One Piece Already Has A Second Protagonist, And It is Not Zoro

One Piece is at present within the Last Saga, which Oda himself has hyped as much as be essentially the most thrilling a part of the story, total. Ever since One Piece started, Oda has been itching to attract the Last Saga of the story, and all the opposite thrilling battles that include it. Lastly, after a decades-long wait, Oda has the chance for instance and clarify all that he has stored as a secret away from the followers, in addition to concentrate on a number of the most vital characters within the story that he had been saving for the longest time.

When One Piece was in its very early phases, Oda clearly said to the followers that when a sure red-haired man begins showing steadily within the manga, then followers can assume that One Piece is within the Last Saga. In different phrases, Shanks was always going to be deeply involved in the Final Saga of the sequence. Oda himself believes Shanks to be a particularly vital character, even going so far as to label him the Baby of Future. But when all that is not sufficient, Goro Taniguchi, with whom Oda shared the ending of One Piece, brazenly talked about that Shanks is as vital to One Piece as Luffy himself, which makes him, in a approach, the second protagonist of the sequence, particularly within the Last Saga of One Piece.

Shanks Is As Essential To One Piece As The Protagonist Luffy

Goro Taniguchi Confirms His Significance To The Plot

• Oda has a particular position for Pink Haired Shanks
• Shanks is the Baby of Future

Shanks being as important to One Piece as Luffy might sound absurd at first, nevertheless it is sensible the extra one thinks about it. Shanks is the person who was liable for setting out Luffy on the trail to changing into the Pirate King. He was Luffy’s idol, and nonetheless is. With out Shanks, Luffy’s journey would not exist. However there’s extra to Shanks than simply being the set off for the story.

Shanks is the man who stole the Gomu Gomu no Mi from the World Authorities and the one that was on the lookout for the following Nika. Shanks can be the identical one that was biding his time within the Nice Pirate Period till Nika confirmed up. Clearly, Shanks is deeply tied to the liberation of the One Piece world and breaking it free from the clutches of Imu and the World Authorities.

However, there’s extra to it than simply that. The present God Valley Incident flashback clearly highlights what Shanks actually means to One Piece. Shanks was born on the identical Island that was the homeland of the Davy Clan, the group of individuals fated to oppose the World Authorities. Shanks was additionally born because the son of Garling Figarland, a Celestial Dragon, but might’ve additionally had Davy blood. Moreover, Shanks, similar to Blackbeard, was saved by a coincidence on the island of future. Shanks ended up changing into the Baby of Future, and no matter occurs to the One Piece world will probably be drastically affected by the trail that Shanks takes sooner or later.

Every One Piece Arc Has Its Personal Deuteragonist

Oda Switches Deuteragonist Primarily based on Arcs

Within the grand scheme of issues, Shanks is a major protagonist of the Final Saga of One Piece, even larger than most Straw Hat Pirates, except for Luffy. This should not be confused with being the Deuteragonist of an arc. That’s one thing that Oda modifications with each arc. One Piece would not have a set deuteragonist, and every arc has its personal. However, for the Last Saga of One Piece, if there’s one character who comes near Luffy in significance, it’s only Shanks, and it is one character that followers ought to be careful for.

One Piece Chapter 1163 will probably be out this week. As standard, One Piece goes to drop on Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops at 12AM JST on Monday. Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of worldwide readers will see the chapter out there on October 26. The official launch date of One Piece Chapter 1163 is October 26, 2025. Followers can learn the chapter at no cost on Manga Plus.

Launch Date

October 20, 1999

Community

Fuji TV

Administrators

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)