One Piece Chapter 1186: Japanese Fans React to Brook's Backstory — "At Sabaody He'd Never Even Heard of Celestial Dragons"
ワンピース1186話、ブルックの過去に日本の読者が総ツッコミ—「シャボンディでは天竜人を初めて聞いたみたいな反応だったのに」
“I know it's nitpicky to say this about a weekly serialization, but back at Sabaody, Brook's reaction to the Celestial Dragons was basically "the who now? Never heard of them 💀" — and now we learn he's got this horrific past tied directly to Celestial Dragons?”
週刊連載にこれ言うのは野暮だけど、ブルックはシャボンディ諸島では「天竜人？初めて聞きました💀」みたいな反応だったよね 天竜人絡みでこんな凄惨な過去があったのにな
On One Piece Chapter 1186, which continues Brook's tragic Shuri backstory, Japanese readers split hard — and the loudest ones came to roast the continuity. The top comment points out Brook acted like he'd never heard of Celestial Dragons back at Sabaody, yet now he's got this Celestial-Dragon-soaked past; others jab that Lvneel's wings and horns simply vanished from one chapter to the next, and that Oda ignores consistency but hates getting called on it. Plenty were genuinely moved by Shuri's sacrifice and worry for Laboon, but the thread's spine is the continuity debate — right down to a final shot at the fans defending it all.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 532)
- @__youtuber5978👍 34
I went back and reread volume 51 — Brook literally has Hatchan explain the Celestial Dragons to him at Sabaody, and even sees one in person, and he just doesn't react at all. That's way too unnatural.
51巻見返して思ったけど、ブルックはシャボンディ諸島でハチから天竜人の説明聞いたり、実際見たりしてるわけなのに無反応なの不自然すぎだろ。
- @同僚-i7e👍 129
After living through something this shocking, his reaction on first meeting her is just "huh, she looks kinda familiar"? That's hilarious.
こんなショッキングな出来事があって最初会った時なんか見た事あるなぁ程度の反応なのおもろい
- @od4669👍 35
First it's "she looks familiar," then it's "I didn't even want to remember," and now we get this whole flashback. It's completely incoherent lol.
見たことあるなぁから思い出したくもなかったになり、この回想である。支離滅裂だろｗ
- @kijitora40👍 5
Maybe he's got some brain damage after all… oh wait, he's a skeleton, never mind.
やっぱ脳にダメージあるんじゃ… あ、骨だから関係ないか
- @ppandpp0107👍 162
The crack in his skull suddenly starting to ache, lmao.
急に頭のヒビが疼きだすのは草
- @さゆ-b7z9t👍 35
He gets his head run through, and you think "oh, he'd already eaten the Revive-Revive Fruit by then" — but no, he hadn't, so he just topples over.
頭貫かれて、「あ、もうヨミヨミ食べてたのか」って思ったら食べてなくて横転
- @野原ついに部長となった👍 180
Lvneel's wings just vanished — did Oda forget his own "he's healthy now" setup mid-chapter? lol. The author's memory and the editor's incompetence have me genuinely fed up.
ひっくり返って健康体の設定忘れてたのかルーヴェンから羽消えてて草 作者の記憶力と編集の無能っぷりに俺、あきれた
- @わがままアリス👍 34
Stuff that was there last chapter just… disappears lol.
前話にあったものが無くなるｗ
- @KenKen-ih8nc👍 20
Lvneel's wings and horns being gone is pretty wild. Come on, that's just cheating — quietly pretending they never existed is unprecedented.
ルーヴェン王にあった羽と角が消えてるのなかなかにやばいよな 流石にそれはずるいです、前代未聞だよ無かった事にするのは
- @かいわれ-d3g👍 18
Don't just hide the head that had horns last chapter behind a speech bubble lol.
前回ツノが生えていた頭部を吹き出しで隠すなw
- @とんがりとん👍 207
For someone who draws this while ignoring all consistency, he really hates getting called out on it, huh. What's the goal here?
整合性無視で描いてる割には、他人から突っ込まれるのは嫌なんだな。 何がしたいん？
- @kimagure-MAN👍 45
Honestly, I just want it to end already.
もう終わらせてほしいですよな
- @awayplay309👍 27
I think he just wants to scribble whatever he feels like. He's got more money than he knows what to do with, so there's no need to keep going. If this weren't a product being sold, he could do whatever he wants — but it is.
自分の思うまま描き殴りたいんじゃないかな もう金は唸るほどあるから無理に続ける必要も無いし これが売り物でなければ好きにしてもらっていいんだけどねぇ
- @sukio65👍 16
A manga where you just sit and listen to the author's excuses, over and over.
作者の言い訳をひたすら聞かされる漫画。
- @ihana1303👍 21
Teaser chapter → hiatus → excuse chapter (repeat).
匂わせ回→休載→言い訳回(繰り返し)
- @ナイン2👍 175
The only good thing about this is that he wrapped the flashback up quickly.
回想を早めに終わらせたぐらいしか良い所ないだろこれ
- @nobuo7571👍 23
A series that gets praised just for keeping a flashback short — as expected, Oda 😄
回想が短いだけで褒められる作品、さすがだな尾田っち😄
- @maron1182👍 18
The flashback ended sooner than I expected. The endless-flashback complaints must've really gotten to him.
思ったより早く回想終わったな よっぽど無限回想不評だったんだろうな
- @装甲良好👍 42
And the payoff is the non-combat members going "let's free Shuri from the ice!" Honestly, shouldn't saving the people of Elbaf come first?
で、そのオチが戦力外でしかないメンバーでシュリ姫を氷から助ける～！だぞ。正直言ってエルバフの住民を助ける方が先の筈だよな？
- @k2k632👍 176
Doesn't this just make the Brook who later had a grand old time in the Rumbar Pirates look like an idiot?
これじゃあ後に楽しくルンバ―海賊団してたブルックが馬鹿みたいじゃない
- @tokaino_gyaru👍 10
Laboon: "So our whole bond was just a bit of fun to you? For real?"
ラブーン「僕との関係ただの遊びだったのマジ？」
- @テル-o7m👍 121
After going through all this, he goes "alright, I've got free time now, let's go live my dream of partying it up with my pirate crew!" — man, that takes some nerve.
こんなんあって よし！暇になったし憧れてた海賊で仲間とワイワイやるぞぉ！してたの随分肝が座ってますね
- @カヴァ-w3w👍 125
His face going full gag-mode the moment he gets hit is genuinely cringe. He really can't draw a serious fight anymore.
殴られた時の顔がギャグ調なのマジで寒いな、本当にもう真面目なバトル描けないんだ
- @ぱるぷんて-n6i👍 100
Every single time my reaction is just "man, that crying face is ugly."
毎回、泣き顔汚ねーなって感想を抱く
- @La-Lagochou👍 104
Lvneel, the man who tried to protect a Celestial Dragon's child even at the cost of sacrificing his own people — so cool it brings me to tears. …this guy's straight-up a government spy, right?
自国の民を犠牲にしてまで天竜人の子を守ろうとした男ルーヴェンが涙出るほどかっけぇっすわ こいつもう政府のスパイだろ
- @Quartz_O2👍 202
The believers who can actually tear up at the Shuri flashback have such great emotional efficiency — honestly, I'm jealous.
シュリ姫の回想で泣ける信者の感動タイパ良すぎて羨ましい
- @透春ヒルト-v9r👍 74
Bet they'd burst into tears if they stepped on an ant on the ground too.
地べたの蟻ころ踏み潰したら泣き潰れてそう
- @thegodfather7308👍 26
And the funny part is, even during stories that are genuinely moving, they only get about as emotional as they did for the Shuri flashback.
しかし彼ら、本当に泣けるような話の時もシュリ姫回想程度の感動しかしてなくて笑っちゃうんですよね
- @mos-oj7by👍 52
Every arc the main character is in a "once again, knows nothing about anything" state — at this point it's not even funny anymore.
毎回主人公が 「またしても何も知らない」状態で草も生えんのやけどもはや
- @jj-ph6mk👍 4
A protagonist who doesn't react to Vegapunk's broadcast at all. The world's about to sink into the sea and you've got no comment? Then step down as the main character.
@kijitora40 ベガパンクの演説に一切触れない主人公 世界海に沈むけどノーコメってお前主人公降りろ
- @gjjj745👍 279
This author's brain is way too fried on cheating-drama tropes.
NTRに脳焼かれすぎだろこの作者
- @obikoBIS👍 70
Even as melodrama it's a mediocre one-note plot, way too shallow. A bunch of characters we barely know, with supposedly complicated backstories, bickering about stuff we know nothing about — it stirs zero emotion, so it just feels empty.
NTRとしても微妙な展開のワンパターンで、浅瀬すぎて駄目かな。 よく分からんキャラが複雑な設定っぽいけど何も分からん奴らにあーだこーだされても、何の感情も湧かないから虚無になる。
- @539図86O👍 102
The scariest part is that the believers accept even this gut-wrenching mess by calling it "a past tragedy." Seriously, what is going on with them…
何が一番怖いって、こんな胸糞展開も信者は過去の悲劇とか言って受け入れてる所よな、マジどうなってんだよ…
- @黒沢クロワ👍 36
My theory: they're background characters who climbed out of the One Piece world itself.
ワンピの世界から出てきたモブ説
- @比護裕太👍 21
At this point the "believers" are just Oda himself posting from a bunch of alt accounts.
もはや信者とやらも複数アカウントのおだっちだろ
- @riodio9717👍 144
It's the secret doodle notebook he's been cooking up since middle school, finally unleashed lmaooo.
僕が中学から思いついて温めておいた秘密の落書き帳、解放www
- @リュウ-h2v👍 28
The content's so thin that you can grasp the entire chapter just from a reaction-roundup video, lol.
内容が薄すぎて反応集で全部把握できるの草
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