One of the best parts aboutOne Pieceis the amazing level of foreshadowing always present in the story. While not every story beat has a seamless setup, many story beats will often come from seemingly innocuous details shown off years, even decades prior, and that level of attention to detail always creates an incredible payoff for anyone who sticks with the story for that long.
One Pieceis always full of incredible foreshadowing, and fans might have just caught on to a new piece of it. With how lore-heavythe Elbaph archas gotten, fans are looking over the manga for hints at future events more than ever before, and as such,a newOne Piecetheory suggests that a hidden truth about a major character has been hidden in plain sight for over a decade. Whether it means anything is still up in the air, but with everything that’s been happening in recent chapters, it’s hard to see it as anything other than intentional.
One Subtle Detail In One Piece Might Have Revealed Kuzan’s True Allegiance
One Of One Piece’s Biggest Secrets Completely Flew Under People’s Noses
The latest theory that’s been making rounds amongOne Piecefans is centered entirely around Kuzan i.e. former Admiral Aokiji. Kuzan is one ofOne Piece’s most enigmatic characters thanks to his surprise allegiance to the Blackbeard Pirates while being implied to be hiding something else, and recently, fans have noted that in chapter #699, the shading in Kuzan’s glasses briefly resembles Imu before Doflamingo asks where he stands and what he is, soOne Piecefans are theorizing that Kuzan was hinted to be working for Imu back in Punk Hazard thanks to how his glasses were drawn.
As surprising as Kuzan working for Imu would be, it would make plenty of sense. Whatever secret Doflamingo learned about Mary Geoise could easily be connected to Imu, thus explaining his dialogue with Kuzan, and Vegapunk’s speech established that Kuzan would be a major player in the final saga, and working for Imu would be a perfect justification for that. Add in how Imu has an invested interest in Blackbeard, thus explainingKuzan’s allegiance to the Blackbeard Pirates, andthere’s plenty of evidence inOne Piece, circumstantial or otherwise, to support the idea that Kuzan is secretly working for Imu.
Does One Piece’s Latest Theory Confirm Kuzan’s Status As A Villain?
Is There No Going Back For Kuzan?
If Kuzan is working forOne Piece’s Imu, that makes the question of where he stands as a character even harder to answer. It was one thing for Kuzan to work for Blackbeard, but working for Imu would be on an entirely new level of villainy that would be hard to excuse, soKuzan working for Imu could possibly fully cement his transition into a villain inOne Piece. That would be a surprising turn for someone who started as a largely moral figure, and overall, there’s no telling what a story likeOne Piececould do with it.
Kuzan working for Imu is still hypothetical, of course, and with how enigmatic a character he’s been after largely being a good person in the story’s early days, a hidden agenda of his isn’t fully off the table, soKuzan could only be working for Imu as part of some other secret plan that hasn’t been revealed. Everything about this is still hypothetical, but if there’s any truth to any of this, it would easily beOne Piece’s most exciting development yet, and it all would have stemmed from some foreshadowing that flew over everyone’s head for over a decade.
