Bring Me The Tears | One Piece Chapters 1065-1067

[@saint_silver]

I was in middle school when Saul died and we learned Robin's backstory during the Enies Lobby arc. I cried at that time, because I was dealing with some dark thoughts - this idea of keep going to find a will to live was so powerful to young me. That Uber famous panel is like a talisman to me. I'm now in a way better place , I found people like Saul in my life. I, a grown ass dude now, had tears in my eyes during the last chapters just like Robin.

[@benzohhhhh]

Rewatching rn, when robin finds shandora and she smiles for basically the first time had me In tears.

[@royalfun1031]

@@benzohhhhh 👀

[@jesterstyr4584]

@@benzohhhhh didn't she smile/laugh at water-Luffy?

[@JoelBurger]

Can't wait for Robin to reunite with Saul. All her abilities to make a giant version of herself has been leading up to her giving him a giant hug, and I will cry so hard.

[@RadicalDan4]

I too went through something similar at the time I read of Robin's backstory and seeing Saul get frozen while leaving his hopes all to Robin. Crying then and crying is a symbol of growth and a never ending hope that followed us through the years with this manga. Thank you Oda!!!

[@NKMitch42]

You mention Toki, I think part of her purpose as a character is to be a recognizable face when we get a Void Century flashback, to give us more connection to that.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

It'd be interesting if Oda reveals what happened in the Void Century via a Toki flashback or smth, kind of like how he revealed Roger's voyage, or at least the last stretch of it, via Oden's flashback.

[@isopodshuffle]

He turned his brain into the internet, and what is the internet if not the most efficient poop-delivery mechanism ever invented?

[@12neef]

“Efficient poop-delivery mechanism” great and accurate description.

[@christianschmid1440]

@@12neef I loved Jimbei's reaction, when Vegapunk brought up the idea to connect everybody (and there ideology) with the OPnet.

[@haziqmatsaleh9430]

It's more like a cloud than the internet iteself though

[@kneau]

For now, it's really just an intranet

[@roachies4242]

@@haziqmatsaleh9430 intel bank

[@Official_RetroMania]

The void century it's finally being discussed, this really feels unreal! I watched One Piece as a child and now 2 decades later we get all those crazy reveals!

[@MrWolfy08]

Another surviver

[@EdBurke37]

Telling the soldiers about the knowledge they need to destroy could lead to some of them questioning what the knowledge is. When your whole thing is about suppressing knowledge you can end up doing some stupid things.

[@UltimatePower01]

True, but it seems like a plothole on why no one from the WG or the Gorosei themselves didn’t visit Ohara themselves.

[@furorteutonicus9045]

@@UltimatePower01 Why should they visit an island that was reported to be completely destroyed?

[@royalfun1031]

@@furorteutonicus9045 To be sure

[@D__634]

@@UltimatePower01 I think Spandam's father should be blamed for not considering the value of those books.

[@hotdogdoodoowater]

@@UltimatePower01 It was reported that the Island was wiped off the map. When you bring 5 vice-admirals to get a job done and they all come back alive, you can only assume that they got the job done. Both Aokiji and Akainu were also there, and given how they've already rose to that position/proceeded to progress further implies that they were very much reliable then to now. You don't have a problem so that you keep thinking about it, you fix it and move on. Besides- Robin's survival would've been the main target of the ohara scare given the large bounty for a child. Not a possible peripheral glimpse of some people throwing books from soldiers that were escaping their own cannon fire.

[@jonathan7skyfire]

Now that Merphy brought it up I really want to see Zoro and Brook tag team CP0 two of my favorite characters.

[@memelord3117]

"Why didn't Luffy ask how they poop" Murphy out here asking the real questions we have all ignored.

[@tikikeram850]

It's simple question really. "You don't have a head , are you idiot now ??" - Luffy . The Protagonist for 1067 chapter. 😂😂😂

[@tikikeram850]

Btw Can you watch OnePiece movie 6 Merphy ???? I know you love horror and OnePiece. Maybe you can try that movie and review it ???

[@truthoftheuniverse4179]

joyboy top home protect fishman island

[@ace0135]

She one of us fr

[@sandenson]

She's Luffy-pilled

[@justinvonwahlde6557]

My interpretation as to why the WG didn't inform the soldiers why they were destroying Ohara is that they were trying to stop the spread of information, so they didn't want to spread that information themselves. If they said "Hey kill everyone who knows X, the soldiers would then know X (or at least know about X). Instead the WG just said they were all devils that needed to be destroyed and they assumed their knowledge would be destroyed along with them.

[@shivanggarg2270]

oh u just cleared the plothole in the chapter!! congo!

[@realKiraMG]

@@shivanggarg2270 not really a plothole, it's something that is quite well known that a soldier's job isn't to question orders, but to execute them. Letting them know would 1) go against that, making them more curious as to why are those scholars so special and 2) actually give them further insight that they could pass on to the next generations. Also 3) give them a reason go to against the orders and put their opinions first Had they informed them, they would need to kill them, which is again something not that easy given that the operation seemed quite large and they even had an admiral involved, who they wouldn't really be able to kill, but his power was needed at the time to make sure that the job was done.

[@christinaallen7503]

Also Sengoku wouldn't even tell Saul why they needed to die. No way they would tell regular soldiers.

[@gotennakkul2875]

About the "ignorant soldiers" part at 5:45. Ohara was destroyed because they "knew too much", which wouldn't be a just reason for that scale of retribution, at least in the eyes of those soldiers. They were probably told something along the line of "the library was actually being used for planning/commiting some criminal activities". Furthermore, revealing that there is a secret of such a great significance is what the WG would want to do the least. We can see the same thing happening in the current timeline as even the members of CP0 don't know WHY they are to assassinate Dr. Vegapunk, they only know WHAT they have to do.

[@amarok9627]

Yes. Information is compartmentalized.

[@andrewwall4250]

-Saul being alive is one of the few fake out deaths that doesn’t bother me. I love Robin and she deserves to be happy. Seeing her cry makes me emotional. -Elbaf hyyyyyyype. -Loving all the lore drops, even if getting answers creates more questions. 😂 -Fisher Tiger also climbed the Red Line to attack Mariejois. - If Seraphim Jimbei has Senor Pink’s devil fruit then all the Seraphim’s potentially have powers from other characters who’ve been arrested over the course of the series. I hope no one has Sugar’s ability. -Lucci vs Sanji to protect Robin to make up for her saving him from Black Maria 👏 -It was stated previously that all the top agents of CP0 wear masks. Lucci’s Pigeon has a mask. Pigeon is the true final villain.

[@PushoverMediaCritic]

His name is Hattori.

[@silentmagician5195]

didn't Fisher Tiger himself said that he was one of the slaves held captive in Mariejois? The part about him climbing the Red Line was just the circulated legend about his deeds.

[@andrewwall4250]

@@silentmagician5195 possibly. I was just going by what I could remember off the top of my head but that also sounds right. XD

[@PushoverMediaCritic]

@@silentmagician5195 No, he came back to Fishman Island after escaping, then told Neptune and Otohime that he planned to free the slaves, then he climbed the Red Line and attacked Marijoa. Those were two separate events.

[@silentmagician5195]

@@PushoverMediaCritic Ah, guess I was mistaken. The timeline in my head is that he decided to create the Sun Pirates after talking to Neptune and Otohime

[@ladyorlean3550]

I'm glad Robin has someone to reunite again one day. She was the only strawhat who had no one for so long..... All their reunions will be so wholesome. 🥰

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Her and Brook. Sure he had Laboon but he wasn't even sure if Laboon was still alive or still waiting, especially after *50 years.*

[@illithidlore]

As soon as I read that and saw Robin's reaction to the news, almost immediately after I was like "Man, Merphy is not ready for this."

[@kaimorgan6186]

It's actually insane you say this, I'm catching up after not reading for 2 months and I had the same thought at that exact moment. Like immediately, "Man I gotta see murphy's vid on this!"

[@pingucrimson750]

It’s insane to me how hype gear 5 was and yet I’m still enjoying this arc even more than the raid, LORE PIECE GOES CRAZY

[@jayd.doubledubs]

One Piece is officially a story about a dystopian society. I love how many genres Oda can cram into One Piece

[@tikikeram850]

Oda Sensei take ADVENTURE genre at whole new level

[@99temporal]

dude, OP is like mad max now, lmao

[@dtcharo]

Knowing how much Merphy loves Kuma I had to click Like before even watching the video. I think we're all equally excited for more Kuma lore.

[@lipeeefl]

I also wanna point out that robin probably had some knowledge about Saul possibly being alive already, since she stayed with the revolutionaries and Dragon may have mentioned giants appearing in Ohara. Vegapunk was basically a confirmation of it, the way she asked basically "that guy was saul right?!", sounded like she already theorized about him being alive

[@algorithm63]

No actually, try read post enies lobby again when Aokiji having conversations with Robin, he basically hinted Saul still alive and then Robin realize that when she try to confront him, he disappeared

[@lipeeefl]

@@algorithm63 could be also. My point is sustained though, robin already had theories about him being alive, and Vegapunk didn't surprise her with his info

[@royalfun1031]

@@algorithm63 yea

[@Fastollis]

I’m pretty sure Toki says after she’s introduced that her family came from Wano, and she was trying to get back there when she met Oden. But it’s been a couple years…

[@espidirionperez6058]

Merph saying that she waited for Oda to finally reveal the secrets is bitter sweet. For her it's been a little over a year and here I am finding out secrets 20 yrs later...I have no regrets!

[@jeremyroberts8822]

The fact that he’s giving so much info away so fast leads me to think we’re nearing the end of the series. Makes sense too cus look how strong everyone is now, sure they all can’t get much stronger right? I mean luffy just took down kaido and officially became a yonko, law and kidd took down big mom etc. there’s not many people left in the one piece world that we know of atleast that are stronger than luffy, law, zoro and kidd. Usually there’s big gaps of time between huge reveals but at the end of wano and in this arc we’ve been getting them back to back

[@notrixamoris3318]

Cant blame ya for getting giddy and emotional Merphy...I feel the same and may I suggest that we take it slow and savour this interesting arc. ONE PIECE ROCKS!!! I hate to admit that I need a break this week...

[@edwardwhitebeardnewkatt2726]

6:23 I think Aokiji or even Garp might be connected to that, because even Aokiji said the words "The Will of Ohara still lives" to Robin the last time they met in post enies lobby arc and the soldiers may have been ordered to leave the books by them. This line could even be the secret code between agents of SWORD. Maybe SWORD was formed after Ohara Genocide.

[@eskreskao]

I had a while to think about Saul's resurrection, and the thing is - we never saw him die. Aokiji (well, back then he was just Kuzan) froze him solid, but we also saw people getting better after that - both Luffy and Robin got thawed out after their encounter with Aokiji on Long Ring Long Land, after all. And there was a LOT of fire around him, so it's not unreasonable to assume he survived, it's just that nobody dared to. And hey, that's just one person from an islandfull of people that didn't actually die, so oh no, Robin's backstory is only like 99.9% as tragic as we thought ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@TausugDC]

Kuzan's technique that he used to "kill" Saul was called 'Ice Time'

[@Max300029]

@@TausugDC *Ice Time CAPSULE actually, which makes it seem very VERY intentional for saul to come back

[@jamesmacleod9382]

Plus them giants are a tough bunch

[@royalfun1031]

Saul was the tragic part He was the climax

[@royalfun1031]

It's 69% now No kidding

[@binksbarman]

I couldn’t agree more about Saul. This didn’t feel like a fake out because of the longevity of it. Was more of a twist. Then like you mentioned the emotional pay off and just how happy you feel for Robin because you can see it in her face how much this means to her.

[@nowaz]

One thing I missed on my first read through of chapter 1066, Vegapunk got stuck in the giant robot while trying to warp out. That means he must have also replicated the warp warp fruit before BB stole it.

[@QuintDM]

One of the things I liked the most in the last chapter was how Dragon looked like Luffy when he was yelling.

[@adityasarkar2888]

judging by how lucci didn't know why they're killing vegapunk , i think the marines didnt know why the buster call on ohara was initiated

[@colibri224]

I think Saul is the best fake out death of the entire manga so far. I cried like Robin when I learned he was alive.

[@royalfun1031]

Lorj disagrees

[@billyalarie929]

Excellent pfp

[@OfficialTigerino]

Saul being alive was a common theory in the Japanese fandom since the beginning as Aokiji used Ice Time Capsule, which implies it thaws out the victime after a while

[@TreezWonderland]

About the "ignorant Marine Soldier" issue: No they did not know why they destroyed Ohara. It was a Buster Call, they did not care at Enies Lobby either. And the Reasoning for Ohara later was, that the Scholers were plotting against the WG and the WG even called them Devils of Ohara.

[@TreezWonderland]

which also means that they would have been dead anyways, but they used their last moments "saving" those books from the Fire.

[@erwindavid2859]

Exactly. Thank you. This is easy to miss since the expositions are laid out to us readers at those Robin flashbacks.

[@2muchjpop]

And your don't want the soldiers to become possibly curious of the knowledge. It's better they don't know anything.

[@Ziphimpul]

Also the guy in charge was Spandam's father so yeah, the ignorance was flowing strong during that event

[@albericponcedeleon2696]

@@Ziphimpul also, also, Kuzan was feeling really conflicted about the whole operation so if any soldier asked him about the books he would've likely brushed them off in the name of his "lazy" justice.

[@SengokuTheGouda]

I just want to say I’ve really loved hearing you on the One Piece Podcast in addition to these videos. I love listening to you talk about this series (and many many more).

[@tyriquesmith8850]

I believe that the World Government told the soldiers that the people of Ohara trying to retrieve one of the ancient weapons. I think they desperately wanted to make sure that no one got ahold of this information. Including the foot soldiers. I also don't think that they calculated that the books could survive the buster call, so the marines were only concerned with ensuring that no person survived. I dunno if this makes sense to anyone else, but it works for me personally.

[@mr.maverick8917]

Its funny cause Saul was "killed" by an attack called Ice Time Capsule. A lot of people take issue with Saul being alive but a time capsule is meant to preserve something .

[@illithidlore]

I was disappointed with Pound's death being a fake out, but I have since heard that since he had daughters of his own, Oda finds it difficult to not write a happy ending for fathers and their daughters in the manga.

[@primarybufferpanel9939]

Benn Beckman as Robin's dad confirmed!!!

[@royalfun1031]

@@ICavalcadeI They're all his children

[@royalfun1031]

Duh

[@afromarco005]

@@royalfun1031 bro

[@kaleomungin]

@@jorgeporras9262 that's why Whitey Bay left to form her own crew lol😂

[@muhammadsaiful9500]

i really like how Oda-sensei introduce the fact that all the technology we saw in this Egghead island is technology of the past and not the future. Many stories tell a story about ancient kingdom is more advance than present, but this is something different

[@royalfun1031]

How tho

[@muhammadsaiful9500]

@@royalfun1031 most of the stories that i read just straight up tell you about about the ancient kingdom is more advance than present, like they always start it with "what is ancient kingdom?" and someone will tell you "ancient kingdom is...." and that's it, it is boring. But Oda-sensei first give us some clues in the past chapters about ancient kingdom and now when Vegapunk said "What do you think about this island?" then Franky said "this is a future island" and then Vegapunk said "No, this is not the future island but the island of the past. Now that's different with how you introduce an advance ancient kingdom. With just this small dialog we got some answers and a lot of questions is amazing. The fact that people (readers and people in OP world) always think that Vegapunk's knowledge is 500 years ahead are wrong instead his knowledge is the same as 900 years ago is amazing. And we now know the reason why poneglyph cant be destoyed and why goverment really afraid with ancient weapons, because the one who make it is a kingdom that so advance. It all make sense than if the ancient kingdom using some kind of magic or devil fruit. It makes me wondering if the fishmen we know is a race that exist from beginning or the result of an experiment on human by human of the past to make Poseidon.

[@hylian_likely]

Vegapunk’s dream is to have the whole world connected to a universal knowledge base. If he accomplishes that and is invited to go to Laugh Tale, he can possibly tell the entire world what the One Piece is and it’s so divisive it causes the war Whitebeard spoke of

[@tobiaswedin]

I just realised that with Vegapunk being able to store and remember all info he attains forever, the fact that he read all the books of Ohara and have chopped his brain into several personalities that syncs up regularly means that now there's at least seven more individuals that can read poneglyphs in the world.

[@Fastollis]

Oh, and the World Government absolutely did not tell their soldiers the actual reason for destroying Ohara. If they had, they would have had to kill them all. Even Lucci gets criticized for asking a basic question.

[@deadsoon]

VP: I wanna make the Internet, a great invention Jimbe: what about trolls tho

[@MRBp2024]

1:30 Funny how similarly happens with Chopper timeskip island. You had these Cavemen who still lived & hunted like they were from that age, even spoke with broken Caveman speech. Yet they had advanced knowledge on medicine/plants. They had library with detailed books and they taught Chopper. They looked like from an old age, but they had knowledge on medicine that was advanced, beyond even Chopper knowledge. Similar to the Robot looking ancient and being from 900 years ago but being advanced even for current story age.

[@thepokekid01]

Toki is definitely coming back around. When she was introduced, we were introduced that she had a mission, but it seems like it was implied she didn't complete it even when she went back to Wano... I wonder if it had to do with the weapon there... I don't know! Toki is so mysterious! Oda has to give us the details, even if he waits until the end of the series in Mari-joise.

[@thepokekid01]

I think the WG definitely did not tell everyone why, only the higher ups otherwise there would be more Sauls in Ohara... but I think part of the issue was Spandam's stupid dad was the one that lead the charge and he called a buster call on the place which encourages the mindless annihilation. They probably just assumed the people there weren't able to save anything as they weren't scholars. I also imagine the Nobels would think as long as Robin is caught, they have no problems, no one would be left to really take advantage of those books... Which... I guess to be fair also don't have ALL the information on the kingdom. That said, how Dragon couldn't have told Robin about Ohara seems a little cruel, but I get how zipped his lips are (especially on that topic).

[@Jodipo]

Agreed, this new arc is going crazy and I love it.

[@jolly1559]

i don't think senor pink is dead either, remember that the whole lab is made of island cloud. hes probably able to manipulate the pyrobloin content freely to turn the floor into water as he needs. vp could legit sink the entire crew in an instant

[@tiem6260]

3 things: 1. We already knew why ohara was wiped out. Clover talked about the ancient kingdom to the gorosei via den den mushi before he got shot. 2. The marines likely wouldnt know that all knowledge on ohara was blasphemous. Likely the few marines that found it couldnt be bothered to pull out thousands of waterlogged books to check if they have information that the world government would kill them for knowing. 3. The giants in vegapunk's flashback are hajrudin from dresserosa and his crew! They were probably already pirating back then because of how slowly giants age. Love how much oda ties everything together

[@rrose13]

I really like the idea that the Ancient Kingdom was related to the Fishmen in some way. Makes perfect sense for why they’d be persecuted now by the World Government. Only thing that makes me question this idea is Joy Boys promise to the Ryugugu (probably misspelled) Kingdom. Overall, this feels like pre-Timeskip One Piece and truly has started like an all-time arc. Egghead could go down top 5.

[@anotherpawn]

Oda didn't want to spoil future plotpoints so Toki (who jumped forward in time) wasn't allowed to talk about her mission. I think it is because you're not used to reading weekly, and thus expected answers in the moment, but Oda tends to introduce a plotpoint and then let it stew for a few hundred chapters before coming back to it which is why they seem forgotten when you're going through a long arc (this can be seen with Ace in Thriller Bark, Dragon who just appeared in Louge Town and disappeared without a word until Enies Lobby). Knowing who Joyboy was and Toki's mission would probably spoil the One Piece which is why we weren't allowed to hear it in Wano. I honestly think that Wano and the Kozuki family (which is represented my the moon) were allied with the ancient kingdom which was led by Joyboy (the sun). This is why Momonosuke and Luffy can hear the voice of all things, they're the modern day sun and moon since they have inherited the ancient will of Joyboy and the Kozuki. This is why Momo and the Wano story is so important to the narrative, and why an ancient weapon is built into the nation. Here's some stuff that's important: Toki is from Wano (she has a Japanese last name so she's not a fishman), and Joyboy's promise to the Mermaid princess probably indicates that the Fishmen were a separate people from the Ancient Kingdom. I personally think that the AK either was run by Giants with the King (Joyboy) wearing the giant strawhat as his crown, or the Lunarians with Joyboy being a lunarian who ate the gomu gomu no mi and turned giant that way. I do think that the Fishmen, the Chandians, the Ancient Kingdom, the Giants, the Lunarians, and Wano were allies against the 20-nation alliance, and that's why they aren't a part of the WG, and why these nations tend to have old structures with poneglyphs and clues to ancient weapons.

[@NKMitch42]

Part of the reason I haven't ever really been bothered by the Fakeout deaths in One Piece is that I think one of the major themes of the story is that tragedy is for the past, Luffy brings hope and light and life wherever he goes and so in the end its going to be okay. This is, imo, reinforced over and over again and was most clear in Alabasta when Luffy told Vivi that it isn't a game, that people die, but then they didn't, Luffy saved the country, him and Vivi brought Alabasta back from the brink. Pell is the worst executed fakeout, but I still think it just reinforces that Luffy and the Strawhats are forces that create and restore.

[@PedroBoteon]

But people *did* die in Alabasta, first that comes to mind was the royal guard-like group that tried to fight Crocodile after drinking something or another only for Croc to refuse to fight them. And many people certainly died in that melee that happened when the rebel and loyalist armies clashed.

[@NKMitch42]

Not nearly as many as should have, none of it is lingered on beyond its initial appearance and we see so many regular folks survive alot in Alabasta, I'm not convinced there was much death at all even among civilians in the grand scheme of the arc.

[@mysticdigital5936]

Yeah, way to maake sure your story has 0 stakes. A story doesnt need death to happen, but repeatedly faking deaths makes your story have 0 stakes. No one's going to die, ever. Not a minor character for sure.

[@royalfun1031]

@@mysticdigital5936 yea

[@mujiescomedy279]

In which case, just don’t kill them. You don’t need fakeouts

[@123rikin]

The world government is so focused on not telling anyone any information that it’s starting to become detrimental to their work. Even Rob Lucci proposing a question about the Lulucia incident is taboo. If CP0 can’t even know why they’re doing tasks like “killing Vegapunk” l, lowly Navy soldiers would have no business knowing why they’re doing what they’re doing. I think it makes sense that they didn’t do anything about the books., especially since it wasn’t what they were tasked with doing. This is the fault of the elders.

[@LuisHernandez001]

Best part of break weeks are definitely these videos, thanks for making break weeks a bit more bearable Merph haha.

[@kieranbrennan8799]

They told the soldiers that Ohara was searching ancient weapons but the ones that were there saw that most of the books were pulled from the library in the tree which was mostly normal archeological stuff. So they have no reason to care for it

[@sousukesagara193]

Saul being alive gives more than it takes. It may diminish the tragedy of Robin's past but it will allow her more character development as well as more character depth for Aokiji, it also sets up Elbaf and ties in with Kidd. I see this as a net positive

[@lonewolf9325]

being a fresh manga reader since wano anime reached finale, this chapter hit right in the feels, cried the same..Robin's wave of emotions was done masterfully, simply beautiful..this is why we read one piece

[@Doommaster677]

I don't mind fakeout deaths necessarily, I feel like if you never see the character in the main story again it's acceptable. However major characters (Kinemon) yeah I can see the frustration. My only guess as to why it keeps happening is to have as many characters as possible available for the Final War (and MASSACRE a lot of them in the process). That said, Saul was incredible to see again

[@TheBigE9999]

The first thing i thought of when he complained about how Momo's fruit was the wrong color was how Vegapunk is a perfectionist and it made me wonder how many of them did he make just trying to get the right color and if he has just a pile of them laying around

[@haiku_king]

It makes sense not telling them why, they don’t want people building distrust , deciding to read them etc. remember, a lot of marines think the government is good and just

[@ekyapriancakralesmana5620]

My favourite part of the chapter is seeing you talk about it. Love it.

[@jaziybabe]

This is my first time watching one of these when I’m caught up! 🥳 Vegapunk in indeed hilarious and I need answers about Kuma!

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

I think the best part about Saul isn't just the narrative importance of Saul as to why he was kept alive, or the emotional high the reader experiences with Robin being happy Saul's alive, it's the implication that Aokiji didn't kill Saul which makes Aokiji much more interesting because with him sparing Saul we're more sure now than ever that Aokiji's good and I'm more certain that he only joined Blackbeard just to use the crew as a means for some important end rather than to help Blackbeard.

[@chrispybacon3]

Wow, imagine when Saul meets the Straw Hat crew and says, “see, didn’t I tell you no one is born to be alone!” wow I think Saul will be so vindicated 😲 and he will cry 😭

[@anirudhthalla2603]

3:10 no toki isnt fishmen. oda actually mentioned toki's surname in the story and she was from wano (according to her surname). Edit: just checked out she from the amatsuki family which was a renouned family in wano

[@KevinVideo]

I loved Saul's return. It made me really happy. The Water 7 Saga is still my favourite even after all this time, so it was a wonderful full-circle effect for me. What I love even more about Saul's return is it really makes you wonder about Kuzan, and I really want to know more about that guy.

[@nekfard]

The final saga is stacked and I LOVE IT so far!

[@nouseronboard]

Come to think of it, kuzan used ICE TIME CAPSULE to saul, based on the name maybe he just froze/preserved to protect him from fire/flames from baster call. 🤔

[@gobllyn]

OP changing from a romance Era story to a post apocalyptic story was a change I could of never expected

[@Charlie-cb1bt]

The move kuzan used to “kill Saul” “ice TIME CAPSULE”

[@AnyMEmdq]

3:00 It is confirmed she is from Wano, from the Amatsuki family, one of the Daimyo families (that did not survive to the present being replaced by the Shimotsukis, and we don't know why or how, so another thing to the list, Wano is definitely not over). She might have been visiting this place when she started jumping, though

[@jarynlandrum7474]

Merphy you make break week so manageable with your uploads !! Shoutout to you !!

[@dartagnanjames8069]

I'm sorry Merphy but Tom is a top candidate for still being alive. I sorta forget, but I'm pretty sure he passed thru the gates of Justice and then we don't fully know what happened to him.

[@alliew31]

He didn’t appear in Impel Down when he would have probably been in lvl 6 so the implication is that he died/was executed but he is probably #1 for being able to come back without any further explanation

[@starandeath4735]

@@alliew31 oh shoot it's possible he escaped when Luffy is freeing everyone for the prison break and since he's a fishman he could just swim out of impel down

[@dartagnanjames8069]

@@alliew31 It's possible that he never actually went to Impel Down tho. Oda could decide that Tom was important enough to go somewhere else, so him going to Impel Down was just part of the lie. All I'm saying is that Tom has more "Grey area" to be alive than Saul did. Saul was frozen to death, Tom was spirited away.

[@infinitetech3287]

It would makes sense that kuma is connected to his seraphim because they are all based off kuma the original pacifista. It could also be that kuma is also connected to vegapunks cloud

[@Groovygear]

Don't count out Bellemere yet, she is still trapped in that dungeon waiting to be rescued!

[@synaesthesia888]

Merphy, you should watch Morj's video on fake out deaths, I'm sure someone of your literary caliber can appreciate what he goes over in that video

[@zellrang]

I think because it is the buster call, buster call only cares about destroying the whole place, so they didn't care about the books OR it is because of Aokiji, he frost the pond with intention that it will melt later on thay's probably why the books is still in a good condition

[@britneynicole8903]

I cannot wait to binge these on my day off!! 😜🥳😁🫢🥹

[@nairuLoki]

Merphy being animated while reviewing things is best Merphy.

[@basicoptimalmouse]

I've seen other people mention the books in the water like it's a revelation. We see in the OG Robin flashback that they threw the books into the water to protect them so they were absolutely going to be brought up again.

[@UrameshiKun]

6:00 no, the soldiers were told that the reason for killing the people on ohara was to prevent them from reviving the ancient weapons, that is the reason the government gives. They dont want people to know that reading the poneglyph they can found out about the void century, the general public thnks the stones just talk about weapons, so yes to the soldiers the books are not important

[@thomasryan6240]

Haven't gotten there yet. Waiting on Box Set 5, then I'll binge. I enjoy your reviews

[@DannyTanimoto]

6:30 my guess as to why they didn’t tell the soldiers why they were there, is because it would be hard to convince a normal, decent person that these people are to be massacred for wanting to know about the world. We know from experience now that there a soldiers all the way down who aren’t corrupt - and some that don’t know that there’s really corruption to begin with. The elders probably saw this as them playing their hand too early.

[@JustChadYT]

You mentioned how removing history can make society devolve and lose progress, and part of me thinks there’s going to be a really heartbreaking revelation that a lot of races once lived as equals, but then the WG erased that history, causing certain groups like fishmen to be discriminated against. I don’t know if it will be that way, maybe there’s something out there to show that there was already inequality, but I just have this gut feeling. Edit: I just read the part about 200 years ago was when Fishman discrimination became a big issue, so I might be off here.

[@belowaveragegamer95]

I for one never thought Saul was dead, when we first got introduced to aokiji he spared Robin and luffy. Nothing we’ve seen him do past that point made me think he would kill Saul, it actually wouldn’t have made sense if he did.

[@juaneortiz]

Everyone assumed the books were just gonna burn. Most soldiers were not in the island when they were throwing the books in the water and the heavy bombing was happening.

[@Magni87]

Thank you for the upload!

[@AnyMEmdq]

6:00 I'm from Argentina, we've had our fair share of dictatorships. My father had a secondhand bookstore in the 70s-80s, during the last one. From his experience and general knowledge about similar cases around the world, I can tell you this: they do know "books are bad," but beyond the leaders, they think they need to be destroyed at that's it. They would come to my father's bookstore and take away things from a very much uncomprehensive list of banned materials, cassettes with foreign names on it (while local rock singers were continuously taking jabs at them, without them even noticing), and books with red covers, no matter what they were about, the cover was red, it was communist. You could have it next to a green-covered book named "The advantages of being one" and containing a communist manifest, they wouldn't notice, because it was not red. So what I believed happened is, after the attack was over, foot soldiers were dispatched to check for survivors. They saw the books, but water was already destroying it, so less work for them

[@fandomunites6414]

15:39 It's possible that Kuma's memories and experiences are sort of uploaded to Vegapunk's egghead network so when the time comes, Kuma could just retrieve it

[@KoKytta]

Thank you Merphy, U R GR8!

[@sh4wn_]

Merphy post video I click

[@sohailsadaqat6684]

There is a difference between uploading experiences of ppl vs what ppl upload themselves. If ppl can upload lies than it’s like our internet, but if what Vegapunk is saying uploading what actually went with the ppl and their experience than that would be more objective truth. If you can upload whatever you want then the knowledge could easily manipulated like todays internet

[@stevenclaudetubo5428]

As always, amazing review by Merphy. I am surprised tho, that Merph didn't talk about that one Luffy panel where he called Vegapunk "dumb" because he cut his own head. Watching Merph since she started reading One Piece, she always talk about in her video whenever Luffy doing/saying Luffy things. Before I started watch this video, even when that chapter was released, I always think about what would be the reaction of Merph when she read that particular panel. Love that scene. It made laugh all the time whenever I remember it hahaha.

[@amukelaniebenezer406]

Love the content

[@tekdaystar345]

if you think back to Robin's flashback, the government lied to the soldiers and gave them a different reason as to why they were genociding the Oharans. Can't have them thinking for themselves after all. Can't have them questioning authority.

[@Skips902]

I love that Oda is touching on the themes of book burning. It's not in much media and needs to be touched on in more stories imo

[@omegazeroful]

I love how you can't help but smile whenever you mention Buggy, he's just best boy

[@tembakaugunung6139]

Finally!!! ITS MERPHING TIME!!!!!

[@insomnia9436]

A brazilian youtuber theorized that the punk record could be compacted in a form that could be moved from the island to the ship. The compacted form would be an egg (refference to egghead) and it would be the same egg that roger had on his ship during oden flashbacks. I cant stop thinking about this

[@fandomunites6414]

20:45 there was a short explanation about the lineage factor. It's possible that since there was Kuma's DNA in that Seraphim, he found out what CP0 is planning with Bonnie.

[@milesdeepe]

Egghead has been a wonderful breath of air for the world of One Piece. I have appreciated the delicious lore Oda has been feeding us, I appreciate these reviews as well!

[@DoubleSwag]

Zoro wanting something from Lilith was from the tcb translation, in the official he said something like “you’re gonna play nice’

[@yolooo5081]

To be honest, was in the military. And that kinda sound like a military thing. Need to know basis. And doing just enough to get by really does sound like a military thing.

[@IndiaTides]

Every youtuber questioning Vegapunk's idea of internet while using internet to earn living is just amazing.

[@britneynicole8903]

Whoooo!!! Watching these makes me much more excited to start the manga!

[@Dougeb7]

Hey Britney! Are you gonna start at the beginning, or jump in somewhere else?

[@britneynicole8903]

@@Dougeb7 I am planning on starting at the beginning!!

[@britneynicole8903]

@@10cody7 That is fine. I am just looking forward to starting it!

[@Dougeb7]

​@@britneynicole8903 Okay, I have Vol. 1 now in digital! I'll be reading it over the holiday break! :)

[@britneynicole8903]

@@Dougeb7 Awesome! 😁😁

[@rourounekenshin6275]

Merphy asking the real question here

[@Sunaki1000]

In Robins original Backstory we actually saw the Marines finding the Books. Also the Coverstory was about Ohara trying to resurect the Ancient Weapons. So maybe they thought its fine if its not a big Death Laser? It also shows how destructive Information Controll is, cause you end up whit incompetent Stuff like this. And the Island was bombed from all Sides, the Gorosei didnt expect the Books to survive. And cause they where in the Wather for Days, most of it might be lost anyway. 10:14 he may do it whit Kuina from what I care.

[@Dougeb7]

Your final comments made me laugh! When my wife has to go to the bathroom, she often jokes, "Can you go for me?" And I reply, "Nope! Sorry!" Just a running bit we do. Thanks, enjoyed the vid!