‘One Piece’ Teases Three Fabled Warriors

One Piece‘s Wano arc is beginning to heat up as the series builds to a major clash between the Straw Hats and Kaido as they find out more about the twisted state of the country.

But as they gather the necessary warriors together, there’s a new mission: to gather three legendary swordsman who fought together with Kinemon before he was sent 20 years into the future.

The Straw Hats make plans to attack Kaido’s Beast Pirates during a banquet in which they will be drunk and vulnerable, and to gather the forces necessary the Straw Hats needed to find the Wano citizens who are rebelling against the regime. In that search, Kinemon wants them to find three missing swordsman.

Although he and a select few others were sent 20 years into the future after the death of Lord Oden, three samurai named Kawamatsu, Denjiro, and Boy Ashura should still be alive in Wano somewhere. Kinemon says each of these samurai is worth 100 men, so they should be a crucial part of the upcoming fight with Kaido.

There’s no indication where these three are located, or even if they are actually as alive as Kinemon says they are, but Kinemon’s stories of them paints a powerful picture. Boy Ashura was previously brought up in the series before as a wild samurai roaming Wano before Lord Oden brought the samurai altogether under his watch. So there’s an indication of these samurai’s power, but hopefully they are still on Kinemon’s side rather than Kaido’s.

Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has since been collected into over 80 volumes, and 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 over 430 million copies sold.

Oda revealed that he was about 80 percent done with the manga at this point with the Wano arc, fans are worried that the series may be coming to an end sooner than they thought. But it wouldn’t be wrong to infer that the ending will most likely still be years away given how much of the world there is to explore and just how well it’s selling week to week.