The VOID CENTURY Twist We DIDN'T See Coming! 

Hey Liam. One thing I really miss is when you use to pin a good comment in the comment section. Would be nice if you brought it back by pinning this one

You see the tea pot is actually pours D tee. Related to pour. Teagas D-Rouge.

Ever since Liam talked about marketing and how his writing has changed on the channel Dude In a Room. The "Injections of One Piece Culture Straight Into Your RU-vid Feed" is a golden example of marketing.

I think the theory with Joy Boy being a giant fits, especially since the ship waiting for him was clearly big enough to be a giant’s ship.

For the sanji producing fire one, if I remember correctly when the move was first introduced he would spin around really quickly, causing his foot to ignite.

The tanuki can be explained as Vega Punk being the recognized creator of living objects, but not necessarily of ALL living objects, much like medicine developed in many different ways in many different countries. As for Fujitora, my best guess is that he saw some of the void century, either because he was alive during the tail end, saw documents or he actually knows how to read poneglyphs, but at the same time arrived to the conclusion that the world is safer with the current establishment than if he were to challenge it due to the sins of the past.

I always assumed that the ability to manifest fire to a small degree was tied to haki. Doffy and Katakuri could do it as well.

My theory for why you can't swim with a devil fruit is pretty simple. devil fruits were likely created as weapons, and out of desire to control said weapons it was made with a weakness to what is now known as seastone. an enemy nation probably then learned this and infused the sea with seastone in order to make invasions much more difficult.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="96">1:36</a> this is actually a painting of Simeon I The Great, tsar of Bulgaria. He fought the Byzantine empire and most of the aggresive neighbor nations. He was a war genius and defeated all of them. "His reign was also a period of unmatched cultural prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture." Wikipedia

I love the subtle smile on Oda's face when he comes up with the name "Emerald City"

The Void century is the reason why im So invested in this series the Lore!

Technically, Blackbeard capturing Ace got him a position as a warlord so that might be higher than any bounty that has been handed out.

Liam, about the part about bounties being claimed. During the introduction chapter of the 4 revolutionary army leaders, they defeat Peachbeard and leave him with the civilians to collect the 50 million bounty. I know it isn't quite a large bounty, but just wanted to point that out. Correct me if I'm wrong! Love the content.

When sanji first used this fire attack he was spinning really fast to heat up is leg so maybe he can just do it so fast that we can no longer see it

I would love if Oda allowed his assistants to make OP Spin Offs, I mean the world is HUGE, and as long as the protagonists goal isn't 'to be the Pirate King' it's pretty free reign to do w/e and never have to worry about interfering with or even interacting with the primary story.

In my mind, the "real" reason why devil fruits make you weak in bodies of water is because Luffy is based off of Monkey, of Journey to the West fame. Besides Buddha, Monkey was able to defeat pretty much anyone with ease. He casually kills other demons so often that when reading JttW you begin to wonder if all problems can be solved by Monkey. It turns out, however, that Monkey can't fight as well in water as he can in every other medium and that's for a very good reason. Monkey began life as a stone statue of a monkey which was birthed from a stone egg which was birthed by another stone that split in half. In other words, Monkey is unstoppable wherever he goes, like a true anime protagonist, but he sinks like a stone when in water. The author(s) of this myth solved the problem they created when they made Monkey so cathartically powerful by making him have to depend on others (Pigsy) or his wits whenever some demon dragged Tripitaka down to their underwater lair. I think Oda in conceptualizing One Piece followed a similar thread, especially since it gave him an opportunity to give his pirate protagonists a cruelly ironic(?) curse. I'm sure this has all been said before but I had these two cents rattling around in my pocket and wanted to get rid of them.

Hold up, JoyBoy being a giant actually makes sense based on two items, the big strawhat that we saw with imu, and the ship he left in fishman island, it's way too big for a normal person. Hmm....

I'm pretty sure (unless I remember incorrectly of course) that the original Diable Jambe was when Sanji spun incredibly fast on one leg to produce fire but then for the sake of convenience I guess he somehow learned to produce that fire without spinning like mad, Luffy on the other hand, no explanation and Doflamingo had some weird ass fire move as well if I remember correctly sooooo yeah I guess ppl can just produce fire in some of their moves for some inexplicable reason (cus it looks cool is probably the most valid reason)...

More than being descendants of Lunarians, i would say that by the time King was captured at Punk Hazard, MADS was working there. Judge stole part of many prisoners DNA, including King, and infused it with Sanji's DNA. During Kaido's escape, he rescued King, and Queen saw a chance to join, thus abandoning MADS.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="446">7:26</a> arnoment haki has that like metallic look sometimes, so I’ve always kinda assumed that like the metal was moving so fast or had so much pressure being applied to it or something that it created sparks and then fire

Vegapunk is from an alien race that we saw in Enel's cover stoy, its why he has a long head and probably the reason why he brought in technology that advanced the one piece world in centuries, its also the reason Oda is taking so long to introduce him officially. also the guy that's fighting raizo is from said race.

I always thought that the reason why devil fruit users lose their power in the water is because someone or something exercises their will or power over all the water in the world to such a degree that any Devil Fruit user largely submerged in it begins to lose their strength. A potentially silly guess: Davy Jones, the legend of whom was introduced by Robin all the way back during Long Long Island. She described him as an 'ancient pirate who was cursed by the Devil' and who lives on the bottom of the sea to this day. As the world of One Piece became bigger and bigger, that little tidbit of information seemed less and less of just a throwaway detail to be forgotten, especially since the concept of 'Davy Back fight' carries his name and it is the only arc so far that seems insular from the overall plot. Did he eat a Water Water fruit? Does he have a conquering will so powerful that any 'devils' that enter his demesne become suppressed and lose their power? My idea would be something along those lines. Could he have been a figure from the antiquity of the Void Century, who was consigned to a bitter grave below the waters by the ancestors of the Celestial Dragons? Are there secrets he jealously guards on the bottom of the sea to this day? If he truly spurned the founders of the World Government, that may very well satisfy the legend of him being the 'First Pirate'.

Nah, Luffy produces fire with his red hawk attacks from the friction that's created between the air and his arm, yes, he is going that fast. About Sanji though, I'm not sure, I think the idea is that the spin he does for his Diable Jambe is what creates the friction needed but why it can burn for so long, welp, manga logic.

The fire from Luffy and sanji is meant to just be friction I’m guessing. It’s pretty obvious if you don’t over think it. The first time sanji did it he had to spin a ton super fast and friction generated heat causing it to combust. Luffy has to stretch super far backwards and release it, causing his fist to gain speed and catch fire.

Doesn't "never twice, without a third time" mean that if something happened twice, then it'll likely happen a third time? am I just interpreting this differently? this interpretation would surely imply that the emerald city is likely to exist

i feel like we have to run into a strong ass bounty hunter eventually . that would be a dope ass character / story line

Thought Sanji was moving so fast he caught fire for those attacks, pretty sure early on at least he used to spin extremely fast to ignite his leg.

Ive always imagined Luffy can do Red hawk for the same reason spaceshuttles etc light up in flames upon reintering orbit. The immense speed of his fist shooting out compresses the air density making it heat up and produce heat/flames.

We did get the Kuma backstory and it was indeed tear inducing 😢

JoyBoy being a GIANT AND being the user of the Gomu-Gomu No Mi seems so crazy to me. Imagine a Whitebeard bouncing through the Grand Line XD

It was fairly recent in the manga so I guess not surprising to not see it, but I want to know what the backstory is with the Gum Gum fruit? Why was who's who transporting it? Why did shanks want to steal it? Why is it so highly valued yet it seems like no one through out the story had ever heard of a rubber fruit until Luffy showed up?

Damn I really wish the Kuma flashback was the way Liam described it in this video😭

the best theory about giant straw hat is that the small straw hat has been passed so the person who has it and eventually invades marie jois and finds / sees the big straw hat thats hidden will know that the red line on it 'the big red line' the real one has to be wiped out cause luffy aint think of that by himself cause of his character like nd thats the purpose of the straw hat being passed after all the red line always on the hat from the beginning i like this one from oda cause connects the beginning to end perfect with a common item giving it the epic purpose

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="623">10:23</a> My personal theory is that the giant strawhat actually belonged to the original Poseidon and Luffy already has Joy Boy's strawhat. Since Joy Boy made a promise to og Poseidon that he wasn't able to fulfill, Luffy will fulfill it for him and Shirahoshi will inherit the strawhat to showcase the whole "inherited will" theme going on. I also don't think it's a coincidence that Oda wrote the children of Fishmen wanting a strawhat like Luffy's to "play hero" when he didn't bother doing the same for any other islands Luffy and the Strawhats played hero for. It feels like a subtle foreshadowing.

I think I have an answer to why Sanji can make his leg go on fire; in Enies Lobby he uses friction to make the fire

When you said "He's dead!" so casually about Gin I almost died myself lol

Never really realized how similar the thriller bark monsters and Im look Also I don't think the method for giving inanimate objects devil fruits is particularly complicated so I reckon it's something someone could have stumbled on by accident like when trying to make tea. I think vegapunks main contribution was getting the method to work reliably and consistently for any object.

Void century could be the best arc yet in terms of lore

I always like to think Fujitora became and Admiral and then clawed his eyes out after he went to Marejois and saw the daily horrors they inflict for fun

I kind of just thought this up but what if Zou is just another name for God Valley, and the reason why god valley disapeared when it did was because zunesha "woke up" being the reason both are not on a map/being super hard to locate.

Glad to see things moving along consistently. I remember the days when no one knew your name... It's great to be at this point. I do miss the comment videos, as they made me subscribe 😅 I understand though, the channel started growing quickly.

I thought red hawk had to do with the galvanization of his rubber due to his armament haki mixing with his stretching ability. I read that that can create extreme amounts of heat enough to ignite the air around it.

In Sanji’s case I believe that his spinning generates a massive amount of friction force which ignited the air around his heated shoe soles that appears as though his foot caught on fire I mean during his take down of Queen we did see him say that now due to the germa augmentation that his body is now more durable and thus can generate hotter temperatures that ever before.

I never thaught of luffys mom as such a mystery. Either she is a unessential side character that will never show up, or she died when luffy was really young. Probably the motivation behind why Dragon became a revolutonary. Wouldnt suprise me even if his mom met a real tragic end. Would explain why even garp never mentions her.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="445">7:25</a> we saw how already, sanji produces fire by spinning on his leg and producing friction, as he gained more strength and experience he was able to spin less and just vibrate his leg to make it hot. I assume luffy is doing the same. Not exactly realistic physics but anime pirates are not bound to the laws of our world.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="370">6:10</a> I know that Fujitora is based on the famous Japanese Blind Samurai from the black and white japanese movies, but he REALLY gives me a lot of Shu vibes, from Fist of the North Star, especially since both Fujitora and Shu blinded themselves and both wanted to see what the protagonist of the story looks like (tho Shu DID got to see Kenshiro)

Garp probably told Woop Slap by accident, he’s been known to spill important secrets in casual conversation before

i'm still wondering about those ancient weapons particularly pluton

Great video. I am a new member of the Fleet! In terms of the luffy fire I like to think being made of rubber- I think the friction caused by the sheer speed causes fire to ignite around his arm.

I think Sanji is able to produce fire because when he spins in a circle super fast the friction on his feet will build up which would heat up his foot... But idk. (Rub Your hands together really fast and friction will heat it up).

I kinda like the idea that fujitora blinded himself after the O’Hara incident or something similar to it where he was present for a buster call and due to his moral justice he couldn’t bear to see the horrors in front of him

Can I just say - this video was spectacularly edited; Whoever the editor was, they did a great job!

Why/how do sanji and luffy use fire; Im totaly in with sanji beeing a partly kings race (maybe not inherited, but his father could have modified him that way. When it comes to luffy I see it totaly different. Hes a rubber man and so he can create friction what can produce heat - and thats not that far to fire. If we remember how people used to make fire, it was with friction.

New to the channel. Ive watched quite a few videos and I'm loving the content. I'm up to date with the Anime but refuse to read the magna just so I can go back after it ends relive it all over again. Keep up the great work mate

Brooks whole story ~ raising ranks in the military in a country. How he became a pirate crew so strong, their captain got the anime sickness of “too strong so gotta get sick”, bested a crew who would target other pirates hence the poison. Almost all of them surviving except for the poison. Brooks confidence of how he treats insanely powerful people, fighting with a legendary swordsmen with a huge weak point ( his afro) and most importantly of the world still looks forward to his performances.

I think fujitora witnessed many tragedies namingly the destruction of Ohara, the death of fishertiger and the descrimination faced by the fishmen and forced to take down several people (especially girls). Take down in the sense that he was forced to capture them for the sake of the celestial dragons and from the guilt of not being able to do anything, he blinded himself so thata he dont have to see such tragedies anymore. Please use my comment in your next video🙏🙏🙏.

They already explained Sanji's fire in the anime, he moves his leg so fast the air resistance creates heat. Also, I'm new to the channel. Love the content.

People say your videos are best on the toilet, but i say its best laying on top of my school bus

The person who asked about why can luffy create fire just got their answer

As a new member of the fleet, a mystery I would like to see solved would be the connection between JoyBoy, Fish Man Island, the Poneglyphs, the giant strawhat, and Laugh Tale

Sanji uses speed and friction to light his leg on fire similar to a rocket re-entering the atmosphere. He spins around super fast before every instance that he uses this technique. Look especially at the first few times he uses it.

Add on to the question about normal devils fruits about the Artifical smiles, and why they would make you drown, when they are artificial and still have a down side while Doffy and Kaido produced these to make their army stronger, and why limit them to eating only one and not more than one while they could continue eating till they get a power on a 1/10 ratio?

Never expected the thought that I had 15 years ago would actually get a serious response. Thanks!

Have You Used The Kuma Tissues Yet😅

My theory on Fujitora’s blindness was that he was one of the guys turned to stone by Boa Hancock back on Momonji’s ship in Amazon Lily and he blinded himself after witnessing her abuse animals and people “because she was beautiful”.

ive watched so many of your videos in the past few days that hearing other youtubers voices just doenst sound right anymore XD

I still don’t get how the giants don’t remember the void century they live so long they legit could’ve heard the accounts first hand from their grandparents or parents if they are really old.

Sanji is able to conjure fire by creating an insane amount of friction along his legs. The very first time he did this he had to to spin on one leg rapidly to build up said friction. I believe Luffy's Red Hawk attack functions similarly, by creating friction with the air from moving at high speeds.

I am from the future Vega punk is waifu

I’ve watched a few of your videos, an now with another delay your videos are keeping me sane 😪 your hella funny thanks brotha keep up the great work☝️

im still convinced shanks is related to the celestial dragons or imu directly after he walked in and had a meeting with the big 5 in marie jios. the time he joined rogers crew was after god valley and its my suspician that he took shanks on there when he saved the dragons with garp

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I think Luffys fire is a product of his rubber friction against his armament haki, so when he attacks its like a bull whip breaking the sound barrier which usually conjures fire AKA the red hawk!

That Lao G joke is honestly one of my favorite jokes in all of One Piece

I love these One Piece Theory videos you make, I hope you reach 1M soon

“We go” is the best opening song, overtaken best theme, u know its about to go down when that plays

The croco-mom joke got me good🤣 (although I agree with tekking about the whole parent situation. Basically if oda explores one parent of a straw hat he'll probably introduce the other. Which leaves us to find out Robin's father and loofy's mother. I know you have the opinion that lineage doesn't have to mean something for every character, which is right, but if you're going to put emphasis on one parent, the other should be similarly important.)

Cook tease part got me 😂😂😂

Wow, I know something Liam does not. There was one bounty collected with the defeat of Pink Beard and his men. With a bounty of 52 million he was taken down by the revolutionary army and the town he was attacking. The army left Pink Beard for the town to cash in so they could have the money and of course Dragon and his people are criminals so they can't claim the bounty them selves.

You are probably the person I look forward to watching every day, and your puns and such are spectacular. Thank you.

What a sweet, sweet subscribe transition. The subscriber of the day thingy took away one of my favourite parts of the "older" videos... But now it's back! Maybe

The egg of Oro Jackson is just an emergency egg to make omelets

As far as I remember, a person named daddy or something he was paid to bring 2 guys , he delivered the guys to smoker , it's in one of those episodes where luffy initially meets smoker

I like how you illustrated Big Mom as either Jabba the Hut or Emperor Leto.

At the start when Sanji first used fire, I thought it was friction as he span around at a crazy speed to ignite his leg

I know it most likely will never be revealed but I won’t be able to die happy without knowing what the thriller bark shadow monster is. I watched that shit 10 years ago at this point and it still has stuck with me

Why did this not show up in my feed until a day later? What the hell youtube.

So I've watched a few of your RU-vidr analyses and I have to say, Thumbnail and Title are very engaging^^^ About the void century I assume the WG tried to remove all knowledge about lineage factors, haki and how they relate to devil fruits (I'm taking Parvisions theory about haki and DF being equivalent as canon). The knowledge would give a lot of power to any opposing force, so of course they don't want anybody to know about it.

Hello Liam :) One more question that I dont see many people ask. What happened with Sanji100 food recipes? He should have learned about it by know and it seemed so interesting to me at the time and also important for the buff of the crew. Also,happy near year!

Loved how the wacky egg plant looked like the moomins.. HEY! You must make a reaction video while watching moomins :D

Based on how sanji used to spin frantically to use diable jambe, i always assumed it was just an exaggerated friction fire. As for luffy, i believe armamant haki allows him to vulkanize his arm (vulkanized rubber can create a LOT of heat with enough friction) which he then uses with gear 2's speed to get enough velocity/friction to light his rubber arms on fire

nice, i was just looking up those florian triangle monsters.

in demos stories people put salt on windows and doors to avoid demons from coming in, maybe the high concentration of salt affects the :"devil" part of te fruit

Looks like Liam got possessed by Lao G for a moment

The owner of the teapot found a funky fruit and cut off a slice of it to steep with the teawater, then it transformed the teapot into a tanuki.

Your synopsis is fantastic subscribed just now

The "Emerald City" was low key visited. It's Emeralu, the Green City, in Alabasta, introduced during that arc.

I swear, I woke up from a fever dream and saw a video that was a collab between Nux and Liam. Kinda glad that was a hallucination.

On bounty hunters: don't forget the civilian bounty hunter Jean the Bandit from Dressrosa, who claims to have captured multiple high-bounty Impel Down escapees. Seems highly unlikely that he did not cash in on them

I just like the think the big hat is more symbolic- like Joy Boy is a title similar to the pirate king, and the large hat is just conveying that Joy boy was larger than life