Oh thank god. I’m glad you’re alright Tekking. I was afraid that the reason there wasn’t a chapter review yesterday was because your heart stopped when you saw Robin with her new old her style
What if it turns to a situation where the giant warrior pirates are cool with the strawhats and are working together but Luffy has some deal w Loki he wont betray and is siding with him 😂🤣 that could be spun so many different ways
I want to believe he fell from the canopy into Niflheim, and running into him is how Luffy's gonna get back up. But if it was Down D. Stairs Saul is gone, and I'll curse Oda for dangling the carrot in front of Robin only to stab her again. Robin must be protected at all costs, dammit!! And Down D. Stairs is the most powerful character in the story after Con D. Oriano
There's precedent for a homie sticking around after the user's death. When Blackbeard attacked Boa, she threatened that if he killed her, his crew would never return to normal which means the effect of her devil fruit would persist after death. Mother Caramel's could be the same way.
This could be a bluff made successful by ignorance. I believe Boa tried and failed to reverse the petrification effect cast by previous holders of her ability. I also think her Devil Fruit has yet to be awakened.
Actually, Luffy first heard the name "Thor" from Enel, who had lightning powers. So when Luffy found out he could generate electricity he probably took that word from the one guy with electricity powers he knew.
Robin: I can't wait to see my friend whose apparent death and subsequent genocide of my whole island eternally scared me. Oda: I could've sworn Saul died. Well, better safe than sorry. DOUBLE TRAUMA BEAM!
I caught up with the manga right as the last chapter released, so this past break is the longest I've had to go without any new one piece content since i started consuming it. I can't describe how excited i was to see this was out
Nice! As someone who's been caught up for a few years now, I would say get used to it, but I don't mean that in a bad way. I'd always look forward to the latest chapter with baited breath, but I learned it's healthy to understand Oda is a human and especially now in the later game, needs breaks. It's a good tip for life too, patience is a virtue!
fun fact: the reason mjolnir's handle is short is because Loki changed into a fly and buzzed around Sindri's head while he was forging it, distracting Sindri who as a result made the handle too short
I mean luffy is incredibly knowledgable in weaponry and mitholy in general, the way he names his attacks requires some insane technical knowlegde on weapons and deities in general😂
I mean there is no way Saul escaped the ice without major injuries, I think he was even still bandaged in like the transmission panel of him laying in a meadow, so it's probably just a crippled giant who was excited to see Robin. Makes you wonder though would any of CP0 be sent to Elbaph to try to stop the Straw Hats, and if they came across Saul on Elbaph because lets say one of their fathers was on OHara so he knows of Saul, what would that Spandam... I mean funkfreed... I mean mysterious Cipher Pol commander do?
Enel had an attack literally called "El Thor" long before Luffy first used his Thor Elephant Gun, so maybe that's where he got the electricity-themed name. The actual question would be how Enel new about all those real world lightning deities that he named his attacks after lol.
That entire Ice Prison thing with wolves is Impel Down Level 5, with Morley being from Elbaph did they create level 5.5 partly because they had been chained up in the same Elbaph Prision?
@@NeonRoger not all giants are from elbaph like Saul said. Morley was imprisoned in impel down over 100 years ago and made 5.5 with his push push fruit and escaped before Shiki escaped.
The parallels between Luffy and Loki have been pretty obvious and quickly established; such as Loki not remembering Luffy's name, something Luffy does to others all the time; the fact that they're both the "sun god" but with opposite alignments; their opinions of Shanks being completely opposite. But one I just thought about after this chapter is their connections to the 2 great trees, the Sunlight Tree Eve and the Treasure Tree Adam. Luffy was prophesied to destroy Fishman Island, the country that is directly tied to the Eve tree. Loki is prophesied to destroy, well, the whole world, but first and foremost, Elbaf, the country literally attached to the Adam tree
Love the glow up on Robin’s hair it somehow looks new even though she had that hairstyle before the timeskip Also something interesting during Loki’s introduction it says “Special Bounty” i like to think it wasn’t the Government that set that bounty but Elbaf itself for whoever caught him would get the bounty
to me it makes her look unique again and gave her the identity back she lost after the timeskip, cause after timeskip she was to similar to boa viola etc basically every woman in one piece with black hair and big boobs started looking the same after the timeskip
3:10 Throughout the arc, Speed would constantly express frustration at being ordered around but near the end, Tama explained about her power and said she hopes that Speed will stay and be like a mom to her. Speed then agreed, and considering it wasn't an order..
Geography is Everything!!! The land of the dead might only be between the mountains and the trunk of the tree where the sun doesn't shine for the branches Between the mountains and the coast might be just fine with villages and such
someone on WorstGen did the digging, and believe it or not every single animal other than Loki's black wolf is 1-to-1 from Strong World. Every giant animal in that chapter is a Strong World design.
I’m very curious as to Loki’s connection to Shanks. Perhaps Loki is the “old friend” Shanks came to see. Obviously, in the story, Robin is cutting her hair so Saul recognizes her. But Oda has to be changing Robin's hair back b/c Lera Abova just started playing her in the live action, and he fell in love with the time skip design again. Also, Saul’s “fallen and he can’t get up”? WOOOOOWWWW! Life Alert much? My guess is a painter is a stone that allows them to create a rainbow bridge that lets them travel between the levels.
Yeah. Luffy by himself invaded a Marine base, broke a monument important to the boss of said base, kidnapped his son, and caused an uproar as he ran roughshod through the base... and that was just to free Zoro!
I always appreciate One Piece and the reviews you guys provide. They truly do help and One Piece is a story that connects everyone. I lost my Grandfather yesterday 😢 and reading the chapter seeing Luffy transform into gear 4 instantly brought me joy. Always keep being you bro. I watched you grow your profile immensely. My fellow Taurus ♉️ 🫡
45:13 More wholesome than it may seem. Robin can cut her own hair, yet she has chosen to delegate this to Brook - the Straw Hat most likely to sincerely delight in being asked. A very deliberate slice of life, in my opinion. We see Robin living a life with access to options beyond relying on herself in isolation. We see Brook living a life where people actively seeking his participation, even for an arguably mundane task. I am not saying Robin pities Brook or that Brook needed this. Rather, Robin gets to experience the joy of "being spoiled with options" and Brook is both the logical _and compassionate_ choice.
That's what I was guessing too. That Luffy picked up the vernacular for his static Elephant Gun attack, from when Enel has used it against him back on the Sky Islands
The plot device of saul "falling down and cant get up" is so funny to me cause it sounds like the first thought oda had of like one of his editors asking him "ok this robin reunion scene is kinda happening too easily we need some conflict" and oda's response was like" uh.. uh.. um..h-he FELL DOWN.. and uh.. CANT GET BACK UP, oh no what a catastraphy!!". I'm not saying its bad i just think its a funny concept of oda just beeing like "he fell over...., thats it".
Love you tekking been watching for a while. Love all your takes. I hope you know how important you are to the community. Your a straight G keep up the grind much respect
tbh I really like robin's pre-timeskip haircut but, maybe because her eyes are bigger post timeskip (?) or maybe just because I became so used to her post timeskip hairstyle, something feels off with it to me... I do really like that scene thought because it shows the other part of Robin that is there but rarely explored. Aside from Usopp, Luffy and Chopper, Robin feels like the most childlike character when she gets emotional. We saw it with Ryunosuke on Zou, the 'I want to live' scene and now when she discovered Saul was alive. Probably because she never had a parental figure to teach her how to grow after ohara (yes the other straw hats lost parents/parental figures but they still had many adults around to learn from) she taught herself how to be an adult while running from place to place and so when the logical part of her (the part she could feasibly learn by herself) starts to crack, her childlike emotional side which probably had less chance to grow and was more just pushed down starts to show. And that's why she resorts to the childlike/innocent thought of "oh I've gotten much bigger now, what if he doesn't recognise/remember me? I should cut my hair to look exactly like I did 20 odd years ago so he can", instead of believing that Saul will be able to recognise her no matter how much she's grown.
My favourite little background detail in this chapter is the giant polar bear offering a pot of what's probably honey to Luffy. Like some kind of extra large Winnie the Pooh.
Please let us keep this hair, Oda. I need this. I want this so bad. Loki being kind of a doofus wasn't out of expectations, but him having such good interactions with Luffy was.
I guess Robin is a little nervous about meeting Saul and every hand she'd conjure in that situation might be a bit shaky. Also, looking at the fact that Brook was among the fanciest looking Rumbar pirates, I can at least picture him making sure that the rest of the crew looked presentable back in the day. Him saying that he doesn't know how to cut women's hair specifically does imply that he knows how to cut men's hair, too.
I feel like the reason Robin wasn't cutting her own hair might be because she might have gotten too emotional, she could have been worried that she couldn't keep the scissors straight. She's about to meet up with an old friend thought dead after-all. That, or Oda just wanted an excuse for a skull joke.
@NeonRoger Tekking mentioned that it was stated that the ship barbers were Sanji, Usopp, and Robin. But that's not changing the fact that anyone other than Robin who regularly tended to their friends' hair is currently off ship. Or that Robin technically has the ability to trim her own hair by cloning herself.
@@dicyanoacetylene6220 I could have sworn I read the SBS Oda said it in a few days ago but it's a moot point as you agree none of them are on the ship.
If we look at the Soul-Situation, we know that Big Mom takes bits of souls and can infuse a single piece into an object to make it sentient with a blocked/buried subconscious recollection of it's former source soul. That means all the souls taken by the Soul Human are stored/kept separate from their own instead of intermixing or being added to their own soul. It's safe to assume it's a permanent infusion like a Horcrux in Harry Potter. If Big Mom is dead, but people in Totto Land don't know for certain if she is then it is probably safe to assume the other Homies might still be milling about. People would have known without a doubt if every animated inanimate object went normal suddenly, unless either 1) It's a fruit who's effects transcend user-death like Boa Hancock's -OR- 2) Big Mom ain't dead, so Kaido probably ain't dead, they're makin a fire elemental baby(SURTR?!) down in the core of the planet. I personally believe option 1 which would also mean Mother Caramel's Homies are vibing too.
Hey Tekking, thanks for the video, here’s my theory!! Loki is going to fall in love with Robin. Hear me out! There’s no reason to explain why Loki fell in love with Lola, what if the reason is Loki loves girls with bangs?? I know Chiffon has bangs too, but Lola has a couple of braided pig tales, braids similar to those of Vikings And maybe that’s the reason Loki found out she was a fake. So another reason for oda to bring Robins bangs is to make Loki fall for her.
I love the "coward pirate shanks" exchange for so many reasons, one being something you didn't even mention is that it really displays luffy's ability to gauge someone's strength off of "vibes" (or maybe just haki) alone. Luffy isn't totally reckless, he's aware of his own strength and is fully capable of holding back if he needs to. If some random drunk asshole started shit talking shanks he isn't kong gunning him, he's not trying to turn someone into a fine red mist like that. He knows full well loki is a big deal and probably instantly gauged that on sight. It isn't just because he's a giant either, it's not even like the average giant is handling a kong gun any better than an average human, and the fact he wasted zero time going gear 4th is really telling of the fact that luffy already understands and respects loki's strength and still couldn't care less to treat him any differently because of it, it's yet another "emperor" moment from him just the same as him releasing lucci and kaku because he understands just how little of a threat he poses to him and even more than that, understands lucci knows that.
Robins weighing her options on who to cut her hair, and then thinks “wait brooks a musician and knows several instruments so he’s good with his hands@ I’ll have him do
Here is my theory - Shanks’ brother “stabs” killed the actual king of elbaf. Loki was framed for the murder. Loki tried to fight Shanks (because they look the same, had two arms at the time) but Shanks refused, and that’s why Loki calls him a coward
These two were without spoilers were pure torture but Oda's back with the peak once again Damn Loki bounty is crazy it's bigger than Zoro and Sanji combined. (He was imprisoned 6 years ago, Shanks became a Yonkou 6 years ago as well is there any correlation there 👀👀 or maybe Shanks was the person who helped them subdue Loki) Robin with the bangs back is a big W We already got a fake out death with Saul before how much torture does Robin need
Fun fact, I'm friends with the english VA for Speed, Naya. She was a local actress in my area and we worked together several times before she moved to go work for Crunchyroll
I think Kid is gonna make a deal to have Loki help him kill Shanks after freeing him, since I doubt Luffy is gonna take his deal and free him this early in the arc
to be fair of all people to give me a haircut the skeleton who's maintained an afro for half a century would also be my first choice no clue how he's done it but he sure as hell is the most qualified
I think you're underestimating how impressive Loki's bounty is. It's 2.6 billion for 1 dude who's already chained up on a remote island barely anyone knows about. Compare that to 3 billion for a Yonko leading an entire Yonko crew and Grand fleet, and it makes Loki's individual strength look way more impressive.
this chapter was really great, I loved how Loki kept getting frustrated with Luffy not listening to him, and then Luffy punching the shit out of him once he talked trash on Shanks
Luffy trained and got stronger vs giant animals, elbaph has giant animals…. Is this gonna be how Usopp powers up as well?? Id actually love that, even Zoro had the humandrills
2:50 its like that dnd spell where you turn the creature into your loyal servant and after the effect ends they can choose to stay with you based on how you treated them
We did just see Dorry and Broggy discovering inflation which raised their bounties after 100 years, for all we know Loki's should be another half billion in the last 6 years as currency lost value?
Okay so you know how there's that one theory going around that Vivi will meet the post-Alabasta Strawhat group? What if on the other hand, the Alabasta group, the original strawhats who befriended Robin, are the first ones to meet up with Saul? they currently seem to be headed in his general direction. Maybe Chopper will heal Saul?
You know what, it just kicked in. Okay it might have taken Zoro to infuse his Conqueror's Haki to get Kaido's attention, before that it was Enma. But If Loki is that guy, he'd know Luffy is strong. Also I don't think Loki is evil, nor is he good either. One Piece big bad usually isn't this goofy, but usually twisted in their own goal and they have controls over the island to a certain extent with innocent people at risk. Him saying he'll destroy the world is still eh, considering he sounds like someone who could fit right into the crew. Of course he's not gonna join being that huge, but you know. If he's the big bad, I'd expect a calm smile like the first panel we saw him when Luffy went into Gear 4th, but no, he's personality is much like straw hat gags.
38:55 If he said something like sunstone painter maybe it means somekind of prism that absords sunlight and makes rainbow bridges to go up and down the tree easier?
couple neat things I saw in another video. Most of Loki's animal friends actually appeared in the film Strong World! Might be an implication that Shiki visited Elbaf once upon a time. And the sunstone thing the giants mentioned was apparently an old navigation tool vikings would use to locate the sun in cloudy weather, keeping with the norse theme.
Tekking, I hear you. But *what if... ?* What if the shield is an object that "ate" a Zoan DF? Specifically, a flounder / flatfish / karei Zoan... you know, the ones Stunfisk is based off of. 😁
My money is actually on Loki beeing freed by Kidd. After all, what do the giants do with humans they want gone? They throw them into the underworld. And Kidd...Kidd has no reason not to free Loki. He'd take Loki's offer to wipe out a pirate crew. He'd release Loki to watch the world burn. He'd release Loki just to spite Shanks. He's at a low enough point in his life that even if he smells Loki's bullshit, he just won't care.
45:25 Wait. Do you think the clone would have Robin's old hairstyle still and could she choose to make that her real body if she didn't like how the haircut turned out?!
35:30 The homey life can be tethered to the owner of the soul used, too. Let's say the shield was made with Goldberg's own soul, it will last as long as he does. That would also imply the Big Mom is alive, btw
I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here berating Lokis bounty. As we know bounties are not power levels (though they often calculate strength heavily). They also cover influence and whos backing that person. The yonko have massive bounties not just because of their strength, but because of the people who follow them as well, the more noteoious and strong crewmembers they have the more fearsome their reputation, as well as territories controlled. Kid and Law get 3 billion bevause the govenrment views the defeat of big mom, one of the yonko, as being their action, in collaboration with luffy, as they forged and alliance to take down Big Mom and Kaido, two yonkos. Dorry and Broggy, dual captains of the most notorious crew of giants, who just (as far as the world knows) got done helping a yonko assassinate vegapunk and wrecked a buster call (plus whatever stuff they did 100 years ago) have 1.8 billion bounties each. For Loki, a guy whose on his own, to have a two point six BILLION bounty...that is INSANE
44:04 I also like to imagine that Brook agreed to cut her hair, shouted "Three-Verse Humming: Arrow Notch Slash!," and then said, "You're hair... has been cut!" as he sheathed Soul Solid!
Looking back at the Big Mom flashback on Elbaf, it's very possible that the Giant village was on the lower level. There are a few shots with icy mountains to the sides and ALL of the lower level probably isn't covered in ice.
You know, compared to the original myth this Loki got off easy. In the original story he also had a snake drip venom into his eyes. His wife tries to catch it in a bowl but has to eventually empty it out and the venom actually lands in his eyes while she’s emptying it.
Saul sent Robin to the sea with the hope that she would find friends she can rely on. I think her not having to clone herself to cut her own hair because she can rely on others to do it for her is just great... I will cry so much at this reunion...
I know Luffy was nostalgic from the giant animals from the two year time skip, but I couldn't help but notice their ressamblance to the gorosei spread in egghead
Oh thank god. I’m glad you’re alright Tekking. I was afraid that the reason there wasn’t a chapter review yesterday was because your heart stopped when you saw Robin with her new old her style
It just came out super late for me. It was around midnight and was doing a D&D session at the time so I was pretty tired.
@@Tekking101same. It came to me late too. Around 12:30.
woulda made more sense than a nosebleed of death
What if it turns to a situation where the giant warrior pirates are cool with the strawhats and are working together but Luffy has some deal w Loki he wont betray and is siding with him 😂🤣 that could be spun so many different ways
Yea it was super late for me too they knew we needed to prepare for Robins hair
Loki: hey Rudy!
Luffy: Luffy!…somehow I feel like this is karma for something.
Everyone Luffy has misnamed: oh really?
Yeah Luffy after years of calling someone something else is finally being misnamed 😂
Luffy in batman's voice: so that's what it feels like...
I hope this is gonna be a running thing with loki
@@donniebell7887 Underrated comment
So long as it is not an actual _Rudy_ reference.
Loki: Free me and I'll crush any pirate crew you want.
Luffy: Nah, I'm good.
Kid, completely drenched from the Elbaf bay: I HAVE A FEW IDEAS.
This. This is wildly plausible
@cassie6146 thought this was a joke then realized this could actually happen, much like tekkings joke about zoro getting lost on the bridge lol
I rather think that shanks became a yonko when he inprisoned loki time line lines up with the 6 years
Yea that came to mind
Law too if this is where Bepo ran to.
Man that last panel about Saul . Can't believe down d. stairs got him.
Poor guy
He strikes again
Down d. Stairs the final villain of one piece.
Need to get him a life alert.
I want to believe he fell from the canopy into Niflheim, and running into him is how Luffy's gonna get back up. But if it was Down D. Stairs Saul is gone, and I'll curse Oda for dangling the carrot in front of Robin only to stab her again. Robin must be protected at all costs, dammit!! And Down D. Stairs is the most powerful character in the story after Con D. Oriano
There's precedent for a homie sticking around after the user's death. When Blackbeard attacked Boa, she threatened that if he killed her, his crew would never return to normal which means the effect of her devil fruit would persist after death. Mother Caramel's could be the same way.
Moria’s fruit was the same. He had to make the command to return all the shadows, or take them all for himself
The immortality operation from the OP OP fruit is an obv. one as well
Obviously not confirmed but zeus is still around after big mom ‘died’
This could be a bluff made successful by ignorance. I believe Boa tried and failed to reverse the petrification effect cast by previous holders of her ability. I also think her Devil Fruit has yet to be awakened.
Actually, Luffy first heard the name "Thor" from Enel, who had lightning powers. So when Luffy found out he could generate electricity he probably took that word from the one guy with electricity powers he knew.
Oh wow that’s a cool connection. It makes sense because luffy gets inspired by people he fights.
EL THOR was a goated attack
If I remember correctly, it was an attack that Luffy ate, and probably that was what inspired him for his own attack name.
@@crocoboi7936fellow crocodile fan 💪
@@LoveJattt yep he’s the goat 👍
Robin: I can't wait to see my friend whose apparent death and subsequent genocide of my whole island eternally scared me.
Oda: I could've sworn Saul died. Well, better safe than sorry. DOUBLE TRAUMA BEAM!
I think Robin is FAR past Double at this point. We're at like Quintiuple by this point.
*scarred
"Saul has fallen and he cant get up"
Did ... did Oda just reference a meme?
Which?
@@aritrasaha441 the old life alert meme with the old lady falling down saying "help I've fallen and can't get up"
no
Not Oda, the translators did
@@phantom-crowI swear I heard that lady’s voice when reading he fell and couldn’t get up lol
I caught up with the manga right as the last chapter released, so this past break is the longest I've had to go without any new one piece content since i started consuming it. I can't describe how excited i was to see this was out
me too, kinda. i got caught up around the time nami woke up un the lego city. the one piece starvation is very hard on a person 🤧
Welcome to the week to week grind
Nice! As someone who's been caught up for a few years now, I would say get used to it, but I don't mean that in a bad way. I'd always look forward to the latest chapter with baited breath, but I learned it's healthy to understand Oda is a human and especially now in the later game, needs breaks. It's a good tip for life too, patience is a virtue!
Glad you were able to catch up 🙌🏼
That is why having Tekking and other OP content creator is very helpful to fill those gaps! Welcome to the club
fun fact: the reason mjolnir's handle is short is because Loki changed into a fly and buzzed around Sindri's head while he was forging it, distracting Sindri who as a result made the handle too short
Saul's been strickin with random old man disease
Knowing Oda, it could be just because he’s so excited to see Robin. There’s no reason kill Saul before they meet each other again 😢
He's fallen and he can't get up!
I swear I actually got kinda upset about the way that was written lol.
What if whitebeard's disease comes from long exposure to poneglyphs and now saul has the same one?
I mean luffy is incredibly knowledgable in weaponry and mitholy in general, the way he names his attacks requires some insane technical knowlegde on weapons and deities in general😂
I mean there is no way Saul escaped the ice without major injuries, I think he was even still bandaged in like the transmission panel of him laying in a meadow, so it's probably just a crippled giant who was excited to see Robin. Makes you wonder though would any of CP0 be sent to Elbaph to try to stop the Straw Hats, and if they came across Saul on Elbaph because lets say one of their fathers was on OHara so he knows of Saul, what would that Spandam... I mean funkfreed... I mean mysterious Cipher Pol commander do?
Enel had an attack literally called "El Thor" long before Luffy first used his Thor Elephant Gun, so maybe that's where he got the electricity-themed name. The actual question would be how Enel new about all those real world lightning deities that he named his attacks after lol.
May be because he's lightning it's self lol.
But despite the details, I'm all for it because it's freaking cool 🤝
because his god.
The Giant Beasts similar to the ones on Ruskaina hit hard.
That was great to see Luffy instantly hit it off with them!
They look like the animals on Shiki’s island merrivile that got evolved by the iq plant during strong world
@@alfredhinton8792 yeah, aside from Loki's wolf all of the animals are literally the same designs from Strong World.
That entire Ice Prison thing with wolves is Impel Down Level 5, with Morley being from Elbaph did they create level 5.5 partly because they had been chained up in the same Elbaph Prision?
@@NeonRoger not all giants are from elbaph like Saul said. Morley was imprisoned in impel down over 100 years ago and made 5.5 with his push push fruit and escaped before Shiki escaped.
@@NeonRoger Morley is from the West Blue like Saul. But Saul knows enough about Elbaf to go there, so who knows.
I wanna just say, 2.6 and 3.0 is 5.6 together. So together Luffy and Loki are the Rubber brothers. Gomu Gomu no Math!
Bruh😂😂😂👏👏👏
Best comment! Bros for life!
Except 5.6 becomes 2 in numerology.
The parallels between Luffy and Loki have been pretty obvious and quickly established; such as Loki not remembering Luffy's name, something Luffy does to others all the time; the fact that they're both the "sun god" but with opposite alignments; their opinions of Shanks being completely opposite. But one I just thought about after this chapter is their connections to the 2 great trees, the Sunlight Tree Eve and the Treasure Tree Adam. Luffy was prophesied to destroy Fishman Island, the country that is directly tied to the Eve tree. Loki is prophesied to destroy, well, the whole world, but first and foremost, Elbaf, the country literally attached to the Adam tree
Nice observations
Robin with that pre time skip hair cut IS BACK BABY!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
I scrolled through the entire comment section looking for someone else to comment on Robin's wonderful bangs being back
Now all she need is to take Franky's cowboy hat.
Never has a hair cut made me so happy
🤝
Not even my own hair makes me happy like this, lol
I loved how Luffy was chilling in Loki's knee lol. Luffy feels like a danger to Loki, true Yonkou aura taming the wild animals.
That panel was 🔥 🔥 🔥
Exactly, I love that panel, Loki isn’t actually the villain in Elbaf
Loki could be like enel
Carrier by fruits
Love the glow up on Robin’s hair it somehow looks new even though she had that hairstyle before the timeskip
Also something interesting during Loki’s introduction it says “Special Bounty” i like to think it wasn’t the Government that set that bounty but Elbaf itself for whoever caught him would get the bounty
it's "World Government Special Bounty" in japanese, no idea why it got left out
to me it makes her look unique again and gave her the identity back she lost after the timeskip, cause after timeskip she was to similar to boa viola etc basically every woman in one piece with black hair and big boobs started looking the same after the timeskip
I can agree on Viola (well except that Viola has brown hair) but Boa? Her and Robin’s hairstyle were practically identical minus that Boa’s was longer
@@lastassassin4443I think viola’s hair is more wavey too
@@lastassassin4443 no its not robins and boas hairstyle is not the same at all
have u actually looked at them?
3:10 Throughout the arc, Speed would constantly express frustration at being ordered around but near the end, Tama explained about her power and said she hopes that Speed will stay and be like a mom to her. Speed then agreed, and considering it wasn't an order..
Hajrudin is the Odin stand in. His main attack is Gungnir, which is Odin's spear.
We know, but hes loki's brother
Oda giveth (Robin getting her old hairstyle back), and Oda taketh away (Saul suddenly collapsing).
Seeing Robin back to the way she looked in her first apparition in the manga made me fall in love all over again.
Pleasant surprise seeing you here lol
@@carlicbread8199shouldnt be, hes a massive weeb after all
This robin hairstyles is definitely top tier.
Peak 2000s fashion. Its nostalgic for sure... pls Oda let her meet saul, I just wanna see her happy :)
Geography is Everything!!!
The land of the dead might only be between the mountains and the trunk of the tree where the sun doesn't shine for the branches
Between the mountains and the coast might be just fine with villages and such
There is still also a port where shanks docked that has a bar. I'd think you'd have to be able to land on the island somehow.
@IcepickEvans exactly! The land of the dead cannot be the whole bottom part of the island
The "moose" looks like the Ettousaurus from Strong World.
someone on WorstGen did the digging, and believe it or not every single animal other than Loki's black wolf is 1-to-1 from Strong World. Every giant animal in that chapter is a Strong World design.
Also, the snake-like, shark sea serpent swimming next to the giant ship looks similar to the one from Strong World!
Monster hunter Banbaroo's
Which means!! SHIKI IS HERE!
I’m very curious as to Loki’s connection to Shanks. Perhaps Loki is the “old friend” Shanks came to see. Obviously, in the story, Robin is cutting her hair so Saul recognizes her. But Oda has to be changing Robin's hair back b/c Lera Abova just started playing her in the live action, and he fell in love with the time skip design again. Also, Saul’s “fallen and he can’t get up”? WOOOOOWWWW! Life Alert much? My guess is a painter is a stone that allows them to create a rainbow bridge that lets them travel between the levels.
Highly doubt they are friends
I can totally see that.
Loki does not give me villain vibes at all right now.
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people can call people "old friends" ironically
Did Shanks leave more tests for Luffys Grand Fleet or Luffy himself, like meeting Loki to tell him to mess with Luffy and test him?
0:18 ELLLLLLBAAAAAAPHHHHHHHH
elbap huh
@ Elbap?
Luffy might remember Enel's "El Thor" technique, that being the basis of him naming Thor Elephant Gun
Oh yeah?
Gotta tell you Tekking. Nothing in my time as a One Piece fan had given me more worry than the phrase "Luffy just by himself." 😂
Yeah. Luffy by himself invaded a Marine base, broke a monument important to the boss of said base, kidnapped his son, and caused an uproar as he ran roughshod through the base... and that was just to free Zoro!
I always appreciate One Piece and the reviews you guys provide. They truly do help and One Piece is a story that connects everyone. I lost my Grandfather yesterday 😢 and reading the chapter seeing Luffy transform into gear 4 instantly brought me joy. Always keep being you bro. I watched you grow your profile immensely. My fellow Taurus ♉️ 🫡
I just love how you can tell tekking is as excited as us
Luffy and Loki surprisingly have a lot of similarities. I could imagine his personality to be like what if Luffy was born in Elbaph.
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I think Robin didn’t clone herself to cut her own hair because she’s probably really nervous about meeting Saul again and doesn’t want to mess it up.
45:13 More wholesome than it may seem. Robin can cut her own hair, yet she has chosen to delegate this to Brook - the Straw Hat most likely to sincerely delight in being asked.
A very deliberate slice of life, in my opinion.
We see Robin living a life with access to options beyond relying on herself in isolation.
We see Brook living a life where people actively seeking his participation, even for an arguably mundane task.
I am not saying Robin pities Brook or that Brook needed this.
Rather, Robin gets to experience the joy of "being spoiled with options" and Brook is both the logical _and compassionate_ choice.
Enel had an attack named Elthor. Luffy heard it back then I guess.
That's what I was guessing too. That Luffy picked up the vernacular for his static Elephant Gun attack, from when Enel has used it against him back on the Sky Islands
Classic Robin has returned! Balance has now been restored.
Needs to wear a cowgirl hat
The plot device of saul "falling down and cant get up" is so funny to me cause it sounds like the first thought oda had of like one of his editors asking him "ok this robin reunion scene is kinda happening too easily we need some conflict" and oda's response was like" uh.. uh.. um..h-he FELL DOWN.. and uh.. CANT GET BACK UP, oh no what a catastraphy!!". I'm not saying its bad i just think its a funny concept of oda just beeing like "he fell over...., thats it".
Luffy being misnamed. How the turn tables.
When i saw that I was like wow Karam does exist, lol.
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Bro, Jinbei has webbed hands, he can't use scissors
Lmao 😂
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tbh I really like robin's pre-timeskip haircut but, maybe because her eyes are bigger post timeskip (?) or maybe just because I became so used to her post timeskip hairstyle, something feels off with it to me...
I do really like that scene thought because it shows the other part of Robin that is there but rarely explored. Aside from Usopp, Luffy and Chopper, Robin feels like the most childlike character when she gets emotional. We saw it with Ryunosuke on Zou, the 'I want to live' scene and now when she discovered Saul was alive.
Probably because she never had a parental figure to teach her how to grow after ohara (yes the other straw hats lost parents/parental figures but they still had many adults around to learn from) she taught herself how to be an adult while running from place to place and so when the logical part of her (the part she could feasibly learn by herself) starts to crack, her childlike emotional side which probably had less chance to grow and was more just pushed down starts to show. And that's why she resorts to the childlike/innocent thought of "oh I've gotten much bigger now, what if he doesn't recognise/remember me? I should cut my hair to look exactly like I did 20 odd years ago so he can", instead of believing that Saul will be able to recognise her no matter how much she's grown.
True, the lack of a proper childhood would definitely affect her
Ryunosuke-kun forever in our hearts
My favourite little background detail in this chapter is the giant polar bear offering a pot of what's probably honey to Luffy. Like some kind of extra large Winnie the Pooh.
Please let us keep this hair, Oda. I need this. I want this so bad.
Loki being kind of a doofus wasn't out of expectations, but him having such good interactions with Luffy was.
I guess Robin is a little nervous about meeting Saul and every hand she'd conjure in that situation might be a bit shaky. Also, looking at the fact that Brook was among the fanciest looking Rumbar pirates, I can at least picture him making sure that the rest of the crew looked presentable back in the day. Him saying that he doesn't know how to cut women's hair specifically does imply that he knows how to cut men's hair, too.
I feel like the reason Robin wasn't cutting her own hair might be because she might have gotten too emotional, she could have been worried that she couldn't keep the scissors straight. She's about to meet up with an old friend thought dead after-all.
That, or Oda just wanted an excuse for a skull joke.
I think Oda said Robin and Nami were the ones to cut hair, Nami is gone and Brook is a swordsman with great hair for a skeleton.
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Tekking mentioned that it was stated that the ship barbers were Sanji, Usopp, and Robin.
But that's not changing the fact that anyone other than Robin who regularly tended to their friends' hair is currently off ship.
Or that Robin technically has the ability to trim her own hair by cloning herself.
@@dicyanoacetylene6220 I could have sworn I read the SBS Oda said it in a few days ago but it's a moot point as you agree none of them are on the ship.
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If we look at the Soul-Situation, we know that Big Mom takes bits of souls and can infuse a single piece into an object to make it sentient with a blocked/buried subconscious recollection of it's former source soul. That means all the souls taken by the Soul Human are stored/kept separate from their own instead of intermixing or being added to their own soul. It's safe to assume it's a permanent infusion like a Horcrux in Harry Potter. If Big Mom is dead, but people in Totto Land don't know for certain if she is then it is probably safe to assume the other Homies might still be milling about. People would have known without a doubt if every animated inanimate object went normal suddenly, unless either 1) It's a fruit who's effects transcend user-death like Boa Hancock's -OR- 2) Big Mom ain't dead, so Kaido probably ain't dead, they're makin a fire elemental baby(SURTR?!) down in the core of the planet. I personally believe option 1 which would also mean Mother Caramel's Homies are vibing too.
I really don‘t know how well Vivi will greet Robin when shes looking like her Alabasta self 👀
She trusts luffy.
She already said she is fine with Robin being part of the crew because she trusts Luffy. I forgot which arc it was tho.
Do y’all realize how much sea prism stone would be needed to wrap around the Adam tree multiple time
Does that mean they were allied with Wano, who mined sea prism stone?
Loki is being hyped up like Kaido. Also, can you imagine how scary that is to see a giant chasing you?
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I think you're forgetting the fact that Speed ADOPTED Tama at the end of the Wano arc.
Hey Tekking, thanks for the video, here’s my theory!!
Loki is going to fall in love with Robin.
Hear me out!
There’s no reason to explain why Loki fell in love with Lola, what if the reason is Loki loves girls with bangs??
I know Chiffon has bangs too, but Lola has a couple of braided pig tales, braids similar to those of Vikings
And maybe that’s the reason Loki found out she was a fake.
So another reason for oda to bring Robins bangs is to make Loki fall for her.
I love the "coward pirate shanks" exchange for so many reasons, one being something you didn't even mention is that it really displays luffy's ability to gauge someone's strength off of "vibes" (or maybe just haki) alone. Luffy isn't totally reckless, he's aware of his own strength and is fully capable of holding back if he needs to. If some random drunk asshole started shit talking shanks he isn't kong gunning him, he's not trying to turn someone into a fine red mist like that. He knows full well loki is a big deal and probably instantly gauged that on sight. It isn't just because he's a giant either, it's not even like the average giant is handling a kong gun any better than an average human, and the fact he wasted zero time going gear 4th is really telling of the fact that luffy already understands and respects loki's strength and still couldn't care less to treat him any differently because of it, it's yet another "emperor" moment from him just the same as him releasing lucci and kaku because he understands just how little of a threat he poses to him and even more than that, understands lucci knows that.
Robins weighing her options on who to cut her hair, and then thinks “wait brooks a musician and knows several instruments so he’s good with his hands@ I’ll have him do
Why think about the instruments? Just look at that luscious afro.
Loki looks like Val Hallen from Dexter
Here is my theory - Shanks’ brother “stabs” killed the actual king of elbaf. Loki was framed for the murder. Loki tried to fight Shanks (because they look the same, had two arms at the time) but Shanks refused, and that’s why Loki calls him a coward
These two were without spoilers were pure torture but Oda's back with the peak once again
Damn Loki bounty is crazy it's bigger than Zoro and Sanji combined. (He was imprisoned 6 years ago, Shanks became a Yonkou 6 years ago as well is there any correlation there 👀👀 or maybe Shanks was the person who helped them subdue Loki)
Robin with the bangs back is a big W
We already got a fake out death with Saul before how much torture does Robin need
3:20 could also partially be the case of "as long as I'm with Tama they won't treat me like a war criminal"
You know Christmas came a month early when Robin’s bangs are back❤.
Sanjis ultimate act of love that will win Nami over: in a moment of need fighting Devon, Nami calls out for Sanji and he has to kick her to save Nami.
Perhaps some wood falls off the tree when Loki shakes it and therefore Loki is indirectly responsible for the Sunny.
I really was wondering where the new Chapter review was yesterday 😂. Seeing old school Robin back really was a nice addition for this chapter
Fun fact, I'm friends with the english VA for Speed, Naya. She was a local actress in my area and we worked together several times before she moved to go work for Crunchyroll
I think Kid is gonna make a deal to have Loki help him kill Shanks after freeing him, since I doubt Luffy is gonna take his deal and free him this early in the arc
to be fair of all people to give me a haircut the skeleton who's maintained an afro for half a century would also be my first choice
no clue how he's done it but he sure as hell is the most qualified
Always looking straight out of the barber 💪
That's my thoughts too, Brook is the hair expert and is used to blades.
After kuma backstory, saul might be in danger.
I think you're underestimating how impressive Loki's bounty is. It's 2.6 billion for 1 dude who's already chained up on a remote island barely anyone knows about. Compare that to 3 billion for a Yonko leading an entire Yonko crew and Grand fleet, and it makes Loki's individual strength look way more impressive.
this chapter was really great, I loved how Loki kept getting frustrated with Luffy not listening to him, and then Luffy punching the shit out of him once he talked trash on Shanks
Luffy trained and got stronger vs giant animals, elbaph has giant animals…. Is this gonna be how Usopp powers up as well?? Id actually love that, even Zoro had the humandrills
2:50 its like that dnd spell where you turn the creature into your loyal servant and after the effect ends they can choose to stay with you based on how you treated them
Oda might be doing another inversion with Loki. Buggy indeed has a higher bounty but he is weaker. Loki has a lower bounty but he might be od.
We did just see Dorry and Broggy discovering inflation which raised their bounties after 100 years, for all we know Loki's should be another half billion in the last 6 years as currency lost value?
Okay so you know how there's that one theory going around that Vivi will meet the post-Alabasta Strawhat group?
What if on the other hand, the Alabasta group, the original strawhats who befriended Robin, are the first ones to meet up with Saul? they currently seem to be headed in his general direction.
Maybe Chopper will heal Saul?
I needed this today.
What if Loki was the person Shanks warned the Gorosei about.
You know what, it just kicked in. Okay it might have taken Zoro to infuse his Conqueror's Haki to get Kaido's attention, before that it was Enma. But If Loki is that guy, he'd know Luffy is strong. Also I don't think Loki is evil, nor is he good either. One Piece big bad usually isn't this goofy, but usually twisted in their own goal and they have controls over the island to a certain extent with innocent people at risk. Him saying he'll destroy the world is still eh, considering he sounds like someone who could fit right into the crew. Of course he's not gonna join being that huge, but you know.
If he's the big bad, I'd expect a calm smile like the first panel we saw him when Luffy went into Gear 4th, but no, he's personality is much like straw hat gags.
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38:55 If he said something like sunstone painter maybe it means somekind of prism that absords sunlight and makes rainbow bridges to go up and down the tree easier?
Knowing Oda, Saul just had an Athena Cykes on the stairs moment.
couple neat things I saw in another video. Most of Loki's animal friends actually appeared in the film Strong World! Might be an implication that Shiki visited Elbaf once upon a time. And the sunstone thing the giants mentioned was apparently an old navigation tool vikings would use to locate the sun in cloudy weather, keeping with the norse theme.
Tekking, I hear you.
But *what if... ?*
What if the shield is an object that "ate" a Zoan DF?
Specifically, a flounder / flatfish / karei Zoan... you know, the ones Stunfisk is based off of. 😁
Then that would have been Vegapunk's work.
My money is actually on Loki beeing freed by Kidd.
After all, what do the giants do with humans they want gone? They throw them into the underworld.
And Kidd...Kidd has no reason not to free Loki.
He'd take Loki's offer to wipe out a pirate crew.
He'd release Loki to watch the world burn.
He'd release Loki just to spite Shanks.
He's at a low enough point in his life that even if he smells Loki's bullshit, he just won't care.
45:25 Wait. Do you think the clone would have Robin's old hairstyle still and could she choose to make that her real body if she didn't like how the haircut turned out?!
35:30 The homey life can be tethered to the owner of the soul used, too. Let's say the shield was made with Goldberg's own soul, it will last as long as he does. That would also imply the Big Mom is alive, btw
There isn't enough tekking videos on a chapter man. I want 10 videos on one chapter release to cope up till the next chapter 😭
38:12- it looks more like the Ettousaurus from Strong World than a normal moose
I think we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here berating Lokis bounty. As we know bounties are not power levels (though they often calculate strength heavily). They also cover influence and whos backing that person. The yonko have massive bounties not just because of their strength, but because of the people who follow them as well, the more noteoious and strong crewmembers they have the more fearsome their reputation, as well as territories controlled. Kid and Law get 3 billion bevause the govenrment views the defeat of big mom, one of the yonko, as being their action, in collaboration with luffy, as they forged and alliance to take down Big Mom and Kaido, two yonkos.
Dorry and Broggy, dual captains of the most notorious crew of giants, who just (as far as the world knows) got done helping a yonko assassinate vegapunk and wrecked a buster call (plus whatever stuff they did 100 years ago) have 1.8 billion bounties each.
For Loki, a guy whose on his own, to have a two point six BILLION bounty...that is INSANE
Wow, Robin finally went back to her original haircut. Looks like she'll be showing up at Elbaf shortly. Hopefully Saul will be okay when she arrives.
44:04 I also like to imagine that Brook agreed to cut her hair, shouted "Three-Verse Humming: Arrow Notch Slash!," and then said, "You're hair... has been cut!" as he sheathed Soul Solid!
Looking back at the Big Mom flashback on Elbaf, it's very possible that the Giant village was on the lower level. There are a few shots with icy mountains to the sides and ALL of the lower level probably isn't covered in ice.
After a long week, honestly tekking screaming elbaph provides such joy
I theorize that Loki has the actual Gum-Gum fruit
You know, compared to the original myth this Loki got off easy. In the original story he also had a snake drip venom into his eyes. His wife tries to catch it in a bowl but has to eventually empty it out and the venom actually lands in his eyes while she’s emptying it.
Saul sent Robin to the sea with the hope that she would find friends she can rely on. I think her not having to clone herself to cut her own hair because she can rely on others to do it for her is just great... I will cry so much at this reunion...
Almost all the animals in this chapter are from strong world
Its all but confirmed that "that clan" that built the Noah was from Elbaf. Fishman island will be tied back into this arc
pre-timeskip robin hairstyle is BACK and all i gotta say is this: I'm FINALLY remembering why we're down bad for Robin
I am so happy to see this hair style come back
I know Luffy was nostalgic from the giant animals from the two year time skip, but I couldn't help but notice their ressamblance to the gorosei spread in egghead