One Piece Chapter 1189: Shueisha to Fix Oda's Confusing Line in the Tankobon

On July 29, a Japanese manga-reaction channel posted a video about a confusing line from One Piece Chapter 1189, one Shueisha has now confirmed will be reworded for the print volume. Across 324 comments, the top reply (342 likes) needled Oda's grammar directly.

From there, the thread split into two tracks: readers trying to guess what Oda actually meant to say, and readers pivoting to blame the editorial team for letting it through in the first place.

It ends on a joke nobody quite let go of — one about an entire fictional family that apparently can't tell its own sons apart.

On July 29, the manga-reaction channel 【驚愕】アニメ漫画クラブ posted a video built entirely around one sentence in One Piece Chapter 1189/1190 — a line so confusing that Shueisha has now confirmed it's being reworded for the print volume release. The line comes mid-villain-monologue from Imu, claiming that the mysterious background character Nusia has brothers whose names aren't the same. Read it twice and it still doesn't land as a meaningful reveal, and it isn't a translation issue either — the original Japanese is just as circular. The video's 324-comment section spent most of its runtime trying to reverse-engineer what Eiichiro Oda actually meant to say.

Once people stopped laughing at how obviously true the sentence is on its face, the thread turned into an amateur editing room, trying to guess the word Oda was actually reaching for.

• “👁️👁️ "Nusia has four brothers whose names differ..." Sanji: "Uh, sure."”👍138⇄👁️👁️「ヌシアには名の違う兄弟が4人いる…」 サンジ「お、おう」— @おきょう-r7y · 👍138
• “Imu: "Nusia has two older brothers whose names differ..." Luffy: "OF COURSE THEY DO!!!!!"”👍31⇄イム「ヌシアには名の違う2人の兄がいる...」 ルフィ「当たり前だー！！！！！」— @taishou53 · 👍31

That confusion is exactly why the correction became the real story here. This isn't Oda quietly fixing a typo between printings — Shueisha is on record confirming a wording change is coming, and readers immediately turned their attention to the editorial team that let a sentence like this reach print in the first place.

• “They've basically stopped managing him at all... probably thinking "if we push back he might just quit, so let's just flatter him and keep it moving."”👍57⇄もう完全にほったらかしだよな…「機嫌損ねて投げ出されても困るし、テキトーにおだてて続けさせよ」って感じだろ— @たじーX · 👍57
• “Forget the author — what happened to Shueisha's editorial department?”👍36⇄作者より集英社編集部マジでどうした？ってなる— @とまとま-b2v · 👍36

It wasn't just this one line, either. Commenters treated the fix as one more data point in a running complaint about the manga's late-stage writing — arguing that a creator this famous should be well past needing this kind of cleanup, and that an editor should have flagged it long before it ever ran in the weekly magazine. More than one reply pointed out that a confirmed print correction is a much bigger deal than a normal typo fix, since it means Shueisha itself is publicly acknowledging the line didn't work.

By the end, nobody had actually landed on what Oda meant. The thread settled for a joke instead.

Which is, per the comment section's final verdict, the only explanation that actually fits. Somewhere out there the Nerona family apparently can't tell its own sons apart — and nobody at Shueisha has corrected that one yet.