Spoiler One Piece Chapter 1168 Spoilers Discussion

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Oda relationship with his own must be something lmao
I bet he couldn't beat her in a fight.

That's why he says mothers are the strongest while killing them off all the time and has a character called Big Mom who gets hit and tossed around a lot and who couldn't make it to Kaido's list.

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His mom was his personal Yujiro and he could never surpass her, his entire portrayal of mothers in OP reflects that. It's all connected you see.
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Elder Lee Hung

Conqueror of the Stars
There's a reason for it, but imho the story needs to lampshade more why the WG is such a preferable option.
I think the story has already made this pretty clear, and Oda wants the readers to use their brains a little here. Oh God I’m defending Lolda please kill me

For what Harald’s goal is, a future where giants and humans can permanently coexist peacefully without fighting each other, why wouldn’t you try to join the World Government of humanity lol

Even if Harald knew from the start that the people at the top of the WG were demonic parasites, that still wouldn’t change the fact that the WG is the largest assembly of humanity and that having peace with them is the only way to achieve large scale peace with humanity.

And maybe it's possible I need to reread earlier chapters to see more of what I'm looking for, like the giant's diplomatic efforts failing.
I think it was really only stated once because this manga is trash, but the WG didn’t want Harald and the giants making peace with humans unless Harald was going to make peace with the WG directly. And even then they secretly never would have accepted them. You can call Harald an idiot for not realizing that but I think for what his goal was, attempting to achieve peace with the WG was his only option.
 
His country is a backwater island. Forget IMU, who hasn't done anything against giantkin until now. For the past ten years, giant society has only gone backwards. Nobody comes here, and nobody from here is thriving. Where's Harald's dream in this? He only broke the new generations, without furnishing them with the means to improve neither themselves or the country as a whole. We've seen small human villages better than this in OP.
What are you talking about? It has schools and medicine now. Actual culture. The island has progressed in leaps and bounds thanks to Harald??
 
People didn't believe me when I said that second mark doesn't only give regen but also power.

The last seal will increase power further more, current Garling its at his peak because of that.

Shamrock is basically Shanks with a major power up and two arms.
Crazy.
And yes, same potential and Oda has established that living as a pirate, facing WB pirates and learning kamusari for 24 years = training in the holy land.
Very good.
Indeed Shamrock is the strongest swordsman rn.
 
"Yet" in present time, after VP managed to power the Mother Flame.
38 years ago IMU didn't have the means to completely eradicate an entire island.

I've already replied to your permanent peace. Harald's own foundation for it is wrong, because he is not accounting for the giants who don't want peace and diplomacy and who want to be warriors, not necessarily pillaging pirates, like his own son. Rebuilding Elbaf without them in mind is bound to backfire one way or another.

Again, for me, little armchair reader who has all the pieces of intel, the best course of action would've been for Harald to do deals with human nations in exchange for protection. They're afraid of giant scourges? Well, here's the solution: those giant scourges will now protect you from anything else around. And in the meantime, let our people mingle, let us show you that we aren't monsters, but that we have a rich culture, too.

It worked for WB. It could've worked for Harald. All he had to do is not reject his heritage so thoroughly, but use his people's might for peace.

Even if he thought the WG was the only solution, Xebec had given Harald more than enough information to make him realize that it's not tenable, that the WG are backstabbing rats who revel in genocidal games.

How's that for transcendent peace, Lee? The giantkin gets to be a part of the WG, as long as it partakes in the WG's crimes. Nice future Elbaf would have then.
Rocks should given harald way more info.
He not even tell him about Imu or certain aspect of history he knew .
Truth is i feel rocks not tell harald that much since he wanted him to help take over the world .
So he was keeping info close until he was hoping harald join.
That info which would really help harald out if rocks told him about 800 year old devil god that rule WG.
 

Elder Lee Hung

Conqueror of the Stars
38 years ago IMU didn't have the means to completely eradicate an entire island.
You are focusing too much on the literal eradication aspect and not enough on the fact that the WG has 1,000 different ways that they could have crippled Elbaph without the mother flame lol.

I've already replied to your permanent peace. Harald's own foundation for it is wrong, because he is not accounting for the giants who don't want peace and diplomacy and who want to be warriors, not necessarily pillaging pirates, like his own son.
There are always going to be outliers, the fact that not all giants are a monolith does not invalidate Harald’s goal lmfao. It’s like saying that some humans are pirates therefore Harald shouldn’t try to achieve peace with humanity as some specific humans will always be bad. The logic doesn’t hold at all, you can achieve peace for your race in spite of the fact that not everyone from your race will always agree with you.

It didn’t work for Whitebeard. Whitebeard achieved 40 years of peace for his crew before they were destroyed completely. Again this is why I say you are being shortsighted. Harald didn’t want 40 years of peace before eradication lmfao. He didn’t even want 1,000 years of peace before eradication. He wanted permanent. Peace.

Even if he thought the WG was the only solution, Xebec had given Harald more than enough information to make him realize that it's not tenable, that the WG are backstabbing rats who revel in genocidal games.
What information did Xebec give Harald that would have made him realize that? Lmfao

Xebec was an explicit enemy of the WG, the fact that the WG asked Harald to kill him should have absolutely not surprised Harald at all considering the amount of crimes Xebec had committed and would continue to commit.
 
People didn't believe me when I said that second mark doesn't only give regen but also power.

The last seal will increase power further more, current Garling its at his peak because of that.

Shamrock is basically Shanks with a major power up and two arms.
Crazy.
And yes, same potential and Oda has established that living as a pirate, facing WB pirates and learning kamusari for 24 years = training in the holy land.
Very good.
Indeed Shamrock is the strongest swordsman rn.
Hasn’t fought Mihawk as far as we know tho.
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No clue why people constantly look for ways to call others the strongest swordsman when Mihawk and he alone holds the title.
 
I think the story has already made this pretty clear, and Oda wants the readers to use their brains a little here. Oh God I’m defending Lolda please kill me

For what Harald’s goal is, a future where giants and humans can permanently coexist peacefully without fighting each other, why wouldn’t you try to join the World Government of humanity lol

Even if Harald knew from the start that the people at the top of the WG were demonic parasites, that still wouldn’t change the fact that the WG is the largest assembly of humanity and that having peace with them is the only way to achieve large scale peace with humanity.
This is fair I would say, and I think that's what Oda is trying to convey. But this part
I think it was really only stated once because this manga is trash, but the WG didn’t want Harald and the giants making peace with humans unless Harald was going to make peace with the WG directly
basically sums up the issue, y'know? Because imho we should've had more scenes like that one.

Like, I can see why Harald did what he did. But the manga doesn't give enough buildup to it and so it's a bit hard for me to care for it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Oda tells us about the issue but he needs to show some more, you know, make the WG's pressuring and Harald's desparation a bit more lampshaded onscreen imo.

And tbh I think this is a recent issue where Oda often tells but does not show enough.

For e.g remember all the Yonko in GV just going NPC mode and leaving after getting punched by Rocks?

The idea was obviously that they thought they were betrayed and left, but the way it's written feels like some steps were skipped over, at least to me, and it makes the characters look like morons as a result.
 
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