Somers, wrapped in Conqueror's Haki. If the situation had been different, he could've wiped out the entire Knights of God squad solo in no time.

  ​@anndookraaそれな。見物の質も凄まじいいし、ソマーズ圧倒、覇王色纏い、あんな状況じゃなけりゃ一人で短時間で神の騎士団全滅させれる勢いやしな。

  — @ドドドトナカイ4 likes

• It's impressive that even though almost every character here fights with a weapon, each one still comes across as their own distinct person.

  得物使うキャラばっかなのに個性が立ってるのはすごいと思う

  — @仁助-z5d13 likes

What scene from One Piece is this reaction about?

Episode 1170 of the anime, adapting a flashback where the former Roger Pirates first mate Gaban faces off against Shanks and loses badly, ending up surrendering and getting nursed back to health.

Why do commenters keep posting the hand emoji sequence (🖐️😎🖐️)?

It's become a running joke referencing Gaban's exaggerated surrender pose in the fight — fans keep riffing on the gesture with slightly different emoji combinations.

What's the debate about Rayleigh vs. Gaban?

Commenters debate whether Silvers Rayleigh's Conqueror's Haki is genuinely stronger than Gaban's, with several noting Rayleigh drove off an Emperor-class opponent using Haki alone, while Gaban's showing here left fans unimpressed.

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