Chapter 1045
Was
So
Much
FUN!
I'm on vacation right now So my background is different
The Room is probable more echoey So I'm sorry for that
But! I just read 1045 And I'm so excited to talk about it
If you missed in my last video
I said that I'm gonna go ahead, and to week to week videos
Just For Now Just during this time in the series
Because it is so rare to be a part of a fandom during a time like this
Where such incredible things are happening
And when the hype levels are so high!
And I just wanna be a part of it I just wanna be a part of the community
I just caught up. And I'm just now starting to interact with the community again
I mean not "Again" AT ALL
Just now starting to interact with the community And-..
(Hype Engine Revving)
And I-..
This is a Once In a Lifetime
(Time?)
Time!
To be a One Piece Fan And I'm so happy to be here!
But anyway! Chapter 1045!
Got my laptop I'm gonna-
I just read it
So now I'm gonna "read it" again!
*Hands!"
And chat with you!
First of all! I wan-
I just wanna say that I'm having so much fun
I said in my last video, if I were to guess what Luffy's form would look like
It wouldn't be this!
(Rip the Fanarts)
At all!
If I were to guess what his Awakening would look like
It wouldn't be this But it's SO Fun
And this battle was SO Fun to read!
Fight chapters are generally Not my favorite chapters
I have a good time with them
But it's not what I read One Piece for
(Five)
And I had a Great Time!
So first of all, Kaido mentions that Luffy's transformation, his Awakening-..
It
It x2
It acts like an Awakened Paramecia
Like we've believed Luffy was this whole time
But it LOOKS like a Zoan
It acts like a Paramecia It looks like a Zoan
Which has me wondering, is it also going to have Logia faculties
Is it going to have something about it that seems Logia-
-esque!?
Which I'm so excited about It if is a possibility
If this fruit somehow encompasses all the different types
All the different categories that these fruits can fall under
We know that Blabkbeard's Battle is coming
And I think a lot of us think that Blackbeard's Battle is the endgame
He's The Final Boss
So we know that Blackbeard has multiple fruits
And that he can now act like-
He-
He can (Hiken!)
Can encompass a lot of different things
If Luffy also has the properties of(rubber and gum) each category
Which I dont think Blackbeard has a Zoan Type Fruit
At least that we're aware of
Maybe he-..
He gets one in the background when we're not looking
I Dunno
I Dunno x2
(I Dunno x3)
But! It has me excited that Luffy, has these different properties too!
Because that means that, in his match-up with Blackbeard
For the first time, we're going to see a 1v1 battle
Wit-
With Devil Fruit Users that can do, a lot of different things
And that has me so excited!
I'm already excited for that fight I'm so excited for that fight
But!
This
Could be
The Coolest Fight!
So Kaido-
The Fool! (Jojo Reference?)
-eats Luffy!
Why would you do that?
Why would you do that? x2
Have you not spend enough time with him by now?
That you don't want-
You should know that it's gonna be a bad idea
So he does! And Luffy is just having a blast
He's just having the best time, wreaking havoc inside of Kaido's body
To the point that Yamato is actually asking
"Does my dad have a form that I'm not aware of?"
Because he looks so silly blown up like a balloon
And Luffy, who we know, is able to turn things that he touches into rubber if he so chooses
Decides to turn Kaido into rubber! Not in just how he manipulates his body
But by stretching his hands out of his eyeballs
And turning Kaido's eyeballs into rubber
And wearing them like gloves!
And, holding his nose-
I don't
I don't x2
I never thought this would be something that I experience
Or read
But here we are
What A Time To Be Alive
So Kaido spits him back out
And we get what is my-
One of my favorite panels in the entire series now
And that's GIANT LUFFY!
Luffy blowing himself up, I assume,
Luffy being able to somehow Gigantify himself
And threatens to step on Kaido
*Praise (G)Oda*
This panel-
I mean I know that the fandom has been talking about Luffy being able to gigantify himself for a long time
But this panel with the (KingOf)Lightning and the Clouds
And Luffy's incredible design on Full Display
In magnified form
And Kaido just kind of like "panicking", underneath his foot!
This panel!?
*All The Emotions!*
MAN! That..
(Breathe!)
I just had to stop and stare for a while when I read it
Because it is Such an incredi-
The Sun God, under the clouds, lightning striking
Ready to STEP ON The Emperor Of the Sea
So Kaido bites him
(Bahahaha)
And we get a hilarious panel of Luffy's eyes Buggy(ng) out!
And this face is Amazing
So what does Luffy do now that he is as gigantic as The Most Powerful Dragon Emperor Of The Sea?
(Something badass!!!)
He skips rope with him
(Luffy!! lmao)
Luffy skips rope with him!
The AUDACITY of this child!
The AUDACITY of this boy!
To skip rope with an Emperor Of The Sea In his Dragon Form
So Luffy takes the full brunt of Kaido's Blast Breath
He Roadrunners back over to him!
And- Okay!
So this is one of my favorites too! I have a lot of favorites with this chapter
This is one of my favorites too
Luffy's eyes bugging out, in that Toon Eyes way
But then everybody else has Toon Eyes as well
So what do I love about this? Why do I love this so much?
Because..
This is like Conqueror's Haki
This is like the first several times we saw Luffy use Conqueror's Haki
But we didn't have a name for it yet We didn't know what it was
But Luffy's power, his presence was so strong, that everybody was reacting
Everybody was physically moved by Luffy's power And we didn't have a word for it
We didn't understand it But Something was happening
Because Luffy's presence was that powerful
And that's what we're getting here! Where Luffy-
NEW LUFFY
Luffy's New Form
Is so powerful, carries so much weight to it
That even people he isn't touching, are being affected by his powers
This gag! This silly, weird thing?
To me, is one of the most exciting things about this chapter
Because it's showing how effective Luffy is It's showing how powerful he is
It's showing how much his presence extends
And affects people, without him even him trying
Just like Conqueror's Haki did
But this is-..
*ONI GIRI*
His New Self!
So we get this series of panels of Luffy depleting
As he is really losing his energy And kind of-
I sitll think that he died in Chapter 1044 was it? (1043)
When his heartbeat went out When his "Voice" went out
I still think that he died
And in this instance, he's kind of going back into that state
He's losing his life once again His Voice is starting to snuff out
His heartbeat is starting to fade out
And again, this is one of my favorite part of the chapter,
When Luffy starts calling out the names of the people that he's fighting for
The people that are motivating him to carry on (my wayward son!)
Momo! Tama! Kin'emon! Pedro!
And he actually tells his heartbeat, to pick back up
"Come on heart! Hit that beat" "Get loud again, heartbeat!"
And then the Drums start again!
And then he jumps up and celebrates And says
"Yeah! That's the sound!"
*Ultra Gush* Oooh My Goodness!
He is losing his life. He's depleting again He's falling again
Back to the same state that he was in Where his "Voice" was fading and his heartbeat is dying
And he, by the names of the people he's fighting for
Wills his heart, to start beating strongly again
The Power of this man!
It just-
It hits me right in the chest!
There's so many things about this fight scene-(relax!)
Fight Scenes! (Your chest is not a Drum!!)
That usually go by so fast That made me Stop (beating your chest like that)
And go
Oh My Goodness! We're doing something big here
And then he gets hit in the face by the Kanobo
And his face goes all spiky (Soul Eater Sun Ref?)
And then he goes running off, with his "spikified" and flattened face
And I just feel like, this entire chapter,
i can hear the soundtrack in my head that goes with it
And it's not your typical fight music And I love it!
So then he turns into a Tasmanian Devil He starts doing his Flying Punches
We learn that he's using armament and conqueror's haki
And that he's completely white!
(Zoro!) His form is white!
Which I wonder, is that the Logia side?
If there are Logia properties here, if it's not just the two
Then is him being white part of that?
I don't know
Who knows? (Oda)
I don't know
But he again rubberfize(wait what?) Kaido's face
And punches his face, once again, wearing his face like a glove
As he's punching "through" him Not through because he's rubber
And Kaido takes a fall! And then we get Luffy saying
"Isn't this fun Kaido?"
YES! IT IS!
Oh Man..!!
Oh MAN! What a chapter!
I'm having the time of my life
Oda, is having the time of his life
You just know, Oda is having a blast writing this chapter
And I am too!
Obviously Kaido's not done Obviously Kaido's gonna get back up
We're gonna keep fighting But I don't think this is gonna be a long fight
I don't think we're gonna have 20-30 chapter of a big epic fight scene
I don't think that this is the kind of fight that you would expect, from the Boss of his level
From the most powerful Emperor Of The Sea
Which, admittedly, we've been fighting him for a long time
But this is like, the final countdown, right?
At least I think it is
And I think we're at the end of it!
I really do think that Kaido will get back up
We'll fight for a few more chapters And then..
Obviously I think that Luffy is gonna come out the victor!
And I'm just excited to see it you know
This is like A New Era of One Piece
I called it on my Discord I called it New Piece
Because I just feel like this is what we're doing now
One Piece has changed
And I'm so excited for it I wanna say this
I can understand if you've been reading this manga week to week for 15-20 years
I can understand why this would probable feel Very Very jarring!
But from my perspective? As someone who's just started this series over a year ago
This series is already absurd! This series is already completely outlandish
And I'm regularly reading things, where I have a hard time going with the flow
Where my reaction is
"Too far Oda. That's too weird That doesn't make sense"
If you do that, Then that means this
Then that means this x2
Then that means this x3
And I had to "dial it back a second"
And just be like "It's gonna be okay. You're gonna be alright"
And I've had a few instances like that in this series
Where Oda pushes me a little bit too far And I have to remember what series I'm reading
I'm reading a very wacky series!
It's emotionally deep It is..
It's vast! It's a fantasy epic
It's brilliantly executed
There's so many seed that get laid That don't get paid off 'til forever away
The themes are so rich and deep
There's so much about this story that makes it literary
There's so much about One Piece that makes it among the bests in Fantasy
And yet, it's a WEIRD series It's wacky! It's looney already
And all Oda's done is elevate that
All he's done is take it to the next level
With a certain kind of brand It looks like Looney Tunes
But this series was already looney He's just taking it to another level
And as someone who has been adjusting, to the wackiness of this series for a year now
This feels like
"Yeah. We're already weird here Why not?"
But if you've gotten really used to the wackiness of One Piece
And then we do this "level up" in wackiness
I can understand why it would feel very very jarring
To me, it does feel jarring But it also feels like
"Sure. We're already weird"
And with that, I feel like the new form, does really encompasses a lot of what One Piece is
You know the Freedom of being able to do whatever you want with this fruit
And the silliness that comes with it
The-..
LUFFY!
What was the line that he said?
It was when he was quoting Bink's Sake When he said
"Once we're dead, the only thing that's left is bones"
(Loved that)
Right before that, Kaido told him
"You're gonna be a legend" (Paraphrasing)
He said
"You're gonna die But you have my assurances"
"After you die, someone will tell the tale of your great battle"
And Luffy says
"I don't need any of that"
That's another one, of my favorite part of this chapter"
He says "I don't need any of that" And that's so in line with Luffy
Because he doesn't care about being a legend
He doesn't care about, having his name written in the stars
He cares about living!
And in One Piece, in one of the most iconic line of One piece
"You don't truly die Until you're forgotten"
Luffy says "No I don't care about that"
"I don't care about my name being remembered"
I care about living I care about life
I care about right now
And this fruit, giving him the ability to live to his fullest
This fruit giving him the ability to have complete Freedom
To do whatever he can imagine
Which is what the Gomu Gomu No Mi was already doing for him
But this just takes it to another level!?
Luffy's value is in living Luffy's value is in Life
And Luffy's value is in enjoying Life to the fullest
And this fruit being encompassed by Joy and Fun..
Does that not fit Luffy? (It does!)
I don't know It's a turn that I wasn't expecting
It's a turn that I never would have called
But it's a turn- It's a turn that..
While it doesn't- While it does feel jarring
It does fit to me
And honestly, Oda's just having a good time He's just having a Great time drawing this
And I'm having a Great time reading it
Because I know that, while Oda is just having fun
Eventually, really soon, he's gonna bring it down
And he's going to explain it And he's gonna make it make sense
He's gonna make it fit He's going to answer all of our questions
So right now, I'm just along for the ride
Right now, I'm just enjoying it with him
Anyway, I wanna keep this one short Because I wanna get to the beach where my family is right now
So that was 1045
I'm having the time of my life So is Luffy, So is Oda (So is D. Narrator)
I'm just along for the ride Because I know that Oda will explain it
But please chat with me some more in the comments
Let me know what you're thinking about this chapter
And anything that happened in it (innit)
I am week to week FOR NOW
I will eventually go back to what my original plan was
But right now I'm just enjoying being a part of this really really exciting time
So, I post videos every Monday and Friday
Mondays are my One Piece Days!
I'll see you again soon Bye!
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