'One Piece' Preview Teases Major Disaster

The latest episode of One Piece saw Big Mom antagonize Luffy directly, leading to him challenging her to a fist fight in Gear Fourth form. When Luffy is distracted, Caesar, Bege and the Straw Hats find that escaping the tea party isn't easy even with the help of the Germa 66.

While things looked bleak at the end of the episode, it's about to get much bleaker as the preview for Episode 842 of the series is teasing "an unexpected disaster."

The preview teases more of the Vinsmoke Family fighting with Big Mom's family as seen in the last few episodes of the series, but among the clips is a tease that "an unexpected disaster" will occur as the escape attempt reaches its climax. Things are looking especially bad for Luffy as the preview shows that he's still zonked out after having his stamina drained by Gear Fourth.

What makes matters worse is the title of the episode, "The Execution Begins! Luffy's Alliance Forces Are Annihilated?!" which, of course, does not bode well for the Straw Hats' escape either. This will definitely leave fans guessing as to what the "unexpected disaster" will be.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has been collected into 87 volumes, with a few chapters yet to be included. It has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best selling manga series worldwide with 430 million copies sold worldwide.

Eiichiro Oda also revealed some upcoming news for One Piece's future at Jump Festa 2018. Not only will the manga see Wano sooner rather than later, the next villain of the series is "one of the legends which lurks in the One Piece world. The greatest enemy ever for Straw Hats will hinder their way...Can you believe Marineford Summit War will look 'cute' compared to that?

The new live-action One Piece series also got some new information as it was revealed that the series will portray the Straw Hats' adventures from the very beginning, and will take place in the East Blue. One Piece's anime series is currently in the middle of the "Whole Cake Island" arc and is now streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation.