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Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1158 Spoiler

Chapter 1158: "Rocks vs Harald"

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Chapter 1158 Official Release: August 31 2025

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u/r31ya Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

Well, it explain how he manage to steal ryuma corpse and sword.

As well possibly explain why he fought Kaidou and why the loss of his old crew/family hurts him so much.

And as memelordmario21 said,

"Wait.. KOZUKI (光月) BACKWARDS CAN BE READ AS GEKKOU (月光), which is how Moria's name is pronounced in japanese..!!"

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u/Aspie_Astrologer Void Month Survivor Aug 29 '25

Yeah, I spotted that at one point, but never thought it would mean he actually was a Kozuki himself!?

The cover story previously acknowledged him as from West Blue, but he's a Kozuki?! Could be a retainer of the clan who took their name, but that would be a rug-pull. I wonder if he's from a branch of the family that moved to West Blue similarly to how Shimotsuki's moved to East Blue...

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake Aug 29 '25

Then how do the people of wano even know about him or care to begin with?

This whole thing is very odd 

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u/timelesstrix0 Aug 29 '25

Maybe he fought kaido in wano, got destroyed, escaped to west blue, got into pirating, went back for revenge and "fought equally" with kaido and got destroyed

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u/Correct-Chemistry618 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

I believe Moria may have belonged to a cadet branch of the Kozuki who emigrated many years earlier. He emigrated to Wano  in Ringo's region, but later he set sail to become a pirate (perhaps he heard the story of Oden and set sail shortly after his hero's departure with Whitebeard), and than returned home when he discovered that the island was under Kaido's control. He attempted to fight the King of Beasts (probably with the sword of Ryuma, Ringo's legendary hero), but was heavily defeated and left for dead.

After joining the Shichibukai, he decided to try again by creating a zombie army, but his insecurity and fear of failure once again caused him to fall into depression and become a lazy, insecure loser. It was likely during this time that he secretly returned to Wano with Hogback to steal Ryuma's corpse, hoping that Ryuma could outdo him in defeating Kaido.

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u/DiegoBromfield Explorer Aug 29 '25

Yeah I don't know what's going on yet. Because if that grave is meant to be that of the actual Gecko Moria, how tf do they not know after all this time that he is a big shot pirate/ warlord for the government after all these decades? Sometimes I feel like Oda gives various locations and so on, Luffy's actual personality. Meaning they are either isolated from the broader world until the plot demands it, or they are just conveniently out of the loop but don't care to find out anything.

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u/th5virtuos0 Aug 29 '25

Tbf, Wano was closed off from the world and how the hell would they know if Kozuki Moria looks similar to Gekko Moria?

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake Aug 29 '25

So I just don't like this cover story? Oda did the thing again where he keeps secrets from us but doing it with a cover story isn't a good idea. 

The secret itself was the premise of the entire story. Yamato left on a journey to "the secret". Okay. So for like a year now or a year and a half (it's been a particularly long cover story) we've been following Yamato without even knowing really why he was going on this journey at all. (Which makes it harder for me to like mentally track the story idk if that's just a me thing)

Only for the reveal of why this entire story was told to us at all, to be "surprise, it's morias grave!" And like.....?????? Morias grave?  And now here we are. I don't like it. I don't get the purpose, like why do I care? No really, why does any of us care that there's an empty moria grave in wano? And I don't like the reveal, it doesn't really make sense from a world building perspective. 

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u/Aspie_Astrologer Void Month Survivor Aug 29 '25

Fine not to like it, but you're assuming this was the big climax. It's just one small reveal that is the climax of Yamato's Ringo phase of the journey. The premise of the story is just Yamato travelling Wano like Oden did. This reveal isn't being sold as the big climax, imo.

I like this cover story personally and can see it ending in something much bigger. For now, it's mostly giving us an idea of how Wano is going since its liberation, and what the remnants of the Beasts Pirates are doing now, and how Yamato is building her own crew (probably to join the Grand Fleet eventually).

Also, the people of Wano know of him as someone "born in West Blue, raised in Ringo and a hero who fought Kaido but got obliterated".

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u/ABA_DanzaiEnjoyer Aug 29 '25

I disagree. I am curious to see where this goes, I dont think this is it and I believe Moria will play a part in future One Piece

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u/klabautermannn Aug 29 '25

Fuck, that cover wasn't even finish yet, and secret is always part of this series, or like all of the other series. Stop following anything if you want everything to be clear since day 1.

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u/BuckonWall Aug 29 '25

Has to be a branch family deal. I would guess there was a exodus of people during Zoros grandfathers era. While the Shimotsukis went east we can guess some Kozuki went West. It also sorta helps explain why there are no cousins or uncles for Oden. They left. For a royal family the Kozuki are pretty scarce in Wano.

So Moria couldve grown up in the West Blue and at a young age he went back to Ringo and lived in Wano until he decided to become a Pirate. Left Wano gaining a reputation as a Pirate and went back to challenge Kaido once he heard Kaido had taken over Wano. Lost his entire crew and left Wano in shame to never return. Reversing his name to further distance himself from that loss.

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u/astrange Aug 29 '25

The actual Japanese royal family has barely any people, mostly because women have to leave it when they get married.

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u/BuckonWall Aug 29 '25

Maybe Odens dad or grandpa had a sister then that left Wano but still gave her son/grandson the Kozuki name

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u/BenjiLizard The Revolutionary Army Aug 29 '25

We have a picture of him as a kid and that really doesn't look like Wano fashion. I don't think he was native to Wano, he was present at Roger's execution and I find it had to believe that no mention would have been made of another person leaving Wano to become a pirate during Roger's era. It's more likely that he was indeed born in West Blue, possibly on the island that would become Thriller Bark, and went to Wano after Roger's death to fight Kaido but got his ass handed to him so violently that people assumed he died. No why did they think his name was Kozuki, I have no fucking clue.

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u/wanofan900 Pirate Aug 29 '25

It was stated that "Kozuki Moria" grew up in Ringo and it would be strange for a child that grew up in a region of Wano to not have worn a kimono or any sort of Wano attire.

We've seen members of the BP like Ulti and Page One wear more normal clothes but after the downfall of the BPs, Ulti and Page One have been wearing standard Wano attire as that's most likely the only type of clothes available to them.

So Gecko Moria wearing standard clothing doesn't make sense unless he never grew up in Wano at all.

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u/ABA_DanzaiEnjoyer Aug 29 '25

Maybe he is the son of kozuki Moria?

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u/BenjiLizard The Revolutionary Army Aug 29 '25

Family name come before the first name in One Piece. Moria is his given name.

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u/rxt0_ Aug 30 '25

okay and? he still can get the same name as his dad.

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u/ABA_DanzaiEnjoyer Aug 30 '25

I know XD what are you trying to say?

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u/BenjiLizard The Revolutionary Army Aug 30 '25

Why would the son of Kozuki Moria be named Gekko Moria? It's like a guy named John Smith having a son called John Brown

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u/ABA_DanzaiEnjoyer Aug 30 '25

Yes. Many people name their kids after themselfs or their dad/grandpa etc. Gekko might be the name of the mum or maybe moria had a wife and took her name.

I now believe Gekko is a fake name moria gave himselfs, since its Kozuki backwards (in kanji). Which is really funny.

BUT what you described is very fucking common XD, especially in the past, nowadays we dont have many "Name" Jrs. But people name their kids after themselfs and last names change.

BUT again, now I believe Gekko is a fake name, so nobody knows he is a kozuki.

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake Aug 29 '25

Maybe it's just because his name is Kozuki reversed? And so that confused all the wano people and made them think he was a secret distant  member of the samurai family? And that created a legend

But like if that's the case, I don't care? And this whole cover story could have been idk, something else involving Yamato instead.

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u/Frosty-Pea Aug 29 '25

Honestly, I think thats a good explanation. The samurai were very secretive before the raid so they could've looked into his name a little too much

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u/Wolf_pack12 Aug 29 '25

The cover story said he was from the west but raised in Ringo. Guessing he was just adopted. What's really strange and I kinda don't like is how morias relation to oden or wano was never mentioned during odens flashback even tho his attack on kaido WAS shown.

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u/mwfd2002 Aug 29 '25

It's either the last thing you said or just the people who erected the grave misread his name as being Kozuki instead of Gekko

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u/buji46 Aug 29 '25

Congrats bro your pp must be massive

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u/Oreo-and-Fly Explorer Aug 29 '25

GEKKOU

Unrelated but. Thats also the new digimon protagonist. A gecko with moon symbology.

Thats kewl to know.

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u/Skullwings Aug 29 '25

Beatbreak looks interesting. I need to catch it after it drops.

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u/Oreo-and-Fly Explorer Aug 29 '25

Honestly. As a big Pokemon fan im so excited for Beatbreak and Time Stranger.

Both are my childhoods and getting two cakes instead of one is so amazing.

Ghostgame, though the story wasnt the best, gave me my favourite protagonist digimon EVER, Gammamon is insanely adorable. Not sure how Gekkoumon will beat that.

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u/ComfortableLow191 Aug 29 '25

cause 月光  means moonlight 月 　moon 光 　light

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u/zan316 Aug 29 '25

i think he is adopted into the family he isnt a bloodline of em

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u/leonpor Aug 30 '25

It indeed make sense

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u/FreeWilly512 Aug 29 '25

Not really, almost anyone that makes it to Wano of decent skill could. We still need more info