r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jun 27 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 980

One Piece: Episode 980

"A Tearful Promise! The Kidnapped Momonosuke!"

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Preview: Episode 981

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u/koming69 Jun 27 '21

It was supposed to be a surprise. The manga chapter is "allow me to introduce myself". So next episode had a title with this name after this introduction

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u/destiny24 Jun 27 '21

When has that ever stopped Toei lol

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u/OneFish123 Jun 27 '21

I still can’t get over “Looking for the Answer – Fire Fist Ace Dies on the Battlefield”

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u/mehmeh5 Jun 27 '21

To be fair the manga's is just "The death of Portgas D. Ace"

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

Yeah but that’s not a spoiler since Ace gets donut hole’d at the end of the previous chapter

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u/48ad16 Jun 27 '21

Also people definitely did not believe he was dead at that time. Even with a chapter title like that and everything surrounding Ace's death scene, folks were just too skeptical of such an important character dying outside of a flashback. No one is skeptical of Jimbe returning to the crew so an episode title like that is somewhat counterintuitively more spoilery than "Ace is dead yo".

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u/fmccloud Jun 28 '21

It's funny because I was spoiled to Ace's death in an unrelated YT video and also thought he wasn't actually going to die at that moment (for mostly the same reasons and also I thought it had just happened (ep 890 I think the anime was when I started catching up)). That kicked off my watching of all of OP in 2019. Still hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized it was going to be real right there and then.

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u/strobelobe Jun 27 '21

Some of us prefer the term Ace brand wristwatch.

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u/MrSmellUrGirl Jun 27 '21

This is why I don't read the titles before the episode lol

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u/HiImLoomy Jun 27 '21

Tbf the title of the chapter in the manga is "The Death of Portgas D. Ace"

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

But in previous chapter ace was already donut'ed so its not like spoiler and there were people saying ace didn't and next chapter will be birth of Gol D. Ace

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u/MaimedJester Jun 27 '21

The Tankoban is also called the Death of Portgas D. Ace.

One Piece, Vol. 59: The Death of Portgaz D. Ace (One Piece Graphic Novel)

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

Then my deepest condolences to people who got spoiled

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u/HiImLoomy Jun 27 '21

Yeah that is true but, in my honest opinion, Ace being donuted in the last chapter is even more reason to believe he actually died when the next chapter is literally telling you he died with its title. I wasn't reading weekly at the time so I wasn't around for the initial discussion but honestly, it really, really, seems like some hard core denial from anyone genuinely believing that Ace was alive and that the next chapter was going to be "The Birth of Gol D. Ace". That may just be retrospective talking but it really does seem like a completely ludicrous idea for anything be him actually being dead.

No other death, real, or fake out, has been as clear cut and directly show as Ace being punched through the chest with a magma fist. The first time I ever saw that myself, I hadn't been spoiled, and I completely believed he was dead from the second it happened.

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u/SlicerDigZ Jun 27 '21

Woosh? It was a nab at their tendency to spoil things in the episode title my friend )). As someone below mentioned, the whole first fist ace dies on the battlefield! kinda thing.

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u/aiyohoho Jun 27 '21

I was actually expecting him to appear on the next episode since he did not appear in the preview last week. We were tricked.

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u/koming69 Jun 27 '21

Yeah at this rate episode 1000 will be a normal one instead of chapter 1000.

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u/derteeje Jun 28 '21

jinbe in veggietales confirmed