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Chapter 469: Come Out Here, Straw Hat Pirates!

Arc: Thriller Bark · Saga: Thriller Bark · Released:

Summary

The Thriller Bark fights converge on the rampaging special zombie. In the Mast Mansion, Robin and Chopper corner Hogback and his stitched maid-zombie Cindry — but Cindry’s body “can’t move” to obey: Robin reads it as “the original owner of the body resisting,” and Cindry, whose body’s original owner “died ten years ago,” weeps that she cannot follow her master’s orders. Robin restrains Cindry (Doce Fleurs) and she and Chopper suplex the raging Hogback (the Robi-cho Suplex, via Pierna Fleurs), Hogback shrieking to protect his “genius brain.” Downstairs in the special freezer, Luffy reaches Oars — “twice as big as the giants” — just as Moria announces that Oars’s body and Luffy’s stolen shadow have “finally fused completely”: the masterwork is now an obedient zombie and names Moria his master. Moria hands Oars his first mission — hunt down, crush, and re-ship every Straw Hat on the wanted posters — and Oars, ignoring Luffy’s pleas to his own shadow, attacks with a Gum-Gum headbutt (“even though I can’t stretch… Bell!!!”). Oars smashes through floor after floor: Hogback and Cindry fall to a lower level, Oars stomps the tower, and Cindry again refuses to lift the rubble off her cruel master. Oars’s foot crashes into the church where Sanji is guarding the still-drugged, sleeping Nami; in the chaos the invisible Absalom spirits Nami away to wed her as his “bride,” leaving Sanji raging. As the mansion buckles, the rank-and-file zombies flee — Perona is out cold and foaming, Kumacy and the lieutenant downed by Usopp — and Usopp runs to warn Robin and Chopper that their wanted posters are stuck to Oars’s arm and “he’s totally after us.” Oars (branded SZ-900) bellows the chapter’s title — “Straw Hat Pirates!!! Come out here!!!!” — and Zoro grins: “Sounds like fun!!!”

New reveals

• Oars is now obedient. His body and Luffy’s stolen shadow have “finally fused completely”; the out-of-control beast of Ch. 462 now answers “My master… is Moria!!!” (pp. 6-7).
• Moria’s first order to Oars: find every Straw Hat on the wanted posters, crush them with full strength, dump them back on their ship — “if they perish, so be it” (p. 7). The masterwork zombie is now weaponized against the crew.
• Cindry’s body resists its master. Robin: “it’s as if the original owner of the body is resisting”; Cindry’s body’s original owner “died ten years ago,” and she “can’t move” even to save Hogback (pp. 2-3, 10-11).
• Absalom kidnaps the sleeping Nami again as his intended “bride,” snatching her from Sanji in the church while she’s still under the sleeping drug (pp. 13-16).
• Oars still can’t actually stretch — he throws Luffy’s named techniques (“Gum-Gum… even though I can’t stretch… Bell!!!”) through his non-rubber giant body (p. 8).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

(No earlier seed closes on-page this chapter; the Oars-fusion and Moria-mission beats advance the open Thriller Bark climax rather than resolving it.)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters (shown): Oars (fully fused, obedient, given his first mission; bellows for the crew), Gecko Moria (commands Oars), Nico Robin (Doce Fleurs / Pierna Fleurs / Robi-cho Suplex), Tony Tony Chopper (suplexes Hogback), Hogback (raging; stomped), Cindry (body resists orders), Luffy (reaches the freezer; pleads with his own shadow; chases Moria), Sanji (guards sleeping Nami), Nami (drugged asleep; abducted), Absalom (invisible; abducts Nami), Usopp (warns the crew), Zoro (“Sounds like fun!!!”), Brook (onlooker)
• Characters (mentioned only): Perona (out cold / foaming, carried by fleeing zombies), Kumacy (downed by Usopp, reported gone), Enel (cover story only)
• Groups: Straw Hat Pirates, Thriller Bark Pirates
• Locations: Thriller Bark (the Mast Mansion — special freezer, the church, the hallway to Perona’s room, Perona’s Wonder Garden)
• Devil Fruits / powers: Kage-Kage no Mi (Moria’s shadow-zombies), Hana Hana no Mi (Robin — Doce Fleurs, Pierna Fleurs, Robi-cho Suplex), Gomu Gomu no Mi (Oars via Luffy’s shadow — Gum-Gum Bell)

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title splash + cover-story art: Enel’s Great Space Mission, Vol. 34 — “Charge Complete! Thanking the Destroyer!” (VIZ on-page spelling “Eneru”). Enel stands before a crowd of Spacey automata.
• Page 2 — “DOOM!!” — Cindry weeps that her body “can’t move”; Robin tells her to “stop with those fake tears,” but Hogback insists “following their masters’ orders is a zombie’s reason for being!!!”
• Page 3 — Chopper: “Can a soulless body have its own will?”; Robin: “It’s as if the original owner of the body is resisting”; “Doce Fleurs!!” restrains Cindry.
• Page 5 — “Robi-cho Suplex!!” — Robin’s sprouted legs (Pierna Fleurs) let Chopper suplex Hogback, who screams about ruining “one of the greatest treasures of mankind — my genius brain!!”
• Page 6 — Luffy reaches the special freezer (“So this is my zombie?!”); Oars is “twice as big as the giants”; Moria: “your body and shadow have finally fused completely!” — Oars: “My master… is Moria!!!”
• Page 7 — Moria’s first mission to Oars: “Find them all and crush them!! Then dump them back on their ship!! …Show me what you can do!!!” — Oars: “Yes, Master Moria.”
• Page 8 — “Gum-Gum… (even though I can’t stretch)… Bell!!!” — Oars headbutts at Luffy.
• Pages 10-11 — Hogback and Cindry fall to a lower floor; Oars “STOMP!!“s the tower; Cindry again refuses to free Hogback (“My body… can’t move…”), Hogback raging “I’m the one who modified your body so you can move!”
• Pages 13-16 — Oars’s foot smashes the church; invisible Absalom abducts sleeping Nami (“The bride is mine this time!!!”); Sanji: “Dang it, give me back Nami!!”
• Page 17 — Zombies flee the collapsing mansion; “Is Mistress Perona all right?”; “Captain Kumacy and the Lieutenant Captain are gone too!”; Usopp runs to warn Robin and Chopper — the wanted posters are “stuck to Luffy’s zombie’s arm.”
• Pages 18-19 — Oars (branded SZ-900) bellows “Straw Hat Pirates!!! Come out here!!!!”; Zoro grins “Sounds like fun!!!”

Open questions raised

• Now that Oars obeys Moria and is aimed at the crew, how do the Straw Hats beat a giant carrying Luffy’s own powers — and does beating Oars hinge on reclaiming the stolen shadows?
• What is the residual “will” in Cindry’s host body — does a reanimated corpse keep a vestige of its original owner’s soul that can defy a master?
• Will Sanji (and Luffy) reach Absalom before he weds the drugged Nami?