PARTIAL Gear 4? The True Elbaf Arc Begins! One Piece Chapter 1129 Full Spoilers!!

In the previous One Piece chapter, we realize that the first part of Elbaf just takes place in someone’s massive fish tank, a world full of mirrors and Legos with humans hypnotized or intoxicated to be pets. 

Now we will finally met the sadistic twisted Giant responsible for this.

Chapter 1129 is titled, “Liv Doll”

This chapter has 17 pages.

After one absence, we return to Volume 16 of the Oni Child Yamato’s Golden Harvest Surrogate Pilgrimage“, which features Yamato meeting with O-Tama and Shinobu (who has grown fat again) in Amigasa Village in Kuri, which is the area the Straw Hats first liberated upon arriving on Wano.

The chapter begins where we left off, with the people of the fake town panicking over the cracks on the mirror and the entire room being on fire.

The “Sun God” enters the diorama and sees the skeleton of the “Ear God” that Luffy and gang ate. Apparently, this “Ear God” is named “Gluttobunny”, a meat-eating rabbit.

It might be like those horror movie rabbits that eat people’s faces.

The “Sun God” is furious about the destruction of his “temple” and the harm done to his “servants” (the giant pets).

Yep, he was almost about to call this place a toy house to keep his gigantic pet animals.
That would have snapped anyone out of the illusion that this is a loving benevolent god.

Imagine if he called the humans his dolls.

Luffy tells Iskat, the giant cat they originally fought, not to ruin the buildings because he does not want to ruin the hard work of the “Sun God”.

On the one hand, one could respect Luffy’s empathy and care for people’s dreams and hard work.

On the other hand, this Giant kidnapped innocent humans and made them into deluded slaves, which is a combination of what Orochi did on Wano via Smiles and what the Celestial Dragons do to the entire world.

Nami memorizes the map and throws it away, saying that the clouds are just cotton from the ceiling, meaning they are in a static position that they can trace and that they are now just halfway around this “nation” in a cage.

We get a full view of the “Sun God Room”, with the diorama taking up 2/3rds of the room and the “Sun God’s Temple” where the giant wood table is, takes up 1/3rd of the room. 

Iskat’s “Bigstein Castle” is in the middle of the diorama while the forest, town and spring water are at the back.

As it turns out, the Great Tree is just an image stuck to the mirror at the back and only half of it is shown.

The “Sun God” shoots out an iron net from his staff to capture the Straw Hats but Zoro and Sanji easily destroy it.

Upon reaching the other side of the Lego nation, Usopp destroys the mirror with his “Green Star: Skull Bombgrass” but the wall behind the mirror remains intact. 

The “Sun God” remarks how fun it is to chase them around as he is now part of the story, where there is good versus evil, heroes, and an actual struggle within his once peaceful miniature world.

The “Sun God” expresses his desire to make everyone his “Liv Doll”, the chapter title and is an actual real-world term for a brand of girl dolls.

However, this could also mean that the “Sun God” nerd just wants to live out a demented anime fantasy.

An observation we failed to mention is that the “Sun God” talks like the samurai of Wano, using the pronoun “sessha” and adding the suffix “-taso”, a rather old term of endearment given by fans to anime or manga characters, to all the named Straw Hats.

This does confirm that he intentionally captured the Straw Hats and knows them individually, much to their surprise.

While this could be indicative of Elbaf’s ties to the Ancient Kingdom and Wano, it is also possible that the “Sun God” is, as stated in the last chapter discussion, a cosplayer, a fanboy of the “Sun God”, who talks in anime terms.

He sounds like that demented collector, Lenny Baxter, from “The Powerpuff Girls”, who wants to preserve people in his basement.

The “Sun God” calls this whole moment, where “powerless dolls are fighting against destiny” as “peak fiction” and although he sees the struggle as “pathetic”, he is nonetheless moved to tears.

“Peak Fiction”, huh? I wonder if Oda has been stalking the One Piece fanbase on Twitter and Reddit.

These statements also provide meta-commentary for the One Piece world, with Oda as an almighty god writer and it seems this “Sun God” is cosplaying in that role.

This is especially considering that the entire “Land of the Gods” fiasco is a meta-commentary on Oda’s entire story structure.

In every arc, the Straw Hats end up, one way or another, in a country ruled by an evil dictator, be it Enel, Doflamingo, Big Mom, Kaido or the Giant cosplayer “Sun God”.

The fight against them seems to be an impossible climb against what seems to be destiny for the oppressed but Luffy and the Straw Hats always rise with their determination and will to keep fighting.

Here is a surprise for everyone as Luffy activates Gear 4th but rather than assuming the full form, only his left arm turns into its Gear 4th form.

Nami asks Usopp if a “natural disaster” is no one’s fault and expresses how annoyed she is by this “Sun God”.

This reveals a moment of vulnerability for Usopp as he initially believed that all the giants were a good honorable warrior race, a “heroic” type of being that the humans in his life, maybe even his deadbeat father Yasopp, have not been for him.

This “Sun God”, who bears the name of the religion of the Giant race, is giving the impression that there are evil Giants and it breaks Usopp’s faith.

Meanwhile, Sanji sympathizes with Nami in an exaggerated way but also expressing how the “Sun God” violated Nami’s privacy by changing her clothes without her consent.

In his anger, Sanji leaps up and tries to attack the Giant but Nami thinks Sanji might be going too far, still thinking they are dealing with an actual god in spite of her irritation.

Nami should have remembered that Enel pretended to be God but perhaps she might have some lingering trauma over it.

A flashback starts, taking place shortly before the present.

We learn that “Sun God” is actually “Road”, the navigator of the New Giant Warrior Pirates, the crew led by Hajrudin, the Giant gladiator from the Dressrosa Arc that joined the Straw Hat Grand Fleet.

This revelation does align with established theories that the fake Sun God could be a member of the New Giant Pirates due to their particular footwear and even specifically named Road as that character.

Oda might have used the cover pages for the New Giant Warrior Pirates to convey the plot of Elbaf.

In Chapter 898, titled “We’ll Definitely Return”, we see an image of Road, which follows the cover story pattern from Chapters 895 to 901, which features a list of the New Giant Warrior pirates that have deserted Buggy’s delivery.

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Road’s massive crow, Muginn, brings the Thousand Sunny to Road.

Muginn is the giant raven from last chapter, his name being a combination of Huginn and Muninn, Odin’s two giant ravens, 

It seems that this was not all planned but a coincidence as Road believes that they should be with the Giant Warrior Pirates.

Road realizes that the Straw Hats went into the “Sleeping Fog area”, which means that the fog, combined with their intoxication from absinthe, knocked them out.

Road recalls Hajrudin’s decision to join the “Straw Hat Grand Fleet” and expressed resentment over Hajrudin’s decision, calling his captain an “idiot” for letting go of his pride as a Giant of Elbaf to serve under “puny humans”.

Road finds the concept baffling as Elbaf has the strongest army in the world.

Entering his room, Road lays the Straw Hats on his table while they remained asleep.

Road holds Luffy and Nami in the palm of his hands

Road mocks Luffy for having a “small weak body”. Good luck with that ego when you lose your teeth in the arc, buddy.

However, Road expresses a perverted fascination with Nami’s body.

Road sprays some sleeping gas on the Straw Hats, inducing them into a longer sleep. 

Back to the present, Road talks to the Straw Hats, revealing his goal is to rule “above” them as the “Sun God” instead of being subordinated to the crew.

Nami asks Zeus if he is ready and Road is surprised to see that Zeus has become a stormcloud on the ceiling of the diorama, leading to Zeus unleashing his Thunder attack to blast Road with.

The townspeople are shocked to see their “Sun God” fall to such an attack, making Zeus look more divine in comparison.

In the incredible double page spread of the chapter, Luffy’s partial Gear 4th arm from earlier stretches to the end of the diorama and returns to him for a massive punch, meant to open a hole in the wall

Luffy regrets leaving the Land of Blocks early, seemingly enjoying his time here but he is excited to finally see the real Elbaf itself.

With Gomu Gomu no Kong Gun, Luffy destroys the wall and the Straw Hat crew all jump outside together with Iskat.

Luffy smiles as they are now finally outside!

This mini-arc, “Land of the Gods”, seems to be a prelude to the type of isolationist culture the Giants possess.

Road was extremely easy, not posing much of a threat at all to the Straw Hats, but the crew’s escape would bring them to a much bigger and more dangerous world since there is still one more person with a god-complex that could threaten them: Prince Loki.

Through Road, we see that the Straw Hats might not be easily welcomed.

Perhaps Luffy’s Gear 5th will make the people more friendly since he resembles the Sun God Nika but we barely know anything about the world of Giants and this is our chance to explore that, outside of a demented otaku’s little “Land of the Gods”.

There will NO BREAK next week.

One Piece Chapter 1130 will be released on October 17, 2024.

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