Warning: One Piece Wano Arc Spoilers
The month of August is about to start and, as expected, there is an anime that will take all the spotlights: One Piece. The adaptation of Toei Animation is close to reaching one of the most important moments in the work of Eiichiro Oda and everything is ready for us to freak out with the luffy’s new formwhich has already been seen in last week’s chapter.
However, the anime itself has already left us clues about this new transformation of the straw hat pirate. almost 20 years ago. To do this, we have to go back to skypieaan arc that, although at the time it did not have much importance within the lore of the series, its impact in the last chapters of the series has been vital to understand the plot of One Piece.
During the celebration of the inhabitants of the Island of Heaven for the defeat of Enel at the hands of Luffy, we can see how one of the clan leaders listens after waking up from his wounds some drums that seem to anticipate a war, next to a blinding light. Finally, it was not a war that was going on, but a celebration around a bonfire with Luffy dancing and having fun.
Now, almost a thousand chapters later, we see how those same drums reappear, but instead of a party, it is a war, since according to legend, the drums would be heard again with the arrival of Nikathe Sun God in the Void Century, who was shown with a shadow that closely resembles Luffy’s during the celebration on Sky Island.
Oda again left us clues about what was going to happen in one piece much sooner than we thought, with details that seemed unimportant but turned out to be vital in answering many questions within the lore of the series. But this does not stop here, since during the next chapters, the fans of the anime of one piece they will go crazy with the theories that have been confirmed about the figure of Luffy within the series. The fight has only just begun.
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