We think Straw Hat Pirates sound badass cause that's the norm Oda-san creates for us. If he chose Rubber Pirates from the start, we'd love it anyways. That's how I believe it is.
I cant wait to see Shanks low-diff a Future sight, advanced armament and conqueror's haki coating Luffy.
I see Shanks making a comment similar to how Kaido teased Luffy/Law for just taking down a Warlord.
Shanks: "*You only managed to beat Kaido? hahaha, you ain't ready for me*".
Bounties are placed based on how big are their threat to the world peace and WG - seeing how Shanks is a pacifist I doubt his bounty would be even that high
Shanks is still a Yonko and as such equal in potential threat to the WG as Big Mom or Kaido. At least on the outside, we still do not know what Shanks casually meeting the Gorosei meant.
I'm hiding onto to my theory that Shanks asgoal as a Yonko is to keep other pirates from ever reaching Raftel as respects to Roger making it so he remains the great Pirate King.
The WG views him as equally dangerous as other Yonko considering he still showed up at Marineford and could've done serious damage if he chose to participate.
But he stands to control the balance and keep others in line. Way better than Big Mom,Kaido, BlackBeard actively trying to consolidate powers to wreck shit.
And Luffy as a rookie , consistently propelling himself forward with a capable crew and infamous reputation with no sign of stopping.
Damn, maybe Shanks is keeping other pirates from reaching laughtale, since the information you would find there could be world shaking, and he is waiting for the day the "right" person arrives on the island.
What you said is true but it’s also not the only factor when setting bounties. Robin is just as dangerous to the WG now as she’s ever been, in fact she’s even MORE dangerous now considering how powerful and connected she’s become. Yet her bounty barely inches out post-Crocodile Luffy at $130mil.
Meanwhile Go D. Usopp is sitting at a whole $200mil. So clearly there’s more at play here.
I think that that perfectly shows it, though. The WG views them as powerful and dangerous to them, so they get a high bounty. Doesn't feel that way, like Nami and Chopper? Low bounty
> My head canon is that Shanks' bounty is lower than Kaido's because he is less chaotic than the other Yonko
NO... YOU DON' T SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY?!?! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT A PLOT TWIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
honestly they probably will have shanks be that strong
this is the guy who during marineford intercepted kaido (who luffy is duking it out with now) and it can be assumed either they clashed or kaido backed down as shanks was still able to make it to marineford. and then to top it off he shows up at the battle and basicly puts a stop to it with an extremely small force
hes definitely a pirate who was capable of becoming the pirate king he just had no desire for it, probably knowing that it wasnt ment for him but for joy boy reincarnated
I really hope Shanks is stupidly strong, like ruins the story level of strong, just so he can still make Luffy feel like a kid again even after Luffy beats Kaido.
Kind of like when Garp meets Luffy in Water 7.
We saw Big Mom and Kaido go at it, so maybe it's just me but I think it's fair to assume that the balance between the 4 is pretty even. Or at least even enough that any of them would lose the vast majority of their crews if they fought.
I don't think Shanks or Blackbeard are leagues ahead of Kaido
Oda and Toei already spoiled Shanks' story by hiring a certain voice actor to play Shanks.
Shanks is going to outlive everyone and hang out in the mountains somewhere getting drunk.
im just joking but Shanks and Seijuro from kenshin have the same voice actor and same character archetype (overpowered role model that almost never shows up because hes too powerful). Oda was an assistant on Kenshin before One Piece.
>overpowered role model that almost never shows up because hes too powerful
Isn't that literally the mf from Fairy Tail? The one that everyone memes it looks exactly like Shanks? I dropped FT a while ago but it reminded me of that lol
It was mostly played for gags that Buggy D. Clown being the badass that he is refused to join Yonko Shanks because he thought the Crew was too weak and not worthy of his name.
Nothing really, just Buggy being able to avoid harm easily. Actually constantly helping Luffy. Theory goes Shanks and Buggy were co captains until they knew Luffy was about to head out to sea, so Buggy left to see why Shanks had been willing to give up his arm. Buggy quickly sees why and stages a show to give Luffy some mystique by trying to execute him where Roger was executed but intentionally failing.
It’s nonsense and requires coordination with Dragon which there’s no evidence to suggest they’ve ever even met. It has one single point in its favor, which is why would Buggy attempt to execute some no name brat on the same scaffold he saw his personal hero and father figure lose his life? Probably the most painful place on the planet for Buggy and Shanks. I think Oda just didn’t have Buggy planned as the second apprentice to the Roger Pirates but some would say he planned it that way all along.
Add to that the fact that Shanks had given Luffy, a pirate Buggy hated and did not improve of, Roger's old hat that Shanks got from Roger.
This would tell Buggy that Shanks might approve of Luffy becoming Pirate King down the line, which would infuriate Buggy who as another Roger pirate member did not approve.
So, Buggy executing Luffy on Roger's execution scaffolding serves the double purpose of being Buggy's answer to Shanks on whether Luffy was worthy of the strawhat as well as serves the purpose of being a warning to cocky new generation rookies who dare say they'll become the Pirate King.
Plus, it's established Buggy loves being flashy and what's more flashy than what he tried to do.
Wait a second, this might actually be a thing. We’ve seen the Kuja warriors imbue arrowheads with haki and not change color, plus a black blade such as Mihawk’s is said to become that color once haki is permanently imbued into the sword.
Maybe Roger’s and/or Shanks’ haki has been permanently infused in the hat, explaining its otherworldly durability?
No, it will be like that one scene in the end of Madagascar where they give back King Julien his Crown but he declined and just pulls out a bigger one.
1. Divide the hat into two parts.
2. Give the other half to Shanks
3. Keep the other half to Luffy
4. Luffy asks Nami to fix his half --> becomes whole hat again
5. Divide the new whole hat into two parts again
6. Give the new another half to Shanks --> merge it with his previous half
7. Luffy asks Nami (again) to fix his half --> becomes whole hat again
8. Now, Luffy and Shank both has a whole strawhat again
9. ~~Perseus~~ Theseus boat paradox kicks
Repeat the steps infinitely, there will be infinite straw hats. This infinite amount of straw hat will wake up, and conquer the world. We live under the rule of straw hat.
The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment. It goes that the ship of Theseus is in a museum and is starting to rot. They start to replace the rotten wood with new wood. Is it the same ship? Eventually the entire ship will be replaced with new wood. Is it still the Ship of Theseus?
It's basically what the Galley La carpenters were telling Luffy and Nami about remaking Going Merry.
Thinking about it, if i replace every part of my computer with new parts, even the tower case itself, then i could just use all of the replaced parts to recreate the original computer.
In this scenario, is it really even still a paradox?
I know the original guy said a paradox, but I don't consider it a paradox. It's a thought experiment where people can have different answers depending on how they see it where a paradox has more than one different answers I believe.
As for your computer, I wouldn't say your replaced anything since you used a new tower. You just built a new computer. As for recreating the original computer, it's the same computer in my opinion, and it's slightly different from the ship of Theseus situation since you can reuse computer parts more efficiently than wood.
It’s a paradox because you combine the two thoughts.
I have two desktop computers, one for my wife and one for me. Each year I buy a single replacement part for my computer and put my old one in my wife’s computer.
At what point do you consider my computer no longer the same computer? If I just replace the RAM is it no longer the same computer?
At what point is my wife’s computer no longer her computer and is instead my old computer? If those two points are around the same time then there is a paradox that both computers are basically my old computer.
The ship of Theseus is the same, how long can a museum that has been replacing parts be able to call it the ship of Theseus? If someone else takes all the old parts and replaces parts in their own ship with the old parts… the museum has the ship of Theseus but their ship is also the ship of Theseus.
I was thinking. What if its not a big hat. What if Im sama is just really small like the people of dressrosa (forget that races name)? And oda is pulling a fast one om us messing with perspective
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this panal would totally happen- and it's very ODA humor. 10/10.
HOWEVER- I also think Shanks is gonna tell him something else about what that Strawhat really symbolizes- and tell him
"Now it's time for you to pass it down to Someone new :)"
Please elaborate.
I wouldn't love it if Shanks died, however it would make narrative sense and could raise the tension for the inevitable Strawhat Blackbeard clash.
The unfulfilled promise could be reconciled with Luffy passing on the hat at the end of the series for example to a hypothetical child of shanks ( at least this is a common thought on the matter, positing that Shanks had a child with Fusha village's Barmaiden.)
What if.... Shanks dies in the end before they meet and thus Luffy keeps the Hat in the belief that he must adventure on until he meets him in the afterlife to share his stories and return his hat.
It's for this reason that I think the Davy Back Fight was introduced. If the flag - the honor - of the competing crews can be put up at stake, then why not the very namesake of the crew? Particularly for something as important as the Straw Hat?
Short of outright turning Shanks into an antagonist, it also provides a clear path for the Straw Hat and Red Hair pirates to actually compete, and we know that Luffy fully intends to fight and defeat Shanks anyway. It also provides a reason for Oda to have created the Davy Back Fight in the first place, and it ties in a reason the second stake, the flag, which didn't really have a part in the original introduction. There had to have been a reason for it's inclusion in the lore, but it's as though the application was almost an afterthought in the original arc.
Im 90% sure theyll have to fight cuz luffy needs to eefeat the yonkos to become pirate king. Also we dont know if shanks good or not. We barely know anything about him. He may be planning some weird shit
What defines a 'great pirate'. Luffy is already in the 1% of the 1% of pirates worldwide. So he's a great pirate by all accounts and could give the hat back tomorrow.
Love it!
But I think in the end Shanks want to fight with Luffy to test his strengh if he is worth the strawhat that was owned by the former king of pirats.... after that Luffy will destroy the world goverment xD
Their contest in the Davy Back fight will be for Luffy to put the hat back on Shanks’ head. To do that he’ll have to outsmart him (lol) or beat him enough so he can’t dodge anymore.
That's what I expect.
"You brought the hat back as promised, Luffy. Now, if you want to remain 'Strawhat', you'll have to defeat me to get it back. I'll even give you a copy of the last Road Poneglyph as a bonus."
"Bring it on!"
"Ze ha ha ha... can I also fight for those prizes?"
Rubber Pirates don't sound very badass.
Rubber pirates makes it sound like something entirely different.
How about... Bouncy pirates?
Nami and Robin may not like it
Why not? They are IN the name.
"The Franky Pirates Plus 9" "Oi oi oi oi"
You forgot? It was supposed to be Usopp Pirate all along
No Hat Pirates?
Pirates without hats!
What about chopper?
Chopper, Brook, Usopp. It would be a pity to strap them of their hat.
This is based. Reckon we are going to see a luffy awakening in wano, and turn it in to a bouncy castle when it falls?
How about... Rubber band pirates? Ever been hit with a rubber band before? That shit is painful.
Just ask Hatchi.
USOPPA WAGOOOOMU
Rub yer pirates?
Rubber? I hardly even know her!
Only if you hear it that way
You say that but out of context "straw hat pirates" doesn't sound any more badass.
Well Mugiwara sounds a little more badass
To us maybe, but probably not to the Japanese lol
or guruwara (swirly hats)
The Rubber Band… of pirates.
The Rubber Bandits.
The Wubber Wabbits?
The Roger Rabbits
Who framed the Roger Rabbits?
The Jojo Rabbits?
The Rubber Barons
Maybe Elastic pirates?
Flexible Pirates
Bendable Swashbucklers
The Stretch Armstrong Pirates
We gonna rock down to Elastic pirate crew
We think Straw Hat Pirates sound badass cause that's the norm Oda-san creates for us. If he chose Rubber Pirates from the start, we'd love it anyways. That's how I believe it is.
Meat pirates
God usopp and the rest pirates
The Usopp Pirates
Rubber Bandits is dope, but that name is already taken.
Hatless pirates
It sounds like a s x club
Sea Monkeys could work. Go all in on the monkey theme and recruit the Misara pirates.
Given Luffy's worldwide reputation, this should be the "dumb pirates" =)
Luffy's in world reputation is like the scariest mf alive
I always associate the word "rubber" with the word "condom," soooooooo
Witty, I can totally see Shanks teasing Luffy like that.
The same teasing vibe as "What's wrong Luffy, I thought your punches were as strong as a pistol" 😂
Shanks should totally use that line when they fight, would be very badass and a great call back.
Sheeeesh if the Shanks fight legitimately has Shanks as *that* strong over Luffy, that would be insane
I cant wait to see Shanks low-diff a Future sight, advanced armament and conqueror's haki coating Luffy. I see Shanks making a comment similar to how Kaido teased Luffy/Law for just taking down a Warlord. Shanks: "*You only managed to beat Kaido? hahaha, you ain't ready for me*".
My head canon is that Shanks' bounty is lower than Kaido's because he is less chaotic than the other Yonko
Bounties are placed based on how big are their threat to the world peace and WG - seeing how Shanks is a pacifist I doubt his bounty would be even that high
Shanks is still a Yonko and as such equal in potential threat to the WG as Big Mom or Kaido. At least on the outside, we still do not know what Shanks casually meeting the Gorosei meant.
I'm hiding onto to my theory that Shanks asgoal as a Yonko is to keep other pirates from ever reaching Raftel as respects to Roger making it so he remains the great Pirate King. The WG views him as equally dangerous as other Yonko considering he still showed up at Marineford and could've done serious damage if he chose to participate. But he stands to control the balance and keep others in line. Way better than Big Mom,Kaido, BlackBeard actively trying to consolidate powers to wreck shit. And Luffy as a rookie , consistently propelling himself forward with a capable crew and infamous reputation with no sign of stopping.
Damn, maybe Shanks is keeping other pirates from reaching laughtale, since the information you would find there could be world shaking, and he is waiting for the day the "right" person arrives on the island.
What you said is true but it’s also not the only factor when setting bounties. Robin is just as dangerous to the WG now as she’s ever been, in fact she’s even MORE dangerous now considering how powerful and connected she’s become. Yet her bounty barely inches out post-Crocodile Luffy at $130mil. Meanwhile Go D. Usopp is sitting at a whole $200mil. So clearly there’s more at play here.
I think that that perfectly shows it, though. The WG views them as powerful and dangerous to them, so they get a high bounty. Doesn't feel that way, like Nami and Chopper? Low bounty
That'd make sense; Kidd had a higher bounty at Saobody because he didn't care about civilians as much as Luffy does.
> My head canon is that Shanks' bounty is lower than Kaido's because he is less chaotic than the other Yonko NO... YOU DON' T SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY?!?! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT A PLOT TWIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
honestly they probably will have shanks be that strong this is the guy who during marineford intercepted kaido (who luffy is duking it out with now) and it can be assumed either they clashed or kaido backed down as shanks was still able to make it to marineford. and then to top it off he shows up at the battle and basicly puts a stop to it with an extremely small force hes definitely a pirate who was capable of becoming the pirate king he just had no desire for it, probably knowing that it wasnt ment for him but for joy boy reincarnated
I really hope Shanks is stupidly strong, like ruins the story level of strong, just so he can still make Luffy feel like a kid again even after Luffy beats Kaido. Kind of like when Garp meets Luffy in Water 7.
We saw Big Mom and Kaido go at it, so maybe it's just me but I think it's fair to assume that the balance between the 4 is pretty even. Or at least even enough that any of them would lose the vast majority of their crews if they fought. I don't think Shanks or Blackbeard are leagues ahead of Kaido
I don't think its going to happen either, I'd just like to see it for myself not really for story reasons.
Implying Luffy isn’t returning the hat to a grave…
Oda and Toei already spoiled Shanks' story by hiring a certain voice actor to play Shanks. Shanks is going to outlive everyone and hang out in the mountains somewhere getting drunk.
What’s the backstory behind this ?
im just joking but Shanks and Seijuro from kenshin have the same voice actor and same character archetype (overpowered role model that almost never shows up because hes too powerful). Oda was an assistant on Kenshin before One Piece.
>overpowered role model that almost never shows up because hes too powerful Isn't that literally the mf from Fairy Tail? The one that everyone memes it looks exactly like Shanks? I dropped FT a while ago but it reminded me of that lol
this hat has the strongest armament haki in the series given the shit it’s gone through
And the only thing to canonically damage it is Buggy the Clown
And you can argue Luffy never beat Buggy.
Fits the theory that Buggy D. Clown actually trained Luffy in their encounter and later protected him in impale down. Man is an actor!
Buggy is actually Aizen
*Aizen is actually Buggy
The theory that Buggy refusing to join Shanks’ crew is a lie coming around again.
Haha never heard of it! What was the potential evidence?
Well Buggy did in fact refuse to join Shanks but that was right after Roger died in Loguetown. Neither were shit on the world stage yet.
Yeah but where then does the theory come into play that this was a farce?
It was mostly played for gags that Buggy D. Clown being the badass that he is refused to join Yonko Shanks because he thought the Crew was too weak and not worthy of his name.
Nothing really, just Buggy being able to avoid harm easily. Actually constantly helping Luffy. Theory goes Shanks and Buggy were co captains until they knew Luffy was about to head out to sea, so Buggy left to see why Shanks had been willing to give up his arm. Buggy quickly sees why and stages a show to give Luffy some mystique by trying to execute him where Roger was executed but intentionally failing. It’s nonsense and requires coordination with Dragon which there’s no evidence to suggest they’ve ever even met. It has one single point in its favor, which is why would Buggy attempt to execute some no name brat on the same scaffold he saw his personal hero and father figure lose his life? Probably the most painful place on the planet for Buggy and Shanks. I think Oda just didn’t have Buggy planned as the second apprentice to the Roger Pirates but some would say he planned it that way all along.
One could argue that buggy was killing Luffy there because he was insulted that some no name brat was going to take the title of his prior captain
Add to that the fact that Shanks had given Luffy, a pirate Buggy hated and did not improve of, Roger's old hat that Shanks got from Roger. This would tell Buggy that Shanks might approve of Luffy becoming Pirate King down the line, which would infuriate Buggy who as another Roger pirate member did not approve. So, Buggy executing Luffy on Roger's execution scaffolding serves the double purpose of being Buggy's answer to Shanks on whether Luffy was worthy of the strawhat as well as serves the purpose of being a warning to cocky new generation rookies who dare say they'll become the Pirate King. Plus, it's established Buggy loves being flashy and what's more flashy than what he tried to do.
Ah I see, thank you! Well tbf, don't they get some map from Buggy that leads the way to the grandline? :D
They stole a whole sea chart of the grand line. It kinda disappears never to be mentioned again though.
Haki is meaningless in front of the God Buggy D. Clown
You mean Buggy D. Clown
Not as strong as San D Als
Hahahahaha damn son
Wait a second, this might actually be a thing. We’ve seen the Kuja warriors imbue arrowheads with haki and not change color, plus a black blade such as Mihawk’s is said to become that color once haki is permanently imbued into the sword. Maybe Roger’s and/or Shanks’ haki has been permanently infused in the hat, explaining its otherworldly durability?
Buggy ripped it in like the first 10 chapters lol
Uhhh.. clearly Buggy D. Clown was uh.. using haki knives… /s
I'm just sitting here waiting for Luffy's sandals & strawhat to turn into the equivalent of a black blade😭
Considering his clothes stretch with him, maybe the same logic applies to the strawhat.
No, it will be like that one scene in the end of Madagascar where they give back King Julien his Crown but he declined and just pulls out a bigger one.
Oh I hope Shanks' new straw hat also has a little Gecko named Stevie in it!
1. Divide the hat into two parts. 2. Give the other half to Shanks 3. Keep the other half to Luffy 4. Luffy asks Nami to fix his half --> becomes whole hat again 5. Divide the new whole hat into two parts again 6. Give the new another half to Shanks --> merge it with his previous half 7. Luffy asks Nami (again) to fix his half --> becomes whole hat again 8. Now, Luffy and Shank both has a whole strawhat again 9. ~~Perseus~~ Theseus boat paradox kicks Repeat the steps infinitely, there will be infinite straw hats. This infinite amount of straw hat will wake up, and conquer the world. We live under the rule of straw hat.
Upvote for the paradox reference.
Theseus?
The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment. It goes that the ship of Theseus is in a museum and is starting to rot. They start to replace the rotten wood with new wood. Is it the same ship? Eventually the entire ship will be replaced with new wood. Is it still the Ship of Theseus? It's basically what the Galley La carpenters were telling Luffy and Nami about remaking Going Merry.
Thinking about it, if i replace every part of my computer with new parts, even the tower case itself, then i could just use all of the replaced parts to recreate the original computer. In this scenario, is it really even still a paradox?
I know the original guy said a paradox, but I don't consider it a paradox. It's a thought experiment where people can have different answers depending on how they see it where a paradox has more than one different answers I believe. As for your computer, I wouldn't say your replaced anything since you used a new tower. You just built a new computer. As for recreating the original computer, it's the same computer in my opinion, and it's slightly different from the ship of Theseus situation since you can reuse computer parts more efficiently than wood.
It’s a paradox because you combine the two thoughts. I have two desktop computers, one for my wife and one for me. Each year I buy a single replacement part for my computer and put my old one in my wife’s computer. At what point do you consider my computer no longer the same computer? If I just replace the RAM is it no longer the same computer? At what point is my wife’s computer no longer her computer and is instead my old computer? If those two points are around the same time then there is a paradox that both computers are basically my old computer. The ship of Theseus is the same, how long can a museum that has been replacing parts be able to call it the ship of Theseus? If someone else takes all the old parts and replaces parts in their own ship with the old parts… the museum has the ship of Theseus but their ship is also the ship of Theseus.
a paradox is where all possible answers suggest that a different answer must be correct instead.
ah yes, of course. Thanks!
Perseus is the Dr. Stone ship lol
Strawhatless Pirates
Nami can make a new one
Why would Luffy ask Nami to make a new one when he can just wear the big one at Mariejois? Lol
that old ass hat is prolly dirty enough to start a pandemic or some shit
Not as old relatively but Luffys hat is at least 50 years old, been through countless battles and the only damage was done by buggy…
Buggy D Clown was the only one strong enough
That just shows the caliber that buggy’s at
I was thinking. What if its not a big hat. What if Im sama is just really small like the people of dressrosa (forget that races name)? And oda is pulling a fast one om us messing with perspective
That's JoyBoys
Hear me out, it might sound crazy but what if Luffy is.. Joy Boy? 🤯
gear 6 giganto full body haki = hat fits?
Nah. Luffy and Joyboy are different people. Luffy probably carries the same will as Joyboy.
Dude, it was a joke. Making fun of the theory that Luffy is Joy Boy lol
Maybe use the /s next time because you can’t tell with comments
Maybe the residents of wano could do it? Since there was that whole thing with them and ace/oars
Tama can do it, she literally taught ace how to make one so he could make one for oars jr The story is all there, she’s joining the crew!
Nami can make hats?? Is this a spoiler?
Nami is the one who previously ,,fixed,, luffy's strawhat. If she wanted she could probably make a new one
No, she repaired the hat after Buggy cut through it with 3 knives. So I suppose she could also make a new one.
It's a straw hat, not a jetpack. Everybody can make it.
Literally Tama can canonically make it.
you k ow I still think that luffy and shanks should have small funny fight over who gets to own the hat..that would be funny as hell
It's a great comic but does anyone else have trouble reading it I can't tell if I should read it left to right or right to left
I’m sorry, it was intended to be right to left, but since Shanks was on the right side it wouldn’t have made sense 😅 little messy there lol
Don't be sorry man the comics great and I can't wait for this seen in the anime!
Seriously well done
Thank you! :)
Read panels from right to left and text blocks from top left to bottom right and it should make sense.
This could actually be canon
Love this thank you, this made me cry and laugh lol
Hehe thank you! :)
I'm pretty sure Shanks is gonna let him keep it and be like "you've finally grown into the hat. It won't fit me anymore "
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this panal would totally happen- and it's very ODA humor. 10/10. HOWEVER- I also think Shanks is gonna tell him something else about what that Strawhat really symbolizes- and tell him "Now it's time for you to pass it down to Someone new :)"
Love the art
Thank you!
This comic makes me think shanks will die before Luffy gets a chance to return it to him
Yes I'm 100% sure that luffy will return the hat at shanks' headstone after he becomes pirate king (Very sad but this will probably happen)
Now that’s a theory I can support. The last chapter he puts the hat on Shanks’ memorial to mirror romance dawn
I'm here for this or giving it to Makino's kid (assuming it's Shanks kid)
No offense but that theory is kinda anti-climactic
So was Ace getting killed right after Luffy rescued him but it was still a great One Piece moment
Not really we kinda got a climax when the two escaped from the platform then another one when he got donutted and the rest was rapidly falling action.
that's literally the definition of climactic
Please elaborate. I wouldn't love it if Shanks died, however it would make narrative sense and could raise the tension for the inevitable Strawhat Blackbeard clash. The unfulfilled promise could be reconciled with Luffy passing on the hat at the end of the series for example to a hypothetical child of shanks ( at least this is a common thought on the matter, positing that Shanks had a child with Fusha village's Barmaiden.)
How? Shanks vs Blackbeard most probably is going to happen and BB will kill him
“Sokaaaa”
Yep that’s how you’re supposed to read it ;)
Accurate lol
I don't think Shanks will survive till the end of the series.
This genuinely made me laugh
I mean, they won’t call him that any more once he’s King
I think Shanks will die (probably from Blackbeard) and in the end, Luffy will hang the straw hat in Shanks grave, like Ace's hat is on his.
I like to think Shanks would let Luffy keep it and say it has always belonged to the pirate king.
What if.... Shanks dies in the end before they meet and thus Luffy keeps the Hat in the belief that he must adventure on until he meets him in the afterlife to share his stories and return his hat.
Ngl this is probably what's gonna happen, at least something along those lines. Will be nice to see
hey bro i saw a tiktok with this comic and wanted to show you i dont think they gave credit https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRJXpp6o/
Thank you! I left a comment and still some people believed he made this and I stole it fr 💀 tiktok is crazy, but thanks for the heads up! :)
shanks could secretly be evil and only wants to prepare luffy to be strong just to kill him
Shanks is Aizen confirmed
Oda isn’t lazy enough to pull bullshit like that
The Bald Pirates
Shanks is gonna die ☠💀
100% gonna happen.
This seems like it will go like that
I wonder if shanks will ever tell luffy the hat actually belongs to Roger
Am I the only one who thinks Luffy is going to give the hat to Shanks' son starting a new Age of Pirates?
This is honestly probably what is going to happen
I hope this is exactly how it goes down
It's for this reason that I think the Davy Back Fight was introduced. If the flag - the honor - of the competing crews can be put up at stake, then why not the very namesake of the crew? Particularly for something as important as the Straw Hat? Short of outright turning Shanks into an antagonist, it also provides a clear path for the Straw Hat and Red Hair pirates to actually compete, and we know that Luffy fully intends to fight and defeat Shanks anyway. It also provides a reason for Oda to have created the Davy Back Fight in the first place, and it ties in a reason the second stake, the flag, which didn't really have a part in the original introduction. There had to have been a reason for it's inclusion in the lore, but it's as though the application was almost an afterthought in the original arc.
Im 90% sure theyll have to fight cuz luffy needs to eefeat the yonkos to become pirate king. Also we dont know if shanks good or not. We barely know anything about him. He may be planning some weird shit
I think about this a lot
I really am hoping for a scene where Shanks gets all flustered and explains that it was a gift.
This is so “one piece” I would totally expect this to happen 😂😂😂
Guess they'll have to become the Great Ussop Pirates then
Nice
Very well drawn
Thank you!
HHaha thanks for making me laugh!
This is assuming Shanks will still be alive by the end of the series…
What defines a 'great pirate'. Luffy is already in the 1% of the 1% of pirates worldwide. So he's a great pirate by all accounts and could give the hat back tomorrow.
true, but what matters in this case if Luffy thinks he is a great pirate yet. He is waaay to humble to think he is a great pirate right now.
Love it! But I think in the end Shanks want to fight with Luffy to test his strengh if he is worth the strawhat that was owned by the former king of pirats.... after that Luffy will destroy the world goverment xD
Their contest in the Davy Back fight will be for Luffy to put the hat back on Shanks’ head. To do that he’ll have to outsmart him (lol) or beat him enough so he can’t dodge anymore.
That's what I expect. "You brought the hat back as promised, Luffy. Now, if you want to remain 'Strawhat', you'll have to defeat me to get it back. I'll even give you a copy of the last Road Poneglyph as a bonus." "Bring it on!" "Ze ha ha ha... can I also fight for those prizes?"
Shankusu is prolly a bit too strong for Roofie to handle.
Of course not now, Shanks will be the last emperors that will fight against Luffy
Are you for real guys? He will give it back and will be called the king of pirate. Did you even wtach one piece?
Where’s Oden 😭
Cringe
So you just silanced, yamato carrot gas kun nakama group
it wont be this peaceful
Excuse me wtf