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work for what the arc is set to be to begin with all signs point to Elbaf being a heavily Straw Hat Centric Arc with some of the most significant planned character writing for the crew in the entire story and along with this we actually know for a fact what the primary conflict of elath has to be about as well as the implied set of antagonists that would come with this and finally the primary theme of elath is something that has been a long time coming one that is one of the most important to the ideas of one piece in
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general that is finally set to get a deep EXP exporation So today we’re going to be delving into the setup character arcs of Elbaf the conflict and villains and finally a thematic preview of the storyline all of which points to Elbaf being on track to go down as one of the best arcs in one piece history but first if you want to use a highquality VPN for only $3 a month surf shark is offering that deal to my viewers right now surf shark VPN is the sponsor for this video and in case you don’t know what VPN are
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before elb Egghead Island made it very clear that Oda has saved pretty much all of his best ideas in terms of character arcs for the final Saga in Egghead Island Oda hit on pretty much every single significant side character in the entire story and revealed a meaningful character storyline for them that had been in the works all along such that Egghead ended up taking the crown for the best writing for Side characters ever in a one piece Arc without question with many readers considering Kuma’s Arc in particular to have been the single
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best piece of character writing in all of One Piece period and the biggest thing that stood out about all of the Great Character storytelling that we got in Egghead was that it was all clearly pre-planned with most of the seeds of these character ORS having been planted hundreds of chapters back going all the way to the pre-time skip all of this strongly indicates that Oda has been saving his best character story lines for the final Saga now the one thing that stood out in Egghead was that the only exception to this rule was the
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straw hats themselves as they were the only characters in that Arc that surprisingly got zero meaningful writing now that makes sense when you consider that it’s impossible to pack everything into a single Arc and so whereas Egghead was where Oda began pulling out all the stops with his side characters whatever Oda has saved for the straw hats will have to unfold in the following arcs and so we can see right off the bat that Elbaf is shaping up to be a straw headcentric Arc as finally we are getting a story
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line that does not begin with us being inundated with a ton of new Side characters but rather we are getting a much needed return to actually focusing on the crew itself the simple fact that the first several chapters have been following the straw hats and the straw hats only is a huge indicator that this will be a crew Focus storyline and if we add in the fact that odai has clearly been saving his best character writing ideas for the final Saga then Elbaf should be the first Arc in all of post Timescape where we finally start getting
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some major character writing for the entire Straw Hat crew again much like we were accustomed to in pre-time skip arcs another simple indicator that this will be the case is the fact that Oda has made it very clear consistently and repeatedly throughout the last thousand chapters of the story that Elbaf is going to be important for Usopp in particular so at the very least there is one very significant piece of character storytelling that has been saved for this Arc without question and as I explained in this video the character
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story line that OD has been saving for Usopp in Elbaf has the potential to be the single greatest character Arc in all of One Piece considering by the simple definition of usopp’s dream Usopp wants to feel like a brave Warrior of the Sea by the time Elbaf is over but to do so it would necessitate Usopp having some sort of character storyline that is even more profound and meaningful than literally everything else that he has experienced in every Ark so far as somehow all of these experience even all together were
not enough to make Usopp believe that he has become a brave Warrior yet and and so while we can expect a significantly more Straw Hat Centric Arc than Egghead or wano or Dres Rosa and in particular while we are guaranteed the single deepest piece of character writing Usopp has ever gotten that of course does not mean that there won’t be significant Side characters in The Arc it’s near impossible to not have any side characters any one piece Arc but one big difference is that Elbaf is already starting off seemingly very lean in
terms of its side characters at least compared to something like wano and while we can assume that some Giants will be significant in the story that roster is very unlikely to balloon to the absurd size of something like wano or dress Rosa citizens as those arcs specifically went hard on building a giant cast of Side characters among the nation’s citizens specifically because those arcs were about a Great Rebellion by the nation’s citizens against the ruling power but elb has no such plot or conflict it seems that the meat of the
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conflict will come to Elbaf rather than requiring a lot of setup within it and in that regard any characters that seem set up to join the story of Elbaf are the ones that we actually care a lot about and want to actually get significant story lines for for instance the red-haired Pirates Shanks is one of the most beloved but mysterious characters in one piece and is clearly a major personal favorite of odas so if Elbaf is the storyline that Oda has been saving for this character then this Arc is likely to give us even more top tier
character storytelling now on top of this elb’s plot has tremendous potential to be one of one piece’s most exciting ever because to begin with unlike a Dr Rosa or a whole cake or a wano elb really is a blank slate we don’t know exactly what is set to happen we don’t know the main villain we don’t know what the primary conflict will be about all we know is that Oda has been planning it since the start of One Piece meaning it will be both one of the best planned story lines in the entire series and a
total surprise now despite the mystery surrounding it there are several clues that we have at the moment that allow us to piece together a potential framework for the plot that make it extremely interesting on paper for instance to begin with it is almost guaranteed that a major facet of the story line will be attaining the fourth and final road poneglyph every single thread in the narrative is pointing to this being the pivotal piece of the elb arc to begin with the only remaining arcs and islands that we know the straw hats still have
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on the docket after Elbaf are lale itself and potentially marija remember it was established that load star is no longer relevant and there is no need to go there so it’s just these three left and on top of this The Narrative keeps repeating that the straw hats now having three out of the four Road poneglyphs are now at the finish line to get to laugh tail and there is literally only one more step to go one more final piece to the puzzle to complete so narratively Elbaf is the last step set up before laugh tail and we are being repeatedly told
that this fourth road poneglyph is the final required piece to progress to laugh tail on top of this in the lead up to elb the plot point that keeps coming up is this final fourth road poneglyph with the man marked by Flames being the most prominent repeated mystery heading into the ALF Arc and Oda setting up multiple other Yono to attain three out of the four Road poneglyphs setting up all the major players to be vying for the fourth and final Road poneglyph in elbaff as such it is near guaranteed that the fourth Road poneglyph will need
to be won by the end of the Arc to unlock the final Island laugh tail and this also suggests that the conflict may very well be around this fourth road poneglyph now while it is too early for us to know the villain of the Ark I have personally hypothesized that the man marked by Flames may be the primary villain of the Elbaf arc as the holder of the fourth Road poneglyph an idea I expand upon in this video but even if the man marked by Flames does not end up being a Villain at the very least the red-haired Pirates will clearly be a
major obstacle in the ark as they are currently also gunning after the one piece they have also seized three out of the four Road poneglyphs and they have just committed an unforgivable Act of war against the straw hat Pirates by shooting down their subordinate Fleet Oda could not have set up a conflict with the redhair Pirates anymore obviously I know some people argue that Shanks may have already left elff and I certainly believe that the redhair Pirates may be absent at the beginning of the Ark but it’s been plainly
established that Elbaf is a place that they frequent and that Elbaf was always planned to be the ark tied to Shanks considering Oda literally designed Shanks and his crew’s entire Motif to be tied to Elbaf not to mention the Usopp yasa connection and of course the necessary battle for the fourth poneglyph and so on on top of this the conflict for the fourth poneglyph even opens up the potential for the Blackbeard Pirates to join in the ark though they may instead be waiting for the dust to settle to try and swoop in
to seize it down the line after the ark but really that is the beauty of the El Arc almost any party could potentially make an appearance here because we know the conflict will revolve around the final key to getting to the one piece the fourth poneglyph and Oda has set up several parties to be in contention being one step away from Lil and only needing that last poneglyph to get there and literally the arc prior Egghead cemented this race to lail being about to begin so ultimately The elb Arc could be as simple as the straw hats versus
the red-haired Pirates which in itself would be exciting and extremely personal but the conflict could also be as Grand and epic as a large scale multiaction battle with groups such as the Blackbeard Pirates the holy Knights or even cross Guild thrown into the mix as all of them have been given incentive to try to seize the road poneglyphs and that is the primary prize of this Ark but finally if that’s what the arc’s plot is about then what would the ark’s actual themes be about what has Oda been
setting up for so long with elff what is the meaning behind this conflict well the likely primary theme is easy to identify if we look at the two characters who seem most clearly set up to be pivotal in the storyline and the purpose of this particular setting we are looking at Usopp Shanks and the culture of the elff Giants these three pieces strongly indicate that the primary theme of elb is set to revolve around what it means to be a brave Warrior and the direction this goes may not be what readers expect but before we
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hero of Dr Rosa forever immortalized in a bronze statue so the problem isn’t that Usopp isn’t a brave Warrior of the Sea by normal standards the problem is that Usopp has yet to become a Brave Warrior of the Sea by his own standards and this standard that Usopp once painted out for himself was to be as Brave as the Giants of elb what Usopp observed in little garden was what he perceived to be an almost Mythic level of bravery to be fighting a duel to the death without fear for hundreds of years and never backing down to be able to
live like that with that level of manly Pride that is what Usopp perceived to be the true meaning of Bravery now no matter what this is an idea that needs to be explored in Elba as this is very specifically the ark that Usopp set as his personal goal of living up to this Mythic image of a brave Warrior of the sea now interestingly I do wonder if this Arc May explore the idea of whether or not Usopp has been looking at this idea of what it means to be a brave Warrior of the sea in the wrong way because one thing that stands out is
that while Shanks was always thematically planned to be tied to the elb arc from the very conception and design of his crew Shanks himself stands for a very different type of Bravery than the elb Warriors The elb Warriors version of Bravery is very much based on bold machismo in their culture any small slight disagreement or challenge may lead to a duel that lasts hundreds of years however Shanks represents a far more mature and level-headed form of bravery bravery with purpose Shanks never Rises to fight over mere slights
or insults in fact the only times in the entire story that Shanks has ever raised a sword to fight has been to defend his friends or himself that is the entire point of his character to represent that being a man does not have to mean trying to be macho and tough all the time if you look at how Shanks operates and compare it to how the elff Giants operate it’s almost a complete 180 even though they both represent strength interestingly we got a glimpse of this through Luffy and zoro’s philosophies Luffy and Zoro in macktown were quick to
jump to the challenge of fighting the champion when they heard that there was someone strong in town claiming to be a champion this attitude would be much like the attitude of the elff Giants however when it really came down to it in a serious setting both Luffy and Zoro recognized that there was no need to fight over Petty challenges and disrespect and that is the scene that stands out far more in the G Arc and so while we know the elb arc will revolve around the theme of being a brave Warrior it may not be as simple as Usopp
becoming his vision of a brave Warrior but rather it may be a thematic delve into what it actually means to be a brave Warrior and whether or not Usopp has been looking at it wrong all along more evidence to this being a central idea of the Ark is the fact that usopp’s first Idol yaso will be in this Ark and while yaso imprinted on Usopp the image of what a brave Warrior of the sea should look like an image that grew up idolizing at the same time in the pursuit of being a brave Warrior of the sea yasa was also a terrible person who
abandoned his wife and child to die and never return the reality is there are flaws to the figure that Usopp idolizes and their ideology and one final point to remember is that very often we come across certain Islands cultures where they seem to uphold a very honorable idea on the surface only for the ark to pick that apart as it goes for instance in the wo Ark we were shown the great honor of the Samurai who embraced death but as the ark continued it began to critique the idea of dying and honorable death simply for the sake of dying and
honorable death which is an important distinction as while our heroes are all prepared to give their lives for the battle none of them do so for the sake of an honorable death they are not fighting with the purpose of crafting their legacy through death this is an idea that will be discussed more in the wano analysis so stay tuned for that but the point is all along we’ve been waiting on elff as the island of Brave Warriors when in reality in this Arc we may be getting a total deconstruction of what it actually means to be a bra Brave
Warrior so all in all with elff we can expect some of the best character writing in the story and specifically for the straw hat crew as a straw hat Centric Arc Usopp of course will be a focal point but the other side characters who may be potentially given shine such as Shanks are also ones we’ve been waiting on story lines for for some time the plot and conflict itself has to revolve around the fourth Road poneglyph in order to progress The Narrative to the final stage and this is a near- given considering every piece of buildup
towards the elb arc has centered around attaining the fourth and Final poneglyph to begin the race to one piece this setup means that not only would the red-haired Pirates make for a fitting challenge but other Yono Crews potentially as well with even some government forces such as the holy Knights potentially playing spoiler but most importantly what will this whole Arc actually be about it is set to be about what it truly means to be a great warrior an idea that needs to be examined in a story like one piece that
features so many Mighty Warriors with such contrasting philosophies and this is the perfectly fitting central theme for an arc like elbaff as only the most most deserving group will be the ones to walk away with the final road poneglyph that everyone is so desperately fighting for so let me know what you believe the story fbath will be in the comments below and if you enjoyed this video then definitely like And subscribe and you can get my extended thoughts on this and all future topics on my weekly podcast
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