289 likesOne Piece Episode 1170: Gaban's Flashback Loss to Shanks — What Japan Said
On episode 1170 of the One Piece anime, Japanese fans are picking apart Gaban's flashback loss to Shanks — out of 321 comments on the reaction video, one particularly blunt line (165 likes) sums up the frustration: no matter how much Observation Haki you've trained, Shanks just switches it off. From there the thread splits into a running joke about Gaban's "I surrender" pose turning into an emoji meme, praise for the animation staff's work on "such rough material," and a genuine debate over whether Silvers Rayleigh's Conqueror's Haki actually outranks Gaban's — a debate anchored by the single most-liked comment in the whole thread, at 289 likes. It ends on a comment that finally gives the cast some credit: for a scene full of weapon-wielding legends, every single one still manages to feel like their own person.