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One Piece Chapter 1190: Luffy Snaps at the Man Who Saved Him — Japan Is Furious
One Piece Chapter 1190 has Gaban save Luffy from a near-fatal hit — and Luffy responds by lashing out at him instead of thanking him. A reader-reaction channel built a compilation around the moment, and across 726 comments, one widely-liked line (323 likes) jokes that Luffy — the bearer of the joy-god Nika — has become someone readers would honestly be relieved to see die. The replies underneath spend most of their time comparing this outburst to Luffy's past behavior, and the consensus isn't kind. By the end, several commenters are debating whether this is the lowest a One Piece protagonist has ever been written, and whether Oda is doing it deliberately.
726 comments8/11/26, 12:30 AM
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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.
151 comments8/9/26, 1:05 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1189: Fans Say Shanks Sounds Incoherent Now — Japan Reacts
One Piece Chapter 1189 gave Shanks a big speech about the King's power and the Holy Land — and a reaction video breaking down the dialogue turned into 283 comments arguing that the lines barely connect to each other. The most-liked reply doesn't even blame Shanks for it: "Shanks's language skills didn't collapse — Oda's did." From there commenters started mapping the actual logic gaps panel by panel, comparing the flow to a conversation where one person answers a completely different question than the one they were asked. Not everyone reads it the same way, though — some are just here for the meme.
283 comments8/8/26, 12:20 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1189: Why Shanks Took the Gomu Gomu Fruit — Fans Theorize
One Piece Chapter 1189 added new context for why Shanks was carrying the Gomu Gomu no Mi decades before Luffy ever touched it, and Japanese fans turned it into a theory-crafting session about what it means that the fruit ended up with Luffy instead of Shanks or Ace. Posted by reaction channel 人気マンガ反応まとめ, the recap video drew 184 comments, with the top-liked reply (426 likes) reading the chapter's reveal less as an accident and more as the fruit choosing its own eater. From there the thread sprawled: a case that only Luffy's specific mindset could have unlocked the fruit's awakening, an attempt to connect it to Wano's legendary sword that got shot down fast, and more than one reply that couldn't get past how badly Shanks apparently guarded the thing in the first place. The theory that's supposed to explain years of planning, in the end, lands somewhere much smaller.
184 comments8/7/26, 12:40 AM
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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.
324 comments8/4/26, 12:22 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1189: Crew Chats While Captain Is Dying — Japanese Fans React
On One Piece chapter 1189, a Japanese reader-reaction channel built a whole video around one complaint: while the captain is dying, his crew just stands there making small talk. Across 305 comments, the top-liked joke (144 likes) is that the whole crew already knows Luffy can't die because he's the protagonist, and another comment tied at 144 likes argues this isn't even a pirate manga anymore since nobody needs a musician or a gunner. The recurring theme is the crew's total lack of urgency: Nico Robin's entrance gets called out as suspiciously well-timed, Bepo (a rival crew's mascot) gets held up as the better example of actually caring about your captain, and multiple commenters compare the Straw Hats unfavorably to Pikmin — until one reply pushes back that even Pikmin act on their own sometimes. Brook's line calling a total stranger "like my daughter" draws particular fire, with one reply arguing the whole cast has developed an unrealistic god's-eye view of the plot. It closes on the harshest line in the thread: a joke that nobody on this ship is safe from getting told to walk the plank.
305 comments7/31/26, 12:17 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1189: Im Pins Luffy to a Tree With a Giant Blade — What Japan Said
On One Piece Chapter 1189, Japanese fans piled into a reaction video about Im pinning Luffy to a tree with a giant blade — out of 768 comments, one especially quotable line (702 likes) needed just one sentence to nail the mood: "If I leave him like this, he'll die eventually anyway... let's go home." From there the thread turns into a running joke about how nobody, in the story or in the comments, actually seems worried — the single most-liked comment in the whole thread (1,066 likes) points out that while the captain is dying, his crewmates are casually off to the side trying to melt a giant block of ice. Others dig into how carefully Im is avoiding an actual killing blow, joking that Im is basically being puppeted by Eiichiro Oda into showing mercy, and debating whether this series has ever had real stakes at all. It closes on a much sillier note — a fan question about the pinned tree that even Oda's own reader Q&A column probably wouldn't take seriously.
768 comments7/29/26, 12:20 AM
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One 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.
321 comments7/27/26, 12:35 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1188: Im Hands Luffy a One-Sided Defeat — What Japan Said
In One Piece Chapter 1188, series antagonist Im hands Luffy an overwhelming, one-sided defeat — and across 419 comments on a Japanese reaction video, the top-liked comment (408 likes) summed up the mood: nobody's actually shocked anymore. The recurring theme wasn't despair but numbness. One widely-liked comment ranked every major defeat on a sliding scale, from "pure despair" for Crocodile and Aokiji down to a flat, unbothered "k" for Im, and others rationalized the loss as inevitable given that Gear 5's only real counter has always been "wait for him to run out of gas." That didn't stop the comment section from spinning up elaborate theories for what comes next — from Chopper's awakening reviving Luffy Anpanman-style to a full "second Marineford War" starring Loki flying in 8,000 pirates on Nidhogg's back. It closes on the fandom's own self-aware punchline about why, despite all the complaining, nobody's actually going anywhere.
419 comments7/22/26, 12:15 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1188: Imu Overpowers Luffy in a One-Sided Beatdown
In One Piece Chapter 1188, series antagonist Imu delivers a one-sided beatdown to Luffy — and Japan's biggest manga-reaction channel drew 725 comments reacting to it, with the top comment (613 likes) admitting the loss stung while floating the idea of a new transformation to come. The comment section split into two running debates: whether Imu is really the final boss, now that a 440-like reply argued the chapter finally put years of "who is the real final boss" fan theories to rest, and just how strong Loki and Ragnir must be to still be dealing real damage to Imu after tanking each other's attacks first. A 245-like comment argued Luffy should drop both the "Nika" and "Joyboy" labels entirely and forge his own unique evolution instead. It closes on a fake "next chapter spoiler" joke so gloriously unhinged it might be the funniest reply in the thread.
725 comments7/19/26, 12:16 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1187: Sanji Awakens Conqueror's Haki — What Japan Said
In One Piece Chapter 1187, Sanji reveals he has Haoshoku Haki (Conqueror's Haki) — and Japanese readers reacted less with hype than with fatigue at how common the once-legendary power has become. The recurring theme in the comments was power-creep exhaustion: a running joke that at this rate literally everyone on the crew, and maybe even the reader themselves, secretly has it too; a genuine argument over which Straw Hats (Franky, Robin, Brook, Usopp) are overdue for their own Haki upgrade; and a sharper complaint that a technique once defined by "you instantly knock out everyone around you" has turned into something handed out like a coupon. It all lands on one exhausted three-word comment that says everything the thread couldn't.
566 comments7/15/26, 12:16 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1188: Luffy's "Unprecedented" Defeat by Im — Japan Isn't Buying It
In One Piece Chapter 1188, Luffy takes what the story frames as a historic, unprecedented total defeat at the hands of Im — and Japanese fans immediately called out that they've watched this exact beat play out before. The recurring theme in the comments was fatigue: veteran readers tallying every past "first-ever" defeat (Crocodile, Magellan, Kaidou) and joking that the trick has been running so long it counts as a traditional performing art, while others admitted the constant no-stakes fake-outs have completely drained their sense of dread. A few even floated retiring Luffy for good and handing the story to a side character. It all lands on one comment about what happened to the Luffy they used to love — and it says more than the chapter itself did.
814 comments7/15/26, 12:13 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1187: Luffy Declares His Name in His Nika Form
On One Piece Chapter 1187, Japanese fans latched onto Luffy declaring "I'm Luffy, the man who's gonna be Pirate King!" while still wearing his Gear 5 "Nika" face — reading it as a sign the goofier persona might finally be stepping back. The thread ran through gripes about the "ahyahya" laugh getting so much backlash it seemingly got dropped, jokes that Im's deadpan "There you are, Joy Boy" delivery has real cartoon-villain energy, and genuine worry that this "final battle" tease can't possibly wrap up 100-plus unsolved mysteries. It all lands on one commenter's blunt verdict on just how long this "final" fight is really going to take.
659 comments7/10/26, 12:25 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1187: Zoro's Fight With Sommers Saint Wins Fans Over — What Japan Said
On One Piece Chapter 1187's Zoro vs. Sommers Saint fight, Japanese readers spent less time on the swordplay itself and more on how weirdly likable this "small-fry" Celestial Dragon knight turned out to be. Recurring threads were praise for Zoro's ice-cold delivery of his taunt, genuine sympathy for Sommers as a villain, worldbuilding theories about his sudden power-up, callbacks comparing the fight to Rayleigh's history with him and the old Skypiea battle against Ohm, plus a running tally of the arc's remaining big matchups. It all closes on a fan whose real terror isn't a Celestial Dragon's knight at all — it's his own overdue national pension bill.
189 comments7/9/26, 12:20 AM
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One Piece Episode 1168: Shamrock's Kerberos Devil Fruit Reveal — What Japan Said
Across 160 comments, One Piece anime episode 1168 revealed that Shamrock's sword holds the Kerberos zoan devil fruit, and Japanese fans immediately zeroed in on what it does to a long-running fan theory: that Blackbeard secretly ate the Kerberos fruit himself. The top reaction (601 likes) says it outright — the anime staff clearly timed this reveal to kill that theory once and for all, since a three-headed dog now living inside someone else's sword makes the "Blackbeard is Kerberos" idea structurally impossible. From there the thread splits into two running debates: whether the ability itself (heads flying off the sword to stab things) is a disappointingly plain way to debut a mythical zoan, and the bigger mystery nobody can crack — how do you even feed a devil fruit to an inanimate sword in the first place. It closes on fans just laughing at how silly the whole spinning-collar mechanic looks in motion.
160 comments7/7/26, 12:20 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1186: Imu Takes a Hit From Luffy, Fans Debate the Scaling
One Piece Chapter 1186 finally showed the series' shadow emperor, Imu, taking a hit from Luffy — and instead of the god-tier menace many expected, the strike landed and Imu looked, well, ordinary. The most-liked Japanese reaction reframes it instantly: Celestial Dragons have always been physically fragile, and Doflamingo — the one who never buckled — is the real anomaly. From there the thread splits down the exact fault line English-speaking fans argue too: one camp is deflated that the final boss lost his "otherworldly" aura and is becoming a meme, joking about his "fugo!" face and lack of dignity; the other camp insists it's perfectly fair scaling, since the blow was a Gear 4 Conqueror's-Haki-coated punch and Kizaru is essentially Yonko-tier. Woven through it is deep-cut power-scaling (does Luffy only reach Yonko level as Nika?), the recurring "then what about Charlos, who got smashed into a lantern shape and survived?" objection, and a defense of Imu's human design over "more freak-show characters." It lands on the most self-aware take of all.
209 comments7/6/26, 2:50 PM
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One Piece: Fans Revisit Crocodile's Alabasta-Arc Introduction — What Japan Said
One Piece fans in Japan are revisiting the peak-era arc that introduces Crocodile — the Warlord of the Sea publicly adored as Alabasta's national hero while secretly running its criminal underworld — and praising it as a masterclass in manga craft. The most-liked comment simply sighs at "the overwhelming readability of One Piece back then," and the replies pile on with granular appreciation: the desert-country antagonist deliberately drawn in a suit and fur coat, a single withering flower that conveys his fury without one word of dialogue, a meal scene staged to make him more eerie instead of relatable, and the claim that even a character's later "disposability" was quietly seeded in advance. Running underneath all of it is a bittersweet punchline about who the real genius behind that era might actually have been.
355 comments7/2/26, 9:00 AM
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One Piece Reader Burnout: Fans Want to Rename It 'One-Pattern'
One Piece has hit a wall with a vocal slice of its Japanese readership, and a Japanese commentary thread turned into a blunt referendum on where the series has gone. The most-liked reaction wanted to rename it outright — from "One Piece" to "One-Pattern." From there the recurring themes piled up: that the manga is now "too childish for adults but too gratuitously nasty for kids," that it has been stuck on the Celestial Dragons and the World Government for years with the pirate-adventure spirit long gone, and pointed jabs at Eiichiro Oda's creative fixations and his missing editor. Running underneath it all was a half-joking envy of Demon Slayer's clean, well-paced success — right up to a closing line comparing Oda to its author that the diehards will not enjoy. (This is the critical side of a two-part debate.)
339 comments7/2/26, 9:00 AM
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THE ONE PIECE Netflix Remake Teaser Sparks Backlash: 'Finish the Manga First'
When THE ONE PIECE — the Netflix-backed remake of the original One Piece anime — dropped its teaser in June 2026, Japan's manga fanbase erupted across the 506 comments under the reaction video. The top comment, with 441 likes, called it 'a remake of a manga that's literally mid-meltdown and still unfinished.' The dominant fear wasn't the remake itself but that Oda would use it to retroactively insert Nika-related foreshadowing into the East Blue arc — one commenter predicted new shots like 'flashing a glimpse of Shanks' Abyss arm' getting quietly slipped in. A second flash point was the aging voice cast: veteran Tanaka Mayumi (Luffy's VA, now 71) reportedly turned it down once before accepting, and fans were furious she was being asked to restart a 1,000-plus episode journey. The sardonic close: 'Can you even call it a remake if the original isn't finished? ...Honestly, in a way, it already is.'
506 comments7/1/26, 10:37 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1186: Luffy Finally Lands a Hit on Im — Then It Cuts to a Flashback
One Piece Chapter 1186 finally gives readers the moment they've been waiting for — Luffy lands a hit on the final boss Im — and then immediately cuts to a flashback. Across 499 comments, the response from Japanese readers was uniformly bleak. Three threads dominated the comment section: the pacing that kills momentum before it can breathe (fans mourning that the era of punches that "carried the feelings of characters and readers alike" is gone for good); Brook's stomach-turning "I changed your diapers" plea that somehow made his protégé stabbing him in the skull feel completely earned; and a silent mid-chapter retcon of a key power slipped in with zero acknowledgment. Voice actor Chō-san collected the most sincere sympathy in the thread. One comment kept it short: "ONE PIECE is dead. No matter how many times you call out, it won't come back."
499 comments7/1/26, 6:04 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1186: Fans Spot a Continuity Error in Brook's Backstory
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.
532 comments7/1/26, 12:00 AM
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Did Demon Slayer Kill One Piece? No — It Lost on Its Own
One Piece fans in Japan turned a viral 'did Demon Slayer kill One Piece?' video into a sharp debate — and the most-liked comments refused to pin it on Demon Slayer at all. The recurring argument was that Demon Slayer is an innocent bystander, that One Piece's real turning point came earlier — when Attack on Titan made 'foreshadowing' and 'payoff' the new hype and One Piece started chasing it — and that the whole rivalry is really a contrast between Demon Slayer author Koyoharu Gotouge's humility and the self-consciousness fans read into Eiichiro Oda. The thread's verdict lands harsher than the video's: nobody beat One Piece — it lost to itself.
645 comments6/29/26, 2:00 AM
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One Piece: How Oda's Art Style Evolved Over 27 Years of Serialization
On One Piece, a Japanese fan thread broke down how Eiichiro Oda's art has shifted across the manga's ~27-year run — early vs mid vs late era — and it turned into an affectionate, nostalgic argument rather than a complaint session. The recurring theme: most of the top comments crowned the mid era (the Water Seven / Enies Lobby look) as peak Oda — thinner lines, the best-balanced faces, the coolest Zoro, Sanji and Luffy designs — while a big camp went to bat for the clean, readable early art and the original Nami and Zoro. The most-liked observation reframed the whole debate with a shrug: he's been drawing this since his readers were literal babies, so of course the style moved. Running underneath it all was the thread's killer gag — that as Oda's drawing skill went UP, Nami's and Nico Robin's apparent "mental age" went DOWN — and a fond roast of how a young Nami once stared down Arlong solo, where today she "just screams." A small minority found the current Elbaf-era art rougher, but the thread landed somewhere warm: the guy was already a monster artist at 22, and most fans just love whichever era they grew up reading.
418 comments6/26/26, 10:10 AM
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One Piece Chapter 1185: Brook's Tragic Backstory Is Finally Revealed — What Japan Said
One Piece Chapter 1185 finally opens up Brook's backstory, and the most-liked Japanese reactions turned it into a genuinely balanced debate. The recurring theme was a self-aware running gag: the thread's top comment literally walks itself from "ugh, another flashback…" to "wait, Brook's flashback actually goes hard — man, you suffered too, huh." From there it splits cleanly. One camp pushes back ("same one-note pattern every single time," "do we even NEED this flashback?"); the larger camp lands on "this one's tightly paced and actually great," capped by a killer point that Oda is on a flashback hot-streak so good — Oden → Kuma → the Rocks → Brook — that nobody's allowed to complain. Underneath the meta-argument, fans recap a life so brutal ("poverty → his nation destroyed → his whole crew wiped out → fifty years alone on a ghost ship → scattered and presumed dead at Sabaody") that they ask if it's just too much hell for one man, and dig into the lore: a skeleton Brook is heavily debuffed because Thriller Bark established that a strong zombie needs both a strong soul AND a strong body, plus the death-god reading of the Yomi Yomi no Mi. And the sharpest note is an East/West one — Japanese fans roll their eyes that overseas critics are "just reading the free fan-subs and raging," recycling complaints "you could've said about One Piece two years ago too."
357 comments6/26/26, 9:50 AM
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One Piece: Robin Reunites With Saul After 22 Years — What Japan Said
Across 611 comments, One Piece's anime finally adapted the moment a generation of fans had waited 22 years for: Nico Robin reuniting with Jaguar D. Saul, the giant who died — or so everyone thought — buying her escape from the destruction of Ohara when she was eight. The most-liked Japanese reactions almost never talk about the spectacle. They fixate on one thing: the always-composed, always-guarded adult Robin completely dissolving back into a child the instant she sees him — the cracking, sing-song voice, the unguarded grin, and above all the line "I want you to praise me for staying alive" (the top comment on the clip, with 3,821 likes, marvels at how rare it is for Robin to ask for anything so openly). From there the thread becomes a study in detail only Japanese viewers caught: the childlike rhythm of "Hey — Saul!", that the scene got its own original insert song, and how Saul holds back his own tears until Robin breaks first. Running underneath it all is a second realization — that Saul's old promise ("there's no such thing as being all alone in this world") and Luffy's "say you want to LIVE!" are the two threads that kept this woman alive for two decades. It closes on the kind of full-circle gut-punch only a longtime One Piece fan would land.
611 comments6/25/26, 4:55 AM

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One Piece Chapter 1190: Luffy Snaps at the Man Who Saved Him — Japan Is Furious

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

One Piece Chapter 1189: Fans Say Shanks Sounds Incoherent Now — Japan Reacts

One Piece Chapter 1189: Why Shanks Took the Gomu Gomu Fruit — Fans Theorize

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

One Piece Chapter 1189: Crew Chats While Captain Is Dying — Japanese Fans React

One Piece Chapter 1189: Im Pins Luffy to a Tree With a Giant Blade — What Japan Said

One Piece Episode 1170: Gaban's Flashback Loss to Shanks — What Japan Said

One Piece Chapter 1188: Im Hands Luffy a One-Sided Defeat — What Japan Said

One Piece Chapter 1188: Imu Overpowers Luffy in a One-Sided Beatdown

One Piece Chapter 1187: Sanji Awakens Conqueror's Haki — What Japan Said

One Piece Chapter 1188: Luffy's "Unprecedented" Defeat by Im — Japan Isn't Buying It

One Piece Chapter 1187: Luffy Declares His Name in His Nika Form

One Piece Chapter 1187: Zoro's Fight With Sommers Saint Wins Fans Over — What Japan Said

One Piece Episode 1168: Shamrock's Kerberos Devil Fruit Reveal — What Japan Said

One Piece Chapter 1186: Imu Takes a Hit From Luffy, Fans Debate the Scaling

One Piece: Fans Revisit Crocodile's Alabasta-Arc Introduction — What Japan Said

One Piece Reader Burnout: Fans Want to Rename It 'One-Pattern'

THE ONE PIECE Netflix Remake Teaser Sparks Backlash: 'Finish the Manga First'

One Piece Chapter 1186: Luffy Finally Lands a Hit on Im — Then It Cuts to a Flashback

One Piece Chapter 1186: Fans Spot a Continuity Error in Brook's Backstory

Did Demon Slayer Kill One Piece? No — It Lost on Its Own

One Piece: How Oda's Art Style Evolved Over 27 Years of Serialization

One Piece Chapter 1185: Brook's Tragic Backstory Is Finally Revealed — What Japan Said

One Piece: Robin Reunites With Saul After 22 Years — What Japan Said