What in the world just happened? Did we actually just witness Imu wiping an
entire island off the face of the earth with nothing but a pen-stroke? This panel of a gigantic sphere crushing the
island of Lulusia Kingdom into the ocean, not leaving behind any trace of it, is easily
one of the most ominous panels I have ever seen in the story. It's right up there with the likes of Zunesha's
first appearance or Kaido's or the giant Shadows in the florin triangle. But as if that weren't enough already, Eiichiro
Oda once again dropped a bomb shell, having him reveal his true dream to the straw hats
and in extension to Caribou, who is stored away in a barrel on the ship, that people
speculated might contain carrot. Who knows maybe carrot is stored inside caribou
who is stored inside the barrel. Like the Russian nesting dolls. It looks like the crew will be spending a
lot of time with Jewlery Bonney, who is one of the characters I have been most excited
about to get screen time and it looks like we are about to arrive at the next island,
which seems to be neither sphinx island nor elbaf, but a mysterious winter island. Once again a classic move by Oda-sensei, going
some place none of us could have anticipated. And I think it's so awesome to finally go
back to a winter island after all this time. I guess Punk hazard sort of counts, but with
it's artificially changed climate that was half lava and half snow and Caesars experiments
on it, it didn't quite have the same snowy vibe as Chopper's home country on Drum Island. But before we get to the straw hats and all
the great and exciting stuff that's going on with them, I simply have to begin with
Sabo's storyline, because holy usopp. So as you'll remember, Sabo had called the
headquarters of the revolutionary army on Kamabakka Island to inform them about what
happened to them. And we see the entire upper echelon of the
revolutionary army assembled to listen what he has to report, including Luffy's father
Monkey D. Dragon, the four commanders, Ivankov, hack and Koala. To get it out of the way, Sabo clarifies,
what you and me already knew, that he wasn't the one that assassinated king cobra of alabasta,
Vivi's father. What I found notable here, is that there is
no sign that Vivi is with Sabo right now, which I personally would have expected. It looks like the princess is one her own
somewhere. Sabo however quickly moves on to the next,
much more important point: He mentions the empty throne inside Panega Castle in Marijois,
but before he is able to finish what exactly he saw in that throne room, he is apparently
cut off. Because while Sabo is on the phone with the
revolutionaries, the marines have been listening in. Sabo had apparently been in such a hurry to
share his news, that he wasn't able to wait to get a secure white den den mushi, that
can't be listened in on. Either that, or Sabo actively WANTED to be
overheard by the Marines, so they would find out the truth about the government, that even
they don't know: That there is a true ruler of the world, that sits on the empty throne. Imu. The marines have successfully managed to track
Sabo's location to the island of Lulusia. You might remember this island from not too
long ago. It was the place where we first got introduced
to the revolutionary commanders, who helped the citizens there overthrow their cruel king. The Gorosei are shocked by this reveal and
actually pity Sabo. Why? Remember how the Gorosei talked to Imu about
a great cleansing and a light being extinguished from the world. Well it turns out that Imu had decided that
exactly this island that Sabo is on, Lulusia, should be that light. So, at least my understanding of this situation,
is not that Imu decided to destroy this place to keep Sabo from revealing his existence. Much rather it seems more of an unlucky coincidence,
that Sabo is at the wrong place at the wrong time. Before sabo can reveal anything, the Gorosei
order the marine's communication team to cut of their transponder snails. Imu is striking through the island on a map
and immediately, We see dark clouds gathering over the island. A massive shadow appears, then a bright light
accompanied by Imu's frightening gaze and a giant sphere crashes into the island, obliterating
any trace, that Lulusia has ever even existed. Wow. The way this was drawn makes it easily one
of the most brutal moments in the entire series. I got actual goosebumps reading it. I can't even imagine how crazy this scene
will look in the anime. Okay, so. What in the name of Usopp has happened here? What is that power that imu has used and why
did they decide to take this particular island in this fashion? The first thing that probably immediately
popped out for you as well, is that what we just saw here perfectly fits the description
of what happened to the island God Valley. An island that simply vanished from both the
map and history. A part of the world cleansed form existence. If you ever needed another reason, why Laugh
tale is a hidden island with an unknown location: Now you have it. If you want a safe place to store the secrets
of the world, you better make sure it can't be nuked into oblivion by the enemy. As my editor also kindly reminded me, this
might actually be more evidence for the big theory that Laugh Tale either Below Ennies
Lobby or in the middle of the giant whirlpool in the middle of enies lobby, impel down and
marienford. A great way to hide and protect it from Imu
by it being directly under their noses. Or maybe they actually know about it being
there and built there best protected places around it with the gates of justice. It's also a possibility that the giant hole
under enies lobby might be connected to this crazy weapon as well. Maybe it struck there before or it could be
where it is hidden or stored when it's not used. If you haven't checked out those theories,
I recommend you do after this video. On a different note, it's really mean of Oda-sensei
to show us that little kid and all this innocent citizens who just regained their freedom and
peace, being all taken out in an instant. But of course it makes this moment just the
more impactful. No pun intended. The only possible surviver I see here is Sabo
himself, who is a logia user and I doubt that this giant thing was covered in Haki. But even then, if the entire island was destroyed
and there is only ocean left after this, he might be in a lot of trouble. Though I think you agreee that he will somehow
make it out of there alive. It's actually the first actively evil thing
we see Imu do, so Oda-sensei is really starting to set them up as the ultimate villain of
the story. But how exactly did they do it. The panels here suggest, that Imu or someone
else crossing out an island on a map somehow summons this cataclysmic power. But that could just be a red herring by Oda. It's possible that the map is simply meant
to symbolise that this island has been wiped off the face of the earth and not be related
to the power at all. But then again, maybe it is part of the power. But what IS it? The most obvious answer here is of course
Uranus. It could be that the government has gotten
their hands on one of the ancient weapons. With Pluton in Wano and Poseidon in Fishman
Island, Uranus is still unaccounted for. Plus the fact that it's supposed to be a weapon
connected to the sky that can destroy the world fits what we just saw pretty nicely. On the other hand, the ancient weapons were
created to oppose the government and it's been heavily implied that Luffy needs all
three of them in order to change the world. Another possibility, that I made a video about
just a few days ago, is that this is some sort of ultimate devil fruit power, that Imu
wields. It could also be some other sort of ancient
advanced technology, like a space ship. I'm probably also not the only one who remembers
the strange moon like object, that sucked in capone bege's ship after the time skip
here. It also is a giant sphere, thought I'm not
sure it would make sense to crash this into the ground every single time and then retrieve
it. I have a whole different theory about this
thing and how it will be important in the story soon, so make sure to subscribe if you
don't want to miss that. No matter what exactly this thing is, this
is the first time that we see some of the true power of the world government. Yes having the admirals is nice, but it was
always clear, that they would have much bigger aces up their sleeves in order to control
the world for so long. I'm very curious if Imu's power simply lies
in controlling powerful weapons, or if they themselves can fight as well. Just as Kaido, the previously biggest calamity
in the world, is out of the picture, Oda-sensei gives us this. I love it. The only question is: Why this apparently
random island? Well it turns out Lulusia has been appearing
in the story a number of times. As I mentioned before, it was one of 8 countries
the revolutionary army helped to overthrow their corrupt and cruel rulers. This by itself might already explain why Imu
decided to stomp it out. But there is more. This is the same place, that Ace visited during
his cover story, while he was hunting for Blackbeard. Very fitting that Sabo is now here as well. It's here that Ace befriended a little girl,
similar to Tama and where we get this cover story of Ace looking very similar to Nika
as a silhouette. Someone also linked me a very interesting
theory on reddit form over a year ago, that argues that Lulusia might have been the hideout
for many of the level 6 prisoners that escaped impel down and didn't join blackbeard. Bounty hunter Jean Ango tell luffy that the
tracked down their location. The princess of the country, who doesn't exactly
get sympathy points in this chapter, is the one that was kidnapped on the way to Reverie
and later saved by Koby. In an SBS Oda-sensei revealed that this used
to be a peaceful place , similarly to what we see during ace's visit, before the new
king Seki took over who made the people suffer. So it would make a lot of sense time-in wise
that after the outbreak of impel down, the level 6 prisoners came here and helped Seki
overthrow the previous king. Whether or not this is true, I found this
an incredibly smart theory and it would give Imu a much bigger reason to destroy the place,
taking out a ton of super dangerous pirates and criminals, that escaped. I'm really curious how Oda is going to explain
when and how Imu is able to use this weapon though. Why not use it on Ohara? Or on Wano? I guess you could argue that the marines investigated
Ohara first and that destroying Wano would unleash Pluton. But it's still somewhat mysterious to me how
this is all working. But let's move on now back to the thousand
Sunny, were we follow the crews journey away from Wano and towards their next destination. As we can see, the crew is still trying to
catch up with and process everything that has happened while they were in Wano. Of course, Luffy and Robin immediately throw
the idea out of he window that sabo could have killed Kobra. After all Luffy knows his brother and his
dreams and Robin was staying with the revolutionaries for 2 years as well. I absolutely love that Luffy and the rest
of the crew is immediately willing to go back to Alabasta or Marijois itself to look for
Vivi. As a big Vivi fan myself, I am always happy
when she is back in focus and especially when the crew talks about her. I'm still convinced she will come and join
up with them as their crew member, especially now. She might already be on the way, who knows. Zoro is the voice of reason here, telling
Luffy that he needs to stay calm and that Vivi is strong and can look out for herself. Reason in air quotes, because while it's nice
that Zoro believes in Vivi I'm not sure he makes the best argument here. He reminds luffy that he trusted in ace to
solve his own problems too. Only, did Zoro somehow forget how that turned
out in the end? In case you need a reminder, it's with a fist
sized hole in his chest and Luffy almost losing his will to live. Soooo, not exactly the best example to bring
up here I feel. But I get the gist of what he's trying to
say: Since no-one knows where vivi is, no point in sailing the entire grand line looking
for her. Rightfully however the rest of the crew teases
him for it, with some fantastic nicknames including green Kaido and green big mom, which
were my highlights. Interestingly enough, Luffy doesn't want to
hear any more news. Understandably somewhat. There has been a lot of info dump recently. However, as a result, Robin doesn't tell Luffy
what happened on Amazon lily and that Blackbeard has taken Koby. I think in that case, even Zoro might have
been willing to go and safe Coby. I think it's reasonable that Robin doesn't
tell him either. I don't think she fully knows just how close
Koby, Zoro and Luffy were. Then Luffy shares his actual dream for the
first time with his crew. The only other people he told before were
ace, sabo and Shanks. I don't want to spend too much time on this
topic, since Oda-sensei once again only teases it here, but doesn't reveal it yet. The reactions of the crew are of course great
and fit in very well with what we saw from sabo, ace and shanks before. I personally felt part of luffy's dream was
what he shared with Kaido during the final of the battle. And I know the theory that Luffy simply wants
to throw the worlds biggest party. But I think it might be something even bigger. After all you don't necessarily have to become
pirate king for that. There is also the idea, that he wants to go
to the moon. Again, not exactly pirate king related at
first glance. So we'll just have to wait and see what it
ends up being. Now the crew knows and of course Caribou,
who it turns out has actually been on the ship with the crew, listening in. My first reaction to this was honestly anger:
You have some of the most advanced Haki users on the planet on this ship and no one notices
him? They did notice him on fishman island and
Rayleigh was able to count the exact number of living things on an island. But suddenly Caribou can hide in a barrel
unnoticed? But then I remembered that Luffy had actually
allowed him to leave Wano on his ship in udon prison. So maybe, they all know exactly that he's
in there. Maybe Franky locked him up a second time. I'm very curious to see what Oda has in mind
for Caribou and who he's working for. Blackbeard? Crocodile? Someone else? We then skip ahead a few days, as the sunny
enters the icy waters around the next island. I already mentioned that I'm incredibly excited
that we're going to an unexpected winter island next. Though I do want to mention that we haven't
been to a single autumn island yet in the entire story. Kinda sad when you think about it. But winter is awesome to. It's my favorite season. Now even though the top two contenders for
the next island are off the table with Elbaf and Sphinx island, there are actually two
possible winter islands we know of in the new world, that could be where we are going
next. The first one is the mysterious island Drake
went to to get Kaido's attention. It's unnamed, but everything, including the
trees seems to be made out of metal. It was an island that apparently was very
important to Kaido, so it would be a fitting next destination for the straw hats after
they defeated him. It would surely make for some very interesting
interactions with the people there. It also reminded me a lot of Karakuri Island,
Vegapunks birthplace and where Franky was sent during the time skip. In the wiki it says that it is a winter island
located in paradise, but looking back through the manga, I couldn't really find the section
where it stated that. SO maybe Karakul island is actually in the
new world. That of course could make it the arc where
we finally meet vegapunk. Which is really overdue. And then, there is also Yukiryuu island, which
means snow dragon island. It's a winter island in the new world, where
shanks received the news that whitebeard tore up his invitation. If this island is under shanks' command that
would of course also make for a fantastic next destination for the crew. I hope that this is going to be a 20 to 40
chapter mini arc, similar to zou, before we hopefully move on to Elbaf. And we really need to find out more about
Imu and their incredible powers. There are so many cool options for a overpowered
devil fruit that they could wield. If you are curious which ones, then make sure
to check out that video right here or my discussion of the last chapter here.
