The Reason why the World Government wants to kill Dr. Vegapunk

Vegapunk tried to replicate Kaido’s fruit and “FAILED”, that’s at least what the World Government and CP0 knew.

Then Admiral Green Bull came to Wano and he saw ANOTHER dragon with the same abilities as Kaido.

I believe that Aramaki, once he returned to Mary Geoise, warned the Marines that Vegapunk lied about the fruit and now the World Government no longer trusts him.

The World Government wants to kill Vegapunk since he’s become more of a threat than an asset. He has fulfilled his purpose, and the World Government doesn’t need him now with the new Seraphims.

As Lucci suggested the reason because they want to kill Vegapunk might be connected to Lulusia.

Vegapunk might be somehow connected to the weapon that Im used to destroy Lulusia (many had speculated it could be the ancient weapon Uranus but it could also be a weapon created by Vegapunk). However, why kill “the most useful person in the world”? Well Vegapunk secretly might have been creating things that are capable of bringing down the World Government. Furthermore he probably have discovered every single secret of the Void Century or might have solved the mystery of Laugh Tale.

Nika Awakening is actually the only way to stop Blackbeard’s Darkness!

Before Chapter 1044, people had no idea that Luffy will have one of the most powerful devil fruits in the series.

The Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika is the only devil fruit power that the World Government wanted to erase from the entire history. It allows the user to transform into the legendary “Sun God” Nika.

So we learned that Luffy has this legendary devil fruit ability that once Joy Boy had. This devil fruit was so powerful that it’s nearly a Toon Force ability that gives Luffy enough freedom to do almost anything he wants.

Sun vs Darkness concept was already highlighted in Blackbeard’s previous battle, where Ace probably used his Logia Awakening via Entei and covered the half of the island with his fire, that his ability looked like an island sized Sun:

Basically, before Chapter 1044, people were still saying things like Luffy’s Haki is more important, not his devil fruit ability. But Oda proved these people wrong. Post-1044 One Piece gives the main character one of the most powerful devil fruit abilities, with the concept of being the Sun God.

Luffy has now the ability to do almost anything the he wants, with more freedom and more power once its power has awakened. And Blackbeard is the only character who can counter this freedom and power, with its darkness that can turn everything to nothing.

It makes so much sense that Blackbeard specifically searched for Darkness Logia, when there are also other powerful Logia abilities in One Piece. It was probably for countering an absurd and a very powerful Toon Force-like ability.

Nami Will Have A Definitive Power-Up At The End Of This Arc!

While many are anticipating this arc to be Franky’s for good and obvious reasons, this arc could also cater to Nami. While Franky is the ship’s foremost engineer, Nami is a science lover. She has been able to leverage science to upgrade her climatact from useless contraception to an extremely useful weapon.

In the past, the weather changed the course of history when a “freak storm” altered the outcome of the battle between Roger and Shiki during the Edd War. More recently, it was a weather anomaly that allowed Luffy to cheat death and officially embark on his journey.

My point is that the weather often feels like it is a prominent character in this story, a force that has and continues to dictate the course of history.

The weather’s importance is emphasized in the latest chapter as we’re told that Vegapunk wants to control or tame it. He blames the lack of funding for his inability to achieve this monumental task. Is Nami on her way to achieving what the world’s smartest scientist couldn’t?

Typically, people use the wind and sky to predict the weather. However, Vivi noted that Nami’s ability to predict the weather defied logic. If this were simple observation haki, as many have theorized, I think Oda would’ve revealed this by now. My thesis is that Nami’s natural affinity to the weather has something to do with her ancestry. But that’s a topic for another post.

We learned that the two things that Vega Punk can’t fully tame or control are the “urges of living creatures”, & the weather — both products of nature. Perhaps it was by design that Kuma — someone who’s familiar with Vega Punk — sent Luffy to train in the wild amongst creatures with strong and uncontrollable animalistic urges , while he sent Nami to the heavens (so to speak) to learn how to control the weather.

Throughout the story, Nami has used her understanding of the weather to great effect. She used it to sank a Buggy men’s boat, to get the crew to hard to reach places and out of harm’s way. Nami has also used her knowledge to turn Usopp’s party contraption into a useful and potentially deadly weapon. Most impressively, she was able to leverage a Yonko’s own storm against her army, and her sentient cloud against her.

So far we’ve only scratched the surface of what the combined power of Nami’s knowledge of atmospheric science and Zeus can do. Also, it’s important to remember that Zeus was instrumental in allowing Big Mom to control the weather. I believe that Nami’s knowledge of atmospheric science will allow Zeus to do much more than he was able to under Big Mom. Again, a topic for another post.

My theory is that Nami is being setup to accomplish what Dr. Vegapunk could not. In this arc she will learn how to more effectively leverage Zeus and science to devastating effects. And she will prove that a little girl from the East Blue can accomplish without funding what the world smartest man couldn’t.

My Hero Academia Theory: The Real Reason So Many Girls Shortened Their Hair

Several things about the My Hero Academia cast have changed going into the final arc, especially their designs. Many of them have updated their outfits, added new support items, and fitted themselves with gear to deal with recent injuries. Some of them are even sporting new hairstyles.

More specifically, some of the girls have made their hair much more manageable. Mirko and Nejire Chan have gone from waist-length hair down to shoulder-length. Mt. Lady has either done the same to her hair or tied hers back; whatever she's done with it, it's no longer flowing down her back like it used to. Two instances of girls streamlining their hairstyles would be a coincidence, but three is a pattern. Maybe there are in-story reasons for this, or maybe Kohei Horikoshi simply got tired of drawing long-haired women. It's hard to say, but there are ways to figure it out.

Why Were the Girls' Hairstyles Changed?

The first heroine with a reason to shorten her hair is Nejire Chan. In the story, she had to shorten her hair because Dabi burned most of it in Chapter 292, "Threads of Hope." By the start of the next arc, she cut whatever long hair she had left so it was all shoulder-length. This is the in-universe explanation, but Horikoshi might be willing to share another story.

On Nejire's profile page, Horikoshi gave a few additional details about the Hero-in-training that weren't in the story. Among these details, he offhandedly mentioned how drawing long hair is hard. This may be the hidden reason he decided to write her hair out of the story.

Horikoshi may have targeted this point about drawing long hair towards Nejire, but that doesn't mean she's the only one it applies to. Long hair generally takes much longer to draw than shorter hair; it's also more likely to have strands that stray off depending on the person's position and motions. The more hair a character has, the more effort an artist has to put into drawing it. This difficulty is only compounded when there are more long-haired characters.

This would explain why Horikoshi took an opportunity to cut his burden loose. This would explain why he changed up not just Nejire's hair, but also Mirko and Mt. Lady's; whatever reasons they had for changing their hair weren't given by the story. Horikoshi might have seen this as another place to cut corners.

Of course, none of this is to say Horikoshi is wrong or even lazy for making this change. Plenty of Shōnen Jump artists have employed time-saving methods to keep up with the workload of drawing 14-20 manga pages every week; with Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama gave Goku's Super Saiyan form lighter-colored hair so he could save time inking it in; with Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto gave Sasuke a cool new outfit, but had to change him back to his standard look due to unsustainability. If Horikoshi decided to change his characters' looks to something that would be easier to draw, that's his choice.

Whatever the girls' reason for changing their hair, it should undeniably make Horikoshi's job easier. Whether they did it because their cuticles got damaged in their last fight or simply to make fighting in general easier, they'll likely keep these looks for the rest of the series. It should be seen as a change for the better on everyone's part.

One Piece creator finally shines the light on Luffy’s mom and dad

It has been leaked that in the upcoming issue of One Piece’s SBS, a column in the manga where Oda answers fans’ questions, the author will once again confirm Luffy’s family has already been seen in the series. According to the leaks, Oda replied to a question about Luffy’s parents by stating that he had already drawn both of them. Keep reading to learn more about the issue.

In the past, Oda has talked about the irrelevance of Luffy’s mother to the plot of One Piece. The author has stated that mothers are the opposite of adventure, which is why he believes Luffy is better off without seeing his mother. Yet, his answers have never quenched the thirst of the fans, who have been asking for decades to learn more about Luffy’s mom.

The latest instance of the curiosity displayed by fans will appear in the next SBS section of One Piece. In it, Oda will once again tell fans that he has already shown both of Luffy’s parents in the manga. One of them is known by every fan as Monkey D. Dragon, the leader of the Revolutionary Army.

Luffy’s mom, on the other hand, has not been revealed yet, but this latest statement makes it clear that we have already met her. As the story of One Piece nears its end, Oda will likely start giving Luffy’s mother major importance in the series.

This is not the first time Oda has talked about the woman who raised Luffy. A few years ago, the creator of One Piece claimed that he already had an idea of what Luffy’s mother would look like. The woman would be rough-looking, loud, and impolite. This ended up being the personality of Dadan, a woman who acted as Luffy’s adoptive mother for many years.

Years after that statement, Oda was once again questioned about Luffy’s biological mother. This was the first time the mangaka replied that Luffy’s mom had already been drawn in the manga. Many fans, following the One Piece creator's statement, have come up with speculations about who the woman who raised Luffy as a baby is.

Some fans theorized that Sir Crocodile could secretly be Luffy’s mom. In the past, fans have speculated that Crocodile used to be a woman who asked Ivankov to turn him into a man. Another popular theory claims that Im-sama could be our hero’s mother, which could explain why Oda is so secretive about the truth.

Recently, a new theory has surfaced amongst the community, claiming that Bonney is the Straw Hat captain’s mom. This theory is based on the sudden appearance of the female Supernova in One Piece chapter 1060. Fans believe Oda is talking about our protagonist’s mother due to Bonney's reappearance in the series.

Despite Oda’s insistence about Luffy’s mom not being important to the story of One Piece, fans will continue to wonder who the woman is. It seems like Oda is slowly warming up to the idea of revealing the identity of this enigmatic character.

Nevertheless, until there is an official statement concerning the identity of the Straw hat captain’s mother, fans will have to keep speculating about the possibilities. Maybe in the future, Oda will finally shed some light on this issue.

The Reason why Blackbeard captured Koby

In Chapter 1059 we see a newspaper reports about Koby being captured by the Blackbeard Pirates. The theory I see people talking about the most is Blackbeard turning in Koby’s bounty to Cross Guild and then you get the Alvida reunion. That would be super cool and I think that’s plausible but I think that could still happen on top of the theory I have.

So Kuzan is affiliated with Blackbeard and the prevailing theory is he’s undercover for SWORD. So that interaction is a very big possibility. However, what if another reason Koby was captured is to prove Kuzan’s loyalty? Blackbeard has shown that he knows far more than he lets on so what if he’s already suspicious of Kuzan and he wants Kuzan to kill Koby in front of him to prove he has fully removed himself from the navy.

Kuzan would refuse which leads to the reveal that he actually is part of SWORD so he tries to escape with Coby but is wounded. One of the reasons Kuzan is affiliating himself under Blackbeard could be to try and discover the method that Blackbeard used to acquire two devil fruits powers and how the Blackbeard Pirates steal other powers and before he passes he could impart the knowledge he’s gained to Koby and also give Koby his ice power somehow in the process.

It makes a lot of sense to me if the reason Koby becomes a big part of the story again is because he’s the one who’ll tell Luffy about Blackbeard’s secret. Blackbeard could monologue and tell Luffy during their battle but I think it would be so much more dynamic if Koby was the one to do it. Imagine the panel after a couple arcs where we see Koby again after awhile and he suddenly uses ice powers and he reveals why he has them.

Do we already know the Former Empress of Amazon Lily after Shakky and before Hancock?

So we recently found out that Shakuyaku “Shakky” was the Empress of Amazon Lily tribe from two generations ago.

And we have been told that both of the Empresses before Boa Hancock have died. So this leaves a question, did the Empress before Boa Hancock really die? If not, who is it?

Given that the difference of age between Shakky and Boa Hancock is 33 years (31 – 64), the Empress could’ve been someone around the middle of that age wich is 47.5 years.

Well, I went in search of characters around that age and the only females around that age are either daughters of Big Mom (Charlotte Mondée, Charlotte Hachée, etc…) or Shinobu wich is from Wano. But I saw a certain character that we’ve already seen some theories about being a woman: Sir Crocodile (46 years old)

This combined with Ivankov saying that he knows a certain secret of Crocodile may indicate that he really is not only a woman, but a former Empress of Amazon Lily.

This also might leave some theories on Luffy being the son of an Empress… but we’ll leave this for later.

Vegapunk has created an even more Powerful Weapon than the Seraphim!

The Seraphim are new Pacifista units developed by the Marines’ Special Science Group with the intention of replacing the Seven Warlords of the Sea as one of the Three Great Powers. I am pretty sure that Seraphims aren’t the only group of new Pacifista.

Seraphims in religion are only a group of Angels compared to many. They’re considered the most important because the reside near God’s throne, they’re not powerful as in the fighting sense they just stand still and float 24/7 while Angels and Archangels aren’t considered important but they’re the fighting Angels that carry God’s commands.

Seraphims are considered the highest in hierarchy but they interact with humanity the least and the more you go down the chain the more they interact with the world and humans. I do not expect 9 classes of SSG New Pacifista, that’s simply too much but a Class of Angels from each sphere/triad is enough and to be expected or even just Seraphims and another class like Archangels. Who could be used to make the Archangels models? I have 3 options on who it could be. But first who are the Archangels? There’s normally 4 of them:

Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel (Uriel is swapped with Azreal in other abrahamic religions like Islam). I don’t expect the characters to be named these angels names but they would represent them. So let’s get to the possible candidates:

1- The Four Emperors

The Marines has had 4 Yonkos in their hands at different times:

Kaido has been in their custody numerous times so it’s very easy to get his DNA and we have already saw Vegapunk experimenting on him, that’s how he made Momonosuek’s devil fruit in the first place;

Blackbeard has been in their hands at his time when he was a Warlord even it it’s brief period of time;

Shanks has visited the Gorosei more than once so they could have been able to acquire his DNA at that time;

After Whitebeard died his body was in the hands of the Marines and the World Government until he was handed to Shanks; we don’t exactly know if he was given the body right away or waited a bit either way a corpse dead on the battlefield is easy to get a DNA from.

2- The Four Admirals

There are 4 Admirals so the numbers match. They’re World Government employees so it’s very easy to get their DNA and we have seen the Admirals used for Vegapunks research before when he implanted Kizaru’s beams into the Pacifista.

Of course all of the examples I said will have the usual black wings, brown skin, and white hair.

Sabo, Koby and Vivi are set up to play very pivotal roles in One Piece Final Saga!

I think we all have an idea of the finale of the story involving Luffy and all the allied forces of the world coming together to fight the World Government one last time, as a united front. But how exactly could this all come together?

After all, Luffy has never really viewed himself as this grand hero who must bring the dawn of the world despite this clearly being his role in the story. He has only ever viewed himself as a pirate and operated as such. His goal has always been to find the One Piece and become Pirate King, and while that will likely involve fighting the World Government in some way, it would still be a bit out of character for Luffy himself to be commanding a gigantic alliance of disparate forces. This is where three key characters could come into play. I am confident that Sabo, Koby and Vivi are set up to play very pivotal roles in One Piece Final Saga.

I find it interesting that not only were Sabo, Koby and Vivi all reintroduced into the story during the Reverie arc, but all three of these characters are in dangerous situations and/or in need of help post-Reverie.

Sabo is one of the most infamous men in the world right now and is wanted for the murder of Nefertari Cobra, which he likely didn’t commit.

Koby was just revealed to have been kidnapped by the Blackbeard Pirates, and could even be sold off to Cross Guild for a bounty (though that’s obviously speculation).

Vivi has been on the chopping block since Imu and the Five Elders took interest in her, along with the fact that she has gone missing and her father was seemingly murdered.

Aside from all that, they are all fairly similar characters in a few ways:

• They all have a personal connection to Luffy and have known him since various “early points” in his life, with Sabo being Luffy’s brother since he was a child, Koby meeting him at the start of his journey in East Blue, and Vivi meeting Luffy and the Straw Hats at the start of the Grand Line.
• They all are level-headed, fan-favorite characters that most readers love. They have been portrayed to be fundamentally good, brave people who wish for peace above all else, each fighting for freedom in different ways.
• Each of them embodies a somewhat “ideal” version of the factions that they represent. Sabo is the ideal Revolutionary, a strong fighter who inspires freedom across the world as the “Flame Emperor” and is 2nd in command of the Revolutionary Army. Koby may not be the ideal Marine in the story since he isn’t that strong or prejudiced against pirates, but he is the most empathetic and truly caring Marine we have seen, which makes him the ideal in a sense. Vivi is set up to be a great leader, with a large part of her arc in Alabasta being learning the value of leadership and how she can best serve her people as a symbol of the nation, a role she may have to continue growing into as she mourns the death of her father.
• Finally, they all have personal experience with the evils of the World Government and have seen how badly it needs to be abolished or, at least, reformed. Sabo’s upbringing in the Goa Kingdom showed him how bad the World Nobles can be, and he was even scarred as a child by a Celestial Dragon before being rescued by Dragon himself. Koby was on the front lines of the Marineford war and was even nearly killed by Akainu before he was saved by Shanks, a pirate. Vivi had to enlist the help of pirates to save her kingdom from being destroyed by a civil war caused by Crocodile, a Warlord of the Sea employed by the World Government. It is also safe to assume she knows that the World Government covered up the Alabasta incident in order to save face.

Theory

So the main idea is that during the final saga Sabo, Koby, and Vivi will form a makeshift alliance to stop the upcoming Final War, which would likely involve the World Government fighting various allied nations and forces across the One Piece world. I would also say it is likely that each of these three characters will help mobilize all of the world’s forces against the World Government, and even help lead them in the Final War.

As mentioned before, all three characters have similar ideals and seek to improve the One Piece world, despite having completely different allegiances. If we assume that the “Great Cleansing” that the Five Elders mentioned in Chapter 908 comes into play, all of the various nations, allied forces, and factions of the world would be made aware of the evils of the World Government and finally be willing to fight back. However, they would likely need one last push to mobilize against the World Government and/or fight alongside Luffy, the Straw Hats, other pirate crews, etc.

At this point in the story, Sabo, Koby, and Vivi are all in highly compromised situations. It seems that Sabo is currently trying to contact the Revolutionary Army but there is no guarantee that they will be able to provide him much support. Koby is being held hostage by arguably the most dangerous man in the world right now. We have no idea where Vivi is or what her status is. It would make sense if, through some twists of fate, these three manage to come into contact and team up with each other. It would make even more sense if Sabo and Vivi’s disappearances were connected to a plot by the World Government, which would then spur Koby to assist them.

As for the finale of the series, rather than having Luffy command the forces of the Final War, I think it would make more sense for him and the SHtraw Hats to focus on their matchups, allowing Sabo, Koby and Vivi to lead the charge:

– Sabo could lead the Revolutionary Army and other independent allies;

– Koby could lead SWORD and potentially other sympathetic Marines who disaffect from the World Government over the course of the Final War (e.g. Smoker, Garp, Fujitora, X Drake, etc.);

– Vivi could lead the various nations across the Grand Line that are likely sympathetic to Luffy and/or have a grudge against the World Government (e.g. Alabasta, Water 7, Fishman Island, Dressrose, etc.).

Scientists deny finding evidence of parallel universe where time goes backwards

Despite numerous reports, scientists have not found evidence of a parallel universe where time runs backwards.

A number of outlets reported this week that researchers in Antarctica had “found evidence” for a parallel universe based on an experiment where scientists found particles that seemed to break the laws of physics.

All of the reports cite the same source: a story from New Scientist from April 2020, about a finding made in 2016.

The report focuses on findings from the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), which uses an array of radio antennas suspended from a helium balloon flying at a height of about 37,000 meters to detect radio pulses sent out by cosmic neutrinos during flights in December 2006 and December 2014.

Normally, these are sent from space to the earth, but the researchers found some anomalous events where the neutrinos seem to have come from the planet’s interior – something which cannot be explained by current physics.

All this confirms, however, is that these are particles that deviate from the Standard Model (the theory that describes three of the four known fundamental forces in the universe, as well as classifying all known elementary particles) rather than evidence of a new universe.

Another paper published in 2018, which showed more high-energy particles travelling upwards, said that the particles have a less than 1-in-3.5 million chance of being part of the standard model. Physicists have proposed multiple explanations for these cosmic rays, including “sterile neutrinos” to “atypical dark matter” inside the Earth. Alex Pizzuto from the University of Wisconsin, who has worked with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory that carried out a similar experiment in the 2018 study (but did not find similar results) suggested that it could be due to properties in the ice itself.

“In my opinion, the results are strongly suggestive of an association, but not conclusive yet,” Princeton University’s Maria Petropoulou said about the 2018 study. “It could be possible, for example, that other sources lying in the same region of the sky could contribute to the neutrino flare detected by IceCube. Regardless, these results bring us one step closer to unveiling the sources of astrophysical neutrinos.”

Asked about such theories Peter Gorham, the Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii quoted in the New Scientist article, said that the research “had nothing to do with the development of the parallel-universe idea.”

“Unfortunately the journalism on this has not distinguished very well between our experimental work which identified some anomalies in the data, and the theory proposed by some physicists who are not a part of our collaboration,” Professor Gorham told The Independent.

“While I am not opposed to free speculation regarding the anomalies we have observed, our own opinion is that they are more likely to be explainable in terms of physics that is likely to be much less exotic.”

A blog post by the University of Hawaii speculated in 2018: “One possibility is that cosmic rays from a bright supernova blasted all the way through the earth.”