Chapter Discussion One Piece Chapter 1182: ZAZA

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Without a shadow of a doubt he is top 2. That's not even a question to me.

However I will say this. There is a chance, a very slim one but a chance that some mid gen top tiers are just a lot stronger than the old gen top tiers.

At the very least Loki is > the entire old gen. And not by a small margin. That much Oda has already put way too much effort into telling us, for me to just dismiss.
About Shanks vs Loki, yeah it's possible that Shanks is just that strong. Like Joyboy's level haki etc.

Loki is insane but I don't put it past Oda to make Shanks like that. I'm already kinda going in the direction of Shanks > Roger.

This can apply to other characters too btw.
 
This time it's not actually hype. Oda is tangibly showing us.

Loki is the anti hype rumour character. That's actually where the disconnect is. He's a 2.8 bil bounty, he was stated to be captured by Shanks. He has negative traditional One Piece hype.

One Piece fans are used to empty hype, with no real feats or accomplishments by said characters.

Loki is all real. Oda for the first time is showing us real tangible feats and portrayal and not fake hype. He is catching bodies and performing feats that put Imu on notice and away from Elbaf.

Heck even look at how this battle is drawn between Imu and Loki. Keep in mind how lazy Oda is with battles.

We have seen top tiers fight before in Luffy vs Kaidou and DR Xebec vs Garp and Roger. And that stuff looks like child's play compared to the sheer power and scale of this battle. It's like we're actually witnessing a top tier battle for the first time. These guys are redefining what the top tier is. If these are top tiers then the Luffy vs Kaidou battle cannot be.

You just aren't able to grasp what is going on because Oda has lulled his fanbase into believing rumours and fake hype over tangible hype and feats. This is the first time ever Oda is operating properly, it's sad but I don't even blame the fans Oda has conditioned y'all the wrong way. Any other mangaka and this wouldn't even be a discussion rn.
The poblem is that this isn‘t „any other mangaka“, this is the same Oda. You are getting fooled by bait and switch tactics by the most notorious mangaka in this game.

I wish I could read the fandoms takes on Wyper when he lol diffed the M3 or Lucci when he played with Luffy and Zoro.
 
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About Shanks vs Loki, yeah it's possible that Shanks is just that strong. Like Joyboy's level haki etc.

Loki is insane but I don't put it past Oda to make Shanks like that. I'm already kinda going in the direction of Shanks > Roger.

This can apply to other characters too btw.
This is the Luffy show after all and the star of that show loves the Shanks show. Shanks is a direct beneficiary of the Luffy show.

Just wait for Shanks to Kamusari Loki into years of chained house arrest….
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
The poblem is that this isn‘t „any other mangaka“, this is the same Oda. You are getting fooled by bait and switch tactics by the most notorious mangaka in this game.

I wish I could read the fandoms takes on Viper when he lol diffed the M3 or Lucci when played with Luffy and Zoro.
Like I said Oda is to blame, he has always made his fandom believe in fake hype and rumours, where the one time a character does not have fake hype and rumours on his side the fandom is confused.

That's basically your complaint, Loki has all the tangible feats and statements but Oda did not give him the fake hype and rumours he usually gives his top tiers. (2.8 bil bounty, captured by Shanks, instead of WSM and WSC titles along with 4+ bil bounties).

This is why you awkwardly have Loki above BM and Blackbeard but below Whitebeard, you don't even know how to make sense of it. He's either above them all or below them all there is no weird middle ground here. That's not how this character is written.
 
The poblem is that this isn‘t „any other mangaka“, this is the same Oda. You are getting fooled by bait and switch tactics by the most notorious mangaka in this game.

I wish I could read the fandoms takes on Wyper when he lol diffed the M3 or Lucci when he played with Luffy and Zoro.
Don't you think there's a difference between those examples though? We're 20 years deeper into the story, there's not really a reason to believe you'll get something better than fighting the King of the world and stopping the immortal version of a Rocks rival like Harald.

Unless you get full on aliens like Nardo, but I don't really think we'll see many characters on Imu or above, Oda can barely take 5 mins of a break from humiliating his villains.

It's not like Oda can literally do bait and switch for another 30 years, at some point OP wraps up
 
Great chapter .

Loki still winning and no hybrid mode yet not to mention no awakening and still this strong.

Zaza is awesome and nice to see Oda still can draw beautiful panels.

I am glad books are safe and Gerd fingers are attached back. Cool small details from Oda showing us that.

Super Sommers cool as always.

Sadly I am losing interest for this site with those constant breaks.
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
Don't you think there's a difference between those examples though? We're 20 years deeper into the story, there's not really a reason to believe you'll get something better than fighting the King of the world and stopping the immortal version of a Rocks rival like Harald.

Unless you get full on aliens like Nardo, but I don't really think we'll see many characters on Imu or above, Oda can barely take 5 mins of a break from humiliating his villains.

It's not like Oda can literally do bait and switch for another 30 years, at some point OP wraps up
Oda has scarred this fandom. Poor souls, I don't even blame people for believing this.

He reaped what he sowed, with years of fake hype, he's been bending over backwards to sell this battle and his fandom is like nah it's not a big deal 😭
 
"If you should undo these chains that bind me up, I'll offer to completely eliminate one pirate crew of your choosing."

This line goes hard especially after seeing how strong this guy is. He was for real, he really could wipe out even a Yonkou crew off the map lmfao. He is out there fighting the king of the world himself😂

The Rocks pirates and Roger legit couldn't do anything to Imu in the flashback, how powerful are Loki's blows?
 

Fujishiro

Cheese for everyone!
"If you should undo these chains that bind me up, I'll offer to completely eliminate one pirate crew of your choosing."

This line goes hard especially after seeing how strong this guy is. He was for real, he really could wipe out even a Yonkou crew off the map lmfao. He is out there fighting the king of the world himself😂

The Rocks pirates and Roger legit couldn't do anything to Imu in the flashback, how powerful are Loki's blows?
Weaker then Riboku's plot armor.
 
Like I said Oda is to blame, he has always made his fandom believe in fake hype and rumours, where the one time a character does not have fake hype and rumours on his side the fandom is confused.

That's basically your complaint, Loki has all the tangible feats and statements but Oda did not give him the fake hype and rumours he usually gives his top tiers. (2.8 bil bounty, captured by Shanks, instead of WSM and WSC titles along with 4+ bil bounties).

This is why you awkwardly have Loki above BM and Blackbeard but below Whitebeard, you don't even know how to make sense of it. He's either above them all or below them all there is no weird middle ground here. That's not how this character is written.
Usually this line of argument ends up in people ending up finding solace by bashing Oda. I will enjoy that inevitable ending.

Baffles my mind that people can’t do basic pattern recognition over a sample data of 1100+ chapters.

Don't you think there's a difference between those examples though? We're 20 years deeper into the story, there's not really a reason to believe you'll get something better than fighting the King of the world and stopping the immortal version of a Rocks rival like Harald.

Unless you get full on aliens like Nardo, but I don't really think we'll see many characters on Imu or above, Oda can barely take 5 mins of a break from humiliating his villains.

It's not like Oda can literally do bait and switch for another 30 years, at some point OP wraps up
Hope isn’t really an argument. What sits on the other side of that panel is an old man trapped with his habits. There things that he can’t change, be it his compulsive need to write and create a bazillion new filler characters to sustain his story or his bait and switch tactics. Circumstances anf excuse may change, the core remains the same.
 
Gotta agree with @ZenZu
While ultimately I think @Shikoku has a point, and Oda is a hype merchant, and i think Loki will also be powercrept at some point by other good guy characters:
What the fuck is Roja and co ever gonna fight to show they are superior to this injured version of Loki? We already saw anyone worth their salt fighting God Valley, which was confirmed by the narrator as the biggest event:

We know they never went against imu
We know Rocks went out basically undefeated in 1vs1 ever
And after that, the only gas worth it was WB and Roja smashing their weapons together and splitting clouds

Is "true prime roja" gonna fight the force ghost of joyboy on elbaf? Cause thats the only cope that make sense


Kaido and co. are already out and cemented; they are not worth talking about
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
Usually this line of argument ends up in people ending up finding solace by bashing Oda. I will enjoy that inevitable ending.

Baffles my mind that people can’t do basic pattern recognition over a sample data of 1100+ chapters.



Hope isn’t really an argument. What sits on the other side of that panel is an old man trapped with his habits. There things that he can’t change, be it his compulsive need to write and create a bazillion new filler characters to sustain his story or his bait and switch tactics. Circumstances anf excuse may change, the core remains the same.
I guess you need Oda to tell you Shanks didn't actually beat Loki in the way you think, that seems to be what is holding you back. You fell for Oda's fake hype.
 
Ironically Loki's bounty got explained by the fact he did a reverse Harald; he targeted WG assets while staying hidden in the mist and they only found who he was after investigation (hence why his bounty is a special WG one, cause likely no marine directly encountered him).
Until a few chapters ago Imu/WG literally didn't know he was Nidhogg nor that he killed Harald.
Oda did this to justify why someone as powerful as Loki was never mentioned until Elbaf exept for one instance during WCI, but fans are so used to powerful character = massive reputation they can't compute.
 
Hope isn’t really an argument. What sits on the other side of that panel is an old man trapped with his habits. There things that he can’t change, be it his compulsive need to write and create a bazillion new filler characters to sustain his story or his bait and switch tactics. Circumstances anf excuse may change, the core remains the same.
Those bazillion filler characters aren't going to end up being that strong though? I mean, it's not like OP is suddenly DBZ despite having powercreep. Loki is the first character besides Imu to clearly be above the emperors and admirals. Unless you believe there's high top tier level characters just chilling on...idk, lodestar, I don't understand how you can conceive of several characters being stronger than Loki ATP.

As it is, we have an entire new faction of characters(The Gods Knights) who haven't even necessarily proven themselves to be above Katakuri, who Luffy defeated like a decade ago, lmfao.
 
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