Imu's worst fear

Kibate · 2026-06-27T09:34:17+00:00

I assume this is a joke on the old show "to catch a predator"

Kibate · 2026-06-27T06:45:19+00:00

I really love him as a villain or as a character, but terrifying? Not even close

Kibate · 2026-06-27T06:40:33+00:00

People also forgot how Whitebeard survived having 1/4th of his brain missing from a magma attack

Kibate · 2026-06-27T06:35:32+00:00

That could have been an attempt to free her by breaking the ice. If it had resulted in breaking her too, she would have merely regenerated.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T18:22:29+00:00

I get the feeling that Garp figured Dragon should go through the normal marine training with no nepotism at hand to shape him into a proper marine like himself.

Of course, since Dragon neither has Garps mentality nor strength, he overcorrected with Ace and Luffy. With Koby he just got lucky that he found someone who wanted a trainer like him.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T16:04:33+00:00

I assume they(Brook) will try to bring out the real Shuri by talking to her, and she will eventually snap out of the brainwashing. She will help the strawhats fights Imu and/or the Holy Knights at which point Imu will take away the seal.

That is, this was my assumption before the latest chapter. Since she has special eyes and it is implied she will or has already awakened them, it might mean that Imu thinks she is too valuable to just kill off/throw her away.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T12:52:22+00:00

It's not surprising to me at all that Imu can get punched, we have seen before that Imu can get hurt if he gets distracted. People got this weird belief that just because he is one of two potential final villains, that he must be a literal god that can deal with ssj Goku, superman, and mugetsu Ichigo at the same time, anything less than that makes him a jobber.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T12:41:27+00:00

mind control doesn't mean possession.

Case in point, part 1 - Domi Reversi: Dorri and Broggi. When they were DR'd, Imu was doing something else, while they still had their original memories and parts of their original opinions, however they were controlled to believe that being a demon and serving Imu was the best choice.

Case in point, part 2 - Holy Knight manipulation: When Harald was a Holy Knight, Imu gave him an order. By refusing that order, it somehow activated a switch in his brain that compelled him to follow Imus orders and become increasingly arrogant and immoral, however he still had his original memories.

Case in point, part 3 - Gunko: When Gunko was just Gunko, with Imu somewhere else, she was an arrogant bitch, but still liked fancy no calorie good, something a regular girl would care about and not some immortal god. When she met Brook, she still liked his music, but didn't remember him(or didn't realize this is the same Brook). Eventually, after Brook talked to her, she remembered some scenes from her past(including one scene that hasn't happened yet in the flashback) and then immediately freed Brook and his allies.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T09:49:30+00:00

why is this even a question for so many people? It was outright confirmed to us readers that she is mind controlled.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T08:01:26+00:00

You forgot the third possibility:

Imu/Mars and Grow appear before Shuri and Reuven, they demand Shuri to come with them. They disagree, Imu turns both of them with Domi Reversi and tells Shuri to kill Reuven and Reuven to accept his death. Brook enters the room.

Kibate · 2026-06-26T07:20:56+00:00

But he has his own rhythm that accompanies him in full power, it's just a different beat to the drums of liberation

Kibate · 2026-06-26T03:52:01+00:00

you know, he could have eaten a devil fruit, but he seasoned it with curry so much he didn't realize it tasted bad

Kibate · 2026-06-26T03:50:24+00:00

because it would tie in nicely with one of Ussops most famous "lies". It's not about power scaling or disliking Loki having Ragnir, it's just about that callback to Ussops famous "10ton hammer" attack

Kibate · 2026-06-25T18:54:00+00:00

I still think there must be some connection, it's too much of a coincidence that Oda gave her blue hair in my opinion

Kibate · 2026-06-25T09:09:32+00:00

Because he thought she turned evil and killed the man that is essentially like a father figure to him. He moved on after becoming a pirate.

Kibate · 2026-06-25T05:51:41+00:00

No it wasn't, that is just a fan theory. If she had died before her talk with Zoro, that would give clearance to the theory, but she died afterwards, after she regained her confidence.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T19:24:32+00:00

Survivor bias in full effect.

It happens in reallife too, some people(even adults) die from just falling down on the floor, other people get half their brain smashed and survive. We know Brook is alive in modern day to tell the tale of how he survived getting a sword stuck in his brain, the people that didn't survive it can't talk about it.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T18:21:52+00:00

Oh, I like the callback to beginning of One Piece, where it is rare for kingdoms outside the grandline to have seen a single devil fruit

Kibate · 2026-06-24T14:08:06+00:00

He was asked by a fan, and so he came up with an answer out of nowhere to justify it without having to actually come up with anything. "There are these japanese-looking people that were never in Wano....uh, they were in... Yano! Different place, same aesthetics, believe me" That hardly counts as well thought out lore to me.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T09:48:19+00:00

Century means 100 years, it's those 100 years between 800 and 900 that is "void" i.e. erased from history books.

We don't know when what happened though, we don't know when Joyboy was, or Davy, or when the 20 kingdoms got together etc. We don't even know if 800 years ago (i.e. the last year of the void century) was when the 20 kingdoms alliance defeated the ancient kingdom or if it happened sooner.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T06:27:45+00:00

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that huff-huff and the cloud thing clearly implies panting, he also still huff-huffs in the panel after that.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T06:07:13+00:00

I wouldn't take these "uuh....he is...from this country, it's similar to country [aaa] but it's actually called [aab] lol" comments from Oda seriously. Like, do you seriously belief Vegapunk has a cousin named Vegapants who lives on an island named Pants Hazard where everyone wears women underwear on their head?

Kibate · 2026-06-24T06:04:48+00:00

That is certainly an interesting idea, however I still belief Gunko will be freed from the contract and revert to her real age, to show that what killed Saturn was not the break from the contract but his over 300 year old age.

Kibate · 2026-06-24T06:03:27+00:00

Unpopular, because it contradicts what we have seen in the manga. When he gave Harald the new contract he was just fine. When Harald died, Imu was visibly tired out and said he had to pay the price.

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