He was literally shown as captain before Reverie, and boom he's a rear admiral.

That means Captain -> Commodore -> Rear Admiral in the span of a few days. (This man might really be the Marine Luffy.) Was it just a mistake that his rank earlier was a captain? Or did some significant event happen in during the interim where Koby was promoted.

If we remember back to Alabasta, Smoker got an almost immediate promotion to Commodore from Captain after getting the credit for taking out Crocodile.

I honestly don't think it was a mistake and Koby did something of note.

OK so i think it is clear that Sabo still alive. probably WG along with Navy caught him and I think BB will go there for a negotiation in exchange for Mera Mera no Mi and will ally with the WG against Revolutionary Army. Any other thoughts probably happen to Sabo?

I think the x mark on their bodies or faces indicates the members of this group

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There are a few questions that have been raised with this Chapter.

It is called "Big News" but very little was revealed.

A few things you may not have noticed.

The 3 kings mentioned in the Chapter have Luffy-friendly princess.

Garp took Shirahoshi home.

King Riku and King Nefertari persuaded the Reverie to abolish the Shichibukai system: which reminds me:

What significance does the abolishment have to the Pirates? Fujitora, Garp, Aokiji and Smoker are among the marines that don't agree with the Marines' absolute justice, but did not have a say in the Reverie. Fujitora did bring.

Does this suggest Fujitora is collaborating with the Kings of Dressrosa/Alabasta?

I think Garp is the one talking to them.

With the alliance in Wano shorthanded, can we expect some of the Shichibukai/Marines to arrive in Wano to help take down BM/Kaido. They are an isolated nation, but

Thanks to Drake and Cypher Pol, they have information regarding the state of affairs. Who would intervene??

Drake's boots look like the boots of the one who freed Law. Could it be Law is a Cypher Pol agent? He has connections to the government (Corazon, Shichibukai)

Morgans is strong af. Possibly YC tier lol beating a Cypger Pol assasin unharmed, with no hesitation.

Dragon, Ivankov and Koala were not seen at MarieJois but Bolo Betty was with the captains.

Why doesn't she know what happened to Sabo?

She is not much of a fighter from what we've seen, could she have retreated, leaving Sabo, Morley and Karasu to fight?

My prediction is that he is dead :( thIs is because the bandits were crying about him being recently discovered to be alive.

Also, Buggy D. Star can fight! He takes on the fleet and wipes them.

So who got killed of this time?

Is it Vivi's father or Vivi herself?

Im had Luffy, Yowahoshi, and Vivi's pictures/poster veggie he was asked about who's be made an example of. Luffy is alive and so is Yowahoshi, Garp said something about Vivi that worried Yowa.. We know there was an assassination, so who do you guys think it is?

So, there are a few quotes from the Morgans section, when he is deciding what the front page should be:

"There have been casualties. News of death sells like hotcakes. But, the results of the conference would be perfect, too. And the fact the killer hasn't been found sets the heart aflutter".

This seems to imply he's just reporting that there is an alleged killer on the loose who hasn't been caught yet.

Later he says: "An information suppression order, I suppose, but what information? ... There's no way I'll let this information be buried."

So, he seems to want the truth to be out there.

If we take this to be the truth if Sabo is indeed being framed for murder, based on Morgans' comment he hasn't even been captured yet.

How about at the tail end of one piece, luffy goes up against blackbeard, Zoro goes up against Kaido, and Sanji versus Big Mom. I believe that would be the perfect ending for the series, even though it appears that Kaido’s end is in Wano.

Has straw hats found out all poneglyphs

Well we're 20 days into the month and we finally have our super thread, I'm sorry about the delay but I've had some stuff to deal with irl. On a lighter note, you can post your fan arts or have casual conversations about this month's one piece content. All other rules still apply. Thank you for informing me @Ayongwa Matthews Shu

So, I've been thinking about him and how weird it was that he lost to Luffy. I've come up with a theory that a Devil Fruit weakness is even more potent than pure armament haki. What I mean by that is Crocodile's weakness to liquids [water, blood, and sweat] all prevent Crocodile from using his Devil Fruit properly in the area where they make contact. However, while a simple haki punch would indeed injure Crocodile it's not impacting his fighting ability as much. In other words, using haki against Crocodile isn't actively nerfing him unlike water or some such liquid.

Case in point, Crocodile survived the hit from Jozu [a named attack i believe: "Brilliant Punk"] with real and noticeable damage, but he wasn't in danger of passing out or anything and was still capable of fighting afterwards. To prove this he used Sables shortly afterwards, which was a large-scale attack and he did so with no issues.

And if we think back to the other time Jozu used that move it was against Aokiji, and admiral. And the result was it made Aokiji bleed. Though Aokiji didn't bleed as much as Crocodile neither was Aokiji affected by it as much. This makes sense being that Aokiji is an admiral and all.

However, the point was Luffy back then essentially fresh out of Fuschia Village, he had no training since that point, was able to take out Crocodile. Jozu's hit is on the scale of being able to noticeably harm an admiral. He also deflected Mihawk's attack as well. I feel like everything Luffy did in the fight versus a named attack imbued with haki from Jozu isn't even comparable to whatever Luffy was capable of at the time.

Lastly, this isn't really related to the theory. But, also I feel Crocodile actually won that last bout because Luffy would've died from poison without Robin. Meanwhile, Crocodile would've gotten back up at some point [or arrested by Smoker]. But, regardless he would've been the real victor, because he wouldn't be dead.

Is it okay if we dont watch zou arc and directly move on to whloe cake island arc