One Piece Chapter 1186: Japanese Fans React — "ONE PIECE Is Dead"
ワンピース1186話 日本ファンの反応 — 「ONE PIECEは4んだ」
“ONE PIECE is dead. No matter how many times you call out, it won't come back. That era is over — it's time for you to make peace with your own life.”
ONE PIECEは4んだんだ いくら呼んでも帰っては来ないんだ もうあの時間は終わって、君も人生と向き合う時なんだ
One Piece Chapter 1186 gives Japanese readers the moment they've been waiting for — Luffy lands a hit on the final boss Im — and then immediately cuts to a flashback. The response from Japanese fans was uniformly bleak. Three threads dominated the comment section: the pacing that kills momentum before it can breathe (fans mourning that the era of punches that "carried the feelings of characters and readers alike" is gone for good); Brook's stomach-turning "I changed your diapers" plea that somehow made his protégé stabbing him in the skull feel completely earned; and a silent mid-chapter retcon of a key power slipped in with zero acknowledgment. Voice actor Chō-san collected the most sincere sympathy. The highest-liked comment kept it short: "ONE PIECE is dead. No matter how many times you call out, it won't come back."
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 446)
- @tsuka406👍 170
That "Bre——" → flashback → "BAAAAASH!!" — the kind of punch you actually felt, like when Luffy dropped Wapol. We're never seeing that again, are we.
「ブレッ……」→回想→「トォォォッ！！」ってワポルぶん殴ったようなシーンはもう見れないんだなって
- @がしがし-o8m👍 24
Old Luffy's punches carried the feelings of both the characters and the readers. That's why they gave you actual goosebumps.
昔のルフィのパンチには、登場人物や読者の「思い」も乗っかってたんだよね だから鳥肌が立つような興奮があった
- @user-fy9uj8cr3g👍 191
It's actually working on him. But all we got was his head tilting sideways. I wanted him to snap his gaze over and growl "Joy Boy...!!!" That's literally all I was asking for.
めちゃ効いてるやんけ。 殴られても顔が横むくだけで、 目を向けて「ジョイボーイ...!!!」 とか言って欲しかったわ。
- @tokaino_gyaru👍 111
Don't just "get out" him — defeat him. Oda's compulsive refusal to let the plot move and retire major characters has to stop.
出てけじゃなくて倒してくれよ 尾田による話進めたくない、重要キャラ退場させたくない忖度もうやめてほんとに
- @toza4214👍 48
The dialogue is practically oozing "I will NOT defeat Im here, don't worry" — and the infuriating part is Oda probably wrote it that way without even realizing it.
台詞から「ここでイムは倒しませんよ」っていう匂わせが滲み出てるのほんまクソ そしてたぶん作者はそれに気づかず無意識で書いてる
- @夢見Dりあむ👍 98
"Get out. You knucklehead. OOOOOH!!!" ↑ Excuse me, who even ARE you
出てけ コンニャロ ォ〜〜！！！ ↑誰ですかあなた
- @マオ-e2m👍 48
"Get out. You knucklehead. OOOOOH!!!" ...W-what even is this
出てけ コンニャロ ォ〜〜!!! な、なんだこれは
- @オレンジジュース-g7l👍 93
"Nobody told me this many people would show up!" ...Sir. Do you know what a war is?
「こんなに来るなんて聞いてない！」 戦争って何かご存じでない？
- @nobuo7571👍 178
"Unable to calculate the celestial gold." That one opening sentence alone is funnier than anything Oda intended.
「天上金を算出できず」 もう最初のこの１文だけで面白すぎる
- @龍-e8z👍 35
The citizens who died without ever knowing the real reason... just tragic-dumb. I wanted the king to just tell them the truth so they could have fought for real.
本当の理由も知らずに死んでいった国民がマヌケすぎる…… 国王様に真実を話されて本気で戦いたかったよ。
- @anjo_preto👍 203
Silently retconning the king's domination technique mid-chapter, no note, no acknowledgment. Truly awful.
しれっと王へのドミリバを修正してて本当に酷い…
- @めびうす0924👍 24
One Piece now gives me secondhand embarrassment.
もうワンピには共感性羞恥を感じるようになってしまった
- @ゴリゴリ-k1l👍 108
Every single character tanking their own credibility at exactly the same time. That's actually hard to pull off even if you tried.
登場人物全員株を落としていくスタイル 狙っても中々出来るもんじゃない
- @roxas7155👍 199
So even Bento's mom's whole speech pattern was foreshadowing Oda's love for mysterious-parentage subplots?! The foreshadowing is INCREDIBLE!!
ベントの母構文も尾田が托卵好きの伏線だったのか！伏線すげーーーー
- @宇佐ヒサユキ👍 56
And to think this comes from the same person who wrote his debut work. Heaven and earth.
これが一作目とかいう天国と地獄
- @gil3884👍 114
Izozu: survives a sword clean through his head without blinking. Also Izozu: dies from a finger jab.
剣が頭を貫通してもピンピンしてるのに指で突かれて死んでしまうイゾウ...
- @海鮮王者マグロード👍 26
Must've hit a vital pressure point. Classic Fist of the North Star stuff.
北斗神拳で経絡秘孔を突かれたんだろうな。
- @casanova-d5t👍 16
Asura Doji and Izozu going out so unceremoniously that they look like total scrubs. Honestly kind of funny at this point.
アシュラ童子とイゾウの散り際があまりにもあっさりし過ぎててめちゃくちゃ弱く見えるのおもろい
- @ゆうゆうゆはな👍 131
Having Brook say "I used to change your diapers" was actually a smart move. Of course she stabbed him in the skull. Creepy as hell. It made complete sense.
ブルックに「オムツを替えたことがある」と言わせたのは良かった。そら頭ブッ刺されるわ。キショいもん。と説得力があった。
- @龍-e8z👍 56
Saying it at THAT moment made it ten times more disgusting. The timing is genuinely impressive in the worst way.
あんなシーンでいうせいで余計に気持ち悪くなっているのがすごいです。
- @AMDate👍 63
When the creepy uncle who never stops making pervy comments at family events says this to you — of course you stab him.
普段から女性にパンツパンツ言ってる親戚のオッサン的な人にこんなん言われたら そりゃ刺すわ
- @来津K👍 31
Standing at the scene where the girl he doted on just snapped and murdered someone — THAT'S when Brook decides to bring up diapers. Deeply, deeply gross. Even accounting for his feelings for her, that line earns the stabbing.
可愛がってた女の子が豹変して恩人を殺害した現場でこのセリフが出てくるブルックが心底キショい 惚れてるという前提を加味してもギリ刺されるレベルのキショさだった
- @4545kimotii👍 59
Probably just didn't notice she'd grown up because they were always doing the succubus parent-and-child roleplay thing together.
いつも親子でサキュバスコスプレプレイしてたから気づかなかったんだろう
- @nozama1👍 64
Poor Chō-san, having to actually read these lines out loud.
この台詞を読まされるチョーさんかわいそう
- @エヴァ信者-w7j👍 12
Chō-san: "Alright, I quit. ✋💀🤚"
チョーさん「さすがに降参ですよ ✋💀🤚」
- @aby_ac3332👍 19
It's painful even as a casual fan. But it must be so much worse for Chō-san having to actually perform this.
ワンピ素人でももう辛い もっと辛いのはこれをチョーさんに演らせること
- @s.hr-vermouth656👍 8
This really makes clear just how incredible Mashirito's editing was. (He personally edited One Piece all the way through the Alabasta arc.)
マシリトの編集は凄かったと言うことが本当に如実に表れてくる(アラバスタまでマシリトが編集もやってた。)
- @サイダイ_chan👍 3
Everyone always says the old editing was incredible — but it was actually MASHIRITO?! That explains literally everything.
過去の編集は凄かったとよく言われるけどマシリトだったの！？？？ 納得しかない。
- @RAKUONNJI👍 38
I had completely forgotten Zaza the Rain God existed until this video brought him up. How many months has that subplot been sitting in a drawer?
この動画で触れられるまで雨の神ザザのこと忘れてた 何か月放置されてるんだろうアレ
- @ずわるぅ👍 45
The pose and expression when he gets punched looks straight out of Chinjuuki. It's really growing on me. Looks like he'd go "HOGEEEEH!"
殴られた時の構図と顔が珍遊記に見えてじわじわ来る 「ほげぇー！」とか言ってそう
- @asd7292👍 24
If a future chapter shows Brook in transit going "heave… ho… heave…" — that might literally be faster than whatever we just saw in that flashback. lol
もし次回以降に移動中のブルックの描写が挟まった場合、よいしょ…よいしょ…で移動する方が速い説が浮上するの草
- @100tengogo👍 13
Flashback is finally over. And next week is a chapter break. That is my complete review of this chapter.
回想終わったか、来週休載じゃないか 今週の感想これしかない
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