- [Narrator] Hello, and welcome to the Grand Line Review,
your source for everything One Piece.
And today we are going to be exploring the unexplored
to the best for our abilities
by placing our focus once more on islands
in particular, we want very mysterious islands
that we have yet to see,
and simply must by the end of the series.
And at this stage,
you might be asking yourselves,
how can there be 10 majorly unexplored islands remaining
when we are this close to the end of One Piece?
Well, you'd probably be surprised
because they're actually far, far more than that.
I had to narrow this list down to 10,
that's how many crazy question mark islands
remained in One Piece.
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But with that necessary admin out of the way,
let's set sail to number 10,
Raijin Island.
We are commencing our journey here today in the new world
and having emerged from the depths of Fish Landia.
We find ourselves with a choice of three islands,
one of which is Raijin Island,
an existence best known in the series for one thing
and one thing alone,
which is that it is being perpetually struck by lightning.
And while I suppose that doesn't make it the most desirable
of locations to visit much less live on,
we do know of at least one citizen of Raijin Island,
and her name is Kasa,
an elderly woman possessing a smile creepier than
that of mad monk Urouge himself,
And actually Urouge is very relevant here,
because he is one of our only known visitors
to this location which could pre-time skip.
Although in more recent days,
Smoker was seen camping Raijin Island,
betting that Luffy would deem this location
to be the most dangerous of the three new old Stata islands,
and thus choose to visit it.
And I think it's a shame that we never did,
because I am ever so keen to discover the mysteries
behind this absolutely wild location,
as well as how people manage to stay alive there,
which apparently has something to do with umbrellas.
Oh, and Raijin Island was also referenced on (mumbles)
when Nami was briefly reading about it,
so it's clearly not a throw away location.
Whatever this place is, Oda likes it,
Oda likes it a lot,
and I hope that we get to visit it someday.
But now we have number nine,
which will be Karakuri Island,
and to get here, we now have to hop over
or under the red line,
back into paradise to find out mechanical Winter Wonderland,
which is probably best known as being the location
where Franky spent two years during the timescape.
So we have currently explored this place much
more so than say Raijin Island.
However, it is absolutely impossible to be satisfied
with the small bits of what we've seen,
considering that this is the birthplace
of king enigma himself, Dr. Vegapunk
But fascinatingly enough Karakuri Island
has relevance beyond that of Vegapunk,
Because it is an integral element in Enel's cover story,
where he travels to the moon,
and the little cyborg-dude things
he meets on the moon, you know,
Spacey, Cosmo, and Galaxy.
Well, they actually originate from Karakuri Island,
although they were not made by Vegapunk.
These mechanical marvels
were actually created by the nalepa Tsukimi.
So there is a lot more to this Island than you may remember,
and I would love to explore
everything else in it has to offer,
which would undoubtedly consist of
funds, science, shenaniganry,
But for something far less fun,
we now head off to number eight, Baltigo,
probably the least aesthetically appealing Island
we'll be going over today,
but extraordinarily important,
as for the launch majority of the series,
it served as the primary headquarters
of the Revolutionary Army.
And that fact alone has made the roll-the-bear
rocky landscape of Baltigo quite an iconic image.
In fact, it even has its own Island dish epithet
in the series known as The Island Of White Soil,
which very much reminds me of some kind of salt plain.
But a fun thing about Baltigo is that,
this must be undoubtedly one of the most difficult islands
in the world to find,
given the Dragon and the Revolutionary Army
were able to remain so successfully hidden for so long.
Like, we're talking decades here without going detected
by the marines or even the emperors of the sea.
Although in regards to that,
I can't really tell you vaguely where this is,
it's in the Grand Line, we do know that,
but whether it's in paradise,
or the new world is very much still up in the air.
With that said, I would assume it would be in the new world,
because it makes sense with various logistics
and it would be easier to hide in,
but that may or may not be irrelevant now,
because after stowing away,
Jesus Burgess went and ruined everything,
and for whatever reason,
Blackbeard decided to immediately attack the Island,
followed by a slew of Cipher Pol agents landing as well
after being given the Island's location,
assumably due to some sort of treachery somewhere.
So Baltigo, unfortunately, is one of those places
that we may simply never see more of.
Much like number seven, Lodestar Island.
Now you may or may not be aware of the name of this place,
but it is monumentally important.
And for the longest time in the series,
we conflated Lodestar Island with Laugh Tale,
thinking that they were one and the same.
However, Lodestar Island is the final Island
in the new world,
and the location in which all deferring Log Pos paths
will eventually land at.
And that is very different from Laugh Tale,
which we now know is an Island
that can only be found via the directives
of the road Poneglyphs.
That doesn't make Lodestar Island any less special there,
because it is still ridiculously hard to reach.
In fact, the Roger pirates were the first group to do so,
after being untouched for about 800 years.
And what's even more notable about Lodestar Island
is that this is where travelers become alerted
to the existence of the Poneglyphs,
the people who made them,
as well as the final hidden Island of Laugh Tale.
And all of this information is conveyed somehow,
but this is basically what made Roger realize
that he was no way near the end of his journey,
and now he had to do it all again,
in order to find all of the funky, hidden content.
However, as flagged by the Inuarashians,
there was actually no need for the straw hands
to visit Lodestar Island because they became aware
of the Poneglyphs incidentally.
So as sad as it is,
we may never actually find the technical final Island
of the Grande Line.
But hopefully, we do at the very least,
get to visit number six,
being Shanks' Home Island.
And I will admit this one is a bit tricky
because unlike everything we've talked about thus far,
there's no guarantee that this place actually exists.
It's more or less just assume that Shanks
as with his emperor counterpart
has a stronghold Island of his own.
It is a reasonable thought though,
because as much as the details of Shanks' force
is very much shrouded,
we do know for a fact that he does have his own territory,
which was shown in the Straw Hat Grand Fleet cover story.
Rather hilariously, I might add
because basically Bartholomew landed on an Island
under the protection of Shanks,
and which point he proceeded to burn the jolly Roger
of the Red Hat Pirates,
and forcibly sold the citizens
Straw Hat related merchandise.
However, this unnamed Island
is unlikely to be Shanks' base,
and a key contender would probably
be this mysterious winter Island,
which has appeared at least twice over a period of time.
Once when Ace went to visit Shanks
in order to thank him for saving Luffy,
and then again during the giant aqui,
we would see the red head pirates
in a very similar winter setting,
Although it could also be the mystery Jungle Island,
where Mihawk came to visit shanks,
or they could be the same Island
experiencing different seasons.
Who knows? Not me.
And that's why Shanks' home Island finds itself
on this list here today.
But traveling forwards,
we have number five, which will be the Sobert kingdom.
And here we have our first unexplored Island
outside of the Grand Line,
because the Sobert kingdom is located firmly in South Blue,
and is best known for being one-time home
of former living being
and current cyborg Bartholomew Kuma.
But not only that,
Kuma was actually the ruler of the Sorbet kingdom,
which is a story that 100% needs to be told,
there's way too many important question marks here,
because under some sort of undoubtedly tragic circumstances,
Kuma would lose his status of King,
eventually becoming a warlord of the sea,
in addition to a member of the Revolutionary Army.
the latter of which he assumably did
much earlier than the former.
Sadly though, the only other thing we know
about the Sorbet kingdom is that,
it does currently have a queen named Coney,
who Jewelry Bonney impersonated
in order to infiltrate the reverie.
Although, because this is Bonnie we're talking about,
there is every chance that she is Coney,
or I suppose the daughter of Coney,
or given her weird powers,
even the mother of Coney.
Bonney is weird like that,
but I want to see this delicious
Sobert kingdom irregardless.
Almost as much as I would like to see
number number four, which will be Hachinosu,
and this Island's naming and translation is complicated,
and we'll get into it as we always do.
But you may recognize Hachinosu
was being Blackbeard's current base way,
where he conducts his dustedly pirates business.
In terms of key geographical features,
it is characterized by a rather subtle looking skull rock,
and if you look carefully, you can see it right about here.
Now, as for its name,
the silent is actually known in the fan base
by three different terms,
the first of which is Hachinosu, the direct Japanese,
and the second of which would be Beehive Island,
which you will most often see in Skull Nations.
This is because of what Hachinosu
literally translates into beehive,
but sort of not really in this case,
because it's being used colloquially
to refer to a description of dribbling someone with bullets,
and hence why it has a third name
in the official English translation
being fullalead Island, as in 'full of lead'
which yes is a more pragmatically correct translation,
but I just call it Hachinosu because it's so much easier.
And this Island holds great significance for reasons
that Manga readers will be well aware of,
but I won't be spoiling that here today.
What I do need to do, however,
is put up a spoiler warning
for unexplored islands number three though,
this location is not yet known to Anime only watchers,
so please, skip to this time
if you don't want some pretty hefty spoilers.
But for everyone else,
we will move on to number three,
which will be the fabled Gold Valley.
And if I could have my pick
of any Island visit right here and now,
I think this would be the one.
I actually think the God Valley is much more mysterious
than Laugh Tale itself,
just due to the circumstances with rocks,
got the celestial dragons,
and it's complete unearthed experience,
not only for maps, but also I guess, recorded history.
Something about this is so world-shaking
that it needed to be completely erased.
Much like the Island of Ohara,
just on an entirely different level.
And unlike some entries on this list,
we are definitely not done with this place,
Oda brought it up for a reason,
and I anxiously await said reason.
About as much as I anxiously await
number two, Elbaf,
mostly because I just want to see the damn giants already.
And yeah, sure,
I guess we've already been to Elbaf
during Big Mom's flashback,
but what we saw was just nothing.
We got to see the outskirts of a pole
Elbafian warrior village,
and what I really want to know
is what is in or on top of that tree,
one of the biggest trees we've ever seen in the series
likely based on (mumbles),
and almost certainly where the giant nobility,
including Prince Loki dwell.
And what's exciting is that when there's a Prince,
you can also assume that
there might be some sort of King as well.
But Elbaf is one of those places
that is just so thoroughly embedded
into the history of One Piece.
Every couple of ox,
it has another thread tied to it,
even in unexpected places like Enies Lobby,
where met Oimo and Kashii.
Elbaf is an Island that Uda has been building up
towards for literal decades now,
and it needs to be covered in some sort of detail
before this series ends.
And I have no doubt it will,
just like I have no doubt that we will see number one,
which is obviously Laugh Tale,
I've even said it numerous times
throughout this video already,
and you know what, I actually considered
not including it on this list here today,
because it's just so obvious,
but at the same time,
it's really hard to denying
given that it is the premise of the entire series.
Laugh Tale is our ultimate destination,
the light in the distance,
which we continue to chase,
holding the answers to almost all of the great mysteries
that have kept our minds engulfed in One Piece.
It's actually the point
where I feel landing on Laugh Tale,
because it well and truly signifies a full stop
to this experience,
and right now I just want to keep that mystery alive.
However, we will eventually hit it,
and for the purpose of the greatest unexplored islands
in One Piece,
Laugh Tale is the obvious number one.
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