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Chapter 477: 3/8

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

Summary

The Oars fight continues. Robin restrains the rampaging giant with Hana Hana arms and, realizing the shadows are only “remote-control” extensions of their living user, gambles everything on a direct strike at Moria — landing a Cuatro Mano Clutch that the crew thinks has broken his spine. But Moria reveals his core defense: he swaps places with his shadow double, the Doppelman, at will, so submission holds never catch the real him — and the real Moria has been hiding inside Oars’s stomach the whole time, piloting the giant. The decoy he stole instead was Robin’s shadow (his third), and she collapses unconscious. With Robin endangered, Sanji ignites Diable Jambe and deflects Oars’s Gum-Gum Bazooka into the mansion while Zoro carries Robin clear. Chopper, scrambling over the giant, delivers an on-the-fly autopsy: Oars died of cold ~500 years ago, his right arm is a Hogback-restored replacement scarred by frostbite, and that arm is the weak point — break it and you halve his power. Chopper and Sanji combo the right arm (Armée de l’Air Rose Assault), but Oars, immune to pain, shrugs it off and answers with a Gum-Gum Gatling that knocks out both Sanji and Chopper. Moria gloats that “only three” Straw Hats are left.

New reveals

• The Doppelman swap, made explicit. Moria can switch places with his shadow double “any time I want,” so direct grapples/submissions only ever catch the Doppelman, never the real Moria (pp. 7-10). See Kage-Kage no Mi, Nature of Devil Fruits.
• Moria pilots Oars from inside. The real Moria is hidden inside Oars’s stomach, controlling the giant; when threatened outside he switches back in (“then Moria is back inside Oars!!”) (pp. 7, 10).
• Robin’s shadow stolen (the third). Moria takes Robin’s shadow as a decoy-substitution; she’s knocked out, and with no corpse ready he says he’ll just keep “her” shadow for now (pp. 7-9).
• Chopper’s autopsy of Oars. The 500-year-old demon most likely died of cold/exposure (“walked around naked”); his right arm is not original — Hogback restored it, but it carries traces of frostbite and is the exploitable weak point (pp. 13-14).
• Zombie damage model. Oars feels no pain (zombie) but still takes structural damage — prior hits “weakened his body, if not his resolve.” Chopper: destroying the right arm halves his effectiveness (pp. 14-17).
• Sanji deflects a Gum-Gum Bazooka with Diable Jambe “Frit Assort,” redirecting it into the mansion (pp. 11-12).
• Sanji & Chopper go down to Oars’s Gum-Gum Gatling — Moria’s count: “Only three left!” (pp. 18-19).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

Nico Robin · Gecko Moria · Oars · Sanji · Tony Tony Chopper · Zoro · Nami (crew reaction) · Usopp (crew reaction) · Franky (crew reaction) · Luffy (his stolen shadow animates Oars; not present in person) · Hogback (named — restored Oars’s right arm) · Straw Hat Pirates · Thriller Bark Pirates · Kage-Kage no Mi · Hana Hana no Mi · Gomu Gomu no Mi · Thriller Bark

Notable panels

• Page 1 — Title page “Chapter 477: 3/8.” Standalone whimsical title illustration: a goggled man strapped into a winged flying machine (an ornithopter), arms spread and screaming, gliding among the clouds beside three large goggle-wearing birds; small towers in the cloudscape below. No running cover serial (the Enel space serial ended ~Ch 473). The “3/8” label and the art are flagged for the cover-tracker.
• Page 3 — Moria’s Brick Bat shadow-bat swarm bites at Robin; she answers with Veinte Fleurs, Calendula (twenty-arm pinwheel).
• Page 6 — Robin’s Cuatro Mano Clutch — “SN-A-P!!” — the crew cheers, thinking she’s broken Moria.
• Page 7 — The reveal: the clutched figure is the Doppelman; the real Moria is inside Oars’s stomach. “I WIN.”
• Page 8 — Robin collapses, shadow gone — “Robin got her shadow taken too!! That’s three of them.”
• Page 12 — Sanji’s Diable Jambe Frit Assort deflects Oars’s Gum-Gum Bazooka into the mansion (“Whoa!! He deflected it!!”).
• Page 15 — Oars swats Chopper off his own shoulder, oblivious to the pain (“He’s completely oblivious to pain”).
• Pages 18-19 — Oars’s Gum-Gum Gatling knocks out Sanji and Chopper; Moria: “Only three left!”

Open questions raised

• If neither submission moves nor beating Moria directly will work (Doppelman swap; shadows return only on his order), what is the crew’s actual win-condition — and is it the “secret” the Rolling Pirates promised Luffy last chapter?
• Can Chopper’s right-arm strategy actually disable Oars before the whole crew is downed, given Oars’s pain-immunity?
• Where is Robin’s stolen shadow stored now that Moria has no corpse to implant it in?