#chapter 1118

[chromatic-lamina]

Some Sandman info on the latest chapter (about the giant robot):

The Iron Robot has speech patterns of a child.

Follow up from Sandman in the comments:

Going Merry has more fluent Japanese, also seeming to indicate outsider/foreign/non-native (of where? I dunno). Artur also says that all the speech was in Katakana. And then:

the Giant Robot’s speech patterns sound even younger than Usopp’s crew on Syrup Island.

Link to the post:

[the-frizzle-fry]

These top tier absolute fuckin morons went from having no awakened Nika fruit for 800 years

To two awakened Nika users in like 1 month. Imu kickin himself now.

Edit: I don’t know why this is so controversial. She’s not gonna last long. And it’s just to symbolize her freedom. Everyone needs to chill.

[redtem21-artpage]

CHAPTER 1118 ONE PIECE SPOILERS!

[strawhatdyke]

Chapter 1118 Cover Story

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Off we go! Once again we see that in the interim since leaving Wano, Yamato has become quite popular. Good for him. Struttin away humming a little tune and eating his bento. It's no pirate bento but I'm sure it's yummy. What tune is he humming? I think I know, "Radish and fried tofu...fish cakes and eggs too." Does he start attracting weirdos from here?

Speaking of, getting out of town and on the quest proper likely means a few less cameos from known faces. Still have Inu, Raizo, Kawamatsu, & Denjiro at large along with Kiku of course who's a bit of a wild card. Could do one in each region, still have a few others like Sukiyaki if the ticket is seeing all but a certain one, all in all kinda glad to get this rolling. Yamato continues to be adorkable. I wondered how well he'd fare in this format, being a rather...verbose character but he's been so lively and fun. I think I'd want this exact one for a little figure. Bento snacking and big doofy backpack.

[zonaenthusiast]

ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1118 SPOILERS

I still have no fucking idea how Bonney's powers work but this just makes me so happy ????? LOOK AT THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonney is now one of my favorite One Piece girls, I love her, I need her to be happy, this is so serious.

And as a little detail... we don't know how long this is going to last because things are still moving but, counting just the times the crew divides in smaller groups within an arc, I realized Zoro and Nami are now in the same group for the first time in like a million years. I think since Gyojin Island, actually.

[dbphantom]

Ohhhhoh the shaped of him... Nika ball OC...

[calekinnieplus]

There are two people who convened Rose Redemption, one is Dark Angel Sasrir, and the other is the Goddess…

Apart from the venue where the ploy was conceived, it’s filled with the forces of Concealment…

In other words, the Goddess had single-handedly directed the fall of the ancient sun god, started the Cataclysm, and ended the Third Epoch…

Compared to “Her,” be it Adam or Amon, they are still far from “Her”…

She's so scary, holy shit

[galleylapresident]

Spoilers for One Piece Chapters 1118 and 1119 and a Bonney theory below

I wonder if Bonney can use "Future where I am the most free" on other people. Imagine dozens of people experiencing a future where they're the most free and using it to ensure that others are free.

There'd also be a certain poetry in the idea that Saturn's experiments on Bonney and her mother were the catalyst for the World Government's downfall.

(And I also want to imagine that my favorite evil furry assassins get to experience this and it's what pushes them over the edge and into betraying the World Government.)

[algumaideia]

Idk how I feel about chapter 1118

[chromatic-lamina]

Most important part of the post was left in the tags, or one of them (screen cap below). Miss GW apparently has a title of flag bearer of freedom. Anon fun fact, GW covers children’s day.

I'm catching up with Mom Piece and Mama Drawk said something that went over my head when I was watching anime and rereading manga.

Miss Goldenweek isn't a devil fruit user.

Do normal people even remember her?

That kid from Baroque Works who's bending the reality to her will. AND NOW I'M LEARNING SHE'S NOT A DEVIL FRUIT USER? WHAT.

And I'm not exaggerating.

The title of the first cover story is "Colors Trap 'Rainbow of Dreams' Transform Into Whatever You Imagine!" and she managed to somehow transform Croc and Mr.1 even though they were quite away.

But based on the recent chapters I'm starting to think she might be like Bonney, maybe her power is also a result of human experimentation performed by WG. We don't know exactly wht's a difference between powers given by fruits and human experimentation. Maybe artificial devil fruti power allows user to swim, or to eat a real devil fruit as well and have more than one power.

But here's another thing.

Both her and Bonney's powers seem to rely on imagination a lot and I'm starting to think that maybe both of those powers were created in attempt to recreate Nika's fruit. Because if they could recreate it and just provide this power to their strongest soldiers, nobody could ever stand up to them.

[joy-girl]

One Piece 1118 // Sun God(s) Nika

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Dos Soles

1118 ended up being a very interesting chapter for me. Didn't need to read it too deeply, but it immediately serves as this big "separate the wheat from the chaff" moment for ideas swirling around in my head. Luckily it's the type where the deep core is further enhanced while the little nuts and bolts "how" parts fizzle. There's an idea I had previously, for Chapter 1101 titled Backup Drummer where we said a lot of this idea, but reversed in Kuma's backstory. How Stussy has this oddball moment of butting in while Kuma is shifting gears. Laying groundwork she'll pick back up in very recent chapters.

So that got a lot more literal with 1118. While the broadcast literally crackles over a seemingly big reveal (an idea we already saw in a meta sense with Sabo/Vivi) our side story crackles. We snap back to mostly an update on the Straw Hats and what's going on in Egghead. Noteworthy though that the world's reaction starts to shift against the Straw Hats. If nothing changes, it feels like they might endure Sabo's fate of a government assassination of a popular figure being pinned on them. All while we're at a juncture this "side story" of Vegapunk's broadcast is ready to shift gears. Not unlike Marineford in a way. So let's keep that big picture element in mind looking at the rest.

First off, strike against two nuts and bolts ideas. We see Leo here and York was right about Robonosuke. So like, directly hijacking the broadcast or calling in the Grand Fleet look a lot fuzzier. Though of course there's lots of roads to use Robonosuke and he's still undercooked and we're also finally seeing a Grand Fleet captain once there's a "crackle." That's not meaningless.

For Robonosuke though, one thing that stands out to me is that it vs. Bonney in this chapter sorta play a nice game with the difference between Joy Boy and Nika. Those concepts have gotten a lot fuzzier thanks to Vegapunk's cast and I'm still 100% behind the idea the actual point is all of that prophecy stuff is a distraction. So without further ado...

There seems to be some controversy, not on my end. I've said for a while we're seeing the end of Bonney's journey. You fit this interesting space next to Koby & Yamato with Vivi trending towards it over time. Rebecca's not a bad one either. Someone inspired by Luffy who could easily be the "relatable" protagonist of a series. But together enhance the idea Luffy's a step further. Way I've always put it is One Piece is not a coming of age tale, it's a young man's odyssey.

Anyways, you get my point right? Kuma shifts into the next phase of his big segment, Stussy steps up and seeds her inner conflict as an intermission. The broadcast fuzzes out as we've set up Stussy & Drake? Bonney gets an excellent capstone moment. Much like we had a glimpse of her transitioning over into filling in the real version of Sabo at the Reverie.

Now don't skip what's right before this. Luffy going all Nika is framed as reckless. The giants had that kinda creepy SMILE-type mirth going on. Talking about how they need to tend to the fire. If nothing else kinda shows why it's dangerous if the devotee is hanging around, is "Nika" taking over and seeking this kind of influence? Excellent stuff to transition this segment, it'll be fun to watch how the next steps shift things.

Especially if we start playing with the specific idea of Luffy lunging back in after everyone's efforts got him to safety, the purest potential expression of how much Nika's silliness may be making him walk back growth we saw through Wano. It's very fitting a lot of the anger seems centered around the idea Oda's losing the story with all this...because I still think that's the point if Luffy doesn't rein in his awakening.

[eleni-cherie]

my honest reaction :

Spoilers file 1118!

Did Heiji finally confessed to Kazuha? Of course not! Apparently nothing interrupted them it's just that Heiji forgot (if what I've read from the translation is correct) 😭!

[cookiesandthedead]

One of my favorite things about One Piece is nothing about the main character's abilities are that unique in their world.

Conqueror's Haki? The only haki you need to be born with a disposition for? Yeah Luffy has is, so does Zoro and at least fifteen other characters.

A devil fruit that gives you the abilities of a g0d? Yup we've already seen that twice, in fact one of them is in this fight when Luffy's is revealed.

Awakened devil fruit abilities? That is like almost everyone we run into post-Paradise.

Rubber man abilities are basically the same as mochi.

So a second Nika, that is fine and actually awesome.

Luffy's abilities are not unique, Luffy himself is unique.

[heisoark]

yeah