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Joyboy set Luffy up for victory 800 years ago!

We're nearly at the end of Egghead, and surely there will be repercussions - Imu certainly isn't happy.

Cool to hear the original OVA Luffy as Joyboy, wonder if it'll be 4Kids Luffy in the dub.

One piece got me crying over some friendship with just 3-5 minutes of screen time. Emmel(?) and Joyboy was a very cute scene.

Its funny buggy's crew probably now has confirmation (in their mind) buggy is actually the chosen one now.

The world really seems reinvigorated. This is another Roger's execution moment. The one piece is confirmed to the world and that it will actually heavily change the world.

I did feel quite a bit of joy seeing Imu crash out. Who was the attendant? Im surprised there even is a lady that has the clearance to see Imu

A goated character getting to mentally fuck with their ops from beyond the grave is always an amazing scene lol.

Back to back peak episodes 😭😭❤️‍🔥💯

Look how a fraction of Joyboy's Haoshoku Haki can be so immense to knock all those elders down and even shook Imu 🔥🔥🔥

Brilliant animation for the Haoshoku Haki. Absolutely no words to describe. 

Emeth on just hearing the 'D' knew what he had to do and went with a blaze of glory 🥹🔥🔥

Who the fuck was Joyboy to have nuclear warhead Haki

First time we witness a haki so strong that it even knocked out all the vice admirals

Imu got that Muzan ptsd

The "One Piece" and "Joyboy haki" moment done so well literally gave me chills.

Absolutely terrifying portrayal of Gear 5. legit looks like a villain who just witnessed the power of the strongest hero, and now our villain is stunned.

Vincent’s work always captivates me; he’s always experimenting and breaking boundaries. Vincent did both the beginning and the ending. What a genius madman.

Holy shit Imu’s scream made me fucking die laughing! 😂😂😂

Just about done with Water 7, everyday I’m closer and closer to catching up, what blows my mind is how much information I’d have to keep on remembering as I catch up. Also I don’t think I’ve ever went from hating to loving an anime character that quick like I have with Franky (Cutty Flam).

Wow, what a great way to showcase JoyBoy’s strength. I can’t wait to see the void century flashback because I really want to see JoyBoy in action.

I’m curious if Joyboy can see into future because I have a feeling he knew something like this was needed.

Overall, another banger episode.

THE ONE PIECE TRULY EXISTS!

Also all of Vegapunks trolling for the last 13 episodes to the dark lab shot with the flatline on the screen goes fucking crazy lol. The true true ending of the end of Vegapunk.

BUT

What if?...he just trolled, rage baited, and lied about the One Piece & everything he said lmfao

Emet o7

It brought me to tears a fuck ton, the fact that we've seen and heard a bit of Joyboy after 14 years of his name being mentioned back in FMI. We're truly close to the end of the series.

Koby is a stupid ash bit*h, Luffy sets him up on the way to pursue his dream. He listens to the smartest man in the world give warning about the world destruction and he concludes that he must stop Luffy ?

Everyone is celebrating the greatness they just saw in Bonney and Luffy via kicking Saturn’s ass and Vegapunk’s broadcast is still going. He’s letting everybody know that the truth of the world is ready for anybody to claim, however pirates are closer than anybody else in finding it, and the One Piece is real!

This freaks out the entire world and now everybody wants to search for it and for whatever reason, Koby has the AUDACITY to believe that he can stop Luffy from achieving his goal. Warcury strikes Emet, officially ending Vegapunk’s broadcast. Also a note; Shanks’ ship is called Red Force for those who didn’t know (like myself for instance). How will this shake up the world as we know it? Only time will tell.

To end things off, Emet releases a trump card that was left behind centuries ago by Joyboy himself, a rope knot that has his most powerful Haki imbued in it. Emet releases this and it’s so immense that everybody on the island who has a weak will is knocked out (who are enemies), and it undoes the transformations of the Five Elders and sends everybody back but St. Saturn (likely because he was originally here in the first place, while the others were summoned by Saturn). We see a flashback of the day in which Joyboy left behind this knot, and it shows that even when he’s gone, he’s still here to help Emet. Emet’s legacy will never be forgotten, even if he was born 800 years ago, and before his demise, he got to hear Luffy tell him that he’s the man who will become King of the Pirates, and that never gets old, because of the greatness and badassery in those words.

I CAN’T WAIT FOR MORE ONE PIECE; SO AMAZING!

I like how this episode reminded me of "L O S T" on ABC the tv series where it would also use mysterious reasons like 'fate' to explain why ppl ended up together on the L O S T Island after a plane crash. Vegapunk just happened to have the feed short out and be indecipherable to the TV audience watching around the globe EXACTLY at the points where he talked about JoyBoy and what the"Will of 'D'" meant, as well as apparently what the One Piece actually is so like the 3 major mysteries of the 1000-plus-episode series since EP1 aired, really.

Just makes it more maddening to want to find out WHO ARE THE OTHERS?! Uhhhh I mean, Who was JoyBoy and how is Luffy in Nika-mode enough to fool a robot that's been asleep since the Void Century?! (Also, Imu reminds me of the Smoke Monster from L O S T haha)

Curious to know why Joyboys Haki didn’t knock out Nami and Ussop… assuming it was being indiscriminate when it was being released since Emeth doesn’t have control over it.

Robo's last resort DDoSed the Elders out of the server.

Knots were first mentioned like 700 episodes ago and now the concept is relevant again!

if his fruit is actually a mythical zoan, that means an inanimate object could eat it.

Fire now on to elbaf

Emet from the top ropes with the pocket haki bomb