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The final boss of One Piece transformed into a second form in the story, sparking a wave of reactions on a 5ch thread. Posters weighed in from every angle — confusion over him calmly surviving a sword through the gut, speculation about Im-sama’s true identity, and opinions on the character design.
What people said
That's exactly the problem, Oda.
Apparently even he doesn't know why he's still alive
The dialogue doesn't match the art
There's zero sense of him being winded
Man, he really loves dropping hints
Wait, why did they make up?
It's genuinely lame, does the editor never say anything?
'You dare defy meee?' (Im-sama's odd, childlike speech quirks)
That's basically Dhalsim (the stretchy-limbed Street Fighter character)
Well it's always near the top of the reader surveys, so there's no way it's getting cancelled
it came back even after being blown to pieces
Now they don't have to draw the polka dots on his arms anymore
Here they somehow beat Im-sama
Back at the Holy Land, Blackbeard's already wiped out the Five Elders and the whole Navy
Shanks dies too, one way or another
Everyone gets launched by Kuma's power and arrives at Laugh Tale
Final showdown with Blackbeard at Laugh Tale
and that's a perfectly fine way to end it
If they don't draw it in, you wouldn't know what changed
Do we even need to know?
You yourself keep changing into some 'demon god' form for no clear reason
That's not a transformation, that's just a move
Are you even reading this properly?
It's what the old-school fans want
Blackbeard's just a scrub anyway
Well, he'd been stockpiling food
Guess it pays to live right
Just from this panel, Hajrudin looks exactly like Loki, lol
It's gonna be long, that okay?
Wasn't it that he got dumped by the founder of the Nefertari family or something?
Still better than crappy battles and endless hint-dropping
Even if he loses here, there's no rematch
It's Blackbeard who beats Im-sama anyway
They could've just kept it simple with Blackbeard
Being a god is fine, it's just that it has nothing to do with him becoming Pirate King
Does beating this mean One Piece is finally over?
Real talk, Luffy doesn't care what happens to the world
Even if he beats him, he'd just get thanked for it
Blackbeard's gotta be the real final boss after all
Background and Key Points
One Piece has run in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997 and is now in its advertised “final saga,” which began after the Wano arc concluded in 2022. Im-sama (Imu) sits on the Empty Throne in Mary Geoise, the hidden seat of power above even the Five Elders who nominally run the World Government; the character was only formally shown starting around 2021 and has spoken and acted on-panel just a handful of times since, making every new appearance a major continuity event. Weekly Shonen Jump also runs reader popularity surveys that directly influence which series continue, which is the “top of the reader surveys” comment referenced in the thread — a structural fact of Japanese weekly manga publishing that has no real equivalent for a foreign audience used to fixed-run Western comics.
The thread wasn’t split on plot mechanics so much as on the redesign itself: several posters dismissed the new skull-faced form as a lazy, “elementary schooler” edit compared to the original black, polka-dotted silhouette, while others were simply impressed by the raw visual power-up. A second axis of disagreement was who actually counts as the story’s final antagonist — Im-sama, or Blackbeard, who posters note is quietly wiping out the Five Elders and the Navy in a parallel storyline.
What’s easy to miss without manga context is that Im surviving a sword wound without visible pain isn’t necessarily sloppy writing — Oda has historically withheld a character’s exact power set for arcs at a time, and posters here are speculating, not reporting confirmed lore, since even the story itself hasn’t explained it yet.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread「One Piece’s Final Boss Transforms into Second Form!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!」.
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