One piece manga chapter 1137 eng

The new chapter of One Piece‘s manga serves mainly to expand the lore of Elbaph and enhance the suspense about how the World Government will antagonize the island of giants here in the . It’s all but inevitable the World Government will try to completely ruin Elbaph one way or another, with the real question being how they will do so, and what the Straw Hats will do to stop them. On that topic, Chapter 1137 does a fine job setting everything up, but with limited payoff.

The first major scene in Chapter 1137 has the single weakest aspect of this new chapter: the simple fact that very little actually happens. A huge, lore-heavy manga like One Piece is bound to have chapters like that every so often so the story can establish key details through expositional dialogue and the main characters’ comments on that exposition, especially in an arc’s earlier chapters. That is the price to pay so One Piece can keep juggling its countless plot threads and introduce even more of them, something that has been in effect even before the as the world kept expanding. The results are usually mixed, as is the case in Chapter 1137, since the story’s momentum slows to a crawl in exchange for much-needed lore dumps that may include some shocking reveals to intrigue fans.

The defines the second half of Chapter 1137, and it is definitely the chapter’s stronger half, allowing the chapter to end on an exciting note. For a few chapters now, One Piece‘s manga enticed fans to discover more about the World Government man who physically resembled red-haired Shanks, a seemingly ironic mystery since the real Shanks is an Emperor who supports Luffy the pirate and has no love whatsoever for Imu’s oppressive regime. So, it’s hugely entertaining and quite intriguing for Chapter 1137 to draw back the curtain on the “evil Shanks twin” mystery with the bizarre truth: that this man is Figarland Shamrock, son of Figarland Garling.

One Piece Chapter 1137 will be released on Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 7am PT. You can read the latest chapter for free on Manga Plus. You can check your time zone below:

Chapter 1137’s first scene also reinforces the narrative thread of the giants distancing themselves from their savage past, with Rodo explaining that the ancient giants had horns similar to Oars, marking them as true monsters. King Harald had horns too as a pure-blood giant, but he symbolically tore them out of his head to emphasize his desire for a new era of peace. Not only does that have symbolic meaning as Elbaph’s people moved from war to pacifism, but it also played up One Piece‘s cool narrative element of non-human species having unique traits, from the strength of fish-men to the fire and wings of Lunarians like King. This also sheds new light on the late Oars, a crewmate of Whitebeard’s who fought for noble reasons as a horned giant rather than being a demonic creature who shed blood purely for the love of killing. In hindsight, that flatters Oars’ character a great deal, and it’s a nice touch.