Imagine walking into your room and finding out that your new Warhammer figurines came to life, broke the diorama you spent hours constructing, ate your pets, and one of them turned into the god you cosplay as before riding off on your cat.
This chapter gave such pre-timeskip vibes, I had such a blast! Nami, Sanji and Zoro whistling in awkwardness knowing Luffy killed a God, and Luffy just fidgeting and tweaking at being challenged to not go down a road and IMMEDIATELY running in that direction had me in stiches. Also, Oda brought back Nami and Sanji’s fear of bugs! That’s always a plus for me, I thought that fact had been long forgotten
@@ChaseDDream You know, I thought the exact same thing! I saw the grasshopper and thought “hey that guy’s kinda riding it like Duval”, that would have probably killed me from laughter ngl
"Chapter 1127 has to many mistakes to be a coincidence, the StrawHats are in an illusion world". Meanwhile Oda was sweating bullets because they were really just mistakes.
To be fair, it was coupled with inconsistencies that were actually true. Like the Yggdrasil being so small, the "giants" not looking that big or Elbaf turning into Legoland out of nowhere. The world itself looked fake, and it actually was.
@@jinkun2629 That's like fully and entirely separate though. It's not like the fake yggdrasil changed size or became an entirely different tree within the one chapter. So ""inconsistent"" with what we expect from Elbaf it might be, but it's not inconsistent within the chapter, which is what we're talking about.
The outfit of Ussop reminds me a lot of Obelix, a cartoon character in the French comic book series Asterix&obelix. Obelix is the strongest character and afraid of nothing
@@xMrMayhemx I wouldn't have known but that teacher took extreme pride in going to French speaking parts of the world and losing her American habits so that makes sense. Thanks for the info.
As a Scandinavian person, I have to applaud Tekking for his historical accurate Viking attire. The Suit, the Winterhat, the Horned helmet. So authentic :D
The part where Usopp is talking and Luffy behind him is like YEA IMA JUST DECK THIS DUDE FIRST, and the camera pans to a giant freaking snake is hilarious
I'm guessing that the "Sun God" is just a nerdy giant guy or girl who likes roleplaying with a Elbafian city model and probably even more nerdy stuff throughout their house. I'm also guessing that the Sunny will be in a bottle in another room.
Pretty sure this "Sun God" is supposed to represent Jætte's from Norse mythology. The Jætte's are the counterpart to the gods, they are giant and have nature powers, also they are known to be tricksters, there's even stories where Thor mistakes one of their gloves for a cave and sleeps inside of it. Jætte's tend to be off putting and selfish, though there are kind ones too, some of them are married to gods as well. In Norse Mythology all nine realms are basically parts of the original Jætte the first being to ever exist.
Also with the Serpent and the cat in this chapter, in The Tale of Utgarda-Loki a Jætte tricks Thor to do a contest, he tells him to pick up his cat but Thor "fails", it is then revealed that the cat was actually the Midgaard Serpent. Also Jætte's are known to cause hallucinations/mirages tricking the senses, which goes well with the idea of a "Jætte" in One Piece building a model world and tricking the inhabitants they kidnapped. And then there's also the abnormal size of the "Sun God" Even for a giant she's HUGE. Obviously it's not 1 to 1, but there's a lot of imagery loosely mirroring The Tale of Utgarda-Loki. Just to add, Jætte is the name of their mythologic race, but translated to English the word just translates to "Giants". Which makes it even weirder that Oda decided to make his Vikings Giants when in Norse mythology they are enemies.
@@xMrMayhemx Ah yeah that's the term in Old Norse, I grew up learning it all in modern Danish. Surprised that's the version the rest of the world would use, but it makes sense.
The Giant might be called "Sun God" by villagers just because he switches the lights on and off like the Sun for the diorama as pointed out by tekking! 😂😂
Actually, all of his gears put a lot of stress on his body. It's been heavily foreshadowed already that Luffy using his gear powers is constantly decreasing his lifespan and that will come into play near the end of the story. Remember what Lucci told Luffy during their fight at Enies Lobby?
@@MaTTer1235doubt it. That was when luffy had the rubber fruit powers. This is god powers with the power of imagination. Lucci also doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he thought he could fight Luffy at egghead
well good news, for those wondering where luffy's hat is, there are panels where you can see it just on his back, like the panel before he rand into the mirror
This chapter had a lot of good crew interactions. Nami looked very cute and everyone immediately knew that Luffy would wreck the place diving into danger.
Two years from now, we'll see thinkpieces linking this incident with the themes and overall plot of the arc, and how Oda was prepararing us all for what was to come.
I love that Sanjis first thought outside the Box was to just get these Mirrors for perv reasons. He cannot change it, Judge just must have built that into his genes somehow.
They're really inside the Forest of Menos from Bleach. That very tall being with the mask is really the lost Soul Reaper, Ashido Kano. His pets are all really Hollows.
How funny would it be if the straw hats while black out drunk agreed to join some sort of giant DM's larp. Like the whole place is intended for a role playing game for humans run by giants and everyone is in the know except the straw hats.😂
@@TimeTravelingFetus I mean it wouldn't be that much of a stretch. A friendly giant hanging out on a ship off the coast of Elbaf offering an authentic Elbaf experience for a nominal fee to passing ships. It would be kind of like IRL renaissance festivals. Though I doubt that is actually what is going on here. The giant looks too much like one of the holy knights.
35:39 Just a correction, the creature that gnaws Ygdrassil's roots is a dragon called Nidhogg. Jormungandr is the serpent that circles around the Earth.
I love how fast the Straw Hats are taking charge in this strange island. They are pratically told where the designer of this place is and immediately charge in and wreck all of the "rabid gods" in two panels.
Yeah, feels like a nice change of pace unlike the last few arcs like wci and wano where anything they touch is a threat. Feels like a east blue arc begining
I like the Moose skull, Moose antlers break into tines and palms what other cervidae call crowns. And they live in the artic circle unlike a Fallow Deer which look similar and is possible, but the Moose crowns have palms and tines which look like your hands palm and fingers. They wear down the velvet into points by rubbing on trees, and I like that Oda used a mature looking set of antlers. Makes me think of the Green Man or Cernunnos a forest God, maybe even Windigo but they didn't have antlers in Algonquin lore until a 1970s movie. This might be a woman with the sewing equipment, but also as a man I used to own a vintage Singer sewing machine that looked like that a 31-15 to be percise.
I loved Nami and Sanji's lines so much this chapter and Chopper already in the hole for Elbaf. xD Also, the skull mask dude gives me Loki vibes for some reason, not to mention Oda gonna have PETA called on his ass 😅
Some thoughts I had while reading the chapter: This Sun God character seems like an early act villain, someone we're fighting now but will be on our side against the actual arc villain (probably Shanks' evil twin.). If Shanks' evil twin is actually the leader of the Holy Knights, he might also be the one who prevented Kaido from coming to Marineford. That would explain how Shanks got from The New World to Paradise in a matter of hours with his entire crew of non-Devil Fruit users. It would also explain why Shanks was fighting Kaido to begin with. Luffy won't learn magic circle powers or whatever to deal with Imu and the Gorosei, he'll just punch them into outer space.
One of those villians who seems evil at first, but eventually grows to like the Straw Hats. 100% with you this isn't the Big Baddy. With the sewing machine I'm assuming a girl playing with her doll house menagerie and pets. I think that has to be the case unless Shanks has some extreme fast travel ability, though wouldn't Kaido see "Shanks" with 2 arms and get confused if he was sober enough to notice?(that just occured to me) I could see this seamstress maybe making stronger clothing for the Straw Hats, maybe imbue some magic something into them to counter some of Imus juju or something. Not gonna hold my breath on that, but it also occured to me they could maybe coat the Sunny with that weird mirror inside the menagerie and sneak it in somewhere.
@@ChaseDDreamEh, those probably weren’t plastic bones and skulls we saw at the end of the last chapter. I hope they get punished for making this deadly prison before Oda even attempts to make them sympathetic.
@@daddy-odizzy5180 not to be morbid because I do agree about those bones, but I had little containers with lady bugs when I was little. Kids forget that they have responsibility sometimes? The RPG title is interesting, and I did like/laugh at the idea they keep replaying the same game someone said. I kind of feel like this "child" is royalty so like the Celestial Dragons and they see normal humans as insects. I wouldn't forgive a child, but that is more digestible at least. I'm still curious if the giant doctor Stetson poisoned them on purpose to send them to this Sun God, and even untied the Sunny. I can't explain how else they got lost in the fog approaching Elbaf which Kidds approach showed. Feels like Thriller Bark a little.
@@ChaseDDream I get that, but I don’t know if this person is a child. Their build seems a little…at the very least young adult. I also still think that even if their intentions were playful, the result would definitely warrant a Gigant Stamp to the chin from Luffy.
I’m feeling confident that the giant spotted the sunny while they were sailing by and took it like a kleptomaniac for their model. Second, I think the reason they’re called the sun god is literally because they have control over the lightbulb for the model.
Sad that you didn't mention Gear 5's outfit in the new chapter. But, then again, I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out -- But keep in mind, Luffy when transforming into Gear 5 on Egghead looked like he was wearing his old attire and not the new one that he got on egghead, but then it suddenly appeared once Luffy turned back to normal. But then, you don't really see much of the attire change when Luffy goes Gear 5th in (what seems to be) Elbaf due to how he still had the furry cape along with the helmet's horns that could be seen coming from the inside of his hair. This detail just sorta... sticked out to me, honestly, y'know why? Because this same detail where clothes just randomly disappear and reappear was sort of noticeable in the Whole Cake Island arc when Luffy fought Katakuri. In the fight with Luffy going Gear 4 'Snakeman', it was clear that he was possibly the same size as Katakuri or maybe bigger in the manga, hence why his suit shrunk. Not only that, but his sleeves were obviously ripped, and yet, after Luffy defeated Katakuri and depowered from Gear 4, his sleeves were suddenly reformed back to normal like nothing happened. Idk if you've noticed this detail or if others have noticed the detail, but it was always something that stuck out to me the most, and the fact that the animators didn't really keep the sleeves ripped once Luffy turns back to normal in the Anime is also something I noticed, too. (Unless they're just following how the original source material was and kept that part in without question, then that's a whole different story.)
This went from Skyrim to the LEGO movie to the Wizard of Oz real quick! I'm just imagining a version of "Everything is Awesome" in the style of Skyrim! Great, now I think of that line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail about Camelot: It's only a model!
35:45 gotta make a correction. Niddhøgg (or however it's spelled) is the wyrm that gnaws on yggdrasils roots. Jormungandr the world serpent encircles the world. Thor will do battle against it at ragnarok
Oda has been following Gulliver's travels story beat by beat so far, so I'm willing to bet that this sun god giant is a girl based on Glumdalclitch. She is the giant farmer's daughter that loves to play with dolls, just like this sun god giant. I'm willing to bet she will be our "girl that needs saving" in the Elbaf arc.
I'm calling it before the reveal. The skull mask guy is Kureha. Left pant leg is white, right one is black. Bracelet on the left arm. Old enough to be at God Valley. Deer mask could be a thematic nod to Chopper. And to top it all off, the only crew members to be picked up were from the same arc.
I mean... If I was a Giant with the Mini-Mini fruit, I would make a place for me to hang out and be mini, dont rule that out just yet. He might be able to shrink and follow them into the model
There is some part of the that thinks of Laws Rooms or Beige's ability to go into his own fortress. Idk where to go with those thoughts but they occured as similar to me.
One type of deer from the Mediterranean area does the Fallow Deer, but I assume a Moose since they are in the Norse land which should have Artic ties. Though the Fallow Deer also his ties to Cernunnos a God of nature referred to as the Green Man in many mythologies. The palms and tines on the antlers look like a Moose, even if some other person tried to claim on Daks stream Moose antlers never come to a point when they rub off their velvet.
I think they are underwater. In Norse mythology there's Ran and Ægir. Ran is a god of the sea that's associated with nets and claims the souls of who are lost at sea. Ægir is a jötnar that represents the ocean that also likes brewing and he hosts the parties of the gods in his halls. I can see two chacters based off those two capturing humans and using them for their hobbies.
You actually missed another big inconsistency at the start of this chapter: Last chapter they were all at the bottom of the castle, including Nami who fell down. This chapter starts with with her back on top of it.
Some things I really appreciate about this arc so far, it's super funny already. It feels nice after how heavy the later parts of Egghead were. I guess that's pretty standard for One Piece arcs, but it's still nice. I also love how the mystery was presented over these last few chapters.
I love your chapter reviews! I agree with your theory about how the straw hats got there. It makes sense. This is interesting that we aren't quite at elbaf yet.
I guess that the giant will introduce themself as Skrymir. Skrymir is a giant that Thor and Loki met and described as the largest giant they have ever seen. (It later turns out that Skrymir was Utgardloki in disguise.)
Regarding the snake name I’m guessing it’s supposed to be Helmungandr, thus combining two of Lokis children. Or it could be referencing the Swedish word “hylla“ meaning shelf, making it the great shelf serpent.
I concede that, indeed, all of Elbaf is not in fact made of Lego, as I had theorised. Then again if you go back to my first comment, you'll see that I also wrote that absinthe was the most likely reason, which actually wasn't entirely true, the lego and the cat was real, so maybe just last chapter was absinthe-fuelled and beating the shit outta that cat sobered them up? Idk.
Half the fun is theories, keep cooking because not everything is the creme de la creme. I still think Stetson who gave them the absinthe did it on purpose, then untied the Sunny so a Sun God followers could bring them to this menagerie/terrarium.
When everyone on the great eric was waking up didn't one of the giants mention that they should have been at elbaf by now? I think they got close to elbaf but nobody noticed because they were passed out and someone from elbaf swiped the sunny.
I mean we saw giant fish like Kid saw as he got to Elbaf, I think Dorry and Broggy mentioned giant animals, so at the very least they should be in Elbaf waters with giant fish around the Erik.
I think it's more like Oda didn't have the chance to do some of these jokes lately. Like remember the last time Brook made his panty joke? I swear that was ages ago, and that's pretty crazy to think about.
My guess is this introduction was to showcase that even only a world inside the diorama on Elbaf seems to be huge for normal humans. Just imagine how large the Elbaf itself is.
You should look into Gulliver's Travel ! Lots of similarities with what we are getting and that giant might be the parallel to the farmer's daughter who likes to play with dolls and take care of Gulliver during his adventure.
Well, Muginn is Odin's raven "Memory/Mind" and I don't _think_ Hyllmungandr is anything in Norse myth, but it's safe to assume that's a reference to Jormungandr (and possibly suggests that Oda intends for a different Jormungandr to show up in the future). So with all that, I think the prime suspect for this sun god is either Odin or Loki. My money is on Loki because he's the son of a Fire Giant in myth and him doing this sort of thing could be why Lola didn't want to marry him despite her fondness of romance.
I just realized, plastic exists in One Piece confirmed 😮... Idk why but as crazy as the world of One Piece is, that just feels out of place lol. Has there ever been any other mention of plastic or has anybody used a water bottle or anything??? Maybe I just overlooked it but I can't remember any..
Pretty sure the snake is meant to be Jormungandr, The World Serpent Thor is supposed to fight during Ragnarok. You're thinking of the dragon Nidhogg that eats at Yggdrasil's roots.
I think we need usaop to train his observation haki or at least learn to use it. We gotta get ussop to be our ally detector. His observation haki is at least twice as far as sanji's in term of range.
I mean he's gotta take out Van Augur and his teleport fruit with observation haki, and also I think he takes down Marcus Mars because in the story of the itsumade the death bird is shot down by a skilled sniper.
The sunny going away could be Occam’s razor. Everybody got drunk and passed out. Nobody to sail the ships in these waters means, y,know.. disappearing 😂
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Imagine walking into your room and finding out that your new Warhammer figurines came to life, broke the diorama you spent hours constructing, ate your pets, and one of them turned into the god you cosplay as before riding off on your cat.
I hate it when that happens
Me looking at my World Eaters army:
“Honestly, they’re in character at least”
Dont forget them torching your workshop
God i hope it isn't the drukhari
There is a 90's movie that something like this happens but for the life of me I can't remember how it is called.
EDIT: It's called Small Soldiers
Luffy telling Usopp he should've been able to no diff a giant cat/lion is funnier than it should be.
Usopp gotta step it up
I may be coping but i hope this is a hint at Usopps development this arc
@@Cannibartoit def seems like it
@@CannibartoI just asked oda, he said yeah
@@WickedlyChill Thank you for asking him!
This chapter gave such pre-timeskip vibes, I had such a blast! Nami, Sanji and Zoro whistling in awkwardness knowing Luffy killed a God, and Luffy just fidgeting and tweaking at being challenged to not go down a road and IMMEDIATELY running in that direction had me in stiches. Also, Oda brought back Nami and Sanji’s fear of bugs! That’s always a plus for me, I thought that fact had been long forgotten
If Duval wants to truely mess with Sanji he'll get a grasshopper to ride so Sanji is always disgusted around Duval. Made me laugh remembering Sabaody.
@@ChaseDDream You know, I thought the exact same thing! I saw the grasshopper and thought “hey that guy’s kinda riding it like Duval”, that would have probably killed me from laughter ngl
@@brycj14128 I'm glad I wasn't the only one to hope Duvals name was slipped. I would have lost it and laughed harder than I have in a while.
I was fucking confused while reading because I completely forgot about Sanji's fear of bugs.
Talking about Denjis chainsaws being hilarious during volume 11 is funny
It's a multi-layered joke really. lol
"Chapter 1127 has to many mistakes to be a coincidence, the StrawHats are in an illusion world".
Meanwhile Oda was sweating bullets because they were really just mistakes.
HE might have been the one that was drunk. lol. or maybe just sleep deprived.
*Insert Kinemon embarrased reaction*
@@Tekking101 Oda and his editors drunk a bunch of Green Fairy and when they woke up the next day the chapter was written clearly
To be fair, it was coupled with inconsistencies that were actually true. Like the Yggdrasil being so small, the "giants" not looking that big or Elbaf turning into Legoland out of nowhere. The world itself looked fake, and it actually was.
@@jinkun2629 That's like fully and entirely separate though. It's not like the fake yggdrasil changed size or became an entirely different tree within the one chapter. So ""inconsistent"" with what we expect from Elbaf it might be, but it's not inconsistent within the chapter, which is what we're talking about.
The outfit of Ussop reminds me a lot of Obelix, a cartoon character in the French comic book series Asterix&obelix. Obelix is the strongest character and afraid of nothing
I would have never been able to name that character but my French teacher long ago had a picture of them in her classroom.
Damn those names take me back to some fun stuff.
@@ChaseDDream those comics were huge in europe. not knowing asterix & obelix here is like not knowing batman & robin in america.
@@xMrMayhemx I wouldn't have known but that teacher took extreme pride in going to French speaking parts of the world and losing her American habits so that makes sense. Thanks for the info.
Can confirm:He and Asteriks rule!
Oda is definitely building to that massive overview of the entire island if we got a city that was just a playground for normal sized people
I feel like the Sun God probably wanted Chopper to be another "god" for the diorama. Like the Antler God or something.
Tanuki god
Something like that, this Sun God seems to admire the crew
Nah, he just cute enough as a Keychain 😂
Peak chapter felt the most like a classic OP chapter in a while
Luffy pulled a Mr. Fox: I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.
Nami using Usopp as a shield and extorting Chopper for money...yeah that's the real Nami.
Nidhogg is the dragon that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil. Jormungander is the colossal snake that surrounds Midgard
Came here to comment this but u beat me to it 😂😂
"Too many dudes for it to be an dream - sanji" how's that for an chapter starting😂😂
You know, he is right! Considering...habits
holding nami in his arms and thinking about dudes, 🤨🏳️🌈?
@@alonedownthere47 He thinks about anything BUT dudes, he is like ANTIgay
No dudes in All Blue, just mermaids and fishes
Given the hell he experienced in the okama island it is understandable lol @@Crazylom
When the arc is over. Take a drink everytime they say sun god
That's the equivalent of taking a drink everytime Luffy has a meal. It'll kill ya.
Tryna make drunk for a year straight😂
Enough to poison all the giants. ten times over XD
That would be the end of our boy Tekking101.
He ll become like Kaido then
As a Scandinavian person, I have to applaud Tekking for his historical accurate Viking attire. The Suit, the Winterhat, the Horned helmet. So authentic :D
As a Dane I also second this!
The cloak and helmet are peak!
Keep your countries like that, because in some 2050, you ll have turbans and Mosques.
The chicken hat
And the tie
The part where Usopp is talking and Luffy behind him is like YEA IMA JUST DECK THIS DUDE FIRST, and the camera pans to a giant freaking snake is hilarious
Luffy cooked a rabbit on burning plastic and ate it.
At this point, luffy has been poisoned several times, he will be fine
At this point its just a training session for his immune system. Amount of times he got fatally poisoned...
Sanji can make plastic tasty
The east blue crew’s personalities and quirks being a bit dialed up also makes sense from the standpoint that they are probably a little hungover
I've taken to shouting ELBAF with you at the start of each review. It just gets the soul fired up, like a mighty giant warrior's battle cry!
I'm guessing that the "Sun God" is just a nerdy giant guy or girl who likes roleplaying with a Elbafian city model and probably even more nerdy stuff throughout their house. I'm also guessing that the Sunny will be in a bottle in another room.
Very ussop and oh my god the sunny in a bottle is the best thing ever 😭😭😭😭❤
Elbafian😆 i see
Pretty sure this "Sun God" is supposed to represent Jætte's from Norse mythology.
The Jætte's are the counterpart to the gods, they are giant and have nature powers, also they are known to be tricksters, there's even stories where Thor mistakes one of their gloves for a cave and sleeps inside of it.
Jætte's tend to be off putting and selfish, though there are kind ones too, some of them are married to gods as well.
In Norse Mythology all nine realms are basically parts of the original Jætte the first being to ever exist.
Also with the Serpent and the cat in this chapter, in The Tale of Utgarda-Loki a Jætte tricks Thor to do a contest, he tells him to pick up his cat but Thor "fails", it is then revealed that the cat was actually the Midgaard Serpent.
Also Jætte's are known to cause hallucinations/mirages tricking the senses, which goes well with the idea of a "Jætte" in One Piece building a model world and tricking the inhabitants they kidnapped. And then there's also the abnormal size of the "Sun God" Even for a giant she's HUGE.
Obviously it's not 1 to 1, but there's a lot of imagery loosely mirroring The Tale of Utgarda-Loki.
Just to add, Jætte is the name of their mythologic race, but translated to English the word just translates to "Giants". Which makes it even weirder that Oda decided to make his Vikings Giants when in Norse mythology they are enemies.
For those who don't wanna google this... A "Jætte" is appearantly what's known in the rest of the world as the Jötnar, the denizens Jötunheim.
@@xMrMayhemx Ah yeah that's the term in Old Norse, I grew up learning it all in modern Danish. Surprised that's the version the rest of the world would use, but it makes sense.
Hermod=Hermes, Odin=Dion,Thor=thoria( greek word )
The Giant might be called "Sun God" by villagers just because he switches the lights on and off like the Sun for the diorama as pointed out by tekking! 😂😂
Sun God: “I’ll take a human…. AND DRESS IT!” 📝🗣️
I like luffy using his g5 more often. It means he can control it way better without many drawbacks
Same with his gear 3 and 4 the more experience he gets the less drawbacks
That we know of at the moment it's probably compounding injuries
Actually, all of his gears put a lot of stress on his body. It's been heavily foreshadowed already that Luffy using his gear powers is constantly decreasing his lifespan and that will come into play near the end of the story. Remember what Lucci told Luffy during their fight at Enies Lobby?
@@MaTTer1235doubt it. That was when luffy had the rubber fruit powers. This is god powers with the power of imagination.
Lucci also doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he thought he could fight Luffy at egghead
I hope it doesn't turn out that way, he's already broken and without limitations then G5 is just a win button more than it already is
well good news, for those wondering where luffy's hat is, there are panels where you can see it just on his back, like the panel before he rand into the mirror
This chapter had a lot of good crew interactions.
Nami looked very cute and everyone immediately knew that Luffy would wreck the place diving into danger.
Freeing Chopper then saying he owes her was a return to greedy Nami I didn't know I needed.
So our first introduction to the Elbaf arc is the gang ruining a Lego Collector model set.
Two years from now, we'll see thinkpieces linking this incident with the themes and overall plot of the arc, and how Oda was prepararing us all for what was to come.
@@ritacirocavalcante Unironically, I'll keep note of this
I love that Sanjis first thought outside the Box was to just get these Mirrors for perv reasons. He cannot change it, Judge just must have built that into his genes somehow.
Everyone: “Finally we’re in Elbaf!! I can’t wait to see all the Norse references!”
Oda: “Eh fuck it I’m drawing a Wendigo”
They're really inside the Forest of Menos from Bleach. That very tall being with the mask is really the lost Soul Reaper, Ashido Kano. His pets are all really Hollows.
How funny would it be if the straw hats while black out drunk agreed to join some sort of giant DM's larp. Like the whole place is intended for a role playing game for humans run by giants and everyone is in the know except the straw hats.😂
And then they ate the rabbit.
It'd be fucking awesome if something like that existed, though
@@TimeTravelingFetus I mean it wouldn't be that much of a stretch. A friendly giant hanging out on a ship off the coast of Elbaf offering an authentic Elbaf experience for a nominal fee to passing ships. It would be kind of like IRL renaissance festivals. Though I doubt that is actually what is going on here. The giant looks too much like one of the holy knights.
I can already tell this is gonna be a top arc in OP amongst fans, probably. best intro to a land we have gotten so far imo
21:41 gotta remember how hard zoro had to work to be able to cut through steel
Jormungandr is the world serpent. You're thinking of Nidhogg.
I didnt notice until this comment but we got a snake, some rats and a hawk. Niddhog, Ratatoskr and… the bird from the top of Ygdrasil that i cant name
35:39 Just a correction, the creature that gnaws Ygdrassil's roots is a dragon called Nidhogg. Jormungandr is the serpent that circles around the Earth.
The Sun God is wearing a deer skull while the God's Knight is wearing a bull skull so I don't think they are directly connected
I love how fast the Straw Hats are taking charge in this strange island. They are pratically told where the designer of this place is and immediately charge in and wreck all of the "rabid gods" in two panels.
Yeah, feels like a nice change of pace unlike the last few arcs like wci and wano where anything they touch is a threat. Feels like a east blue arc begining
Jerk had the nerve to collar Chopper he deserves to have that diarama wrecked.
Riding on a broom sounds like it would be really uncomfortable
It is
I like the Moose skull, Moose antlers break into tines and palms what other cervidae call crowns. And they live in the artic circle unlike a Fallow Deer which look similar and is possible, but the Moose crowns have palms and tines which look like your hands palm and fingers.
They wear down the velvet into points by rubbing on trees, and I like that Oda used a mature looking set of antlers. Makes me think of the Green Man or Cernunnos a forest God, maybe even Windigo but they didn't have antlers in Algonquin lore until a 1970s movie.
This might be a woman with the sewing equipment, but also as a man I used to own a vintage Singer sewing machine that looked like that a 31-15 to be percise.
Luffys trigger words were hilarious and Nami charging chopper for a hug was even better.
Crazy head canon but could it be possible that we find the Kid Pirates in the model too???
I loved Nami and Sanji's lines so much this chapter and Chopper already in the hole for Elbaf. xD Also, the skull mask dude gives me Loki vibes for some reason, not to mention Oda gonna have PETA called on his ass 😅
Some thoughts I had while reading the chapter:
This Sun God character seems like an early act villain, someone we're fighting now but will be on our side against the actual arc villain (probably Shanks' evil twin.).
If Shanks' evil twin is actually the leader of the Holy Knights, he might also be the one who prevented Kaido from coming to Marineford. That would explain how Shanks got from The New World to Paradise in a matter of hours with his entire crew of non-Devil Fruit users. It would also explain why Shanks was fighting Kaido to begin with.
Luffy won't learn magic circle powers or whatever to deal with Imu and the Gorosei, he'll just punch them into outer space.
One of those villians who seems evil at first, but eventually grows to like the Straw Hats. 100% with you this isn't the Big Baddy. With the sewing machine I'm assuming a girl playing with her doll house menagerie and pets.
I think that has to be the case unless Shanks has some extreme fast travel ability, though wouldn't Kaido see "Shanks" with 2 arms and get confused if he was sober enough to notice?(that just occured to me)
I could see this seamstress maybe making stronger clothing for the Straw Hats, maybe imbue some magic something into them to counter some of Imus juju or something. Not gonna hold my breath on that, but it also occured to me they could maybe coat the Sunny with that weird mirror inside the menagerie and sneak it in somewhere.
@@ChaseDDreamEh, those probably weren’t plastic bones and skulls we saw at the end of the last chapter. I hope they get punished for making this deadly prison before Oda even attempts to make them sympathetic.
@@daddy-odizzy5180 not to be morbid because I do agree about those bones, but I had little containers with lady bugs when I was little. Kids forget that they have responsibility sometimes? The RPG title is interesting, and I did like/laugh at the idea they keep replaying the same game someone said.
I kind of feel like this "child" is royalty so like the Celestial Dragons and they see normal humans as insects. I wouldn't forgive a child, but that is more digestible at least.
I'm still curious if the giant doctor Stetson poisoned them on purpose to send them to this Sun God, and even untied the Sunny. I can't explain how else they got lost in the fog approaching Elbaf which Kidds approach showed. Feels like Thriller Bark a little.
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I get that, but I don’t know if this person is a child. Their build seems a little…at the very least young adult. I also still think that even if their intentions were playful, the result would definitely warrant a Gigant Stamp to the chin from Luffy.
What? Kaido can fly, he was probably metres away from marineford where shanks was before shanks talk no jutsu’d them
I’m feeling confident that the giant spotted the sunny while they were sailing by and took it like a kleptomaniac for their model.
Second, I think the reason they’re called the sun god is literally because they have control over the lightbulb for the model.
Same, the all mighty light bulb flickerer like any pet in a terrarium would think.
Mister Steal-your-ship and person
Its a sad coincidence that this color spread is based on harry potter, since Mcgonagall's actress, Maggie Smith sadly passed away last week
If all the names to pass recently that one I missed. RIP
shoulda been joanne
It's always so exciting to start a new arc but this may be my favorite start to an arc! So fantastical and strange.
Sad that you didn't mention Gear 5's outfit in the new chapter. But, then again, I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out --
But keep in mind, Luffy when transforming into Gear 5 on Egghead looked like he was wearing his old attire and not the new one that he got on egghead, but then it suddenly appeared once Luffy turned back to normal.
But then, you don't really see much of the attire change when Luffy goes Gear 5th in (what seems to be) Elbaf due to how he still had the furry cape along with the helmet's horns that could be seen coming from the inside of his hair.
This detail just sorta... sticked out to me, honestly, y'know why? Because this same detail where clothes just randomly disappear and reappear was sort of noticeable in the Whole Cake Island arc when Luffy fought Katakuri.
In the fight with Luffy going Gear 4 'Snakeman', it was clear that he was possibly the same size as Katakuri or maybe bigger in the manga, hence why his suit shrunk. Not only that, but his sleeves were obviously ripped, and yet, after Luffy defeated Katakuri and depowered from Gear 4, his sleeves were suddenly reformed back to normal like nothing happened.
Idk if you've noticed this detail or if others have noticed the detail, but it was always something that stuck out to me the most, and the fact that the animators didn't really keep the sleeves ripped once Luffy turns back to normal in the Anime is also something I noticed, too. (Unless they're just following how the original source material was and kept that part in without question, then that's a whole different story.)
Great video, Tekking. But I'm going with Morj's theory of the "Sun God" being a God's Knight that ate a Shrink Fruit.
This went from Skyrim to the LEGO movie to the Wizard of Oz real quick!
I'm just imagining a version of "Everything is Awesome" in the style of Skyrim!
Great, now I think of that line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail about Camelot: It's only a model!
35:45 gotta make a correction. Niddhøgg (or however it's spelled) is the wyrm that gnaws on yggdrasils roots. Jormungandr the world serpent encircles the world. Thor will do battle against it at ragnarok
Oda has been following Gulliver's travels story beat by beat so far, so I'm willing to bet that this sun god giant is a girl based on Glumdalclitch.
She is the giant farmer's daughter that loves to play with dolls, just like this sun god giant.
I'm willing to bet she will be our "girl that needs saving" in the Elbaf arc.
22:14 it should also be noted that this may be elbaf steel and needs to not fall apart under the grip of a giant
I'm calling it before the reveal. The skull mask guy is Kureha. Left pant leg is white, right one is black. Bracelet on the left arm. Old enough to be at God Valley. Deer mask could be a thematic nod to Chopper. And to top it all off, the only crew members to be picked up were from the same arc.
I mean... If I was a Giant with the Mini-Mini fruit, I would make a place for me to hang out and be mini, dont rule that out just yet. He might be able to shrink and follow them into the model
There is some part of the that thinks of Laws Rooms or Beige's ability to go into his own fortress. Idk where to go with those thoughts but they occured as similar to me.
At 20:00 night probably works like it does in the Truman show studio lights up top to look like the sun and they get turned off at night
The gods knights guy wore an ox skull, and this guy is wearing a moose skull. At least I don't believe deer have antlers like that?
One type of deer from the Mediterranean area does the Fallow Deer, but I assume a Moose since they are in the Norse land which should have Artic ties. Though the Fallow Deer also his ties to Cernunnos a God of nature referred to as the Green Man in many mythologies.
The palms and tines on the antlers look like a Moose, even if some other person tried to claim on Daks stream Moose antlers never come to a point when they rub off their velvet.
I can't help but picture the Deer Skull guy sounding like Mark Hamill
Zero mentioned of all the inconsistencies from the last chapter.
I guess it's really just Oda making a mistake, huh?
I think they are underwater. In Norse mythology there's Ran and Ægir. Ran is a god of the sea that's associated with nets and claims the souls of who are lost at sea. Ægir is a jötnar that represents the ocean that also likes brewing and he hosts the parties of the gods in his halls. I can see two chacters based off those two capturing humans and using them for their hobbies.
Glad they finally found Chopper, now they've just got to escape Lego Land.
Tekking reading chainsaw man has to be one of the biggest WS we’ve gotten so far
What if the Lego house is on a different giant ship and the giant just picks up humans on his trip for his collection?
You actually missed another big inconsistency at the start of this chapter: Last chapter they were all at the bottom of the castle, including Nami who fell down. This chapter starts with with her back on top of it.
Some things I really appreciate about this arc so far, it's super funny already. It feels nice after how heavy the later parts of Egghead were. I guess that's pretty standard for One Piece arcs, but it's still nice. I also love how the mystery was presented over these last few chapters.
The cover art was a tribute to Maggie Smith who died of Cancer sadly. RIP Maggie Smith
Oh, I didn't know that. It was just a few days ago. It's not something Oda could have planned far ahead.
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I love your chapter reviews! I agree with your theory about how the straw hats got there. It makes sense. This is interesting that we aren't quite at elbaf yet.
I guess that the giant will introduce themself as Skrymir.
Skrymir is a giant that Thor and Loki met and described as the largest giant they have ever seen. (It later turns out that Skrymir was Utgardloki in disguise.)
Regarding the snake name I’m guessing it’s supposed to be Helmungandr, thus combining two of Lokis children. Or it could be referencing the Swedish word “hylla“ meaning shelf, making it the great shelf serpent.
Thing is a place that big SHOULD have its own wind, so I'm going for the theory that everyone has been shrunk and the "sun god" is regular human size.
“Infi-night-um” that’s a cool new word… gonna use that for sure! Thanks Tek!
I concede that, indeed, all of Elbaf is not in fact made of Lego, as I had theorised. Then again if you go back to my first comment, you'll see that I also wrote that absinthe was the most likely reason, which actually wasn't entirely true, the lego and the cat was real, so maybe just last chapter was absinthe-fuelled and beating the shit outta that cat sobered them up? Idk.
Half the fun is theories, keep cooking because not everything is the creme de la creme.
I still think Stetson who gave them the absinthe did it on purpose, then untied the Sunny so a Sun God followers could bring them to this menagerie/terrarium.
Thanks for the scream, exactly what my Friday needed😊
When everyone on the great eric was waking up didn't one of the giants mention that they should have been at elbaf by now? I think they got close to elbaf but nobody noticed because they were passed out and someone from elbaf swiped the sunny.
I mean we saw giant fish like Kid saw as he got to Elbaf, I think Dorry and Broggy mentioned giant animals, so at the very least they should be in Elbaf waters with giant fish around the Erik.
This chapter felt like such a fun classic one piece chapter.
I think it's more like Oda didn't have the chance to do some of these jokes lately. Like remember the last time Brook made his panty joke? I swear that was ages ago, and that's pretty crazy to think about.
the gaint wooden door to the peeking room is braced wrong from the outside, how dare Oda not know basic engineering!
Telling: I'll call him grasshopper
My brain: Hopper from stranger things but grass
Off topic but denji screaming for blood donations is one of the funniest things iv ever read.
29:40 Exiled giant: "Screw you I'll make my own Elbaf, with blackjack and tiny people"
Scepter + 🦌 Horns
call me marvel-brained but that Giant is Loki 😭
Sanji is going to completely lose control when he sees the giant valkyries baddies
Little correction: Jörmungandr is the world snake: a snake so big it wraps around the world, the serpent gnawing at the roots of Yggdrasil is Niðhogg.
My guess is this introduction was to showcase that even only a world inside the diorama on Elbaf seems to be huge for normal humans. Just imagine how large the Elbaf itself is.
You should look into Gulliver's Travel ! Lots of similarities with what we are getting and that giant might be the parallel to the farmer's daughter who likes to play with dolls and take care of Gulliver during his adventure.
Well, Muginn is Odin's raven "Memory/Mind" and I don't _think_ Hyllmungandr is anything in Norse myth, but it's safe to assume that's a reference to Jormungandr (and possibly suggests that Oda intends for a different Jormungandr to show up in the future).
So with all that, I think the prime suspect for this sun god is either Odin or Loki. My money is on Loki because he's the son of a Fire Giant in myth and him doing this sort of thing could be why Lola didn't want to marry him despite her fondness of romance.
I love there personalities being dialed up, I laughed a good bit at this chapter
It must be the work of an enemy Stando... but no, seriously, this is the One Piece equivalent of *Jotunheim.*
The Strawhats have seen mirrors before. Especially Luffy. Brulée exists.
I love how Tekking is progressively turning into a Viking.
Every time I am convinced that your channel is a real gem on RUclips. Thank you for your creativity and efforts!🌶🚌🌾
I just realized, plastic exists in One Piece confirmed 😮...
Idk why but as crazy as the world of One Piece is, that just feels out of place lol. Has there ever been any other mention of plastic or has anybody used a water bottle or anything??? Maybe I just overlooked it but I can't remember any..
elbaf is off to a great start
Pretty sure the snake is meant to be Jormungandr, The World Serpent Thor is supposed to fight during Ragnarok.
You're thinking of the dragon Nidhogg that eats at Yggdrasil's roots.
Crazy to see someone coseplay as luffy 😅 this gonna be a good story to hear 😂
I think we need usaop to train his observation haki or at least learn to use it. We gotta get ussop to be our ally detector.
His observation haki is at least twice as far as sanji's in term of range.
I mean he's gotta take out Van Augur and his teleport fruit with observation haki, and also I think he takes down Marcus Mars because in the story of the itsumade the death bird is shot down by a skilled sniper.
Even at 17 meters those Legos would be at least the size of a tissue box. Imagine the forts you could build...
Map. Map is good to have. 🗺👀
I guarantee that someone drunkenly did coup de burst trying to reenact the escape from Ethan at the top of egghead
The sunny going away could be Occam’s razor. Everybody got drunk and passed out. Nobody to sail the ships in these waters means, y,know.. disappearing 😂