Oda has just revealed a figure truly worthy of the title of lurking Legend who may very well be by far Luffy's greatest challenge to date and whose very existence could cause the beginning of the end of the one piece world at the moment not enough eyes are on Elbo the world thinks that this big prophesize final war is going to be a clash between Pirates Marines and revolutionaries but the true beginning of Ragnarok seems to be staring us right in the face with an unnervingly familiar smile and an even more familiar title being the Sun
God but there's a big difference difference between Loki and everyone else who has ever called themselves a God in one piece which is that when it comes to Loki I actually believe him and we'll get into why after I bring your attention to the C belt which is a channel currently undertaking the project of re-editing the grandline review video library into themed compilations very long video is perfect for your very long form activities like driving drawing gaming sleeping whatever it is you do for extended periods of time we've got you covered for as long as
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Vega Punk's death on Luffy but they didn't accomplish this alone we do need to point out that all of this is because big news Morgan's already decided that Luffy was going to be the villain of this story and he did so before the Egghead Siege even took place and this is one of those situations where you can see a lot of odor in Morgan's because he's constructing the news to tell the most compelling story and things are going to be real boring if the truth gets out there and the whole world just supports Luffy and
there is a bit of a trend happening here because Morgan slandered Sabo as well for the Kerber incident so this bird is on a war path with these brothers claiming that Sabo killed Cobra Luffy killed Vega Punk and Ace killed the idea of ever innocently enjoying a donut ever again because now I can't look at one without thinking about him I also love the photo selection of Luffy it's an article about essentially a pirate terrorist killing a beloved old man and that photo of Luffy he looks so happy about it but the face is definitely
not the major focus of that picture one of the most curious parts of this chapter is when it's clocked that gear fifth Luffy has an alabaster X on his arm so I didn't realize what was happening here at first and I started to wonder if I was going a bit crazy I I don't know getting old now I've been told that happens and I was thinking to myself mate there's no way that this ex could have been here all along and OD to somehow just always position Luffy to avoid showing it sort of like how
again all of a sudden EMT had an x on his arm in the flashback with joy boy that we didn't see on him in the modern day but that is definitely not the case what's happened here is almost certainly viv's doing big news Morgans is the one in charge of printing these newspapers and I think that Vivy has either convinced him to print this photo with an ex added or Vivy has sneakily inserted an X herself without Morgan's knowing and she's done this as a way to send a message to the straw hats that she's
alive and even telling them how to find her because if they do the logic math then all they need to do is track down Big Bird and this is where we finally get the answer as to why Oda chose the original six straw hats to go to Legoland because the remaining straw hats who see this news article were not present for this Mark of fellowship and they don't know its meaning but as soon as one of the original six sees this they're going to put it together and at some point I think we'll be heading
out to retrieve Vivy it's quite a clever move from Vivy and I think she may have gotten the idea from Luffy himself specifically when he was purposely photographed with a 3d2 Y message on his arm because we did see Vivy reacting to this photo and after dismissing that it could have been some sort of fashion statement I imagine that she was able to figure out what was being said here especially because the straw hats reunited 2 years later so that confirms the two Y part of the theory or at the very least make it incredibly
obvious what happened in retrospect but also making big news of big men Dory and broy because their big bounties have now been raised to an even bigger 1.8 billion berries each not combined each and as things currently stand Dory and brogy are tied for the 13th highest Bounty number in the entire series narrowly being beaten by Sir crocodile who has approximately 1.9 billion although it's a big jump off to that because we have Luffy law and kid at 3 billion each so I'm seeing a lot of absolutely flawed reactions to this people whose heads are
exploiting because how how can these two be worth this much especially considering that they were both almost killed by Galino the candle man and as far as we know he's still stuck at 24 million berries but there are two reasons why this makes absolute sense and the first is something I've commented about before because I never miss a chance to discuss fictional inflation but I've always believed that Dory and broggy have been severely undervalued by the fan base because they see 100 million berries each and they think to themselves what trash every Supernova we met
on sabed was worth more than that Giants are suck but this is 100 million berries 100 years ago and 100 years ago you could buy a house for like a couple ,000 and so the Bounty increase for Dory and broggy is actually remarkably similar to what in would have done in reality because if you plug $100,000 into the inflation calculator starting in 1924 then today that amount would be worth 1.8 million I did try doing 100 million but the calculator wouldn't let me too big of a number maybe $100 million didn't exist in 1924 I
don't know but after doing that I do genuinely think that Oda plugged these numbers into a calculator and that's how he came up with the 1.8 billion number because it matches pretty perfectly meaning that if our worst generation had been active a century ago instead of not being born yet then their notorious rookie bounties would have been sitting somewhere around 5 to 6 million berries Which is less than the meow band brothers are worth in the modern day as they go for 7 million a piece things were much simpler back in the day less people
dressing up as cats I imagine but the other reason why Dory and brogy are now worth this much is because it's been my belief that these two were always supposed to have this level of strength and notoriety they were introduced on little garden with the plan of being endgame characters and the only reason why they feel so weak is because one piece is taken a quarter of a century longer to complete than Oda originally thought it would and so these early characters have been a bit left in the dust in terms of power scaling in
fact the same thing happened with crocodile he was always supposed to be one of the world's major threats but because he appeared so accidentally early his Alabaster and even impel down performance doesn't really stack up to the narrative status he holds but Dory and brogy are meant to be a big deal and that's why they're being treated as such which I think makes the revelation of Loki that much more terrifying because Giants they are no joke but Loki makes every other giant look like a joke and we'll get to him in a bit because firstly
though some initial thoughts about elbar itself because we were blessed with such a clear shot of its landscape in this chapter and it's pretty damn magnificent I think that this is some of od's finest location work maybe even a magnumopus because I really don't know how he's ever going to Top This it reminds me a lot of wano when we got the first four landscape shot which era has cited as his favorite drawing that he's ever done in one piece but I'm looking at this and I'm thinking how how can we spend any less than
2 years exploring this colossal Island we spent four years on wano and we still never really dive too deeply into more than half the country we got to know onigashima the flower capital and I guess kurri pretty well but the rest of it was left very underexplored and I don't want that for Elbo because what this has done is that it has furiously activated my open world senses in fact seeing Luffy and the other Straw Hat step outside and hop on that bridge it was like being an Elden ring and stepping into the mountain tops
of the Giants it's also finally being confirmed that Elbo is officially spelled with a pH which is a win for the official translation which has been going with that since the beginning although I think a bit of a loss for the fans who liked the idea of Elbo being the spelling of fable backwards but what I love is that when Luffy's group actually get outside the landscape it is massive we're on a huge castle built on top of these Grand snowy mountains and it's like we're already at the Pinnacle of what most islands could offer
but then you see the First full shot of Elbo with a pH and you can see that where we are this Grand landscape is right down the bottom and it is absolutely nothing compared to the full island and that what the maximum of any other island has to offer us is just the starting zone of elu so what Oda very effectively did here is slowly Preppers for the full scale of what elbaff is starting with a diaram castle then we got outside and we see a full castle and then we see the full island which
makes the full Castle feel like the diaram castle whatever your feelings on road and the Lego world are it did its job because I don't think it would have been effective if we just you know did a bit of a sail rocked up and saw the island I don't think we would have gotten that full sense of scale and something I'm very curious about is that huge saw that seems to pass through several layers of the igdrasil tree because this is easily the single largest object that has ever been depicted in one piece nothing else
even comes close and it raises the question of was this built for you know architectural purposes a bit of aesthetic flare for warland or was this a blade once used by a colossal ancient being and will it be used again is this covs a big Viking soul is Luffy going to see this and think oh it' be fun to swing that around or does Loki have some sort of plan with it speaking of we need to talk about this guy because Loki's design is I think better than anyone could have predicted because what we have
Happening Here is a reverse one piece usually what happens is we get intimidating silhouette that turns out to be a bit of a Derpy character design but here Loki was given a comical silhouette and has been revealed as what is in my opinion one of the hardest character designs we've ever seen in the one piece Loki got the full kaido treatment remember that notorious silhouette of kaido from water 7 that transformed into one of the craziest designs in the series and I'd also compare Loki to kak curri just in terms of the coolness factor and
the absurd amount of detail if you're one of O's assistants you've got to see a character like this and initially you're a struck ah it's beautiful and epic but then you would surely get hit with a shot of dread as you realize that this is what you need to draw every time Loki appears in the manga this is not an easy design to bring to life especially with all the tattoos because stuff like that is a nightmare to keep track of at all of the different angles that OD likes to use but this is yet
another thing that separates one piece from most other Shonen very few authors are able to put in the Superhuman effort to bring these sorts of designs to life and I have to say one of my first thoughts is that this was the man that Charlotte Lola rejected and if I were Gody of the fire tank Pirates who recently married Lola I'd be feeling just a little bit nervous about that fact Lola by the way proposed to over 4,000 people including every male member of the straw hat Pirates even Chopper and Brooke however she only ever
rejected one man that man being Loki who seems to be a combination of every villain we've ever faced you can definitely detect some do flamingo in him because of the tongue and the twisted smile you've also got the brute rawness of kaido but strangest of all is that his face reminds me of a sort of gigantamax Django and I think there's even a bit of dock Q in there although I might just be saying that because of the hair but I think it's pretty fair to speculate that what we're looking at here may be the
major antagonist of this Arc that might not be how it turns out but it probably is because he killed his father for the sake of magical fruit and that's a story that sounds very familiar a bit Blackbeard esque so as presented to us it sure does feel like we have quite the bad dude on our hands here which is why Oda has gone so overboard with the design because with new one piece antagonists there is no option other than to do that Oda has an incredible and very unenviable challenge Post wano in one piece which
is that it is so difficult to make any antagonist seem like a threat to Luffy after gear 5ifth even a full full compliment of old men on egad island I don't think ever quite got to that point there were some pretty awesome monsters and horrifying whenever they were interacting with characters that weren't Luffy but there was never a stage where this felt like a true challenge to Luffy but with just one panel of Loki I get that feeling this two-page spread is I think one of the most epic and memorable not just this year not
even in the last few years but probably ever because this feels like Luffy walking into a boss battle that even he is underleveled for and you know what it is is it's the smile even in this position Loki is still grinning from ear to ear that's not something that the five Elders or even kaido had going for them they would never able to challenge Luffy on that high ideological level they weren't able to reach Luffy's wavelength of enjoyment and freedom and so they seriously lacked the substance to deal with him with Loki though he looks
like he's having the time of his life even having been chained for however many decades it's been I don't get the feeling that this man is unhappy with this situation even confined to the depths of elop's snowy hellish conditions even here Loki looks much more happier and feels much more free than anyone in his situation has the right to and of course he does because that's when we get the bombshell that Loki is yet another person who refers to himself as the sun god and a man who believes that he is destined to destroy the
world assumedly through some sort of fictional pirate Ragnarok but Loki terrifies me because he has that you know that Luffy Vibe about him the idea that no matter what situation Luffy gets put into if he says he's going to become the pirate king than I believe it he has a willpower that transcends the page he's drawn on and I don't know how Oda does it but I get that same feeling from Loki the fact that even if he's in this situation I believe him when he says he's going to destroy the world it really does
feel like this is a person to rival Luffy's ambition and become the greatest challenge that Luffy has ever faced and realistically if albo is going to be a fock then Loki would need to be one peace doesn't go backwards we only ever escalate and after an arc where we fought all five Elder Stars there's not lot of room left before we hit that ceiling but Loki despite his size or perhaps even because of it looks like he could fit in perfectly and this may even be why Oda emphasized Luffy becoming a giant so much in
gear fifth because he's going to need that giant form to fight and bring down Loki and it's not lost on me that Loki currently occupies a very similar role to that of fenri the Great Wolf who was bound and destined to remain that way until Ragnarok after which point he will go on to kill Odin and in some versions of the myth it's even said that fenri will devour the sun itself and I guess the question that we need to ask right now is Will Luffy free Loki and accidentally begin Ragnarok
