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Chapter 564: The Man Who Shook the World

Arc: Marineford · Saga: Summit War · Released: —

Summary

Word that “Whitebeard is finally going to fight!!” sweeps the battlefield as the strongest man in the world, fresh from being run through by his own allied captain, makes his move. His allies rage at the deceived Squard — “that fool fell for the navy’s trick” — while Squard himself collapses in tears, begging Whitebeard’s and Ace’s forgiveness. Luffy and Jinbei push to reach the platform but the giant Marine John Giant bars the way into the plaza (“You shall not pass!!”). Whitebeard answers with raw tremor power: the ground tilts, then the whole island and even the ocean heave and crack (“SWAY… SHAKE… DOOM!!”), splashing warships and collapsing the town — “that old geezer is unstoppable.” A quake-fist hurtles at the execution platform but the three Admirals (Sakazuki, Aokiji, Kizaru) deflect it together, bickering over whose ice and whose wall let it through. As Luffy climbs the clearing rubble, a colossal steel Encirclement Wall grinds up around the entire bay — the trap the Marines had been preparing — sealing the pirates in. It fails to fully close: Little Oars Jr.’s fallen giant body weighs it down and his spilled blood has knocked out the power, leaving a gap (Ace: “Oars…”). With the pirates boxed in and the cannons trained on them, a Marine commander gives the order — “begin the attack, Akainu!!” — and Akainu melts the ice and rains down magma fists, “Meteor Volcano,” to take away the pirates’ footing, the eruption falling toward Ace and a horrified Luffy.

New reveals

• Whitebeard’s tremor power can heave an entire island AND the surrounding ocean at once — warships are thrown, the town shatters, fighters cannot stay on their feet (pp. 7–10).
• The Navy’s full counter-plan: a steel Encirclement Wall rising around the whole bay to cage the pirates for a close-range execution-and-capture (pp. 13–16).
• Little Oars Jr.’s body is the flaw in that plan — its weight and the blood from his wound jam the wall’s mechanism, leaving it incomplete (p. 15).
• Akainu’s signature opening assault of the climax: the magma barrage “Meteor Volcano” (pp. 16–17). His on-page names: “Sakazuki” (p. 11) and “Akainu” (p. 16).
• John Giant, a Marine giant, is named and shown defending the plaza line (pp. 5–7).

Foreshadowing seeds planted

Payoffs (seeds from earlier chapters that resolve here)

Mentions / appearances

• Characters (shown): Whitebeard (“Pops”; shakes the island), Squard (“Whirl Spider”; weeping with remorse), Luffy (climbing toward the platform), Jinbei (“I have a bad feeling about this”), John Giant (Marine giant; “You shall not pass!!”), Little Oars Jr. (addressed as “Oars”; fallen, jamming the wall), Ace (chained on the platform; “Oars…”), Sakazuki (“Sakazuki”/“Akainu”; Meteor Volcano), Aokiji (one of the three Admirals; his ice underpins the wall), Kizaru (one of the three Admirals)
• Groups / fruits / places: Whitebeard Pirates and allied captains, Marines, Giants (John Giant, Little Oars Jr), Gura Gura no Mi (power demonstrated; fruit name not printed on these pages), Marine Headquarters (Marineford)

Notable panels

• Page 1 — B&W title page “Chapter 564: The Man Who Shook the World,” doubling as a cover-serial installment: a domestic interior (clock, curtained window, shelved jars) with a striped cat-like creature beside a patterned kotatsu-like object lettered “BATTLE KOTA-2.”
• Pages 7–10 — The tremor sequence: “SWAY” → “SHAKE SHAKE!!” → splash-scale “DOOM!!” as the whole island and ocean tilt; warships pitch and the town caves in.
• Page 11 — The three Admirals deflect the quake-fist from the platform; banter: “Then why don’t you melt it, Sakazuki?!” / “It’s because of your ice!” / “you didn’t get the wall up fast enough.”
• Pages 13–14 — Luffy: “The top is clear! Now I can climb up!” (“BWOING!”) — then the steel Encirclement Wall grinds up around the bay (“VWMM… A wall?!”); “We’re surrounded!!”
• Page 15 — “His blood has knocked out the power!! Oars’s body is weighing it down!!”; Ace: “Oars…”; the wall fails to fully close.
• Pages 16–17 — “Begin the attack, Akainu!!” → “Meteor Volcano.” Magma fists rain down to “take away their footing,” falling toward Ace and a horrified Luffy.
• Page 18 — SBS Question Corner (Vol. 58): Robin’s Hana Hana “Face Fleurs” were once meant to be used in the Skypiea arc to carry unconscious crewmates; Oda admits he forgets Ace’s freckles ~92% of the time.

Open questions raised

• Will the Encirclement Wall finish sealing, or does Little Oars Jr.’s body hold the gap open long enough for an escape?
• Can the trapped pirates — and Luffy — survive Akainu’s Meteor Volcano at point-blank range?
• Now that the wall is up and the broadcast logic has played out, can anyone still reach Ace before the execution?