Elbaf is NOT What We Thought! (1128) 

Luffy when fighting Kizaru: Gear 4 Luffy when fighting a big snake: *GEAR 5*

"too many dudes for this to be a dream" 😂😂😂

Current Arc: LEGOLAND

I can't wait to see who the silhouette waiting for the Straw Hats in Elbaf is..

I'm 80% sure the Sun god is a woman (the slim silhouette, the high heels) I'll even make a prediction, I think it's Freyja.

idk about anyone else, but i'm loving the design for the "sun god"

The fake sun god is definitely a woman who just loves animals I can tell because of the normal sized handmade clothing, the strawhats comments about the sun god being delicate and them being dressed up like dolls, and she probably thinks chopper is cute and kept him out of the cage away from the dangerous animals, the two animals that weren’t in there didn’t attack him at all she probably collects animals and regular sized humans because she’s doesn’t have a family or some other anime backstory reason or it’s just a hobby

One piece fans last chapter : all the mistakes are hints and parts of the build up for a major plot twist Oda : I'm just old and tired man

Liam’s story telling through his artists drawing is spectacular

The one thing I did notice was the names of the Sun God's pets. The crow is Muginn, a mashup of Odin's ravens in Norse myth (Huginn and Muninn). The snake on the other hand is Hyllungander, which is almost Jörmungandr the World Serpent, who is "said to be the middle child of the trickster god Loki and the giantess Angrboða". While there are cats in Norse myth (Freya had a pair that pulled her chariot), sadly I can't find anything about them turning into lions.

The Luffy comment to Usopp actually means a lot more since it's coming from Luffy. He doesn't just blindly believe in his crewmates, he actually knows what they're capable of. The same way he could tell that both Inuarashi and Nekomamushi were strong just from meeting them. He knows Usopp could have actually beaten that cat

Hold on, ain't this Sun God similar to that one guy in God's Knights? "A large person wearing a bovine skull mask, wielding a staff weapon of some sort"... Hmm, answer this, Mister Man Who Talks About Fictional Pirates!

Hmmm but how come Zoro didn't get lost this chapter? He said he folllowed a loud sound to its source and found Luffy and Sanji. That isn't really Zoro like, if he was really Zoro would probably go the opposite way of the sound while trying to go towards it.

going by the theory of imposter Luffy doesn't it makes sense that Luffy asked Ussop that he could've taken down the Lion cat because the imposter doesn't know about the nature of Ussop but what he does know is that Ussop's bounty is the fifth highest in the crew....

Its always fun seeing Chopper talk to animals

High heels, or really fashion in general, doesn't seem like a great way to guess at gender in the OP world. Also, giants in high heels gets sillier the more I think about it. This could just be my memory poorly cobbling together bits and pieces from fiction but I'm pretty sure stag heads are generally less sinister than they appear. I feel like people wearing them are usually linked to like the cycle of life, so death is part of their motif but in a more benevolent, force of nature, other side of life sort of way. That said, keeping living diorama's where the inhabitants call them God is going to be hard to sell as not evil.

One more thing i noticed is that giant lady didn't got surprised by luffy's Nika form, why?

If I had to drink a shot for every time the Strawhat had to run away from something I’d be at Brook

If the sun god was a woman, sanji would have probably detected her. So it's probably just a really flamboyant giant

as soon as you said that this was an unusually creepy chapter it reminded me of the one piece Baron Omatsuri And The Secret Island movie, genuinely one of if not the darkest and scariest one piece related thing, deadass got goosebumps while watching it

It's insane that there were that many errors and they weren't hallucinations. Why even bring up the hallucinations then? It's like the items that could interact with light in Egghead that were introduced and then weren't used against Kizaru.

One thing I noticed is that Luffy actually has his straw-hat on his back. Between that and Zoro's swords, I'd say that whoever this giant is, they didn't mean any harm. Why else would they change them into new clothes but leave them with their most prized possessions?

We still don't exactly know what was up with all the goofs and inconsistencies in the last chapter. Here Luffy consistently had an axe and Sanji was scared of bugs.

People say "why do people theorize?" Because it feels great to be right. Like I was right when people were saying yggdrasil is the top of the Adam tree, and I said 'nope, it's a glorified bansai tree owned by some giant' and that it being destroyed wouldn't do anything other than anger the giant that owns it

He didn’t even talk about chopper’s outfit smh 🤦😔 My boy has HORN EXTENSIONS I LOVE HIM

this chapter was so classic one piece. loved it

egghead arc been so crazy with how many things happening at once

One thing about Gear 5 is that it has been changing slightly every arc already. In Wano G5 kept his shirt on, in Egghead he was completely shirtless, and in Elbaf he has the Viking gear on

We got Liam mentioning Super Mario 64 THI before GTA VI

I just assumed the cat ate a lion devil fruit.

The worst part about this chapter is that sanji's Lady Radar, is his nose. Somehow being able to smell women nearby is so much more gross

I’m willing to bet that the fake Sun God is a priest or priestess of the Sun God claiming to be the Sun God

Maybe Luffy is spamming Gear Fifth to get used to it. As training to get rid of the fatigue after use, like he did with third and fourth.

This chapter is giving the wall subplot from Solar Opposites

10:47 The knights skull looks like a bull skull and the "Sun Good" (Shaman?) looks like a moose skull. Ao at least they are different in that respect.

One word to describe this "discovering we are pets in a giant's playroom": existential (in addition to the usual action and fun).

The "sun god" gives me major wendigo vibes, which could be interesting if it's actually supposed to be wendigo related.

Current mood: daily one piece review

Can we first just appreciate Oda tossing in a last-minute color page spread dedication towards the Legendary Maggie Smith? All of them in Hogwarts Robes and on Bamboo Flying Broomsticks. A cute and awesome nod to another fantasy that inspires us. Thank you, Oda-Sensai.

7:02 What if straw hats are made smaller and that "Sun god" is normal size

It’s crazy how cool this came out!

I knew something strange was going on in Elbaf, but I never predicted this.

the monsters in this chapter aligns with skypeia like the snake and the skull head bird lol

This arc is sponsored by legos

5:35 Top tier art. Dellinger wears heals too

Last time I was this early I was watching a hunterxhunter video

Sanji’s fear of bugs is back this chapter as the man on the internet pointed out that was missing in the last video

Can we talk about the cover page, looks very wizardly here.

Sanji is suddenly grossed out by bugs again, makes wonder why he wasn't at the bees from last chapter. Luffy failing the mirror self-recognition test was hilarious, goes to show that he's dumber than a monkey when high on adventure XD

Can't wait till we get to point where Luffy starts running

The Best part Of This chapter is that motorcycle grasshoper. That stuff is so hilarious.

The "Sun god" looks too cool, I'm waiting for him to take the mask off and see the glorious weird design Oda cooked. That or it's Yamato again.

I read somewhere that this arc is a final east blue/Little Garden parallel, fun and chill vibes type of arc, before the final conflict starts with the last road poneglyph and all that

The mask of the giant had antlers more of a deer's but the one on the incident had horns more like a bison's skull. 10:05

Mirrors....could Branch make another appearance in the story. We haven't seen her since whole cake, right?

I seen Giratina hiding in that katikuru shot, man on the internet isn’t as slick as he thinks he used to be lol

It's no surprise that the antagonist (so far) is exploiting the Legends of Nika for their own personal gain. But the real question we should ask is whether or not the SH can really expose the imposter for the fraud they are. Because I am not so sure that having Luffy shift into Gear 5th & beating the false God in front of everyone may change anything. However, I can see it as a good opportunity for Luffy to finally learn about what his DF power really is, and how he'll properly use it to convince everyone that he is the true wielder of the Legendary Zoan of Liberation! All of which may parallel to how Luffy didn't sleep during the time when Hancock told him about her past.

For me, this is one of the funniest chapters in a while. Glad to get a lore breather for now and just have some vintage one piece fun again

When I first saw that they were in some kind of model, the first thing that came to my mind was the Inuyasha episode where Kagome is captured in something similar, and also the model where monsters and people were represented in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.

"Sun god" looking like choppers monster point , another human human fruit 👀

This is what yall wanted right? That pre-timeskip feeling. Each of the strawhats interacting with eachother like a family, being goofy af Even though this isn't EVERYONE, it was still a very entertaining chapter

The straw hats are inside a giant black ship. The giant is the man marked by flames. That explains the sudden disappeance of them

the false sun god is the god knight we saw during the god valley flashback

THI (Tiny-Huge Island) reference in a OP-video, now that's something that wasn't on my bingo card for 2024

I think you've nailed it on the noggin. This giant ominous "sun god" will turn out to be Luffies giantist fan, maybe she save the Barto club, no reason to show them sink now and not bring them into this arc.

the last double page of the crew on the cat running away, Zoro and Sanji look so cool standing there while luffy sleeps.

i like how the lego home alone house is used as the stand in for the elbaf lego building

My headcanon is that they were still hallucinating a little bit when they woke up and that's why there's a lot of inconsistencies

Poor chopper, first he gets put to the side as an entertainment piece, then he gets charged for comfort, then he's thrown firsthand it's a combat again.

Just FYI GrandReview. Whoever did your artwork for Zoro put his scar on the right eye haha.

I wonder if they call him the sun god because he turns on and off the lamp to their terrarium.

This is so sad… I just wanted the “other strawhats” to have the spotlight … but of course we need to hide them even more in the shadows

Is the art just confusing, or did Luffy set the snake on fire with his punch? Also, are the rats Temple Soldiers too? Because snakes commonly eat rats. And rabbits for that matter. Seems like an incredibly short term arrangement.

So, no comment on how the stag head is completely reminiscent of the chief of Sky Island

might still be the after effect of the giant alcohol drink. thats so many errors that its kinda obvious that we are missing something.

New theory: Through the Looking Glass. (The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). They were inside the mirror, which means a lot of things don't make sense because mirrors hold a reflection and not reality. The sun god is able to manipulate the reflection world, similar to Charlottte, but does so to play house and understand her own world, not just to spy and hurt others. I do like the idea of the sun god actually being the goddess Freyja, but too early to tell.

Has anyone mentioned the collar that held Chopper? He claims that it was made of steel, but it seems that Zoro was able to break it like it was nothing. But from the particles that fall off, it looks like he literally broke it with his hands, not using a sword.

My guess is this dome belongs to Loki, and he traps whatever he wants inside. The sun god is probably his mother who takes care of this dome.

First, I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed the drastic difference in the giant size vs. the strawhats. They were always bigger of course but now they make normal size people look like ants. Personally I love that because it makes the giant finally seem imposing instead of just a bigger target for people like Luffy, Zoro and Sanji, but yes very inconsistant with the original sizes. Also, I'd say the size difference first showed up on the giants' ship. The way the strawhats were sitting on the couch like insects was what gave me the first pause. Since Oda does have a history with size scaling, let's ignore that and put out a theory. What if this Sun God woman has the ability and shrink objects and organisms, and that's why the size difference seems abusive. Like she can shrink things smaller than giant can grow tall?

I bet Ussop will get the same Power Up Arc in Elbaf, that Franky got in Egghead...

When kids play a cat can become a lion. I think the strawhats are in a children's room and the giant is its mother.

I will never not appreciate how fast these artists work on art of completely new characters

No mention of the chapter’s title in RPG? After seeing that I was immediately reminded of that arc from Yu-Gi-Oh where they were sucked into the video game

My boy Sanji using the 100% of his brain.

5:35 i really hope this prediction is spot on

inspo is clearly a Wendigo but it somehow also reminds me of choppers giga form - very mysterious

6:29 Add Nami in Cocoyashi and Vivi&Robin in Alabasta to the list

if Kuma is still around this arc, will there be more information on the Buccaneers? perhaps Revealing other Buccaneers too? I put my bets on Blackbeard being a Buccaneer himself perhaps that's why he can eat multiple fruits hmmmm 👀

I don't know if it's a me thing, but I think it would be hilarious to see Sanji trying and failing to flirt with a woman 100 times his size

What i was wondering after seeing that giant snake is that if the snake in skypea was a snake that came from Wano, since they looked similar in size

Did Luffy’s punch to the snake make a giant hole and kill it? That’s what I thought Zoro’s sly look in the next panel was about.

Someone already pointed at it on reddit, but the Sun God skull looks a lot like the Holy Knights skull guy.

Im like 95% sure those still aren't mistakes but rather the effects of the alcohol wearing off they've mentioned it to many times not to have a place in the story

I still kind of think some of the strange mistakes last chapter were intentional to cause confusion amongst the readers..but idk it just feels off that exactly that one chapter had such weird inconsistencies out of nowhere.

Feels like they stumbled into some giants DnD game. Chapter of the tittle was "RPG" maybe all the people in there are playing their characters.

the animals that the "sun god" was keeping are all from norse mythology, by name too...except the cat

Man on the internet thank you so much for uploading so much and with all the over channels I hope you have a good day

Somehow 'American Dad!' did this bit first.

If the “Sun God” turns out to be a woman, Sanji’s gonna have a “I wanna go on that one, dad!” moment from Dude, Where’s My Car. Also, light adventure and mundane crew interaction is why I got into One Piece. I would love a spin-off. Maybe one of Oda’s apprentices could head it up with his oversight.

Elbaf are the Old Arcs over again