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One Piece Chapter 1189: Japanese Fans React — "He'll Die Anyway, Let's Go Home"

ワンピース1189話 イムに磔にされるルフィに日本ファンの反応

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One Piece Chapter 1189: Japanese Fans React — "He'll Die Anyway, Let's Go Home"
“Im: "If I just leave him like this, he'll die eventually anyway... let's go home."”

イム「このまま放っておいても死ぬだろう....帰ろ」

— @シズさん-p7u

On One Piece Chapter 1189, Japanese fans piled into a reaction video about Imu pinning Luffy to a tree with a giant blade — out of 768 comments, the top one (701 likes) needed just one line to nail the mood: "If I leave him like this, he'll die eventually anyway... let's go home." From there the thread turns into a running joke about how nobody, in the story or in the comments, actually seems worried — one heavily-liked comment (1,062 likes) points out that while the captain is dying, his crewmates are casually off to the side trying to melt a giant block of ice. Others dig into how carefully Imu is avoiding an actual killing blow, joking that Imu is basically being puppeted by Eiichiro Oda into showing mercy, and debating whether this series has ever had real stakes at all. It closes on a much sillier note — a fan question about the pinned tree that even Oda's own reader Q&A column probably wouldn't take seriously.

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 768)

  • While the captain's on the verge of death, his crewmates are just off to the side trying to melt a giant block of ice — that's genuinely hilarious.

    船長が死にかけてる傍らで仲間たちはデカい氷を溶かしてるのほんま草

    — @sashimepunch71281,062 likes

  • This is genuinely funny.

    これほんまおもろい

    — @田中マイキー-p4p118 likes

  • And it wasn't melting at all — if Ragnir hadn't shown up, they'd have kept trying to melt that ice forever. I'm dead.

    一切溶けなかった上に、ラグニルが飛んで来なかったら一生氷を溶かそうとし続けてたの笑う

    — @warabi439847 likes

  • Not a single reader is panicking. Lol.

    読者だれも焦ってないの草

    — @kiyu-0927298 likes

  • "Oh good, slashing attacks actually work on him" — zero panic whatsoever, lol.

    「やっぱり斬撃効くんだ」 焦りゼロで草

    — @optimisticboy86031 likes

  • Honestly impressive. One twist of that blade, up or sideways, and it's over — yet he's stubbornly making sure the wound doesn't spread any further.

    凄いよな。その剣を縦か横に引き裂くだけで全てが決まるのに、意地でもこれ以上傷が広がらないように動いてる。

    — @まめお-e6m468 likes

  • Exactly this. Im is being incredibly careful not to actually kill Luffy. At this point it's just comedy.

    ガチでこれ ルフィを〇さないようにイムが気をつけまくってる。お笑いでしかない

    — @ppap005543 likes

  • Seriously though — deliberately pinning him to a big, obvious tree like that kind of kills the tension.

    本当それだよね わざわざわかりやすい大木に磔にするとか冷めるわ

    — @nori_nori_norio18 likes

  • Im not killing Luffy and just pinning him up instead is way too nice — feels like Im is just a puppet being controlled by Eiichiro Oda.

    ルフィを殺さず磔にして許してくれるイム優しすぎる、まるで尾田栄一郎の操り人形だ

    — @デビル-g7s136 likes

  • A battle manga where no situation, no matter how dire, ever actually feels hopeless.

    どんな状況になろうと絶望感が無いバトル漫画

    — @onigiri207223 likes

  • None of his jokes are working on Im at all — Im is just too serious for this.

    ふざけたのがイムに通用しないて イム真面目過ぎる

    — @ゆさ-q5g343 likes

  • Genie voice: "Ho ho ho ho!" — yeah, Luffy, this really wasn't the time for that bit.

    🧞「ほっほっほっほ！」とかやってる場合じゃなかったよルフィ

    — @ネギ-negi0831173 likes

  • Honestly he probably would've lost even without doing the bit. Im is just too strong.

    それやらんくても負けてそうww イムが強すぎ

    — @watchKatoJunichiの弟子10 likes

  • Old-school Luffy: me, yelling "Don't lose! You can still win!" Current Luffy: me, going "This is on you for goofing around — just fight seriously."

    昔のルフィ　 俺「負けるな！まだ勝てる！」 今のルフィ　 俺「ヘラヘラしとるからやん、真面目に戦えや」

    — @gdms渓11 likes

  • Go ahead and finish him off, Your Excellency.

    御大もっとやっちゃってくだせぇ

    — @kanzusi127 likes

  • It's fine, he'll obviously bounce back with some made-up Nika power or Conqueror's Haki anyway.

    大丈夫どうせ空想のニカパワーとか覇王色の覇気で復活するから

    — @Wayhrooeu85 likes

  • This should be a way worse injury than getting impaled by Crocodile back in the day, yet the tension and sense of danger feel completely different.

    クロコダイル初戦の串刺しより酷い怪我のはずなのに緊張感と絶望感がぜんぜん違うな

    — @dldlk-e6e10 likes

  • Nika just has no rules at all, so no matter how dire the situation looks there's zero tension — you never even know which attacks are supposed to work on him.

    ニカにルールが無さ過ぎて、どんだけピンチになっても緊張感がない。 どの攻撃が効くとか分からんし

    — @user-uc8fm5eu2w50 likes

  • If this were anyone but Luffy I'd worry, but he'll be yelling "Meat!" again in a few chapters, so it's fine.

    ルフィ以外ならともかく、数話後には肉〜！だから大丈夫

    — @快晴-i3b34 likes

  • He goofs off the whole fight and gets wrecked for it — it's funny, but with zero tension the "serious" tone just doesn't land.

    ふざけ倒してボコボコにされるの草 緊張感ないからシリアス感が伝わらない

    — @髙野豆腐メンタル3 likes

  • Just take him off to Mary Geoise already — that would actually generate some real tension.

    もうマリージョアに連行されてくれ そっちのが緊張感って絶対おもろい

    — @unyanzoi7 likes

  • Your Excellency... please, lower that sword...

    御大…その剣を下ろしてくだされ…

    — @dongri881 likes

  • Lord Im, feel free to just chop him into little pieces, by the way!

    イム様、とりあえず細切れ肉にしてもらっていいですよ！

    — @しん-v2z3 likes

  • I love that someone raised the genuinely serious question of whether the tree he's pinned to is going to wither. If you sent that question into Oda's SBS reader Q&A column, he'd probably just say, "Eh, don't worry about it~"

    磔にした木は枯れないのか？ というちゃんとした疑問すき。SBSに投稿したら「ほっときなは〜れ〜」って言われると思うけど。

    — @blue-binder2 likes

FAQ

What scene from One Piece is this reaction about?
Chapter 1189, where Im pins Luffy to a tree with one of the 19 legendary swords instead of delivering a killing blow, leaving him impaled but alive.
Why do so many commenters say there's "no tension" in the scene?
Commenters noted that Im seems to be deliberately careful not to actually kill Luffy, and pointed out that the story has put him in worse spots before and always pulled him back out, so readers expect a comeback rather than real danger.
What's the joke about Luffy's crewmates and the ice?
Commenters noted that in the same chapter, while Luffy is pinned and bleeding, his crewmates are shown off to the side struggling to melt a giant block of ice — a contrast fans found absurdly funny given the supposed severity of the situation.
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