Mountain God
- Name
- 山の神 (Yama no Kami)
- Status
- alive
- First seen
- Ch. 960
“The Mountain God” · a legendary giant white boar of Wano, revered as a mountain-sized god
Profile
The Mountain God — a legendary white boar “the size of a mountain” said in Wano’s ancient scrolls to have razed an entire village in a single night centuries ago (p. 16). In Wano, white boars are revered as “agents of the gods.” The “moving mountain” the three hunters fled (p. 3) is this beast; the piglet they captured (and Kin’emon stole, pp. 4–6) is its offspring. Enraged, the adult charges into the Flower Capital in a devouring rampage (pp. 16–17), bringing Kozuki Oden face-to-face with it at the chapter’s cliffhanger (“Give that boar to me!!”). A singular named beast of the Oden-era flashback; race: boar, fauna — no dedicated Races-and-Groups/ note .
Arc-by-arc updates
Wano Country — referenced: the incident recontextualized (Ch. 975)
Wano — Oden flashback, the rampage resolved (Ch. 961)
- The Mountain God incident resolved: the 18-year-old Oden leaps into the rampaging boar’s maw and unleashes Oden Two-Sword Style — “Paradise Waterfall,” splitting it open so every swallowed person and building spills out alive (pp. 11–14). The Flower Capital loses a quarter of its size but suffers no fatalities.
- Species-lore (folded from the 0961
Races-and-Groups/Mountain Godproposal — fauna, §FOLD A): Flower-Capital officials state that white boars are “the agents of God” (Ch. 961 p. 3), and the Mountain God only descends from its mountain to human settlements when one of its children (a white piglet) has been abducted (as Kin’emon’s gang did), swallowing people and structures whole in its rampage. Harming it is believed to bring ruin on all of Wano. Town-sized in scale; the swallowed are not immediately killed (all recovered alive once the boar was opened, p. 14).
Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 960)
- First appearance. The “moving mountain” that opens the chapter (p. 3) is revealed as the Mountain God, a legendary white boar said to have razed a village centuries ago (ancient scrolls, p. 16).
- Its captured piglet — an “agent of the gods,” worth a platinum coin — is stolen by the young Kin’emon to sell to the Kurokoma yakuza (pp. 4–6); the theft inadvertently draws the enraged parent into the Flower Capital in a devouring rampage (pp. 16–17).
- Cliffhanger: Kozuki Oden steps before the beast — “Give that boar to me!!” / “K-Kozuki Oden?!!” (p. 17). See The Mountain God Boar Rampages The Capital And Confronts Young Oden. (fm/fa/la 0960.)
Notes
- Flagged for
mirror(the rampage splash, pp. 16–17).