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Warning ! incorporate spoilers forOne Piecechapter 1048 !
Over the course of its improbably long run , One Piecehas shown many tyrannous and near dystopian societies , but in a flashback in its latest chapter , the serial is proving thatWanomay be the worst the serial has produce thus far .
Eiichiro Oda , the author of the series has previously crafted islands that seem fun on the surface , but hide twisted truths beneath the surface . But he has taken a different tack in Wano , with the citizen of the island intelligibly suffering from the start . Wano is An island inOne Pieceheavily revolutionize by Japanese cultureand history , but in this story , those factor are used to further the woe of Wano ’s the great unwashed , with the opinion shogun a vicious tyrant , and their isolation preventing any aid from the outside world . When Luffy and his bunch arrive at the island , they find a body politic ecologically destroyed by weapons factories and a people starving and poisoned . This is already tragic to see , but in the a la mode chapter ofOne Piece , the annihilative account of Wano that lead to the present state of the country is shown in explicit grievous detail .
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AsLuffy and Kaido ’s final fightapproaches what seems to be its final sexual climax in chapter 1048,One Piecereminds its readers of the bet of the fight by showing the harm that Kaido and Orochi have bring down upon the Din Land and its people . While some novel information is revealed , such as the specific Daimyos who rebel against Kaido when he bear power , much of the flashback just fleshes out item that were already break , like how Kaido and Orochi ’s weapon mill envenom the citizens . However , these details are actually the most compelling part of the flashback due to how heartrending it is to see the desolation of the Edwin Herbert Land and its people explicitly .
Thecartoonish nature ofOne Piece ’s artmakes its more serious moments hit even heavily , and this flashback is a prime model of this . The jury that function as the aroused coming of the chapter is one of the blue panels inOne Piece , with manufacturing plant smoking partially blocking the sun , plant wilt on a bleak landscape , and someone swag over in despair . Even worse , a skull lie in the foreground and a noose hangs ominously in the setting . For a manga that often avoids showing death likeOne Piece , this is an fantastically shameful moment that elevates this flashback to one of the most horrifying in the serial .
One Piece ’s flashbacks are generally unbelievably tragic , but thisWano flashback goes even further than most . own this flashback for context gain Orochi ’s defeat in this chapter even more substantial . Given the fight betweenKaidoandLuffyseems to be nearing its end as well , the absolute despair shown in this flashback will likely make Kaido ’s vote down one ofOne Piece ’s most cathartic moment .
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One PieceChapter 1048is available to be read onViz Media .
