One Piece Chapters 1189-1190: Japanese Readers Catch Brook Contradicting Himself
ワンピース1189-1190話、支離滅裂なブルックの発言に日本の読者「偉そうに言うなよ」
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.
This titleJapanese reactions to One PieceRead all 24 roundups on the title pageA 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.
“Brook: "This girl is like a daughter to me!!" — to the same girl he just spent the last scene badmouthing as "I never wanted to remember this again!" Who are you to act so high and mighty about it now?”
骨「この子はね‼︎私にとって娘同然の子なんですよ‼︎‼︎」←その娘同然だった奴に「二度と思い出したくもなかった！」ってさっきまで罵倒してた奴が偉そうに言うなよってなる
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.
“Brook: "I never wanted to remember this again!" Tsukishima: "Just so you know, I cut in the flashback of Brook and Princess Shuri." Brook: "This girl is like a daughter to me!!"”
ブルック「二度と思い出したくもなかった！」 月島さん「挟んだおいたよ、ブルックとシュリ姫の過去回想を」 ブルック「この子はね！︎私にとって娘同然の子なんですよ！」
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.
“It's like a different person is writing him before and after the flashback ends. The dialogue is way too incoherent.”
多分回想終わって前後で人物が変わってる 台詞が支離滅裂すぎる
“Whoa-uhhh (flailing noises) — what even WAS that?”
うおおおお(バタバタバタ)←これなんやったん
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.
“I genuinely can't accept that this Brook and the pre-meltdown Brook are the same person. I have to assume he got swapped out for someone else while Gunko had him restrained, because everything about him right now is just uncomfortable.”
他のところでもコメントしたけど、この骨とシュリ姫構文以前のブルックが同一人物だということを本当に認められない 軍子に拘束されていつの間にかいなくなった間に全く違う別人に入れ替わったんだと思わないとやってられん 過去含め全てが不快すぎる
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.
“The one thing I really wish they'd stop doing is storylines that tank the value of the main crew and popular characters. I love Brook, so this recent flip in his character genuinely makes me sad. (T_T)”
主人公一行と人気キャラたちの株を暴落させる展開と物語だけは、本当に勘弁してほしいです。ブルック好きだから、ここ最近の豹変ぶりは、本当に悲しいです(T_T)
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
- “This has become a worse manga than Baron Omatsuri at this point...”👍34
- “Less tense than a Bobobo fight. It's actually over.”👍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.
“When do you think a character dies...? Shot through the heart with a gun — nope. Struck with an incurable disease — nope. Drinks a bowl of poisonous mushroom soup — nope!!! ...It's when Oda gives them a backstory chapter...!!!”
キャラはいつ死ぬと思う…？ 心臓を銃で撃ち抜かれた時…違う 不治の病に冒された時…違う 猛毒キノコのスープを飲んだ時…違う！！！ …尾田に過去編を描かれた時さ…！！！
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.
FAQ
- What exactly is the contradiction fans are pointing out in Brook's dialogue?
- In these chapters, Brook tells a character named Gunko "I never wanted to remember this again," then shortly after calls her "like a daughter to me." The top comment (186 likes) quotes both lines together to highlight the whiplash.
- Are readers actually mad, or is this mostly jokes?
- Both. Most of the thread turns the contradiction into memes and comparisons ("Chiikawa has more tension than this"), but some commenters, like @Mr96848, say plainly that they like Brook and the recent writing genuinely disappoints them.
- What is this video's source?
- A reader-reaction channel called Mu no Dokusho Beya ("Mu's Reading Room") posted it, collecting comments and reactions specifically about One Piece chapters 1189 and 1190.
One Piece Chapter 1186: Fans Spot a Continuity Error in Brook's Backstory
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