The Solo Leveling New Movie Is Coming

If you've been waiting for a Solo Leveling movie announcement, the signs are piling up fast and the latest one is hiding in plain sight.

In early March 2026, anime giants Aniplex and Kadokawa quietly announced a joint venture called Animec, a new company built specifically for large-scale anime film distribution in Japan. The name blends "anime" and "cinema," which already tells you everything about its purpose. And while most of the conversation around Animec has centered on Demon Slayer's theatrical future, Solo Leveling fans have strong reasons to pay close attention.

 

Here's why: Kadokawa publishes the Solo Leveling manhwa in Japan, and Aniplex owns A-1 Pictures — the studio behind the Solo Leveling anime. Two companies that deeply tied to the same franchise just teamed up to launch a movie distribution company. That's not nothing.

The breadcrumbs don't stop there. Series creator Chugong mentioned in an interview that he'd heard internal talks about a film, and a leaked financial document from D&C Media reportedly referenced a Solo Leveling movie slated for a late 2026 reveal or release with a direct nod to Demon Slayer's box office success as a benchmark.

A-1 Pictures' unusual silence around Season 3 also suddenly makes a lot more sense. Studios don't go quiet on hit shows without a reason. If a movie is coming first, they simply couldn't talk about what follows until that announcement is ready. Concept art for future story arcs has already leaked online, confirming the studio has been planning ahead just not publicly.

Animec is already active too. Its logo appeared in the trailer for the upcoming Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend theatrical release, and it's confirmed to be handling the Shiboyugi film rollout as well. The infrastructure is being built, and Solo Leveling is exactly the kind of property that could fill it.

Nothing is official yet but at this point, the question feels less like if and more like when.

One Piece 1179 Manga Page 1

One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 1 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 2 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. Before we even get to the main event, the chapter opens with a massive shift in the power dynamic. The Five Elders the terrifying old men who have run the world for centuries are actually begging Imu not to leave the castle, offering to send an Admiral or go themselves. Seeing the Gorosei panic gives me absolute chills.

Meanwhile, over in Elbaph, we get a quick cut of Gerd finding Sommer's heart and Zoro immediately having the bright idea to destroy it. Typical Zoro, always choosing violence. It's a great little breather before all hell breaks loose.

The Arrival at Aurust Castle Imu teleporting via a magic circle to the topmost tower of Aurust Castle is incredibly ominous. But what really solidifies Imu's status as the absolute pinnacle of the One Piece world is the Conqueror's Haki. It’s so potent that houses and trees are literally coming alive with evil, laughing faces. It feels like Big Mom’s soul-powers on a completely different, much darker scale. 

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The King of the World Revealed We finally get the full introduction box, and seeing it written out is surreal:

"One of the Twenty Founders of World Government. Special Power: 'Devil Fruit.' King of the World. Saint Nerona Imu."

The fact that Oda just calls the power "Devil Fruit" instead of naming a specific fruit is terrifyingly vague. Is Imu the source of all of them?

As for the design, Oda absolutely cooked. After years of looking at a shadowy silhouette, Imu's actual appearance is striking:

• The Look: Male, undeniably handsome, with tanned skin reminiscent of a Lunarian, and long white hair.

  

• The Demonic Features: He’s rocking horns that curve twice into an "s" shape, wings, and that infamous devil tail (which finally explains exactly what pierced Sabo back in Mary Geoise).

• The Tattoos & Weapon: Shirtless with a cape, covered in white circular tattoos, including an eye on his right hand and ink on his face. He’s wielding a zigzagged polearm dripping with black clouds at the base, and there's a trickle of blood from his mouth which raises so many questions. Who hurt him? Is the power eating away at him?

• The Awakened Clouds: This is the detail that completely sold me. He has the black hagoromo clouds of an awakened Zoan (like Lucci or the Elders), but instead of swirls, his clouds have eyes in them. It gives off this horrifying, biblically accurate angel (Ophanim) vibe that perfectly contrasts with his demonic horns and tail.

Final Verdict This is a historic chapter for the community. The juxtaposition of a beautiful, almost divine appearance with horrifying, evil powers is classic Oda, but taken to the absolute extreme. The lore implications of the "Nerona" name and the Lunarian-like skin are going to feed theorists for years.

Of course, in true Oda fashion, we end on the most painful three words in the English language: Break Next Week. Read the spoilers if you must, but Redon was right seeing this fully illustrated by Oda is going to break the internet. 10/10.

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 2 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 3 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. Okay. I need to sit down and actually process what Oda just did. I've been reading One Piece since I was in middle school. I've theorized about Imu for years, argued about Imu on forums until 2 AM, and genuinely believed I had mentally prepared myself for this moment. I was not prepared.

Let me start with the setup, because it actually matters. The Five Elders these ancient, monstrous, terrifying beings we've slowly come to fear are trying to stop Imu from leaving the castle. They're nervous. They're suggesting alternatives. That detail alone rewired my brain before the reveal even happened, because it tells you everything: whatever Imu is about to do, even the Elders think it's too much. And if the Elders are scared of the collateral damage, the rest of us should probably be terrified.

Then we cut to Elbaph Gerd and Sommer's heart, Zoro cooking up some plan nd before you can breathe, there's a magic circle at Aurust Castle, a detonation of Conqueror's Haki so massive that the houses and trees around Elbaph start coming alive with evil laughing faces, and then

 

Saint Nerona Imu.

 

One of the Twenty Founders of the World Government. The King of the World. And he looks like a fallen angel designed by someone who had a fever dream about mythology and biblical horror at the same time. Long white hair. Tanned skin with white circular tattoos covering his body. Horns like Kaido's but they curve twice, forming an "S." Wings. A devil tail the same tail that we saw pierce Sabo, which means that mystery is now closed. A polearm with a zigzagged blade and black clouds at the butt end. Blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. And those hagoromo clouds? Not the swirling kind you see on Lucci or the Elders. His have eyes in them. Like the Ophanim the biblical wheel angels covered in eyes. Oda did his research and I am not okay.

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Can we talk about the design for a second? Because Oda has always been good at villain silhouettes, but this is a different tier. The double-curve "S" horns are subtle genius it's almost like a halo gone wrong, or a serpent reference, depending on how you read it. The eye tattoo on his right hand, the face tattoo, the cape with a half-visible logo   there's so much visual information packed in here that I know the community is going to be parsing panels for months. He's handsome, almost ethereally so, which makes the black clouds and the blood and the chaos around him feel even more unsettling. Beautiful and wrong. That's Imu.

 

The introduction box says "Special Power: Devil Fruit" which is, frankly, the most understated text Oda has ever written. This man has been alive since the founding of the World Government. He has been the shadow ruler of the entire world for centuries. And the fruit he carries? Whatever it is, it's clearly something we haven't seen the full extent of yet. That fruit, combined with the Conqueror's Haki that's already animating objects across Elbaph from a distance, suggests a power level that puts him in a category of his own.

 

My one gripe and it's a small one is that we still don't fully know what Imu's fruit actually does in a defined mechanical sense. The transformation, the Haki explosion, the awakened-zoan-style clouds with eyes… it's evocative but intentionally incomplete. Oda is clearly holding back the full picture, which is the right storytelling call, but it does leave this chapter feeling like an appetizer when your stomach is growling for a full meal.

 

Also: break next week. Of course there's a break next week. Oda drops the single biggest reveal in the manga's history and then goes on vacation. I respect it. It's almost comedic. We suffer together.

Bottom line: this is the chapter that decades of One Piece built toward. The lore is rich, the design is stunning, and the scale feels genuinely apocalyptic in a way the series hasn't quite hit before. I've read thousands of chapters of this manga and this one gave me the same electric feeling as Marineford, as Laugh Tale, as the very first time the Void Century was mentioned. That feeling that the story just shifted gears and there's no going back.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 3 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 4 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. I'm kinda bummed we didn't get to see gear 5 luffy in his elbaf outfit. It caught me off guard when gear 5 gave out and luffy went from his default outfit back to his elbaf outfit. I'm sure there's no explicit reason beyond oda not wanting to draw the ridiculously dynamic style that is gear 5 in such a detailed outfit, but it would have been fun to see it turn all white.

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I knew things were going too well for the straw hats. Kinda crazy how fast they put the holy knights in their place. But I really like that theyre getting the chance to show that they are an active force of power now in the world. What the hell is going to happen next? Imu showing up in person is going to be crazy. Got a weird feeling this is going to be a waters 7 / enies lobby type arc from here on - imu shows up in elbaf, fucks things up, then the gang go to mary geoise for the real battle of this arc and then we move on to shanks/lodestar/etc. 

 

Franky/sanji talking about how easy things wrapped up is way on the nose but I don't know if I see oda setting up another battle here yet. Cause the obvious answer of what imu is doing is just to show up in elbaf and do things themselves, but I wonder if part of what they're really heading to do is kidnap vivi along the way - surely there's a bigger reason imu wants her than just "Grrr your great great great great grandma did a bad thing" and doing more than one thing on your work trip seems fair. Oda is building up imu as some massive threat. The fact that the sh + loki were able to deal with (1) three holy knights, (2) the nightmare creatures, (3) the domi-reversid giants, (4) imu-gunko, while (5) saving the library and the kidnapped children and hardly breaking a sweat, and imu saw that and was like... No biggie, imma just go there in person.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 4 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 5 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. Imu coming to elbaf in person via the abyss will be really hype if it ends up with luffy and company actually losing. It's too soon for imu to go down after all. And we need something to make the straw hats get stonger. So maybe if the user and the fruit have affinity to each other, the user is immune to the devil power of imu. Or is the case jabra mention about the devil fighting each other. Makes me think that elbaph only offered loki to marry lola because they hated him and wanted to force him to be with big mom, but loki convinced lola to leave whole cake instead of having to be in a forced marriage. Secretly a decent guy. My theory on why both luffy and loki didn’t reverse is that they don’t have any hidden feelings. I think imu’s power is related to some kind of hidden desire, and they both say and do whatever they truly want. Or maybe something like unrecognised dreams? Would give all strawhats an inherent immunity because they all follow their dreams! I don't think imu is going to elbaf. I think (s)he knows where laughtale is but is unable to claim the one piece for whatever reason.

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I'm not sure exactly why (s)he'd be going there if (s)he can't claim it, for sure some ulterior motive, but it makes me worry for shanks & his crew. Idk I just feel like odas pulling a misdirect on us. It feels too vague ending with "Could imu really be going there?...", unless it's just a translation thing. I've long believed that chopper's devil fruit is actually the hito hito no mi, model: adam, the first human I previously only had 2 reasons: The forms made no sense for a human human fruit, but if you accept that it is mythical fruit based on adam it does. 

 

Adam was shaped out of clay, so it wouldn't be strange for the user to take many forms. In addition it is believed that adam was actually a giant, this would explain why monster form is so massive. We have been told that dr. Vegapunk theorizes that devil fruits are a manifestation of the possibility for human evolution, with all the different powers representing the many branches for humanity's future, brought into existence by human hope and desire. It would make little sense for humans to desire to be human as they are already human, but it would also make no sense for the sea to reject humanity's wish to be human as it is actually quite natural for a human to be human. With this chapter I now have a third reason: in story of adam and eve, adam first rejected the whispers of the devil. It was eve who got tempted and pressed adam into eating the apple. As imu's devil fruit is most likely based on the devil, it would make sense for chopper's fruit to partially reject it's powers/whispers.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 5 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 6 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. There's a theory quietly gaining traction among One Piece readers, and once you see it, it's hard to unsee it: Loki isn't just a powerful giant. He's a god. And that distinction matters more than almost anything else happening in the current arc.Let me walk you through why.

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When Imu lays eyes on Nidhogr, their reaction is telling. They say, "So that is it..." a line that reads less like surprise and more like the final piece of a puzzle clicking into place. Imu is finally understanding how Harald died.

Think about what that implies. Harald was a God Knight, presumably one of the most powerful individuals alive. For Imu to need a moment of genuine comprehension to grasp how he was killed, the answer has to be something extraordinary. The implication is that only a being of Nidhogr's caliber or by extension, figures like Nika or other entities we might call gods could actually put down someone like that, or simply be unbothered by Imu's power in the first place.

Neither Luffy Nor Loki Even Flinched

This is where the theory solidifies. When Imu unleashes Domi Reversi, both Luffy and Loki are completely unaffected. Not resistant. Not struggling through it. Unaffected.

Then in Chapter 1178, Imu looks at the two of them and says, "You two really are..." and the sentence trails off, but the weight of it doesn't. Imu is acknowledging that these two belong to the same category of something. Something that worries even them.

So what do Luffy and Loki actually share?

Ruling Out the Obvious Explanations

Let's go through the candidates honestly.

Strong Haki or Willpower? Rocks D. Xebec was practically drowning in both, and he still got turned by Domi Reversi. He may have resisted more than most, but Luffy and Loki didn't even register it. That's a different thing entirely.

Devil Fruit Users? After living for centuries and watching countless battles, Imu would know if their powers simply didn't work on Devil Fruit users. But their reaction "Just as expected..." suggests this wasn't a loophole they already knew about. It points to something rarer and deeper.

The D. Clan? This one's interesting but gets messy fast. Imu says "Elbaf is of the D." but we've already seen other giants get hit by Domi Reversi, so it can't apply to all of Elbaf. Either Imu was speaking symbolically, or they were referring specifically to the god Elbaf and possibly Loki as his descendant. Harald being of the D. while also becoming a God Knight only adds more complications. And of course, Rocks was Davy D. Xebec, so the D. connection alone clearly isn't the immunity.

The Davy Clan parallel? Same problem Rocks was Davy clan, and he still got turned.

The Simplest Answer Left Standing

After ruling everything else out, one explanation holds: they are both gods.

Not metaphorically. Not in the "he's so powerful he might as well be" sense. Actual god-tier entities in the One Piece cosmology, in the same bracket as Nika, Nidhogr, and arguably Imu themselves.

That's why Domi Reversi rolls off them. You can't reverse something that exists on the same foundational level as the power doing the reversing.

What These Gods Actually Are

Here's where speculation gets genuinely interesting. What do Loki, Luffy, Nika, the god Elbaf, and Imu all have in common at a fundamental level?

My read is one of three possibilities: they were once part of a single whole that fractured, they struck some ancient agreement that still binds their souls across generations, or their very existence is made of something different from ordinary humans and giants.

What I keep coming back to is the image of gods who share the same origin but have spent ages disagreeing violently about what the world should be. Each one pulling the One Piece world in a different direction. Three worlds, endless cycles of war, and a conflict that predates the Void Century itself. The "three worlds" structure of the story starts to feel less like geography and more like a cosmological argument between ancient powers.

Loki as the War God of Elbaf

One last piece. Loki wields Ragnir. That detail isn't decorative  weapons in One Piece carry identity and legacy. And Dorry's name for the war god of Elbaf is simply Elbaf, which makes sense as a title passed down or embodied rather than a personal name.

If Loki is a god, and specifically a war god, then the most coherent conclusion is that he is Elbaf the divine figure Dorry referenced, now walking in the current era, carrying the weapon that proves it.

A god among giants, invisible to Imu's power for the same reason Luffy is: because you can't reverse what was never made to be controlled.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 6 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 7 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. We've all been saying this feels too easy, and well. Seeing as imu will now seemingly be coming to elbaph directly, I feel like the arc might actually end in tragedy, with them single handedly turning the tide on the island and winning? Would set up how strong imu is and create a lot of excitement for final war.

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We still have to see the heaven layer of elbaph too, so maybe that'll come into play? Imu going on a business trip is the last thing I expected. I thought their secretive ass was content to do everything remotely but I guess even world-conquering superdevils need some fresh air. I mean the genie is already out of the bottle in elbaf, just like egghead where the gorosei showed themselves thinking that they'd annihilate every living thing before anyone gets the chance to tell the tale. 

 

I’m scared for a sabaody part 2. If imu is leaving the holy land, and imu is supposed to be the big bad of this story besides blackbeard, I’m afraid that once he shows his real power there will be some very serious consequences, elbaf is going smooth, far too smooth, and just as the holy knights underestimated the straw hats, I feel like the same is happening now, where everything is going as planned, and boom. Imu appears and destroys everything. Even with luffy’s and loki’s strength, imu is too overwhelming, and what I’m most afraid of is a straw hat sacrificing themselves either this arc, or hell a straw hat getting kidnapped, the stakes are going to get higher, and and while I’m pulling at straws, there’s a really big chance that once imu makes landfall in his full form, things are going to get ugly and it’s going to change the narrative of the story.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 7 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 8 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. Oda is lampshading a little with the 'this was all kinda easy'. Because yes, the strawhats shouldn't have any problem with taking out 3 god knights if we are to expect them to take out the entire world government soon. But I honestly can't see how things are going to end now. Loki ans luffy having a hard time with a imu possessing gunko before defeating them was the logical conclusion to the arc. A loki domi reversi was a logical end to the arc.

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But imu is seemingly gearing up to handle shit by themselves, and I can't see the strawhats and giants winning this one. I think we're gonna get elbaph part 2, ragnarok where imu comes flying over with the uranus and erases elbaph from the map just like lulusia. It'd be a hell of a way to enrage luffy, raise the stakes, and build up to the final battle. Elbaph being erased off the map, but all the giants surviving and having to keep their culture and history alive while living in other lands would fit with this arc's themes. Imu can destroy elbaph the island, but he can never destroy elbaph, because it lives through its people, culture, and history. And the straw hats witnessing this would definitely make imu their #1 enemy. All of them, especially luffy and usopp, would hate imu with a burning passion. 

 

It would make taking down the wg a top priority for the straw hats, along with finding the one piece. If you look at the way the manga has been divided up we're in the same part of the new world story as the shabondy archipelago was in the first half, and that ended in a loss for the straw hats. East blue, pre-alabasta, alabasta, skypeia, water 7/enies lobby, thriller bark, **shabondy**, impel down, marineford Fishman island, punk hazard, dressrosa, whole cake, wano, egghead, **elbaf** Thematically, egghead is more like shabondy and elbaf is more like thriller bark, but the positioning matches. Given the pacing recently I can believe there will be only one arc between elbaf and the finale. I expect it will have something to do with cross guild and/or garp, unless those plot threads are resolved in other ways that don't directly involve the straw hats.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 8 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 9 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. The structure of elbaf has been pretty weird. The chunk of the arc has been the flashback, with not much happening outside of it. The scale of the conflict just feels off for this point in the story. Dressrosa, wci, wano, egghead. We had back-to-back large-scale conflicts with fleets of pirates and marines. Elbaph conflict was carried by only three god knights who never felt like they would be able to stand their ground once the monster trio showed up, and a projection of imu that wouldn't feel right as a climactic fight.

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I frankly have no idea where oda is going with this arc. We haven't even seen the heaven realm. This was mostly loki showing off so far, yeah. It's gonna be interesting though, because if imu truly goes here, what is gonna happen? Imu either loses/gets pushed back, which would dramatically lose fear for the main villain, or they beat up everyone and we have to run scared again?

 

Which would suck as that is exactly how egghead ended. And there probably won't be any more knot shenanigans saving us this time. Will be very interesting to see what choppers fruit is. In a way it feels like another "Protagonist was the chosen one all along", but the human-fruit is really weird when you think about it. Kind of strange that luffy's fruit is the only one that makes him turn into tiny luffy or old man luffy. Never really thought much about it until loki asked what kind of form it was because both of them have "Special" fruits, and I can't remember any fruit user affected to the degree luffy is every time the fruit drains him.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 9 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 10 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. I was kinda terrified that luffy and loki would turn for a second. I'm curious if both were immune due to their devil fruits. I love how chopper just casually taps the giant and they get reversed back to normal, something is definitely going on with his fruit. Forest god doesn't seem so unlikely now. I think it's his rumble ball.

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When they were introduced, he said they "Disrupt the wavelength" of the devil fruit. It also seems to work on minks, so maybe it has a beneficial side-effect with domi reversi. So it was chopper himself that undemoned the giants, must be something with the human human fruit. Also, loki and luffy are immune to domi reversi, seems like the homeland theory was wrong, since imu tried on luffy and it failed on loki, and I doubt it's a power or haki thing since it worked on rocks. It's probably also because of their devil fruits, nika and nidhogg can resist imu's power somehow. 

 

I get why you’re saying that but luffy is clearly quite angry in this fight because of brook and ussop so I don’t think the reason is that it doesn’t work on someone who is calm. I think it’s unique to luffy and loki, or more particularly their mythical god fruits. Could be awakened devil fruits? I'd really like it that chopper being in rumble ball monster point they actually drew him eating a rumble ball, which they haven't done in a long while like they didnt against the queen fight he sorta had. Was his awakening. More so than he's the mythological forest god. Because I'm sorry nidhoog is not the rain or earth god. Like sun, forest, rain, earth. That's the list of ancient gods. Don't start putting in lightning god or dragon god.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 10 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 11 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. I think its because there is such a big size difference he expends more energy, blood has to travel literal killometers to reach the end of his body. Although kaido had great stamina in general he never showed any sort of rapid depletion and he was in his form a lot. Luffy and loki have buccaneers blood.

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Already posted my crackpot theory a while back, but it was already hinted by vegapunk that the buccaneers were feared because of their capacity to resist control, not any physical attributes, like the giant-ness of kuma. Not all d are buccaneers, not all buccaneers are d, even if the two are somewhat linked. I think buccaneers are the first mixed people between giants or ancient giants, basically the first race of people in the op first world and the "Moon people".

 

Loki lineage is clear and is father wasn't domi-ed, it was the covenant that overtook him, luffy has been giant-coded for a while maybe that's why his mother is still missing in action. All the others races are creations of either buccanners or moon people, and that's why imu can control them, but can't control the "Original" gods. Is blackbeard a buccaneers? 

 

Physically he's close to kuma, but if the theory is correct, then obviously rocks wasn't. Maybe it also came from his mom? In any case, if he isn't, we may end up with god valley 2.0. I also figured has to be because of mythical fruits or maybe just fruit users in general. The power needed limitations. The only problem I have is we now know why rocks turned back is because he took lethal damage but everyone else who has flipped back has come back at basically full stamina but he was out there dying

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 11 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 12 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. Imu knows that luffy has the nika fruit. It would make no sense for him to try that on luffy. So it would mean that this isn't linked to god fruits nor devil fruits at all. Can't be linked to d neither, it affected rocks. Could be linked to strong haki? But that would be a letdown. It must mean there is something else going on. I think imu fruit has psychological requirements like big mom's required people to fear her in order for her to eat their soul.

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I bet imu contracts only works on people who would sell their soul for greater power, which isn't the case for luffy and loki in particular. After demonification, everyone seems delighted for having achieve a greater power, so I'd bet this ambition it's exactly what the contract requires. I think they are both immune because their devil fruit are modelled after the ancient god, creature. 

 

Nika and nidhogg. This also might explain why chopper are able to reverse domi reverse because hito hito no mi is model after the forest god. I was more leaning towards a "Pure of heart" kinda vibe as to why imu couldn't domi reversi them. Imu knows their fruit users, so if he knows it doesn't work on fruit users he wouldn't try. He would've also presumably figured out whether or not it works on mythicals by now. Whatever it is that resists him seems to be something not visible or easily tellable, something imu can't know until he tries. I would say conq haki but we saw it work on rocks. So something more on the lines of incorruptable. Some people's hearts just cannot be corrupted, and imu can't touch them.

 

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One Piece Chapter 1179 is out now! This is Page 12 of One Piece 1179, click or swipe the image to go to Page 13 of the manga. The story is reaching a critical stage, and fans are eagerly waiting to see what happens next. But imu should've known that with how long they lived, no? But still, they attempted it. Meaning luffy and loki are an anomaly. I still think his fruit works on fear and stress and whatnot and that the two of them just don't fear imu, while the others were worried about the kids and their people.

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If devil fruit users were immune, imu would have tested that so thoroughly over 800 years that he wouldn't even have tried it on luffy and loki. He expected to fail, but he felt the need to try anyway which means that whatever the factor is, he hasn't had as many occasions to test it or he's not completely sure they had this factor. 

 

A specific type of devil fruit most likely awakened zoan was proposed by someone else to fit with chopper's thing on the side. Chopper is automatically turning domi reversed giants off without killing them. Blackbeard was going to drum island for some reason, and the forest god.. Well greenbull with the forest logia seems to be an odd choice for a god. Like the gorosei talk about zoans being different than the other devil fruits. So the gods might all be mythical zoans. I mean a second ass pull with the hito hito no mi is not the name of chopper's devil fruit would be repetitive. I'm starting to think that imu's line of "They truly are..." means that luffy and loki aren't just normal people/giant that ate a devil fruit. They are true reincarnations/the actual joy boy and whatever god/monster is in the mural that we see. They are more than just a normal mortal being in the one piece world so they are immune to imu's domi reversi. Only "Regular" mortals are susceptible to being flipped.

 

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