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Chapter 1055: The New Era

Arc: Wano Country · Saga: Four Emperors (Yonko) · Released:

Summary

Near the Flower Capital, Marine Admiral Ryokugyu (“Green Bull”) rampages with a plant body that regenerates when cut and shrugs off fire, demanding the Wano forces hand over Straw Hat Luffy so he can take Luffy’s head to the Navy. Raizo and the samurai cannot stop him, and Yamato is restrained from striking him. Meanwhile, beneath the palace in Kozuki Sukiyaki’s secret chamber, the living former shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki leads Nico Robin and Trafalgar Law to a glass viewport on the seafloor, revealing that Wano was a different country ~800 years ago — flooded, abandoned, then walled-off and rebuilt on the side of its great Fuji mountain as the Wano of today. The chamber holds the third Road Poneglyph Robin needs (“one more, and we’ll be able to get to Laugh Tale”), and deep below it rests the Ancient Weapon Pluton — so “opening the borders” means tearing down Wano’s protective walls and unleashing the weapon onto the world. Momonosuke, now commanding his adult dragon body, manifests Kaido-like flame power and drives Green Bull back, refusing to rely on the departing pirates. As Green Bull threatens to skewer him, a wave of Supreme King Haki rolls in: Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates are offshore. Shanks taunts the admiral — “Are you that afraid of the new era?!” — and Green Bull retreats. The Red Force sails away without landing; Luffy, recovering in the capital, senses it and grins: “It made me think of a familiar face.”

New reveals

• Pluton is in Wano. Deep beneath the Road Poneglyph in Sukiyaki’s chamber, “the Ancient Weapon Pluton is said to rest” (p. 8). The first on-page localization of Pluton to Wano.
• “Opening the borders” = unleashing a weapon. To retrieve Pluton the walls must be torn down; Oden’s creed to open Wano therefore also means destroying the country’s natural defense and “unleashing an ancient weapon onto the world” (p. 9).
• Wano’s deep history. ~800 years ago Wano was a different country with an enormous Fuji mountain; its lowland towns flooded and were abandoned, the basin filled with rainwater, great walls grew around the island, and new land was built on the mountainside — becoming the Wano of today (pp. 6–7).
• The third Road Poneglyph. Robin reads/copies the Road Poneglyph here; “one more, and we’ll be able to get to Laugh Tale!! That’s the third” (p. 8).
• Kozuki Sukiyaki is alive in the present. The chamber’s owner — Oden’s father, the late-presumed former shogun — guides Robin and Law and explains “everything that Oden passed down through the shogunate’s line” (pp. 4–9).
• Why Wano stayed sealed. Kaido’s presence was itself “a deterrent that kept enemies away from this land” (p. 10); Sukiyaki admits the Pluton route is why he never told Kaido or Orochi about it (p. 4).
• Momonosuke wields Kaido’s power. His dragon body now emits flame “just like Kaido’s power” (p. 13), used offensively against Green Bull for the first time.
• Shanks is at Wano. The Red-Haired Pirates are offshore; Shanks’s Conqueror’s Haki alone routs an admiral, then leaves without meeting Luffy.
• Ryokugyu’s powers shown. A regenerating plant body (“for every one I cut in two, another grows,” p. 3) immune to fire (“Fire-Break Forest,” p. 2); can fly to Wano; serves Navy HQ. (His fruit and true name are not named on-page.)

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters: Ryokugyu (Green Bull), Nico Robin, Trafalgar Law, Kozuki Sukiyaki (present-day, alive), Momonosuke, Shanks, Luffy, Zoro, Raizo, Yamato
• Mentioned only: Kozuki Oden, Kaido, Orochi, Jack
• Groups: Red Hair Pirates, Marines
• Locations: Wano Country, Flower Capital, Onigashima, Raftel (Laugh Tale, referenced)
• Lore: Ancient Weapons (Pluton), Road Poneglyph, Wano’s Sealed Borders And The Awaited Figure

Notable panels

• p. 1 — Title page “Chapter 1055: The New Era.” Yamato is restrained from striking Green Bull (“Don’t you dare strike him!! …You mustn’t, Yamato!!”); Green Bull’s grass body looms.
• p. 2 — Raizo’s “Ninpo: Scroll-Scroll Jutsu!!” and “Fire Escape!!”; Green Bull boasts his “Fire-Break Forest” and that he couldn’t “hack it as an admiral of Navy HQ” if fire were an “obvious weakness.”
• p. 3 — Green Bull regenerates: “For every one I cut in two, another grows!!”
• p. 4 — Caption: “Kozuki Sukiyaki’s secret chamber under the palace.” Robin, Law, and Sukiyaki descend; the poneglyph was found fast because Jack (a Fish-Man) led; Sukiyaki “never told Kaido or Orochi about this route.”
• pp. 5–6 — A glass block looks out onto the seafloor — a submerged ancient Wano, “the Wano of about 800 years ago. A different Wano.”
• p. 7 — The history: ancient Wano’s enormous Fuji mountain; flooded towns abandoned; walls grew; new land built on the mountainside = today’s Wano.
• p. 8 — The Road Poneglyph. Robin: “One more, and we’ll be able to get to Laugh Tale!! That’s the third.” Below it “where the Ancient Weapon Pluton is said to rest.”
• p. 9 — “Opening the borders” = destroying Wano’s natural defense + “unleashing an ancient weapon onto the world.”
• p. 10 — Green Bull demands “Now bring me Straw Hat Luffy!!”; the Momonosuke dragon refuses to call for Luffy’s help.
• pp. 12–13 — Momonosuke manifests Kaido-like flame; “It looked just like Kaido’s power.”
• p. 15 — A burst of Supreme King Haki — “The Red-Haired Pirates?!” A figure seated on a barrel.
• p. 16 — Shanks revealed: “Are you that afraid… of the new era?!” Green Bull backs off: “Not yet…!! …I’m not pickin’ a fight with you guys!!”
• p. 17 — Wano festival; the Red Force sails away; Luffy grins: “It made me think of a familiar face.” To be continued.

Open questions raised

• Where is the fourth Road Poneglyph, the last one Robin needs for Laugh Tale?
• Why did Oden want to open Wano if it would release Pluton? (Sukiyaki “could not tell” what Oden learned abroad.)
• How is Kozuki Sukiyaki alive in the present, and what is his present role?
• Will Shanks’s choice not to meet Luffy at Wano be explained?
• Has Momonosuke fully mastered his adult dragon body and Kaido’s flame-cloud power?