Kuma Goes On Vacation!

Thoughts on the reasons why Kuma went to the various islands and what he may have learned about Sapphire Scale on each? Would Kureha or Law have been able to heal Bonney if Kuma encountered them?
00:00 - INTRO
02:01 - Chapter 1099
04:22 - Torino Kingdom
08:36 - Kuraigana Island
12:23 - Baldimore
14:22 - Tequila Wolf
15:42 - Weatheria
17:58 - Bowin Archipelago
21:54 - Other Islands
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[@psychronia]

Perona: I wanna go somewhere gloomy. Kuma, internally: OH THANK NIKA. I actually have a place for that.

[@mattia_carciola]

Lol, I imagine Mihawk there, chilling, enjoying loneliness and wine. Then seeing some random teen goth girl with pink hair coming from the sky and being like "wtf?". We know the rest from brief Zoro moments.

[@jason4443]

​@@mattia_carciola Perona's actually in her early 20s.

[@gustavosauro1882]

​@@jason4443she's legal 😈

[@ivanbluecool]

How does oda make kuma being a slave just the start of his tragic backstory and it somehow keeps getting worse? That's the definition of masterful writing linking it all together so perfectly

[@samuraitadpole5459]

Oda was fed up with everyone criticizing the lack of deaths so he decided to kill us emotionally

[@mattia_carciola]

@@samuraitadpole5459 Underrated comment

[@ninjigaming6079]

​@samuraitadpole5459 this is why you don't question goda,s will he made ginny,s death to make up for the others

[@RidleyKraid187]

It’s hard to make a GOOD backstory that just keeps getting worse and worse, but anyone can think of the worst things imaginable and keep seasoning the story until it’s egregiously tragic. Edgelords do it all the time. Oda usually has better writing than an edgelord, of course, but just getting darker and darker does not make for a good story by itself.

[@samuraitadpole5459]

@@RidleyKraid187 exactly, oda is a master because it's not just torture porn, it's a legit tragedy

[@earthisadonut7213]

There is a high probability Kuma traveled to Amazon Lily even if Oda didn't show it. The island is somewhere in the calm belt so almost no information of the island gets out and Kuma knows that the disease affected 2 people and both of them were female. He may have thought the Island of Women could have a cure for Sapphire Scale.

[@LOVELOOP777]

Broooo smart afff but iffy

[@Skaffabranca]

How would Kuma know it existed at all tho?

[@worldthroughabucket]

I feel he probably visits Amazon Lily later after he becomes a Warlord. Remember when he went to Gecko Moria basically just as a messenger? I'd figure he might have done the same for Boa at some point? The government wants Boa to do something, but all the captains and vice admirals they sent just keep turning into stone? Just send Kuma, he won't get turned to stone.

[@Welle-xw6kp]

Imagine if Kuma went to weatheria to ask to block out the sun So Bonneys sapphire scale would not be a problem and Bonney wouldn’t die by sunlight.

[@dontgetmarried]

Or a cloud that just follows her around keeping her in the shade :)

[@brawl8]

Unfortunately thats addressed even if Bonney only comes out at night or lives only inside. The disease will still kill her. Sunlight only speeds up the effects. The doctors told kuma. Regardless she has till she turns 10at best.

[@j2398]

I wanna see it painted black, black as night, black as coal , I wanna see the sun bloted out of the sky

[@beardedmotu2007]

Nami would cash in on the sapphire ⚖️lol Zeus ☁️covered lol

[@TheRichmaster24]

inb4 Kuma became Mr Burns for a better reason

[@bcool9272]

I think that Kuma went to as many islands as he could to find a cure. Those that are shown , are so that we, the readers, can understand the choices he made.😊

[@mattia_carciola]

Makes sense, I imagined that too. Someone should ask Oda just to see that addressed in the SBS

[@ghostnappa2311]

Odas answering the question of how Kuma knew to send the straw hats to those specific islands a decade later is just so perfect i love it so much its just him in a nutshell.

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Oda has built such a loyal fanbase because of adding panels like how he visited all of the locations he sent the Strawhats to. The attention to detail is appreciated.

[@hitbycars]

It also helps that the world he invented is one of the best ever made, where anything seems possible.

[@pralayaryan]

@@hitbycars bcz his focus is on Freedom, mental and phisical freedom

[@markjv24]

@@hitbycars Agreed. One Piece has great world building, lore, story and characters. I hope that once One Piece is finished, more people will give it the recognition that it deserves, like we do to Middle Earth, ASOIAF, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc...

[@Speed001]

It's also better than introducing more random islands we don't care about

[@josephreagan9545]

Another reason to go to gloomy kingdom is that it is possible that the castle might have old records that Kuma could study. He can't exactly go to a kingdom and ask to go into the royal library but in the ruins of gloomy kingdom, there would be nothing stopping him. Royal libraries might have knowledge that common ones don't.

[@dullahan_of_light6047]

He might have also been investigating it as a temporary safe haven for Bonney since its such a dark place.

[@marmyeater]

That was already covered in the video.@@dullahan_of_light6047

[@dexter111344]

Or if Mihawk was there already, he could have just thought that the world's strongest swordsman might know some good doctors. After all, the title implies he has been through some serious fights, and any normal person would conclude that would mean he would have had to have some serious injuries treated at some point.

[@ziberoc4364]

I think kuma probably did stop at tequila wolf because later in the chapter he said he was asking him self what dragon would do in some situations. I think he was talking about all the slavery on tequila wolf

[@Brentegg]

6:19 speaking of rare diseases, i was working at a summer camp about 5 years ago and there was a counselor who got bit by a tick and he contracted 'ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER' which is very rare and caused him to break out in spots and he was in poor shape for the rest of the summer.

[@StrawhatOtakuDrew]

You mentioned Drum Island. I actually find it particularly odd he DIDN'T travel there. Remember that, at that point, the 20 doctors of Drum Island were known throughout the world for their medical capabilities. Of course, they were severely limited in what they were allowed to do by Wapol, but that fact wasn't commonly known. You talk about hoping the anime adaptation shows more of Kuma interacting with the people at the locations we see him visit in the manga; I want to see them add Drum Island to the list of destinations (and maybe a scene where he just misses meeting Chopper) as its omission seems strange in light of what we know about the island.

[@AnyMEmdq]

6:10 Basically, it's the same that happened with Nami and the Five-Day disease. Chopper and Kureha knew of it, and its cure, solely because she is Kureha

[@manuelmoralez2257]

Exactly

[@yungman9390]

Kuma isn’t the step dad, he’s the dad who stepped up

[@batcheethebug6197]

It would be interesting if someone made a world map of Kuma's travels. His travels got him from South Blue (Sorbet Kingdom) to the Red Line (Mary Geoise), to West Blue (God Valley), to South Blue again (Sorbet Kingdom), to Paradise (Baltigo), to East Blue (Goa Kingdom), to the New World(Egghead) and to all the other islands he later sent the strawhats to.

[@TheWish80]

Thank you for the video! I always enjoy watching your videos!

[@mikwing17]

I need a what if story of Kuma traveling to Drum Island and meets Kureha.

[@ThomasBolling]

Thank you! For 20 years I follow so many people. And you are my favorite. Thank you for everything you do!

[@elijahveilleux7415]

Hey tekk, just wanted to say thank you for always making videos that hold my attention the way that they do. Genuinely helps me get through a lot just being able to sit back and listen to your vids is awesome

[@fabiopauli420]

21:30 than Kuma zaps away and Herraclesan goes: OH! new bettle! *catches it* now what are you.... *checks in his book* the "Saphire Scale Breaker beetle" huh neat.

[@blaketesch7400]

Thank you for a great video

[@darkcloak100]

I think Kuma deserves a Christmas video. One based around his believes. Like what would Christmas be like in the One Piece World. Maybe it could be held in the Summer and their can be the 12 Days of the Sun or something like that.

[@evil.valentine]

You KNOW Kuma would make an amazing Santa

[@andresbeltran6309]

We all know Santa is not based on St Nicholas but on St Kuma in One Piece

[@Xodreev]

Or when they do an abridged movie of Egghead, it's Episode of Kuma and you see the Strawhat Story passively in the background as it follows Kuma's story up to the present day. Assuming he makes it to egghead and concludes his arc there or something

[@HSuper_Lee]

@@evil.valentine As all children in the One Piece world know, you wake up on Sun Day and find presents kept in paw shaped bubbles, sent to you by Kumachi.

[@tosuto.official]

Yes! A new Tekking video!

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the awesome work and videos tekking love the video

[@paytonturner1421]

You are awesome Tekking.

[@xavierestelles9327]

As a botanist (student) beginning to specialise in island botany, I appreciate your praise

[@CloudyDaze]

I choose to believe you smoke flowers like cuban cigars and carry a big gun around. You're such a badass dude.

[@xavierestelles9327]

@CloudyDaze thanks! Not a dude tho!

[@CloudyDaze]

@@xavierestelles9327 Well. You're still a badass tho! :P

[@josephreagan9545]

Imagine how pissed the WG would be if they found out that the bridge had Robin in custody for a few days and presumably didn't tell them.

[@dairehefferon3249]

Damn, i cant believe we've been talking about sapphire scale for nearly a whole month, yet not once did law and the ope ope no mi ever cross my mind. This is why i follow youtubers for one piece, I'd be completely unaware about so many ideas otherwise.

[@skullknight630]

Seems like Tekking is announcing Geographie facts, really glad you're continuing the series I'm glad that it didn't end with animal facts

[@ObiClon]

Seeing all the places Kuma went to & all those places being the very places he sent some of the Straw Hats was such a rush of nostalgia given how that event was such a big moment in my reading/watching of One Piece. A real 'look how far we've come' moment for sure!

[@bigdome97]

Kuma isn’t bonney’s step father, he’s the father who stepped up!

[@josephreagan9545]

Kuma could probably use his paw-paw powers to push the disease out of Bonny and send it into someone else (like that evil king) for example.

[@RidleyKraid187]

I feel like he would’ve tried that if he could. Bonnie still has the disease and Kuma himself doesn’t, so most likely he can’t push diseases out of people, at least not genetic ones like Sapphire Scale.

[@abduleshabbar9223]

I think there is an easy explanation for Kuma going to Amazon lily. We have already seen with Moria that the government used Kuma as a messenger for other warlords. It would make total sense if they had him deliver a message to Boa at her home

[@rob6912]

Respect Kuma so much I actually clapped when tekking said let's hear it for Kuma 🤣🤣

[@davalious5107]

Well this is fortuitous timing. My little sister is watching through One Piece for the first time and she just finish Impel Down and is seeing where the Strawhats landed; so knowing what I know certain things hit all the harder. I'd actually like to take a moment to mention Ivankov, a lot of the stuff he says carries so much more weight knowing what he went through in this flash back. Him talking about how people have to have the will to have the will to fight for what they want and how he just helps give them a chance, then seeing his backstory really shows how Oda has had all this in the works for so long

[@user-kb7bd2ey8p]

fun Video!

[@carlosricardoperaltamunoz3536]

Funny that you mentioned the prevalence of botanists, because Oda wanted to include a plant freak in the early stages of the original crew!!!

[@kura4674]

While Tekking is describing how badass his botanist viewers look, here I am, the Walmart worker sitting on a toilet.

[@pralayaryan]

my fav character is LUFFY, just bcz of his character development, we have seen him since a child to his rise as an emperor.

[@afeathereddinosaur]

I've been wondering. If Bonnet awakens her fruit, could she use "alternate future" with someone else? Maybe the awakened powers would allow Kuma to regain his memories and regular body for a time...

[@dylandrake9139]

This would have made an awesome cover chapter series

[@snyperbait]

Would've been hilarious if Foxy's name was written in the beginning for 'most popular' 😂

[@wembleyleach]

Lmao I love how Matt completely forgot about the fact that Shanks, a Yonko, would use Windmill Village as a base. I think the navy maybe got intel that Shanks might be back on the island so they sent Kuma to investigate. Or something relating to that.

[@ZSnoozeZ]

I am a botanist and I feel pretty badass after watching this video.

[@daynearmstrong]

The fact that kumas backstory STARTED OUT with him being a slave is insane. His life has been so tragic.

[@numelslayer7730]

26:00 WHAT IF Roger had SAPPHIRE SCALE and that's why he just went like, it's better if i turn myself now to do the pirate era thingy, cause people won't recognize me in the future

[@blablableep6811]

Nice

[@biggestkorn1144]

In South American and Caribbean history Buccan was a cooking method and people who sold meat cooked that way were called buccaneers. I think it ties into the buccaneers and joy boy history and maybe luffy choice of cuisine is part of the will of joy boy. We all know kuma likes people with a big appetite. Been commenting this since oda revealed the buccaneer race and still haven’t seen any KZbinr mention it.

[@rdbeef5645]

Kuma probably took a work visit to Amazon Lily. Him and Boa were technically coworkers for a few years.

[@StrawhatOtakuDrew]

GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING!!!

[@NoGymNeeded]

GEOGRAPHY! 🎉

[@g3mkn1ght60]

The best character is big news Morgan’s, name a character that people shiver with anticipation to see when an arc wraps up, that newspaper is lethal every damn time

[@BigSmokeJitsu]

Kuma is slowly becoming my favorite character Reppin for the big guys.

[@TheIronSerB]

after the flashback is over can you please do an full in-depth breakdown of the timeline concurrent with the known events especially with the latest chapter 1100, I know you want to!

[@andrealsterhem3824]

The birds on the Chopper island arrived just a bit before he did ☺️

[@gatorxanax]

I love you tekking

[@chrissiecupcake1882]

Kuma: GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING! IT WILL CURE BONNIE!

[@unoriginalname9556]

27:25 they do exactly that in Game of Thrones with a very similar disease

[@Xeno-The-Wanderer]

Weatheria may not even be to learn but to ask if they encountered any place that may have known since those guys travel around selling weather so they might have found a place that may have vast medical knowledge

[@Reaperherpderp]

Kuma wasnt just a Step Dad He was just the Dad that stepped up

[@herestoustx6123]

Wait wait did anyone notice the similarities between sapphire scale and morias devio fruit with ppl dying due to exposure to sunlight and the same arc we are introduced to KUMA?! Idk might be a stretch but still.

[@elishabaquero8646]

Yay vacation 😭

[@locotacoking7107]

And here I thought Kuma was just going to islands, 1 to see if anyone knew a cure, but also scoping out places to travel to with Bonney (using his powers) if he did or did not find a cure. Kuma would have for sure taken her places near the end of her 9th year so that she could experience that adventure before dying.

[@DomDoryy]

Love you tekking 🐐

[@Newks550]

Ginny let a Celestial Dragon clap it up and have Kuma raise the kid….. good heavens

[@haywoodlunsford4238]

And now Kuma is waiting to die so that Dragon can let him down one last time.

[@jonreed4536]

When we getting Plant Facts

[@BlackLegNami]

Re: Law, I don’t think he’d made a name for himself just yet. The Supernovas all got 100 million plus bounties within their first year of pirating (or being deep undercover). Law probably COULD cure Bonney (not doubting his skills) I’m just not sure he was that infamous yet.

[@samfisher6606]

Like you, I really want to see you Kuma have an actual conversation with everyone he goes to. But I would also like it if they had someone say “I heard about an island where there’s never any sunlight” and then we see him go to Gloom Island. Or we see him here about Weatheria and then go there. I also have a theory that Kuma's bible isn't filled with biblical verses and the like but it's actually an atlas and the only true and complete map of the world.

[@muhammadfaisal5Y5]

I think the Op-Op fruit can heal anything, making it the most valuable devil fruit. The user needs to have vast knowledge and practice. Law may be skilled at surgery but he might or might not be as knowledgeable as Vegapunk or Kureha. However, Chopper and Law can eventually cure Bonney.

[@basillah7650]

He do not heal cuts parts out and allows you to replace those parts with something else not healing law tried using it to heal corazon it not really magic healing like heal fruit.

[@bullwark_of_the_weak]

I feel like in a world where animals and plants can turn into helicopters and grow the size of islands, botanists and zoologists are the most badass, rugged, diamond hard Crocodile Dundees the world has to offer.

[@ssjkaito5479]

Here the minute i got the notification

[@matthewi9223]

Remember kuma went to a cult island... meaning he probably heavily considered giving bonnie a exorcism

[@alucard347]

I don't know if its actually canon or was only in the anime, but when Rayleigh arrived at amazon lily to get luffy and was asked hiw he knew he was there, we saw in the anime a flashback of kuma arriving in his and shakki's house and telling them where he swnt the straw hats, and he didnt know exactly where he sent luffy, rather he just pointed at the general direction and told them for how long he would be flying, and shakki then said that luffy is probably going to land in amazon lily based on her "woman intuition", and so Rayleigh packed his bags and set sail to amazon lily. So kuma never actually went to akazon lily and didn't know exactly where he is sending luffy, he just picked a direction and prayef it would end well

[@marshallsalmon6924]

Imagine your only two interactions with humanity being Kuma and Ussop. That's a crazy difference in personalities to base all of humanity on.

[@XenoPon2]

1:45 Oden's flashback

[@shensura1170]

I think Kuma went to Mihawk's island because its gloomy and seems to have little sunlight. Also I just though of it, Bonney wouldve been cool om Thriller Bark too

[@alejandrosolis5637]

We are eating good with final saga geography

[@Lodran-ye2qo]

Kuma must have broken a lot of hearts in the Kamabakka kingdom, they're not used to seeing bears there

[@Vaquita_Vibes]

Great video Tekking! im still hinging on the idea Vegapunk might have made her a new, disease free body, and Kuma used his power to move over her soul/ memories. I dont believe we know what the awakening of the paw paw fruit is, it is a very versatile fruit that not only permit fast travel and unique blocking techniques, but it can force out abstract things like pain/exhaustion/memories and move it into another person to bear. The full awakening might just be the removal of memories, but i woulnt be surprised if Kuma had the ability to just move souls around. Souls are a real thing in the one piece world based on the existence of Brook, so its possible the new body, same soul idea could work.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Fun fact: the Straw Hats where meant to have a botanist on the crew

[@Burori1]

Off-topic, but I had a dumb thought: Since Bonney could manipulate her age with different possibilities to the point she even made herself have Kuma's body frame, is it possible that in order for her to be cured, Dr. Vegapunk used Kuma's genes to replace the ones, which caused her illness?

[@j2398]

I don't think so I think that buff version is just a future version of herself where she got buff. Apparently she can choose to advance to certain futures . Like when oda wrote each characters bad and good future. So when she aged luffy he turned into an old man and not garp because she chose that version to age him too

[@JAMisiuk]

Kuma went to all places basically. That’s who he is, to save Bonnie. It just happened that Oda wanted to show us how he went where he went in relation to the Strawhats

[@millionsocks3764]

Hey Tekking can you make a Ranking od your Top 10 favourite Flashbacks in One Piece?

[@vvilhelmho]

Kuma probably went to Amazon lily when he became a war lord

[@mattia_carciola]

I'd gladly accept a nice bouquet of mushrooms any day of the year, Goofy likely agrees with me (provided no ants are around). Also let's take one second to think about the fact that he sent Robin to Tequila Wolf just hoping revolutionaries would pop up :') (yeah, probably knew, but still kinda funny)

[@xGEOBOMB11]

Saturn used a black den den mushi from Mary Geoise all the way to Egghead. That means Vivi is not necessarily nearby.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

If I could make a cover request I'd ask Oda to draw Kaido doing a 100m high dive with coach Uroge watching

[@ASMoney13]

Every survival team needs a botanist or three

[@AnyMEmdq]

13:25 Maybe he got to learn about Vegapunk AT Karakuri island -Kuma: Hey, I heard this land is full of geniuses that advance technology far beyond what's common in other places. Is there any genius doctor? -Random: No, sorry, we don't have any genius into medicine, they said it doesn't have enough maths. -Kuma: Do you know anyone that can help with an incurable disease? -Random: Well, maybe Vegapunk. He is crazy, genius and nice enough -Kuma: Is he around? -Random: No sorry, he left many years ago. Last I heard is that he joined the World Government, I believe?

[@Topcockirl]

I'm surprised Ivankov couldn't've but I think Law may have but no on Kureha

[@muskdeer]

Actually, war on Kuraigana Island was 9 years before time skip, so it was 11 years ago from now And time can match Celestial Dragons Hunting Game

[@bastionsea2829]

Maybe Kuma did encounter Law, but he wasn't experienced enough to try to 'cure' Bonnie on his own

[@XenoPon2]

Everyone is speculating who might inherit Kuma's Paw-Paw-Fruit Franky, Vivi, but I haven't seen anyone mention usopp. Imagine usopp the sniper king with the ability to send anything he touches no matter the size or weigh directly towards his opponents This fruit could be devastating when used by a sniper They could shoot entire buildings at full speed at their target. And with observation haki he could do so from a nearby island.

[@XenoPon2]

Just imagine Luffy vs BlackBeard and suddenly houses get shot at BlackBeard (as support fire) instead of pop greens.

[@HSuper_Lee]

@@XenoPon2 Or, alternatively, houses filled with pop greens.

[@RidleyKraid187]

It’d sure be a helpful ability to keep up with Auger, that’s for sure.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Egghead is peak One Piece.

[@liquidhoneyjonny]

I like vacation

[@ivanbluecool]

The bible he carries probably has all these island locations to take bonney to later or a picture of bonney to keep him going Kuma could have became pirate king with how driven he was to explore Also weatheria could have been a location for kuma to find a way to prevent the sun and moon exposure due to them knowing the best

[@paraschivescuilinca2580]

Mihawk told zoro while in tge time skip arc that he came there 7 years ago when the kingdom was destroyed ,so Mihawk was already living there

[@chaos4654]

Even assuming Kuma picked Amazon Lily because of Silvers... Amazon Lily could easily have been a safehouse plan Kuma had saved for sending Bonney to incase of emergency. They might be willing to let outsider women into the island. Kuja Bonney is a fun mental image.

[@Otteor]

To me this disease sounds similar to the disease/virus that queen spread during Wano that Chopper had to cure, not so much the effects of it but the way it spreads. (the way the ice spread Turing them into oni)

[@breakingben1000]

Did the chapter show him on Amazon Lily?

[@Popo174]

Knowing Kuma now, I wonder why he was unable to reject Bonney’s disease and take it upon himself. Seems like something he would gladly do

[@GreatLordOz]

We don't really have any evidence that he can reject diseases or injuries though... We only know that he can reject pain but that doesn't mean he can reject someone having the flu or rejecting a bone fracture and healing it.

[@Popo174]

@@GreatLordOz In 1097 Kuma states pain or light illness. So after rereading that, I’m assuming Sapphire Scale is just too serious of an illness for his fruit powers.