New Power and New Friendship! | One Piece Chapter 1122

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[merphynapier]

Tissine was unavailable to do an art piece this week, so Chirag did my thumbnail this time, his instagram is in the description so be sure to show him love!

[ThyFloorestFloor]

Merphy woke up extra early to hate on Caribou once she saw he appeared again.

[shyamnm]

Mars finally finished his homework, earning a spot on the chair for the first time 😂

[furorteutonicus]

Emet being like a child in the flashback gets underlined even more by the fact that he is wearing overalls. Suddenly he is so cute and innocent!

[chiita]

Emet and Joyboy is giving Little Oars Jr. and Ace. There is something about big innocent characters that just hit.

[braydenswinhart]

I love the buggy panel because he corrects his crew in an attempt to say “its not just me, it’ll be crocodile, Mihawk and I” but it just sounds like he’s the one in charge while being benevolent to his crew. So good how a simple dialogue can sound so different when considering buggy’s, C and M’s, and the crew’s perspectives separately.

[nikjovan]

The Caribou hate continues and Mars finally got a chance to sit on the couch.😂😂

[sindri]

Buggy and the Cross Guild, Merph.

Sword is what Coby is a part of 😂❤

[-Teague-]

The fact that there were two double page spreads in a row and three in total in the chapter is absolutely crazy, they were really cooking with the art. Also, I loved the MHA tribute at the beginning.

[hardboil]

13:10 yes. In the manga, Emeth sounds like a child. Almost like Going Merry.

[pretty_Fist]

Catarina isn't the only one that can impersonate Saturn right now! There's still time for the great Demarro Black to pull off his biggest job yet.

[HidayatMariadi]

the fact that the first JoyBoy just save the next JoyBoy and his crew, 800 years later, though indirectly is crazy awesome. Just shows how strong he is.

edit: guys, I know luffy is not Joyboy, it's just a way of saying. He embodies joyboy's will so much that you can call him the second Joyboy. Just like when there's a big historical figure then someone in our time achieve something close to that person achievement so we call them like that. Example, "is he going to be the next Steve Job?".

[YoungSmokeyvp_]

I also respect the constant hate she has for swamp guy 😂

[TheLordofMetroids]

I know we don't talk about Cover Pages very often here but I feel this one is important. This one was done to celebrate the end of another popular series My Hero Academia.

See when the author of My Hero Academia, Kohei Horikoshi, was young he submitted fan art of Smoker that was featured in an SBS. Now, 15 years later Oda redrew that image as a tribute to Horikoshi. It's pretty cool that Oda would do that, and it kind of highlights just how long One Piece is.

[FortRemy]

I just like to imagine Mars didn't get teleported back and just headed home cause he's had enough for one day lmao

[riduanaqil]

Maybe Joyboy's final stand was as a giant form which is why he left his strawhat in that form and maybe he fought in Long Ring Long Land too which is why everything is elongated. It's either that or he makes his hat bigger to pass it down to Emeth like Oars Jr's hat but didn't get to give it to him

[YoungSmokeyvp_]

I always enjoy listening to you break down the chapter. Oda is such a genius and it shows the way he portrays the genius jester Buggy D CLOWN!🤣🔥

[mr.megikayu]

call cross guild, sword is such a merphy things to do

[XS-Static]

Hey Merphy, this comes from reddit but i think it sums up Koby's declaration and the intent behind it perfectly imo.

Koby is the first friend and rival Luffy made in one piece. He's his day one even before Zoro.

It was Koby and Luffy's meeting that truly started the story that is one piece.

Kobys original goal was to fight and capture Luffy as his equal.

Doing so wouldn't necessarily get in the way of luffy's dream because he could technically be fighting Luffy after he already became king as long as the fight eventually happened, it didn't matter when as much, but things are different now.

Koby is gunning for the one piece now because the fate of the world depends on it. Him getting it will BY DEFAULT take luffy's dream of pirate king away from him. That's what he's referring to.

He's not targeting Luffy specifically, people.

He's saying he's taking the one piece before ANY PIRATE gets it, which includes Luffy.

However he's thinking of Luffy specifically because he's the only pirate after the one piece that Koby actually cares about.

People wondering why he isn't focused on bb or buggy in that panel instead of luffy?

My question to you is, why tf would he be?

He doesn't care about getting in the way of their dreams.

He would and is willing to stomp over their pirate king ambitions without hesitation.

He's thinking about Luffy because that's his friend and rival.

He's resolving himself to fight his friend over possession of the one piece.

Basically saying

"Sorry bro, I know you wanted the one piece, and I wanted it for you when I thought it was just treasures and the title of pirate king but it's bigger than that now.

The world's literally at stake.

I gotta do what's necessary and safeguard it from all pirates and that means giving my all to get it before anyone else, even you."

People acting like this is some big betrayal are insane.

For 1. Luffy has been telling Koby to reach the level of being able to stop him from DAY ONE.

This is EXACTLY what Luffy wants out of Koby.

He wants his marine rival to get on his level. He literally told Koby that and then confirmed to Zoro right after that he fully believed Koby would reach that point because "koby's a man of his word" Did people think Luffy was joking or something?

He meant every word.


For 2. Koby isn't even the first person to directly compete for the one piece that Luffy was still 100% cool with after.

Was it a betrayal when he first met kid and he told Luffy he'd be king over him?

How about when he first reunited with ace, his BROTHER, and ace told him TO HIS FACE that he'd make whitebeard king instead.

Did Luffy care? No, he just laughed and said cool whatever, you can try, but I'm the one who's going to be king.

He became frenemies with kid after and loved ace until the end. Even shanks counts as a direct rival to luffy's dream that he's still cool with.

Koby and Luffy's relationship is no different.

Just because they're now directly competing for the same thing doesn't make them enemies to the death.

Koby's not Akainu.



I could make a whole other essay on Kobys growth and the way the fandoms underestimating both his current power post hachinosu after finally letting go of his self doubts and just how quickly he could catch up but this is already long enough as is.

[mcurran]

If you look at Joyboy's silhouette design more closely, he has a peg leg, so he might also have an eye patch as well. It makes sense since we now know that Joyboy is the world's first pirate in One Piece, and Oda did confirm years ago that an important character will have an eye patch.