If you think back to the Roger quote in chapter 100, you will find a near perfect encapsulation of all these major themes of the story
Imu is the direct antithesis to all these themes
- Inherited Will: Imu is a literal immortal who has survived for near a millenia but will be defeated not by persons who are also immortal but by Ideas which are immortal. 800 years ago Imu won the most decisive military victory possible yet his adversaries despite their total defeat manage to get the last laugh as they weren’t defeated on the plane of ideology and thus had their dreams carried on by the next generation.
- The Dreams of Men: Imu floods the world to constrain adventure. The world government as a whole represents stagnation. We know from the Mural that the Sun God represent the dreams of the oppressed and that the first twenty slew the Sun and became God. Imu with his covenants clearly draw inspiration, though it might be indirect, from Faust. We saw through his interactions with Harald that Imu uses these ambition of men against them and takes advantage of their dreams to infact strip them of all freedom.
- Flow of the Age: Imu is a dinosaur stuck in the past. He is stuck in the world of 800 years ago and can not move past his Joyboy fetish.
- Pursuit of Freedom: Despite having the world at his fingertips for 8 centuries, Imu Imu is a prisoner in his own Kingdom. Ty is stands in stark contrast to Luffy’s main ambition to be the freest man on the sea. Imu controls everything but still enslaved while Luffy controls nothing but is the most free.
Imu is the direct antithesis to all these themes
- Inherited Will: Imu is a literal immortal who has survived for near a millenia but will be defeated not by persons who are also immortal but by Ideas which are immortal. 800 years ago Imu won the most decisive military victory possible yet his adversaries despite their total defeat manage to get the last laugh as they weren’t defeated on the plane of ideology and thus had their dreams carried on by the next generation.
- The Dreams of Men: Imu floods the world to constrain adventure. The world government as a whole represents stagnation. We know from the Mural that the Sun God represent the dreams of the oppressed and that the first twenty slew the Sun and became God. Imu with his covenants clearly draw inspiration, though it might be indirect, from Faust. We saw through his interactions with Harald that Imu uses these ambition of men against them and takes advantage of their dreams to infact strip them of all freedom.
- Flow of the Age: Imu is a dinosaur stuck in the past. He is stuck in the world of 800 years ago and can not move past his Joyboy fetish.
- Pursuit of Freedom: Despite having the world at his fingertips for 8 centuries, Imu Imu is a prisoner in his own Kingdom. Ty is stands in stark contrast to Luffy’s main ambition to be the freest man on the sea. Imu controls everything but still enslaved while Luffy controls nothing but is the most free.
