This article contains spoilers from One Piece's Elbaf Arc.
Summary
- Elbaf features a unique time dilation concept causing time to feel different, impacting characters' perceptions.
- The warning given in Elbaf indicates a mini timeskip, where outside world progresses while SHP remains stagnantly.
- After leaving Elbaf, SHP will experience significant changes globally, with a different world awaiting them.
One Piece is currently in the Elbaf arc, and fans know very well that this arc is the prelude to the Great War that is to come in the Final Saga. A lot of exciting endgame elements of One Piece have been revealed by Oda already, such as the Harley texts and the Elbaf mural, along with other exciting elements such as the Ancient Giant from 3000 years ago, that is, the First World.
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Zoro is a beloved character in One Piece, but he is inspired by a very controversial figure.
While that is incredibly interesting by itself, there are also other exciting details that the story will eventually go on to reveal in Elbaf, and the most shocking of them all is a mini timeskip, which seems all but confirmed in One Piece.
Time Isn't The Same In Elbaf As The Rest Of The World
- Comprehension Of Time Fades In Elbaf
- Louis Arnote Warned The Travellers
When Elbaf began, a very ominous message was put on the screen by the author of Brag Men, Louis Arnote, and the message read as follows:
Do not overstay your welcome here. — Louis Arnote, Explorer
This message seemed weird at the moment, but fans didn't have enough to go off of, so it only resulted in surface-level theories. However, now, a lot more information has been given to the fans, which means that Louis Arnote’s warning makes more sense than ever before. For instance, when Imu first came to Elbaf, it was because the Holy Knights were “taking too long” even though they had only been in the country for a few hours at best. To Imu, this might've felt like an eternity, but to the Holy Knights, not that long had passed.
More importantly, when Gaban and Shanks were seen taking a bath together, Gaban implied that he had been in Elbaf for 3 or 4 years, but Shanks corrected him, saying that it had actually been 10 years since.
Has it been 3 or 4 years since we last had a bath like this? — Gaban to Shanks
Of course, most assume that time in Elbaf moves more slowly, but that isn't true. Elbaf time moves the same as the world outside, and this is proven by the fact that Dorry and Brogy were specifically stated to be out for over 100 years. If time moved differently, people of Elbaf would've said that they've been away for only 30 years or so.
The main issue here is that Elbaf dulls one's sense of the flow of time, which means that it is hard to comprehend how much time has passed in this country.
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The World Outside Will Have Moved Ahead By Months When Luffy Leaves
A Mini Timeskip Will Be Observed
Clearly, Oda's warning to the Straw Hat Pirates will materialize into a real event at the end of the arc. While the Straw Hat Pirates will probably think they've been in Elbaf for a week or two, or perhaps more, the reality is that at least 3 times that time will have flowed in the outside world. This means the world will have shaken up completely.
Dragon’s Revolutionary Army will have made a move, Blackbeard will have struck, and Shanks will likely be far away from Luffy. The One Piece world will undergo a timeskip, only this time, the Straw Hat Pirates will not have changed at all, and everything will feel the same.
One Piece Chapter 1154 will be out in a week. As usual, One Piece is going to drop on Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops at 12AM JST on Monday. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on July 13. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1154 is July 13, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.
- Release Date
- October 20, 1999
- Network
- Fuji TV
- Directors
- Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
Cast
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Mayumi TanakaMonkey D. Luffy (voice) -
Kazuya NakaiRoronoa Zoro (voice)
WHERE TO WATCH
- Studio
- Toei Animation
- Creator
- Eiichiro Oda
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, Pluto TV
