One Piece Chapters 1189-1190: Japanese Readers Catch Brook Contradicting Himself

A One Piece reader-reaction channel collected fan responses to chapters 1189 and 1190, zeroing in on Brook's dialogue about a character called Gunko, where he calls her "like a daughter to me" moments after telling her he never wanted to see her again.

Across 151 comments, the top comment (186 likes) quotes both lines side by side to make the contradiction obvious, and the rest of the thread runs with it — joking that a different writer must be handling Brook scene to scene, or that he's secretly been swapped for someone else.

A handful of fans push back on the jokes just to say, sincerely, that they like this character and the recent writing makes them sad to watch.

A One Piece reader-reaction channel, Mu no Dokusho Beya, collected fan responses to the newest chapters — 1189 and 1190 — under a blunt title: readers finally hitting a wall with a Brook they say has become incoherent and lost his charm. It's a small video, only 151 comments, but the backlash keeps circling one specific problem: fans quoting Brook's own dialogue against itself.

That's the top comment on the video, and it's basically the whole complaint in one line: two pieces of dialogue from the same character, minutes apart, that don't agree with each other. Someone else turned it into a bit.

From there the thread widens out into a general theory that the writing itself lost track of who Brook is scene to scene, as if two different people were handling his lines depending on which side of the flashback the panel falls on.

A few commenters pushed the joke further, half-seriously arguing the only way to square the character's behavior is to assume he isn't even the same Brook anymore.

Not everyone's just joking, though. Underneath the memes, there's a real note of disappointment from people who like this character and don't enjoy watching the thread turn on him after so many arcs of being sidelined already.

By the middle of the thread, the comparisons start doing the heavy lifting — commenters reaching for other, famously low-stakes series just to make the point about how flat this arc feels.

• “Chiikawa has more tension than this.”👍73⇄ちいかわの方が緊張感ある— @skmtnrmn · 👍73
• “This has become a worse manga than Baron Omatsuri at this point...”👍34⇄オマツリ男爵の方がマシの漫画になった…— @青星イル-c3g · 👍34
• “Less tense than a Bobobo fight. It's actually over.”👍5⇄ボーボボのバトルより緊張感ないの本当に終わってる— @siyos2932 · 👍5

It's the kind of comparison that only lands as a joke if the frustration underneath it is real — and by the last stretch of comments, that frustration curdles into the video's closing punchline about how these chapters keep landing.

That's the joke the whole thread keeps landing on: it's not that Brook died in these chapters, it's that giving him more backstory is what everyone's decided killed him. A 151-comment video shouldn't carry that much heat, but for a character this well-liked, two contradictory lines were apparently all it took.