all right guys so we got some really cool stuff coming in straight from oda published by shonen
jump over the last week and it's honestly very exciting the title of the series is called road
to laugh tale basically what it is is like a compilation of things that we already know in
the story plus little bits of seasoning here and there to help us piece a lot of secrets together
now it doesn't give away everything but it definitely gives us a little bit more information
and compiles all of it in a way that helps us connect the dots a little better so i'm just
gonna run through it and react to it give some of my thoughts maybe some theories and speculation
if you want go to the tcb scans website and read along with me i'm gonna go ahead and leave
a direct link for you guys in the description below if you guys are interested now let's go
ahead and jump into it deciphering the future of one piece so we start off with a recap of
all the information we know about gold roger the great pirate era started with the final words of
the king of the pirates the man who had obtained everything the world had to offer now countless
brave warriors are vying for his throne and are also failing 25 years have passed since goldie
roger conquered the grand line we get some cool panels with odin we have some panels of roger
meeting tom the crew singing binxes brew or banks is sake i could see zunisha in there too and the
breaking news of roger becoming the king of the pirates the birth of the next pirate king is
nearly among us we have an awesome shot of luffy and kaido okay so i thought this was really cool
oda gives us a timeline of all the events in roger's backstory that we know of currently so
77 years ago was when roger was born december 31st i'm curious if that has any sort of meaning to it
or if it's just one of those sbs birthday things he was born in low town east blue as we know
and question mark years ago roger fatefully met rayleigh i'm wondering why oda used a question
mark and just didn't give the amount of years ago straight up it makes me think
there might be some meaning behind how many years ago it was or the time period in which
it was in but who knows i could just be looking into that too much he'll probably just you know
throw it out there eventually the important part of this panel is roger wearing the straw hat
the iconic straw hat that seems to be passed down from generation to generation to those
who end up causing a disturbance or change in the world so about 50 years ago was when roger
was a rookie and started to gain prominence as a young pirate fast forward to 39 years ago and
that is when he reached lodestar island for the first time and realize that you actually need
four road poneglyphs to travel to the real last island on the grand line the secret island which
he would later name laughtale then not long after that only about a year they would have
their encounter with the rock's crew where roger would fight alongside his rival garp against the
rock's pirates and for some reason protecting the celestial dragons and their slaves the fact that
all this information is coming out now is kind of telling me that we're going to be learning a lot
more about god's valley and rock soon probably around the same time we see blackbeard again
and see what he's doing or around the same time we see the blackbeard pirates face off against
the straw hat pirates 28 years ago is when roger contracted his incurable disease maybe a disease
luffy will end up getting and chopper will end up curing helping chopper reach that dream that he's
always had about being able to cure any illness again one year later after that would be when the
battle of edward took place and roger faced off against shiki another member of the rox's crew
and it says despite an overwhelming disadvantage in numbers roger chose to face his foe head-on
luck smiled on him and he was able to get through the fierce war zone if i remember correctly shiki
and strong world was very overpowering but mostly because of his devil fruit i don't really think
conker's hockey coding was a thing back then but we have to remember that wasn't a canon movie and
i do think if we get any more information about shiki in the manga he might be a figure that
ends up having that really strong hockey conker's hockey coating possibly so another year after that
when roger was 51 years old he realized he needed an extra person to reach that final island laugh
tale and that person was kozuki odin it says roger was adamant about recruiting odin even though he
was on his rivals crew he was needed to reach the final destination as the samurai could read
the ancient characters i remember whitebeard's face when roger was like i need you odin and
wipier was just not having it but of course roger will be able to convince whitebeard and
odin would join his pirate crew and adventure to the final island on the grand line laugh tale at
one point along their journey they reached skypia in which roger had odin etch a very important text
in the story i hereby guide this document to its end pirate gold d roger now this quote is
actually more important now in this volume i think than it ever was before because later on in the
volume which we will get to it explains some more information about the poneglyphs 25 years ago was
when roger successfully conquered the grand line and named the final island laugh tale he then
disbanded the roger pirates the birth of the pirate king followed by the death of his crew
that's a pretty grim way to put it after this when roger was 53 he voluntarily surrenders himself
to the navy and was executed in low town in the east blue i know the signs in low town for the
live-action set leaks say garp defeated roger but trust me that's all world government propaganda
[ __ ] right before he turned himself in he had a final conversation with whitebeard in which
he told whitebeard a lot of the secrets that were given away on laugh tale so whitebear would carry
this information with him throughout his journey which might be how marco and blackbeard learned
a couple different things who knows he would also entrust his son ace with his lifelong rival
garp of the marines to give him a fighting chance but unfortunately that didn't really end well at
the end he used the dying embers of his life to spark a great blaze that would engulf the entire
world now this is the coolest part to me because oda putting all of these little questions together
makes me think about them in a different way it makes me consider some things important that
before i didn't really think were that important like his romance with rogue i never really thought
that was a huge plot point that was going to be you know used in the story but apparently rogue
could be a very important figure i mean she does have the d initial so maybe that plays into it as
well roger's sword ace that he named his son after also seems to be of importance oda says is this a
flicker of parental love dad's in one piece we also have shanks's tears you know shanks crying
to roger after roger asks a certain question and then we have what was roger's ultimate dream which
is also luffy's secret dream on the next page we have a look into the load of road poneglyphs
the keys to laughtale the reason why they put load here is because there isn't really a way
to distinguish road and load in the japanese language and also the final island of the grand
line is called lodestar that's where you learn about the poneglyphs that lead to laugh tale so
the assumption is that either it's load poneglyph short for lodestar or it's rode poneglyphs either
way i think it's fine i'm gonna go with road poneglyphs for now just because that's what i'm
more used to these historical texts are ancient messages that piece together to form a forbidden
history there are at least 30 ponoglyphs scattered across the world nine of them make up that ancient
history with four road poneglyphs that are red distinguishing them from the others locating
the final island laughtale it states these inscriptions were made 800 years ago to carry
on an unknown will the future was entrusted to the one who can guide these passages to their end now
again we get that quote to their end what i think it's saying there is that the person who goes to
laugh tale needs to guide those nine poneglyphs to its end to create the real ponoglyph the one with
the entire history of the void century and all of these ancient secrets so what are the hidden
truths that are chiseled onto these stones the kozuki clan transcribed the messages so somebody
gave the information and the kozuki clan wrote down all of the information with their own secret
language together these stones will reveal the existence of a certain great kingdom this kingdom
is said to have stood in opposition to what would one day become the world government and it likely
holds an enormous secret i also think this is really cool oda gives us a comparison between
where the road poneglyphs were in the past and where they are now in the present of course with
us not really knowing where that last fourth road poneglyph is but he does give us three specific
islands that it could be on and i'll give my thoughts on that in a second but basically
in the past we have the road poneglyphs being on zou in big mom's possession fishman island
and wano country a quick important note is that oda mentions that the road poneglyph on wano was
close enough or easily accessible enough to where roger could go and grab the prince of it in just a
few hours so the road poneglyph must be close by and a place that's very accessible and easy for
the straw hats to get to so in the present day the road poneglyphs that we know of are located on zou
whole cake island wano country and we don't know yet now i think the next arc is going to be elbaf
and during that arc i think we are going to get a confrontation with the blackbeard pirates i also
think the red-haired pirates are involved now i think either blackbeard has the road poneglyph
in his possession or the road poneglyph is going to be on elbaf when the blackbeard pirates finally
face the straw hats i feel like that battle is going to be for the final rogue poneglyph and of
course the winner is the one who gets to finally go to laughtale oda also puts in vera which is an
island mentioned by nami really early on in the series honestly i'm not that on board with it
being a possibility i think either full ahead or elbaf is much more likely but oda put it here so
vera must be important in some way there are other islands oda puts here too but i mean oda
specifically pointed out these three islands so i think the royal poneglyph must be on one of them
alright now for the juicy stuff roger's strongest adversary the mythical rocks now maybe i'm reading
too much into this but it's very interesting that he put the word mythical there i mean we know that
rox and blackbeard are intrinsically connected it's rumored that blackbeard could have a third
devil fruit it's probably a mythical zone and it's very interesting to me that oda would put the word
mythical next to rox's name here i don't know just kind of putting little things together here like i
said oda sprinkles little things throughout this volume that kinda lead me to feel certain ways
about some things now i'm not gonna go crazy over that but it is interesting roger's most
formidable foe was a renowned heinous pirate let's take a look at the man whose ambition led him to
violate the world's greatest taboos i mean the world's greatest taboos sometimes are literally
like existing if you're a fisherman so i i don't know the world's taboos are kind of you know not
cool so we get a little timeline here for rocks 44 years ago the formation of the rock's pirates took
place on the pirate island full ahead which is now blackbeard's base a bunch of powerful individuals
band together with the promise of landing a big score i think that big score is god's valley but
who knows it could be something else a little bit more minor this is also the time where rox recruit
kaido onto his crew as we saw in kaido's very brief backstory i still wish there was more 38
years ago is when the gods valley incident would take place roger and garp fight together to save
a group of celestial dragons and their slaves from the ultimate crew the rocks pirates that's still
weird to me man i i don't know what's going on there i cannot imagine for a second why roger of
all people in garp who hates the celestial dragons would want to protect them i get the slave part
but like let rocks kill all the celestial dragons why do we care after the battle god's valley was
erased from the analyse of history never to appear again maybe through the power of emu or uranus or
some sort of tool under the world government's wing that they use to get rid of inconveniences
the total collapse of rox's crew followed that event but that's not all after the rox crew
disbanded all of the members of the crew would end up becoming very prominent figures in the world
big mom kaido whitebeard nishiki captain john and even lesser known ones like silver axe or ochoku
one interesting fact here is that whitebeard and shiki had a sort of mutual respect for each
other due to the amount of times they crossed blades with roger and lived to tell the story
kaido's devil fruit seems to have an inexplainable connection to his past with big mom what happened
in the aftermath of god's valley big mom says kaido you owe me for life and now they're both
burning under onigishima the one who uses a beck's name blackbeard pack your bags onto the ship why
let the navy reap the reward when i stand to gain from this blackbeard is making his move we don't
know what it is yet but it looks like he's gunning to get something i think it might be the rope
ponoglyph blackbeard ship is known as the saber of zebek is there some sort of deeper connection
here could his design still threaten the world i think blackbeard sees rox as a sort of mentor or
role model figure kind of similarly to how luffy sees goldie roger it's definitely interesting
how blackbeard names his ship after rox de zabek and how his home base is literally where the rox
pirates form i don't know if i'm on board with the idea that there's some sort of relation there but
i definitely think there's a deeper connection as stated in this text the rest of the volume
is just sketches that i'll briefly skim through we have the straw hats raid outfits and the straw hat
samurai gear some cool sketches we even got zeus in here and what seems to be sunny i think in the
corner there maybe oda was planning for film red while drawing this together below we have that
really cute scene with luffy and tama where luffy gives tama the straw hat which i always really
really liked an interesting thing i thought they added here was an alternate onigishima
infiltration concept the iconic scene where the three captains of the worst generation swoop in to
save kinimon and the others was only devised after several concept scenarios were abandoned and i
think we can see kind of the same thing happening with robin over here on the left because in this
sketch right here we have robin in her new demon form but in the actual panel robin is not in her
demon form so it looks like either an editor made a note or a change or oda just had a change of
heart and went with introducing robin's new form at the end of the chapter instead of earlier in
the chapter it's always interesting to note that there's a lot of different scenarios that could
have played out instead of the ones that we got on the next page we have an awesome sketch next to a
somewhat goofy sketch of kozuki odin the incredible kozuki odin impacted the future
of all samurai the details of his life right down to the manner in which he spoke were refined many
times as shown in the concept notes that's really cool how on his sketches he also puts
their mannerisms as well to try to get an idea for how the character is going to carry themselves
below odin we have a sketch for adult momentosuke which just looks super badass i think it's one of
my favorite character designs in moano next to yamato and greenbull we have a lot of scabbard
sketches as well these look like they were drawn a long time ago i mean we got introduced to kinemon
at punk hazard we got introduced to rhizo at zoe so i would assume most of these sketches
probably took place before the time skip so these are sketches from more than a decade ago
that's pretty crazy finally we have shimotsuki kosoburo sketches and shimotsuki ushimaru along
with the other daimyos uzuki tempura and fugetsu omotsubi i'm really happy that we're getting
something during break and it's not just four weeks of nothing you know we have the film coming
out we have the live action going on and now we're getting three i think three more volumes of the
road to laugh tale with additional information i think the next one is going to be about shanks and
blackbeard's confrontation i've heard rumors so i'm really really excited speaking of the
live action though there's a lot of really cool stuff going on so if you're interested in learning
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